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While horrific, patchwork cats are popular within certain circles. A witch can form a bond between her current familiar and a patchwork cat in a ritual that takes 8 hours to complete. During the ritual, the witch imbues the inanimate cat with a record of her spells known. This ritual can be repeated, doing so erases all previous spells stored within the patchwork cat.

At any point in the future, should the witch’s familiar be killed, her patchwork cat animates and functions as a proxy until a new familiar is found. When animated, the patchwork cat is treated as a common cat with the zombie template. This proxy becomes the witch’s new familiar in all respects, even gaining an Intelligence score. The animated patchwork cat deteriorates rapidly and falls apart after one week.

Spells stored within a patchwork cat can be transferred to another familiar during the normal ritual used to acquire a new witch familiar. Her new familiar learns all the spells her patchwork cat did. The patchwork cat is destroyed in the process.

Construction
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, blood transcription, marionette possession; six or more live cats; Cost 1,900 gp

As a free action, the user can clutch the gem in one hand while casting a spell. By doing so, he may choose to increase his effective caster level for the spell he is casting by a number no greater than his maximum HD. If two or more caster levels are increased, the spell is Intensified; if four or more are increased, the spell is Intensified and Empowered; if six or more are increased, the spell is Intensified, Empowered, and Maximized.

The user's own life force is siphoned into the sanguine gem, fueling its potency. After the spell is cast, the user is hit with a backlash of negative energy equivalent to the amount by which he increased his caster level. For each caster level increased, the user gains one negative level, as if struck by the energy drain spell (DC equal to that of the spell cast with the sanguine gem).

Most of the time, after a sanguine gem is used it fills with black vapor, turns chalky, and crumbles—becoming useless. However, if a user gains an amount of negative levels equal to his maximum HD by using a sanguine gem, the gem immediately kills the user, refills with swirls of crimson, and can be used once more.

A creature that is immune to energy drain or negative levels, or is protected by a spell or effect that prevents energy drain or negative levels, cannot use a sanguine gem.
Construction
Requirements Craft Wondrous Item, Empowered Spell, Intensified Spell, Maximize Spell, energy drain; Cost 1,750 gp

Description
Typically passed down as an heirloom, this +2 breastplate is covered in Pharasman script and carries the signs of countless conflicts. When forged, this armor is bound to a spirit of battle. Once per day by shouting a war cry as a swift action, the wearer summons this spirit forth to possess and animate the armor. The ancestor’s breastplate remains animated for one minute before fading.

While animated in such a manner the armor lightens as an unseen force shares the load. This grants the wearer the effects of Armor Training, as the ability of a 3rd level fighter—reducing the armor check penalty by 1, increasing the maximum Dexterity bonus allowed by her armor by 1, and allowing the wearer to move her normal speed while wearing medium armor.

In addition, the animated armor shifts instinctively, helping the wearer dodge blows that might otherwise hit. The wearer is treated as if her Dexterity bonus to AC were the maximum allowed by the armor, regardless of her actual Dexterity score.

Finally, the spirit helps guide the wearer’s hand in combat. Once per round while animated, the wearer gains a +1 competence bonus on a single attack roll.

Construction
Requirements Craft Magic Arms and Armor, guidance, speak with dead, creator must be an oracle with the Spirit of the Warrior revelation; Cost 7,350 gp