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So I was looking for ways to better my necromancer and came upon the Sanguine-wild blooded for sorcerers. The change to arcana power looks great, but its very first ability looks how dare I say completely evil. I know right? Normally I am one of the first to defend the more darker side of the craft. This thing is a bit much it seems.
The Blood Is the Life (Su): At 1st level, you can gain sustenance from the blood of the recently dead. As a standard action, you can drink the blood of a creature that died within the past minute. The creature must be corporeal, must be at least the same size as you, and must have blood. This ability heals you 1d6 hit points and nourishes you as if you’d had a full meal. You may use this ability a number of times per day equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier.
Granted I absolutely love the idea of drinking the blood of others. It sounds delicious for my character. I could see my dear Moonstruck Rhythms crosslegged sidesaddle riding her tiger, all while holding a fine chelaxian goblet sipping on the sweetest frigid blood of the giants. It would definitely suit her personality. BUT I can not get past how this would be anything but evil if such things as blood transcription is evil.
Can anyone enlighten me on why this does not make you evil? Why is this PFS legal?
You do know that if drinking blood is evil, then a lot of real life blood foods should be banned on the same basis?
I would assume that those blood foods are not made from deceased humans though.
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Cannibalism is unhealthy, not evil.
Unless everything unhealthy is also evil...
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Well in PFS cannibalism is deemed evil, that is why blood transcription is not legal.
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2q6ax?Its-the-circle-of-life#3
I'm not seeing any requirement in the description for the creature to be intelligent, just at least size small/medium. A cow is size large, isn't it?
I see where you're coming from, but the ability doesn't require an evil act.
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But lets say my character drinks a goblet of fine angelic blood, should she receive an alignment infraction?
That would be dependent upon how you obtained the blood in my opinion. Additionally, assuming you killed the angel in question, even that may not be a truly evil act.
If you killed the angel in defense of yourself or others, the murder would not likely be seen as an evil act, and if the angel is already dead, whats the harm to one's alignment in drinking its blood?
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But lets say my character drinks a goblet of fine angelic blood, should she receive an alignment infraction?
Assuming you meant your character was good, they would not receive an infraction if they're a sin-eater inquisitor. In that case, it may be an explicitly good act.
Good aligned Sin eaters are pfs legal and center around the symbolic, or occasionally literal, consumption of the dead to remove the taint of their sins and prevent them from becoming undead as well as allowing an easier route to the afterlife of the deity you worship.
Edit to avoid double posting:
Is it cannibalism to consume the flesh of an intelligent humanoid, monstrous humanoid, or outsider(native) that is not of your race? For example, if a gnoll were to consume a gnome, or an undine to consume a sylph?