Mythic Hierophant's "Bleed Holy Power" and Alignment Channel


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Bleed Holy Power (Su):
If you channel positive energy, when an undead creature damages you with a melee attack, you can expend one use of channeled energy as an immediate action to channel energy to deal damage to undead creatures around you (as detailed in the channel energy ability). Alternatively, you may focus this channeled energy so it affects only the undead creature that hit you.

If you focus solely on that creature, you are considered 4 levels higher in the class that grants you the channel energy feature when determining its effects.

Alignment Channel:
Choose chaos, evil, good, or law. You can channel divine energy to affect outsiders that possess this subtype.

Prerequisites: Ability to channel energy.

Benefit: Instead of its normal effect, you can choose to have your ability to channel energy heal or harm outsiders of the chosen alignment subtype. You must make this choice each time you channel energy. If you choose to heal or harm creatures of the chosen alignment subtype, your channel energy has no effect on other creatures. The amount of damage healed or dealt and the DC to halve the damage is otherwise unchanged.

If a character took Hierophant as their Mythic path and had Alignment Channel (Chaos) as a feat, could the feat alter the target of the BHP effect? To instead of affecting an undead creature it would harm a Chaotic Outsider?


BHP has 'undead creature damages you' as a trigger and that is not changed with alignment channel.

What you can do is this: As soons as an undead damages you (BHP triggers) you channel energy and alter it with Alignment Channel. So you dont damage the undead that attacks you but all outsiders around you. Focusing on one creature (and channel energy with +4lvl) is only possible on undead.

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