When a Sin Eater Inquisitor lives up to his title, it's with a creature he killed within the hour, and whose hit dice were at least half the Inquisitor's level.
In the case of a multiclassed character, does this mean half the character's levels in Inquisitor, or half the character's hit dice?
Eat Sin (Sp): At 1st level, as a free action, when the sin eater inquisitor kills an enemy, she may eat the sins of that enemy by spending 1 minute adjacent to its corpse. This provokes attacks of opportunity. The inquisitor can rush this ritual, performing it as a full-round action that provokes attacks of opportunity, but she only gains half the normal benefit (see below).
Eating the enemy’s sins heals the inquisitor of a number of hit points of damage equal to 1d8 + her inquisitor level (maximum +5). The enemy must have been killed by the sin eater within the last hour, and it must have had at least as many Hit Dice as half the inquisitor’s level. The inquisitor can use this ability once for each enemy she kills. This ability has no effect on mindless creatures or those with Intelligence 2 or less.
Caster level has nothing to do with it.
The question is should it depend on your total hit dice or only the number of hit dice (levels) you have in Inquisitor.
To keep the ability in check power wise I'm inclined to say it's total hit dice. Especially since ability only restores 1d8+inquisitor level (up to 5 in hp) if you have 3 to 5 levels you're getting the majority of the benefit from it. However, if you only had to kill 3 to 5 HD creatures to get it, it becomes much stronger than the 10th level Inquisitor who needs to kill a 5 HD creature to make it function.
I think RAW there is a case that it should run off of Inquisitor Hit Dice, but I think the intention is that it should probably run off of total hit dice.
Thanks for the info, I'll have my DM make an executive decision on it.
It says inquisitor's level, not level of inquisitor. From multi-classing we find:
"For example, let's say a 5th-level fighter decides to dabble in the arcane arts, and adds one level of wizard when he advances to 6th level. Such a character would have the powers and abilities of both a 5th-level fighter and a 1st-level wizard, but would still be considered a 6th-level character."
So inquisitor would be have character levels equal to all his class levels, and I believe the clearest reading in the case would be to read 'Inquisitor's levels' as 'Inquisitor's Class Levels' instead of 'Inquisitor's Inquisitor Levels' however it is a debatable point.
In reality though, it is unlikely to make much of a difference as it is pretty rare to encounter something less than 1/2 your character level as a foe, and the ability isn't really all that powerful anyway.