This ancestry feat Conductor's Redirection
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You conduct the damage through your body, taking damage as normal (if applicable) and redirecting it at one target within 10 feet that you can see. The creature must make a Fortitude save using your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher. On a failure, they take the electrical damage; on a success, they take half damage.
Questions:
1) Does the Talos character take the damage?
2) Is the damage redirected the damage of the original spell or the damage the Talos character took?
The problem I have is the word redirect. The object of the sentence is the damage.
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As written, you can redirect any electricity damage you take, even from your allies or your own effects. This means your ally can Electric Arc you and an enemy, you can lower the degree of success by one since you're willing, and then redirect it to the enemy. Since you have a natural electricity resistance you will take less damage than your enemy, and they will have to make a Reflex and Fort save, and take at least half of what you got, which could be double the damage roll if you crit failed.
The way that I am reading that is that you would calculate the damage dealt by your attacker as normal, adjusting by your degree of success of a save or the enemy's attack roll and such. Then that amount of damage is used for the Conductor's Redirection reaction. You take that amount of damage, modified by any weaknesses, resistances, or immunities that you have. And then your target takes that same amount of damage, modified by their save results and any weaknesses, resistances, or immunities that they have.
The wording isn't entirely clear. But that is how I would interpret it unless there is some good argument made that it should be otherwise. That reading is what makes sense to me.