Flagellant’s Blessing

Prerequisite: Power Investiture 1+. Pain focuses your magic! Halve all pain penalties to spellcasting rolls, rounding in your favor, and apply a bonus of the same size to Will rolls to avoid distraction. Other bad effects affect you normally. The -1, -2, -3, or -4 for shock in combat becomes 0, -1, -1, or -2 to cast and 0, +1, +1, or +2 to Will – but your attack rolls still suffer the full -1 to -4. This perk is redundant if you have High Pain Threshold, which cancels all shock penalties and gives +3 to the relevant Will roll. If you combine this perk with Low Pain Threshold, then your shock penalties for casting aren’t doubled; there’s no other effect.