Arm of the Ancestor

Price: 32,500 gp; Slot: Arm; Type: Deathless; Weight: 8 lb; Install DC: 24; Implantation Value: 3

Aura: Moderate Necromancy; CL: 9th;

Special Notes / Rules: Implants

Source: MoE, pg. 128

Description: By replacing your own arm, up to the shoulder, with that of a deathless creature, you gain some of its resiliency, but at the cost of constant numbing sensation. Your Strength score receives a +2 racial bonus whenever the Arm of the Ancestor would be of benefit. This includes CMB and CMD for maneuvers that don't involve movement, breaking objects and melee or thrown weapon attacks made one-handed with that specific arm, If you have all of your arms, or two arms for those races that have more than two arms, replaced with Arms of the Ancestors, then the bonus to Strength also applies to Climb checks, Swim checks, your effective Strength score for lifting and two-handed melee or thrown weapon attacks.

More important than the bonus to Strength is the fact that the positive energy from the implant seeps back into your own body. By temporarily giving up the ability to control your arms, you gain your fast healing 1 (or 3 if you have all of your arms replaced). Turning on this ability only takes a free action, but turning it off and regaining control of your arms takes a minute. During this time, you cannot perform any actions that require your arms or hands, including holding anything. If something is strapped to your arm or hand, you do not drop it, but it does not count as being wielded. You can do this as often as desired, but if you have multiple Arms of the Ancestor, they are disabled and enabled together as a set.

You also gain a constant +1 circumstance bonus to saves versus poison and disease. The bonus to saves versus poison and disease stacks with other deathless implants, but the fast healing does not stack with any other sources.

Construction:

Craft DC: 22; Cost: 8,125 gp

Requirements: Craft Implant (deathless), Bull's Strength, Cure Critical Wounds

Donor Requirement: The matching arm of a deathless creature.