Ninjutsu (Spacetime; Requires Epic Technique (Edo Tensei) (f)) [Lost Kinjutsu,Summoning]
Rank: 15 (Epic);
Learn DC: 40, 10 success;
Perform requirements: 23 ranks (DC 45);
Time: 1 full-round action;
Components: C, H, F, XP;
Effect: One dead creature resurrected;
Duration: 1 day (see text) (D);
Saving Throws: None;
Chakra Cost: 30.
The Edo Tensei is a forbidden technique that raises the dead. As such, it is frowned upon
at the best of times and its secrets kept from all but the strongest, most determined ninja.
The technique summons a prepared receptacle and a dead soul and forces merging that
will result in a lifelike replica of a the creature.
This technique summons the soul of a dead creature and forces it to possess a specially
prepared seishinkugi, as per Kinjutsu: Seishinkugi technique. The seishinkugi and its
container are summoned in an adjacent square to the user. The summoned soul retains all
class levels, hit points, chakra, techniques and special qualities and ability scores it had at
the time of its death, as limited by the seishinkugi. If an ability of the summoned soul
required certain conditions that cannot be reproduced, such as a sealed bijuu, the
summoned soul loses that ability. Regardless of whether the summoning was done using
a seishinkugi that had been previously used, the summoned soul is always summoned at
maximum hit points and chakra.
The summoning requires at least some level of familiarity as well as accurate information
on the chosen creature, and lacking either or both may cause the summoning to fail (GM's
discretion). The user cannot summon a creature higher level than his character level.
At the time of the summoning, the summoned soul has a will of its own but can be
immobilized by the user with a single half seal, as a free action, for as long as he
concentrates (doing so is a free action and can immobilize more than one summoned
soul). An enhancing talisman may cause the summoned soul to behave differently.
An enhancing talisman must be inserted into the seishinkugi after the summoning as an
attack action, as per Seishinkugi technique. An immortality talisman extends the duration
of the technique indefinitely.
Regardless of the control the summoned soul was put under, it will always retain the
ability to voluntarily fail a saving throw against a technique that would seal its soul away
and kill it instantly, such as Shiki Fuujin. The container is summoned regardless of the
distance that separates it from the summoner.
Without the immortality talisman, the summoning will last 1 day or until the seishinkugi
is destroyed. A dead soul can only be summoned once every 7 days, and can resist the
user's summoning after the first time. If the soul resists, the summoning has a 90% chance
to fail, plus 1% chance per further attempt, success or failure.
If a summoned soul is dispelled within 1 day of the summoning, the seishinkugi and its
container return to the location they were summoned from and can be reused after a 24
hours period with only a 50% base chance to fail if the summon is unwilling. The
enhancing talisman must be extracted before the dead soul can possess the seishinkugi
again, but it retains its current charge and components. Extracting the talisman takes 1
minute. Each summoned soul can be dispelled individually.
Mastery
The first, third and fifth step of mastery in this technique allow an additional creature to
be summoned when performing the technique, each costing 30 chakra, 750 XP and
requiring a seishinkugi.
Material Focus: The container and seishinkugi.
XP Cost: 750 XP.