Literally “wooden”, the jury is out on whether the sect of onmyōji known as mokusei are considered priests, mokusei no shisai, or jailers, mokusei no keimusho. Unique among the practitioners of onmyōdō, the mokusei do not bind shikigami to articulated bodies of origami paper, but rather to staves of straight wood whose form the bound spirits cannot easily manipulate. Some view this stance as cruel, while others simply see it as a splinter cult insisting on wood rather than the void as the fifth element.
Mokusei have the following class features:
Starting Wealth: A mokusei begins play with a quarterstaff in addition to the standard starting wealth made available to all onmyōji.
Aid of the Minor Kami (Sp): Just as a mokusei is the spirit world’s envoy to the realm of mortals, the mokusei uses his shikigami’s connections with the minor spirits of the spirit world without the need to petition them formally. After all, the other minor spirits don’t want to end up like the mokusei’s servitor! Each morning when he replenishes his spirit pool, the mokusei selects two wizard cantrips and two cleric orisons. He retains knowledge of the chosen spells until the next time he uses this ability, at which point he promptly forgets them before choosing a new set of cantrips and orisons. While wielding his mokugami (see bound shikigami, below), he may cast any of the chosen spells at will with a caster level equal to his mokusei level and Charisma as his key ability.
This ability modifies aid of the minor kami.
Bound Shikigami (Su): At 1st level, a mokusei binds a conjured servitor spirit, or shikigami, to a quarterstaff rather than to origami paper. The staff to which the shikigami is bound is known as a mokugami and has the following abilities.
If a mokugami is destroyed, lost, or dismissed, it can be replaced 1 week later through a specialized ritual that requires a mundane quarterstaff and costs 100 gp per mokusei level. The ritual takes 8 hours to complete.
Spirit Pool (Su): All mokugami have a spirit pool with a size equal to half its master’s mokusei level, rounded up. While wielding the mokugami, the mokusei may expend points from the mokugami’s spirit pool as though it were his own. The mokugami’s spirit pool replenishes itself whenever the mokusei replenishes his own spirit pool.
Laying Down Roots (Su): Bound shikigami tend to treat the vessels into which they are interred as though they were gardens in need of cleaning and improvement. As a result, if the master is at least 2nd level, a mokugami is treated as a masterwork weapon, even if it was not a masterwork weapon before a shikigami was bound to it. If the master is 6th level or higher, the mokugami gains a +1 enhancement bonus, increasing by +1 every three mokusei levels thereafter, to a maximum of a +5 enhancement bonus at 18th level.
Regrowth (Su): If the master is at least 3rd level, he may grant both himself and the mokugami fast healing 1 for 1 minute as a free action. This ability may be used a number of times per day equal to the master’s mokusei level, and may only be used while wielding the mokugami. If the mokusei relinquishes his hold on the mokgugami while receiving fast healing in this manner, the effect ends immediately.
Green Shoots (Sp): If the master is 5th level or higher, the mokugami grows a green shoot each morning when the mokusei replenishes his spirit pool. For every three levels the mokusei possesses beyond 5th, the mokugami grows an additional green shoot, to a maximum of five green shoots at 17th level.
The mokusei chooses a petition with a base spirit point cost of 1 for each green shoot the mokugami produces. Once the petition is chosen, that shoot spontaneously breaks off of the mokugami at large. Treat each broken-off green shoot as a wand of the chosen petition containing a single charge. For the purpose of interacting with other magic, as well as setting the green shoot’s save DC, it is considered to be a wand of a 3rdlevel spell (DC 14, CL 5th). All divine spellcasters treat green shoots as though the contained petition were a spell on their spell lists for the purpose of being allowed to make a caster level check rather than a Use Magic Device check in an attempt to activate the green shoot, while creatures with the ability to cast the contained petition outright need not make a check to use one. Whenever the mokugami produces new green shoots, all previous green shoots rot and turn to useless sawdust.
Rapid Aid: Direct physical contact between mokusei and mokugami helps to improve the reaction time of the minor kami. If the master is at least 7th level, he may apply the benefits of the Quicken Spell metamagic feat to a casting of one of the cantrips or orisons learned via the aid of the minor kami class feature at no cost to himself. This ability may be used once per minute.
Greenest Shoot (Sp): If the master is 20th level, the mokugami grows a greenest shoot each morning when the mokusei replenishes his spirit pool. A greenest shoot follows all of the rules for a green shoot, save that the chosen petition may have a base spirit point cost of up to 4 and that it is considered to be a wand of a 7thlevel spell (DC 20, CL 13th).
This ability replaces shikigami and the ofudamori portion of spirit pool.