Drain Soul

At-will, std, touch; target with a soul takes one level of enervation, and you gain a soul gem containing a fragment of their soul. You can have one soul gem per rank attuned at a time. You can use the soul gem to:

• Learn one piece of information about the target
• Use as the sympathetic component of a phylactery
• Speak with the subject's voice
• Attempt to convince a magical effect that distinguishes between targets that you are, in fact, the creature from whom the soul shard was drained
• As a reaction, you can redirect a targeted magical effect that was about to harm you to the subject instead. This expends the shard.

At Rank 2, you can expend the soul gem to gain one chosen magical ability of the target (such as a spell-like ability, a class feature, or a supernatural ability) for 1 hour.

At Rank 3, you can expend the soul gem as an immediate action to stabilize yourself while dying, or if you suffered instant death, you enter the dying state instead. When this happens, you suffer 1 level of Enervation.