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Some (rare) Taint-blessed creatures are celestials, but most are depraved mortals or simply fiends or undead that somehow changed taint in a positive thing. If a Taint-blessed creature ever looses its taint, it would loose this template as well. To be precise, the very taint of such a creature is corrupted, thus changing into a strange mixture of Good and Evil.
This process is almost unseen. The only reason it can happen in the first place is because of the exchange that takes place between someone and its own taint : the taint feeds on its holder, and this holder feeds on the taint. When the taint touchs touches a pure soul through its holder, it mutes in a subtle way. If such a soul is frequented for a long period of time, the taint is permanently altered, and these changes are transmited transmitted to the holder via the link they share. Even fiends and unminded undeads non-sentient undead can be affected in this way , if the correct conditions are reunitedcircumstances allow it.
A Taint-blessed creature looks exactly like the base creature, but in some cases, monstruous features appear over its body, such as rotted flesh, teeth on its hands and limbs, or unusual secretions of disgusting substances. In any way, its appearance is somewhat brighter, at least when people take attention to it.
==== Taint ====
A Taint-blessed creature no longer gains depravity. Instead, its depravity score is threated treated as being one half its charisma score +2, except if the base creature is innately tainted, in which case we use it uses the highest value. In fact, the taint released its grip on the creature mind, its only remain being its anda lingering desire for good deedshas replaced it. It The creature does gain bonus feats provided by a high enough depravity score, even if the base creature precedently didn't.
On the other hand, a Taint-blessed creature acquires corruption as the base creature. Instead of normal ill effects, it may choose to suffer a penalty to charisma checks and charisma-based skill checks. This penalty is -2 for a mild corruption, -4 for a moderate corruption and -6 for a severe corruption. This penalty is reflective of physical deformities, but these do not hinder its physical capabilities. A high enough corruption score may or may not grant bonus feats to the taint-blessed creature (as with the base creature), and if . If the Taint-blessed creature's corruption score exceeds its score is high enoughmaximum, it may die of it, assuming the base creature could (if the base creature could not die from corruption, as is the case with a fiend or undead, the base Taint-blessed creature cannot either). A Taint-blessed creaturethat dies because of an excessive corruption score acquires the Tainted Minion template (even if it does not qualify for it) but retains its alignment and this template.
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