Ever run into these situations…
Your elite colonist charges into battle and comes back with half a brain, bed-ridden and useless.
You meet the perfect pawn—amazing skills, exactly your type—only to discover they’re a die-hard loyalist and you have to “harvest” their heart, lungs and kidneys through tears.
You’re raiding a ruin, open the wrong sarcophagus and a pack of centipedes pours out—no recon, no counter-measures, colony wiped.
A rocket-launcher raider shows up and you left your psychic shock lance at home—seconds later there’s nothing left of you but red mist.
No worries! This mod adds a brand-new psycast path and ten brand-new abilities that solve every one of those headaches—and more.
Features
Built on top of [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2842502659] Vanilla Psycasts Expanded [/url], the mod introduces a new psycaster path and ten new powers.
Don’t want another framework? No problem—a standalone tier-6 psycast “Possession” is also provided for 100 % vanilla games.
NEW PATH: SOUL WEAVER
Soul Weavers are psycasters who walk the line between life and death, bending the spirit itself into weapon and veil. They can evict a soul from its flesh, wear another's body like a second skin, or unravel an enemy's psyche with a whisper.As masters of spiritual surgery, Soul Weavers trade in taboo and transcendence. They tear souls loose, stitch them into new vessels, and weave lingering ghosts into devastating curses. To face a Weaver is to risk becoming an empty husk—or a hollow puppet.
New hediff: vegetative
A body that has lost its soul becomes vegetative—alive, but empty.
ABILITIES
•Out of body
Separate soul from body; the astral form is immune to physical harm and can pass through walls.
• Possession
Invade an unprepared soul, kill the host and walk away in their skin.
• Soul Swap
Rip two souls from their bodies at once and let them trade places.
• Soul Split
Sever a fragment of your own soul to hypnotise and control a target.
• Soul Assimilation
Target a hypnotised pawn; the caster’s soul completely overwrites the victim’s.
• Soul Strike
Attack the target’s soul directly, inflicting random mental breaks.
• Soul eliminate
Obliterate the target’s soul outright.
• Soul Quake
Expand your soul across the entire map tile, releasing a wave of psychic energy that snuffs out every soul beyond a safe inner ring.
• Soul Bind
Lock the target’s soul inside its body; for the duration the target is truly immortal.
Notes
It is strongly recommended that you also add the [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2842502659] Vanilla Psycasts Expanded[/url] to play!
It is strongly recommended not to use Possession or any soul-transfer abilities on special NPCs added by other mods.
Any bugs resulting from doing so are not my responsibility.
Think vegetative pawns should just be left to die? Toggle it in the mod settings—already-vegetative pawns won’t be affected.
The mod is still in active testing; because it touches a lot of systems I can’t cover every edge-case.
If you find a bug or have an idea, drop a comment—feedback keeps the soul alive!
Have fun!
Known Issues
Possession does NOT transfer psychic bonds; the bond remains tied to the original body (bonds are gene-locked).
Choose your lovers carefully…
Thanks / Shout-outs
[url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2842502659]Vanilla Psycasts Expanded[/url] – without you, this mod wouldn’t exist.
[url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2196278117]Altered Carbon 2: ReSleeved[/url] – your flawless consciousness-transfer mechanics were an invaluable reference.
