You bear an officially recognized tattoo declaring your full membership in the Cynosure.
Prerequisites: Freehold region, member in good standing of the Cynosure, spellcaster level 1st.
Benefit: You are a respected member of the Cynosure and have been granted a magical tattoo that declares your status. You gain a +2 bonus on all Diplomacy checks involving fellow guild members; this bonus extends to all Freeholders if your tattooed guild insignia is prominently displayed. Furthermore, you can participate in circle magic with others who possess this feat.
When you take this feat, you must choose which of the three official branches of the guild you wish to associate yourself with. Once chosen, this decision can only be altered through feat retraining. You gain the appropriate benefit for your branch from among those listed below:
- Defense: You use your Intelligence modifier to adjust initiative checks instead of your Dexterity modifier, if it is higher.
- Research: You gain a +1 morale bonus on all Knowledge skills in which you have at least 1 rank, and a +2 competence bonus on Spellcraft checks made to learn a new spell.
- Service: You gain a +2 competence bonus on all Craft and Spellcraft checks made to create magical items, and an additional +2 competence bonus on Spellcraft checks made to identify the properties of magical items. These bonuses stack.
Acquisition of this feat requires initiation into the Cynosure by the Guildmaster or another authorized senior guild official. If you lose your good standing with the guild, you lose all benefits of this feat and instead suffer a -2 penalty on all Diplomacy checks involving Freeholders, or a -4 penalty on all Diplomacy checks involving fellow guild members, until your good standing is restored.
Your Cynosure tattoo is treated in most ways as a normal magical tattoo and takes up whichever "tattoo slot" it is placed in (your choice), but you gain a +5 bonus on all saving throws against effects that specifically target your Cynosure tattoo, such as erase. If your tattoo is removed, you lose the benefits of this feat until you can have it replaced.