<strong>Camouflage</strong><br/>The Discipline of Camouflage is one that allows the Kai Lord<br/>to blend into his surroundings. With practice and intuition, the<br/>Kai Lord learns how to best shield himself from the gaze of<br/>others. In the wilderness, he will be able to use the smallest<br/>terrain feature to hide his presence, while in a city he can act<br/>as a native or adopt a new persona through skilful disguise.<br/>The mistaken assumption that a Kai Lord is only at home<br/>in the wild has long been one of the Kai Order’s greatest<br/>advantages.<br/><br/><em>Tier I: Blinding Surrounds</em><br/>Taking best advantage of his surroundings, the Kai Lord is<br/>adept at using terrain features to mask his presence. From<br/>this point on, the<span class="bbc_u">Kai Lord gains a bonus to all Stealth checks<br/>equal to his Camouflage Tier</span>.<br/><br/><em>Tier II: Fleeting Glimpse</em><br/>Once skilled at veiling his appearance, the Kai Lord then<br/>learns how to move effectively while remaining camouflaged.<br/>He may now move at up to his base speed while hiding with<br/>no penalty to his Stealth check. He only suffers a –10 penalty<br/>to his Stealth check while moving faster than his base speed,<br/>and the penalty while charging an enemy is only –15 (see page<br/>102 for further details of the Stealth skill).<br/><br/><em>Tier III: To Hide in Man’s Shadow</em><br/>There are many different talents involved in the power of<br/>Camouflage and the Kai Lord studies hard to learn them<br/>all. A<span class="bbc_u">Kai Lord who reaches this Tier of Camouflage and<br/>has 5 or more ranks in certain other skills will gain a bonus<br/>to all Stealth checks</span>. He will gain a +2 bonus to all Stealth<br/>checks if he has 5 or more ranks in Acrobatics (being able to<br/>remain motionless or move with liquid grace), Bluff (creating<br/>diversions) or Sense Motive (knowing where a target will turn<br/>his attention to next). These bonuses will stack if the Kai Lord<br/>has 5 or more ranks in more than one of these skills.<br/><br/><em>Tier IV: False Faces</em><br/>The Kai Lord is a master of disguise and can use the least<br/>amount of information to aid in the creation of a new persona.<br/>If a Kai Lord makes a study of the type of character he is<br/>trying to emulate (such as a warlord’s bodyguard, a local<br/>merchant or a performing actor) he may add a<span class="bbc_u">bonus to his<br/>Disguise checks equal to his Camouflage Tier</span>when emulating<br/>that type of person. The Kai Lord studies his target by making<br/>a Gather Information check (DC 15) and observing the target<br/>for at least five minutes. The Kai Lord will still need all the<br/>necessary make-up and costume required by the Disguise skill<br/>in order to be successful. The bonus lasts for twenty four<br/>hours, plus a number of hours equal to the amount by which<br/>the Kai Lord beat the Gather Information check’s DC.<br/><br/><em>Tier V: Beyond the Body</em><br/>At this Tier of ability, the Kai Lord has become skilled enough<br/>in the Tier IV ability False Faces that, given a few extra<br/>minutes, he can disguise himself even as a member of a nonhuman<br/>race. He can change the colour and texture of his skin<br/>and change his height and weight by up to one-fifth in either<br/>direction. Note that this does not grant him the ability to<br/>speak the language of the race, so the Kai Lord must exercise<br/>extreme caution when so disguised.