At 18th level, this affects enemies wtihin 50 feet of the knight At 20th level, those enemies also take damage equal to the highest enhancement bonus among weapons the knight wields, and the damage counts as both cold and negative energy This replaces blood possession Plague Knight (Archetype) Your death is a sustenance 102 Frost Pillar (Su): At 9th level, as long as a frost knight has at least 12 points of his blood debt dedicated to his weapons, he can cast flame strike as a full-round action When cast this way, the spell’s damage is half cold damage and half negative energy The knight can use this ability a number of times per day equal to his Constitution modifier At 13th level, the knight can ignore his allies within the area of the spell At 17th level, the knight can cast the spell as a standard action instead This replaces blood burst at the listed levels Ice Chains (Su): At 11th level, a blood knight can convert points of his blood debt as a standard action to cast entangle Creatures that fail their saving throw must succeed at a Fortitude save at the same DC or be slowed for the duration and up to round afterward This replaces Survivor Aura of the Remorseless (Su): At 15th level, as long as a frost knight has at least 12 points of his blood debt dedicated to his weapons, enemies within 30 feet of him at the start of each of his turns take cold damage equal to the knight’s Constitution modifier and reduce their movement speed by half The knight can suppress or reactivate this ability as a free action on his turn Volwryn’s reality is a balance of life, death, order, and chaos that sways on its axis at the hands of those who would champion their cause Plague knights are masters of death, creating necromantic armies of undead and spreading disease in their wake When everything is dead, there will be nothing left for the Chaos to claim Armor Proficiencies and Runeforging: A plague knight gains armor proficiencies and the runeforging ability of the blood knight (see above) Undead Companion (Ex): As long as a plague knight has at least 12 points of his blood debt dedicated to his weapons, he gains an undead companion This functions as the necromancer class feature, except the knight’s effective druid level is equal to half his veritus champion level (minimum 1st) Grip of Death (Su): Plague knights gain grip of death, as the blood knight ability Scourge of Volwryn (Ex): At 3rd level, a plague knight can take minutes to tap into the soul of Volwryn from across any planar boundary to transform his power over undeath into something else When he does, the plague knight becomes his choice of a blood knight or frost knight (see above) He gains those abilities in place of undead companion, festering strike, fetid decay, plaguebringer, and army of undead Sickening Strikes (Sp): At 6th level, a plague knight can convert 12 points of his blood debt as a standard action to cast sickening strikes as a spell-like ability Creatures normally immune to disease can be affected by the knight’s sickening strike, but gain a +2 bonus to save against it This replaces waves of blood Fetid Decay (Su): At 9th level, as long as a plague knight has at least 12 points of his blood debt dedicated to his weapons, he can cast boiling blood, targeting any creature (even if it doesn’t have blood), and the damage dealt counts as both negative energy and fire (it affects creatures resistant or immune to fire damage normally) At 13th level, the knight can target one creature per three levels, no two of which may be more than 50 ft apart At 17th level, the knight can use fetid decay a number of times per day equal to his Constitution modifier (minimum 1) without converting blood debt to so This replaces blood burst at the listed levels Plaguebringer (Su): At 11th level, when a plague knight hits a creature already affeced by his sickening strikes with an attack, each enemy within 10 feet of that creature must also save against the effect Each creature that fails its save (including the original target) takes damage equal to the knight’s Constitution modifier This replaces Survivor