The strange and, in some ways, disquieting discipline known as Shattered Mirror is ancient and misunderstood. Many conflicting tales of its origins and practice exist, crediting its invention to a variety sources. Perhaps the most well-known story of its origin places blame for it at the feet of a mirror of opposition triggered by a great warrior caught in the midst of a magical conflict. The mirror’s powerful magics were pulled and warped by the flying spells and magical taint and the being it coughed forth came out wrong, unable to return to its home. Deprived of its homeland and its true and proper nature, it traveled the lands seeking power over reflections in an effort to return. The product of its failure, says the legend, is Shattered Mirror, which is still practiced to this day by those who seek power over reflections both true and deceptive. Shattered Mirror’s associated skill is Craft (glassmaking, painting, sculpture, or sketching), and its associated weapon groups are heavy blades, light blades, and close weapons.

This section contains the list of maneuvers for the Shattered Mirror discipline.

Order of Presentation: In the maneuver lists and descriptions, the maneuvers are grouped alphabetically by level.

Initiator Level: Some maneuvers effects depend on the initiator level, which is usually the character's level in the class that provides access to martial maneuvers. The word "level" in the maneuver lists always refers to initiator level.

Creatures and Characters: "Creatures" and "characters" are used synonymously in the maneuver descriptions.

Discipline Restrictions Some disciplines carry specific restrictions on when they can be used, as well as specific rules for those disciplines, as defined in that discipline's maneuver list.

Special Note: Maneuvers from this discipline are universally supernatural in nature, drawing as they do on the initiator’s ability to twist reality and reflect upon both themselves and others. As such, they are supernatural abilities. Some maneuvers from this discipline require the initiator to make a Craft check; these checks must use one of the Craft skills associated with the Shattered Mirror discipline.

Table: 1st Level Shattered Mirror Maneuvers

Maneuver	Type	Description
Breaking Glass Strike	Strike	Your melee attack dazzles the target and may daze them.
Copycat Cut	Strike	Your melee attack deals +1d6 damage, and you can use one of your target’s attack rolls in place of a later attack.
Dopplehanger Dance	Stance	You can follow when opponents make 5-foot steps.
Funhouse Waltz	Boost	Your speed increases by 10 feet and you can turn while running and charging for one round.
Left-Hand Strike	Strike	A successful Craft check causes opponent to lose shield bonus to AC and causes the target to take +1d6 damage from your melee attack.
Obsidian Reflection Stance	Stance	You apply a bonus or penalty on attack and damage rolls to all creatures within 20 feet (including you).

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Table: 2nd Level Shattered Mirror Maneuvers

Maneuver	Type	Description
Broken Mirror Strike	Strike	Your melee attack may break the target’s armor or shield.
Equivocate	Counter	You establish a reflective relationship with an opponent, sharing magical effects between the two of you.
Mimic's Gambit	Strike	Your melee attack allows you to copy a spell or power affecting the target.
Obsidian Razor Style	Boost	You add your Craft ranks as a bonus on damage rolls for one round.
Obsidian Sidestep	Counter	Make a Craft check in place of a saving throw.

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Table: 3rd Level Shattered Mirror Maneuvers

Maneuver	Type	Description
Curse of the Twisted Reflection	Strike [curse]	Your melee attack curses the target and may confuse them.
Infinity Mirror Stance	Stance	You create mirror images of yourself.
Reflected Blade Style	Boost	You copy the effects of a strike against a second target within close range.
Shattered Glass Smite	Strike	Your melee attack deals +3d6 damage and creates a 30-foot cone of shattered, magical glass behind them.

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Table: 4th Level Shattered Mirror Maneuvers

Maneuver	Type	Description
Blazing Mirror Strike	Strike	You make a touch attack with a weapon you are wielding; the target must make a Fortitude save or become blinded.
Carnival Swap	Boost	You trade a power or spell affecting you with one affecting the target.
Doppleganger Waltz	Counter	You can move when your target does.
Fetch's Wrath	Strike	Your melee attack deals +4d6 damage, and you can teleport before or after the attack.

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Table: 5th Level Shattered Mirror Maneuvers

Maneuver	Type	Description
Curse of the Smoking Mirror	Strike [curse]	Your attack causes the target to fall prey to a reflective curse unless it succeeds at a Will save.
Empty Frame	Counter	You become incorporeal in response to harm.
Gleaming Imprisonment	Strike	Your melee attack traps a creature within a sphere of mirrors.
Silvered Mirror Stance	Stance	A power or spell cast on you can also affect allies.

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Table: 6th Level Shattered Mirror Maneuvers

Maneuver	Type	Description
Copycat's Cunning	Boost	You copy armor, shield, or weapon special abilities of items wielded by an opponent.
Cursed Mirror Stance	Stance	You can make additional attacks of opportunity each round equal to your initiation modifier, and attacks that hit you in melee provoke an attack of opportunity from you.
Murderous Reflection	Strike	Your melee attack gains a bonus equal to the target’s Strength modifier on the attack roll and deals +7d6 damage.
Plagiarism	Counter	You temporarily steal an ability used against you.
Warped Glass Strike	Strike	Your melee attack deals +4d6 damage and causes the target to lose the ability to tell friend from foe.

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Table: 7th Level Shattered Mirror Maneuvers

Maneuver	Type	Description
Double Team	Strike	Your melee attack knocks the target prone and deals additional damage equal to twice the result of a Craft check.
Infinite Reflections	Strike	You deliver a cascade of melee attacks.
Mirror Demon's Waltz	Boost [curse]	You teleport to an unoccupied space within long range, cursing opponents adjacent to you and rendering them flat- footed.

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Table: 8th Level Shattered Mirror Maneuvers

Maneuver	Type	Description
Obsidian Negation	Counter	You make a Craft check against a spell, power, or maneuver to negate its effect and cause the effect’s originator to be unable to use it temporarily.
Shattered Mirror Strike	Strike	Your melee attack deals +6d6 damage and causes the target to be unable to see other creatures.
Unholy Mirror Stance	Stance	Harmful powers and spells used against opponents within 30 feet of you are copied to affect additional targets.

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Table: 9th Level Shattered Mirror Maneuvers

Maneuver	Type	Description
Septennial Seal	Strike	Your melee attack traps the target’s soul within a mirror for seven years.

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1st Level

Breaking Glass Strike

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Strike); Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: Instant

DESCRIPTION

Your vicious strike flares with shards of mirror-bright color that dazzle and dizzy your victim. Make a melee attack. If it hits, it deals weapon damage as normal, and the target must succeed at a Will save (DC 11 + your initiation modifier) or become dazed for one round. Regardless of whether or not the target succeeds at its save, it also becomes dazzled for a number of rounds equal to your initiation modifier.

Copycat Cut

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Strike); Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: Instant

DESCRIPTION

With a slight shift of your stance, you mimic an attack you’ve witnessed in the last few seconds of combat. Make a melee attack. If it hits, it deals weapon damage as normal plus an additional 1d6 points of damage, and you can choose to use the result of any attack roll made by your target in their next turn in place of one of your attack rolls in your next turn. If you strike that opponent with their own attack roll, you deal an additional 2d4 points of damage. An attack made using an opponent’s attack roll does not threaten or confirm critical hits.

Doppleganger Dance

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Stance); Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: Stance

DESCRIPTION

With supernatural alacrity, you mimic your foes’ movements, preventing them from escaping you. While you maintain this stance, whenever an adjacent opponent takes a 5-foot step to leave one of your threatened squares, you may immediately take a 5-foot step towards that opponent, even if you have already moved or taken a 5-foot step this round. Whenever you use this ability, your movement speeds during your next turn are reduced by 5 feet.

Funhouse Waltz

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Boost); Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: 1 round

DESCRIPTION

With a moment’s concentration, you shift your movements, advancing like a warped reflection. After initiating this boost, you gain a 10-foot enhancement bonus to each of your movement speeds and do not need to move in a straight line while running or charging for one round.

Left-hand Strike

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Strike); Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: Instant

DESCRIPTION

A minor twist of reality makes it seem like your strike is two places at once. When you initiate this strike, make a Craft check, using the target’s AC as the DC. Then make a melee attack against the target. If it hits, it deals weapon damage as normal. If your Craft check succeeded, your target loses its shield bonus to AC against this and other attacks this round, and your attack deals an additional 1d6 points of damage.

Obsidian Reflection Stance

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Stance); Level: 1
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: Stance

DESCRIPTION

You emanate an aura that either enhances the perceptions of those within it or makes them warped and twisted. While you maintain this stance, all creatures (including you) within 20 feet of you gain either a +1 bonus on attack and damage rolls or a –1 penalty on attack and damage rolls. Once per round as a free action, you can change which of these effects is applied. These bonuses increase by +1 for every four initiator levels you possess (+/– 2 at 4th level, +/– 3 at 8th level, and so on).
2nd Level

Broken Mirror Strike

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Strike); Level: 2
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: Instant

DESCRIPTION

With a mirror-bright slash, you put jagged cracks in your opponent’s defenses. Make a melee attack. If it hits, it deals weapon damage as normal, and the target must succeed at a Reflex save (DC 12 + your initiation modifier) or its armor or shield (your choice) gains the broken condition for a number of rounds equal to your initiator level.

Equivocate

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Counter); Level: 2
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: Close (25' + 5/2 levels)
Target: You and one other creature
Duration: 1 round

DESCRIPTION

You ensnare yourself and a foe in a reflective relationship. You can initiate this counter in response to opponent within close range (25 feet + 5 feet per 2 initiator levels) being targeted by a power, psi-like ability, spell, or spell-like ability. For one round, any such effect targeting that opponent also targets you (and vice versa), even if it normally could not affect that many targets or one of you would be out of range.
8th Level

Obsidian Negation

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Counter); Level: 8
Prerequisites: Three Shattered Mirror maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 immediate action
Range: Close (25' + 5/2 levels)
Target: One creature
Duration: Stance

DESCRIPTION

You conjure a shard of black glass, imprisoning not only your enemy’s power but the very concept of the tool he attempts to use. You can initiate this counter in response to opponent within close range (25 feet + 5 feet per 2 initiator levels) casting a spell, initiating a maneuver, manifesting a power, or using a psi-like or spell-like ability. Make a Craft check opposed by your opponent’s caster level, initiator level, or manifester level check (as appropriate) plus their Wisdom modifier; if you succeed, the effect is completely negated, and that opponent may not use it for a number of rounds equal to your initiation modifier.

Shattered Mirror Strike

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Strike)[mind-affecting]; Level: 8
Prerequisites: Three Shattered Mirror maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: Instant

DESCRIPTION

With a casual blow you annihilate your opponent’s perceptions, writing and rewriting their senses until they can only perceive reality as a shattered ruin. Make an attack. If it hits, your attack deals weapon damage as normal plus an additional 6d6 points of damage, and you make a Craft check, using the target’s CMD as the DC. If you succeed, the target’s senses are violently altered for a number of rounds equal to your initiation modifier; it treats all other creatures as having total concealment and suffers a 50% failure chance on spells with verbal or somatic components.

Unholy Mirror Stance

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Stance); Level: 8
Prerequisites: Three Shattered Mirror maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: Self
Duration: Stance

DESCRIPTION

Woe and discord are multiplied by your reflective power. While you maintain this stance, you can choose to have any power, psi-like ability, spell, and/or spell-like ability that targets an opponent within 30 feet also affect a number of secondary targets equal to your initiation modifier. Each secondary target must be within 30 feet of you, and none can be affected more than once. If the original effect requires an attack roll, use the same roll for each target. If the effect deals damage, secondary targets take half as much damage as the primary target, and if it does not deal damage, its save DC is reduced by 4 instead.
9th Level

Septennial Seal

Discipline: Shattered Mirror (Strike); Level: 9
Prerequisites: Four Shattered Mirror maneuvers
Initiation Action: 1 standard action
Range: Melee attack
Target: One creature
Duration: Instant (seven years)

DESCRIPTION

The ultimate expression of your reflective power creates a mirror behind your victim just before you strike them with your magic-laced blade, blowing their soul out of their body and into your trap. Make a melee attack. If it hits, it deals weapon damage as normal, and the target must succeed at a Will save (DC 19 + your initiation modifier) or die instantly, their soul becoming trapped for seven years in a small steel mirror that appears somewhere on your person. If they succeed at their save, your attack instead deals 13d6 additional damage. Destroying the mirror created by this strike frees your victim’s soul, allowing it to be returned to life as normal.