Steel Serpent Style (combat, style)

Your training lets you take advantage of weakened foes.

Prerequisites: Heal 3 ranks, one Steel Serpent stance known.

Benefit: Whenever you hit a creature with a Steel Serpent maneuver, that creature takes a –1 penalty on attack rolls and to their AC for two rounds. At character level 5th and at every five levels thereafter, this penalty increases by –1.

Steel Serpent Fangs (combat)

You have honed your lethal intent to an art form.

Prerequisites: Steel Serpent Style, Heal 7 ranks.

Benefit: As a swift action, you can expend a readied boost to treat opponents suffering from ability damage as flat-footed until the start of your next turn.

Steel Serpent Venom (combat)

You amplify the weakness of your victims.

Prerequisites: Steel Serpent Style, Steel Serpent Fangs, Heal 13 ranks.

Benefit: Whenever you deal weapon damage to a creature suffering from ability score damage, that creature must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC = 10 + 1/2 your character level + your highest initiation modifier) or become nauseated for one round. Multiple uses of this effect do not stack, nor do they increase the duration.