Scalecarver Dedication

Feat 2

Prerequisites Scalecarver

Your study of the origins of magic have borne fruit, allowing you to access greater power. You gain the enhanced glyph familiar class feat as a bonus feat. If your familiar dies, you can can replace it during your next daily preparations, either recreating it or recieving a new one from your patron.
Additionally, You gain the shifting rune action. If you gain a focus spell through this archetype, you become trained in spell attacks and spell DCs. Your spellcasting attribute is Intelligence. Whenever you gain an increase to your runesmith class DC, you also increase this spellcasting DC.
Shifting Rune (arcane, concentrate, runesmith) Target 1 creature that bears one of your runes within 30ft and choose between acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic damage.

The creature gains resistance to that damage type equal to half your level rounded down for 1 minute or until you use this action again. Additionally, whenever you etch or invoke a rune before the end of your next turn that deals damage, change its damage type to the damage type that you chose.

Prodigious Companion

Feat 4

Prerequisites Scalecarver Dedication

You have become more accustomed to fighting alongside your familiar and taking advantage of its unique physiology. Whenever you Invoke a rune, you may also Command your familiar as a free action. Your familiar gains the Fast Movement familiar ability, which does not count against your maximum number of familiar abilities.

Walk with the dragons

Feat 4

Prerequisites Scalecarver Dedication

You have learned to emulate some of the combat techniques of the rune dragons to great effect, dodging and diving away in the heat of battle while tracing your runes.
You gain the trail of runes focus spell.

Flexible Runecraft

Feat 6

Prerequisites Scalecarver Dedication; at least 1 diacritic rune

You gain a deeper understanding of the structure of runic magic, finding it much more mutable than it first appears.
You gain the revise rune focus spell.

Draconic Familiar

Feat 8

Prerequisites Scalecarver Dedication; a familiar with the dragon trait
Duration sustained up to 1 minute

Your familiar serves as a conduit for some of the majesty of the true dragons. Summon a common creature that has the dragon trait and a level no greater than your level – 4. This creature gains the summoned trait. This creature appears in the same space as your familiar, which disappears for the duration of this ability. When the ability ends, the familiar appears in the space the summoned creature occupied. A familiar can endure this process only so often—if you use this ability on your familiar more than once per day, it dies as soon as it returns the second time.

Diacritic Expansion

Feat 8

Prerequisites Scalecarver Dedication;

You delve deeper into your study of the mutability of runes, allowing you to uncover modifications that allow you to get more use out of the base runes that you know.
you add un-, diacritic rune of entrapment and ja-, diacritic rune of extension to your runic repertoire.

Runic Cascade

Feat 10

Prerequisites Scalecarver Dedication

You've finally cracked the secrets to the mighty breath weapons of the dragons; the energy detonating your prepared runes in a deadly cascade.
You gain the Runic Breath focus spell.

Trail of runes

focus 2

Area Varies; Duration 1 minute; Defense Will

Move two times: two Strides, two Steps, or one Stride and one Step (in either order), and then Trace a Rune using the 1 action version of the activity. Spaces that you pass through become difficult terrain for 1 minute, as you leave scintilating runes in your wake. An enemy that enters one of these squares or ends their turn adjacent to them for the first time each round must make a Will saving throw against your spell DC or become fascinated by the runes. Enemies take a –10-foot status penalty to their Speeds while fascinated by this effect.

Revise Rune

Focus 3

Range 30 feet; Targets 1 Rune inscribed by you

Your study of the origins of Runes allows you to make alterations to them on the fly. You Trace a diacritic rune on the targeted rune, then you can move the rune to another eligible target within range of the first target.

Heightened (5th) The range increases to 60 feet.

Runic Breath

Focus 5

Range 30 feet; Area Varies; Targets Your familiar;

You empower your familiar to unleash a whirlwind of runic energy. your familiar Strides, then unleashes a burst of force in either a 15-foot cone or a 30-foot line. Creatures within the area must succeed at a basic Fortitude saving throw or take 6d6 force damage. In addition, you Invoke all of your runes etched on creatures within this area.

Heightened (+1) The damage increases by 1d6.

Un-, Diacritic Rune of Entrapment

rune 5

Usage drawn on a rune that deals damage

This spiky diacritic surrounds the rune, making it more dangerous and unstable whie also containing its magic. the base rune can be etched on an unoccupied 5-foot space on a surface instead of its normal targets, lasting for 1 minute. If an enemy enters this space or starts its turn in it, you can Invoke the base Rune as a reaction; you can't invoke any additional runes with that reaction.

Special un-, diacritic rune of entrapment can be applied to a rune that already has a diacritic etched on it.

Ja-, Diacritic Rune of Extension

rune 5

Usage drawn on a traced rune

This winding diacritic folds the magic of the rune in on itself, allowing it to be encapsulated and stabilized. The base rune lasts for 1 minute instead of its normal duration.

Special You can have only one ja-, diacritic rune of extension applied at a given time, and once you invoke it, you can't etch or trace it again for 10 minutes.