Retired
The Ultimate Spheres of Power version of Light Sphere Feats, since replaced by Diamond Recreational Studios’ Polished content. Not part of the current rules.
Night Sky (Dual Sphere)
It was no longer dark, for the twinkling lights danced and distracted in their own new ways.
Prerequisites: Dark sphere, Light sphere.
Benefit: Whenever you use the Dark sphere darkness sphere effect, you may instead fill the area with twinkling starlight. This altered darkness effect is referred to as “starlight darkness”. Instead of altering the area’s light level, all creatures in a starlight darkness’s area are dazzled. A Dark sphere effect modified by this feat is no longer dispelled by Light sphere effects and continues to function in areas with magical light.
If you would create starlight darkness modified with the Dark sphere Pure Darkness (darkness) talent, instead of altering the area’s light level, the penalties of the dazzled condition increase by +1 + 1 per 5 caster levels. If you would spend an additional spell point with the Dark sphere Pitch Black advanced talent, instead of altering the area’s light level, the dazzled condition imposed by starlight darkness applies to all attack rolls, even if the creature does not rely on sight, can pinpoint their target through other means (such as blindsight), or would otherwise be immune to the dazzled condition.
When creating starlight darkness, you may add a (light) talent instead of a (darkness) talent to the area. A (light) talent used with starlight darkness must be one that affects all creatures in the light’s radius (such as Disorienting Patterns, Hypnotic Pattern, Searing Light, etc.) and has no additional effects for an individual target (even if attached to that target with Clinging Darkness). Starlight darkness with a (light) talent is treated as a glow effect for the purposes of a (light) talent’s effects. Starlight darkness is otherwise a Dark sphere effect, and effects such as the Dark sphere Clearsight (meld) treat this effect as a normal (darkness) effect.
You may spend a standard action to treat the starlight darkness as though it were an area of bright light or as part of the standard action used to create the starlight darkness, and functions as if it were bright light for the starlight darkness’s duration. You must spend any additional spell points required when using a (light) talent with an area of starlight darkness.