## Tainted Essence *Your essence is tainted with the energy of some dark entity or shadowed bloodline, giving your veils and akashic abilities a sinister cast.* **Prerequisite:** Ability to shape veils **Benefit:** You gain a +1 profane bonus to the save DCs of veils with the evil descriptor and increase any profane bonuses normally offered by such veils by +1. If your alignment is not evil, you appear as one alignment step closer to evil for each veil with the evil descriptor you have equipped when subjected to abilities like an antipaladin’s _detect good_ ability or _detect alignment_ spells. If you have at least three veils with the evil descriptor bound, you are treated as being evil aligned for spells and abilities whose effects are determined by alignment, such as an antipaladin’s smite good or an _unholy blight_ spell.