Rawcaster
⚔ Striker — High Risk/High OutputNo Rig. No training. It just started one day and hasn't stopped.
Archetype: Unregistered natural channeler
Essa emerged in you without warning. No Rig, no academy, no license. The ability showed up on its own and the Empire has no clean category for it. You hit hard and dangerously — no Burn Buffer means every failed save lands directly. The Feedback DC is higher than everyone else. And when you roll a natural 1, you don't just fail. Something else happens.
The Empire classifies this as Unregistered Natural Channeling. The paperwork says containment is the preferred response. Raw channeling without hardware routing is flagged as irregular emissions — the Suppression Grid can read you, it just cannot categorize what it's reading. Rawcasters who survive long enough either get very good at CON saves or very good at reading Wild Surge results.
Essa Interaction
Hard DC modifier: +2 base on all Feedback Saves. No Burn Buffer. No Rig Current — replaced by Iron Skin (force resistance) at Level 5. Channel Slots available from Level 5. Irregular Essa emissions are detectable by Suppression Grid but not classifiable.
Class Features
Techniques
Level Progression
| Level | Features | Channel Slots | Feedback DC (T1) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Raw Channel, Wild Surge, Hard DC, Pulse Strike, Burst, Shell, Push | 2 | DC 11 |
| 5 | Iron Skin, Detonation, Redirect, Channel Slots (3) | 3 | DC 11 |
| 7 | Suppress, Leap, Surge Resistance | 3 | DC 11 |
| 9 | Channel Slots (4) | 4 | DC 11 |
| 10 | Bind, Overload, Surge Escalation | 4 | DC 11 |
| 13 | Channel Slots (5) | 5 | DC 11 |
| 15 | Cascade, Burn Through | 5 | DC 11 |
| 17 | Channel Slots (6) | 6 | DC 11 |
| 18 | Total Rawcast, Apex Surge | 6 | DC 11 (1/SR: DC 9) |