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Bard Spells

A bard casts arcane spells drawn from the bard spell list, casting any spell she knows without preparing it ahead of time. Learn more about the Bard class.

Conjuration Healing

You must have a bardic performance in effect to cast this spell (although this spell is called song of healing, the bardic performance need not be singing).

Class Levels:
Bard 4
Conjuration

You conjure uplifting music from the wilds of Elysium, Heaven, or Nirvana to bolster other musical activities.

Class Levels:
Bard 1 Cleric 1 Wizard 1 Paladin 1 Psychic 1 Sorcerer 1 Mesmerist 1
Transmutation Polymorph

Upon casting this spell, you keep your relative shape, but you and your equipment are transformed into semisolid sound.

Class Levels:
Bard 6 Skald 6 Wizard 6 Psychic 6 Sorcerer 6 Alchemist 6 Investigator 6
Evocation

Up to three times during this spell's duration, you can emit a cone of powerful sound as a standard action.

Class Levels:
Bard 2 Magus 2 Skald 2 Wizard 2 Psychic 2 Sorcerer 2 Bloodrager 2
Evocation

Sound moves targets away from you.

Class Levels:
Bard 4 Skald 4 Wizard 5 Psychic 5 Arcanist 5 Sorcerer 5
Necromancy

Your dry, rasping whisper fills a living creature of 4 or fewer Hit Dice with unnatural dread.

Class Levels:
Bard 1 Cleric 0 Oracle 0 Wizard 0 Sorcerer 0
Necromancy

You may only cast this spell if you currently have a familiar.

Class Levels:
Bard 5 Druid 5 Magus 5 Witch 5 Cleric 5 Shaman 5 Wizard 5 Sorcerer 5 Inquisitor 5
Evocation

Deals 1d8 sonic damage to subjects; may stun them.

Class Levels:
Bard 2 Skald 2 Cleric 2 Oracle 2 Warpriest 2
Enchantment Compulsion

You plant an idea, concept, or suspicion in the mind of the subject.

Class Levels:
Bard 1 Skald 1 Witch 1 Wizard 1 Psychic 1 Arcanist 1 Sorcerer 1 Mesmerist 1
Evocation

Ignites flammable objects.

Class Levels:
Bard 0 Druid 0 Magus 0 Skald 0 Witch 0 Cleric 0 Hunter 0 Oracle 0 Wizard 0 Arcanist 0 Sorcerer 0 Warpriest 0 Elementalist Wizard 0
Divination

This spell functions as tongues, except the creature touched gains only the ability to speak and understand a regional human language and the language granted must be one you know.

Class Levels:
Bard 1 Witch 1 Cleric 1 Ranger 1 Wizard 1 Sorcerer 1 Inquisitor 1
Divination

You can communicate with animals.

Class Levels:
Bard 3 Druid 1 Skald 3 Hunter 1 Ranger 1 Psychic 2
Divination

You can talk to plants and plant creatures.

Class Levels:
Bard 4 Druid 3 Skald 4 Hunter 2 Ranger 2
Conjuration Creation

You summon a spectral creature in the shape of the Tiny or smaller animal of your choice, which always appears in your square.

Class Levels:
Bard 3 Druid 3 Ranger 3 Shaman 3 Wizard 3 Sorcerer 3
Divination

If a creature within 100 feet that you can see is speaking a language you understand, you can read its lips with perfect accuracy.

Class Levels:
Bard 1 Witch 1 Cleric 1 Medium 1 Wizard 1 Psychic 1 Sorcerer 1 Alchemist 1 Mesmerist 1 Occultist 1 Inquisitor 1 Spiritualist 1
Divination

You immediately discover some of the spells that the target knows or has prepared.

Class Levels:
Bard 2 Witch 2 Cleric 2 Oracle 2 Wizard 2 Sorcerer 2 Inquisitor 2
Evocation

You inflict a curse similar to the spell burn spellblight on a creature.

Class Levels:
Bard 4 Witch 5 Cleric 6 Shaman 5 Wizard 6 Psychic 6 Sorcerer 6 Occultist 5 Inquisitor 5 Antipaladin 4
Transmutation

When you cast this spell on a weapon, you cause an extradimensional space to open within the weapon.

Class Levels:
Bard 4 Magus 3 Witch 4 Wizard 3 Sorcerer 3 Occultist 4 Bloodrager 4
Transmutation

Delivers a potable potion, elixir, or beverage to a willing touched ally as a standard action.

Class Levels:
Bard 1 Druid 1 Witch 1 Cleric 1 Shaman 1 Wizard 1 Sorcerer 1 Alchemist 1 Occultist 1
Evocation

You create a mobile area of bright light centered on one target while simultaneously suppressing other light sources surrounding it.

Class Levels:
Bard 3 Druid 3 Magus 3 Witch 3 Cleric 3 Shaman 3 Wizard 3 Paladin 3 Sorcerer 3 Occultist 3 Inquisitor 3
Enchantment Compulsion

You fill your targets with the sudden fear of failure.

Class Levels:
Bard 3 Witch 3 Wizard 3 Psychic 3 Sorcerer 3 Mesmerist 3 Inquisitor 3 Antipaladin 3
Divination

You can observe the night sky and all of its celestial bodies as if it were a clear night, regardless of weather conditions that would otherwise block your view.

Class Levels:
Bard 1 Druid 1 Witch 1 Cleric 1 Ranger 1 Wizard 1 Sorcerer 1 Alchemist 1
Transmutation

You pull the breath from a creature's lungs, dealing damage and leaving it unable to speak, use breath weapons, or cast spells with verbal components.

Class Levels:
Bard 2 Druid 2 Skald 2 Witch 2 Hunter 2 Wizard 2 Psychic 2 Arcanist 2 Sorcerer 2 Mesmerist 2 Bloodrager 2
Necromancy

Target gains the croaking spellblight.

Class Levels:
Bard 2 Skald 2 Witch 2 Medium 2 Wizard 2 Psychic 2 Arcanist 2 Sorcerer 2 Mesmerist 2
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