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title: "Butterfly Blade"
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# Butterfly Blade
You've trained in one of Goka's oldest traditions of espionage, intimidation, and combat mastery. You use your skills to learn about your enemies and cut them down with your mastery of the butterfly sword.

**Additional Feats** 4th [[Clever Gambit]], [[Combat Assessment]], [[Quick Draw]]; 6th [[Dread Striker]]

## [[Butterfly Blade Dedication]] Feat 4

**Prerequisites** trained in [[Butterfly Sword|Butterfly Swords]]

**Access** Defeat a member of the Butterfly Blades in a sanctioned bout.

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You become trained in Deception and Stealth; if you were already trained, you become an expert instead. Whenever your proficiency rank in any weapon increases to expert or beyond, you also gain that new proficiency rank with butterfly swords. You gain access to butterfly swords.

**Special** You can't select another dedication feat until you have gained two other feats from this archetype.

## [[Butterfly's Kiss]] Feat 6

**Prerequisites** Butterfly Blade Dedication

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You can make nonlethal Strikes with a butterfly sword without taking a penalty.

## [[Butterfly's Sting]] Feat 6

**Prerequisites** Butterfly Blades Dedication

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You gain the [[Sneak Attack]] class feature. You don't increase the number of dice as you gain levels.

## [[Mastermind's Eye]] Feat 6

**Prerequisites** Butterfly Blade Dedication

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When you succeed at identifying a creature using Recall Knowledge, that creature is off-guard against your attacks until the start of your next turn; if you critically succeed, it's off-guard against your attacks for 1 minute. This feat serves as the rogue's [[Mastermind|Mastermind Racket]] for the purpose of meeting prerequisites.

## [[Deadly Butterfly]] Feat 8

**Prerequisites** Butterfly Blade Dedication

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You gain access to the butterfly sword's critical specialization effect. If you already had access to the critical specialization effect or you gain the effect at a later time, you also gain the critical specialization effect for knives when you critically hit with a butterfly sword. You can benefit from only one critical specialization effect at a time.

## [[Innocent Butterfly]] Feat 10

**Prerequisites** Butterfly Blade Dedication

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You know how to alter the perceptions of others. You can cast aura of the unremarkable once per day as an innate arcane spell. The spell uses your class DC or spell DC, whichever is higher.