#necrocarnum

This soulmeld literally leeches the life from those nearby.  Whenever an adjacent, living creature is wounded, the shaper gains a bonus to attack and damage, and investing essentia increases the radius of the effect dramatically.  This soulmeld can be bound to either the waist, frightening enemies within the field created, or the soul, allowing the caster to use the necrocarnum to attack their enemies, draining their will to live and their power to strengthen the necrocarnate as well.

The extra essentia granted by this soulmeld makes it dangerous, as even a couple extra points can make an incarnate or other shaper a drastically more potent threat.  The increase in damage potential is also popular among evil incarnates, and stacks with the other sources they have available.

This soulmeld deadens both body and soul, inuring the shaper against the effects of cold.  Investing essentia makes the flesh of the shaper better able to ignore pain and damage, increasing hit points, but this comes at a considerable risk:  reinvesting essentia from this soulmeld can lead to unconsciousness or even death due to the change in hit points.  This soulmeld can be bound to either the waist, in which case nearby enemies take cold damage at the end of your turn based on invested essentia, or to the heart, making the necrocarnate immune to stunning and death effects.  The variety of these effects makes this soulmeld a dangerous one to both the shaper and their enemies, and this soulmeld should not be underestimated.

The dark, shifting energy of this soulmeld gives the shaper an advantage at trickery in combat, gaining a bonus to sleight of hand and bluff attempts.  Invested essentia allows the evil energy of this soulmeld to be directed into living creatures with a touch, dealing damage to them.  When bound to the shaper’s arms, this attack can be used at a short range.

This soulmeld allows the shaper to perfectly sense the location and presence of any nearby undead, and increases the turn radius of undead sensed by essentia invested.  As alluring as the ability to sense undead may be to a good-aligned shaper, the torture of souls to get there is so abhorrent that only evil, and extremely desparate lawful or chaotic, shapers ever proceed to do so.  When bound to the crown, this soulmeld splits, forming a second crown over the head of a corpse, which is now animated by necrocarnum and under the command of the shaper of this soulmeld.

There are a number of necrocarnum soulmelds, each with a couple of effects, and the next soulmeld series will be on those.  Not something Anna would use, but very much an iconic part of the Incarnate class.