General Rules: Feats - Memory of the Ages

Memory of the Ages [Special] (adapted from the Player's Guide to Wizards, Bards, and Sorcerers)
Through the quiet playing of a certain repetitive pattern on his harp, a member of the Chorus of the Ages is able to not only commit spoken words to memory indefinitely, but - when playing the same pattern again later - is able to repeat those words, in the voice of the original speaker, perfectly.
   Prerequisites: Bardic Music ability, Perform: Stringed Instrument 4+ ranks.
   Benefit: By making a DC 15 Perform: Stringed Instrument check and expending a daily use of his Bardic Music ability, the bard is able to play a tune that opens his memory for perfect retention of words. This tune may be played for ten minutes per bard level (though levels in the Chorister of Ages class stack for this purpose).

At any time later, the bard may make a DC 15 Perform: Stringed Instrument check and spend a daily use of his Bardic Music ability in order to not only recall the specific words that were spoken during his trance, but to speak the words in the voice that spoke them.

If these words were spellcasting, they have no magical effect, but someone with the Spellcraft skill may recognize them as such. This ability may be used even if the bard does not speak the language being spoken; indeed, he is able to "replay" sounds that the human voice could not normally create, but doing so inflicts a point of temporary Constitution damage on him.

While in the memory trance, the character is considered to be fascinated, though he need not make a save to throw off the effect; he may simply end it at will if threatened.

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