Invoking the power of your dark patrons, you transform your skin into living steel, blackened and hard yet still supple enough to move. Your quickness suffers a bit, but you are much tougher and more resilient.

Daily   ✦     Arcane
Minor Action      Personal

Effect: You change your skin into living steel. You gain a +2 power bonus to AC and Fortitude defense but take a -2 penalty to speed until the end of the encounter. You can end this effect as a minor action.

Update (8/12/2011)
Updated in Class Compendium.

Published in Player's Handbook, page(s) 134, Class Compendium.