Temperance
Charms
Hoodwink
Cost: 8 motes, I Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Temperance: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm allows the spirit to
temporarily distract the target, causing his attention to focus on something
other than the spirit. Roll the spirit's Manipulation + Conviction with a
difficulty equal to the target's Essence. Simple success distracts the target
for a turn — long enough for the spirit to run away or dematerialize. Three or
more extra successes distract the target from anything it was thinking about
the spirit, such as suspicions, accusations, anger, etc. Five or more extra
successes means the target does not remember the spirit until something or
someone reminds him of what he was thinking. This Charm requires extra
successes to distract a target who is fee ling
negative emotions toward the spirit, and it requires at least three additional
success to affect someone in combat with it.
Stillness
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: One scene
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Temperance: 1
Minimum Essence: I
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm allows the spirit to remain
absolutely, perfectly still.
Camouflage
Cost: 10 motes
Duration: One scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Stillness
This Charm allows the spirit to camouflage
itself within whatever environment it happens to be in. A spirit standing
against a rock takes on the coloration of that rock, and its edges might soften
a bit, making its outline difficult to make out against the background. Roll
the spirit's Wits + Temperance. Successes on this roll ate added to any
successes on the spirit's Dexterity + Stealth roll if it is attempting to
actively hide. The result is the number of successes observers' players must
roll on their Wits + Temperance checks (four net successes are required if the
spirit is still, three if it moves slowly, two if it moves normally, and one if
it moves quickly).
Hurry Home
Cost: 10 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Temperance: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
With a successful Wits + Temperance check,
a spirit may escape whatever situation it is in and return to its own home —
what exactly constitutes the spirit's home is a matter for Storyteller
discretion. The more tense and hurried the situation, the more successes the
spirit requires. One success is all that's needed in a relaxed, quiet setting.
Five successes take the spirit home even in the middle of a combat,
Portal
Cost: 15 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: One turn
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Hurry Home
A successful Intelligence + Temperance
check allows the spirit to open up a portal large enough for it to step
through. The portal lasts for one turn; during that time, anyone else may step
through it as long as they can fit through the opening. With one success, the
portal takes the travelers to a random (though not immediately harmful)
location. With two successes, the spirit may loosely direct the exit point
("Southern Deserts, please") or go directly to its home. Five or more
successes allow the spirit to direct the portal wherever it pleases. Extra
successes beyond the successes required for pinpointing the portal's exit point
allow the spirit to triple the radius of the portal.
Transport
Cost: 20 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Portal
A successful Dexterity + Temperance check
allows the spirit to transport itself wherever it chooses. For each success, it
may transport one passenger (willing or unwilling) as well, though it costs one
additional Willpower point if there are passengers involved. All passengers
must be within the line of sight of the spirit. The spirit must have been to
the destination before.
Banish
Cost: 10 motes, 1
Willpower
per target
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Transport
With this Charm, a spirit may banish any
targets within line of site to a random habitable location up to one
mile distant (i.e., a human would not be banished to an underwater location or
dumped in a lava flow). Roll the spirit's Perception + Temperance. Each success
allows one target to be banished in this manner. The more successes, the
farther away the target is likely to be sent. This Charm must be used within
the bounds of the spirit's home territory.
Capture
Cost: 15 motes, 1
Willpower
per target
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 5
Minimum Essence: 6
Prerequisite Charms: Banish
With this Charm, a spirit may transport
any targets within line of site to a location of the spirit's choosing, as long
as it isn't immediately deadly to the target (the target could be transported
into a cage or into the cave of a dangerous beast, but not into a lava flow or the
bottom of the ocean unless the target could survive those places). Roll the
spirit's Dexterity + Temperance. Each success allows one target to be captured
in this manner.
Sustenance
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
The spirit must touch a mortal in order to
activate this Charm. This does not involve a Brawl or Martial Arts check, as
this Charm works only on a sleeping mortal. After the spirit touches the
target, roll its Wits + Temperance. For each success, the spirit devours one
mote of Essence. This Charm always involves some other method of sustenance as
well. The spirit might feed on the dreams and nightmares of the mortal, or on
her breath. Whatever the spirit feeds on does not harm the mortal, although it
might have mild (and temporary) effects when the mortal wakes up. Even if the
spirit does not regain the Essence it spent, it still feels satiated from the
other part of its meal
Steal Sustenance
Cost: 6 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Sustenance
The spirit must touch a sleeping mortal in
order to activate this Charm. Roll the spirit's Strength + Temperance. At least
two successes are required. Not only does this Charm steal two motes of Essence
per success, but it also devours something that leaves the mortal impaired in
some way — hearing, sight, etc. — although it leaves the body apparently
unharmed. Only supernatural healing of some sort restores the loss; it never
heals normally. Even if the spirit does not replenish the Essence it spent, it
feels satiated.
Donning Spiritual
Armor
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None
The small god summons up the forces of the
elements or similar powers to protect it from harm. The spirit gains armor
equal to Temperance + Essence. This armor can be used to soak any form of
bashing or lethal damage, including damage caused by environmental conditions
such as excessive heat or cold. Elementals and elementally associated spirits
always surround themselves with elemental protections such as a hauberk of
tough roots, a shirt of flexible rock or a breastplate of living flame. Other
spirits don armor of light or darkness or, occasionally, transform their
ordinary garb into supernally beautiful and durable
garments of pure magic.
Essence Inveigle
Cost: 6 motes, 2 Willpower
Duration: One week (at least)
Type: Simple
Minimum Temperance: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Sustenance
The spirit has consensual sex with a
mortal in order to activate the Charm, so no Brawl or Martial Arts rolls are
required. Amidst the merriment, roll the spirit’s Manipulation + Temperance.
For each success, the spirit devours 1 mote of Essence. What is more, the
victim later develops an unquenchable craving for another rendezvous with the
spirit. If the victim returns freely, the process is repeated (and any lost
Wits suffered from the process below are regained). If the victim does not
return within one week, roll his Wits + Conviction -1 die for each time the
spirit successfully used the Charm against the victim. If the roll yields fewer
successes than the spirit’s Willpower, the victim loses a point of Wits temporarily.
If he does not return to the spirit that day, repeat the process the next day,
continuing every day until the victim either returns of his own volition,
succeeds in breaking the Charm or reaches 0 Wits (in which case the victim
loses all control and will do anything in his power to return to the spirit).
If the victim’s Wits + Conviction roll succeeds against the spirit’s
Willpower, the Charm is cancelled, and all temporary Wits losses are regained.
This Charm has no effect on beings with an Essence higher than the spirit’s.
Denial Of The Forge’s Yoke
Cost: 6 motes
Duration: Scene
Type: Reflexive
Minimum
Temperance: 2
Minimum Essence:
4
Prerequisite
Charms: None
Weapons made of mortal metal won’t hurt
the spirit. Any damage such a weapon would have inflicted is ignored. This does
not protect against weapons of the Magical Materials, but another version
requiring a minimum Temperance of 3 and Essence of 6 does. That variant
requires this Charm as a prerequisite.