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 ===== Foreign Gods =====
-==== The Tyrant King of Liarus ====
-The miracles of the Tyrant King can be used once per encounter once obtained under the Divine Favour background.
-=== Level 1 Miracles ===
-== Exultant Roar ==
-Within five seconds of slaying a foe, you may call FEAR at a target once.
-== Predator's Focus ==
-In order to use this miracle in an encounter, you must spend at least a minute basking in the warmth of the sun. Once in the encounter you may call RESIST to a standard combat call that is NOT delivered by a weapon.
-===Level 2 Miracles ===
-== Scent of Prey ==
-You must obtain and consume a small part of a target (such as a hair, or a drop of blood off a weapon) to invoke this curse. The target will bear the scent of prey. Predatory animals will stalk them and target them even in preference to weaker meals.
-== Predator's Pounce ==
-You must spend five seconds pawing the ground with a foot to invoke this miracle. You may call STRIKEDOWN at a target within five metres of you. Any blows you strike at them before they stand up may be called at +1 damage.
-== Procession of the Tyrant's Gift ==
-You must offer a fresh kill to the Tyrant King to invoke this Miracle, which will boil into blood and away. A great swarm of insects boil forth and bear a carcass to a location of your choosing.
-== Iron Breaking Hide ==
-To prepare this Miracle, you must spend one minute skinning a kill and turning it into a trophy that you are wearing. You may call SHATTER against one weapon that strikes you while wearing it, after which it will be ruined. If you are struck by an attack from an aggressor using natural weapons, you can instead expend this to deal a QUAD when struck.
-=== Divine Aura - Alpha Authority ===
-You are the natural alpha of any pack you run with. Anyone who accepts this both benefits and grants you a benefit.
-Each party member who accepts your authority as leader, or behaves as such (indicated by an OC acknowledgement) gains +1 body hit. You gain +1 body hit for each member of the party who does this.
 ==== The Dreaming Ocean ====
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 === Golems ===
-When transforming into a golem their stats will replace yours (rather than adding to yours). When calculating your golems stats you use your total hits (body/armour/both) rather than your current hits. This way your golem stats can be calculated at the beginning of the adventure.
+When transforming into a golem their stats will replace yours (rather than adding to yours or being transformed in some complicated way). When calculating your golems stats you use your total hits (body/armour/both) rather than your current hits. This way your golem stats can be calculated at the beginning of the adventure.
-When in golem form you lose any remaining calls you had access to, don't count as wearing armour and take SHATTER as a QUAD. You will keep your base damage unless otherwise stated.
+When in golem form you lose any remaining calls you had access to, don't count as wearing armour for the purposes of poisons, count as being armour for all other purposes, you are immune to the HEAL call, benefit from the RENEW call, and take SHATTER as a QUAD. You will keep your base damage unless otherwise stated.
+When calculating your hits for a golem form, body and armour hits are based on what your skills and items specify, and ignore any quirks which may shuffle them around (i.e., if your body hits normally count as armour, they still count as body hits for the purposes of calculating your golem forms).
 You will return to normal when unconscious, at the end of the encounter, or sooner if you wish. You will retain any hits you had when you reverted (if you have more hits than your total body hits then these become armour hits).
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 For every 10 seconds that the priest has been extolling the virtues of personal power and desire, they may free one person from a mind control effect by calling DO AS YOU WILL. After this point, the target will remain free from mind affecting influences until the priest stops their preaching. You must explain these additional rules at the beginning of any adventure in which you are playing.
+==== The Heroic Path ====
+A Valyddian god dedicated to true heroism in life and death.
+=== Level 1 Miracles ===
+== Record ==
+sec - can be used 1 of 2 ways. 1) To inform your god of heroic deeds an individual has done, to gain them a better reception in the afterlife. 2) To inform your god of heroic deeds an individual is about to do, when used like this the miracle acts as a promise and your god is likely to watch with interest. Sometimes your god will even intervene, if someone has chosen to follow a particularly heroic path (less devout practitioners may argue suicidal path). Any response will be at GM discretion, generally the GM should be aiming to provide a moderate buff once an adventure for actions which would fit the theme of a traditional hero.
+== Fight On ==
+sec - HEAL 4 at a target who is on 0 hits.
+=== Level 2 Miracles ===
+== Strike True ==
+sec - Target gains +1 on their next strike
+== A Hero's Soul ==
+sec - The Target's past and possible futures are laid out before The Heroic Path. Then they are given a gift that will help them on their heroic path. If the character's player believes the character is generally heroic they will gain a Strengthen that they can use before the end of the adventure (cannot be stacked), otherwise the player will recieve some kind of intervention (ranging from bad dreams to an encounter that the Heroic Path believes will help guide that character onto a heroic path).
+=== Divine Aura ===
+Gain 1 resist against Fear, Entangle, or Weaken.
+==== The Beacon ====
+Fires and lanterns comfort you. Whenever you enter a dark place, you feel a strong desire to light it; whenever you find someone who is lost, you feel a strong desire to help them find their way.
+=== Level 1 abilities ===
+== Homeward Charm ==
+You rarely get lost. If you do become lost, you and your party do not take any penalties for exhaustion caused by this occurring.
+Once per adventure, you may ask the GM for guiding visions related to an item or a person which has been lost. To receive these visions, you must stare into a large fire and invoke The Beacon’s power.
+You feel a strong desire to meticulously plan and organise every last detail of your travel, and will go to great lengths to ensure safety is prioritised if there are those you regard as your juniors accompanying you. If someone challenges this behaviour, you will feel strongly that you know what is best.
+== Fire Charm ==
+Torches or other sources of light you are holding can never be extinguished by mundane means. If you are somewhere dark, you gain +2 DODGES per encounter while holding a lit torch in either hand.
+Once per an adventure you may bless a source of light. The light will burn brighter and be more resistant to going out. Other effects (such as helping someone who is lost find their way home) are at GM discretion.
+You feel a strong desire to comfort anyone suffering from fear or shock, especially if you regard them as your junior.
+=== Level 2 abilities ===
+== Stoke the Will ==
+Once per an encounter you may choose to take any DOMINATE call as a QUAD instead. Make a display of obvious defiance in service of a goal you have. If you do, and this damage is not prevented, you are STRENGTHENED and may call IMMUNE to DOMINATE for the remainder of the encounter.
+You may also use this ability to resist an ENRAGE or a FEAR. You will not be strengthened nor gain the immunity, but also do not need to take the QUAD. You may only use this ability once per encounter, regardless of which version you use.
+You are highly suspicious of anyone with the ability to manipulate emotions or thoughts through non-mundane means, no matter how benevolent they may seem. You are prone to lecture those you think of as impressionable on the dangers of such people.
+== Light Eternal ==
+As a prerequisite for taking this ability, you must first take ‘Fire Charm’.
+So long as you hold a torch in one of your hands, you are IMMUNE to BLIND and FEAR. Furthermore, you gain 1 ranged REND call you can use each encounter as fire leaps from your torch to incinerate your foes.
+If you are forced drop a torch you are wielding (e.g. via DISARM), you instantly take a REND. If a torch you are wielding is destroyed (e.g. via SHATTER) you take a QUAD REND instead.
+Your body emits a faint, warm, light at all times. Anything metaphysically connected to darkness is likely to be upset by your presence.
+== Blazing Soul ==
+You may self-immolate to fill your companions with determination. Twice per adventure, you may lose X body hits to call PARTY HEAL X. You are not affected by this PARTY HEAL call. You may not drop below 0 hits in this way.
+You are inclined to be optimistic and to encourage others towards this worldview. Furthermore, you are less concerned about your own pain, suffering, and personal safety so long as you have the opportunity to help those you think of as your juniors. If you encounter someone pessimistic or in despair, you feel a strong inclination to discover the cause of their grief and to assist them, even if the person in question finds this meddlesome
+=== Divine Aura ===
+The party gains a RESIST to either BLIND, FEAR, or MESMERIZE each encounter.
+In addition, if you are fighting somewhere dark, and carrying a lit torch or other source of flame, the whole party gains +1 DODGE.
+=== Blessed Weapon ===
+  * **Armour**: Flaming Vambraces. Forged of dark metal, these vambraces flicker and lap at the wearer’s hands playfully. The first time each adventure that the wearer loses all their armour hits, they may either call PARTY HEAL 12 or MONSTERS TRIPLE REND as the vambraces combust, releasing the power sealed within.
+  * **Weapon**: Eternal Flame. This ivory torch houses a flame from the Lighthouse of the Beacon, ceremonially carried by her worshippers through thunderstorms, across ice-floes and into the darkest caves. This Torch is immune to SHATTER, and cannot be extinguished easily even by non-mundane means (i.e. at GM discretion). Once per adventure, the bearer of this torch may call MASS REND.
+  * **Talisman**: N/A
 ===== Young Gods =====
 ==== The Favour of Rowan Darrish, The Well Meaning ====
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 === Blessed Weapon ===
   * Armour: N/A
-  * Weapon: Gain one use of TREPANING Triple per encounter, follows the usual rules for a BACKSTAB but also removes ONE ongoing psychological effect.
+  * Weapon: Gain one use of TREPANING Triple per encounter, the following rules must be explained at the beginning of any adventure on which you play. If you were not expecting the blow (or were unresistant) then you take 3 points of damage and a single ongoing psychological effect is removed from you (if you are suffering multiple psychological effects then the target player gets to choose which is removed), if you were expecting the blow then you take a single point of damage and no other effects.
   * Talisman: A mirror which can be used to steal a person's face. If a target looks into the mirror for 5 seconds, their face takes up residence within, replacing any previous faces. Someone looking at the mirror may notice a reflection that is not quite their own. For the purposes of Identity Theft the face within the mirror is present for the character holding the mirror. The target may have dreams regarding the actions of people who have held the mirror while their face was inside. The target doesn't appear any different while their face is stolen, but supernatural effects which target an identity may behave differently at the GMs discretion.
 === Aura ===
 The health of one member of the party is the health of the entire party. Party members travelling with you do not have a death count. Instead, if a party member is on 0 hits and would otherwise be bleeding out then every 15 seconds they should call PARTY SINGLE (if multiple auras are present, this is extended by 10 seconds for every additional aura). Only at the point that every member of the party is down do they die. Should a downed party member be executed while under the effect of this aura they should call PARTY ZERO REND, instead of taking the execution. Additionally, if travelling with someone devoted of the Tender (Priest, Divinely Favoured, or blessed) then the party will receive a HEAL ONE at the end of every encounter.
+The divine aura of The Splintered Man allows you to enter and exit the Lost Places via a mirror (at both ends) once per an adventure, you may take as many people as you wish while doing this so long as they can maintain physical contact with you.
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 Up to once per an encounter, anyone protected by this aura may call a REND at the point they feel someone has violated a deal with them.
-==== Divine Favour of He who Devours Himself ====
+==== Favour of Jimmy Hoskins, He who Devours Himself ====
 === Level 1 Miracles ===
 ==Unhealthy Obsession==
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 A character with this skill may perform a short ceremony (or execution) to send the soul of someone who has fallen to He Who Devours Himself.
+==== Favour of Xavier Octavio Sarmandastra, the Pivot of the World ====
+=== Level 1 Miracles ===
+== No, it's like this ==
+s. Specify a standard call, target gains a RESIST against it. This cannot be stacked with itself.
+== Doubting Reality==
+s. Look out, it's a dog! Call LOOK BEHIND YOU.
+=== Level 2 Miracles ===
+== I've Read About This! ==
+s. You're sure you read about a situation just like this in a story book once... Gain one piece of definite information pertaining to this encounter (GM discretion). In Xavier's personal library, a book contrived to reach this situation now exists.
+== Wouldn't You Agree? ==
+s. The force of your words makes your words true. Utter the phrase "WOULDN'T YOU AGREE THAT" and a short sentence that follows it and for next 5 minutes nobody that heard you can articulate a reason to disagree. You must brief these additional rules at the beginning of any adventure you play on.
+=== Blessed Weapon ===
+  * Item - A book which seems to be a magical autobiography. Sometimes is says things that you yourself were unaware of.
+  * Weapon - Mace. Gain the "Use Mace" skill.
+  * Armour - N/A
+=== Divine Aura ===
+Twice per an adventure you may call a time freeze, and replace a MASS call with another standard call for all members of the party.
+==== Favour of Armand Cargan-Graves, The Revolution ====
+=== Level 1 Miracles ===
+== Power to the People ==
+s: you may call STRENGTHEN on anyone who is not a member of a group your Divine Aura can affect, OR on everyone outside your party who could be applicable (call a TIME FREEZE if you choose to do this to explain what is going on).
+== Unshackling ==
+s: you may call SHATTER on every lock, chain, or other means of restraint in the encounter OR your party gains IMMUNE ENTANGLE for the encounter.
+== Ward the Wasted ==
+s - Call HEAL 0 IMMUNE HEAL.
+=== Level 2 Miracles ===
+== Dis-empower ==
+s - You may call WEAKEN at range.
+== Uprising ==
+s - Your voice is supernaturally enhanced so that people from miles around can hear it. If the populace listening to your words were already inclined to follow your cause then they will be empowered to follow through with it (either by NPCs on your side gaining some additional stats or via off-screen action). This ability does not influence the opinions of anyone, just allows your words to be heard. PCs will never gain a mechanical benefit from this skill.
+=== Blessed Weapon ===
+  * Amulet of Resistance - This amulet ensures that what is truly yours can never be taken away from you. Once per an encounter you may sequester part of your life away for safe keeping. When using this ability choose how many body hits you are sequestering away, your current and maximum body hits drop by this amount. You may choose to restore these body hits at any time so long as you have not bled to death and still have the undamaged amulet upon your person. Permanent loss of the amulet while it contains part of your life could have long-term consequences.
+  * Sword of the Revolution - Pick a group (Nobles, Guild Members, Priests) at the beginning of the adventure, you gain +1 damage against this group. While this sword is upon your person, you have an overwhelming desire to undermine this groups power and status.
+  * Armour - N/A
+=== Divine Aura ===
+Gain 2 dodges per an encounter against an opponent of one of the following groups, you must choose the group at the beginning of the adventure (GM may agree other groups but they must as or more restrictive, and be a group with entrenched power). Valid groups: Nobles, Guild Members, Priests.
+==== Felicity Morning, the One True Voice ====
+=== Level 1 Miracles ===
+== Oh FFS ==
+s - Gain one use of SNAP OUT OF IT. This lasts until you have used it. Does not stack.
+== The Only Sensible Person in the Room ==
+s - Gain a use of JUST HEAR ME OUT.
+=== Level 2 Miracles ===
+== Oh Fuck ==
+s - Once per an adventure, on taking an effect that would drop you to 0 hits, you may call RESIST DISAPPEARING. You do not take any element of the effect. You have 30 seconds to relocate yourself in the encounter before calling APPEARING. You cannot use an abilities or effects before reappearing. You ARE aware of what has happened during this period, as if seeing the encounter through a veil of mist.
+== On Your Own Terms ==
+s - Until you strike the first blow, take all damage as HALF. Effects still affect you.
+=== Blessed Weapon ===
+  * Weapon - N/A
+  * Fabulous Armour - Gain JUST HEAR ME OUT once per encounter.
+  * Rock of Rationality - Anyone touching this item will feel a wash of rationality and become more likely to approach situations logically and level-headedly.
+=== Divine Aura ===
+Every member of the party gains 1 RESIST per encounter to mind-altering effects (DOMINATE, FEAR, MESMERISE, ENRAGE).
+===== Other =====
+==== The God-Mother ====
+=== Level 1 Abilities ===
+== Storyteller’s Nous ==
+Once per encounter, after telling an intriguing story for at least 15s, ending, “BUT THAT’S ANOTHER STORY…” you will leave your audience wanting more. Those about to execute you will be more inclined to keep you alive; those who were ready to ask you to leave the premises might entertain your company for a little longer (at GM discretion, but this effect will generally last about 30s).  You must explain this effect at the start of any adventure you play.
+== The Sting in the Tale ==
+Stories have the power to send a shiver down the spine. Once per encounter, after 30s of telling a tale of terror, you may cast an arcable MASS FEAR which you must take yourself by cowering. Your story is so frightening that anything else seems benign by comparison.
+== Kindness Carried Forwards ==
+Once per adventure, you may spend 30s telling a sad story to call upon the God-Mother to perform an act of kindness towards a person in need (this person may be yourself). At base, this boon is likely to be reasonably trivial – equivalent to allowing a starving person to instantly find food to survive -- but at the discretion of the GM.
+Kindness pays forward, so the boon will be stronger if you have been kinder throughout the adventure and similarly will be weaker if you have been cruel (at GM discretion).
+=== Level 2 Abilities ===
+== Power of the Bard ==
+Once per encounter, by recounting grand tales of a person’s exploits, you can empower them to fight to their fullest. After 10s of telling their story within their hearing, they become STRENGTHENED and IMMUNE WEAKEN while you continue telling their story. If for any reason you stop telling their story, the effect dissipates for the remainder of the encounter, even if you begin again.
+== This is no ordinary piece of junk! ==
+(Once per encounter) Choose an object of some description (phys-repped by a larp-safe throwing weapon). After 30s holding the object in the air and telling a story about it, you may throw the object with the call, “DOMINATE: GO GET IT!” to one person within hearing range.  They will find themselves compelled to chase after the object; the effect ends once they retrieve it or after 30s. You must explain this effect at the start of any adventure you play.
+== No, no, no, you're telling it wrong ==
+Once per encounter, by talking over someone else's conversation for 15 seconds you may call JUST HEAR ME OUT during which you should try and explain things better in your own words.
+=== Blessed Weapon ===
+  * Armour (Fabled Mail of Invisibility): Once per encounter, you may call DISAPPEARING as your armour perfectly conceals you within your surroundings. You may persist in this state for as long as you remain perfectly still and make no noise; if you move, make a noise, or are touched by any entity, you must call REAPPEARING. Be aware that entities seeing you disappear may search the area you occupied when disappearing, instantly blowing your cover.
+  * Weapon (Fabled Vigilant Blade): Your weapon has the illusion of sentience and speaks to you, alerting you to danger. Once per encounter, your sword may alert you to a surprise attack, allowing you to treat one BACKSTAB you did not see coming as if you did. In addition, any attempt to DISARM or SHATTER you will cause the weapon to jump to your off-hand instead of falling to the ground (this does not work if you are already holding something in your off-hand).
+  * Item: N/A
+=== Divine Aura ===
+The defeat of an adventurer is a significant event within the story. Whenever you or one of your allies is reduced to 0 hits, that person may call WEAKEN against the entity that removed their last hit, while falling to the floor.
+The death of an adventurer is a highly significant event within the story. In addition to the above effect, any adventurer to reach the end of their death count may regain consciousness for 60 seconds upon receiving attention from their allies. They cannot be healed or otherwise saved from their fate during this grace period (except by means that would save any other dead person), and they may use no skills – they are merely given the opportunity to say their final farewells, make their dying wish, reveal a dark secret, whatever. In essence, this is a narrative effect rather than a hard mechanical one.
+==== Zosimos the Curious ====
+=== Level 1 Miracles ===
+== Don't You Want To Know? ==
+You can inflame the curiosity of others. As long as you are explaining something or telling a story you may call Just Hear Me Out as everyone hangs onto your words.
+== "...Oops" ==
+By mixing together any two potions you can create an explosion as something goes wrong, you yourself are left looking frazzled but unharmed in the centre. The size of the explosion depends on the cheapest potion used. Class D MASS DOUBLE STRIKEDOWN, Class C MASS QUAD STRIKEDOWN, Class B MASS DOUBLE REND and Class A MASS QUINT REND.
+== Object of Fascination ==
+By holding up an object which intrigues you  and gazing at it you can share your fascination with another. You may call MESMERISE at a target as both you and they become fascinated by it. As a note this miracle does require an object which you find genuinely interesting such as a puzzle box or strange crystal.
+== "Look at that!" ==
+By describing something you can see in an interesting way, you may call an unarcable MASS LOOK BEHIND YOU.  Yes, you must also look.
+=== Level 2 Miracles ===
+== Curiosity Kills Other Cats ==
+Once per encounter after indulging your curiosity puts you in harms way you may take an irresistible FEAR of the imminent danger and gain a 15 second AGILITY.
+== Share the Memory ==
+By meditating with a willing individual you may share a single memory with them or vice versa. Both parties will relive the memory once with perfect clarity and can re-examine the scene with all their senses, this includes mana sense, touch of divinity etc.
+=== Divine Aura: The Curious Question ===
+Once per adventure you may preface a question with the words "JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY" the target of the question will find themselves thoughtlessly answering the question before they can think better of it. They will in retrospect realise what they have done however.
+==== The Yielding Breath ====
+=== Level 1 Miracles ===
+== All Flesh Must Dance ==
+It is only right that all things should move; stillness is abhorrent.  With 10 seconds of dance, you may call DOMINATE "Dance until you hurt" against a target capable of dancing.  They must follow this instruction for 30s or until they take damage.  You must brief these rules at the start of any adventure.
+== Let It Flow ==
+All things must move, and all things must be flow: water, blood, life... Once per encounter you may dance around an unconscious body which is not bleeding out for 5 seconds to continue its bleeding (inform the target that they should (re)commence their death count) and receive a HEAL 4 to yourself.  You should brief that you are capable of doing this at the start of any adventure.
+=== Level 2 Miracles ===
+== To Dance is to Live ==
+Your vitality becomes pure motion, showing you what true life should be. With twenty seconds of dance, you may reduce your maximum body hits by 4 for the duration of the encounter (4 armour hits if inorganic), gaining a DODGE for each hit lost.
+If your maximum body hits become zero as a result of this, firstly you have made some very poor choices somewhere along the line, secondly call MASS SHATTER. Your body and possessions are reduced to dust and blow away in the wind, which will make it very difficult to be revived.
+== Can't Stop Dancing ==
+So long as you have been dancing for 10 seconds prior, you may initiate a dance so complicated that the human mind can barely follow it. For the next 20 seconds, so long as you keep dancing, you may call DODGE to ANY melee blow which hits you. The complexity of the dance means that you cannot use any other abilities during this time (including calling damage).
+=== Divine Aura ===
+The power of the Yielding Breath keeps you moving. Everyone in the party gains one RESIST each encounter to effects which would halt your movement (STRIKEDOWN, ENTANGLE, etc)

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