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 ====== Divine Favour ====== ====== Divine Favour ======
-More gods exist in the world than just those of Acryn. While full priests of other gods are not playable, it is possible to play characters favoured of several other gods, or acquire this favour in play.+More gods exist in the world than just those of Acryn. While full priests of other gods are not playable, it is possible to play characters favoured of several other gods, or acquire this favour in play. Due to actions on [[:​resources:​adventure:​Oblitus Mundi]] everyone lost access to their divine powers. Only those who have been able to find a High Priest (or a priest blessed by the High Priest) will be able to access their powers (unless otherwise specified). ​ You should know who blessed you to receive your Divine Powers and note to the LARPO if you have multiple Divine Favours (including if you are a Priest). The death of the Priest who gave you access to your powers will result in you losing access to your powers until you can find another priest (with functioning powers) to restore them again.
  
-===== Foreign ​Gods ===== +===== Gods well represented in Acryn ===== 
- +For all the gods below, you will have been able to easily ​find a priest capable ​of restoring ​your power (all of the founders ​are included ​in this list).
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-==== The Dreaming Ocean ==== +
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-The Dreaming Ocean grants abilities that do not follow ​the standard Miracle Model. Whenever the divine favour background grants a level one miracle, you may select a Level One Dream, and the same for Level 2. +
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-=== Level One Dreams === +
-== Dreams of the Ocean == +
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-Four times per adventure you may either unleash the tides of the dreaming ocean into the mind of yourself or another willing participant. The dreaming ocean flows and eddies around those who worship it, and can lap up upon those nearby them. The dreaming ocean will grant visions and benefits constructed from the dreams of the local tides of the dreaming ocean - anyone who was sleeping within fifty miles of the priest the last time they slept. This might be informative,​ if people had particularly strong dreams of a specific subject, and normally it will provide a small mechanical benefit. For reasons that have not yet been determined by priests of the Ocean, the dreams of Wayfinders do not seem to flow within it. +
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-//Example: The local villagers have a story of the terrible Wyrm-beast and its freezing and fetid breath. After sleeping in the vicinity of the village, you could invoke this ability to gain a DODGE against the Wyrm's breath (in exception to the normal rules about dodging ranged attacks), forewarned as you are.// +
-== Edge of Slumber == +
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-Those assailing the favoured character occasionally ​find sleep boiling over them. Once per encounter, the character may call BLIND 5 at target within five metres ​of them. +
-=== Level Two Dreams === +
-== Flood of Experience == +
-Twice per adventure, you may open your mind to the dreaming ocean, and allow knowledge to flow in. For the duration of an encounter, you can gain access to any level 2 skill known by anyone who was sleeping within 50 miles of the priest last time they slept. In a city, this will reasonably provide access to most level 2 skills. In a frozen, empty wasteland, you are more likely to be restricted to skills the rest of your party possess. +
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-This can provide access to spells, but you will need mana to cast them. You can gain access to one use of a miracle by imitating the divine favour skill, but it will take twice as long to use as if you were not favoured by the god in question. For reasons that have not yet been determined by priests of the Ocean, the dreams of Wayfinders do not seem to flow within it. +
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-=== Shared Consciousness === +
-**This replaces the Divine Aura skill.**\\ +
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-The dreams of you and those around you are somewhat linked - you may find one dreams bleeding into one another and some shared elements. +
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-Once per adventure, through careful ritual preparation before the priest goes to sleep, ​this may be heavily enhanced. This allows all those sleeping at the time to have a shared vision akin to the Dreams of the Ocean skill, inspired by one or more of those participating,​ and will //always// have a mechanical benefit attached.+
  
 ==== The Lord of the Rock ==== ==== The Lord of the Rock ====
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 === Divine Aura === === Divine Aura ===
 So long as you are on a road, you and your companions will regain a single hit at the end of the encounter for every rank you have in this skill. When using a Way-Stone, you can heal people above their normal maximum, by one hit for every rank you have in this skill. So long as you are on a road, you and your companions will regain a single hit at the end of the encounter for every rank you have in this skill. When using a Way-Stone, you can heal people above their normal maximum, by one hit for every rank you have in this skill.
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-==== The Favour of the Thunderer ==== 
-=== Level 1 Miracles === 
-== Lightning Shield == 
-5 Seconds - Target gains a single resist against a call delivered by weapon (either melee or ranged). This cannot be stacked. 
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-== Dominion == 
-5 Seconds - You may make a demand of the weather and it will obey. In practice this may be used to protect a group from extreme weather or impress a village with your command of rain. However, in more extreme weather it can become a potent weapon. This does require the current weather to support your command, so ordering a cloud with patchy clouds to rain will work, but telling a perfectly clear sky to rain won't. Equally, ordering light clouds to strike someone with lightning will not work, while ordering a thunderstorm to do the same will. Thunderstorms are, in fact, especially keen to do your bidding. 
-=== Level 2 Miracles === 
-== Lightning Bolt == 
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-After twenty seconds of gathering power by holding a hand above your head, you can throw a lightning bolt for a DOUBLE STRIKEDOWN. 
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-== Thunder == 
-After 10 seconds of gathering power by placing both hands on your hips or stomach and breathing in, you may bellow for one of two effects. Either you may call a MASS ZERO STRIKEDOWN, or you may shout a single sentence which can be heard over any natural noise and across many miles of distance. 
-=== Divine Favour === 
-Once per encounter, upon being disarmed or having your weapon shattered, you can immediately manifest a copy of your weapon out of lightning. This is IMMUNE to shatter, but immediately dissipates if it is DISARMED. 
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-====The Mare of Night==== 
-The divine favour of the Mare of Night is somewhat unique in its manifestation,​ for the powers of the goddess are invoked by bringing oneself closer to death. Mechanically they are paid for with seconds from your death count rather than being limited by the usual per encounter limit of divine favour miracles. The cost endures over the course of the adventure and only resets at the start of your next adventure. If you use up all your seconds then dropping to 0 hits results in your soul being instantly carried away by the mare. 
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-===Divine Aura === 
-You are member of the deathly herd of the Mare of Night and the thunder of skeletal hooves echoes through your soul. This has no effect on the living but upon things spiritual the power of the herd is a thing to be reckoned with.  
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-Firstly, any who die within your sight (unless you do something else with their soul) are conveyed away by the spectral herd to the realm of the Mare of Night. Once per encounter by spending 10 seconds executing a being possessed of a soul and allowing the herd to carry it off you gain their favour. This adds 5 seconds to your Death Count for the remainder of the Adventure, although may not increase your death count above its standard length. This allows you to restore time lost through the invocation of the Mare's miracles. 
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-Secondly, every 15 seconds you may call a FEAR against either a bodiless soul. 
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-===Level 1 miracles=== 
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-==Mane of Shadows== 
-You call upon the power of the mare and the shadows length as in the darkness the goddess moves causing terror in those who cling to life. This allows you to call a FEAR at single target. 
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-This costs 5 seconds of your death count. It cannot affect a target more than once an encounter. 
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-==Nightrider== 
-You fall into a death like coma as your soul comes free of your body. As it does so one of the ethereal steeds of the herd of the mare will come to you. The steed will convey your soul wherever you wish at impossible speeds. In this state most physical things will not be able to perceive or interact with you, and you will not be able to affect them though you can observe them and perceive their souls. Spiritual entities will be able to perceive you. This miracle may only be invoked at night and the steed will always return your soul to its body by dawn. 
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-Use of this miracle while waking allows you to perceive the souls of the dead and other ethereal creatures. ​ 
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-Invoking this power requires 5 seconds of your death count. 
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-===Level 2 miracles=== 
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-==Death Rampant== 
-All things must end for no power may stand against the inevitability of death. You invoke the presence of the Mare of Night and in the distance the hollow thunder of the goddesses'​ hooves rumble. For 60 seconds all heal calls in the encounter become ineffective (call EVERYONE NEGATE HEALING 60 SECONDS, you will need to explain these additional rules at the start of any adventure on which you are playing) as death comes closer to everyone). You are STRENGTHENED while this effect endures. 
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-Invoking this power requires 10 seconds of your death count. 
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-==Summon The Black Steed== 
-You step closer to the brink of death and open way to the herd-lands of the Mare of Night. A huge shadowy black horse, spectral and cold as night, leaps from your chest and charges at a target of your choosing, galloping straight through them. 
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-Mechanically,​ you may call a ranged DOUBLE POISON followed by DOUBLE STRIKEDOWN at a single target. Meanwhile, you take a REND from the terrible cold as the black steed leaps from you. 
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-The long term effects on the target are nightmares, a halved death count, and standard methods of preparation against bleeding out are ineffective (e.g. Death Ward, Bind the Wound, etc). This will last at least until the end of the adventure, and longer at GM discretion. 
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-Invoking this power requires 15 seconds of your death count. 
  
 ==== The Rampant ==== ==== The Rampant ====
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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. 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 == 
-30 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 == 
-10 sec - HEAL 4 at a target who is on 0 hits. 
-=== Level 2 Miracles === 
-== Strike True == 
-10 sec - Target gains +1 on their next strike 
-== A Hero's Soul == 
-30 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 ==== 
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-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.  
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-=== Level 1 abilities === 
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-== Homeward Charm == 
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-You rarely get lost. If you do become lost, you and your party do not take any penalties for exhaustion caused by this occurring. 
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-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. ​ 
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-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.  
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-== Fire Charm == 
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-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. 
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-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. 
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-You feel a strong desire to comfort anyone suffering from fear or shock, especially if you regard them as your junior. 
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-=== Level 2 abilities === 
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-== Stoke the Will == 
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-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. 
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-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.  
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-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. ​ 
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-== Light Eternal == 
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-As a prerequisite for taking this ability, you must first take ‘Fire Charm’. ​ 
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-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.  
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-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. 
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-Your body emits a faint, warm, light at all times. Anything metaphysically connected to darkness is likely to be upset by your presence. 
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-== Blazing Soul == 
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-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.  
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-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 
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-=== Divine Aura === 
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-The party gains a RESIST to either BLIND, FEAR, or MESMERIZE each encounter. 
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-In addition, if you are fighting somewhere dark, and carrying a lit torch or other source of flame, the whole party gains +1 DODGE. ​ 
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-=== Blessed Weapon === 
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-  * **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 
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-===== Young Gods ===== 
 ==== The Favour of Rowan Darrish, The Well Meaning ==== ==== The Favour of Rowan Darrish, The Well Meaning ====
 === Level 1 Miracles === === Level 1 Miracles ===
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 === Aura === === Aura ===
 Each member of the party gains 1 ranged STRIKEDOWN per an encounter, which may only be used when they are under an offensive duration effect against a target who is attacking them. You may use this even if you would not normally be able to use skills or abilities (e.g. while Rended). This simulates ice forming beneath the feet of the attacker during a period you are having difficulty defending yourself. Examples of offensive duration effects include: Wound, Rend, Blind, Entangle, but do not include Weaken. Each member of the party gains 1 ranged STRIKEDOWN per an encounter, which may only be used when they are under an offensive duration effect against a target who is attacking them. You may use this even if you would not normally be able to use skills or abilities (e.g. while Rended). This simulates ice forming beneath the feet of the attacker during a period you are having difficulty defending yourself. Examples of offensive duration effects include: Wound, Rend, Blind, Entangle, but do not include Weaken.
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-==== The Favour of Mr Branch, The Splintered Man ==== 
-=== Level 1 === 
-== Mingle == 
-5 Seconds - Your soul mingles with those around you, leading them to be more likely to listen to your words (you gain a call of JUST HEAR ME OUT). The downside to this is that you yourself desire to work towards a peaceful resolution with those around you, and will be thrown by a choice to initiate violence following the use of this miracle. 
-== Divert == 
-10 Seconds - Your soul mingles with those around you, allowing you to give weight to your words. Gain 1 use of LOOK BEHIND YOU. 
-=== Level 2 === 
-== Identity Theft == 
-10 Seconds - You take the appearance and mannerisms of someone within the encounter. The full effect lasts an encounter, after which mannerisms disappear and appearance becomes less striking (you still don't look like yourself but probably wouldn'​t be mistaken for the original), the longer you maintain the stolen appearance the vaguer and more disconcerting it becomes. The target must be alive and nearby, but need not be conscious or willing. In order to restore your own appearance, it is necessary to target this miracle upon yourself, your former appearance will not naturally return. 
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-== Belief Enhancement == 
-10 Seconds - By modifying your own beliefs you may influence the beliefs of others. Each casting of this miracle links your soul to another, allowing your beliefs to mingle and merge. At this point you may change your own beliefs in order to inflict this belief on your targets. The target'​s soul will resist this assault, and the belief will last for a few hours at most. For you, the change is permanent and no amount of evidence will change your new belief. Beliefs must be about either yourself or groups (not about specific individuals). 
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-=== Blessed Weapon === 
-  * Armour: N/A 
-  * 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. 
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-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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 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. 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.
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-==== Favour of Xavier Octavio Sarmandastra,​ the Pivot of the World ==== 
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-=== Level 1 Miracles === 
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-== No, it's like this == 
-10s. Specify a standard call, target gains a RESIST against it. This cannot be stacked with itself. 
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-== Doubting Reality== 
-10s. Look out, it's a dog! Call LOOK BEHIND YOU. 
-=== Level 2 Miracles === 
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-== I've Read About This! == 
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-30s. 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. 
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-== Wouldn'​t You Agree? == 
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-30s. 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 === 
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-  * 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 === 
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-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 ==== ==== Favour of Armand Cargan-Graves,​ The Revolution ====
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 Every member of the party gains 1 RESIST per encounter to mind-altering effects (DOMINATE, FEAR, MESMERISE, ENRAGE). Every member of the party gains 1 RESIST per encounter to mind-altering effects (DOMINATE, FEAR, MESMERISE, ENRAGE).
  
-===== Other =====+ 
 +==== Divine Favour of the Cleansing Tide ==== 
 +=== Level 1 Miracles === 
 +== Cleanse the Wound == 
 +10 Seconds - You may cleanse a wound, calling HEAL 2 against a single target that you can see. If on the ocean you may choose to call PARTY HEAL 1 instead. 
 + 
 +== Cleanse the Taint == 
 +30 seconds - When applied quickly, this miracle will heal any natural diseases, poisons and mild metaphysical influences. It will not undo damage that has already been done, and may come with some short-term effects as the agent is purged. 
 + 
 +You may also reflexively call RESIST if you are hit with a POISON, so long as you then cast this miracle immediately after. This will protect you from any immediate effects of the poison from this strike. It will usually protect you from any long term effects of the poison from this and future strikes, although you should check with the GM to be certain. To protect yourself from immediate effects (call RESIST) of any future strikes you would need to cast the miracle for each occasion you were struck. 
 +=== Level 2 Miracles === 
 +== The Ocean by my Side == 
 +20 Sec - You can empower the very Oceans to rise to your defence. Usually this is no more than a vial of water which flings itself at your attackers (call SINGLE THROUGH). However, once per an adventure, so long as you are on or near the ocean, you may cause it to rise to your defence. You can do this in one of two ways: 
 +  * As a human sized creature 8+0 calling singles. 
 +  * As a single large fist. Call QUAD STRIKEDOWN. 
 + 
 +Other non-combat options may be available at GM discretion. 
 + 
 +== New Starts == 
 +This miracle targets two individuals:​ the offender and the offended. To successfully cast this miracle the offender must fully consent to the miracle while the offended must simply be unresisting. The offended will lose all memory of a single specified offence, grievance or vendetta against the offender. The offender will lose any memory of being the target of such a grievance and their involvement in triggering the grievance. The offender will also be filled with a strong desire to be friends and allies of the offended, this feeling will only grow with repeat castings and will not be undone by the actions of the offended. The caster can be a third party or either of the offender/​offended. 
 + 
 +=== Blessed Weapons === 
 +  * Ocean Waves: A vial of ocean water. The sound of the ocean can be heard echoing from within. May be slowly poured over someone for the following effects: HEAL FULL, RENEW FULL, refresh all per encounter abilities. 
 +  * 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. 
 +=== Divine Aura === 
 +Gain 1 ranged strikedown per encounter. You will never drown or bleed out in the ocean (instead being washed up on one hit on some deserted island). 
 + 
 +===== Gods not well represented within Acryn ===== 
 +These gods are not well represented in Acryn and you will be unable to find a priest capable of restoring your abilities. You lose access to your divine favour and regain any XP you spent on them. If you are ever able to find a priest of these gods during an adventure then you may regain the divine favour if they are willing to bless you (and respend XP as you see fit). 
 + 
 + 
 +====The Mare of Night==== 
 +The divine favour of the Mare of Night is somewhat unique in its manifestation,​ for the powers of the goddess are invoked by bringing oneself closer to death. Mechanically they are paid for with seconds from your death count rather than being limited by the usual per encounter limit of divine favour miracles. The cost endures over the course of the adventure and only resets at the start of your next adventure. If you use up all your seconds then dropping to 0 hits results in your soul being instantly carried away by the mare. 
 + 
 +===Divine Aura === 
 +You are member of the deathly herd of the Mare of Night and the thunder of skeletal hooves echoes through your soul. This has no effect on the living but upon things spiritual the power of the herd is a thing to be reckoned with.  
 + 
 +Firstly, any who die within your sight (unless you do something else with their soul) are conveyed away by the spectral herd to the realm of the Mare of Night. Once per encounter by spending 10 seconds executing a being possessed of a soul and allowing the herd to carry it off you gain their favour. This adds 5 seconds to your Death Count for the remainder of the Adventure, although may not increase your death count above its standard length. This allows you to restore time lost through the invocation of the Mare's miracles. 
 + 
 +Secondly, every 15 seconds you may call a FEAR against either a bodiless soul. 
 + 
 +===Level 1 miracles=== 
 + 
 +==Mane of Shadows== 
 +You call upon the power of the mare and the shadows length as in the darkness the goddess moves causing terror in those who cling to life. This allows you to call a FEAR at single target. 
 + 
 +This costs 5 seconds of your death count. It cannot affect a target more than once an encounter. 
 + 
 +==Nightrider== 
 +You fall into a death like coma as your soul comes free of your body. As it does so one of the ethereal steeds of the herd of the mare will come to you. The steed will convey your soul wherever you wish at impossible speeds. In this state most physical things will not be able to perceive or interact with you, and you will not be able to affect them though you can observe them and perceive their souls. Spiritual entities will be able to perceive you. This miracle may only be invoked at night and the steed will always return your soul to its body by dawn. 
 + 
 +Use of this miracle while waking allows you to perceive the souls of the dead and other ethereal creatures.  
 + 
 +Invoking this power requires 5 seconds of your death count. 
 + 
 + 
 +===Level 2 miracles=== 
 + 
 +==Death Rampant== 
 +All things must end for no power may stand against the inevitability of death. You invoke the presence of the Mare of Night and in the distance the hollow thunder of the goddesses'​ hooves rumble. For 60 seconds all heal calls in the encounter become ineffective (call EVERYONE NEGATE HEALING 60 SECONDS, you will need to explain these additional rules at the start of any adventure on which you are playing) as death comes closer to everyone). You are STRENGTHENED while this effect endures. 
 + 
 +Invoking this power requires 10 seconds of your death count. 
 + 
 + 
 +==Summon The Black Steed== 
 +You step closer to the brink of death and open way to the herd-lands of the Mare of Night. A huge shadowy black horse, spectral and cold as night, leaps from your chest and charges at a target of your choosing, galloping straight through them. 
 + 
 +Mechanically,​ you may call a ranged DOUBLE POISON followed by DOUBLE STRIKEDOWN at a single target. Meanwhile, you take a REND from the terrible cold as the black steed leaps from you. 
 + 
 +The long term effects on the target are nightmares, a halved death count, and standard methods of preparation against bleeding out are ineffective (e.g. Death Ward, Bind the Wound, etc). This will last at least until the end of the adventure, and longer at GM discretion. 
 + 
 +Invoking this power requires 15 seconds of your death count. 
 + 
 +==== The Heroic Path ==== 
 +A Valyddian god dedicated to true heroism in life and death. 
 + 
 +=== Level 1 Miracles === 
 +== Record == 
 +30 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 == 
 +10 sec - HEAL 4 at a target who is on 0 hits. 
 +=== Level 2 Miracles === 
 +== Strike True == 
 +10 sec - Target gains +1 on their next strike 
 +== A Hero's Soul == 
 +30 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
  
 ==== The God-Mother ==== ==== The God-Mother ====
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 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) 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)
 +
 +===== Special Cases =====
 +==== The Favour of Mr Branch, The Splintered Man ====
 +Priests of the Splintered Man do not lose access to their powers. However, on the morning following [[resources:​adventure:​Oblitus Mundi]] they each find a piece of mirror embedded within them and know that if this should be removed then they will lose access to their powers permanently.
 +
 +=== Level 1 ===
 +== Mingle ==
 +5 Seconds - Your soul mingles with those around you, leading them to be more likely to listen to your words (you gain a call of JUST HEAR ME OUT). The downside to this is that you yourself desire to work towards a peaceful resolution with those around you, and will be thrown by a choice to initiate violence following the use of this miracle.
 +== Divert ==
 +10 Seconds - Your soul mingles with those around you, allowing you to give weight to your words. Gain 1 use of LOOK BEHIND YOU.
 +=== Level 2 ===
 +== Identity Theft ==
 +10 Seconds - You take the appearance and mannerisms of someone within the encounter. The full effect lasts an encounter, after which mannerisms disappear and appearance becomes less striking (you still don't look like yourself but probably wouldn'​t be mistaken for the original), the longer you maintain the stolen appearance the vaguer and more disconcerting it becomes. The target must be alive and nearby, but need not be conscious or willing. In order to restore your own appearance, it is necessary to target this miracle upon yourself, your former appearance will not naturally return.
 +
 +== Belief Enhancement ==
 +10 Seconds - By modifying your own beliefs you may influence the beliefs of others. Each casting of this miracle links your soul to another, allowing your beliefs to mingle and merge. At this point you may change your own beliefs in order to inflict this belief on your targets. The target'​s soul will resist this assault, and the belief will last for a few hours at most. For you, the change is permanent and no amount of evidence will change your new belief. Beliefs must be about either yourself or groups (not about specific individuals).
 +
 +=== Blessed Weapon ===
 +  * Armour: N/A
 +  * 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.
 +
 +==== The Favour of the Thunderer ====
 +The priests of the Thunderer do not lose access to their powers. However, Thunderstorms tend to stick around permanently after being commanded by a priest of the Thunderer.
 +
 +=== Level 1 Miracles ===
 +== Lightning Shield ==
 +5 Seconds - Target gains a single resist against a call delivered by weapon (either melee or ranged). This cannot be stacked.
 +
 +== Dominion ==
 +5 Seconds - You may make a demand of the weather and it will obey. In practice this may be used to protect a group from extreme weather or impress a village with your command of rain. However, in more extreme weather it can become a potent weapon. This does require the current weather to support your command, so ordering a cloud with patchy clouds to rain will work, but telling a perfectly clear sky to rain won't. Equally, ordering light clouds to strike someone with lightning will not work, while ordering a thunderstorm to do the same will. Thunderstorms are, in fact, especially keen to do your bidding.
 +=== Level 2 Miracles ===
 +== Lightning Bolt ==
 +
 +After twenty seconds of gathering power by holding a hand above your head, you can throw a lightning bolt for a DOUBLE STRIKEDOWN.
 +
 +== Thunder ==
 +After 10 seconds of gathering power by placing both hands on your hips or stomach and breathing in, you may bellow for one of two effects. Either you may call a MASS ZERO STRIKEDOWN, or you may shout a single sentence which can be heard over any natural noise and across many miles of distance.
 +=== Divine Favour ===
 +Once per encounter, upon being disarmed or having your weapon shattered, you can immediately manifest a copy of your weapon out of lightning. This is IMMUNE to shatter, but immediately dissipates if it is DISARMED.
 +
 +
 +==== The Dreaming Ocean ====
 +Priests of the Dreaming Ocean lose access to their powers, no priest with access to their powers can be found.
 +
 +
 +The Dreaming Ocean grants abilities that do not follow the standard Miracle Model. Whenever the divine favour background grants a level one miracle, you may select a Level One Dream, and the same for Level 2.
 +
 +=== Level One Dreams ===
 +== Dreams of the Ocean ==
 +
 +Four times per adventure you may either unleash the tides of the dreaming ocean into the mind of yourself or another willing participant. The dreaming ocean flows and eddies around those who worship it, and can lap up upon those nearby them. The dreaming ocean will grant visions and benefits constructed from the dreams of the local tides of the dreaming ocean - anyone who was sleeping within fifty miles of the priest the last time they slept. This might be informative,​ if people had particularly strong dreams of a specific subject, and normally it will provide a small mechanical benefit. For reasons that have not yet been determined by priests of the Ocean, the dreams of Wayfinders do not seem to flow within it.
 +
 +//Example: The local villagers have a story of the terrible Wyrm-beast and its freezing and fetid breath. After sleeping in the vicinity of the village, you could invoke this ability to gain a DODGE against the Wyrm's breath (in exception to the normal rules about dodging ranged attacks), forewarned as you are.//
 +== Edge of Slumber ==
 +
 +Those assailing the favoured character occasionally find sleep boiling over them. Once per encounter, the character may call BLIND 5 at a target within five metres of them.
 +=== Level Two Dreams ===
 +== Flood of Experience ==
 +Twice per adventure, you may open your mind to the dreaming ocean, and allow knowledge to flow in. For the duration of an encounter, you can gain access to any level 2 skill known by anyone who was sleeping within 50 miles of the priest last time they slept. In a city, this will reasonably provide access to most level 2 skills. In a frozen, empty wasteland, you are more likely to be restricted to skills the rest of your party possess.
 +
 +This can provide access to spells, but you will need mana to cast them. You can gain access to one use of a miracle by imitating the divine favour skill, but it will take twice as long to use as if you were not favoured by the god in question. For reasons that have not yet been determined by priests of the Ocean, the dreams of Wayfinders do not seem to flow within it.
 +
 +=== Shared Consciousness ===
 +**This replaces the Divine Aura skill.**\\
 +
 +The dreams of you and those around you are somewhat linked - you may find one dreams bleeding into one another and some shared elements.
 +
 +Once per adventure, through careful ritual preparation before the priest goes to sleep, this may be heavily enhanced. This allows all those sleeping at the time to have a shared vision akin to the Dreams of the Ocean skill, inspired by one or more of those participating,​ and will //always// have a mechanical benefit attached.
 +
 +==== Favour of Xavier Octavio Sarmandastra,​ the Pivot of the World ====
 +Priests of the Pivot of the World lose access to their powers, no priest with access to their powers can be found.
 +
 +
 +=== Level 1 Miracles ===
 +
 +== No, it's like this ==
 +10s. Specify a standard call, target gains a RESIST against it. This cannot be stacked with itself.
 +
 +== Doubting Reality==
 +10s. Look out, it's a dog! Call LOOK BEHIND YOU.
 +=== Level 2 Miracles ===
 +
 +== I've Read About This! ==
 +
 +30s. 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? ==
 +
 +30s. 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.
 +
 +
 +
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