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====== 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.

===== 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 ====

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.

==== The Lord of the Rock ====
=== Level One Abilities ===
== Man Reformed ==
Twice per an adventure you may transform yourself into a golem you know with a 10 second chant. As part of this skill you also know one type of Golem.

== Artisan ==
You have some experience working with Golems. Twice per an encounter you may (with 10 seconds work) call RENEW 6 against a golem or call SHATTER against a golem using a melee blow.
== Master Apprentice of the Rock ==
You have an affinity for rock and it's uses. With a decent sized boulder (and a fist sized rock) you can repair items and armour as if you were at a forge (although you still need the capacity to repair items and armour in order to use this ability).
=== Level Two Abilities ===
== Man Reformed ==
You may transform yourself an additional time per an adventure, and know an additional type of Golem.

== Golem Creation ==
Once per an adventure you may craft a golem you know in order to fight on your behalf. The golem must be crafted in advance and will last until the end of the next encounter.

In addition, you know one additional type of golem.
=== Blessed Weapon ===
  * Armour: N/A
  * Weapon: MASS STRIKEDOWN twice per adventure
  * Talisman: Gain one RESIST to STRIKEDOWN or REND per encounter
=== Divine Aura ===
The very ground itself appears to aid you and your companions.\\
You and the Party gain a STRIKEDOWN.

=== 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 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.

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).
== Diamond Golem ==
  * Hits equal to your maximum armour hits.
  * Take THROUGH as ZERO
  * Take all other damage as SINGLE
== Clay Golem ==
  * Hits equal to your maximum hits (armour + body)
  * You are WEAKENED (and cannot be STRENGTHENED in this form)
  * Immune: Rend, Strikedown, Disarm.
  * 3xDISARM
== Obsidian Golem ==
  * Hits equal to your maximum body hits.
  * One use of the Skirmisher [[:skirmisher#Class Feature - Agility|AGILITY]] ability.
  * Base damage reduced by one with THROUGH call added (down to a minimum of SINGLE THROUGH).
== Granite Golem ==
  * Hits equal to total hits (body + armour).
  * 3x STRIKEDOWN
  * 1xSHATTER

== Quartz Golem ==
  * Hits equal to total body hits
  * 3xBlind 5
==== Aetheyta the Wanderer ====
=== Level 1 Abilities ===
== Know the Way ==
In contiguous patches of consensus you are aware of the nearest waystone or all waystones connected to the one you are at. Within the flux this is only true if the waystones involved are also within 100 miles.

== Aetheyta's Companion ==
You may make small trinkets and talismans as a sign of Aetheyta's favour. With some concentration you can ensure this favour takes a concrete form. Once per an encounter you may immediately call HEAL ONE against someone wearing one of these trinkets.
=== Level 2 Abilities ===
== Fleet Foot of Aetheyta ==
Your passage along paths which terminate at a Way Stone is greatly enhanced. Sometimes this will mean that you can more easily overtake people you are chasing or bypass encounters (both at GM discretion). However, the default use of this ability is to detour along paths with Way Stones at no penalty (the GM should allow access to a Way Stone approximately every 3 encounters).
=== 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.

==== 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.

== 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 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 Rampant ====
You have a bottle containing a potent alcohol/drug/etc. The secret of preparing this concoction has come to you in your dreams. In order to cast any of your miracles you must spend at least 5 seconds phys-repping drinking from this bottle. During this time you are mechanically under the effects of a rend (it is VERY potent), but does not count as a rend for any other purposes. When intoxicated by this substance (usually until the end of the encounter) your emotions are greatly enhanced and you experience everything more vividly (although you are also somewhat resistant to people attempting to influence your emotions and state of mind).
=== Level 1 Miracles ===
== Gaze of Dominion ==
By catching someone's eye in the same encounter you cast this miracle, you can entrance them and call a mesmerise. You will simultaneously come under the effect of a mesmerise as though it had originated from your target. If eye to eye contact is lost the effect ends.

== The Projected pain ==
Once cast, if you  are hit with a rend, wound, fear, or blind you may (in addition to taking the effect yourself) call an unarcable mass version of the effect. For example, if you are hit with a DOUBLE REND you may call MASS ZERO REND (or MASS REND).
=== Level 2 Miracles ===
== Whisper of Temptation ==
By looking at someone as you whisper you can project your words into their head. This will be heard as though it is part of the targets inner monologue. Whether they recognise the voice as external is up to the controlling player but will likely be effected by how far off it is from what they normally think. Alternatively this may be used in battle to call enrage against a target.

== Mind over Matter ==
Once cast, the next time you take a REND, WOUND, or a damage call above TRIPLE that was not self inflicted then you also take a STRENGTHEN.
=== Divine Aura ===
The Aura of the Rampant envelops your mind nullifying anything which would stop you acting as you will. Once per an encounter, upon first noticing a mind effecting influence the priest may start extolling the benefits of giving into your own desires and celebrating your own power. So long as they continue this chant they will remain immune to the mind affecting power, maintaining this effect prevents the priest from being able to attack and they may only defend themselves while maintaining this effect.

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.
===== Young Gods =====
==== The Favour of Rowan Darrish, The Well Meaning ====
=== Level 1 Miracles ===
== Share Your Pain ==
5 Seconds - You may call a ranged HEAL X at the cost of X body hits.

== Give You Pain ==
20 Seconds - On your next strike you may call Wound 5.
=== Level 2 Miracles ===
== Dark Fate ==
20 Sec - You may show some one a glimpse of their dark future, calling FEAR.

== Fight Beside Me ==
10 Sec - While you are using this ability, either you or an ally must be executing a downed opponent. You gain the ability to Strengthen yourself (if you performed the execution) or your ally (if your ally performed the execution).
=== Aura ===
The first time in each encounter that a party member drops to zero hits they will receive a HEAL ZERO such that they are stable, but unconscious.
==== The Favour of Eric Luckner, Guardian of Acryn ====
Several abilities require rock from within Acryn (taken from roads, broken buildings, etc). It is generally assumed that you will carry enough with you for an entire adventure, but if for some reason you have this supply of rock removed from you, you will be unable to use your abilities.
=== Level 1 Miracles ===
== Bring them home ==
10 Sec - If you use this miracle upon a dead body (or other object) which houses a soul then the soul will be sent to the Acryn afterlife, unless there is some powerful force keeping the soul within the object.

As a side effect, the rock which you used as a conduit maintains a link to the Soul which you sent on. At any point afterwards you may ask a single question of the soul which it will be compelled to answer as truthfully as it can manage.
== Armour of the City ==
10 Sec - By placing rock from the city upon the target, the target gains 2 points of natural armour. This cannot be stacked with any other source of natural armour.

If physically in the city, this also provides a single resist against WEAKEN.
=== Level 2 Miracles ===
== The Street Rise in Defence ==
20 Sec - You can empower the very streets of Acryn to rise to your defence. Usually this is no more than a pebble which flings itself at your attackers (call SINGLE THROUGH). However, once per an adventure, so long as you are within the streets of Acryn, you may cause the very streets to rise to your defence. You can do this in one of two ways:
  * As a human sized creature made from the brick, wood, and mud of the city. 0+8 calling singles.
  * As a single large fist. Call QUAD STRIKEDOWN.

== The Streets will Catch Me ==
10 Sec - You empower a target to resist a single blow against them. Instead of taking that blow they will instead take a ZERO STRIKEDOWN which will knock them to the left (they should call resist). This effect cannot be stacked.
=== Level 3 Miracles ===
=== Blessed Weapon ===
  * Armour: N/A
  * Weapon: (Shield Only) Once per an encounter you may resist a MASS call that you could have resisted if it were delivered as a melee blow against the shield. Once per an adventure you may partially defend your compatriots from a MASS call, call MASS RESIST. The full effects of the call will remain in effect until the party have heard the MASS RESIST call (as parts of the fireball/acid spray/etc get past you), so it is more effective against REND, WOUND and SHATTER than it is against STRIKEDOWN or DISARM. You will need to explain these additional rules at the beginning of any adventure in which you intend to play.
  * Talisman: Provides a shimmering barrier which provides 2 additional points of armour at the beginning of every encounter which are lost before any other and cannot be restored by any means.
=== Aura ===
So long as you are fighting alongside citizens of Acryn, you will start each encounter with an additional 2 armour hits which are lost before any others (and cannot be repaired), as if the blow was deflected by an invisible wall of force.

==== The Favour of Vanessa, the Stanchion ====

=== Level 1 Miracles ===
== Shield ==
5 Seconds - By placing your hands on another, you can shield them from harm. They gain 2 points of armour which are lost before any other source of armour, and cannot be repaired. This cannot be stacked, but can be reapplied once the armour is lost.

== Defy ==
5 Seconds - By stretching your arms wide you may ensure that none pass before their time. Call MASS PARTY HEAL ZERO.

=== Level 2 Miracles ===
== Stand Tall ==
5 Seconds - Empower a target other than yourself to resist a strikedown or rend. They may only have a single resist gained from this ability at a time.

== Prop ==
10 Seconds - You may prop someone else up by taking the weight of their struggles yourself. Mechanically you may call HEAL X RENEW X up to your current body and (physical) armour hits, losing the same amount of hits that you have given to another target. For example, with 5 body hits and 2 armour hits remaining you may choose to call HEAL 4 RENEW 2, leaving yourself on a single body hit.
=== Level 3 Miracles ===
=== Blessed Weapon ===
  * Armour: Will not bleed out while the blessing is in effect. Heal 2 once per encounter (if not yet used, happens automatically if you spend 10 seconds on 0 hits). Renew 2 at the end of the encounter.
  * Weapon: N/A
  * Talisman: HEAL 3 to another once per encounter
=== Aura ===
During an encounter, if a party member has been reduced to 3 or less body hits, they become strengthened. When they once again gain 4 or more body hits they are weakened (cancelling out the strengthen unless they have been additionally weakened in the meantime). This benefit is not gained if the party member started the encounter on 3 or less hits.

==== The Favour of The Shepherd ====
=== Level 1 Miracle ===
== Never Lost ==
5 Seconds - You may lay an invisible mark upon someone willing, which identifies them as one of your sheep. You will always be able to find them. Other entities (especially powerful spiritual entities) may be able to see this mark and will react appropriately. You may also use this miracle to take temporary guardianship of someone who belongs to another Shepherd's flock.

A character who has had this miracle cast upon them should respond to calls with the target of "Flock". (e.g. FLOCK HEAL ONE)

GM Note: Entities who can see the mark will realise that they are under the protection of "The Shepherd", an entity of weak but growing power.

== Never Left Behind ==
15 Seconds - You may call FLOCK HEAL ONE, providing one point of healing to every member of your flock within the encounter.
=== Level 2 Miracles ===
== Always at Your Side ==
10 Seconds - You may cast this miracle upon a member of your flock, creating a link to them such that you can defend them if they are in trouble. You gain the ability to move directly to the defence of a member of your flock. Mechanically you may call DISAPPEARING, followed by APPEARING 5 seconds later. During this time you may relocate yourself within the encounter, but only so that you are closer to the target than you were previously.

You cannot stack this ability, but having used it to move to the defence of a member of your flock you can recast it on that flock member.

== Shepherd's Hounds ==
20 Seconds - Spectral hounds appear around the caster, driving away their attackers. You may call an unarcable MASS FEAR MONSTERS.
=== 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.

==== 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.

== 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, follows the usual rules for a BACKSTAB but also removes ONE ongoing psychological effect.
  * 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 Francesco Graves, The Arcane Arbiter ====
=== Level 1 ===
== Arbitration ==
60 Seconds - You may act as a conduit, allowing yourself or others to make a deal with your god. At this level the deal is quite basic: you present an item or something you have metaphysical control over, your god then gives you a boon that they feel is appropriate. Discussion or bargaining is not possible. Attempting to use this ability to dispose of dangerous or problematic items will result in the miracle failing and the ire of your god. Attempting to offer up mundane items will fail.

The boon provided is determined by the GM, and can range from a temporary blessing, another item of similar power, or even a permanent blessing or epic tree for a suitably interesting offering.

== Voice of the Arcane ==
60 Seconds - You request secrets that only your god can share, and in return provide secret information of your own. If your secrets are of sufficient value then you will be given the information you request. If your secrets are deemed lacking then you will be given only hints or even silence. While occasionally mysterious or difficult to decipher, the information will usually be accurate unless you have done something to draw the ire of your god.

=== Level 2 ===
== The Usual Please ==
5 Seconds - You have established a standard trade with your god. The target (which can be you or another) donates some of their blood (3 hits worth), the target is then takes the effects of STRENGTHEN.

== Overseer ==
5 Seconds - By invoking the Arcane Arbiter when two parties (who are not you) are making a deal, you can make that deal binding in powerful ways. If one of the parties violates the deal then they will fall under a divine curse which will be thematically related to their part in the deal. For example, a person who had promised land to another for converting to a farm may find their land becoming unusable due to uncontrollable plant growth. Everyone involved in the deal will sense a presence watching the proceedings.

=== Blessed Weapon ===
  * Armour: 
  * Weapon: once per an encounter you may call a QUINT REND, so long as the weapon has been used to execute someone in the previous encounter.
  * Book of Vendettas: as well as a place to write the details of those who have wronged you, you will occasionally find names and details of people who you have never encountered in there. Taking suitable action against these individuals is a good way of winning favour with your god, and increases the likelyhood of your vendettas appearing in the books of others.
=== Aura ===
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.

==== Favour of Jimmy Hoskins, He who Devours Himself ====
=== Level 1 Miracles ===
==Unhealthy Obsession==

30s - Contemplating a matter of intellectual curiosity or challenge you allow your mind to ravage the assets of your body in pursuit of insight.  Take a WEAKEN and it is though you have studied the problem for a full day.  For every SINGLE you take in addition to this it is as though you have given the issue a further day of contemplation.

==Rejuvenating Self-Destruction==

5s - Like the ourboros your end also marks your beginning.  Deal yourself sufficient damage to reduce you to 0 body hits.  For the next 15 seconds you cannot be healed by any means.  After 15 seconds you receive a HEAL equal to twice the damage you did to yourself.

=== Level 2 Miracles ===

==Your own Worst Enemy==

10s - The pains others inflict on you are as nothing to those you may inflict on yourself.  Take a REND or WOUND 10 ALL LIMBS and immediately call out for your enemies to 'Do your worst!'.  For the rest of the encounter reduce the duration of all REND or WOUND calls by 5s

==Certainty of Destination==

15s - You accept that you will be the cause of your own demise and can speak on the matter with absolute authority.  You may use this to convince an intelligent enemy of the futility of attacking you, calling YOU DARE NOT STRIKE ME!

=== Blessed Weapon ===
  * Armour: Blessed armour of He Who Devours Himself burns the flesh of those who wear it. The wearers maximum body hits are reduced by a number equal to the amount the armour would have provided. The armour itself fuses with the wearer, providing natural armour which is lost first but can be repaired with HEAL calls. This doesn't count as a repair for the purposes of the blessing being lost. If your maximum body hits are reduced to 0 in this way, you will remain conscious while you have armour hits remaining. You cannot wear armour over this armour. While you have armour hits remaining, you are Strengthened. Eventually (at the end of the adventure) the blessing fades and the armour returns to a normal suit.
  * Weapon: Once per an encounter you may call a HEAL equal to the damage you just inflicted upon yourself.
  * Talisman: 

=== Divine Aura ===

Your allies are bolstered against any entity seeking to devour their souls.  After 60s have passed on a death count a layer of shimmering blue fire coats their bodies and they merely count as being at -3 hits for the purposes of reviving them.  After a further 2 minutes pass they count as being recently dead for the purposes of reviving them, and will remain in this state for several days.

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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