Stigmata

Note: Characters with Stigmata will have additional rule systems to contend with and may not be for those who dislike more complexity with their characters, nor are they for those players who dislike wearing face-paint or prosthetics.

When creating a character, you may opt for your character to bear an Bloodline Stigmata or a Grafted Stigmata. Stigmata (singular and plural), which comes from an ancient Hellenic word for “Marked”, are special mutations or alterations that some characters sport. Some of these “gifts” are inherited, meaning that they are born with it. Others are Grafted, which means that these characters have been subject to these after they are born.

Additional abilities from one's Stigmata may be unlocked through Milestones or through XP.

Bloodline Stigmata 

Those with Bloodline Stigmata are blessed and accursed with appearances and abilities from one or both of their parents, both of whom were considered unnatural by humanity before the Long Fall. Very rarely, a character will be born with said Stigmata without their parents carrying said Stigmata -- as was the case after the Long Fall, much to their family's horror.

GRAFTED Stigmata 

You may also choose a Grafted Stigmata or a Graft. These are technological implants or magical investitures upon a character. Grafted Characters can endure mortal wounds and the encroachment of Grave Scars more easily than other Humans.

Characters in play can work towards becoming a Grafted Stigmata if they have not had one yet. 

Chimeric Stigmata

Chimera, MERA, Grell

The Chimeras of the World Beyond the Fall are humans possessed of animalistic features, allowing them senses, speed and strength beyond the human norm. Some folk see them as mutants of a strange new science or dark magic. Others see them as the bearers of a wild power, like the werewolves, werepanthers and other were-creatures of the old stories.

Choose this Stigmata if:

• You want to play a character with animalistic features and quirks.

• You want to play a Stigmata that supports physically strong or quick characters

• You want to play against type, e.g. a brave mouse, a cowardly dog, a feeble ox, etc

Chimeric Trait Description

Behemoth Rush

Rush at a foe, heedless of bullets and arrows. 

• Subtype: Horned

• Effect 1: You gain the Armored Rush skill, allowing you to temporarily ignore the step-and-grunt rule for ranged attacks.

• Effect 2: Invoke and augment this Skill as “Behemoth Rush”. This expends 1 Focus instead of Aegis and no longer requires that you be armored.

  • Also, you may perform one melee attack that inflicts “Piercing, 3 damage” or your melee Smite damage when Behemoth Rush or Armored Rush ends.

• Drawback: Poor Senses -- Due to distractions or dulled vision, you are unable to augment your Examine or Sense skills. Furthermore, you are unable to negate Ambush attacks (hits your back torso from behind).

Feral Predator

Your shadowy attacks can savage a distracted or unwary target. 

Subtype: Bestial

• Effect 1: You gain the Know thy Enemy skill, allowing you to inflict more damage upon an enemy’s back after studying your prey. 

• Effect 2: The damage you inflict with Smite or Assassinate is increased by +1, adhering to the damage cap.

• Effect 3: When you inflict damage via Assassinate, you only need a qConc-5 to study that target again with that skill. This effect persists until Scene End or until you choose a different target. 

• Drawback: Carnivore Mindset - Battle and bloodshed excites your spirit or quickens your heart. You may not imbue more than “Heal 1” to others.

Herd Mentality

Draw strength from the social bonds you have formed. 

• Subtype: Horned or Quick

• Effect 1: You gain the Bond of Oaths skill allowing you to form a socially bonded cadre of allies that can Guard each other.

• Effect 2: You may self-inflict 2 damage and augment the Iron Defiance skill as “United Defiance” to Cure Strikes from yourself without expending Focus or even learning the Skill.

  • This also requires that you be touching at least two Bonded allies with your hands and/or your weapons so you can draw emotional strength from them.

• Drawback: choose one -- Poor Senses (Horned) or Furtive Mind (Quick) 

Killer Frenzy

Your brutish strikes make angering you a bad idea.

• Subtype: Bestial

• Effect 1: You gain the Melee Fighter skill, allowing you to perform melee Smite attacks that inflict high amounts of damage.

• Effect 2: You will not be governed. When a Dominate Strike is inflicted upon you, invoke "Killer Frenzy" to negate it for 0 Focus and turn it into a Frenzy Strike instead for the same duration.

  • Furthermore, you can choose to gain and use one 0 Focus use of a melee Smite as an Aftereffect to receiving a Frenzy or negating it. Augment and invoke this as “Frenzied Smite”, which must be used within 10 seconds of receiving/negating the Frenzy.

• Drawback: Carnivore Mindset - Battle and bloodshed excites your spirit or quickens your heart. You may not imbue more than “Heal 1” to others.

Scaled Recovery

You are able to regenerate your limbs and cure your wounds.

• Subtype: Scaled

• Effect 1: You gain the Grim Recovery skill, which allows you to concentrate your body’s functions toward shaking off Wound and Strike effects.

• Effect 2: When you successfully receive a “Cure Wounds” or a Heal effect, you may regrow any severed limbs or also receive a “Cure Strike” as an Aftereffect. 

• Drawback: Cold Blooded -- You have problems with heat regulation. Frost and Shadow damage are considered to be Bane damage to you. Also, receiving them inflicts “Hobble” on you, which slows your movement.

Scurry and Hide

You are difficult to pin down, hiding from pursuers even after you run away.

• Subtype: Quick or Winged

• Effect 1: You gain your choice of the Obfuscate Exodus spell or Flee the Scene skill. Both allow you to go out of game, representing an elusive exit from danger.  If the spell is chosen, this Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption as though they were an Arcanist.

• Effect 2: After you use the above skills and return from being “Out of Game”, you can opt to become Concealed for no Focus cost as if you used Camouflage/Obfuscate Presence. You must fulfill the cover and gesture requirements of the Concealment state.

• Drawback: choose one -- Furtive Mind (Quick) or Brittle Boned (Winged)

Thick Hide

Thick hide or scales make you hardier against attacks or even the elements.

• Subtype: Horned or Scaled

• Effect 1: You gain Elemental Endurance, which allows you to spend Focus or Aegis to negate Flame, Frost, and Lightning attacks.

• Effect 2: Your maximum HP is increased by +1. Furthermore, this Stigmata makes it so that you are considered to be wearing Ultraheavy armor for the purposes of using its other functions.

• Drawback: choose one -- Poor Senses (Horned) or Cold Blooded (Scaled)

Twitchy Reflexes

You jump at the slightest sound, your reflexes honed with your fear.

• Subtype: Quick

• Effect 1: You gain your choice of the Artful Dodger or Trap Springer skill. The former allows you to evade attacks while the latter allows you to avoid the effects of traps or similar hazards.

• Effect 2: You may augment the Dodge defense or the Trap Springer skill with “Uncanny”, as though you had Uncanny Defenses.

  • “Uncanny Trap Springer” can be used vs. stronger traps.

  • “Uncanny Dodge” can defend against Ambush-type attacks.

• Drawback: Furtive Mind -- You are vulnerable to fear and panic. Psychic and Shadow damage are considered to be Bane damage to you. Also, receiving them inflicts “Hobble” on you, which slows your movement.

Venomous Blood

Deadly toxins course through your body, ready to be used in your defense. 

Subtype: Scaled

• Effect 1: You gain one ability from the choices below. Choosing either spell allows you to use it even without its required skills but opens you up to Eldritch Corruption:

  • Project Agony spell  - additional option: “2 Corrosive”

  • Obfuscate Senses spell - additional option: “2 Corrosive”

  • Blood Venom: You can shoot poison at enemies. After Targ-7, invoke “Venom” and throw a packet at a target. This attack inflicts your choice of “2 Corrosive” or “Mangle”. Bonuses to spell damage can improve Venom.

• Effect 2: While you are Downed or at Critical, invoke “Backlash; Master, 7 Corrosive” as a Reaction to inflict that effect on a creature when they complete their Scavenge or melee Death Blow count upon you. If this brings them to 0 HP, their action is negated. “Superior Disarm” will render this function unusable for 1 minute.

• Drawback: Cold Blooded - You have problems with heat regulation. Frost and Shadow damage are considered to be Bane damage to you. Also, receiving them inflicts “Hobble” on you, which slows your movement.

Wild Senses

You can notice things that most individuals would miss.  

• Subtype: Bestial or Winged

• Effect 1: You gain one ability from the choices below, allowing you to find Concealed creatures. Choosing the spell allows you to use it even without its required skills but opens you up to Eldritch Corruption:

  • Keen Perception

  • Detect Presence

• Effect 2: After sunrise but before sunset or while you are holding an in-game light source, you may augment any Sense, Examine, or Inquiry skill and prefacing it with “Chimeric”. This enhances the effect as per below:

  • Perceiving: You may inflict two more “Unveiling” effects

  • Sense/Examine/Inquiry: As an Aftereffect, ask a 2nd question from this Skill’s list.

• Drawback: choose one -- Brittle Boned (Winged) or Carnivore Mindset (Bestial) 

Winged Agility

Your wings grant you a flying leap above the spears and claws of your foes.

• Subtype: Winged

• Effect 1: While you are not wearing Heavy or UltraHeavy armor or performing the Carry skill, you may expend 1 Focus to perform a “Flying Leap” for 10 Flying counts or 10 seconds (whichever comes first).

• Effect 2: You can invoke one of the two options below at the end of Flying Leap or to end “Flying” early:

  • “Diving Dodge” to gain the effects of a Dodge against an attack.

  • “Safe Landing, Resolve 3” to gain “Resolve 3”

• Effect 3: As a Reaction to falling, expend 1 Focus and invoke “Safe Landing” to reduce fall damage by 3 points and prevent it from being a Death Blow if it was one. This can be used even while your wings are folded.

• Drawback: Brittle Boned -- you may not have more than 7 HP. 

• Phys-rep requirement: You must be wearing wing props to use this Trait

Eidolonic Stigmata

Eidolons, Steeds, Sporelings

At the very base level, Eidolons are humans who have willfully undergone and fortunately survived a dangerous process of implantation of something called an Eidolonic Spore - a monstrous thing taken and processed from the flesh of certain Abyssal monstrosities. The Templars are the primary creators of Eidolons (sometimes called Steeds). However, their process has been appropriated by the Scavvers and Charioteers, thereby given to those willing to pay for this horrific privilege.

Choose this Stigmata if:

• You want more alien characteristics, like an an octopus, a fly, or jellyfish

• You want a non-magical character to become able to cast spells via a Graft.

• You want to play a Stigmata without the need for paint, only props, costuming and/or prosthetics.

Eidolonic Traits Description

Eidolonic Biology

• Subtype: All

• Effect 1: Longevity -- You may be revived even while you have more than 5 Grave Scars. At 5 Grave Scars, future Revivals from the dead inflict debilitating “Soul Scars”.

• Effect 2: Eldritch Spore -- At character creation, you can choose to be an Arcanist. If a non-Arcanist, learn Arcanist skills.

  • You also gain Arcane Ember and can use it.

• Effect 3: Sporeling Body - If your character has been dead for at least 10 minutes and has 0 to 4 Grave Scars, you may grant yourself a Greater Revive effect and a new Grave Scar. Go to Game Staff to process the Grave Scar. Afterwards, you regrow your entire body and mundane clothing from a spore you had left behind in a dark room within the past three hours.

  • Making a new body is taxing. You suffer from a Rot effect that will only end if you consume 5 basic CMP (Abyssal/Herbal/Shadow).

• Drawback (1 ATN): You have the Abyssal Tethers disease, representing your connection to an alien symbiote and its eldritch sapience. This is Incurable and automatically takes up 1 ATN slot every Event.

  • You are unable to negate or cure Dominate and Frenzy effects upon you. They may be Cured from you by others.

• Special Note: This Trait is a requirement for all who gain the Eidolonic Stigmata.

Blood Drinker

Feast upon the fallen and resist toxins.

• Subtype: Dryadic or Kulexic

• Effect 1: Gain Resist Toxin, which gives you some resistance against Corrosive attacks.

• Effect 2: You are able to perform a Melee Death Blow while unarmed Furthermore, you can imbue yourself with "Heal 1" or “Cure Wounds” as an Aftereffect to any of the actions below:

  • Successful Death Blow against Human or Animal

  • Successful Melee Smite attack against Human or Animal

• Drawback: Choose between Poor Senses (Dryadic) or Uncanny Mind (Kulexic)

Chitinous Limb

Assume a chitinous, insect-like appearance and be granted strength.

Subtype: Kulexic

• Effect 1: After 5+ minutes of meditation, you may coax your arms and/or legs to shed your human flesh and appear as chitinous appendages (see prop requirements). This can be a horrifying sight, so most do it away from others. It takes 5+ minutes to revert your limbs to their normal form.

  • You gain the Strength skill. You must have at least one Chitinous Arm, and it must be involved in the task. 

• Effect 2: If at least one limb is Chitinous, you may perform Conc-10 and invoke “Regrow” to Cure “Mangle”, “Mangle Wound”, or “Mangle Blight” on that limb. This can also regenerate severed limbs.

• Drawback: Uncanny Mind -- Your Spore overloads you with constant stimuli. You are unable to augment your Craft, Defiance, Sense, or Inquiry skills. Your Ritual skills are unaffected.

• Phys-rep requirement: Your limb’s skin must be fully covered by clothing OR painted grey/black. Skin tight grey or black clothing is also usable. On top of this skin, you must have grey or black plates, such as from colored shin-guards or arm-guards. These limbs can optionally feature black or grey “fur”.

Dark Celerity

You are able to fade away from your pursuers, though much better in the dark.

• Subtype: Kulexic

• Effect 1: You gain your choice of the Obfuscate Exodus spell or the Flee the Scene skill. Both allow an elusive exit from danger. If the spell is chosen, this Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

• Effect 2: After Sunset but before Sunrise or while you are Indoors, you may augment and prefix either skill with “Darkened” (e.g. “Darkened Obfuscate Exodus”) to waive their Focus cost. “Darkened Flee the Scene” only requires qConc-3.

• Drawback: Uncanny Mind -- Your Spore overloads you with constant stimuli. You are unable to augment your Craft, Defiance, Sense, or Inquiry skills. Your Ritual skills are unaffected.

Dryadic Bloom

Gain healing abilities and store healing in your Bonded allies and Ghet.

• Subtype: Dryadic

• Effect 1: You gain one of the spells below and can use them even if you lack their Skill Requirements. If a spell is chosen, you become vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

  • Restore Vitality

  • Transmute Flesh

  • Treat Injury

• Effect 2: You can choose to augment and prefix the Skills above with “Dryadic” when casting on your Bonded allies or your Ghet. This replaces the effect with “Invest Healing”, suffusing Dryadic magics into your target for them to activate on their own. Clarify this effect if needed. Regardless of how they can do so, they can store only 1 such spell at a time.

  • “Blossom” — Before 10 minutes pass or the current combat ends, your target may invoke “Blossom, heal 3” or “Blossom, Cure Wounds” — this also inflicts “Snare” on the target and uses up the invested healing.

• Drawback: Dulled Vision -- You are unable to augment Keen Perception, Detect Presence, or other Sense skills. You are also unable to use Skills to negate Ambush attacks (i.e. hits on your back torso and from behind you)

Electric Touch

Disable devices and punish those that would strike you while you are downed.

• Subtype: Cnidarian

• Effect 1: You gain one of the following skills below. Furthermore, you are able to use them even if you lack their Skill Prerequisites. Choosing a spell renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

  • Project Disruption

  • Infuse Item

  • Disarm Device - Prefix it with “Electric” to use it without a Scrap Kit.

• Effect 2: Invoke “Backlash; Master, 7 Lightning” as a Reaction to inflict that effect unto someone who completes their Scavenge or melee Death Blow count upon you. If this brings them to 0 HP, their action is negated. You may perform this action even while Downed or Critical. “Superior Disarm” will render this function unusable for 1 minute

Drawback: Soft Flesh -- You may not have more than 7 HP. Certain attacks are strong enough to Down you with one shot, if you don’t negate or evade them.

Floral Bond

You can grant others the Eidolonic Stigmata or Resolve to allies.

• Subtype: Dryadic or Mycetic

• Effect 1: Whenever you use Ignite Inspiration, Inspiring Aspect, or a Spell to imbue an ally with Resolve, you may augment and prefix that Skill with “Floral” — This adds one of the Aftereffects listed below.

  • Floral Gift: Imbue the same Resolve upon a Bonded ally/Ghet via melee touch.

  • Floral Command: Invoke “Imbue Dominate” on the same ally if they are Bonded to you or are your Ghet.

• Effect 2: After 5+ minutes of role-play involving blood drinking, floral grafting, and/or meditation, you can revive the dead and/or infest a willing target with the Eidolonic Stigmata (Dryadic or Mycetic Subtype) as outlined in Gaining the Eidolonic Stigmata section.

  • Tethered to you until your death, those who you implant with Stigmata are forever marked as your “Ghet” as their “Sire” (though gender and/or culture may change the labels of this relationship in-game). It is recommended that you keep a list of your Ghet on your sheet.

• Drawback: Choose one -- Poor Senses (Dryadic) or Slow Footed (Mycetic)

Fungal Flesh

Self-Revive more easily and grant healing when doing so. 

Subtype: Mycetic 

• Effect 1: You gain the Iron Fortitude skill, which allows you to Self-Revive more quickly if the attack that brought you to 0 HP inflicted only 1 damage (such as a basic melee attack).

• Effect 2: You are able to use Iron Fortitude without adhering to the armor requirement, augmenting it and invoking it as “Fungal Fortitude”. As an Aftereffect, you may imbue yourself and one other person with “Heal 2” from your restorative spores. 

• Drawback: Slow-footed -- You are slow to move, whether through thoughtfulness and/or hindered limbs. You are unable to use the Dodge defense. Also, you are unable to benefit from Pursuit or Escape effects unless it is from a spell.

Gibbous Veil

Fade from view and allow others to do so.

• Subtype: Umbral

• Effect 1: You gain the Obfuscate Presence spell and may use it regardless of its Skill Requirements or you may get the Camouflage skill instead. These Skills allow you to become hidden. If the spell is learned, this Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

• Effect 2: You may augment either skill above with the prefix “Gibbous”. You can also grant Concealment to 1 additional ally within arm’s reach of you that fulfills the position, equipment, and gesture requirements, except that they can be wearing Heavy or Ultraheavy Armor.

  • This also allows you to use Camouflage with only Conc-5.

  • If you choose to conceal no allies, you may use the Shadow Walk feature of the Expert Shadower skill

• Drawback: Shadow Flesh --  Direct sunlight on your skin feels unpleasant. Flame and Lightning damage are considered to be Bane damage to you. Also, receiving them inflicts “Hobble” on you, which slows your movement.

Painful Glow

Radiate eldritch electricity and enhance your attacks with lightning

• Subtype: Cnidarian

• Effect 1: You gain your choice of the spells or skills below. If a spell is chosen, this Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption as though they were an Arcanist.

  • Project Wrath

  • Infuse Weapon

  • Jolt: After Targ-7, invoke “Jolt” and launch a packet/foam dart representing a small charge of electricity. This inflicts your choice of “3 Lightning”, “Hobble”, or “Cure Strike”. The damage can be increased by bonuses to spell damage.

• Effect 2: You can charge your spells with painful electricity. This increases their damage by +1 (adhering to the damage cap) and/or turns their damage into Lightning. If using metal or mostly metal weaponry you can apply this to your Death Blows and your melee/ranged “Smite”.

• Drawback: Soft Flesh -- You may not have more than 7 HP. Certain attacks are strong enough to Down you with one shot, if you don’t negate or evade them.

Toxic Spores

Befuddle and agonize your enemies with your poisonous magics.

Subtype: Mycetic

• Effect 1: You gain your choice of the spells below and are able to use them even without their Skill Requirements. This renders you vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

  • Project Agony

  • Obfuscate Senses

• Effect 2: You may augment and prefix either spell with “Toxic”, this fills the spell with your poisonous power. This gives you the option of inflicting “3 Corrosive” and the Aftereffect below.

• Effect 3: After using a “Toxic” spell or a Smite that inflicts a Control effect, you may opt to suffer a “Pain 10” to inflict the following Aftereffect:

  • Spore: Invoke “Spore” to inflict the same effect or “3 Corrosive” on any target via melee or packet/foam dart. Bonuses to spell damage improves the Corrosive attack. This Pain overlaps with the Diabolist’s Torment/Rapture.

• Drawback: Slow-footed -- You are slow to move, whether through thoughtfulness and/or hindered limbs. You are unable to use the Dodge defense and unable to benefit from Pursuit or Escape effects unless it is a spell.

Umbral Grasp

Shroud your strikes in Shadow and ensnare distant foes with darkness.

Subtype: Umbral

Effect 1: You may choose for melee Smite attacks and melee Death Blows using this arm(s) to inflict Shadow damage instead of the normal damage type. Similarly, ranged spells that use this arm may inflict Shadow-type damage instead of the normal damage type.

Furthermore, with that arm(s) your spells, Death Blows, and melee/ranged Smite attacks have their damage increased by +1, adhering to the damage cap.

Effect 2: You can extend a shadowy tendril to lash at an enemy. Choose from one of the abilities below, becoming open to Eldritch Corruption if you choose a spell

• Project Force

• Umbral Whip: After a Targ-7, invoke “Whip” to throw a spell packet that inflicts your choice of “2 Shadow”, “Pull”, or “Snare 10”. The damage can be increased by bonuses to spell damage.

Attacks that benefit from this have their damage increased by one point. 

Drawback: Shadow Flesh --  Direct sunlight on your skin feels unpleasant. Flame and Lightning damage are considered to be Bane damage to you. Also, receiving them inflicts “Hobble” on you, which slows your movement.

Prop requirement: One or both of your arms must feature long black or bright blue swirls, whichever is more visible. These markings must also be visible for you to benefit from this Trait. 

Wily Recovery

Shake off Control effects and regrow limbs. 

Subtype: Cnidarian or Umbral

Effect 1: You gain the Grim Recovery skill, which allows you to concentrate your body’s functions toward shaking off Wound and Strike effects.

Effect 2: When you successfully receive a “Cure Wounds” or a Heal effect, you may regrow any severed limbs or also receive a “Cure Strike” as an Aftereffect. 

Drawback: Choose one -- Soft Flesh (Cnidarian) or Shadow Flesh (Umbral)

 METABIONIC Stigmata

Metabionics, Forged/Los Forjado, Cogs

With the replacement of ruined organs and the implantation of powerful Metabionic devices, even those inflicted with the worst trauma can survive terrible tragedy and emerge even stronger. This is not without its costs and burdens, of course; Metabionic individuals report a recurring ache as well as strange phantom sensations and minor hallucinations. These symptoms are often attributed to the prosthetic attachment as well as the effects of a miniature Magnetic Mana battery within their body.

Choose this Stigmata if:

• You want to play a character with robotic or cybernetic features and/or personality

• You want a Stigmata that supports strong, tough, or technological characters

• You want to play a magic user that combines tech with eldritch madness

Metabionic Trait DESCRIPTION: 

Metabionic Biology

A Trait possessed by all Forged, this reflects the durability and the resilience of Metabionic individuals, even at the doors of death.

Special Note: This Trait is a requirement for all who undergo Metabionic Conversion.

• Subtype: Any

• Body Location: None

• Effect 1: Metabionic Corpse -- You may be revived even while you have more than 5 Grave Scars. At 5 Grave Scars, future Revivals from the dead inflict debilitating “Soul Scars”. Furthermore, at 0 to 4 Grave Scars and with an intact head and torso with at least 1 limb, you can do as below:

  • After being dead for at least 10 minutes, go to Game Staff/Logistics. Your character’s Metabionic corpse is considered to have robotically shambled off to a nearby place they remember as a “sanctuary”. After processing the Grave Scar, the corpse can shamble toward the sanctuary and then stand inert until a Greater Revive is used on them.

• Effect 2: Metabionic Body (-Focus) - Expend 1 Focus to negate a Pain Strike (or Wound) or Mangle Strike (or Wound) invoking “Forged, negate” as a defense. Furthermore a “Repair Weapon” effect cure Mangle (Strike, Wound, Blight) from a limb with Metabionic props/prosthetics.

• Effect 3 and Drawback: Your Metabionic Core has a mixed effect depending on your type of Subtype. 

Adamantine Arm

This appendage has been reinforced and augmented not only to restore functionality but provide durability. 

Subtype: Scav-Tech

Body Location: Arm (maximum 2)

• Effect 1: You gain the Strength skill, but you must use this arm when using that skill. This skill allows for dragging allies out of danger and similar feats of single-handedly physical prowess. Furthermore, whenever you use Focused Strength, you can opt to gain “Resolve 3” as an Aftereffect.

• Effect 2: You may use the Parry or Block defense. Furthermore, you may augment “Block” and invoke it as “Adamantine Block” so that you can use it without wielding a shield -- take note that attacks on your arm still count as hitting you.

• Drawback: You are considered to be wearing Heavy Armor for the purposes of the Dodge defense, Conceal effects, Escape effects, and similar circumstances.

• Prop Requirement: A bracer or arm covering that represents your character’s arm prosthetic. It must be bumpy and feature plates or armor-like textures. A matching glove, gauntlet, or fingerless glove is also required. 

Bracing Legs

These replacement legs are enhanced with plating and heel spurs for stability and balance.

• Subtype: Scav-Tech

• Body Location: Leg (maximum 1)

• Effect 1: You gain the Battle Bracing skill, allowing you to augment a defense so that it grants “Resolve 1” as an Aftereffect.

• Effect 2: When affected by a Pull, a Knockback or a Snare, you may invoke “Brace” as a defense to negate the effect upon your person. Activating this requires that you self-inflict 2 points of damage.

  • If you have Resolve, you can use “Brace” to cure the effect instead after 5 seconds or 5 steps without Self-inflicting damage.

• Drawback: You are considered to be wearing Heavy Armor for the purposes of the Dodge defense, Conceal effects, Escape effects, and similar circumstances. 

• Prop Requirement: Coverings over your legs that make them appear bulky. These can be placed beneath pant legs, so long as the bulk is visible. Only one leg is required to be adjusted in this way. 

Bulky Frame

This Trait adds bulk and heft to a Metabionic with sub-dermal plating and other mechanical measures to grant them additional durability.

Subtype Scav-Tech

Body Location: Torso (maximum 1)

• Effect 1: You gain the Armor Expertise skill, allowing you to get the most out of wearing armor. 

• Effect 2: Additionally, you gain 1 extra Aegis point while wearing any type of Armor. If you are wearing no Armor, resting removes all Aegis from you and grants you 1 Aegis point as though you were wearing basic Body Armor.

• Drawback: You are considered to be wearing Heavy Armor for the purposes of the Dodge defense, Stealth effects, Escape effects, and similar circumstances. 

• Prop Requirements: A bulky vest or shirt that represents subdermal or integrated armor-plates into your torso. Bulk on your shoulders is recommended but not required. This armor prop does not count for the purposes of the armor requirements for wearing armor.

FAUN Leg

Your runeforged leg can grant you a flying leap above the spears and claws of your foes.

Subtype: Eldritch-tech

Effect 1: You gain the Armored Dodge skill and can use the Dodge defense, even if you don’t have a skill that grants it to you.

Effect 2: While you are not wearing Heavy or UltraHeavy armor or performing the Carry skill, you may expend 1 Focus to perform a “Flying Leap” for 5 Flying counts or 5 seconds (whichever comes first). This is described further in the Modal effects section but its movement must be in a straight line. This renders you immune to melee attacks, though ranged attacks remain viable against you.

Effect 3: You can end “Flying” early by invoking “Diving Dodge” to gain the effects of a Dodge against an attack. Alternatively, you may invoke “Safe Landing, Resolve 5” to end Flying early or when you finish the count -- you gain “Resolve 5” instead.

Drawback: You are considered to be wearing Body Armor for the purposes of the Dodge defense, Conceal effects, Escape effects, and similar circumstances.

Prop Requirement: Coverings over your legs that make them appear bulky. These can be placed beneath pant legs, so long as the bulk is visible. Only one leg is required to be adjusted in this way. Encouraged but not required are runes on pant legs/boots.

Galvanized Core

This Metabionic Core allows for the greater generation of magnetic-mana for defense, utility, and offense. 

• Subtype: Apex-Tech

• Body Location: Torso (maximum 1)

• Effect 1: You gain the Resist Magna-Storm skill, reflecting your resistance to electric attacks.

• Effect 2: While generating a Magna Field, you lend its charge to your melee/ranged Smite attacks, your Death Blows, and your spells to inflict Lightning-type damage. The weapon used (if any) must be in-game metallic.

  • The damage of these attacks are also increased by +1, Lightning or otherwise.

• Effect 3: While generating a Magna-field, invoke “Backlash; Master, 7 Lightning” as a Reaction to inflict that effect unto someone who completes their Scavenge or melee Death Blow count upon you. If this brings them to 0 HP, their action is negated. You may perform this action even while Downed or Critical. “Superior Disarm” will render this function unusable for 1 minute.

• Prop Requirements: In addition to the normal Torso prop requirements, you will need a glowing item that lights up your neck or beneath your shirt (your choice of front and/or back). We highly discourage using items made of glass or any other combat hazardous material.  This light tends to be light blue, light green, or a similarly hued color, but this is not a requirement.

Gizmatic Arm

This is outfitted with fine manipulation devices that lend its user a great degree of technical ability and utility.

• Subtype: Apex-Tech

• Body Location: Arm (maximum 2)

• Effect 1: You gain the Disarm Device skill, allowing you to Disarm Basic Traps and Locks. 

• Effect 2: While you generate a Magna-field, this arm’s functionality is improved. With a Conc-30, Disarm Device can be used to invoke “Greater Disarm” against Advanced Locks, Traps, and similar items or invoke “Disrupt Conjurations” when faced with a Conjuration/Ether Matrix. 

• Effect 3: While you generate a Magna-field, you can jolt a dying person back to life -- after First Aid-3, you can spend 1 Focus and invoke “Jolt” to imbue an ally with a “Painful Revive”. You may not use this on yourself.

• Prop requirement: A bracer and/or arm covering that represents your character’s arm prosthetic. It must prominently display a light blue, light green, or similar light. A matching glove, gauntlet, or fingerless glove is also required. 

Mercurio Boosters

These allow for some speed, whether it is for escaping a battle or rushing into one. 

• Subtype: Apex-Tech

• Body Location: Leg (maximum 1)

• Effect 1: You gain Flee the Scene, allowing you elude your enemies and leave a battle.

• Effect 2:  While you are under the effects of a Magna-Field, you are able to augment and invoke Pursuit and Escape skills, prefixing them with “Boosted”. This has the benefit of allowing you to use those effects even if you are wearing Heavy or Ultraheavy armor.

• Effect 3: While you are under the effects of Magna-field, you can use your momentum to strike hard. When you use Armored Rush or are affected by a Pull effect, your next melee attack within the next 10 seconds of ending the effect inflicts a “Piercing, Knockback”. If you are wielding a Shield in your other hand or using a heavy weapon for this attack, you may choose to inflict the damage of your “Smite” or “Piercing 3 damage”.

• Prop Requirement: Coverings over your legs that make them appear bulky. These can be placed beneath pant legs, so long as the bulk is visible. Only one leg is required to be adjusted in this way. Also required are bulky coverings, armor, plating that cover the shoulder or the upper back torso. 

Ocular Enhancer

This enhances a user’s aim and sight, with the most advanced tech of the current age.

Subtype: Apex-Tech

Body Location: Head (maximum 1)

Effect 1: You gain the Iron Concentration skill, allowing you to Concentrate or aim through damage, although it still injures you.

Effect 2: While you generate a Magna-field, when you can augment your Sense skills and Defiance with “Forged”. This allows you to use them despite the effects of Magna-field sickness.

Prop Requirement: Face-paint that reflects scarification or stitching above and below one of your eyes. Recommended but not required: a visual prop over one’s eye resembling a patch or a lens. 

Redundant Systems

This Trait reinforces the internal systems of an individual for durability and endurance, even adding redundant vital organs.

Subtype: Scav-Tech

Body Location: Torso (maximum 1)

Effect 1: You gain the Grim Recovery skill, which allows you to shake off wounds and similar hindrances.

Effect 2: Your maximum HP is increased by +2. This may not allow you to exceed 10 HP.

Drawback: You are not able to gain any benefit from Elixir effects, from Brew Tonics or from the Brewer Discipline’s Soothing Meal skill (and its upgrades). You are unable to taste subtle flavors. 

Runic Arm

This Trait allows a Forged Arcanist to use their arm as a wand and extend their spells beyond their physical reach.

• Subtype Eldritch-Tech

• Body Location: Arm (maximum 2)

• Effect 1: This limb counts as a Basic Rune Wand when its hand is empty and its not strapped to a shield.

  • A skilled crafter may also expend CMP and Craft-Ritual actions to adapt it as an Advanced Rune Wand with 1 Augment — it may not be used to strike anyone. This costs the same amount and has the same duration as normal.

• Effect 2: If you have the Sorcerous Engine trait or you are affected by any Adept attunement, you may augment a Melee or Touch based Spell, turning it into a Ranged spell via spell-packet. Preface the name of the spell as “Extended” -- this only affects the delivery portion of the spell.

• Prop requirement: A bracer or arm covering that represents your character’s arm prosthetic. It must  prominently display Arcane Runes or writing. A matching glove, gauntlet, or fingerless glove is also required.

Sorcerous Engine

This Metabionic Core generates an arcane field, regardless of their magical talent (or lack thereof). 

• Subtype: Eldritch-Tech

• Body Location: Torso (maximum 1) 

• Effect 1: You gain your choice of the Obfuscation Adept, Infusion Adept, or Projection Adept skill. This has little utility unless you are an Arcanist. This Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

• Effect 2: While you are attuned to any Etheric Sphere, invoke “Backlash; Master, 7 Flame” as a Reaction to inflict that effect unto someone who completes their Scavenge or melee Death Blow count upon you. If this brings them to 0 HP, their action is negated. You may perform this action even while Downed or Critical. “Superior Disarm” will render this function unusable for 1 minute.

• Effect 3: The damage of your spells and Smites with in-game metal weapons are increased by +1, adhering to the damage cap.

• Prop Requirements: In addition to the normal Torso prop requirements, you will need a glowing item that lights up your neck or beneath your shirt (your choice of front and/or back). This item may not be made of glass or any other combat hazardous material. This light tends to be red, purple, or a similarly hued color, but this is not a requirement.

Witch Eye

This Trait allows an individual to project powerful blasts from their eye.

Subtype: Eldritch-Tech

Body Location: Head (maximum 1)

Effect 1: You gain the Project Agony or the Obfuscate Senses spell, allowing you to inflict pain or other hindrances upon others. You are able to use them even if you do not have the Prerequisite Skills for them. This Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

Effect 2: If you have the Sorcerous Engine trait or any Adept ATN, you are able to empower these spells. You may augment and prefix either spell with “Ruinous” which fills the attack with unstable sorcery. Also, it gains the option to inflict “3 Flame” and the Aftereffect below.

Effect 3: After using a “Ruinous” spell or a Smite that inflicts a Control effect, you may opt to suffer a “Pain 10” to inflict the following Aftereffect:

• Blast: Invoke “Blast” to inflict the same effect or “3 Flame” on any target via melee or packet/foam dart. Bonuses to spell damage improves the Corrosive attack. This Pain overlaps with the Diabolist’s Torment/Rapture.

Prop Requirement: Face-paint that reflects scarification or stitching above and below one of your eyes. Recommended but not required: contact lenses that are of a red or purple hue that represent the artificial, eldritch eye implant. 

Necrotic Stigmata

Risen, Leeches, Los Frios

Not all who fall rise again. Not all who are Risen have ever fallen. But those who bear the scars and burden of this Stigmata know well the cold, creeping touch of death. They must deal with a gnawing hunger for flesh or life force, but also the ache of the sun’s light and/or numbness to the hurts of others. In exchange, they get a second (or third) chance at life, enhanced by necrotic strength or by strange and dark powers.

Choose this Stigmata if:

• You want to play a character with zombie, vampire, flesh construct, and/other other undead characteristics

• You want to play a 2nd chance at life or revenge after a vicious death

• You want your character to come back to life after dying to an undead creature or near certain hazardous places.

Necrotic Traits Description

Necrotic Biology

Risen are granted a strong measure of resistance to pathogens as well as some ability to return from death’s door. 

Special Note: This Trait is gained by all who gain the Necrotic Stigmata.

• Subtype: All

• Effect 1: Necrotic Longevity - You may be revived even while you have more than 5 Grave Scars. At 5 Grave Scars, future Revivals from the dead inflict debilitating “Soul Scars”. You are also immune from the Unliving Miasma that afflicts those who use Necrotech, Deathweave, and similar tech.

• Effect 2: Resilience - You have the Endure Plague skill, allowing you to defend against Blight effects and Diseases. You do not need an Herb Kit to use it. Similarly, this Trait also allows you to reattach your severed limbs after a Conc-10 while pressing them together, in the rare occasion of them being severed.

• Effect 3: Scratch the Coffin — After you have been for at least 10 minutes, you can report to Game Staff/Logistics and inform them that you have used this Trait to imbue yourself with a Greater Revive - after processing your Grave Scar you can return to the game area. You cannot use this at 5 or more Grave Scars.

• Drawback: You are not able to gain any benefit from Elixir effects, from Brew Tonics or from the Brewer Discipline’s Soothing Meal skill and its upgrades. You are unable to taste subtle flavors but blood is delicious to you, tasting different to and for each person.

Corpse Flesh

Your unearthly willpower makes it difficult to keep you down.

• Subtype: Corpse Gaunt

• Effect 1: You gain the Iron Fortitude skill, which allows you to Self-Revive more quickly if the attack that brought you to 0 HP inflicted only 1 damage (such as a basic melee attack)

• Effect 2: You are able to use Iron Fortitude without adhering to the armor requirement, augmenting it and invoking it as “Necrotic Fortitude”. As an Aftereffect when you successfully Self-Revive, you may imbue yourself with a “Cure Wounds” or a “Heal 2”

• Effect 3: You are able to hold your breath for an hour or so. This allows you to go underwater, while “Silenced”. This offers no protection from poison gas and similar hazards.

• Drawback: Unfettered Fury -- You are unable to negate Frenzy or Dominate effects on yourself, although others can Cure them from you.  

Dark Celerity

You are able to fade away from your pursuers, though much better in the dark.

• Subtype: Shadow Hunter

• Effect 1: You gain your choice of the Obfuscate Exodus spell or the Flee the Scene skill. Both allow an elusive exit from danger. If the spell is chosen, this Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

• Effect 2: After Sunset but before Sunrise or while you are Indoors, you may augment and prefix either skill with “Darkened” (e.g. “Darkened Obfuscate Exodus”) to waive their Focus cost. “Darkened Flee the Scene” only requires qConc-3.

• Drawback: Dark Walker -- Direct sunlight on your skin feels unpleasant. Flame and Lightning damage are considered to be Bane damage to you. Also, receiving them inflicts “Hobble” on you, which slows your movement.

Death Mask

Those who stare too deeply into death or defile the dead will reap a shadowy demise when it comes to you.

• Subtype: Soul Reaver

• Effect 1: You gain one of the following skills below. Furthermore, you are able to use them even if you lack their Skill Prerequisites. If the spell is chosen, it renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

  • Masked Mind skill

  • Obfuscate Aura spell

  • Aftereffect: When you use either skill, you can vocally inflict “Rot” or “Hobble” to the source of the Inquiry, if you can identify them.

• Effect 2: Invoke “Backlash; Master, 7 Shadow” as a Reaction to inflict that effect unto someone who attempts to Scavenge from your body or perform a Death Blow upon you. If this brings them to 0 HP, their action is negated. You may perform this action even while Downed or Critical. “Superior Disarm” will render this function unusable for 1 minute.

• Drawback: Eternal Hunger -- Your insides ache with an insatiable, spiritual hunger. Your maximum HP may never exceed 7 points. Certain attacks are strong enough to Down you with one shot, if you don’t negate or evade them.

Killer Frenzy

Your brutish strikes make angering you a bad idea.

• Subtype: Corpse Gaunt

• Effect 1: You gain the Melee Fighter skill, allowing you to perform melee Smite attacks that inflict high amounts of damage.  

• Effect 2: When a Dominate Strike is inflicted upon you, invoke "Killer Frenzy" to negate it and turn it into a Frenzy Strike instead for the same duration. This allows you to go berserk when someone attempts to control your mind -- this works with Unfettered Fury.

  • Furthermore, you can choose to gain and use one 0 Focus use of a melee Smite as an Aftereffect to receiving a Frenzy or negating it. Augment and invoke this as “Frenzied Smite”, which must be used within 10 seconds of receiving/negating the Frenzy.

• Drawback: Unfettered Fury -- Your will is weakened by constant rage and/or ache. You are unable to negate Frenzy or Dominate effects on yourself (except with Killer Frenzy), although others can Cure them from you. 

Night Stalker

You are death in the dark and your corrosive blood only makes you deadlier.

• Subtype: Shadow Hunter

• Effect 1: You gain the Know thy Enemy skill, allowing you to inflict more damage upon an enemy’s back after studying your prey. 

• Effect 2: You may coat your blades in your accursed blood by inflicting “1 damage” upon yourself with a bladed weapon, arrow/knife pack. Afterward, its Smite, Assassinate, and Death Blows can instead inflict “Psychic” or “Corrosive” — this lasts for 10 minutes or the current combat’s end (aka Scene End). 

• Effect 3: When you inflict damage via Assassinate, you only need a qConc-5 to study that target again with that skill. This effect persists until Scene End or until you choose a different target. 

• Drawback: Dark Walker -- Direct sunlight on your skin feels unpleasant. Flame and Lightning damage are considered to be Bane damage to you. Also, receiving them inflicts “Hobble” on you, which slows your movement.

Revenant Rush

When you rush forward, bullets and arrows will not stop you unless they bring you down.

• Subtype: Corpse Gaunt

• Effect 1: You gain the Armored Rush skill, allowing you to temporarily ignore the step-and-grunt rule for ranged attacks.  

• Effect 2: Invoke and augment this Skill as “Revenant Rush”. This expends 1 Focus instead of Aegis and no longer requires that you be armored. Also, you may perform a melee attack that inflicts “Piercing, 3 damage” or your melee Smite damage when Behemoth Rush or Armored Rush ends.

• Drawback: Unfettered Fury -- Your will is weakened by constant rage and/or ache. You are unable to negate Frenzy or Dominate effects on yourself (except with Killer Frenzy), although others can Cure them from you.  

Sanguine Remedy

Your healing skills are improved and you may imbue others with this Stigmata.

Subtype: Soul Reaver

Effect 1: Whenever you use the Treat Injury skill or a Healing-type Spell to restore HP upon a Bonded ally or your Ghet, you can choose to augment it with the “Sanguine” prefix. This adds one of the Aftereffects listed below.

• Blood Gift: Imbue the same Healing upon the same Bonded ally/Ghet or a different one via melee touch.

• Sanguine Command: invoke “Imbue Dominate” on the same Bonded ally/Ghet.

Effect 2: After 5+ minutes of role-play involving blood drinking, dark rites, and/or meditation, you can revive the dead and/or infest a willing target with the Necrotic Stigmata (any Subtype) as outlined in Gaining the Necrotic Stigmata section.

Similar to the vampires of ancient myth, those who you turn with this Trait are forever marked as your Ghet (this is on their sheet as “Ghet of X”) and you as their “Sire” (though gender and/or culture may change the labels of this relationship in-game).

Drawback: Eternal Hunger -- Your insides ache with an insatiable, spiritual hunger. Your maximum HP may never exceed 7 points. Certain attacks are strong enough to Down you with one shot, if you don’t negate or evade them.

Soul Thief

You can siphon vitality from others with Death Blows or through sheer will.

• Subtype: Soul Reaver

• Effect 1: You may choose to gain one of the abilities below. If you choose a spell, you can use them without the requirements but they open you up to Eldritch Corruption.

  • Project Wrath spell - this can inflict Psychic-type damage

  • Obfuscate Senses spell — additional option: “Piercing 2 Psychic”

  • Soul Theft - After a Targ-10, invoke “Drain” and throw a spell packet that inflicts “Piercing 2 Psychic” or “Piercing Pull”. Bonuses to spell damage can increase “Drain”, up to the damage cap.

• Effect 2: You do not need to be wielding a weapon to perform a Death Blow if you prefix it with “Draining”. Furthermore, invoke “Heal 1” to regain 1 HP as an Aftereffect to any one of the situations below:

  • You successfully Death Blow a living or dying foe

  • Your Project Wrath, Soul Theft, or Obfuscate Senses hits and is not negated

  • After you negate an Inquiry effect

  • You successfully use Treat Injury or a Healing spell on an ally.

• Drawback: Eternal Hunger -- Your insides ache with an insatiable, spiritual hunger. Your maximum HP may never exceed 7 points. Certain attacks are strong enough to Down you with one shot, if you don’t negate or evade them.

Sunless Surge

Darkness brings you strength instead of fear.

• Subtype: Shadow Hunter

• Effect 1: You gain the Strength skill. This allows you to break free from constraints or single-handedly drag allies to safety.

• Effect 2: Your inner darkness increases the damage of your Smites, Death Blows, and Spell attacks by +1, adhering to the damage cap.

• Effect 3: After Sunset but before Sunrise or while you are in shade (including a wide-brimmed hat, hooded cloak, or an umbrella), you may choose for the damage of your melee Smites (metal weaponry), your Spells, and your Death Blows to inflict Frost-type damage instead of what they normally inflict. 

  • You also gain temporary use of Great Strength during this time.

• Drawback: Dark Walker -- Direct sunlight on your skin feels unpleasant. Flame and Lightning damage are considered to be Bane damage to you. Also, receiving them inflicts “Hobble” on you, which slows your movement.

Psionic Stigmata

Psions, Tellurians, Gemlings

Also called Tellurians or Gemlings, those with the Psionic Stigmata are usually and simply called Psions by most folk. They are known for the gem-like organs they have upon their foreheads, which appears to act as a receptor for psychic and magnetic stimuli. Psions are possessed of powerful psychic energy and potential, allowing them extra-sensory perception, limited telekinesis and even the ability to hurt or bolster the minds of others. 

Choose this Stigmata if:

• You want to play a psychic healer, a psychic warrior, and/or a psychic blaster.

• You want to play a character focused on intellect and mental/psionic powers

• You want to play a Stigmata with minimal paint and prosthetic requirements

Psionic Trait Descriptions

Alien Psyche

Those who attempt to understand you or attack your mind are punished for their trespasses.

• Subtype: Far Mind

• Effect 1: You gain one of the following skills below. Furthermore, you are able to use them even if you lack their Skill Prerequisites. If the spell is chosen, it renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

  • Masked Mind skill

  • Obfuscate Aura spell

• Effect 2:  Whenever you are subject to:

  • An Inquiry or Examine skill from a person next to you

  • A ranged Psychic or Shadow attack

  • As an Aftereffect to that effect or to the defense against it, you can respond with “Vocal Blind” against the source of the Inquiry or a “Blind” via packet against the source of the Psychic/Shadow attack.

• Drawback: Distant Spirit -- Due to minor hallucinations or distractions, you are unable to augment your Inquiry or Sense skills. Furthermore, you are unable to use Skills to negate attacks that hit your back torso.

Baleful Grasp

You are able to unravel basic locks, traps, and similar devices. 

• Subtype: Far Mind

• Effect 1: You gain one of the following spells below. Furthermore, you are able to use them even if you lack their Skill Prerequisites. This Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption as though they were an Arcanist.

  • Project Disruption

  • Infuse Item

  • Disarm Device

• Effect 2: You may augment one of the skills above and prefix its invocation with “Baleful” (e.g. “Baleful Infuse Item”). This has the effect of lowering its required count to 20-counts, improving its output to a “Greater Disarm”, and allowing Disarm Device to be used without a Scrap Kit.

  • If you successfully disarm a Device/Hazard or Disrupt a conjuration with this, the energy returns to you as a minor barrier. Gain “Resolve 1” as an Aftereffect.

• Drawback: Distant Spirit -- Due to minor hallucinations or distractions, you are unable to augment your Inquiry or Sense skills. Furthermore, you are unable to use Skills to negate attacks that hit your back torso. 

Empathic Remedy

Your bonds with others can be used to draw their hurts into yourself.

Subtype: Empath

Effect 1: You gain one of the following spells below. Furthermore, you are able to use them even if you lack their Skill Prerequisites. This Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

• Restore Vitality

• Transmute Flesh

• Treat Injury

Effect 2: You can choose to augment any of the skills above and prefix its invocation with “Empathic” (e.g. Empathic Restore Vitality). This grants an Aftereffect: imbue the same amount of healing to a Bonded ally via melee touch. They must be Bonded to you by Blood, Oath, or Command.

Drawback: Opened Mind -- With your mind opened to the world, so too are you more vulnerable to its pain. Your maximum HP may not exceed 7 points.

Far Hand

With your mind, you can push, snare, or pull enemies and allies alike. 

Subtype: Far Mind

Effect 1: You gain the Project Force spell or Transmute Air spell and you may use it as though you had its Prerequisites. This Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption as though they were an Arcanist.

Effect 2: You may augment either spell and prefix it with “Psionic”. This has the effect of turning it into a Wave 2 (allowing you to throw two packets instead of just one if you don’t move) and allowing you to inflict “Snare” effects.

Drawback: Distant Spirit -- Due to minor hallucinations or distractions, you are unable to augment your Inquiry or Sense skills. Furthermore, you are unable to use Skills to negate attacks that hit your back torso. 

Gibbous Veil

With psychic power, you and an ally can swiftly fade from view. 

• Subtype: Soul Knife

• Effect 1: You gain the Obfuscate Presence spell and may use it regardless of its Skill Requirements or you may get the Camouflage skill instead. These Skills allow you to become hidden. If a spell is chosen, this Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

• Effect 2: You may augment either skill above with the prefix “Gibbous”. You can also extend either Skill’s effects to 1 additional ally within arm’s reach of you that fulfills the position, equipment, and gesture requirements, except that they can be wearing Heavy or Ultraheavy Armor. This allows you to use Camouflage after only Conc-5.

  • If you choose to conceal no allies, you may use the Shadow Walk feature of the Expert Shadower skill

• Drawback: Darkened Mindset - Compassion and hope are more difficult for you. You may not imbue more than “Heal 1” to others.

Psionic Scrying

You can reach out to learn secrets from others or empower the senses of your Bonded allies.

• Subtype: Empath

• Effect 1: You gain your choice of the skills below. If a spell is chosen, this Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption but allows its use even without its Skill requirements:

  • Detect Secret spell

  • Mental Deduction skill

  • Keen Perception skill

• Effect 2: You may spend 1 Focus and invoke “Psionic Scrying” to sharpen the senses of one Bonded ally for the next 10 minutes. While they are within 20 feet of you, they may use the “Uncanny Defense” skill as though they had it - this allows them to defend against Ambush attacks.

  • Furthermore, the next Defense, Inquiry or Sense skill that they use within that time frame has its Focus cost waived if they prefix and augment its invocation with “Expert”

• Drawback: Opened Mind -- With your mind opened to the world, so too are you more vulnerable to its pain. Your maximum HP may not exceed 7 points.

Psionic Weapon

You can mentally attune yourself to a weapon, increasing its deadliness and your own.

• Subtype: Soul Knife

• Effect 1: Once an Event, you may designate a small or medium weapon with a blade as your “Psi Blade” and suffuse it with your psychic energy. This also requires 5+ minutes of meditation and 1 ATN from you, labeled “Psi Blade” (see Prop requirements below). You may only have one such weapon at a time. It is Fate Bound to you as per Eldritch Ordinance, allowing you to retrieve it if lost or stolen.

• Effect 2: While you are wielding a Psionic Weapon, the damage of your melee Smite attacks and spells is increased by +1, adhering to the damage cap. Furthermore, you may have your melee Smite, Spells, and Death Blows inflict Psychic damage instead of what they normally inflict.  

• Drawback: Darkened Mindset - Compassion and hope are more difficult for you. You may not imbue more than “Heal 1” to others.

• Phys-rep requirements: This is a small or medium-sized dagger, sword, or claw weapon -- a glowing weapon prop is recommended but not necessary. Said weapon must have three gem props attached to it that resemble your Kha. 

Psychic Synergy

You can bring people together and draw incredible willpower from your bonds.

• Subtype: Empath

• Effect 1: You gain the Bond of Oaths skill, allowing you to form a psychically bonded cadre of allies. 

• Effect 2: You may self-inflict 2 damage and augment the Iron Defiance skill as “United Defiance” to use it without expending Focus or even learning the Skill. This also requires that you be touching at least two Bonded allies with your hands and/or your weapons so you can draw emotional strength from them.

• Drawback: Opened Mind -- With your mind opened to the world, so too are you more vulnerable to its pain. Your maximum HP may not exceed 7 points.

Soul Thief

You can siphon vitality from others with Death Blows or through sheer will.

• Subtype: Soul Knife

• Effect 1: You may choose to gain one of the abilities below. If you choose a spell, you can use them without the requirements but they open you up to Eldritch Corruption.

  • Project Wrath spell - this can inflict Psychic damage.

  • Obfuscate Senses spell

  • Soul Drain - After a Targ-10, invoke “Drain” and throw a spell packet that inflicts “Piercing 2 Psychic” or “Piercing Pull”. Bonuses to spell damage can increase “Drain” up to the damage cap.

• Effect 2: You do not need to be wielding a weapon to perform a Death Blow upon a creature within arm’s reach. Furthermore, Invoke “Heal 1” to regain 1 HP as an Aftereffect to any one of the situations below:

  • You successfully Death Blow a living or dying foe

  • Your Project Wrath, Soul Drain, or Obfuscate Senses hits and is not negated

  • After you negate an Inquiry effect

  • Your “Smite” with a Psi Blade hits and is not negated.

• Drawback: Darkened Mindset - Compassion and hope are more difficult for you. You may not imbue more than “Heal 1” to others.

Seraphic Stigmata

Seraphs, Cambion, Nephalem, Neffs

Also known as Cambions, Nephalem or, simply, Neffs, those with the Seraphic Stigmata are well known for the strange, otherworldly pallor of their flesh and their supernatural powers. As for the former, they are possessed of an unnatural biology, seemingly capable of withstanding the lightless oceanic depths or perhaps the void between the stars.

Choose this Stigmata if:

• You want to play an angelic or devilish character with a cosmic horror facet

• You want to play a Stigmata marked by its eldritch origins with gills, wings, or minor teleportation.

• You want to play a fish-like or dragon-like character

Seraphic Trait Description

Alien Psyche

Those who attempt to understand you or attack your mind are punished for their trespasses.

• Subtype: Netherworldly

• Effect 1: You gain one of the following skills below. Furthermore, you are able to use them even if you lack their Skill Prerequisites. If the spell is chosen, it renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

  • Masked Mind skill

  • Obfuscate Aura spell

• Effect 2: Whenever you are subject to an Inquiry skill or a ranged Psychic/Frenzy/Dominate attack, you can respond with one of the Aftereffects below. You can also use these if you negate the Inquiry or attack.

  • Aftereffect: “Vocal Blind” against the Inquiry’s source, if they can be identified.

  • Aftereffect: “Piercing Blind” via packet/foam dart vs. the Psychic/Frenzy/Dominate attack’s source.

• Drawback: Slow-footed -- Your sense of time sometimes betrays you or your body moves slower than normal. You are unable to use the Dodge defense. Also, you are unable to benefit from Pursuit or Escape effects unless it is from a spell. 

Baleful Grasp

You are able to unravel basic locks, traps, and similar devices. 

• Subtype: Netherworldly

• Effect 1: You gain one of the following spells below. Furthermore, you are able to use them even if you lack their Skill Prerequisites. This Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption as though they were an Arcanist.

  • Project Disruption

  • Infuse Item

  • Disarm Device

• Effect 2: You may augment one of the skills above and prefix its invocation with “Baleful”. This has the effect of lowering its required count to 20-counts, improving its output to a “Greater Disarm”. This also allows Disarm Device to be used without a Scrap Kit. 

  • If you successfully disarm a Device/Hazard or Disrupt a conjuration with this, the destruction grants you a mild euphoria. Gain “Heal 1” as an Aftereffect.

• Drawback: Slow-footed -- Your sense of time sometimes betrays you or your body moves slower than normal. You are unable to use the Dodge defense. Also, you are unable to benefit from Pursuit or Escape effects unless it is from a spell. 

Frozen Blood

You are literally cold blooded and can use it in your defense. 

Subtype: Pelagic

• Effect 1: You gain one ability from the choices below, though choosing the spell allows you to use it even without its required skills but opens you up to Eldritch Corruption.:

  • Project Agony spell: additional option: “2 Frost”

  • Obfuscate Senses spell: additional option: “2 Frost”

  • Frozen Breath: Freeze enemies with your breath. After Targ-7, invoke “Exhale” and launch a packet/foam dart at a target. This attack inflicts your choice of “2 Frost” or “Hobble”. Bonuses that improve spell damage can improve “Exhale”.

• Effect 2: Invoke “Frozen Blood; Master, 7 Frost” to inflict that effect unto someone who completes their Scavenge or melee Death Blow count upon you. If this brings them to 0 HP, their action is negated. You may perform this action even while Downed or Critical. “Superior Disarm” will render this function unusable for 1 minute.

• Drawback: Pelagic Flesh --  Extreme heat and dryness are your enemies. Flame and Lightning damage are considered to be Bane damage to you. Also, receiving them inflicts “Hobble” on you, which slows your movement.

Gibbous Veil

With eldritch power, you and an ally can swiftly fade from view. 

• Subtype: Stygian

• Effect 1: You gain the Obfuscate Presence spell and may use it regardless of its Skill Prerequisite or you may get the Camouflage skill instead. These Skills allow you to become hidden. If the spell is learned, this Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption.

• Effect 2: You may augment either skill above with the prefix “Gibbous”. This allows you to extend its effects to 1 ally within arm’s reach of you that fulfills the position, equipment, and gesture requirements, except that they can be wearing Heavy or Ultraheavy Armor.

  • If you choose to conceal no allies, you may use the Shadow Walk feature of the Expert Shadower skill

• Drawback: Brittle Boned -- you may not have more than 7 HP.

• Phys-rep requirement: You must be wearing at least two or more wing props to use this Trait -- feathered or diaphanous wings only. 

Oceanic Might

The waters are your second home -- you thrive within them and can use their depths’ power.

Subtype: Pelagic

• Effect 1: You gain the Athletics skill, owing to your Pelagic anatomy rather than training. Furthermore, when you use Focused Athletics, you may opt to gain “Resolve 3” as an Aftereffect.

• Effect 2: On the rare occasion that you are underwater, you will not suffocate so long as it is saltwater or freshwater. This will allow you to cast spells and speak underwater.

• Effect 3: You become “Hyperhydrated” if you are within 50 feet of a body of water, it has rained within 24 hours, or you have drunk water (at least 8 oz) within the current Period. While Hyperhydrated and receiving “Resolve 3”, you have one of the two Aftereffects to choose from below.

  • Invoke “Hydrate” and gain “Resolve 5”

  • Invoke “Hydrate” and perform a melee attack for “3 Frost”.

• Drawback: Pelagic Flesh --  Extreme heat and dryness are your enemies. Flame and Lightning damage are considered to be Bane damage to you. Also, receiving them inflicts “Hobble” on you, which slows your movement.

• Phys-rep requirement: Gills on the side of the neck

Scaled Recovery

Like the denizens of the depths, you are able to regenerate your limbs and cure your wounds.

Subtype: Pelagic

• Effect 1: You gain the Grim Recovery skill, which allows you to concentrate your body’s functions toward shaking off Wound and Strike effects.

• Effect 2: When you successfully receive a “Cure Wounds” or a Heal effect, you may regrow any severed limbs or imbue yourself with a “Cure Strike” as an Aftereffect. 

• Drawback: Pelagic Flesh -- Whenever you receive Flame-type or Lightning-type damage, you take a Hobble strike from the crippling agony and they are Bane damage to you. Direct sunlight pains you, though your will is such that you can ignore it for some time.

Tindalos Exodus

You are able to shift dimensions and perspective to escape danger.

Subtype: Netherworldly

• Effect 1: You gain your choice of the Obfuscate Exodus spell or the Flee the Scene skill, allowing you an elusive exit from danger. If a spell is chosen, this Trait renders a person vulnerable to Eldritch Corruption but allows its use even if you lack their Skill prerequisites.

• Effect 2: If you are touching a building’s corner or at least an immovable 90-degree angle while using Obfuscate Exodus or Flee the Scene -- you may expend 1 Focus and invoke the effect as “Tindalos Exodus” or “Tindalos Escape”. This augments the Skill so it has no Focus cost, it counts as a Spell, and you can take one willing person with you.

• Effect 3: If you are touching a building’s corner or at least an immovable 90-degree angle, you can distort space around you. This functions as per Duck and Cover, self-inflicting damage to negate non-Piercing Ranged attacks. In addition to the effects of Deflecting Cover, you also receive a self-inflict “Blind 10” effect as your perspective is also distorted.

• Drawback: Slow-footed -- Your sense of time sometimes betrays you or your body moves slower than normal. You are unable to use the Dodge defense. Also, you are unable to benefit from Pursuit or Escape effects unless it is from a spell. 

Winged Agility

Your wings grant you a flying leap above the spears and claws of your foes.

• Subtype: Stygian

• Effect 1: While you are not wearing Heavy or UltraHeavy armor or performing the Carry skill, you may expend 1 Focus to perform a “Flying Leap” for 10 Flying counts or 10 seconds (whichever comes first). This is described further in the Modal effects section but its movement must be in a straight line. This renders you immune to melee attacks, though ranged attacks remain viable against you.

• Effect 2: You can end “Flying” early by invoking “Diving Dodge” to gain the effects of a Dodge against an attack. Alternatively, you may invoke “Safe Landing, Resolve 3” to end Flying early or when you finish the count -- you gain ‘Resolve 3” instead.

• Effect 3: As a Reaction to falling, expend 1 Focus and invoke “Safe Landing” to reduce fall damage by 3 points and prevent it from being a Death Blow if it was one. This can be used even while your wings are folded.

• Drawback: Brittle Boned -- you may not have more than 7 HP. 

• Phys-rep requirement: You must be wearing at least two or more wing props to use this Trait -- feathered or diaphanous wings only.