Editing LeviathanTempest:ChapterFour (section)

==== Lambent Eyes of Judgement (Ancestral Channel) ====
''The Leviathan's gaze strips away deception and peers into the heart of matters – he seeks out the blackness at the core of all issues, and reads the lines of guilt in the faces of others.''
* “Depth 0”: Birthright of Awareness
* “Depth 1”: When the Leviathan uses the Empathy skill to read another character, she may see the form of the target's soul. This manifests to her senses as an Aura around the target. For the rest of the scene, she is aware of all the emotions the target is feeling and their degree. 
* “Depth 2”: As above, but the Leviathan is also aware of the target's nature (mortal, atoll, Ahab, Leviathan, or even other supernaturals if she's encountered them before) and rough [Power Trait]. 
* “Depth 3”: As above, but now the Leviathan adds her Sheol to uses of the Empathy skill.  
* “Depth 4”: As above, but now the Leviathan's understanding of the soul is so complete as to be indistinguishable from mind-reading. She is aware of the surface thoughts of anyone whose soul she currently perceives. The Leviathan may also use her Empathy skill (Wits + Empathy + Sheol vs. Target's Composure + Power Trait) to probe the minds of other characters.
** -1: The Leviathan searches for information more than a day and less than a year old. 
** -2: The Leviathan searches for buried or unconscious information. 
* “Depth 5”: As above, but once per round the Leviathan may use the Empathy skill reflexively.   
* “Depth 6”: As above, and Leviathan knows the Virtue, Vice, and [Morality Trait] of any character whose soul she has seen. 

'''Adaptations'''
* Light of Truth (O) In Depth 1 and lower, the Leviathan's eyes (or body, or some new and horrific organ) give off light – roughly equivalent to candlelight (about a yard of illumination). In this region, Wake-vulnerable subjects lose 10-again on their Subterfuge rolls.
* Lantern of Shame (OO, requires Light of Truth): At Depth 3 and below, the light's intensity increases to that of a lantern, and its light removes the ability of Wake-vulnerable subjects to regain Willpower from their Vice. Wake-vulnerable subjects in the light suffer a penalty to their Subterfuge checks equal to the Tribe member's Sheol. 
* Pyre for Sinners (OOOOO, requires Lantern of Shame): At Depth 6, the light's intensity increases to that of a bonfire (ten yards of illumination). In addition to the other effects, Wake-vulnerable beings in the light cannot use Subterfuge against the Leviathan at all. This includes use of occult abilities that involve Subterfuge, such as the Obfuscate ability “The Familiar Stranger” (Vampire pg 137).

===== Sidebar: Auras =====
'''Leviathans''' have three separate Auras: The Human, the Divine and the Bestial. At high Tranquility the three diffuse into each other but as Tranquility falls they become clearly separate and swirl around each other like water in a storm with one nature showing signs of dominance over the other two. A Leviathan's Aura is huge, covering the entirety of his Wake pressing down on the Aura of any Wake Vulnerable individual they encompass. When two Leviathans meet their Auras press against each other at the midpoint between them.

A Leviathan's human aura looks just like a regular human's Aura, the Bestial nature looks like a regular animal's aura; like a humans but with starker colours and less emotional range. And the Divine Aura, the Divine aura is odd. To a Leviathan it's pretty comprehensible, it just looks like the a window into the Rift though the details are too small to make out. To anyone else the Divine Aura sometimes looks like impossible alien colours, sometimes like blasphemous symbols in an unknowable alphabet; it usually feels like great and terrible secret truths are just on the tip of your tongue.

A '''Beloved's''' Aura looks like someone has torn jagged chunks out of their regular aura. Glimpses of a Leviathan's divine Aura can sometimes be seen in the gaps. 

An '''Atoll''' has a normal human Aura. However, it draws any Leviathan's aura towards it and the serenity of an Atoll's presence is visible in Leviathans', as though nearby Leviathans were several Tranquility dots higher. 

'''Hybrids'''  Have entirely human Auras; when they lack human intelligence a Hybrid's Aura is simpler than a human's but more complex than a beast's.