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===Basic Essence Capabilities===

-Spend one point of Essence to instantly heal one point of bashing or lethal damage. This Essence also instantly stops wounds from bleeding and the character's condition from deteriorating.

-Spend three points of Essence to instantly heal any aggravated wound.

-Spend one point of Essence to heal any single wound, of any sort, in the character's ephemeral body.

-Can give Essence to ghost or spirit (or other Essence users) to secure its cooperation or pay for some service. Can accept freely given Essence from same.

-Can absorb Essence from a locus while in the Spirit Realm. Roll Presence + Wits + dots of the locus. Successes equal points of Essence gained. A Purified can extract no more than 3 X Rating points of Essence from a single locus within a 24 hour period.

-Can steal Essence from spirits, ghosts or other Purified by making a contested roll of Presence + Resolve + Chi against the target's Power + Resistance or Presence + Resolve + Chi. The winner of the contest steals a number of Essence from the loser equal to the successes scored by the victor. Purified must touch a target to attempt to steal Essence from it. Purified can only steal Essence or have Essence stolen from them when they're projecting outside their body. Stealing all Essence from a spirit causes it to become dormant and unresponsive.

-Spending an amount of Essence equal to Size allows character to completely reconstitute body from ashes or fragments of bone and rot. Less severe condition requires less Essence to restore. A mostly intact body that has rotted for a week or less would require only one point of Essence to restore.

-Spending five points of Essence will resurrect a body that's been restored within the last day or a relatively intact one that's been dead for a day or less. Resurrected body has one Health point and the rest of the Health Boxes are aggravated.

-Spending one point of Essence will keep corpse fresh for a month. As long as body remains in this state one can spend the remaining four points of Essence to restore it to life.