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| | '''Nimbus Tilt:''' -1 and lose 10-again on Weaponry. | | '''Nimbus Tilt:''' -1 and lose 10-again on Weaponry. |
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| − | '''Arcane Experience:''' 0/0 | + | '''Arcane Experience:''' 0 |
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| − | '''Experience Points:''' 0/4 | + | '''Experience Points:''' 0 |
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| | =Aspirations and Obsessions= | | =Aspirations and Obsessions= |
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| | Adamant Hand (Brawl) 2 | | Adamant Hand (Brawl) 2 |
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| − | Court Goodwill (West) 1 [Allies 1. Mentor 1: Occult, Survival, Weaponry.] | + | Court Goodwill (West) 1 |
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| | High Speech 1 | | High Speech 1 |
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| − | Infamous Mentor (Dark Lady) 2 [Consilium and Assembly Status 3. Allies (Thistles of Iris) 3, Fame 1.]
| + | Mentor 2 (Dark Lady) |
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| − | Mentor (Dark Lady) 3 [Investigation, Socialize, Streetwise. Gnosis 4, Mind 4, Space 3, Fate 3.]
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| | =Arcana= | | =Arcana= |
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| | Heightened Senses (Life 1) | | Heightened Senses (Life 1) |
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| − | (formerly Oaths Fulfilled; traded for attainment) | + | (traded for attainment) |
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| | Dedicated Magical Tool: Long silk scarf that doubles as a blindfold, embroidered with magically significant patterns. | | Dedicated Magical Tool: Long silk scarf that doubles as a blindfold, embroidered with magically significant patterns. |
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| − | The House of Renunciation, ecstatics who pursue magical truth through willing obedience to (and control of) one another and seek to remake the future and past in their utopian vision. A thoroughly modern Legacy that blends the magical theory of the Whipping Boys with avant-garde art and a deadly serious devotion to oaths. They are bedeviled by Time-displaced doppelgangers that claim to be visitors from a dark vision of their utopian future/past and seek to draw this world towards its lower rather than higher nature.
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| − | '''First:''' ''(purchased with attainment)''
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| − | The Renunciant spends a scene interacting with her subject in a way that keeps his attention on her. This could be one-on-one conversation, or an enthralling performance directed at the subject in an intimate audience. At the end, the Renunciant gives her subject an instruction. She knows whether the subject obeys or disobeys, as Oaths Fulfilled with Reach spent on Advanced Duration.
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| − | After spending a scene being restrained and deprived of sensation in some way, bound and blindfolded at the very least, the Renunciant enters an oracular trance as she contacts the future timeline. This recreates Divination with Reach spent on complex answers, with the caveat that she can only provide answers to questions she is asked by someone else- or perhaps by her own recorded voice, with sufficient prep to make the restraint meaningful.
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| − | '''Second:''' ''(purchased with XP)''
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| − | Prerequisites: Fate 2, Initiation Skill 3
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| − | The House believes that a skilled dominant can draw her submissive into transcending his limits. With this Attainment, she gives her subject a simple instruction and pushes him out into the world. While following the instruction, this recreates Fools Rush In with Reach spent on instant use and a dice bonus to mundane rolls. This Attainment must be used on someone else, not the Renunciant herself.
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| − | Freed from responsibility, the Renunciant becomes a vessel for incredible possibility. After spending a scene meditating while restrained, she can adorn the future timeline with her own magical workings. This recreates Hung Spell with Reach spent on Advanced Duration. If the Renunciant follows someone else's instructions, she may use the Conditional Duration Attainment.
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| − | '''Third:''' ''(not unlocked)''
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| − | Prerequisites: Fate 3, one of the following Merits: Sympathetic 2, Small Unit Tactics 2
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| − | Oaths are the root of all magic, as proven by the pact between the newly Awakened and their Watchtowers. The House of Renunciation mirrors this principle, overseeing oaths that push parties beyond mundane limitations- and make them feel the pain of disobedience. After spending a scene on a suitable ceremony that exalts her subjects and shows the gravity of their words, the Renunciant may sanctify a verbal oath as if casting Sworn Oaths with Advanced Duration.
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| − | By artfully meddling with Temporal Sympathy, the House of Renunciation loosens the iron chains of the past on the present and replaces them with lovely silk. The Renunciant may obscure and reimagine the future and past of a subject, whether it be a person, a place, or the mage herself. This emulates Shield of Chronos with Reach spent on Advanced Duration and designing new events. As an additional effect, this weakens the subject's Temporal Sympathy to itself for the duration, severing past trauma and opening up new possibilities.
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| | =Questions= | | =Questions= |
| | - Character portrait, either an actual picture and short description, or a detailed description | | - Character portrait, either an actual picture and short description, or a detailed description |
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| − | Hwarang looks like this: [https://twitter.com/miyuliart/status/864195374646525956]
| + | Looks like this: [https://twitter.com/miyuliart/status/864195374646525956] |
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| − | Blasian, nonbinary, buff, pink hair, face pockmarked by acne scars. They have a very distinctive voice. | + | Blasian, nonbinary, buff, pink hair, face pockmarked by acne scars. Has a very distinctive voice. |
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| | - Description of your Awakening, and how you perceive your Watchtower/Realm/Path | | - Description of your Awakening, and how you perceive your Watchtower/Realm/Path |
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| | Hwarang perceives Arcadia much like the Peach Blossom Spring of Chinese folklore: a hidden place of natural beauty beyond a river of petals, whose immortal residents have escaped the tragedy of Time and Fate to live forever in joyful play. Arcadia represents the promise that Time blossoms in myriad directions and Fate can be tamed into submission by wise courtesans and noble knights. Hwarang swore an eternal oath beneath a thorny peach tree under silvery moonlight to undo the Lie of history and bring the Fallen World into alignment with the transcendent rules of Arcadia. | | Hwarang perceives Arcadia much like the Peach Blossom Spring of Chinese folklore: a hidden place of natural beauty beyond a river of petals, whose immortal residents have escaped the tragedy of Time and Fate to live forever in joyful play. Arcadia represents the promise that Time blossoms in myriad directions and Fate can be tamed into submission by wise courtesans and noble knights. Hwarang swore an eternal oath beneath a thorny peach tree under silvery moonlight to undo the Lie of history and bring the Fallen World into alignment with the transcendent rules of Arcadia. |
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| − | They left the Supernal Arcadia by way of a harrowing journey through the Hedge that ended in San Francisco, and soon found asylum with the local Freehold. Their debt, their divorce, their lease agreement: it just didn't matter anymore. Fallen laws were undone. That's magic for you. | + | They woke up on the far side of the train tracks. Their debt, their divorce, their lease agreement: it just didn't matter anymore. Fallen laws were undone. That's magic for you. |
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| | - Brief description of how each of your Arcana fits into your magical worldview. How do you sense it, what metaphorical role does it hold | | - Brief description of how each of your Arcana fits into your magical worldview. How do you sense it, what metaphorical role does it hold |
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| | - Description of an NPC connected to your character. A major back story figure, a rival, a friend. Someone I can incorporate | | - Description of an NPC connected to your character. A major back story figure, a rival, a friend. Someone I can incorporate |
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| − | Hwarang's Mentor goes by the Shadow Name of Dietrich, after the iconic Marlene Dietrich, but Hwarang knows her as Dark Lady. She looks like this: [https://i.imgur.com/BD78iDB.png]
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| − | Hwarang met her when the San Francisco Freehold put them in contact with the Thistles of Iris, a cabal known to certain bold and outgoing changelings. The two hit it off almost immediately, and she took responsibility for their introduction into Awakened society. Hwarang and their Lady have a deep mutual trust that evades traditional relationship labels, although she is stringent about countering their codependency and not being the only important person or partner in their life.
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| − | In another life, she was a low-Wisdom villain who treated others as puppets. After being Renounced, she radically changed her values and joined the House of Renunciation herself. She is an administrator at Stanford in her Sleeper identity, but finds most of her fulfillment in her magical life.
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| | - Free spin. Description of another NPC, an important Artifact or location, a short vignette that says something about your character | | - Free spin. Description of another NPC, an important Artifact or location, a short vignette that says something about your character |
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| − | Hwarang's contact in the Western Court of the San Francisco Freehold is Louis, a merman or selkie or possibly some kind of naiad. Native, chubby, round glasses, long braided hair.
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| − | Louis joined the martial Western Court more because of its association with Hope, the Future, and Waves than any warlike nature, although he's a big nerd about dueling and does have some potent contracts with storms and the ocean. He's clearly chosen to put a painful past behind him, but he's really pretty friendly and seems happiest when he's talking about aquariums and proper fish care. Sometimes he gets in dark moods and stares at the ocean, and some mysterious pledge compels him to go under the waves for a few days.
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| − | Hwarang met Louis before they were introduced to Awakened society, and has a huge crush on him.
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| | [[Bridging the Divide|=Back=]] | | [[Bridging the Divide|=Back=]] |
