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= Emissary of Renewal =
= Emissaries of Renewal =


''Under the shadow of The Underworld tree, lies a rotten fruit from the Martyr’s Tree, in the darkest shadow of the darkest place, you can find what was lost, but you can’t recognize it. Breathe in the cloud, can you feel your heart burning? Can you feel the struggle within your soul? The fear within me is beyond anything a mundane soul can make. You cannot kill Truth in a way that matters - Inspired by Tumblr user Personsonable''  
''Under the shadow of The Underworld tree, lies a forgotten ghostly village from the Mother's people, in the darkest shadow of the deepest roots, you can understand what was lost, but you can’t recognize it. Breathe in the cloud, can you feel your heart burning? Can you feel the struggle within your soul? The fear within me is beyond anything a mundane soul can make. You cannot kill Truth in a way that matters - Inspired by Tumblr user Personsonable''  


== History ==
== History ==


In the Underworld, there is another presence from the Martyr’s Tree. Its fruits are rare and prized for the Mysteries and knowledge that it can bring. The history of the Legacy is nascent and vibrant. The mage travelled the darkness of the Underworld, in search of answers about her awakening, about the knowledge that was lost, forgotten, due to the fumbling steps of her youth. Upon reaching the glade of the Martyr’s Tree in the Underworld, she found a field of rotten fruit beneath the shadows of its branch, rings of luminescent mushroom, spores clinging to the trunk of the underworld tree.  
In the Underworld, there is another presence from the Martyr’s Tree. Its fruits are rare and prized for the Mysteries and knowledge that it can bring. The history of the Legacy is nascent and vibrant. The mage traveled the darkness of the Underworld, in search of answers about recent awakenings, about the knowledge that was lost, forgotten, due to the fumbling steps of her youth. Upon reaching the glade of the Martyr’s Tree in the Underworld, she found humility and a new depth of empathy to aspire to.  


The mage and her companion laid down for a rest amidst the glade, protected by the looming presence of the tree. There she laid, her dreams perfected, the shades’ whispers refusing to leave her to her slumber. The lessons imparted from her dreams, she took a long, meditative look at the mushroom and realized the Truth. The Fruit were not lost, they simply died and returned through death and now lived within the mushrooms, just like the fruit she consumed at her awakening wasn’t lost, it was just transformed into something else. Transformed by the realization, she took it upon herself to take the lesson to her soul and change her very being with it She beseeched the gleaming mushroom through death and life, drawing their wisdom into her soul in the form of a soul-rattling cloud of spores, altering her magic, altering her soul with the wisdom thought lost forever. '''(definitely something that will get updated when it happens IC to reflect the events)'''
After learning of the Ghostly presence's link to the trees and after a conversation with the Mother, the group was sent back home by the mage while she remained behind. During her stay, she received a mysterious blessing from the Mother, her curiosity, her attempt at understanding rewarded.


== Origins ==
== Origins ==


'''Parentage''': Moros or Children of the Tree
'''Parentage''': Moros, Children of the Tree


'''Nicknames:''' Mycologists
'''Nicknames:''' Mycologists, Sporelings


'''Background''': The Legacy could draw anyone interested in restoring lost knowledge in new forms. Bringing new life to old methods. Relearning old, lost knowledge and modernizing it.  
'''Background''': Only a single Sporeling exists in the world at this time. People could be drawn to this legacy for a multitude of reasons.


'''Appearances''': The Sporelings don’t have a uniform, but they tend to favor a blending of style of old and new, sometimes to the point of strangeness.
'''Appearances''': Unknown, but the founder does not require any sort of uniform.  


== Doctrine ==
== Doctrine ==


'''Prerequisites''': Life 2, Death 2, Empathy 2 and one of the following skills at 2: Science, Occult
'''Prerequisites''': Life 2, Death 2, Empathy 2 and one of the following skills at 2: Science, Occult, Persuasion, Survival, Medicine


'''Initiation''': The applicant studies the soul of their tutor while under the effect of a specially prepared mixture of hallucinogenic mushrooms and other various poisonous or rotten fruit. As the mixture causes them to lose consciousness or if they resist the effect, be put under a sleeping effect by the tutor where they will experience the Spores invading their dreams and thoughts from under the branches of the Martyr’s Tree. Where they experience a piece of lost history, lore or knowledge and process it down into their soul and being in a completely different manner. Failure causes a point of resistant aggravated damage that completely refills the applicant’s pool of Potentia. They may attempt it again once the resistant aggravated damage has healed.
'''Initiation''': The applicant studies the soul of their tutor while under the effect of a specially prepared mixture of hallucinogenic mushrooms and other various poisonous or rotten fruit. As the mixture causes them to lose consciousness or if they resist the effect, be put under a sleeping effect by the tutor where they will experience the Spores invading their souls. Once the vision is seen, absorbing it and learning from it with some study and guidance from their mentors. Failure to assimilate the knowledge in any fashion causes 1 resistant aggravated damage but refills the applicant potentia stores completely. The initiation may be attempted again when the damage heals.  


'''Organization''': Obsessed with messages as they are, Pathfinders communicate with hidden messages in just about every form of media accessible. White noise in radio broadcasts, the midnight channel in television, and innocuous random posts in internet forums - all those things are a useless for most, but the Sphinxes display an uncanny ability in using them to communicate with each other and host gatherings.
'''Organization''': There is basically only one in the world right now, there's no organization yet.


'''Theory''': What was lost can be regained, what needs to be understood is that its form might be changed. Sometimes the things lost are too alien, too different from the world to return to it on their own, through the natural cycle of things, to succeed at the Blooming is to understand that change, adaptation, is needed.  
'''Theory''': What was lost can be regained, what needs to be understood is that its form might be changed. Sometimes the things lost are too alien, too different from the world to return to it on their own, through the natural cycle of things, to succeed at the initiation is to understand that change, adaptation, is needed.


== Magic ==
== Magic ==
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'''Ruling Arcanum''': Life
'''Ruling Arcanum''': Life


'''Yantras''': Speaking in a dead language +1, Eating a mushroom or a fruit +1 +2 if eaten with the seeds/if poisonous or rotten, Gardens +1 (+2 if harvesting from it), Burial +1 +2 if the burial is for a person
'''Yantras''': Speaking in a dead language +1, Eating a mushroom or a fruit +1 (+2 if eaten with the seeds/if poisonous or rotten), Gardening +1 (+2 when harvesting from it), Brewing Tea +1


'''Oblations''': Planting flowers on a grave, Speaking with a ghost, Being poisoned by a natural toxin
'''Oblations''': Conversation with a Ghost, Planting flowers on a grave, Being poisoned by a natural toxin, Visiting an emanation of the Martyr's Tree, Helping a being who is suffering.


== Attainments ==
== Attainments ==


=== First:  Breathing in the Martyr's Spores ===
'''Prerequisites''': Initiation<br> ('''Initiation changed to:''' Life 2, Empathy 2, plus one of the following skills at 2: Occult, Persuasion, Survival, Medicine and Science)


=== First:  The Soul Spores ===
Understanding others and their needs and responses is an important, sacred act for the Emissaries of Renewals. ''The Sporeling adds Empathy to their Rote Skills as a result.''  
'''Prerequisites''': Initiation<br>
The Sporeling’s Nimbus changes on a fundamental level upon breathing the soul spores, it may resemble the previous one or it may be entirely different.  The result is almost always somewhat vegetal in theme.


It’s not only a cosmetic change, it’s an empowerment. Add the Sporeling’s dots in the Life Arcana to the available number of bonus or penalties you can craft the tilt with. The Sapling can spend one mana and make one instance of her active nimbus tilt last for the scene. Once per story, the sporeling can spend a WP to change their nimbus tilt.
Additionally, when under the effect of the Life Sight, the spores living within the Sporeling translate sensory information of various kind in a much more efficient fashion and gives them automatic successes on scrutiny rolls that concern living beings of any strips equal to their dot in the Life arcana.
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'''Optional''': Death 1<br>
The spores are lodged deep and permanently within the soul and body of the sporeling and it deepens their senses to a soul-deep level. Whenever they come in contact with another person, the Sporeling may peer into their soul. This function as the Soul Mark spell (Instant activation)
=== Second: Spore Cloud ===
'''Prerequisites''': Life 2, Empathy 3<br>
The Sporeling can deploy the spores around them like a cloud that carry their senses out of their own body, making them hyper-aware of every details of their surroundings. Any life form that enters the area is known and identified by its types of life. This replicates the effect of Web of Life in an area around the Sporeling as big as a small room. The area covered expands further (A Large room) when the Sporeling reaches the fourth attainment. (instant casting, Advanced Duration) <br>
'''Optional''': Death 2<br>
'''Optional''': Death 2<br>
The Mage can see through the lens of her new nimbus with an eerie clarity. Whenever someone she physically touches or is affected by her nimbus tilt within her line of sight, she can use an instant action to peer into their soul directly, to see the root of their being. This function as the Soul Marks spell with the Instant Cast reach applied.
The Cloud of Spores exemplifies the very concept of rot and decay, an extended form of life that exists as part of the cycle, with this ability, the cloud of spores sense the presence of the undead and allow communication through mundane means with ghosts. This function as the Speak with the dead spell with the reach applied to Instant cast and Advanced Duration <br>
 
=== Third: Mycelium of the Soul ===
'''Prerequisites''':Life 3, One of the optional skills at 3<br>


=== Second: The Dispersal ===
The Sporeling and the Spores within are one and the same at this level and their ability to act through the spores is increased. The Sporeling may spend 1 Potentia to alter the range from touch/self to sensory as long as the spell or attainment targets someone within their Spore Cloud. <br>
'''Prerequisites''': Life 2, Empathy 3<br>
While targeting someone is affected by the Sporeling’s nimbus’s tilt or carrying their signature nimbus, the Sporeling can use Life spells at sensory range with a cost of 1 mana instead of using a reach..<br>
'''Optional''': Matter 2<br>
Through the lens of her nimbus, the sapling is capable of analyzing objects that carry her Signature Nimbus for a length of time equal to their ritual interval and understand the knowledge and soul that was put into them, the intent behind them. This function as the Craftsman’s eye spells with advanced duration & the 8-again reach <br>


=== Third: The Germination ===
'''Prerequisites''':Life 3, Empathy 4<br>
The Sporeling’s soul starts growing and permeating her body more actively, making it particularly easy to tap into the deeper reserve of the soul and makes it less damaging than it is for others to do so. Add the Sporeling’s Life dots to the number of times per day they can scour their pattern for Potentia. Furthermore, by spending a point of willpower when they scour, they can reduce the ill side effects: Scoured attributes only last for a scene. <br>
'''Optional''': Death 3<br>
'''Optional''': Death 3<br>
Because the soul is so present in the Sporeling’s body now, it’s much harder to affect than usual. This function as the Soul Armor spell in an instant casting and has advanced duration.  
The Sporeling's soul is intertwined with the Spores and with only a thought, it can be made much harder for anyone to meddle with their souls.  They can also impart this blessing to others through their clouds or through touch. This function as the Soul Armor attainment with the Advanced duration and the instant casting reaches applied.  
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=== Fourth: The Growth ===
=== Fourth: Sporecrafting===
'''Prerequisites''': Life 4, Either Occult or Science at 4<br>
'''Prerequisites''': Life 4, Empathy 4<br>
The link between the Sporeling’s awakened soul and her flesh is stronger than most and thus, the limitations between the two are lessened. This improves the Life 2 Attainment: Improved Pattern Restoration: Mana can be spent to heal resistant damage but only if caused by scouring their patterns. It also makes the healing process more efficient: 1 Mana heals 3 bashing, 2 Lethal or 1 Aggravated damage.
The Sporeling can will her spores to alter life forms within and out of her body, granting her new abilities that only vegetals normally have. This grants 1 feature per dot in the Life Arcana and a list of potential such affairs is listed in the Mage core pg 151. Transform Life (Advanced Duration, Instant Cast reach). <br>
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'''Optional''' Matter 4<br>
'''Optional''' Matter 4<br>
The Sporeling’s body is filled with the ebb and flow of her awakened soul and it makes it possible for her to manipulate her body and change the size by expanding or lowering her size. This function as Shrink and Grow but only on herself and carried items. (Instant casting, Advanced Duration reach)
Even things so small they escape everyone's senses need to be tended to and it can be helped with this attainment, By aligning herself with the micro-organism she controls and reflecting upon on the Size of the Underworld's Martyr's Tree the Sporeling can alter her own size along with any gear they may be carrying. This function as '''Shrink and Grow''' with the following reach applied:  Instant casting, Advanced Duration<br>
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=== Fifth: Harvesting the Mycoid ===
'''Prerequisites''': Life 5, Either Empathy, Persuasion or Science at 5<br>


The Sporeling's awakened soul is well and truly alive and it's very difficult to cause lasting damage on them. So much so that portioning it off to create a soul stone is easier, safer for them. Creating a Soul stone no longer limits potential gnosis growth. It's also much easier on the mage creating it, instead of expending a dot, the Sporeling can spend a point of willpower and 1 point of potentia to create it.  
=== Fifth: Nurture the Soul in All things ===
'''Prerequisites''': Life 5, Death 5, Empathy 5, One of the Other skills at 4<br>
No one under the watch of a Sporeling is left uncared for if the Sporeling has the ability to do something about it. By expending 1 Potentia, the Sporeling may extend the effects of her own non-legacy attainments to people within her Spore Cloud, provided that they (the sporeling) also expend the Potentia required for those effects in the same turn. <br>


Creating a soul stone does not limit gnosis potential as the Sporeling’s awakened soul is well and truly alive and will heal the portioning off of their soul readily. It’s also rather easy to make a soulstone and instead of a Willpower dot, the Sporely can spend a point of Potentia to create one with a point of willpower instead. <br>
'''Optional''' Matter 5<br>
'''Optional''' Matter 5<br>
The Sporeling’s impart a small portion of his awakened soul into an object and gives it a facsimile of life in the process and may even decide to impart a ghostly entity within the object if one is available. This function as the Golem spell with the Advanced Duration and instant casting reach applied. <br>
By imparting spores into an object made of formerly living material (Wood, leather, bones), the Sporeling can animate a construct and can command it to their liking. This function as the Golem spell with the instant cast and advanced duration applied. If a willing ghost is nearby, the Sporeling may choose to bind it within. <br>

Revision as of 17:10, 6 January 2021

Emissaries of Renewal

Under the shadow of The Underworld tree, lies a forgotten ghostly village from the Mother's people, in the darkest shadow of the deepest roots, you can understand what was lost, but you can’t recognize it. Breathe in the cloud, can you feel your heart burning? Can you feel the struggle within your soul? The fear within me is beyond anything a mundane soul can make. You cannot kill Truth in a way that matters - Inspired by Tumblr user Personsonable

History

In the Underworld, there is another presence from the Martyr’s Tree. Its fruits are rare and prized for the Mysteries and knowledge that it can bring. The history of the Legacy is nascent and vibrant. The mage traveled the darkness of the Underworld, in search of answers about recent awakenings, about the knowledge that was lost, forgotten, due to the fumbling steps of her youth. Upon reaching the glade of the Martyr’s Tree in the Underworld, she found humility and a new depth of empathy to aspire to.

After learning of the Ghostly presence's link to the trees and after a conversation with the Mother, the group was sent back home by the mage while she remained behind. During her stay, she received a mysterious blessing from the Mother, her curiosity, her attempt at understanding rewarded.

Origins

Parentage: Moros, Children of the Tree

Nicknames: Mycologists, Sporelings

Background: Only a single Sporeling exists in the world at this time. People could be drawn to this legacy for a multitude of reasons.

Appearances: Unknown, but the founder does not require any sort of uniform.

Doctrine

Prerequisites: Life 2, Death 2, Empathy 2 and one of the following skills at 2: Science, Occult, Persuasion, Survival, Medicine

Initiation: The applicant studies the soul of their tutor while under the effect of a specially prepared mixture of hallucinogenic mushrooms and other various poisonous or rotten fruit. As the mixture causes them to lose consciousness or if they resist the effect, be put under a sleeping effect by the tutor where they will experience the Spores invading their souls. Once the vision is seen, absorbing it and learning from it with some study and guidance from their mentors. Failure to assimilate the knowledge in any fashion causes 1 resistant aggravated damage but refills the applicant potentia stores completely. The initiation may be attempted again when the damage heals.

Organization: There is basically only one in the world right now, there's no organization yet.

Theory: What was lost can be regained, what needs to be understood is that its form might be changed. Sometimes the things lost are too alien, too different from the world to return to it on their own, through the natural cycle of things, to succeed at the initiation is to understand that change, adaptation, is needed.

Magic

Ruling Arcanum: Life

Yantras: Speaking in a dead language +1, Eating a mushroom or a fruit +1 (+2 if eaten with the seeds/if poisonous or rotten), Gardening +1 (+2 when harvesting from it), Brewing Tea +1

Oblations: Conversation with a Ghost, Planting flowers on a grave, Being poisoned by a natural toxin, Visiting an emanation of the Martyr's Tree, Helping a being who is suffering.

Attainments

First: Breathing in the Martyr's Spores

Prerequisites: Initiation
(Initiation changed to: Life 2, Empathy 2, plus one of the following skills at 2: Occult, Persuasion, Survival, Medicine and Science)

Understanding others and their needs and responses is an important, sacred act for the Emissaries of Renewals. The Sporeling adds Empathy to their Rote Skills as a result.

Additionally, when under the effect of the Life Sight, the spores living within the Sporeling translate sensory information of various kind in a much more efficient fashion and gives them automatic successes on scrutiny rolls that concern living beings of any strips equal to their dot in the Life arcana.
Optional: Death 1
The spores are lodged deep and permanently within the soul and body of the sporeling and it deepens their senses to a soul-deep level. Whenever they come in contact with another person, the Sporeling may peer into their soul. This function as the Soul Mark spell (Instant activation)

Second: Spore Cloud

Prerequisites: Life 2, Empathy 3
The Sporeling can deploy the spores around them like a cloud that carry their senses out of their own body, making them hyper-aware of every details of their surroundings. Any life form that enters the area is known and identified by its types of life. This replicates the effect of Web of Life in an area around the Sporeling as big as a small room. The area covered expands further (A Large room) when the Sporeling reaches the fourth attainment. (instant casting, Advanced Duration)
Optional: Death 2
The Cloud of Spores exemplifies the very concept of rot and decay, an extended form of life that exists as part of the cycle, with this ability, the cloud of spores sense the presence of the undead and allow communication through mundane means with ghosts. This function as the Speak with the dead spell with the reach applied to Instant cast and Advanced Duration

Third: Mycelium of the Soul

Prerequisites:Life 3, One of the optional skills at 3

The Sporeling and the Spores within are one and the same at this level and their ability to act through the spores is increased. The Sporeling may spend 1 Potentia to alter the range from touch/self to sensory as long as the spell or attainment targets someone within their Spore Cloud.

Optional: Death 3
The Sporeling's soul is intertwined with the Spores and with only a thought, it can be made much harder for anyone to meddle with their souls. They can also impart this blessing to others through their clouds or through touch. This function as the Soul Armor attainment with the Advanced duration and the instant casting reaches applied.

Fourth: Sporecrafting

Prerequisites: Life 4, Empathy 4
The Sporeling can will her spores to alter life forms within and out of her body, granting her new abilities that only vegetals normally have. This grants 1 feature per dot in the Life Arcana and a list of potential such affairs is listed in the Mage core pg 151. Transform Life (Advanced Duration, Instant Cast reach).

Optional Matter 4
Even things so small they escape everyone's senses need to be tended to and it can be helped with this attainment, By aligning herself with the micro-organism she controls and reflecting upon on the Size of the Underworld's Martyr's Tree the Sporeling can alter her own size along with any gear they may be carrying. This function as Shrink and Grow with the following reach applied: Instant casting, Advanced Duration

Fifth: Nurture the Soul in All things

Prerequisites: Life 5, Death 5, Empathy 5, One of the Other skills at 4
No one under the watch of a Sporeling is left uncared for if the Sporeling has the ability to do something about it. By expending 1 Potentia, the Sporeling may extend the effects of her own non-legacy attainments to people within her Spore Cloud, provided that they (the sporeling) also expend the Potentia required for those effects in the same turn.

Optional Matter 5
By imparting spores into an object made of formerly living material (Wood, leather, bones), the Sporeling can animate a construct and can command it to their liking. This function as the Golem spell with the instant cast and advanced duration applied. If a willing ghost is nearby, the Sporeling may choose to bind it within.

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