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Emissary 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
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.
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)
Origins
Parentage: Moros or Children of the Tree
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.
Appearances: The Sporelings don’t have a uniform, but they tend to favor a blending of styles of old and new, sometimes to the point of strangeness.
Doctrine
Prerequisites: Life 2, Death 2, Empathy 2 and one of the following skills at 2: Science, Occult
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.
Organization: There is basically only one or two of those 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
Attainments
First: Breathing in the Martyr's Spores
Prerequisites: Initiation
The Sporeling’s Nimbus changes on a fundamental level upon breathing in 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 bonuses 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 her Gnosis in additional turns. Once per story, the Sporeling can spend a WP to change their nimbus tilt.
Optional: Death 2
The Mage can see through the lens of her new nimbus with 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.
Second: Dispersing the Spores
Prerequisites: Life 2, Empathy 3
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..
Optional: Matter 2
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
Third: The Germination
Prerequisites:Life 3, Empathy 4
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.
Optional: Death 3
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 with an instant casting time and has an advanced duration.
Fourth: Mycelium of the Soul
Prerequisites: Life 4, Either Occult or Science at 4
The Sporeling's awakened soul suffuses the body thoroughly and makes short work of the usual limitations between them. Add half the Sporeling's Life dots (rounded down) to the number of Mana per turn that can be spent and increase their maximum reserve by twice the number of dots in the Sporeling's Death Arcana.
Optional Matter 4
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)
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Fifth: Mycoid Soul
Prerequisites: Life 5, Either Empathy, Persuasion or Science at 5
The Sporeling's soul is nearly impossible to affect, however, if the Sporeling suffers the effect of Soul Loss, they can expend a dot of willpower to re-grow one from what inevitably remains within their patterns. They must be using one of their soul stones as the catalyst for the attainment to work, however. Upon regaining their soul, they regain the spent dot of WP. The regrown soul vanishes. Spending an XP to recover the lost WP dot is possible and is refunded upon recovering the soul.
Optional Matter 5
The Sporeling’s impart a small portion of their 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.
Attainments v2.0
First: Breathing in the Martyr's Spores
Prerequisites: Initiation
The Sporeling’s Nimbus changes on a fundamental level upon learning from the soulful experience, 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 however, it’s an empowerment. Add the Sporeling’s dots in the Life Arcana to the available number of bonuses or penalties they can craft the tilt with.
Optional: Death 2
The Mage can see through the lens of her new nimbus with 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.
Second: Dispersing the Spores
Prerequisites: Life 2, Empathy 3
The Sporeling's nimbus and soul grow stronger with the knowledge and empowered renewal and can strengthen its presence using this attainment. By spending a Potentia when someone is affected by their nimbus tilt, they can make it last for one turn per level of gnosis.
Optional: Matter 2
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
Third: Soul Mycology
Prerequisites:Life 3, Empathy 4
The Sporeling's growing mastery over the signifier of her own soul is power and grant her control over the manifestation in ways no other Magi can quite touch. For a point of Willpower, the Sporeling can re-shape her nimbus tilt to their liking. Once per story, when the Sporeling is reshaping their tilt, they can also rework the rest of their nimbus.
Optional: Death 3
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 with an instant casting time and has an advanced duration.
Fourth: Sporecraft
Prerequisites: Life 4, Either Occult or Science at 4
The Sporeling's mastery over her own Nimbus is powerful and precise, enough so that their abilities to manifest some of the most physical effects of the Nimbus is enhanced by their knowledge and control. While creating a soul stone with this attainment, the Sporeling has no size limitation on the object that will serve as it. Instead of destroying the object to reclaim the lost Gnosis potential, the Sporeling simply can achieve the same result with a successful meditation roll.
Optional Matter 4
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)
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Fifth: Nurture the Awakened Soul
Prerequisites: Life 5, Either Empathy, Occult or Science at 5
After spending a lot of time nurturing her own soul, the Sporeling is ready to turn that ability and her finely tuned soul to help others and may infuse a portion of her potential into another. The process for creating a soul stone may be attempted on another mage or sleepwalker (but not a Sleeper), effectively increasing the target's gnosis by 1 or granting 1 dot to a sleepwalker. Only 1 such effect can be active on the subject. This attainment has no effects on Mages that have gnosis of 10. The lost gnosis potential is recovered in the event of the target's death or when using the fourth attainment meditation in the presence of said mage.
Arcana that are raised in excess of the target's limitation are lost until this attainment is used on them again or they raise their own gnosis with their own XP. Sleepwalkers may not raise their gnosis unless they undergo a successful Awakening.
Optional Matter 5
The Sporeling’s impart a small portion of their 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.
Attainments v3.0
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, Perusasion, Survival, Medicine and Science)
Understanding others and their needs and responses is an important, sacred act for the Emissaries of Renewals. The Sporeling add empathy to their Rote Skills as a result.
The spores are part of the Sporeling's soul now and that empowers their Nimbus as well as giving it a more vegetal theme, if it wasn't already the case. Add their dots in the Life Arcana as successes to the roll to voluntarily uncloak their nimbus.
Optional: Death 1
The spores are lodged deep and permanently within the soul and body of the sporeling and it deepen 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 as if they were little sensors, making them hyper-aware of every details of their surroundings. Any life form that enters the area is known and identified by their types of life. This replicate the effect of Web of Life in an area around the Sporeling as big as a small room. The area covered expand further (A Large room) when the Sporeling reaches the fourth attainment. (instant casting, Advanced Duration)
Optional: Death 2
The Cloud of Spores exemplify 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's control of the Spores is becoming a lot finer and allows for a rather surprising ability. When scouring her pattern for Potentia, the Sporeling may share the bounty or the burden with anyone that are within her Spore cloud or she may receive their bounty or burdens in turn. The unwilling are not affected.
Optional: Death 3
The Sporeling's soul is interwined 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: Sporecraft
Prerequisites: Life 4, Either Occult or Science at 4
The Sporeling's mastery over her own Nimbus is powerful and precise, enough so that their abilities to manifest some of the most physical effects of the Nimbus is enhanced by their knowledge and control. While creating a soul stone with this attainment, the Sporeling has no size limitation on the object that will serve as it. Instead of destroying the object to reclaim the lost Gnosis potential, the Sporeling simply can achieve the same result with a successful meditation roll.
Optional Matter 4
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)
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Fifth: Nurture the Awakened Soul
Prerequisites: Life 5, Either Empathy, Occult or Science at 5
After spending a lot of time nurturing her own soul, the Sporeling is ready to turn that ability and her finely tuned soul to help others and may infuse a portion of her potential into another. The process for creating a soul stone may be attempted on another mage or sleepwalker (but not a Sleeper), effectively increasing the target's gnosis by 1 or granting 1 dot to a sleepwalker. Only 1 such effect can be active on the subject. This attainment has no effects on Mages that have gnosis of 10. The lost gnosis potential is recovered in the event of the target's death or when using the fourth attainment meditation in the presence of said mage.
Arcana that are raised in excess of the target's limitation are lost until this attainment is used on them again or they raise their own gnosis with their own XP. Sleepwalkers may not raise their gnosis unless they undergo a successful Awakening.
Optional Matter 5
The Sporeling’s impart a small portion of their 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.