Lores

From City of Hope MUSH
Revision as of 07:17, 16 June 2012 by imported>Roo (Will add more when I'm not about to pass out.)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Common Lores

Lore of the Fundament

Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p. 172-173

Dot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Manipulate Gravity: The Fallen may leap tremendous distances, hover, or fall without harm.

High-Torment: Identical, but gravity fluctuates wildly around the Fallen.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Manipulate Adhesion: The Fallen may walk up walls or along ceilings, or cling to objects.

High-Torment: The Fallen's touch will also partially melt surfaces and make them hot to the touch.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.png Manipulate Inertia: The Fallen may throw objects over tremendous distances, or simply stop attacks dead.

High-Torment: Makes a thrown object become temporarily unstable and fragile.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.png Manipulate Acceleration: The Fallen may move blindingly fast and pour their momentum into devastating close combat attacks.

High-Torment: The Fallen also drags a wake of superheated air that may cause burns in bystanders.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Manipulate Cohesion: The Fallen may alter the density of matter, allowing them to walk on water or evaporate stone or even flesh.

High-Torment: The affected material's aggregate state will fluctuate randomly for some time.

Lore of Humanity

Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p. 173-174

Dot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Translate: The Fallen may speak with any mortal, regardless of language.

High-Torment: Attempts to communicate may come across as insulting or threatening.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Insinuate: The Fallen make mortals feel they can trust them

High-Torment: Instead, they may create feelings of suspicion and hostility.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.png Fade: The Fallen may make people ignore them, moving through crowds or entering places unnoticed.

High-Torment: Psychopathically inclined people can still perceive the Fallen and are actually drawn to them.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.png Confession: The Fallen may make mortals reveal their innermost secrets, and the mortals won't even remember spilling their hearts to the demon.

High-Torment: Mortals may only confess their darkest secrets.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Alter Memory: The Fallen may alter a mortal's memories in any fashion desired.

High-Torment: The victim becomes mentally disturbed after being tampered with.


Devils

Lore of the Celestials

Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p. 175-176

Visage: Bel

Dot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Lamp of Faith: The Fallen may evaluate a person's Faith or Faith potential with a glance, and even see the glow of Faith through obstacles.

High-Torment: The Fallen can only see low Faith or high-Torment Faith.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Send Vision: The Fallen may send visions to anyone in their field of view.

High-Torment: The visions are always horrific and may cause psychological damage.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.png Pillar of Faith: The Fallen can bolster another Fallen's evocation by providing bonus dice.

High-Torment: Alternatively, the Fallen can hinder another Fallen's evocations by subtracting dice.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.png The Fire of Heaven: The Fallen attack with a searing blast of celestial fire that causes aggravated damage.

High-Torment: The fire erupts in an uncontrolled burst that affects the entire vicinity of the Fallen.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Hand of Faith: The Fallen may take control of another Fallen's evocation.

High-Torment: They can reflect other Fallens' evocations back upon them.

Lore of Flame

Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p. 176-178

Visage: Nusku

Dot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Fuel: The Fallen may fan existing flames, making them grow.

High-Torment: The flames don't grow but become terribly hot.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Ignite: The Fallen creates fire from nothingness, igniting a flammable object.

High-Torment: Anything flammable in the vicinity ignites, not just one target.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.png Command the Flame: The Fallen may manipulate the flames themselves. Fire can be moved, doused, or fanned.

High-Torment: The control is shaky at best and the flames become hotter.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.png Holocaust: The Fallen burns the inherent Faith that makes an object real, rendering even a steel door to ash in mere seconds or robbing other Fallen of their power while hurting them grievously.

High-Torment: The Fallen may accidently burn part of their own Faith supply in the process and cause aggravated damage to themselves.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Ride the Flame: The Fallen literally transforms into a flame or becomes part of an existing fire, gaining control over it in the process.

High-Torment: The Fallen becomes a flame-wreathed skeleton instead, retaining their physical mobility but losing the special mobility of a flame.

Lore of Radiance

Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p. 179-180

Visage: Qingu

Dot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Voice of Heaven: The Fallen's voice penetrates all other sounds, and either single mortals or everybody within range feels compelled to obey.

High-Torment: The voice instead becomes a string of horrible blasphemies that inflicts damage on mortals, and may cause a listening Fallen's Torment to rise as well.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Exalt: The Fallen encourages a number of mortals to greatness, allowing them to add a number of dice equal to the Fallen's successes to any action.

High-Torment: The listeners are dismayed by the Fallens' scorn, and lose dice instead.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.png Aura of Legend: A number of mortals joins the Fallen as loyal servants for a short time.

High-Torment: The target mortals enter a murderous frenzy instead.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.png The Mark of the Celestials: A mortal can be marked by the Fallen so that every other mortal that encounters him treats him like the Fallen intended.

High-Torment: The Fallen may only create marks that trigger hatred and violence.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Revelation: The Fallen allows a mortal to look into his (the mortal's) true self. The experience may be uplifting, but there is the risk of permanent damage if the target can't endure what he truly is.

High-Torment: The Fallen may only dredge up the darkest aspects of the target's psyche, and these aspect may completely control the victim for a short time.

Scourge

Lore of Awakening

Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p. 181-182

Visage: Dagan

Dot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Find the Faithful: The Fallen may locate an individual by their unique Faith if they know their name and are within a few miles of their target.

High-Torment: The Asharu may only locate individuals without Faith or Willpower.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Cleanse: The Asharu purify their target of all toxins and disease.

High-Torment: The Asharu spread a supernatural disease that weakens their targets and leave them listless.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.png Heal: The Asharu restore a body to full health, and may even heal aggravated damage with a touch.

High-Torment: The evocation's target is poisoned, and is likely to die in a matter of hours.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.png Animate: The Asharu temporarily grant life to an inanimate object, and may direct the object's actions as long as they can see it.

High-Torment: The animated objects become rabid, and will attack any living creature they can reach if the Asharu can't or doesn't control them.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Restore Life: The Asharu may restore life to a recently deceased body, and they might even restore a soul to that body.

High-Torment: the reanimated bodies become rabid, and will attack anybody they can reach unless the Asharu controls them.

Lore of the Firmament

Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p. 182-184

Visage: Anshar

Dot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Remote Viewing: The Fallen can see through the eyes of a thrall.

High-Torment: This act causes the thrall to become temporarily blinded.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Scry: Using an object that belongs to the target, an Asharu can always observe them.

High-Torment: Feelings of paranoia, stress, and aggression are reflected in the target.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.png Mouth of the Damned: The Asharu can speak through the mouth of a thrall.

High-Torment: In addition, this can cause permenent brain damage to the thrall.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.png Touch From Afar: The Fallen can direct their powers at a target not within their sight if they have an item from that person.

High-Torment: Horrific visions accompany the power used on the target.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Many Places At Once: The Asharu can use Mouth of the Damned on multiple people at the same time.

High-Torment: The effect can damage a thrall's body and mind.

Lore of the Winds

Demon: The Fallen Rulebook, p. 184-185

Visage: Ellil

Dot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Summon Wind: The Fallen can call a wind from nowhere.

High-Torment: The wind reeks of death and decay.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.pngDot.png Fist of Air: The Asharu can manipulate air pressure in or around a target.

High-Torment: This effect deals lethal damage to living beings.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.pngDot.png Command the Wind: The Fallen may use the surrounding winds to manipulate objects as desired.

High-Torment: The winds turn into a miasma that causes living beings to choke.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot.png Wall of Air: The Asharu can turn air into a solid barrier.

High-Torment: The wall of air acquires an acidic effect that dissolves flesh.

Dot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.pngDot-filled.png Cyclone: The Asharu may create a massive windstorm.

High-Torment: The wind will suck the breath from any living being caught in said storm.

Malefactor

Lore of Earth

Lore of Paths

Lore of the Forge

Fiend

Lore of Patterns

Lore of Light

Lore of Portals

Defiler

Lore of Longing

Lore of Storms

Lore of Transfiguration

Devourer

Lore of Beast

Lore of Flesh

Lore of Wild

Slayer

Lore of Death

Lore of Spirit

Lore of Realms

Earthbound

Lore of Chaos

Lore of Contamination

Lore of Violation