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| Manipulation
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| Merits & Flaws
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Deranged - Thaumaturgical Glossalalia
- Language is a means to build common symbols for the description of concepts. Thaumaturgy recognizes this power; the voice alone is a potent tool, but so too are symbols. Indeed, skilled thaumaturges learn to think in symbolic languages, much as a mathematician may construct complex explanations out of numbers. Some sorcerers theorize that thaumatugical numerology functions because of its mystical tie to universal concepts. Just as mathematics describes the physical universe, Thaumaturgy describes the metaphysical. Because these symbols function on such an abstract level, though, they do not fit easily within the human – or undead – mind.
- Highly proficient thaumaturges sometimes suffer a bizarre form of regression. A mind trained to examine the world in supernatural terms cannot always cope with stress in a rational manner. Under tension, such thaumaturges revert to speaking in tongues, but in this case, in thaumaturgical symbology. The affliction of glossolalia (speaking in tongues) comes hysterically upon these unfortunates and makes them incomprehensible.
- While “normal” glossolalia involves speaking in dead tongues, a thaumaturge reverts to arcane constructs. Other thaumaturges may recognize scattered words, but often the mind of the individual seems to shift into a different state of thought – almost like magical aphasia. Oftentimes the subject reverts to words that he would not formally know or study. The thaumaturge in question rarely has any idea that he’s doing anything unusual. His own mind still equates these concepts to the strange words, while conversely he becomes unable to translate more mundane language. Given enough time or concentration, the thaumaturge usually reverts to norlam speech, with no real understanding of what he mystically said before.
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Overconfident
- You have an exaggerated and unshakable opinion of your own worth and capabilities. You never hesitate to trust your abilities, even in situations where you risk defeat. Because your abilities may not be enough, such overconfidence can be very dangerous. When you do fail, you quickly find someone or something else to blame. If you are convincing enough, you can infect others with your overconfidence.
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CONTACTSVarges
- The welcome wagon. It sure is an awful roomy foxhole that we have here.
Silvana
- The welcome wagon, redux. Ghoul and wife to a Brujah of all things.
Alaster
- A Lasombra antitribu, and a Scourge at that. Home is never the same as when you left it, I guess.
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