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| Arete Arete is a measure of your characters enlightenment and are permanent and never bid. Your Arete rating can never be higher than your permanent Willpower rating. ~ Arete is used to decide the success or failure of magical endeavors. (You bid your Arete against a spells difficulty in a challenge.) ~ You cannot have a higher level in a Sphere than your Arete. ~ At six Arete and on you figure out magic is about will and not foci so you can start choosing Spheres which you no longer need foci for. Willpower Uses For Mages Please note you cannot have more Arete than permanent Willpower. ~ For one Willpower Trait you may refresh all the lost traits in one Attribute category- Physical Social or Mental. You may refresh each category only once per night. ~ For one Willpower Trait you may retest when defending in a Mental or Social challenge. (Only once per challenge.) ~ For one Willpower Trait you may gain a brief moment of control of your senses when in a Quiet. ~ For one Willpower Trait you may ignore all wound penalties up to incapacitated for one turn. ~ For one Willpower Trait you may suppress a derangement temporarily, and if you spend enough you may overcome the derangement completely. Quintessence Uses Quintessence is the pure energy that mages use to aid them in their Will work and shaping of the universe. It is similar to Werewolf Gnosis, or a Changelings Glamour, and yet COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. In no way can Quintessence or its slightly more stable form Tass be shared with Werewolves, nor can a Werewolf give Gnosis to a mage to use as Quintessence. Your starting Quintessence equals your avatar rating at the beginning of each game session. The Node may be used to increase that number. ~ For one Quintessence Trait you may lower the casting difficulty of a spell by one Trait. You can lower the difficulty by up to three traits. ~ For one Quintessence Trait, you remove a penalty Trait from a spell. (I.E. Remove the penalty Trait from a fast cast.)[This can be used with the lowering of difficulty if you have enough traits.] ~ You can use Quintessence Traits to counter true magic. ~ Quintessence Traits can be used to quash paradox if you are a master of Prime. ~ Some spells require the use of Quintessence Traits. ~ You may use one Quintessence Trait for a single retest on a spell casting.* *This is a House Rule |
| Arete, Willpower, & Quintessence |