Monster Biology

Eyeless Sight

Colorless vision that does not require light; no visual effect

Vital Sight 

Shows the primary animating Affinity, usually Life, for creatures. Makes the eyes glow with blue-white fire

Blossoms’ Sleep

Can induce sleep on self with a defined wakeup time

Runic Shielding Tattoos

Resists one attack of any sort. Does not require preactivation if the attack will kill or disable. Fully drains current MP to establish, drains SP to maintain, ends when hit. MP drained determines strength of blow that can be resisted, will fail if strength is exceeded but may reduce the power of the attack even if it fails. Effect is better with automatic activation

Crystal Seed Remote Link

Allows Serenity to access the World Core features as though he were at a Node, even when he isn’t on a ley line. Functionality may be limited inside dungeons.

Dhampir’s Default

When a Dhampir is casually examined, he or she appears to be a normal member of the living population.

Down to the River

When you physically envelop a being with a soul, you may choose to send their soul to the River of Souls. The soulless body will remain if applicable. Success rate depends on Ambit. When you do this, you will gain some of their knowledge but not personality. Decreased chance of success in any form other than Sovereign of Potential.

Link Core

While touching an Essence Core, you can attempt to create a Sovereign Link. Enhanced by Ambit.

Multiform

You may assume the shape of any Form you know. All Forms reflect yourself and all Forms are reflected in some manner in your Chimera Form. Detailed control of Forms increases with familiarity. Any Forms above the minimum require a continual maintenance cost of both Mana and Essence. Minimum number of Forms: 1. Maximum number of Forms: 4. Forms may be repeated.

Forms passively return to their normal condition.

Current known forms: Chimera, Wyrmling Essence Dragon, Sovereign of Potential (Kernel), Human(?), Crystal Hilt, Armor, Sterath(?), Arcane Asura

Rift of Potential

You can manifest a small rift between your location and the Origin Point.

Path Abilities

Loot Core

Teleports a monster core from touched monster body to the user. Usable on any dead monster with a core. Costs mana

Resilience of the Dead

Slightly increased resistance to certain status alterations 

Basic Analyze

Analyze a being for basic information. The being may be animal, Pathed, or monster. Other beings may be analyzed if they have any appropriate features. Items may not be analyzed

Intermediate Unarmed Combat (Claw Variant)

Losing your weapons is not a disaster when you have weapons attached to your hands. Your expertise with claws is nearly nonexistent, but your general training with unarmed combat is transferable

Basic Sense Raw Magic

Detect background, non-attuned energy. This sense is always active

Linked Sight

You may share your vision and vision-based abilities with your Seer or anyone whom you share a similar Link with. They may also share their vision and vision-based abilities with you. Consumes Stamina per vision or vision-based ability shared in either direction. Vision ability costs are paid by the user instead of the originator of the ability, if applicable

Moment of Prescience

Know a moment ahead of time when something will kill or disable you or someone you wish to protect. Activation is automatic. Cannot be activated more than once a minute. Consumes stamina in inverse proportion to the threat

Time’s Eye

Your eyes see the motions of Time as it stretches and changes. The hidden is easier to see and the false easier to see through. Consumes Stamina

(Note: the Stamina cost is low enough that it can be maintained for hours at a time, though that will significantly reduce Serenity’s available Stamina for other uses)

Unbound 

Time does not quite have the same hold on you as it does on others, and Fate does not rule you. You can slip between the lines of the future and past or even blur them if you have the desire and the strength. That which will be has no power over you, and you can break the strands of Destiny for others if you dare. This ability is always active and has always applied to you

Basic Identify

Identify an object to gain basic information on it, such as its name, basic properties, materials, and/or minor enchantments

Scale Hardening

Use Essence or Mana to reinforce your scales, making them harder to damage and more protective. Costs Stamina to maintain

Wait for an Opening

Study an opponent’s actions in combat to gain an intuitive understanding of the right time to strike

Second Wind

Convert some of a more filled resource pool (Mana, Stamina, or Essence) into an empty one. Consumes some of the converted resource

Stand Tall

Whether you are the last wall between your loved ones and your enemies or you simply love to fight, your ability to take a beating is exceptional. Blood loss, bruises, injuries, and even broken bones will not stop you. You can fight at the full effectiveness your body is capable of despite your injuries

Essence Sight

You can already sense Essence with your Aura. Sight adds precision and distance to your detection capability. This may be enabled or disabled at will. A visual effect may be present

Physical Storage 

You can store spells inside your own body to be evoked later. Stored spells may be evoked only by you and may be triggered at any time. All variable effects must be determined prior to casting. Stored spells will degrade with time and use of mana or essence in the area the spell is stored.

Spell Conversion 

You can convert the power of any spell you can Evoke into a ranged mana or essence strike. The power of the strike depends on the stored spell power.

Store Spell

You may temporarily store spells in items to be evoked later. The item must be strong enough to hold the spell, and synergy with the spell will slow spell degradation. Stored spells will degrade with time and nearby mana or essence use. Storage of spells can damage items used.

Designate Evocation Conditions 

You may designate conditions on when a stored spell can be evoked. You can bypass any conditions you set, but you cannot bypass conditions set by other Evokers. This allows you to set conditions that will allow non-Evokers to Evoke stored spells, but spells Evoked by the untrained will be significantly degraded during the evocation.

Entwined Magic

You can mix Mana and Essence magic freely, to achieve effects not possible with Mana or Essence alone. Passive.

Gaze of the Origin

When you choose, you can infuse your gaze with the power of your connection to the Origin. Effects vary. Power depends on Ambit.

Aura of Magic

When you choose, you can reveal your Mana and Essence pools with your aura. Passively increases the maximum size and regeneration of your Mana and Essence. Increases the regeneration of others’ mana and essence at a slight cost to your regeneration rate. Easily sensed. Power depends on size and regeneration rate of mana and essence pools.

Mold Magic

You can alter magic that has been given a steady form. Passive.

Potential of the Rift

Your Rift to the Origin will allow you to move items or creatures to the Origin and retrieve them later. Items or creatures stored in the Origin will be exposed to it. You may travel to the Origin using the Rift.

Rift Control

You may control the Potential that leaks from your Rift to the Origin as long as it is within your aura, including increasing or decreasing the amount that leaks.

Call on the Origin

The Origin is just that: the beginning of all things. Bring something temporarily into the real world, limited only by your imagination and power. Variable Cost.

Revivify 

Potential can become warped in many ways. Restore something to its original Potential. Quality of repair affected by the level of understanding of what the repair requires, the amount of damage being repaired, the time since the damage occurred, and the Time Affinity, Concept, and Aspect of the user.

Realize Potential

Use Potential drawn through the Rift to temporarily gain something from your Heritage. Variable Cost.

Magesight 

Advanced Sight Skill that combines Mana Sight, Basic Sense Raw Mana, Essence Sight, and Vital Sight into a single improved Skill. Passively view all forms of magic. Observe how they affect each other and can transform from one to another. When used actively, additional details can be observed such as Affinities and faint traces of spell residue. 

Fireball 

Place a ball of Plasma where you want it within your sight range. Maximum expansion size varies with mana used.

Cone of Lightning

Emit Energy starting from your hands in a cone shape. Spread in height and width may be controlled by hand position; maximum length depends on mana used and height and width selected.

Spot Nullification

Use Nihility to destroy what you can see. Roughly shapeable. Potentially explosive.

Synaesthesia 

You have gained many new senses that do not quite fit the ones you are accustomed to. You must choose: do you represent them as another form of a familiar sense or do you learn to meet them on their own terms?

Subconscious Synchronization

You have been growing closer and closer to Aide. Allow Aide to take over for your autonomic functions, consuming a fraction of its processing power to free the space for additional cyberware and expansions for Aide. 

Skill Integration

Senses require attention; so do many Skills. Attention is a limited resource for most, but you have the ability to use the next best thing: processing power. Figure out how to integrate your Skills with either your own additional processing or hand them over to Aide.

Quickrune 

As an Evoker, you can store a spell to be cast later. As a creature of Magitech and (former) Runemaster, you can now build a rune of your own flesh to be triggered when needed.

Abominable Absorption

One of your basic abilities is the absorption of technology, changing it to fit within your body. As a magitech abomination, you may absorb magic or technologic items, altering your body to fit its new needs.

Gather Faith

Energy, even magic, has to come from somewhere. Those who follow you can send you some of theirs. This faith naturally adds to your available power, allowing you to advance more easily, but it may be directed into specific tasks or simply accumulated with practice.

Value and amount received depends on level of faith, willingness to sacrifice, power of the believer, and distance from origin. Other factors may apply depending on the specific beliefs and actions taken to show faith.

This ability is a prerequisite for the Deity Path and is simply recorded here.

Detect Believer

Gods and those who believe in them are linked. While this link is the most active during prayer, it can be felt at other times.

Appoint Intercessors

Priest, Shaman, or Shameless, almost all deities have mortals who act as the interface between the God and the Believer.

Wrath of Dungeons

Those who follow the Dungeons’ Way are supported in their efforts against those who would act against it by their Faith in the Dungeon Deity. 

Applies to both direct action and attempted persuasion of nonbelievers.

Cursebreaker 

Faith energy may be used to assist when breaking a curse.

Miracle 

Broad, powerful, and rare.

There is no one Miracle. All miracles must align with the deity whose Faith they use.

Shield of Death

A modification of the standard Shield Skill, this Skill does not create a force bubble. Instead, it kills anything that tries to pass through it and should not, including momentum.

Death Absorption

Death empowers the Incarnate of Death, whether that is Death-attuned mana or the loss of existence. Each empowerment is related to the Death that causes it. The ability replaces Eat Death and Adept Aspect Form.

Death Magebolt

Throw a mass of Death-attuned magic at your enemy. May cause lingering effects. This ability replaces the Tutorial award of the same name.

Shieldbreaker 

All things die; that includes spells and Skills. This Skill is designed to end the most annoying of Skills: those that protect your enemies.

That is Not Dead Which Can Eternal Lie

Exhibit the Death that you are and break Eternity. This ability replaces Death Field.