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Celestial Makers
Those who use celestial or popular magic to create objects.Bambofabbro
Type: Dollmaker Bambofabbri are dollmakers who create special magical dolls to protect children. They gain this magic by drawing from their familial or protective love. Most bambofabbri are a family tradition in small communities or families trying to get by in the imperial world. They make their dolls from scraps of cloth, leather, and other odds and ends, button eyes and carved wood and a little paint. Most bambofabbri learn the magic of the dolls as children, as they get the dolls as presents from adults who have enchanted them, but as they grow, the dolls stop working eventually, but the love never fades. They take love and protective feeling and channel it into making dolls for the next generation. To make the dolls, called bambibamboli, they must be someone who has the best interests of their family (found or blood) and children at heart, and they must never harm a child. They must be accepted as part of a family of some kind, and they must not be abusive toward anyone. And they must make the doll with intention. They must know how to channel the magic of their love into it, which is a magic they gain via blood ritual when they are accepted into the family they are protecting. If they are accepted and practice their craft, they will be able to sense love palpably between themselves and their family, and they will be able to mark the dolls with the magic. There are many kinds of dolls they can make:- Blood doll: a doll that protects from infernal powers
- Baby doll: a doll that protects infants and toddlers up to 30 months
- Sleeping doll: a doll that helps a child get rest
- Precious doll: a doll that protects from emotional trauma
- Stury doll: a doll that protects from physical injury
- Recovery doll: a doll that aids in recovering from illness or injury
- Sweet doll: a doll that protects from disease or poison
- Stuffed animal: a doll that protects from animal attacks
- Dress up doll: a doll that protects from dirt and mud
- Angel doll: a doll that protects from soul damage
- Silly doll: a doll that protects from mental attacks
Benefactator
Type: ArtisanAn artisan who makes inventions for the greater good.
Benefactators are skilled inventors and artisans who create machines that can help the people in their community. They are empowered by innovation, curiosity, and enthusiasm. Though they study mundane engineering, mechanics, devices, and building, they tap into a magical form of creation as well. The sources for a benefactator’s magic are their devotion to making devices that help the people, their curiosity into how things work, and their enthusiasm for their work. They can pull from any of these for their magic, but the best benefactators balance all three.
In order to tap into their devotion to helping the people with their devices, they must first make devices to help the people. The most potent are new inventions that meet the people's needs, but building any device for the people works. After they have built a device with this intention and purpose, they must provide it to those who might need it, freely, and make sure they know how to and have the resources to use it. This simple act will generate some energy they may tap into, but they must sense it first (a roll of AWA against an initial difficulty of 14 if they are aware the potential for the energy exists, vs. 20 if not). Then they must build a device that can interact with it, using special materials that are hard to find. These are usually provided by a mentor or teacher or acquired via a quest or through doing other good works. The difficulty on making such a device is a 14.
In order to tap into their curiosity, they must first indulge it by seeking knowledge or experiences that are not harmful to the world. This just means they can't seek out an experience like serial murder or learn about necromancy, to name two examples. As they follow their curiosity, they must not let it waver, but instead, let it continue to grow as they learn. Similarly, they tap into their enthusiasm simply by following it and using it to do their work. If they lose enthusiasm for their work, they weaken. If they stop being curious, they weaken.
Curiosity can be weakened by boredom, contentment, or rote. In order to maintain it, they must change things up occasionally. However, enthusiasm may be dampened by distraction, so changing things up may risk enthusiasm (for their targeted work). Thus, they must find a balance, maintaining focus on their work while engaging with it in different ways as they go. This translates into a roll of AWA to maintain the balance and WIL to maintain focus.
If they do this, they gain bonuses to their work, going from +1 at the start to +9 at their peak over the course of a single work. Failed rolls will lower that bonus; successful rolls will build it. Since their primary work is counterfeiting currency or objects, this is where their enthusiasm and curiosity and innovation must lead for it to work. Other paths will weaken them.
Benefactators craft anything that is needed by or good for their community, so long as it is not given to or wielded by oppressors, exploiters, abusers, slavers, impoverishers, imprisoners, indenturers, or other evil people. They are, as such, criminalized in imperial lands.
PRO +2 ATH +1 STR +1 AWA +3 WIL +1 PRS -1 STH -1
Copertinian
Type: Cobbler Copertinians are cobblers who repair and craft shoes that bring immense comfort to those who wear them. They work out of their homes, which gives them the magic they use. To draw magic fom their homes, copertinians must keep a comfortable and welcoming home, obey the laws of hospitality, and do not harm and allow no harm within their home - at least, none to an innocent or fellow oppressed, exploited, or abused person. They may engage in self-defense or the defense of another, especially against oppression, exploitation, or abuse. Their home must be a haven, and their workshop within the home must be kept neat and clean, well ordered and comfortable for use. The materials and tools they use must not be infernal, are they are best if they are celestial, unaligned, or mundane. To learn their craft, they need a mentor or teacher who will show them how to repair and make shoes as well as how to tap into their magic. This takes many years to learn, and once they do, they must remain aligned to it by following the above guidelines. The trick to drawing from their magic is to feel the potency of the home's magic, perform ritual cleanings of the home, sleep in the home at least once a week (preferably every night), and make offerings to the spirits of the home, either in the hearth or in a doorway. And then they must make their tools from materials of the home - wood from the beams, metal from the nails, etc. Once they have done this, they can alter (repair) shoes in the following ways:- Comfortable soles: soles made so comfortable the feet do not tire while wearing them, giving bonuses to endurance.
- Returning shoes: shoes made that allow one to magically return home a certain number of times.
- Self-tying laces: shoes with laces that tie themselves, preventing tripping, teaching people to tie them (good for children), and securing the shoes from theft or loss while worn.
- Immovable feet: shoes that, when positioned correctly in a stance, make it nearly impossible to move or knock over the wearer.
- Soothing fit: shoes that are designed to fit so perfectly they provide actual emotional soothing to the wearer.
- House shoes: comfortable shoes to be worn around the home that enhance the home's magical protections.
- Sanctuary shoes: shoes that provide the magical protection of home to the wearer no matter where they are.
Dubsar
Type: Writer Dubsars are writers who are magically fueled by their love of love itself, which they embody as the Beloved Divine, and the love returned. They believe that the Divine lives in the hearts of all mortals, and that from their hearts was born the Beloved Divine, Hili Kar, a goddess of perfect love, and they write florid prose in her honor. Dubsars infuse their words with their own love for the Beloved Divine, and She returns that love, empowering them, creating a perfect cycle of love that empowers them. To do this, first, they must be taught the love of the Beloved Divine. This is not a common religion - it is forbidden by imperial law - and those who follow it hide their faith. They rely on dubsars to record their faith in secret as well, and to be trained as one requires indepth knowledge of the faith. They often work with sursaseds. They learn for years, studying in secret, the ancient words of love, the magical process of externalizing their feelings, and coming to a deep understanding of their own emotions. Once they have done this enough, they have a sensation of profound love in their hearts as they are filled with the agape of Hili Kar. From this moment on, they can draw upon it to write words of love. They gain the following abilities:- Word of the Beloved: dubsars can channel the Divine Word of the Beloved into their writing directly and write holy words that have palpable celestial energy. These can be read aloud only by those who are loving people and unleash the full power of their love.
- Sapphire ink: their love turned into actual blue ink, giving them bonuses to write anything involving love.
- Loving prose: prose so rich and beautiful, empowered by their mortal love for the Beloved Divine, that those who read it feel the love and want to love others.
- Encoded hearts: the emotions of the dubsar infused into the page such that only those they love may read it, but those they love can read it even if they cannot read the language it is in or at all.
- Empassioned story: the dubsar can draw from their own mortal love for the Beloved Divine to stay awake writing for up to a week.
Freeprinter
Type: PrinterA printer of liberatory literature. While they can print mundane things, they can create magical printed pieces empowered by acts of resistance. They resist tyranny by printing literature that spreads anti-tyrannical ideas, and that act of resistance generates magical power.
Use of this magic is something that requires preparation and quick reaction, as one must be aware of when it has been generated and act quickly and in unison with others in order to use it. This starts with an act of defiance against an oppressor, usually a printed piece. This piece, if shared with others, will inspire them, and thus, a tiny amount of energy will be born. Anyone can be the spark of defiance. But only the freeprinter can wield it. Someone who feels inspired by an act of resistance has the potential to become a freeprinter if they have the skills, but only if they understand what they are feeling, why, and how to wield it. It requires that they act on the inspiration, on the force of liberation, and continue the act of defiance. If they and others act in unison, enough power might be generated to be useful. A freeprinter will then be able to act, if they have been taught how to wield such power.
Placing their hands on their breast, they may draw forth that power and channel it into their printing press. To channel this power from their hearts, they must act in unison with the others engaged in resistance, though only one of them needs to know what they are doing (and thus be a freeprinter). Hands over heart, pushed forward, clasped, concentrating, unwavering in devotion to liberation, and acting all at once, they may draw out fulvous sparks of magic. If they are near their press, they will then be able to place the spark on the press to empower it.
Once the press is empowered, it may be used for further acts of resistance. As resistance continues, more liberation power will build up, eventually allowing the printed pieces to self-replicate and have other effects:- Inflammatory pamphlet: a pamphlet that instills righteous outrage, inspiring the reader to act against tyranny.
- Declaratory pamphlet: a pamphlet that can be read by those who can’t read.
- Instructional pamphlet: a pamphlet that teaches the reader something, often used to teach people to read, to organize a union, or to free-print.
- Uplifting pamphlet: a pamphlet that gives hope to the reader, giving them a bonus to their next act of resistance.
- Clandestine pamphlet: a pamphlet of anti-tyrannical materials that hides itself from agents of tyranny.
- Coordinating pamphlet: a pamphlet that self-replicates to anyone in the revolutionary grouping to give them specific instructions or information for the cause.
- Revolutionary pamphlet: a pamphlet that inspires revolutionary action.
Given that they can only use their powers to oppose imperials, they are of course criminalized in the region.
PRO +1 ATH +1 STR +2 AWA +2 WIL +1 PRS +1 STH +1
Giocottore
Type: Toymaker Giocottori are those who make toys filled with joy. They do this by feeling and sharing joy, heightening it, being aware of it, and then gathering it to use. Giocottori spend years learning to make toys and sense joy. To generate it. To share it. To spread it. But to wield it, they must undergo a special ritual in which they and other giocottori or novices share their woes and worries, learn to understand those problems, and help one another solve at least some of them. Once this is done, they return to the circle and share again, this time sharing joys and good things, understanding them, and then taking those with them to sleep on and dream about. In their dreams, they learn to see the emotions of joy, happiness, delight, and other similar feelings as lavender light. From then on, they can turn on and off the ability to see these emotions. Once they can see them, they must learn to gather them. They do this by talking with those that feel joy, enhancing the joy (with a comment, a joke, a compliment, an observation, etc.), and then a simple smile to the person. This smile lets the magic linger, and when the person is gone, the giocottore puts the magic in a little jar or other container. Later, they take it out and use it as they craft toys. The toys they make are almost always for children, and they are usually personally crafted with a specific person in mind. And they can have any of the following properties:- Abiding joy: a toy which imbues those who play with it with pure joy for a period of time.
- Sheer delight: a toy with small surprises that cause bursts of delight, giving AWA bonuses.
- Resilient heart: a toy that protects the user from emotional harm.
- Happy smiles: a toy that evokes smiles and adds to the user's PRS.
- Euphoric protection: a toy that protects from infernal energies.
- Mirthful aura: a toy that gives multiple people a period of mirth.
- Song of merriment: a toy that plays a little song that causes a small party to break out.
- Exhilirating action: a toy that acts on its own, exciting those who play with it, giving them PRO or ATH bonuses.
Homeswright
Type: Builder A user of the magic of hearth and home who crafts house or even whole towns and imbues their work with that magic. One's home may be anything from a mat on the ground to a sprawling town. One must identify it as their home subconsciously. Whether this is yearning to be there when times are hard, feeling safe there, or simply wanting to be there when you sleep, it is home. Any home can generate hearth magic, but the most potent hearth magic is generated when the four qualities of home that are met:- Sanctuary: a home may not be truly safe, but one must feel safer there than elsewhere.
- Comfort: a home must bring one comfort when one is there.
- Identity: a home must feel part of oneself. This can be as simple as an association with one's personal space or as much as a part of the person's culture or personal self-identification.
- Control: a home must be at least in part under one's control. This could be as simple as their ability to choose where to lie their head or in what decor to use or as much as full ownership.
- Protection from disasters: a horseshoe of finely crafted steel or quickiron hung above the doorframe will keep out misfortune (and unwanted fey).
- Protection from attack: an ornament of feathers, usually a wooden ring adorned with them, will make the walls stronger and resistant to attacks that seek to damage the structure of the home, if hung on the windows.
- Protection from fire: a wooden doll hung over the hearth will protect the house from catching on fire.
- Protection from internal violence: a collection of shells of any kind, sorted into a pattern significant to the owner, will protect the home from domestic violence, rejecting those who engage in it and shielding those subject to it.
- Protection from disease or infestation: a homemade poultice made of local moss or grass, dirt, and well water smeared upon the baseboards of the home will help keep out disease or vermin.
- Protection from pollution: a coat of paint made with taupe paint and applied with a feather brush will help keep out smog, toxic water, mold, or other pollutants.
- Protection from invasion: the tooth of a beast of local significance or a nurse shark nailed into the kitchen floor of the home will prevent home invasions of any kind.
- Protection from theft: a steel or quickiron nail wedged into the door to the master bedroom will prevent thefts or burglaries within the home.
- Protection from eviction: a snakestone amulet kept in a special safe or box within the home will keep the tenants from being evicted.
- Protection from infernal magic: a soapstone ring carved with water will keep the infernal energies out of the home if the placing of the ring is preceded by a cleansing ritual.
- Cleaning the home.
- Crafting - making a new craft.
- Sealing the target - symbolically locking a room or box or something else very tightly, or possibly burying something.
- Releasing the target - naming the target aloud and demanding its departure.
Lapidarist
Type: JewellerA jeweller who makes jewels that contain celestial emotions.
A lapidarist uses jewels of dumaqu, a crystallized form of radiant emotion. Lapidarists generate the jewels from their own hearts, literally and metaphorically. When they are feeling a celestial emotion, they can focus on it and store it, then act upon it when it has reached a certain point to manifest a blue jewel. The act must be sincere and profound. To capture and wield it, they must learn how via trial and error, guided by a mentor or teacher, and by seeking out specific emotional experiences to empower themselves.
They learned to cut the jewels to unlock different powers. A lapidarist is someone who intentionally creates, cuts, and uses these jewels to help others.
Dumaqu jewels are beautiful, glowing blue, often thought to be magical sapphires. Jewels have nine facets. Each facet exudes a different hue of blue light when any kind of light is shone through it. If it is held in shadow, it resonates with the shadow in a different shade of violet. If cut, the jewel breaks into nine pieces, each one representing the different facets. If kept whole and used whole, they exude pure celestial emotion.
The simplest way to use a jewel is to shine light directly through it. The light that comes out will drain the jewel and instill love of some kind into those that see it. One may also hold the jewel in darkness and let the darkness absorb the dumaqu. The object that is occluding the light will then very briefly contain the power of the jewel. If a jewel is placed into a box, for example, then darkness inside the box will take in the energy. If multiple jewels are put in, it will absorb the energy of all the jewels. Darkness creates what are essentially batteries to be drawn from. Shining light through the jewels uses the power of the jewels up quickly.
The emotions they can store and be empowered by include the following:
Emotion |
Effect |
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| Aspiration | +3 to any action done in pursuit of a specific listed passion motivation. |
| Awe | stunning awesome aura. |
| Bravery | +3 to any action against an opponent 6 or more above your skill, stat, power, or ability. |
| Calm | calming touch. |
| Comfort | comforting aura. |
| Compassion | healing touch. |
| Confidence | take high die on any action for a skill, ability, power, or stat of score 9 or above, or for learning to use a skill below 9. |
| Contentment | +3 to resist being coerced. |
| Critical skepticism | +3 to resist deception. |
| Curiosity | +3 to perception. |
| Delight | +1 to every ally nearby you for one of their base stats. |
| Enthusiasm | +3 to a specific pursuit listed in passion motivations. |
| Faith | +3 to faith. |
| Generosity | any mundane necessity shared (not including money) will not run out if shared sincerely and shared to those in need. |
| Gratitude | sense where target of gratitude is. |
| Grief | grief from love, specifically. Empowers actions based on a relationship motivation. |
| Happiness | +3 PRS. |
| Honor | high die once someone engages in dishonorable behavior against you. |
| Hope | roll a d100 when in dire situations to see if a miracle occurs. |
| Inspiration | +3 to one artistic skill. |
| Joy | spread joy through a smile. |
| Love in all its forms | varies by form of love. Consult the GM. |
| Loyalty | bonding to those to whom they are loyal; only works if they are loyal to a non-imperial figure, concept, or organization. |
| Outrage | +3 to react to injustice. |
| Passion | +3 to a specific pursuit listed in passion motivations. |
| Relief | soothing touch. |
| Serenity | calming aura. |
| Sorrow | good sorrow, sorrow from love, not condescending pity or depressive sorrow. Grants protection from depression. |
| Surprise | +3 STH. |
| Trust | empowers based on a relationship motivation. |
| Wonder | bonus to learning a new lore. |
Jewels may be cut, shaped, set in jewelry or clothing, used in art, crushed to be consumed, or otherwise used as mundane jewels might be, and this might affect what magic is caused by them.
PRO +1 ATH / STR -2 AWA +1 WIL +1 PRS +4 STH -1
Macarian
Type: GamemakerA maker of games that bring deep delight.
A macaron creates magical games. They learn to do this either from a mentor or teacher or from finding their own joy, happiness, delight, or optimism too much to handle and channeling it into their games. Most macarians have to be someone who is irrepressibly cheerful, though it is possible if they are not. They learn to wield their own emotions because they are too intense to contain, too potent to keep within their own bodies, sometimes storing them in a blue dumaqu jewel. They spill out constantly as emotional resonance, but the macarians are able to gather them and infuse them into their crafts.
To wield them, the macarian must become aware of their own emotional resonance, which is easier if they are feeling intense delight, happiness, or joy, especially shared happiness, delight, or joy. This happiness, delight, or joy must not stem from harm to others or from exploitation, oppression, abuse, etc. Once they are aware of it - usually because their mentor showed them or because it was so intense none could not see it - they can learn to wield it through breathing exercises and expressing it via art. As they do this, eventually, their expression of the emotions will manifest in the games they create. Once it is potent enough, they can create street art that affects the oppressed, exploited, abused, enslaved, imprisoned, etc., giving them delights, especially in difficult times.
The games are always full of small, special surprises, often designed for a specific person. Sometimes they are puzzles, sometimes they are board games, sometimes they are toy games. Many are mechanical. The form they take is up to player and GM. Common effects include the following:
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Fascination: a puzzle or device fascinates a target, drawing their entire focus and forcing them to do nothing else until they solve it.
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Surprising noise: a puzzle or toy does something unexpected, creating a surprising sound that draws attention from everyone within a 20’ radius.
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Delightful turn: a puzzle, toy, or game changes in a way that brings delight to all allies, shaking them out of any negative emotional affects.
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Confetti burst: a burst of confetti gives everyone low die on to-hit rolls for the next round.
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Colorful device: a device of many colors moves on its own within a 30’ radius, zapping, buzzing, or shocking anyone who tries to grab it, drawing their attention for up to three rounds.
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Lavender light: a soft light glows from a toy, illuminating a 10’ radius and revealing any magical emotional effects.
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Joyous song: a toy or game plays a happy song that everyone must sing along to, giving them +3 WIL or PRS against negative emotional effects. If they do not willingly sing along, they become trapped in the song if they fail a WIL roll and unable to act until they succeed or the song is ended.
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Satisfying pop: a toy or game makes a satisfying popping sound when you succeed in solving one of its puzzles, giving you +3 to your lowest base stat for a round.
Other strange magical effects may be possible if the player can come up with the right toys and games to suit them, but they must be around the theme of delight and happiness. Consult the GM.
PRO +1 ATH / STR -1 AWA +2 WIL +1 PRS +2 STH +1
Orofila
Type: Spinner Those who can spin magical threads out of anything. They are legendarily said to spin straw into gold to protect themselves from exploitative, abusive men, but their magic is far more than that. Orofile draw their magic from their resistance to patriarchy. Most are women or non-men, though men who resist patriarchy can tap into this magic as well. The secrets of this magic is passed on either via families or from one person in need to another. It is a magic used to protect oneself from cruelty and unreasonable demands of patriarchal powers. One cannot be aligned with patriarchal, imperial powers if one wishes to use it. First one must be trained for many years in understanding patriarchy, oppression, and power, as well as spinning, and one must be attuned to their ancestry (literal or metaphorical), studying histories of resistance, and knowing whom to seek in the ancestry. They then are given a pile of materials that should not be spinnable into fabric - straw is classic, but sometimes it is leaves, water, or some other improbable thing. The orofila is given from dusk to sunrise to spin it into usable fabric. They begin with actual fabric spinning (from wool) for the first hour, focusing and almost meditating on their ancestry. If they are deemed worthy, they will feel hands over their own guiding them, and the unspinnable material will be spun, turned into yarn strands that represent the chain of their ancestry. The orofila will then tie the strands about their body as the sunrises, and the strands will glow, being absorbed into them. From then on, they will be able to draw from the magic of resistance to patriarchy, sometimes called aemoa, to spin certain materials into magical yarns:- Straw: straw can be spun into golden yarn that is resistant to infernal magic.
- Leaves: leaves can be spun into turquoise yarn that protects people from abusive violence.
- Water: water can be spun into silver yarn that cleans easily and cannot be corrupted.
- Fire: fire can be spun into red yarn that enhances emotions and makes it easier to understand oneself.
- Shadow: shadow can be spun into black yarn that hides one from the eyes of those who mean them harm.
- Candle light: candle light can be spun into white yarn that reveals insights and truths.
- Flower petals: flower petals can be spun into green yarn that restores health and energy.
- Iron: iron can be spun into metallic yarn that is a celestial armor.
- Ash: ash can be spun into orange yarn that is empowered by defiance, resistance, and determination against oppression.
- Smoke: smoke can be spun into grey yarn that defies exploitation and makes work easier.
- Wool: wool can be spun into mundane yarn.
Pazienzore
Type: Bottler Pazienzori bottle up patience. They do this by embodying patience and drawing magical power from it. Embodying a virtue means living it as closely as possible. They live this virtue day in and day out, rarely if ever erring, and using that near perfection to generate magical power. Their conscious choice to be patient is the source of their magic.To embody patience, one must never act in frustration, impatience, or anger while waiting for something that is not urgent. This does not mean being a pushover or suffering in an emergency, but rather, not demadning of others that which they cannot provide, not stressing or resenting tardiness when it is not important, and not letting imperial schedules run one's life. Patience is a very complicated virtue, as it is not as simple as just waiting - it is as much about knowing what is worth waiting for and what requires action.
One who lives this virtue for years with intention will begin to notice as it manifests magically. In the meantime, they learn to make bottles and perfect the art of filling them with efficiency. Eventually, can sense the patience as it manifests magically, and they learn how to capture it, usually with special glass. They gather it in their bottles, and they learn how to alter it therein to give to others, with different effects:
- Pure patience: drinking this gives the drinker patience, and the longer they wait, the more calm they become, giving bonuses to PRS, WIL, or AWA (player's choice).
- Unrequited yearning: drinking this makes it easier to wait for something that will not be returned, something that will never come, relieving the trauma of yearning.
- Water of efficiency: drinking this gives bonuses to AWA when trying to do a task in the most efficient but not deleterious way possible.
- Waiting drops: a few simple drops to help waiting - this has many uses, but in combat, it gives bonuses when one holds their action.
- Reducing liquor: drinking this alleviates existing impatience and frustration, giving bonuses to AWA or PRS to solve the problem.
Prismapitt
Type: Painter Prismapitti are painters who channel the magic of the rainbow into their work. They gain this magic via powerful dreams of the rainbow serpent, which allows them to empower others with their art. Prismapitti begin to dream of the rainbow serpent after years of work learning about celestial light, learning to paint, and spending time uplifting and helping others, especially if they help others help themselves. Some learn from mentors or teachers, but many just learn from their dreams directly. Their dreams of the rainbow serpent often come with tests to see if they are worthy - if they are truly kind and helpful people, if they are not abusive, oppressive, or exploitative, and if they are willing to devote their lives to helping others. If they are, they begin to develop magical abilities based on what colors they use in painting:- Scarlet paint: scarlet makes the painting shine an intense, hot flaming red and give those who are moved by it courage.
- Fulvous paint: fulvous makes the painting spark with orange electricity; it gives those who are moved by it defiance.
- Saffron paint: saffron makes the painting ripple with a yellow air; it gives those who are moved by it wisdom.
- Emerald paint: emerald makes the painting thrum wtih an green trill; it gives those who are moved by it harmony with those around them.
- Sapphire paint: sapphire makes the painting resonate with blue solidity; it gives those who are moved by it a sense of being loved.
- Lavender paint: lavender makes the painting flow with purple fluidity; it gives those who are moved by it deep joy.
- Ebon paint: ebon makes the painting dark with shadow; it gives those who are moved by it hope.
- Crystal paint: crystal makes the painting white with light; it inspires those who are moved by it.
- Rainbow paint: rainbow (all seven colors blurred together) gives those who see it dreams of celestial powr.
PRO +1 ATH / STR +1 AWA +3 WIL +1 PRS +1 STH -1
Sartorist
Type: Clothier A tailor of protective clothing. Sartorists use celestial fabrics, but to do so, they must learn the special methods required to work them.To sew, shape, or tailor celestial fabrics, a sartorius must learn how to work mundane fabrics first. Then, they must prove themselves worthy of working with celestial fabrics. To do this, they must not be a compliant or willing servant of imperial or infernal powers, must not be an abuser, exploiter, oppressor, slaver, imprisoner, impoverisher, indentured, or otherwise evil, and must atone for any previous actions in service to or that caused such. Though it is nearly impossible not to engage in labor for the powers-that-be, sartorists must minimize it and make atonement for it if they do, even to survive. This is often a continual process and one which affects their ability to do their work.
Once they are found worthy, usually via a ceremonial interaction with celestial fabrics, they are trained by a mentor or teacher to use the fabrics, what they are best for, how to sew them, and what kinds of magical effects they have.
The chart below shows different kinds of celestial fabrics, what effects they have, what they are best used for, and how to find them. The shirt score is how much a shirt’s defense rating would be if somehow made from the fabric - not all of these fabrics can actually be effectively turned into a shirt. It’s just for reference. Sewing time is based on time to forge a medium-sized shirt.
Sartorists will start with five pieces of unused fabric of their choice from any fabrics +6/+6 or lower in (maximum) power.
Toughness cannot go below character's base STR/toughness.
| Fabric | Type | Basic armor score | Effect | Time to create | Description | |
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| Angelfeather | Feather | +5/+5 | Protection from infernal | 6 days | Feathers from celestial beings | |
| Avoo | Silk | +13/+13 | Protection from infernal | 13 days | Fabric woven in the Celestial Realms | |
| Celeste lamb wool | Wool | -4/-4 | Protection from infernal | 6 hours | Wool from blue lambs who can restore someone's soul | |
| Celestial cottontail fur | Fur | -6/-6 | Emotional soothing | 8 hours | Rabbits in the Celestial Realm | |
| Chromium cotton | Cotton | +1/+1 | Instills wonder | Cotton that shines like chrome | Shiny, metallic cotton | |
| Cleverwool | Wool | -2/-2 | +3 mechanic skill | 1 hour | Wool from the clevergoat | |
| Corundumweave | Weave | +7/+7 | Empowered by virtues, +3 max | 6 days | Weave made from corundum thread | |
| Crystal squirrel fur | Fur | -4/-4 | Inspires | 1 hour | Clear shiny fur | |
| Crystalweave | Weave | +1/+1 | +3 art skill | 1 hour | Fabric made from crystal threads | |
| Darksky velvet | Velvet | -2/-2 | Good luck | 7 minutes to 77 days | Dark navy blue velvet | |
| Dumaqu silk | Silk | +9/+9 | Makes you beautiful | 9 days | Silk made from dumaqu jewels | |
| Ebon velvet | Velvet | -3/-3 | Roll 1d100 to see if a miracle occurs, if it does, velvet dissolves | 9 days | Blackest black velvet | |
| Echinemon fur | Fur | -2/-2 | +3 vs opponents 6 or more higher | 7 days | Fur of a dragon-killing mongoose | |
| Fairwing feather | Feather | +2/+2 | Equalizing | 4 days | Feathers of a massive bird that fights inequality | |
| Hadb | Lace | -5/-5 | +3 ATH | 1 day if graceful, 11 days if not | Lace that moves with your body magically | |
| Humblecloth | Hemp | -3/-3 | Empowered by humility, max +3 | 1 day | Hemp grown by the poorest farmers | |
| Jiyisi | Silk | +2/+2 | Ancestral connection | 1 day with guidance, 9 days without | Silk made from ancient silk spun from the threads of ancestry | |
| Keythong feather | Hide | +2/+2 | Soul-strengthening | 7 days | From a griffin with a single horn | |
| Kindsheep wool | Wool | -3/-3 | Empowered by kindness, max +3 | 3 days | Sheep herded by shepherds of kindness | |
| Konrul feather | Feather | +5/+5 | Empowering and fiery | 9 days | Firebird feathers | |
| Lasthope shadow | Shadow | 0/0 | Hides wearer from infernal shadow made into fabric | Unknown | Found in the darkest moments | |
| Lavender muslin | Muslin | -4/-4 | Makes you happier, resist infernal emotional attacks | 6 hours | Muslin made with euphoric magic | |
| Loversweave | Weave | -2/-2 | Empowered by romantic acts | 9 hours | Woven of threads of red string between lovers | |
| Measured hemp | Hemp | -1/-1 | Nourishing | 4 hours | Hemp harvested with the good harvest | |
| Musimon wool | Wool | -1/-1 | Protects family | 4 hours | Half-sheep, half-goat | |
| Nineblue satin | Satin | -6/-6 | Empowered by emotion, max +9 | 9 hours | Satin made from nine emotional threads | |
| Nymphish satin | Satin | -5/-5 | Empowered by desire, max +3 | 9 hours | Satin made by nymphs with special magic | |
| Opal velvet | Velvet | -7/-7 | Heals wounds | 10 days | Velvet made with taala blood | |
| Parandrus wool | Wool | -1/-1 | Comfortable to work in | 10 days without help, 1 day with | Wool from a shapeshifting beast | |
| Puresoft linen | Linen | -6/-6 | Cleanses easier | 1 hour | Linen made via magical cleansing rituals | |
| Rainbow serpentscale | Scale | +9/+9 | Empowering | 9 days | Scales given freely from the rainbow serpent | |
| Raqiq | Cotton | +1/+1 | Bounce back quicker | 10 hours | Extremely resilient cotton | |
| Sereneweave | Weave | +1/+1 | Pure serenity | 8 hours | Woven from fabrics of accord | |
| Shiningweave | Weave | -4/-4 | Brightly shine and inspire | 3 hours | Woven from celestial light | |
| Softblue cotton | Cotton | -5/-5 | Comforts children | 4 hours | Cotton that feels softer to children than adults | |
| Swanfeather | Feather | -3/-3 | +3 to seeking justice | 7 days | Magical swan feathers | |
| Taupe cotton | Cotton | -3/-3 | Comforting to the touch | 8 hours | Magical cotton that makes homespun and comfortable clothing, cannot be grown by oppressors | |
| Tkanime | Silk | +1/+1 | Uplifting chaos magic | Unknown | Pure celestial chaos made into silk | |
| Tremendous satin | Satin | -5/-5 | Inspires awe | 5 days | Satin made with emotional resonance | |
| Trueself silk | Silk | -5/-5 | Empowered by living true to oneself, max +13 | As long as it takes to find onself | Made from the resonance of loving oneself | |
| Trueweave | Weave | +2/+2 | Empowered by True Names, max +3 | 20 days | Made from True Names | |
| Warming cotton | Cotton | -4/-4 | Empowered by the rules of hospitality, max +10, automatically warms | 8 hours | Cannot be grown by oppressors |
PRO +1 ATH -1 STR -1 AWA +2 WIL +1 PRS +1 STH -1
Shieldsmaester
Type: Shieldmaker Shieldsmaesters make shields with the magic of protection for others. They gain their magic by devoting themselves to protecting others and making an oath to never make an offensive weapon. Shieldsmaesters learn from mentors for years first about smithing and shield-making as well as about the values of defense and protection. They provide sanctuary to those in need, refuse to let them come to harm, stand up abusers and oppressors, and never make an offensive weapon. They make armor, but they focus on shields. They may make tools - hammers, knives, and so on - that others may use offensively, but their function is not combat. If they make a dagger even, they violate their oath. If they live up to their oath for years, they eventually gain magical abilities to infuse the shields they make with special properties:- Aura shield: this property allows the shield to extend its magical defenses up to 20' away from the holder.
- Warding shield: this property allows the user of the shield to choose someone who is also protected by the shield, magically.
- Celeste shield: this property makes the shield more resistant to infernal powers.
- Hardening shield: this property makes the shield stronger when hit (increasing toughness with each strike).
- Trading shield: this property allows the shield to trade places with another shield or defensive object to swap with someone more in need of it.
Visionary
Type: Artist A visionary is one who recognizes when celestial light has touched them and wields it to create special works of art. Once they have created something, they can store some of it to use for their next work. The two forms of art created by visionaries are those created to attract celestial light (focal art) and those created to release it. The former is very specific, requiring special ingredients and forms, while the latter is unhindered and can be almost anything. Focal art is made of celestial materials, which are rare and restricted, but not impossible to find, make, or acquire. The universal truth in focal art is that it cannot be used to promote oppressive ideas, nor can it depict anything infernal. Visionaries use any form of art in which they are trained to do this, including but not limited to architectural, beading, ceramics, culinary, dance, drawing and sketching, fashion, mosaics, music, painting, performance, poetry, printing, sculpture, textile and fabric, theatre, and writing and prose. Consult the GM if you wish to specialize in one not listed. Once a piece of focal art is made, the visionary must spend time focusing on it as it draws in celestial light. They will know it worked because it actually glows (a full rainbow aura will form around it). Once this happens, they must spend time meditating on it until they have a vision and are filled with inspiration. What they create next will have one of these special powers:- Blinding: agents of infernal powers or oppressive authorities will be blinded by the work.
- Breathtaking: agents of infernal powers or oppressive authorities will literally lose their breath for a short period of time (effectively stunned).
- Clarifying: those who are lost and confused may suddenly understand what they are feeling and what they truly want in the world.
- Inner beauty: those who see it are better able to see the beauty and goodness in the world around them, and how to combat the evils out there.
- Inspiring form: everyone who experiences their art takes a bit of celestial light with them, inspired to act, to think, to express, to create, thus inspiring others.
- Mirrored images: those who see it see into themselves in a new, insightful way that inspires them to change themselves for the better or better accept who or what they are.
- Reawakening: jaded or dishearted people are renewed in their inspirations, hopes, creativity, goals, dreams.
| Roll | Effect |
|---|---|
| Critical failure | -12 power |
| Exceptional failure | -9 power |
| Special failure | -6 power |
| Normal failure | -3 power |
| Tie | -1 to power |
| Normal success | Equal power |
| Special success | +3 power |
| Exceptional success | +6 power |
| Critical success | +9 power |
| Roll | Effect |
|---|---|
| Critical failure | -12 power |
| Exceptional failure | -9 power |
| Special failure | -6 power |
| Normal failure | -3 power |
| Tie | -1 to power |
| Normal success | Equal power |
| Special success | +3 power |
| Exceptional success | +6 power |
| Critical success | +9 power |
Wondramiln
Type: Hatter Wondramilns make hats full of wonder, wondrous hats.To do this, they must first learn to sense emotional resonance (often taught to them by a mentor) and capture it, sometimes in a jewel called a dumaqu, in a crystal, in a work of art, or, usually, in a hat. The method they use is determined mostly by who taught them. This object becomes the focus of their power, and they must have it present when they use their magic. They then spend years learning to make hats and work magic, learning what instills wonder, and learning the values of love, support, and inspiration that make their magic possible.
To generate wonder, they must create works of wonder. That feeling will make their own wonder resonance amplify, and they can capture it in their jewel, crystal, or work. This becomes their fuel for magical crafting, allowing them to imbue different magicks into their hats:
- Inspiring design: a design for a hat that makes anyone who sees it inspired to make something of their own.
- Cap of wonders: a cap in which you can fit wonders in and take them out, even if they should not necessarily fit. Sometimes they come out more wondrous than they went in.
- Impressive decoration: a decoration on an extant hat that gives PRS bonuses to the wearer.
- Colorful look: a colorful look for a hat that gives seven +1 bonuses to different non-infernal skills, substats, abilities, or powers of the wearer.
- Shining hat: a hat that shines with wondrous light and makes others feel wonder.
Different materials may enhance these magicks. Wondramiln work with fabrics, leather, feathers, and small trinkets for decoration.
Wondramilns often belong to a secret society called the Riquitan Circle, a strange group of hatmakers of all kinds who want to fill the world with wonders.
PRO +1 ATH / STR / AWA +3 WIL +1 PRS +2 STH -2
GrandGuignol
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