Sensualist

Those who engage in illicit sex work.

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Harimtu

The sex workers of the Violet Grith use sex magic and witchcraft to ply their trade.

Harimtus are part of a sisterhood of ancient power that pass on their own traditions. They align with the Violet Grith, but they are an older order of wielders of sex magic and witchcraft. They work together in covens of eleven for their witchcraft.

Their sex magic is part of an ancient tradition known as the "thirteen points", referring to thirteen parts of (most) bodies that are both targets for pleasure and magical energy. If all thirteen are invoked during sex, the culmination of the union will release enormous magical energy that all consenting parties in the spell can wield. They can choose to wield it in the moment, to store it for later, or to give it to one of the other participants. If they store it, they have 26 points of magic to use later. If they wield it, they can roll from a 13 to cast any spell that will affect the body of anyone involved who consents. If they choose to give it, they give 13 points to someone else.

If they store it, they usually keep that magic for their witchcraft. Harimtus have 13 spells they can cast individually, and 13 they can cast when the coven of 11 is together. All spells must be cast before they are needed, then kept by the harimtu for three days and three nights, at which point they will be gone whether they were used or not. They can cast only three individual spells per night and one group spell.

Individual spells include the following:

• Enticing aura: the harimtu is more enticing to anyone who sees them, +3 PRS for an hour
• Touch of grace: the touch of the harimtu grants someone a one-time escape from a killing blow that must be used within 13 days
• Drop of life: a drop of the harimtu's sweat will heal wounds down one level (deep to normal, etc.)
• Mirror form: a reversed illusory copy of the harimtu appears
• Animal agility: the harimtu gains +3 ATH for an hour
• Binding word: the harimtu speaks a word that binds a single target in place
• Repelling force: the harimtu gestures and unleashes a wave of energy that forces back any non-fey aligned being
• Vanishing step: the harimtu takes one step and vanishes for 15 seconds
• Heart's barrier: the harimtu's feelings fuel a barrier that only allows through those they love or care about
• Smile of kindness: the harimtu's smile gives anyone who sees it +3 to their lowest base stat for 10 minutes
• Flowing wind: the harimtu moves like flowing wind, going 100' in one round
• Circle of power: the harimtu creates a circle of power that gives everyone around them +3 to STR
• Bloodsflame: the harimtu's blood ignites in flame and gives them the power to burn others with their touch

Group spells include the following, which all participants gain:

• Ritual of Calming Aura: when invoked, the harimtu can calm the emotions of everyone within 20' (WIL vs. PRS)
• Ritual of Fey Will: when invoked, the harimtu gains +1 WIL for every 3 points of PRS they have
• Ritual of Lunar Dance: when invoked, the harimtu gains +1 for crescent moon, +2 for half, +3 for gibbous, +6 for full, -1 for new, to every roll
• Ritual of Violet Storm: when invoked, violet lightning and rain are unleashed in a radius of 25', causing emotional damage and confusion to everyone
• Ritual of Potent Pleasures: when invoked, the harimtu knows what is the greatest source of pleasure for anyone they can see
• Ritual of Widow's Needle: when invoked, the harimtu communes with every woman within three miles who has killed an abuser, gaining +6 PRO against any abuser for the entire night
• Ritual of Twice Hexed: when invoked, the harimtu can inflict two targets whose name they know or whom they can see with a curse of their choosing
• Ritual of Inner Presence: when invoked, the harimtu gains +1 PRS for every 3 points of WIL they have
• Ritual of Coven Voice: when invoked, the coven speaks as one through the harimtu, combining their spells into one
• Ritual of Mother's Heart: when invoked, the harimtu provides healing to all allies within 100', perfectly healing all wounds
• Ritual of Child's Cries: when invoked, the harimtu becomes impossible to attack for 15 seconds
• Ritual of Crone's Laughter: when invoked, the harimtu intimidates any enemy who can hear it; anyone who fails exceptionally or critically goes mad with terror
• Ritual of Thirteen Souls: when invoked, the haritmu links souls with the coven and can use any of their innate powers or learned skills for 10 minutes

If any of the group spells have been cast, the player rolls a d12 every in-game hour to see if one of the other members of the coven uses the spell. This does not use it up, but their character will be aware and affected by some of them.

PRO +1 ATH +2 STR +1 AWA +1 WIL +2 PRS +3 STH +1

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Hetaira

Sex workers among the Blue Grith are mostly those who have banded together to survive, creating what is an effectively an illegal union to keep themselves from being targeted by traffickers, cops, or slavers. Among them are those who use sex magic, usually to draw strength or powers from sexual attraction.

The hetairai (or hetairo(i) for men, hetaire(i) for others) are sex workers who are highly educated, skilled at art, entertainment, and conversation. They are learned in arts, philosophy, and culture. They are extremely highly valued sex workers, for they are skilled users of sex magic. Their arts and skills were brought over from the west, but in Endruin, they are still criminalized, even if their clients are high-paying. They often use this to help serve the Blue Grith by gathering information, blackmail, or funding. Most of them are former slaves and have a passion for the work of the Blue Grith.

The sex magic of the hetairai is generated with a familiarity with their own bodies and pleasure. They engage in rituals of relaxation, comfort, and physical pleasure in order to learn how to wield their magic, then practice it with clients or lovers. The more intimately they know their own bodies, the more they are aware of the flows of energy within and how it responds to pleasure, allowing them to focus on it and draw it out. With long practice and effort, they learn to draw forth the blue light that can transfer pleasure between themselves and others. They generate this via their rituals, via acts of sexual pleasure, or via arts of seduction. They gain points of blue light every time they do this.

• Evoke pleasure: with their touch, they can transfer the blue light to another to cause them to experience physical, sexual pleasure. This costs 1 point of blue light per 3 points of power they wish to roll from.
• Alluring aura: they can wreath themselves in blue light, making themselves alluring to anyone who sees them. This costs 3 points of blue light per minute of 8-power aura.
• Intensify pleasure: with their kiss, they can transfer the blue light to another to cause the physical, sexual pleasure they are experiencing to intensify. This costs 2 points of blue light per 3 points of power they wish to roll from.
• Transform pleasure: with their touch, they can use the blue light to change the physical pleasure someone is experiencing from any kind of physical pleasure to sexual pleasure (i.e., good tasting food becomes sexual pleasure). This costs 3 points of blue light per 2 points of power they wish to roll from.
• Alleviate discomfort: their breath can make someone's discomfort reduce or go away. This costs 1 point of blue light per 2 points of power they wish to roll from.

Other powers may be possible, so long as they reflect pleasure, especially sexual pleasure.

Part of the Commitee for Support.

PRO / ATH +3 STR +1 AWA +2 WIL +2 PRS +4 STH +1

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Kavash

Sex workers who join the Red Grith are taught body magicks to ply their trades. They are called kavashes. The Captain of Belly is always someone who began as a sex worker.

A kavash is a sex worker who uses body magic. They engage body magic by eating a special diet and performing special exercises regularly.

Their special diet is regular consumption of magical grains, spices, and milk mixed into a cereal called nimusti. This may vary by species, however. This diet is expensive and hard to find, being imported from across two oceans, but skilled sex workers often have the money to buy it. Those who don't may find patronage from the Red Grith, but only if the Red Grith believes them to be "suitable" (often with very patriarchal baggage attached to it). Independent kavashes who join the Red Grith for protections while having resources to buy their own nimusti fare much better than those who rely on the funding of the ruthless criminal organization.

The special exercises vary by body and intention, but most kavash seek to have a body viewed as "attractive" by Endruinite standards. Normal exercises may get them such a body, but the special exercises, which involve excessive amounts of swimming, running, and stretching, allow them to eventually control their body magically. Part of the exercises are meditations that allow them to know their body inside and out. If they can achieve this and keep to their diet, after months of work, they begin to gain full control. They gain a point of body magic skill per six months they keep to their routine and diet for the first eight points (0-8), then it extends to one point per year for the next three (9-11), then one point per three years for the next three (12-14), then one point per five years for the next three (15-17), then one point per seven years for the next three (18-20), then one point per ten years for the next three (21-23), then one point per twelve years for the next three (24-26). It continues to extend in length after that.

There are different ways to wield body magic once it is possessed:

• Via sexual activity (their most common method, allowing them to control intercourse of all parties involved at a difficulty of 8 plus 3 per every individual other than themselves).
• Via massage, to affect another person positively.
• Via physical strike (slap, punch, kick, tackle) with skin-to-skin contact to affect another person negatively.
• Via sheer will power to affect one's own internal processes.
• Via self-massage to affect one's external form.

Powerful body mages can give themselves whole new limbs, grow themselves, shrink themselves, etc., but most kavashes do not achieve that nor seek it. They use their powers to give pleasure to their clients, keep themselves from becoming pregnant, heighten their atractiveness by Endruinite standards, and engage in self-defense.

PRO +1 ATH +4 STR +2 AWA +1 WIL +2 PRS +3 STH +2

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Viryan

Sex workers who join the Green Grith often do so because they feel attuned to nature, using the elemental power of life itself to control their bodies via sex magic.

Viryans do not use elemental lifeforce the way rudentists or other elemental healers do. They turn it inward. To wield it, they must be attuned to their inner lifeforce, their qi, their spark, their ashar. This requires meditation, attunement via use of sexual rituals and special herbs and foods. As their powers are turned inward, they do not need to spend as much time training, but it does still require much work to master. Typically, it takes a year of actively engaging in rituals to gain powers.

A viryan's powers are mostly dedicated to making their bodies appealing to their clients, altering per client, and engaging in acts of sexual pleasure. They cannot alter their shape fully like a shapeshifter, but small changes are possible - giving themselves more agility, strength, or endurance, changing hair color or skin color, altering their hair, heightening or dampening their sensitivies, etc. are very common. They may not alter their own bodies in any way that would shorten their lives, however.

After years of work, they start to gain more potent abilities:

• Regeneration: their wounds heal much, much quicker.
• Enhanced immune system: sicknesses and poisons are less effective or heal quicker.
• Longevity: they do not experience senescence as extremely or as early as others, often maintaining health for a few decades more and living that much extra as well.
• Activating touch: their touch is so potent with ashar that when they touch another living being, that being's tactile senses are amplified.
• Argent kiss: their kiss erupts with silver fire that sends healing energy into those they kiss.

Viryans learn these arts from others in the Green Grith. Most were sex workers before they came to the Grith, but some engage in the work because they view it as a means of communing with nature. Either way, their work with the Green Grith contributes either as fundraising, healing, natural rituals, or gathering information.

PRO +1 ATH +2 STR +1 AWA +1 WIL / PRS +3 STH +1