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Survival Charms

Excellency

Ration-Enhancing Method

Cost: 2m/success; Mins: Survival 1, Essence 1

Type: Supplemental (Any roll); Duration: Instant

Keywords: Balanced, Excellency, Wood

Prerequisite Charms: None

Nature recognizes you as its Prince, and provides for you and yours.

Add 1 success per 2m spent.

If you are rolling to gather food, every threshold success gives you an extra man-day of food.

Essence 1

Quarry Revelation Technique

Cost: 2m; Mins: Survival 2, Essence 1

Type: Supplemental (Tracking); Duration: Instant

Keywords: Balanced, Wood

Prerequisite Charms: None

The plants bend themselves out of the way to reveal tracks, which glow gently in your vision.

Get disappearing 6s. You can contest magical concealment.

Trail-Concealing Measure

Cost: 5m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1

Type: Supplemental (Conceal Tracks); Duration: Instant

Keywords: Balanced, Mute, Wood

Prerequisite Charms: Quarry Revelation Technique

You pass silently among the underbrush. Twigs bend out of your way and grass springs back into health underfoot.

This Charm can also enhance a Stealth roll to establish concealment.

Double 9s if you are in a forested or wooded area.

REPURCHASE – As a Charm purchase, you may make this Charm Variable and learn two of the following terrain types:

  • AIR: If you are in snowfall or icy terrain.
  • EARTH: If you are underground, in a desert, in the mountains, or on other rocky terrain.
  • FIRE: If you are in active fire, somewhere smokey, or on volcanic terrain.
  • WATER: If you are in rainfall on any kind of terrain, or if you are in a marshy or coastal area.

Beast-Taming Aspect

Cost: 3m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1

Type: Supplemental (Tame an Animal); Duration: Instant

Keywords: Balanced, Wood

Prerequisite Charms: None

All creatures are friends, no matter how ferocious or scary.

Double 9s. You may also use this Charm to enhance a Performance or Presence roll to influence a creature.

If you continue to interact with the creature using this Charm at least once per week continuously, it will become your familiar after (its Resolve) weeks.

Animal Empathy Technique

Cost: 4m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1

Type: Supplemental (Influence an Animal); Duration: Instant

Keywords: Balanced, Wood

Prerequisite Charms: Beast-Taming Aspect

Your mastery of body language extends even into the language of beasts.

Add (Essence) non-Charm bonus dice. This Charm can enhance any influence roll toward an animal, using any Ability. No, humans don’t count as animals here. The beastie gets no Resolve bonus for failing to understand you.

Essence 2

Mother-of-Beasts Mastery

Cost: 8m, 1wp; Mins: Survival 4, Essence 2

Type: Simple; Duration: One week

Keywords: Wood

Prerequisite Charms: Beast-Taming Aspect

Even savage beasts bow down before your charming presence.

When you are training an animal to use a latent or magical ability, you complete one interval in a week instead of one interval in a month.

Invoking Nature’s Forgiveness

Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 2

Type: Simple; Duration: One day

Keywords: Wood

Prerequisite Charms: None

You spend time teaching your allies to withstand nature’s wrath. Your anima extends to wrap around them like a comforting blanket. They shall know no suffering on your watch.

You can target all of your Sworn Kin, plus up to (Essence) additional characters with this Charm.

Spend a few minutes with each target in one-on-one training to deal with an extreme environment. After your training, each target gets a temporary Resistance specialty to withstand that environment. They also ignore (your Essence) points of environmental penalty.

Stalking Wolf Pursuit

Cost: 4m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 2

Type: Supplemental (Tracking); Duration: Instant

Keywords: Wood

Prerequisite Charms: Quarry Revelation Technique

Your quarry cannot escape you, no matter how it tries to hide.

Ignore penalties from visual obstructions, the age of tracks, etc. If you succeed, you also learn how long ago your target passed through the area.

Vanishing Tracks Technique

Cost: 5m; Mins: Survival 4, Essence 2

Type: Supplemental (Hide Tracks); Duration: Instant

Keywords: Air

Prerequisite Charms: Trail-Concealing Measure

Flavor.

Get disappearing 6s. In addition to your own spoor, your may also conceal the spoor of your Hearthmates and up to (Essence) other characters if your roll is better than theirs.