Emotion Emotion (Fear) can find out what exactly someone
is afraid of, a Scion with Emotion (Love) can discover
Purview
by Brent-not-Broken
PDF by Telgar
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The Emotion Purview allows a Scion to express
control over the passions and desires of mortals
and immortals alike. Even the Titans and the Gods
may be swayed by its powers, as it tugs at the
heartstrings that resonate within all living beings.
Emotion, like the Animal Purview, affects only a
single type of Emotion each time it is purchased.
A Scion is not limited to purchasing the specific
manifestation of Emotion that her parent is
associated with.
Associated With: Aengus (Love), Aphrodite (Love),
Chalchiuhtlicue (Compassion), Dionysus (Lust),
Erzulie (Love, Jealousy), Guanyin (Compassion),
Lakshmi (Compassion, Love), Mictlntecuhtli (Fear),
Parvati (Compassion), and Tlazoltotl (Love, Lust,
Shame).
Emotional Awareness (Emotion )
Dice Pool: Perception + Empathy (see text).
Cost: None, or 1L for additional information (see text).
This Boon allows a Scion to sense their chosen
emotion in others, even if nothing in a persons
voice, expression, or behavior indicates what theyre
feeling. Passively, this Boon indicates the presence
or absence of your chosen emotion in anyone you
can see or hear-- even indirectly (such as over the
phone).
By spending a point of Legend, you may probe
a persons mind for details about the emotion
theyre feeling. For example, a Scion with Emotional
Awareness (Grief ) would automatically notice a
nearby mortals grief, no matter how well hes hiding
it. With a point of Legend and a successful roll, she
can understand the depth, cause, and particular
flavor of the grief, as clearly as if she were feeling
it herself. This boon provides details: a Scion with
the identity of a besotted persons beloved, and a
Scion with Emotion (Rage) can figure out whats
gotten a person so steamed. This detailed probe
automatically fails against a target with greater
Legend, and against a target with equal Legend, it
requires a successful (Perception + Empathy) roll
against the targets (Wits + Presence).
Heart On My Sleeve (Emotion )
Dice Pool: None.
Cost: 1W.
To truly understand the emotions of others, a Scion
must be candid and cognizant of his own feelings,
unlocking their power and leading by example. To
use this Boon, the Scion must spend 1 Willpower
and do or say something that makes his true, honest
emotion unmistakably clear to all onlookers. For a
Scion with the power of Fear, a simple Im not afraid
of you declaration will suffice, but only if its true; for
a Scion wielding Love, a passionate kiss might do the
job better than mere words, but only if he truly loves
the person hes kissing.
Every person who witnesses this display either
gains or loses a point of temporary Willpower (the
Emotion-using Scion chooses which, on a case-by-
case basis). In addition, each witness grants him one
bonus die that he can spend to add to any dice
pool for any rolls he makes for the remainder of the
scene, but they can only be used to add to actions
that back up his already-expressed emotion. The
Scion can portion out these extra dice however he
wishes, but the number of bonus dice he can gain
per scene from this boon can never exceed twice
his Legend, and the maximum Heart on My Sleeve
dice he can add to any single roll cannot exceed his
Presence score.
The Scion can use this Boon only once per scene, and
the Boon always fails unless the emotion expressed
is true, strong, and genuine-- no falsehoods or wishy-
washy half-heartedness will suffice.
Irresistible Impulse (Emotion )
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Empathy.
Cost: 1W.
With a mere whim, a Scion with Emotion powers
can create a brief but powerful upwelling of
his associated emotion within another person.
This Boon creates an emotional surge that lasts
for a number of actions equal to the difference
between the Emotion-using Scions (Manipulation
+ Empathy) roll and the targets resistance, with a
minimum duration of one action. While it persists,
the Irresistible Impulse provides a dice bonus
to actions the emotion might conceivably help
with, and a dice penalty to actions the emotion
might hinder (potentially including any action that
requires intense concentration or deep thought).
Furthermore, any time an affected character
attempts an action he suffers this dice penalty on,
it costs 1 Willpower just to make the attempt. This
bonus or penalty adds or subtracts one die per dot
of Empathy the Emotion-using Scion has (with a
minimum of one die).
The Scion has no control over the feelings this Boon
unleashes. For example, a Scion with power over
the Emotion (Love) purview can cause someone
else to feel a temporary, overwhelming dose of
love, but cant control who the love is directed
towards, or whether the love is wholesomely filial,
the selfless bond of true friendship, or romantic love
with definite carnal shadings. Since people tend to
associate their emotions with people and things that
are nearby, a careful Scion can exert some limited
influence over the emotion they cause by means of
patience and good timing, but its never a certainty.
Scions also have the option to deliver this power
through an attack made unarmed or with a weapon,
the same way Cupid uses his famous arrows. The
scion pays the Willpower cost and activates the
boon before the attack roll is made, and the roll is
measured against the targets DV instead of his RV.
This boons effects completely replace all damage
the attack would otherwise do.
Read Between the Minds (Emotion )
Dice Pool: Perception + Empathy.
Cost: 1W.
Sensitive to the barest nuances, the Scion with this
Boon can discover even the most secret feelings
of others. By spending a point of Willpower and
paying a moments attention to any person he
can see directly (not on television or by other
indirect means), the Demigod can learn about
secret emotions, even those buried deep within the
targets subconscious. If the Demigods activation
roll exceeds the targets (Wits + Presence) defense,
the Demigod learns the answer to one unvoiced
question pertaining to his emotion and his target.
For example, this boon might be used to discover
someones greatest fear, the identity of a secret love,
or a profound regret from the past.
This boon differs from Emotional Awareness because
it digs deeper. Emotional Awareness is limited to
the emotions currently at the surface of a persons
mind and heart, while Read Between the Minds can
dredge up feelings and information even when the
target isnt actively experiencing or thinking about
them.
Object of Desire (Emotion )
Dice Pool: Wits + Command.
Cost: 1L + 1W.
A simple smirk or casual gesture is all it takes for a
Scion with this Boon to turn himself or someone
else into the focal point of others emotions for the
rest of the scene, changing the way others react.
While made into a focal point for others emotions,
a person might not understand why people are
suddenly acting strangely around her, even despite
any efforts she might take to discourage them. A
Demigod of Fear might make someone else into
an Object of Fear to ensure that others are afraid of
that person, a Demigod of Gratitude might bestow
a Object of Desire of Gratitude upon a hard-working
mortal to ensure she gets the credit she deserves,
and so on.
The person you place this effect on can resist it
if their (Charisma + Integrity) roll exceeds the
boons activation roll, and the people compelled
to act differently around that person can resist the
supernatural change in their behavior if their (Wits
+ Integrity) roll exceeds the activation roll. (Mortals
automatically fail either roll.)
Knotted Heartstrings (Emotion )
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Empathy.
Cost: 5L + 1W.
As he exerts his burgeoning powers over his
chosen emotion, a Scion with this Boon gains an
ever-increasing ability to toy with the feelings of
others. Like the Irresistible Impulse Boon, Knotted
Heartstrings creates an emotion within a single
target, but the effects of this boon are much longer-
lasting, and the Emotion Demigod has much more
control over how they manifest. Rather than creating
a wild surge of uncontrolled emotion, this Boon
creates a very precise result, allowing the Demigod
to choose (for example) precisely who the affected
person falls in love with, what he becomes afraid
of, what cause he blames for his wracking guilt, or
what trigger inspires his fierce jealousy. This Boons
effects dont force a target to act a certain way, but
they do grant the same bonus or penalty to actions
that Irresistible Impulse does: plus or minus one die
per dot of the Boon-users Empathy on all actions
where the induced emotion is a help or a hindrance,
and it costs 1 Willpower to attempt any action such a
penalty applies to.
The effects of this Boon last for one day per
threshold success against the targets resistance.
Like Irresistible Impulse, this Boon can optionally
be delivered as an attack, with the attack roll
substituting for the normal (Manipulation +
Empathy) activation roll, and DV replacing any
resistance the victim might otherwise be entitled to.
At the end of this Boons duration the dice bonuses
and penalties expire, but the emotion itself persists
until and unless its reversed by undermining
behavior. That is to say, a victim forced to fall in
love with a person who treats him cruelly might
eventually fall out of love due to this shabby
treatment, but not until Knotted Heartstrings wears
off.
Social Disease (Emotion )
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Empathy.
Cost: 5L + 1W.
The Scion with this power may grip targets with
overwhelming emotion, unable to do anything
but indulge that emotion in thought and in
action for a number of hours equal to his total
number of Emotion Boons. This malady is instantly
communicated to anyone who sees or touches the
affected target, at which point the new target is fully
gripped by the same overwhelming feelings. As with
Irresistible Impulse, the Scion has no control over
the particular way this emotion takes shape, and
cannot dictate any details. If a target thus affected
is physically attacked or harmed, the duration of
the effects drops to a number of ticks equal to the
Scions threshold successes. Upon emerging from his
or her impassioned state, the target has no memory
of the episode, nor of an equal amount of time
before he or she was affected.
The Scion who used the boon remains immune to
the transmission of his own effect. The emotion lasts
only as long as it affects the initial victim. No matter
how widespread the effect is, when the initial victim
snaps out of it, everyone else does too.
Hearts Shackle (Emotion )
Dice Pool: Manipulation + Command.
Cost: 10L + 1W.
A true God of an Emotion can command a deep,
lasting power-- either a generous gift, or a terrible
curse, creating an emotion that is both strong and
lingering. When using this Boon, the Scion has
total freedom to dictate the terms of the emotion,
including (but not limited to) wielding Fear to
create a very specific phobia, using Jealousy
to turn friends against each other, or filling the
target with Despair about a very specific fate.
The person who will feel the newly-created
emotion must be present when the Scion uses
this Boon, but the object of the intended emotion
need not be. Also, if the emotion is directed at
a person without a Legend score, the Scion may
opt to pay an additional 5 Legend cost to cause
that person to respond with either the same or
the opposite reaction. (This extra cost is useful
for guaranteeing that a newly-minted Love is
reciprocated, or for ensuring that it isnt.)
The emotion created by this Boon functions like
an emotion created by Knotted Heartstrings,
but will affect any target whose resistance the
Scions activation roll overcomes, regardless of
Legend. The size of the emotion-related bonus
and penalty is equal to one success per dot of
the Scions Empathy, Command, or Presence--
whichever the Scion chooses to use. Additionally,
the cost to act contrary to this emotion
increases-- actions that incur the penalty now
cost 1 Willpower plus 1 Legend to attempt, so
unfortunate mortals so affected cannot even try.
Against targets of Legend 9 and above, the
duration is measured in days: one day per
threshold success achieved on the activation roll
against the targets resistance, or one day per
threshold success scored by the Emotion gods
attack roll against the targets DV. Against targets
of Legend 8 or less, the effects of this Boon are
permanent, unless removed by another God of
Emotion. If Hearts Shackle expires or is removed,
the emotions it caused do not automatically
end, but they do play out naturally from that
point forward, and can continue, change, or end
based on thoughts and actions just like any other
emotions.
When used on anyone with a Legend of 4 or less,
the Scion may choose to inflict an emotional
condition so extreme that it will be fatal within
a month (an unrequited love or a grief so
intense that the victim cannot eat, a fear so
overwhelming it causes the heart to burst, a
jealousy powerful enough to provoke a fatal
gunfight, or similar).
Even Better than the Real Thing
(Emotion ) Cost: None.
Dice Pool: Charisma + Presence.
Cost: 10L + 1W (or 10L + 3W; see text).
The Scion with this Boon can assert an authority
over his chosen emotion so consummate, so all-
consuming, that none can feel that way towards
anyone or anything else. By activating this Boon,
the Scion commandeers each and every example
of his chosen emotion in his presence, making
himself the object of each one until the end of
the scene. A Scion with Emotion (Love) uproots
the love felt by anyone nearby so that anyone
who loved at all now loves only him; a Scion
with Emotion (Fear) suppresses wariness, fright,
and deep-seated phobias so that all who felt
those things now fear the Scion instead. Affected
individuals are allowed a resistance roll to avoid
having their preexisting feelings rerouted in this
way, and this forceful seizure of emotions ends
when the scene ends (potentially leaving a lot of
people very confused).
By spending three points of Willpower in the
activation roll, the Scion can choose to redirect
all this emotion onto a target other than himself--
an experience which the recipient may find
exhilarating, terrifying, or both. Such a target is
also allowed a resistance roll, if desired.
Hole in the Heart (Emotion )
Dice Pool: None.
Cost: None.
So complete is the mastery wielded by the Gods
that they can extinguish the flames of passion as
easily as they can kindle them. With this boon, the
god can now use any other boon in this purview
to banish his chosen emotion from others. For
example, a God of Love with this boon can now
use Irresistible Impulse to provoke temporary
antipathy, place a Object of Desire on another
person to ensure that no one else loves that
person, use Knotted Heartstrings to cause others
to fall out of love, and use Hearts Shackle to
remove an individuals capacity to ever feel any
sort of love again.
A Thousand Inspirations
(Emotion )
Dice Pool: None.
After reaching full mastery of a single chosen
emotion, a God may continue increasing his power
over the Emotion purview not in magnitude, but
in scope. This Boon grants the Scion the ability to
use his other Emotion boons to affect any type
of emotion he chooses, not just the emotion he
originally bought those boons for-- he is now
effectively specialized in Emotion (Any and All
Emotions).
Overwhelm (Emotion )
Dice Pool: Charisma + Presence.
Cost: 15L + 1W.
With a brief expenditure of power, a Scion with this
Boon can drench a large area in emotional gasoline
and start throwing lit matches. People within the
effected area are consumed with waves of emotion
so powerful that they overwhelm rational thought
for one full day. Depending on the emotion in
question, this Boon can smother an angry crowd
with Despondency or Contentment, or can turn the
whole area into a panic, a riot, or an orgy.
To activate this boon, the player must roll (Charisma
+ Presence); the number of successes determines
the size of the area around the God in which others
experience intense emotion, as shown on the table
below:
1 success: a house
5 successes: a neighborhood
10 successes: an entire city
15 successes: a metropolitan area
20 successes: a state or small country (no larger than Japan)
40 successes: a large country (no larger than the USA) or part of a
continent
60 successes: a continent
80 successes: an Underworld realm, the entire World, or an Overworld
realm
100 successes: every Underworld realm, or every Overworld realm
120 successes: everywhere

When activating this power, the God of Emotion can

exclude specific groups of people from its effects, by
spending five successes per category.

Avatar of Emotion (The Passion)

Dice pool: None.
Cost: 30L + 1W.

For one scene, the character becomes The Passion.

While The Passion has no physical form, it resides
in the hearts of gods, mortals, and titans alike.
The Passion can stir the most jaded crowds into
wild-eyed frenzy, or turn fanaticism into bleak
despondency, leaving mortals too overcome with
despair even to breathe. The Passion can linger over
an entire city, turning selfish and cynical hearts warm
and generous, or changing compassionate idealism
into hard-hearted cruelty. Reason and logic fade
away when The Passion is present, overwhelmed by
a kaleidoscope of bewildering feelings. No mortal
can feel The Passions embrace without being forever
changed, driven by a new outlook, new inspirations,
or new madness. The Passion can even turn a Titan
aside from its intentions, set it warring against its
peers, or infect its cruelest lieutenants with pity and
compassion.