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Geomantic Regalia
Artifact: 3
Commitment: 6 motes
The Geomantic Regalia are part of a series of artifacts designed by the Lunar artisan Cloud Piercing Gaze. Gaze believed that artifacts should be versatile and capable of at least some degree of adaptation. With this in mind, he designed a number of devices which drew their power from the dragon lines of creation, and by changing which lines were tapped, different effects could be produced.
Geomantic Regalia is often fashioned in the shape of jewelry, with the original being crafted as a torc. Later designs included any type of jewelry or adornment capable of supporting a hearthstone setting in addition to badges or symbols of office. Regardless of its form, all Geomantic Regalia allow their user to gain two successes when expending a point of willpower to enhance a roll instead of one. However their true power is revealed when a hearthstone is inset. When this happens the entire object changes subtlety to a form or design indicative of the inset hearthstone. The Regalia gain an additional benefit based on the stone:
- Earth- Add the Hearthstone’s rating to either all Craft(Earth, Air, Fire, Water, or Magitech) or all War rolls, chosen at the time of the artifact’s creation or purchase.
- Air- Add the Hearthstone’s rating to either all Occult or all Stealth rolls, chosen at the time of the artifact’s creation or purchase.
- Water- Add the Hearthstone’s rating to either all Larceny or all Bureaucracy rolls, chosen at the time of the artifact’s creation or purchase.
- Fire- Add the Hearthstone’s rating to either all Presence or all Socialize rolls, chosen at the time of the artifact’s creation or purchase.
- Wood- Add the Hearthstone’s rating to either all Medicine or all Performance rolls, chosen at the time of the artifact’s creation or purchase.
- Sidereal- Add the hearthstone’s rating to all Craft(Fate) rolls.
- Lunar- Reduce the mote cost of all Knacks by the hearthstone’s rating to a minimum of one.
- Solar- Add the half the hearthstone’s rating to the dice bonus dice gained from channeling a virtue. If the virtue in question is the character’s primary virtue, he may add the full rating of the hearthstone instead. Due to an unforeseen synergy with the Great Curse, opting to take this greater bonus also generates a point of limit (or resonance).
- Abyssal-If the character would gain essence from a charm or effect in an amount lower than the hearthstone’s rating, he instead receives an amount equal to the hearthstone’s rating. If the value is higher, increase it by half the hearthstone’s rating. This does not effect hourly respiration, be it natural, hearthstone related, or any other similar effect.
While inset into Geomantic Regalia, the hearthstone does not provide its special effect and allows its user to only respire its rating in motes an hour as opposed to twice that value.
While the specific magical material of the Regalia does not provide additional effects to the wearer, should the material match the hearthstone’s tenor, treat the hearthstone’s rating as if it were one higher.
It is rumored that a level 4 version exists which would allow the bearer to continue to receive his hearthstone’s effects. The Hearthstone’s respiration rate remains halved.
