Artifacts/Bastions
Bastions of Power
The Bastion Background was designed to replicate the effects of large, stationary magical devices and structures. They may be thought of as giant Artifacts but the difference is that while an Artifact is a thing a Bastion is a place.
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Bastions, in addition to being defensible fortresses and prime locations for scavenging remnants of the First Age, are also titanic works of magic and artifice. Each Bastion was designed for a specific purpose. They may be titanic weapons installations, manufacturing centers like Factory Cathedrals or vast libraries with information on every topic imaginable. The wider the application and stronger the impact of a Bastion's particular function, the higher its rating.
Bastion scales like Artifact, growing in power exponentially with each dot in the Background. Bastions are purchased like Artifacts in that if a character wishes to have more then one Bastion he must purchase the background again to represent the second installation. Storytellers are discouraged from allowing a character to start play with multiple Bastions due to their rarity and story impact. Unlike many other backgrounds, it is possible for a Circle of starting characters to pool background dots to create a Bastion that all the Circle's members have access to.
Example Bastions
<b>Magma Rig, level 4 Bastion
