Family
Db family connections
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The dragon blooded have a background called family. In the MoEP:DB it primarily describes the background as a social construct – where others know of the DB’s ancestor’s reputation and believe that the DB is like that famous ancestor. It also hints that skills or character traits may be passed along in the blood. This, by itself is cool, but then I looked at DotFA:LoC (and the fan-made HFoE) and saw the martyr abilities of some high level DB powers – and I saw some even cooler possibilities for this background.
(Then I got to thinking that some of the dynasty powers may also be able to do this – where a living ancestor might be able to grant a dragon blooded PC an ability, but I did not see any charms like that so…)
Anyway here are the three official and two un-official published charms that could be part of a family background (as in, an ancestor used the martyr version of the charm).
Thicker than Stone (DotFA:LoC p 79): the character is unable to be forced to harm blood relatives by non blood relatives. This seems like a 2-3 dot background, depending on the story.
Well Tended garden of the soul (DotFA:LoC p 85): Know how an ancestor would act. This seems like a 1-2 dot background depending on the story.
Honored ancestor exhalation (DotFA:LoC p77): Channel ancestor’s essence in place of virtue when it matches the ancestor’s motivation (this does not use a virtue up) this is a 3-4 dot background, depending on the motivation
Eternal enmity edict (HFoE p 52): Free unflagging vengeance for ancestor’s promise maybe 2-3 dot background.
Ancestor Hero Reverberation (HFoE p49): you gain a deceased teacher of skills, charms and virtues (think Obi Wan in the original trilogy.) The use of this does require three lore charms and essence 3 (which means it should be a cheaper level of the family ties background to get it) the level of the power depends on the power of the ancestors you can access. More powerful ancestors may be able to teach more charms and higher levels of skills. Also, the charm may allow you to access several ancestors. More powerful ancestors would be much more useful than less powerful ones. But 3-5 dots seems good.
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