Essence

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Essence is, crudely put, an amount of inflict-permanent-magic-on-the-setting coupons that each character has, and which he may be able to use.

  • Essence is calculated from some a character's attributes
  • Essence is not renewable. The character is born with an amount and never gets more.
    • It should therefore be spent wisely
  • Essence is meant to be spent. There's no reason for a character to choose to retain his Essence, once he has found something attractive - in his eyes - to spend it on.
  • Not all characters can spend Essence.
    • In theory, all characters can learn the Endowing skill, which is one way to Enchant permanent magical items; in practice, for many charaters the time and Skill Points (SPs) required to learn Endowing to a safely usable skill level is prohibitive.
    • Some characters are born with one out of several kinds of Powers that can be used to create permanent magical items.
    • Some permanent magics that are not item-related cost Essence, such as Enhancing animals, turning Enhanced animals into Familiars, or giving spells a Duration of Permanent.
    • In some cases, Essence can be spent to drastically boost the power of magic, without this magic being permanent.
  • Essence is an in-world phenomenon that characters can and should talk about; it's not a metagame phenomenon.
  • Essence can be lost due to spellcasting or Endowing Fumbles, or other disasters, and also to the Death Touch of a Wraith or Wraith Lord.

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Deriving Essence

The formula for calculating how much Essence a character is born with is

  • Psyche attribute squared
  • Faith attribute squared
  • Will attribute squared
  • Constituition attribute squared
  • The four above values added together
  • Divide the total by 12
  • Round down to the nearest 0.1
  • This means that an average person, with 3 in Psyche, Faith, Will and Constitution, will have 3.0 Essence.


Examples I

Getting more in depth

Examples III

Advice

Please note

See also

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