Shattered Mirror
The Shattered Mirror Legacy looks at the Fallen World as a broken mirror, poorly reflecting what was in the Time Before.
The Spectators try to put the pieces together, to form a cohesive image of what the world should be.
Origins
Parentage: Moros
Background: ?
Appearance: ?
Doctrine
Prerequisites: Death 2, Empathy 2, and either Craft or Expression 2
Initiation: Must have visited their own Oneiros and manipulated shadows.
Organization: None
Theory: A shadow is one of many reflections of the self. Inspired by their own daimons, Spectators reveal that which others turn away from.
Magic
Ruling Arcanum: Death
Yantras: Using a pinhole camera to focus an image (+2), breaking a silver backed mirror (+1), holding a cup or bowl of water still (+1)
Oblations:?
First Attainment: Through the Looking Glass
Prerequisite: Initiation
Arcana: Death
Primary Spell Factor: Duration
Reach: Advanced Duration
Reflections have long been thought to show glimpses of a person's soul.
The Spectators know that these reflections show evidence of distortion in the essence of both people and objects.
With this attainment, a Spectator can see these distortions in shadows.
Through the Looking Glass also creates shadows where none currently exist.
Objects and entities in Death attuned Twilight cast shadows into the Material Realm.
Hidden objects and entities cast shadows as if there were no obstructions to hide them.
Objects and entities hidden by supernatural means resist this effect causing a Clash of Wills.
Optional Yantra
When using a reflective yantra such as a pool of water or a mirror, any objects or entities whose shadows are revealed by Through the Looking Glass appear in full color in the mirror's reflection.
This allows for creatures like vampires to properly appear in mirrors.
Add Mind or Spirit *
Objects and entities in the corresponding Twilight cast shadows into the Material Realm.
Second Attainment: Reflection Sculpting
Prerequisites: Death 2, Crafting or Expression 3
Reflections, like shadows, are images of their source and just as a shadow can be manipulated so too can a reflection.
This attainment duplicates the effects of Shadow Sculpting (Death **) with one reach for instant casting and a second for animation.
When animating the Spectator's reflection, their reflected shadow may be manipulated to form objects with Durability 2.
These shadow objects are treated as solid by Twilight entities reflected in the mirror by Through the Looking Glass.
If used as a weapon against Twilight entities the shadows have a weapon rating of 2.
Optional Matter 3
For a point of mana, the Spectator can cause reflections to happen in reality.
Damage done in this way is always bashing and reduced by 2.
Third Attainment: Mirror World
Prerequisites: Death 3, Empathy 3
Reach: Advanced Duration
The Spectator may perform a ritual to use a mirror as a portal to Death attuned Twilight.
Ghost Gate (Death ***) is similar to this attainment, but objects may be retrieved through Mirror World without Touch of the Grave (Death **) and become true material objects with the appropriate properties.
While the portal is open the mirror reflects its destination, from the Material Realm it shows Twilight and from Twilight the Material Realm.
Optional Space 3
The Spectator causes the mirror to become a portal to another mirror instead of to Twilight. This effect acts as Co-Located (Space ***), but may only overlap spaces reflected in mirrors that the Spectator knows about.
Fourth Attainment: Mirror Double
Prerequisite: Death 4, Crafting or Expression 4
The Spectator may command their reflection or shadow to act on its own and which has access to the Spectator's Legacy Attainments.
A reflection is capable of stepping through a mirror with Mirror World, but disappears when Mirror Double ends.
When used on their shadow, it creates an entity that appears like a palette inverted copy of themselves (neither they nor the double cast shadows or have reflections.)
When physical, the reflection or shadow has the same attributes as the Spectator otherwise it uses the same attributes as the Spectator's Dream Form.
The reflection or shadow may be directly controlled, giving up control of the Spectator's body unless under the influence of One Mind, Two Thoughts (Mind *).
This attainment causes the Spectator to be considered in the Astral Plane at all times for the purposes of One Mind, Two Thoughts.
Alternatively, the reflection or shadow can be given a simple command which it will attempt to complete, if time is still left an additional command can be given when it completes the first.
This attainment may also be used as Ghost Summons (Death ***) binding the ghost to the reflection or shadow, in which case complex commands may be given.
Optional Spirit 3
The Spectator may use the attainment as Spirit Summons (Spirit ***) binding the spirit to the reflection or shadow and may give it a complex command.
Optional Mind 3
The Spectator may use the attainment as Goetic Summons (Mind ***) binding the goetia to the reflection or shadow and may give it a complex command.
Fifth Attainment: Windows of the Soul
Prerequisite: Death 5, Empathy 5
Eyes are reflective surfaces, normally too small to work with, but with this attainment that changes.
The size of a reflective surface no longer matters, the Spectator may "step through" a pocket mirror.
Mere eye contact is enough for the Spectator to activate any of their attainments, using either the reflection in another's eyes or the reflection of their own eyes in someone else's.
Optional Mind 4
A person's eyes function as a mirror to their Oneiros, which is considered Twilight by this Legacy's Attainments.
When stepping through a person's eyes, a mirror reflecting the outside world they see is created in their Oneiros.
Attempting to enter the Temenos is impossible when an Oneiros is entered this way.
Entering your own Oneiros this way is possible, but as your own eyes cease to reflect anything in the real world... getting back out can be difficult.
The Shattered Mirror Legacy looks at the Fallen World as a broken mirror, poorly reflecting what was in the Time Before.
The Spectators try to put the pieces together, to form a cohesive image of what the world should be.
Origins
Parentage: Moros
Background: ?
Appearance: ?
Doctrine
Prerequisites: Death 2, Empathy 2, and either Craft or Expression 2
Initiation: Must have visited their own Oneiros and manipulated shadows.
Organization: None
Theory: A shadow is one of many reflections of the self. Inspired by their own daimons, Spectators reveal that which others turn away from.
Magic
Ruling Arcanum: Death
Yantras: Using a pinhole camera to focus an image (+2), breaking a silver backed mirror (+1), holding a cup or bowl of water still (+1)
Oblations:?
First Attainment: Through the Looking Glass
Prerequisite: Initiation
Arcana: Death
Primary Spell Factor: Duration
Reach: Advanced Duration
Reflections have long been thought to show glimpses of a person's soul.
The Spectators know that these reflections show evidence of distortion in the essence of both people and objects.
With this attainment, a Spectator can see these distortions in shadows.
Through the Looking Glass also creates shadows where none currently exist.
Objects and entities in Death attuned Twilight cast shadows into the Material Realm.
Hidden objects and entities cast shadows as if there were no obstructions to hide them.
Objects and entities hidden by supernatural means resist this effect causing a Clash of Wills.
Optional Yantra
When using a reflective yantra such as a pool of water or a mirror, any objects or entities whose shadows are revealed by Through the Looking Glass appear in full color in the mirror's reflection.
This allows for creatures like vampires to properly appear in mirrors.
Add Mind or Spirit *
Objects and entities in the corresponding Twilight cast shadows into the Material Realm.
Second Attainment: Reflection Sculpting
Prerequisites: Death 2, Crafting or Expression 3
Reflections, like shadows, are images of their source and just as a shadow can be manipulated so too can a reflection.
This attainment duplicates the effects of Shadow Sculpting (Death **) with one reach for instant casting and a second for animation.
When animating the Spectator's reflection, their reflected shadow may be manipulated to form objects with Durability 2.
These shadow objects are treated as solid by Twilight entities reflected in the mirror by Through the Looking Glass.
If used as a weapon against Twilight entities the shadows have a weapon rating of 2.
Optional Matter 3
For a point of mana, the Spectator can cause reflections to happen in reality.
Damage done in this way is always bashing and reduced by 2.
Third Attainment: Mirror World
Prerequisites: Death 3, Empathy 3
Reach: Advanced Duration
The Spectator may perform a ritual to use a mirror as a portal to Death attuned Twilight.
Ghost Gate (Death ***) is similar to this attainment, but objects may be retrieved through Mirror World without Touch of the Grave (Death **) and become true material objects with the appropriate properties.
While the portal is open the mirror reflects its destination, from the Material Realm it shows Twilight and from Twilight the Material Realm.
Optional Space 3
The Spectator causes the mirror to become a portal to another mirror instead of to Twilight. This effect acts as Co-Located (Space ***), but may only overlap spaces reflected in mirrors that the Spectator knows about.
Fourth Attainment: Mirror Double
Prerequisite: Death 4, Crafting or Expression 4
The Spectator may command their reflection or shadow to act on its own and which has access to the Spectator's Legacy Attainments.
A reflection is capable of stepping through a mirror with Mirror World, but disappears when Mirror Double ends.
When used on their shadow, it creates an entity that appears like a palette inverted copy of themselves (neither they nor the double cast shadows or have reflections.)
When physical, the reflection or shadow has the same attributes as the Spectator otherwise it uses the same attributes as the Spectator's Dream Form.
The reflection or shadow may be directly controlled, giving up control of the Spectator's body unless under the influence of One Mind, Two Thoughts (Mind *).
This attainment causes the Spectator to be considered in the Astral Plane at all times for the purposes of One Mind, Two Thoughts.
Alternatively, the reflection or shadow can be given a simple command which it will attempt to complete, if time is still left an additional command can be given when it completes the first.
This attainment may also be used as Ghost Summons (Death ***) binding the ghost to the reflection or shadow, in which case complex commands may be given.
Optional Spirit 3
The Spectator may use the attainment as Spirit Summons (Spirit ***) binding the spirit to the reflection or shadow and may give it a complex command.
Optional Mind 3
The Spectator may use the attainment as Goetic Summons (Mind ***) binding the goetia to the reflection or shadow and may give it a complex command.
Fifth Attainment: Windows of the Soul
Prerequisite: Death 5, Empathy 5
Eyes are reflective surfaces, normally too small to work with, but with this attainment that changes.
The size of a reflective surface no longer matters, the Spectator may "step through" a pocket mirror.
Mere eye contact is enough for the Spectator to activate any of their attainments, using either the reflection in another's eyes or the reflection of their own eyes in someone else's.
Optional Mind 4
A person's eyes function as a mirror to their Oneiros, which is considered Twilight by this Legacy's Attainments.
When stepping through a person's eyes, a mirror reflecting the outside world they see is created in their Oneiros.
Attempting to enter the Temenos is impossible when an Oneiros is entered this way.
Entering your own Oneiros this way is possible, but as your own eyes cease to reflect anything in the real world... getting back out can be difficult.
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