Talent Cards

After any successful Perception, Inquiry, Forensics, or Research check during an active investigation, ask one additional narrow factual question; the GM answers honestly, though not completely.

When a mundane official explanation would prematurely close a case, report written, scene released, body cremated, add 1 Boon die to identify the contradiction or preserve the critical evidence before it is gone.

After interviewing at least two witnesses separately on the same incident, reduce the difficulty of one subsequent Inquiry or Research check to reconstruct the accurate timeline by 1 step.

When comparing the current case to a prior incident in your records or memory, treat one Research or Forensics check as having produced one additional piece of relevant information.

After gathering sufficient evidence in a case, you can read the accumulated pattern and name the enemy's nature. Ask the GM: What category of supernatural threat best fits the evidence? The GM must answer accurately from the following: demon, devil, ghost, spirit, Wound, relic, cult, monster, or unknown.

On a successful Forensics check, determine whether a scene was staged before or after the death or injury occurred.

Add 1 Boon die when comparing physical evidence against witness statements, official reports, or received accounts of the same event.

Once per session, when a body's condition cannot be explained by the mundane cause of death on record, ask the GM what physical law was broken. The GM must name it specifically.

Perform useful field pathology without full lab conditions. Reduce the difficulty of Forensics checks by 1 step when working in the field without standard equipment.

Once per case, a successful Forensics check on a body or scene touched by the supernatural reveals that a clue requiring supernatural interpretation exists and what general category of cause it points toward, though not its full meaning.

When you have a confirmed positional, numerical, or informational advantage over a target, add 1 Boon die to your Melee or Ranged attack check.

When you succeed on an attack, you may spend 1 Boon to grant the next ally who attacks the same target 1 additional Boon die on their check.

Move and take cover in the same action without penalty, even under active incoming fire or supernatural pressure.

Once per scene, make two combat-relevant actions in a single turn. You may not use the same skill for both actions.

You have internalized threat assessment past the point of conscious thought. You cannot be surprised by mundane attackers or conventional ambush setups. Supernatural ambush, things that move in ways combat training does not account for, still requires an active Perception check.

When rolling Composure to resist fear, supernatural dread, or panic, treat a result of one Success as though it were two for the purpose of determining the check's outcome.

Once per session, ignore the mechanical effects of a failed Composure check. You still fail, but you do not break.

Reduce Strain gained from supernatural fear, oppressive dread, and infernal spiritual pressure by 1 per incident, to a minimum of 0.

When you would gain 1 Corruption from an environmental or accidental source, proximity to a high-stage Wound, a passive infernal effect, an unconsented contact, make a Willpower check at Average . On success, you do not gain it.

Once per session, when accumulated Wounds or Strain would meet or exceed your Wound Points or Strain Points, you instead remain functional, stopping one short of the threshold on the track that would have incapacitated you. You cannot trigger this talent again until the next session.

When using Leadership to redirect panic, fear, or chaos in bystanders or allies, add 1 Boon die to the check.

When you give an ally a specific, explicit instruction before their next action, they add 1 Boon die to the first check made to follow it.

Once per scene, take command of a scene in active crisis without requiring a roll. Bystanders defer, allies act, chaos pauses for one round or until the situation fundamentally changes.

When exerting authority, federal, clerical, institutional, or personally earned, over a resistant NPC, add 2 Boon dice to the social check.

NPCs who have witnessed you operating effectively in crisis or command begin subsequent interactions with a positive initial disposition. Antagonistic NPCs require an extraordinary specific reason to immediately dismiss or defy you.

Raise one characteristic by 1, to a maximum of 4.

Raise one characteristic by 1, to a maximum of 4. Each purchase must apply to a different characteristic.

Raise one characteristic from 4 to 5.

Add 1 Boon die to Discernment checks to identify possession, false miracles, demonic deception, or profanation.

Once per session, when in proximity to a person, place, or object that is spiritually wrong in a way you have not yet identified, the GM warns you only that something is wrong, without saying what or where.

Identify whether a miracle, vision, holy-seeming event, or spiritual experience has been inverted, mimicked, or counterfeited by a supernatural source.

On a successful Discernment check, distinguish between the following categories of influence affecting a person or place: demon, devil, ghost, spirit, Wound, relic effect, or human fraud.

Once per case, on a successful Discernment check, force the GM to state one spiritual truth about the current situation accurately, though not safely or completely.

When helping another character resist demonic influence with Deliverance, add 1 Boon die to their Composure or Deliverance resistance check.

On a successful Deliverance check, prevent a target from speaking to, inviting, bargaining with, or consenting to early demonic pressure for one scene.

End one minor demonic influence effect on another person before possession takes hold, without requiring a full exorcism procedure.

Deliberately take supernatural pressure that was directed at another character. You suffer the Strain or Bane; they gain 1 Boon die on their next check.

Once per session, prevent early demonic influence from escalating into established possession for one full scene, buying time for proper Exorcism.

After direct examination, add 1 Boon die to checks made to distinguish demonic possession from human-soul possession. On success, you know whether the presence is fallen, human, or unclear, but not necessarily whether the human soul is dybbuk or ibbur.

During communication with a dybbuk, ibbur, or uncertain human soul in a host, reduce the difficulty of one Willpower + Discernment or Willpower + Theology check by 1 step. The host adds 1 Boon die to resist immediate spiritual pressure during the exchange.

Given proper materials and at least one scene of preparation, prepare a Tzror for a known or partially identified human soul. If the Tzror would be improvised, ignore the normal +1 Difficulty penalty on the capture check. If the soul's identity is still unknown, the penalty remains.

When performing the Reconciliation Assessment step, a failed check does not create false confidence unless the roll produces a Calamity. On ordinary failure, the GM tells you the assessment is uncertain and what additional evidence would clarify it.

Conduct or lead a purgatory-passage rite for one prepared Tzror, or assist a Lamed Vav mass-passage event with full effectiveness. Requires a full ritual scene, correct names, correct vessel, and a spiritually defensible reason. Failure creates a purgatory distortion as described in Chapter Eight.

Before touching, moving, opening, or activating an object, make a Relic Lore or Containment check. On success, identify one likely trigger condition, handling restriction, or passive danger.

When using proper containment gear, add 1 Boon die to safely transport, label, isolate, or hand off a Class I-II relic or cursed object. For higher-class objects, this talent identifies what additional containment requirement is missing.

Suppress one known passive effect, trigger, or environmental bleed from an active object for one scene with a successful Containment check; this makes the object manageable, not permanently safe.

During an active containment breach, ask the GM: What failure mode matters most right now? The GM answers honestly, and the next ally who acts on that answer adds 1 Boon die .

Once per case, stabilize a Class IV or lower object long enough for extraction, vault transfer, or final containment. A Class V object can be delayed for one scene, not solved. The GM names one long-term complication created by moving something this dangerous.

On a successful Occult Lore check at a ritual site, identify the working's apparent intent, its fuel, its anchor, or its tell. Choose one; spend Boon results to identify additional elements.

When entering or disturbing an occult setup, identify one boundary, circle, inscription, object, or bodily trace that should not be broken. Allies who follow your warning add 1 Boon die to avoid triggering the working.

Interrupt an ongoing occult working by targeting its anchor, fuel, or geometry. On a successful Occult Lore or Forbidden Rites check, reduce the working's next effect by one step or add 1 Bane die to the practitioner's next roll.

Create a temporary counterworking that contains, redirects, or delays an occult effect for one scene without powering it through sacrifice. If you add blood, death, or infernal leverage as fuel, the action becomes a Forbidden Working and follows Chapter Twelve.

Once per case, collapse a major summoning, binding, or Wound-feeding occult working before it completes, if you have identified its intent, fuel, and anchor. On failure, you become the nearest available route for the backlash.

Add 1 Boon die to Righteous Fire checks made in direct defense of another person.

On a successful Righteous Fire check, force a supernatural entity exerting influence in the scene to reveal that it is present and active, without necessarily revealing its location or nature.

When using Righteous Fire in direct service of your Passion, you may spend 2 Strain after assembling the Pool to add 1 additional Boon die before rolling.

When spending Strain in direct service of your Passion, you ignore the escalating cost: every added success costs a flat 3 Strain instead of 3, then 4, then 5, and so on. Applies to all Passion-engaged checks, not only Righteous Fire. The normal limit still applies, you cannot spend past what would incapacitate you.

On a successful Righteous Fire check, protect all allies in Engaged range from one minor demonic influence effect for the remainder of the scene.

Once per session, your Righteous Fire confrontation forces a demon or devil to acknowledge one spiritual claim, spiritual lie, or specific vulnerability it holds. The acknowledgment is visible and usable. The entity may then focus its attention on you.

Add 1 Boon die to Perception checks made to detect early signs of supernatural presence, approach, or escalation in a space you are actively monitoring. This is trained situational awareness, not spiritual sight.

Designate one character as your charge for the current scene. While you remain within Engaged range, that character adds 1 Boon die to resistance checks against supernatural pressure, possession attempts, or demonic influence directed at them. The designation ends if you fall incapacitated or leave the scene.

When a supernatural effect, demonic pressure, or spiritual attack targets an ally within Engaged range, you may redirect it to yourself instead. The effect applies to you at full strength. The original target is unaffected.

Once per session, prevent one supernatural entity from disengaging, escalating to a new target, or leaving the current space for the remainder of the scene. Your refusal to yield holds it in place without a formal binding, and it may direct full attention to you as a result.

Once per session, when accumulated Strain would render you incapacitated, you remain functional until the end of the current scene. At scene's end, all Strain resolves normally. This does not prevent or delay Wound damage.

Add 1 Boon die to Deception checks made to maintain a prepared false identity under active pressure.

Once per session, declare that a small prepared item, message, or contact point was placed at a location you could plausibly have accessed before the scene.

Add 1 Boon die when identifying who is actually directing a cultist, compromised official, apparent civilian, or apparent ally.

When exiting a compromised scene with 5+ minutes available, erase or confuse one trail of mundane evidence without a check.

Once per session, reveal that you withheld a plausible operational detail from the party until this moment. The detail must fit the established fiction and cannot resolve the current scene by itself.

Add 1 Boon die to Technology or Tradecraft checks when using surveillance equipment that has been in place for more than one hour.

Once per scene, detect whether the party is under mundane observation without a roll, unless the opposition is exceptionally trained or equipped.

After observing a specific target for one full scene, add 1 Boon die to any subsequent Inquiry, Tradecraft, or Deception check directly involving that individual.

On a successful Technology check, intercept and interpret one communication between NPCs without revealing your presence or access method.

Once per session, you and up to two allies move through a surveilled location without triggering detection, provided you have advance knowledge of the surveillance layout.

Add 1 Boon die to checks establishing a cover identity that has existed in records for more than 24 hours.

Once per session, request one piece of logistical support, transport, documents, a safe location, without revealing the source.

When compromised, introduce one layer of separation that delays attribution for one scene.

Officially remove one NPC from accessible records for 48 in-game hours. This has later consequences.

Invoke Directorate Vesper's full operational infrastructure to establish a complete cover scenario in place. The GM introduces one consequence of the program's direct involvement.

On first meeting an NPC, add 1 Boon die to assess whether they are who they claim to be.

After one successful social interaction with a cooperative NPC, they may be treated as a long-term asset who answers one question per session without a check.

When an asset is under pressure from a third party, add 1 Boon die to Tradecraft or Charm checks to stabilize the relationship.

Declare one planned extraction route for an asset. If the route becomes necessary, it functions without a check unless actively blocked.

One asset you have cultivated over multiple sessions will not break under mundane interrogation, surveillance, or pressure, and will not reveal your relationship without extraordinary supernatural compulsion.

Once per scene, use federal credentials to compel NPC cooperation for one exchange without a social check, unless the NPC has active specific reason to resist federal authority.

At an active scene, establish federal authority over all other personnel without a roll, unless another federal authority is present with a competing mandate.

Officially protect one witness from external interference, relocation, or pressure for 48 in-game hours without requiring a check.

Once per session, accelerate one bureaucratic, legal, or institutional process from days to hours by invoking federal authority.

Claim federal jurisdiction over a case so completely that no other agency, faction, or official can remove it without extraordinary political force.

Before beginning an interview, add 1 Boon die to Perception checks to assess a witness's emotional state, reliability, and likely pressure points.

Reduce the difficulty of Inquiry checks with initially uncooperative witnesses by 1 step.

When a witness statement contains a contradiction, identify it automatically. You may then ask one clarifying question the witness must answer more honestly than they intended.

After a witness has given a statement, revisit it once with 2 Boon dice on the Inquiry check, they have had time to reconsider and you know how to use that.

Once per case, a successful Inquiry check with a key witness allows you to ask: What did you see that you have not been able to make yourself say out loud? The GM gives the witness's honest answer.

Add 1 Boon die to Containment checks when using standard Archive containment gear, proper gloves, sealed cases, treated materials.

When an object activates unexpectedly, ask one question: What did the previous handler do that triggered this? The GM answers based on available evidence or Archive records.

As an action, make a Containment check to suppress one active relic effect for one scene. Success suppresses it; failure may escalate it.

Invoke Archive authority to requisition restricted containment gear or access a sealed area without the standard delay or bureaucratic process.

Once per case, stabilize an active object, site, or room long enough for the team to evacuate, conduct research, or complete a major rite. The stabilization holds for one scene unless actively disrupted.

Add 1 Boon die to Relic Lore checks when you have consulted available Archive records on the object before handling it.

After any incident involving a relic or object, create or update its Archive entry. Future handlers who access this record add 1 Boon die to their first Relic Lore check on the same item.

On a successful Research check, identify whether a similar containment failure has occurred in Archive history and what resolution was effective.

Identify precisely when and how someone has bypassed standard containment protocol with an active object, and what the likely consequences of the deviation are.

Your Archive credentials carry institutional weight sufficient to commandeer civilian resources, emergency services, or government cooperation in an active containment situation.

When entering a site with an active containment problem, immediately assess its scope and priority without a check.

Establish a physical perimeter around a hazardous site that mundane authorities treat as official quarantine. No credentials check required if Archive protocols are followed.

Assess whether persons exposed to a relic event have been affected, and if so, how seriously and what category of effect.

Reduce active supernatural contamination on a person or small area using proper materials and a Containment check.

Complete a full field quarantine of an active hazard site without external support, establish perimeter, suppress active effects, document, seal, and report, within one scene.

Add 1 Boon die to checks to confirm whether a supernatural creature is incapacitated, regenerating, baiting, or waiting for the right moment.

With 30 minutes and available materials, prepare one weapon, trap, or ammunition type against a known weakness. This preparation adds 1 Boon die to the first attack that uses it.

On a successful Tracking or Monster Lore check, identify one of the following: most likely escape route, location of a secondary den, or pattern of the creature's feeding ground.

When the party has prepared terrain against a known creature type before engagement begins, the first ally to attack adds 1 Boon die .

Once per session, when exploiting a confirmed weakness against a creature you have Kill Ledger knowledge on, convert one successful attack into a decisive disabling effect: the creature cannot regenerate this scene, cannot flee, cannot shift form, or loses one specific ability. The specific effect is determined by creature type in Chapter Eleven.

With a few minutes and common materials, create a basic precaution at one entry point or perimeter. Add 1 Boon die to the first check made to detect or resist intrusion, ambush, or night attack at that point.

When entering any new location, immediately identify three viable escape routes without a check. You may communicate this to allies.

Once per session, declare that you have a small cache of necessary field supplies within reasonable travel distance: silver-tipped rounds, salt, iron, first aid, a burner phone.

When you lack specific equipment but have materials to work with, reduce the difficulty of Fieldcraft, Survival, or Containment checks by 1 step.

In any environment, rural or urban, you navigate without technology, identify supernatural activity by terrain and sign, and locate shelter, supply, or extraction without a roll unless the situation is actively hostile.

On a successful Monster Lore check, identify one specific physical vulnerability: a joint, an organ, a spot where the creature's natural defenses are thinner than elsewhere.

When you have researched the target before engagement, all allies add 1 Boon die to their first attack against that creature type in this encounter.

After dealing any damage to a supernatural creature, confirm without a check whether you struck a known weakness or not.

When striking a confirmed weakness, spend 1 Boon result to force the creature to react defensively rather than offensively on its next action.

Once per session, one attack that exploits a confirmed creature weakness and succeeds becomes automatically decisive at maximum effect with no partial result.

Identify one safe location, a quiet motel, a sympathetic church, a hunter cache, in any area within 50 miles without a check.

When offering skills, information, or aid to another hidden-world operator, add 1 Boon die to the social check to build trust or call in a favor.

Once per session, recall one piece of information about the current location left by hunters who came before: a prior incident, a known danger, a useful contact.

Invoke the Road's informal obligation to help. Another hunter-network NPC cannot refuse assistance without a cost to their standing, even if they dislike you personally.

Your reputation on the Black Road precedes you. Hunters who have never met you know your name and your kills. You begin encounters with Black Road-adjacent NPCs at significant positive standing.

When a topic has any written record, reduce the time required for one Research check, from hours to minutes, or from days to hours.

On a successful Dead Languages or Research check, identify one note, correction, or scribal oddity that changes the interpretation of a text in a way the main text does not reveal.

Use Research to assist another character's Occult Lore, Theology, Relic Lore, or Monster Lore check. They add 2 Boon dice instead of the standard 1 for assistance.

Once per case, identify that a relevant expert, colleague, or institutional contact has already done work on this specific topic. The GM provides one research result as if a successful check had already been completed.

Once per case, reveal a suppressed, older, or contradictory version of a key piece of supernatural knowledge, one that changes the available solution, approach, or understanding of the threat.

On a successful Dead Languages check, produce a functional translation of a document with known risks flagged, even from partial or damaged text.

Identify a language, script, or cipher on sight, even one you cannot yet fully translate, and determine whether it is occult, liturgical, mundane, or intentionally obfuscated.

When a ritual, ward, rite, or invocation is in a dead language, a successful Dead Languages check reveals whether the pronunciation or inscription is correct, reversed, corrupt, or deliberately weaponized.

When a supernatural name, title, epithet, or invocation is in a dead language, a successful check reveals whether it holds power, what category of power, and whether it has been invoked before.

No written text in any known historical language is beyond your ability to interpret given sufficient time. Wholly synthetic or demonic scripts still require checks but never at the maximum difficulty.

On a successful Relic Lore check, determine one prior owner or one prior incident in an object's history.

After examining an object and its documented history, identify whether its prior incidents share a pattern, same trigger, same victim type, same location type.

A sustained examination of a significant object reveals one complete prior incident in detail: who, what happened, and whether the outcome was resolved or unresolved.

Identify whether an object claiming to be a holy relic is authentic, partially authentic, fraudulent, or something else entirely pretending to be a relic.

Once per case, a thorough examination of an object reveals its complete known history, every owner, every incident, every recorded effect. The GM provides the full file, noting gaps in available documentation.

Add 1 Boon die to Forbidden Rites checks made to assess whether a forbidden procedure is functional, a trap, bait, or fraud before attempting it.

Reduce the penalty Bane dice from improvised ritual conditions by 1 (minimum 0). The Corruption risk from using the rite is not reduced.

Once per session, when a Forbidden Rites check would cause Strain, take 1 Corruption instead to reduce the Strain cost by 2.

Use stolen, inverted, or counterfeit spiritual authority in a rite. Reduce the check difficulty by 1 step, then the GM introduces one complication that manifests within the session.

Attempt a rite that no sanctioned institution can perform in the available time. The immediate problem may be addressed. The GM adds one major long-term cost.

When examining a bargain, curse, or infernal agreement, identify one explicit condition: what was promised, what was given, what triggers collection.

On a successful Occult Lore or Forbidden Rites check, identify one specific thing the agreement does not cover, the procedural gap the bound party might exploit.

Temporarily delay a devil's claim by citing one valid procedural defect, contradicted condition, or unfulfilled term. The delay buys one scene or one session.

Use a victim's repentance, restitution, confession, or sacrifice to formally weaken an infernal claim. Reduce the devil's leverage by one tier for the purposes of negotiation or exorcism.

Attempt to void a devil's bargain entirely, if the team can demonstrate fraud, invalid consent, impossible terms, or the existence of a prior higher claim. Requires correct authority, correct evidence, and the right moment.

On a successful Deception check, produce an effect resembling minor holy power, calming a room, suppressing a minor manifestation, at the cost of 1 Corruption.

Produce a blessing that functions for one scene: a person, object, or space gains one benefit of consecrated status. The effect expires; repeated use accumulates Corruption risk.

Invoke a holy name or clerical authority that is not yours in a rite. The rite may succeed. The entity addressed will eventually notice the deception.

Create an effect indistinguishable from genuine holy power for one scene. Costs 2 Corruption. Entities with supernatural perception will eventually detect the fraud.

Once per session, produce one effect equivalent to a Tier 3 Consecration magical talent, using infernal means. Costs 3 Corruption.

Add 1 Boon die to Streetwise checks to locate an occult black-market contact in any city within 24 hours.

When examining black-market occult goods, identify one risk, deception, or hidden condition the seller has not disclosed.

Once per session, declare that you have sourced one specific piece of restricted equipment, forbidden text, or unusual ritual material that arrived before the scene. Cost is narrative, someone knows you have it.

When negotiating for restricted items or services on the occult black market, reduce difficulty by 1 step and treat the contact's initial disposition as cooperative rather than suspicious.

Once per case, access an item, text, or contact that is not supposed to exist in any available inventory. The GM determines what specifically exists; the character finds it.

Perceive supernatural entities, active Wound sites, and ongoing rites without a roll. Perceive spiritual residue on objects and persons with a Willpower check.

After one scene of focused observation in a location, perceive its spiritual history: what was done here supernaturally, what kind of power was used, and roughly when.

Through sustained contact or focused observation of a supernatural entity, begin to perceive its true nature beneath its presented form. Requires a Willpower + Discernment check.

Automatically detect when holy power, magical effects, infernal glamour, or supernatural working has been recently active in a location, and roughly what kind.

Perceive the Wound escalation stage of any site within line of sight without examination. Sense active Shards within a mile of your position. Feel when a Wound site shifts stage.

Ward one door, window, mirror, or vehicle entry point against a specific supernatural threat type for one scene. Requires materials: salt, iron, blessed oil, or equivalent.

Create a ward that adds 1 Bane die to any supernatural entity attempting to cross or manifest through the warded boundary.

Establish a protective circle preventing direct supernatural intrusion while your concentration holds. Requires 10 minutes and proper materials. Broken by removing materials or losing concentration under direct attack.

A ward established with proper holy materials or valid sacred authority bypasses one supernatural defensive property or countermeasure.

At a Wound site in active crisis, prevent the Wound from escalating or bleeding through one defined boundary for one scene. Gain 3 strain and you cannot perform any other magic action this scene.

Bind a minor supernatural effect, residual manifestation, or presence to a symbol, object, or marked location for a brief duration, one scene or until disrupted.

On a successful Willpower + Theology or Forbidden Rites check, prevent a manifested entity from leaving a defined area for one scene.

Bind an entity under one specific observable condition it must follow: cannot speak deception, cannot cross a line, cannot touch the host. Requires knowing its name or category.

Bind an entity to its current vessel or location long enough for exorcism, banishment, or proper containment. Failure risks the entity gaining commensurate leverage against the binder.

Permanently bind a significant entity if the team holds its true name, valid authority, and sufficient leveraged position. Requires an extended ritual and the entity's true name. Failure is catastrophic.

You may lead a formal exorcism procedure against an established possession (see Chapter Eight for the full five-stage procedure); without this talent you may assist but not lead. During Stage 1 (Diagnosis), you may also identify whether a possession is partial, full, feigned, or externally anchored.

During Stage 3 (Binding) or Stage 4 (Confrontation), force a possessing entity to produce a sign, react audibly, or reveal leverage information. The entity cannot fully conceal itself from you once rite contact is established.

During Stage 4 (Confrontation), spend Boon results from rite checks to reduce the entity's next resistance roll, add Bane dice to its next action, or recover one step of procedural progress.

If the possession is tied to an external anchor, a relic, devil's bargain, Wound site, or bound object, you may target the anchor as a procedural step during Stage 4 (Confrontation). Destroying or neutralizing the anchor reduces the entity's final resistance at Stage 5 by 1 difficulty step.

Complete Stage 5 (Expulsion) against a major possessing entity. Requires correct procedure, sufficient accumulated leverage, and a host who can physically survive expulsion. The expelled entity does not return to this host. Costs 4 Strain; you cannot perform any rite for 24 hours afterward.

Perceive and establish minimal communication with a ghost, enough to identify what general category of unfinished business holds it.

Suppress poltergeist effects, haunting pressure, or death echoes in a location for one scene.

On a successful Discernment check, identify the specific thing that holds a ghost: a murder, an oath, an object, a lie, a location, a family member, an unspoken truth.

Perform a complete banishment or release if the ghost's unfinished business has been resolved, addressed, or symbolically satisfied in a way the ghost can accept.

Attempt to return a spirit that has escaped the afterlife back to its proper destination, addressing a theologically serious breach beyond an ordinary release. Costs 5 Strain and one dedicated ritual scene.

Summon a minor spirit, shade, messenger, or local presence under controlled circle conditions. The summoned entity may answer questions; it is not compelled to be truthful.

A successfully summoned entity must answer one narrow factual question before it may attempt to evade, bargain, or twist the interaction. One question only.

Summon a specific entity if you hold its name, an anchor object, a blood connection, or a valid invitation form. The entity appears, but does not cooperate.

Force a specific dangerous entity to appear or send a manifest representation, even without an explicit invitation. If the containment circle is flawed, the entity gains leverage commensurate with the flaw.

Summon a major entity without immediately triggering Wound escalation, if preparation is perfect, the circle is flawless, and you hold valid authority and a defensible reason. Costs 5 Strain.

Hold partial leverage over an entity through a title, epithet, office, or historical name. Add 1 Boon die to resistance checks against that entity and prevent it from completely lying to you while you hold the fragment.

When resisting deception from an entity whose name fragment you hold, add 2 Boon dice and the entity must answer one direct question truthfully before attempting deception again.

Force a demon, devil, or spirit to acknowledge one binding limitation tied to its infernal nature or office. It must comply once, though it will seek another interpretation.

Strip away one false identity, glamour, possessed persona, or supernatural disguise from an entity. The revelation is complete and cannot be re-applied this scene.

Use a known true name as decisive leverage in exorcism, binding, banishment, or formal negotiation. The entity cannot ignore the invocation, cannot fully resist its force, and cannot leave without answering it. Requires a known true name. Misusing a true name, invoking it carelessly, selfishly, or without proper authority, invites catastrophic response.

Prepare one weapon, vial, tool, or object to count as Holy for one scene, allowing it to affect supernatural targets that require holy items.

Remove minor profanation, Hollow residue, or infernal trace from a person, small object, or area through a successful Willpower + Theology check.

Establish a temporary holy zone in a defined area that adds 1 Bane die to demonic entry, manifestation, or influence for one scene.

Properly align a misaligned, damaged, or internally corrupted holy relic so it functions without backlash or reduced effect.

As part of an extended ritual, a full scene, correct materials, valid authority, attempt to reduce a Wound site by one escalation stage. Requires the site to have received no active feeding within 24 hours.

Through contact and a Willpower check, sense whether a relic is dormant, active, cursed, holy, false, hungry, or waiting.

Carry or touch an active relic for one scene without triggering one specific known passive danger. You choose which danger is suppressed.

If you know an object's triggering condition, intentionally activate a minor relic effect with a Containment + Willpower check. Controlled success activates it safely; failure triggers the effect normally.

Fully activate a relic against the specific threat type it was made to oppose. Its primary function is available for one scene. Inappropriate activation carries backlash risk.

Trigger a true relic's full primary power at scale. Risk, cost, and effect are object-specific and determined by the GM based on the relic's history and nature. This is the option of last resort.

Sense the presence, rough emotional state, and general category of ghosts, death echoes, or recent spiritual disturbance in a location without a roll.

Establish communication with a present ghost and ask one question it can answer, if it is willing or can be addressed correctly.

With consent or on a successful Willpower check against resistance, experience one memory fragment from a ghost's life or death. Costs 2 Strain.

Prevent a ghost or spirit from overwhelming, possessing, or driving a living person from a location for one scene. You absorb the directed spiritual pressure.

Resolve a ghost's unfinished message, claim, or action in a way that provides one mechanical benefit toward its release: a Boon die on the banishment check, a difficulty reduction, or the specific information required for resolution.

Once per session, use a morally bankrupt method that would normally carry the Restricted Discipline penalty for a first offense. Make the check without penalty this once. Gain 1 Corruption on success, the method worked, which is its own kind of damage.

Supernatural oppression, low-level demonic pressure, and haunting presence no longer cost Strain on the first incident per scene. This reflects habituation, not immunity: anything beyond the first incident still costs Strain normally.

You can hear when a devil is actively making an offer in your vicinity, even if the offer is not directed at you. Once per session, the GM tells you what the nearest active offer is. You don't have to take it. You can't stop hearing it.

You perceive supernatural entities and their true hungers as though you had Tier 1 Occult Sight, without paying its Wound Point cost; your Corruption does the work instead of sanctioned access. What you perceive is filtered through your corruption and may not be accurate.

Add 1 Boon die to all Negotiation and Deception checks when the deal or lie you are offering is materially harmful to the other party.

Infernal entities treat your Corruption score as 2 lower than it actually is when assessing offers to make you. You have become predictable enough that they approach you more confidently.

A specific devil or infernal faction has assessed your Corruption, capability, and utility, and extended a standing offer. The GM defines the offer: specific, real, and permanent; it does not expire.

You may address a devil directly, without a mediating rite, infernal contract structure, or third-party intermediary. Once per session, a devil who can perceive you must answer one direct question, truthfully though not completely. Devils answer because you have become fluent enough in what they are that ignoring you would be impolite. Something has changed in you that made this possible. You do not fully know what.

Once per campaign, spend 5 Corruption, permanently reducing your track by 5, to achieve one supernatural effect of your choice equivalent to a Tier 4 magical talent you do not possess. The story cost of what was exchanged is determined between you and the GM and is permanent.