Ra'shari Apprentice of Night

FFG L5R Stats

Title: Ra'shari Apprentice of Night

Assigned By: A Ra'shari master of the Mystic Caravan.

Status Award: +0

XP to Completion: 16

Blessings of the Night (Title Ability): You may now learn Ra'shari Night magic of ranks 1-2 as if they were on any curriculum you have active. When you cast Ra'shari Night magic, you may take 1 fatigue to change a die that shows a blank face to any other face, or to change a die that shows any non-blank face to a blank.

Advance	Type
Scholar Skills	Skill Group
Survival	Skill
Commerce	Skill
Courtesy	Skill
Rank 1-2 Ra'shari Night Magic	Tech Group
Commune with the Spirits	Technique
Divination	Technique

Ra'shari Magic

Each branch of Ra'shari magic is attuned to a particular time of day. When cast during the appropriate time (dawn to noon, noon to nightfall, nightfall to dawn) all Magnitude requirements are lowered by 1, to a minimum of 0. During the following time period, magnitude requirements are as printed. During the previous time of day, magnitude requirements are increased by 1.

New Technique: The Sound of Life (Ra'shari Night Magic, Void, Rank 1)

Activation: As a Scheme and Support action, Theology TN Vigilance, or TN 1 on a willing target. You connect your name with the name of a target animal or person.

Effects: Until the end of the scene, you can communicate normally through speech and understand each other, can sense when the other is in danger, and can sense the other's general distance and direction.

New Opportunities

+:  : For each spent, you may target another willing target, or unwilling target with vigilance no higher than the primary target.

Magnitude

Magnitude 1: The duration is 1 day.

Magnitude 2: The duration is 1 week.

Magnitude 3: The duration is 1 month.

Magnitude 4: The duration is 1 year.

New Technique: Blessing of Health (Ra'shari Night Magic, Void, Rank 2)

Activation: As a Support action, Theology TN 2. If you succeed, you accelerate the target's natural healing.

Effects: Until the next sunset, the target recovers to 0 fatigue at the end of each scene, and at sunset, may make a check to recover from a single injury. Anyone using the Medicine skill to speed the target's healing may make as a Support action, lowering the TN by 1, plus an additional 1 per 2 bonus successes.

New Opportunities

+:  : For each spent, you may target another character.

+:  :For each spent, whenever a character would make a check to heal an injury, or have one made for them, another injury may be checked as well.

Magnitude

Magnitude 2: The target may check naturally every time the phase of day changes instead of only at sunset.

Magnitude 4: The target instantly heals all injuries, and the spell continues to be in effect for 1 week.

New Technique: The Touch of Life (Ra'shari Night Magic, Void, Rank 3)

Activation: As a Support or Downtime action, Theology TN 3, targeting one advantage, disadvantage, ring, or natural ability of one target on whom you currently have active The Sound of Life.

Effects: If you succeed, you copy that trait until the end of the scene, and have all effects as though it were your advantage, disadvantage, or natural ability.

New Opportunities

+:  : For each spent, you may target another advantage, disadvantage, ring, or natural ability.

Magnitude

Magnitude 2: The change lasts until the next sunset.

Magnitude 4: The change is permanent. The magnitude required for this result is permanently increased by 1.

New Technique: Isolate Corruption (Ra'shari Night Magic, Void, Rank 4)

Activation: As a Support or Downtime action, Theology TN 4 targeting one character suffering from a target poison, disease, or spiritual ailment that takes time to heal. If the target is under the effects of Blessing of Health, reduce the TN by 1.

Effects: Until the next sunset, the TN to treat the targeted affliction is lowered by 1 plus the number of bonus successes.

New Opportunities

+:  : For each spent, you may target another character and ailment on that character.

Magnitude

Magnitude 2: If successfully treated, a poison or disease can be isolated into an appropriate container.

Magnitude 3: If successfully treated, a spiritual ailment can be isolated into an appropriate container, which may need to be a special container indeed.

New Technique: The Shape of Life (Ra'shari Night Magic, Void, Rank 5)

Activation: As a Support action, Theology TN 2, targeting a single target on whom you currently have active The Sound of Life, with Silhouette no larger than your own.

Effects: Until the end of the scene, you borrow the target's form, becoming an exact duplicate of them, physically, including all natural physical abilities and traits, but not supernatural traits or training.

New Opportunities

+:  : For each spent, you may target a creature with silhouette one larger.

Magnitude

Magnitude 1: The form lasts until the next sunset.

Magnitude 3: You may borrow a single supernatural trait or ability, technique, or raise one of your own rings to equal the target's, if higher, subject to GM approval.