Essence traits

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This article contains a variety of Advantages and DisAdvantages that affects the amount of Essence that the character has, in various ways.

Contents 1 More Essence 1.1 Extra Essence 1.2 Marked Essence Reserve 1.3 Essence Buffer 2 Advice 3 Please note 4 See also

More Essence

This is a list of Advantages that give the character extra Essence in various ways, but note that no character can have more than one of the traits from the below tables.

Extra Essence

Advantage	Cost	Notes
Extra Essence (Y) I	6 DP	The character's Psyche counts as 1 or 2 higher (depending on grade) only for the purpose of calculating Esence
Extra Essence (Y) II	30 DP
Extra Essence (F) I	6 DP	The character's Faith counts as 1 or 2 higher only for the purpose of calculating Esence
Extra Essence (F) II	30 DP
Extra Essence (Y & F) I	20 DP	The character's Psyche and Faith counts as 1 or 2 higher, only for the purpose of calculating Essence
Extra Essence (Y & F) II	120 DP

The above table gives the character more regular Essence, by affecting the Essence calculation formula, making his Psyche (Y) or Faith (F) or both count as 1 or even 2 points higher.

Marked Essence Reserve

This section gives the character extra Essence, which he may use on a particular activity. The amount is a percentage of his regular Essence. Use the final value of regular Essence, rounding down to the nearest 0.1, then take the percentage of that, and round that value down to the nearest 0.1.

Advantage	Cost	Notes
	DP
	DP
	DP
	DP

The character can still also spend his regular Essence on that activity, but it is always wiser to spend the Marked Essence first. (Non-Marked Essence is more flexible, and also Non-Marked Essence acts as a buffer against Essence loss from Death Touches and from magical Fumbles; if the character is subject to such a thing, and he has only 0.1 regular Essence left, he dies, even if he has plenty of Marked Essence left (with two exceptions; see below)).

Essence Buffer

This works much like (Ear-)Marked Essence, except that the character cannot voluntarily choose to spend it. Instead when the character is subject to the Death Touch of a Wraith or Wraith Lord, or when the character suffers a Spellcasting or Endowing skill roll Fumble, the Essence is drained from the buffer instead of from the character's regular Essence (i.e. the Essence he can spend on nifty things).

Advantage	Cost	Notes
Death Touch Buffer I	DP	25% or 50% Essence Buffer against Death Touches (i.e. from Wraiths and Wraith Lords).
Death Touch Buffer II	DP
Fumble Buffer I	DP	25% or 50% Essence Buffer against Spellcasting and Endowing Fumbles.
Fumble Buffer II	DP

If a character's Essence Buffer cannot accomodate the full drain, it is drained to 0.0 (this does not kill the character!) and the reaminder is drained from the character's regular Essence (if this drops the character's regular Essence to 0.0 then he does die!). Once the Essence Buffer has been drained, it can be forgotten about; it cannot be refilled.

Advice

Please note

See also

Essence Mage Factor

A	B	C
1	2	3
4	5	6