Essence traits
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This article contains Advantages and DisAdvantages that affects the amount of Essence that the character has, in various ways.
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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 | Effect | Notes |
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| Extra Essence (Y) I | 6 DP | +1 | The character's Psyche counts as 1 or 2 higher only for the purpose of calculating Esence |
| Extra Essence (Y) II | 30 DP | +2 | |
| Extra Essence (F) I | 6 DP | +1 | The character's Faith counts as 1 or 2 higher only for the purpose of calculating Esence |
| Extra Essence (F) II | 30 DP | +2 | |
| Extra Essence (Y & F) I | 20 DP | +1 | 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 | +2 |
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.
Marked Essence Reserve for Items
This section is for Item Creation Reserves only, e.g. for Artificing, Charm-Making, and so forth.
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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)).
Marked Essence Reserve for other things
This section deals with Essence Reserves that can be used on things other than rendering items permanently magical
| Advantage | Cost | Notes |
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| Wight Reserve I | 7 DP | 33% or 67% Essence Reserve that can only be spent on Animating Wights and Wight Lords. |
| Wight Reserve II | 20 DP | |
| Wraith Reserve I | 7 DP | 33% or 67% Essence Reserve that can only be spent on Summoning Wraiths and Wraith Lords. |
| Wraith Reserve II | 20 DP | |
| Undead Minion Reserve I | 7 DP | 25% or 50% Essence Reserve that can only be spent on Animating Wights and Wight Lords, and on Summoning Wraiths and Wraith Lords. |
| Undead Minion Reserve I | 20 DP | |
| Minion Master III | 120 DP | 100% Essence Reserve that can only be spent on Animating Wights and Wight Lords, and on Summoning Wraiths and Wraith Lords. All Undead Minions also have a -1 RD bonus to their Obedience Flaw rolls. |
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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 |
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| Death Touch Buffer I | 4 DP | 25% or 50% Essence Buffer against Death Touches (i.e. from Wraiths and Wraith Lords). |
| Death Touch Buffer II | 10 DP | |
| Fumble Buffer (E) I | 4 DP | 25% or 50% Essence Buffer against Spellcasting and Endowing Fumbles. |
| Fumble Buffer (E) II | 10 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 remainder is drained from the character's regular Essence (if this drops the character's regular Essence to 0.0 or lower then he does die!). Once the Essence Buffer has been drained, it can be forgotten about; it cannot be refilled.
Note the (E) in Fumble Buffer. This is to distinguish it from the Fumble Buffer (A) Advantage. Note also that a character cannot have both versions of the Fumble Buffer Advantage.
Spent Essence
Advice
Please note
No character can have more than one trait from the Extra Essence super-section, i.e. either one trait that makes Faith and/or Psyche count as being 1 or 2 levels higher for the purpose of calculating Essence, or one trait that gives him an Essence Reserve or an Essence Buffer.
See also
Essence
Magic traits
Mage Factor
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