✎ torch [animus]

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======Torch======

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====Class Feature: Initiate's Vow====

  * When you join the cult of an Imperial Muse, you swear a vow. 
  * As a Paladin of the Torch, pick one vow from below:

  * I will never choose what is easy over what is right. 
  * I will never tell a lie.
  * I will never leave the helpless unprotected.

  * You should roleplay this vow accordingly. 
  * This vow allows you to use Might to perform the Acts below.
  * If you ever feel as though you have violated your vow, let the GM know:
  * You will lose all your Might for the adventure. 

====Acts====
===Piercing Gaze===
  * Your gaze pierces the guilty. 
  * You may call a FEAR at someone whose eyes you meet.

===Stoke the Flames of Obsession===
  * You burn away the doubt from your own or another's mind.
  * For the rest of the encounter the target will act on their current conviction without distraction or doubt. Whilst doing so they are IMMUNE to FEAR.

===Light of Truth===
  * Your form strikes awe into those who behold you, burning away falsehood with its awful glory. 
  * You may call LIGHT OF TRUTH. 
  * For the rest of the encounter anyone who can see your form cannot knowingly lie.

===Burning Blade===
  * Your blade begins to flicker with unearthly flame. 
  * You may call WEAKEN on your next blow.

===One with Flame===
  * You can absorb fire, redirecting it to your whims. 
  * You may use this act reactively to do the following:
  * RESIST a BLAST, calling HEAL 6 on yourself instead. 
  * Alternatively, at GM discretion, to resist the ill-effects from exposure to a mundane source of flame: e.g. a burning building. 

===Immolation===
  * You can burn your life essence rather than succumb to weakness.
  * You may use this act reactively to do the following:
  * Take a QUAD THROUGH to call RESIST against a mental effect.

===Ever-Watchful Eye===
  * A burning eye appears on your forehead.
  * Nominate a target you can see. Call 'I'M KEEPING AN EYE ON YOU'. 
  * You become aware if the target is ever in great danger, or is endangering others. 
  * With this awareness, you and you alone can see a blazing beacon in their direction. 
  * Using this Act again nominates a new target or dismisses the Eye. 

===Catching Fire===

  * Call KEEP LOOKING AT ME on a target, who must do so as long as you remain talking to them, until such a time as they are interrupted by another. 
  * Alternatively, at GM discretion, you may use this act to give rousing speeches which fire people with courage and conviction. 

===Guiding Light===
  * Your eyes fill with torchlight. Your way ahead is clear.
  * You may use this act when you are unclear of what to do next.
  * The Torch will provide some form of guidance at GM discretion. 

===Dazzling Radiance===
  * You hold out an open hand. A beam of sacred light shines forth, dazzling them.
  * Call REND 5.
  * Alternatively, at GM discretion, this ability can be used to fully illuminate an area or allow everyone in the encounter to see properly. 

===Embers Rekindled===
  * Call FIGHT ON!  

===Phoenix===
  * You may use this act when you are 10s into your death count. 
  * Call FIGHT ON! on yourself.

===Firestorm===
  * Call MASS DOUBLE.  

===Acceptance===

  * You accept a painful truth about the situation you are facing.
  * In combat: "we are going to lose this fight." 
  * You are strengthened for the next 30s. 
  * In conversation: "I cannot convince this person of what is right." 
  * You gain 1 PSYCHE. 

===Light Eternal===
  * Concentrate for 10s. 
  * Call LIGHT ETERNAL. 
  * As long as you remain alive and fighting, none of your allies may fall below one hit.
  * If this ceases to be the case, call LIGHT ETERNAL DOWN. 

====Skills====

===Just Hear Me Out===
  * Your voice carries authority. 
  * As long as combat is not in progress, you can, once per encounter, call JUST HEAR ME OUT and follow it with up to 30s of talking. 
  * If you do, intelligent creatures will always listen to the end before initiating combat.

===Stoicism===

  * You have trained your mind to stay strong in the face of overwhelming stimuli.
  * Generally, you have a much easier time of avoiding temptations or enticements. 
  * Once per encounter, you may call RESIST to mental effects. 

===Burning Soul===

  * You are a flame which will not be extinguished. 
  * For the purposes of healing, treat all afflictions of the soul you receive as one potency less than they are.

===Root out the Corruption===

  * You may guide others in cleansing their minds of corruption allowing you to treat strong afflictions of the soul between encounters. 
  * Gain 1 psyche hit.
  * As a downtime action, you may use this ability to heal others of a severe affliction of the soul.

===Vigilance===

  * You are ever-vigilant for the next catastrophe.
  * Gain a DODGE. 
  * In addition, you can sense when your party is in danger. 
  * To represent this, your party members may call your name loudly when they bleeding out to draw your attention to them.


===Help the Helpless===

  * While you are 5m from an ally who is helpless;
  * And you are actively fighting to defend them:
  * You are strengthened. 

===Holy Intent (Downtime)===
  * You may ceremonially declare a goal that you are pursuing. 
  * Once per encounter, when in pursuit of your goal, you may call FIGHT ON! on yourself or a member of your party.
  * Furthermore, word will quickly spread through Rastaban that this declaration has been made and that you made it. 
  * You may also receive other effects at GM discretion. 
  * You may only have one Holy Intent. 
  * Performing this ceremony again can end the declaration or re-target it. 

====Icon====
  * You have made an icon to the Muse you follow. 
  * Twice per adventure you may use this to attempt to divine the Muse's opinion on a matter.
  * The responses, if they arrive are generally cryptic.
  * Icons are hard to lose or break.
  * If either occurs, they will likely find there way back to the paladin, restored, after a couple of encounters.

  * Paladins of the torch typically carry some form of light source as their icon. 
  * This light will never go out.
  * When carrying this icon, the paladin is IMMUNE to FEAR. 

===Icon Attunement===
  * Your icon gives you a limited ability to gauge the conviction of others. 
  * Twice per adventure, you may cast the light of your icon over another. 
  * You will learn of something that this person fears.
  * Further information may be provided at GM discretion. 

===Echoes of Self===
  * For one encounter per adventure, your icon bursts into flames as your heart blossoms with conviction. 
  * While fighting for something you believe in, you may spend 2 psyche to gain an extra Might.
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