✎ torch [animus]

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

====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. 

====Class Feature: Might=====

  * Each Act costs 1 Might to perform.
  * Might is restored between encounters.
  * Each Paladin begins with 2 Might. 
  * Your maximum Might can be increased by purchasing the 'Might' Paladin Skill.

=====Acts=====
  * You must purchase Acts with XP as you would normal skills.
====Lv.1====
===Embers Rekindled===
  * Call FIGHT ON! 

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

===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. 

====Lv.2====

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

===One with Flame===
  * You can absorb fire and force, 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. 

===Stoke the Flames===
  * 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.
====Lv.3====

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

===Immolation===
  * You can burn your life essence rather than succumb to weakness.
  * You may use this act reactively to do the following:
  * Take a DOUBLE to gain a MENTAL RESIST.

====Lv.4====

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

===Firestorm===
  * Call [[:nonstandardcalls#MASS_X|MASS]] DOUBLE.  

====Lv.5====

===Acceptance===

  * You must accept a painful truth about the situation you are facing to use this Act.
  * In combat: "we are going to lose this fight." 
  * Call HEAL 6 on yourself. 
  * In conversation: "I cannot convince this person of what is right." 
  * 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. 
  * Only one person may have LIGHT ETERNAL active in an encounter. 
  * If someone else calls LIGHT ETERNAL, call LIGHT ETERNAL DOWN. 

=====Skills=====
====Lv.1====
===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. 
====Lv.2====
===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. 
====Lv.3====
===Torch's Embrace===
  * Once per adventure may perform a great feat within your Muse's purview.
  * For example, you may guide another to acceptance of a difficult truth, permanently banish a source of metaphysical darkness, or protect those who are weaker or more vulnerable than you.

===Icon Attunement===
//Pre-req: Icon//
  * 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. 

====Lv.4====
===Help the Helpless===

  * While you are no more than 5m from an ally who is bleeding out;
  * And you are actively fighting to defend them:
       * This counts as [[:supplementary_rules#medical_roleplay|medical roleplay]] for you with the ally as your patient. 

====Lv.5====
===Echoes of Self===
//Pre-req: Icon Attunement//
  * For one encounter per adventure, your icon bursts into flames as your heart blossoms with conviction. 
  * The first three times you heal an ally on 0 hits (either through FIGHT ON or the  HEAL call), gain a Might.
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