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[[Enech]]

'''Lay Token Geas'''

'''Dice Pool:''' Charisma + Presence

'''Cost:''' 1 Legend + 1 Willpower (or 1 Legend + 1
Willpower dot)

With this power, the Scion taps into the potent flows
of enech and may levy the expectations of greatness on
those around him. This roll is opposed by the target’s (Wits
+ Integrity + Legend), and the roll itself has a difficulty of
the target’s Legend +1. If this roll is successful, the target
is bound by a geas of Token potency for two months per net success in the roll, to a maximum of a year and a day.
Alternately, if the Scion expends a full dot (rather than a
point) of Willpower, the geas is laid permanently.

The Scion may not levy simply any sort of geas,
however. The actual choice of the geas is not up
to the Scion, but up to enech itself — the Scion
merely draws the attention of enech and acts as the
conduit for the geas. The Storyteller chooses a geas
that is poetically appropriate for the victim, keeping
in mind the most extreme parts of the character’s
personality (as often exemplified in his highest or
lowest Virtues). Thus, a target who has cut a swathe
through the innocents around him and discovers
that he has a high Vengeance Virtue rating might
be levied with the child-geas, where no child can
ever come to harm within the Scion’s ability to
prevent it.

It should be noted that a geas is explicitly not a
curse — each geas comes with benefits for those who
keep the geas. Rather, the Tuatha consider geasa to
be the means by which one helps shape the actions
of heroes and legends. They are combination
carrots and sticks meant to motivate a particular
sort of behavior.