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'''Name:''' Keening<br>
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'''Guild:''' Chanteurs<br>
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'''Status:''' Allowed<br>
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'''Marking(s):''' Musical instrument / Faintly audible music coming from the Chanteur<br>
 
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'''''{First / Second Edition}'''''
 
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<span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> '''Fatal Vision''': An Oracle can read the deathmarks on wraiths and mortals.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> ''' Dirge''': A Chanteur can strengthen a listener’s darker emotions (sadness, anger, grief).<br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> '''Foreshadow''': An Oracle can detect impending danger.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> '''Ballad''': A Chanteur may inspire a listener's higher emotions (love, happiness, joy). <br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> '''Interpretation''': An Oracle can read into a person’s past or future.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> ''' Muse''': A Chanteur can make a suggestion to others to do their bidding. <br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> '''Guesswork''': An Oracle can foretell the consequences of someone’s immediate actions.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> '''Crescendo''': A Chanteur can physically damage wraiths with a scream. If Embodied, they can terrify the Quick to the point of harm.<br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '''Luck''': An Oracle can make a minor adjustment to Fate’s plan.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '''Requiem''': A Chanteur can fill someone with a completely overwhelming emotion.<br>
 
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Basic abilities were dropped in the 20th anniversary edition.
 
Basic abilities were dropped in the 20th anniversary edition.
  
The standard powers of Fatalism are the same as previous editions, with the following exceptions, which replace the skills of the same level or where noted.
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The standard powers of Keening are the same as previous editions, with the following exceptions, which replace the skills of the same level or where noted.  
  
<span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> '''Kismet''': An Oracle can read the deathmarks on a wraith or mortal, and can also see that person's importance in Fate's plans.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> '''Hearing Voices''': A Chanteur can make their voice appear to come from a nearby object or person. <br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> '''Reading the Bones''': An Oracle can see a person or object's future, save for their own.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> '''Mood Music''': A Chanteur can inspire both positive and negative emotions in their listeners.<br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> '''Sidestep''': Kin to Guesswork and Presage, the Oracle can foretell forthcoming attacks, allowing them to prepare a defense, or place themselves in the way of an attack meant for someone else.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> '''Satire''': A Chanteur can ruin a wraith's social standing with a story or song. <br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '''Breathing the Mists''': An Oracle's foresight allows them to prepare for future events.<br>
 
 
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=== <span style="color:#696969;"> Alternate Powers ===
 
=== <span style="color:#696969;"> Alternate Powers ===
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<span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> '''Distant Visions''': An Oracle may clearly see what relevant events are happening elsewhere.<br>
 
<span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> '''A Quick Read''': An Oracle can read using a relic attuned to a living person.<br>
 
<span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> '''Malocchio''': An Oracle may mark another with an "evil eye" that curses them with bad luck, which only other Oracles can see.<br>
 
<span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> '''Pulling Strings''': An Oracle may make small changes in the Web of Fate, learning something of what is to come and preparing accordingly.<br>
 
<span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> '''Tangles''': An Oracle may twist, tangle, or knot another wraith's Thread of Fate, causing bad luck when they attempt to pursue a particular Passion.<br>
 
<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '''Ensnare''': An Oracle can tangle a wraith's threads to the point they no longer control their own destiny, instead serving another's ends.<br>
 
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'''''{Wraith: The Great War}'''''
 
'''''{Wraith: The Great War}'''''
  
Fatalism abilities during the Great War are the same as the basic abilities and standard powers with the following exceptions, which replace the skills of the same level or where noted.
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Keening abilities during the Great War are the same as the basic abilities and standard powers with the following exceptions, which replace the skills of the same level or where noted.  
  
<span style="font-size:large">○○○○○</span> '''Augur''': Other than the name change, this is essentially the same as Kismet.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> '''Brenden's Lay''': A Chanteur can travel without harm through a Maelstrom so long as they continue a chosen song.<br>
<span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> '''Sensing the Strands''': An Oracle can read an object and determine who used it and how it was used.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '''Songs of the Living''': A Chanteur can fill a song with life and use it to damage a Spectre. <br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> '''Presage''': Other than being applied more to combat actions, this is essentially the same as Guesswork.<br>
 
 
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'''''{20th Anniversary Edition}'''''
 
'''''{20th Anniversary Edition}'''''
  
The 20th anniversary edition introduces the initiate arts, a set of Fatalism abilities available to members of the Oracles' Guild with sufficient standing.
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The 20th anniversary edition introduces the initiate arts, a set of Keening abilities available to members of the Chanteurs' Guild with sufficient standing.
  
<span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> '''Friendly Card''': An Oracle can select the best option when faced with a random choice.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●○○○○</span> '''Sotto Voce''': This is essentially the same as the old basic ability.<br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> '''Retrace''': An Oracle can see how a person's fate has been changed in the past.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●○○○</span> '''Cacophony''': A Chanteur can deafen and disorientate everyone nearby, and disrupt other uses of Keening.<br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> '''Malocchio''': Aside from the rating, this is essentially the same as the original Malocchio.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> '''Siren Song''': A Chanteur can enthrall a victim, making it easy for them to submit to the Chanteur's influence.<br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> '''Entangle''': An Oracle can bind the existences of multiple wraiths together.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●●○</span> ''' Banshee''': A Chanteur can inflict injuries on a victim that won't take effect until a specified condition occurs.<br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '''Ensnare''': An Oracle can redefine someone's fate.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '''Out Of Tune''': A Chanteur can temporarily disrupt a wraith's attunements.<br>
 
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==== <span style="color:#696969;"> Other Books ====
 
==== <span style="color:#696969;"> Other Books ====
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> '''Fate's Hand Apparent''': An Oracle can detect the death of a mortal that Fate has chosen.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●○○</span> '''Distraction''': A Chanteur can hum or whistle a tune that interferes with Barghests.<br>
<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '''Eldritch Awareness''': An Oracle may become aware of Fate as it relates to the Ladies of Fate.<br>
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<span style="font-size:large">●●●●●</span> '''Spectre Song''': A Chanteur can imitate a Spectre’s moans and screams.<br>
  
 
=== <span style="color:#696969;"> References ===
 
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:WTO: Wraith: The Oblivion Second Edition, p. 142-143
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:WTO: Wraith: The Oblivion Second Edition, p. 146-147
:WTO: Wraith: The Great War Rulebook, p. 119
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:WTGW: Wraith: The Great War Rulebook Bullet-pdf Bullet-nip, p. 119-120
:WTO: Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition, p. 162-166
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:WTO: Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition, p. 181-184
:WTO: Guildbook: Spooks and Oracles, p. 124-127
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:WTO: Renegades, p. 92
:WTO: The Book of Legions, p. 92
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:WTO: The Sea of Shadows, p. 91-92  
 
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Latest revision as of 19:16, 1 September 2019

Acceptable Arcanoi

Keening sigil.png

Name: Keening
Guild: Chanteurs
Status: Allowed
Marking(s): Musical instrument / Faintly audible music coming from the Chanteur


Introduction

Keening is one of the primary thirteen Arcanoi from Wraith: The Oblivion. Those who can use the arts of Keening can manipulate emotions through sound.

Although it does not produce as useful effects as Inhabit or Castigate, Keening is nonetheless a treasured art in the Shadowlands because of the potential power it has. More than anything else, it makes a wraith feel emotional again. Chanteurs can create strong emotions and reactions in almost anyone they chose, and it’s an experience that some wraiths would give their unlives to have again, even if the emotions are artificial sensations made from a manipulative wraith.

Chanteurs primarily work through song, although merely speaking or shouting may have their desired effect. Although Keening can be used with large groups of wraiths, Chanteurs prefer to focus on one target at a time.

Mistakes made with Keening can have severe repercussions. The most common is for an intended positive emotion to backfire and become a negative one, but in extreme cases of misfortune, a Chanteur has been known to be driven mad by his own power.





Basic Abilities

○○○○○ Perfect Pitch: A Chanteur can tell when another wraith is using Keening.
○○○○○ Sotto Voce: A Chanteur can hide their use of Keening from other wraiths.


Standard Powers

{First / Second Edition}

●○○○○ Dirge: A Chanteur can strengthen a listener’s darker emotions (sadness, anger, grief).
●●○○○ Ballad: A Chanteur may inspire a listener's higher emotions (love, happiness, joy).
●●●○○ Muse: A Chanteur can make a suggestion to others to do their bidding.
●●●●○ Crescendo: A Chanteur can physically damage wraiths with a scream. If Embodied, they can terrify the Quick to the point of harm.
●●●●● Requiem: A Chanteur can fill someone with a completely overwhelming emotion.


{20th Anniversary Edition}

Basic abilities were dropped in the 20th anniversary edition.

The standard powers of Keening are the same as previous editions, with the following exceptions, which replace the skills of the same level or where noted.

●○○○○ Hearing Voices: A Chanteur can make their voice appear to come from a nearby object or person.
●●○○○ Mood Music: A Chanteur can inspire both positive and negative emotions in their listeners.
●●●○○ Satire: A Chanteur can ruin a wraith's social standing with a story or song.


Alternate Powers

{Wraith: The Great War}

Keening abilities during the Great War are the same as the basic abilities and standard powers with the following exceptions, which replace the skills of the same level or where noted.

●●●●○ Brenden's Lay: A Chanteur can travel without harm through a Maelstrom so long as they continue a chosen song.
●●●●● Songs of the Living: A Chanteur can fill a song with life and use it to damage a Spectre.


{20th Anniversary Edition}

The 20th anniversary edition introduces the initiate arts, a set of Keening abilities available to members of the Chanteurs' Guild with sufficient standing.

●○○○○ Sotto Voce: This is essentially the same as the old basic ability.
●●○○○ Cacophony: A Chanteur can deafen and disorientate everyone nearby, and disrupt other uses of Keening.
●●●○○ Siren Song: A Chanteur can enthrall a victim, making it easy for them to submit to the Chanteur's influence.
●●●●○ Banshee: A Chanteur can inflict injuries on a victim that won't take effect until a specified condition occurs.
●●●●● Out Of Tune: A Chanteur can temporarily disrupt a wraith's attunements.


Other Books

{Renegades / The Sea of Shadows}

●●●○○ Distraction: A Chanteur can hum or whistle a tune that interferes with Barghests.
●●●●● Spectre Song: A Chanteur can imitate a Spectre’s moans and screams.

References

WTO: Wraith: The Oblivion Second Edition, p. 146-147
WTGW: Wraith: The Great War Rulebook Bullet-pdf Bullet-nip, p. 119-120
WTO: Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition, p. 181-184
WTO: Renegades, p. 92
WTO: The Sea of Shadows, p. 91-92




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