TE ERINNYES
COOL FOR: SURVIVERS. GRANDILOQUENT PERPETRATORS. BUBBLE BOYS. NEIGHBORS OF DELILAH.
1. Unceasing; 2. Avenging; 3. Grudging; Te Erinnyes is the infernal engine that accommodates your deepest fears, rotates them, and then propels your bleeding soul toward self-preservation. If there is anything you can’t see, then stay attuned to this feeling till an answer flashes its teeth from the dark. Te Erinnyes chases patterns, clamoring to recognize and stick with what ain’t broken. As demanding as it may be, you’re priority numero uno; a cursed crown to stalk till death parts you both. It’ll always be by your side, sustaining you and *only* you in its fiery mechanisms as it holds a clawed grip on your shoulders, serving away sensory-info the world floods you with till it’s palpable enough to *crunch* down on.

At high levels, the Erinnyes’ emboldens itself in its attunement to the world *and* in delivering its messages. It’ll confront you whenever you’ve strayed too far for its liking. Lessening your grip in reality to hold you in a captive embrace. At low levels, you’ll find your will lacking and your intuition a little limp, too comfortable with saddling the electric chair while your dick is out.

Physicality (Orange): Be in-tune with your body.

ANATOMY - Be in tune with pain and discomfort, whether others or your own. Glean information from frame and build. Hit them where it hurts. Heal them where it hurts too.

REFLEX - Let your body take the lead. Know what you should do without knowing it. Tune into the memory that reside in your limbs, not your mind. Follow familiar procedures without burden.

POISE - Stay calm. Detach yourself from what’s happening by exercising control over your muscles - tense, release, tense, release again, but don’t show it. Deep breaths.

PURSUIT - The search for something primal. Hunt for what satisfies your base needs, and revel in gorging in your spoils. Recognize what you are lacking, and keep your vessel in good condition.

JŌZU - Control your digits with precision and grace. Perform maneuvers, tricks, and petty theft without attracting notice. Demonstrate mastery in tools and instruments.

POWER - Channel raw strength through your body. Harder, better, faster, stronger. Have it in yourself to give your all, when the goings get tough (which it always does).

Rationality (Blue): Be in-tune with your mind.

REALIZATION - Visualize and categorize what you know. Translate the intangible into the tangible. Record things as they are, then record them again as you understand them.

HOME IN - Focus on one thread, and follow it to the end. Discover details that are important. Filter your leads, discard some, and tie the others together in a neat little bow.

MÉCANICIEN - Understand kinetics, dynamics, optics, and acoustics. Feel the electromagnetic fields. Extrapolate structures of engines and machines, and know how best to manipulate them.

RISK MITIGATION - Create outcomes, then rehearse them such that every situation can be accounted for. Remain open minded to avoid being caught off guard. Predict the future, carefully.

SPECTACLE - Manipulate the angle of your vision. Feel the presence of the city within and around you. Zoom out and take in the big picture. See through eyes other than yours.

AESTHETICS - Appreciate beauty and pick up on nuance. Notice symmetry, variety, emphasis, contract, or the tasteful lack of any such qualities. Recognize and partake in artistic endeavours.

Introspection (Magenta): Be in-tune with the world within you.

INNER LIBRARY - Recall and process what you know. Translate the tangible into the intangible. Put the puzzle pieces together. Cast hooks into the sea of knowledge within you.

SELF CRITIQUE - Notice your mistakes, sooner rather than later. Iterate and improve. Recognize your strengths and avoid complacency; recognize your weaknesses and avoid avoidance.

MINDFULNESS - Analyze the emotions that you experience in response to stimuli. Be in tune with how you feel, and treat it with care. Remember, everything in moderation.

STRUCTURE - Prioritize. Take control of your life by ordering the importance of different matters. Know what you ought to do. Remain determined in the face of adversity.

INDULGENCE - For the love of god stop thinking for once! Chase after pleasant experiences and forget unpleasant ones. Also, make decisions without thinking them through.

EXISTENTIALISM - Nothing came before and nothing will come after and there is nowhere but here and there is no time but now. Repeat the Voltra. You will make your own purpose in this world.

Interaction (Green): Be in-tune with the world around you.

CAMARADERIE - Be loyal to your half-brothers and -sisters, and take comfort in their loyalty. Cultivate fellowship with RCM officers, Seolites, and yes, members of the homo-sexual underground.

AIR READING - Tune into the atmosphere in the room, and adapt accordingly. Listen to what is unsaid. See the intentions, inclinations, and implications that lie between the lines.

HIERARCHY - Recognize social order. Feel the status and influence of an individual. Give respect to those who deserve it, and demand respect from those who don’t. Take charge when you should.

FLY ZONE - Show off! Bring flamboyancy to the max, baby. Be the drama, the moment, the centre of attention, wherever you are. Give the audience a fabulous performance.

PROFILING - Understand your fellow men. What makes them laugh? What makes them hurt? What makes them silent? What makes them stay? Most importantly, what do they think about you?

SWITCHBOARD - Connect yourself with the world by processing every sensation. See, hear, smell, taste, and feel. Notice information that is not communicated. Perceive and pay attention.

Obsession - finding some fixation that gives you the will to live and indulging it at all costs.

Masking - adapt, transform, mimic. Camouflaging weird parts of yourself to be more likable.

Le Rèveur - imagination bordering on maladaptive daydreaming.

Moral - empathy based on (in)justice and subconscious analysis of situations.

Cosmic Void - In a little while, I'll be gone.

Cosmic Void is the ultimate realization of mortality. At high Cosmic Void it makes you aware of dangers to your body and soul alike, but too high and it makes you paranoid of everything.

Eclipse - A gentle collapsing. The removal of the insides.

Eclipse is your mental defenses, it allows you to retreat into yourself and kill any harmful thoughts. Too high and you begin to completely derealize.

Event Horizon - Consume and be consumed in part.

Event Horizon is the nasty little animal that says "life's a bitch to everyone, eat or be eaten". It allows you to get through and perform terrible actions for your survival without completely breaking. Too high and you become a monster.

Heaven - The sight of blood can will signs of life to return.

Heaven is a supernatural confrontation with greater realities than simple life. It allows you to experience out of body experiences or to get visions through near-death experiences. Too high and you start to wish to jump off without a tether.

The Sheer Drop - COME WANDER WITH ME.

The Sheer Drop allows you to speak to and comprehend supernatural beings. It lets you see things for what they really are and hear the voices of alien civilizations and elder gods. Too high and real beings start to become imperceptible.

Singularity - The rain was the ocean too, once.

Singularity is your connection with the greater mankind, a sense of community and oneness with all. It allows you to feel the plights of man on a greater scale than simple empathy. Too high and your sense of self obliterates as you become a Drone.

INFERENCE ENGINE
[AGREEMENT] [DESTINATION]
Cool For: People Who Have Been Hurt, Acquired OCD. Something That Doesn't Help.


If information is power, then you're the queen. Thoughts and messages come into your head like a blunt instrument, telling you about faultlines and flaws to be hammered and secrets you can let slip. You are majestic in your knowledge, feared and admired… but never loved. You call this a power, but most days it feels like a punishment. On your worst days... it feels like one you deserve.

At high levels, you have no idea what INFERENCE ENGINE will do. Having the deluge of information amplified further seems like your own personal hell. But with low levels, you worry it would start to mislead you, and that's the last thing you need.

Biocracking
Push your body beyond your limits. Microdose to glory.
Cool For: Tech Startups, High-Flyers, High-Functioning Addicts


Biocracking is what the rich people who make startups use. Why do you need to sleep? What's the point of feeling pain when you can just take a few more painkillers? It enables you to endure and survive that, yes, but also know how to do it better. Fewer negative side-effects, and also an understanding of certain… trades related to that. You understand the chemistry of it, and you understand the draw of stimulation. Even if, of course, what you're doing is entirely and completely different from what some sort of junkie is doing.
At high levels, Biocracking makes you a master of the microdose, who scoffs at those who feel sleep or pain is a warning sign, as opposed to a problem in need of fixing. But with a low Biocracking, your headaches will lay you low more often, and you'll find your effectiveness limited by your frail body's simple limitations. And the city will be harder to understand, if you don't understand that urge to improve… and to escape.

GRIT
Refusal to bend the knee. Run on fumes alone.

Cool for: Sisyphean mindsets, twelfth round boxers, non-quitters.

Nobody can deny the pains inflicted upon them in this life, but the few who possess Grit can shoulder that burden and carry on. When others finally run out of steam (and they will, even the toughest of them), you will still be able to bear a grimace and keep moving. Grit will permit you to endure the most hellish of trials, and still have the where-withal to walk out from them afterward, even if you don't have the legs to carry you there.

At high levels, you'll be the one still able to throw out sloppy punches when everybody else has already nearly dropped dead from exhaustion, even if you lose everything other than your willingness to keep the pressure on. But, you might not know when to quit either, and not just physically. . putting yourself in a bad situation because you just can't stand "no" for an answer is a common problem, or getting yourself hurt when you could've just taken your foot off the gas. At low levels, however, you'll be without a backbone. You might be incredibly strong, or even have great physical endurance, but the moment you actually hit your limit? You capitulate, and crumple like wet cardboard.

Homeostasis
Stay grounded — A guardian of the body’s natural rhythm.

Cool for: Those in Recovery, First Responders, Investors, Athletes

Homeostasis is your body’s internal regulator—a tireless servant ensuring balance across every aspect of your being. It fights to keep you on an even keel, tirelessly working behind the scenes to maintain that perfect equilibrium. Your energy levels, hydration, body temperature—it’s all within Homeostasis’s jurisdiction. This skill allows you to recover quickly from physical strain, bounce back from illness, and maintain focus when others would falter. Like a finely-tuned machine, you remain steady in the face of adversity. But While it keeps you from crashing, it also keeps you from flying too high. It’s not interested in pushing limits or breaking barriers. Excessive workouts? Long nights of revelry? Forget about it. Homeostasis will drag you back to the middle, kicking and screaming, if necessary. Sometimes, to achieve greatness, you need to throw balance out the window—and Homeostasis won’t like that.

At high levels, you’re a picture of physical stability. Recovery is your strong suit—you quickly bounce back from fatigue, illness, or injury. No matter how chaotic life gets, you maintain an even, steady state.

At low levels, your body struggles to keep balance. The slightest disturbance—stress, a missed meal, a rough night—throws you off, leaving you weak, fatigued, and unable to cope. You’ll find yourself longing for that baseline stability, always feeling off-kilter.

Élan Vital
Shape yourself into a better form. Learn and improve.

Cool for: Fast-learners, adventurers, wise cops

Élan Vital urges you to embrace the open arms of change. Uncover God-gilded opportunities, then seize them and roll with your new plan. It enables you to change how you act to please a newly-introduced superior, to change battle tactics when your old one is impossible to execute, and to understand what went wrong when you inevitably scare off a suspect.

At high levels, Élan Vital will feel when your brain can't handle the heat, and replace your old wires with new ones that handle it like a champ. You will find sometimes irrational - yet functional solutions to your problems. At low levels, however, you'll have trouble processing any action that's not part of the routine, and struggle to take initiative when things are going sour.

AVARICE
COOL FOR: HOARDERS. MISERS. ONE-PERCENTERS-IN-THE-MAKING.

Avarice is your will to fill your pockets with anything that so much as glimmers in your general direction. In a world that won't pull its punches, it's only sensible to have whole decks of aces up your sleeve.

At higher levels, material possession tickles a part of your brain that not even sexual climax gets to visit. Your relationships with the living fall by the wayside to make room for *THINGS* you indisputably *NEED*. Lacking this appétence, however, will make you forego the utility of those which aren't immediately useful, blind to the power that comes with having battalions of *stuff* under your command.

FIRST RESORT
Know when things are wrong. Act accordingly.

Cool for: Effective Problem Solvers. Psychotic Micromanagers.

First Resort is your general ability to keep things under control. Fight breaking out? They're already down. Gun's jammed? "Borrow" your partner's. Always have a solution.

At high levels, you'll be a deadly neutralizer. You'll find the quickest, and most efficient way to grab the situation by the extremities, and suplex it. You'll endure predicaments with little regard for human life.

At low levels, you'll be trapped in constant messes, oftentimes of your own creation, unable to so much as run away. You'll be the most incompetent member of the force, and possibly of the human race.

INSPIRATION
Come up with new ideas. Create unorthodox plans.

COOL FOR: Jerry riggers. Tacticians. Innocences.

Inspiration urges you to break the bounds of human understanding, to cross the line between what is and what could be. It enables you to devise creative strategies and think outside the box. Whether you're brainstorming battle tactics or frantically improvising while under fire, Inspiration will provide a vital flash of brilliance.

At high levels, Inspiration will make you a trailblazer, with a bright new idea for every problem. However, you may find yourself reinventing the wheel - you didn't make a better way to dispense salt, a shaker works fine. At low levels, however, any deviation from protocol will throw you off. Nasty surprises will turn nastier as you hopelessly flounder for direction.

NON COMPOS MENTIS
See the world as it isn't. Open your third, fourth, and seventh eye.

COOL FOR: Prophets. Town Criers. Straight-jacket Fashionistas. 

Non Compus Mentis shows you a new, far more interesting side of life. The once drab and dull lights up with color and personality, and everything begins to make a little less sense. Perhaps your wilder perspective will allow you to approach problems in new and interesting ways. More Iikely It'll just make you stark raving mad, though. 

At high levels, Non Compos Mentis makes you a mad genius, working with (or against) your intelligence skills in a desperate bid for understanding. Genius or not, however, you're still a nutcase. Don't expect people to take you seriously, or even understand you. At low levels you're a sane and well adjusted human being, but where's the fun is that?

Hyperanalyst
Solve Problems Before They Exist. Create Flaws from a Lack of Information. A Real Detective Knows Who Killed Who Before the Reaper Comes.

Cool For: Political Forecasters, News Pundits, Doomsday Prophets, the Unmedicated and Cataclysmically Anxious

Hyperanalyst steps in when ordinary problem solving skills aren't sufficient to the task. What task is this? Why, the creation of super-problems, of course. You're too good at this Detective business, so much so that if anyone is going to give you a case worthy of your incredible analytical skills, it's going to have to be yourself. Why concern yourself with problems that can be deduced by factual means? That's stupid. Monkeys can do that. You're not a monkey.

At high levels, Hyperanalyst will help you go above and beyond the call of duty, or sanity. You will create, and resolve, problems that ordinary minds can scarcely even comprehend; whether they, or you, like you doing so or not. At low levels, you'll be forced to rely on boring old facts and reasoning. You can only fly so high when the winds are calm.

CALCIFICATION
Weather the storm. Become an immovable object.

Cool for: Survivors, Individualists, Human Lightning Rods

Calcification urges you to stand your ground through torrential shitstorms. It lets you handle the downpour and root yourself in the tarmac. There's nothing more important than being the last one standing, even if it means separation from the Outside and your epidermis. Don't worry, though, your bones are solid as ever.

At high levels, Calcification makes sure you keep that tissue hardened around all your important bits. You'll become your own armour, but stagnancy will creep like cancer. You'll be a stalagmite even as the cave crumbles around you; you'll have more kinship with the place you stand than the settling dust. Without Calcification, though, you'll drift out to sea- but at least you'll be with the rest of the detritus. You won't be able to keep your footing, and slipping fucking hurts when every part of you is a soft underbelly.

Rationalization
Cool for: Killers, PR managers, the self-righteous.

Rationalization explains away your misdeeds. Got rejected? Oh, you're too good for them. And, besides, there's always more fish in the sea. You're not even fifty yet. You've still got some life in you. Missed the bus? Oh, it was raining, and the bus was, really, way too small to see. Oh, and, besides, who takes the bus, anyway? You're cool. You can walk. Shot a kid? Well... he was a killer, you could see it in his eyes. Oh, and he was a jerk. You did a good thing, there.

At high levels, you can keep yourself together, take any insult, and explain to yourself (and to others) how whatever 'you' 'did' wasn't really 'your' fault, and, if it was, it wasn't that bad. Make all of your problems seem very, very small, so small that you'll never have to think about them!

At low levels, you won't be able to explain yourself to anyone (even if it really wasn't your fault!) You'll also constantly be reminded of all your past misdeeds, and you'll have no way to get yourself back on track without being overcome with horrendous guilt! Though, this might lead you into trying to 'fix' your 'problems'.

SELF-DOUBT
GOOD FOR: NORMAL PEOPLE. SORRY COPS. MORALISTS.

The ability to take a step back and reflect whether your ideas are as good as you think they are. To be able to self-critique, to hold yourself back and not take your plans to fruition (for better and for worse).

At low levels, you won't think twice before doing anything. You'll be doing stupid things left and right and making things worse for everyone. But at high levels, you'll become a self-loathing pile of anxiety who's too afraid of itself to get anything done.

CHORUS
Understand the group. Become one with them.

COOL FOR: SOCIAL CHAMELEONS. MUSICIANS. FORGETTABLE FACES IN THE CROWD.

Chorus urges you to fit in with those around you: to be just another face in the crowd. It is what lets you laugh along with everyone else at a joke you don’t find very funny, to walk at the same pace as your friends, or to understand what remarks are and are not appropriate for the present company. It also allows insights into the collective unconscious, that great unseen hivemind guiding the group activities of humanity.

At high-levels, Chorus ensures you will be perfectly compliant with the expectations of those around you, even if that means going along with something abhorrent. With low Chorus, however, you will be a social pariah unable to engage in even the simplest of group rituals.

BYSTANDER
Become another pair of eyes in the crowd.

Constantly dealing with crime will certainly take its toll on you. Bystander represents the capacity to overlook the gruesome reality of your daily routine. On lower levels, your heart will bleed for every drop of blood spilt over Revachol's cobblestones, dangerously decreasing your morale with fellow officers; people can and will question if you're sane enough to be in the case. Particularly gory scenes will make you pass out and each case under your watch will be another person you couldn't save, raising your connection with witnesses and lowering sanity.

On higher levels, your detachment will plant seeds of eery curiosity in your brain. Victims with names and stories will become just numbers on your ledger, clearing your mind of any excessive compassion and squeamishness. You will feel significantly less compelled to intervene when someone else is in peril, protecting you from unnecessary harm. But your nonchalance paired with your morbid tastes will creep people out, raising their resistance and making interrogations a lot more difficult.

Necrocognition
The Whisper of the Grave

COOL FOR: Thrill seekers, Occult detectives, Morbid Enthusiasts

There are things buried beneath the surface, both in the ground and in the mind. You feel them, don’t you? The whispers of the long-forgotten, the shadows that dance just out of sight. Necrocognition is not for the faint-hearted—it’s for those who dare to listen.

This skill allows you to peer beyond the veil, to sense the residual energy left behind by those who have passed on. When you step into a room, you don’t just see walls and furniture—you see the memories etched into them, the pain and joy of those who once called this place home. You hear the echoes of their last words, the sorrow in their final breath.

But beware, detective: the more you lean on this skill, the more blurred the line between the living and the dead becomes. That shadow in the corner? Is it real, or is it just another ghost of your imagination? The voices—are they clues, or are they leading you deeper into your own madness?

BOTTLE IT UP
Man up. Control your emotions. Know what not so share.

COOL FOR: STONE COLD KILLERS. THOUSAND YARD STARERS. MENTALLY "HEALTHY" PEOPLE.

Know how to deal with your feelings. "Bottle it up" tells you when it's time to be emotional and when it's not. It will help you turn off your heart and ignore your thoughts but also manage how to deal with them. Contain your feelings but also know when to let them out.

At high levels you will be a shining example of emotional health, or so will others think. You will survive what leaves others traumatized and not dwell on your emotions when it's unnecessary. You will contain your emotions like radioactive waste - In a safe container. Go too high, and your mental "bottle" will turn into an ocean. You will become unable to turn on your emotions again. You will ignore important insight from your psyche and become desensitized. You will feel nothing. However at low levels the smallest negative feeling will leave you crying forever traumatized. You will dwell on everything, trying to contain toxic "liquids" inside a leaking bottle, letting the world consume you and refusing to let it go. With every sentence you speak your traumas will escape and others will notice. You will not experience a single nightmare free sleep.

Mortality
Touch the pale. Accept the unacceptable.

Cool for: The Lovers Lost At Sea, The Ultra Depressed, The Shapes Dancing In The Darkness

Mortality is felt when death is closed at hand or when communicating with the dead. Like Shivers, it is a supra-natural ability; it enables you to leave your earthly body and enter the world between life, death, and The Pale. The dead hold fewer secrets, but speak in riddles and half-truths born of half-memories of their ends. If the mind and soul are one and the same, madness will follow you into Hell.

At high levels, Mortality will drive you insane. You speak to bodies on the slab, introducing yourself and shaking their lifeless hands. You drift through the world in a zombie-like state as your soul wonders the hereafter, seeing things that defy explanation, and sometimes finding it hard to return. With low Mortality, you stay in this world. Happy and sure that this is the one life you get.

DANSE MACABRE
Cool for: Killers, Carrions, The Fatalistic

Danse Macabre is the honest truth of things. Mortality is inevitability: You will die, your friends will die, the world will rot and you will too. Danse Macabre lets you recognize death; the dead, and those who want to or will die. Whereas it might perceive physical injury and death, it can also see the death in soul - the first death is in the heart, after all.

At high levels, Danse Macabre will make the land of the living an afterlife. You'll be utterly fatalistic, seeing the death, jadedness, and corrosion of life. At low levels, however, you'll not see the death in the world, brushing over the reality of life; its counterweight always comes.

Hyperphagia
EMBRACE EMPTINESS. ENVELOP EVERYTHING

Cool For: COMPETITIVE EATERS. GLUTTONOUS EMPERORS. CITIZENS OF FIRST-WORLD NATIONS.

Hyperphagia is the seat of desire and ambition. A bottomless pit that demands incessantly to be filled. It doesn’t matter how much you feed it, it always wants MORE. And it’s not particularly picky, either. A promotion at work, a fancy new tie, the steamy topping pie in that smiling girl ad that you passed by this morning and now ALL YOU CAN THINK ABOUT IS SHOVING THAT WHOLE DAMN THING IN YOUR FACE I’M STARVING WHEN IS LUNCH??? 

At high levels, Hyperphagia will drive you to acquire, to achieve, and most importantly, to consume. The horrible, sucking emptiness within you will make it difficult to think about much beyond the next thing you choose to covet. On the plus side, you will be laser-focused on your goals, motivated and diligent. On the other hand, you will be desperate, ready to go as far as it takes to fill that hole. With no Hyperphagia, however, you may not even notice yourself starving to death. You’ll find that people tend to take advantage of you, and it will be difficult to object, or even care. What else do you really have to do, after all?

Compréhension Structurelle
Let your mind race. Flow through a system. Find connections where few can.

Good for: Detectives. Researchers. Conspiracy theorists.

Compréhension Structurelle is all about seeing the connections between things, and making connections if they're not there already. At low levels, you will struggle to link together anything beyond the most obvious forms of cause and effect; too much, and you'll lose the trees for the forest. Compréhension Structurelle checks are generally made to see the correlation between seemingly unrelated things, and to bring in the connections you need to link the dots in a case.

Irony
Protect your sanity. Be cool about that, too.

Cool for: teenagers, people caught up in awkward situations, gentlemen in top hats

Sometimes you need a way to protect yourself from the the world. Or maybe the world from yourself. Let’s just agree that there needs to be some kind of a protective barrier between you, okay? Irony’s got you covered. You’ll be surprised at how many social situations can be fixed with a witty remark. Just don’t go too far because it’s hard to be snarky with a broken jaw.

At low levels, sticks, stones, words, side glances and everything else in between will be giving you a bad time. At high levels, however, your irony will be so caustic that it will evaporate self-esteem on sight. Use sparingly. Enjoy the commentary.

Contemplation
Think about the things that can never be (just in case)

Cool for: Moody teens, poor academics, even poorer philosophers

Think about the world more than you participate it. Think about the real, the imagined, and the possible. In fact, think your life away. After all, being in your head is much more fun than whatever is going on out in the real world. Why would you waste all that possibility for an endless internal dialogue? Tranquility is overrated- constantly have your thoughts be in flux. Over-analyze the world, ensure that you miss nothing. Find meaning in the meaningless, worry about the impossible, and create true happiness in your own head.

At low levels, your internal dialogue will be stunted and it will be hard to devote yourself to your rich inside world. You will live only in the present, never thinking about your actions and only ‘doing’. At high levels, you will start to live only in your head, making doing anything in a physical space difficult. Bump into walls, fall down stairs, and walk into traffic all while being preoccupied with your thoughts. You will cease to exist on Earth and the only real you will be in your mind.

Not necessarily my skill, but I just made this for a joke and thought I might contribute my skill idea.

Media literacy
Comprehend written media. Read in-between, under, and over the lines.

Cool for: Critics, book-devourers, crititical-thinkers

Media literacy allows you to uncover the intent and message behind any sort of statement, in any field, whether made by fictional characters or real-life people.

At high levels, you will be able to understand the writer and their intent better than themselves. Sometimes, the writer is just your friend, and you will over-analyse the hell over anything they say, making you seem crazy. Also, nobody will listen to your crazy headcanons that are °definitely° the writer's plan. At least eventually, you'll get to say, "I told you so,".

With low levels of media literacy, you will find yourself unable to understand even direct commands. Have fun pushing on 'pull' doors, messing up cooking recipes, and buying 12 °boxes° of eggs. In case you didn't notice, the previous sentence was sarcastic, lack of media literacy is no cake-walk.

Obfuscation
Throw them off. Keep yourself guessing.

Cool for: Improv Comedians, The Irony-Poisoned, Con Artists

Obfuscation urges you to be authentic by being fake, and vice-versa. It enables you to guard your motives while shattering the guard of others. With it you can skate through difficult situations and bend others to your will, be it by playing dumb, putting on a brave face, or inspiring confidence and gaining sympathy. Just because you're being serious doesn't mean you mean it, and just because you mean it doesn't mean you're being serious.

At high levels, Obfuscation bamboozles even you, throwing off your own groove and wasting your time by agonizing over which mask fits best and wondering exactly how much you were joking just now. At low levels, however, you will habitually hand others the keys to your mental state and run into a wall anytime someone is uncooperative or a situation becomes confrontational on someone else's terms. When given the choice of them thinking you're a snake or a dove, be neither and both.

Grindset
Go beyond your limits, and look good doing it.

Cool for: Hustlers, Charlatans, Single Moms

Being a cop can be hard. Chasing down leads and interrogating every Tom, Dick and Stanley will leave you exhausted and looking for a break. Grindset will quickly make you change your tune. It urges you to push further, interrogate harder and most importantly make it all look effortless to the people around you. Just be sure to have a water cooler’s worth of coffee on you at all times or your body will hand in it’s resignation letter.

At high levels Grindset will keep you going when you want to call it quits. It will make sure that everything you planned to do will get done asap in spite of how much your pineal gland is screaming at you to go to sleep. At low levels however even the lightest activity will leave you drained. Forget chasing leads when you barely have the energy to tie your shoes.

Lehre
Educate the masses. Identify others' learning methods, and use them to great effect

Cool for: Teachers, self-driven students, master debaters.

Knowing something or knowing how to talk about the very same thing does not a professor make. An educator needs to be able to read the educatee's mind just as well as they might read a textbook. Knowing how someone learns--what language they respond well to, what methods they use to engrave information in their mind--makes all the difference. An expert with no ability to determine such matters is nearly useless as an information repository.

At low levels, you will be a regular Library of Alexandria. Knowledge that enters your hallowed bookshelves will be essentially lost if not recorded somewhere else. You'll lack the vocabulary and patience to make people understand even the simplest things. However, the higher your level, the less control you will have on your instinct to teach. At best, you will go around, correcting every minor detail you can see, teaching people how to avoid such mistakes again. At worst, you will come off as an arrogant and condescending ass, but an effective control freak. Either way, people will know what you know, and they will understand anything you want them to.

Critic
Question everything. Channel your doubt.

Cool for: Supervisors, Contrarians, Double-guessers

Critic is a powerful shield that stifles both your worst and best tendencies. A safety mechanism for stowaway ideas and manipulators. You will become somewhat of a perfectionist, finding flaws and snags in everything- especially yourself. Should you go back and check for more clues? Aren't handshakes somewhat unheigenic? Were you a little too rude there? Why do you ask so many questions?

At low levels, you'd be somewhat impulsive but agreeable. Often nodding along with things others say and do. At high levels, you become miserable but well protected. Constantly self correcting and degrading. You might even miss out on some things- or worse, hurt yourself, just because you were stewing in your own doubt.

Focus
Take in the details. Immerse yourself in the world.

Cool for: Thinkers, explorers, one-track minds.

Focus opens your eyes to the little things in the world. You'll see a broken fence and determine how, why, and with what is was broken. You'll pick out the hidden puzzle pieces of the world, and spend hours of your time figuring out how they fit.

At high levels, Focus risks you becoming so lost in minutae that you forget the big picture, concentrating so thoroughly on your train of thought that you ignore everything and everyone else. At low levels, however you'll be unable to notice the little important details - of your surroundings, and of your conversations. You will be unable to hold your attention on anything for very long. The picture puzzle of your case will be short several important pieces.

Hand wielder
Let your senses guide you in making. Make everything, every move made with care

Cool for: Artists, Craftsmen, High energy detectives, the anxious

Let out your Inner true maker, maybe out of boredom or a desire to prove something, Hand wielding can be quite useful in the cop scene, to solve a crime is simply to use your evidence as the paints, right? Just way more messy and way less relaxing. You will also know how things are usually made, to get a better picture of what was used, how, and even where, when and even for whom

At high levels, everything is your canvas, even where it shouldn’t be. You may require to keep a piece of cloth as is for the file, but you can’t resist adding a bit of “flair” to it can you? At low levels however, you will be the artist equivalent of a caveman, trying to bash a pencil onto the canvas as if you where stabbing it, barely understand the way to make, and worst of all, probably cause such a ruckus people have to call the beauty police.

Research Acumen
Unearth the sum of a million minds.

Cool for: Academics, Professors, People needing to fix their own fridge

Research Acumen reminds you that simple knowledge can only get you so far. Humanity has only survived due to the sharing of knowledge, and you know exactly how to exploit it by reading that knowledge directly from those who have dedicated their lives to the subject, allowing you to generalize. You may not know how to identify footprints or calculate the trajectory of a gunshot, but you know that someone else does, and who they are.

At high levels, Research Acumen will make you laser-focused with gaining the necessary details, to the point that you may find yourself isolated in your work, or forget it entirely to another tangent. At low levels, you'll have little interest in figuring out how the mechanics work, and will probably find yourself easily stumped. A cop who can't find any leads is hardly qualified at all.

Sanctuarium Sui
Be a guest in your own body, contemplate existentiae

Sanctuarium Sui sets you into conscious insanity, that separates your spirit from your body - it is your ability to self reflect into the very core of your transcendent element. Your body becomes a living machine under the command of higher entity.

At high levels it manifests your soul not only inside, but also outside the body. Some say you began to leave a pale-like trail behind you, like if your moves were recorded on a wet roll of film. At low levels however, you seem not to be aware of transcendent elements at all

Obscurity
keep on the downlow. Stick to the shadows. Move freely.

Obscurity keeps you anonymous in a world that screams for visibility. It’s about making sure you can operate out of sight and out of mind while pulling the strings of others—whether for your benefit or theirs.

At high levels, you never leave a lasting impression on others; they simply forget you are there, condemning you to the wasteland of isolation. But at low levels, everyone will have their eyes on you…and life is not fun under a microscope.

Ceteris Paribus
Know the letter of the law, and divine its spirit. Find the traps and loopholes. Wield written chains against the world.

Cool for: lawyers, bureaucrats, fraudsters.

Ceteris Paribus allows you to see the law for what it is - ink and man. It lets you know exactly which threads of a contract will hold and which will snap. It reminds you that law can be a step towards justice or a step away from it.

At high levels, Ceteris Paribus binds every interaction in rigid procedure and peppers your sentences with dusty phrases from dead languages. However, at low levels, you’ll struggle to understand why you can’t simply stab people who annoy you or burn down your house for the insurance money.

Fawn Response
Make others feel important, Soothes heated tempers

Cool for: Customer Service Representatives, Teachers, Abuse Survivors

Fawn Response plays on the sympathy of others while making them feel heard and valued, and barring that, redirects that anger. This skill will make it hard for others to get and stay angry at you specifically.

At high levels Fawn Response with calm even the most angry aggressor, whatever it takes, even if that means grinding your own self worth into oblivion. People who interact with you will always have glowing things to say, no matter how harshly your internal dialog disagrees.

With low levels of Fawn Response, though, you will find situations escalate quickly and you are most often blamed without reason or evidence. You will find yourself saying "sorry" over and over, while none belives you.

And to start it off, here’s one of mine…

Eutierria
Be one with the wind and the earth. Walk on the wild side.

Cool for: Biologists, Park Rangers, Eco-terrorists

Eutierria espouses one truth: that at the end of all things, you are an animal. It enables you to read the leaves like one might read a diary, heed the sparrow’s warning, and not only survive in the natural world, but thrive.

At high levels Eutierria will see you recoil from the modern world. You’ll eschew the trappings of civilization, becoming more beast than man until eventually you fade away into the long, lonely dark. However, at low levels you’ll struggle to understand why “clean water” and “sunshine” are so vital, and will be at the cruel mercy of the wilds.

Stage Presence
Make people hear you. Make them THINK you

Cool For: Comedic Types, Authoritarians, Carpetbaggers

Stage Presence helps you steer the attention of those who converse with you. It grabs the minds and hearts of those who watch you, making them laugh when you desire it, cry when you need it, and gasp when you want it.

At higher levels, Stage Presence domineers, making others rather wary of your abrasive personality. At lower levels, you’ll have trouble attracting discussion, with the few you have being surface level at best.

Rising Sun
Climb ever higher.

Cool for: Corporate ladder climbers, egomaniacs, directors.

Rising Sun drives you to never stop in your grand ascension to conquer and create. There is always the next step higher. It allows you to spot the right moments to jockey for position and provides the drive to keep going at your lowest.

At high levels, Rising Sun can lead to a unstable cocktail of delusions of grandeur and crippling self-doubt. You’ll be certain of your lofty destiny while riddled with anxiety about your ability to walk the path there. At low levels, you’ll submit yourself to pointless drudgery, happy to stay in the place that the social order has ordained for you.

Syndrome de l’imposteur
Know people for what they are, get past their disassociation. See their struggles with worthiness, feel it yourself.

Cool for: Artists, Writers

Syndrome de l’imposteur allows you to see when people are being dishonest, not to you but to themselves. You see their misgivings, you see the way they disassociate from themselves. See when they see their works as someone elses'. It reminds you that though you can always improve, you should see your wins for what they are....your own.

At low levels, Syndrome de l’imposteur, causes you to see even your own body as not belonging to you, someone else is in control and your self-talk reflects that. At High Levels you are at peace with your works as your own, and your self-talk becomes more positive allowing you to earnestly compliment others works without comparison.

Unchained Mind
Forget the world. Forge your own.

Cool for: Wanna be writers, day dreamers, secret insane people

Unchained Mind lets you see beyond the mist of the unknown and will let you dive deep into the things that lurk in and behind it. You will be able to forget what boundries the so called "real world" keeps on you and will make sense where there is none, will make you guess all the actions a person might perform in certain situations and will let you coat the normal plain with an aura of sweet and much needed mystic and wonder.

At high levels, there will be nothing stopping you from escaping reality, constantly gazing into random directions, makimg wild hand gestures and sometimes mumbling things while you stumble into the unseen dangers of a world you seemed to left behind. At low levels however, there is nothing besides all of graspable reality, still amazing on its own but lacking a certain Je ne sais quoi that will leave you constantly empty, yet unable to yearn for more.

LOGOS
Build palaces from the written word. Create new meaning in the everyday

Cool for: Writers, politicians, self-justifying drunks

Logos is the force that turns writing and speaking into the act of creation, shaping dull air into thousands of glittering possibilities. Logos has the power to charm, to shape the whims of the very World-Spirit around its clever phrasings. With low levels of Logos you'll never know the right thing to say. Your arguments will always be trite and unconvincing. By contrast, high Logos can make even your most shameful deeds seem heroic, and help you fashion powerful words that live in others' hearts long after your voice becomes a whisper-thin memory in the devouring pale. Too high, however, and you might lose the power to speak at all, so obsessed in your neverending quest for just the perfect word that you're unable to say anything of use.

Craftwork
Build solutions. Construct tools.

Cool for: Engineers, Mechanics, Artists

Craftwork compels you to manipulate the materials around you and be a master of creation. It enables you to design your way out of any problem and manifest concrete solutions into existence. Manufacture machines that save time and money, fabricate works of art that bring beauty in to the world.

At high levels, Craftwork will lead you down endless iterations of half-finished projects and junkyard tinkering. At low levels, however, you won't manage gluing two popsicle sticks together without eating paste.

Childish Wonder
Ignore the bleak, experience the world.

GOOD FOR: TEACHERS, ARTISTS, AND ANYONE AVOIDING BURN OUT

Childish Wonder is about stopping to appreciate the smallest things in life, from the friendly street dogs that roam your city to the shouts of a distant garage band playing their first show. In a place as big and colorful as this, how could you ever get bored?

At high levels, Childish Amazement envelopes you in armor, shielding you from the darkness of the world. But be warned: those around you may be put off by your random flights of fancy and won't take you seriously. At low levels, the world is boring and dull, or even worse, scary. It would take an insane man to venture out alone. I am sorry, you are a curmudgeon.

Contact Planner.
Expect what they will say next, see what they are about to do in their eyes, and plan accordingly.

Good for: Autistics, Sorry cops, Debaters and Drivers.

When you enter a discussion with someone, you are able to pick up on every word they say and draw conclusions from the hidden meanings that are stored between the words. You are always thinking ahead to the next sentence and action, coming up with a great comeback to a snappy argument that you predicted, and able to always see a way out of whatever situation you are in, danger or discomfort.

At high levels, you will seem to predict the future, surprising even yourself with your ability to know what they will do next. However, you will begin making too many assumptions too quickly.

At lower levels, you will come off as extatic, seeming to never sit still, almost paranoid, and you will often be wrong, so you will have more work coming up with extra responses to pick from.

Moby Dick
As vast as it is vague. A vision, nay, an invisible force holding you by the throat.

Cool for: Driven business representatives, fanatic whalers, athletes that hate to lose

Moby Dick breaks into your spirit and thrashes against your heart. It forces you to struggle against it, giving you a "why" to live. To beat the unbeatable force, to break the unbreakable oppression of the meaning of life. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

At high levels, Moby Dick will subdue any regret or sadness and turn it into a crushed ball of unadulterated excitement for the difficult. No burden will be too heavy, no path too uncertain. With low levels, the horror of answering what makes life worthwhile to you will seize you. You will not know your price for living. You will be too busy protecting yesterday to realize where you may end up tomorrow.

As someone with huge emotional responses and relentless ADD, this is the skill that lets me handle myself - or at least try! I have this skill instead of Authority, even though this doesn't really replace it; I'm just not good, or shall we say unskilled, with authority.

CHAINS
Know when enough is enough. Restrain your worse instincts. Combat your darker self. Keep your foot out of your mouth.

Cool for: Stoics, Knights Errant, Emotional Werewolves

Chains is your ability to control your impulses and how they manifest into action. It is a craft that keeps you in tandem with society and its norms, no matter what's on your mind.

At low levels, you are emotionally uncontrollable, acting on every whim of your brain and tug of your heartstrings, dragging you through the mud by your very own hands. Your every thought moves through you, whether that be with your hands or your tongue.

At high levels, Chains keeps even the strongest cognitive sparks from moving your muscles, rendering one impervious to external stimuli. However, it could be said that a human is very little without their impulses - especially if those are instincts that would save them from danger.

ÂME MÉCANIQUE
Understand technology. Speak the languages of the machines. Know computers as well as you know yourself.

Cool for: Technophiles, Hacking Wiz-Kids, Antisocial Intellectuals

Âme Mécanique is the ability to operate computers and related technology, and understanding these devices down to their smallest core components.

At low levels, you are utterly divorced from the virtual world. Any problems ahead of you must be solved solely in the physical realm, or need the assistance of someone else. As time marches on, you will be left behind as a relic of simpler times.

At high levels, technology is as simple as eating and breathing, and operating any device is an effortless task. However, such a dedicated focus to the virtual leaves your connection to the physical severed. Even when away from technology, your brain thinks in zeroes and ones, isolating you from those lacking your devotion.

INTERNAL CLOCK
Find the time, ensure everything stays to it

Cool for: students, middle managers, clock kings

Internal Clock is your ability to prepare the situation so all things happen in a timely fashion. If a time is set, then it ensures that you will be there not a second late. If you can prepare properly nothing will surprise you.

At high levels, Internal Clock will ironically cause you to lose time, as time better spent on other subjects are spent neurotically waiting for planned events or the specific times to do something. However at low levels, you will find yourself conceptually late to every event or important occurrence, while your procrastination will eventually leave you overwhelmed.

Paracosm
Invent new realities, manifest your imagination, wield the implausible. Become unbound from this world. Make others see.

Cool for: science-fiction writers, dialectical immaterialists, insomniacs.

Paracosm allows you to lose yourself in stories, and create and believe in worlds that do not exist. It lets you see the building blocks of the universe, understand the trends and hidden parameters that govern realities, and take concepts to their logical extreme.

At high levels, Paracosm lowers your suspension of disbelief to the point of being able to accept any notion, no matter how attached to reality it is. You will believe in fairies and conspiracy theories.

At low levels, you will fail to conceive of any viewpoint outside your immediate and current experience. You will be unable to enjoy genre fiction.

Psychoacoustics
Recognize the sounds of your environment. Find music in every noise.

Cool for: avant-garde musicians, safecrackers, submarine crews.

Psychoacoustics lets you perceive the world via the interlocking patterns of soundwaves that fill it, and the subtle emotional effects that the qualities of it can have on human beings. It enables you to recognize people by the sound of their footsteps, intimately acquaint yourself with the symphonies of operating machinery, and imagine possible musical applications to all of it.

At high levels, Psychoacoustics forces you to listen - REALLY listen! - to every sound. You'll become unable to focus (or sleep) due to the sounds demanding your constant attention. At lower levels, you might not notice that engine knock before it's too late, find yourself easily snuck up on, and complain about "those kids and their music".

Close Enough
Convince people you know the truth. Provide a starting point. Stop them questioning the oddities.

Good for: Teachers, middle managers, weed-smoking cousins.

Everyone knows a little bit of something. You know a little bit of everything. And knowing a little bit of everything means that you know everything. Use that trust to tell people things - get them to see the world the way that you do. They won't check. You're the one who knows everything.

At high levels, Close Enough allows you to mix true fact with bad fiction, convincing people of falsehoods as long as you remember to include a shred of reality. However, this extends to yourself, and those with higher knowledge or stronger position will easily see through your bluster.

At low levels, people will be unpersuaded by even your most rational, researched arguments. They will see everything you say as ridiculous, regardless of how rooted it is. Even those who believe you will think you need to tone it down a bit.

Phantasmic Might
Exist only when you need to. Blend in, only make yourself known when absolutely necessary.

Cool for: Gang members, handymen, the socially reclusive.

Hover behind the shoulder of the boss, waiting to cover his ass should his words, or fists fail. Tear people apart from afar, let somebody else do the talking while you only let your gaze fall upon them. Let no thing go unnoticed. When you are finally granted the ability of a presence, you will annihilate them, be it through speech or muscle.

At low levels, you will not know when to be quiet, to merely take in the world. You will embarrass yourself by forcing your way into conversations.

At high levels, you will become merely a piece of sentient furniture, a ghost that can only float from talk to talk, task to task. What’s the point of existence then?

Leadership
Chart the course. Know who to trust

Cool for: hired thugs and mafiosos, military personnel, reluctant heroes

Leadership allows you to see the big picture, and doesn't let you lose sight of it. It commands respect not for respect's sake, but for the sake of getting the job done. It will show you who has their loyalty in the right place, and who doesn't...no matter where they are on the totem pole

At high levels, Leadership inspires. Those around you can't help but trust your judgement and loyalty, and you will see with ease who is following and who isn't. Those without ulterior goals or motivations will be confident in your vision and ability, but be warned- unfit leaders will find your stubborn self-assuredness grating at best. However, at low levels, you get lost in the details, if not your own ego. Your decisions will be impulsive and short-sighted, and you will become the weakest link in your posse... and it will be obvious to everybody

So *Juvie*
The kids dig you. They think you’re one cool customer. And it's not because of your disco-ass blazer and party eyes.

Cool for: camp counselors, juvie cops, gym teachers.

The truth is, you’re just a big kid yourself. So *Juvie* endears you to children, teenagers, and young adults. You can modulate your facial expressions, tone of voice, and use of slang to instantly build rapport with street urchins and delinquents of all backgrounds. Remember: children know more than you think, and are usually more observant and forthcoming than adults - if you know how to talk to them.

At high levels, young people will trust you implicitly and gladly volunteer information about themselves, their parents, and their surroundings. At low levels, they’ll see you as hopelessly cringe and beneath their notice. You’ve got no chill. You might as well be their grandfather.

EMBODIMENT
Your ability to be shaped by your environment. Become what the room and its inhabitants wants you to be. Be the sociological man.

Cool for : honers, cowards, immigrants, spies

Embodiment allows you to adapt to every situation over time. It makes you read the room however hieroglyphical its tapestry may be. Learning becomes naturally easier.

At high levels, you behave like an absolutely plastic man, whose convictions and behaviors, including the most dangerous ones, are the result of democratic decisions from others’s influence. However, at low levels, any learning experience will feel like a long, long walk through a hot, barren land.

Sesión Improvisada
Go with the flow, make up your own groove and stick to the script. Understand else’s farce or jam and jump in.

Cool for: theatre geeks, poets, blues brothers

When Robert Johnson sang of selling his soul to the devil, he didn’t read sheet music. Something simply moved through him and his instrument to make him play that music; something so powerful he believed it to be the influence of Satan itself. This was the Sesión Improvisada. An instinct moving through your mind to simply perform actions that have worked in the past in new combinations that sound or feel good. The truest and most inhuman form of “Playing along”.

At high levels, Sesión Improvisada can tune into bad things and have you follow along to subtle and ugly things, or make you forego planning altogether in favour of just feeling the beat. People around you will lose familiarity with what is you, and what is your instincts telling you to go with the flow, until you resemble something like The Boy Who Cried “Howlin’ Wolf”.

XANADU
Go beyond your body. Let your soul eat the world.

COOL FOR: poets, romantics, people who feel like they’re too big for their bodies

XANADU makes you really feel it; It lets you draw from the well of dreams, and express the unconscious to the world. At the same time, you become attuned to the world’s ebb and flow; your dreams become the dreams of the world.

At higher levels, XANADU feels like a itch beneath the skin. You can barely go two steps without the need to rip apart your own chest so you can breathe. But at low levels, you barely understand the basics of yourself. Your soul will remain a small, pitiful thing in a prison of a body.

EGGSHELL TIPTOES
See hidden traps in people's expressions. Read between the lines. Never cross the lines.

COOL FOR: CONSIDERATE COPS, HUMAN PUNCHBAGS, EMPATHS.

Eggshell Tiptoes is your ability to read a room and notice the elephant hiding in the corner. You'll be able to chat to difficult people and never press their red buttons. Perhaps these people will even like you because you're just so easy. The eggshells littering the ground around them barely even crack under your light weight. Conversation, new experiences and friendship with anyone is now open to you.

At high levels, Eggshell Tiptoes makes you see an elephant when there is no elephant in the room. You assume easy people are difficult and tiptoe unnecessarily. You blend so well into difficult people that you start to lose yourself in their ideologies. If you're not careful, you will stop being you.

NOMADIA
Wander the world. See the overlooked sights.

COOL FOR: LOST SOULS, VAGABONDS, EXPLORERS

Nomadia is the explorer's trait. The kingdom of Nomadia is not a kingdom at all, but a kinship, a connection to the lost souls of the world that chain people together. All over the world, the soldiers of the No Man's Land wander, for there is no home for them. Nomadia rewards those who look carefully. Find a few extra cents underneath floorboards or a ratty old coat in the corner. Absorb the world and pack it away before everyone else does.

At high levels, you will stroll with your head in the clouds. Nothing else matters - not the people, nor the social expectations. You need to see everything, even if it means abandoning everything to get there. At low levels, floorboards are just floorboards and corners are just corners. You'll overlook the finer details - the details which might be the thing you need most.

MAN OF LETTERS
Understand the text. Come to your conclusions. Relate it to the world.

Cool for: Critics, writers, pretentious dickheads.

Man of Letters makes you good at comprehending and decoding arguments in anything; the written word, art around you, things that people yell at you. It lets you know what people are trying to get from you, and makes you better at getting what you want from them.

At high levels, Man of Letters makes you read way too much in; sometimes the curtains are just blue, and sometimes your professor just wants the damn homework and isn't trying to make you fail the class because he hates you. However, at low levels, you won't know what anyone wants, and take everything at its word

MICROSCOPE
Look deeper, and deeper, and deeper again. Burrow through the outer forms of this world.

Cool for: atheists, natural scientists, and pedants.

Microscope, much like its actual counterpart, lets you look deeper into the core of this world we inhabit. You know that everything in nature can be analyzed and explained - so why don't you? Hyperfocus on every minute detail until the full picture appears. Peel back the ten layers of obfuscation around it all.

At high levels, Microscope allows you to see the cause for every effect, to determine the unbreakable natural law that leads to everything possible... perhaps to the point of uselessness. At low levels, however, you will be unable to break the surface, being doomed to take everything at face value and lose your sense of questioning.

Prediction Process
Your brain isn't quite the same as everyone else's. You think about people like ones and zeros.

Cool for: Sociopaths, Neurodivergents, CEOs.

You run cold, as they say. Numbers and statistics - thats how things work. You can consume information and spit out something hard and factual. With enough practice, you know everyone's behavior can be predicted and charted.

At high levels, Prediction Process lets you understand any given piece of information in a more multi-faceted way and hypothesize people's behavior and motives better. At low levels, you'll be treated like a emotionless robot and feel like one as you struggle to make sense of how emotions and irrational thoughts work.

La Tour Éternelle
Cool for - Self Improvment, Reachers, the Wanderlust-stricken

Urges you to change yourself. To grow and cultivate a skill without any promise of reward. It is the finding of joy in the doing. It is the journey with no destination, and no end. It is place where the infinite blue horizon meets the fathomless sea. It is the tower, that spirals endlessly into the clouds.

At low levels La Tour Éternelle makes you listless, and paralyze you with an overabundance of apparent choice. At high levels however, it can make you distant from other people, and you may loose your sense of self in that limitless blue.

Fleet Feet
Keep yourself out of harm's way—your life is too valuable to waste.

Cool For: Undercover Investigators, Professional Drivers, Hypochondriacs

Fleet Feet is that pre-emptive hair on the back of your neck that sticks up when you know something'll go bad sooner or later. It's not a fight-or-flight response, no—it's the sixth sense beforehand that'll let you duck out of an invitation to a party that puts most participants behind bars. After all, the only way to be sure you don't get caught in trouble is to stay out of it in the first place.

At high levels, Fleet Feet will leave you afraid of the idea of chance itself — a paranoid basket-case who would rather sit at home and board up all the windows than risk a night out on the town. But at low levels, you'll black out and suddenly find yourself smack-dab in the middle of a firefight, wondering just what the hell you said yes to to wind up here.

Shardbearing
Flex your memory-muscles, slotting bits of the past into the present.

Cool for: Narcissists, Nostalgists, "Normal People"

Shardbearing allows you to put a name and a face to people, places and even objects you've interacted with in the past. You'll be able to peep directly into the what-was, who-was and when-was, pulling from the past like it were the very present moment. The old-timers and hardliners of Revachol will appreciate someone who can collect shards of majesty and melancholy from even the most fraudulent and best-forgotten moments in history.

At high levels, your recollection collection may begin to overwhelm you with old world blues, every half-remembered scent and familiar face becoming an object of obscene desire and misery. It will forge connections where there are none, beautifying what may best be discarded and tarring what may yet be of use with complete disdain. You'll be unable to appreciate the future, and Shardbearing will be a rose-tinted bulwark against anything that may disturb the far-off utopia of last Tuesday.

At low levels, you'll be caught flat-footed when it comes to confronting the past, and severely blunted to any veneration of the good old days, be it a Mazovian Revolution, the rule of the Suzerain, or even relating to the preserve of a sweet, simple moment. Like a hearty confession, or a really satisfying piss.

PHANTOM PAIN
Eprerience lost limb sensation. Touch what cannot be touched.

COOL FOR: SHAMANS. NEUROMATRIX HACKERS.

Phantom Pain is your right arm’s restless ghost haunting your nervous system. It enables you to use your phantom arm in order to interact with entities that lie behind the veil. A sorrowful remnant of your favorite body part or perhaps, a key for all things hidden, fraction of power bound by flesh?

At high levels, Phantom Pain leaves you feeling broken apart, hardly able to move on, as it serves as a sensitive reminder of your disability. With a low level, however, you gain no advantage from its para-natural manifestation, which limits you to the reality of a physical world unjust to your condition — and if so, how do you get back home from a place where violence means survival?

DEUS LHE PAGUE

COOL FOR: PRIESTS. CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. TERRORISTS.

Deus lhe pague is for the righteous ones. Deus lhe pague makes you extremely sensitive to the injustices in the world — or at least what you perceive to be injustices. Deus lhe pague is the tenets you live by. It's the feeling of your blood boiling when your moral beliefs are put to the test.

At high levels, you become a dogmatic holy crusader, incapable of letting even the slightest slights slide. Your day-to-day life will be constantly interrupted by your futile attempts to fix all the wrongs in the world, and you will be unable to form any genuine connection, as no person will be virtuous enough to clear your high bar. However, at low levels you will lack internal conviction, and with it a clear sense of right and wrong, as well as motivation to change your life for the better.

INDULGENCE
Pleasure or Pain. All sensations are wonderful in their little ways. So why not have them all?

COOL FOR: Hedonists, Thrill-Seekers, Rockbottomers

Indulgence is a whispering seductress, enlightening you to the joys of every action. Ensuring your happiness is paramount, as it will always be entwined in your synapses and grasping your brain matter with tight branches. When life has never loved you, at least someone can guide you in some way to something that will.

At higher levels, Indulgence makes you a creature of undeterred excess - The amber liquid of the gods strikes at the space behind your eyes with sparks of everlasting beauty and the steamy air of a party will make your hair hum with delight. It will never be enough. For lower levels, life will be dull and flaccid like a newspaper article and you'll never find joy in whatever you do. How dreary.

INNER VOICE
Revisit your interactions. Put the small clues together

Cool for: Detail oriented cops, read-between-the-liners, overthinkers

Inner voice relives your coversations, putting together all the bits you missed in the moment. It enables you to come back with new insight, reconsider the motives of others, or reflect on your own words. Nothing gets past you, not after you've thought about it.

At high levels, inner voice lets you really consider the small clues. Twitches, nods, even someone's choice of grammer comes into question. But, you will also find meaning that is not there, 'clues' that were simple moments of hesitation, or assume reliability from unreliable narrators. With low levels, you will lack reflection. Every conversation will be your first. You won't ever get that perfect comeback in the shower.

Causalism
Free Will is a convenient fiction. Our lives are poured into moulds we never chose.

Cool for: Street Sages, Abyss Gazers, Contemporary Knights Errant

It may be philosophically unfashionable, but the notion that everything happens for a reason has never gone out of style among detectives. Causalism lets you navigate the glass maze of circumstance that other investigators get lost in.

At high levels, Causalism risks destroying your personal belief in Justice. But its absence will leave you unable to understand how people end up in situations they did not choose. Life's unfortunates often have important information, and low Causalism will make such people avoid or actively hinder you.

Hyperfixate
Single-Mindedness and Obsessive Focus. An all-consuming concentration.

Cool for: Brain Workers, Creatives

Hyperfixate is the razor-sharp point of intense focus and relentless execution. It allows you to dive deeply into a single point of interest, mastering it with unparalleled precision, often at the expense of everything else around you. What marvels will you uncover? How will this undivided attention shape your reality?

At high levels, Hyperfixate transforms your potential into kinetic energy. You’ll accomplish tasks with a proficiency that borders on genius, perhaps even reshaping the world with your newfound skills – provided you don’t lose yourself in the process. However, you don't always control which task you focus on. With low Hyperfixate, you’ll lack direction and drive, flitting from one distraction to another. And then, how will you leave your mark on the universe?

Homunculus
Take a break. Let the second in command do the dirty work.

Cool for: Routinists, Service Industry Workers, Well-Oiled Machines

Homunculus is your unformed skull, and holds sway over much of your body. Everything that you aren't doing that gets done, you can thank it for that. It enables your muscle memory, automatic breathing, even your heartbeat. And, should you choose, it can take over and drag you through, keeping you unscathed from mentally and physically taxing tasks.

At high levels, Homunculus can do everything you can. It will often take over and you'll sit and wait as it lives for you. It has its own ideas of what you should be doing, and it is always on time. At low levels, however, the body's complex machinery will break down and struggle to move along. And nobody will be there to help.

MARCHING ORDERS
Understand military talk. Continue marching through rain and snow.

Cool for: Obedient Soldiers, Underlings, Commanders

Marching Orders represent the very soul of being a soldier. It helps you understand obscure army lingo, but more than that, it helps you become subservient. A good soldier is indistinguishable from the platoon.

At high levels, Marching Orders will give you the rhythm to perform and witness awful deeds without losing morale: blame spreads thin like oil. However, with low Marching Orders, you will be completely inept as a soldier. You will be an island isolated from your brothers in battle. Your ability to execute commands will be so laughable that you'll even mess up a simple doctor's visit.

Devalue
It's still not enough. Push yourself further.

Cool for: Internalized martyrs, unquiet depressed people, artists.

Devalue doesn't permit you fail at any circumstances - that is not a choice. It clutches you to the limits of your determination, pursuing the mandatory yet unreachable success.

At high levels, you can do anything in the best way possible, as all things should be. However, at low levels, the ambition towards perfection goes too far; beyond the beliefs of your willpower. You are a failure with a capital F.

BRAINROT
Be in on the joke, keep up with the times, be one of the cool kids

Cool for: Teenagers, nerds, undercover cops

Let's you keep up with all the latest topics, jokes and memes. It enables you to converse with the youth without having to look up their slang and without appearing uninformed about current events.

At high levels you will understand all the new slangs, memes, and discourses and will be able to fit easily in any new subculture niche, but you run the risk of giving the impression of a terminally-online loser to any regular person.

At low levels you will look, and sound, like a fossil, forever stuck in the last century. Of course, you will be immune to any cognitive hazards that internet exposure could lead to.

Prestidigitation

Good for: Jugglers, Up-Close-Magicians, Card Sharks

Your hands are the most powerful tool you have, as they allow you to use all others, and through them you manipulate the world. Observers follow each movement mesmerised (so long as you want them to) as you conduct a symphony of motion with your fingers. Your deft touch allows you to place things wherever you desire, effortlessly, and without notice.

Without prestidigitation, your hands move with a mundane, utilitarian purpose, and without finesse. You fumble when you should hold tight, and you bore when you should distract. With high prestidigitation, your hands become the perfect extension of your will, honed to a razor’s edge. Becoming too accustomed to crafting illusions could leave you blind to the truth, however, and that can spell death when that truth becomes apparent to others.

HINDSIGHT

COOL FOR: OVERTHINKERS. TOSSERS-AND-TURNERS. ARCHIVISTS.

Put on your retrospecs and pick up what slipped your foresight by. Things tucked away in the corners of your memory peek out like prairie dogs when hindsight the arch-nemesis of *carpe diem * - is on duty.

At high levels, your hindsight is 20/20, as it were. Speaking strictly in terms of things that *did* get past you, nothing gets past you. At low levels, your hindsight has to put up with temporal cataracts, not even able to show you the courtesy of putting together your life's highlight reel on your deathbed.

VISION
See your ideas in reality.

Cool for: Directors, Artists, Writers and any other creative - failed or successful. And Architects.

Vision allows you to see the immaterial, histories or future in our modern day material world.

High Vision allows you to see an object yet to exist in front of you hear a piece of music you are yet to play or write or imagine how cool a scene in a movie or game you can't make will be. However at low Vision, you will be trapped in a dull and purely factual world, unable to imagine.

Noir
Feel the grime. Succumb to the rain

Cool for: Anti Heroes, Hardboiled detectives, Jaded people

Noir is the feeling of shaking down every last bit of information out of a suspect (with dubious methods), feeling your muscles tense up as the dots connect and the world becomes black and white, drinking an entire bottle after a harrowing case, It lets you see the details an optimist would miss and connect to those as broken as you are, and more importantly: let you hear the full testimony of those just as broken and jaded as you are.

At high levels, Noir may cripple you with the horrors of what your actually doing, making that whisky all the more enticing. Yet seeing the case with eyes that see more than just black and white and all the little details of a persons psyche will be easier to understand. Though at low levels your moral spectrum will become binary and unfitting of a person able to deem a suspect guilty or make you too squeamish about playing bad cop. Seeing things for what they truly are will be one of your blind spots.

Willful Ignorance
Do what YOU want. Suppress dissenting views and bolster your own opinions.

Cool for: Asshole Cops, Sociopaths, Zealots

Willful Ignorance empowers you to drown out those pesky thoughts and ideas that threaten to shatter your fragile worldview. Your mind is precarious as it is, can you really handle the core of your identity being challenged? If an idea does not align with your own opinions, you can discard them without a care. You become hyperaware of how ideas correspond to your opinions. It protects you from being indoctrinated by those who would try to subtly influence your thoughts.

At high levels, Willful Ignorance may render you incapable of conducting meaningful conversations with anyone other than those who precisely align with your opinions. The world becomes hostile and unfriendly, and you will have a hard time connecting with anyone.

However, with low Willful Ignorance, you will have a hard time sorting through dissenting opinions. You cannot decide what opinions are your own, and what are unnecessary filler. A cop who can't make up their mind is a cop who can't solve a case.

BODY OF LAWS
Know your rights. Remember fun courtroom trivia. 

Cool for: Lawyers, Law-Evaders, Stick-In-The-Muds

Body Of Laws is responsible for your ability to follow the law at any given time—or don’t! Just because you know the rules doesn’t mean you have to play by them. Regardless, it certainly allows you to recall a, frankly, embarrassing amount of your government’s regulations, and may encourage you to ‘stay in your lane’, so to speak, regarding them. Governments aren’t the only entities that enact rules, though: you will also find yourself privy to understanding unspoken boundaries set by people, nature, and even your subconscious self.

At high levels, Body Of Laws will either make you an *extremely* insufferable goody-two-shoes, or a *wildly* effective cheat-of-the-system. You may end up feeling suffocated by all these restrictions you can so clearly see, causing you to become complicit with the movings of the machine—or potentially apathetic to why we need some of these restrictions in the first place. With low levels of Body Of Laws, you may find yourself accidentally violating boundaries you didn’t know existed—whether they be legal, personal, or cultural.

SCHOOL SPIRIT
Connect to the school and its students. Struggle together.

Cool for: Popular kids, dance kings and queens, exam week haters.

School Spirit is the collective conscious of every student at your school. It enables you to relate to your fellow student, sometimes to a supernatural degree. During tough times, you can take solace in the fact that every student in this school is going through the same struggles with homework or clubs or balancing their social life with their school life with their work life. At high levels, School Spirit lets you tap into the melded mind of the student body, making you effortlessly relatable to your peers and enabling you to truly *get* what goes on in every corner of the school. At low levels, however, you'll be hard-pressed to understand the struggles of your fellow student, and your ability to cultivate a proper social life will be stymied.

RATIONALE
End the irrational. Extract logic from emotion.

COOL FOR: SOULLESS BUREAUCRATS, PSEUDO-INTELLECTUALS, CRAZY SCIENTISTS

Rationale boils down the souls of others into a digestible, analyzable form for your consumption. Your resolve yearns for a resolution for the insanity around you, and what better way to deal with it than a cold, harsh scientific truth? More your mind and soul are aligned through logical examination, there will be no mountain you cannot climb, no challenge you cannot overcome.

At high levels of Rationale, you will be able to keep your composure against whatever unnatural phenomena nature throws at you, as you know that all have a sensible answer, even if you like it or not. At the same time, you will lose your hold on the world of raw emotion, of irrational love, and hate. With low levels of Rationale, however, you will stand clueless as millions of hormones rush to your brain, taking it all like a primal ape.

VIBRANCE
Don't lose sight of who you are. Realize which thoughts are not your own.

Cool for: Contrarians, The Uninfluencable, Rebel Punks

Vibrance is your ability to resist subconscious influence, and to thwart manipulation aimed at you. It will allow to see advertisments and conversations for what they are, thinly-veiled attempts at changing your psyche. Seeing these patterns, you will be able to navigate the world with a stubborn allegiance and a clear image of you who and what you are.

At high levels, Vibrance will not allow any information go through your mind unscrutinized. You will be impervious to other's "requests" and manipulations. Your perspective of the world will be your own, perhaps even to your detriment. Though at low levels, you will find yourself often unknowingly bent to someone's will and sharing their opinions. Blink, and your hands will be serving someone else.

PRESENCE
Maintain physical imposition in this world. Take a beating.

Cool for: Generals, swimmers, bodyguards, folk-heroes.

Presence is your grasp on the physical realm. It is your health and aura, and allows you to hold onto life when you see the light.

At high levels, Presence surrounds you in a mythic fog that renders you untouchable and unmistakably important. Take bullets, stand out in crowds, and carry the weight of the world on your back - even if you can't really handle it. However, at low levels, you will be knocked over by a gentle breeze, and you will appear smaller than everyone else regardless of your actual height.

NEUTRALIZATION
Cough the poison out of your lungs. Resist chemicals, drugs, and hormones.

Cool for: Plague doctors, kingpins, gas-boys.

Neutralization is your body's lymphatic system, liver, and kidneys. It enables you to withstand harsh chemicals and have a high tolerance for drugs. The streets are full of pollutants, chemical weapons, and cocaine - hold your breath.

At high levels, Neutralization makes you a biological tank: you will never get sick, nor drunk, nor high again. With low Neutralization, you will be extremely susceptible to all sorts of bio-aggressors. Without any resistance, you will die if you so much as touch a leper.

EXECUTIONER
Behind blood, glory awaits.

COOL FOR: SOLDIERS, MERCENARIES, MOB-BOSSES, PSYCHOPATHS.

Executioner is your combat prowess and cruelty. It causes every inflicted wound to poison your enemy's soul and mind. It enables you to butcher animals without flinching, hit a dirty punch, and justify casualties in pursuit of your goals.

At high levels, Executioner makes you frighteningly brutal; your underlings will respect and fear you, your enemies will flee at the sound of your footsteps. You'll have a reputation worthy of only the strongest opponents, and you can turn your status into money using contract work. However, at low levels, you will struggle to justify anything at all. Your abilities in combat will be as worthless as copper, twisted and bent into flimsy wires.

Homme en Verre
Avoid detection. Become just another face.

COOL FOR: SMUGGLERS. SILENT TYPES. SERIAL KILLERS.

Blending into crowds and shadows alike, Homme en Verre wants to keep you out of the spotlight. It knows you do your best work away from prying eyes. It allows you to be forgotten and overlooked, and when a situation gets too hot it allows you to safely extract yourself- both socially and physically. It sees hiding spots and hears coded language. Flying under the radar gives you access to options that flashy people will never even see, and will gain you favor with those who are also looking to keep quiet.

At high levels Homme en Verre will make you the shadow of a ghost. Someone is always watching, but they wont notice you. People will forget your face the moment you turn around. You will never make a lasting impression- even If you might need to. With low levels of Homme en Verre, however, you will always stick out and end up attracting unwanted attention. This lack of any and all subtlety will make it hard for you to go about your business, especially if that business happens to be disliked by those who notice. And they will notice.

Rabies
Open the cage. Be urgent. Run.

Cool for: Athletes, maniacs, hunters.

Rabies lets you understand urgency and act on it without hesitation. It lets you bring down the knife on the neck of a struggling pig before blood spoils the meat. It is your intimacy with panic and ferocity.

At high levels, Rabies lets you punch back harder. You won't just react – you'll overreact, with a primal force that borders on the animalistic. At low levels, however, you just won't have the intensity to follow through with your plan.

Conscience
Feel guilt. Understand you are in the wrong.

Cool for: People with reputations to uphold, apologists, self-reflectors, monks

Conscience claws into your mind and digs up the deepest buried secrets. It sharpens your awareness of your own flaws, making you aware of how others perceive your actions and words. It allows you to pick out your mistakes like peas with a fork.

At high levels, Conscience will make sure you know your place. You'll choose every word carefully with the lowest risk of failure: bow your head, genuflect, and stay quiet. With low Conscience, however, you'll be a nuisance to everyone around you, and people may not wish to associate with you.

Stamina
Run far, Run fast, keep going.

Cool for: Marathon runners, porno actors, errand boys

Stamina is your ability to redistribute energy around your greedy muscles, whilst you run your second lap around the coast. It allows you to run without breaking a sweat, and do repetitive actions without your drunken arms getting itchy. Stamina wants you to run that extra mile, it also has a great understanding what fits your fashion in your "totally" daily work outs. Stamina's got you when you need just one extra push to keep going.

At high levels, you become a human motor, running up and down, leaving everyone behind you. Stamina encourages you to run around as much as possible, even when you are inconsiderate of the fact that not everybody is seemingly on speed as you are. At low levels, however, you'll have to resort to walking and taking regular breaks on the lonely bench, to reflect on how slow and old you are.

PASSIONS
Recognize the merit of expert craftsmanship and technique. Distill the artisan's thought process.

Cool for: Graphologists, Antique Appraisers, Copy-Cats

At high levels, Passions transforms your eyes into a time-machine, playing reality in reverse and knowing why every action was executed. See an athlete run and cognize proper sprinting. Forge handwriting at a glance. Reproduce both simultaneously, like the graphoanal-marathoner you were born to be. At low levels, you will struggle to learn from observation - anything outside the scope of scratching your nethers will look like entroponetic field science.

SECOND WIND
Take a deep breath and recharge. Detach the spool and let the cycle of recuperation roll again.    

Cool for: Marathon Runners, Meditation Practitioners, Recreational Fishermen    

Second Wind represents your ability to recover from both physical and mental stresses, allowing you to make swift comebacks. It increases your awareness of how your own body functions under pressure and allows you to assess the best way to let go of the tension of your body and make any suffering as temporary as possible. With enough time and patience, you can relieve yourself from just about anything life throws at you as your body is naturally built to repair itself.

At high levels, Second Wind makes you complacent, making you slow to react to emergencies and procrastinate on urgent deadlines as stopping to smell the roses becomes an ingrained habit. You're so relaxed, that you've smoothed away the edge needed for that critical moment. At low levels of Second Wind, you'll be constantly overstressed, reliant on substances to tap into short-term energy reserves you don't have until you inevitably collapse from exhaustion.

FORMLESS
Be defined by nothing. Greedily assimilate traits.

Good for: Martial artists, The indecisive, Cultural appropriators.

Formless is a hoarder of sorts. A miser of tricks, ideas, and techniques. It urges you to try your hand at everything that peaks your interest, and subscribe to every school of thought you resonate with. Furthermore, it’s the ability to merge teachings with your own wealth of insight, to create something entirely new. To be Formless is to evolve; into somebody capable of handling specific problems as they arise.

At high levels, Formless keeps you informed and inventive. You’ll create unique solutions by amalgamating all sorts of ideas and lessons. You’ll have so much to pull from, you’ll often waste valuable time browsing for the optimal choice. And as a jack of all trades, a master of one is sure to put you in your place. But with a low grasp of Formless, you’ll approach everything with the same old orthodox mindset. Thinking outside the box will not happen easily, and wildly new concepts will be lost upon you.

FLOW STATE

Cool for: Artists, Detectives, Masterminds

Flow State is the elusive zone of peak performance. It's the feeling of effortless mastery, where your actions become an extension of your thoughts, and your mind races with possibilities. It's the space where time seems to slow down, and you feel truly alive in every moment.

At high levels, Flow State is a force of nature. It makes you a virtuoso, a master of your craft, capable of doing things you never thought possible. Your actions become effortless, your instincts sharpened, and your creativity boundless. You can solve problems with surprising grace, adapt to changing situations with ease, and even manipulate your environment to your will. At low levels, Flow State is a fickle mistress. You may find yourself struggling to focus, distracted by thoughts and emotions. You might overthink situations, or lose yourself in moments of inspiration that lead nowhere. You might even become overwhelmed by the pressure to perform, leading to anxiety and doubt.

The Glow
She Loved the world. Feel the Love.

COOL FOR: POETS, COUPLES THERAPISTS, INNOCENTS.

The Glow knows of the whispers of lost Love that cling to the world and urges you to listen. It enables you to hear the past Love of People and the Places they went, gain information about that Love, and know how it played Out.

At high levels, The Glow will Show you every Fragment of Love you come across, which will give you a deep, Personal understanding of the past, but might distract you from the present. At Low levels of The Glow, you will be detached from the world in a fundamental way. If you cant feel the Love, dont expect to understand the people.

Ardor
Cause change. Explode creativity to shape the world around you.

Cool for: Game Designers, Working-class, Revolutionaries, and Daydreamers.

Ardor is the Promethean fire that burns in your chest, seeking to produce light into the world with boldness. It allows you to channel the raw creative energy in a way that affects the masses, sparking desire in their souls. It also enables you to separate the wheat from the chaff - to perceive the fire in others and their intentions.

At high levels, Ardor makes you a soul in constant want for innovation, pursuing to break the status quo by any means necessary - you can turn the spark in your heart into a prairie fire that burns everything on its way.

But with a low Ardor, you are a conformist who just accepts that the world is a fucked-up place, and you don't believe you can do anything about it, so you lay on the pile of shit you found yourself in.

Remaining Shape
Don't let the time erode you.

Cool for: Trainers, Teachers, Artists and Realists.

Remaining Shape is the ability to withstand entropy, the unyielding passege of time, and remain yourself. It is also what anchors you to reality, because you don't need anything else.

At high levels it will allow yourself to be good at recognising what is real and what is not, acknowledge that there is still better and worst fates, unchanging in the face of time.

At low levels, you will slowly start to lose yourself in fantasy and illusions, without any knowledge if you are worse or better than others, eroding in the face of eternity.

Sincerity
Bare yourself to the world. Reveal your inner workings.

Cool for: Apologists, Flagellants, Lifelong Devotees.

Sincerity puts your fragile human heart on display for all to see. It enables you show individuals what you're truly made of -- for better or for worse. If people could see you for who you are, they'd surely give you a second chance. Right?

At high levels, Sincerity breaks down preconceived notions. Make up for past mistakes, un-burn that bridge, win them back. At low levels, however, you hide all your true feelings from the world, perhaps even from yourself. People find it difficult to relate to your unreadable cold hard exterior.