1. Advantages

(•) The Dragon Knows

The character can tell why a person is sorrowful, guessing her regrets with but a glance.

Prerequisites: None

Cost: 1 Glamour

Dice Pool: Wyrd + Empathy – subject’s Composure ({Supernatural Trait}+{Empathy} - Composure)

Action: Instant

Catch:The character looks into the subject’s eyes for a moment.

Roll Results

Dramatic Failure: The character cannot figure out why the subject is sad, but it afflicts the character as well. His mood lasts the rest of the scene and inflicts a –1 die penalty on his Social dice pools.

Failure: The character fails to discover the subject’s regrets.

Success: The character discovers the root of the subject’s sorrow. This Clause reveals only the cause of the sorrow the subject feels now, and returns no result at all (even if successfully used) if the subject is not currently experiencing sorrow (or sadness or another similar emotion).

Exceptional Success: If the subject is not currently sad but was within the last hour, the character finds out the cause of that and why it ended.

Suggested Modifiers

Modifier Situation
+1 The emotion is evident.
–1The subject is hard to see.

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