Sometimes, the difference between blind luck and superlative skill is less clear than you’d imagine. However, let’s not worry about that now...
This Legacy was founded in the mid 18th century by a group of wealthy and powerful British, French and later American women who were also mages. Given the constraints of social expectations about their proper role as wealthy society women, female mages who did not wish to give up their social position or family ties needed to learn to use their magic in a particularly subtle and discreet manner. This Legacy developed as an outgrowth of this effort and by the early 19th century it had become very popular with middle and upper class female mages from Western Europe and North America.
Although it opened its membership to men in the early 1970s, the Legacy’s basic principles remain the same — members are people who maintain a mundane and socially respectable front in mortal society. The Blessed, as they are known, are especially skilled at the art of deception and specifically in keeping up appearances. They have learned to use their magic and their Attainments to accomplish their goals in a manner that avoids drawing any attention to themselves. Some members strive to be overlooked, while others discretely work to become centers of social attention. However, above all else members make certain they avoid any appearance of secrecy or ambition beyond their station and most of the Blessed make certain to keep their goals as secret as their magic.
Even within the society of mages, many of the Blessed strive to work behind the scenes. A few appear as unworldly scholars of magic, and others seem to be amusing but largely harmless dilettantes, but most have as many ambitions within their order as they do in the mortal world. Rival mages often suspect the Blessed of all manner of intricate and devious plans, but have great difficulty separating fact from speculation or deliberately stopping their efforts because the Blessed are protected against discovery or opposition. Blessed who are especially interested in power within the various orders of mages often conceal their membership in this Legacy.
Blessed who allow other mages to learn of their membership usually focus their efforts upon bending mortals to their wishes. However, they are often able to use their influence among wealthy and powerful mortals as a way to bargain with other mages who need their aid.
Doctrine
Parent Path: Acanthus, Silver Ladder
Prerequisites: Fate 2, Subterfuge 2, and 2 dotes from Socialize, Empathy and Expression
Initiation: Prove your worth to the Sisterhood, both monetarily, socially, and through your
interest in achieving your goals working behind the scenes
Magic
Ruling: Fate
Yantras: Succeed on a socially graceful roll relevant to the test (+2), casting while in a position
of privilege (+1), gather information about the subject utilizing your mundane
resources (+2), gain the confidence of your subject (+2).
Oblations: Extended and careful grooming, selecting and putting on fancy dress, planning social
events, networking.
First Attainment Good Fortune
Pre-Requisite: Initiation
The members of the Sisterhood are blessed with perpetual luck. Throughout the course of their lives, they
are continually granted a small host of minor blessings which serve to make their lives that much easier to
live. The Sister herself at this level has almost no control over these blessings, but appreciates the assistance
they provide in living a life of comfort. The prevalence of these blessings is such that they general occur at
least once an hour, however their potency is limited to perhaps at most finding a lost $20 note.
Mechanical: Acts as if the Fate spell Reading the outmost Eddies is constantly in effect. Success breeds more success.
Second Attainment: A Humble Request
Pre-Requisite: Fate 2
The sister has progressed sufficiently to be able to impose some control over the Blessings with which they
are endowed. Though a scene’s worth of concentration and wishing, the sister may ensure that a specific
kind of person, place or thing crosses their path within the next day. This Attainment does require some
cooperation on the part of the Sister in most cases, if she does not allow Fate to guide her steps towards the
object of her desire, the Attainment will fail. Sisters are made aware of this flaw however, and most
acknowledge this as a small price to pay for some control over their fortune
In addition to finding comparatively rare individuals or groups, the Attainment can also grant the Sister
access to various Social Merits with a rating no greater than 2 (rising to 3 at Fate 4). These resources are
external, and dependent on the good graces of other contacted groups, and may be depended upon 2 times (rising to 3 at Fate 4) before the mystically granted good grace leaves. The Sister may however may spend Experiences to permanently purchase these resources, perhaps having come to rely upon them. Unless the Sister uses up these resources, they last for a period equal to her dots in Fate on the Advanced Duration Table.
Mechanical: Mimics Shifting the Odds on themselves
Third Attainment: Exclusive Benediction
Pre-Requisite: Fate 3
Jealousy is unbecoming, and in others potentially dangerous. Sisters make significant and almost continuous
use of the Fate Arcanum, and such blessings can render the unlucky jealous of their good fortune. With this
Attainment, the Sister ensures that others do not see the blessings they receive as the good fortune that
they are, instead believing that in the absence of luck, these blessings are all entirely deserved by the mage.
To mundane rationale, it is impossible to conceive of any aspect of the Sister’s resources or nature as being
related to luck or fate in any way, and to detect such effects with magic provokes a Clash of Wills.
Mechanical: Sleepers cant see any effects of Fate Spells on their self and wont provoke Breaking Points. Fate Spells on self are passively hidden from Mages
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