See Banishers for all the fluff.
Doctrine
Parent Path: Any, Banishers
Prerequisites: Prime 2, Wits 3
Initiation: Be selected by an existing Timori for your hatred of Magic users, but also your desire to use Magic against them. You’ve also got to be a horrible fucking bastard who wants to devour the enlightenment of others, as well as their minds, and drive them mad sending them back into Sleep with the Abyss clawing at their mind.
Oh, you also have to like, give your Mentor a mage trussed up like a turkey or something.
Magic:
Ruling: Prime
Yantras: Using Mana stolen from the subject’s Pattern against them (+2), pursuing a mage while suffering from your Addiction (+1, +2 if you take the Deprived Condition), engaging in persistent surveillance of your target who must be a mage (+2).
Oblations: Sitting in darkness while remaining completely alert without use of Magic, fasting for a day, tracking Mages without being discovered, destroying imbued items, turning clocks in people’s houses back several hours, performing taxidermy on a predator.
Attainments:
First Attainment: The Seeking
Pre-Requisite: Initiation
Before one can take Mana, one must first find it. Timori can sense Mana sequestered away in a Mage’s Pattern in their Peripheral Mage Sight.
Custom Attainment not represented in spells (well, kinda). Could be replicated with Supernal Vision, but that grants other abilities I think Timori wouldn’t care about as much. So ultimately, it’s their hunger for Mana in a Mage’s Pattern which I went for. - Italics sections explain Attainment creation
Optional Arcanum: Mind 1
The most efficient way to hunt a Mage is by knowing his moral strengths, weaknesses, and his mind. After a
scene’s worth of observation, the Timori may determine the Virtue, Vice, and how many dots in Mental and
Social Attributes their target has.
Emulates the spell Know Nature (Mind 1), Reach allocated to Sensory Range, Primary Factor is Potency, Secondary is Duration.
Second Attainment: The Hidden Threat
Pre-Requisite: Prime 2
Hunting other Mages is a dangerous sport, one rendered less so however if they seek to disguise themselves
as one of the ordinary Sleepers those Mages so frequently disregard. By spending a Scene preparing, the
Timori can cloak her Nimbus from all spells and supernatural abilities which would read it for a duration
equal to her Prime dots on the Advanced Duration table. Any attempt to breach this will provoke a Clash of
Wills, and any spells cast by the Timori do not cause the Immediate Nimbus to flare, unless they so desire,
which will cause this Attainment to collapse until they re-establish it.
Emulates the spell Cloak Nimbus (Prime 2), Reach is allocated to Advanced Duration, Primary Factor is Duration, Secondary is Potency.
Optional Arcanum: Mind 2
While their aura might not betray them, a Timori’s thoughts must also be hidden lest their rampant
addiction alert their prey to their intent. Through a scene’s worth of meditation, the Timori may establish a
surface pattern to their thoughts, a veil which disguises their true intentions from those who would read
them. This grants a bonus to Subterfuge tests equal to the Timori’s Mind dots.
Emulates the spell Alter Mental Pattern (Mind 2), Reach is allocated to Advanced Duration, Primary factor is Potency, Secondary is Duration.
Third Attainment: Devour Magic
Pre-Requisite: Prime 3
Growing in power, the Timori learns the most basic form of their art, how to devour an Awakened spell. As
an Instant Action, the Timori may attempt to devour a spell she can perceive and “touch” if her dots in Prime
exceed the Arcanum rating of the spell’s caster. This attainment only functions so long as the Feared has at
least one dot in all the Arcana involved in the subject spell. Such spells provide weak sustenance however,
and the Timori gains no Mana or break from any addiction to Mana she is suffering from Quintessal Harvest.
Emulates the spell Dispel Magic (Prime 1), Reach is allocated to Instant Casting, and Lasting Effect, Primary Factor is duration.
Optional Arcanum: Mind 3
Pretending to be an ordinary Sleeper may work in certain circumstances, however disappearing from
perception altogether is in many cases preferable. As an Instant action, and by spending a point of Mana, the
Timori may render themselves incapable of perceived. Individuals want to look past her, and forget her
existence when they avert their eyes. Any individual who seeks to contest this ability must succeed at a Clash
of Wills.
Emulates the spell Incognito Presence (Mind 2), Reach is allocated to Instant Casting, and Advanced Duration, Primary Factor is Duration, secondary is Potency.
Fourth Attainment: Quintessal Harvest
Pre-Requisite: Prime 4
Before a Mage is capable of casting Quintessal Harvest, they are no true Timori. The act of reaching into the
Pattern of a mage and forcibly extracting Mana stored in their Pattern is the hallmark of this Legacy. As an
Instant Action, the Timori may touch a Mage and seek to draw Mana from their pattern, weaving it into their body. The Timori can draw an amount of Mana each turn equal to their Prime dots, Minus the subject’s
composure.
The Timori weaves this Mana directly into her own Pattern, storing up to twice their maximum Mana pool in this way. Unless used, this Mana will leak out at a rate of 1 point per day, however the Timori can spend this mana as they require to perform certain impressive, and terrifying effects:
- The Timori may spend a single point of Mana to halt the process of Aging for one week.
- The Timori may spend a point of Mana to heal one point of bashing damage, two Mana to heal one
point of lethal damage, or give points of Mana to heal one point of aggravated damage, this may be
done reflexively, but may not exceed the mana expenditure limit imposed by Gnosis.
- The Timori (if she has reached her maximum capacity to store stolen Mana) may expend all of this
Mana at once to gain one Arcane Beat for each 5 points of mana Expended. This bypasses normal restrictions on Mana Expenditure per turn.
Harvesting Mana in this way is highly addictive, and upon the first use of this Attainment, the Timori gains a Persistent Addicted (Mana Stored in a Mage’s Pattern) Condition. This addiction cannot be removed or Resolved by anything short of Archmastery.
At this stage the Timori starts to become, on the most fundamental level, a semi-crystalline being formed of solidified Mana. This state of existence renders them incapable of being affected by any Life spell, unless its caster is aware of this fact and includes Prime 2 as a Conjunctive Arcanum.
So basically, this is the first retarded one which I just cribbed wholesale from the original writeup. At its core, it’s a simple +1 reach version of Channel Mana, but with the whole extra usage rules stapled on the end, which should hopefully help balance the fact you can’t use it for any purpose other than those listed above.
Optional Arcanum: Mind 4
By performing an extended ritual on a captive mage, the Timori may perform a horrifying psychic surgery
attempting to steal Mystical knowledge from the subject. The Timori rolls Resolve + Intimidation + Mind,
opposed by the subject’s Resolve + Subterfuge + Gnosis, each roll representing 5 minutes, the first individual
to reach 20 successes succeeds. If the subject succeeds, the Timori may not attempt this ritual again for
several days equal to the discrepancy between the success totals when the subject reached a minimum of
20. If the Timori succeeds, then they may:
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- Steal a Rote from the subject and add it to their list of rotes, so long as they are capable of casting it
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- Steal a dot of Occult (to their maximum normal limit as determined by Gnosis)
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- Steal a number of Arcane Beats from the subject equal to the target’s Gnosis.
This one is also utterly retarded, Left-Handed as fuck, and a dream for any power gamer. Hopefully nobody actually PERMITS a PC use/learn this, or uses this ON a PC. Because they would not be fucking happy. No Siree. Well, they’d be happy if they could use this. But that’s retarded. You’re retarded. THIS IS RETARDED.
Fifth Attainment: Quintessal Theft
Pre-Requisite: Prime 5
The terrifying Attainment is the culmination of the Timori’s studies. By spending a point of stored Mana, and engaging in a ritual which requires a scene of preparation, the Timori may engage in an extended test with a captive Mage. The Timori rolls Resolve + Occult + Prime, and the subject rolls Resolve + Stamina + Gnosis. If the subject wins, the Timori may never attempt to use Quintessal Theft on them ever again, however if the Timori wins, then they drain the subject of a single point of Gnosis. This Gnosis may be immediately spent to:- Temporarily increase the Timori’s Gnosis by 1 point for the next 24 hours. The Timori may only have her Gnosis artificially increased by one point in this Mana, any further use of Quintessal Theft for this purpose only increases the duration of her enhanced Gnosis by another 24 hours.
- Halt the Timori’s Aging process for a single year if she succeeds on a Stamina + Occult test. The Timori cannot use Quintessal Theft for this purpose again until the first use has worn off.
- Reduce her apparent age by up to 10 years for each success on a Resolve + Medicine test.
Any Mage drained of all their Gnosis in this manner becomes a Sleeper, regaining Integrity in the place of Wisdom, and suffering a Breaking Point for each mystical phenomenon she witnessed during her time as a Mage as Quiescence settles in with a fucking VENGEANCE. Needless to say, very few subjects ever survive the process of a complete Gnosis extraction without being reduced to insane quivering wrecks.
Oh sweet fucking Jesus no. This is one of the most horrifying things I’ve ever had to write for Mage. Not only do you eat other Mage’s enlightenment, but you flat up send them back into sleep as a certifiable madman. And for what? Another year? To get your hot beach bod back? I just can’t. I can’t. Why did you do this to me?
Optional Arcanum: Mind 5
If the Timori succeeds on their opposed test with the Quintessal Theft attainment, they may wrap the targets thoughts up in a mental loop, trapping them within their own mind for a period of up to a year. In order for a Timori to later perform Quintessal Theft upon that Mage again however, she must cease this thought-loop in order to be able to reach within and once again feast upon the subject’s hard-won enlightenment.So yeah, this ignores standard Withstand rules, with the single point of Reach allocated to advanced Duration. Most Mages should honestly be able to beat a Potency of 3 on their Composure (it’s a good stat) unless you’ve used Mind Magic to tank it, which honestly, you’ll probably want to do before you try and suck out their enlightened goodness. But ultimately, I just decided that if you’ve fucked up so horribly that you’ve been captured by a second-degree Master Timori, and failed to guard your own enlightenment against predation... Son, you’re gone. No two ways about it.