Description: Cults that can attract the rootless or directionless thrive in Susarra, and the Children are one of the most successful. Hailing from foreign lands, they teach a type of magic that preaches both an understanding of the body, and ultimately the mind. But it is the fact that they preach understanding of the body through the satisfaction of it's animal lusts that undoubtedly attracts the vast majority of their worshippers.
System:
Skill: Union of Body and Mind
Roll:
Child may attempt the following as a single round action (and they'll probably be used most often in combat):
- 7 - Beserker Power (ignore a single damage aspect)
- 11 - Beserker Fury (ignore a point of damage)
- 13 - Animal Magnetism (gain the 'intoxicating aroma' aspect)
The Ritual of Union: A Child may attempt the ritual, which takes approximately a minute or so. They gain the following aspects, depending on what they roll (and don't forget, the first invocation of each is free):
Botch - Epileptic spasms
7 - Uncontrollable fury
9 - Terrifyingly Fast
11 - Unyielding Endurance
13 - Engorged flesh - the Child swells up, their muscles doubling in size and gaining inches in height
15 - Ferocious Strength
17 - Unable to tell friend from foe
19 - Bestial Clarity (an aspect that's useful for seeing through illusions and deceptions)
The following aspects could be invoked during the Ritual of Union if the Child takes the time to indulge properly: 'Drunk', 'Pleasures of the Flesh'
Joining Requirement: To join the Children one must participate in one of their orgiastic rituals, indulging in wine, strange scented incenses and fruit bursting with sickly corruption and still be able to complete the ritual of rebirth at dawn, before they will be accepted.
Mechanically the Character must make two rolls - one of Toughness and one of Willpower, both with a difficulty of seven.
Membership Requirement: A Child who does not regularly participate in the rituals and social life of the faith, will find that they are taught no more of the cults secrets.
Inner mystery: The inner mystery of the Children is one of the mind. Characters must undergo a complex and demanding ritual that leads to an almost figurative rebirth, but in which they gain the same understanding of the inner mind as the outer body.
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