Shabti

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The Promethean — most likely an Osiran — owns a “Shabti,” a small, fairly intelligent creature that follows his commands and guards him when he rests. It takes the form of a little unformed man, maybe a foot tall, made of clay or of some kind of ceramic. It might be the color of blue faience, or brightly painted, like an Egyptian tomb ornament. The Shabti has been animated with the same Azoth that created the Promethean, channeled through his conceptual journey to the land of the dead. The Shabti has an empathic link with its master. No matter how far away the Shabti is from its master, it knows what the Promethean is feeling. The Shabti can say a few words, and can repeat perfectly things it has heard said, even if it doesn’t understand what it has heard. It has grasping hands, and can, if its master wishes, bear small objects or use weapons. A less scrupulous Promethean could use his Shabti as an assassin, able to enter an enemy’s home through small cracks, and strangling him in his sleep. The Promethean can spend one Pyros to be able to see through the Shabti’s eyes for a scene. While sharing the creature’s perceptions, the character can’t perform any other action, but is aware of what’s going on around him and can choose to abandon looking through the Shabti’s eyes. A Shabti, being made of inanimate material, doesn’t heal naturally, but its master can heal any wounds the Shabti has taken using Pyros. One Pyros heals one point of aggravated damage, or two points of lethal or bashing damage. If the Shabti dies, the Promethean loses the Merit, although he can use the Revivification Bestowment to resurrect the Shabti in the same way that he could resurrect another Promethean. Making a new Shabti involves a great deal of effort, as the Promethean spends days crafting a new Shabti figure out of faience, metal or clay, contemplating its shape and design, and infusing it with tiny amounts of Azoth (in game terms, he’s just spending the 12 experience points

necessary to buy the Merit over again).

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