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| This is a comprehensive guide to the House Rules for Occult for each specific venue on Edge of Darkness. Many of these checks will run the range of penalties, whereas some information will require a Specialty. Please remember, this is also a cross-venue board -- even with a Specialty, a lot of information regarding other splats simply won't be available until you gain it IC.
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Occult encompasses a very broad and general knowledge; some things you may not know without a relevant specialty. What I'd like to do is outline here what you can expect to know at the different levels, and what Specialties and/or Penalties you might expect. These are from venue-specific perspectives only. This is also a guideline -- IC experiences override this. Many of these checks will run the range of penalties, whereas some information will require a Specialty. Please remember, this is also a cross-venue board -- even with a Specialty, a lot of information regarding other splats simply won't be available until you gain it IC.
Changeling
- ● – Your own Seeming (including affinity Contracts)
- ●● – Universal Contracts, other Seemings, Pledges, the Hedge, Structure of the Freehold, titles within your Court
- ●●● – Oneiromancy basics, Entitlements within your Court, Kiths outside your Seeming, other Seeming Contracts, awareness of other supernaturals
- ●●●● – Knowledge of Tokens, other Courts Contracts, Skeinwalking, other Entitlements, Goblin Contracts
- ●●●●● – True Fae, Arcadia, Clarity Breaking Things
Mage
Remember: Mages can cast and grow in power without *ever* having 'book' knowledge of magic. Just because you're an Adept doesn't mean you know what the Quicksilver Spear is.
- ● - Practices, Your Starting Arcana
- ●● - Other Arcana, Proficiencies
- ●●● - Awareness of other Supernals; your Path's Legacies
- ●●●● - Imbued/enhanced Items; other Order's social structures; your Order's Legacies; obscure esoterica (Souls, Cycles); Ancient Legacies
- ●●●●● - Artifacts; Sublime Legacies; Realms Invisible; Very Bad Things
Examples of Specialties which might serve you well: Resonance, Abyssal Intrusions, Legacies (per Path/Order/Left-Handed), Realms Invisible (per Realm)
Vampire
The following is a discription of the knowledge that the occult skills will give you about Vampires in the Vampire the Requiem Setting. These are just guidelines, of course; in-play knowledge gained will supersede this. This also doesn't assume complete knowledge -- for something like a Discipline or Bloodline, it would allow a Skill check.
- ● - Nothing
- ●● - Common Disciplines; Clan & Legendary Bloodlines (fluff)
- ●●● - Covenant's social structure, abilities, & Bloodlines; awareness of other supernaturals; Chosen Bloodlines (fluff); Legendary Bloodline Disciplines
- ●●●● - Other Covenants' social structures; Chosen Bloodline Disciplines; Hidden Bloodlines (fluff); other Covenant's Bloodlines (fluff); other Other Covenants' abilities (fluff)
- ●●●●● - Hidden Bloodline Disciplines; other Covenant Bloodline Disciplines; other Covenant's abilities (Details)
