Medium
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| Preq's | Resolve ●● |
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| Level(s) |
●●● (12XP) ●●●●● (30XP) |
| Venue | Mortal |
| Possessed By | |
A medium is a character who can see and hear ghosts. As opposed to characters who possess a sixth sense in the presence of the unquiet dead, she can see the dead clearly — and may have a hard time telling them apart from the living. If she keeps her wits about her, she can turn her sight into a blessing. More often, mediums treat their ability as a curse.
A character with the three-dot version of this Merit is an unwilling medium. When she’s under stress, she can see ghosts in Twilight. Precisely what counts as stress is up to the Storyteller, but taking an action that’s reduced to a chance die, or having to spend a point of Willpower to hold off a negative condition both certainly count. She can see ghosts in Twilight for the remainder of the scene. She doesn’t count as a mortal for the purposes of penalizing a ghost’s attempt to manifest (see Manifestations on p. 210 of the World of Darkness Rulebook for more information). Your character might not even realize that someone else is a ghost, until he does something supernatural. The five-dot version of this Merit offers more control over your character’s ability. She’s also closer to the Underworld; if she purchases the Unseen Sense Merit with regards to ghosts it counts as a two-dot Merit.
A medium who undergoes a near-death experience — or who actually dies but is brought back — has a better than average chance of returning with a geist bound to her soul. Her connection to the Underworld is so strong that few geists can resist the chance.
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| Character Type | Mortal + |
| Merit Dots | 3 +, and 5 + |
| Merit Type | Power + |
| Page has default formThis property is a special property in this wiki. | Merit Editor + |
| Parent | Book of the Dead + |
| Permission | Allowed + |
| Prerequisite | Resolve + |
| Source | Book of the Dead + |
