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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.

Changeling

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. This is from the CtL perspective 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.

● – 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

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. This is from the MtA perspective only. This is also a guideline -- IC experiences override this.

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.^[1]

● - 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)

Werewolf

Your character knows everything at the level of his occult score and below, as well as anything specifically told to them in a thread on this site. If you have any questions, ask before assuming.

● - Spirits, Gifts, Rites, Renown, The Hisil

●● - Resonance, Ridden, Numina, Spirit Ranks, Common in Tribe Lodges, Existence of Idigam, The Hosts, Wounds (Hisil)

●●● - Claimed, Maeljin & Maeltinets, Common out of Tribe Lodges, Uncommon in Tribe Lodges, Existence of other Supernatural Creatures

●●●● - Uncommon out of tribe Lodges, Obscure in Tribe Lodges, Shoals

●●●●● - Abilities of Idigam, Bale Hounds, Obscure out of Tribe Lodges, other Supernatural Worlds

Application

Required By: Ancient Signs, Beacon of Life, Cartomancer, College of Worms, Factotum, Fontal Ritual, Geomancer, Geomantic Nexus, Geomantic Nexus Potency, Geomantic Nexus Size, Gesture Lore, Glyph Lore, Hedge Wardens, Hypnosis, Lord Sages of the Unknown Reaches, Magi of the Gilded Thorn, Magical Tradition, Mythologist, Office of Vizieral Counsel, Slayer, Twilight Gleaners

Used By: Abyssal Perception, Alter Accuracy, Alter Size, Alternate Scenario, Analyze Enchanted Item, Analyze Spirit, Ancient Signs, Animate Homunculus, Animate Object, Animate Shadows, Annihilate Extraordinary Matter, Annihilate Matter, Apportation, Arcane Sight, Arm Ghost, Armor of the Soul, Astral Beacon, Augury, Avoidance Tactics, Ban, Bestow Levitation, Bestow Unseen Shield, Bind Spirit Rite, Board, Bodyguards Blessing, Book of Self, Boundary Stone Rite, Break the Chains, Cartomancer, Celestial Fire, Centering the Cairn, Channel Mana, Chronos Curse, Climbing the Tree, Computer, Control Fire, Control Gravity, Control Heat, Control Light, Control Sound, Controlled Dispellation, Corpse Unmasking, Correspondence, Counterspell Prime, Create Hallow, Create Sunlight, Cruac, Curse Object, Curse of the Fallen World, Dark Matter, Dead Zone, Deathlike Journey, Delusions of Grandeur, Dessicate, Destroy Bindings, Destroy Ephemera, Directed Havoc, Discern Phantasm, Disenchant Item, Disguise Spell, Dispel Magic, Dissolve Tass, Dragons Call, Dream Riding, Dream Traveler, Duplicate, Duplicate Sympathy, Eclipse Gifts, Ectoplasm, Ectoplasmic Shaping, Einger Lodge, Enervation, Enforce Paradigm, Entropic Guard, Entropic Shroud, Entropy, Ephemeral Enchantment, Ephemeral Reckoning, Ephemeral Shield, Eternal Autumn, Eternal Object, Eternal Summer, Eternal Winter, Evil Eye, Exceptional Luck, Exorcists Eye, Eye for Destruction, Eyes of the Earth, Eyes of the Matrix, Faerie Glade, False Signature, Final Sight, Firestick Gifts, Forge Thaumium, Forge Tulpa, Fortunes Fool, Friction Knife, Geomancer, Ghost Gate, Ghost Summons … further results

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