Spend more than two days away from your packīreaking points are experiences that inculcate increasing levels of detachment from the perspective of the living. Harmony's ideal rating is 5, with drawbacks incurred as the character drifts towards the spiritual extreme of 0 or the fleshly extreme of 10. Breaking towards flesh causes the trait to increase, towards spirit to decrease. Harmony shifts when breaking points occur in one of two directions. Demons in need of quicker gains can steal the Cover of a forming angel with reconnaissance and support, but most depend on pacts with human beings, promising them occult benefits in exchange for scraps of their life to take as their own, ranging from shallow work relationships, to dear lifelong friendships, to the human's very existence itself. Demons use the thoroughness and consistency of their human identities to deflect notice by the God-Machine, and risk its degredation through spectacular shows of power or gross breaking of the identity's "character."Ī demon's Cover mends and grows slowly over time as they live that identity's life. A Cover rating, rather than representing mental or spiritual welfare, is a psychic projection of identity, associated with a human body the demon adopts. Systematic psychological torture, premeditated murder, modifying behavior by Glamour, direct confrontation with the True Fae, a year without human contactĭemons can sustain multiple Cover ratings at once, depending on their Primum. Thorough "disproof" of your experiences, homicide, breaking formal oaths, recapitulation of the Durance, a month without human contact Trusted confidant rejects your experiences, losing a Touchstone, having formal oaths broken, disorienting supernatural influence, two weeks without human contact
Respected authority rejects your experiences, psychotropic drugs, breaking promises, significant disorientation, a week without human contact (CTL 2e 107) DiceĪcquaintance rejects your experiences, Glamour exhaustion, having promises broken, a day without human contact Severe Clarity attacks can accumulate damage quickly, but the support of a Touchstone can heal that damage more readily than the breaking points of many other Integrity traits. A changeling's Clarity suffers attacks from disorienting experiences which threaten her ownership over her own perceptions and the stability of her central truths.