Example Guides

Guides represent individuals whose own fateful momentum has left a permanent mark upon the destiny of your character. Any being who has had a meaningful impact upon your life, or influenced how you interact with the rest of the world may be considered a Guide. They might be a trusted childhood friend, a wise old mentor, a beloved romance, or even a rival that wants to see you dead. Their lessons have been etched upon your soul, and improve you or your powers in some way.Each dot of Guide grants the same benefits as buying a dot of Relic, except they cannot be used to channel a Purview. The primary difference is that guides are actual people with needs and desires of their own. You can sometimes call upon them for faves, but you should expect them to call upon you for favors more often, or be placed into extreme danger and need to be saved. A guide who has been permanently destroyed no longer grants any benefits.

Potential Guides

As presented, here is a list of potential Guides that one could use in their own game, either for use by PCs or as NPCs, sorted by Pantheon.

Example Guides

As presented, here are some examples of Guides that have been used in our games. Anyone is welcome to use any of these fully started Guides themselves, or they can repurpose the powers of some of them to create their own, entirely unique Guides for their own games running Scion 2.0.

Rank One

Sin - ●

Sin held the position of patron god to the First City far longer than any other. His wisdom and justice were shared with any who desired to learn. He still gazes down upon the world to this very day, watching and pondering.

● = Removes the cost of Snuff.

Rank Three

Council of Tel Aviv - ●●●

With assistance from Adlay Cohen, Ahava convinced several prominent citizens of Tel Aviv to support his bid for divine rulership of the city in exchange for positions of power under his reign. Ahava has formed them into an advisory council to lend their wisdom on matters of politics and leadership.

●●● = When inside Tel Aviv, the cost of Commandment is reduced by three Legend. Meaning that all uses of Rumor Mill or Trendsetter last for decades

Rank Four

Artemis - ●●●●

Charles sought out the Greek Goddess of the Hunt in the Black Forest of Germany. After an explanation of what he was doing there, Artemis accepted to help teach him on the grounds that she would be far, far harder on him then others. She settled on taking him into the forest to help deal with the Ultimate Lycanthrope that she was using to guard Olympus, before it escaped. As the patron of youth, she adds to the leniency Charles receives for his youth. The Goddess has told him that she believes that he is to be the next King of Olympus, and the replacement for the slain Apollo, much to her poor young brother's utter panic.

● = Reduces the Speed on bows by one.

● = Doubles the base range on bows.

●● = Changes Benefit of the Doubt to Empathy.

The Morrigan - ●●●●

A marriage built upon lies and political convenience, Damien is has found himself firmly within the talons of the Morrigan. There is no true love in this relationship, but each half of this union affords the other plenty of what they desire most. Extensive political power, steaming sex, and the lamentation of their mutual foes.

●● = Seductive Mein uses Empathy.

●● = Divine Figurehead uses Empathy.

Rank Six

Ishtar - ●●●●● ●

Ishtar’s interest in Layil goes back even further than the young Demigoddess knows. She did, eventually, learn that it was Ishtar who gave her the Universal ID. All the better to push the budding scion into the intricacies of speechcraft and half-truths to keep her from falling completely under the thumb of the many commanding and demanding Elohim men. Whether Layil has truly managed to avoid such a thing, even with the assistance of the relic, is debatable. But she has avoided becoming meek and compliant, which Ishtar seems to like. In any event, once Layil discovered Ishtar’s role in gifting her the relic the Goddess stepped forward to play a more direct role in shaping the younger Elohim. And in the years that have passed Ishtar has become one of Layil’s greatest supporters amongst the Levant Confederacy. Though the two don’t discuss Ishtar’s daughter, ever.

●●●● = The effects of Seductive Mein do not fade for one week, Ahavas's targets not realizing what she has done until that point.

●● = The requirement for having five minutes of conversation is waved with Seductive Mein, as long as Ahava knows of the person beforehand.

Hera - ●●●●● ●

The Queen of Olympus is the adoptive mother of Damien Wiles, and has finally begun to directly associate with her son since he has proven himself as one of the first Demigods in several thousand years. She has been instructing her son in the finer points of control and authority, important skills for the future she is weaving for him.

●●● = A target does not actually have to be hiding anything to be affected by Knowing Glance. Anyone feels guilty under Hera's gaze.

●●● = Damien does not need to ask any question to use Blurt it Out, the target just instantly confesses their guilt to whatever they are feeling guilty about.

Asclepius - ●●●●● ●

Asclepius is the god of medicine and healing in the ancient Greek religion. Asclepius represents both the holistic and practical aspects of the medical arts. At the behest of Hera he spared the time to instruct Damien in the arts of healing and psychology. While quite busy and rather grumpy, he can occasionally offer emergency medical services and advice.

●●● = Can use Health boons on the same target twice per day.

●●● = All of Damien's children will fit perfectly into the Greek ideal of beauty, unless someone tampers with things.

Rank Eight

Zoe - ●●●●● ●●●

The daughter of Androkles, head of the Southern California Herd, was given Ambrosia by Zeus during Charles Demigod visitation. She and Charles were unwittingly married by Hera during the same ceremony, and was bound by a tenuous promise, as was her now husband, not to sleep with anyone save for the other. Her continued efforts to improve her husband’s self-confidence has done wonders, and she has tended to him to shine even brighter, and endarken those who cause him to wilt.

● = Removes the cost of Charmer, having it passively active at all times.

●● = Freeze Out uses Presence.

●●●●● = Removes the cost of Freeze Out, having it passively activate against those who cause Charles to shy away from interaction.

Hestia - ●●●●● ●●●

Following the Battle of the Wyre and the Fall of Olympus, Charles made contact with the Goddess of the Hearth and did his best at explaining how he had no intent on usurping her. The Demigod and the Goddess eventually developed a rapport, and Hestia guided Charles in his slowly developing mastery of himself as the hearth. Calming the young Demigod along with Zoe, and grooming him to fill the role that is so needed by the Theoi.

● = Sacred Hearth no longer requires a peaceful rest around the blessed fire, but just being in the presence of it.

●●● = All beings of Gaia’s line suffer a (Fire + Presence) attack against their MDVs when they are in the presence of a Sacred Hearth. If the roll overcomes their MDV, they gain a Phantom Dot of Piety (Theoi), and an additional one per 3 Threshold Successes up to the normal cap of Five Dots. These Phantom Dots last for a Scene.

●● = All beings of Gaia’s line in the presence of a Sacred Hearth lose two Successes on Vengeance rolls against other beings of Gaia’s line. Making it easier to resist their Vengeance against one and other.

●● = The amount of Willpower generated by Sacred Hearth is changed to one per Scene.

The Morrigan - ●●●●● ●●●

The Morrigan has always taken an interest in the young Aesir, for reasons Erik cannot fathom. It started when he healed a raven he’d found in the wild, and continued throughout his life, times he doesn’t quite feel like recounting. Now, the Phantom Queen has made herself his Guide, and he finds that prospect deeply unsettling.

●● = Removes the cost of Animal Feature.

●●● = Removes the cost of Animal Form.

●●● = Removes the cost of Visage of Great and Terrible.

Leonard - ●●●●● ●●●

One of Hecate's cultists, and a dangerous serial killer, Leonard was eventually killed by his lover, who was also the primary detective on his case, and a Scion of Hecate. When Jack was awoken, the shade of Leonard was bound to him, being taken up from Hades by Hecate. The Shade is incredibly possessive of Jack, and guards him jealously from lustful Selene, timid Charles. The two of them have restarted their relationship after one killed the other, and while things may seem odd to outsiders, they do love each other.

●●●● = Removes the benefit of Fortune Favors The Bold, leaving only the curse.

●● = Changes Visage of the Great and Terrible to not make Jack himself frightening, but to push the looming presence of the possessive shade on all around him.

●● = Evil Eye gives the target a constant sense of being watched, as if some spectral figure were lurking over their shoulder.