Stamina

Characters with Epic Stamina have a lot of endurance and staying power. A character with any amount of Epic Stamina measures the amount of time she can work at a strenuous task without resting in terms of days, rather than hours. Also, characters with Epic Stamina can comfortably go without food, water, or sleep for extended periods of time if they choose, easily lasting without food or sleep for one day per Epic Stamina auto success, and without water for half that number (rounded up).Epic Stamina also makes characters surprisingly resistant to physical harm. Characters with Epic Stamina gain additional -0 health levels equal to their Epic Stamina successes (+1, +2, +4, +7, etc).

Body Armor Knacks

BODY ARMOR

Cost: 3 Legend per scene

Dice Pool: None

Type: Reflexive

The Scion with this Knack has learned to harness the toughness inherent in his divine ichor, hardening her skin so that it can shrug off blows just like a suit of armor. If she chooses to spend the Legend cost, she may cause her ichor to flow over her body from within, creating a flexible second skin of armor in order to protect herself. This armor adds the Scion's dots of Epic Stamina to her Soak DV for the rest of the scene. As the armor is a manifestation of the Scion’s divine heritage, it is typically different in appearance for each Scion.

IMPENETRABLE

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

Prerequisite: Body Armor

The Scion has developed even beyond the toughness of most of her peers, now able to shrug off even the most penetrating of attacks. This knack permanently upgrades Body Armor and allows her to negate any effect that ignores her Armor Defense bonus.

INVULNERABLE NAIL

Cost: 2 Willpower per use

Dice Pool: None

Type: Miscellaneous

Prerequisite: Impenetrable

Concentrating her divine fortitude into a specific point, the Scion with this Knack may temporarily channel her defense into a tiny portion of her body, rendering it almost completely unassailable. When the Scion activates this knack, she may double her Soak DV against a single attack, to a specific, small part of her body no larger than about a hand or foot. This power may only be used outside of combat when she has a moment to prepare her defenses against an attack she knows is coming.

Damage Conversion Knacks

DAMAGE CONVERSION

Cost: 1 Legend per use

Dice Pool: None

Type: Reflexive

Endurance lies not only in being able to take a hit but in being able to shake it off afterward, and the Scion with this Knack is a master of the latter. Whenever she is dealt lethal damage, she may convert it to bashing instead, which can reduce heinous open wounds to nothing more than heavy bruising. This knack may only be used reflexively when she takes damage.

DIVINE DAMAGE CONVERSION

Cost: 5 Legend per use

Dice Pool: None

Type: Reflexive

Prerequisite: Damage Conversion

Even the most soul-rending of wounds can be defeated by a Scion’s determined endurance, allowing anyone who possesses this Knack to avoid the devastating effects of supernatural damage. A Scion with this Knack may spend the requisite cost when she is dealt aggravated damage in order to convert that damage to lethal, turning a life-ending attack into a painful and inconvenient but nevertheless survivable affair. She may only use this Knack reflexively when she takes damage, and she may not use it at the same time that she uses the Damage Conversion Knack (she must choose one or the other).

UNBREAKABLE

Cost: 1+ Legend per attack

Dice Pool: None

Type: Reflexive

Prerequisite: Divine Damage Conversion

Many Scions have picked up the ability to lessen their injuries to keep them active longer, but the Scion with this knack refuses point-blank to take any injuries at all. Every time damage would be dealt to her after she has already activated Damage Conversion or Divine Damage Conversion, she may spend one Legend per additional point of damage she wishes to soak.

Holy Fortitude Knacks

HOLY FORTITUDE

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

Fatigue and hunger seldom apply to the Scion with this Knack; she is able to soldier on without hardship long past the point that many others would have given up. She may double the amount of time she can work continuously at any strenuous activity, and may go for twice as long without food, water, or sleep as she would normally be able.

DIVINE FORTITUDE

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

Prerequisite: Holy Fortitude

The Scion with this Knack is an unstoppable force when she chooses to be. She is able to work endlessly for any length of time regardless of the amount of strain required. She also ceases to require any food, water, or sleep to sustain her increasingly supernatural body.

TIRELESS WORKER

Cost: 2 Willpower per scene

Dice Pool: None

Type: Miscellaneous

So great is the stamina of the Scion that she can push herself beyond any sane limit to how long and how hard she may work. She might as well count as an entire crew of people working on a project, she is able to get so much done through her constant hustle. She may complete any mundane project in a single scene, regardless of how long it would normally take. She could build an entire car, construct walls around a city, or paint the entire Sistine Chapel.

Inner Furnace Knacks

INNER FURNACE

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

The Scion with this Knack has a cast-iron stomach. She is able to consume and gain nourishment from absolutely anything she eats, from rancid organic compounds to chunks of plutonium. She is also completely immune to any ingested poisons or drugs.

BEZOAR

Cost: 1 Legend per use

Dice Pool: Stamina + Larceny

Type: Miscellaneous

Prerequisite: Inner Furnace

The Scion has such control over her digestive system that she may use her stomach as a hiding place or storage container. She may swallow anything she could conceivably fit into her mouth. She may keep it there indefinitely without digesting it, and may regurgitate the item unharmed at any time she desires. She may only carry objects that could normally fit in her stomach, and any attempt to detect her secret cache must contest her activation roll with (Perception + Awareness).

DEVOURER

Cost: 5 Legend per scene

Dice Pool: None

Type: Miscellaneous

Prerequisite: Bezoar

The Scion with this Knack has a truly remarkable digestive system, able to consume staggering quantities of food and drink at incredible speed. She must be able to chew through the thing she is trying to eat, and it must remain relatively still during the process. She can consume one cubic yard of matter per Epic Stamina success every five ticks. She can continue at this breakneck pace for the rest of the scene, and could potentially drink an entire ocean.

Internal Refinery Knacks

INTERNAL REFINERY

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

The body of the Scion naturally purifies and breaks down anything she puts into it, and this knack allows her to not only ignore substances but also produce antidotes and cures for the substances she experiences. She may add her dots of Epic Stamina as successes to resist any diseases, drugs, poisons, toxins, or virus. She also gains the ability to spend 2 Legend and a miscellaneous action to produce a dose of antidote that grants the same benefit to an ally.

PERILOUS BLOOD

Cost: 2 Legend per use

Dice Pool: None

Type: Miscellaneous

Prerequisite: Internal Refinery

The body of the Scion is now a factory for dangerous substances. She may transform the blood in her veins into burning acid or belch poisonous gasses at her enemies. Activating this knack creates one dose of toxic substances that may harm anyone exposed to them (something bites into your acid blood, you spit into their eyes, or coat the weapons of your allies). Each dose deals lethal damage equal to your Epic Stamina successes before they apply their Soak DV.

Keep Going Knacks

KEEP GOING

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

A body can only handle so much punishment before it eventually breaks down, but a Scion can endure far worse through sheer determination. Whenever she takes enough bashing or lethal damage to make her incapacitated, she stays completely awake and functional. She can keep on fighting until the bitter end, which can sometimes cause an unfortunate death when she might have been captured alive to escape and fight another day.

UNSTOPPABLE

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Reflexive

Prerequisite: Keep Going

The Scion with this knack can shrug off a terrible blow even when it would normally leave her carved in two. Once per scene, she may literally decide that she is too damned tough to be taken down by whatever just hit her. She takes no damage from this attack and stumbles back with some dramatic display; she might spit out a broken tooth, explode into a cloud of feathers, or shower the area with faerie dust as appropriate to her appearance.

DEATHLESS

Cost: 3 Legend per scene

Dice Pool: None

Type: Reflexive

Prerequisite: Unstoppable

Some Scions are able to soldier on through the most terrible of injuries, continuing to fight even when their bones have been shattered and they are standing in a pool of their own blood. She simply refuses to give up under any circumstance. She gains additional -0 health levels equal to twice her dots of Epic Stamina for the rest of the scene, and these health levels always take damage first. Once this power fades, these health levels vanish along with any damage they may have taken.

Boundless Fertility Knacks

BOUNDLESS FERTILITY

Cost: 2 Legend per use

Dice Pool: None

Type: Reflexive

The potency of the Scion has begun to transcend to a metaphysical state. They no longer need to engage in sexual intercourse with a prospective partner to create a child. Simple physical contact is enough for them to cause pregnancy in their partner, or themselves. Such immaculate conception may allow a female to impregnate another woman without difficulty, but males cannot bear children without the use of Health boons.

SHIFTING SEED

Cost: 2 Legend per use

Dice Pool: None

Type: Reflexive

Prerequisite: Boundless Fertility

Demonstrating complete mastery over the way the ichor of their body passes on, the Scion may choose exactly what traits their child inherits and override any contribution of a partner. They can dictate the appearance of the child down to the smallest detail, such as hair, skin, eyes, build, and even unusual alterations that might make them look monstrous or inhuman. The Scion also determines any physical stats (Strength, Dexterity, Stamina, and Appearance) of the child as long as the Scion has equal or greater mundane attributes themselves.

Self-Healing Knacks

SELF-HEALING

Cost: 1 Legend per health level

Dice Pool: None

Type: Reflexive

When even the most rigid of defensive tactics fail, the wounds of the Scion vanish as quickly as they are inflicted upon her. She may spend as many legend as she wishes to heal bashing or lethal damage. A Scion with this knack may survive terrible wounds until she has run out of legend, and only then has her story come to an end.

REGENERATION

Cost: 2 Legend per health level

Dice Pool: None

Type: Reflexive

Prerequisite: Self-Healing

The Scion has such control over her body that she can even convince it to remember its undamaged state and change accordingly. She may spend as many legend as she wishes to heal aggravated damage. She may also pay the cost to restore a destroyed, dismembered, or permanently scarred body part to wholeness.

Miscellaneous Knacks

BRICK WALL

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Miscellaneous

The Scion knows how to position herself to serve as a literal brick wall, allowing her allies to hide behind her against gunfire or the breath of a terrible dragon. As long as she describes a satisfactory stunt to the Storyteller, she may add her dots of Epic Stamina to the Dodge DV and Soak DV of every ally that is close to her until her next action. She does not gain the same benefits.

ETERNAL YOUTH

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

A Scion with this knack is no longer faced with the choice of every becoming a god or growing withered and dying of old age. She completely ceases to age and remains eternally at her current age. She may still change her apparent age with knacks and boons, but she never actually grows older.

UNDER PRESSURE

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

The body of the Scion knows how to maintain equilibrium, no matter what outside forces might be trying to do to it. She is unaffected by atmospheric pressure (whether from being high above the mountains, deep beneath the sea, or even in space) and suffers no difficulties from intense pressure or depressurization.

WHALE’S BREATH

Cost: None

Dice Pool: None

Type: Persistent

Becoming something more than human, the Scion with this knack loses her dependence upon air to stay alive. She may choose to hold her breath indefinitely or stop breathing entirely, whichever is most convenient at the time. She must still breathe to speak, unless she has some other way of communicating such as unusual alteration, telepathy, or sign language.