Occultist

Occultists are risk-takers. People willing to put themselves on the line to experiment with powers beyond comprehension. To bend and twist the very fabric of reality to their whims and to manipulate time and space to their will. Risking corrupting their very bodies and souls, Occultists are some of the most brilliant minds in the ranks of ORPHEUS.
== Mechanic: Enigma ==
When Occultists delve recklessly for eldritch power, bizarre fluctuations of chaotic magicks can surge without warning. The most capable and self-destructive of Occultists attempt to harness these storms of unknowable force to fuel their unnatural techniques. Occultist abilities conditionally generate these Enigmas, and further Occultist abilities are empowered by them, but at a risk. Each Enigma held by the Occultist raises the chance on subsequent Occultist ability use of a dangerous arcane backlash.
== Abilities ==
=== Baleful Starlight ===
The Occultist calls down cold, cancerous light from beyond the stars to daze and harrow their foes.
=== Impossible Geometries ===
The Occultist phases into a space between dimensions, perceiving a vague, washed-out version of physical reality devoid of life aside from others who know how to travel in this liminal space. Movement in this dimension moves the Occultist through the corresponding space in the physical world, leaving barely a perceptible trace of their presence, and gaining the ability to move up walls, through tiny spaces, or even through solid matter.
=== Machinations of the Timeless ===
The Occultist calls upon a timeless, spaceless force that human minds cannot fully comprehend, selectively reversing time and space for their own body while largely maintaining the integrity of the rest of reality. Wounds knit themselves, blood returns to the body, flesh is restored from any desecration. But exposure to this unnameable power carries a heavy cost.
=== Mask of the Faceless ===
The Occultist utilizes an enigmatic eldritch technology created by something older than mankind to assume the likeness of another person.
=== Song of the Destroyer ===
The Occultist creates an aural rift between this reality and an unspeakable place beyond. The soul-harrowing cacophony that pours forth drives those who hear it mad, but provides a perverse boon to the Occultist’s stability of mind.
=== Void Tendrils ===
At the Occultist’s bidding, tentacles of cold darkness rupture from a place between dimensions, ravaging the Occultist’s target in body and soul alike.
== Notable Occultists ==
* Pierce Keswick
* Tabitha Keswick
* Koji Miyazaki
* Bok Hui Barbara Shin-Rierson
* The Egret
Category:Archetypes