Road of Pathos

## Overview

* **Passion-** Make someone feel a strong emotion
* **The Hearts Key-** Make someone engage in their desires without restraint
* **Sense the Sin-** Sense someones feelings and desires
* **Allure-** Makes the character irresistable
* **Gift of Ishara**- Makes someone live through the emotions of another

## Evocations

* **Passion**
	+ ***Description:*** *Allows the Incubus to alter the feelings of a target, making them suddenly feel a new emotion with a mere look, sometimes even to an unnatural intensity.*
	+ ***Effect:*** Allows the Evocator to bring fourth a [chosen Emotion] in a mortal. Doing so requires eye-contact and a successful Evocation Roll to instill them with the chosen emotion. Against certain mortals this may require a contested Roll.
	+ ***Level Bonus***: Gain acccess to an additional [chosen Emotion] for every level beyond the first
	+ *Example:* The Evocator is trying to get into a Strip Club, but unfortunatly the entrance is guarded. They approach the guard and cast 1st level Passion on them. Since they have chosen lust as their emotion, which they overcome their target with, the guard will enter the stripclub themselves and leave the entrance wide open.
* **The Hearts Key**
	+ ***Description:*** *Allows the Incubus to break loose the mental barriers of restraint, shame or decency; making them engage in their current desires no matter the circumstances or consequences.*
	+ ***Effect:*** After a successful Evocation Roll the Evocator may choose a mortal they are able to sense and overpower them with their desire. Should they succeed the target will engage in their current desires no matter the surroundings or consequences. Against certain mortals this may require a contested Roll.
	+ ***Level Bonus***: Cast this on an additional target for every level beyond the first
	+ *Example:* The Evocator is watching a demonstration from above, where tensions between protestors and the police begin to rise rapidly. It is very obvious to them that the police fear for their lifes; so they cast 4th level The Hearts Key on them; allowing them to affect 4 officers. After winning the contest the officers decide to drop their shields and weapons and make a run for it, breaking open the police lines and allowing the protestors to storm in.
* **Sense the Sin**
	+ ***Description:*** *Allows the Incubus to amplify their empathy and sense a targets current feelings and desires, allowing them to gain deep insigth into a targets mindset and hidden secrets.*
	+ ***Effect:*** After a successful Evocation Roll the Evocator may look at a target and learn if they currently experience a [chosen Emotion] or have a desire associated with it. They may sense how often they experience this emotion and what desires it has created in the past. Against certain mortals this may require a contested Roll.
	+ ***Level Bonus***: Gain acccess to an additional [chosen Emotion] for every level beyond the first
	+ *Example:* The Evocator is taleing a man they suspect to be a choleric killer. Since they have chosen rage the Evocator casts their 1st level Sense the Sin on suscpect to see if currently feel rage. Since this is not the case they make a Contested Roll, which they succeed- and find out just a couple of days ago the suspect felt increadibly rage and the desire to kill.
* **Allure**
	+ ***Description:*** *The Incubus surrounds themselves with a magical glamour that alters and amplifies their hosts beauty, making them appear as the individually most beautiful person on earth to each beholder; while still being recognisable as themselves.*
	+ ***Effect:*** After two successful Evocation Rolls the Evocator may add an Automatic Success on every *Appereance Roll* for the rest of the scene. This effect can not be casted twice.
	+ ***Level Bonus***: + 1 Automatic Success for every level beyond the first
	+ *Example:* The Evocator is in a club and has spotted their target sitting at a bar. They cast 3rd level Allure and approach them, suddenly appearing as the most beautiful person on earth to their target. They may add 3 Automatic Successes on their Charisma + Appereance Roll to seduce their target.
* **Gift of Ishara**
	+ ***Description:*** *The Incubus may force a target to experience anything they did to others over their lifetime; allowing them to cherish in the good or suffer in the bad; but overwhelming their mind and spirit all the same.*
	+ ***Effect:*** After a successful Evocation Rolls the Evocator may choose a mortal they have physical contact to and make them experience something they did before from the perspective of the person it was done to. This can last for up to a minute.
	+ ***Level Bonus***: Double the effect duration for every level beyond the first
	+ *Example:* The Evocator has tracked down a murderer and engaged them in combat. The murderer is physically stronger than them, so the Evocator grabs them and casts 3rd level Gift of Ishara, making them experience their last murder from the perspective of the victim. Overcome with pain and grief the murderer falls to the ground.

## References

* When choosing an [Emotion] consult the list below:
	+ **Anger**
	+ **Lust**
	+ **Sadness**
	+ **Fear**
	+ **Stress**
	+ **Disgust**
	+ **Exhaustion**