Body Gifts

### Sub-abilities

Gravity Manipulation, Weather Manipulation, Basic Shapeshifting, Size Changing, Control of Body Temperature, Super Speed, Super Strength

## Practitioners

### Others

Josh Rumbles, Doxa Galeafa, Casimir Coridan, others

Body Gifts are a type of gift recieved from the Overseer, that covers manipulation of the body of one's self, the body of others', and natural phenomena. The body coterie at Renasci is Corpanthera.

## Sub-ability

### Blocks

Blocks, a skill that requires a combination of body and touch gifts, are used in the demesne "to keep people away from certain objects or locations." Blocks create a blue force field that physically prevents penetrating into the protected area, and sometimes blocks the entrance of sound. With enough skill, blocks can be completely invisible as opposed to blue.

#### Block Breaking

In addition to the creation of blocks, it is also possible to break them, a rare skill that does not favor specific gifts. Known people with block breaking ability are Celia Fincastle and Antoine Spadaro. Celia notes that moving through a block feels like a wash of cold to her, which may be related to that block-breaking power.

#### Counter Blocks

Counter blocks are blocks that are used to attack blocks erected inside them. Blaine notes that Bellicose used them, rendering their guest's blocks "only forty percent effective." However, he conjectures that that Celia could have overridden this feature.

### Caliderma

Caliderma involves the control of one's body heat. Celia uses it to make her skin so hot that it burns whoever touches her. Th abilty, while likely achievable through study, was activated by her emotions, specifically anger. A quirk of this skill is that it doesn't change the temperature of a person's skin to their own touch, and instead only affects outside parties.

## History of Use

### Flash of Red

When Professor Spadaro wants Celia and her friends to stay behind after dinner, he manipulates physics to cause them to be anchored to their chairs, unable to get up. Celia describes feeling as if she was "weighed down with boulders." She, with willpower and the strength of her gifts, managed to resist and stand up, but Professor Spadaro characterizes this as "rare." Professor Legaspi describes the skill as "projecting an excessive force of gravity." Its one of the first examples of body gifts being used to explicitly control the laws of nature, rather than circumventing them.

Later, during her Speed and Strength II class, Celia demonstrates super-speed. She describes the sensation, ironically, as going very slow. Professor Spadaro explains that when one moves at such high speeds, the minds and senses likewise speed up to "a heightened level so you can still react," giving the illusion of moving slower than usual.

### Secrets Letters and Lies

During her escape from Huperpetra, Celia uses Caliderma to force Casimir Coridan to let go of her. She then shifts this protection from burning people who touch her to making them "bounc[e] off her like rubber." Celia describes this as "fortif[ying] her body" and "making it as hard as a rock." This ability remains unnamed.

### The Gathering Storm

During the summer holidays, Doxa is able to track Celia during her Veheration. This is likely a skill limited to body gifts, as it tracks where a body is in space. Celia notes that it feels like "a weight on her shoulder, almost as if someone had set their hand there."

Prior to and throughout their visit to Bellicose, Doxa uses body gifts to shrink down Quiroz Bazemore, who she keeps in her handbag. She explains that it is similar to the projection Celia does with her mind gifts - Doxa casted her body gifts onto another person. "Projecting your gifts" as she calls it, is far less tiring than one would suppose, and with body gifts, the exhaustion actually affects the person being projected onto.

## References

1. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *Secrets, Letters, and Lies* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2013), [150].
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gunther, *Secrets, Letters*, [151-2].
3. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *The Final Word* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2015), [68]. *Page number certain, book not*
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gunther, *Secrets, Letters*, [153].
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Melissa Gunther, *The Gathering Storm* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2014), [53-4].
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Gunther, *The Gathering*, [795].
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Gunther, *Secrets, Letters*, [493-4].
8. ↑ Melissa Gunther, *Flash of Red* (Colorado Springs, Colo.: Hayes Allan, 2012), [382].
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Gunther, *Flash of Red*, [109-10].
10. ↑ Gunther, *Flash of Red*, [113].
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Gunther, *Flash of Red*, [170-1].
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Gunther, *The Gathering*, [729].