Facet Folio

Facet Name: Awe

Description: Awe is the Yang Facet of the sublime and the spirit, it governs emotions and other irrational reactions. A lack of Awe is dull, boring and otherwise dismal, suitable for soulless beings and featureless automatons, more Awe draws you in, dazzling and fascinating you through your senses, it is the reason we flinch and duck away from a jump scare, but it is also the horrors that haunt a soul forever, and it is the reason the term supernatural exists. It is the Facet of Idols and has the poise and grace to rise above the derision of its opposite of Jeer.

Action: Entrancing — The Action of Awe is entrancing, where someone draws another’s attention, usually deliberately. This action can be pleasant, in the case of fascination, beauty, charm and love, or it can be unpleasant as in the case of terror, beguilement, and enthralling, additionally entrancing can allow hypnosis, and other “magical” effects.

Annex Channel: Enhancing Annexes that channel through Awe use verbs like: Amaze / Attract / Beguile / Behave / Captivate / Charm / Dazzle / Emote / Enchant / Enhance / Entrance / Evoke / Express / Exhilarate / Feel / Glow / Haunt / Horrify / Inspire / Imbue / Impress / Overwhelm / Reveal / Scare / Shine / Surpass / Terrify / Venerate

Annex Root: Awesome Annexes rooted in Awe, or Descendants or Characters that use them are described as: Aesthetic / Alluring / Attractive / Awful / Awesome / Beautiful / Brave / Courageous / Creative / Divine / Dreadful / Emotional / Empathic / Fearful / Great / Haunting / Horrifying / Majestic / Moodiness / Paranormal / Psychic / Psychological / Regal / Sentimental / Soulful / Spellbinding / Spiritual / Splendid / Terrifying / Valiant / Wonderful

Attack: Duck (

Herald: Feelings — The Herald of Awe are feelings, these might be called gut instincts, or intuitions and occasionally may even present as fleeting visions. Fear and Fascination are the root feelings of humans responding to the Spirit realm, and these visions often contain dark shapes that are fearfully fascinating.

Hitch: Irrational — The Hitch is irrational in nature, this is common to irrational behaviours like manias, philias and phobias, where a Character may find themselves reacting irrationally to an external stimulation. Although some irrational Hitches will also be caused by “irrational” sources, such as spirits, ghosts etc. These irrational forces are often referred to as “Spiritual” or “Emotional” as well. Death and Dying Irrational Hitches include “Scared-to-Death”, “Heart-broken” and “Too crazy to live”.

• Quirk — Irrational Quirks indicate that the irrationality interferes with the Character’s life periodically, when triggered the character will usually display some irrational behaviour, perhaps experiencing an irrational emotion (such as a phobic reaction), hallucination, tick, yelling, screaming, jumping or similar. Triggers are usually specific objects, animals (usually a Genus or a specific species), events or Characters that trigger the response.
• Flaw — Irrational Flaws indicate that a Character has significant issues with periodic irrational behaviour, this is occasionally as a result of a curse or religious ritual, but is more often a personal flaw that must be overcome. When Triggered Irrational Characters may become trapped in a specific Psychosocial state or location, leading them to becoming trapped in specific emotional or hallucinatory states. Triggers are often broader in definition and activate more often, for example the specific species trigger would become a taxonomic order (such as Araneae – the spiders).
• Woe — Irrational Woes indicate a Character who may have trouble displaying normal rational thought or behaviour. When Triggered Irrational Characters may become Twisted, trapped by irrational and unhealthy thoughts, behaviours and intense emotions. The Triggers of Woes tend to be more even more broad, a fear of spiders could become a fear of anything with an exoskeleton, and more than four legs as the species Trigger becomes a Phylum trigger of Arthoppoda.

Hurdle: Spiritual Crisis — The hurdle of Awe is a spiritual crisis, these can occur when a Character has a profound mystical, religious or spiritual event occur to them. This is a profound moment for a character and may resolve or add a Hitch, or even integrate or add an alternate personality when it occurs. A spiritual crisis may be caused by spiritual “experimentation” without a trained Mentor, but while a guru can guide you past his own mistakes, he cannot guide you past your own.

Incarna: Spirit (Ka) — As Awe is the Facet of Spirit its Incarna is Spirit. The Ka is the living soul that leaves the body upon death in the ancient religion of Egypt and echoes of this belief are found within most religions. Pick this Facet Incarna if you are wanting to play a lost soul, ghost, spectre, or nature spirit, or perhaps a Genius Loci or Familiar Spirit.

Location: Spiritual — Spiritual locations can be religious buildings, sacred sites, and hallowed ground, but can also be any beauty spot that hints at the numinous or the sublime nature of reality. Spiritual Locations can also indicate a Psychosocial Space, especially a Spirit-realm.

Lore: Trait — The Trait Lore tells us something about the nature of the character of the subject of the lore. Often this is a character trait, such as “Generous”, “Loyal”, “Bold”, “Self-Controlled”, “Abrasive”, “Witty”. Traits are often, but not always social in nature.

Monster: Spirit — The Monster is a Spirit, spirits are Psychosocial beings, often created by intense experiences and memories, that do not always have true physical forms, but may exist as ethereal, incorporeal beings.

• A Spirit may have a “domain” that it is a Spirit of, this is often tied to a Location or Psychosocial State that the Spirit has a strong connection to. Ghosts and nature spirits, for example, are often tied to a Location that they haunt. Other Spirits may have ties to a specific time, emotion or even a single Proficiency, such as the Spirit of TV.
• A Spirit Monster Draw cards to their Monster Pool whenever they enter a specific Location or Psychosocial State, or brings another Character there (often to eat or similar).
• Spirits can add their Monster Pool Bonus to any rolls or card Pips of any Psychosocial Actions, including Psych Wounds.
• Spirits must always spend at least 1 card from their Monster Pool whenever they attempt a Physical Action in the real world.

Narration Technique: Pathetic Fallacy — The Pathetic Fallacy is a narration technique where the narrated atmosphere, from object descriptions, to the weather, is described through the lens of the Character’s emotions and mood. For example, for a Character wrapped in depression, the sunshine may be described as weak or stark, rather than warming. This narration technique can emphasise the emotional state of a Character, and can be useful in games to guide Player Character’s emotional performances.

Narrative Moment: Inner-Life — This Narrative Moment is about showing a Character’s Inner or spiritual life. Are they a church-goer, a true believer, an optimist, hopeful, a lapsed believer, a doubter, are they agnostic, a pragmatist, realist, pessimist, humanist or atheist? If a Character stops to pray, or if they attend church on holiday, it tells us something about them, as would the Character meditating, or daydreaming. It can appear as simply as how the Character blasphemes, or swears, or the way they gaze out of the window on the bus, instead of at the other passengers, or their phone.

Nimbed: Spiritual — The first Spiritual Proficiency makes the Annex pertain to spiritual, rather than the purely material or physical things or being, this will often cause the Annex to be viewed in a spiritual or religious context and perhaps a positive or negative light, depending upon the religion and its perception and precepts, the second adds the Numinous Edge to the Annex, a third will make that a Numinous Glow, any additional Spiritual Proficiencies will add an Awe “Artistic” Success.

Ordeal: Spiritual — Spiritual Ordeals vary from spiritual system to system, but include variant examples such as “The Shamanistic Awakening”, “Near Death Experience”, “Test of Faith”, “Existential Crisis” and “Dark Night of the Soul”

Psychosocial Location: Supernature — The Psychosocial State known as Supernature can mean various things depending upon the genre and setting. Psychic abilities whether extra sensory perception, telepathy, remote viewing, mediumship, shamanic sight, or similar abilities can reside in this Supernature. Supernature can also encompass concepts such as the Collective Unconscious, whether allowing them to directly connect, or simply demonstrating a base of memetic patterns, such as Jungian Archetypes, common to all members of a society and perhaps all human societies, it is even possible that these supernatural “beliefs” are genetically encoded in human brains. Typically when a Character enters their Supernature State they may access psychic powers, they may also appear to lose consciousness entering a trance like, or even levitating glowing form, depending upon genre.

Quest: Brave / Charm — The Quest may send the adventurers to a dangerous location, or to face a terrible monster or object, or instead they may simply have to charm an old woman they meet upon the way so that she will tell the secret of soothing the beast. Perhaps they have to persuade their new boss to send them on that job. The point is that the character on the Quest will have to use their Awe Facet to the best of their ability.

Question: Feelings — The Question for Awe asks us how we feel about something or someone.

Resolved Hitch: Invocation — The Resolution of a Spiritual Hitch unlocks the ability of a Character or Descendant to invoke the spirits, or spiritual laws, that previously plagued them. +1 Success Level with any attempt to Invoke any Spirits, or religious or spiritual law.

Rule: Psychosocial States — The Rule of Awe is Psychosocial States, which are how we model emotional effects upon Characters. Psychosocial States are usually represented as Positive or Negative Psych Wounds in T13, while you have a Psych Wound you experience some particular Psychosocial State, most commonly an Emotional State, although other Psychosocial states such as “Dishonoured”, “Entranced”, “Shunned”, “Charmed”, “Ensorcelled”, “Ruined”, “Ostracised” or even “Exiled” also exist. There is some cross-over into Hitches as Psychosocial States can create, resolve, and alter Hitches sometimes. The Number of Pips and Number of Cards in the effect should inform the Character’s emotional portrayal, although you can also examine the actual cards too, as each one has Facets, and card names (Yarn and Wyrd Tarot) that may add nuance of flavour to the State. If a Character has a large number of cards and Heart Pips invested in “Love” then you can bet they are pretty convinced they are in love.

Style: Elegant — The Elegant Style is often the choice of high society, nobles and politicians favour it. Elegant Style Reserves favour graceful movements (they add +1 Pip to each card for movement), and can be used for Perception, Reach or Ranged attacks, as well as evasion defences such as Dodging (where again they add +1 Pip to each card). Elegant Style Reserves can never be used to Soak, Heal or for Normal Physical Melee Attacks.

Success: Artistic — Artistic Success is usually measured in terms of Emotional impact on the Target Audience. 1 Artistic Success will allow you to add a 1 card Emotional Effect that will affect the Target or Audience, or can instead be used to Draw an extra card to your Ordeal Pool. 2 Artistic Successes can create a 2 card Emotional Effect on the Target or Audience, or imbue a creation with Additional Sway, Chi, Yarn or Twists (depending on Character Type) to create Trophies, Monoliths, Artefacts or Dark Matter. 3+ Artistic Successes will induce 3 card Emotional Effects in the Target or the Action may affect a Target’s Personality Annex (Soul/Spirit) directly.

Sway: Splendour — Awe Sway is known as Splendour, and represents beauty, nobility and dignity. Splendour is best spent when you are trying to impress someone, keep your cool, or maintain someone’s respect. Viewing Bold Splendour being spent automatically gives an Action an “Effect” from Faint at 1 to Unforgivable at 32.

Tangle: Emotions — The Tangle of Awe is that of emotions. Each Aura Proficiency will add an emotional complication to the Annex. Umbral Proficiencies will usually add Negative Emotions from their Facet. Nimbed Proficiencies generally add Positive Emotions from their Facet. This is usually a simple 1 card emotional effect, but if the same Facet is present these may stack (and this can make Umbrals positive or Nimbeds negative). This creates a list of emotions that the Annex has affinity with. At least one of these emotional states must be present in the Scene to activate the Annex at all. Depending upon the Annex’s intended usage the Annex may only be able to detect, affect, create, project, control, or adjust those emotions, or it may simply require them all be present, with each emotion that is not present adding one of these effects:

1. Generate a Failure Level of the appropriate Facet for the emotion.
2. Generate an appropriate Emotional Psych attack on a “random” target (often the Annex User or an Ally) to create the appropriate emotion. The Annex User may elect to accept these emotions automatically.
3. The current Yarn-Teller may use these emotions within the Scene for their own purposes.

Test: Attitude / Art / Charm / Cool / Spirit — When a Character wishes to affect another even spiritually, through their art, charms, or magic, or their own soul’s attitude is tested, or if they want to project an attitude, emotion or state, like appearing cool or staying cool under pressure.

Tone: Emotional — Any story or scene that has an Awe Tone is going to be emotional. Whether its the heart-breaking plight of a boy and his dog, or a cancer-ridden mother trying to do the best for her children before she dies, this is the Tone of sad stories that are low on action, but high in characterisation, and Stress.

Turn: Change-of-Heart — Someone has a change of heart, or mind, it may mean that they change sides, or just tack, changing the direction of the plot. These Emotional turns are usually as a result of powerful emotion-driven situations.

Twisted: Spirit — A Twisted Spirit alters the Gains a Character makes from Personas. Instead the Twisted Persona is driven to promote fears of supernatural beings in those about them. They Gain Chi when they hoax, fake, or create genuine supernatural events. In Ordeals they Gain Chi when they play cards to make Psych attacks.

Umbral: Awful — The User feels awful when using the Annex, perhaps it is too dangerous, or hurts the user. To represent this awfulness either the user must beat a one card (per Umbral) Psych Attack before they can activate the Annex, or when the Annex activates it will automatically inflict a 1 card (per Awful Umbral) Unsoakable magical attack on the User.

Facet Name: Burden

Description: Burden is the Yin Facet of the material. Wealth and weight fall beneath Burden’s corporeal control. It is the Facet of Elemental Earth, defining physical weight, reaping rewards in terms of financial wealth, ownership, and resources, it can be fiscally or materially rewarding, and can be trusted, but can also lead to debts, over-loading, and even being dragged and is often lacking something, even if only true satisfaction. It is the opposite, and physical counter-weight holding down the tugging kite string, of Gossamer.

Action: Trading — The Action of Burden is trading, trading usually means using wealth to purchase things, but other trades are possible. True Mercari, Increated, and Bulmäs Soul Traders all trade for things usually beyond wealth.

Annex Channel: Indebting Annexes that channel through Burden use verbs like : Accumulate / Afford / Beat / Buy / Consume / Crush / Fatten / Finance / Flatten / Hammer / Hit / Impose / Own / Pound / Provide / Purchase / Squish / Supply / Swell / Thump / Weigh-down

Annex Root: Burdensome Annexes rooted in Burden, or Descendants or Characters that use them are described as: Battering / Big / Bulk / Crushed / Enormous / Financial / Giant / Greed / Heaviness / Institutional / Massiveness / Materialistic / Ownership / Percussive / Treasure / Wealth

Attack: Pound (

Narration Technique: Amplification — Amplification is a rhetorical technique that can be used in Narration to draw additional attention to, add importance to, or exaggerate certain parts of a description or text. Amplification can be simple exaggeration and hyperbole, but more often it relies on repeating a particular part, word or thought, to draw attention, each repeat will add additional details or greater hyperbole to this thought to bring it forwards. E.g. You crest the hill and sight an army; an army that fills the plain beyond the hill, stretching from horizon to horizon; an army of armoured reptilian giants, their banners emblazoned with a blood-red snake wave atop their raised spears as they march; the army of the Cobra-king, it can only be the greatest number of lizard-warriors ever gathered, and they are marching towards you.

Narrative Moment: Household Burdens — Households have material burdens that must be performed, whether its paying the landlord (or mortgage), maintenance such as cleaning, laundry, or washing up, or provision for the family or group such as grocery shopping, cooking a meal, or ordering and paying for take-out. This moment grounds a Character making them feel real, after all, we all need to do these things.

Nimbed: Material — The first Material Proficiency on the Annex makes the Annex’s effects more durable (adding the Nimbed Burden Score to all difficulty to dispel, heal, or fix the effects of the Annex). The second Material Proficiency adds the Rewarding Edge to the Annex. The third adds the Rewarding Glow. Each additional Material Proficiency will add an Automatic Material Success.

Ordeal: Material — Material Ordeals are usually to do with wealth, or provision of goods, examples include “Feeding The Household”, “Purchasing Goods” and “Gathering The Harvest”.

Psychosocial Location: Wishes — Within all beings they have the things they want, and things that they are addicted to. These are summed up in the Psychosocial space into Wishes. Within this State of a personality you will often find secret repressed desires, as well as their wants they are open about. Wishes are often tied to Geometry Goals (especially those of the Soul and Shadow) and Personality Motivations, and are easily confused with Drives and Urges, but Wishes exist as the root of a Drive, Drives must pass through a Wish on their way to the States they connect. Urges are more about what a Character needs on a biological level, than what they desire to accumulate or achieve in Wishes. Typically a Character that enters their Wishes State will display greed or wanting behaviours, these can vary from mild acquisitiveness to all-encompassing ambitions.

Quest: Obtain — This quest would have the characters try to purchase, steal, gather, hire or otherwise acquire a specific (or several) location(s), character(s) or object(s).

Question: Quantity — The Question of Burden is a question of Quantity, “How much?” and “How many?” are the usual forms.

Resolved Hitch: Abundance — The resolution of a Lacking Hitch creates an abundance, making up for what was once a lack for a Character or Descendant. +1 Success Level to any Action where an abundance of any material or property that the Character has a named Proficiency for (not specifically the Proficiency that was part of the Annex originally).

Rule: Costs — The Rule of Burden is Costs. Nothing comes for free in this Omniverse, as there are always the costs of time and entropy wearing away everything, and so in the model that is the game, there are always costs. For some things, the costs are hidden away, such as the time spent learning a Skill pays the cost to use it, but Talents and Powers often have additional costs that the user must bear, even including the time they spent learning the Proficiencies and Skills that are being combined. This idea of Costs extends to Hitches, which are often costs that must be paid due to circumstances that surround the Character. The Rule of Costs itself could explain the existence of Stress, Strain, Sway, Chi and Yarn, as something must exist to pay the Costs within the model.

Style: Descendant — The Descendant Style is ideal for characters that favour using equipment, or training, such as Pilots, military and para-military types, and armoured superheroes. Be it weapons, armour, vehicles, fortifications, or whatever, the Descendant Style Reserve can be filled or used for any purpose, as long as they are using Descendants. The Descendant Style does have some available Sub-Styles such as Training, Locations, Lores, Equipment, Vehicles, Weaponry, Armour as well as more specialised Styles such as Magic Wand Style, or Ninja-Training Style. Sub-Styles add +1 to the Pips of each card in the Reserve (when used appropriately), Specialised Sub-Styles add +2 to the Pips of each card when used with the specialised Descendant.

Success: Material — Material Success wins you prizes, often in the form of Wealth and physical Property. Material Success means a Gain, this can be as simple as buying a loaf of bread, making the down payment on your new hill-top mansion, or putting the finishing touches to your latest suit of hero armour. 1 Material Success Gains as Wealth (a Sway Gain) or allows you to Play an extra card from your Pool, 2 Material Successes Gains as Chi or you may Draw and Play an additional card as an Echo of the Action during one of the GRT Phases of the Annex, 3+ Material Successes Gains as Yarn, or it allows the Action to target on the Target’s Physical Descendants.

Sway: Wealth — Burden Sway is known as Wealth. Wealth is spent to make purchases (such as Descendants). In other words, if you can spend cash on something Wealth is the best Sway. Bold Wealth when spent on a purchases is known as “Retail Therapy” may Relieve Stress in both the buyer and seller equal to the Wealth spent. So spending 2 Bold Wealth will relieve 1 Stress for both the buyer and seller.

Tangle: Cost — Burden brings a cost as its Tangle. Each Umbral that is added adds a cost equal to the Facet Draw in Banal Yin Sway. Each Nimbed added adds a cost equal to that Facet Draw in Banal Yang Sway. This cost must be paid before the Annex will activate, or will be taken from the Score the Annex will generate.

Test: Barter / Feasting / Haggling / Purchase / Selling / Trade / Wealth — Burden Tests are often used to purchase, trade, or sell Descendants, goods, or services.

Tone: Dark — A story or scene that is dark in Tone is a down-beat tale, often creepy, sinister or morbid. Sinister or avaricious motivations will abound, and actions that cause harm, are favoured within the Tone. A truly dark tone will add a Failure Level to every Test especially those that cause harm, marring and scarring every success that anyone achieves.

Turn: Reversal of Fortune — Sometimes the poor man wins a lottery, or comes up with a genius product, or a rich man loses everything due to poor decisions, there may be swindles, gambling, thieves or law suits. Sometimes two individuals swap circumstances, and even identities as part of a reversal of fortune.

Twisted: Body — The physical form of the Character is twisted and altered. They may be malformed or exposed by this twisting (adding a new Hitch), but always add a Monster Facet from the same Facet as the Character’s Persona, Core, Incarna or any Hitch with a Twist stored on it.

Umbral: Dragging — The User requires a specific physical Descendant that is not in GRT when activating (e.g. a Wallet full of cash or a sword that hasn’t just been swung) or the Annex will have additional RT and potentially GRT. Each Umbral Burden Proficiency will add the Umbral Burden Score to this Umbral Score. The Total Score from all Umbral Burden Proficiencies is used to calculate the minimum cost in Chi of the Descendant that can be used, and the RT that will be added to the Annex. For each 10 points of RT added 5 RT are converted into 1 GRT (so +11 RT becomes +6 RT +1 GRT, +26 RT becomes +16RT +2GRT and +34 RT becomes +19 RT +3GRT).

Facet Name: Craft

Description: Craft is the Yang Facet of artifice and creation. It is the source of all technologies, most arts and magicks, and is hard-won through practice, anxiety, precision and a hope to improve, hard-work, preparation and toil brings proficiency, but it can also curse one with ineptitude, and can require measures, tools, and components to achieve results. Craft is the artificial, man-made creation that stands apart from, but continually learns and steals from Nature.

Action: Tinker — The Action of Craft is tinkering, this can range from simply your hands fiddling with something, or skilled techniques such as, crafting new Descendants, fixing broken ones, or trying to improve Descendants.

Annex Channel: Crafting Annexes that channel through Craft use verbs like: Build / Collide / Crash / Create / Devise / Equip / Fix / Maintain / Manufacture / Mend / Practise / Prepare / Repair / Shatter / Tinker / Tool / Train / Work

Annex Root: Crafted Annexes rooted in Craft, or Descendants or Characters that use them (or were made with them) are described as: Artisanal / Complex / Crashed / Cunning / Delicate / Elaborate / Practised / Precise / Prepare / Professional / Skilled / Specialized / Subtle / Technological / Witchcraft

Attack: Crash (

Facet Name: Dominion

Description: Dominion is the Yang Facet of control, groups, civilization, the body politic, the abilities to socialise and lead. Dominion pushes us to conform to society through embarrassment, and draws us deeper with sympathy and empathy, it can manipulate, control and manage, but also defines limits on one’s reach, the volumes that surround and contain us, it is the spaces around us especially the social spaces, and defines the groups we are part of. Ideally Dominion leads us through strategy, guidance, and politics, but can also become a popularity and fashion contest. Dominion is the dense and complicated high society that Yonder, its opposite seeks to distance itself from.

Action: Marshal — The Action of Dominion is marshalling, rallying the troops, giving orders, rabble-rousing speeches or just directing the crowds.

Annex Channel: Dominating Annexes that channel through Dominion use verbs like: Accord / Administrate / Agree / Command / Control / Conquer / Destroy / Detonate / Direct / Dominate / Engage / Enslave / Erupt / Exploit / Govern / Influence / Involve / Join / Lead / Manage / Monopolise / Network / Organise / Reign / Socialise / Steer / Supervise / Treaty

Annex Root: Collective Annexes rooted in Dominion, or Descendants or Characters that use them are described as: Communal / Connected / Decisive / Dominant / Explosive / Managerial / Moderation / Mutual / Political / Pyrotechnical / Regional / Social / Spatial / Territorial / Unexploded / Volatile

Attack: Explode (

Quest: Control / Lead / Join — When a Quest demands that a Character joins a group, or leads others towards a goal, or if a Quest relies on a Character controlling a Descendant, or another Character, then that is a Dominion Quest.

Question: Who — Dominion asks us “Who?”, as in “Who are these people?” and “Who is going to get rid of them for me?”.

Resolved Hitch: Popular — The resolution of a Social Hitch makes a Descendant or Character popular, people just like them more for some reason. +1 Success Level on any Psychosocial Ordeal Actions.

Rule: Values — The Rule of Dominion is called Values and it governs the way that we add Boons and combine Facets in T13. Rather than adding the Boons directly to each other, we usually add the Values of those Boons to find a new Value, that new Value is then Reduced to find the combined Boon. Two people with Gossamer 13 lifting together generate 66+66=132 Value that’s the equivalent of Boon 21 (not Boon 26). Combining Values in this way cannot generate a Value greater than the original Boon’s Super-Value, such that if even 17 people are lifting something together they can generate at most 1087 Value togther. This models the difficulties in coordinating people, and also limits how effectively an army of ants can affect a giant.

Style: Strategy — The Strategy Style is favoured by Leaders, Officers and Generals. Strategy can be used to almost any pre-planned or chosen effect, gaining a +2 Pips Style bonus to each card. However, Strategy Reserves can only Play cards to complete a goal that is specified as the first card is added to the Reserve. This goal cannot be changed, or modified, while Cards or Score remain in the Strategy Style Reserve. Changing the goal is only possible by completely Discarding all Cards and Score from the Strategy Style Reserve.

Success: Realm — Realm Success represents success that covers a territory, area (of knowledge or space) or group of people. 1 Realm Success will allow Playing an additional card from your Ordeal Pool to pay for additional Targets or act as insider knowledge. 2 Realm Successes will Pull and Play a card to act as Realm Knowledge or to Pay for extra Targets. 3+ Realm Successes can make an Action affect a whole Location. The Location or Group Size affected is equal to the Character’s Size (0/1 for most Humans) + their Dominion Score + the Pips of one card Pulled and Played as an area of effect (e.g. a Bombing Action might add Dominion 4, Size 1 and 8 Pips to create 13 Yarn which would hit all of a Large Building or Vehicle at once, or affect over a hundred individuals.

Sway: Support — Dominion Sway is sometimes called Support. Support can be spent to affect people socially, including when it is used to influence or affect a group of people. i.e. When spending 4 Bold Support on the size of a Group this counts as 4 Chi and can influence or affect up to 9 people (instead of 4 for Intrepid Support). Spending Bold Support will also affect a target causing them to either Gain or Relieve Stress equal to the Support spent as the spending Player prefers.

Tangle: People — People are the Dominion Tangle. The Annex will only activate if enough people are present in the Scene. The number of people required (as audience, crew, targets or whatever) is equal to the total Aura Proficiencies (Umbral and Nimbed) Facet Scores Reduced as Chi on the Sway table to find a Group Size. E.g. A “Performance” Annex with “Gossamer” (Boon 15) Umbral and “Zeal” (Boon 19) Nimbed would add Scores of 4+5=9 that Reduces to 3 that’s “Half-a-dozen” (<7) people.

Test: Manipulation / Control / Politics / Popularity / Self-control — Dominion Tests are about self-control or controlling others, either directly, through manipulation or by charisma and popularity.

Tone: Political — Dense plots about people and societies fill this Tone. The Political Tone is often about shady back-room deals, subtle manoeuvrings, secrets and private vendettas. Political scenes are about situations and people, Characters are highly important, allies and enemies will shift and change, and social interactions and Psychosocial Action spaces are emphasised.

Turn: Society — The Public mood changes, it might be your close friends changing, or a change may come over the village or country. Social changes can be small almost unnoticeable changes or massive, far-reaching effects, with repercussions for years.

Twisted: Familiar — An Extra serves the Character as a form of Alternate, sharing the Character’s Twists. This Familiar is a physical extension of the Character’s body, and shares Incarna with the Character, although it may have a separate Personality, depending upon how integrated the Familiar is (exactly like any other Alternate). Familiars can always communicate telepathically with their owner, as they are the same person. The Extra is often an animal, although human familiars are certainly possible.

Umbral: Fashionable — The Umbral of Dominion is fashionable, of course fashion is fickle, and what is a la mode this morning may be so last-season by lunchtime. This works by requiring the user of the Annex to narrate a new, fashionable or classic aspect of the Annex effect, this also adds the total Umbral Dominion Draw to the Difficulty (multiply the Umbral Dominion Score by the number of Umbral Dominion Proficiencies and then Reduce that resultant Score to a Draw). This sets the minimum Difficulty for any use of the Annex and reflects the Difficulty in making something popular, trendy or fashionable enough. This can also be used to make Annex Attacks emphasise or reflect the target’s poor fashion choices.

Facet Name: Enigma

Description: Enigma is the Yin Facet of secrets, mysteries, hidden behaviours and cryptic things. Enigma is the hanging question that goes unanswered, it is the unknown, the occult, that which may never be known, sometimes these secrets are a source of guilt, other times they offer only confusion, shadows and vague sphinx-like riddles. Enigma is the hidden contents of the closed mystery box that can only be opened by its opposite Key.

Action: Bewilder — The Action of Enigma is to bewilder another, whether by asking them a question, mystifying them with esoteric knowledge, or by vanishing into a hiding spot.

Annex Channel: Obscuring Annexes that channel through Enigma use verbs like: Ambush / Baffle / Bewilder / Bushwhack / Cloak / Conceal / Confuse / Disorientate / Distort / Hide / Lure / Lurk / Misdirect / Mislead / Obfuscate / Obscure / Prepared / Set / Smuggle / Spring / Stage / Vanish / Waylay

Annex Root: Enigmatic Annexes rooted in Enigma, or Descendants or Characters that use them are described as: Ambiguous / Dark / Deceptive / Disconcerting / Diversionary / Enigmatic / Garbled / Mysterious / Obscure / Occult / Perplexing / Puzzling / Secret / Secretive / Treacherous / Uncanny / Unexpected

Attack: Ambush (

Facet Name: Fury

Description: Fury is the Yang Facet of anger, noise and deep emotional intensity. It is the outburst of emotion, the storm tossed sea and the thunderingly loud waterfall, temperamental, emotional, destructive, fierce and often furious. Fury is the raging roar of wrath that splits, defies and counters its opposite Quiet.

Action: Attack — The Action of Fury is usually an aggressive attack on another. This attack may be physical, emotional or just verbally abusive (only the Stakes will vary).

Annex Channel: Raging Annexes that channel through Fury use verbs like: Arouse / Attack / Break / Burst / Cascade / Dare / Deafen / Disturb / Dowse / Ebb / Erupt / Evoke / Exert / Flow / Force / Frenzy / Frustrate / Hate / Howl / Initiate / Justify / Provoke / Rage / Resound / Roar / Rouse / Run / Scream / Seize / Shake / Shout / Splash / Suppress / Threaten / Unleash / Wet

Annex Root: Furious Annexes rooted in Fury, or Descendants or Characters that use them are described as: Angry / Aggressive / Bitter / Boisterous / Destructive / Disturbed / Ferocious / Fierce / Frenzied / Frustrated / Furious / Hectic / Jealous / Justified / Indignant / Intense / Irrational / Loud / Mad / Maladjusted / Morbid / Noisy / Outraged / Pathetic / Prejudiced / Psionic / Stormy / Raging / Raucous / Reckless / Resentful / Righteous / Thunderous / Torrential / Uncontrollable / Unreasoning / Violent / Wrathful

Attack: Bedlam (

Facet Name: Gossamer

Description: Gossamer is the dynamic Yang Facet of light, airy strength. It is sticky silken threads drifting in the wind, strength of tendons, the forces that pull, rip and blow, it is attachment, connections, and bonding, tying, binding and grappling things together, it is the air itself, entangled by spoken words into language and a way of connecting people. Gossamer is the light, airy, tangling strength opposite of Burden.

Action: Pulling — The Action of Gossamer is Pulling, this can be heaving on line, wind tugging at clothes or even climbing against the inevitable draw of gravity.

Annex Channel: Spinning Annexes that channel through Gossamer use verbs like: Bind / Breathe / Cast / Drag / Drift / Entangle / Float / Glue / Grab / Grip / Hang / Hold / Lift / Pluck / Pull / Rend / Rip / Send / Snatch / Speak / Spin / Spread / Strum / Talk / Tear / Throw / Tie / Tug / Weave / Whip / Wrap

Annex Root: Fine Annexes rooted in Gossamer, or Descendants or Characters that use them are described as: Aerial / Airy / Breezy / Buoyant / Elastic / Elegant / Ethereal / Flexible / Hands / Gaseous / Grip / Intricate / Knotted / Lean / Long / Silken / Skinny / Sticky / Strong / Thin / Threads / Windblown

Attack: Rip (