The Passion Magician OCCUPATION

Guru, celebrity, porn producer, decadent socialite, wicca,

NAME
Come up with a name according to your background
neo-druid, salesman, actor, escort, activist, behavioral and setting:
psychologist, experimental geneticist, hippie hitchhiker,
gigolo, yogi.
Our sexuality is a central force of our existence, and at the core of our being we are
beastly, primordial creatures. The Passion Magician recognizes that and seeks to explore DARK SECRET
and control the primal forces of both our emotions, and of nature itself. Tantric yogis,
hippie sex cults, gene-splicing biologists, celibate neo-druids, and depraved porn Choose 1 or more Dark Secrets:
producers can all be found amongst the practitioners of this School of Magic, and many
more besides. The Passion Magician may focus on human sexuality as a key to Divinity, or
concentrate on exploring the Living Wilderness of Gaia in search for the Truth of Reality. ◊ Family Secret LOOKS
Select or come up with your own distinguishing
But the raw forces of nature defy any attempt at fully controlling them, and can all too
easily devour those who seek dominion over the most powerful urges and principles in ◊ Heir features for your character. Some suggestions:
the entire cosmos. Great power can be found very quickly and easily on this path, but few
have ever lived to walk it to completion. ◊ Occult Experience
◊ Pact with Dark Powers Clothes: Eccentric, kinky, revealing, cross-gender,
spectacular, labwear, or native clothes.
◊ Returned from the Other Side
Face: Attractive, youthful, masculine, feminine,
DISADVANTAGES androgynous, chiseled, scornful, determined, or sweaty
face.
Choose 2 Disadvantages. Suggestions:
Eyes: Cunning, commanding, detached, devious,
◊ Bad Reputation ◊ Sexual Neurosis magnetic, oddly coloured, passionate, or hungry eyes.

◊ Eye of the Storm Body: Androgynous, animalistic, muscular, voluptuous,

◊ Curse
◊ Drug Addict
◊ Experiment gone wrong
◊ Obsession
ABILITIES
Choose 3 Abilities:
◊ Initiate [Obligatory]
◊ Journeyman (requires: Initiate)
◊ Adept (requires: Journeyman)
◊ Master (requires: Adept)
◊ Inhuman Companion
◊ Dark Aura of Passion
◊ Experienced
◊ Improviser
small, graceful, enormous, tattooed, hunched, or
mutilated body.
ALLIANCES
Choose one Power broker as your ally and another
you are in conflict with.
LIMITATIONS:
◊ Field of Expertise RELATIONS
Everyone introduces their character by name, looks,
and personality. Take your turn. Write down the
other player characters’ names. Go around the table
again to establish your Relations.
◊ One of the characters is your ally. Take +1 Relation
with them.
◊ One of the characters used to be your lover. Take 0 or
+1 Relation with them, and they take +1 or +2 Relation
with you.

◊ Primordial Talisman ◊ One of the characters has asked for your help with
something concerning death.

ATTRIBUTES ◊ One of the characters stirs your passions. Decide what

Assign the modifiers +3, +1, and +0 to the three passive
Attributes: Fortitude, Reflexes, and Willpower.
Assign the modifiers +4, +3, +2, +1, +0, −1, and −2 to the
other seven active Attributes: Charisma, Coolness,
Intuition, Perception, Reason, Soul, and Violence.
type of emotions they evoke in you, and take +1 or +2
Relation with them.
◊ One of the characters is your enemy.
Decide the nature of three additional Relations: One
neutral (0), one meaningful (+1), and one vital (+2).
 Attributes Stability DARK SECRET
& Personal Drives
 Composed

 Uneasy −1 to Disadvantage rolls

 Unfocused

 Shaken −1 Keep it Together

Willpower  Distressed −2 to Disadvantage rolls
Keep it Together  Neurotic

 Anxious −2 Keep it Together

Fortitude Reflexes  Irrational −3 to Disadvantage rolls
Endure injury Avoid Harm
 Unhinged +1 See Through the Illusion

 Broken GM makes a Move

Reason Intuition
WOUNDS Dramatic Hooks
Investigate Read a Person
Serious Wounds (−1 ongoing) Stabilized

Perception 
Observe a Situation


ADvancement
Coolness Violence
Act Under Pressure Engage in Combat 

Critical Wound (−1 ongoing) Stabilized

Charisma When you accumulate 5 xp, choose an advancement option:

Influence Other
Increase one active Attribute by +1 (max +4) 

Gear Increase one passive Attribute +1 (max +4)

Increase any one Attribute +1 (max +5)



 Ring binder with emotional texts, including love letters,
Soul erotica, confessions of jealousy and shame, hate pamphlets,
See Through the Illusion activist flyers, suicide notes, and more
 Collection of small vials containing ethereal oils, herbal
essences, salt water, animal fat, human semen, menstrual
Select a new Ability from your Archetype 
After 5 Advancements You May Also Choose:
Increase any one Attribute +1 (to max +5) 

Relations
blood, urine, and children’s tears.
Select any new Ability or Advantage. 
 Set of gemstones etched with runes.
End your character’s story arc as you see fit, and 
 The only book on the subject of the human genome that truly create a new character, who starts with 2
gets it right. Rejected by the mainstream academic Advancements.
community, and blacklisted in 38 states.
 Change Archetype to another Enlightened one 

 After 10 Advancements You May Also Choose:

 Awake (retire your character to godhood) 
 Abilities
Perform a Ritual
When you perform a ritual, explain what you intend to do
and the GM will say what's required based on the list below.
You will always be required to make some form of sacrifice,
be it a living or inert offering.
◊ The ritual takes several hours or even days to complete.
◊ You need one or more assistants to complete the ritual.
◊ You must perform the ritual in a particular location, or at a
particular point in time.
◊ You need a particular object in order to complete the ritual.
For every condition you cannot fulfill, you must take –1 to
your roll.
Then Roll +Soul to determine your degree of control. On 15+
choose 2 options from below, on 10-14 choose 1. On 9- choose 1
but the ritual has unexpected consequences: it gets either more
powerful or weaker than anticipated, causing the magician to
attract extra-dimensional beings, or tearing the Illusion.
◊ The ritual affects other dimensions.
◊ The ritual’s effects last for as long as you actively uphold
them.
◊ The ritual doesn’t become unstable (cannot be chosen on
a (–9) result).
◊ Journeyman or higher: You have protection from creatures
and magical energies for as long as you remain within the
protective circle.
◊ Adept or higher: The ritual affects several beings.
 Initiate
You are an amateur who recently started experimenting with
magic.
 Journeyman (requires Initiate)
Your studies and experiments in your school of magic have
granted you new insights. Chose 1 new Field of Expertise. When
you Perform a Ritual , you may always choose this option:
◊ You have protection from creatures and magical energies for
as long as you remain within the protective circle.
 Adept (requires Journeyman)
You’re starting to reach deeper insights into your school of
magic. Choose 1 new Field of Expertise.
When you Perform a Ritual , you may always choose this option:
◊ The ritual affects several beings.
 Master (requires Adept)
You are one of the few people alive with magical abilities akin to
beings from the supernatural realms. Choose 1 new Field of
Expertise. Additionally, you may always choose 1 additional
effect when you Perform a Ritual.
 Inhuman Companion
You have a creature from beyond the Illusion who is at your
beck and call. It may be your lover or a loyal servant. Perhaps
you saved its life, or maybe you have compelled it with magic.
Work together with the GM to determine the details of what type
of creature it is. It may hail from Gaia, Metropolis, or the
Underworld, or it might be an Elysium-dwelling creature of
Passion. When it accompanies you in the Illusion it will wear a
human (or animal) guise, but truly it is something inhuman and
has strange and fearsome powers - but may also suffer from
some severe limitations. You probably have to help it
sometimes, but most of the time it is there to help you. The two
of you share a strong bond, which nothing short of betrayal or
death will easily separate.
 Dark Aura of Passion
You have a dark aura of emotional turmoil and depraved
insights surrounding you. When you let your aura touch
another, roll +Soul. On 15+ choose 2 options, on 10-14 choose 1.
On 9- choose 1 option but you leave a trace of your aura with
the affected person - who gains a magical bond with you.
◊ +2
You learn one of your target’s emotional weaknesses. Take
to your roll against them when exploiting this weakness
◊ marked
You can feel your target's soul, and can ask if they have been
or tainted by supernatural forces of Passion.
◊ You curse your target, giving them the Victim of Passion,
Object of Desire, or Sexual Neurosis Disadvantage (your
choice), which will fade only after a couple months have
passed or when the victim finds a way to break the curse.
NPCs will be affected in kind, becoming driven by a burning
passion for your chosen target, fixated on their newfound
erotic fetish, or finding themselves unwillingly
 Experienced
You have life experiences and skills from your life prior to
becoming Enlightened. Choose any 1 Advantage from an Aware
Archetype.
 Improviser
You suffer no penalties to Perform a Ritual when outside your
sanctum.
 Primordial Talisman
You discovered a talisman suffused with primordial energies; for
example, a gnarled root, a pearl necklace, or a cryptid beast’s horn.
The talisman can guide you in Gaia. When you allow the talisman
to guide you, roll +Soul: On 15+ choose 3 options, on 10-14 choose
1. On 9- the Talisman fails you. The GM makes a move.
Options:
◊ Find a particular person or creature in the Living Wilderness.
◊ Find a portal back to Elysium.
◊ Steel your senses against the influences of Gaia or the magic of
its inhabitants.
 Disadvantages
 Cursed
You are cursed. In the first session and whenever you’re
confronted by the supernatural, roll +0 to see how strongly the
curse influences you:
(15+) You temporarily avoid the curse’s influence.
 Limitation: Field of Expertise (10–14) The GM takes 1 Hold.
(–9) The GM takes 3 Hold.
Field of expertise denotes what aspects of Passion magic the
magician has insight into. Whenever you Perform a Ritual in a The GM can spend Hold to make a Move for the curse: you or
field you have expertise on, you may ignore the option "the someone you care about have an accident, something of
ritual doesn’t become unstable.” yours is taken from you, you experience terrifying visions, or
you’re forced to take certain actions with risk of dire
consequences, if you refuse.
At character creation, choose 1 Field of Expertise for your
Passion Magician:
◊ Open portals to Gaia.  Drug Addict
◊ Summon creatures of passion. You are addicted to hard drugs; name at least one. In the first
game session and whenever you have been using, or have the
 Bad Reputation
For some reason, you have attracted the public’s disapproval
– even animosity. Perhaps you’ve been spotlighted in the
tabloids as a pedophile or murderer, falsely or otherwise.
In the first game session and whenever you attract the public’s
attention, roll +0:
(15+) You blend in. Nobody is out to get you.
(10–14) You have been recognized. The GM takes 1 Hold.
(–9) Several people have recognized you. Anger and fear control
their actions. The GM takes 3 Hold.
The GM can spend Hold to make a Move representing how
your bad reputation sticks to you. For example, people might
react with fear and suspicion towards you, a lynch mob forms
to bring you to justice, your property is vandalized, your allies
turn against you, and you can lose your job, agreements, and
relationships.

opportunity to use, roll +0:

◊ Bind and Exorcise creatures of passion
(15+) You are in control of the urge, for now.
◊ Affect physical nature. (10–14)The GM takes 1 Hold.
(–9) The GM takes 3 Hold.
◊ Induce emotions. The GM may spend Hold to make a Move for your addiction. For  Obsession
example, you cannot resist using the drug, run out of drugs,
become indebted to a dangerous person, put yourself in danger You have discovered a conspiracy or supernatural phenomenon,
while under the influence of drugs, or ruin something important and you can’t stop yourself from getting to the bottom of it. At the
to you – like a relationship – while under the influence.
first game session and whenever you encounter something
 Eye of the Storm associated with your obsession, roll +0:

You have become a nexus of powerful emotions and raw
carnality. If you don’t channel the Passions through yourself,
they will radiate outwards and find others to express
themselves through. At the first session, and whenever you
stay calm in the face of exciting stimuli, roll +0:
(15+) You can suppress your emotions without them scattering
outwards.
(10–14) A handful of people nearby are affected. The GM chooses 1:
◊ they experience your emotions, and must express them
◊ they express emotions of their own
(–9) A large number of people around you are affected. The GM
chooses freely what emotions they express, related to your own
emotional state, or theirs, or picking up a random emotions from
the tempestuous whirlwind of passion that constantly surrounds
you.
 Sexual Neurosis (15+) You overcome your obsession for the moment.
Your sexuality is a destructive, controlling force in your life. You (10–14) Your obsession influences your behavior. The GM takes 1
compulsively seek out superficial sexual encounters and are Hold.
willing to perform degrading acts – or even commit crimes – to
satisfy your fantasies. Whenever you have the opportunity to (–9) Your obsession takes over completely. The GM takes 3 Hold.
have consensual sex or take advantage of someone vulnerable to
your advances, roll +0: The GM can spend Hold to let your obsession creep into your daily
(15+) You can control your urges. life. You may be forced to choose between either engaging in your
(10–14) Choose between having sex with the person or reduce obsession or losing Stability. You may forget about important
tasks, miss meetings or neglect your interpersonal relationships
your Stability (−1).
to solely focus on your obsession. Your obsession may even
(–9) You cannot resist having sex with the person and the GM influence your dreams, giving you visions and revelations. In
chooses one option: turn, the object of your obsession may also take note of you and
try to stop your investigations.
◊ You hurt, or you are hurt by, your sexual partner (physically or
psychologically).
◊ The boundaries between dimensions are weakened; an entity
from beyond catches the scent of you or your lover.
◊ Your sexual partner becomes obsessed with you and starts
stalking you.

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