The Chinese Unicorn, the k’i-lin, is one of the four animals
of good omen;
the others are the dragon, the phoenix, and
the tortoise.
The Unicorn is foremost of all the 360 creatures
that live on land...
Its appearance foretells the birth of an
upright ruler.
To wound the Chinese Unicorn or to come
across its dead body is unlucky.
The span of this animal’s
natural life is a thousand years.
-Jorge Luis Borges, the Book of Imaginary Beings
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The Windflower Law: We must all learn to love
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The Chestnut Law: We must learn to forgive
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The Rule of Man: Humanity deserves our respect.
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The Rule of War: Why must we make war on the Excrucians?
Has none tried to understand their grievance?
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The Crowfoot Law: Makes us all complicit in Entropy’s
tyranny.
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The Code for Humanity: Let humanity be as they would be.
She has three powers.
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Abigail Ng, the Power of Tea, who was always destined to be
Kirin’s power, who brought solace to the the tormented Koi
Goddess. She’s taking Abigail’s death pretty hard.
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Bob, the Power of Immigration, a Zeta Reticulan who has
forged a pact with Kirin to evacuate doomed humans from this world
and resettle them elsewhere. In exchange, she allows him to smuggle
aliens onto Earth.
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Deirdre Brooks, PhD and the Power of Education, a
Bodhisattva who transcended both life and academics to become
Kirin’s most potent power.
Her Flowers are the Lotus (the Key of the Descending Angel) and the Star of Bethlehem (the Key of Something, Changed Forever)
Estate of Tea
-Tea infuses water with its essence (2).-Tea soothes pain (2)
-Tea quiets the din of the world (1)
-Tea is surrounded by beauty and class (1)
Domain Miracles of Tea
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Make a cup of tea.
Make a moment momentarily peaceful, or more beautiful, or more
classy.
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Know everything about
a cup of tea (where it came from, what sort of tea it is), talk to a
cup about what it has seen, sense the nearest tea.
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Make a cup of tea a
potent pain killer. Make a cup of tea enormously enlightening, or
make a tea party/ceremony magnificently classy. Make a cup of tea
very strong.
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Conjure a pot of tea
out of nothing. Summon tea to you. Animate tea like a water
bender, lashing it around and attacking people with it.
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Destroy a cup of tea.
Remove taste or color from a cup of tea. Prevent a cup of tea from
soothing someone, or from being classy. Look into a cup of tea and
see through any other cup of tea, or know details about someone who
drinks a cup of tea, or see the future in the tea leaves.
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Transport a specific
cup of tea from one place to another. A cup of tea can cure wounds,
or fill a lake with tea-goodness, or become bitter enough to kill.
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Create and animate a
great tea tsunami that crushes cities. Creat a new flavor of tea
ex-nihilo.
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Remove a sort of tea
from existence (“Nightshade tea is no longer possible”).
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Oolong tea was never
“blue” tea. Green Tea is native to China, rather than the
Americas.
Persona Miracles of Tea
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Make someone a little
more soothing, or a little more bitter, or make their surroundings a
little classier.
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Become present in any
cup of tea. See through any single cup of tea.
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Change your
surroundings to something classier and more beautiful. Infuse water
with some element of our essence. Sooth the pain of others with a
touch.
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Infuse water with
someone's essence, so that people pick up their memories with a
drink. Make someone harsh and bitter (without a bit of sugar, in
any case). Surround someone with beautiful and classy people.
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Remove someone's
bitterness. Erase their essence from water (such as their blood).
Cast them into a world without class or beauty. Become incarnated
in all cups of tea.
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Make someone a divine
saint of tea, for whom the presence of tea, or the drinking of tea,
will greatly empower them. Make tea obey someone's whim, turning
into the greatest tea-master ever. Become able to soothe the pain
of death. Turn the entire country around you into a place of beauty
and class. Slip your entire essence into the water around you,
becoming incarnated in water.
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Make someone
hatefully bitter and willing to kill. Turn someone into a scar that
silences all around them. Suffuse an ocean with the essence of a
dying ship-captain.
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Remove the essence of
the God of Salt from the ocean. Cast down a king by removing all
beauty and class from around him. Pluck the thorn of hatred from
the thumb of Lord Entropy.
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Enchant an entire
bloodline to require tea to survive, but to gain magical powers
whenever they drink tea.
Estate of Immigration
- Immigration is feared by conservatives (1)- Immigration crosses borders (3)
- Immigration moves people from places of despair to places of hope (1)
- Immigration brings a foreign influence into an area (2)
Domain Miracles of Immigration
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Add a bit of foreign
flavor to a local establishment or culture or individual (Give
someone the ability to speak a new language for a little bit). Move
someone closer to a place that will help them. Create a visible
path from where you are to where you need to go. Get past customs.
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Know something about
a specific immigrant, or about the state of immigration in the area,
or where the nearest ethnic district might be. Speak to any
immigrant from anywhere without use of the Gift of Tongues.
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Protect a specific
immigrant from harm. Protect a small ethnic district from harm.
Increase the immigration into a particular city.
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Create a wave of
immigrants into a city. Summon/Create/Control a specific immigrant.
Open a gate from one world to another.
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See the state of
immigration in the future. Speak to a spooky immigrant and find out
the truth of the future. Kill an immigrant. Damage or destroy an
ethnic enclave. Prevent people from crossing a specific border.
Remove foreign influences
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Make a specific
immigrant immortal. Make an ethnic enclave an eternal fixture of a
city and a constant well-spring of its unusual culture, like NYC's
chinatown. Damage the walls of creation to allow more Excrucians to
spill in. Change the ultimate destination/fate of a specific
immigrant. Change the source, or destination, of a group of
immigrants. Change what immigration will mean to a city. Shift an
enclave or an immigrant from one city to another, or change
someone's origin point.
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Create a mass
migration from one location to another. Conjure an entire nation of
immigrants from nothing.
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Cast an entire nation
back to their homeland. Remove all immigrants from a country.
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Change the historical
impact of a migration (“The Great Migration strengthened the Roman
Empire”)/
Persona Miracles of Immigration
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Make someone a little
more controversial with conservatives. Give someone an accent, or
the ability to speak a foreign language.
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Become any immigrant.
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Become terrifying to
conservatives. Become able to cross any border (passing through
locked doors, making it through customs). Create a foreign
influence on someone (changing their language, or the local food,
etc). Teleport someone to a better place.
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Curse someone to be
feared/hated by a conservative. Curse someone so that everyone
around him speaks a language he doesn't understand.
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Incarnate within an
entire immigrant enclave, or within all immigrants. Prevent someone
from crossing a boarder, or from entering a better place.
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Make someone able to
sense immigrants, or to better understand them, or to guide them to
where they need to go and to protect them. Teleport an entire
nation to a better place. Add a foreign influence to country or a
world (“No matter what planet he went to, Shakespeare and
Coca-Cola followed thereafter). Become able to cross mystical
borders (such as the border between life and death, or between
worlds).
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Throw someone across
a border.
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Prevent anyone from
leaving a nation. Prevent an entire tribe from making it to their
promised land for forty years!
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Make a nation a
beacon to all immigrants everywhere, even aliens (as has already
been done with America).
Estate of Education
- Education turns a student into a master (2)- Education reveals your ignorance (2)
- Education changes how you see the world (1)
- Education exacts a price for its wisdom (1)
- Education takes place in a school (1)
Domain Miracles of Education
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Make someone a little
more sophisticated without making them any smarter. Ring a school
bell. Impress someone with your obviously superior intellect, or
make them feel a little foolish. Know a useless bit of trivia.
Conjure the ringing of a school bell. Summon up useless schoolwork.
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Learn an interesting
new fact! Intuitively know where someone was educated. Know the
location of the nearest school.
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Improve someone's
innate education so that they know something the didn't before (or
“had always known” this). Protect a teacher or a school
building. Protect a specific school program from harm.
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Conjure a teacher or
student from nothing. Create a new class in a school with a wave of
a hand (“Oh, Excrucian Studies 101? That's on floor 2. Better
hurry!”)
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Open up a text book
and learn the future from it. See anything that takes place in a
school. Destroy a school, kill a teacher, or remove someone's
education (or at least their credentials) from them.
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Ensure that a lesson
is so thoroughly learned, it is never forgotten. Educate someone
perfectly and instantly, making them a master in a mere montage.
Rewrite the nature of someone's education or a school program.
Ensure that someone will learn at the feet of a particular teacher,
learn a particular fact, or shape the impact of that person's
specific education on the world (“You'll look back on this lesson
and realize this was the beginning of your discovery of the cure for
cancer”).
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Create a new
educational philosophy, a new franchise of schools, or an entire
body of students.
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Wipe out an entire
topic of education, or destroy an entire nation's educational
system.
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Change the destiny of
a particular form of education (“Only get a STEM degree if you
want to flip burgers. Liberate arts are where the money is at).
Give a student a world-shaking destiny, provided he finishes his
education (“If you want to conquer the world, you really need to
learn your multiplication tables”)
Persona Miracles of Education
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Make someone a little
more educational. Make a place a little more school-like.
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Be present in any
single teacher; appear in any school.
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Turn someone who has
declared themselves your student into a master. Reveal someone's
specific ignorance about something, or convince others that he's a
(legitimately!) a fool. Beguile someone with illusions. Extract a
supernatural price for your wisdom (their life, their first born,
etc)
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Anoint someone as a
miraculous teacher, who can turn others into masters; anoint a
location as a proper school.
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A teacher's lessons
will never stick. This location is no longer a school. Someone's
ignorance will remain hidden. See everything that happens in a
specific school, from all locations at once. Listen to the thoughts
of every teacher. See through every PHD document in the world.
Ensure that someone can never step foot in a school again. Death
cannot occur in this school until the end of the day;
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Turn someone into a
powerful advocate for Education; A particular books or TV program
becomes notoriously educational. Instantly make someone a master of
something magical or powerful; reveal the ignorance of God; cast an
illusion over an entire city;
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An entire nation
becomes a school; Marriages can only take place in schools; Death
can only take place in schools;
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Russia has no
schools; Ensure an entire race cannot step foot on school grounds.
Death cannot occur in any school;
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Grant easy (or
difficult) access of Education to a nation;
Estate of Koi
- Koi are ornamental carp (Koi are an ornamental version of their species) (4)- Koi grant wishes (2)
- Koi belong in water gardens (1)
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Persona (Koi) 1
Treasure 0
Miracle Points: 8
Common Gifts: Immortal (6), Glorious (2)
Gifts:
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Awaken Inner Potential (4):
With a touch, a blessing or a kiss, the Koi Goddess can awaken your
dharma and set it on fire. You will achieve your destiny now,
rather than later, and your destiny will be even greater than
anything you could have achieved on your own. This costs her a
miracle point.
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Prophecy (1): The Koi Goddess
knows the future. She can focus on a pool of water or a mirror and
tell you what your destiny will be. Sometimes, the Koi Goddess will
froth and lose herself and speak of the future. The Koi Goddess can
also rewrite your destiny, but she only does this as an Imperial
miracle.
Passions and Skills
Passion: “I want to make the world a better place” +1Passion: “I want to be loved” +1
Superior Quality: Grace +2
Cool +2
Shine +5
Bonds and Afflictions
Bond: I am the most beloved in the world +3Bond: I make dreams come true +2
Bond: Lord Entropy’s tyranny must be resisted +2
Bond: I find peace in Abigail +1
Bond: I find strength in Dierdre +1
Bond: I will honor my oath to Bob +1
Affliction: Everything I do has superhuman consequences +3
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