Affinities (2nd Edition)

Soul Affinities

Name	Description	Source
All
Entombed Glory	Spend ○ to add defining Pillar to Sekhem while within your tomb for a scene	MtC2e p124
God King’s Scepter	All rolls only against your cult are Blessed Actions	MtC2e p124
Pillar of Destiny	Generally have good fortune, spend ○ to ignore supernatural ill fortune.	BoLD p57
Ab
Bestial Majesty	Add Ab to Animal Ken rolls, can spend ○ to issue short command to an animal	MtC2e p124
Blessed Soul	Spend ○ to make all rolls with a specific Social Skill Blessed Actions for a scene	MtC2e p124
Crown of Wadjet	Add Ab to Social rolls and cult Fidelity, can spend ○ when interacting with mortal organizations to grease the wheels	MtC2e p124
Death Mask	Hide the Sahu, costs ○ if used during Epic Utterance, can reduce spread of Sybaris	MtC2e p124
Divine Countenance	Can reinforce Social Attributes with Pillars like Physical Attributes, get Exceptional on three successes for reinforced attribute	MtC2e p124
Red Chains of Sacrifice	Spend ○ to shift the target of an attack to a cultist or someone unaware of the danger nearby.	BoLD p57
Soulsight	Add Ab to Empathy, can tell Invested people or those with soul loss. Can spend ○ to identify Virtue, Integrity and Conditions	MtC2e p124
The Heart Burns Eternal	Add Ab to doors to turn others against you through mortal means, and immune to supernatural means of removing genuine affectionate feelings.	BoLD p57
Voice of Conscience	Add Ab to Social rolls to appeal to target's Virtue, can spend ○ if successful to open all Doors at once	MtC2e p125
Ba
Auspicious Mastery	Spend ○ to make all rolls with a specific Mental Skill Blessed Actions for a scene	MtC2e p125
Beast Companion	Gain an animal companion that is immune to Sybaris and has other advantages	MtC2e p125
Chariot of Judgment	Spend ○ to make a vehicle into a moving weapon	MtC2e p125
Coax the Flames of Brilliance	Mental and social skill rolls reduce penalties by Ba, and mortals who witness it gain the same effect. Others suffer Ba as a penalty to figure out your plans.	BoLD p57
Falcon Soul Aloft	Can jump full Speed vertically or horizontally, perfect balance, reduce falling damage by Ba	MtC2e p125
Soul Infusion	Drain or grant Willpower each turn of contact with a target, up to 10/day per target	MtC2e p126
Swift As The Sun	Gain Defense against firearms attacks, double speed and can triple instead by spending ○ for a scene. Can spend ○ to make a non-Utterance-non-attack Instant action Reflexive instead	MtC2e p126
Thousand Paths Serve The Pharaoh	Change a cult doctrine once per story with no penalty, resolve the heresy condition by adopting that doctrine as your own, and add Ba to a Task roll after a failed Task roll.	BoLD p57
Wisdom of the Ancients	Can reinforce Mental Attributes with Pillars like Physical Attributes, get Exceptional on three successes for reinforced attribute	MtC2e p126
Ka
Anointed Prowess	Spend ○ to make all rolls with a specific Physical Skill Blessed Actions for a scene	MtC2e p126
Desert Swallows The Forgotten Temple	Your cult takes one less and deal one more Fidelity damage. Investigations into you or your cult's attacks suffer Ka as a penalty.	BoLD p57
Dominating Might	Add Ka to Initiative, armor piercing, Durability piercing, Strength for lifting, can spend ○ to inflict Knocked Down on melee hit	MtC2e p126
Enduring Flesh	Add Ka to Athletics, ignore Ka in Agg/scene and always reduce Agg from supernatural sources by Ka (min 1), never impaired/damaged by natural Environment Tilts	MtC2e p127
Guardian Wrath	Add Ka to unarmed attacks, which also become Lethal. Can spend ○ once/scene to inflict Arm Wrack, Leg Wrack or Blinded on melee hit	MtC2e p127
Living Monolith	Add Ka to Health, ignore wound penalties. Your cultists also ignore wound penalties in your presence	MtC2e p127
Rest Beneath The Turquoise Trees	Characters in your presence recover from fatigue faster, regain an additional willpower when they would do so, provide a Ka penalty to those searching for them and with a touch and a ○ treat someone as weightless as long as you have no ill intent against them.	BoLD p58
Retributive Curse	Reflexively spend ○ to make a target's next roll a Blighted Action, or do so at no cost if target damaged you. Rolls to harm you while defenseless are Blighted. When you die, aggressors are Cursed	MtC2e p127
Towering Perspective	Add Ka to Intimidation and Politics, can spend ○ to sense highest Contacts, Status and Allies of a target. Can spend ○ to increase Size by 2x Ka for a scene, does not increase Health	MtC2e p127
Ren
Amanuensis	Add Ren to Academics and Expression rolls, can understand and speak any mortal language. May spend ○ to understand magical languages. Can extend benefits to your Cult	MtC2e p127
Blessed Panoply	Your tomb and belongings never age or rot. Negate penalties for improvised tools and get 9-again when using any tool. Your clothes gain Armor 1/1. Rolls to damage your belongings are Blighted	MtC2e p127
Enlightened Senses	Add Ren to perception, Craft and Investigation rolls. Reduce range and concealment penalties by Ren. Cannot be ambushed. Can see an interact with beings in Neter-Khertet	MtC2e p127
Familiar Face	Spend ○ to improve impression rating with a mortal by Ren for a scene	MtC2e p127
Godsight	Add Ren to Occult rolls, can tell Sekhem ratings on sight. Can spend ○ to see supernatural beings for a scene and add Ren to Clash to pierce occlusion effects	MtC2e p128
Radiant Life Force	Add Ren to Medicine and can stabilize subjects with a touch. Living beings heal twice as fast near you and your cultists heal 1B/turn, if you wish it. Can spend ○ as an action to end a supernatural or mental condition on yourself	MtC2e p128
Scroll of Flayed Truths	Grants your cult's sorcerer a rite to ward an area form intruders.	BoLD p58
Soul Threads	Spend ○ to monitor the state and location of those you see in the current scene, up to 2x Ren targets. For the rest of the story, add Ren to rolls to avoid notice of subjects and add Ren to rolls to reach the subject	MtC2e p128
Verdigris Chains of Deceit	Add Ren to subterfuge rolls, follow a trail of gossip to its source and can spend ○ to spread a rumor with no origin.	BoLD p58
Sheut
Ancient Horror Unveiling	Can penalize Sybaris rolls by Sheut. May spend ○ to show their true Sahu to a single subject and cause Sybaris roll, inflicting Madness or Frightened	MtC2e p128
Beast Soul Fury	Use higher or Wits or Dexterity for defense, impart a Sheut penalty to influence your mind, take a Sheut bonus to see through illusions and spend ○ in combat to ambush your foes.	BoLD p58
By Steps Unseen	Add Sheut to Stealth rolls, may attempt to hide under any circumstance. May spend ○ to teleport to unobserved point within Sheut * 10 yards	MtC2e p128
Deathsight	Can tell lifespan of subject at a glance. Able to see and interact with beings in Neter-Khertet, apply Sheut as bonus to Defense against them. May spend ○ to detect Vice, Integrity, Sheut or equivalent of subject	MtC2e p128
Grip of Death	Your unarmed attacks are Lethal and add Sheut to grapple rolls. Silence grappled subject and impose Sheut on perception rolls to notice either participant. Can rise from prose Reflexively	MtC2e p128
Opener of the Way	Add Sheut to Larceny and Survival rolls. Can spend ○ to unlock any entrance or portal	MtC2e p128
Scorpion Veins	You and nearby cultist are immune to disease and poison. Can take 1L to coat weapon with venom of Sheut in Toxicity. Can spend ○ to reduce poison Toxicity in a target by Sheut	MtC2e p128
Unerring Gaze of Judgment	Can always see perfectly and can spend ○ to see the unclean and does not lose defense for making an all out attack against them.	BoLD p59
Voice of Temptation	Add Sheut to Social rolls targeting a subject's Vice, and if successful can spend ○ to open all remaining Doors	MtC2e p129

Guild Affinities

Name	Description	Source
Maa-Kep
Affable Aid	Gain +2 to Empathy, Socialize and Persuasion rolls, and if you succeed have 8-again against that subject for rest of scene	MtC2e p129
Amulet of the Envoy	Can craft amulet that gives +2 to Streewise and Subterfuge, and alerts wearer when a member of a different guild is nearby. Others must spend ○ the first time they try to attack you each scene. Can spend ○ once per scene to inflict Mute on a subject you can see	MtC2e p129
Nexus of the Soul	Always aware of and can telepathically communicate with Inheritor cultists, may spend ○ to ride their senses	MtC2e p129
Mesen-Nebu
Divine Flesh	Gain stacking Armor 1, may spend ○ to gain additional Armor 1 for a scene and invoking Sybaris on those who see it. Take -2 damage from fire, and none from electricity	MtC2e p129
Hone the Soul	Once per scene may take two dots from up to two skills you or your cultist has and redistribute them in up to two other skills of the same subject, to a maximum of 5	MtC2e p129
Almsman’s Tithe	Can drain two Willpower at will (to a minimum of 0) and inflict Broken on an Inheritor and gain 1 Pillar (up to your maximum)	MtC2e p129
Sesha-Hebsu
Eyes of Justice	Gain +2 on perception and Investigation rolls. Can identify vessels with rating on sight. Can spend ○ to identify Lifeless and Endless, as well as if someone has killed ever or within the last day	MtC2e p130
Master of the Written Word	May make your writing invisible until a ritual is enacted. May spend ○ to provide sincere warnings that should be obeyed. Can spend ○ as instant action to copy any text	MtC2e p130
Loremaster’s Guile	Gain +2 on Academics, Politics and Science rolls. Can identify forgeries, sincere intent and truthfulness of media on sight. May spend ○ to decode any ciphers	MtC2e p130
Su-Menent
Fated Soul	Gain +2 on Medicine, Occult or rolls to resist supernatural powers and magic. Immune to fear	MtC2e p130
Flesh-Culled Secrets	Can sense and analyze corpses at will and know if their ghost lingers, may spend ○ to exhume them, may spend ○ to learn about their emotions before dying or see them if one of your cultists	MtC2e p130
Blazing Zeal	When nearby your cultists are immune to fear and gain +2 to rolls to resist supernatural effects. May spend ○ as an action to cause mortals to flee in fear for turns equal to defining pillar	MtC2e p130
Tef-Aabhi
Model Lifeweb	Gain +2 on Crafts and Expression rolls, detect hidden aspects of a structure. May spend ○ to determine purpose and last bearer of a held item	MtC2e p130
Guardian Statue	May craft a number of statues equal to defining Pillar at cost of ○ each, next damaging attack against the statue's character destroys statue instead	MtC2e p131
Nest of Dolls	Gain 8-Again on teamwork with other Arisen, gain Blessed Action for creation of art or structure. May spend ○ to swap position of two of Inheritors or Sadikh once/target/scene	MtC2e p131
Minor Guilds
Akhem-Urtu
Wielder of Names	Using the target's name reduces the cost of an utterance by one. Discovering a targets true name allows them to be found with Kepher.	BoLD p59
As Whispers In The Night	If your nature is revealed, give false information. Spend ○ to Blight an action to know you. Spand ○ if you know the name of someone pursuing you to obstruct them.	BoLD p59
Kher-Minu
Tread the Crimson Field Eternal	Killing someone in combat in melee heals you three boxes.	BoLD p59
Butcher Demon Transfiguration	Keep defense against firearms, provide cover to those near you, spend ○ for a 3L, +2 initiative claws that inflict arm or leg wrack tilts each time they damage.	BoLD p59
Maar-Kherit
Flesh-Splitting Canker Rejuvenation	Heal faster and with ○, turn lethal damage into armor or healing physical tilts.	BoLD p60
Harvest of Profane Fecundity	See and identify diseases and parasites. Spend ○ to either heal with a touch or inflict a grave illness.	BoLD p60
Wadjet-Itja
Ominous Harbinger	Gain the Omen Sensitivity Merit. Spend ○ to see a mortal's death and gain their years if you hasten that death indirectly.	BoLD p60
Trickster’s Wager	You add your pillar to all rolls to gamble and cheat, blight any attempts to cheat, and spend ○ to turn the stake into years of life.	BoLD p60

Notation Legend
Dot of a Trait Rating (Skills, Merits)	•
Power Trait Point (Vitae, Mana)	●
Willpower Point	○
Activation Damage	B/L/A
Special/Other Activation Cost	※
Alternate Costs	●/●●●
Costs per Item	●/item
Optional Costs	(●)
Cost Ranges	● to ●●● ●●+
Combined Notation Example	●(○) ●/item, 1L