Darkness Powers (FiD)

Starfox's Blades in the Dark Powers

Darkness as a Form is about both physical and moral darkness. Physical Darkness can be the mere absence of light, but Darkness is also an element in its own light and can exist even in places that ought to be illuminated. Moral Darkness is associated with our psychological shadow, base drives, primal instinct, evil, and the subconscious. Just as physical Darkness comes with the absence of light, many claim that spiritual Darkness is the absence of spiritual Light.

Darkness opposes and is vulnerable to Light. Dark attacks are made up of bolts and weapons of dark energy that drain life and energy from targets to cause horrible wounds similar to burn, causing necrosis. This is less effective against nonliving targets but extra effective against creatures of spirit and energy.

Darkness Abilities

Action	Basic	Advanced	Master	Apex
Dice	—	Minimum 2d	Minimum 4d	Minimum 6d
Stress	Avoid fumble (2+).	Succeed (4+).	Full success (6).	Critical (2 sixes).
Attune	Umbral Understanding Sense Powers.	Umbral Undoing Dismiss powers.	Umbral Urge Summon Darkness.	Umbral Universe Gate to darkness.
Command	Abyssal Awe Intimidate with Darkness.	Abyssal Accord Darkness signalling.	Abyssal Ascent Command devils.	Abyssal Autarch Bind devils.
Consort	Devil’s Dress Infernal apparel.	Devil’s Disguise Become a Devil.	Devil’s Doll Transmute Crew.	Devil's Dance Transmute crowd.
Finesse	Shade Swerve Ride Darkness	Shade Shear Fine and Potent attack	Shade Synch Precise control.	Shade Skulk Travel as shadows.
Hunt	Night Nose Track Darkness powers.	Night Needle Dark snipe.	Night Net Wide shadows.	Night Nexus Dark Area attack.
Prowl	Cloak Clasp Merge with shadow.	Cloak Clutch Move shadow to shadow.	Cloak Cluster Crew Cloak Clasp and Clutch.	Cloak Cloister Move darkness to darkness.
Skirmish	Eerie Evasion Block Darkness Harm.	Eerie Edge Fine and Potent attack.	Eerie Encirclement Gain Scale.	Eerie Effort Group Action.
Study	Sinister Sense Identify Darkness.	Sinister Scrutiny Analyze Darkness.	Sinister Story Read the past Darkness.	Sinister Sweep Scrutinize a large area.
Survey	Grim Gaze See in the dark.	Grim Glimpse Senses at darkness.	Grim Glare Sense from darkness.	Grim Grandeur Perceive wide darkness.
Sway	Infernal Insinuation Understand Darkness.	Infernal Influence Crew communication	Infernal Inducement Suggest Darkness.	Infernal Indoctrination Bind Darkness.
Tinker	Darkness Drape Big shadows.	Darkness Densified Solid Darkness.	Darkness Distilled Complex Darkness.	Darkness Design Craft massive Darkness.
Wreck	Dark Devour Withering attack.	Dark Demolish Break Darkness.	Dark Disintegrate Silent Darkness.	Dark Devastation Huge Dark Smash.

Expanded Darkness Powers

Darkness combines physical shadow and ethical evil into a single, dangerous Form. Most people assume any user of Darkness is corrupt or damned, and they often act on that assumption. You can resist corruption by holding back and refusing its temptations, but Darkness rewards surrender: the more freely you use it, the easier and more natural evil becomes. Those who let go risk becoming creatures of Darkness in truth, not just in power.

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Attune

Harness the power of Attune Darkness to perceive and manipulate supernatural energies, allowing you to detect and interact with beings and phenomena from planes of darkness. These places are often simply called Hell.

The Position and consequences usually depends on what happens around you when you do it. Having helpers and bodyguards reduces the consequences, and sometimes a creature wants to be dismissed and the consequence might be that it loses control of itself, or that other creatures appear to intervene. If a powerful creature resists being dispelled the situation is obviously dangerous.

Umbral Understanding

Sense Powers.

You can detect creatures and abilities of any Form. If the Form is Darkness, Flux, Light, or Order you also learn the form and get a rough idea of what it does and if there is an easy way to subvert or circumvent it.

This is usually done to spot a spirit or a disguised creature. It can also help identify a creature's connection to powers, providing valuable insights into their nature. If you know several different powers, you can scan for all of them at the same time. Limited outcome suffices against a nearby creature you can clearly see. You need greater outcome against against a creature that is hidden or far away (standard outcome) or behind a wall (great outcome). The position usually starts controlled, with the usual consequence that you missed the opportunity and cannot try again until the situation changes.

Umbral Undoing

Dismiss powers.

Dismiss any summoned creature. End the operation any power. Darkness is powerful in that it can dispel any power, not just Darkness powers. You can force any creature that is native to another plane of existence to return to that plane, or to end the operation of an ability of any power.

Dispelling can be used as a defense against others' use of powers, or it can be used to break continuing effects. Dispelling is often used as a setup action to help another character in a situation when the opposition is using powers. This usually improves the position of the supported action and can work in addition to other setup actions. When used directly, the effect is usually limited unless the opponent is relying on powers for their safety. Against an opponent that uses Animal wings to fly or turned into a fish to breathe underwater you have a better base effect. When dramatically appropriate that a power is hard to dispel, often because it is the crux of the situation, this will not negate the power but instead give you a clue to what you need to do to resolve the situation.

Forcing a spirit to materialize or de-materialize is easy, but limited in range. The spirit cannot return under its own power for a while, usually after the score.

• Limited Outcome only works on spirits within reach.
• Standard Outcome covers an area based on your tier (p 220).
• Great Outcome reaches out to a range covered by tier (p 220).

Dismissing a creature back to its home plane and usually requires a high Outcome.

• Limited Outcome: Dismissing a creature that wants to return.
• Standard Outcome: Dismissing a weakened or damaged creature.
• Great Outcome: This is the norm, most dismissing requires this Outcome.

Umbral Urge

Summon Darkness.

You can call a creature of darkness. This is generally an unwilling servant.

Dark creatures are devils, creatures of evil and the night. They are more interested in corrupting people than in fighting them.

Darkness creatures, also known as devils, come from realms of Darkness known as Hells. In a science-fiction setting with powers this is usually related to faster-than-light travel, so if ships travel through hyperspace, this is where Dark summons come from. Darkness creatures will often cooperate in plans that corrupt you or other people, avoiding the struggle to control them or at least turning it into an ethical rather than magical struggle. Giving the single order you get from summoning a creature of darkness is rarely very useful, these subtle creatures need time to use their full powers of deception and coercion. You have to bargain with them, which they use to corrupt you.

Summonable creatures come in three types, elementals, spirits, and creatures with powers.

Darkness elementals are shades, blobs of solidified darkness. They embrace and drain the energy of enemies and cloak allies. Most elementals have animal intelligence, and often take the shape of a dog or simply a dark cloak, cover, or blob. These are the least subtle and least evil of the creatures of darkness.

Darkness spirits are similar to elementals in that they are made out of darkness, but ephemeral, less physically oriented, and more intelligent than elementals. They can use sophisticated power effects and usually have an agenda of their own.

Creatures with powers resemble normal creatures, most having a biological body, metabolism, and functioning as ordinary living creatures but also some exceptional abilities related to their power. Darkness creatures are often humanoid. A succubus is an attractive human female, but sports horns and a tail and may have hooves, wings, and an unusual skin color as well as Darkness powers. Darkness creatures often mask themselves to appear as if they have no powers. Not all creatures with powers are summonable or dismissible, many are native to this world and have no special vulnerability to Attune power effects.

Summons are Cohorts: Creatures you summon function as temporary cohorts (p. 96) — either an Expert or a Gang — with added Powers from their Form. An Expert is a skilled individual who can offer advice, Assist, or act independently. A Gang is a group (numbers based on your Tier, p. 221) that primarily provides Scale in combat and labor.

You can always summon a Gang of creatures one Tier below yours. Summoning a specific Gang or Expert requires knowing its unique identity — called a true name in mystical traditions. For a technomancer, this might be a type ID, blueprint, or genetic code. Learning a creature’s true name may require a flashback, or in complex cases, the research downtime activity or a reward from a score.

Summoning a Creature

The summoning itself is quick but dangerous. When you have time and resources, it is wise to use wards and Barriers, but in action this is usually impossible and you must face the risks. Having allies present for safety is advisable. Offering a creature gifts or services appropriate to its nature and power can be a literal Devil’s Bargain — accepting an additional consequence to gain an advantage.

Depending on your degree of outcome, a creature is willing to do different things:

• Limited Outcome allows you to ask questions of an Expert or demand a short period of physical labor from a Gang. They will not fight for you.
• Standard Outcome allows any service appropriate to the creature’s type, having it act in its typical role. Most creatures don’t mind fighting, but may have preferences about how they do it and what they do outside a fight.
• Great Outcome allows service outside the creature’s comfort zone, though not against its nature. Lengthy service — even within its comfort zone — also requires a Great Outcome, such as guarding treasure until it is stolen.

The position usually starts at Risky — the creature is compelled and may resist. Typical consequences, in ascending order of severity:

• Half-hearted efforts
• Demanding not to be summoned again
• Breaking things or demanding concessions
• A short fight to assert dominance
• Deliberate sabotage
• A constant struggle to maintain control

Umbral Universe

Gate to darkness.

You can create a portal that allows travel to and from a Hell. This is situational, but highly useful under exceptional circumstances.

There are things that are possible to do here that are not allowed in the regular world. Appropriate effects are reduced one step in difficulty, from advanced to basic, master to advanced, and apex to master. This opens the possibility of new super-apex powers that have to be negotiated with the game master. Such effects rarely reach outside the plane of origin, but if they affect creatures there the effect may remain when you return to the mundane world.

This can also be used to contact creatures too powerful to summon. This allows you to ignore tier when creating the gate, but gives you no power over the target. The creature may then use the gate to come to you, call you into its presence, send minions, or communicate with you at a distance.

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Command

Dark Presence.

You can create Dark effects, such as projecting a cloak of darkness, to heighten your authority, gaining leverage similar to what could be achieved by a threat such as displaying a weapon. This can provide the leverage needed to use Command to intimidate without an actual threat of violence. Devils creatures may recognize you as a figure of authority.

Abyssal Awe

Intimidate with Darkness.

You can create Darkness effects such as a play of shadows, dark aura, or dimming of ambient light to heighten your authority, similar to what could be a achieved by displaying a weapon. This can provide the leverage needed to use Command to intimidate without actual threat of violence. This is useful for intimidating any type of creature.

Abyssal Accord

Darkness signalling.

You can communicate with Dark creatures over any distance as long as you know the target, and a line-of-sight even if you do not. You can communicate with the most powerful creature related to your power in a vehicle or installation as long as you can see the exterior. The communication is simple and direct, suitable for the Command skill.

You can send nightmares to any creature (not just Dark creatures) you know or see. This allows you to send vague messages and receive vague answers from the subconscious of your target, who will remember the episode as a nightmare.

Abyssal Ascent

Command devils.

Creatures of Darkness recognize you as a figure of authority. This allows you to order strangers around and improves Effect, but not Position; targets comply without accepting your authority. This does not remove existing loyalties, which may lead to conflict. Understanding the social order of your targets helps avoid clashes with established hierarchies.

Abyssal Autarch

Bind devils.

This won’t work unless you are already in a position of power. The result is similar to Abyssal Authority but potentially permanent. Powerful emotions can break your control, but otherwise, it lasts until dispelled.

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Consort

Consort powers changes your appearance and form and later that of other creatures. This will often give a bonus to initial Effect or improved Position on Consort rolls, making some tasks automatic without a roll, and even allow an action that a human could not do.

A common consequences is that you are mistaken for someone, or that your assumed form is somehow a hindrance. You might be obnoxiously attractive, trigger prejudices, or suffer unexpected handicaps.

Devil’s Dress

Infernal apparel.

Assume an appearance to provoke darkness and envy. Imbue your appearance with elements that cause envy, such as luxury clothes, jewelry, and personal beauty. This is not a disguise, but such a makeover can be made extreme enough that people may not recognize you.

You can use this on your entire Crew as an Advanced ability.

Devil’s Disguise

Become a Devil.

Assume the form of a creature of darkness. Devil Mask another. Devil Mask can now be applied to another creature. Your Consort applies to the change itself, but otherwise they still use their own Consort action.

Assuming the form of a creature of darkness is a true physical transmutation. You need not assume the form of an existing creature, as long as the gamemaster agrees your new form embodies Darkness.

Devil’s Disguise can work as a set-up action for a number of other actions but may penalize other things, as appropriate to your new form. When appropriate, your new form can use Basic and Advanced Darkness powers inherently without risking stress.

• Limited Effect — You resemble how you might have been had you grown up as the devil who's form you assume; those familiar with you may still recognize you.
• Standard Effect — You become a generic devil, very difficult to recognize as yourself.
• Great Effect — You assume the form and some of the mannerisms or presence of a specific devil you have studied.

Devil’s Doll

Transmute Crew.

Devil’s Disguise used on a willing or helpless creature into a creature of Darkness. The duration depends on Effect:

• Limited Effect — One scene.
• Standard Effect — Lasts for the duration of a score.
• Great Effect — Lasts longer and may become permanent, depending on the fiction.

Devil's Dance

Transmute crowd.

Devil Form a number of willing or non-sentient creatures and give them a dark desire. This is where Consort becomes similar to an Attune ability to summon. You transform a number of existing creatures and give them a task that they will perform with gusto, turning them into single-minded minions. Targets must be willing, Non-Sentient like animals, or just very minor figures in the plot, many tiers below you.

This creates a gang cohort (p 96) that they can be given bit parts as servants or laborers or fight and chase for you. Such goons are more useful for chasing and cornering targets than in actual combat.

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Finesse

Exercise finesse with Darkness, manipulating and attacking with precision.

Shade Swerve

Ride Darkness

Ride Darkness mounts as if they were trained and you had the key. This allows you to use Finesse with mounts and vehicles you are not familiar with as long as they include an element of darkness. This includes Dark creatures serving as mounts as well as space vessels. You can bypass simple locks on vehicles, but not more serious security. You can ride beasts even if they are not trained to carry a rider. They must still be physically able to carry you.

Shade Shear

Fine and Potent attack

Fine and Potent close-range Darkness attack. Dark attacks are made up of enervating bolts and weapons of dark energy that drain life and energy from targets to cause horrible wounds similar to burn, causing necrosis. This is less effective against nonliving targets but extra effective against creatures of spirit and energy. Besides variety, this only substitutes for equipment, a Fine and Potent Finesse weapon is just as effective. Using this does not take any more time, activating your attack power is equivalent to drawing a weapon.

Shade Synch

Precise control.

Manipulate a small amount darkness, obscuring light and, at Great Outcome, hindering movement like a clot of tar would. Mainly used to momentarily blind or conceal. The effect is small, precise, and momentary. When it is able to create leverage, you may roll Finesse to Set Up yourself. Resolve this as a normal Set Up, then immediately roll the Action you are Setting Up.

Shade Skulk

Travel as shadows.

You, your crew, your vehicles, and mounts are covered in shadow or you provide shadow mounts. As long as you avoid direct sunlight and don't move close to others your travel is unnoticed and leaves no trail. The speed is that of typical ride in the setting.

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Hunt

Hunting with Darkness is indirect, subtle. You can snipe, but the focus is on tacking in the darkness, pushing your prey into a desolate kill-zone, blind and without friends.

Night Nose

Track Darkness powers.

Perceive which shadows are natural and which are the result of Powers. You can track both creatures of Darkness, those who use Dark power, and creatures in darkness.

Night Needle

Dark snipe.

Make a fine and potent attack at range with the power of Darkness. This serves as a replacement for traditional equipment; a Fine and Potent ranged weapon would be equally effective in combat. Dark attacks are made up of enervating bolts and weapons of dark energy that drain life and energy from targets to cause horrible wounds similar to burns, causing necrosis. This is less effective against nonliving targets but extra effective against creatures of spirit and energy.

Night Net

Wide shadows.

Darken an Area (p. 221), create shadows, and move them. You can subtly darken a large area and create shadows. This does not inflict any direct damage but causes confusion. This is usually used as a set up, but may also change how people act in reaction to the environment—compact darkness is likely to make people want to stay indoors or run out of the dark as the case may be.

Nightfall is opposed by light, a torch within is visible as a faith mote of light, strong artificial light can create an area of mirk, direct sunlight will boil it away in seconds.

Night Nexus

Dark Area attack.

Darkness attack similar to a fine and potent grenade. An escalation of Shadow Sniper to cover an Area (p. 221). Less precise, this affects all creatures at a location, with a risk of collateral damage. Targets in trenches, behind walls, or otherwise shielded are not in direct danger but tend to keep their heads down, which gives your side the initiative.

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Prowl

As the element of deception, Darkness is good at stealth ant tricksy travel.

Cloak Clasp

Merge with shadow.

You can make yourself appear as a shadow. This allows you to hide in impossible places as long as the environment is dark. This works just like any other attempt to use Prowl to avoid notice, except that shadows and darkness provides more concealment than it ordinarily would. Note that only you can use this ability, your friends and allies cannot unless you use Dark Walk, below.

Cloak Clutch

Move shadow to shadow.

You can move through darkness. This allows you to teleport from one shadow you can see to another or walk through walls as long as both sides are in the dark and you know where to go. Survey powers can help with that.

Cloak Cluster

Crew Cloak Clasp and Clutch.

Help crew with Cloak Clasp and Cloak Clutch . Now you and your allies can Prowl in dark places. This will often be a Group Action. They still use their own Prowl.

Cloak Cloister

Move darkness to darkness.

You and allies can teleport from one location in darkness to another. This is regional travel, you stay within the same city or region, but it is generally sufficient to escape just about any situation or location.

This takes you to places you are familiar with. Both initial Effect and Position is worse unless you know where you are going, which means it is great for escapes but less so for intrusion into an enemy's territory that you are likely to be much less familiar with.

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Skirmish

Use Darkness to resist fatigue and Dark damage.

Eerie Evasion

Block Darkness Harm.

Absorb resist fatigue and Harm from Darkness and enervating attacks. You increase the effect of Skirmish rolls for endurance in such environments. Roll Skirmish to resist such Harm. 1-3: No reduction. 4-6: Reduce Harm by 1 level. Critical: Reduce Harm by 2 levels.

As a Master power, you can protect an ally for a score; as an Apex Power, you can protect your crew. Allies roll their own Skirmish dice.

Eerie Edge

Fine and Potent attack.

This is used just like a dueling sword or pistol. Dark attacks are made up of enervating bolts and weapons of dark energy that drain life and energy from targets to cause horrible wounds similar to burn, causing necrosis. This is less effective against nonliving targets but extra effective against creatures of spirit and energy.

Eerie Encirclement

Gain Scale.

Darkness strikes out in all directions, attacking all enemies in a wide area. This gives you Scale (p. 221). Otherwise as Eerie Edge.

Eerie Effort

Gain Scale.

This allows you and allies to initiate a Group Action when intimidating, flanking a target, or acting under stress from fear. You may do this even when some participants would not normally be able to contribute meaningfully due to physical limitation, Scale, or environmental constraint.

You lead the Group Action and roll Skirmish. Choose the Action most appropriate to the shared physical task. Each participant other than you rolls that Action. Stress to the leader is resolved as normal for a Group Action.

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Study

Analyze objects and creatures imbued with Darkness to gain insight and knowledge. The Outcome required depends on range, Limited Outcome for touch, Standard Outcome for line-of-sight, and Great Outcome to reach a target you know of or have some link to, but which is out of line-of-sight.

Position depends on the situation. Safely in your base the position is Controlled. In the middle of a fight or when pinned down the Position is Desperate. Sometimes thing you are researching it dangerous in itself, worsening position. Consequences may give you knowledge that lacks crucial details or drop hints for opponents to use.

Sinister Sense

Identify Darkness.

Identify physical or moral Darkness as well as Darkness powers. This identifies Dark creatures and powers by name but gives no further analysis. In a creature dominated by sin, you can tell what their chief vice is.

Sinister Scrutiny

Analyze Darkness.

You learn of any powers or special abilities of Dark creatures, as well as the detailed abilities of a Power or object. In any creature not aligned with Light, you can tell what sin they could be lured into. In any creature dominated by sin, you can tell their worst vices and how they manifest and exactly what would tempt them.

Sinister Story

Read the past Darkness.

You can read the dark past of a Dark creature, place, or object. This includes places where light very rarely intrudes, such as deep caverns and the dark side of a tide-locked planet. Normally this gives you a vision of the worst event the target has been involved in, but you can look for specific events. If there are no or only minor sins, you notice nothing. On a creature, power, or item of Darkness, as well as a creature dominated by sin, you can gain detailed visions of their sins and self-indulgence.

Sinister Sweep

Scrutinize a large area.

Sinister Scrutiny on everything within an Area (p. 221), pinpointing locations of interest like altars and murder sites. You can then use Sinister Story to learn the history of up to three of the tings you analyzed.

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Survey

Perceive and locate manifestations of Darkness. The outcome you need depends on the target's concealment. Limited outcome finds those hiding behind cover and in far places you can only barely see. Standard outcome can look behind walls and into hard cover. Great outcome can look into far-away places and spots you had no idea existed.

Grim Gaze

See in the dark.

Darkness no longer hinders your vision, but contrast between light and shadow still bothers you. You can use Grim Gaze with all higher Survey Dark powers.

Grim Glimpse

Senses at darkness.

You move your perception to a dark area you know of and sense as if you were at that spot as long as you maintain concentration.

Grim Glare

Sense from darkness.

Similar to Eye of the Rat but allows you to focus on a specific creature or position. Automatically directs towards the best vantage point provided by a suitable area of darkness, typically close enough to observe the target. Fails if no suitable viewpoint is available

Grim Grandeur

Perceive wide darkness.

You perceive from every dark place at once over a wide area. Enhances your senses impossibly, like Grim Glimpse to every dark spot in a wide area. Creates a composite mental image, revealing numerous details simultaneously. It's challenging for targets to hide unless there are large lit areas.

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Sway

Communicate, mesmerize, and manipulate creatures of Darkness. Give any type of creature dark toughs.

Position and initial effect are determined normally, depending on the situation and your relation to listeners.

• Limited Outcome works if it follows the target's existing impulses, just overcoming fragile self-restraint.
• Standard Outcome can convince a target with no particular stake in the matter.
• Great Outcome will convince a reluctant target, but not a passionate one.

Infernal Insinuation

Understand Darkness.

You can gauge the mood and motivations of Dark creatures and talk to them. You can also sense when any kind of creature is in a mood to be selfish or deceptive.

Infernal Influence

Crew communication

Crew can communicate with Darkness creatures. Tempt any creature to commit evil deeds. This allows you and allies to use the Sway action with full effect with Darkness-related creatures, overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers. In addition you can inspire any creature to be selfish, deceptive, and to act covertly.

Infernal Inducement

Suggest Darkness.

Post suggestions in the mind of Darkness creatures and in the minds of folk to corrupt them. This is essentially an enhanced Sway attempt against creatures of Darkness and those overwhelmed by sin, allowing you to implant suggestions that will trigger under conditions you set. The power remains subtle until the suggestion is activated. The target will not remember being swayed.

Infernal Indoctrination

Bind Darkness.

Permanent and blatant change to a Dark creature's loyalty and motivations. This changes the target on a deep level, altering their priorities and loyalties. Target remember their past but considers it unimportant compared to their new motivations. There are limits to this power, especially for creatures linked to a power — you cannot make a Dark creature love Light powers and actions and vice verso.

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Tinker

Manipulate, shape, and create objects of darkness. When used with long-term projects, this can substitute for missing resources such as tools or raw materials, but that is all it does until you learn Master Darkness.

• Limited Outcome solves an immediate problem, then ends. Any effect achieved will last, such as a repair made with temporary tools.
• Standard Outcome construction, repair, or item lasts for the duration of a score.
• Great Outcome is semi-permanent. This does not make permanent kit, but it can make permanent effects to the setting, such as repairing a large construction like a bridge or wall.

Something larger than you are, very complex, or of higher Quality Level than your Tier increases the needed Outcome.

Position depends on the tranquility of your workspace and if you are working on something that is dangerous in itself.

For long-term projects, Tinker powers can substitute for missing tools, but that is all they do until you use the Apex ability.

Darkness Drape

Big shadows.

Create shade to reduce illumination. Such objects are never solid and melt in sunlight, but can cover an Area depending on Tier (p. 221).

Darkness Densified

Solid Darkness.

You can solidify small amounts of darkness to shape objects like you shape clay. Darkness can form simple usable objects that will retain its new shape and function for the duration. You can do more complex objects than Mold Darkness can, to the level of detail of basic mechanisms. This allows you to create devices and traps from the stuff of darkness.

Such creations can be made permanent as a long-term project.

Darkness Distilled

Complex Darkness.

You can create darkness out of nothing, or transform an object from darkness into another material as long as you know the Form required for both the starting and final form. You can create complex tools, such as fine and potent items of solid darkness.

This is two distinct abilities. The first allows you to create darkness out of nothing, even in direct light. The second can only be used if you know multiple Forms. You transmute darkness into material connected to another Form. The result will maintain its form as if affected by Shape Darkness.

The second ability can transform Darkness into a substance related to another Form. The advantage of this is that you can transform a complex object and it will retain its form and function as far as its new material allows. You can transform a sword from metal to darkness, and it would still be a functional sword. A door could be changed from tangible wood to intangible darkness, you then pass through and revert the door to wood.

Darkness Design

Craft massive Darkness.

This is similar to Craft Darkness, above, but you mass produce objects, even a set of different objects. You can also make something large, such as a vehicle or building.

Pretty self-explanatory, this is Craft Darkness on a larger scale. This is useful for equipping a large band or building something large out of nothing. When doing long-term projects that involve building or crafting, you can use Master Darkness to make dozens of objects, but this has the usual stress cost.

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Wreck

It is easy to use mundane means to light the dark, Wreck used Darkness to destroy other things. Darkness withers and corrodes other materials, this is a powerful but slow process.

Dark Devour

Withering attack.

Withers and corrodes, a powerful but slow process that leaves twisted remains. Darkness withers and corrodes, this is a powerful but slow process that leaves twisted remains in place. Can attack like a torch smoldering with Darkness. As usual, Wreck may be at an advantage or disadvantage compared to Finesse and Skirmish, depending on the situation. Dark attacks are made up of enervating bolts and weapons of dark energy that drain life and energy from targets to cause horrible necrotic wounds similar to burns. This is less effective against nonliving targets but extra effective against creatures of spirit or energy.

Dark Demolish

Break Darkness.

Break most materials if they were wood. This reduces the strength of strong materials, allowing you to break even the strongest barrier, as long as it of the proper material and not too thick. You can also use this as a Fine, Potent sledgehammer in combat.

Dark Disintegrate

Silent Darkness.

Dark Smash targets disappear or are reduced to a fine dust. Darkness is powerful when it comes to disintegration, and is able to disintegrate most materials. This is Dark Smash, but silent and subtle.

Dark Devastation

Huge Dark Smash.

Dark Disintegrate over a large area. Level a city block or wither a wood. Similar to Dark Disintegrate, but over a large Area (p. 221). This can silently turn a city block to dust, darken a large city, ruin a city wall, and similar massive destruction.

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