Air Powers (FiD)

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Air is an elemental power that affects gasses, weather, flying animals, and elemental creatures and spirits of Air..

Air powers deal with gases and atmospheric conditions such as wind, precipitation and cloud formations. It can be quite useful in that it can alter the battlefield itself, rather than the abilities of the combatants, evening the odds in an unfair fight by preventing the use or overwhelming odds or allowing escape from a hopeless battle. It is most practical when invoked over a small area, dangerously powerful if used over wide areas.

Air attacks by buffeting and tossing opponents, which grounds fliers and good at distracting and delaying. They easily cause eardrums to break, headaches, vertigo, and nosebleeds. Buffeting can move or trip targets which buys time and may cause a fall. Focused shockwaves can cut like blades, and air is the element of swords and sword fighting.

Air elementals appear as billowing cloud-creatures or as dust devils, transparent by nature. They are visible when they act but invisible while at rest. Creatures that manifest air are birds and winged and flying creatures of all kinds, including fantastic ones such as pegasi an griffins.

Air Power Effects Table

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	Sky Sight You can sense air creatures and active air powers.	Zephyr Zapper Dismiss an Air creature. End the effect of an Air power or that affect air.	Zephyr Zeal Summon an Air creature.	Gate of Gales Create a portal to a plane of Air.
Command	Aerial Ask Command with the authority of Air.	Wind Whisper Have the wind carry your words far away.	Aerial Authority Command Air creatures as if you were their superior.	Typhoon Tyrant Permanently bind air creatures to service.
Consort	Mist Mantle Imbue clothes and accessories with air and mist.	Aeromorph Assume the form of an air creature.	Aerify Shapechange a willing or helpless creatures into an Air creature.	Sky Hunt Aerifya number of willing or non-sentient creatures and give them a simple instruction.
Finesse	Cloud Cruiser Ride an air mount or air vehicle.	Misty Melee A fine and potent Air close-range attack, or give crew Cloud Cruiser.	Flying Carpet Buffet a vehicle to fly.	Storm Riders Your crew can ride in the sky.
Hunt	Cloud Chaser You can track a flier, even if they don't leave a mundane trail.	Zephyr Zap Air attack similar in effect to a fine and potent stun rifle.	Atmospheric Architect Control wind and weather.	Air Assault Air attack similar to a fine and potent stun grenade.
Prowl	Shroud Transparent standing still, wind and mist when you move.	Aerial Acrobatics Slow and sinuous flight.	Air Circus Bring allies along when you use Shroud and Aerial Acrobatics.	Cloud Walk Crew fly very fast from one location to another.
Skirmish	Air Cushion Resist Air damage.	Potent Air Fine and potent melee attack.	Whirlwind Wind and mist negate scale.	Gale Fury Gale of blades attack all enemies in an area.
Study	Analyze Air Identify gasses, creatures of Air, and Air powers.	Air Lore Learn the powers and abilities of gasses you analyze.	Air Echo Read the past events of a gas container.	Omniscient Air Air Lore in a wide area.
Survey	Detect Air Sense air, Air creatures, and powers.	Eye of Air Choose air that you have detected; perceive as if you were at that spot.	Aero Scout Choose a location or creature.	Omnipresent Air You perceive from all air at once over a wide area.
Sway	Aero Ear Understand Air creatures and learn learn the objectives of air creatures.	Aeromancy Crew can communicate with air creatures. Influence folk to be inspired and flexible.	Aerial Urge Post a suggestion in the mind of an air creature.	Air Implantation Permanently change the personality and motivations of air creatures.
Tinker	Bellows Handle air and gases as bellows or a fan, air pump, or compressor.	Weave Wind Shape gases, and they will retain their new shape.	Aeromorphosis Create air out of nothing, transform air into matter of another power.	Skyshaper Weave Wind on a huge scale, affecting the weather or air of an entire region.
Wreck	Air Smash Flip or push large objects.	Tempest Tackle Air Smash but stronger. Works as a fine potent sledgehammer in combat. Noisy.	Vanishing Gale Tempest Tackle and destroyed targets silently disappear.	Aero Annihilation Tempest Tackle over a large area. Level a city bloc or make a sandstorm.

Expanded Air Powers

Attune

Harness the power of Attune to perceive and manipulate supernatural energies, allowing you to detect and interact with Air beings and phenomena as well as from the plane of Air.

The consequences usually depends on what happens around you when you do it, but more powerful effects may have direct consequences in and of themselves. Especially summoning and dismissing can create openings for the target to hurt you. Having helpers and bodyguards can reduce 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.

Sky Sight You can sense air creatures and active air powers.

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). This does not locate creatures and power effects, it merely shows they are present. The position usually starts controlled, with the usual consequence that you missed the opportunity and cannot try again until the situation changes.

Zephyr Zapper Dismiss an Air creature. End the effect of an Air power or that affects air.

You can dispel any Air power and powers affecting Air creatures or phenomena, such as weather. 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 is easy, but limited in range; if the creature can get away from you it can de-materialize again, only to materialize again if it gets close enough. Limited effect only works on spirits within reach. Standard effect covers an area based on your tier (p 220). Great effect reaches out to a range covered by tier (p 220).

Dismissing a creature is hard and usually requires great effect. A creature that has been wounded or otherwise weakened only needs standard effect. A creature that wants to be dismissed requires only limited effect.

Zephyr Zeal Summon an Air creature.

Creatures of Air: Air creatures you can summon come in three types — spirits, elementals, and creatures with powers.

Air spirits are immaterial guardians and exemplars of air and its virtues of heroic freedom.

An elemental is a simple creature made up of air and mist. Most Air elementals have animal intelligence, and often take the shape of animals such as birds of fast land animals. Clouds, whirlwinds, and humanoid forms are also common, these elementals are usually more intelligent and can speak but still have simple, cartoonish personalities focused on the Air traits of heroism and flexibility. Air elementals can use Air powers and almost all can fly but are not very tactical and enjoy skirmishing and heroic melee. An Air creature might agree to power your ship but not your submarine and is likely to stray from tasks monotonous tasks taking a long time.

Creatures with Air powers resemble normal creatures, have a biological body, metabolism, and function as ordinary living creatures but also have Air powers. A landbound creature with Air powers is usually able to fly but usually do so in great leaps rather than soaring. Creatures with both Air and Electricity powers are common, such as the thunderbird. Not all creatures with Air powers are not from a plane of Air and thus not summonable or dismissible, being native to this world and having no vulnerability to Attune powers.

Summons are Chohorts: Creatures you summon function as temporary cohorts — 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:

• General sulkiness
• Half-hearted efforts
• Demanding not to be summoned again
• Breaking things or demanding concessions
• Overly literal interpretations of your commands
• A test attack to assert dominance
• Deliberate sabotage of tasks
• A constant struggle to maintain control

Gate of Gales Create a portal to a plane of air.

This is situational, but vital when needed. The plane of air can be empty air, a landscape of solid clouds, or perhaps a land of mountains and windswept plains and seas, with a focus on the sky, not the ground beneath.

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.

Command

Command and intimidate creatures based on your power, projecting authority. Initial position and effect depend on the situation and your relationship with listeners.

Aerial Ask Command with the authority of Air.

You can create light atmospheric effects such as a mist, gathering clouds, and distant thunder to heighten your authority, similar to what could be a achieved with threat such as displaying a weapon. This can provide the leverage needed to use Command to intimidate without actual threat of violence. Creatures of Air understands your words.

Wind Whisper Have the wind carry your words far away.

You can communicate with creatures and places far away. The wind will carry them to a person or place, repeat them for some time, and carry a message back to you. Air is conductive to communication and this power usually works as long as a path of air exists between you and the target.

Aerial Authority Command Air creatures as if you were their superior.

You can speak to and understand Air creatures, and they will regard you as a creature of authority, an officer, professional superior, alpha, or other leader type outranking them. This does not remove existing loyalties, which can lead to conflict. Orders that go with the nature of targets are more effective. Asking Air creatures to just fly off is easier (needs less outcome) than telling them to act disciplined and persistent.

Limited outcome might result in a creature doing what it might have done anyway, acting on whimsy . Standard outcome makes the creature do what it should or would, but in a way you decide, like a bird carrying a message or an elemental causing a gust of wind. Air creatures are scrappy and won't mind a fair fight. Great outcome means targets will ignore their normal routine and go out of their way to please you, like fleeing from a fight, staying on a task, or acting humble or servile.

The initial position depends on the creatures' actual relationship to you. A controlled position comes from a creature that agrees you are superior, usually just making retrying harder. A risky position is typical against a creature that sees itself as your equal and not your enemy, possibly leading to heat, misunderstood orders, or a small rebellion. Ordering a creature that sees itself as your superior is a desperate position

Typhoon Tyrant Permanently bind Air creatures to service.

This won’t work unless you are already in a position of power. The effect is similar to Aerial Authority but permanent. A creature may still break free over time. Strong emotions can also break your control, but otherwise, it lasts until dispelled.

Commanded Air elementals will take your orders, but continue to be creatures of Air in method and motivation. Tedious or regulated tasks may get done, but randomly and without discipline.

Consort

Consort powers change your form and later that of other creatures. These powers also allow you to mingle like normal Consort actions do. This will often give a bonus to effect or improved position or even allow an action that a human could not do.

Consequences might reveal your disguise to some but not all observers or require you to do something uncomfortable to maintain your role. More common consequences is that you are mistaken for someone, or that your form is somehow odd or exceptional creating dangerous expectations.

Mist Mantle Imbue clothes and accessories with air and mist.

You do not physically change yourself, you change your accessorize and outfit. The effect is usually limited and the position controlled, but some changes might require more effort.

Aeromorph Assume the form of an air creature.

This is a true physical transmutation, turning you into a creature of air. See Attune Air for a description of various Air creatures. You need not assume the form of an existing creature, as long as the gamemaster agrees your new form makes sense as an Air creature.

Aeromorph can work as a set-up action for a number of other actions but may penalize other things, as appropriate to your new form. Your form may be able to use Basic and Advanced Air effects intrinsically. If you turn yourself into an air elemental, flight and wind control become inherent abilities that don't require you to use a power.

With limited outcome you can transform into yourself like you would have been, had you grown up as the creature whose form you assume. Those familiar with you will recognize you. Standard outcome can make you a generic creature, very hard to recognize as yourself. Great outcome allows you to assume the shape and some of the personality of a specific creature you have studied.

Aerify Shapechange a willing or helpless creature into an Air creature.

This is Aeromorph applied to another. The duration depends of the outcome, limited outcome is very temporary. Standard outcome lasts for the duration of a score. Great outcome lasts a long time and potentially become permanent, depending on the the story. If you also want to make the target unrecognizable, that requires additional outcome, see Aeromorph.

This is sometimes used as a kind of poetic justice, transforming a helpless target as a punishment, a curse that is very hard to break.

Sky Hunt Aerify a number of willing or non-sentient creatures and give them a simple instruction.

This is where Consort becomes similar to an Attune Summon power effect. 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 is usually used to create a host of goons 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.

Finesse

Exercise finesse with your power, manipulating and attacking with precision.

Cloud Cruiser Ride an air mount or air vehicle.

This allows you to use Finesse with Air mounts and vehicles you are not familiar with. You can bypass simple locks on such vehicles, but not more serious security. You can ride Air beasts even if they are not trained to carry a rider. They must still be physically able to carry you. You can improve wind for sailing and use this along with a large kite to give you somewhat erratic flight.

Air flight is fast but clumsily, not suited to cluttered environments. This makes flying easy when there is room, away from everything. Flying in built-up areas is harder, indoors it is both slow and dangerous.

Misty Melee A fine and potent Air close-range attack, or give crew Cloud Cruiser.

Blades of air can cut. Winds can buffet and twist. They easily cause eardrums to break, headaches, vertigo, and nosebleeds. You are good at tackling and moving targets which may cause a fall or delay. This substitutes for equipment, fine and potent finesse weapon is just as effective at pure damage. Using this does not take any more time, activating your attack power is equivalent to drawing a weapon.

Alternatively, you can give your entire crew the Cloud Cruiser effect.

Flying Carpet Buffet a vehicle to fly

Use Air to push something you can ride on. A carpet is commonly used for this, but you can lift anything light and wide, such as a table or even a light ground vehicle. Functions much as any other vehicle from the setting and it can be varied correspondingly; a smaller vehicle is faster and more agile.

Storm Riders Your crew can ride in the sky.

Create mounts and vehicles you and your crew use can fly in the sky, much like Flying Carpet above but suited to long-distance travel. You travel at wind speed, and can control the local winds up to hurricane strength (30 m/s or 100 kph) at rooftop level, up to three times as fast at high altitude.

Hunt

Track, attack, and unleash devastating barrages with the power of Hunt Air.

Cloud Chaser You can track a flier, even if they don't leave a mundane trail.

Consequences here are mainly to lose the trail, but depending on the environment and targets, it might lead you to get lost, into traps, or even into an ambush.

Zephyr Zap Air attack similar in effect to a Fine and Potent stun rifle.

Essentially, this serves as a replacement for traditional equipment; a Fine and Potent ranged weapon would be equally effective at doing damage.

Atmospheric Architect Control wind and weather.

This does not inflict any direct damage and is usually used as a setup, but may also change how people act in reaction to the environment—rain, smoke, or snow and the like are likely to make people want to stay indoors.

Wavering Winds Control local weather.

Atmospheric Architect on a larger scale. Control the local weather, about a block outdoors or a room of any size indoors, but you can expand the area by spending additional time, changing the weather as far as you can see in 15 minutes and regional weather in an hour. This does not inflict controlled damage, but cyclones, lighting and the like may cause random destruction.

Air Assault: Air attack similar to a fine and potent high-explosive grenade.

An escalation of Zephyr Zap. Larger but less precise, this affects all creatures at a location. Targets in trenches, behind walls, or otherwise shielded are not in direct danger, but tend to keep their heads down, which suppresses the enemy and gives you the initiative.

Prowl

Prowling using air is quite powerful, because you can fly and hiding in air is very convenient.

Shroud Transparent standing still, wind and mist when you move.

This makes you invisible as long as you stay still. When you move, it is as if a breeze or dust devil moves along with you, stirring up dust and debris. This is not visible at range, you can hide out at a distance or in turbulent weather.

Aerial Acrobatics Slow and sinuous flight.

You can fly like a reed on the wind, twirling acrobatically to pass through small openings and winding passages, but slowly, indirectly, and subject to winds.

Air Circus Bring allies along when you use Shroud and Flight.

Allows you and your crew to use these powers. Each ally use their own Prowl action.

Cloud Walk Crew fly very fast from one location to another.

Unlike most apex Prowl effects, Cloud Walk is not teleportation, instead it is fast flight. This has both advantages and disadvantages. It is very fast, but slower than true teleportation. Unlike teleport you can adjust where you go once you come near to your destination.

Skirmish

Air Skirmish Resist Air damage.

Absorb Air energies. This allows you improved effect to extend endurance in aerial environments and to ignore Harm from Air powers, falls, and loose objects blown into you or falling onto you. You increase the effect of Skirmish rolls for endurance in such environments. Roll Skirmish to resist such Harm. 1-3: No reduction. 4-5: Reduce Harm by 1 level. 6: 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. Targets roll their own Skirmish action.

Potent Air Fine and potent melee attack.

This has the same effectiveness as a dueling melee weapon or pistol. Air attacks by buffeting and tossing opponents, which is powerful against fliers and good at distracting and delaying. They causes broken eardrums, headaches, vertigo, and nosebleeds. Tackling and buffeting can move targets which may cause a lethal fall. Focused shockwaves can cut like blades.

Whirlwind Wind and mist confuse movement and negate scale.

This hinders cooperation and prevents the use of scale. Consequences include having your own movement and your crew's cooperation hindered. You can also make a Potent Air attack against a single target as a part of this effect.

Gale Fury Gale of blades attack all enemies in an area.

Turns you into a one-man army. Not only do you negate the advantage your enemy may get from numbers, you can also make Potent Air attacks to hurt all your enemies in the skirmish.

Study

Delve into the mysteries of Flux and uncover its secrets, gaining insights into the nature of chaos and unlocking its potential to reshape reality. The outcome required depends on range.

• Limited outcome for touch.
• Standard outcome for line-of-sight.
• 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.

Analyze Air Identify gases, creatures of Air, and Air powers.

This gives precise mundane information, but not supernatural or exceptional abilities like those of powers.

Air Lore Learn the powers and abilities of gases you analyze.

You learn of any powers or special abilities the target has. This includes actual rules and game effects.

Air Echo Read the past events of a gas container.

The problem with reading the past of gasses is that they are not static things. Air and gasses drift around. The easiest case is a closed room or gas container; the gas inside remains the same. Other things you can read the past of are weather phenomena such as a squall, thunderhead, cloud, fog bank and such—all rather temporary.

The information you gain includes how the object has moved moved as well as significant scenes from its history. The power zooms in on events of interest to you.

Omniscient Air Air Lore in a wide area.

Provides a detailed view of events involving air and gases as far as you can see, pinpointing locations of interest like ventilation ducts and clouds of particular gasses. You can then use Air Echo to learn the history of up to three such locations.

Survey

Perceive and locate air, gasses, and Air creatures. 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.

Detect Air Sense air, Air creatures, and powers.

This is a basic spotting power, selectively sensing things related to Air. The clearer your image of what you are looking for, the better. Decide if you are looking for air, a particular gas, Air creatures in general, or a specific type of Air creature.

Detecting air can give a rough estimate of negative space, detecting large hollows in other materials such as caves and secret doors, but the power is to imprecise to detect breathing.

Eye of Air Choose Air that you have detected; perceive as if you were at that spot.

You move your perception to a spot of air or other gas and sense as if you were at that spot as long as you maintain concentration. You view from the vantage point of the phenomena, which is highly useful when cloud watching. You still sense things at your actual location, but only very dimly

Aero Scout Choose a location or creature.

Similar to Eye of Air but allows you to focus on a specific creature or position. Automatically directs towards the best vantage point provided by a some air, which is often uncomfortably close. Fails if no suitable viewpoint is available.

Omnipresent Air You perceive from all air at once over a wide area.

Enhances your senses impossibly, akin to being multiple individuals spread across a huge volume of air. Creates a comprehensive mental image of the area, revealing numerous details simultaneously. This is harder if the air is closed off or must pass a narrow passage to give you access.

It's challenging for targets to hide unless they are aware of the need to conceal themselves and what kind of sense they have to hide from. Hiding from Omnipresent Air requires that you get away from the air, such as underwater or buried in earth, or that you somehow mimic an inconspicuous shape.

Sway

Communicate, mesmerize, and manipulate Air creatures and imbue the virtues of air. Position and 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.

Aero Ear Understand Air creatures and learn the objectives of air creatures.

You can gauge the mood and motivations of Air creatures and understand what they are saying. This does not allow you to be understood. You can also sense when any kind of creature is inspired or open-minded.

Aeromancy Crew can communicate with air creatures. Influence folk to be inspired and flexible.

This allows you to use the Sway action with full effect, overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers against Air creatures. You are persuading, not speaking with authority. In addition, you can spread an airy mood in any intelligent creature, making them inspired, open-minded and flexible.

Aerial Urge Post a suggestion in the mind of an air creature.

This is essentially an enhanced Sway attempt, 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, and if you succeed, you can give them instructions that will activate later in a situation you specify.

Suggestions cannot be absurd to the target. A typical use would be to sway a servant to leave a window open or a irregular soldier to forget to load their weapon. Suggestions fade over time depending on the level of outcome achieved: limited outcome lasts for the immediate situation, normal outcome lasts for the duration of the score, and great outcome can extend beyond the score if it fits the story.

Air Implantation Permanently change the personality and motivations of air creatures.

This power is permanent but blatant. It 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—you cannot make an Air creature love a strict routine or to be underground or underwater. Exceptional creatures and circumstances can still break this change, but this is very difficult.

Tinker

Manipulate, shape, and create air. Things made out of air don't last unless you force them to. Instead you do dynamic things, like create wind or smoke.

The position depends on how quiet your workplace is and how much time you have to work with. The effect determines the effectiveness of your construction, but also how long it will last. Devices that are more powerful are harder to contain, and thus wont last as long. Most creations will only be good for a single score, but if your effect surpasses that required for the effect you want, you can stretch the effect until the end of the next downtime. Permanent creations require long-term projects.

Bellows Handle air and gases as bellows or a fan, air pump, or compressor.

You can manipulate air on a personal scale, creating a current of air or sheltering a single target from wind. You can scatter mist or smoke and freshen stale air. Winds only last as long as you keep maintaining them.

In crafting this substitutes for tools, up to a small workshop.

Weave Wind Shape gases, and they will retain their new shape.

This is where you can work with air and the effects last at least a while. You can create wind, whirls, dust devils, and even complex air streams that follow paths you set up that could not occur naturally. This may allow you to craft and set up traps or devices that would normally require extensive equipment.

Aeromorphosis Create air out of nothing, transform air into matter of another power.

This is two distinct effects. The first allows you to create air out of nothing. This can be fairly complex, to the level of fine and potent effects, but won't last past the end of a score.

The second can only be used if you know multiple powers. You transmute air into material connected to another power. The result will maintain its form as if affected by Weave Wind. 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.

Combining this with Plant, a wooden door could be changed from wood to mist, you then pass through and the door reverts to wood. A mass of earth can be turned into air to create a pit, and then turn back to earth to trap those who fall into that pit.

Skyshaper Weave Wind on a huge scale, affecting the air and weather of an entire region.

This is where you can affect the entire sky and really change the weather, create, or change the atmosphere of a city or estate. This is much harder if the volume of gas is subdivided into smaller spaces, you cannot change all the air in a ship that is compartmentalized into many separate volumes. You can also use this to create large volumes of gasses on an almost industrial scale.

Wreck

You destroy air or a gas unsuited to breathe of for other specific purposes.

You wield Air as a destructive force. Air lacks precision in wrecking but can noisily smash even very large things, it can easily wreck large things susceptible to high winds and air pressure. Flipping a car and moving a single brick are about as hard. Collapsing an entire wooden building is easier than breaking a barred door.

Limited outcome can overturn wooden or tinny construction. Standard outcome can affect more solid things, like a log house, car, or brick. Can also wreck anything made to exploit wind power, like sails or windmills. Great outcome can topple lone stone walls and unreinforced concrete, but solidly anchored stone and reinforced concrete structures with rebar will still not be affected.

Air Smash Flip or push large objects.

This can do things up to the scale of flipping a car over or overturning a free-standing wall. Can flip a cloak or skirt. You can make air stale. This reduces the effect of such things, but does not prevent them.

Tempest Tackle Air Smash but stronger. Works as a fine potent sledgehammer in combat. Noisy.

You can hurl a car, flip a tank, or collapse a house. You can make a fine and potent air attack in melee or at close range. Air attacks by buffeting and tossing opponents, which is powerful against fliers and good at distracting and delaying. They easily cause broken eardrums, headaches, vertigo, and nosebleeds. Tackling and buffeting can move targets which may cause a lethal fall. Focused shockwaves can cut like blades.

You can corrupt air and make it unsuited for a particular purpose, such as using it to fly, breathe, fuel a fire, and so on.

Vanishing Gale Tempest Tackle, but destroyed targets silently disappear.

The real difference here is that wrecking things is now silent. You also leave less traces, as what you wreck turns to dust and blows away. This gets rid of most physical evidence.

You can create a true vacuum and maintain this through concentration. Living creatures caught in a vacuum do not immediately die, but have only seconds to get to safety before unconsciousness and will die in minutes.

Aero Annihilation Tempest Tackle over a large area. Level a city bloc or create a sandstorm.

Rather straightforward, this just scales things up.