Animal Powers (FiD)

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Main Page is Powers Animals are an important part of mystic experience. You will often have a particular animal, and your relation to other animals is colored by the totem. Wolf totem is respected and feared by other animals, sheep totem is liked and regarded as harmless, and so on.

Animal attacks create phantom animal features such as teeth, claws, antlers, or horns to attack with. You can do things like grab, tackle, or knock back.

Animal Power Effects

Action	Free	Equipment	Willpower	Trauma
Attune	Perceive You can detect animals and animal powers. Animals are not normally summoned, but animal spirits exist with all kinds of weird powers, often reminiscent of tribal society myths. Animals with elemental powers like air or lightning are tied to that power, not animal. If you have a totem animal and summon an animal spirit of that type, even one larger than normal, it is friendly to you and will serve as a loyal minion.	Dismiss You can force animals that are native to another plane of existence to return to that plane, or to end the operation of an animal power.	Summon You can summon animals. This is generally an unwilling servant unless they are of your totem. A summoned animal will obey one command from you and this can be extended. Learning who to summon may require study or be a a score in itself.	Gate You can create a portal that allows travel to and from the animal spirit realm.
Command	Communicate You can communicate with creatures based on your power even if normally couldn't, allowing you to use the command action normally on them.	Translate You and allies can communicate with animals. When commanded by you, animals act as if trained to perform what you are ordering them to do.	Authority You can give commands to animals, as if you were their superior. This does not remove existing loyalties, which can lead to conflicts.	Enslave You can permanently bind creatures to service. Unless affected by other powers, they will stay in one location and act according to your instructions, like very loyal and literal-minded goons.
Consort	Mask You can give yourself or your outfit cosmetic animal traits. This can mask your identity or create fabulous outfits.	Shapechange You assume the form of an animal or human-animal hybrid. Add or subtract 1d to pairs of actions depending on your new shape, or even more if other player's agree.	Transform You can shapechange a willing or helpless creature. This can be a curse, it can be broken but it is not easy. You can easily break the effect.	Wild Hunt You can transform a large number of willing or non-sentient creatures and give them a simple instruction, typically someone for them to hunt.
Finesse	Ride You can ride any animal capable of carrying you and all animal-powered vehicles, even if the animal is not trained.	Fine Local Control You can use the power as a fine and potent close-range attack, similar in effect to a fine potent dueling sword or pistol, or you can give your friends the Ride ability for the duration of a score.	Manipulate allows you to assume control of an animals body like a string puppet. If the animal trusts you, this control is very fine indeed, allowing that animal to do what is normally beyond its intelligence.	Surge Your power manifests like a storm of fangs, suppressing the effect of multiple opponents and acting as a fine potent weapon. You can choose to affect multiple targets.
Hunt	Track You can track by scent, similar to a well-trained tracking dog.	Fine Ranged Attack You can use your power to attack, similar in effect to a fine and potent rifle.	Area attack You can use your power to attack similar to a fine and potent grenade. This allows you to fight many creatures in the same area very effectively, but there is a risk of collateral damage.	Barrage You call down the equivalent of a fine potent artillery barrage, attacking everything and everyone in a wide area. Depending on your power, this can raze buildings and create rubble. Usually enough to provide cover for any escape.
Prowl	Reconnaissance You can assume the appearance of an animal of about your size, effective concealment in environments where animals are common.	Maneuver You can use the movement capabilities of animals, to climb on animals, move through herds or packs of animals, and even move through the bodies of animals. You could hide inside a large animal or hide a small animal inside your own body.	Travel You can bring allies along when you use Reconnaissance and Maneuver.	Transport You and allies can teleport from one animal den to another. This is regional travel, you stay within the same city or region, but it is generally sufficient to enter or escape just about any situation or location.
Skirmish	Skirmish Attack You can use the power as a close-range attack, similar in effect to a melee weapon or pistol.	Fine Skirmish Attack Same as Skirmish Attack, except the weapon is fine and potent.	Obstruction Your power creates distractions and obstructions that prevents the enemy from benefiting from numbers and otherwise works as a fine potent weapon.	Flurry Your power strikes out in all directions, attacking all enemies in a wide area.
Study	Analyze You can identify animals and objects relating to animals.	Research You know the powers and abilities of something you analyze.	Hindsight You can read the past events of something you analyze. This includes previous owners and how the object has been moved around as well as significant scenes.	Omniscience You research every animal in a wide area. This is easy to do where you are, more difficult at range. You can then use hindsight on some of these targets.
Survey	Detect You can sense know is there; you can perceive as if you were at that animal. A dog's perception focuses on scent, a cat's on hearing and the ability see motion even in the dark, and so on.	Scry Choose a location or creature. You gain a sensor at the nearest animal, which is often close enough to perceive the target.	Omnipresence You perceive from all animals at once over a wide area. As long as you concentrate you retain this perception and can report what you see to others.
Sway	Communicate You can communicate with animals, allowing you to use the sway action normally on them.	Translate You and allies can communicate with animals. You can also influence folk to be lustful and competitive.	Mesmerize You can post suggestions in the mind of an animal, which will be triggered under conditions you specify. Common suggestions are to steal something, attack someone, or ignore some event. This is a subtle power, but easier to spot once triggered.	Inculcate You change the personality and motivations of animals. This power is permanent, but blatant. The target remember their past, but regard it as unimportant compared to their new motivations.
Tinker	Handle You work with animal products like leather, bone, teeth, sinew, and horn as if you had the appropriate tools and protective devices. Items you work with can have small parts made of other materials, such as metal eyelets or synthetic thread.	Shape You can shape materials that manifest your power as if they were of clay, and they will retain their new shape for some time even if they would normally not, such as water, sand or smoke.	Create You can create objects manifesting your power out of nothing, or transform an object from one material to another as long as you know the power required for both the starting and final form. This can create complex tools, such as fine and potent items appropriate to the power(s) used.	Fabricate This is similar to create, above, but you mass produce objects, even a set of different objects. You can also make something large, such as a vehicle or building.
Wreck	Jimmy You can jimmy organic materials either made of animal products, or that animals could reasonably destroy. Noisy and leaves a twisted object in place. Can attack in melee.	Smash You can imitate the effect of accelerated bacteria, fungi, and insects like woodworms. Still slow but powerful. Works as a fine potent sledgehammer in combat.	Disintegrate Similar to smash, but destroyed targets silently disappear or are reduced to a fine dust.	Obliterate Similar to smash, but over a large area. This can level a city block, empty a canal system of water, raze a city wall, and similar massive destruction.