Animal Powers (FiD)

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Main Page is Powers Animals are an important part of mystic experience.

The entire domain of living creatures is governed by the animal power. Humans and other social folk are a special case, governed by Mind instead, and plants are not animals, but other than that, all natural creatures are considered animals.

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 spirits exist with all kinds of weird powers, often reminiscent of tribal society myths. Animals with powers are tied to that power, not animal.

Animal Power Effects

Action	Basic No minimum 3 Stress	Advanced Minimum 2 Dice 5 Stress	Master Minimum 4 Dice 7 Stress	Apex Minimum 6 Dice 13 Stress
Attune	Perceive You can detect animals and animal powers.	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	Beast Command You can speak to animals, allowing you to use the command action normally on them. You cannot understand them using only this power.	Beast Master 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.	Animal 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 Animals 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	Animal Mask You can give yourself or your outfit cosmetic animal traits. This can mask your identity or create a fabulous look.	Animal Shape You assume the form of an animal or human-animal hybrid. Add 1d to one action and subtract 1d from all actions covered by an attribute except if you just raised one of them.	Animal Transformation You can use Animal Shape on 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 Animal 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.	Control Animal 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.	Storm of Fangs Your power manifests like a storm of fangs, suppressing the effect of multiple opponents and acting as a fine potent weapon.
Hunt	Scent You can track by scent, similar to a well-trained tracking dog.	Fine Pounce You can use your power to attack at range, similar in effect to a fine and potent rifle. This can be phantom animals attacking or flying claws and teeth.	Pack Pounce 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.	Animal Army 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	Camouflage You assume the camouflage pattern of an animal, effective concealment in environments where any animal could hide.	Beast Stride You can use the movement capabilities of animals, to climb like an animal, and move through herds or packs of animals.	Pack Prowl You can bring allies along when you use Camouflage and Beast Stride.	Roaming 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	Ravage You can use the power as a close-range attack, similar in effect to a melee weapon or pistol.	Potent Ravage Same as Ravage, except the attack is fine and potent.	Pack Attack Your power creates distractions and obstructions that prevents the enemy from benefiting from numbers and otherwise works as a fine potent weapon.	Onslaught Your power strikes out in all directions, attacking all enemies in a wide area.
Study	Animal Analyze You can identify animals and objects relating to animals.	Animal Lore You know the powers and abilities of something you analyze with Animal Analyze.	Pedigree You can read the past events of an animal or animal product. 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	'Sense Animal You can sense animals and animal remains at a distance. You can gain the senses of a chosen animal.	Beast Perception You can tap into the perception of an animal you know is there and 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.	Pet Perception Choose a location or creature. You gain a sensor at the nearest animal, which is often close enough to perceive the target, especially if the target has an animal pet.	Wild Sense 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	Read Animal You can read animal communication, which allows you to understand their motives and what they are about to do and to avoid provoking them.	Animal Tunges You and allies can communicate with animals. You can also influence folk to be lustful and competitive.	Program Animal 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.	Domesticate 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	Animal Crafts 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.	Animal Shaping 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.	Beastcraft You can create objects made from animal parts 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.	Wild Fabrication Similar to Beastcraft, but you mass produce objects, even a set of different objects. You can also make something large, such as a vehicle or building.
Wreck	Mangle 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 be used to attack in melee.	Decompose You can apply the effect of reducers like bacteria and insects like woodworms. Still slow but powerful. Works as a fine potent sledgehammer in combat.	Wildwarp Similar to Mangle, but destroyed targets silently disappear or are reduced to a fine dust.	Obliterate Similar to Mangle, 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.