When you sleep, you dream of the Heart. You’re half-mad with glimpses of knowledge; mad enough to go ever deeper into the undercity, looking for revelations.
Core Ability
IN THE BLOOD: You move through the Heart as if blessed. +1 Echo Protection. Once per situation, when you take stress to any resistance other than Echo, allocate it to Echo.
Character creation questions
• Which three images, symbols, people or creatures do you repeatedly see when you dream? • What signs do you look for to recognise where the Heart is strongest? • You recently witnessed an unearthly sight with another player character. Who was it, what happened and how did they react? • Your connection to the Heart has touched you in some way. How does that manifest?
Items (Pick one)
- Ink-blotted dream journal with maps of places you saw when you were asleep
- Bag of bitter stimulant pastilles
- Steel syringe and opiate powder
- The word “THEOLOSIAN” growing over your upper chest
- Barely-viable homonculus you shamefully coughed up or excised (name it)
- Twenty sketches of the man you’re convinced you’re going to meet down here, all made by different artists
- Signed copy of BEYOND THE EDGE OF MADNESS: A Year In The Heart by Gris Hanneman
- Mandala made from hollow crow bones
- Mad, impressionist votive image of a Witch
- Greenish candles that help you sleep a dreamless sleep (sometimes)