Player reference / Techniques and Spells
Description and lore
A possessed person's own agency finds room to surface again.
Cleanse is the moment of recognition in a spiritual struggle: a familiar expression returning to a familiar face.
Companions address the person they know, listening for the returning voice beneath the struggle.
At a glance
A possessed person's own agency finds room to surface again.
Techniques and Spells · Alpha v44 reference
Requires: Casting Skill: Invoke. Affinity: Spirit. Requirements: Spirit d8; Invoke d8. one learned slot.
Use: Action · Touch · one creature with a possessing or clinging spirit · Persistent · 2 Mana
Effect - Resolution: Invoke + Spirit versus the intruding spirit’s Ward + Spirit.
Effect - Defense: the intruding spirit uses its own Ward + Spirit; defender wins ties.
Effect: On success, suppress the spirit’s control and its possession-granted actions for 1 minute. The spirit remains present and may be exorcised by a separate effect; the host regains ordinary agency.
Duration: 1 minute.
Ending or recovery: one successful Cleanse per same spirit per scene.
Exception: Item Curses and unrelated conditions keep their own removal procedures.
An intrusive spirit’s grasp loosens beneath your intervention.
For a moment the eyes before you look back with their owner's expression.