POWERS THAT BE

 

Touched: This is a initiated person that is not by their nature empowered that has embraced the empowered world. They begin to see beyond the Veil and have essentia like an empowered being, which they can use to activate imbued items. Some Touched develop a minor power called "spot on the wall" powers due to that is about as useful and powerful they are. A Touched character is an option for a PC if allowed by the Narrator.

 

Practitioners: These are touched that have learned to mimic abilities of the empowered to some lesser degree. Some get this from ancient texts and such, whereas others (like Fey raised Changelings) learn by being around empowered, or faith in some higher power. Since they lack power scores they tend not to have the raw power or unpredictable nature of actual empowered. Instead they have predictable tricks they can use that could run the gamut of many different empowered. For example a Practitioners raised by Fey could learn to copy the magic of Nymph's beauty to temporarily increase their Appearance and from a Dryad they could learn a trick to talk to trees. Since Practitioners lack power scores the Narrator can link the tricks (including if they can learn it) to one or more of the character's mental stats. A Practitioner character is an option for a PC if allowed by the Narrator.