ACTIVE - PSYCHIC
**Abyssal Despair** is a high-tier mentalist projection that unleashes a wave of pure psychic horror across multiple targets. The wave itself deals psychic damage and applies the nested **Shattered Composure** condition to each affected target — a total hysterical breakdown that pins them in place, locks their reactions, and forces defense penalties for the medium duration.
The capability is built from a **Domain Access Tier III** (psychic wave domain), an **AoE Sphere** primitive for the wave's footprint, a **Far Range** primitive, and the nested Shattered Composure effect. Source Type is psychic — all nested components inherit this designation downward per the Capability Template rules.
2 primitives
ACTIVE - MAGICAL
The caster clones their physical and cognitive matrix, creating a precise physical duplicate that operates with its own independent action economy under their complete control. An absolute, mythic-tier design. When this duplicate is initiated, the GM applies Strain 6 (Reality-Breaking), demanding an immediate, permanent narrative sacrifice, 30%+ of the caster's Vitality upfront, and a persistent environmental anomaly in the chamber where the duplicate was woven.
4 primitives
Greater Invisibility
68 BUACTIVE - MAGICAL
The entity completely bends local light waves and acoustics around their physical frame. They remain entirely invisible to all physical senses, even while active, running, and executing attacks. An incredibly high-footprint master technique. At runtime, the DM evaluates this persistent space-bending fold at Strain 4 (Heavy Strain). While maintaining this active concealment, the caster pays an ongoing 2 BU Upkeep cost at the start of every Council Phase.
4 primitives
ACTIVE - MAGICAL
The temporal master halts the universal timeline. For a brief window, every other entity on the field is frozen in place, allowing the master to freely move, lay traps, or cast shields with zero interference. When executed during the Council Phase, the GM evaluates the extreme scale and assigns a Strain 6 (Reality-Breaking) profile. To force this freeze into reality, the caster must accept a permanent narrative complication or pay 30%+ of their Vitality upfront.
4 primitives
Temporal Stasis Trap
32 BUACTIVE - MAGICAL
A temporal trap planted at a coordinate. When an enemy steps into range, they are instantly locked in a shimmering field of absolute frozen time, halting their momentum completely. Stays silent on the grid. The instant an enemy entity crosses into close-range proximity, the trap erupts. The target is isolated from the chronological timeline for 1 round: they cannot move or act, but they are also completely invulnerable to external harm as time around them is entirely halted.
2 primitives
ACTIVE - MAGICAL
The gorgon or mage focuses their visual intent on a victim's coordinate. If the victim's physical resilience fails, their flesh and blood instantly turn into rigid limestone, freezing their movement and actions. The caster targets an entity. The target must execute a Physical Save against the capability's DC. On a failure, the state tag anchors: their speed drops to 0, they lose their standard action, and their tissue is transformed into stone.
2 primitives
Chamber Blackout Matrix
48 BUACTIVE - MAGICAL
The caster drives a localized void field into a room. Within this sphere, all electronic, radio, cellular, and magical frequencies are completely severed, creating an absolute informational vacuum. Sustained via heavy upkeep. Creates a stationary, 20-foot radius sphere. While active inside this matrix, zero data, radio transmissions, magical scrying, telepathic signals, or sensory information can cross the boundary.
5 primitives
Spell Counter-Disruption Shield
28 BUACTIVE - MAGICAL
A defensive mage sits in deep focus. The moment they perceive an enemy trying to cast a spell nearby, they launch an energetic spike that shatters the spell's structure mid-air. The caster holds this reaction dormant. The millisecond an enemy declares an intent containing a Magical domain, the reaction triggers out-of-sequence, forcing an Active Contest to break and cancel the incoming spell before it manifests in the fiction.
3 primitives
ACTIVE - MAGICAL
The chronomancer accelerates their personal timeline, sliding their actions forward to the absolute top of the round and gaining an extra Standard Action to perform. When declared during the Council Phase, this capability instantly resolves at the top of the Fast Track before standard physical actions. Upon resolution, it grants the caster a double Standard Action window to use on subsequent tracks during the round.
2 primitives
ACTIVE - MAGICAL
The caster generates a thick, toxic cloud of fungal spores. Enemies caught inside are blinded by the irritating dust and choked so violently they cannot speak or cast. Fires on the Measured Track. Any target failing their Defensive Save is caught in the spores: they suffer rolling Disadvantage on all physical strikes and checks, and their throat is seized—preventing speech, communication, or capabilities containing vocal/verbal triggers.
3 primitives
ACTIVE - PHYSICAL
The caster channels elemental and physical energy, expanding their skeletal structure and mass category up to Huge size to dominate the combat zone. While maintained (requires active upkeep of 3 BU per turn), the caster's physical category shifts from Medium to Huge, extending their reach on the grid. They gain a flat +4 bonus to physical strikes and move +10 feet faster.
4 primitives
ACTIVE - PSYCHIC
The psychic projects an invisible sensory ripple through a room, cleanly intercepting the active surface thoughts of everyone present in the zone. Resolves on the Measured Track. The psychic scans all coordinates within a 10-foot radius sphere at Medium range. For every target within the footprint, they receive a stream of active surface thoughts and immediate intentions, bypassing physical cover.
4 primitives