Merit
Cost: • to •••••
Prerequisites:
- None
Your character’s thread stands out in the skein of Fate.
Like the hero of an epic she is destined for great triumphs, but she also has a Doom that hangs over her head and threatens to turn her tale into a tragedy.
Effect:
Each chapter, you have a pool of Destiny equal to your dots in this Merit. Each time you use a point of Destiny you may either gain the rote quality on a single mundane roll chosen before you roll the dice or reroll a single mundane action after you see the result of the roll (although you must take the second result).
You may spend a point of Willpower when invoking your Destiny to affect a spellcasting roll.
Drawback:
Your character has a Doom.
This is the means by which destiny brings her life as she knows it to a tragic end — Dooms such as addicted, betrayed, crippled, devoured, enslaved, imprisoned, maddened, murdered, ostracized, possessed, ruined, or turned.
This either kills her, or leaves her alive and suffering.
Whenever you spend Willpower to avoid the Doom, you add two dice instead of three (or +1 to a static value). However, whenever you spend Willpower on an action that will further the Doom but the roll fails, you immediately regain the spent Willpower. The Storyteller is the arbiter of which actions delay or hasten your character’s Doom.