
Under threat of erasure, Angels- such as yourself- cannot use their true power against a mortal, and so you must fight as the mortals do, using their own tactics and methods, if you wish to stand among them. You have taken this one step further, altering your very mindset to match how mortals fight, allowing you to tap into the power that mortals use without the fear of reprisal that comes from using your former angelic might.
- Racial Requirement: Angel
- Transformation Type: Awakening
- Awakening Type: Greater
- Awakening Origin: Mind
- Prerequisite(s): N/A
- Maximum No of Stacks: 1
- Tier of Power Requirement. 1+
| AG | FO | TE | SC | IN | MA | PE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +1 | +1 | +1 | – | +1 | +1 | – |
Learning from Mortals: You have internalized the lessons you have learned while mimicking the mortal races, thinking and fighting more like they do.
(1)-[Addendum]: Please refer to the ‘Mortal Grit’ text box below.
(2)-[Passive]: While you are below the Injured Health Threshold, increase your Combat Rolls and Soak Value by 1(T).
(3)-[Passive]: For each Health Threshold you are below, increase your Surgency by 1(T).
(4)-[Triggered, 1/Round]: If you are hit by an Attacking Maneuver, you may spend a Counter Action to either:
- Reroll your Strike Roll (if you used the Parry option of the Defend Maneuver) or your Dodge Roll against that Attacking Maneuver and instead your Dice Score by 1(T). This can allow you to avoid that Attacking Maneuver.
- Increase your Soak Value by 3(T) for the duration of that Attacking Maneuver.
(5)-[1/Encounter]: If you are below the Bruised Health Threshold, you may spend a Counter Action to use any Standard Maneuver with an Action Cost of 1 Action as an Instant Maneuver.
(6)-[Triggered/Defeated]: Set your Life Points to 1 and change any failures on your Steadfast Checks for your Health Thresholds into successes. Then, you may use the Power Up Maneuver as an Out-of-Sequence Maneuver.
Mortal Grit
Angels in DBU typically represent an Angel that is holding back all of their angelic power and relying on the same kind of power as a mortal, but this Awakening represents an Angel that has completely shifted their mentality to not just limit their power to that of mortals, but actively fight in a manner similar to them: with grit.
While you possess Mortal Mentality:
- Any of your effects that apply while you are in the Healthy Health Threshold or above the Bruised Health Threshold instead apply while you are below the Injured health Threshold.
- Any of your effects that apply while you are above the Injured or Critical Health Threshold instead apply while you are below the Bruised Health Threshold.
- Any of your effects that are calculated for ‘each Health Threshold you are above’, instead become for ‘each Health Threshold you are below’.