Intelligence

Intelligence covers memory, understanding, reasoning and imagination as well as the ability to correlate information and make deductions. This Attribute is not a measure of how fast your character thinks, but of how clearly and deeply he thinks.

Trait Effects: Someone with Intelligence 1 is dull and stupid. Someone with Intelligence 3 is quite bright and might make a good scholar. Someone with Intelligence 5 is likely the most intelligent person in any city he visits. He is a true genius capable of understanding the most subtle secrets of the First Age.

Characters with Intelligence or Wits scores of 0 are reduced to mindless vegetables. Characters with no dots of Perception are deprived of all senses and cut off from the outside world. Characters reduced to Stamina or Essence 0 have their lives snuffed out. Characters without any Willpower become will-less automatons, similar to what remains after the Fair Folk consume a being's hopes and dreams. In all of these cases, the character can no longer spend experience and has no hope of recovery.