Summoning the Greater Minions of the Eyeless Face

Cost: 30+m
Target: Summoned minions

The greater minions of the Eyeless Face are pulled into Creation through a pool of oil in a ritual much like lesser minions of the Eyeless Face are (see p. 65). The greater minions possess mouths, though only some possess lips. Sometimes, their mouths are vertical splits running down the center of their blank faces. Nevertheless, they do not speak. A few greater minions possess blackened bulges or indentations at the sides of their head, in multiples of two, as if they had tried to form pairs of eyes or ears during their evocation. During the summoning, greater minions do not whimper. Like the lesser minions, they emerge naked and sexless.

The sorcerer calls forth a number of greater minions equal to her (Charisma + Essence), plus one more for each additional five motes she spends during the casting. Unlike lesser minions, the sorcerer's player defines the traits for the greater minions as if they were heroic mortals. Though they receive no Backgrounds, greater minions have 15 bonus points plus one additional bonus point per extra mote spent during the casting. (These bonus points may not be spent on Backgrounds.) The player may create each greater minion with separate and unique traits. Greater minions benefit from the same immunity to bleeding, infection and Poison and Sickness effects as lesser minions, but they heal as Exalts do. Since they are magical beings, round up when calculating the greater minions' DVs. Greater minions have Essence 2 and the Motivation, "Serve the sorcerer who pulled me from imprisonment."

The greater minions try to create identities for themselves before they die. They often decorate themselves with improvised piercings or jewelry when the sorcerer isn't looking, and they defy any commands to remove these marks of individuality. A sorcerer can have one batch of minions of the Eyeless Face under her control at any given time. Summoning the greater minions of the Eyeless Face kills her lesser minions, and vice versa.