Rancor-Raising Spirit

Cost: 3m; Mins: Socialize 5, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Energic Influence Technique

Sometimes the Lawgiver must tear down in order to build up. This Charm supplements an instill action to erode an Intimacy. If successful, the target also gains a new negative Minor Intimacy that reflects the one that has been eroded. Thus a Solar's arguments could work to sow disfavor for the Guild, while also instilling a negative view of slavery. This Charm fails if the target has Major or Defining Intimacies that directly contradict the proposed Minor Intimacy. Special activation rules: The player must declare what Minor Intimacy they plan to tack on before using this Charm. During the instill action, the declared Intimacy must be a part of the Solar's pitch. On Rancor-Raising Spirit I wrote this Charm to demonstrate a more powerful con¬verse of the prerequisite. The Solar can use this to defeat the iniquities that plague her lands, by coupling nega¬tive viewpoints onto vehement or convincing obloquy. Some of you might think this Charm doesn't work by its example, because someone with a positive view of the Guild would have to have a positive view of slavery. But that's not actually true — the Guild deals in a number of vast enterprises, and this can work to conceal the effects of slave labor. Moreover, it is human nature to overlook or to refuse to see the moral or ethical contradictions in every day life. Evil flourishes thusly. Indeed, there is no other way that it flourishes.