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--- legacy:characters:background:spirit_caller [2025/06/10 04:33] – tailkinker
+++ legacy:characters:background:spirit_caller [2025/09/02 09:34] (current) – [Medium] tailkinker
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 A Spirit Caller is a seer, medium, and occasional exorcist---able to glean hidden truths, call upon spirits for aid, and even influence the ethereal. They excel in social or investigative roles, especially where the living intersect with the dead. But theirs is a perilous path, and every gift comes with a cost.
-===== Attributes =====
-When you select this background, add seven points to your Wisdom score and five points to your Charisma score.
-In addition, you may distribute eight points among any of your other attribute scores.  No single attribute may receive more than four points.
 ===== Features =====
-**Stamina**:  A Spirit Caller begins play with 30 stamina, plus an amount equal to your Strength bonus.
+**Stamina**:  A Spirit Caller begins play with 12 stamina, plus an amount equal to your Wisdom bonus.  Your connection to the spirits allows you to call upon their protection.
 **Recovery Dice**:  When you select Spirit Caller as your background, you gain two eight-sided dice (2d8) as Recovery dice.  This is in addition to any Recovery dice you gained due to your ancestry.
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 Place one training rank in each of the selected skills.
-===== Spellcasting =====
+===== The Spirit's Touch =====
+A Spirit Caller does not draw upon their own strength alone. Instead, they open themselves to the voices of the unseen — allies, mentors, and powers that dwell beyond mortal reach. Each Spirit Caller must decide how to shape this bond.  Choose one of the two paths listed below.
+==== Avatar ====
+A single powerful spirit has chosen you as its vessel, merging its essence with your own.  Gain the [[legacy:traits:Empowered Magic]] trait and the [[legacy:traits:Gift of Empowerment]] trait.
+==== Medium ====
+You remain in constant communion with the spirits around you, who eagerly lend their aid.  Every spell that you cast is actually performed by one of the local spirits.  Gain the [[legacy:traits:Channeling Magic]] trait and the [[legacy:traits:Increased Mana]] trait.
-Your spellcasting attribute is Wisdom, and you learn your spells from the Discipline of the Occult.  Choose three Power 1 spells and one Power 2 spell from the Occult Discipline, and add them to the list of spells you know.
-Whenever you increase your Spellcasting skill training ranks, you may choose one additional Occult spell, and add it to the list of spells you know.  The chosen spell cannot have a Power higher than the number of training ranks you have in your Spellcasting skill.
 ===== Traits =====
 Choose one of the following traits, and add it to your character.  In addition,
-the following traits are available to your character as Basic traits, regardless of their base class.
+the following traits are available to your character as Apprentice-tier traits.
   * [[legacy:traits:Eidolon]]
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   * [[legacy:traits:Skilled Familiar]]
   * [[legacy:traits:Triggered Dismissal]]
-The following traits are available to your character as Expert traits, regardless of their base class.
 ===== Starting Equipment =====