Mystical Templates

"Mystical" Templates represent occupations who invest deeply in the philosophies, psychic powers or mysticism of the setting, whether they're associated with criminals or legitimate authorities.

List of Mystical Templates

• Cultist Of The Mystical Tyrant: The Mystics of the Cult of the Mystical Tyrant use their mastery of Communion in a unique way. They use Communion to expand their political power and their ability to influence others. This makes them consummate leaders and manipulators. They then learn to hide their power and mastery of Dark Communion behind the shroud of conspiracy. Where most other mystics concern themselves with evangelism, doctrinal mastery and helping others, Tyrannical mystics combine the skillsets of Spies, Con-Artists and Officers to gain organizational and occult mastery. While the Dark Initiate and the space knights of the Cult of the Mystical Tyrant represent a more popular image of the Cult’s servants, the Tyrannic mystic represents its true leaders, the sages who command those space knights, assassins and dark initiates, and who focus more intently on the mastery of Dark Communion itself.

• Priest Of The Divine Masks: The syncretic faith of the Nifemna Lithe, the Divine Masks, once dominated the Umbral Rim, and continues to be extremely influential today. The priests and priestesses (or lathinim or lathina) continue to command respect and awe from the alien races that call that region home. While they may lack the mastery of the deeper mysteries of Communion that the Templars or the Cultists of the Mystical Tyrant may enjoy, few have better command of the symbolism and power of the Paths of Dark Communion than the priests of the Divine Masks. The priests embody the divinities they worship, manifesting them to transact with their followers; they are the divine masks that the Gods of the Umbral Rim wear.

• Psion: Psychic powers are fundamental part of Psi-Wars, and your psychic power is truly remarkable. The Psion is build entirely around psychic powers. Characters who take this template represent someone with considerable psychic power and talent, but not someone with deep philosophical or religious training about how to see or use their power, or profound organizational support for it.. This represents a street kid with psychic powers, a hermit driven crazy by their strange abilities, or the result of psychic experimentation. It does not represent a monk of True Communion or an Akashic Oracle, though the character will surely attract the attention of religious or philosophical organizations dedicated to psychic power, and may themselves be attracted to them to help control and train their rogue abilities. But this has not yet occurred for the character!

• Space Knight: The space knights belong to an era from before the Valorian Empire, an era of elegance and honor. They conquered the Galaxy beside Alexus Rex; they defended the Holy Worlds of the Keleni from the onslaught of grasping, criminal empires; they toppled the corrupt Alexian dynasty and its mad emperor; they brought democracy and an era of peace to the Galaxy. With the rise of the Valorian Empire, the Galaxy seems to need them again. The Maradonian aristocracy resurrects ancient traditions and slowly transition out of a dueling culture and into a knightly culture once more. In the Umbral Rim, the Satemo, the "knights" of Ranathim vengeance wander the stars, offering their psi-swords to the most worthy bidder, and rumors swirl around the edges of the Galactic Rim that the templars never really died, and that secret chapters hide on lost worlds, awaiting their time to restore their fallen order. In response to this, the Emperor has created his own order of "Imperial Knights" who destroy upstart Maradonian knights, and the Cult of the Mystical Tyrant uses their connection to Dark Communion to hunt down the last templars. The space knight blends martial mastery with psionic prowess and wields their awesome signature, the force blade, in a crusade to wipe their foes from the Galaxy.