Lineage Mechanics

AX.GHW.06.02.01

Health Modifier: 0 (Applied at character creation and each time Fortitude is increased through XP advancement.)

Cultural Talent: Persuade 1D

This die is free; it does not come from the Talent generation budget. The fae silver tongue is not charm in the simple sense. It is the capacity to identify what a person needs to hear and deliver it with the kind of precision that makes the listener feel understood rather than managed. Most Faeborn have been doing this since before they had words for it. The Talent reflects a lifetime of practice with something that was already there.

Inherited Perks

True Seeing | Sensory Enhancement

The Faeborn's eyes, whatever else is strange about them, do not accept the surfaces things present. Active concealment, glamours, illusions, disguises maintained through effort or power: the Faeborn's perception cuts under them without conscious effort. This is not a magical ability they deploy. It is the way they see.

Additionally, the Faeborn can read sincerity, not truth, but the speaker's relationship to what they're saying. A skilled liar who believes their lie registers as sincere. A person reciting something they don't believe registers as performance. The distinction is consistent and involuntary.

Effect: The Faeborn passively sees through active concealment, illusions, glamours,
        disguises sustained by power or deliberate effort, within Near range
        (6–30 ft). This does not reveal hidden creatures who are simply well-hidden
        through mundane means (Stealth rolls); it functions against effects that
        alter how a subject appears through supernatural or deliberate-craft means.

        Once per scene, the Faeborn may focus their perception on a single speaker
        within Close range (0–5 ft) and determine whether that speaker is sincere,
        whether they believe what they are saying. This does not reveal objective
        truth, deception they are unaware of, or the content of what they're
        concealing. Result is communicated to the player by the GM as a texture
        (certain, uncertain, performing) rather than a binary.

Activation: Passive (concealment detection); Free Action (sincerity read, 1× per scene)
Scope: Near range (concealment); Close range (sincerity)
Recovery: Per scene (sincerity read only)
Genre Note: Active concealment in this catalog is defined by the active
            maintenance test: if the concealing party stopped concentrating,
            would the disguise collapse? If yes, True Seeing cuts through it.

            Qualifies: Glamourist expressions (all tiers), fae glamours,
            demonic appearance veils, psychic misdirection, held partial-shift
            forms. Possession concealment always qualifies; it is always
            actively maintained by the possessing entity.

            Does not qualify: Mundane disguises (wig, costume, theatrical
            makeup), natural shapeshifter settled forms, lineage-inherent
            appearances (a dhampir who looks human is not concealing; they
            simply are what they are), Doppelganger forms stable for more than
            24 hours (settled into baseline, no longer actively maintained).

Enhanced Hearing | Sensory Enhancement

Less dramatic than the sight, but more consistently useful. The Faeborn's hearing is precise in the way that a tuned instrument is precise, not louder, but more resolving. They catch the undertone in a voice, the pause before an answer, the sound of a conversation two tables over in a busy restaurant, the specific quality of silence that means a space is occupied.

Effect: The Faeborn gains +2D to all Notice rolls that involve hearing. In social
        contexts, this extends to paralinguistic cues, the GM may volunteer
        information about a speaker's emotional state, hesitation, or stress that
        would not be apparent to an ordinary listener, without requiring a roll.
        In surveillance or investigative contexts, the Faeborn can follow a
        conversation at Near range (6–30 ft) through moderate ambient noise as a
        standard Notice roll; at Close range (0–5 ft), no roll is required unless
        the target is actively suppressing their voice.
Activation: Passive
Scope: Self
Recovery: N/A
Genre Note: The social application (paralinguistic cues without a roll) is
            deliberately informal; it rewards attentive GMing rather than
            generating discrete mechanical bonuses. GMs should use this to
            give Faeborn players small textural advantages in conversation scenes
            (knowing a speaker paused before answering, hearing the catch in a
            voice) rather than as a truth detector.

Power Access

Faeborn have strong natural alignment with Resonance traditions: perception, probability, hidden information, consciousness. Their in-between origin gives them a native relationship to the spaces where Resonance operates, the places where what appears to be true and what is true diverge.

Access is determined by the depth of the Faeborn's formative fae exposure, declared at character creation.

Deep origin Faeborn: The exposure was direct and extended: birth in a liminal or fae space, a parent who spent years taken, an early childhood in fae territory, a taking that lasted long enough to reshape development. These Faeborn frequently draw the attention of other fae with the use of any Glamourist abilities.

Shallow origin Faeborn: The exposure was real but indirect: a grandparent taken and returned, brief liminal contact, inherited marks from someone else's fae encounter. While only barely influenced, these Faeborn can develop a more meaningful relationship by pursuing their heritage and formally investing in Glamourist.

Fae obligation and Lineage-direct access: The tradition that came from fae exposure carries something of that exposure with it.

Deep-origin Faeborn using Glamourist through Lineage-direct access are perceptible to fae entities with an existing connection to their origin. Whatever made the access possible can, in principle, notice when it is being used. This is intended as a background pressure that surfaces at dramatically appropriate moments, not a constant overhead. Shallow origin Faeborn who access Glamourist through a Profession do not carry this complication; that access was built, not inherited.

Faeborn vs. other lineages: Glamourist operates differently for Faeborn than for practitioners who developed it through extended fae contact or study. The language comes naturally. True Sight for a Faeborn is adjusting focus rather than exerting effort.

Attribute and Talent Caps

Faeborn use standard maximums with one exception:

Context	Maximum Value
Attribute (standard)	5D
Wit Attribute (Faeborn)	6D
Talents	5D
Foci	3D

Wit cap increase: A Faeborn may raise their Wit Attribute to a maximum of 6D through XP advancement. This cap increase reflects the Faeborn's perceptual and cognitive inheritance reaching its full expression. The in-between spaces left them with a relationship to information, pattern and consciousness that eventually exceeds ordinary human range. The cost remains Current Value × 3 XP for the 5D → 6D raise.