The True Glass

AX.GHW.08.03.04

A Glamourist Focus

A lens, mirror, or pane of glass, something transparent or reflective that the practitioner has prepared through extended contact and deliberate intention. Seeing truth through a frame is the oldest metaphor for what Glamourist does, and the True Glass formalizes that metaphor into a functional tool. Light passes through it differently. Fae-layer perception channeled through a True Glass is sharper, more precise, less likely to catch what the observer didn't ask for.

True Glass | Focus | Glamourist
Mechanical Effect:
  +2D to all True Sight Expression rolls (the lens channels
  and focuses fae-layer perception, reducing noise and
  sharpening resolution).
  When using Nature Reading, the result surfaces one
  additional layer of hidden information without requiring
  excess successes, the practitioner sees not just what
  the subject is, but what the subject is concealing about
  what they are.
  Downside: The True Glass is physically distinctive. An
  object that sees truth becomes marked by use, fogged by
  age in ways that reveal rather than obscure, warm to the
  touch in the presence of illusion, visible to other
  Glamourist practitioners as significant. It is not a
  subtle tool to carry openly.
Acquisition: Prepared rather than purchased. The practitioner
  takes an ordinary lens or mirror and carries it during
  active True Sight use for at least one month, the glass
  accumulates the perceptual work until it holds it. A True
  Glass prepared by another practitioner can be used, but
  it resonates with its maker's perceptual frequency,
  occasionally surfacing impressions they left in it.

Improvised Foci: Any transparent or reflective object used deliberately during Glamourist work provides +1D to one Expression (chosen at scene start) rather than +2D, without the True Glass's secondary effect.