Danaokh

The Effigy

The Effigy of Danaokh would be granted to those who share in Danaokh's concern for life, and their boundless curiosity for the wonders that the living world possess. She most often marks those who remind her of Fei or Chrien (as she used to be) or Ufrek. Her friends from before the Shattering. She will rarely mark anyone who seeks to use her abilities in a way that renders uneeded destruction.

The Initial Manifestation

The initial manifestation manifests in colorful-finlike protrusions around the softer cartilaginous structures of the person's head, the nose, the ears, etc.. In addition, their feet and hands become webbed, with the same colorful pattern that fans out from each finger. The membrane formed is soft, flexible, and stretchy enough that it doesn't interfere with their manual dexterity, but does enhance their swimming capability as a natural course. Also, whatever color blood the person had before being given the Effigy, now it will become silver, like a biqaj's. They are also able to breathe underwater, and are capable of fully immersing themselves into the depths of the sea for prolonged periods.

Breath Power

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Breath Power	1	Water Breath	Free	The basic breath power of Danaokh's Effigy. Water Breath shoots out a pressurized stream of water, that typically is enough pressure to bruise flesh with blunt force and push objects, creatures, and people around whether above or below the surface of water. If aimed at the water, it can for the moment cause the water to shape itself in a way that the effigy-bearer desires, whether that be in the form of a tidal wave, or animals. Basically a strong form of elemental manipulation from their breath. Up to 2 tons of water can be manipulated in this way, which can in turn displace surrounding water, compounding the effect.

The Branches

The Life Branch

The Sustenance Sub-Branch

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Tier 1	2	Breath of Sustenance	25	This gives the watery breath of the effigy-bearer a far less violently pressurized version, that gently caresses the target of its waters with nourishing energies that feed and hydrate them fully upon contact. This can affect more than one target, as the breath is less a focused beam of the typical water breath of the Effigy, and more of a splash of lukewarm waters. In addition, it can heal moderate wounds with a short blast, and up to severe wounds with a concentrated blast.
Tier 2	12	Fangs of Sustenance	50	This gives the Effigy Bearer the serpent-like fangs of Danaokh as a physical manifestation. In addition to this, when the fangs are manifesting, and the effigy-bearer uses this power to consume food or drink, they will find their needs (for food, drink and sleep) are satisfied for no less than seven trials from a single meal. This can be compounded with any effects of the food's quality or power. If a food would have a separate effect from sustenance, that effect's duration will be doubled (e.g. potion effects). Mechanically, this results in the effigy bearer being able to be productive for twice as long as usual, reducing any individual project/task by half it's normal duration (this stacks with other prductivity boons).
Tier 2	13	Nourishing Venom	50	This gives the Fangs of Danaokh's dragonling mount (or the Effigy Bearer if they already have fangs) the ability to inject a substance that can keep any living being nourished and stable (as per the entire affect of Fangs of Sustenance), even if they're unable to move around. If the effigy bearer has the Fangs of Sustenance, they can also use this power. The effect lasts for up to seven days and milking the fangs can allow the affect to be offered to another person without being bitten. Enough to sustain up to five people can be generated per day per mount and effigy bearer and if 'milked' the venom will remain usable for up to seven days before it loses its properties.
Tier 3	20	Vital Consumption	75	A passive ability that affects the digestive system of the Effigy Bearer. It can, when eating or breathing anything that it is possible to eat/breath (e.g. not lava, but rocks is fine), whether cooked or raw or otherwise, eat their food without fear of poison, disease, or other concerns that might arise from eating a tainted sample of food. Food can never hurt them. Further, when they eat something that possesses a disease or toxin, that would've otherwise been perfectly edible to their species without it, they can produce a cure or antidote by way of spitting an ichorous substance, that one afflicted with the toxin or disease can then ingest to be cured.
Tier 4	29	Moment of Vitality	100	Once a day, the Effigy Bearer may designate one of their meals as one that empowers them with great vitality, strength, speed, or fortitude. As such, when having consumed one of these meals, they will be granted a moment of vitality for anyone of their physical skills (athletics, strength, endurance, resistance). This meal can be a simple snack, taken in a moment. But it must be recorded and tracked by the Effigy Bearer. This meal can only be consumed once a season, for one physical attribute chosen at the moment the vitality is needed and lasts an hour.
Tier 4	30	Sustaining Waters	100	Given that the Effigy Bearer is able to live in the water as effectively as in their native environs now, they probably spend a decent amount of time immersed in the watery environments that surround Idalos. As such, they're able to form a sustaining bubble around themselves, that allows them to sustain all of their physical needs at will when in the water. This offers a minor healing affect and is a preventative measure against afflictions and natural hunger and thirst and disease that protects the Effigy Bearer while in the water. They can extend this protection to all around them, as well as water-breathing effects for a radius of 40 meters.
Tier 5	37	Feast or Famine	125	The Effigy Bearer no longer requires anything to survive, no food, water, air or rest/sleep. They are not immune to becoming exhausted by effort, but in this regard they can be considered to have +1 Competence Level in Endurance (at GM they can indeed be considered to be immune to becoming exhausted by effort). With this, the effigy bearer can be considered to achieve personal tasks/project that don't depend on others in a third of the time it would otherwise normally take and they can wander through a vacuum or poisonous environment as if it were nothing. Note that they are not immune to heat, etc... just the needs of their body. Further to this, their Nourishing Venom also now offers this same effect to anyone consuming the venom.

The Creation Sub-Branch

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Tier 1	3	Child of Creation	25	Upon the acquisition of this power, a Child of Creation is birthed from the life all around the Effigy-Bearer. Containing traits of no more than three types of life (plant or animal, land, air, and sea bound examples of life, typically), the creation will follow faithfully the Effigy-Bearer, as a youngling would their own parent. This Child is vulnerable to all forms of harm that might come to one of its embodied species traits. However, it's granted more and more autonomy and independence with every other power acquired in the Creation Sub-Branch, and in some of the other Branches. If it dies, it's corpse (or whatever is left of it) turns into an egg that produces a creature of the same description, but effectively a new individual Child. It needs to be biologically viable, but there's a lot of leeway here as it can draw on many of the dependencies of its main traits whether plant/animal/etc.. It can be as large as an average bear, and as small as a mouse. The Child of Creation shares its experience and acts as a separate set of eyes and ears for the effigy-bearer, like any familiar.
Tier 2	14	Claws of Creation	50	A physical manifestation that transfers to the Effigy bearer as well as its Child of Creation. The Claws of Creation give the Effigy-Bearer a set of sharp claws that are able to make precise cuts. The claws, when used in combat, are effectively bladed weapons, and use Combat: Blades skill in their use. Interestingly enough, they double as surgical tools, as they are only able to make clean cuts.
Tier 2	15	Sprites of Creation	50	Small versions of the Child of Creation spring forth from the Child when it's in danger, and can generally be helpful to whatever situation it or the Effigy Bearer finds themselves in. No more than a dozen of these sprites are able to be summoned at one time, and there's a cooldown of five bits between each summoning, and each summoning lasts five bits. For every sprite (and there can be no fewer than two) the sprite is that much smaller than the Child of Creation. For instance, if a Child of Creation creates three sprites, they each will be a third of their size. Five sprites will result in sprites a fifth of the size of the Child of Creation.
Tier 3	21	Breath of Creation	75	The Effigy Bearer can take any sample of matter of a living creature, whatever it's condition (whether dead or alive, plant or animal), and then breathe a new, perfectly cloned life from that matter that is the same species in its infancy. This is effectively a new individual. Furthermore, one cannot produce a regenesis of a unique creature, like an Immortal, Dragon, or Leviathan.
Tier 4	31	Grandchildren of Creation	100	The Effigy Bearer can impart the ability to the Child of Creation to procreate asexually, typically by laying a single egg which produces a single child per Cycle. They can have at any one time, no more than five living children, which grow to measure within a few cycles. But these children all bear the same enhancements of the Child of Creation.
Tier 4	32	Breath of Regenesis	100	The Effigy Bearer is able to breathe into being a complete and healthy copy of any mortal being (not unique creature, like an Immortal, Dragon, or Leviathan). The new 'copy' is in every single way the same individual, with all their abilities, powers, marks and everything else, with the exception that they are now (regardless of the state of the individual previously) a perfectly healthy/healed version of themselves, with any physical ailments and/or scars gone. With this ability, it is possible to resurrect recently dead people (that have died within the past 10-15 minutes). If used on a living being, their 'previous self' dies, painlessly, as their soul transitions from one body to the next. This can be performed only one per season.
Tier 5	38	True Genesis	125	From their own imagination, the Effigy Bearer is capable of producing an entirely new, non-sentient life form. The possibilities of this new life form are broad but must fit into the ecology of whatever environment it's released to, but once released will propagate until there are enough of its kind to sustain a population. If the lifeform is entirely new, then it needs to be developed as its own dev entry, wherever it is introduced it is subject to the same amount of scrutiny as any dev entry and may only be used once per cycle. If the effigy bearer is just creating a new lifeform that has already been deved, i.e. they are just creating a new creature of type X where X has already been deved and approved, then a PSF is not reacquired and the Effigy Berer need only have met (and made contact with) one of its species before. This power cannot be used to create unique creature, like an Immortal, Dragon, or Leviathan (sentient or otherwise).

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Tier 6	46	Eternal Life	150	A passive ability and the culmination and consequence of all the life-giving energies infused into one who has mastered the Life branch of Danaokh's Effigy, this grants her effigy bearer boundless life energy, to where they cannot age, and neither disease, nor starvation, dehydration, nor toxins or any other ailment will find permanence in their body. They simply cannot affect them. So they don't need to eat or drink, but they can. They regenerate wounds at a rapid rate to where things that wouldn't have immediately killed them in a single stroke won't, but things that would instantly kill them will still do so. This means they could effectively walk through lava, but doing so would still be just as painful as one might expect. Getting crushed in the grip of a large creature or under a heavy object or someone stabbing the Bearer and leaving the weapon in the wound would work to kill the effigy bearer. Cumulative injuries, however, will heal too fast to cause their immediate death. In the event of a dismemberment, as long as the Effigy Bearer is able to survive it (beheading means death), then the limbs can either be retrieved and reattached or very quickly regrown.

The Motion Branch

Stasis Sub-Branch

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Tier 1	4	Preternatural Balance	25	The Effigy Bearer can maintain their stillness, even in the midst of gravitational forces, gale winds, churning water, or quaking earth. Nothing can disrupt their balance so long as they engage this power, which they can do indefinitely as long as they remain still. No one can disrupt their posture or balance and tipping the world upside down wouldn't disrupt their balance, as long as they aren't' moving.
Tier 1	5	Paralytic Stasis	25	Gives the Dragonling the ability to produce a venom from their fangs that puts another living being into a static state of paralytic sleep. While in this state, they are stiff as a wooden board, and about as durable. This paralization lasts about a break, and can be ended prematurely by any form of anti-venom. If the Effigy Bearer has fangs of their own or manifested from another part of this Effigy, they also can produce this venom.
Tier 2	16	Slow Breath	50	Alters the breath weapon of the Effigy-Bearer, so that it produces a gentle spray of water that slows anyone caught in its cone by half speed for as long as they remain wet by this breath. The slowness will fade fast if they wash off the breath water in another body of water where this breath hadn't been released. This has the same effect underwater In a cone of 25 degrees, 100 yards from the effigy bearer.
Tier 3	22	Clawed Clutch	75	The Dragonling's claws are able to maintain an indomitable hold over any other being. While this doesn't prevent the clutched from moving, their own grip over the subject cannot be disturbed in any way while engaging this power. If the Effigy Bearer has claws, whether their own or manifesting from another part of this Effigy, they too will be able to perform this power. Their grip can be disrupted by seriously damaging the hands of the Effigy-bearer, or else by forms of coercion whether conventional or supernatural.
Tier 3	23	Chained Hold	75	The Effigy Bearer can transfer the benefit of any of their Motion Branch abilities by merely maintaining contact with any other being. Any being that that one is also in contact with will be similarly effected, creating a chain effect. The contact can be indirect, but only if the others are holding the same contiguous object/chain/thread as the effigy bearer with their hands.
Tier 4	33	Indomitable Wrap	100	If the Effigy Bearer has a tail through the Swishy Tail power in the Conflux Branch of Movement, The Dragonling with its lengthy tail, can cause another creature or thing to cease its movement entirely if it can wrap its tail all around the object or creature. This ability persists on as many things as it can wrap its tail around entirely, until it releases those subjected to it. Destroying the tail can however free those caught in its grip. Tier 2 feats of strength or agility can also result in escape, however. If the tail is long enough, one can wrap multiple people up in it.
Tier 5	39	Hypnotic Stare	125	The Dragonling with its serpentine eyes can cause anyone that looks into its eyes to become paralyzed for two bits.
Tier 5	40	Wave of Stasis	125	With a spin of their body, the Dragonling and Effigy-Bearer can cause all objects and beings around them to slow their movements to a quarter of their speed. This extends into a radius of 100 meters around them, and persists as long as the Dragonling and Effigy-Bearer are capable of maintaining balance in their spinning. This slowness stacks with the Slow Breath power.

Conflux Sub-Branch

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Tier 1	6	Swishy Tail	25	The Effigy-Bearer grows another draconic manifestation, in the form of a lengthy, serpentine and prehensile tail. This often resembles the tail of their dragonling companion, and is tough enough to be used as a Unarmed weapon in combat. It can replace a tail if the effigy-bearer already has one. The tail is quite long, at about fifteen feet long, but can be retracted to be smaller, if the Effigy-Bearer wishes. Or even toggled on or off.
Tier 1	7	Quickening Treacle	25	The Effigy-Bearer is able to produce a slippery secretion from their body or skin that allows them to escape almost any hold or confinement. They can no longer effectively be held in place while secreting this substance. The exception would be if the confinement has an opening that would require them to shrink or compress.
Tier 2	17	Accelerating Breath	50	Turns the breath weapon of the Effigy-Bearer into a watery splash that causes anyone touching or touched by the waters of that breath to move at twice the speed. This also impacts areas underwater that the breath touches. In a cone of 25 degrees, 100 yards from the effigy bearer.
Tier 3	24	Fast Travel (Sonic Meme)	75	All modes of travel become trivial for the Effigy-Bearer, as it takes the length of any trip by any mode of travel and cuts it down to a quarter of its length. This only affects long-distance travel, not travel within the immediate area. This is cumulative with other forms of shortening travel time length.
Tier 3	25	Labyrinthine Escape	75	While they maintain a state of motion, the Effigy-Bearer is capable of moving in and out of tight and convoluted spaces with full range of movement. Unless the area that contains them has no openings and is water-tight they can find their way out of it, if they can fit through the opening.
Tier 4	34	Unbreakable Stride	100	While moving any part of their body as fast as they can, the Effigy Bearer cannot be slowed down by any effect that would normally slow them down. They can still be stopped, deflected or manipulated, but their general speed of their motion cannot be slowed.
Tier 5	41	Ambient Alertness	125	Within a radius of 100 yards, the Effigy-Bearer is able to detect motion of any kind without regard for their other senses ability to perceive such motion. This ability is fully passive but can be toggled.
Tier 5	42	Serpentine Flight	125	The Effigy-Bearer can move with the agility of a sea serpent, moving through the air or water with as much adroitness as any native swimmer or flier, although this is more of a floating action in the case of flying. They can engage this flight for as long as they have the endurance to do so. This effectively doubles their short-range speed in air, water, or land while they move. It can only be enhanced by athletics/flying/swimming skills.

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Tier 6	47	Mimic Memory	150	With their draconic gaze the Dragonling of the bearer as well as the Effigy Bearer themselves can mimic the motions of anyone or anything they see. They can keep step with them, answering every other motion of the other with a counter motion, or a synchronized motion.

Solitude Branch

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Tier 1	8	Personal Domain	25	As the great dragon once did, the Effigy Bearer is able to create a small bubble dimension, into which they and they alone (with the personal belongings upon their person) can enter to gain some respite. While inside the domain, they cannot be harmed and can remain in there for as long as desired while time passes normally around them and their pocket domain. The entrance can take any thematic form, (a floating portal, or replacing an open door or achaway) as long as it makes sense to do so, is always obviously something a bit odd on entry and will always exit to where it was entered from (though this location can change between uses as long as the Effigy Bearer is not inside). The domain is a simple stone room that is no larger than 3 meters cubed. When leaving the domain and closing the door, anything left inside the domain is ejected harlessly onto the floor around where the door was.
Tier 1	9	Domain Permanence	25	The Effigy Bearer's Personal Domain now has object permanence. Between uses, anything left in the domain, will remain in said domain if left behind for future use.
Tier 2	18	Invitation to Solitude	50	The Effigy Bearer's Personal Domain can now accomodate other people and doubles in size (this stacks with other volume modifiers from this Effigy, but is always applied last), by way of implicit or explicit invitation, i.e. the Effigy Bearer only needs to want to allow or disallow a person to have access to be allowed it. Further to this, if the invitation is revoked, then the target of said desire is instantaneously repelled from the domain and returned, unharmed, to an available space just outside the door. No mundane attempts to resist this (grabbing at things, etc) is possible and any attempt to avoid being ejected through non-mundane methods would be met with impossible resistance, to the point that the very existence of the person is an affront to the physics of the domain itself, causing pain, harm and eventually death. Note that the Effigy Bearer cannot choose to cause these affects and if the person simply leaves, then no harm is done and that the most significant limitation of the personal domain is that if someone wishes to leave, then they simply do, preventing people from becoming trapped in the domain against their will. If the Effigy Bearer has the Ambient Alertness power, then this applies to all things and people within their Personal Domain at all times.
Tier 3	26	Elemental Domain	75	The Effigy Bearer now has control over the substance within their Personal Domain and the domain's size increases by a factor of 10. With this, the Effigy Bearer can summon and control fire, earth/stone, water and air. Within their domain, they can control the elements without restriction, which could include removing all air from a section on it or moving walls in to squish someone.
Tier 4	35	Comfort in Solitude	100	The Effigy-Bearer can now summon any mundane physical 'thing' within their domain. Nothing generate within the domain can leve said domain, but while inside, it is is every possible way 'real'. The term "any mundane physical 'thing'" refers to the inability to create magical items etc. Anything from a table to a house, with simple or complex design can be created at the speed of thought.
Tier 5	43	Personal Ecosystem	125	The Effigy Bearer's Personal Domain can now take on the environmental ecosystem of any known, natural ecosystem. Dense jungle, the ocean, a dessert, even a city. The sky will appear above them and the limits of the domain are now bound only be impassable and mysterious forces rather then simple physical walls, leaving an endless continued vista to enjoy (even if you cannot visit it). With this power comes an increase of domain size by a factor of 10. Further to this, powers from the Creation Sub-Branch are considered almost unlimited specifically within the Personal Domain (if you have them). This means the creatures can be created, wired and wonderful as they might be and with the only limitation being that nothing created within the Domain in this way can leave the domain (ever and for any reason) the wildlife of the domain can literally be born from the imagination of the Effigy Bearer.
Tier 5	44	Fortress of Solitude	125	The Effigy Bearer's Personal Domain and everything within it is now optionally (at the Effigy Bearer's discretion) totally undetectable by any means. Noone and nothing (with the notable possible exception of the great beings of Idalos themselves, like Immortals and Dragons) can locate the domain or anything within it. Further to this, while inside the fortress, if the door to the outside world is closed, time can pass more slowly of quickly inside the domain than it does outside. Time can pass up to four times as fast (to 'fast forward' time outside) or half as fast (too slow time down outside) and affects everyone and everything inside the domain equally.

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Tier 6	48	Soliloquy of Danaokh	150	The forces of creation within the domain of this Effigy Bearer's Personal Domain are now theirs to play with. Time can be literally stopped for anything up to a trial in any global or localise area of the domain (passing normally outside the domain, but preventing things like the dying from doing so). The final and most pressing limitation of this domain now becomes removed, that should someone wish to leave, they now need your consent!

Water Branch

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Tier 1	10	Conjure Water	25	The Effigy-Bearer can conjure an amount of water equal to a small lake, around 100 meters in diameter, and 25 feet at its deepest. Furthermore, if the Effigy Bearer has any of the following powers, while a being is immersed in these waters, the can benefit from the affects of them: Breath of Sustenance, Fangs of Sustenance, Nourishing Venom, Accelerating Breath and the Bearer can apply their Ambient Alertness to anything within these water regardless of range (if they have this power).
Tier 1	11	Water Denizen	25	As an embodiment of Danaokh, not only the source of creation itself but a denizen of the sea, the Effigy Bearer now projects enough of the great dragon's presence to earn the respect of anything that swims the seas. It might be awe, respect or fear, whether they want to worship, eat or run from the Bearer, but creatures of the sea will recognise the Bearer as 'one of them' on some level. This is not to say the Bearer is someone to 'obey', however unless there is good reason for creatures not to do so, the Bearer is usually allowed to pass through the seas, interact with creatures and go about their business unchallenged, trusted by default and considered 'not food' by predators, etc. Where intelligent denizens of the sea are concerned (including other PCs), these would be aware of a pressing aura of some kind, something akin to 'they are a friend of the sea' and what effect this has would depend on the narrative, but usually sets the Bearer off on a good standing even in the chaos of battle.
Tier 2	19	Move Water	50	The water directly surrounding the Effigy-Bearer, up to the volume contained in a pond 100 meters in diameter and 25 feet at its deepest, can be manipulated and moved at will by them, so long as part of the watery matter touches some part of them.
Tier 3	27	Water Elementals	75	Water Elementals can be conjured by the breath of the Effigy-Bearer if they breath upon open waters. These can be a multiplicity, or a single large elemental. No smaller than a mouse, but no greater in volume than a jungle elephant. These elementals maintain autonomous motion, but obey the commands of the Effigy-Bearer for up to a break.
Tier 3	28	Water Blades	75	The Effigy-Bearer is capable of imbuing their existing weapons, or else conjuring weapons of pure pressurized water, that are capable of bringing to bear high pressure cuts and bludgeons against those they find themselves fighting. The blades are capable of shearing through most average-grade metals, and certainly flesh and bone as well.
Tier 4	36	Water Sense	100	When in water, The Effigy-Bearer can extend their senses to anywhere within 100 yards of their position in the water. This can be used with other powers that key in on the Effigy-Bearer's sight.
Tier 5	45	Razor Breath	125	The Effigy-Bearer is capable of mimicking the same deadly pressurized water breath of Danaokh herself. The watery breath can shear through bone and flesh, and even some softer metals.

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Tier 6	49	Tidal Ascension	150	An evolved form of water manipulation that overcomes and denies most other abilities that are capable of seizing control of water, whether Domain Defiance, or that of Marks that affect water. The Effigy-Bearer is capable of controlling the waters in an area 100 yards around them for no less than a trial, upon activation of this power. This power can be activated for a trial, and has a cooldown equal to the amount of time it's engaged.

The Transformation Power

The apex of all the powers in Danaokh's Effigy, this power shows the Bearers mastery over all that Danaokh has given them.

Power Tier	Power Number	Power Name	Power Cost	Power Description
Transformation Power	50	Form of Danaokh	250	The apex of all the powers at the Bearers disposal, this power allows the Bearer to take on the form of the Indomitable tide herself. When this power is used, the Bearer becomes a dragon that is identical to Danaokh in appearance, but about a fifth as long and as wide. The only difference, is that they maintain the same face of their original form. So a cadouri otter that becomes an Effigy-Bearer would look in all other ways like Danaokh, except with a otter head. Finally, 4 powers are also unique to this form and can be activated at will while the Bearer is transformed. -The Bearer passively can quarter long-range travel in water. This stacks with Fast Travel. So they can travel at 1/8th time in water. -All water that touches around 100 yards around the form of the Bearer, at any point of their body (which is quite a large area all told), answers the commands of the Bearer, as an ascended form of Elemental Manipulation. -The Bearer can bring anyone back to life, if a piece of their body is presented to them. This ability can be invoked once an arc. They do this by shedding a single salty tear on the body part, which instantly regenerates them to the point life. They do not retain any memories of their time in any afterlife, however. -The Bearer can encircle any group of individuals with their massive serpentine body, and in that circle nobody can disrupt the solitude of those within.