Understanding and acceptance are the first and most important aspects of gaining true affinity with another person. A comprehension that goes beyond words or actions, but goes down to the root, the cause of it all. This is why the Mortalborn of Affinity holds this source with such high regard - and why he must first see a person for all of what they are. He must feel the relationships that they hold, not just with other people, but with things and concepts. The affinities they feel.

Once every five trials, at a touch and with intense concentration, the Ashanborn can feel a person's soul and the aspects acting on it at that given moment by initiating skin contact and holding it as they channel their power through the subject. Since this ability lacks refinement, so only the most powerful forces will be felt. These can be aspects such as love for another person, if the individual is thinking about that person or they are nearby, but only if this is a deep, true, intense love, such as soulmates, married partners or close family members; these can be intense passions for a particular skill or profession, if the person is thinking about, currently performing, or has recently performed said skill or profession; these can be goals, aspirations or intense drives, as long as the person is thinking about those drives or currently acting out those drives. Due to the nature of the Spark and Immortal Marks and their actions on the soul, the Ashanborn is able to feel the presence of a Spark or an Immortal Mark, but cannot discern the Domain of this Spark or the Immortal of the Mark unless he has used the same ability on an individual with this Spark or Mark and is aware of it (has knowledges specifically relating to its feel under Disclosure) nor can he determine the strength of their Spark or Mark.

These aspects appear to the Ashanborn in sensations, as he touches each link to the soul in turn and shares in the feeling. The longer the touch, the more information can be pulled, but the longer each subsequent connection will take to decipher (i.e., the first connection may take only one bit to understand, but the second will take two bits, the third will take three, and so on) as the Ashanborn's body struggles to keep his own affinities and those of the subject separated. The order in which the Ashanborn will discover the affinities of the subject is mostly random, however significantly powerful affinities take priority over others (a smith at work will be thinking more about their love of smithing at that given moment than the love of their wife, and therefore the Ashanborn will interpret their smithing affinity before their wife).

This ability does not require the consent of the subject, and the ability can be stopped by breaking skin contact. However, it is also extremely uncomfortable for the subject, often causing flashes of memory and vivid hallucination with every connection felt, along with a general powerful sense of nakedness and exposure as their very essence is scrutinized.

Should the Ashanborn spend longer than approximately fifteen bits (minutes) attempting to understand the subject's soul, their affinities will become entangled. From this moment, for the rest of the season, the Mortalborn will suffer with bouts of memory loss and confusion, as his soul is tugged with an intense love for a person he has never met before, or a love of a craft he has never practiced. These affinities, powerful as they are, will compel him to perform for them, constantly pressing on his thoughts and filling him with melancholy, depression and restlessness while he does not act on the enthralling tugs at his soul.

To bring liberation to the world, one must first remain liberated themselves. To this end, the Mortalborn of Liberty holds a very simple innate power.

The Ashanborn's skin can turn unnaturally smooth for up to half a break (hour) at a time per day, lasting the entire duration or in small momentary bursts. While he is in this state, any person attempting to grip him will find it incredibly difficult to find a good handhold, as his limbs will simply slide back out of the hold, or a single twist of his body will cause their grip to slide off, as if he was covered in incredibly thick grease. Restraints placed upon his body will likewise slide off, no matter how tight and even if covering his entire body. Finally, though his flexibility is not enhanced in any way by this ability, he will find it significantly easier to slide through small gaps.

The downsides of this ability are that although he cannot be grab, he also cannot grab; during this state, his own fingers also slip off anything he attempts to grip. Furthermore, magically-enhanced restraints cannot be escaped, however restraints with magically-enhanced locks can (since this ability does not attempt to unlock the restraint in any way, but instead remove the restraint in its entirety).

The divine energy granted by the Immortals to their followers is a gift not given freely, and each recipient of the blessing knows that. To carry an Immortal’s divinity inside oneself, the mortal must offer the Immortal something in return, and that is the conscious Intent to follow their agendas and proliferate their Domains. For the Mortalborn of Intent, that link is a visible, tangible, and exploitable thing.

Once a follower has been identified, Siphon works as an activated ability through physical touch, direct skin-to-skin contact, which must be maintained for five trills (seconds) to establish a connection, at which point the ability works remotely from a distance of twenty feet. If the connection is broken before the ability can complete, the ability will not activate, but will require a cooldown of fifteen bits (minutes) before it can be used again. It allows the Ashanborn to temporarily sever the connection between the Immortal and the mortal, instead redirecting the divine energy into the Ashanborn to fuel him and his other abilities. The marked individual will not become aware of this severance unless they notice any Mark-induced effects cease functioning, or attempt to cast Mark abilities. The severance of this connection lasts for five bits (minutes) after contact has been broken, and can only affect those at Adored level and below. For Adored, 5% more energy can be collected, but the severance only lasts for three bits. The ability can only be used once a trial, and once he is gorged on divine energy, this energy can then be redirected into his own other Mortalborn abilities, allowing either a limited extended duration of 10% over the current duration, or an increase in strength by 10%. This ether can be retained for a short period, and stacked with the siphoned ether of other mortals to be used at one moment for boosts of increased power. This increase is not cumulative for each added stack.

Because this ability draws immense power into his body, the Ashanborn suffers physically from this ability. While most abilities cause sluggishness or lethargy, this does the opposite. His muscles jerk and twitch, seizing and releasing at random. He cannot sit still, and the body aches for half a trial. Extended use of the ability also causes insomnia and the drawbacks that come with it. Furthermore, as long as the Ashanborn holds the divine ether within them, the Immortal can see him, wherever he is.