Unknown Armies Adept: Cadavaturgy

 

“And he meets me in the graveyard, the graveyard where they made my bed, 

Plants a white flower under cold stars, on the grave of the forgotten dead.”

Frank Turner

CADAVATURGY

A.K.A. Resurrectionists, Bodysnatchers, Reliquarians (Ω - 2)

Bodysnatching is an ancient art. We’ve been exhuming people and chopping them into little pieces since the time of Galen, be it for advancing the sciences, stealing funerary goods or venerating the dead. 

Resurrectionists take it a step further, obsessing over cadavers to the point they turn into walking memento mori. Their domain isn’t death itself, but what comes after. The decay of flesh and memories. The person-sized void left in the world. How it changes those who remain.

Unknown Armies Avatar: The Bodyguard

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THE BODYGUARD

Attributes
In centuries past the egregore of the protector was a knight in shining armour, shielding a waifish maiden from the forces of evil. Now it’s a man in a dark suit, diving into the path of a bullet. Imagery changes, but the substance stays the same; the Bodyguard sacrifices himself to shield those he's charged to protect. 

Heliomancy Unnatural Phenomena

 

Unknown Armies adept schools sometimes have an associated list of random effects that might fire off if spellcasters overuse or abuse their magickal abilities. Friend of the blog, magnificentophat, is chipping away at making a list of unnatural phenomena for all the published casters. I thought it'd be worthwhile to throw my hat in the ring and assemble such a list for Heliomancy.

Unknown Armies Adept: Heliomancy

“Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,

Have no delight to pass away the time,

Unless to spy my shadow in the sun

And descant on mine own deformity”

Richard III

HELIOMANCY

A.K.A. Sunspotters, Peelers, Backburners (Ω + 1)

There’s something transcendent about the pain of a sunburn. Sure it’s probably the constant irritation, swelling and peeling skin. Or maybe it's the reminder that the sun, the giver of all life on Earth, is also that which bestows burrowing cancer, inflicts droughts and strikes all those who behold it blind.