Auras of Pride
Overview
These roleplaying effects are created by priests dedicated to the virtue of Pride who use the relevant ceremonial skill. A character performing an anointing or hallow must pick one of the appropriate roleplaying effects when they perform the ceremony.
Consecration of Pride
Effect: In this place, you are filled with an acute awareness of that which are most proud; you feel a desire to extol the subject of your pride, and avoid shaming it.
Anointings of Pride
The following are a range of auras that can be summoned onto a living soul, with their consent, by priests whose own souls are dedicated to Pride:
The Affirmation of Pride
Effect: Your perceptions and recollections are filled with pride. You find it easier to recall your triumphs and successes. Any guilt or shame weighing on you is greatly diminished, as is your tolerance for insults.
Description: The path of pride teaches that the virtuous embrace their past without shame, though this is an easier task for some pilgrims than others. Priests of pride have been able to use this anointing to help pilgrims burdened by the past, or by guilt or shame, to try and move forward. This comes with some additional prickliness to personal slights, though some priests of pride maintain that this is an important part of encouraging pilgrims to stand up for themselves than be slaves to shame.
The Demonstration of Pride
Effect: You feel radiant with pride. You feel an impulse to demonstrate, or display, the thing in which you have the most pride, or encourage others to do so if you cannot do this yourself. You also feel an impulse to challenge those who deride the subject of your pride.
Description: The path of pride teaches that pride is about more than just words, and requires action to. The priests of the path have used this anointing to bring this truth home to citizens and pilgrims. Sutannir and Troubadors have also made use of this anointing in preparing their sects and congregations for celebrations. This anointing has also been used by bravos and other warriors to aid them in overcoming adverse effects and malign auras through demonstration of their pride.
The Legacy of Pride
Effect: You are granted an immediate vision of one, or more, of your proudest moments. If you are bleeding, or terminal, the vision is extended to include all your proudest moments shining brightly. You are filled with a sense of satisfaction of what you have achieved.
Description: The path of pride stretches in both directions and pilgrims are often required to reflect on where they have come from, as well as where they are going to. Priests of pride have found this anointing helpful in supporting their pilgrims to achieve this. This anointing has also been used as part of last rites or funerary ceremonies to assure citizens and pilgrims of their virtue, which will guide them in the Labyrinth of Ages.
The Foundations of Pride
Effect: You want others to know the feeling of pride. You feel an impulse to help others recognise their strengths, the positive qualities they possess, and the merits of their past. This includes a desire to help others see the past as a foundation, not an excuse.
Description: The path of pride is not that of the vainglorious and egotistical, but seeks to build up others also. The path teaches that the virtuous inspire others, and help them embrace their past. Some pilgrims lose sight of this and focus merely on themselves. Priests of pride have been able to use this anointing to help such citizens and pilgrims overcome this obstacle and, in doing so, learn more about the virtuous path.
The Experience of Pride
Effect: During this anointing, you were asked to specify an entity, usually something that is clearly defined like a culture, nation or way of living. Whilst this anointing is in effect, you feel a connection to this entity and even a sense of pride in it. This applies even if the specified entity would not normally be something you felt any pride toward.
Description: Priests of the path of pride have taught that this anointing is beneficial in building an understanding of the nature of pride. Some have also used this to help citizens build empathy for others and thus aid reconciliation rather than Lucidians, however, fear that this aura could be abused for the purposes of indoctrination. There is at least one apocryphal tale of an unnamed Sutannir who accompanied the Emperor Ahraz in his negotiations with the self-liberated orcs and used this anointing to help illuminate the glory of the Empire to those who had formerly been its slaves.
Hallows of Pride
Hallowing of Lepidus
Effect: You feel a desire to encourage or inspire those around you. This feeling applies to all, including enemies, regardless of your other feelings toward them.
Hallowing of the Peacock's Feather
Effect: You feel a strong desire to display this item openly, and make use of it publically. This includes an impulse to take good care of the item. If you deliberately do not do any of the above, the feeling changes to one of revulsion and rejection that flows from the item to you for as long as you are bonded.
Hallowing of Kethry
Effect: You feel a surge of pride in your people, and their way of life. You feel an urge to display the superior qualities of this way of living by letting them inform every aspect of your life. You find it difficult to lie about your identity and origins.
Hallowing of Inspiration
Effect: When you concentrate upon this item, this hallowing summons a vision of a hero, or other figure you respect, and a desire to live up to their example.
Hallowing of the Examiner
Effect: You feel an impulse to test the abilities or claims that others boast of. This effect is amplified if you believe that these boasts, or claims, are empty. This impulse includes the desire to use this item in the testing, if it would be appropriate to do so.
Hallowing of Richilde
Effect: You feel an urge to celebrate and extol the qualities of that which you are proud. This may include an impulse to do so artistically. This impulse includes the desire to use this item in that celebration, if it would be appropriate to do so.