Apex Predator

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Apex Predator (C. R. x6)

1) Beast Speech You can communicate emphatically with any animal you maintain eye contact with. System: No roll or cost required. Communication is maintained as long as eye contact is held. This ability will not compel obedience.

2) Call to Slaughter By making an animal call, you can summon animals of a particular species who can hear the call. However, you can only call one species at a time. A call can not be retracted. System: Roll Charisma + Animal Ken (Diff: 6). Successes determine how effective the call is: 1 suc. One animal responds. 2 suc. A quarter of the animals in range respond. 3 suc. Half of the amimals in range respond. 4 suc. Most of the animals in range respond. 5 suc. All of the animals in range respond.

3) Bark of Command By giving a roar and exerting your dominance, you may issue commands to any fauna.

System: The user may give verbal commands to a single selected animal. Roar, shout, or growl and roll Charisma + Animal Ken (Diff: 4 if a pet, 6 for a stranger, 8 if actively hostile). If successful, the animal obeys to the best of it's ability. Commands should be reasonably simple for best affect. By spending a gnosis with your command, you may compel any number of animals of one species within earshot.

4) Spirit Link You can merge your spirit with a number of beasts, allowing you access to their perceptions as if they were your own. Further, you may communicate, summon, or compel them at any range.

System: You must be on friendly terms with the animal, & spend a Gnosis point to forge the link. You may access the animal at any time thereafter, & the link lasts until you cancel it or the animal dies. If the animal suffers any Lethal damage while linked, you suffer an equivalent amount of Bashing damage. You may have a maximum number of Spirit Links equal to your Gnosis score.

5) Spirit Transfer As a (detestable) last resort, you may transfer your Spirit into any animal you have a Spirit Link with, or if caught truly unprepared, any animal nearby.

System: At any time you may burn a Permanent Willpower to transfer your consciousness to a linked animal. You gain all the abilities & traits of that form. Mental Attributes are unchanged. If you don't have an active Spirit Link at the time, you can also burn a Permanent Gnosis to take over an animal within (Gnosis x10 meters). If you also have Earthworm: 5, you can slowly "regrow" the animal body into an approximation of Human Shape (Think Dr. Moreau). The new body will always have some animal features, & you may gain certain merits/flaws to represent this (GM's discretion).