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Let me know which, if any of these, you're fine with happening in relation to your character. Or if not, we can work around that!
1. Sin-sensing:
By being in the presence of a creature or object, Magr'ateth can get a sense of the moral standing of that person. This follows a mix of objective and subjective rules. Most particularly, volition is vital. A wild animal or a non-intelligent robot, for example, will simply not register at all to this sixth sense, regardless of what acts it's been involved in. A thoroughly insane person, too, will be a nonentity to this sixth sense, though a sociopath who intellectually knows better but still indulges in harmful acts will ping on it.
This gives a general sense of the uprightness or wickedness of what Magr'ateth encounters, though most people fall into a broad and mostly-ignored middle band of only a little bit tilted towards one or the other. Devoted sinners or saints will stand out more obviously. Violent or cruel acts have the greatest influence, but they aren't required; an incredibly greedy and gluttonous merchant may well stand out more than someone who once killed a man in a fit of passion.
This is a magical sense, and magical effects or dampening can interfere with it. Technology normally presents no special direct defense against it, but dealing with things like AIs could return such muddled results as to be useless. It's also independent of actual, physical senses—if there was a saint's ghost wandering around, it would register, even if it had 0% physical presence and was completely impossible to otherwise interact with.
Since this all can be a pretty nebulous territory, especially where it interacts where the moralities of other characters, I'd prefer to work out the way Magr'ateth will sense characters with this in advance of a meeting happening.
2. Keen senses:
Outside of that supernatural sense, Magr'ateth has extremely keen normal senses - hearing, sight, scent, and even a sort of infra-red sense. He's likely to recognize characters by scent even if they change their looks, or to pick up on strange traits about other characters that way. He can potentially do Sherlock Holmes-style tricks of observation, too, though he hasn't really had enough exposure to humans to "connect the dots" in most cases.
3. Imitations:
Magr'ateth is a shapechanger - and can imitate other people fairly easily, though these imitations are generally incomplete, since he never has much reason to practice looking like other people much. Even with only a few minutes' work, though, he can copy the generalities of somebody's looks (and try to hide via mundane means the differences and "tells" that leak through the mask). With an extended period to practice he might be able to play body double to someone, though doing so would mean working around loopholes in the religious oaths he follows.
4. Aura of menace:
Magr'ateth has a lingering magical aura of danger about him, like the distilled essence of the menacing presence of large predators. Because of his age, it's normally quite weak enough that only animals can pick up on it, though characters with especially sharp mundane or magical senses might also get a hint of it.
1. Sin-sensing:
By being in the presence of a creature or object, Magr'ateth can get a sense of the moral standing of that person. This follows a mix of objective and subjective rules. Most particularly, volition is vital. A wild animal or a non-intelligent robot, for example, will simply not register at all to this sixth sense, regardless of what acts it's been involved in. A thoroughly insane person, too, will be a nonentity to this sixth sense, though a sociopath who intellectually knows better but still indulges in harmful acts will ping on it.
This gives a general sense of the uprightness or wickedness of what Magr'ateth encounters, though most people fall into a broad and mostly-ignored middle band of only a little bit tilted towards one or the other. Devoted sinners or saints will stand out more obviously. Violent or cruel acts have the greatest influence, but they aren't required; an incredibly greedy and gluttonous merchant may well stand out more than someone who once killed a man in a fit of passion.
This is a magical sense, and magical effects or dampening can interfere with it. Technology normally presents no special direct defense against it, but dealing with things like AIs could return such muddled results as to be useless. It's also independent of actual, physical senses—if there was a saint's ghost wandering around, it would register, even if it had 0% physical presence and was completely impossible to otherwise interact with.
Since this all can be a pretty nebulous territory, especially where it interacts where the moralities of other characters, I'd prefer to work out the way Magr'ateth will sense characters with this in advance of a meeting happening.
2. Keen senses:
Outside of that supernatural sense, Magr'ateth has extremely keen normal senses - hearing, sight, scent, and even a sort of infra-red sense. He's likely to recognize characters by scent even if they change their looks, or to pick up on strange traits about other characters that way. He can potentially do Sherlock Holmes-style tricks of observation, too, though he hasn't really had enough exposure to humans to "connect the dots" in most cases.
3. Imitations:
Magr'ateth is a shapechanger - and can imitate other people fairly easily, though these imitations are generally incomplete, since he never has much reason to practice looking like other people much. Even with only a few minutes' work, though, he can copy the generalities of somebody's looks (and try to hide via mundane means the differences and "tells" that leak through the mask). With an extended period to practice he might be able to play body double to someone, though doing so would mean working around loopholes in the religious oaths he follows.
4. Aura of menace:
Magr'ateth has a lingering magical aura of danger about him, like the distilled essence of the menacing presence of large predators. Because of his age, it's normally quite weak enough that only animals can pick up on it, though characters with especially sharp mundane or magical senses might also get a hint of it.
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1) Hawke = good. Not a saint, but very determined to do what's right. Integrity rather than selflessness. She has killed a great deal, but pretty much only when attacked first or in general hostile situations. She's never committed murder. (though she has been an unwitting accessory to mass murder THANKS ANDERS).
Anyway, she's sharp enough that she would likely pick up on Mag's aura of danger, at least enough to draw her attention his way even if she didn't recognize why. And even if she doesn't...
2) Teo will, in a heartbeat, and would let Hawke know. Of course. ;) I take it Mag is going to smell like dragon and magic, which he certainly recognizes from long experience...any other particularly distinguishing things he might pick up? And Teo's moral standing...huh. Probably none, he's intelligent but he's still a dog and he follows where Hawke leads. If Hawke suddenly went haywire and ordered him to eat babies he probably wouldn't do it, but that's because he's smart enough to recognize that something was wrong with her.
3) Sparrowhawk/Ged. Oh, interesting. He's Taoist-based (well, sort of), it's all about balance and keeping it. He thinks less in terms of good and evil and more in terms of necessary. That said, he does no evil himself. But the good he does is mostly in the name of balance, to pay a debt or restore an equilibrium. He'd come across more neutral than good, I suspect. I doubt he'd pick up on the aura of danger, though he might guess something here is not what it seems just on the basis of a lifetime of looking beyond the surface of things.
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