Wealth (• or •••)
Your character is extraordinarily wealthy, whether through divinely inspired stock trading or the lucrative sale of a plutonian treasure haul. Decide what the source of your character’s prosperity is. Whenever influencing another character by exploiting their wealth or financial status, a character with the Wealth Edge treats the target’s Attitude toward them as one point higher. This benefit does not apply to those not interested in the character’s wealth. This stacks with the Innate Power of the Prosperity Purview (Scion: Hero, p. 258). At one dot, your character always has money on hand to make things happen, whether it’s paying for a dinner at a five-star restaurant, purchasing a brand-new sports car or winning an auction for a desirable painting. You can just give away enough money to make regular people blink twice, this money provides Enhancement 1 on a relevant social action once per scene. At three dots, your character’s wealth can change the lives of thousands. You can hand away enough money to change somebody’s life, giving +3 Enhancement on a relevant social action once per scene. You can treat your Wealth as its own Path and invoke it once per session to accomplish extraordinary feats like chartering a massive freighter, purchasing a building, or hiring mercenaries. If you already have a relevant Path such as Life of Privilege (Scion: Origin, p. 101), you may use this benefit to invoke that Path twice in a single session.
Drawback: A lot of money draws a lot of attention. Those investigating your character’s whereabouts or habits gain +2 Enhancement if you possess this Edge. Against characters that revile the wealthy, your character suffers a +2 Complication on social actions; failure to buy off this penalty results in their Attitude toward your character worsening by one step as you commit a faux pas that demonstrates how out of touch you are.