Atua, of Poynesia

Asset Skills: Academics, Pilot
Virtues: Respect and Wonder
Scent of the Divine: The salt of the sea; different seafoods cooking at once

Atua Motif

Through the magic inherent in relationships or the intercession of the Atua, mana may be transmitted and natural miracles performed.

Mana is the cultivated and possessed authority, honor, control, influence, prestige, and power inherent within binding physical and social ties. It’s a spiritual energy that resides in all people and things in nature and can be gained and lost by an individual’s Deeds and the Deeds of others. Mana is also the recognized ability to perform an action, as an expression of spiritual and social strength. It’s related to yet distinct from Legend — and as a descendant of a God, the focus of a community, and the performer of great Deeds, a Demigod’s mana is invariably potent.

Atua Signature Purview: Mana

Mana Innate Power
You gain Enhancement 2 on any roll to scrutinize or reveal Bonds and determine the social standing of a group, or on rolls to gauge the power, scope, and causal relationships of a natural event or weather phenomenon. If an action or location is tapu or otherwise socially forbidden in another culture, you recognize it immediately and know the corresponding required noa. You may also intuit Bonds and relationships towards actors who are not present, such as the sorcerer causing an earthquake via a ritual, or the lingering respect and fear a family feels towards an overbearing patriarch. Once per session, when you acknowledge these relationships aloud, add two Momentum to the pool. You may only acknowledge a given Bond once per story.

VIRTUES

Respect vs. Wonder

Traditions still alive today trace back to the first canoes out of Hawaiki and Kahiki through an unbroken line of genealogy. But wonder spurred those canoes forward in the first place, questing for islands whose nature no one could know for sure.

THE POLYNESIAN PANTHEON

RONGOMATANE

RONGOMATANE

WAR GOD OF CULTIVATED CROPS
Aliases: Lono (Hawai’i), Ono (Marquesan), Ro’o-te-ro’oro’o (Tahiti)
Callings: Healer, Liminal, Warrior, Shepherd
Purviews: Earth, Epic Strength, Fertility, Sky, War

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REHUA

REHUA
THE HEAVENLY STAR

Callings: Healer, Judge, Primeval, Shepherd
Purviews: Beasts (Birds), Fire, Health, Order, Stars

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TAMANUITERA

TAMANUITERA

THE SUN GOD
Aliases: Lā (Sāmoa), Laa (Tonga), Rā, Ra’a (Tahiti)
Callings: Judge, Liminal, Primeval
Purviews: Beasts (Woodpecker), Order, Sky, Sun

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TANEMAHUTA

TANEMAHUTA

GOD OF LIGHT
Aliases: Kāne (Hawai’ian), Tāne
Callings: Creator, Hunter, Primeval
Purviews: Beasts (Birds), Beauty, Epic Strength, Forge, Wild

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TANGAROA

TANGAROA

GOD OF THE SEA AND ITS UGLY DENIZENS
Aliases: Kanaloa (Hawai’ian), Ta’aroa (Tahitian), Tagaloa (Sāmoan and Tongan), Takaroa (Tuamotu)
Callings: Creator, Liminal, Primeval
Purviews: Beasts (Sea Creatures), Fertility, Fire, Forge, Moon, Sky, Water

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TAWHIRIMATE

TAWHIRIMATE

THE STORM FATHER
Aliases: Tāwhiri
Callings: Destroyer, Liminal, Primeval, Outsider
Purviews: Epic Stamina, Epic Strength, Passion (Rage), Sky
Virtues: Respect, Submission

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TAMATAUENGA

TAMATAUENGA

WAR GOD OF THE ANGRY FACE
Aliases: Kū (Hawai’ian), Tū, Tū-kanguha, Tū-kariri
Callings: Creator, Hunter, Warrior
Purviews: Beasts, Epic Stamina, Epic Strength, Fertility, War

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PELE

PELE

HAWAI’IAN GODDESS OF VOLCANOES
Callings: Destroyer, Liminal, Lover
Purviews: Artistry (Dance), Beauty, Fire, Journeys, Passion

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TITANS

TITANS

HAWAI’I: THE PROTECTORS OF MAUNAKEA
Virtues: Respect, Submission;
Purviews: Earth (Ka Houpo o Kāne), Frost (Poli’ahu),
Sky (Lilinoe), Water (Waiau)

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KIORE

KIORE

Virtues: Fecundity, Rapacity.
Purview: Beasts (Rattus exulans)

PANDAKI

THE SAVIOR OF SOULS
Aliases: Pandaque, Deliverer, Si Dapa’s Spokesman
Callings: Hunter, Liminal, Trickster
Purviews: Deception, Death, Epic Dexterity, Epic Stamina, Health, Journeys

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MAHUIKA

MAHUIKA

THEY WHO BURN
Callings: Guardian, Primeval, Sage
Purviews: Epic Strength, Epic Stamina, Fire, Passion (Devotion), Sky, Stars

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PRIMORDIALS

RANGINUI AND PAPATUANUKU

RANGINUI AND PAPATUANUKU

Callings: Creators, Lovers, Primeval
Purviews: Earth (Papatūānuku), Sky (Ranginui)

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