Path Skills: Medicine, Occult
Scent of the Divine: Fresh tobacco smoke, impossibly high- and low-pitched voices whispering
Manitou Motif
An offering of tobacco, prayers, dance, and song convinces the myriad, unseen manitous to work their magic in your favor.
Scions may use this Purview to commune with the totemic dodaem manitou of all things: people, animals, places, and events. It allows personal communion with one’s own dodaem manitou, which brings meaningful dreams and can act as an intermediary with other manitou. It can also be used to enter into conversation with the World, asking the manitou for their favor in exchange for making offerings or abiding by a taboo. A Scion who has cultivated a strong relationship with a manitou can manifest or borrow its powers in exchange for performing a service.
Manitou Signature Purview: Dodaem
Dodaem refers to the ideas of action, heart, and nourishment. The people believe that there is a Manitou for all things in the world. This spirit oversees the well-being and functionality of its charge. Before any undertaking these guardian Manitou, called dodaem (or totem) must be acknowledged with respect and your intent made known. Additionally, your own dodaem must be invoked and sought out. It will give you dreams of how to accomplish the thing you wish to do and can be convinced to intervene with other Manitou on your behalf to get them to use their abilities and shape the world to achieve your desired goal.
Tobacco is a plant that seems to resonate with the Manitou. Making physical or burnt offerings of it allows communication to be established and acknowledges respect for the workings of the world and the place of the Manitou and their charges. In addition to tobacco, proper prayers are required. These prayers aren’t limited to sitting and praying. They often include songs and chants as well as dances. Once connected, if the Manitou decide in your favor, then miracles can be made to happen.
Dodaem Innate Power
Once each scene, you can ask a manitou for its favor as a simple action. It grants Enhancement 3 on relevant rolls for the scene, such as those to hunt a bear or pass through a forest safely. In exchange, it will either ask you for a favor (e.g. the bear’s manitou needs a new charge after the hunt) or impose a restriction (e.g. the forest manitou forbids you from harming living things). You lose the Enhancement if you don’t honor the bargain, and the offended manitou may favor your foes until you make amends with it.
Manitou, of the the Anishinaabek
Pride vs. Dream
All people and things have places and times, and there is no greater calling than to find and fulfill one’s place, time, and purpose. Scions of the Manitou are eminently proud and punctual, placing a great value on being at the right place in the right time, but this leads them to being easily manipulated.
PRINCIPAL MEMBERS
GEEZHIGO-QUAE, GRANDMOTHER OF US ALL
Aliases: Nokomis, Grandmother, Sky Woman
Callings: Guardian, Sage, Healer, Shepherd
Purviews: Moon, Sky, Stars, Beasts (Crane, Turtle), Order
MUZZU-KUMIK-QUAE, MOTHER EARTH
Aliases: Mother Earth, Earth Woman
Callings: Healer, Sage, Hunter
Purviews: Beasts (all), Fertility, Earth, Sky, Water , Wild
WINONAH, THE FIRST WOMAN
Aliases: Winona, Tekawerahkwa
Callings: Guardian, Lover, Healer
Purviews: Health, Passion, Prosperity, Epic Stamina, Fortune
MAUDJEE-KAWISS, FIRSTBORN SON
Alias: The Warrior
Callings: Warrior, Leader, Hunter
Purviews: Beasts (Bear, Eagle), Epic Strength, Epic Dexterity, War
PUKAWISS, THE DISOWNED
Alias: The Disowned, Unwanted
Callings: Trickster, Lover, Sage, Outsider
Purviews: Epic Dexterity, Artistry (Dance, Acting, Storytelling), Passion (Mirth), Fortune, Deception, Magic
CHEEBY-AUB-OOZOO, CHIEF OF THE UNDERWORLD
Alias: Jiibayaabooz, Chipiapoo, Moqwaio, Ghost of Rabbit
Callings: Liminal, Hunter, Judge, Pscyhopomp
Purviews: Beasts (Wolf), Death, Epic Stamina, Artistry (Song, Music), Order, Darkness
NANA’B’OOZOO, THE PROTOTYPE OF MAN
Alias: Manobozho, Wisakedjak
Callings: Trickster, Hunter, Warrior
Purviews: Beasts (Rabbit, or Wolf for Wisakedjak), Chaos (Water for Wisakedjak), Epic Dexterity, Fortune, Journeys
IOSKEHA
Alias: Sapling, Good Spirit, Good Mind, Right-Handed Twin, Little Sprout
Callings: Creator, Leader, Warrior
Purviews: Forge, Sun, Sky, Order, Beasts (diurnal mammals and Birds, Insects, and Fish), Health, Passion (all flight emotions)
TAWISCARA
Aliases: Flint, Bad Mind, Left-Handed Twin, Molsem
Callings: Creator, Trickster, Warrior, Adversary
Purviews: Chaos, Deception, Darkness, Death, Passion (all dark emotions), Forge, War
BIBOONIKE, THE WINTER–MAKER
Aliases: Gichi-Biboon, Jack Frost, Old Man Winter, The North Wind
Callings: Hunter, Liminal, Trickster
Purviews: Chaos, Darkness, Frost, Sky, Wild
TITANS
AE-PUNGISHIMOOK
Aliases: The West Wind, Death
Callings: Judge, Liminal, Primeval
Purviews: Chaos, Death, Deception, Epic Dexterity, Epic Stamina, Fertility, Fire, Order, Sky
Virtues: Rapacity, Dominance
ANIWYE
Aliases: Aniwaaye, Aniwo’ye, Giant Skunk, Mishi-Zhigaag
Callings: Destroyer, Hunter, Warrior
Purviews: Beasts (Skunks), Chaos, Death, Earth, Epic Dexterity, Epic Stamina, War, Wild
MISHIBIZHIW
Aliases: Matchi-Manitou, Underwater Panther, Water Lynx
Callings: Adversary, Hunter, Trickster
Purviews: Beasts (Felines, Serpents), Chaos, Death, Deception, Earth, Epic Stamina, Fortune, Sky, Water, Wild
MISIGINEBIG
Aliases: Great Horned Serpent, Wewiwilemita Manitou
Callings: Creator, Liminal, Monster
Purviews: Beasts (Serpents), Chaos, Death, Deception, Earth, Fertility, Fire, Water, Wild
WENDIGO
Aliases: Windigo, Widjigo, Windego
ANIWYE
Aliases: Aniwo’ye, Mishi-Zhigaag, Giant Skunk
PRIMORDIALS
KITCHI-MANITOU
Callings: Creator, Judge, Sage
Purviews: Fortune, Stars, Prosperity, Sun, Darkness, Forge