Path Skills: Close Combat, Culture
Scent of the Divine: Fresh grass and clover, with a sound of creaking wood

Tuatha Motif

Magic flows from verse and satire.

Geasa (singular geis) are rules, requirements, and prohibitions written into the fabric of Fate. This Purview binds the Tuatha and their Scions to geasa of their own and lets them lay geasa on others. It can influence the behavior of those under a geis, granting the power to uphold them or tempting Gods or mortals into breaking their geasa.

Tuatha Signature Purview: Geasa

A geis (plural: geasa) is a ban or taboo that provides power when upheld and spells doom when broken. Geasa can take the form of blessings and curses, sworn oaths, mandates, and prohibitions. They range from Cú Chulainn’s inability to pass up hospitality or eat dog flesh to nonsensical rules one must follow to avoid mortally offending a fairy lord. Scions can inflict geasa on others, manipulating Fate to entangle their foes in webs of impossible promises, but they also must contend with permanent ones of their own.

Geasa Innate Power
You are under a geis. If you break it or otherwise resolve the Condition, the Storyguide should arrange for you to fall under another — either from a Tuatha or fellow Scion, one of the sidhe, the biting words of a poet, or simply mythic circumstance. You take on a second such geis upon becoming a Demigod, and a third upon becoming a God.

VIRTUES

Honor vs. Prowess

Honor vs. Prowess

Honor is your internal self-worth, and Prowess is your ability to back it up. The Irish Gods are consumed by pride and face: how others think of them. This spurs them to great deeds and greater prowess, but often causes a great deal of trouble.

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