Fallen Relics

Damned Wonders: Building Enchanted Relics

Enchanted relics – items that create a limited evocation or supernatural effect when the user or creator wishes – are among the most powerful and desirable relics in demonic society. They’re also among the most difficult and costly to create – not just for the character, but for the player as well. Compared to the systems for creating enhanced relics, the system for creating enchanted items is significantly more complex – because these relics can do so many things.

Having said that, this system isn’t too complex. In practical terms, you and the Storyteller need to pin down the effects created by the relic and how easily those effects can be used. From these details, you can work out just how many successes are required on an extended evocation roll, and what modifiers will affect that roll.

Envisioning The Item

The first step in enchanting an item is deciding what kind of relic it’s going to be – what the object will be and what supernatural effects the object generates. These decisions determine how difficult the evocation will be, how powerful an effect the relic can generate and what bodies of lore the creator needs to know.

So what are you trying to create? A mirror that always shows a beautiful reflection? A book that lets you communicate with dead souls? A wand that shoots fireballs? A trench coat that lets you teleport? Almost anything is possible. The item you enchant can be simple or complex, big or small, natural or artificial, appropriate or bizarre. For the most part, the item’s nature doesn’t matter, because the evocation doesn’t involve that nature – it simply embeds and anchors another evocation into the object. You could enchant a brick or a newspaper if you felt so inclined. What does matter is how well you know the item and the quality of the item. An object you made yourself is easier to enchant than one you didn’t. A finely crafted item is necessary to contain the power of a strong evocation.

Technological items cannot be enchanted, however. Science and technology are alien things to demons, who were locked oblivious in the Abyss while mortals developed amazing new devices. Demons find the spiritual nature of things such as cars and video cameras very difficult to understand, and while they can enhance such items (with great effort), they cannot yet perceive the shifting, confusing nature of technology enough to manipulate that nature to form an enchanted relic. Demons can enchant mechanical items – clockwork toys, car engines, even firearms – but electronic items such as computers or cell phones are out of the question. You could enchant a broken high-tech item – a broken camcorder is just a lump of plastic and metal wires – but the enchantment would dissipate if the item were repaired, because its nature would change and force out the embedded evocation.

At this point, you also need to describe the specific effect the relic evokes. Unlike the evocations of demons, which are flexible and modifiable, the powers of relics are clearly delineated. You can’t make a relic that both dampens and strengthens fires. Or rather, you can, but you’d need to enchant the item twice. Similarly, your magic mirror can show only one kind of illusory reflection – making the viewer look more beautiful, for example.

A relic’s effects can combine the power of two bodies of lore in some cases, but that effect still needs to be defined. A mirror that can detect what the viewer wishes he looked like, then shows him that reflection would need a combined evocation of the Lore of Light (illusions) and the Lore of Longing (desire) – but still, that’s all it does.

Just to make it perfectly clear – an enchanted relic can evoke only one, limited, predefined effect or evocation. It can’t produce a complex, flexible evocation, and it can’t be enchanted twice to produce two different effects. It was possible to create relics with multiple enchantments back in the Time of Babel and before, but Creation is too thin now to allow such power, and only rare surviving artifacts from that time can overcome these restrictions. If you want to make a more flexible item, or one that can produce multiple effects, then you need to create a demonic item.

Talk your idea over with your Storyteller first – just in case she doesn’t feel the item is appropriate – then move on to outlining the details of the item.

Necessary Lore

Before your character can build the relic, he needs to know how to evoke the effect that the item will mimic. He needs at least basic knowledge in the bodies of lore relevant to that effect, meaning he must have at least one dot in every body of lore required for the effect. It isn’t necessary for the character to be able to evoke the effect himself – you don’t need to have four dots in the Lore of the Winds to make a relic that can evoke a Wall of Air. But without basic knowledge of the appropriate lore, you won’t be able to understand how to contain those energies within an object or how to direct them using the Lore of the Forge. If the relic’s effects combine the powers of two or more bodies of lore, your character needs to have at least one dot in each of those lore paths. If the effect is the high-Torment version of an evocation, then the character will have to gain a point of temporary Torment when enchanting the item.

If your proposed relic is simply evoking a standard effect, the system is pretty straightforward. One of the strengths of enchanted items, though, is that they can create a wide variety of effects, not all of which are standard evocations. It’s up to the Storyteller to decide what lore is relevant to a particular effect. The following list is a guideline, but the Storyteller may decide that a different lore – or combination of lore – is needed.
Lore of Awakening – Relics that heal or directly harm a person or creature, or ones that involve medicines or poisons.
Lore of the Beast – Relics that control or influence animals.
Lore of the Celestials – Relics that affect a demon’s Faith, powers or evocations.
Lore of Death – Relics that directly end mortal lives or affect undead creatures.
Lore of the Earth – Relics that control the earth, metals and stone.
Lore of the Firmament – Relics that involve communication over a distance.
Lore of Flame – Relics that create or affect fire and heat.
Lore of the Flesh – Relics that directly affect a character’s body, including relics that modify a character’s Attributes.
Lore of the Forge – Relics that affect other relics or control objects.
Lore of the Fundament – Relics that change or override physical laws, including most relics that fly or act as a form of transport.
Lore of Humanity – Relics that control or influence mortal minds directly.
Lore of Light – Relics that create illusions of any kind of create or affect light.
Lore of Longing – Relics that control mortal minds indirectly or detect or modify emotions.
Lore of Paths – Relics that involve movement or direction.
Lore of Patterns – Relics that provide information or predict the future.
Lore of Portals – Relics that teleport the user or control doors and barriers.
Lore of Radiance – Relics that overawe or influence groups of mortals.
Lore of the Realms – Relics that allow travel or interaction between worlds.
Lore of the Spirit – Relics that allow communication or control over spirits.
Lore of Storms – Relics that control or influence water or storms.
Lore of Transfiguration – Relics that change shape or allow others to change shape.
Lore of the Wild – Relics that control or influence plants or wilderness areas.
Lore of the Winds – Relics that create or influence air and winds (including some relics that allow flight).
As well as evocation effects, the relics can mimic features of a demon’s revelatory form, such as wings or increased size. The creator of the relic must have one dot in the primary lore of a specific visage in order to mimic that feature. For instance, the creator of a relic that gives the user the Perfect Balance feature of the Ellil visage must have at least one dot in the Lore of the Winds. If the feature is one shared by several different visages (many demons have wings in their revelatory form, for instance), the demon needs to know only one lore that provides that feature. If the feature is a high-Torment feature of the visage, the character gains a point of temporary Torment for embedding the feature in the relic.

Characters who don’t know the necessary lore can work in collaboration with another character that does. Such a collaborator must have at least one dot in the Lore of the Forge, and working with a collaborator is much more difficult than creating a relic on one’s own. Modifiers for working with a partner (or partners) are shown later in this section.

Selecting The Right Materials

Two facets of the chosen item are relevant in the enchantment process. The first is how familiar the demon is with the item – whether he made it himself or obtained it through other means (bought it, stole it, found it lying in the street, etc.). If the demon made the item himself, it’s much easier for him to enchant it. He knows the nature of the item well and can easily perceive the places where an evocation can be anchored. If he didn’t make the item, the process becomes harder.

The other factor is the suitability of the item and its components. An evocation is a nexus of raw power and energy, and securing it to a physical object is no easy task. If the item is flimsy or of poor quality, it can’t anchor a powerful evocation effectively. The evocation won’t take hold, and the object might even be destroyed in the process. Suitability is more than just physical robustness, though – it’s also a measure of how rare and hard to obtain the material is. The best materials aren’t available in supermarkets or factory showrooms. A character might want meteoric iron, an antique sword made in the 12th century, or the hand of a hanged murderer to form the nexus of his relic, all of which takes time and effort to acquire.

In mechanical terms, the demon’s familiarity with the device determines the basic difficulty of the evocation. The character must roll against a difficulty of 6 to enchant an item his character made, or against a difficulty 8 to enchant an item made by another. The item’s suitability determines the maximum number of successes that the character can accumulate in the extended evocation roll – which, in turn, will dictate the effects of the evocation.

The minimum amount of successes needed to enchant an item is equal to twice the dots in the lore required to produce the effect. So if you want to make an item that mimics the Command the Dead evocation of the Lore of the Spirit, which requires three dots, you need a minimum of six successes to make the item. If the relic requires multiple lore paths to produce its effect, only the highest level of lore is doubled. If the device requires one dot in two lore paths and four dots in another, you need eight successes to create the item. If you add further successes to the required total, you can make the relic more powerful – more effective, better range and so on. If the number of successes required is more than the maximum allowed for your materials, you probably won’t be able to create the relic. You’ll need more suitable materials, or perhaps you can tinker with the effect to make it cheaper.

The suitability of an item is reflected primarily in how difficult it is to obtain, as shown by this chart.
Item/Material Suitability: Shoddy
Examples: Driftwood, rocks, broken toys, low-grade steel, quartz, skateboard, pocket knife

Item/Material Suitability: Adequate
Examples: Quality wood, semi-precious stones, strong steel, car, motorcycle, priest’s vestments

Item/Material Suitability: Good
Examples: Small amounts of precious metals, small precious stones, Armani suit, Toledo sword, alchemical equipment

Item/Material Suitability: Exceptional
Examples: Gold ingot, large rubies and sapphires, rare antique, meteoric iron, hand of hanged murderer

Item/Material Suitability: Superb
Examples: One-of-a-kind antique, diamond the size of your fist, chest full of gold, supply of siyr metal from the Time of Atrocities</li>
Obtaining An Item

The easiest – and probably quickest – item to obtain for enchantment is one that’s already available – one your character already owns or can buy. Most characters have access to a variety of weapons, tools, vehicles and knick-knacks that can be usefully enchanted. Such items, though, are generally of fairly ordinary quality, and won’t hold a strong evocation. If your character doesn’t want to go to the time and effort of making a suitable item from good materials, he has to buy or bargain to get the right object.

The preceding table lists the minimum rating in a given Background to obtain a suitable item or suitable materials. Just what Background is required is determined by the Storyteller based on the kind of item and the needs of the chronicle. Many items can simply be bought, requiring a minimum Resources rating. Other items might only be obtained by use of Contacts or Influence, given up only to a demon of a given Eminence or tracked down through the memories supplied by Legacy. If your character doesn’t have enough dots in an appropriate Background, then it’s time to call in some favors or go looking for aid from other characters. Tracking down highly suitable materials to make a powerful relic can be a story in itself.

Making An Item

Creating an appropriate item from raw materials takes longer – possibly a lot longer – than just buying one, but the resultant item is a lot easier to enchant. The most important factor here is the quality of the materials you use to make your item. Sure, you can make a relic out of scrap iron and driftwood, but the resulting piece of crap won’t do much. A truly powerful relic needs to be made from the best materials possible – tempered steel, perfect diamonds, arcane treasures. It’s no cheaper or easier to obtain good-quality materials than it is to buy an item already made from those materials, but the payoff kicks in when it comes time to perform the evocation.

Once your character has obtained the raw materials for making the relic, it’s time to set to work. The creation process occurs with a Dexterity + Crafts roll (for simple creations) or Dexterity + Technology (for mechanical items).

Creating the item is an extended action, with a roll being made for each day your character works on the item. The process may take even longer and may require one roll for every in-game week. This is usually the case for large items or creations that require special tools or procedures (such as building a car engine from parts). The difficulty for making most items is 6, but certain items may be harder to make. Anything requiring fine work or special tools, such as an intricate clockwork device or engraving a gold ring, is probably difficulty 7 or 8. If you botch the roll, the item and materials are ruined, and you have to start all over again.

The more successes you accumulate on this roll, the higher the quality of the item is, and the more powerful the evocation you can store in it is. You can’t just keep accumulating successes forever, though. The maximum number of successes you can gather is equal to the maximum successes allowed for your materials. If your character is building an opal ring from “good” quality stones and materials, you can accumulate a maximum of nine successes on the extended roll. That’s as good as it’s ever going to get. You can stop before that point, with the amount of successes you end up with is also the maximum number of successes you end up with is also the maximum number of successes you can gather on the extended evocation roll for enchanting the item. You might have great materials, but if you just slap them together, the resulting item isn’t going to be good enough to house a powerful evocation.

Remember that you get to design the relic fully before you start rolling dice. Once you’ve worked out how many successes you’ll need for the chosen evocation, come back to this point and rethink the item requirements if necessary. Maybe you’ll need a more expensive item to house your evocation, or maybe the relic is so simple that you can anchor it to a much less costly object.

Determining The Successes Needed

This is the main part of the relic design system, and the one where the player and the Storyteller need to do the most work.

Performing the Enchant Object evocation is an extended action, where the player needs to accumulate a certain number of successes. The power of the relic – the effect it generates, how strong that effect is and how often it can be used – determines the number of successes you need to accumulate with the evocation roll. The suitability of the item determines the maximum number of successes you can gain with the evocation.

The handler and the Storyteller should progress through the following steps in order, determining at each step how many successes are needed. When all the steps are completed, you should have a total number of successes needed to create the item you’ve designed. If that total is higher than your chosen item can contain, you need to go back and redesign the effect to make it less powerful or choose a new item that can contain the power of the evocation. If it’s equal to the item’s maximum, you can go ahead and make the item. If it’s lower than the maximum, you might want to beef up the evocation’s power, use a lower quality (and easier to obtain) item, or simply go ahead with the Enchant Item evocation.

Step One: The Basic Evocation

The power of the evocation – the number of dots in lore you would need to evoke that effect – is the base from which you start. The relic requires an absolute minimum number of successes equal to twice the number of dots in lore required. If your relic evokes an effect, equivalent to a three-dot evocation, you need six successes at this step.

If the relic creates a conjunctional effect that would require knowledge of multiple bodies of lore, then you need a minimum level of successes equal to double the highest level of lore involved. If the relic is a scepter that inspires loyalty in a mortal (Aura of Legend, three dots in Lore of Radiance) while expanding his consciousness (Inspire, four dots in Lore of Longing), then the item requires eight successes at this stage.

If the relic’s effect is not a standard evocation, then the Storyteller should set a minimum based on how powerful the effect is. If it’s comparable to a minor, one-dot evocation, then the player needs two successes; if it’s a powerful effect comparable to a five-dot evocation, then the player needs 10 successes here.

Step Two: The Power Of The Effect

Evocations have a dice pool associated with the effect, which determines how powerful the evocation is – all the standard evocations include an associated dice pool. The relic has its own dice pool for the effect, rather than using that of the wielder or the creator. This dice pool can be made larger by increasing the number of successes required to make the relic.

The basic dice pool for a relic’s effect is the same as the creator’s relevant dice pool. If your character is making a relic that mimics the Create Ward evocation, which involves a Charisma + Intuition pool, then the relic’s dice pool is equal to your character’s Charisma+ Intuition. Relics that mimic the features of a particular visage have a base dice pool equal to the creator’s permanent Faith rating. If the effect is based on two or more different evocations, then the base dice pool is equal to the highest of the creator’s relevant pools. For these items, the player normally rolls the relic’s pool once and applies the successes to all the facets of the effect, but the Storyteller might decide that it’s more appropriate to roll the pool separately for each part of the effect. If multiple characters are collaborating on the item, the dice pool of the character evoking Enchant Object is the one used for the relic.

You can increase this pool by adding more successes to the required total, though, since one of the most common reasons for making enchanted relics is to transcend the creator’s limits. Every success added to the required total adds two dice to the relic’s dice pool, with the only limit being the maximum successes permitted by the relic’s suitability. If you add another three successes to the required total, the relic’s dice pool is six dice larger than your character’s relevant pool.

The difficulty of the relic’s effect roll is the same as the normal difficulty of the appropriate evocation. If the effect isn’t a standard evocation, the Storyteller should decide on a difficulty (6 is usually good). You can’t lower this difficulty by requiring more successes. You can’t accidentally evoke the high-Torment of an evocation when using a relic (another advantage of these items), because the relic produces only the “pre-programmed” effect. (If the relic is designed to heal others, it can’t suddenly harm them instead.) If you want the relic to produce the high-Torment version of an evocation, you have to decide thus when you make the relic. Should you do so, the character suffers a point of temporary Torment to embed that effect in the relic.

Step Three: Frequency Of Use

Once you’ve determined how powerful the relic’s effect is, the next step is determining how often the relic can be used. Relics can be used over and over again, but usually only a few times in each scene. Some relics can be used at whim, but they are much harder to produce, and they require far more successes.

The relic starts at a base of one use per scene. You can increase this limit by adding more successes to the required total. Adding up to four successes to the required total increases the uses-per-scene by the same amount – so if you add three successes to the required total, you can use the relic three more times per scene (for a total of four time). Alternatively, if you add give successes to the required total, the item can be used as many times per scene as you like. Only the finest materials will be able to contain such a powerful effect, however.

Step Four: Other Modifiers

The first three steps are enough to cover almost all enchanted items. Still, there are always other complications and possibilities, other ways to make the relic more complex and time-consuming to produce. The following possibilities cover some ground, but aren’t exhaustive.
Working With a Collaborator: It’s possible for a character to work with another demon in order to produce a relic that he could not make alone due to shortcomings in his knowledge of lore. It’s a lot more difficult to create a relic while depending on another’s knowledge, though. As well as increasing the difficulty of the evocation roll (covered later), the successes required to make the item increase by two for every other demon working on it with the character. If a demon had to work with two partners to create a relic – perhaps because each knew part of the lore needed to create the effect – then the player would need another four successes to create the relic.
Additional Sacrifice: All enchanted relics require the sacrifice of spiritual energy and the strength of belief to power them, which is normally based on a Willpower or Faith roll. You can make the item easier to create – reducing the number of required successes – by demanding an additional price be paid for each activation of the relic. The roll must still be made, but there are other demands made of the user as well.

If the item requires an onerous sacrifice, reduce the number of successes needed by one. An onerous sacrifice is inconvenient and painful, but it doesn’t threaten the life or sanity of the user or others. An appropriate mechanical sacrifice might be the loss of a lethal health level or having to suffer a penalty to all dice rolls for the rest of the scene. An onerous sacrifice can also be something emotionally meaningful to the user, such as having to hurt someone he loves or give up caring about one important thing in his life every time he uses the relic.

If the item requires a severe sacrifice, reduce the number of required successes by two. A severe sacrifice requires great pain on the part of the user – or on the part of others. Possible examples include having to kill an innocent person each time the item is used, losing a permanent health level, having to cut off a finger or sacrificing one of your memories to the relic.
Miscellaneous Limitations: If the evocation produced by the relic is significantly limited, the Storyteller may reduce the required successes by one or even two. It’s important to distinguish, though, between a limited evocation – one that is notably les useful than usual – and a specific effect, which is what the relic is meant to produce. An item that evokes the Lore of Longing but affects only one particular emotion isn’t limited – that’s the appropriate scope of the relic. A relic that affects only that emotion, and in addition works only on women, is limited. It’s up to the Storyteller’s discretion to decide whether an evocation is limited, and what reduction in the required successes is warranted. As a rule of thumb, significant limitations reduce the successes by one, while drastic limitations reduce the required successes by two.
Miscellaneous Bonuses: Just as the Storyteller can reduce the required successes for an evocation that seems limited, she can increase the required successes if the evocation seems unusually useful. If the evocation manages to overcome some of the normal limitations of the lore, such as having a longer range, the Storyteller should feel free to increase the requirements by one or even two successes.
Step Five: Add It All Up

Now that you’ve worked through all the preceding steps, you should know how many successes you’ll need on the Enchant item evocation roll. If it’s more than the item can hold – or more than you think you can accumulate in the time you have – go back to Step One and tinker with the numbers to reduce the total.

The Evocation

Once you’ve worked out how many successes you require on the extended evocation roll, the next step is to make that roll, which means determining the difficulty number and the dice pool.

The base difficulty number depends on the item being used – 6 if your character created it himself, 8 if someone else made it. The base dice pool is equal to the character’s Dexterity + Crafts. You make a roll for every day your character spends enchanting the relic. When you accumulate the required number of successes, the relic is finished.

If you botch the roll at any point, the potential relic is ruined, and you lose the Faith the item would have required to create. If, over the course of the extended roll, more successful dice are rolled below your character’s Torment than above, the item is cursed, and it demands a higher price from the user.

A number of different modifiers can change both the dice pool and the difficulty of the evocation. Several are listed here. The Storyteller may impose or grant others if she feels it warranted.
Ravaging: If your character ravages the souls of her thralls, you can add a number of dice up to her Faith rating to the dice pool for one evocation roll. If you want to increase the pool for the next roll, your character has to ravage her thralls again.
Faith: Spending a point of temporary Faith adds an automatic success to one evocation roll. If you want another success on the next roll, you need to spend another point of Faith.
Resonance (1): If your character uses appropriate resonances of the Lore of the Forge throughout the extended evocation, the difficulty of the evocation attempt decreases by one. You can also reduce the difficulty by one if the relic resonates with the lore of the evocation. For instance, a gravestone would help an evocation of the Lore of Death; a book of poetry resonates with the Lore of Longing. You can reduce the difficulty by only one for using resonance, even if you use resonances of the Lore of the Forge and enchant an item that resonates with the evocation.
Resonance (2): As well as using resonance, you can get a bonus to the evocation if the relic causes resonance as a side effect. You can add an extra die to all the evocation rolls if minor manifestations of the relic’s lore appear in the vicinity when the relic is used. As an example, a relic that evokes the Lore of the Wild might cause plants to grow faster in the area for a day after being used. A relic that evokes the Lore of Death might cause shadows to become permanent in the place where it was used. These manifestations are always too minor to give any real in-game benefit or penalty, but they can make the item slightly easier to track down. (They also make the relic a little more interesting, and that’s worth rewarding.)
Visage: If your character benefits from reduced difficulty to his Crafts roll in his apocalyptic form, or if he gains a bonus to his Dexterity, those benefits can be applied to the evocation roll as long as he remains in apocalyptic form while performing the evocation. Doing so for an extended roll is at best impractical, and at worst impossible, though. Characters are going to find it very difficult to remain in revelatory form for days on end.
Existing Relic Status: Remember, if the object is already a relic of any kind, it can’t be further enchanted.
Collaboration: If other characters are helping you create the item by providing the necessary lore, increase the difficulty of the evocation by one. Multiple collaborators still increase the difficulty by only one.
With all the details pinned down, it’s time to roll dice, count successes and determine how well things went for your character!

The Finishing Touches

With the extended evocation roll complete, only a few more things need to be wrapped up before using your relic.
Cementing the Evocation: The evocation has been designed and embedded in the relic, but it won’t stay there unless the knot of energies is stabilized. Doing so requires your character to spend a number of temporary Faith points equal to the maximum lore needed for the evocation. So if the relic mimics the two-dot evocation of the Lore of Flame, you need to spend two points of temporary Faith. In the case of evocations that draw on multiple bodies of lore, you don’t need to pay Faith equal to all of those lore ratings – just the highest lore rating of all those acquired.
Activation and Use: To use a relic, the operator must sacrifice a measure of her own energy and belief to the item – the amount of energy is usually quite small. Whenever a mortal uses the item, she must make a Willpower roll (difficulty 8) or spend a Willpower point in order to activate the relic’s power. Players of demons must make a Faith roll (difficulty 6) or spend a Faith point to activate the relic. This roll must be made every time the relic is used, but the user needs only a single success each time. If the roll is botched, the user loses a point of the relevant trait. Relics that suffer more onerous use conditions (see Step Four) still require this roll in addition to the other sacrifices that the user must make.

If the characters evokes the high-Torment version of Enchant Object – deliberately or accidentally – the relics demands a higher price of the user, but is more reliable. There’s no need for a dice roll when activating a high-Torment relic. Instead, mortal users must spend a point of Willpower to activate the relic, while demons gain a point of temporary Torment each time they use the device. Eventually the curse of the twisted relic breaks the will of any mortal user and slowly corrupts any demon who draws on its power. As before, any enchanted item that requires a more onerous activation condition retains this price, which must be paid in addition to the normal cost of using the item. High-Torment relics also botch more often – on a roll of 1 or 2 – and those mishaps almost always have tragic consequences.
Attunement: Rather than have to make a roll each time your character uses an item – whether he created it or not – the character can attune to the relic. Attuning is an intuitive process that doesn’t require any kind of ritual or knowledge – the user simply needs to gain a feel for the demands and nature of the item. This process is pretty minor for demons, but attunement is more significant to mortals. It’s often a sign of deep obsession and psychological problems, as the mortal begins to fixate on the relic to the extent that he sees it as part of himself. Before a user can attune to an item, he must have it in his possession and have successfully used it at least once.

To attune to a relic, demons must spend one point of permanent Faith, while mortals must spend a point of permanent Willpower (demons can’t choose to spend Willpower instead of Faith). Once the character is attuned to the relic, he can use it with ease, and no dice roll is required to activate the item’s power. If the relic demands a more onerous activation cost, that cost still exists – attunement makes the item more reliable, but doesn’t make it any less demanding. The relic still has an increased botch chance if it is cursed due to a high-Torment evocation, but the attuned user doesn’t need to keep spending Willpower or gaining Torment to use it.

Any number of characters can be attuned to an item at one time. That doesn’t mean that the owner will like it when a newcomer attunes herself to his precious, precious relic. The original user can’t stop the new user from attuning to the relic – unless he steals it away from her before she can do so – but a jealous user might attack or kill anyone who dares to try and use his prized possession.