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The dark pact flavor is perfect for horror-tinged dark supers, fantasy, or modern magic settings and is rife with potential to spin off character arcs or whole adventures centered around the struggles or obstacles that the character's dark pact brings.
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Flavor: Dark Pact
Setting: -
Genre(s): Dark Supers, Fantasy, Modern Magic
What would you do for power?
Whether to protect the ones they care about, to avoid being a victim, or to simply be able to take what they want from the world around them, characters with the dark pact flavor would do almost anything. These characters reached out in a moment of desperation and need and found that what clasped their hand from the world beyond was something fell or unholy. Or perhaps they found a book, relic, or other item that instead called out to them. Delivered murmured promises of dreams delivered and enemies vanquished for nothing more than the cost of a promise, a contract, a pact.
No matter the situation surrounding the offer, they were asked and answered “yes” and in the aftermath found themselves sealed to a being they could never truly understand or ever hope to betray.
The full description for each listed ability below can be found in Chapter 9 of the Cypher System Rulebook or for free at Old Gus' Cypher System Reference Document.
First-Tier Dark Pact Abilities
- Enthrall
- Ribbons of Dark Matter
- See the Unseen
- Terrifying Presence
- War Flesh
Second-Tier Dark Pact Abilities
- Bloodlust
- Blood Magician
- Dream Thief
- Poison Touch
- Unexpected Betrayal
Third-Tier Dark Pact Abilities
- Blood Fever
- Dark Matter Strike
- Evanesce
- Fury
- Uncanny Luck
Fourth-Tier Dark Pact Abilities
- Castigate
- Dark Matter Shroud
- Greater Frenzy
- Intense Interaction
- Soul Interrogation
Fifth-Tier Dark Pact Abilities
- Attack and Attack Again
- Foul Aura
- Hard to Kill
- Terrifying Gaze
- True Senses
Sixth-Tier Dark Pact Abilities
- Embrace the Night
- Embraced by Darkness
- Final Defiance
- Lethal Damage
- Usurp Cypher
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