Achilles Heel: Sanguine Magic

Achilles Heel: Sanguine Magic by Dragon Blaze 99

Blood flow magic the character must be a spell caster or and psionic to have this flaw. The character requires the blood to flow from his or her own body to access their PPE or ISP. The cut creating the blood flow does not have to be fine and precise, or self-inflicted, but those things do help. Damage taken from an attack by another is doubled, and that is the amount of the characters PPE or ISP pool that is unlocked EG: The character takes 25 damage, they can now access 50 PPE or ISP; but not over their maximum amount. However, fine precise self-inflicted cuts made with an athame, or ceremonial dagger, or personal special razor blade (that the character has owner and used for no less than 1 year) will open up ten times the damage of the characters PPE/ISP pool. EG: 6 points of damage from such an item will open up 60 PPE/ISP from the characters point pool.

Example: Joe has 150 PPE, with his athame he does 10 points of damage to himself in the first round of combat, using his first action gaining access to 100 of his 150 PPE. Then he takes 30 damage from action; he can now call on his full pool but not the extra 10 points that damage taken would have allowed.

The fatal flaw other than taking damage to gain access to spell or psionic powers, the character must spend an action to use his or her athame, and will leave a smell of blood that some superhuman, animal and demons could track.