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Concealing Your Glory

Elohim can Conceal their Glory. While their Concealing their Glory, the weight of their spiritual presence is no longer emanating from them. As part of Concealing their Glory, they will appear to other spirits as a human or an animal, generally no smaller than a large rat or average bird. An elohim Concealing their Glory may choose to also manifest in the material realm, but manifesting materially and Concealing their Glory are independent actions, despite their frequent overlap.

Concealed Glory

  • will appear as a human or animal (not a mimic of a known exact person)

  • cannot be sensed in Melee Range

  • Detection version Ranges are reduced to 3"/7"/12" respectively 

    • Holy/Unholy Detection senses Tier:4 as 28", but not beyond

  • -12 Adjustments to being Perceived as an elohim

  • do not contribute Magnitude to Area Influence

  • upon revealing glory, can use up to 4 Action Points in non-offensive preparation

  • Unclean Spirits can similarly hide deep and dormant inside a human Concealing their Presence

The intent of Concealing your Glory is to disguise your identity as a glorious spiritual being. In the spiritual realm, glory, or Magnitude, commands attention similar to how humans and animals perceive size, color, and light. There is a connection to size and light for elohim, but Magnitude is also felt in more profound ways.

While an elohim Conceals their Glory, their Magnitude is reduced to 0. They are also not able to be sensed by other spirits. Versions of the Spiritual Effect Detection have their effectiveness reduced in sensing elohim whose are Concealing their Glory. The basic version senses Concealed elohim only within Melee Range, Sanctified/Defiled Detection senses Concealed within 7", and Holy/Unholy Detection senses Concealed within 12" and do not sense Tier:4 in the general region as it usual would. Using the Spiritual Effect Discernment when Perceiving an elohim whose Glory is Concealed will greatly enhance the Ministering Spirit's ability to pick up on the Concealed elohim's true nature, but does not guarantee success.

Items that are not in use may disappear invisibly into the disguise, but any Item the elohim wishes to continue to benefit from must be incorporated into the disguise somehow. Using Spiritual Effects, singing Songs, or manifesting anything that would be more effective or glorious than a regular material object is not possible while Concealing your Glory. 

It is an option for an elohim to manifest in the material and even appear in an embodied form without also Concealing their Glory. Doing so does not limit their use of abilities or their ability to dematerialize back into only the spiritual. They will stand out to a degree, however, as their Magnitude will be felt.

When an elohim chooses to cease Concealing their Glory, they may immediately use up to 4 Action Points preparing themselves for War through non-offensive actions such as manifesting Weapon Effects, adopting Defensive Stance, using Spiritual Effects, singing Boosting or Self Songs, etc. They may not, however, do anything during these Action Points that will directly affect any opponents such as Striking or using Resistible or Damaging Effects or Songs. No Exertion is ignored when performing actions this way. Once revealed, they will resume normal action at their next Turn.

While Unclean Spirits cannot Conceal their Glory, they can hide deep within a human and lie dormant to avoid detection. This is called Concealing their Presence and is the same as Concealed Glory in regard to being sensed. While Concealing their Presence, they cannot affect the human and cannot Perceive what is going on around the human. They can Perceive information about the human's emotional state, though. 

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