Annuna: Shuila

In ancient Mesopotamia, there were many kinds of prayer, but all were highly structured, weaving praise and laments with entreaties and thanksgiving. Whether written or incanted, these prayers call upon the authorityof the god or goddess to whom they are directed, and it is no different for Scions, as they too are part of the heavenly hierarchy. Elevated above mortals, they are empowered to call directly upon the divine Authority of the Annuna, and as they climb that hierarchy may even gain the right to make those pronouncements themselves. This is particularly true of the machineries of civilization — not bureaucracies per se, which the Annuna do not trust, but in the reciprocity of power, privilege, and duty, the interaction of superior and inferior. All authority, after all, ultimately derives from the divine Authority of the Annuna, allowing their Scions to seize it for themselves as though they were born to it (which they were).

Boons

TAKE THE REINS

You take control of an organization, displacing its immediate leader in its hierarchy — if it has no defined leader, you take control outright. All members of the organization acknowledge your authority and follow your directions as appropriate for the organization: the staff of a bank won’t spontaneously become an army at your direction, for example, but you could certainly order security to remove someone from the premises. This Boon does not function on player characters without their player’s permission.

ME OF THE DEED

All possible actions have a physical me, recording the precise and proper way of doing things. By linking her understanding of individual me together in sequence, an Annuna may intuit a perfect method with an assured chance of success. So long as an Annuna has planned out actions in support of a Deed and has generated successes on an information-gathering challenge, she may purchase enhance stunts in support of the Deed (Origin p. 67) that affect the same Skill and Attribute combination that generated the threshold successes, with an additional success, up to the standard soft and hard caps on Enhancements. If an Annuna fails at a roll crucial to the success of the Deed, she may accept a Consolation of success at a cost of future Complications to related rolls.