Apu: Pachakutic

The Apu and their Scions summon fire to warm mortal followers or turn it upon their foes. Lightning heralds much-needed rain for crops or is woven into clothing. Earth is summoned to reduce opposing strongholds to dust or drawn into the Apu’s very being to make them hard as stone. The Apu feel the energies flowing through every stone, tree, mountain vista, and star, changing and being changed by the Apu in an endless cycle of birth, death, and renewal.

Boons

KALLPA

By attuning to the divine energies within the huaca, you may wield miraculous power. When performing a sacrificial ritual, you may choose to use the huaca itself as a Relic locale, allowing you the use of a single Purview (typically Earth, Sky, Water, Sun, or Fire, though stranger Purviews are possible depending on the site’s nature at the Storyguide’s discretion). This grants access to the innate powers of the Purview as normal and allows for channeling marvels through the Pachakutic motif within the confines of the huaca’s sacred space.

If the huaca is particularly sacred to you (a Sanctum), you may work with the Storyguide to devise appropriate Realm Birthrights, even if the site is within The World and not a Terra Incognita. These Birthrights are purchased normally and may be tailored to the player’s preferences, remaining accessible so long as Legend remains imbued in this Boon. If you stop imbuing Legend, you must return to the huaca to re-attune.

CHURAY

Energies collect and reside within huaca; through practice, you may channel and contribute to sacred power. Upon performing an appropriate sacrifice at a huaca, you may regain an additional point of Legend. You may infuse the huaca with that point of Legend, allowing you and only you to later withdraw the point from that site without performing a sacrifice. You may even do this after performing a sacrifice at another pantheon’s sacred site, although it allows any member of the other pantheon with a Legend trait to withdraw the point.

If your huaca is also your Sanctum, you may infuse points of Legend up to the Sanctum’s rating and withdraw them at will from anywhere in The World (though not within a Terra Incognita or otherworld). If you also possess the Kallpa Boon, you may choose to imbue one of the infused points of Legend to maintain access to natural Purviews and Realm Birthrights.