Balm

The Fatebound is in the right position to calm the Scion, to balance her extremes and to keep her centered.

Invoke: The Balm pulls the Scion back from the brink of her most extreme behavior: Her Virtue rating slides toward the center of the track. This counts as resolving the Virtuous Condition). This Condition can’t be invoked if the Scion is already in the center of the Virtue track.

Compel: The Balm’s soothing presence makes the Scion question her Virtues. Compel this Condition when the Scion reinforces a Virtue: She gains 1 Legend, but earns no Momentum and only slides her Virtue if it would move her toward the center of the track.

Resolve: A dramatic display of Virtue either changes the relationship forever or ends it catastrophically. The Scion immediately sets her Virtue to either the far left or the far right of the track and gains Momentum as though she’d just fulfilled that Virtue. The Scion’s player then chooses one of the following options:

• The Balm dies, or is otherwise taken out of play permanently. The Scion fulfills a Deed, and suffers a Failure Deed for an appropriate Calling.
• The Balm’s relationship with the Scion deepens; convert this Fatebinding to a Boon Companion, Paramour, or Unrequited Paramour of the same Strength.