Sources of Power are the real heart to a Realm. They affect everything around them and everyone who uses them (ex. Pattern/Logrus). Persons initiated into them may use their Power to affect cross-Shadow environments, and creatures of higher reality. Some Realms for whatever reason (post Fall, war, disaster, accident, tapped out) have no Source of Power. These are really real chunks of reality but confer no Power with Dominion. Most Cildea are uncomfortable in these Realms. Some Sorcerer/Wizards utilize these areas as a defensive stronghold but this is rare.

Primal Sources may manifest as one of three things:

• A reflection of a single Primal Power - There is a risk with using this Source since you may end up Bonded to the Domini/Domina of the Powers Source (ex. Broken Pattern)
• An interaction of two Primal Powers - The only problem with this Source is that you depend on both for your Sources continued existence (ex. Ygg could be viewed as resulting from the interaction of the Pattern and the Logrus)
• An ancient Power that existed at the dawn of creation, a more recently created power, or is a product of Shadow environments. (ex. Pattern/Logrus)

• Dominion does not mean sole access necessarily, but the character can recognize those that have this power and can control new initiates to the power. The stronger the Source of Power the more difficult it is to gain Dominion over it.
• Iniciate means the character is using the source either as a Sorcerer/Wizard or a Beholden/Bond Servant.

THE SOURCES (a few examples, other Sources may be designed at character creation)
Note: Those of you who have had the opportunity to look over the Sins of the Father homepage will have noticed that many of these Sources are very similar to the ones we used in that campaign. The reason for this is simple, I don't have enought time to come up with the 15 to 20 or Sources I need for this campaign right now. The Sources listed below, just like in the orignal campaign are intended as springboards for you creative processes. They may be used as is, modified, or chunked all together based on what the characters and the story requires.

• Fount of Eternal Flame -In the Keep of Four World, at the juncture of four elemental forces, Power awaits you.
• The Spikards -Harness the Power of the Fallen and Fading Cildea. Learn to tap their potential.
• The Well of Souls -Feel the purity of the well of living light. Is this the key to renewal?
• The Cauldron -Beating with the heart and blood of all things. A piece of everyone within a dark stain of blood.
• The Crystal Sphere - The power to see the future, destiny within one's own hands. Destiny can be molded with knowledge.
• The Lodestone  - Interaction and influence between realities, to see what others cannot.
• The Shattered Mirror -  Illusion and Truth can be one in the same
• Book of the Dead - The final veil is broached.
• Anvil of Hell -  Learn to love the Pain to yourself and others
• The Central Void - That which was whole shall be torn asunder.
• The Shimmering Gate -  Tread the pathways of the universe in different ways.
• The Great Library - Reality as it is, not the way our frail minds perceive it.
• The Black Pool - In the heart of understanding lies healing; in the hands of the Pool, all is repaired.
• The Pentacle -  Demonic family and friends at your beck and call. All is within your grasp, or within the grasp of those that serve you.
• The Seer's Stone - Seeing beyond our pale senses; knowing what exists, and what is beyond our hands.
• The Living Seige - To be devoured by the host and sell your soul for a price.

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