Artifact: Be Not Afraid
Power: Significant.
Description: Usually the product of industrious sociomancers, Be Not Afraids come in a variety of forms, all of them minor religious knick-knacks and related paraphernalia. Prayer beads, omamori, hamsa, pocket-sized religious texts, any talisman of faith that an adherent might instinctively reach for to affirm their belief and place in the world.
Effect: Be Not Afraids act like emotion heat sinks for Unnatural trauma. Brushing your fingers against one on taking an Unnatural stress check negates the consequences of that shock. No hardened or failed notch is gained and the trio of possible stress effects from failure are ignored. Instead each notch ignored increasingly binds the user to the articles of that belief system, stress checks for violating its tenets are increased by 1 per check result ignored. This applies to non-believers who use a Be Not Afraid also, their stress checks for defiance instead start at rank 1 and increase from there.
Discarding or losing a Be Not Afraid that has absorbed Unnatural trauma unleashes all the pent up damage at once.
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