Empathy

Read the dominant emotion of one creature and detect hostile intent.

Read the dominant emotion of one creature (fear, anger, joy, sorrow, suspicion, love, hunger, etc.). Also reveals whether the creature means the gene-psion harm (hostile intent). No save; empathy reads surface emotion, not guarded secrets.

Rules Reference

Field	Value
Area Of Effect	Single creature
Duration / Base	1
Duration / Type	fixed
Duration / Unit	round
Perils Trigger / Additional Conditions
Perils Trigger / On Catastrophe	false
Perils Trigger / On Natural1	false
Range / Base	30
Range / Unit	feet
Saving Throw	None
Talent Cost	1
Tier	minor

Notes

Effect: Read the dominant emotion of one creature (fear, anger, joy, sorrow, suspicion, love, hunger, etc.). Also reveals whether the creature means the gene-psion harm (hostile intent). No save; empathy reads surface emotion, not guarded secrets.

Effect Params

script

Field	Value
name	script
value	apply-detect-emotion

revealHostileIntent

Field	Value
name	revealHostileIntent
value	true

depth

Field	Value
name	depth
value	surface

Prerequisites

type: trait

Field	Value
value	Latent Helix-Psion

type: level

Field	Value
value	1