Irascimancy
AKA Furies, Trolls, Assholes Note: Irascimancy first appeared in Unknown Armies 1st Edition in the source book Post Modern Magick. All I have done is update it slightly for 3rd Edition. Anger is the greatest impetus for change. It is more immediate than love, more genuine than altruism, more sustainable than terror. Many other emotions make their crossroads through anger (grief leads there, as does hate) and the Irascimancer strives to harness the prime magickal energy that goes along with it. Wielded as a weapon or contained just beneath the surface, anger is at times almost a palpable thing that gives off a vibe and leaves its sticky signature in the air between friends and stranger alike. Irascimancers generate charges by interposing themselves in arguments, conflicts, and confrontations. They cannot gain charges from a fight they mundanely benefit from, but instead soak up anger that’s redirected at them or that is the result of their senseless aggression. A counselor or a conflict mediator is the perfect front for an Irascimancer trying to charge up. The disadvantage to harnessing anger for magickal charges is two-fold. Anger is exceptionally volatile and it is impossible to hold a significant charge for very long. An Irascimancer can’t express his own anger without losing his charges, and must walk the fine line of holding the seething rage he has so painstakingly collected while not numbing himself down to the point that he becomes hardened to the riches of tragedy and injustice life has to offer. Anger is also exceptionally draining, serving as fuel for the magickal fire but burning out just as dramatically. Irascimancers live in a bipolar state of being either flush with volatile energy or utterly drained, despondent, and exhausted. One universal restriction on Irascimancy is that it requires eye contact with the target. The person must see the Irascimancer and register his presence. Making split-second eye contact with someone you are passing on the street is enough, but an ambush from the shadows in a dark alley is not going to work. As evil as those telemarketers who call your house during dinner might be, they’re safe from a fury’s blast as long as they stay on the other end of the phone line. They’d probably get an earful, nonetheless; Irascimancy is all about confrontation. Irascimancy attracts two kinds of people. The overwhelming majority of people attracted to this school of magick are former romantics: the saps, the soft hearted, and those sentimental fools who are so easily wounded and swayed by passion. They’re the people who expected more of the world than it would give them. In order to feel pain, betrayal, and eventually rage, one must first be slashed open at the softest part of one’s soul. Immature practitioners are the impatient sort, firing back at the world that failed to live up to their expectations and making immediate change. Theirs is the world of bloody revolution. More mature Irascimancers are far more threatening. These cold-hearted calculators can swallow their anger so far down that you could meet them for beers every week for a year and never suspect that they were plotting your destruction until that day you meet their eyes and see the flash of righteous fury, about one whole second before your heart explodes in your chest. Irascimancers are grudge holders of the highest order. Want to know more about the Irascimancer? Read the entire adept school here.
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