Maple Shade Ghost Lore Research

Ghost Lore (Main Topic)

Skill: Occult
Lore concerning very basic information about ghosts and similar entities.

Ghost Lore, Basic

Obscurity: Occult 0 (General Knowledge Test applies)
Progress: 9 successes • 2 rolls

• 1 success: Simple awareness of the concept - generally lingering spirits of the dead.
• 2 successes: Pop culture knowledge of ghosts, from folkloric examples and mass media depictions of an afterlife and those that dwell there.
  • Local Hauntings, by Location (0)
• 4 successes: Reference-level information, including some cultural variations on lingering spirits of the dead.
  • Apotropaic Lore (0)
  • Anchors (•)
  • Spirit Lore: Banes (•)
  • Spirit Lore: Twilight (•)
• 8 successes: Anthropological studies of death cults, ancestor worship, and spirit remnant folklore.
  • Ghosts who are in the presence of those grieving or otherwise remembering them with potent emotions can gather a type of spiritual power called "essence," with which they can perform supernatural feats. This harvest is called "memoriam."
  • Spirit Lore: Bans (•)
  • Spirit Lore: Influence (••)

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Portland Hauntings

Obscurity: Occult 0
Information regarding ghost sightings and hauntings in the Portland area, with an emphasis on those that are recurring and consistent.
Progress: –

Obscurity •

Anchors

Obscurity: Occult •
Lore concerning the attachments that prevents the spirits of the dead from moving onto their eternal rest or reward.
Progress: 5 successes • 2 rolls

• 2 successes: An anchor is a thing of emotional significance to which a ghost is connected, acting like a fetter preventing the ghost from shaking off the mortal coil.
• 4 successes: Anchors are most often locations and objects, although in rare cases they can also be people of tremendous significance.
  • (This now enables the researcher to perform research actions to identify the Anchors of individual ghosts, with some Investigation.)