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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
  
Moderation and balance might seem to be a boring concept to some, but Temperance can find it a strength in their own right. Temperance, as one might expect, is adept at finding the commonalities in disparate elements and bringing them together. Temperance can be possessed of an inner peace, or perhaps suffer from a turmoil that never shows its face to others. Temperance can sometimes find themselves caught between forces that are too great to ever be reconciled, but in the meantime, their approach can serve themselves and many others well with the proper judgment.
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Rather than abstinence from extremes, Temperance is about drawing together those same extremes and synthesizing them. Though two respective forces might seem as in direct conflict with one another as fire and water, Temperance shows that with the right knowledge and right touch, even these can be drawn together and joined to form a greater whole without losing the qualities of either. Temperance may find themselves in possession of an inner peace, a center point of their own mixed extremes. Or perhaps they may disguise beneath the apparent calm an inner turmoil. But patience is key, as is care; a sloppy union, as Temperance may discover, is worse than no union at all. And some forces yet are too much even for Temperance's talents to bring together. But moderation, in the meantime, can serve themselves and others well.
  
== Persona Traits ==
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Some things, as the reverse of Temperance shows, should not or cannot be joined together. What should have been a solution of a problem only makes matters worse, despite their best efforts otherwise. Chaos ensues. Or perhaps the effort or the will isn't present to mix things properly, or perhaps they have gotten themselves caught up in matters that are well beyond their efforts to change or bring together.
 
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As befits the trump of moderation, Personae of the Temperance Arcana are generally well-balanced statistically. The majority have a slight emphasis on magical skills over physical ones, and almost all possess some manner of support skills. Some Temperance Personae also possess unusual resistances to elemental attacks, featuring simultaneous resistance to forces normally thought to oppose each other, such as Light and Dark, or Fire and Ice.  
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== Sample Personae ==
 
== Sample Personae ==
  
*Byakko, the White Tiger of the West, king of all beasts
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* Mithra, deity of contracts who was the protector of truth and the enemy of error
*Mithra, deity of contracts who was the protector of truth and the enemy of error
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* Xiezhai, a spirit of Chinese legend who punishes evildoers
*Seiryuu, the Azure Dragon of the East
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* Seiryuu, the Azure Dragon of the East
  
== Example Persona Wielders ==
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== Example Persona-Users/Shadow-Possessed ==
  
 
* None
 
* None
  
== Defining Traits ==
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== Upright Traits ==
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Harmony, Balance, Health, Moderation, Joining forces, Well-being, Recovery, Equilibrium, Transcendence, Unification, Synthesis, Bringing together opposites, Feeling secure. The skilled diplomat who gets the leaders of two warring nations to talk about how to make peace while on a safari.
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== Reversed Traits ==
  
Harmony, Balance, Health, Moderation, Joining forces, Well-being, Recovery, Equilibrium, Transcendence, Unification, Synthesis, Bringing together opposites, Feeling secure
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OPPOSITE: Volatility, Negative escalation, Making things worse instead of better, Solutions that go horribly wrong, Attempting reconciliation and achieving war. Someone who tries to get two arguing friends to make up, and instead they break into a fistfight.<br>
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BLOCKED: Inability to mix, Inability to make things mix, Lack of effort or ability to get things just right, Saying the wrong thing. Someone who tries to get two arguing friends to make up, and they end up giving each other the silent treatment.<br>
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UPSIDE-DOWN: Groundless dreams, Pipe dreams, Attempting what will not work, Lack of drive, Inability to turn theory into reality. Someone who thinks about trying to get two arguing friends to make up, but either goes about it in completely the wrong way or never actually gets to it.

Latest revision as of 15:54, 17 October 2012

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"It is only through the balancing of extremes that the individual can grow."


[edit] Description

Rather than abstinence from extremes, Temperance is about drawing together those same extremes and synthesizing them. Though two respective forces might seem as in direct conflict with one another as fire and water, Temperance shows that with the right knowledge and right touch, even these can be drawn together and joined to form a greater whole without losing the qualities of either. Temperance may find themselves in possession of an inner peace, a center point of their own mixed extremes. Or perhaps they may disguise beneath the apparent calm an inner turmoil. But patience is key, as is care; a sloppy union, as Temperance may discover, is worse than no union at all. And some forces yet are too much even for Temperance's talents to bring together. But moderation, in the meantime, can serve themselves and others well.

Some things, as the reverse of Temperance shows, should not or cannot be joined together. What should have been a solution of a problem only makes matters worse, despite their best efforts otherwise. Chaos ensues. Or perhaps the effort or the will isn't present to mix things properly, or perhaps they have gotten themselves caught up in matters that are well beyond their efforts to change or bring together.

[edit] Sample Personae

  • Mithra, deity of contracts who was the protector of truth and the enemy of error
  • Xiezhai, a spirit of Chinese legend who punishes evildoers
  • Seiryuu, the Azure Dragon of the East

[edit] Example Persona-Users/Shadow-Possessed

  • None

[edit] Upright Traits

Harmony, Balance, Health, Moderation, Joining forces, Well-being, Recovery, Equilibrium, Transcendence, Unification, Synthesis, Bringing together opposites, Feeling secure. The skilled diplomat who gets the leaders of two warring nations to talk about how to make peace while on a safari.

[edit] Reversed Traits

OPPOSITE: Volatility, Negative escalation, Making things worse instead of better, Solutions that go horribly wrong, Attempting reconciliation and achieving war. Someone who tries to get two arguing friends to make up, and instead they break into a fistfight.
BLOCKED: Inability to mix, Inability to make things mix, Lack of effort or ability to get things just right, Saying the wrong thing. Someone who tries to get two arguing friends to make up, and they end up giving each other the silent treatment.
UPSIDE-DOWN: Groundless dreams, Pipe dreams, Attempting what will not work, Lack of drive, Inability to turn theory into reality. Someone who thinks about trying to get two arguing friends to make up, but either goes about it in completely the wrong way or never actually gets to it.

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