Memories are your basic skills; they are the best way to get dice without spending too much Æther. Five Æther and you can roll a Memory, all the dice. Of course, your Memories are limited and the higher your Conscience gets the weaker your memories become. You can have as many Memories as your Conscience score but your Memories can only be as powerful as 11 minus your Conscience score. The chart below visually illustrates those limitations.
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Conscience |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
|
Memories |
0 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
0 |
|
Power |
0 |
10 |
9 |
8 |
7 |
6 |
5 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
There are three parts to every Memory: the Memory itself, the emotional resonance, and the rating. The memory is a simple phrase, comment, or statement that your character knows. All of your Memories come from your time when you were alive and the Memory itself is the written representation of that. Below are examples of Memories:
I remember the first time she kissed me. (Love) 2
I remember the day we were married. (Joy) 1
I remember when I found her with another man. (Surprise) 1
I remember that I found him alone one night. (Anger) 4
I remember how he stabbed me in the heart. (Fear) 2
The Emotional Resonance, there are six Emotional Resonances Love, Joy, Surprise, Anger, Sadness, and Fear. These are pulled from an article written by Parrott, W. in 2001. Parrott classified the six primary emotions with secondary and tertiary emotions. While this game doesn’t deal with the secondary and tertiary they can help better understand what the primary encompasses.
The last part of every memory is the rating. The rating is from one to ten and is limited by your Conscience score. You can never have a memory more powerful then 11 minus your Conscience score. Every character has ten points to spend on memories, limited by how many memories they have and how powerful those memories may be.Below is Parrott’s chart.
| Primary_Emotion | Secondary_Emotion | Tertiary Emotions |
| Love | Affection | Adoration, affection, love, fondness, liking, attraction, caring, tenderness, compassion, sentimentality |
| Lust | Arousal, desire, lust, passion, infatuation | |
| Longing | Longing | |
| Joy | Cheerfulness | Amusement, bliss, cheerfulness, gaiety, glee, jolliness, joviality, joy, delight, enjoyment, gladness, happiness, jubilation, elation, satisfaction, ecstasy, euphoria |
| Zest | Enthusiasm, zeal, zest, excitement, thrill, exhilaration | |
| Contentment | Contentment, pleasure | |
| Pride | Pride, triumph | |
| Optimism | Eagerness, hope, optimism | |
| Enthrallment | Enthrallment, rapture | |
| Relief | Relief | |
| Surprise | Surprise | Amazement, surprise, astonishment |
| Anger | Irritation | Aggravation, irritation, agitation, annoyance, grouchiness, grumpiness |
| Exasperation | Exasperation, frustration | |
| Rage | Anger, rage, outrage, fury, wrath, hostility, ferocity, bitterness, hate, loathing, scorn, spite, vengefulness, dislike, resentment | |
| Disgust | Disgust, revulsion, contempt | |
| Envy | Envy, jealousy | |
| Torment | Torment | |
| Sadness | Suffering | Agony, suffering, hurt, anguish |
| Sadness | Depression, despair, hopelessness, gloom, glumness, sadness, unhappiness, grief, sorrow, woe, misery, melancholy | |
| Disappointment | Dismay, disappointment, displeasure | |
| Shame | Guilt, shame, regret, remorse | |
| Neglect | Alienation, isolation, neglect, loneliness, rejection, homesickness, defeat, dejection, insecurity, embarrassment, humiliation, insult | |
| Sympathy | Pity, sympathy | |
| Fear | Horror | Alarm, shock, fear, fright, horror, terror, panic, hysteria, mortification |
| Nervousness | Anxiety, nervousness, tenseness, uneasiness, apprehension, worry, distress, dread |