Homebrew Legacies 2e

The Devourers
Suggested Path: Any, as long as a Mage is willing to make the sacrifices necessary to attain as much power as possible.
Suggested Order: None. The Pentacle and even the Seers try to mention this Legacy as little as possible, as they both fear the potential of ambitious Mages using the Legacy's Attainments - they have one and only one purpose: the accumulation of as much power as possible at the expense of anyone else. Anyone who investigates this Legacy without authorization is swiftly punished.

Ruling Arcanum: Death
Doctrine: Death 2, Life 2, Mind 2, Occult 1
Initiation: Sever a soul

Suggested Oblations: Identifying optimal souls for harvest, observing the effects of harvest on affected mortals, creating a method to maximize consumption and minimize detection. Most Devourers focus on optimizing their "eating" habits to an extreme degree, to the point that these acts have become oblations for them, provided they spend the requisite amount of time on them.

Attainment 1: Discerning Palate
Prerequisites: Initiation
In order to properly judge whether or not a soul is ripe for harvesting, it is important to know how healthy a soul is, or what other factors could be affecting it. The Attainment emulates the Soul Marks spell with Potency equal to the Devourer’s Death dots.

Optional: Prime 1
With this level of Prime, a Devourer can roughly estimate the moral quality of a soul. When using Discerning Palate, they gain a rough idea of the quality of that person's soul, revealed by how tattered the soul is: shredded (Morality 0), tattered (Morality 1-3), damaged (Morality 4-6), intact (Morality 7-9), pristine (Morality 10)

Attainment 2: Prepare the Feast
Prerequisites: Death 2, Occult 2
There is no point in knowing how delicious a morsel may be if it cannot be stored for eating in the future. This Attainment allows the Devourer to act as a living Soul Jar. They may store a number of souls in their Pattern equal to their Gnosis.

Optional: Prime 2
With this level of Prime, a Devourer is better able to prevent any others from detecting the souls they have harvested. The Devourer is protected by an effect akin to the Supernal Veil spell at all times. If a Clash of Wills is triggered, this Attainment uses the Devourer’s Gnosis and Prime dots. As an indefinite effect, the Devourer receives a +4 die bonus to the roll.

Attainment 3: Harvest of Conscience
Prerequisites: Death 3, Occult 3
As an instant action the Devourer may harvest a soul stored in their Pattern of its Morality, gaining a number of temporary dots equal to the soul's Morality score. These dots may be allocated among the Devourer's Skills or Attributes up to a limit of their dots in the Death Arcanum, and vanish at the end of the scene. The soul itself is released back into the world, where it can reunite with its host. Because Devourers shred a soul’s essence when they use their Attainments, the host of such a returning soul suffers a Breaking Point upon fully recovering their Wisdom or Integrity (with a -3 die penalty for suffering supernatural torture). Furthermore, regardless of the result of the Breaking Point roll, the victim develops the Broken, Fugue, or Madness Condition as a result of their soul being mutilated in such a fashion.

Optional: Prime 3
With this level of Prime, a Devourer who uses Harvest of Conscience to temporarily increase their skills or abilities may also convert Morality dots directly into Mana, almost as if the soul was Tass.

Attainment 4: Harvest of Body
Prerequisites: Death 4, Occult 4
Devourers who have advanced to this level in the Legacy have discovered how to improve on their first Attainment to create permanent benefits, albeit at greater cost. A Devourer may now consume three or five souls at once when using Harvest of Conscience. Instead of temporarily adding to their Skills or Attributes, the Devourer instead increases one of their Skills or Attributes by one dot up to a maximum of their dots in the Death Arcanum, depending on if they consumed three or five souls. As before, the souls are released back into the world bereft of any of their morality.

Optional: Prime 4
With this level of Prime, a Devourer can channel soul energy between people as easily as others channel Mana. This Attainment allows a Devourer to transfer the effects of Harvest of Conscience to another person. Physical contact must be maintained when the Attainment is initially used, and the Devourer’s Death dots are used to determine the maximum number of dots allowed per Skill or Attribute. The Devourer need not use a Pattern-stored soul for this Attainment – so long as they have another one on hand. A Devourer may not use this Attainment with Harvest of Body or Supernal Harvest (see below). Such a profound change of one’s Pattern is beyond their ability.

Attainment 5: Supernal Harvest
Prerequisites: Death 5, Occult 5
Master Devourers are truly forces to be reckoned with. When consuming multiple souls at once, they may now use up seven souls at once in order to permanently increase their skill in one of the ten Arcana by one dot, up to half of their dots in the Death Arcanum, rounded up. This Attainment can only be used with Awakened souls, as those of Sleepers do not have the Supernal essence necessary for harvest and reshaping into the Devourer's Pattern.

Optional: Prime 5
With this level of Prime, a Devourer with a full soul reserve may consume all of them in order to permanently increase their Gnosis Score by one dot. This aspect of Supernal Harvest may not be used until the tainted area created by its previous use has faded (see below for details). Truly depraved Devourers steal as many souls as possible in order to ascend to the highest level of raw magical power as quickly as possible. Only Awakened souls may be used for this Attainment, as with Supernal Harvest.

While the Devourers offer many tempting and powerful rewards, their Attainments come with significant drawbacks - using any of the Harvest Attainments is a sin against Wisdom 2. Furthermore, using the third Attainment stains the area it is performed in with a dark aura for a number of days equal to the Devourer's Gnosis. Using the fourth stains the area for a number of weeks equal to the Devourer's Gnosis and using the fifth stains the area for a number of months equal to the Devourer's Gnosis. Stained areas immediately trigger any Mage's Peripheral Mage Sight and with some investigation may reveal residue from the shredded souls' return back to the world, potentially leading investigators to the Devourer. For this reason many Devourers try to use their attainments in secluded areas, although in many cases that is not an option. When a shredded soul returns to its host, the person must immediately check each lost dot of Morality for degeneration as if each dot had been lost one at a time.