Dwomutsiqsa (Create Smoke Demon) {Dark Side Power}
Control Difficulty: Difficult
Alter Difficulty: Difficult
Sense Difficulty: Difficult
Effect: This power is used to create a Smoke Demon which can be sent on missions.
A Smoke Demon is initially created with Dexterity, Perception and Strength attributes of 1D, but the user can increase these by continuing the summoning ceremony, adding 1 point to one of these attributes for each round they continue summoning for.
However, each attribute cannot be increased beyond the users associated Force power, their Control for the Demons Dexterity, Sense for it's Perception, and Alter for it's Strength.
It must also be noted that the Demons Orneriness increases by 1D for each 3D it's attributes are increased by, so the basic Demon has an Orneriness of 1D, but one with a Dexterity of 3D, a Strength of 4D, and a Perception of 2D would have an Orneriness of 3D, to struggle against it's creators commands and even possibly attack them.
Description: A type of Sith Sorcery, this power summons up a demonic creature sculpted from the users rage, hate and fear. Because of it being made of these emotions, it constantly struggles against it's creator, who can use either their control skill, or their Beast Handling to issue instructions to the demon.
Smoke Demon
Name: Siqsa (Smoke Demon)
Type: Conjuered Sith Spirit
Dexterity: Control
Perception: Sense
Strength: Alter
Special Abilities
Insubstantiality: Smoke Demons can fade into just a wisp of smoke, allowing them to travel with great stealth on their missions, passing through gaps in doors and ventilation systems with ease. (Sneak +2D) Also in this form, they are very difficult to injure, as attacks pass straight through (Dodge +2D, Damage Resistance +2D).
Absorb Soul: As well as battering targets with their great strength, Smoke Demons can absorb the soul of any target they attack. In game terms this does not differ from simple brawling attacks to hit (using the Demons Dexterity), causing damage (using the Demons Strength), but as they take damage the target fades away, until they are Mortally wounded and fade away completely as their soul is absorbed into the Demon.
Move: 10
Size: 1-2 Meters
Orneriness: (Total dice/3)
Description: Smoke Demons were dark side entities that could be summoned through Sith sorcery. They could metamorphose into their targets' worst fears and sought to vaporize their bodies. At some point following the Battle of Yavin, the S'kytri Dark Jedi named Kharys used a Smoke Demon to murder the smuggler Katya M'Buele.
A Smoke Demon, called Siqsa in Sith, was an insubstantial manifestation of the dark side of the Force that assumed the form of its victim's worst fear upon being summoned by a dark-sider. They could be summoned through an ancient Sith ritual recorded as Dwomutsiqsa—literally "Summon Demon"—in an ancient scroll recovered by Sorzus Syn.
The creatures could absorb their victim's body by flowing into it and vaporizing it, entrapping within them the victim's soul, which would be released upon the Demon's destruction. They would first materialize as mere spirals of smoke before assuming a definite shape, then would paralyze their targets, leaving them conscious but helpless. Then the demon flowed into the body of its victim, who turned translucent, then transparent, and finally faded away. The entire body was turned to smoke and absorbed by the demon.
Despite being made of a smoky substance, a Smoke Demon apparently had significant strength, and was able to defeat a Wookiee in hand to hand combat. It evidently did not have a capacity to speak orally, but instead communicated through some form of psychic ability, the extent of which is unknown.
Following the Battle of Yavin, one such demon was used as an assassin by Kharys, the violent ruler of the planet Skye, due to its ability to move and kill silently. The S'kytri had learned the Dwomutsiqsa ritual under the tutelage of the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader, following the end of the Clone Wars. The demon summoned by Kharys eliminated the female smuggler Katya M'Buele while she was sleeping aboard the Millennium Falcon, with others standing guard. However, the demon was not able to escape, as he was impaled by Luke Skywalker's lightsaber, which harmed the creature whereas blaster bolts did not. Skywalker was deeply affected by this encounter, and the young Jedi immediately recognized the mark of a powerful dark side user.
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