Secular Potency comes when your character has a Predomination. Predomination in turn, has become a bit more personal. The character who sets it up sets it up to their liking and nobody else's.
When you have Secular Power and a Predomination, you gain some Secular Potency. Secular Potency is a form of worship, if you must know. People of liked mind which your Fallen draws power from. This is potent stuff (hence the name).
Secular Potency allows you to perform the following bonuses:
- Empower:You increase your Technique by 1 rank for 1 action. This can raise your power to a previously unknown 4th rank but this only benefits you if the power has a progression of 1/1 basis. Powers such as Corruption or Recure, which give one Thing per rank are obvious.
- Overpower: You gain 1 Advantage (that's +1 to the die roll) to any non-combat Technique.
- Gnosis: If you use it on somebody, you can learn whether their actions are influenced by a Technique (or any other magical power really). You don't know who the heck did it or what the Technique is, only that this person is affected by something.
- With Wings Spread: This is the most potent ability in the game. And not everybody can do it. You either need multiple aligned Districts or a fully aligned Civitas (depending on the style of game you're playing). If you can pull this off, kudos. Anyway, you can use a non-combat Technique that affects the entire Civitas! Sweet huh. There are limitations to it's use. Humans are affected by your Technique as if it were 1 rank lower. Fallen and Nephilim as two ranks lower. Angels and devils are the same however, they have a chance of shrugging off the effect of this, so it's not likely that you'll be able to just fuck with angels/devils for funsies. Oh and if you want to time it, you can try using Pure Slumber and give the city some crazy, horrible nightmare, then see how long it takes for the Shrouds to come and tear you apart.
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