Enhance Animal Companion

Step

 * Rank+WIL

Action

 * Sustained

Strain

 * 0

Skill Use

 * No

Description

 * The adept magically enhances one of his animal companions. He spends a day in meditation with the animal companion, then makes an Enhance Animal Companion test against the animal’s natural Mystic Defense. For each success scored, the adept can grant a +1 bonus to any of the following characteristics: any Defense rating, Physical or Mystic Armor, or Damage Step. The maximum total bonus that an individual animal companion can have is equal to the adept’s rank in Animal Bond—the more bonded an adept is to an animal companion, the more it can be enhanced.
 * When using this talent, the adept can also choose to move a point granted by a prior use of the talent to another characteristic. Moving a point in this way uses one of the adept’s successes from the test.
 * If an animal companion’s attitude drops below Loyal, they gradually lose the magical bonuses granted by this talent, losing one point per week from their bonus. If the adept restores their bond with the animal companion, they can use this talent to restore the bonus points, but the bonus points are otherwise lost.