Item History

Step

 * Rank + PER

Action

 * Sustained

Strain

 * 0

Skill Use

 * No

Description

 * The adept learns the history of an enchanted or mundane item. The adept studies the item for a week, carefully examining it for at least one hour each day, then makes an Item History test against the item’s Mystic Defense.
 * If successful, each success reveals one new Key Knowledge from the item’s history. When used on mundane items (which do not have True Patterns), each success provides the adept with a different piece of information instead of a Key Knowledge. Item History can be used multiple times on the same item, but each test requires another week of study. The adept can learn a maximum number of Key Knowledges from a given item equal to his Item History rank.
 * See Workings of Magic, p. 202, for more information on Key Knowledges, and Thread Magic, p. 218, for more information on how Key Knowledges are used to weave threads to magic items.