Permissions: Eagle Vision

[theflyingone]

Eagle Vision is a hereditary sixth sense that can be activated while standing still and uninjured. This intuition shows people's true intentions at that moment, in the form of auras, and color-codes them. Thus, it can see auras through illusions and disguises (but not walls). If there is a specific target he's looking for, the ~murmuring background voices~ will come from that direction. When he moves or gets hurt, it deactivates, but there's still a residual glowing aura about people for a short bit. Video 1m 47s in. Wiki, riddled with spoilers.


Red = Hostile or potentially hostile to Altaïr. Everyone from active guards, police, and soldiers, to slavers, tyrants, those who'd use power to control or suppress freedom, even in the name of peace.
Blue = Altaïr's allies. Assassins, those who would fight for free will, willing to break the law for this belief.
White = informants, sources of information, hiding places (people sitting on benches can be hiding places too, though for some reason the game marks them blue)
Gold = Altaïr's temporary leads, persons of interest, assassination targets
Nothing = civilians, neutral-minded people.

To an uninformed character, this looks like an uncanny intuition. Though it uses broad generalizations in practice, they can be the deciding factor in whether or not Altaïr trusts someone when he meets or has to work with them. Comment below whether you want Altaïr to see your character's intent, regarding himself, at any given moment. Altaïr may also be able to see through your character's illusions, glamours, invisibility, etc. If your character can block scrying/chi sensing and the like, please mention it. It may or may not have an effect.

Also try to guess what color your character would be to him most of the time, if any. I realize this may be difficult, considering people's colors change even in canon according to what role they play in different situations. It's not general allegiance, it's specific circumstantial intent. For example, someone can switch from being an ally (blue) to an informant (white) and vice versa, or an ally (blue) could switch to being a lead (gold) when leading Altaïr somewhere. Even people in the role of guards have been known to switch from red to blue when defecting to join Altaïr. Frenemies are also a thing, as are "allies" who show as blue because they are working with Altaïr, but only as long as he's useful.

added 2013 sep 22: Now with a form!
<b>character name(s) & journals(s):</b> <b>eagle vision:</b> always/never/ask first/special circumstances? <b>color:</b> What color you think your character might be, if applicable <b>notes:</b> Anything else you think I should know

Comments

[theflyingone]

At the moment, as an information dispensary, he would probably be white most of the time. Red could happen. Context is everything!

The lich will be all one color--whatever color Eagle Vision assigns to it. If Barry is the lich and it's just part of his form and not a separate being in its own right, it will glow whatever color Barry is.

[grimjeaper]

Due to the manner of liches being literal embodiments of magic and thus not having a physical form, technically Barry is the lich and possessing an otherwise empty body that just happens to be genetically his in this specific instance. And the shape his lich form takes is a red robe. So if he doesn't possess his body, the physical form will be nothing. unless the form is another person with their own opinion of Altair

But yes, white definitely works!

[theflyingone]

THAT'S SO WILD

[grimjeaper]

THE ADVENTURE ZONE IS A TRIP MAN

ALSO HE MIGHT BE LEVEL 18

[theflyingone]

I'VE NO IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS, WHAT'S A LEVEL 18

[grimjeaper]

STANDARD DND CAP IS 20 AND ITS LIKE A MILLION EXP TO GET THAT FAR