Underlight: Shades of Truth - Focus

Choosing A Focus

Your focus defines much about your character. It determines the kinds of arts you can learn. When you first create your character, you must choose what focus they will be. You cannot change your focus later. Each focus is based upon an element of the dream and many of the character's arts will draw on that particular element. There are 5 elements in the dream and each character possesses a certain amount of them to evoke their arts. Four of them are energy sources for arts of a corresponding focus; while the fifth one, Dreamsoul, is an element used for arts common to everyone in the dream.

element: Dreamsoul
The element of Dreamsoul is not the source of any one focus. Dreamsoul is the basic building block of the dream and everything in it. This energy forms the Dream City itself, the items within it, and is used as your avatar to protect and shield your raw "soulsphere". Every focus within the city draws on Dreamsoul for common arts not associated with one of the four focii.

Gatekeepers

element: Willpower
Gatekeepers can manipulate the fabric of dreams, altering the walls of thought to protect themselves and others from harmful evocations, even prevent or allow access to areas of the Dream City. Gatekeepers are the warriors of the Dream City.

Dreamseers

element: Insight
Dreamseers can see the true nature of the dreamstate, are able to slip invisibly into its embrace, and have an intuitive understanding of Talismans. Dreamseer are the scholars of the Dream City.

Soulmasters

element: Resilience
Soulmasters can transmute essence, the substance all inhabitants possess to give them form and shield their souls. They can use this power to help or harm others. Soulmasters are the healers of the Dream City.

Fatesenders

element: Lucidity
Fatesenders learn to directly change the experiences of others, and are able to alter the movement, sight, and essence of others. Fatesenders are the tricksters of the Dream City.