====== Masela bloodline and powers ======
This character carries the divine blood of Masela, goddess of the sea, navigation, and endurance. Bloodline score, power tier, and Regency capacity are shown in the Regency panel.

[[:systems:bloodlines|How bloodline strength works]] · [[:systems:bloodpowers|How to gain and use powers]]

===== What your bloodline adds =====
Each row adds to the earlier rows. These benefits come from your bloodline strength, separately from your individual powers.

^ Strength reached ^ Additional benefits ^
| 1 | +1 Prowess; +1 Personally held domains; +1 Learning |
| 17 | +1 Prowess; +1 Personally held domains; +1 Diplomacy |
| 33 | +1 Prowess; +1 Personally held domains; +1 Learning |
| 49 | +1 Prowess; +1 Personally held domains; +1 Learning; +1 Diplomacy |
| 65 | +1 Prowess; +1 Personally held domains; +1 Learning; +1 Diplomacy; +10% Naval army movement speed |

===== Tainted powers =====

==== Direction Sense ====
An instinct for direction guides the scion toward a known destination, even when the safest route requires a detour.

**Always active:** +25 Travel safety; +15% Naval army movement speed; -10% Embarkation cost.

You do not need to activate this power; its benefits apply while you have the trait.

==== Bloodmark ====
A recognizable sign of divine descent lends confidence and commands respect.

**Always active:** +1 Diplomacy; +5 General opinion; +10% Monthly prestige; +5 Travel safety.

You do not need to activate this power; its benefits apply while you have the trait.

==== Detect Lie ====
By concentrating on one speaker, the scion senses falsehood in their words.

**Always active:** +1 Diplomacy; -15 Enemy hostile scheme success chance (percentage points); +15% Scheme discovery chance.

**Using it:**
  * **Interaction: Discern Lies**. Cooldown: 3 years. Listen for the discord between a speaker's words and intentions. A successful contested reading reveals one secret, if an undiscovered secret exists, and grants a year of watchfulness. This does not manufacture a secret. Requires physical presence in the same location.

===== Minor powers =====

==== Endurance ====
Divine stamina sustains long exertion and eases the hardships of exhausting journeys.

**Always active:** +0.1 Health; +15% Supply duration; +20 Travel safety; +10% Army movement speed.

You do not need to activate this power; its benefits apply while you have the trait.

==== Resistance — Water ====
Masela's blood helps its bearer endure the dangers of water and drowning.

**Always active:** +0.1 Health; +25 Travel safety; +25% Character travel safety.

**Using it:**
  * **Important limit:** Travel Safety reduces ordinary travel danger; it is not guaranteed immunity to drowning or disasters.

==== Blood History ====
The memories of direct ancestors whisper inherited knowledge. They contain experiences before the next generation was born, not knowledge of the future.

**Always active:** +2 Learning; +10% Monthly lifestyle xp gain; +10 Travel safety; +5% Monthly prestige.

**Using it:**
  * **Decision: Consult Ancestral Memories**. Cooldown: 5 years. Be still and listen to the lives that came before your own. Choose one of the ancestral insights offered by Blood History. This shares the five-year limit with spontaneous recollections.

===== Major powers =====

==== Enhanced Sense — Storm Sight ====
Masela grants sight and hearing untroubled by storm and rain. Perception extends beyond ordinary mortal limits in a form shaped by the scion's divine ancestry.

**Always active:** +25 Travel safety; +15% Naval army movement speed; +3 Advantage; +3 Coastal advantage; +10% Scheme discovery chance.

You do not need to activate this power; its benefits apply while you have the trait.

==== Divine Aura ====
An intangible mantle of nobility commands respect; consciously focused, it can enthrall unblooded listeners.

**Always active:** +3 Diplomacy; +10 General opinion; +10 Vassal opinion; +0.5 Monthly prestige; +10 Travel safety.

**Using it:**
  * **Interaction: Enthrall with Divine Aura**. Cooldown: 3 years. Let the presence of the old god still the room and draw a mortal listener into sympathy. The target gains 20 opinion of you for two years. Divine scions resist this enthrallment. Requires physical presence in the same location.

==== Sea Song ====
Near a great body of water, the scion listens for news carried in its song.

**Always active:** +2 Learning; +15 Travel safety.

**Using it:**
  * **Decision: Listen to the Sea**. Cooldown: 3 years. At the coast, listen for the sea's warnings. Gain one year of maritime insight: +20 Travel Safety, +10% Naval Movement Speed and +10% Scheme Discovery Chance. This does not reveal global secrets or fabricate a report about distant fleets.

===== Great powers =====

==== Protection from Evil ====
A persistent divine ward defends the scion from malign influence.

**Always active:** -25 Enemy hostile scheme success chance (percentage points); +10 Travel safety.

**Using it:**
  * **Important limit:** Your defences against schemes are always active. It does not protect you against every realm or battle spell.

==== Long Life ====
The ravages of age are delayed. A long-lived scion remains vulnerable to violence and other dangers.

**Always active:** +1 Health; +100 Life expectancy (years); +90 Years of fertility; No loss of prowess from ageing.

**Using it:**
  * **Important limit:** CK3 extends life expectancy and fertile years and prevents age-related Prowess loss; it does not divide calendar aging by a fixed ratio.

==== Travel — Water ====
Divine paths shorten the journey: roads for Brenna, shores for Masela and the moon's passage for Vorynn.

**Always active:** +50% Naval army movement speed; +50 Travel safety; -25% Embarkation cost; +10% Army movement speed.

**Using it:**
  * **Decision: Travel the Waters**. Cooldown: 5 years. Call Masela's current around your normal travel entourage for a swift and safe voyage.
  * **Important limit:** Activation accelerates ordinary character travel for six months. It does not teleport a character or an army, and does not change the travel route.

===== True powers =====

==== Elemental Control — Sea ====
The scion channels the element bound to the old god: Anduiras's air, Basaïa's fire, Masela's water or Reynir's earth.

**Always active:** +5 Advantage; +25 Travel safety; +15% Naval army movement speed.

**Using it:**
  * **Decision: Command the Sea**. Cooldown: 5 years. Invoke Masela's waters. Choose a 30-day battle tempest while commanding, or two years of safer seas; the latter also blesses a coastal capital county.

==== Divine Wrath ====
Wrath awakens involuntarily when the scion confronts a wrong done to someone they care for.

**Always active:** This power works through its special ability rather than a separate stat bonus.

**Using it:**
  * When you command a battle in which a friendly knight dies, you have a 25% chance to gain Divine Wrath for six months. Its combat bonuses help in your next battle; they do not change the battle that has already ended.
  * **Important limit:** Automatic only: a personally commanded battle with a fallen friendly knight gives a 25% post-battle chance of six months of wrath. It cannot affect the battle that has already ended.

==== Bloodtrait ====

**Regeneration — planned 0.1.0:** Automatically heals one wound severity level and restores one lasting injury on each yearly pulse. Restores blindness, a lost eye or leg, maiming, disfigurement, castration and scars. No activation or resource cost. [[:systems:bloodform_regeneration|Full recovery rules and priority]].
The scion chooses to embody the old god's inheritance in an enduring, individual transformation.

**Always active:** Ageless: protected from natural ageing; +10 Diplomacy; +10 Martial; +10 Stewardship; +10 Intrigue; +10 Learning; +10 Prowess.

**Using it:**
  * **Decision: Manifest Bloodtrait**. Cooldown: one permanent choice / no independent cooldown. Choose the one permanent form in which Masela's divine blood will manifest.
  * **Important limit:** This mod represents the transformation with immortality, skill bonuses and one permanent manifestation. CK3 immortality prevents natural death and visual aging; deaths can still occur. It is not a universal death shield.

===== Your permanent manifestation =====
Bloodtrait or Bloodform lets you choose one lasting manifestation. Read the choices before accepting: this is a permanent expression of your blood.

==== Form of the Leviathan ====
A permanent manifestation of Masela's relentless martial power.

+5 Martial; +5 Prowess; +15% Army toughness; +5 Advantage; +3 Coastal advantage.

==== Voice of the Sea ====
A permanent manifestation of Masela's eloquence and maritime insight.

+5 Diplomacy; +3 Learning; +10 General opinion; +25 Travel safety; +15% Naval army movement speed.

==== Child of the Deep ====
A permanent manifestation of Masela's unfathomable endurance.

+1.5 Health; +0.5 Resistance to health penalties (Health points); +50 Travel safety.