Speaker of Asu-shu-namir

Those chosen by the Akkadian Tablet 17, also known as the Tablet of Asu-shu-namir, become the Speaker of Asu-shu-namir. As the Speaker, a person will gain different skills, senses, and auras. It is up to the Speaker what to do with these gifts, but the inscription of the tablet strongly encourages the Speaker to act as a rescuer.

Transmission & Vectors

To become Speaker, a person must handle the tablet, and usually read it. The longer that the tablet spends without a Speaker, the easier it is to transmit. Those chosen and given the condition will almost certainly know. When the condition is transmitted, it involves an amount of light, sparkle, and a shower of green water.

Symptoms

Speakers gain skills in resisting pain, resisting death, and sensing time as it goes. They also have a strong sense of cthonic artifacts and a good method of predicting danger coming to them or to those they are destined to rescue. Because of the history of the artifact and of Asu-shu-namir, the Speaker will often be rejected by strangers and will have trouble fitting into general society.

Affected Groups

Only one person can be affected by this condition at once. Excepting very strong circumstances, only people outside the gender binary (including nonbinary, intersex, and genderless people) are affected by the tablet.

Type

Magical

Origin

Divine

Cycle

Chronic, Acquired

Rarity

Unique