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Tattoo of Accuracy
THAC0: +1
Weight: 0

This tattoo has two concentric rings with lines radiating from the center. When inscribed on the skin, the wearer's perceptions of distance and balance become heightened, giving their attacks greater accuracy.
Tattoo of Action
Special: +1 to Dexterity
Weight: 0

This tattoo gives the wearer's reflexes an additional edge, making him more difficult to hit.
Tattoo Of Annah-Of-The-Shadows
Special:
.....+1 to Dexterity
.....-1 to Charisma
.....-1 to Wisdom
.....+3% Pick Pockets Skill Bonus
.....+3% Stealth Skill Bonus
.....+3% Open Locks Skill Bonus
.....+3% Detect Traps Skill Bonus
Weight: 0
Usable only by Thieves
Usable only by Nameless One

Some of Annah's presence must be rubbing off on you, for this tattoo allows you to call upon some of her cat-like skills and grave to hone your thief abilities. Unfortunately, it also inherits some of Annah's brashness and impulsiveness, reducing your Charisma and Wisdom accordingly.
Tattoo of Avernus
Special:
.....+33% Resistance to Fire
.....+33% Resistance to Magical Fire
.....Immunity to Panic
Weight: 0

This tattoo recognizes your travels on the first later of Baator, Avernus. It draws upon the traces of the Plane's ash and fire that still remain on your skin, and turns it outwards, giving you a bonus against all manner of fire and fear attacks.
Tattoo of Bloodletting
Special: +1 to Damage with all Attacks
Weight: 0

This tattoo has a barbed whip inscribed on it. When the wearer strikes an opponent in combat, the tattoo flares and the whip takes an extra "bite" out of the opponent.
Tattoo of Death-In-Life
Invokes: "Raise Dead"
Weight: 0
Usable only by Nameless One

This tattoo tells of how you saved Dimtree's life by granting him a second death. Whether it was the intensity of Dimtree's gratitude or channeling of the power in the words you spoke to free him, this tattoo now allows you to draw from that experience and pull someone back from the brink of death.

This tattoo will only work three times before it fades from the skin.
Tattoo of Devouring Vermin
Special:
.....+1 to Save vs. Poison
.....+5% Resistance to Acid
Weight: 0

This tattoo represents your inhuman appetite for vermin. It also raises your body's resistance to acidic attacks and poison, mostly because of the powers of your cast iron stomach has been externalized.
Tattoo Of Dreams of Es-Annon
Special:
.....+1 to Save vs. Spells
.....+2 to Base Hit Points
Weight: 0

For some reason, the tale of the Crier of Es-Annon filled you with a strange nostalgia, which you have related to Fell. This tattoo draws upon both this nostalgia and the perseverance of the Criers of Es-Annon, granting you a boon to your health and your endurance.

Artistically, this is some of Fell's best work: although this tattoo shows the barest image of Es-Annon that your heard from the Crier of Es-Annon, you can almost *feel* the great spiraling parks and avenues of light through this intricate symbol. This tattoo helps preserve the memory of the city and the dream of its people that its majesty might be remembered.
Tattoo of Enduring
Special: +3 to Base Hit Points
Weight: 0

This tattoo grants the wearer a slight bonus to health, making them more difficult to knock unconscious.
Tattoo of Greater Action
Special: +2 to Dexterity
Weight: 0
Usable only by Thieves

This tattoo bolsters the wearer's reflexes, making him more difficult to hit and adding to his thief skills.
Tattoo of Greater Enduring
Special: +9 to Base Hit Points
Weight: 0
Usable only by Fighters

This tattoo grants the wearer a bonus to health, making them more difficult to take down in combat.
Tattoo of Greater Heatlth
Special: +2 Constitution
Weight: 0
Usable only by Fighters

This tattoo bolsters the wearer's endurance and pain threshold, making him more difficult to take down in combat.
Tattoo of Greater Might
Special: +2 to Strenght
Weight: 0
Usable only by Fighters

This tatoo increases the user's strength, making his physical attacks more damaging and allowing him to carry more weight.
Tattoo of Greater Presence
Special: +2 to Charisma
Weight: 0

This tattoo makes the wearer more impressive and commanding, giving them a higher presence and leadership ability.
Tattoo of Greater Warding
Special: +2 to Armor Class
Weight: 0
Usable only by Fighters

This tattoo is a minor ward against physical attacks. It hardens the wearer's skin, making them more difficult to hurt in combat.
Tattoo of Health
Special: +1 to Constitution
Weight: 0

This tattoo gives a minor gain to the wearer's endurance and pain threshold, making him more difficult to take down in combat.
Tattoo Of Ignus
Special: Temporary
.....+15% Resistance to Fire
.....+15% Resistance to Magical fire
Special: Equipped
.....+1 to Constitution
.....+3 to Base Hit Points
.....-15% Resistance to Magic
.....-1 Wisdom
Weight: 0
Usable only by Nameless One

Having Ignus as a companion is allowing you to see flames and madness in a different... light. When this tattoo is worn, you may draw upon Ignus' fury to shrug off flame attacks and increase your Constitution, making your threshold of pain that much higher. Unfortunately, since Ignus' strength lies in his madness, your Wisdom is impaired when this tattoo is worn upon the skin and your susceptibility to magical attacks increases.

This tattoo can only call upon its abiliy to protect the wearer from flames for a limited number of times. When the tattoo's power is exhausted, however, the Constitution bonus will remain.
Tattoo of Insight
Special: +1 to Intelligence
Weight: 0

This tattoo adds a slight bonus to the user's intelligence, allowing him a greater chance of gaining memories and aiding his mage skills.
Tattoo of Justice's Eye
Invokes: "Detect Evil"
Special: +1 to Strength
Weight: 0

This tattoo tells of your efforts to help Trist and depicts the arrest and trial of Byron Pikit. This tattoo bolsters the eye and mind of the wearer - it allows the wearer to percieve injustices and grants the user the strength to correct them.

The tattoo's power may only be used a limited number of times, but when Detect Evil is exhausted, the tattoo will remain.
Tattoo of Logik Cubed
Special:
.....Temporary +3 to Intelligence
.....Temporary -3 to Wisdom
Weight: 0
Usable only by Nameless One

Some of Nordom's presence must be rubbing off on you, for this tattoo allows you to tap into his (mostly) ordered and logical mind for brief periods of time. When this occurs, however, your ability to comprehend the world around you takes a fall, making it more difficult to learn from your experiences.

This tattoo must be invoked in order to take effect. When its ability is used up, the tattoo disappears.
Tattoo of Might
Special: +1 to Strength
Weight: 0

This tattoo adds a slight bonus to the user's strength, making his physical attacks more damaging and allowing him to carry more weight.
Tattoo of Presence
Special: +1 Charisma
Weight: 0

This tattoo gives the wearer an edge when interacting with others, giving them a higher presence and leadership ability.
Tattoo of Ravel
Special:
.....+1 to Charisma
.....Immunity to Panic
Weight: 0

You have met a creature of legend, myth and mystery, and there are few who can claim to have met the night hag Ravel and NOT met some horrible fate. This tattoo tells of your encounter with the mythological figure; merely wearing it marks you as someone to be respected... and feared. In addition to the respect you now command, common terrors that would terrify a normal human being now slide off you.
Tattoo of Ravel's Kiss
Special:
.....-1 to Wisdom
.....-1 to Intelligence
.....+2 to Strength
.....+2 to Constitution
.....+1 to Save vs. Paralyzation
Weight: 0
Usable only by Nameless One

Your lips have touched the night hag, Ravel, and there are few who have met her and lived, much less caused her to feel some emotion other than contempt and hatred. This tattoo is blood red, and reminds you of the blood that Ravel drew when your lips touched hers. It may not have been the wisest decision, but it took tremendous bravery and strength to kiss her. When inscribed on the skin, the tattoo steels the heart and body and helps the wearer throw off the effects of paralyzation, but at the same time, it dulls your intelligence and wisdom somewhat.
Tattoo of Revelation
Special: +2 to Intelligence
Weight: 0
Usable only by Mages

This tattoo bolster's the user's intelligence, allowing him a greater chance of gaining memories and aiding his mage skills.
Tattoo Of Saving Grace
Special:
.....+1 to Wisdom
.....+5 to Lore Skill
.....+1 to all Saving Throws
Weight: 0
Usable only by Nameless One

Some of Fall-From-Grace's presence must be rubbing off on you, for this tattoo allows you to steady your thoughts and take events from a calm perspective, allowing you to gain more experience from your encouters. Furthermore, this tatoo helps calm the mind and allows you to control your impulsiveness, panic and harness your adrenaline rush to shrug off spells, paralyzation, and any other attacks that rely on chance to pierce your defenses.
Tattoo of Sensation
Special:
.....+1 Damage with all Attacks
.....+5% to Damage from All Physical Attacks
THAC0: +1
Weight: 0
Usable only by Sensates

This tattoo enhances the player's senses; as a side effect, the wearer can use their enhanced senses to pinpoint a target's vulnerable points and inflict more damage. Unfortunately, the tattoo also enhances any sensations of pain the wearer feels, so he takes more damage from physical attacks.
Tattoo Of Silent Coins
Special:
.....Grants Experience Points when invoked
.....Grants permanent +3% Pick Pocket Skill when invoked
.....+5% Pick Pocket Skill Bonus when worn
Weight: 0
Usable only by Nameless One
Usable only by Thieves

This tattoo came from the severed arm you found in the Dismembered Crypt. Apparently, this tattoo tells of the experiences of one of your past incarnations... the symbols and tales are unfamiliar to you, but it seems to tell of a time when you lived as a thief on Sigil's streets, before being driven down into the catacombs because of your thieving nature.

In activating the tattoo, some of the memories of living on Sigil's streets will return to you, giving you more experience. Furthermore, it will give you a permanent bonus to your pick pocket skill. Even when the tattoo is invoked and the experience has been gained, however, the tattoo and the pick pocket bonus will remain.
Tattoo of Tenement Shadows
Special: +15% to Stealth Skill Bonus
Weight: 0
Usable only by Thieves

This tattoo tells of your experience in escaping the Tenement of the Starved Dogs; the tattoo has the same color as the Adder's Tear which Sybil gave you. It gives you an additional bonus to stealth as long as it is inscribed on your flesh.
Tattoo of the Anarchists
Special: Causes Confusion
Weight: 0

This tattoo is created from the four symbols of the Revolutionary League. Wearing this openly is not a good idea.

The Revolutionary League believes that all power structures should be overthrown, and they have devoted themselves to seeing that this occurs. They are the natural enemies of nearly all the other factions, and so they must move quickly when identified. The problem with this tattoo, of course, is that it immediately identifies its wearer as an Anarchist. Authority figures have a problem with this.

This tattoo creates confusion in the enemies of the Anarchist, lasting up to 30 seconds.
Tattoo of the Art
Special:
.....+1 to Intelligence
.....Memorize 1 Additional 1st Level Mage Spell
.....Memorize 1 Additional 2nd Level Mage Spell
Weight: 0
Usable only by Mages

This tattoo enhances your natural talent for the Art, heightening your reasoning and deductive abilities, and increasing your spell memorization capacity.
Tattoo of The Betrayer
Special:
.....+1 to Strength
.....+1 to Intelligence
Weight: 0

This tattoo describes the defeat of Trias the Betrayer, and how you dealt the death stroke to the corrupted deva. It represents the strength necessary to defeat him and the smarts required to outwit a deva.
Tattoo of the Black-Barbed Call
Invokes: "Black Barbed Shield"
Weight: 0
Usable only by Mages
Usable only by Nameless One

This tattoo calls upon your experience within Ravel's Black-Barbed Maze, and it echoes the terrible sensation that flooded you when you called upon the power within the maze... and the Trigits answered in their own speech, something that impressed Ravel herself. This tattoo allows you to call upon that power again for a limited period of time and use it to protect yourself against your enemies; it seems that enemies of you are enemies of Ravel AND the Trigits...

This tattoo has only a limited amount of power... when it is exhausted, the tattoo will vanish.
Tattoo of the Black-Barbed Maze
Invokes: "Black Barbed Curse"
Weight: 0
Usable only by Mages
Usable only by Nameless One

This tattoo calls upon your experience within Ravel's Black-Barbed Maze, and it echoes the terrible sensation that flooded you when you attempted to call upon the power within the maze. This tattoo allows you to call upon that power again for a limited period of time and turn it against your enemies; it seems that enemies of you are enemies of Ravel...

This tattoo has only a limited amount of power... when it is exhausted, the tattoo will vanish.
Tattoo of The Bonesinger
Invokes: "Hold Undead"
Weight: 0

You have learned to speak with the dead and hear their stories, even from beyond the Eternal Boundary. This tattoo draws upon your powers over undeath and heightens them, allowing you to chain the undead within range with a single command.

This tattoo has only a limited number of uses before it vanishes.
Tattoo of The Cutpurse
Special:
....."Copper Blessing"
.....Grants Experience Points When Invoked
Weight: 0
Usable only by Thieves

This tattoo recognizes your mastery of the art of picking pockets, so much so that you may pick the pockets of anyone on the same plane as you - no matter where they are and whether you can even see them or not. Simply close your palm once per day, then open it, and it will be filled with a handful of coins. This ability goes just beyond picking pockets, however; when you invoke the tattoo's power, you gain an insight into the mind of the 'mark' from whom the coins were taken, giving you a small experience point bonus as well.

When the Copper Blessing ability is used up, the tattoo vanishes.
Tattoo of The Joining
Invokes: "Friends"
Weight: 0

This tattoo tells of how you brought Corvus and Karina together. It allows you to draw upon some of their happiness in finding each other to bolster your relationships with others.

When the tattoo's ability is used up, the tattoo vanishes.
Tattoo Of The Lost Incarnation
Special:
.....Grants Experience Points when invoked
.....Increases Regeneration Rate when worn
Weight: 0
Usable only by the Nameless One

This tattoo came from the severed arm you found in the Dismembered Crypt. Apparently, this tattoo tells of the experiences of one of your past incarnations... the symbols and tales are unfamiliar to you, but it seems to tell of a time when you were lost and abandoned on the streets of the Hive, barely able to make a living robbing and stealing from others you encountered. The crimes the lost incarnation committed eventually drove him to seek shelter in the Weeping Stone catacombs, where he survived for almost a year.

When worn, this tattoo seems to bring out a survival instinct in you, forcing your body to react to any damage you take and heal wounds faster.

If you choose to tap into the tattoo's power, some of the memories of hiding beneath Sigil will return to you, giving you the benifit of the previous incarnation's experience. It can only do this once, but even after the tattoo is invoked, the increased regeneration rate will remain.
Tattoo of the Magi
Special:
.....+3 to Intelligence
.....Doubles all 1st Level Mage Spells
.....Doubles all 2nd Level Mage Spells
Weight: 0
Usable only by Mages

This tattoo represents the fact you have achieved the pinnacle of your skills in the arts of magic. This tattoo enhances your ntural talent for the Art considerably, heightening your reasoning and deductive abilities, and doubling your spell memorization capacity for minor spells.
Tattoo of The Master Thief
Special:
.....+3 to Dexterity
.....+1 to Luck
.....+5% Open Locks Skill Bonus
.....+5% Pick Pockets Skill Bonus
.....+5% Detect Traps Skill Bonus
.....+5% Hide in Shadows Skill Bonus
Weight: 0
Usable only by Thieves

This tattoo represents the fact you have achieved the pinnacle of your skills in the stealthy arts. This tattoo gives you a good fortune, heightens your reflexes, and enhances your thief skills, giving you a greater percentage chance of success.
Razor Angel Ink
Invokes: "Protection from Evil"
Weight: 0
Not usable by Evil characters

This tattoo is a reminder of the aid you gave to the Razor Angels in the Alley of Dangerous Angles. Your strike against the evil in the heart of the Alley now grants you some protection against those with spite in their hearts.

This tattoo has a limited number of uses.
Tattoo of The Redeemer
Special:
.....+2 to Wisdom
.....+1 to Charisma
.....+1 to Luck
Weight: 0

This tattoo tells the story of the redemption of Trias the Betrayer, and how you steered him from the path of evil into forgiveness. It reflects your wisdom and your persuasive skills, and carries the blessing of Trias with it.
Tattoo of The Restless Dead
Invokes: "Bless"
Weight: 0

This tattoo recognizes your efforts to calm the restless dead of the mausoleum. You may draw upon their gratitude to bless yourself or your companions.

This tattoo has only a limited number of uses before it vanishes.
Tattoo of The Sensates
Invokes: "Sensory Touch"
Special: +3 to Lore Skill
Weight: 0
Usable only by Sensates

This tattoo allows the wearer to use the Sensates' sensory touch ability one additional time per day and also gives the wearer an "intuitive feel" for some items he encounters. This tattoo has a limited number of charges. When tattoo is depleted, it will crumble to dust.
Tattoo of The Shadows
Invokes: "Shroud of Shadows"
Grants Experience Points When Invoked
Weight: 0
Usable only by Thieves

This tattoo recognizes your mastery of stealth, making you as a shadow against anything that seeks to harm you. Although you can only invoke this shroud a limited number of times, when you invoke the tattoo's power, you gain a glimpse into the nature of shadows and darkness, giving you a small experience point bonus as well.

When the Shroud of Shadows ability is used up, the tattoo vanishes.
Tattoo of The Shattered Lock
Invokes: "Knock"
Grants Experience Points When Invoked
Weight: 0
Usable only by Thieves

This tattoo recognizes your mastery of the art of opening locks, so much so that you may touch any lock once per day and open it *without* resorting to lockpicks. This ability goes beyond just opening the lock, however; when you invoke the tattoo's power you gain an insight into the workings of the lock you open, giving you a small experience point bonus as well.

When the Knock ability is used up, the tattoo vanishes.
Tattoo of The Silver Tongue
Special:
.....Temporary +3 to Charisma
.....Equipped: +2 to Charisma
Weight: 0
Usable only by Nameless One

You have met a creature of legend, myth and mystery, and there are few who can claim to have met the night hag Ravel and NOT met some horrible fate. In addition, your skills of speech and presence actually stirred Ravel's heart, marking you as a master of flattery. Although merely wearing it heightens your natural Charisma, you may call upon its power to give you superhuman charisma a limited number of times.

When the tattoo's charisma bonus ability is used up, the tattoo will remain.
Tattoo of The Skull
Special: Temporary
.....+1 vs. Paralyzation
.....+1 to Luck
Special: Equipped
.....+1 to Charisma
.....-1 to Wisdom
Weight: 0
Usable only by Nameless One

for all Morte's faults, having him as a companion makes you seem more capable and not so much of a stranger to Sigil's streets. This tattoo reinforces thatbond, giving you +1 to Charisma and, when invoked, it also lends you some of Morte's luck and his ability to shrug off anything that would otherwise cause him to stop talking (such as paralyzation or stunning). Unfortunately, it also gives the user a penalty for their Wisdom... which is not hard to understand, considering how little Morte has to spare.

This tattoo can only call upon its luck ability a limited number of times. When the tattoo's power is exhausted however, the Charisma bonus will remain.
Tattoo of The Soul
Special: +2 to Wisdom
Weight: 0

This tattoo bolsters the user's wisdom, allowing him a greater chance of gaining memories and giving him a greater percentage of experience points earned.
Tattoo of the Source
Special:
.....+2 to Charisma
.....Grants Experience Points When Invoked
Weight: 0
Usable only by Godsmen

This tattoo recognizes your beliefs in the Godsmen, the Believers of the Source. Not only does this tattoo give you a bonus to Charisma, but it allows you to see every experience for the challenge it is, enhancing your perspective and growth as a member of the Godsmen.
Tattoo of The Spirit
Special: +1 to Wisdom
Weight: 0

This tattoo adds a slight bonus to the user's wisdom, allowing him a greater chance of gaining memories and giving him a greater percentage of experience points earned.
Tattoo of The Supreme Warrior
Special:
.....+3 to Armor Class
.....+3 to Strength
.....+9 to Base Hit Points
Weight: 0
Usable only by Fighters

This tattoo represents the fact you have achieved the pinnacle of your skills in the warrior arts. This tattoo enhances your natural combat skills, making you more difficult to hit and raising your damage with every strike.
Tattoo of the Tale-Weaver
Special:
.....+1 to Charisma
.....+5 to Lore Skill
Weight: 0

Ever since you've heard Yves' tales, you can use this tattoo to draw upon some of her knowledge and her experiences. Not only does this tattoo help you identify the stories behind unidentified objects you encounter, but it also seems to make you more interesting to others, as if they somehow KNOW you have interesting stories to tell.
Tattoo of The Thief
Special:
.....+1 to Dexterity
.....+5% Open Locks Skill Bonus
.....+5% Pick Pockets Skill Bonus
Weight: 0
Usable only by Thieves

This tattoo heightens your reflexes and thief skills, giving you a greater percentage chance of success.
Tattoo of The Warrior
Special:
.....+1 to Armor class
.....+1 to Strength
.....+3 to Base Hit Points
Weight: 0
Usable only by Fighters

This tattoo enhances your natural talent for combat, making you more difficult to hit and raising your damage with every strike.
Tattoo Of The Weeping Stones
Special:
.....Grants Experience Points when invoked
.....+10% Resistance to Cold when worn
.....+10% Resistance to Magical Cold when worn
.....+1 to Armor Class when worn
.....-1 to Charisma when worn
Weight: 0
Usable only by Nameless One

This tattoo came from the severed arm you found in the Dismembered Crypt. Apparently, this tattoo tells of the experiences of one of your past incarnations... the symbols and tales are unfamiliay to you, but it seems to tell of a time when the catacombs beneath Sigil's streets were your second home. It tells of you travelling down into the tombs, living in darkness and coming to learn the nature of why the stones beneath Sigil weep.

When worn, the tattoo makes you more resilient to cold and hardens your body, giving your skin the texture and strength of the weeping stone walls. In so doing, however, it also gives you a hungry guant look, as if you are starving.

If you choose to tap into the tattoo's power, some of the memories of living beneath Sigil will return to you, giving you the benefit of the previous incarnation's experience. It can only do this once, but even after the tattoo is invoked, the resistance to cold and the bonus to your armor class will remain.
Tattoo of Trist's Savior
Special: +3 to Saves vs. Paralyzation
Weight: 0

This tattoo symbolizes your efforts to win Trist's freedom. When worn, it protects the wearer from chains, paralyzation, or any other attacks that chain or hold an idividual.
Tattoo of Warding
Special: +1 to Armor Class
Weight: 0

This tattoo is a minor ward against physical attacks. It hardens the wearer's skin, making them more difficult to hurt in combat.
Tattoo Of Wasting Darkness
Special:
.....Grants Experience Points when invoked
.....Grants permanent +3% to Stealth Skill when invoked
.....+5% Stealth Skill bonus when worn
.....+1 to Armor Class when worn
.....-1 to Charisma when worn
Weight: 0
Usable only by Nameless One
Usable only by Thieves

This tattoo came from the severed arm you found in the Dismembered Crypt. Apparently, this tattoo tells of the experiences of one of your past incarnations... the symbols and tales are unfamiliay to you, but it seems to tell of a time when you were seeking shelter beneath the catacombs and were forced to live as a shadow might, hiding from detection by the Sigil authorities and trying to conceal yourself from the more dangerous inhabitants of the Weeping Stone catacombs.

When worn, the tattoo makes concealing yourself easier; it allows you to shape the shadows around you like a cloak. This makes it harder for your enemies to hurt you when they see you and harder for you to find when you don't wish to be seen. It lends you a sinister appearance, however, which will cause many to shun you.

If you choose to tap into the tattoo's power, some of the memories of hiding beneath Sigil will return to you, giving you the benefit of the previous incarnation's experience. It can only do this once, but even after the tattoo is invoked, the ability to shape shadows around you will remain.
The Number of Ku'u Yin
Special: Protection from Chaotic creatures
Weight: 0
Not usable by Chaotic characters

This is a tattoo of a number, an intricate weaving of ink and flesh. It squirms when held, as if it sought out a host. It is the number of Ku'u Yin, a personal identifier that radiates Law. When applied, the tattoo works itself into the skin of its owner, protecting it against the depredations of strongly chaotic creatures. It cannot be used by someone of chaotic alignment.


        

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