The Rewrite
"You don't erase their past. You give them a new one."
- Cost
- 1 Memory
- TN
- 16
- Tempo
- T9
- Steps
- —
- Resist
- Yes
Effect
Touch a target. You completely rewrite their identity. New name, new history, new personality, new loyalties.
The rewrite is deep: it replaces Core Memories with fabricated ones, adjusts emotional responses, and realigns priorities. The target genuinely becomes a different person.
Duration: Permanent. The original identity is destroyed, not suppressed.
Resist
ECHO + Focus vs. your Channeling Sum. On success, the Rewrite partially fails: the target gains the new identity but experiences disturbing “bleed-through” from the old one (dreams, phantom emotions, inexplicable skills).
Requirement
Reversal: Only another Miracle-level effect can undo a Rewrite. The original identity may be gone forever, or it may be buried, waiting.
Special
This is the nuclear option of mental manipulation. It is the reason Mindweavers are hunted, feared, and killed on sight by the Redeemers. Creating a new person from the shell of the old one is, by any moral framework, murder.
The Unbreaking (BS R5) can restore a Psionically damaged mind; at Miracle tier, the two effects exist in a precarious balance. A Bastion Soul who reaches a Rewrite target in time can sometimes pull them back. Sometimes.