Okay, so several questions have come up for me concerning the powers of the Divine Gifts, and would love to see if anyone else has been able to come up with more situations where people gain Elan with any of the forces, or even new and different gifts, however the thread's primary purpose is answers.

As a Gm should I allow multiple gods to grant Elan to a character? and grant gifts?

Under Noah, the abilities Reduce Penalties, is that meant for All-Action Penalties, or any penalty the character encounters? Should it only be for penalties that make sense under Noah's portfolios?

Erebus...this one is really troublesome for me. Especially the Natural Mystic. How is that supposed to work?

Abbadon's 100 Elan power...does it work on the unwilling? On the character themselves?

Are the powers of Elan obviously supernatural? If so, are the not-obvious gifts (skill bonuses and such) Psychic, Magic, or Ki Dominion?

Also, on an unrelated note is there a list of upcoming books in the line? Even beyond the current Spanish releases. I remember seeing something...

Killercloud said:

I am no expert on Elan, but here is what I think

1- yes. Multiple gods can grant a character Elan and Gifts. However for abilities that say like 2 * Elan level, or 1/2 your Elan level only counts for your Elan in that god. So if you have 40 Elan in Noah and 10 in Abadon you only subtract 20 from penalties, not 25. Further if you get above 49 Elan in any god it decreases the maximum you can have in others, the table for this is on page 261.

2- Noahs ability applies to all penalties. But it does not decrease the penalty, you ignore it. For example, at 40 Elan with Noah, if you have a -80 penalty for being blinded you only apply a -60, If you then take an All Action Penalty of -40 your total penalty is -120 but you only apply a -100.

3- I do not understand the question, could you explain? On Natural Mystic, the ability gives you a special bonus Zeon pool equal to 2 time your Elan level (so at the minimum 50 Elan you have a 100 Zeon pool) that refills completely every day. This Zeon pool can only be used to cast Free Access Spells, which you automatically learn all Free Access Spells but can only cast them with the Zeon from this pool. The confusing part (I presume) is in MA, I would say you have whatever your characters MA is normally(so a wizard with 160MA would have 160MA for these spells, but a fighter with 8 POW would have 5MA [The base MA for that amount of POW] for them. I would also say you have a minimum of 5MA for these spells, even if your POW would normally be insufficient [4 or less].) is your MA for this pool as well.

4- No, "The seed of the devil may only be granted to really evil people or creatures who wish to obtain the power it entails."

5-Some are, such as changes to the body, but most are not obviously supernatural. They are supernatural, but they are their own catagory, "Elan" therefore they are very hard to take away, even temporarily, because almost nothing deals with Elan powers except Elan powers.

6- Yes there is a list of books the creator wants to make. I do not know where it is, but I saw it on the forums awhile ago.

I have not delved deep enough into Elan to even consider making more gods yet, so I'm no help there.