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== Unique And Specialty Foci ==

You have a specialty focus for each Sphere, a focus with which you’re particularly good. If you can find a way to work that focus into the magic, then you get a one-Trait bonus on your Arete Trait total for the resolution of such challenges. For instance, if your Hermetic mage uses Enochian chants to summon Forces magic, then you get a one-Trait bonus any time you chant when casting a Forces spell. You could still inscribe a sigil with your staff (say, if you were rendered mute), but you wouldn’t get the bonus, simply because your mage isn’t as good with that combination of Sphere and focus.

In some cases, you’ll have a unique focus. You can decide, for instance, that you don’t just perform your  Akashic Spirit magic with your sword, but specifically with the Chinese broadsword you inherited from your grandfather. When using a unique focus, you gain a one-Trait additional bonus on resolving your magical casting. However, if you ever lose , the focus, you’re in trouble. You can’t use that Sphere at all without the unique focus unless you manage to either surpass it, gain enough Arete to no longer need it or gain a new focus to replace it (at a cost of one Experience Trait per level in the Sphere).