{"id":"mage/power/rote/protocols","type":"power","system":"rote","line":"mage","name":"Protocols","sources":[{"source":"HDYDT","page":94}],"entries":["Otherworldly visitors are big on protocols: elaborate greetings and banishings, ritualistic incantations, invocation of sacred names, recognition of abilities, reciting of titles on both sides, that sort of thing. Just as powerful people tend to acknowledge one another through honorifics and code-phrases, the mages, shamans, and even scientists who deal with Otherworldly entities","tend to do the same thing with their “guests.” The Umbrood, for their part, reveal how much they know about the summoner… which, in most cases, tends to be more than a mage really wants someone else to know. (For an example, see the flavor text at the beginning of this section.) Traditionally, a summoned entity greets its “host” by dropping a secret about the mage and then seeing how that mage reacts to the knowledge. That game of one-upmanship is as old as time itself.","Here’s where Traits like Lore: Spirits, Umbrood Protocols, Ritual Names, Umbral Hierarchies, and so on really come into play. A character who has such Abilities can use them to establish a respectful (if contentious) relationship with the spirit, letting that entity know that he’s a person worth respecting; someone without those Traits, on the other hand, places herself at a profound disadvantage. Essentially, that person announces herself as a rank amateur before the game even begins, and will have a very hard time gaining the spirit’s respect after that."],"tags":["hdydt","feat"],"_qa":{"flags":[],"parser":"headed_entries","confidence":0.9,"extracted":"2026-10-12","job":"hdydt-feats"},"level":null,"_links":{"self":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/protocols","html":"/records/mage/power/rote/protocols","parent":null,"children":"/api/v1/records/mage/power/rote/protocols/children","sources":[{"abbr":"HDYDT","page":94,"folio":94,"title":"How Do You DO That?"}]},"_db":{"title":"Protocols","props":[],"parent_id":null,"level":null,"category":null,"summary":"Otherworldly visitors are big on protocols: elaborate greetings and banishings, ritualistic incantations, invocation of sacred names, recognition of abilities, reciting of titles on both sides, that sort of thing. Just","tags":["feat","hdydt"],"children":[]}}