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Every character has his or her own embarrassments from time to time. Some habitually screw things up for themselves or their friends. Faults are the Elysium way of representing a character's shortcomings and flaws. Faults, the exact opposite of Trumps, can be assembled at character creation or amassed as the game progresses.

When you select Faults for your character, you receive Expoints in return to spend on anything you'd like: Attribute points, Skill ranks, Trumps, and Special Power ranks. Each Fault lists the Expoint bonus it provides.

A GM may tell you that your character inherits a Fault because of in-game events. Say your character has his or her hand unjustly lobbed off and the GM tells you to inherit the Fault "Missing Hand" and the 5 Expoints it grants you.  The GM can't just go around lobbing off hands arbitrarily, but if it happened due to a failed Defense Roll in combat with the story's villain, that's legit.

In the event you tire of a Fault which can be cured, overcome, or repaired, you must first earn the experience required to "buy back" the Fault, thus erasing the Fault and balancing the checkbook, so to speak, with regards to the Expoints it granted you.  Also, you may have to secure in-game resources to overcome the Fault and role-play through the process.  Some generous GMs might allow you to overcome a Fault before you have spent the Expoints to buy it back, but this isn't really a good idea unless people's enjoyment of the game is in a real pinch because of it.

A character has no limit on the number of Faults he or she can possess, however, more Faults make for difficult gameplay. Sure, you could play an old, one-eyed, lame, one-armed, obese, retired soldier with a nasty facial scar, but your in-game penalties would be ''massive''.  Listed below are the Faults available to you.

==Physical Faults==
Physical Faults provide difficulties and disabilities to your character's body: everything from missing limbs to poor senses.

===Addict===
{{:Addict}}
===Allergies===
{{:Allergies}}
===Battle Scar===
{{:Battle Scar}}
===Blind===
{{:Blind}}
===Broken Sniffer===
{{:Broken Sniffer}}
===Child===
{{:Child}}
===Clumsy===
{{:Clumsy}}
===Dead Weight===
{{:Dead Weight}}
===Deaf===
{{:Deaf}}
===Deformity===
{{:Deformity}}
===Frail===
{{:Frail}}
===Hearing Impaired===
{{:Hearing Impaired}}
===Hyperactive===
{{:Hyperactive}}
===Lame===
{{:Lame}}
===Little Piggy===
{{:Little Piggy}}
===Lousy Balance===
{{:Lousy Balance}}
===Mercurial===
{{:Mercurial}}
===Missing Hand/Arm===
{{:Missing Hand/Arm}}
===Mute===
{{:Mute}}
===Narcolepsy===
{{:Narcolepsy}}
===Obese===
{{:Obese}}
===Old===
{{:Old}}
===Poor Vision===
{{:Poor Vision}}
===Scrawny===
{{:Scrawny}}
===Sickly===
{{:Sickly}}
===Slow Healer===
{{:Slow Healer}}
===Speech Impediment===
{{:Speech Impediment}}
===Stinky===
{{:Stinky}}
===Unappealing===
{{:Unappealing}}
===Unarmed===
{{:Unarmed}}
===Vertically Challenged===
{{:Vertically Challenged}}
===Walking Target===
{{:Walking Target}}

==Mental Faults==
Mental Faults impose penalties based on problems in your noggin: everything from behavioral disorders to full-blown mental illnesses.

===Angel on Your Shoulder===
{{:Angel on Your Shoulder}}
===Avaricious===
{{:Avaricious}}
===Callous===
{{:Callous}}
===Code===
{{:Code}}
===Coward===
{{:Coward}}
===Devil on Your Shoulder===
{{:Devil on Your Shoulder}}
===Easily Distracted===
{{:Easily Distracted}}
===Flighty===
{{:Flighty}}
===Foolhardy===
{{:Foolhardy}}
===Gullible===
{{:Gullible}}
===Honest Abe===
{{:Honest Abe}}
===Indomitable===
{{:Indomitable}}
===Laughable===
{{:Laughable}}
===Masochist===
{{:Masochist}}
===Master of None===
{{:Master of None}}
===Nightmares===
{{:Nightmares}}
===Non Compos Mentis===
{{:Non Compos Mentis}}
===Phobia===
{{:Phobia}}
===Sadist===
{{:Sadist}}
===Short Fuse===
{{:Short Fuse}}
===Sluggard===
{{:Sluggard}}
===Soft Hearted===
{{:Soft Hearted}}
===Stupefied===
{{:Stupefied}}
===Technophobe===
{{:Technophobe}}
===Terrible Memory===
{{:Terrible Memory}}
===Twitchy===
{{:Twitchy}}
===Two Bit Hack===
{{:Two Bit Hack}}
===Uneducated===
{{:Uneducated}}
===Unhinged===
{{:Unhinged}}
===Vulnerable Mind===
{{:Vulnerable Mind}}
===Wimp===
{{:Wimp}}

==Social Faults==
Social Faults cause hiccups in your interpersonal happenings. Among these you can find everything from closely-guarded secrets to noted relationships.

===Animal Enmity===
{{:Animal Enmity}}
===Bummer===
{{:Bummer}}
===Debt===
{{:Debt}}
===Defector===
{{:Defector}}
===Dirty Little Secret===
{{:Dirty Little Secret}}
===Girl/Guy Magnet===
{{:Girl/Guy Magnet}}
===Hunted===
{{:Hunted}}
===Lecher===
{{:Lecher}}
===Loved One===
{{:Loved One}}
===Mentors Enmity===
{{:Mentors Enmity}}
===Mistaken Identity===
{{:Mistaken Identity}}
===Nemesis===
{{:Nemesis}}
===Notorious===
{{:Notorious}}
===Nymphomaniac===
{{:Nymphomaniac}}
===Owned===
{{:Owned}}
===Pesky Sidekick===
{{:Pesky Sidekick}}
===Race's Enmity===
{{:Race's Enmity}}
===Rules Lawyer===
{{:Rules Lawyer}}
===Shady===
{{:Shady}}
===Slack Spirited===
{{:Slack Spirited}}

==Combat Faults==
Combat Faults mangle what little skill in combat you have. Restrictions here number everything from attack restrictions to speed and skill reductions.

===Attack Restriction===
{{:Attack Restriction}}
===Battle Brute===
{{:Battle Brute}}
===Combat Shy===
{{:Combat Shy}}
===Glass Jaw===
{{:Glass Jaw}}
===Overwhelmed===
{{:Overwhelmed}}
===Overzealous===
{{:Overzealous}}
===Pacifist===
{{:Pacifist}}
===Poky Combatant===
{{:Pokey Combatant}}
===Straight-Shooter===
{{:Straight-Shooter}}
===Uncooperative===
{{:Uncooperative}}

==Magic Faults==
Magic Faults take the edge off your magic powers: everything from penalties to spellcasting to outright aversion to magic.

===Magic Dunce===
{{:Magic Dunce}}
===Mana Aversion===
{{:Mana Aversion}}
===Mana Block===
{{:Mana Block}}
===School Sensitivity===
{{:School Sensitivity}}
===Target Restriction===
{{:Target Restriction}}

==Supernatural Faults==
Supernatural Faults are the universe's way of playing a joke on you. Everything from curses, haunting, and spiritual disasters can be found here.

===Aura of Decay===
{{:Aura of Decay (Fault)}}
===Beyond Good and Evil===
{{:Beyond Good and Evil}}
===Bleak Destiny===
{{:Bleak Destiny}}
===Called===
{{:Called}}
===Chaos Knight===
{{:Chaos Knight}}
===Cursed===
{{:Cursed}}
===Damned===
{{:Damned}}
===Disaster Magnet===
{{:Disaster Magnet}}
===Fallen===
{{:Fallen}}
===Haunted===
{{:Haunted}}

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