1) Protecting aspect

The Knight of Hope could protect hope perhaps by keeping the Genesis Frog safe, as the Knight class is expected to assist the space player with the breeding duties. This would mean they’re protecting the session hope for success as without a Genesis Frog a session is doomed. The Knight could also protect a certain player who may eventually cause the session to be a success.

2) Protecting with aspect

This could mean keeping the group’s morale high and helping sad players stay cheerful, or it could mean giving the team hope somehow, perhaps by rescuing them when all seems lost. The Knight of Hope would definitely be one of the classes that come bursting in out of nowhere ready to perform a heroic rescue.

3) Using aspect as a weapon

We’ve already seen that Hope can be physically manifested to deal damage, so the Knight would likely be able to enhance their weapon with this essence of hope in order to increase their damage. You could also take this figuratively and say that they use their sway over hope to help their allies be prepared for battle.

Works well with: Seer of Doom, Sylph of Life, Space players

Works poorly with: Princes and Bards of Doom and Hope, Thief of Light

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1) Affect drive

The Witch can manipulate their aspect literally. In the case of the Witch of Hope, she could raise or lower a person or group’s hope and positivity. If she lowered it, then their performance would probably drop too, as when you aren’t motivated, you don’t push yourself as much and so you don’t do as well as you could. Alternatively, if she raised it then, with increased morale and hope, they would perform better as when you expect to do well then you subconsciously push yourself to do so. The more hopeful the team is, the more they’ll get done.

2) Using hope

Manipulating using hope, as opposed to hope itself, could manifest itself in interesting ways. One could be giving people false hope and encouraging this in them, which might cause them to fail in the long run. By making them hopeful that they could do something impossible, when they fail they’ll be more crippled than they otherwise would have been. This is manipulating the flow of events using hope. Frankly I find it hard to see how manipulating things using hope could be used nicely, without manipulating hope itself.

3) Success

Seeing as the Hope Aspect also relates to success (in a similar way to Doom relating to failure) she may be able to manipulate the success of something, whether it be a session, personal goal or something else entirely. She could make it more or less likely, and depending on what outcome she was effecting and who this would affect, this could be either a good or bad thing in the long run for her teammates.

4) Belief

The Hope Aspect also means belief to an extent, which could be manifested in a couple of ways. The Witch may be able to manipulate a person’s belief, causing them to lose faith in something or their faith to grow stronger. This could do a number of things. For one, it could cause the person being manipulated to stop believing what some people said, thus making them feel unstable. It could stop a person believing in their religion/beliefs. On the other hand, it could cause them to become more religious than they were previously. It would probably have other effects but I won’t list them all.