No it doesn't It allows us to detect creaturs of darkness. No hints about their true nature. Certainly no "this is akuma" vs "this is a jade court member".
Okay. One more time.
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Hellscry Chakra said:
Hellscry Chakra (••)
Opening her inner eye and attuning it to spiritual desolation, the Infernal gains the ability to detect potential servants or rivals, and to weigh the souls of those she meets.
System: Reflexively spend 1 Essence. For the rest of the scene, the Infernal becomes aware when she stands in the presence of any creature of darkness, though she doesn't inherently know what sort of supernatural being any given individual may be. Furthermore, by concentrating on a specific individual for a few moments and making a successful Perception + Occult roll against difficulty 6, she can behold the subtleties of their anima and learn their current emotional state, as well as some clues about their nature. If you wish to embellish this with aura colors and the like, a chart can be found on page 136 of V20.
Potential servants or rivals.
Weigh souls. That isnt restricted to CoDs.
Mortals are potential servants but arent CoDs. Necromancers are potential rivals but arent CoDs either.
We detect CoDs automatically; the rest we have to look and make a roll.
And as for the subtleties of the anima, I quote the referred pages in V20:
V20 page 136 said:
The listed are common colors. Vampires. Weres. Ghosts. Fae. Diablerists. Magic users.
Uncommon colors and shades are also available, but you have to make those up yourself.
There's more about what you can see in a person's aura in Karma Sight, including how explicitly you can see possessions and the like, but Im having trouble extracting that page right now.
Basically?
This is how Holden wrote the charm to be used. Thats what his chosen references indicate.
Its not just making shit up.
Basically, we have Special Investigations people right here. They are doing security for this event. We can definitely combine warning them and SI, and getting at least some of them into protective custody if needed.
We know nothing about the average SI officer, their trustworthyness or openmindedness.
Its canonically the dumping ground for people who pissed off superiors elsewhere, or whose careers deadended.
A police force's willingness to use outside consultants as long as they have results does not mean they buy into your explanations.
It takes a fair bit to go from "okay, there's some edge cases that cant be explained by modern science" to "all the myths are real, there are multiple types of Hell and they have agents walking the Earth".
Stallings, the guy who we stuck with the ghost girl? Murphy's partner? Who would have been made SI's commander in canon after Murphy was demoted? Was canonically skeptical about the supernatural as late as June this year. This despite his predecessor as Murphy's partner being disembowelled by a loup garou in a police station, along with at least half a dozen other people.
And he's a
good guy. A good cop who is relatively openminded.
Rudolph? The guy who was partly responsible for getting Murphy demoted, got her fired, and eventually killed her in canon?
The guy who forged evidence to get the FBI to raid Dresden's apartment on terrorism charges in Changes?
Was Chicago PD Special Investigations before he got himself promoted to Internal Affairs.
You need to stop assuming that everything carrying a badge is trustworthy.
Thats not how it works.
Especially in Chicago.
