Right of Passage

[zogo]

Well to put it bluntly since 99.9+% of beings given Right of Passage will be Servitors of Destiny with their Hearts in the Library, What is the benefit of this attunement? Is it just a lower disturbance?

And it certainly doesn't seem worthwhile to Soldiers of God serving Destiny since the vast majority of them would have to be full on Essence and spend all of it to use the attunement.

[William]

If you're playing a game in which angelic Tethers are fairly rare, it cuts a lot of distance off travel -- and even if a Tether is convenient to plenty of locations, it can still get you in to some well-protected stores of knowledge you couldn't enter otherwise. It could even get you a completely unguarded entrance into Kronos' Archive, or the Inverse Data Store, though the former is doubtless a trip undertaken only in extreme circumstances.

(At least, I trust I'm reading this right and that you can enter one Gateway and exit another!)

[zogo]

Originally Posted by William

(At least, I trust I'm reading this right and that you can enter one Gateway and exit another!)

It says only to the Library and back again, which seems to say you can only go from where you are to the Library and then back to where you were, which makes it essentially the same as Ascending and then returning to your vessel's last location.

The alternative interpretation that you cannot move outside the Library on the Heaven Side seems really weird to me.

[Magicwillnz]

The main benefits of the Rite of Passage is social. It is, after all, a prestigious attunement, and shows what kind of selfless individual you are.

[Sagitta]

Originally Posted by zogo

What is the benefit of this attunement?

It always succeeds, and you can take guests.

And it certainly doesn't seem worthwhile to Soldiers of God...

The book says it's for angels only.

[alexondria]

I've always viewed this as being able to turn any library or suitable repository of knowledge into a temporary tether. I've also viewed it as alowing the angel to go from any one library to another via the hidden paths.

[RadLilim]

Per Sup3, "It allows the angel to use the Gateways that link every repository of knowledge to the Library." So it doesn't need to be a tether. However, it continues to say, "This attunement may only be used to travel to the Library and back again."

So the angel can go from any repository of knowledge he or she is in to the Library and back again. Which, IMO, includes music and book stores, libraries, archives, and even Kronos' Archives, if he or she is unlucky enough to be there.

[zogo]

Originally Posted by RadLilim

So the angel can go from any repository of knowledge he or she is in to the Library and back again. Which, IMO, includes music and book stores, libraries, archives, and even Kronos' Archives, if he or she is unlucky enough to be there.

Right but with a roll an angel in Celestial Form can go from nearly anywhere to their Heart...

[gjc8]

Originally Posted by zogo

Right but with a roll an angel in Celestial Form can go from nearly anywhere to their Heart...

That's noisy, and it requires a roll. Plus, you can't get back to the same spot that way.

[William]

Sure you can, you can descend to your last Corporeal location as long as you have a Vessel.

No, I'm fairly sure the intent of Right of Passage is to let an angel go from one place on Earth to another, via repositories of information connected to the Library. Certainly that's the ability I'd play, otherwise as you point out it's a very weak Attunement with significant prerequisites simply to lower Disturbance for going celestial.

Barring an authorial or editorial Intervention, however, I'd say it's up to you.