Editing SeventhSun:Lineages (section)

== Optimates ==
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Optimates are a distant and reclusive people, slender in build and cultivated to a degree that other Lineages may find exquisite, mannered, or effete. Their reserve is not simple timidity. Optimates were designed for modes of perception and control that make much of ordinary embodied life seem coarse, loud, and needlessly forceful. Their communities have consequently withdrawn from many societies whose members find them equally difficult to understand.

Every Optimate is born with a vinculum fully integrated into the body. Where another Magister must undergo reintegration to acquire one, an Optimate develops with the vinculum from conception. Optimates swim in phasm as naturally as an Inheritor swims in water. They feel its currents, pressure, and disturbances around them, and their finest disciplines move through it with an ease that acquired anatomy rarely equals.

Not every Optimate becomes a Magister. Possessing an organ does not supply training, purpose, or courage. It does mean that phasm is never wholly foreign to an Optimate, even when the individual follows another Path.
==== Lineage Gift ====
'''Native Vinculum''' — You perceive active phasm without a roll; once per scene, you may Overreach without taking Fatigue