Essence ofTruth and Lies

By drinking this Essence, which makes you feel like someone unleashed a swarm of butterflies in your stomach, you gain a number of boons.

• You have an instinctive knack for determining the true nature and character of those you meet. This isn't a psychic power but rather a massively enhanced form of cold reading, by observing and analyzing a person's body language, facial expressions, and verbal cues you can predict their actions, detect deception and make accurate deductions about their emotional state, personality and moral makeup. The effectiveness of this ability improves the longer you spend interacting with a person, in time allowing you to gain a complete understanding of their mind, how they think and what makes them tick.

• This ability's effectiveness will be diminished when used on beings whose morphology you are unfamiliar with, but will return to normal as you grow more familiar with them.

• You gain perfect control over your own body language and micro expressions, This lets you conceal your emotions, enhance all deception or persuasion attempts, and generally allows you to more easily influence how others perceive you.