Akashic Download is the spell that turns your comm unit into a direct uplink with the universe's collective unconscious. Mystics, technomancers, and witchwarpers use it to pull compressed knowledge-packets from the Oracle’s Library—a psycho-dimensional archive containing every fact, memory, and event that has ever occurred across all timelines.
The spell manifests as a brief trance: the caster's pupils dilate, their comm unit flickers with cascading holographic glyphs, and for a heartbeat, they're "elsewhere," sifting through layered data streams of pure information before snapping back, their device now loaded with contextual snippets, cross-references, and multimedia fragments.
Akashic Download is standard-issue for Chronologist investigators, Azure Archivist field researchers, and any Navigator operating in uncharted space where local databases are incomplete or corrupted.
Guild doctrine treats the Archive as the galaxy's ultimate fact-checking service: when a Metronome's logs are damaged or contradictory, a field agent casts Akashic Download to cross-reference historical events, equipment specs, or personnel records against the Record's perfect archive.
The spell's limitation—it gives you a +1 status bonus to one Recall Knowledge check and then ends—makes it a precision tool rather than a research shortcut.
Mystics with the Akashic connection treat this spell as their signature move, often flavoring it as "consulting the librarians" or "pinging the Record."
The Hidden Truth's clerics consider the spell a sacred act, a momentary communion with hidden truths, while Syndicate data-brokers use it to win arguments, close deals, or expose rivals' lies in real-time.
Devotion and themes
Blue Devotion (primary): treats Akashic Download as systematic information retrieval, querying the cosmos like a search engine.
Akashic Download Spell 1
Three Actions
Source Player Core pg. 314
Traditions Occult
Mystic Connection Akashic
Deities: The Hidden Truth, Lady of Wisdom
Requirements: You have a comm unit or computer, used as a locus.
Duration 1 day
You conduct a psychic search of the Oracle’s Library for information on a specific topic and magically transfer the data to your comm unit or computer. When you Cast this Spell, choose any skill in which you’re trained that has the Recall Knowledge action.
Any time during the duration, you can consult your comm unit while attempting a Recall Knowledge check using your chosen skill. This check gains a +1 status bonus. Checking your comm unit is part of the action to Recall Knowledge. You must be holding the comm unit to do so. The comm unit instantly compiles and displays snippets and selections from various media relevant to the topic, which grants you the bonus. If you roll a critical failure on this check, you get a failure instead. If the check is successful and the subject is a creature, you gain additional information or context about the creature. Once you reference the comm unit, the spell ends. When the spell ends, your access to the Archive ends, and all the information you downloaded returns to the Oracle’s Library.
Heightened (3rd) You can reference your comm unit three times before the spell ends.
Akashic Download is the difference between walking into a negotiation blind and walking in armed with leverage. It's perfect for investigators, scholars, diplomats, and anyone who needs to know exactly what they're dealing with—just remember, you only get one shot (or three at 3rd rank), so make your question count.
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