I was just watching an anime called "Vinland Saga", set in the time of Leif Erickson and Prince Canute, and the Viking mercenary leader has revealed that he has a secret ability.
He claims he only needs to look at a man's face to know if he is important or not, faithful or about to betray him.
I am assuming this "ability" could be modeled in Ars Magica by either the Intuition virtue, or by Premonitions. Or would some other virtue be a better fit?
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maybe some version of the hermetic divination virtue (obviously in a non-hermetic version) or even sortes virgilianae but with people faces instead of the enead.
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Both work, as would a positive twilight scar.
Note about the show: I watched the whole first season, they don't go to Vinland, it's kind of a misleading title.
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While the Mark of Cain was visible to all, most people marked for greatness are not so visible.
Can Second Sight spot the mark of greatness on someone?
Or other "marks"? eg mark of betrayal, mark of shame, etc?
Affinity and/or puissant and/or carefull with Folk Ken?
If you insist this virtue must be supernatural you can make a case for it to be a major one giving an ability(That Does What You Want It To Do) at its first rank.
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Something like Lesser Benediction could cover this, too.
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