Attributes: In myth, the siren lured men to their death with her song. The Siren is the person you can't help but love even though you know they are bad for you, the person that knows you'd give up everything for them and takes advantage of it.
She is the femme fatale of film noir, the archetypal manipulative lover, and the source of the urban legend of AIDS Mary. Despite being stereotyped as female, men or women can follow the path of the Siren.
Taboos: Forget Lord Byron; it is the avatar of the Siren who is truly "mad, bad, and dangerous to know." Love, pain, and death are all the same for the Siren, and anyone who loves an avatar of the Siren - or anyone loved by an avatar - is in danger. Avatars of the Siren must injure or destroy their lovers in some way. This can be physical, emotional, social, professional, or financial.
All channelled powers of the Siren work only against people whose sexual orientation allows them to be attracted to the avatar. Any attempts to use them against someone else do not break taboo, but automatically fail.
Symbols: The mirror, the hairbrush or comb, the mermaid, and the rocky shore are the Siren's symbols. Other symbols include gold or diamond jewelry, expensive gifts, and photographic negatives of compromising acts.
Suspected Avatars in History: The first Siren may have been Helen of Troy, the woman so beautiful that two kingdoms went to war over her. There have been few truly famous (or infamous) avatars of the Siren that can be confirmed as such. Unless they are very careful, the Siren's penchant for destroying other people's lives tends to make their own lives very short. Most occultists have someone in their past they suspect of being an avatar of the Siren.
51% - 70%: If Seduction was not already the character's obsession skill, it counts as one, and can always be flip-flopped. In addition, the character can flip-flop any social skill roll that is under her Avatar: Siren skill.
[Example: Suzanne has an Avatar: Siren skill of 65% and a Lie skill of only 45%. She's pulled over by a police officer for speeding. She tries to lie her way out of the ticket, and rolls a 53%. Ordinarily this would be a failure, but because it's under 65%, she can flip-flop the roll to 35% and success. If the roll had been 73%, it would have been over her Avatar skill and she could not have flip-flopped it.]
71% - 90%: With a successful roll against Avatar: Siren, the character can implant a suggestion into the mind of her target. The victim will do what they can to follow this suggestion, but will only violate their own moral code or harm themselves if the character rolls doubles. The avatar can do this only once per target per day. This power can be used to fulfill the requirements of the taboo.
[Example: Ariadne has an Avatar: Siren skill of 80%. She sees a man getting into a new sportscar and decides she wants it. She asks him if she can have it, and rolls a 32. It would violate his own principles to just give away his car, so he doesn't but he offers her a ride. Had she rolled a 33, he would have handed over the keys and hailed a taxi.]
91%+: The avatar can turn someone into a love slave. The avatar must roll under her Avatar: Siren skill and over her target's Mind score. The avatar can have only one love slave at a time. A love slave will do almost anything the avatar orders, although there are two exceptions: the love slave will never stop loving the avatar and will never allow harm to come to the avatar through either action or inaction. The love slave is the only person that can love the avatar without having to be hurt, ruined, or killed, but it never seems to work out that way.
[Example: Ronald has an Avatar: Siren skill of 93%. He's being investigated for slaying a former lover by a female detective with a Mind score of 67. He decides to make her his love slave, and rolls the dice. He gets a 70%, which is over her Mind score and under his Avatar: Siren skill. She will now happily stop investigating him if he asks her to do so. Another detective finds out about the affair and threatens to go to Internal Affairs. Rather than risk having her relationship with Ronald exposed and the investigation against him re-opened, she kills the other detective.]