New Shaman Totems

Note: Some of these may be considered as religiously biased. Too bad.

Christian Totem: The christian shaman believes that Jesus came to the earth and spread a message of peace and love, and about the rich giving their money to the poor. This does not stop some of them from ammassing huge wealth on the backs of the poor and killing each other over which particular words he used to spread such message.

The shamans follow the pagan holidays, though each one is disguised as their own festival. Yule is celebrated as Christmas, and the Spring Equinox is celebrated as Easter. Many christian shamans sacrifice sprits of man (or some other nature spirit) for spirits of faith, and summon them during church. They believe in faith healing and tend towards health spells.

Advantage: +1 die to health spells, -1 die to detection spells. +1 die to spirits of faith or spirits of sky (choose one), -1 die to spirits of land.

Ilsam Totem: The religion of islam is one of peace. Naturally their most fervent worshippers are intent to slaughter all non-believers. They are taught that through meditation and personal sacrifice that they can achieve the kingdom of heaven, though many view personal sacrifice as condoning suicide bombers. Most sacrifice spirits of man for spirits of fire (spirits of the elements).

Advantage: +2 dice to combat spells, -1 die to health and illusion spells. +2 dice to spirit of of elements (fire). -1 die to spirits of land and water.
Special: Islam totem shamans get the free edge: Aptitude Demolitions. (Yeah I said it!)

Jewish Totem: The religion of Judeasm is one of sacrifice to their deity, of racial purity through lack of outbreeding, and hard work. Kind of Ironic that they were targets of genocide for some of the same reasons. The jewish shamans are encouraged not to marry non believers.

Advantage: +1 die to illusion and detection spells, +1 die spirits of man. -1 die all other nature spirits, -1 die to health and combat spells.
Special: Jewish totem shamans get +1 contact at character creation and choose to either earn +15% income from day jobs, or get a free "connected" 5 point edge.

Hindu Totem: The religion of hinduism teaches meditation and purity of body. Oddly enough, most tend to follow this, many being vegetarians (or at the very least avoiding dairy), and many also being pacifists. The hindu shamans suffer the pacifism flaw.

Advantage: +2 dice to spirits of animals or spirits of land (choose one), +2 dice health spells. -1 die spirits of man, -1 die spirits of sky, -2 dice combat spells.
Special: Hindu shamans are vegetarians and pacificsts. They also gain a +1 bonus to intellgence scores.

Buddhist Totem: The buddhist shaman attempts to become one with the universe through meditation and hopes to reach higher planes of existance and knowledge. Their shamans are often (but not always) pacificsts and learn martial arts as forms of discipline.

Advantages: +2 to detection spells, -2 to combat spells. +2 dice to spirits of ages or mountain spirits (choose one), -2 dice to sprits of elements and spirits of water.
Special: Buddhist shamans gain +2 ranks in unarmed combat skill for free. Buddhists who take the pacifist or total pacifist flaw increase this to +3 ranks. All buddhists shamans gain +4 ranks to be divided amongst academic knowledge skills.

Atheist Totem: Oddly enough, a group of magicians have been discoverd with no particular beliefs, yet tend to manifest anyway. Despite not believing in any particular totem, gathering in any particular way, or studying hermetic magic, they exist driven only by their belief in themselves and in the nature of the world. Scholars are still mystified that these faithless are able to conjure any magic at all- yet it still happens.

Advantages: +2 dice to detection spells, +1 die to health spells -2 dice to mental manipulatins. +2 dice to spirits of man, -2 dice to all other spirits.
Special: Atheists gain no benefit from initating with a group- they always must pay the cost of initating alone. However, atheists never suffer a penalty from not taking an ordeal, and thus always pay the cost of "self with ordeal" without having to take an ordeal. Atheists are also treated as if their willpower was 1 point higher for resisting magic cast at them.