This purview is meant to be pantheon specific for the Ashanti: Anansi / Spider, Tiger, Bird, Monkey, and the other animal totems.

Lifesong
The Lifesong is the music that underlies creation. It's the blood running through the veins of the soul. The Ashanti know that all things are story, and the best stories are told in rhytmic verse. The world itself is one giant ongoing story told in song, and there are those who can hear it or change it's tune.

The Lifesong is limited in that it can only interact with natural things. Extradimensional objects or the dead are beyond it's touch. For instance, Hear the Music can only aid in rolls that involve interacting with creatures or their immediate effects. This does not apply to dice adders, which work by attuning the user to the universe.

Hear the Music (Lifesong •)
Dice Pool: Perception + Art (Music)
Cost: 1 Legend Point

When the Lifesong is revealed to a Scion for the first time, it comes to him as a soft hum that grows and grows into a steady crescendo of music that encompasses all life on Earth. Almost immediately the child of the Ashanti is forced to block the symphony out or be unable to pay attention to anything else. But when needed, the listener can tune in again and focus on the fugue of his own life's movement within the greater symphonic harmony.

The Scion makes a Perception + Art (Music) roll. The number of successes form a secondary dice adder pool which remains available for the remainder of the scene. By acting in harmony with the song of the scene, the Scion may apply dice from that pool to any Perception, Awareness, Empathy, or Investigation rolls made within the scene, but may apply no more than his Legend in dice to any single roll.

Example: As usual, Fat Charley is sitting in his bar and wondering what he should do with himself. He's just gotten himself in a good mope when he realizes something is wrong. The bar has gone too quiet, and even the jukebox no longer sings. Listening deeper, Fat Charley tunes himself into the melody of the world and hears them outside the doors: Titanspawn seeking fresh blood for sport. He rolls Perception + Art (Music) and gets 5 successes. His Legend is only two, so he uses two of them for the Perception + Awareness roll to notice them, and another two to help his Join Battle roll when they burst through his window.

Keep the Beat (Lifesong ••)
Dice Pool: Wits + Larceny
Cost: 1 Legend + 1 Willpower

Keep the Beat functions as Hear the Music, but lasts for an entire day.

Hum the Melody (Lifesong •••)
Dice Pool: Charisma + Art (Music)
Cost: 1 Legend

Hum the melody functions like Hear the Beat, but the dice pool created can be applied to any rolls made during the scene.

Example: Spider, son of Anansi, has gotten himself into hot water as usual. His flippant demeanor and sharp wit made a recent dinner at Luigi's turn horribly wrong. While "do not insult the mafia consiglieri" is an important lesson to learn in life, it won't do Spider much good if he finds himself wearing a new pair of heavy dull gray boots and sinking fast. While running through the New York alleyways from the mobster's two goons, Spider takes a moment to attune himself the Lifesong. He picks his way quickly through the staccato base beats that make up the Big Apple and finds the adagietto of his current predicament. Spending a point of Legend, he rolls Perception + Art (Music) and gets 4 successes, forming a pool of 4 dice. His legend is three, so he may only use three on any given action. He uses one to help him scramble over a fence, and the other three to help him dodge through traffic on a busy street. Looking back he sees the goons waiting a chance to cross without having to play Frogger. He's escaped, but vows to avoid this particular neighborhood for a while.