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[Askani'son]

Hey Folks,

I was hoping I could get some help with a ruling.

Magic In The Shadows p.116 states that:

"A character who knows a spirit's true name may use Enchanting to create a focus effective against that spirit. Standard spirit foci are not effective against free spirits."

Fair enough! My question however is whether or not a spirit foci created to be effective against a particular free spirit are effective against ordinary sprirts of the same type? That's a pretty big investment for a foci that's only of use in one particular situation! My tendency is to allow the foci to be effective against ordinary spirits of the same type, in addition to the specific free spirit it was created to affect (but not against any other free spirit, obviously).

The story is that, the runner has, using the true name which he obtained though an astral quest to the metaplane of Fire, created a spirit focus to aid him in banishing a free toxic fire elemental. I'm leaning towards allowing the focus to be effective against regular fire elementals too mainly because the character invested alot of time and nuyen into acquiring the true name and then further nuyen into creating the spirit foci, so I feel having a useful tool would be a fairer payoff.

Help in interpreting the extent of this foci's usefulness would be appreciated!

Cheers!