Body: Determines a character's resistance to outside forces. It represents the characters cardiovascular fitness and endurance, Immune System, how well the character heals, there tolerance for drugs & alcohol.
Agility: Represents fine motor control --Manual dexterity, Flexibility, Balance and coordination.
Reaction: Is Quite simply the characters physical Reflexes--How quickly the character can react to a changing situation, and how well they can dodge the physical slings and arrows.
Strength: Denotes what a character's muscles can do, including things such as raw lifting power and running speed.
Charisma: Is a nebulous attribute. More then just looks, charisma represents a character's personal aura, self image, ego, willingness to find out what people want and to give it to them, and ability to recognize what they can and can't get out of people.
Intuition: Covers "Mental Alertness"-- the ability to take in and process information, to read a crowd, to asses a situation for danger or opportunity.
Logic: Represents a character's memorizing ability and raw brainpower. It Denotes how fast a character learns, how much they can remember, and how well they can execute pre-planned sequences.
Willpower: Keeps a character going when they want to give up, or enables them to control there habits and emotions. Willpower determines whether or not a character is going to take charge of there life.
Edge: Represents that special something that can turn the tide and save the day -- Edge is a combination of luck, timing, and the favor of the gods.
Initiative: Is the sum of reaction and Intuition
Health Points:
Essence: Is a measure of life force, of a body's wholeness. It represents the body's cohesiveness and holistic strength. Things that are invasive to the body, such as cyberware and bioware reduce essence. If a character repeatedly abuses there body with chemicals, toxins, or even just negligence over a long period of time, they may loose essence as well.
Magic: Is a measure of the ability to use magic and of the body's attunement to the mana that flows though our plane.
Resonance: Is a special attribute for technomancer characters to manipulate the matrix with there minds alone. Resonance is an attunement ti the echos and transmissions that permeate the electronic world, an alignment with the wired gestalt. The exact nature of resonance is even more controversial then magic, some claim that resonance is a form of magic that has adopted to the virtual and augmented realities of the modern world, others claim that resonance is some new stage in the evolution of metahuman consciousness but no one knows for sure. Resonance and magic and mutually exclusive attributes.
