The character has an instinctive understanding of how relics work, what their capabilities are, and how to make use of them. This understanding is by no means
complete, nor does it grant prescience about curses or other pitfalls of the relic. This Merit grants a +1 to any attempts to figure out an item’s “trigger” condition or activation, detect curses and any other roll that involves fi guring out practical (not historical) uses for a mystical object (see p. 132 of Chapter 4 for a sample scenario).