Fateweavers

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Fateweavers are creatures who stand in opposition of the Powers That Be, they are the proverbial wrench thrown into the great machine that is Destiny. These creatures are born with the inherent ability to subtly alter the threads of the future into a shape more pleasing to their eyes. With a single sentence they can doom a man to a tragic end, or they can guide him along the path of success.

Musts: Cassandra's Tears, Proclaim Fate, Hidden Fate, Work In Progress
Options: Work in Progress
Important Skills: Conviction, Discipline
Minimum Refresh: Undetermined As Yet

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Powers
Work In Progress

Pretty much complete control over whatever you know the name of. If you know the name of fire you can hold burning coals in your hand without feeling the heat. If you know the name of the wind you can ease somebody's breathing or summon a windstorm, etc.

You are almost legendary if you know one name, any more is like an order of magnitude of legendary greater.

I think, if I were to do Driving rules for combat I would treat the vehicle as a sort of "zone within a zone". All attacks moving from outside in would face a border penalty of a rating equal to the quality of the vehicle (tanks would be, say, 5 with a high armor as well).

Drive would modify movement based on the speed of the vehicle, and then ramming would be a contest of 4dF+Drive, Weapon Rating: Armor as an attack roll against their 4dF+Drive & Armor rating.

Attacks from inside out would depend on the vehicle, but generally would be either 0, half or full depending on the type of vehicle in question.

From what I understand, and I could be completely off base is this:

Vodoun is the more Haitian/African version of "Voodoo" with little anglican/abramic influence.

Voodoo is like Vodoun with a dash of christianity and french superstition.

Hoodoo is a less religious and more "practical magic" (check tvtropes) sort of thing. Its more in line with producing charms, potions, poppets etc.

I'd take Intimidate and Deceit and combine it into "Manipulate", and probably find a way to combite Rapport and Empathy into something that sounds good. Really social skills are out of control, there are way too many of them (Rapport, Deceit, Intimidate, Presence), playing a "social character" means gimping you so badly in almost all other areas that its hardly feasible, especially since Social Combat doesn't come up nearly as often as the other types.

This is in addition to Sanctaphrax's edit, since I like what he did there.

Also, since cutting down on the number of skills in the game radically drops the shelf life of a game, I'd implement my "increased skill floor" idea to compensate. I mean, once you have all the skills you cant actually progress further, which I always thought was silly even if it is completely unlikely that one character would have every skill rated at some number.

The increased skill floor is a mechanic that is added into the rules for improving characters. Instead of raising the skill cap for all skills by one at certain milestones I advocate the option to raise the "floor" by one as well. The Floor starts at 0, and by raising it to 1 any skill that has no skill points invested in it is treated as if it had 1 skill point invested in it for all purposes (including for purposes of skill columns).

This is sort of Off the Beaten Path for what you are trying to do here, but its still near that path.

I think you should write up a power to represent the possessing entity being bound into an item (of power?). Something along the lines of a demon possessed sword which seeks to take control of it's bearer or the One Ring etc.

How about this:

Cloak of Snow
+2 Item of Power
-1 -Cloak of Shadows (Reflavored for immunity to Whiteout conditions and Hiding in Snowy Environs)
-2 -Lesser Glamours (Illusions and Phantasms sculpted from snowflakes and snowdrifts etc)

For Spiritual Co-Pilot I have a much more Elegant solution.

Just treat it as sponsored magic debt mechanics for everything in line with the co-pilots interest.

When it compels it compels for control of your character for a turn, generally speaking.