Dice [Characters] - To Stand Against the Crimson Tide

Random Word · Feb 6, 2024

No BP. You start with 55 XP to spend at character creation.

Trait	Experience Cost
Attributes	10 per dot
Caste/Favored Attributes	8 per dot
Abilities	5 per dot
Caste/Favored Abilities	4 per dot
New Specialty	2
Merits	2 per dot
Willpower	6 per dot
New Charm, Spell, or Evocation	12
New Caste/Favored Charm or Spell	10

Essence 2 is at 80 XP, counting the initial 55.
Craft variants welcome. At a minimum, Craft fields are specialties, not separate skills.

Red Shadow Claws · Feb 6, 2024

Name: Droplets of Blood in the Chilly Wind
Caste: Midnight
Age: 56
Totemic Anima: A swarm of Ichneuman hunters flying in a winter storm
Apocalyptic Ability: Survival
Limit Trigger:

History Overview
She was named Indah at birth, but if you mention that name, she will ignore you at best, and seek to put the fear of death in you otherwise.

Her parents, being poor themselves, gave her up at a young age to the priestesses, so she barely remembers them, and any memories she might have had of them, are long buried. But the priestesses she was given to were ancestor priestesses, and they subjected the little girl to ghost possession, to act as a voice for the ancestor ghosts.

It was a terrifying experience, but she grew to like it, as it gave her a sense of mystique, and sometimes even let her glimpse some of the thoughts of the ghost possessing her, allowing her a glimpse of their 'life' in the Underworld.

But priestesses were supposed to remain virgin, to better serve the ancestors, and when she was young, she fell in love with a young man, and ended up pregnant. Not only was she cast out by the priestesses, but the young man refused to acknowledge their child, and so she had to find another way to survive.

Unable to find work in the city, with a newborn child, and with the scorn of the priestesses, she left the city to live in the wilderness, exploring its secrets, discovering what's edible, and what's poisonous, and eking out a living.

When her child grew up, she brought her back with her to the city, and began to serve as a guide to those who wanted to travel the island, making a modest income, and seeing her daughter get a good education. She worked long and hard to pay for the best education her daughter could get, sparing even some of the food from her own lips to make sure her daughter was cared and tutored.

She was already an old woman when the Bronze Tide arrived. She knew her meager fighting skill wouldn't be of much use, but she had an ace up her sleeve. Her daughter, Sjet, was able to get into the ancient Manse under the city, and might be the only one that can activate it. And so, she led her there, and encouraged her to get it up and running, because it was the only thing that could save the city.

When they got there, the Bronze Tide has already breached the walls, and time was short. She planted her feet at the entrance, and told Sjet to go on, and she will buy hertime, as much as she can.

She managed to fell a couple of attackers, when a silver spear pierced her body, and she dropped, seeing her life flash before her, when a voice offered her a chance at both revenge, and to fulfill her destination.

Oh, she did get some revenge, waking up with her hand around an ichneumon that tried to implant eggs in her blood body, and binding it to her will, and then killing more of the Bronze Tide, as they fled before her bloody corpse.
Attributes
Strength ●
Dexterity ●●●
Stamina ●●●

Charisma ●●●
Manipulation ●●●●
Appearance ●●●●

Perception ●●
Intelligence ●●●
Wits ●●●●

Abilities
* Archery ●●
Athletics
Awareness ●●
Brawl
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge
* Integrity ●●
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics ●
* Lore ●●●
Medicine
Melee
* Occult ●●● (Necromancy)
* Performance ●●● (Prayer)
* Presence ●●●●
* Resistance ●●
Ride ●
Sail
* Socialize ●●● (Hide intentions)
Stealth
* Survival ●●●● (Navigation)
Thrown
* War ●
Mentor ●●● (Black Heron)
Cult ●●
Resources ●●●
Languages ● (N Seatongue, Old Realm)
Whispers ●●

Once per session, a character with Whispers can pay one Willpower to invoke one of the following benefits:
• Introduce a fact about death, the undead, the Underworld, or necromancy without requiring an applicable Lore background, or add (higher of Essence or 3) non-Charm dice if she has one.
• Add (higher of Essence or 3) non-Charm dice on any roll to navigate the Underworld or avoid the perils of its terrain, or on rolls to understand the thoughts and passions of the undead (including read intentions and profile character actions).
• Add (higher of Essence or 3) necromantic motes towards a spell she is shaping. This isn’t compatible with sorcery.
• Call on her Whispers in a Decision Point as though they were a Major Intimacy of nihilistic despair and enmity towards all living things — or, for characters with four-dot Whispers, a Defining Intimacy.
Characters with four-dot Whispers can do so once per day instead.

Artifact ●●●● (Killdeer's Sorrow)
Deathly Siren Allure ●●●
Familiar ● (Ichneumon Hunter - Thousandfold Wing)
Archery

Cost: 1m; Mins: Archery 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Abyssal’s arrow twists through the air in search of her prey.
The Abyssal reduces an enemy’s Defense bonus from cover by one, or inflicts −1 Defense on an enemy without cover.
If the attack benefits from aiming, it can strike enemies behind full cover, passing directly through the obstruction as long as there’s some opening for the attack to pass through. However, such enemies still receive +3 non-Charm Defense from the cover.

Integrity

Cost: 4m (1wp); Mins: Integrity 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Whispers
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Such is the Abyssal’s dedication to her grave purpose that she remains immutable by will alone.
When the Abyssal is exposed to a Shaping effect, she can defend with this Charm, regardless of what Ability she uses to resist. She adds (higher of Essence or 3) successes on her opposed roll or adds (higher of Essence or 3) to the targeted static value. If the Shaping effect is rolled, its 1s subtract successes.
Even if the Abyssal fails, she can pay one Willpower to mitigate the consequences. If a transformation is normally permanent, it becomes possible for the Abyssal to break it, though it’s up to her to figure out how — often with the use of Lore, Medicine, or Occult.
The Abyssal also can’t be changed in a way that kills her, leaves her unable to take any actions, or stops her from using Charms or other magic at all — at least, not immediately. The Storyteller can inflict a weakened version of the effect that develops progressively, giving the Abyssal ample time to find a way to break it, as above — seasons, or even years. Alternatively, the Storyteller can alter the transformation’s nature so that it doesn’t have such an impact on the deathknight.
With an Integrity 5, Essence 2 repurchase, Immutable Graven Mythos’s bonus becomes non-Charm. Against Shaping effects that are normally unrolled, the Abyssal rolls (Essence + current temporary Willpower) against the opposing character’s (current temporary Willpower). That character loses one success and one Willpower for each 1 or 2 that he rolls. Success negates that effect and renders the Abyssal immune to it for the rest of the session. If the Shaping isn’t created by a character, the Storyteller sets a difficulty for the Abyssal’s roll.
Whispers: The Abyssal can invoke her Whispers instead of paying the Willpower cost to mitigate a Shaping effect’s consequences.

Lore

Cost: 1wp or 3i; Mins: Lore 1, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Understanding the cycles of Essence that flow through both the living and the dead, the Abyssal siphons away another’s power.
The Abyssal steals up to (Essence x3) motes from a willing or helpless character with a touch. Once per scene, she may roll (Wits + Lore) when she uses this Charm, stealing an additional mote for each success.
With a Lore 3 repurchase, the Abyssal can instead transfer up to (Essence x3) of her motes to a character. If she rolls (Wits + Lore), she doesn’t lose the additional motes generated by it.
A third purchase at Lore 4, Essence 2 lets the Abyssal use this Charm reflexively on her turn, and lets her waive its cost the first time she uses it in a scene. When she rolls for extra motes, she rolls an additional non-Charm die for each 10.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Lore 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One hour
Prerequisite Charms: Essence-Draining Touch
The Abyssal wraps herself in a shroud of deathly stasis, carving a path through chaos.
The Abyssal and everything within short range of her are immune to the effects of Wyld exposure (p. XX). Calcifying chaos forces the Wyld’s environs to obey Creation’s natural laws, preventing anomalous phenomena like inverted gravity or sudden changes to the landscape.
If the Abyssal renews this Charm at the end of its duration, she waives its Willpower cost.

Occult

Cost: —; Mins: Occult 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The tormented cries of the Neverborn echo endlessly in the Abyssal’s soul, whispering of the world’s inevitable end.
Howling Silence Meditation enhances the Abyssal’s Whispers (p. XX), which is required to learn it. Upon purchasing it, her player chooses two of the following powers. She may purchase additional powers for three experience points or one bonus point each.
Apostle of the End: When the Abyssal upholds death’s chivalry, she may forgo regaining Willpower to reset her use of Whispers.
Dark Hearts Beat As One: When the Abyssal comes within close range of another character with Whispers, she intuitively senses this. If his player wishes to conceal this from her, she reflexively makes a read intentions roll against him to detect this, adding (Essence) automatic successes.
Dead Gods’ Hatred: The Abyssal can invoke Whispers to add +2 non-Charm Resolve against any influence that opposes one of her negative Intimacies.
Death-Appeasing Wickedness: When the Abyssal undergoes Bleak Expiation (p. XX), she may invoke her Whispers to either add or subtract (Whispers/2) successes on the roll to lose Limit.
Embracing Damnation: When the Abyssal invokes Whispers, she gains (higher of Essence or Whispers) motes.

Cost: —; Mins: Occult 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Glimpsing the cracks in reality left by the Neverborn’s fall, the Abyssal learns how this broken world might be bent to her will.
The Abyssal may use Ivory Circle necromancy. She learns one Ivory Circle spell — her control spell — and one shaping ritual for free.

Presence

Cost: —; Mins: Presence 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Abyssal sloughs off the face she wore in life, revealing what has risen from her grave.
The Abyssal’s appearance changes as death’s Essence permeates her body. The nature of this transformation depends on whether she has the Hideous Merit (Exalted, p. 162), which she may gain for free as part of learning this Charm.
An Abyssal without Hideous is suffused with deathly beauty: skin turns deathly pale or colors with rich vitality; hair darkens or pales; her lips and cheeks flushing with blood; etc.
An Abyssal with Hideous decays into a grotesque horror: her eyes sink deeper into her skull; skin wither, desiccates, or rots away entirely; blood or bile drips from her eyes, mouth, or skin; the scent of death clings to her; etc.
The Abyssal’s altered appearance adds (Essence) non-Charm dice on certain influence rolls. If she doesn’t have Hideous, she does so on persuade and bargain rolls to seduce others and instill rolls to create or strengthen Ties based on desire for the Abyssal. If she has Hideous, she does so threaten rolls and instill rolls to create or strengthen Ties of fear toward herself.
Regardless of the nature of the Abyssal’s transformation, her distinctive appearance betrays her nature. She suffers a −(Appearance) penalty on disguise rolls.
With Presence 3, the Abyssal adds (higher of Essence or 3) dice. With Essence 3, this increases to (Essence + 1).

Cost: 5m or 7m; Mins: Presence 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene or Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Abyssal affects inhuman magnetism and composure, an unmistakable presence even in the dark courts of the Deathlords.
The Abyssal adds three dice on influence rolls made with any Ability other than Stealth, and discounts the cost of any Charms that create or enhance such rolls by one mote each, minimum one.
This Charm lasts one scene for five motes, or indefinitely for seven motes.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Presence 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Abyssal’s words shatter bonds of love and poison the faith of saints.
When the Abyssal makes an instill or persuade roll, any Intimacies her targets use to bolster their Resolve count as one step lower to determine their bonus. This doesn’t affect Ties of fear towards her, negative Ties to the living, or Principles that reflect a positive outlook on death.

Resistance

Cost: —; Mins: Resistance 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Abyssal’s flesh is sustained by the Essence of death, lending her an uncanny vigor.
She gains additional health levels based on her Stamina rating:
Stamina 1-2: One −1 level and one −2 level.
Stamina 3-4: One −1 level and two −2 levels.
Stamina 5: One −0 level, one −1 level, and one −2 level.
This Charm may be purchased (Resistance) times. If the Abyssal’s Stamina increases, her health levels change to reflect her new rating.

Socialize

Cost: 5m; Mins: Socialize 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
Death’s Lawgiver is welcome at the peasant’s hearth and the prince’s court alike.
The Abyssal intuitively understands the customs of whatever culture or society she finds herself in, negating penalties from unfamiliarity with them and ensuring she won’t inadvertently commit any major faux pas.
Characters with positive Ties toward the culture count as having a Minor Tie of respect or admiration towards the Abyssal. Characters with negative Ties towards foreigners or outsiders treat them as one step weaker with respect to the deathknight.

Survival

Cost: —(3m); Mins: Survival 2, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Familiar with death’s gaze, the Abyssal knows when she’s being followed by a lesser hunter.
The Abyssal can tell when someone is watching her, even if she can’t perceive her observer, and senses whenever someone makes a roll to track her. After an enemy’s tracking roll, the Abyssal can commit three motes to attune her senses to him. This cost is reduced by one mote for each 1 on his tracking roll.
As long as the Abyssal maintains this commitment, the tracker’s 1s subtract successes on Perception rolls against the deathknight. If she attempts to ambush him, this penalty also applies to his Join Battle roll. Each midnight, she senses approximately how far away he is from her, and can tell if he’s given up the
chase. If she directly interacts with the tracker, this Charm ends once the scene is done.
The Abyssal can stack this Charm to stymy the efforts of up to (Essence) trackers.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Survival 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Abyssal’s otherworldly nature is made obvious to the beasts of Creation, evoking their most primal fears.
Animals count as having a Minor Tie of fear toward the Abyssals, and she adds two automatic successes on threaten rolls against them. Any social influence she uses against animals doesn’t face the Resolve bonuses for lacking a shared language. Most animals will give her a wide berth, refusing to approach unless forced by a handler or rider.
Familiars and other magically-enhanced animals don’t suffer the Tie inflicted by this Charm, though its other effects apply against them. The same is true for animals trained for battle or that are driven to aggression by pain, hunger, or disease.
With Survival 4, the Abyssal extends this Charm’s effects to hungry ghosts, as if they were normal animals.
Undead Animals
Undead animals include both the ghosts of animals and the reanimated corpses of animals. They count as animals for these Charms and other magic, but count as
being magically-enhanced animals.

Cost: 10m, 1wp, 1xp; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Superior Predator Style
The deathknight binds a familiar to her, forging a bond of service to endure eternity.
The Abyssal confers the following benefits on one of her animal familiars:
Barghest’s Feast Hunger: When the familiar deals decisive damage to an enemy with a mote pool, the Abyssal steals one mote from him. She can’t gain more than (higher of Essence or 3) motes this way per round, even if she has multiple enhanced familiars. She may choose whether to drain personal or peripheral motes, adding them to the same pool she steals from.
Dread Companion Bond: Once per day, the Abyssal can gain one Willpower from interacting with the familiar. If their interaction serves death’s chivalry, she may lose one Limit instead. Even if the Abyssal has multiple familiars enhanced with this Charm, she can only use this power once each day.
Ghost-Ridden Beast: When the Abyssal shares her familiar’s senses (Exalted, p. 161), she ignores the range limit, and she can do so even while asleep. With Survival 5, she can control her familiar’s actions while sharing senses.
Undying Loyalty: The familiar gains a Defining Tie of loyalty to the deathknight. Any influence that would make it act against this tie is unacceptable, unless it’s the Abyssal’s own influence.
This Charm’s experience point cost is waived the first time the Abyssal uses it.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Fetter the Beast
The Abyssal’s familiar heeds her commands as if they were its own primal instincts.
The Abyssal orders a familiar to attempt a task and rolls (Charisma + Survival). The familiar adds her successes as bonus dice on its roll to follow her command.
Special activation rules: This Charm can be flurried. With Essence 3, it becomes Reflexive.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: None
Across scorching sands and numbing tundra, the Abyssal traveler walks without fear.
The Abyssal ignores environmental penalties on Survival rolls, and doubles 9s on rolls to resist mundane environmental hazards. She also gains this benefit against supernatural hazards that are similar to perils found in nature, like a wall of sorcerous flame.
With a Survival 5, Essence 3 repurchase, the Abyssal also subtracts (Stamina) dice from the damage of such environmental hazards. She can breathe in any environment, including underwater.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Survival 1, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Death’s Lawgiver knows the wilderness, procuring nourishing viands even amidst the Underworld’s most barren reaches.
The Abyssal rolls ([Perception or Wits] + Survival) to forage for food. The difficulty is set by the Storyteller based on the terrain the deathknight forages in. Success lets her find enough to feed herself for a day, plus an additional person for each extra success. Even on a failed roll, or if the Storyteller determines there is no sustenance available, she is able to somehow find enough food for one person.
Characters who are unfamiliar with the Abyssal gain a Minor Tie toward her if they partake in these provisions, unless they resist for one Willpower. The affected character’s player chooses whether the Tie is one of awe, fear, or respect. If the Abyssal uses this Charm or shadowlands or the Underworld, she may choose to have the living gain a Minor Principle representing fascination with the Underworld instead.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Survival 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Death’s Lawgiver savors the cries of night-beasts and the fragrance of blooming nightshade, wise in the ways of red-toothed nature.
The Abyssal can use Survival specialties as Lore backgrounds to challenge or introduce facts, substituting Survival for Lore when she does. She doesn’t need a specialty for facts closely related to her backstory or experiences, like the flora and fauna of the city she lives in.
The Abyssal doubles 9s if the fact involves predatory animals, poisonous plants, or other morbid aspects of nature, or if it involves shadowlands, the Underworld or the undead. She doubles 8s if it involves both.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Old Crow’s Wisdom, Pomegranates Full and Fine
The secret roads of the Underworld reveal themselves to Death’s Lawgiver.
The Abyssal rolls ([Perception or Intelligence] + Survival) with double 9s to discover or recall the presence of a pathway between Creation and the Underworld. She doubles 8s if she uses this Charm in the Underworld or on a moonless night in Creation. The difficulty is 3 by default, but the Storyteller may
adjust it based on the deathknight’s familiarity with the local area on both sides of the veil.
If successful, the Storyteller reveals a path that will take a few days’ travel on foot. The Abyssal’s extra successes may shorten this journey:

Extra Successes Distance
1-2 One day
3-4 A few hours
5-6 A few minutes
7+ None — the path is at the Abyssal’s current location.

The Storyteller determines the exact form the pathway between worlds takes. While it can be a shadowland, there are many secret paths the Abyssals might walk. These roads are fleeting, rarely allowing for repeat or return use, unlike shadowlands. While traveling along them, the Abyssal may encounter ghosts of the newly dead, who may be confused, lost, or afraid on their path to the Underworld. The Storyteller also determines exactly where in the Underworld or Creation it leads to, though it’s typically in approximately the same geographic location as the corresponding point on the other side.
With Survival 5, Essence 3, the Abyssal can seek a path unconstrained by any semblance of geography, tracing the symbolic resonances of the Underworld: she might travel from a city in the far North to ancestors’ abode in Stygia, or from the slums of Nexus to a debtor’s afterlife. She halves her successes when determining how long such a journey takes.
Reset: Once per session, unless reset by the death of a character to whom the Abyssal has a Defining Tie, or her Lunar mate.
Necromancy Initiation: Umaza's Hymns
Shaping Ritual: Hymn of the Siren - Once per scene, when the necromancer successfully influences a target to follow her, side with her, or gain or strengthen an Intimacy towards her, she rolls (Manipulation + Performance), adding bonus dice equal to the difference between her Appearance and his if applicable. Each success generates one necromantic mote, which remains until the end of the scene.

Necromancy

Cost: 13nm, 1wp
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
The necromancer shapes a singing sphere of ivory Essence in hand and hurls it down to shatter at her feet, unleashing a wave of shrieking light to cleave flesh from bone.
The necromancer unleashes a wave of Essence, rolling an unblockable (Perception + Occult) decisive attack against all living enemies within range, ignoring cover. Each hit enemy suffers (Intelligence + extra successes) dice of damage, or (Intelligence + Essence + extra successes for battle groups. Damaged characters suffer an additional die of lethal damage, ignoring Hardness, at the start of each of their turns as their flesh seeks to escape them. This ends if a damage die doesn’t roll any successes. This spell also tears the flesh free from all corpses within range, leaving only clean bone behind.

Control: The spell’s attack inflicts agonizing pain upon the living as it attempts to rip their flesh free. Enemies injured by the spell increase their wound penalty by −1 for the rest of the scene. The necromancer may call forth a sphere of illuminating ivory light, making skin crawl and flesh twitch where light falls upon it.
Killdeer's Sorrow (Soulsteel Powerbow, Artifact 4)

The powerbow known as Killdeer’s Sorrow has its origins in the First Age, and with a demon known as Hakkasem, one of the Luminata. It is a subject for philosophers and demonologists to debate which is the most wicked of the races of Malfeas, but the Deer that Hunt Men are frequently close to the top; while the blood apes are brutal, and the Chrysogona fuel ambition and intrigue, neither of them display the Luminata’s particular brand of sadism, goading hunters, feigning terror and wearying them in a chase, before turning the hunt on them, harrying them until the demon grows too bored or the prey too exhausted or wounded for the deer to have further interest in this game.
Hakkasem was something of a legend among his own kind, having grown powerful of will, cunning, and might through repeated success. Powerful Lunar Exalted hunted him, only for him to unravel and tear them to pieces in the end. Sorcerors bound him against their enemies, for him to succeed too well, beguiling his would-be master and his target at once, slaying both of them. Surely, one of the Lawgivers of the First Age with some sorcerous skill could have summoned him, bound him, and made him bow his majestic antlered head–at least from a distance, as up close he was, like all Luminata, a writhing mass of white tendrils–to his own destruction.
But whether out of the natural pride of those who sought him or some cruel magic in his nature, none of the Chosen of the First Age who desired to end his life wished to do so in such an easy manner. Hunter after hunter tried to end him. Hunter after hunter died.
The No-moon known as Lareph would be attributed with Hakkasem’s demise, though few would have guessed it, for she was a woman of abstract interests and quiet meditation. But her lover, the Zenith Soaring Feather, was among the Luminata’s victims. Her preferred solitude brought her no solace, nor did the koans she posed to herself distract her from Feather’s absence.
Madness was, of course, inevitable. But as befitting Lareph’s nature, it was not a grandiose proclamation of obsession nor violent destruction that followed. She simply watched and waited across decades–when she saw a woman or man fall to the Luminata, she stole their body away, planting rowan-trees over their graves.
At night, she would sing songs to the saplings, and to the ghosts she had bound beneath, of what she had in store.
In fifty years time, under the starless sky of Calibration, she levelled the entire grove in a single night, taking from each tree only the finest ounces of wood, and leading the hungry ghosts on a furious chase across the dark until the sun rose and trapped them in the darkest shadows.
It was then the true work began. Some of the ghosts acquiesced to being forged into the tool of their own vengeance, others were folded into soulsteel still snarling and screaming defiance.
It was only when it came time to string the bow that Lareph once more paused. For so much hate and obsession seethed through the crafting of this weapon that there was no ghost that could bear it; seven souls whined and shrieked as they attenuated, and ultimately snapped, unfit for use.
It was the pause of a heartbeat, an eyeblink. Undaunted, her bow still unstrung, she walked into Hell, and into legend. For only a week later, Hakkasem tore free of his bindings, and fled into Creation. An arrow of Black Ash pinned him to a tree, where he writhed and groaned until he died. Nearby, unattended, was the instrument of his demise, strung and ready for its next bearer
Killdeer’s Sorrow seems to be two bows at once, or perhaps the chiaroscuro nature of its construction gives that impression. The rowan-wood that runs up and down its length–a solild two meters–in chaotic curving tendrils is pale and smooth, as though it were fresh-hewn and unvarnished. The soulsteel with which it is inextricably intertwined is, by contrast, slightly rough, and angular in its intersections with its counterpart in forking jagged claws, calling to mind winter-bare branches silhouetted in moonlight.
The wood and metal are eternally intertwined in this weapon, seeming to be frozen in a desire for one to consume the other. The only true ornamentation of this ancient weapon is a guard in front of the grip, where the wood actually emerges entirely from the soulsteel, coming together into the forelegs and visage of a pale springing stag, whose bowed head and antlers provide a shelf for a notched arrow.
This is a weapon of the Hunt, even as its wielders have borne it through wars and murders and righteous duels. When its arrows fly, the souls of those consecrated to its making moan like the wind in a desolate forest. When roused, they howl like starving wolves.
A single reminder of its legacy remains, hidden in the soulsteel of its upper limb. The metal is too dark to see the engraving in most light, meaning it is found usually only accidentally, by touch. And many, these days, couldn’t even read the Old Realm anyway. But for those who have the luck to stumble upon it and the knowledge to understand it, the final malediction of the maker of Killdeer’s Sorrow is plain to see, if not plain in its intent:

“The Fear is Real.”

New Keyword: Nightmare - This Evocation works on a target with an intimacy of Fear toward the user. Some charms with this keyword still function without such an intimacy, but gain increased function with it. Charms with the Nightmare Keyword but no increased function do not work without an appropriate intimacy. If taking advantage of this keyword, the target must be aware of the user's presence by the time the action resolves, if not their exact location.

Evocations
A Solar, Lunar, or Abyssal attuning to Killdeer's Sorrow immediately learns Hungering Wolf Scent

Hungering Wolf Scent
Cost: 1m Mins: Ess 1
Type: Reflexive
Duration: [Essence] Years
Keywords: Nightmare, Decisive-Only
Prerequisite Charms: None
If the wielder of Killdeer's Sorrow deals a Health Level of Damage to a target, she gains +1 die for the duration of this charm to track, investigate, or be alerted to the presence of that target. As a Nightmare effect, this bonus increases to the bonus appropriate to the Intimacy's strength, and lasts as long as the Intimacy does. The wielder can taste or otherwise sense the target's fear when she takes advantage of this bonus, and is aware if the Intimacy has grown or diminished since the last time she checked.
Health Levels
-0x1
-1x3
-2x4
-4x1
Ix1

Essence: ●
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:
Willpower: ●●●●●

Join Battle: 6

Parry: 2
Evasion: 2

Total Soak 3
Hardness 0

Guile: 4
Resolve: 3

Intimacies
Defining (Principle) Ancesor Worship makes the city great
Major (Tie) Loves Sjet
Major (Tie) Awe of Garret One-Tusk
Minor (Tie) Hates the Bronze Tide
Minor (Tie) Despises the Fae
Ichneumon Hunter
The terrifying ichneumon hunter is the scourge of Southern herders. While the male of the species is a harmless fly, the female is a flying wasp the size of a small dog, with an ovipositor as long and sharp as a dagger. It uses this to puncture the flesh of sheep, goats, cattle, or whatever warm-blooded hosts are common throughout the region, and implant its eggs to grow and hatch within — and eventually feed on — their unwilling host.
While it’s uncommon for them to implant their brood in a human host, those rare victims suffer an agonizing death. Herders protect their flocks (and children) from the ichneumon by burning foul-smelling herbs in huge firepots day and night, while physicians and shamans prescribe infusions of wormwood to kill implanted eggs before they have a chance to hatch.

Essence: 1; Willpower: 2; Join Battle: 4 dice
Health Levels: −0/−1/−2/−4/Incap.
Actions: Fly: 7 dice; Senses: 4 dice (see Host Scent); Stealth: 9 dice; Tracking: 3 dice (see Host Scent)
Resolve 1, Guile 1

Combat
Attack (Sting): 8 dice (Damage 10)
Combat Movement: 7 dice
Evasion 5, Parry 2
Soak/Hardness: 1/0

Special Abilities
Ambush Hunter: Add three dice on unexpected attacks.
Buzzing Advance: Add one automatic success on any rush against a warm-blooded mammal that could host its eggs, without penalties for flurrying a rush and a sting attack on the same turn against such prey.
Distracting Swarm: A cloud of male ichneumon hunters surrounds the female’s prey, distressing and disorienting the target. Roll Fly vs. the target’s Resolve, treating the swarm of males as one unit. If the swarm succeeds, the target moves one range band away from its original position and suffers a −1 penalty on Perception rolls for the next round.
Infestation: A living enemy damaged by a decisive sting must roll to resist the ichneumon hunter implanting its eggs in their body, a parasitic infestation modeled as a disease (Exalted, p. 233) with virulence 4, morbidity 2, and an interval of one month. Fully-grown ichneumon hunters emerge from the corpse of anyone who dies of the infestation.
Corpse-Hive Embodiment (Magical, 1m): When the ichneumon hunter makes a decisive sting attack against an undead creature with flesh, such as a zombie (but not a materialized ghost or Liminal Exalt), its master may pay one mote to quicken the hunter’s eggs as it implants them in dead flesh. The insects quickly hatch and devour the creature alive. In addition to taking damage from the attack, the undead is filled with flesh-eating wasps, suffering one die of lethal damage that ignores Hardness on each turn. Fire drives the wasplings away; a zombie’s master can expel them by spending a miscellaneous action brandishing a torch or similar source of flame.

Merits
Host Scent: Add three bonus successes to rolls to notice or track warm-blooded prey, but not to rolls opposing stealth attempts.
Tiny Creature: Male ichneumon hunters add +2 Evasion against attacks made by larger foes. In addition, larger characters subtract two successes from Awareness-based rolls made to notice them.
Brood-Sense Meditation (Magical, 0m): The ichneumon hunter is conjoined to the Essence of its parasitic brood, and can sense their emerging lives as they grow within its prey. Against any character infested with the hunter’s eggs, Host Scent’s bonus increases to five bonus successes and can contest even perfect track-covering magic, such as the Charm Traceless Passage (Exalted, p. 412).

Storyteller Tactics
Procreation is the ichneumon hunter’s main priority. In the wild, they’re selective about which herd animals they choose as hosts: since the weakest run the risk of being killed by other predators before the incubation period ends, the hunters aim for hardier members of a flock.
Infestation is a team effort. Females attack their prey together, overwhelming as many of the herd as they can and ensuring that each hunter can lay her eggs. Males of the species, otherwise harmless, swarm in an attempt to separate potential hosts from the safety of their packs. They have no bite to speak of, but their buzzing mimics the female’s and sets off the quarry’s flight instincts. An ichneumon hunter attempts to flee when it suffers damage to its −2 health level.
Total XP
Regular: 54/55
Abyssal: 0/0

Spent XP

Survival 3 to 4 - 4 xp
Corpse-Body Resilience - 10 xp
Pomegranates Full and Fine - 10 xp
Old Crow's Wisdom - 10 xp
Dark Roads of the Dead - 10 xp
Familiar - 2 xp
Presence 3 to 4 - 4 xp
Performance 2 to 3 - 4 xp

Role Bonus
Bringing two or more parties with a meaningful dispute to accords, gaining a noteworthy advantage for the character or the Circle through diplomatic means, successfully navigating and thwarting social or geographical obstacles preventing the character or Circle from achieving a significant goal, exploiting a cultural tradition or legal system in furtherance of a Major or Defining Intimacy, bringing someone’s Intimacies closer to aligning with those of the Eclipse or with the goals of his Circle, inspiring or taking part in the creation or transformation of a social institution.
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Psychie · Feb 6, 2024

Name: Garret Jakobs AKA Garret One-Tusk
Gender: Male
Exalt Type: Lunar
Caste: Casteless
Age: 24
Totem Animal: Elephant

Attributes
*Str: 5
Dex: 2
*Sta: 5

Cha: 3
Man: 2
App: 3

Per: 2
Int: 3
Wits: 5

Abilities
Archery
Athletics: 3 - Feats of Strength
Awareness: 3 - Join Battle
Brawl: 2
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge: 2
Integrity: 2
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 2
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee: 5 - Spear/Lance Fighting
Occult
Performance
Presence: 2
Resistance: 4 - Enduring Pain
Ride
Sail: 2
Socialize
Stealth: 1
Survival: 1
Thrown: 2
War
Artifact Weapon - Zelator (Dire Lance): 4
Artifact Armor - Seven Furies Caged (Moonsilver Articulated Plate): 4
Hearts Blood - seagull, Rottweiler, horse, cat, : 1
Hearthstone - Gem of Day's Light: 4
Hearthstone - Monkey Stone: 2
Languages - Seatongue, Riverspeak: 1
Mentor - the ghost of the Lunar Mor'du, his prior incarnation: 2
Pain Tolerance: 4
Resources: 2
Boundless Endurance
Iron Stomach

Anima Effects
For one mote, a Lunar can:
• Make her Caste Mark appear for as long as she desires.
• Make her Tell obvious for as long as she desires.
• Discern the moon’s phase and the precise time of day.
Casteless
• At dim anima, the cost of shifting into human shapes is discounted by two motes.
• At bonfire anima, the cost of shifting into animal shapes is discounted by two motes. This doesn’t apply to Charms like Towering Beast Form or Emerald Grasshopper Form.
• Once per day, she may use the once-per-day power of any Lunar Caste. She can’t use it again until she’s used the powers of all three Castes, or the session ends — e.g., a Casteless who uses the Full Moon power must use the Changing Moon and No Moon powers before she can use the Full Moon power again that session.

• Once per day, when she lands a decisive attack that resets her Initiative, she may pay 10 motes, one Willpower to roll Join Battle, adding (highest physical Attribute) non-Charm dice.

• Once per day, she can pay three motes, one Willpower when she makes an influence roll to ignore negative Ties her targets have towards her (or her current shape). These Ties can’t be used to bolster Resolve or in Decision Points.

• Once per day, while her anima is at bonfire, she can reflexively expend it completely to either gain one Willpower, add (Essence + [highest mental Attribute]) sorcerous motes to a spell she’s shaping, or add a free full Excellency (which counts as Charm dice) on a mental Attribute-based roll other than Join Battle.
Excellencies
Dexterity, Perception, Stamina, Strength, Wits

The simplest manifestations of Lunar power are Excellencies. Lunars can add dice to an (Attribute + Ability) roll for one mote per die using that Attribute’s Excellency. She may also use Excellencies to raise her static values — Evasion, Parry, Resolve, and Guile — paying two motes per +1 bonus. Normally, Lunars can’t add more than (Attribute) dice to a roll or raise a static value by more than (Attribute/2, rounded down). Automatic successes count as two dice toward this limit. However, a Lunar can increase her dice cap with stunts, adding her rating in a second Attribute — one appropriate to the stunt — to her rating in the action’s Attribute to determine her total dice limit. When stunting a Dexterity roll for a footrace by describing how her striking looks catch rivals off guard, she could add up to (Dexterity + Appearance) dice. If she stunted Guile by describing how her logical thinking revealed no emotion, she could raise it by up to ([Manipulation + Intelligence]/2). As always with stunts, the Storyteller must approve the player’s description (Exalted, p. 187).
Furthermore, the Strength and Stamina Excellencies have additional uses. The Strength Excellency can add dice to a Strength-based withering damage roll before soak, while the Stamina Excellency can raise soak. This costs one mote per damage die or point of soak, maximum (Attribute/2, rounded down). While damage rolls and soak can’t be stunted, players can still raise the dice caps for these with a suitable description per the usual stunt rules, although this doesn’t add any other benefits of stunting. These limits only applies to Excellencies, not to other magic that adds damage or soak. Players must declare these Excellencies before rolling.

Universal Charms

Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar shifts into hybrid form, combining her human self and her spirit shape. Upon purchasing this Charm, her player chooses six dots of mutations reflecting her spirit shape. While in her true human form, she may use this Charm to gain all the chosen mutations. This doesn’t count as being in an animal form for Protean Charms.
Players can freely describe the visual appearance of their Lunars’ hybrid forms — their features might be purely animalistic, like a tiger’s head or dragonfly wings, or indirect reflections of a spirit shape, like
multiple arms for a spider or an articulated neck for a giraffe. Players can include purely cosmetic traits, like changed skin color or animal ears, that aren’t represented by mutations.

Mutations:
Unusual Hide (4)—Innate
One of the most common mutations bestowed by the Wyld, this Merit grants an unusually resilient hide of some sort. The character gains additional points of natural soak equal to the Merit’s value. One or two dots generally represents fur, feathers, leaves, or light scales. Three dots indicate flesh far beyond the human norm—the leathery hide of a rhino or crocodile, or the exoskeletal carapace of an insect, perhaps. Four or five dots grant an armored hide which may be made of bony armor, an obsidian carapace, or perhaps even a body of living stone.
Drawback: The character obviously looks like a Wyld mutant, with all the stigma that accompanies such status, and suffers a penalty equal to her rating in this Merit on all disguise rolls to pass for normal.

Prehensile Trunk (2) — Innate
The mutant has a prehensile trunk, tongue, or similar appendage. It’s a fully functional limb — though it suffers a −1 offhand penalty — and a light weapon with the Bashing, Brawl, Disarming, Flexible, Grappling, and Natural tags.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Hybrid Body Transformation
The Lunar’s hybrid form grows increasingly bestial, reflecting more of her spirit shape’s nature. She chooses an additional six dots of mutations reflecting her spirit shape to those she gains when using Hybrid Body Transformation.
This Charm’s mutations are incompatible with those conferred by Chimera-Soul Expression. If the Lunar knows both, she must choose which one applies its mutations when she uses Hybrid Body Transformation.

Mutations
Giant (4)—Innate
Prerequisite: Stamina 3
The character is enormous, standing somewhere between seven and a half to ten feet in height. Her great size grants an extra -0 health level. This Merit may also be gained as a result of Wyld mutation.
Drawback: The character’s great size is very distinct, imposing a -3 penalty on all disguise rolls to pass as anyone of lesser stature, and making the character memorable wherever she goes.

Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar wears ten thousand faces, yet she’s always herself. She alters her current form’s appearance: increasing or reducing her height by 10 inches; increasing or decreasing her weight by up to 10%;
altering her apparent age; changing or removing sexual characteristics; changing skin tone, eye color, and hair color and length; and/or cosmetic changes like adding scars or birthmarks. She can alter both human and animal forms.
The Lunar can conceal her identity with this transformation.
She makes an ([Appearance or Intelligence] + [Larceny, Performance, or Presence]) disguise roll instantly, ignoring penalties for lacking equipment or disguising her race, sex, or body type. However, she can’t imitate specific individuals.
Changes made with this Charm are permanent. A second use, the Willpower cost of which is waived, can undo such changes.

Dexterity Charms

Cost: 3m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar’s limbs flex and warp along unexpected angles to avoid obstacles between her and her prey. She rerolls (higher of Essence or 3) 1s on an attack roll and imposes a −1 penalty on her target’s Defense. With Dexterity 4, the Lunar may attack a lower-Initiative enemy through full cover with an appropriate stunt, but he receives +3 Defense.
Protean: In shapes with a tail, tentacles, or similar flexible appendages, attacks with them ignore an additional point of Defense bonus.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Protean
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar moves in a blur of superhuman speed. She adds a success to a movement action or an interval of a speed-based extended action. Succeeding on an opposed roll in combat grants one Initiative.
Protean: In animal shapes with Speed Bonuses, the Initiative awarded to the Lunar for a successful opposed roll is stripped from one of the characters opposing her (her choice).

Perception Charms

Cost: 4m (or 1m); Mins: Perception 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar shifts her body to hone one of her senses. She chooses a single sense, rerolling 1s until they cease to appear on Perception rolls using it, and ignoring (Essence) points of penalty from over stimulation or under stimulation of that sense even on non-Perception rolls. She could ignore penalties to vision caused by darkness or blinding light, but not by fog or distance.
The Lunar may stack this Charm to enhance different senses. The cost of activations beyond the first is reduced to one mote.

Stamina Charms

Cost: —; Mins: Stamina 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar is endowed with superhuman vitality. She gains additional health levels based on her Stamina rating:
• Stamina 1-2: Two −2 levels.
• Stamina 3-4: Two −2 levels and one −4 level.
• Stamina 5: Two −2 levels and two −4 levels.
This Charm may be purchased (Stamina) times. If the Lunar’s Stamina increases, her health levels change to reflect her new rating.

Cost: 10m; Mins: Stamina 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Ox-Body Technique
Withdrawing into herself, the Lunar enters a rejuvenating hibernation. The rate at which she heals naturally (Exalted, p. 173) is multiplied by (Essence + Stamina). Time spent hibernating doesn’t count toward
the maximum she can go without food or water (Exalted, p. 232).
The Lunar may choose to hibernate until she’s fully healed from all damage, or for a set period of time. She isn’t completely unaware of her surroundings while hibernating, and can roll to detect external stimuli with (Perception + Awareness) at a −4 penalty, which can’t be enhanced by non-Excellency magic. Some stimuli, like being slapped across the face or stabbed, are obvious enough to detect without rolling. Detecting external stimuli lets the Lunar end this Charm prematurely.
With Stamina 5, the Lunar doesn’t age while hibernating.

Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Stamina 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: (Stamina) turns or One minute
Prerequisite Charms: Bear Sleep Technique
The Lunar shapeshifts wounds away, closing cuts and healing bruises. She heals one level of non-aggravated damage at the start of each of her turns. This Charm ends if she’s crashed. Outside of combat, the Lunar heals (Stamina) levels of non-aggravated damage over the course of a minute.
This Charm can only be used once per day. It doesn’t reset if the Lunar still has damage in her health track at the beginning of the new day, or doesn’t receive adequate sleep.

Cost: —; Mins: Stamina 2, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar’s mastery of shapeshifting affords precise control of her metabolism and bodily processes.
Upon purchasing this Charm, the Lunar gains two of the following gifts. She may purchase additional gifts for one bonus point or three experience each.
Internal Form Mastery: The Lunar gains up to three dots of the Boundless Endurance, Iron Stomach, Natural Immunity, Selective Conception, Strong Lungs, or Toxin Resistance Merits. This boon can be purchased multiple times.
Lesson of the Camel: The Lunar doubles her Stamina to determine how long she can go without food, water, and air, and reduces deprivation penalties by one (Exalted, p. 232).
No Time to Bleed: The Lunar doesn’t increase the time it takes to heal from damage for engaging in strenuous physical activity (Exalted, pp. 173-174), and treats such activities as bed rest for purposes of magic like Wound-Mending Care Technique.
Plague-Ridden Mimicry: The Lunar can voluntarily induce symptoms of disease and immune responses in herself, like fever, nausea, rashes, or sweating. Sustaining a high fever or similar symptoms adds (higher of Essence or 3) dice on rolls against disease indefinitely, but inflicts a −1 penalty on mental rolls. Attempts at diagnosing the Lunar return a result consistent with her apparent condition unless the opposing character uses magic or has reason to suspect the Lunar of trickery. In the latter case, a diagnosis roll at difficulty (Lunar’s Essence + Stamina) will reveal that something’s amiss.
Tiger-and-Seahorse Dynasty: The Lunar’s children inherit her Exalted Healing (Exalted, p. 165), in addition to any gifts they may receive as one of the Moon-Touched. She receives +2 Resolve against influence that would cause her to neglect or harm her children.
Winter Without Hibernation: The Lunar only needs (6 – Stamina) hours of sleep each night [1 hour]. Any fatigue penalties she suffers are reduced by one.

Strength Charms

Cost: 15m, 1wp (5m per turn/hour);
Mins: Strength 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Totemic (Stamina)
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
Her body swelling with supernatural might, the Lunar expands into the form of one of Creation’s greatest beasts. She shapeshifts into an animal form with Legendary Size.
At the end of each subsequent turn, if she didn’t make a decisive attack or spend 8+ motes on offensive magic, she must pay five motes, or this Charm ends. Outside of combat, she must pay five motes every hour.
If the Lunar uses this Charm to shift from one Legendary Size form to another, she waives its activation cost, maintaining the original 15-mote commitment.
Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape has Legendary Size may learn this as a Stamina Charm.

Cost: —; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Thews surging with savage might, the Lunar deals a telling blow. She can roll non-ranged attacks with heavy weapons, unarmed attacks, or natural weapons using Strength instead of Dexterity. Such attack rolls don’t benefit from effects that grant bonus Strength dots, double successes on Strength rolls, or replace the Lunar’s Strength with a higher value. She always uses her unmodified Strength to attack, and doesn’t add dice from bonus Strength dots or double non-10 successes on attack rolls.

Cost: 1m, 1wp;
Mins: Strength 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Hybrid Body Transformation
Flesh and Essence swelling with the unleashed power of her almighty rage, the Lunar assumes a dread warform. To use this Charm, Hybrid Body Transformation must be active. The Lunar gains the following
benefits:
• She adds (Strength) to the raw damage of her withering attacks.
• She adds (Strength) dice on feats of strength and movement actions.
• She adds (Strength) natural soak.
• She treats her Strength as (Essence) higher for determining what feats of strength she may attempt.
However, the Lunar suffers the following drawbacks in this state:
• She suffers a −1 Defense penalty that can’t be negated.
• She loses the benefits of resonance with artifacts, and becomes dissonant with any artifact she’s not normally resonant with.
Special activation rules: When the Lunar uses Hybrid Body Transformation, she may reflexively activate this Charm.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar lashes out with strength born of fury. She adds +(Essence) Overwhelming on a withering attack, or adds (lower of Essence or Strength) attack roll extra successes on a decisive attack as damage dice. She can deal lethal damage bare-handed.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Strength 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ferocious Biting Tooth
Reveling in bestial supremacy, the Lunar lays low her prey. She adds (1 + attack roll 10s) dice to the post-soak damage of a withering attack, maximum (Strength), or the damage of a decisive attack, maximum (lower of Essence or Strength) dice. Against crashed foes, she counts 9s as well as 10s.
Elephant
Throughout Creation, from the savannas of the South to the arctic wastes of the far North, people respect and revere elephants and mammoths as totems of strength and power. Full-grown bulls travel alone or in loose groups, standing twice the height of a mortal and weighing up to seven tons. Females gather in intimate family groups with their young; they have two-thirds of a male’s height and mass. They use tusks — found on male Southwestern elephants, or both genders elsewhere — to guard against predators, engage in mating battles, and tear up roots and
bark for fodder. They gather near freshwater sources. Elephants live for decades, with intelligence, memory, and emotional sophistication akin to a human’s. They gather food and use tools with their prehensile trunks, and though they cannot speak, they exhibit love, grief, generosity, and humor. People keep them in captivity to haul goods, transport passengers, or trample foes in war. Hunters kill wild elephants for their valuable ivory. Northern tribes also hunt the mammoth for its meat.

Essence: 1; Willpower: 5; Join Battle: 4 dice
Health Levels: −0x3/−1x6/−2x6/−4x6/Incap.
Speed Bonus: +1
Actions: Endure Extreme Conditions: 9 dice; Feats of Strength: 14 dice (may attempt Strength 7 feats); Find Water: 10 dice; Intimidate: 9 dice; Senses: 7 dice
Resolve 2, Guile 1

COMBAT
Attack (Stomp): 14 dice (Damage 16, minimum 4)
Attack (Tusks): 12 dice, or 13 with bladed tusks
(Damage 18, minimum 5); Tags: Piercing (blades only)
Attack (Trunk): 13 dice (Damage 15); Tags: Flexible
Attack (Grapple): 11 dice (14 to control)
Combat Movement: 7 dice
Evasion 2, Parry 4
Soak/Hardness: 16/6 (20/6 with armor)
SPECIAL ABILITIES
Gore: Decisive tusk attacks add threshold successes to damage against enemies with lower Initiative, as long as the elephant hasn’t taken any other actions (including reflexive movement actions) that turn.
Massive Charge: If the elephant moves at least one range band toward a target and makes a decisive attack against it on the same turn, the attack gains the Smashing tag (Exalted, p. 586).
Overwhelming Might: Elephants make unopposed grapple control rolls against enemies of smaller size, unless the victims use magic allowing them to grapple larger foes, such as Dragon Coil Technique (Exalted, p. 280). Rampaging Stampede: Spend one Willpower to flurry a withering stomp attack with a decisive tusk or trunk attack, each with a different target.
Trample: If the elephant reflexively pursues an enemy after a successful rush and makes a stomp attack against them on its next turn, a successful hit knocks the enemy prone. Apply the Defense penalty from being prone (Exalted, p. 202) retroactively when calculating the attack’s threshold successes.ies from attacks from smaller opponents, unless they’re magically inflicted. Withering attacks from smaller enemies cannot crash it unless they have at least 10 post-soak damage dice, although attackers still gain the full amount of Initiative damage dealt. Decisive attacks from smaller enemies cannot deal more than (3 + attacker’s Strength) levels of damage to it, not counting levels added by Charms or other magic.
“It has been thirty years since our first failed campaign against the Hexmanse. That such a cabal of bloodsorcerers and devil-loosers could not merely endure the light of the Sun, but even thrive, is an abomination. The lost Deliberative, for all its flaws, for all its failures — perhaps it did not root the sorcerers out, but it kept them underground. Now they exert their will unchecked, and who will fight them but I?
“A decade to cut my way free of the devil-world their sorceries banished me to. Another to forge Zelator, a thing to pierce their spells and end their contemptible lives. A third to build alliances, call in favors, raise an army.
“Today we ride against Fortis Minor. A month from now, we cross the Grand Sledge and enter the southern Qun-Lun. Within a year we will be at the gates of Shorn, the heads of half the Hexmanse on pikes, the other half ready to fall beneath our hooves, beneath my spear. They will regret their arrogance and their wickedness. That I guarantee.”
— Ostra Luka, In the Shadow of the Deliberative

Forged by a sorcerer-cataphract to defeat an occult cabal, the direlance Zelator’s long, narrow blade is engraved with an Old Realm character meaning “divine retribution.” The heavy shaft, likewise of orichalcum, bears this Old Realm inscription: “End transgression against the celestial order through harmonious action.” The scarlet tassels are of horsehair from Ostra Luka’s steed, preserved against the
millennia by the Art of Permanence.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 5)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Piercing, Reaching;
Two-Handed when on foot
Hearthstone slot(s): 2
Era: Falling Stars Interregnum

Evocations of Zelator
Zelator was forged to defeat witchery. The spear makes baneful attacks against sorcerers, sorcerous constructs, sorcerously transformed opponents, and summoned spirits. Its decisive attacks against such foes add one bonus die to the damage roll and deal aggravated damage. If the target is a sorcerer who has gathered sorcerous motes, three of the gathered motes are dispersed and lost. Centuries of battle have taught Zelator the weaknesses of sorcery. When attempting to counter or distort a spell (Exalted, p. 466), the wielder is always treated as knowing the spell she is attempting to counter or distort. In addition, whenever the Exalt crashes an opponent, she may reflexively either attempt to distort a spell that’s upon him or perform countermagic against a spell that he is casting. If the Exalt has sensed a sorcerous working being enacted in the region (Exalted, p. 489), she may commit one mote for Zelator to point the way toward the site where it is being enacted.

++ Indicates Evocations not yet paid for ++

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
Zelator penetrates dark magic with contemptuous ease. When supplementing a baneful attack, this Evocation adds one automatic success on the attack roll, and ignores four points of soak on withering attacks and four points of Hardness on decisive attacks.
Resonant: Waive this Evocation’s Willpower cost when used with an impaling attack (Exalted, p. 203).

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Dissonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: None
While the Exalt is mounted, her mount gains Zelator’s power to make baneful attacks. In addition, whenever the Exalt can perceive an immaterial entity, her mount can both see and strike that entity.
Special activation rules: As long as the wielder isn’t dissonant with orichalcum, this Evocation awakens at no cost when the wielder Joins Battle against any enemy that Zelator is baneful against while mounted.

Cost: 5m, 2i; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Spell-Piercing Strike
Zelator’s blade flares in the face of dark magic, reflecting it back at the unrighteous. The Exalt may activate this Evocation when she is the only target of a non-physical ranged attack such as Sandstorm-Wind
Attack, Flight of the Brilliant Raptor, or a bloodape’s Shattering Roar. If she successfully parries that attack, she may redirect it at its source, no matter the range. A redirected withering attack strips Initiative from the enemy who made it and awards it to the wielder.
Special activation rules: This Evocation awakens at no cost when the wielder incapacitates a non-trivial foe with a baneful decisive attack.
Resonant: This Evocation can be used after an attack is rolled.

Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Spell-Piercing Strike
Knowledge of ancient battles against warlocks and devils shines forth from the Exalt’s weapon and spreads across her soldiers, crowning each in a nimbus of righteous power. This Evocation supplements a command action directed at a friendly Might 0 battle group that’s engaged with at least one supernatural enemy, blessing it with Might 1 for the rest of the scene.
Resonant: The battle group gains Might 2 instead.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Golden Deviltry Mirror, Hell-War Veteran’s Benison
This Evocation turns a sorcerous foe’s tools against him, using them as the vehicle for burning vengeance. When the Exalt incapacitates an enemy with a baneful attack, she may use this Evocation to knock his body back one or two range bands, where veins of burning Solar Essence spread through it until it explodes in a ball of golden fire. This is a decisive attack, rolled with (Intelligence + Occult) against all enemies within close range of the body. It has raw damage equal to the total number of health levels the detonated enemy lost on the killing strike, ignoring Hardness.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dissonant, Uniform
Duration: Until the spell has been shaped
Prerequisites: Goetic Condemnation, Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
To the true sorcerous warrior, spear and spell are as one. Once the Exalt has begun to shape a spell, she may flurry attacks with further shape sorcery actions.
Dissonant: This Evocation is Perilous and ends if the wielder is crashed.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Corona of Radiance
The effects of Corona of Radiance (Exalted, p. 352) apply to Zelator’s baneful attacks even against non–creatures of darkness. In addition, while the Exalt is benefiting from any of the following Charms, their effects also extend to her steed: Corona of Radiance, Element-Resisting Prana (Exalted, p. 412), and Nine Specters Ban (Exalted, p. 357).

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Sunstrike Steed, Hell-War Veteran’s Benison, League of Iron Preparation
When a Solar raises Zelator as her battle standard, neither witches nor devils can stand against her forces. This Evocation can be used in strategic warfare (Exalted, p. 211) against an enemy general relying on sorcery, geomantic power, spirits, or other magic the Storyteller deems overtly supernatural. This is a magical stratagem with threshold 1, leading from the front as Zelator blazes like the sun with holy light.
If she successfully implements this stratagem, her entire army gains Might 1 and shares Zelator’s power to make baneful attacks for the rest of the scene. In addition, mounted allies each gain the benefits of
Spell-Piercing Strike on their first baneful impaling attack this scene.

Cost: 15m, 3a, 1wp; Mins: Essence 4
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Sunstrike Steed, Sorcerer-Cataphract Style, Dawnfire Mantle
This Evocation may only be used at 15+ Initiative or within one turn after activating Goetic Condemnation. The Exalt expels her iconic anima through Zelator, unleashing a blast of spiritual power that sends momentary ripples through the Essence of the world. This pulse reaches out to (Essence) miles, distorting all spells, dispersing all sorcerous motes, and banishing all summoned spirits. Any sorcerous workings caught in the pulse are disrupted for (Essence) days, suffering sorcerous complications as though they’d suffered (Essence) botches during their creation (Exalted, p. 484).
This Evocation can be used once per story, unless reset by accomplishing a legendary social goal (Exalted, p. 134). The Dawn Caste anima power cannot reset this Evocation.

Such was young Blood Nail’s wrath when he faced the Shogunate’s forces in battle that he went forth heedless of danger, refusing to armor himself against the Wyld Hunt. Thus, his protection fell to his Circlemate and lover, Amareq Winding-Glory, who labored to shape moonsilver around Blood Nail even as he battled. By the time Amareq completed the armor, it was stained with gore — both Blood Nail’s and his victims’. Seven Furies Caged had drunk deep of its wearer’s rage, and been born a monster.
Blood Nail and Seven Furies Caged slaughtered many great foes, whose skulls were hung from the armor’s spikes. The Lunar’s victories saw him recognized as a shahan-ya in the Realm’s infancy, as young Lunars who’d barely survived the Great Contagion and the Fair Folk crusades sought his aid in mastering their rage. He lends the armor freely to students and allies, so long as they use it to further his agenda of open warfare against the Realm. Lunars of other political leanings must trade favors for a chance to bear it into battle.
Seven Furies Caged is jagged and bestial in design — some might call it crude, though others remember the difficulty Amareq faced in creating it. Sharp spikes of moonsilver jut from its helm, pauldrons, and gauntlets. Here and there, its plates are discolored where a fragment of jade or splinter of a Dragon-Blood’s bones was caught in the moonsilver while Amareq worked it.

Attunement: 6m,
Type: Heavy (Soak +11, Hardness 10, Mobility Penalty −2)
Hearthstone slot(s): 2
Era: Siege of Gunuku

Evocations of Seven Furies Caged
Seven Furies Caged’s wearer adds her wound penalty to the armor’s soak and Hardness.

++ Indicates Evocations not yet paid for ++

Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
As pain clouds the warrior’s thoughts, Seven Furies Caged offers the clarity of rage, urging her onward to the slaughter. She ignores wound penalties on a Join Battle roll, adding them as bonus dice. If she wins Join Battle and makes a decisive attack on her first turn, the attack roll enjoys the same benefit, and she adds her wound penalty in dice to the damage roll.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Jubilant Loss of Control, Relentless Lunar Fury
Seven Furies Caged feels the Lunar’s pain, humming with intensity born of agony. While using Relentless Lunar Fury (p. XX), she gains a bonus dot of Strength. She ignores wound penalties on feats of strength, adding them as bonus dice.
Resonant: Relentless Lunar Fury adds one die to decisive damage rolls.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Jubilant Loss of Control
The doomed and the damned who stand against the berserker watch in fear as their blows do nothing. She adds (Stamina) to the armor’s Hardness against a source of decisive damage. If she has any damage in her −4 health levels, she enjoys this Hardness even while crashed (but not the armor’s base Hardness, or any other Hardness). If her Hardness negates an enemy’s decisive attack, she reflexively makes an ([Appearance or Charisma] + Presence) threaten roll against him, ignoring wound penalties and adding them as bonus dice.
Resonant: The wielder can use this Evocation while crashed if she has any damage in her −2 levels.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Jubilant Loss of Control
The berserker unleashes her anger in blows that crush stone and turn bones to dust. She adds (Strength) dice on an attack roll against an enemy that’s dealt decisive damage to her since her last turn. Withering attacks add (wound penalty) dice of post-soak damage; decisive attacks add (wound penalty) attack roll extra successes as damage dice.
Resonant: This Evocation can enhance attacks against enemies with a lower wound penalty than the wearer, even if they haven’t damaged her.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Blood Moon Ascendant, Frenzied Desperation Strike
Even if its master can barely stand, Seven Fangs Caged forces her body to obey her will, moonsilver doing what muscle cannot. When she uses Frenzied Desperation Strike (p. XX), she adds her wound penalty both to the attack’s damage roll and to her Initiative after resetting if successful. Frenzied Desperation Strike is reset the first time in a scene she takes damage to a −4 health level.
Resonant: If Relentless Lunar Fury is active, waive Frenzied Desperation Strike’s Willpower cost.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Harnessed Fury Mantra, Invincible Berserker Approach, Unrelenting Destroyer Fury
Howling her pain to the sky, the Lunar taps the illimitable rage of every warrior to have ever borne Seven Furies Caged into battle. To use this Evocation, Relentless Lunar Fury must be active. She rolls (Stamina + Strength), ignoring her wound penalty and converting it into bonus dice, gaining Initiative equal to the successes. This Evocation can only be used once per scene, unless reset by incapacitating a nontrivial enemy with an attack that dealt 5+ levels of damage more than necessary to do so.
Special activation rules: This Evocation can be flurried with a feat of strength, rush, or threaten roll.
Resonant: If the Lunar gains 10+ Initiative, her attack is reset (Exalted, p. 255).

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Counterattack, Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Blood Moon Ascendant, Knife-Biting Attitude
Seven Furies Caged roars as it’s struck, extending its spikes to impale its attacker. When the Lunar uses Knife-Biting Attitude (p. XX), she may unleash a decisive counterattack with any of her weapons after her attacker rolls damage. Her counterattack only uses the Initiative gathered by Knife-Biting Attitude for its damage, ignoring Hardness. It doesn’t include the rest of her Initiative or reset it, although the gathered Initiative is spent. If Relentless Lunar Fury is active, she can make this counterattack while crashed.
Resonant: The Lunar may include her Initiative in the counterattack’s damage. This resets her to base if it’s successful.

Keywords: Steady
This Solar hearthstone is a yellow gem burning with an inner light. It allows the Exalt who owns it to travel confidently, knowing that the light of the Unconquered Sun will be with her. She has only to concentrate on the gem to make it glow like a miniature sun, illuminating everything within up to a mile’s radius with the light of day. The Exalt can determine how far the effect stretches by concentrating on the gem. The effect lasts for as long as needed.
Concentrating to activate the effect is a miscellaneous action, though it can be ended reflexively. Hungry ghosts react to this light as they do to the actual sun.

Keywords: Linked
This stone is a rich reddish-brown, with a surface that feels like soft, furry bark, and grants its bearer the agility and balance of its namesake. When socketed into armor, it negates the armor’s mobility penalty for the purpose of climbing, leaping, or other acrobatic or arboreal actions, though not movement actions on relatively flat ground. If the armor has no mobility penalty, then the Exalt instead gains one automatic success on all rolls to climb, leap, swing, and perform other acrobatic or arboreal actions. Finally, the character never treats tree branches, limbs, crumbling ramparts, or other elevated and treacherous ground as difficult terrain.
Health Levels
-0 [ ] ([ ] DBT)
-1 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] - [ ][ ][ ]
-3 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
Incapacitated [ ]

Essence: 1
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 38 / (27) /
Committed: 11
Willpower: 5

Dodge DV: 2
Parry DV: 6
Guile: 1
Resolve: 4

Join Battle: 9 +3i

Soak
Natural Soak: 5 (14 in DBT)
Armored Soak: +11, 10 Hardness
Combined: 16 (25)

Weapons
Zelator (Dire Lance)
Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 5)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Piercing, Reaching;
Two-Handed when on foot
Hearthstone slot(s): 2
TRAIT - EXPERIENCE COST

Xp Earned: 55
Xp Banked:
Lunar Xp Banked:

Expenditures
Melee to 5 - 10
Resistance to 4 - 5
Merits - 28
Charm - 12
Limit Trigger: An adversary exploits the Lunar’s mercy or compassion.

Defining Principle: Will put his life on the line to protect those in need.
Major Tie: His bondmate (protective and curious)
Major Principle: "I may not win, but I will never lose."
Major Tie: The Fae (hatred)
Minor Tie: Mor'du, his mentor (respect)

Garret is a native islander, having grown up on the beach enjoying the sun and surf. As he got older, the large man found a good paying job on the docks, using his great strength to load and move cargo to and fro for his employer, Jubal Harshaw. It was hard work, but Garret enjoyed his time with a smile on his face.

When the fateful day came that the city was under attack, Garret could have simply ran to save himself. But something in him said to stand fast, and he took up a massive hammer that was lying there and strode forth to try and protect others. Luna then reached her hand out to touch the strand of fate that was his, and she granted him Exaltation as one of her Chosen. With the strength of his newfound power, Garret was able to hold the line against the attackers and save many people as they rushed to safety.

After the attack, Garret was drawn by some instinct to go and find a tomb that was hidden away from prying eyes, where he was able to meet the ghost of Mor'du, the Lunar that held the Exalted Shard that Garret now possesses. There, Garret was able to impress the old ghost enough to be able to reclaim the artifacts and hearthstones that were buried with the remains of the old Lunar. The two formed a bond, with Mor'du taking the time to help teach Garret the fine art of how to use his newly recovered spear to its best effect.

Sherwood · Feb 6, 2024

Name: Sjet
Gender: Female
Age: 25
Exalt Type: Solar
Caste: Twilight
Supernal Ability: Occult

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 5
Sta: 2

Cha: 3
Man: 1
App: 3

Per: 4
Int: 5
Wits: 2

Abilities
Archery
Athletics: 1
*Awareness: 3 - Spotting Small Details
Brawl
**Bureaucracy: 1
Craft
*Dodge: 3
Integrity: 2
**Investigation: 3
Larceny
**Linguistics: 1
**Lore: 5 - First Age Knowledge
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee
*S*Occult: 5 - Sorcery
*Performance: 2
Presence: 1
Ride
Sail
*Stealth: 2
Survival: 2
*Thrown: 3 - Slings
War

*Favored Ability
**Caste Ability
Artifact Armor - Kaijin Reinforced Buff Jacket: 3
Artifact Weapon - Hawk Star's Jess Sling: 3
Artifact - Sorcery Capturing Cord: 4
Languages - Old Realm, Seatongue, Riverspeak: 2
Manse - Hierophant's Eye: 4
Resources: 2
Infernal Nobility: 1
Demons recognize the sorcerer as one favored by Mara. First Circle demons are treated as having a Minor Tie of terrified awe towards her, while Second and Third Circle demons have a positive Minor Tie of respect, or some variation suited to their nature.

Twilight Anima Effects
• For five motes, the Twilight projects an aura of pure force, reflexively gaining five Hardness for one turn. At the bonfire/iconic level, this power activates itself automatically at no cost. This effect doesn’t stack with other magic that raises Hardness, but it can be used during Initiative Crash.
• For 10 motes, one Willpower, the Twilight’s anima flares blue and white and consumes her body over the course of the round. On her next turn, she vanishes into her anima and ceases to exist. If the Exalt moves or suffers knockdown before the action is completed, it fails and the effect is wasted. After using this power, the Twilight will not reappear until the following sunset. When she does, it will be at a place of power within 10 miles of her vanishing point, chosen by the Storyteller. She might appear at a temple, a demesne, a major crossroads, the door of a god’s sanctum, the precise center of a city, etc.
• For 10 motes, the Twilight may touch an Essence 1-3 elemental or a demon of the first circle, conjoining its Essence to her anima. Roll Intelligence + Occult against the creature’s Resolve. If successful, this creates a pact that changes the spirit into her familiar, allowing her to target it with applicable Survival Charms. In addition, the Twilight can reflexively summon the spirit instantly for three motes, drawing it through the Essence of the world to appear beside her. She may banish the creature again, reflexively, for free, returning it to the tides of Essence that suffuse Creation until needed. The Twilight may have up to (Essence) spirit familiars bound in this fashion at once.
Dodge Charms

Cost: 2i per 1 Evasion; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt draws upon her own momentum to bend and flow with opposing forces. For every two Initiative spent in response to an attack, the player may raise the Exalt’s Evasion by one. Reed in the Wind raises the cap on how much the Solar can enhance her Evasion by her Essence. At Dodge 5+, Essence 3+, a successful dodge with Reed in the Wind
restores one mote. This bonus may only occur once per round.

Linguistics Charms

Cost: 3m; Mins: Linguistics 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute, Written-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
A Solar with this technique writes with superhuman speed. The Exalt pens brief social influence or short communiqués with incredible speed—she can write a full-page letter in just seconds, while shorter missives may be constructed almost instantly. She can also quickly copy massive volumes of information. This Charm does not allow her to produce new work longer than a few pages, but she may flawlessly copy a written work of any length as she reads it, writing quickly enough that she may copy a large book in a single day, or prepare a document that would take hours to transcribe in a matter of minutes. The Solar can even perfectly transcribe a rapid conversation between multiple parties. The Solar may also quickly copy maps—though this Charm lends nothing to her artistic ability, she is able to convey all the information the original conveys, such that one could be substituted for the other, in function if not in form. This Charm does not destroy quills from writing too fast, but writing instruments do wear down at the regular speed, and the Solar’s writing consumes the normal amount of ink. As this Charm entails a dramatic action in which the
Solar copies a work, the duration of the effect varies. In a scene where the Solar has used Whirling Brush Method, additional activation costs only one mote.

Lore Charms

Cost: —; Mins: Lore 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar’s mind covers a spectrum of mastered topics. With this Charm, add the Solar’s Essence in non-Charm automatic successes to any Lore roll that involves a Lore specialty. In addition, the player may add an additional Lore specialty to her list of Lore topics at the end of each story. The Storyteller may veto any particular topic, in which case the player is allowed to choose another specialty that’s more acceptable. Finally, at any point in which the Solar succeeds at a moderately or extremely difficult roll to introduce or challenge a fact (p. 237), the player may request to add a related topic to the Solar’s library of known topics. As with all other topics, this is allowable only at the Storyteller’s discretion.

Occult Charms

Cost: 3m; Mins: Occult 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar can look through the pall of reality to glimpse the realm of spirits beneath. With this Charm, the Solar can see (but not touch) immaterial spirits.

Cost: —; Mins: Occult 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Detecting Glance
The Solar’s senses are preternaturally attuned to the movements of spirits and other uncanny beings. Whenever a spirit or Fair Folk is within the range of the Exalt’s senses, she experiences a strange sensory phenomena; she might hear bells tinkling, smell a particularly strong or unusual scent, or taste something resonant. The Solar gains half her Occult (rounded up) in successes to an Awareness-based attempt to notice such a being. The warning signaled by this Charm occurs even when a spirit is immaterial, allowing the Solar to use Spirit-Detecting Glance.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Occult 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Detecting Glance
The Solar infuses her attack with the emotive force of her anima, to strike an immaterial spirit. This Charm supplements a single attack to strike a spirit which has not materialized.
If the Solar is not using the prerequisite or another similar magic, this attack is made at -3 dice. Spirit-Cutting Attack may be used in combination with the Charms of other Abilities.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Occult 5, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Detecting Glance
The Exalt gazes into the Essence of the world and sees the patterns of magic that make up Creation. For a few seconds after activating this Charm, the Solar can see Essence flowing through the world. She can perceive immaterial spirits, but moreover, she can see the workings of spirit energies around her. If a character is using a shaping action or Evocation, the Solar may make an Intelligence + Occult roll at a difficulty of the effect’s Essence minimum to determine how the power works. This Charm may also be used to identify the presence of ongoing sorcerous effects such as mystical barriers and levitating platforms, revealing not only the presence of magic, but how it functions. This power also allows the Exalt to see places where Creation is thin—the borders of shadowlands and the Wyld appear as hazy, gauzy distortions of light. The Solar may also detect the entrance to spirit sanctums within her range of vision. This Charm does not reveal the working of the Charms of the Exalted.

Cost: —; Mins: Occult 5, Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight
The Solar’s keen eyes burn through deception. This Charm enhances All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight, aiding the Solar in an attempt to see through magical disguises, shapeshifting, or any other magic which allows a character—even another Exalt—to appear to be something or someone other than who he is. This Charm makes it possible to notice such effects with Awareness, adding the Solar’s Essence in automatic successes to the attempt. For the difficulty of seeing through disguises, see page 224. Unless stated otherwise, seeing through all other kinds of magical identity-deceptions is a difficulty 5 feat.

Cost: —; Mins: Occult 5, Essence 4
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Burning Eye of the Deliverer
The Solar sees all things truly. When she is at the iconic anima level, she automatically gains the effects of All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight for free. Furthermore, using Spirit-Detecting Glance in combination with All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight allows the Exalt to discern the nature and Essence rating of a spirit if she succeeds at an Occult roll with a difficulty of the spirit’s Essence.

Cost: —; Mins: Occult 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar steps through the First Circle and is forever transformed. Upon learning this Charm, the Exalt gains the ability to learn and cast spells from the Terrestrial Circle of sorcery. In addition, the Solar learns one shaping ritual (p. 466) and one Terrestrial spell for free. The spell selected becomes the sorcerer’s “control spell,” and may feature in the anima iconography and be referenced in the mechanics of certain Charms.

Thrown Charms

Cost: 1m; Mins: Thrown 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar imbues her chosen weapon with Essence, to feel its every angle and weight as part of her body. Its strike becomes an extension of her will. The Solar’s accuracy is calculated as if it was made from close range, regardless of the distance from which she is throwing. If Precision of the Striking Raptor is used at close range, the target’s defense is lowered by one. This Charm does not allow the Exalt to strike a target beyond the range of her weaponry.
Bargain with Mara
You have met the demon Mara, the deer-footed creature of shadows who pursues lovers marked by dark destinies and feeds them stolen souls. You may have met her as she
sojourned through Creation, or seen her lovely, wicked face in dreams—perhaps you even summoned her yourself to make your bargain. Through cunning, charisma, or pleasing offerings, you have made a pact with her, taking the power of the Shadow Lover for your own.
Shaping Ritual
The sorcerer draws power from shadow and darkness, weaving it into her spells. Whenever she begins a scene in darkness or shadow heavy enough to qualify as concealment for attempting stealth, she gains three sorcerous motes, which last until the end of the scene and can be spent towards any spells she casts. Additionally, whenever she takes a shape sorcery action to shape a spell while in stealth, she gains an additional sorcerous mote as long as the spell’s target is unaware of her. She also receives these benefits while under the night sky during the new moon or Calibration, even without being concealed.

Cost: 15sm, 1wp
Keywords: None
Duration: Until ended
The sorcerer calls down a Cirrus Skiff to bear her skyward, a small white puffy cloud just large enough for her and one other passenger to ride upon. The cloud descends from the
sky and hovers near the sorcerer like a faithful puppy until she steps on, at which point it rises into the air, obeying her mental commands. It is slow-moving, managing a pace of only (Essence x 6) miles per hour, but is virtually unlimited in its flight capability, able to rise upward with no limit other than the ability of its caster to endure the rarefied air of the upper atmosphere. In combat, the sorcerer rolls (Wits + Occult) in place of standard movement rolls to mentally direct the cloud, but otherwise faces no complications or penalties.
If the sorcerer wishes to sleep, study, or otherwise rest on the Cirrus Skiff without having to give it constant instructions, she may give it a set command, such as “Fly a mile up into the air and stay there” or “Circle around the satrap’s palace,” which it will obey until she gives it new orders. The sorcerer may disembark from the skiff for up to one scene without ending this spell, but any absence beyond that ends the spell, sending the cloud flying back up into the stratosphere.
Control: A character who knows Cirrus Skiff as her control spell may cast it with an Indefinite duration. Her conjured cloud will follow after her after she disembarks, eagerly awaiting her return without ever leaving. It will follow simple instructions from the sorcerer, even when she’s not riding it, and can be summoned by the sorcerer’s call from anywhere in Creation, proceeding to her side at the best speed it can manage.
Distortion (Goal Number: 7): Distorting a Cirrus Skiff weighs it down, turning the cloud into a heavy, dense fog for a scene. The sorcerer suffers a -3 penalty on the (Wits + Occult) rolls to control the distorted skiff’s movement, and it cannot fly above long range from the ground. If it is already higher than that, it begins dropping at a rate of two range bands per round, in addition to any other movement the sorcerer takes.

Cost: 15sm, 1wp
Keywords: Decisive-only, Perilous
Duration: Instant
Sculpting Essence into volant black glass, the sorcerer unleashes a cascade of obsidian butterflies. She rolls (Perception + Occult) as an undodgeable decisive attack applied in a line against enemies out to medium range. This line is wide enough to strike all opponents within the width of a single range band and reaches high enough to strike aerial enemies who are at short range to the ground (medium range enemies in the air can still be targeted by directing the butterflies to fly along an upward path, rather than a horizontal one). Battle groups are especially vulnerable to being cut down by this spell, taking a -2 penalty to Defense against it.
The attack deals raw damage equal to the sorcerer’s (Essence + extra successes), or (Essence + Occult + extra successes) against a battle group. It does not reset the sorcerer to base Initiative. Scenery made of wood, glass, or other fragile materials is generally destroyed. After this spell has been cast, the obsidian butterflies fall to the ground and shatter, creating terrain that may be hazardous for barefooted characters to traverse—treat as an environmental hazard inflicting two dice of lethal damage, difficulty 2 to resist with a (Dexterity + Athletics) roll, and if the character is barefoot, difficult terrain as well. Any character wearing armored boots can generally ignore the debris.
Control: A sorcerer who knows Death of Obsidian Butterflies as her control spell gains (Essence) bonus dice to the spell’s attack roll. When her emotions run hot, butterfly silhouettes rise from her shadow. When she is angry, her fingernails turn to sharp volcanic glass, making it possible to cut cloth or paper, rend wood or flesh and other similar stunts.

Cost: Ritual, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
The sorcerer conjures one of the least monsters of the Demon Realm into Creation, breaking and binding it to her will. This spell requires a ritual that begins at sundown, and ends at the stroke of midnight. A faint green glow traces out a rift between Creation and Hell, and a First Circle Demon of the sorcerer’s choice is drawn forth, howling with rage, fear, or sorrow.
Demons summoned by this spell must be bound with an (Intelligence + Occult) roll against their Resolve. The sorcerer may choose to make the demon her personal slave for a year and a day, giving it a Defining Tie of loyalty to her that cannot be weakened or altered by any means and setting its Resolve to 0 against any influence rolls she makes. Alternatively, she may assign it to complete a specific task—“Construct a tower using these plans,” “Murder Magistrate Yang,” “Dig a tunnel through this wall”—for as long as it takes to complete. Task bound demons form a Defining Principle of “I must complete my task,” which is similarly impervious to tampering. On a failed binding roll, the sorcerer is unable to bind the demon, and must make a (Wits + Occult) roll against a difficulty of the demon’s Willpower to banish it back to Hell. If she fails, then the demon is unleashed, unbound, into Creation—and is most likely very angry at her.

Cost: 15sm, 1wp
Keywords: None
Duration: One hour
Bending the winds to her will, the sorcerer creates a servile dust devil to ride. The Stormwind Rider is treated as a flying mount (p. 202), although it cannot take the sorcerer to more than short range above the ground. (Wits + Occult) replaces the usual rolls for all combat movement actions. The whirlwind can carry up to (Essence x 2) additional characters, or one hundred pounds of cargo in place of a single passenger.
While it cannot soar as high as the Cirrus Skiff, the Stormwind Rider can travel at nearly 100 miles an hour and maneuver through forests or cities. In a race with other characters,
the sorcerer rolls (Intelligence + Occult + current temporary Willpower) for each interval. In combat, characters within the Stormwind Rider are treated as having light cover against
attacks made from outside of it, and vice versa. A passenger who is crashed or hit with a decisive attack is knocked out of the whirlwind, and suffers falling damage if applicable.
Control: A sorcerer who knows Stormwind Rider as her control spell is buffeted by winds whenever she is beset by strong emotions. Sudden movements cause a small vortex powerful enough to scatter papers, upset furniture and topple someone caught off-guard. Her vertical leaps are buoyed by wind, allowing her to leap upward a single range band as her movement action; she can do so up to (Stamina) times before needing to rest.
In addition, characters with an Essence pool gain access to the following powers while this spell is active:
• Enduring Tempest (5m; Reflexive; Instant): Once this spell’s duration has elapsed, the sorcerer may use Enduring Tempest to extend its duration for another hour. She may do
so for as long as she has Essence to continue using this power.
• Zephyr Rush (1m, 1wp; Supplemental; Instant): The sorcerer whips the Stormwind Rider into a sudden frenzy of speed, allowing her to move up to two range bands with a single movement action in combat or doubling 8s on one interval of a race.
Distortion (Goal Number: 15): Distorting a stormwind rider causes it to buck and swerve violently in its flight, threatening to throw off its riders. All characters carried by the whirlwind must succeed at a difficulty 4 (Dexterity + Athletics) roll to maintain balance, although the sorcerer who cast it may substitute (Wits + Occult). Characters who fail their roll fall out of the whirlwind.

Cost: 15sm, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
The sorcerer draws a flaming sword from her own heart, shaping a fiery sentinel to keep vigil over her. As she completes the spell, the burning blade collapses into a willo’-the-wisp no larger than a torchlight —the sorcerer may conceal the Virtuous Guardian of Flame by commanding it to rest within an existing lit lantern or torch she carries. Should she be attacked, the wisp flares back into sword shape to fend off her enemy, protecting her as per the defend other action (Exalted, p. XX) with a Parry of ([higher of Essence or Intelligence] + 1). The virtuous guardian can even notice threats of which the sorcerer is unaware, rolling (Essence + Perception + Occult) to detect hidden enemies. Wooden
projectiles or weapons successfully blocked by the guardian are burnt to ashes. If it parries an unarmed attack or other natural attack, the attacker suffers one die of lethal damage, ignoring Hardness. Even when its parries fail, its flames blunt the force of attacks against her, adding (Essence) natural soak against all but unblockable attacks.

The guardian has soak (Essence + 5), Hardness (Essence), and (Essence + Intelligence) −0 health levels. When the sorcerer Joins Battle, it gains Initiative equal to hers. It cannot take any actions of its own; instead, this Initiative is used solely as a buffer against withering attacks. If the guardian is crashed, it dissipates for a scene, unable to protect the sorcerer, but reforms after that. If its health track is filled with damage, it’s utterly destroyed, and the sorcerer cannot resummon it until its full duration has elapsed.
Control: A sorcerer with this as her control spell may awaken Evocations from it, enhancing the guardian’s defensive power or wielding it offensively.
Distortion (Goal Number: 15): Distorting the virtuous guardian lets the distorting sorcerer temporarily usurp it from its caster, stealing its protection away from her for one scene.
Among the oldest known artifacts, dating back to the Divine Revolution, this weapon’s forgotten maker tamed the mighty Hawk Star, binding a measure of its power into a fist-sized starstone to be spun into wire and woven into a sling. Together, that Sidereal and the Hawk Star’s Jess cast down many demons and behemoths that served the enemies of the gods.
The Jess has been used many times since to defeat powerful, dangerous foes that threatened the order of Creation. Its stones slew gigantes of Dis in their days of empire, struck down a Solar prince in the Usurpation, and pierced the brain of the mile-high wolfstag that followed its raksha masters into the world during the Contagion. It remains a valued tool in the hands of the Five-Score Fellowship, loaned out to end marauding demons, behemoths, and other mighty monsters that oppose the will of Heaven.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Light (+10 DMG, OVW 3)
Tags: Lethal, Thrown (Long), Concealable
Accuracy: Close +5; Short +4; Medium +3; Long +0; Extreme −2
Hearthstone slot(s): None
Era: War of the Gods
Special: +3 to Larceny rolls to conceal.

Evocations of the Hawk Star’s Jess
The Exalt unlocks Doom-Gathering Arc for no experience cost when she first attunes to the Hawk Star’s Jess.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only, Dissonant, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
As the constellations of the House of Endings cross the sky in their arc, the Exalt’s slung stone arcs to follow an inescapable destiny of death. This Evocation, which requires the wielder to have Initiative 10+, is a decisive attack carrying (Essence) points of Doom. She ignores up to (Doom) points of penalties on the attack roll, and subtracts (Doom) from the target’s Defense and Hardness. A successful hit doubles 10s on the damage roll. This Evocation can be used once per scene, unless reset by incapacitating a non-trivial opponent or routing a battle group.
Dissonant: The wielder doesn’t subtract (Doom) from Defense.
Resonant: If the wielder has Occult 3+ (or Occult 1+ and a specialty in astrology), she can meditate with the Jess beneath the night sky for one scene to seek an enemy’s death in the stars as a difficulty 3 (Perception + Occult) roll. If successful, this Evocation carries (Essence + 2) Doom whenever used against the chosen enemy until the next sunset. On failure, she cannot retry that night.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Doom-Gathering Arc
Destiny guides the Exalt’s stone without thought or aim. The Exalt may reflexively aim before attacking with Doom-Gathering Arc.
Resonant: The wielder may pay a point of Willpower to take two aim actions, allowing her to attack at medium range or further while still receiving bonus dice.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Dissonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Falling Star Stone
Like the gigantes and behemoths of times past, the Exalt’s foes are fated to fall. Whenever the Exalt activates Doom-Gathering Arc against an opponent of Legendary Size, she ignores the limit that Merit imposes on damage and rerolls (Doom) failed damage dice, starting with 1s and counting upward.
Dissonant: The wielder doesn’t reroll failed damage dice.

Cost: —(+1wp); Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Dissonant, Resonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Titan-Subduing Stone
Neither god nor devil can survive the Exalt’s throw. The wielder may pay one Willpower when she uses Doom-Gathering Arc to double 9s on damage.
Dissonant: Characters dissonant with starmetal cannot awaken this Evocation.
Resonant: The wielder doubles 8s on damage rolls.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Stone of the Corpse
The constellation of the Sword governs death by illness. When Doom-Gathering Arc deals damage, it always leaves an infected wound, even on the Exalted (Exalted, p. 235). This illness is written in the stars; it has morbidity (Doom + 2) and cannot be cured without magic.
Resonant: The infection spreads with unnatural haste; its interval is one day.

Cost: —(+3a); Mins: Essence 4
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Stone of the Sword
Resonant: This Evocation can only be awakened by a wielder resonant with starmetal.
The wielder condenses her bonfire anima into a fistful of light; hurled from the Jess, it manifests the power of the Hawk Star, spreading radiant wings and flying straight at her foe with a shriek of doom. The wielder can expel her bonfire anima when she uses Doom-Gathering Arc to add three Doom to the attack and three automatic successes to the damage roll. This attack deals aggravated damage to creatures of darkness. The Willpower cost of any other Evocations used with Doom-Gathering Arc is waived.
This Evocation can only be used once per story. It can be reset by achieving a major character or story goal (Exalted, p. 170) by defeating a powerful opponent with the Jess.

This green leather jacket — made with a patchwork of hides from a dozen God-Blooded monsters — is reinforced with starmetal plates and epaulettes, and rivets of opal mined from the bottom of the Great Western Ocean.
The starmetal was excavated by deep-sea diver and archaeologist Ebony Maelstrom, a Chosen of Secrets who used one of Yu-Shan’s ancient wonders to spend decades exploring long-forgotten ocean floors all over the world. In the Great Western Ocean’s deepest abysses, he found an immense meteor, touched by so many disparate spirits’ Essences that the only distinct power he could extract safely was their shared immaterial nature. He brought the unprecedented phenomenon back to the workshops of the Heavenly City to be preserved in artifact form for the Sidereal host’s use, and to this day it’s occasionally requisitioned by Sidereal Circles embarking on dangerous missions. This armor can trick the Loom of Fate into seeing its wearer as a spirit, and he becomes as they are, intangible as the wind.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+8 Soak, Hardness 7, Mobility Penalty −1)
Tags: Silent
Hearthstone slot(s): 2
Era: Clepsys Divergence

Evocations of Kaijin
Attuning to Kaijin awakens Hazy Mirage Edge at no cost.

Cost: 3m, 2i; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
Weapons that should have just barely hit their mark slide through the edges of the Exalt’s outline instead. She gains +1 Defense and adds (Occult) to her armored soak against an attack, unless it can hit dematerialized targets.
Resonant: This Evocation’s duration is extended to one tick.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Hazy Mirage Edge, Leaping Dodge Technique
This Evocation upgrades Leaping Dodge Technique (Exalted, p. 299) when the Solar uses it after dodging an attack with Hazy Mirage Edge. She instantly vanishes and reappears at her new location, allowing her to ignore obstacles such as walls or difficult terrain that would otherwise prevent her movement.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Ancient Tongue Understanding, Hazy Mirage Edge
This Evocation upgrades Ancient Tongue Understanding (Exalted, p. 356). While speaking in Old Realm, she may add its bonus successes on any Manipulation-based influence rolls to convince others that she is a spirit.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dissonant, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Hazy Mirage Edge
For just a moment, the stars align to bring Kaijin’s wearer briefly out of phase with the material world. This Evocation enhances a roll to oppose a grapple, disengage or withdraw from an enemy, or otherwise escape from an enemy. The target number of the roll — the number a die must show to be counted as a success — is lowered by one. No combination of effects can lower a roll’s target number below 4.
Dissonant: The wearer may only count up to (Essence) 6s as successes.
Resonant: In addition to lowering her target number by one, this Evocation raises the target number of all opposed rolls by one. No combination of effects can raise a roll’s target
number above 9.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Clash, Dissonant, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Immanent Mantle of Divinity
Flickering into nothingness for a second, the Exalt lets her foe pass through her. When an enemy in close range attacks Kaijin’s wearer, she may use this Evocation to clash with a difficulty 3 gambit rolled with (Wits + Dodge). If successful, she may either reflexively move one range band away from him, or cause him to move one range band past her (and potentially into a hazard, over a cliff, and so on). For every threshold success on the gambit’s Initiative roll, she steals one point of Initiative from him. This doesn’t count as the wearer’s combat action.
Dissonant: This Evocation can only be used once per scene, unless reset by succeeding on a disengage roll and moving out of close range from all enemies.
Resonant: The gambit’s Initiative cost is waived.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 4
Type: Simple
Keywords: Dissonant, Mute, Perilous, Resonant
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Fateful Shift Evasion
Harmonizing her Essence with the invisible world of spirits around her, Kaijin’s wearer walks between worlds. She and all objects on her person become dematerialized, unable to interact with the material world or be harmed by it without the use of magic. She remains visible to materialized characters, but seems like a divine spirit rather than flesh and blood, requiring a difficulty 7 (Perception + Occult) roll to distinguish.
Special activation rules: This Evocation cannot be bought with experience points. It awakens at no cost when Kaijin’s wearer achieves a major character or story goal (Exalted,
p. 170) by convincing a significant character or a society that she is a god.
Dissonant: Characters dissonant with starmetal cannot awaken this Evocation.
Resonant: This Evocation’s minimum Essence is reduced by 1.

Keywords: Dependent, Linked
This black octagonal stone blazes with orange-gold light along each of its perfect edges. The Hierophant’s Eye grants one automatic non-Charm success to every shape sorcery action while socketed into an attuned artifact.

These slender, yard-long ropes are threaded with orichalcum and moonsilver, giving them wondrous strength and resilience. A sorcerer standing in a non-ritual sorcery spell’s path may bind the spell’s Essence in a knot, trapping it until the knot is released. The bearer must be initiated into the circle of the spell to be captured, and must succeed on a reflexive (Dexterity + Occult) roll against the enemy sorcerer’s spellcasting roll. If successful, the spell is swallowed by the knot like water down a drain.
Untying a knot unleashes the stored spell as though shaping it normally, using ([the lower of Dexterity or Intelligence] + Occult). If she attempts to a shape a spell of a circle she isn’t initiated into, it is distorted or botches — Storyteller’s choice.
A sorcery-capturing cord can hold a single spell. Looking at a pre-existing knot, one can determine the captured spell’s circle with a difficulty 3 (Intelligence + Occult) roll, and the specific spell with (Circle x 2) threshold successes. All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight and similar Charms reveal this information automatically. Destroying the cord releases a distorted or botched version of the stored spell in a random direction.

**Indicates Evocations not paid for yet**
Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
Incapacitated [ ]

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 / (23)
Committed: 10
Willpower: 8

Join Battle: 5 +3i

Dodge DV: 4
Parry DV: 3
Resolve: 3
Guile: 1

Soak
Natural: +2
VGF: +1
Armored: +8, +7 Hardness
Total: +11

Virtuous Guardian of Flame
Parry DV: 6
Per Roll: 10
Soak: 6
Health: 6 -0 levels

Weapons
Hawk Star's Jess
Type: Light (+10 DMG, OVW 3)
Tags: Lethal, Thrown (Long), Concealable
Accuracy: Close +5; Short +4; Medium +3; Long +0; Extreme −2
Limit Triger: The Solar sees innocents suffering, and is either unable or unwilling to help them.

Defining Principle: Through knowledge, all things are possible.
Major Tie: Her Mother (love)
Major Tie: The Circle (loyalty)
Minor Tie: The Immaculate Order (fear and disgust)
Minor Tie: Demons and Sorcery.
Minor Tie: Ghosts and Ancestor Worship

Sjet's earliest memories are of her life in near exile with her mother living in the wilderness. It was a simple life, and Sjet was a happy girl because she knew she was loved by her mother more than life itself. From her mother, Sjet learned about how to venerate the dead, and she grew up not fearing ghosts and the deadly departed, but instead, seeing them with love and respect.

When the two of them moved back into the city, Sjet started her formal education and the young girl devoured every book she could find and she quickly excelled in her studies. She just loved to learn.

It was in her teenage years that Sjet stumbled onto a hidden manse located in the city. Inside she found treasure beyond her wildest dreams: a vast library of books from the First Age spanning many topics. For the next several years, Sjet would spend most of her free time sitting in the quiet room, deeply focused on her reading. That was her biggest focus on the manse, especially since she had no use for the hearthstone or other magical powers of the place.

That all changed when the city came under attack. Sjet knew that the manse had a weapon designed to protect the city; she just needed to figure out how to activate it. With her mother at her side, the two fought their way through the streets of the city to the manse. Her mother gave Sjet a hug and told her that she loved her, and that she would hold the door to allow her daughter the time needed to access the controls. It was the last time Sjet saw her mother as the mortal woman that raised her.

Inside, Sjet made her way through the halls until she found the hearthstone room where the controls waited for her. Looking over the array of controls, she realized to her horror that the system was designed to be operated by the Exalted only, and if she went through with this, it would kill her. People were dying out there, and every moment of indecision meant more blood on her hands. One life for many was a fitting way to meet her end.

Decision made, Sjet didn't hesitate any longer. Her own mother was willing to sacrifice herself to buy her the time needed to get this done, so she was going to make every moment count. As she worked, Sjet could feel the life force on her being drained, but she didn't let that stop her.

As time went by, she fully expected to weaken and be consumed by the manse, but somehow she didn't die. Being so focused on her mission she didn't even notice that she had caught the eye of the Unconquered Sun and He rewarded her selflessness with an Exalted Shard.

At the end of the day, Sjet slumped down in the seat, utterly exhausted but satisfied with the good that she had done for the people that she was able to save.

Now an Exalt for the Unconquered Sun, Sjet went to find her mother and was shocked to see that she was not the only one to gain Exaltation this day, but instead of rising up as a Solar, her mother was claimed by a darker power. It was thanks to her upbringing that she didn't freak out. This was not a horrible event, but a glorious one for them both.
Trait - Experience Cost
Attributes - 10 per dot
Caste/Favored Attributes - 8 per dot
Abilities - 5 per dot
Caste/Favored Abilities - 4 per dot
New Specialty - 2
Merits - 2 per dot
Willpower - 6 per dot
New Charm/Spell/Evocation - 12
New Caste/Favored Charm or Spell - 10

Point Expenditures
Willpower to 8: 18
Occult to 5: 8
Lore to 5: 8
Merits: 16
Performance to 2: 5

Xp earned: 55
Xp banked:
Solar xp banked:

Crocodile · Feb 20, 2024

Name: Pandemos Xalax
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Exalt Type: Solar
Caste: Eclipse
Supernal Ability: Sail

Attributes
Str: 3
Dex: 3
Sta: 3

Cha: 4
Man: 3
App: 3

Per: 3
Int: 3
Wits: 3

Abilities
Archery
Athletics: 3
Awareness
Brawl: 3
Bureaucracy: 3
Craft
Dodge: 3
Integrity: 2
Investigation
Larceny: 3
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 1
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee
Occult: 1
Performance: 2
Presence: 3
Ride
Sail
Socialize: 3
Stealth
Survival
Thrown

*Favored Ability
**Caste Ability
Contacts:

Followers: 3 (Gossamer Blade Crew)

Languages: 3 (Old Realm, Riverspeak, Seatongue)

Resources: 4

Eclipse Anima Effects

• For 10 motes, one Willpower, the Eclipse sanctifies an oath she has witnessed. The Exalt touches the oathgivers (or their words, as they pass through the air), her caste mark flashing imperceptibly. If she wishes, her anima briefly flares, swirling with the words and runes by which Heaven has given her the right to arbitrate such matters. Oath-givers who break pacts sanctified by the Eclipse (including the Exalt herself ) are subject to a terrible curse. The details of the curse are devised by the Storyteller, ideally reflecting the oath broken. A woman who breaks a hospitality oath might find herself incapable of rest beneath any roof for a year and a day, while a man who murdered the one he swore to protect may find his defenses utterly failing him when he must next fight for his life.

• The Eclipse has diplomatic immunity when treating with the enemies of Creation. So long as the Eclipse approaches them on legitimate business of some kind, shades, spirits, the demon princes of Hell, and the Fair Folk may not attack the Eclipse or her companions without just cause, and such creatures must observe the local rules of hospitality. Such beings may still attempt to provoke members of the Solar’s embassy into breaking the peace, thus voiding this effect’s protection.

• The Eclipse represents all the subtle movements of Essence under Heaven, the strange and self-referencing powers that stir when night merges with day. Eclipses can learn the Charms of spirits, Fair Folk and similar supernatural beings which have the Eclipse keyword for eight experience points each.
WIP
Health Levels

-0 [ ]

-1 [ ][ ]

-2 [ ][ ]

-4 [ ]

Incapacitated [ ]

Essence: 1

Personal:
Peripheral:
Committed:
Willpower:

Join Battle:

Dodge DV:
Parry DV:
Resolve:
Guile:

Soak

Weapons and Armor
Defining Principle: Words Before Wrath

Major Tie: His Ship (Pride)

Major Tie: His Crew (Loyalty)

Minor Tie: The Immaculate Order (Disdain)

Minor Tie: Piracy (Ambition)

Minor Tie: Sea Spirits (Respect)

Pandemos Xalax is a man of Northern stock but his heart has always been in the West. His mother was seized by the Guild and sold into slavery, ending up as the servant of a ruthless pirate captain after he slaughtered a Guild shipment she was part of. The Guild did not take kindly to this act and made it a point to run the pirate captain to ground before viciously executing him, leaving his head on display for all to remember why you never threatened their shipping. Torva Xalax managed to negotiate her freedom from the Guild by helping them locate the various pirate hoards that the captain had made of her own shipment and others he had targetted since then.

Pandemos himself was born from his mother taking a lover while also becoming first mate aboard the merchant ship Gossamer Blade. Being a rather tough northern barbarian before her seizure and enslavement, Torva did her best to serve even while pregnant before giving birth. Pandemos grew up amongst the crew, learning duties the moment he was able to understand orders.
WIP
Trait - Experience Cost

Attributes - 10 per dot

Caste/Favored Attributes - 8 per dot

Abilities - 5 per dot

Caste/Favored Abilities - 4 per dot

New Specialty - 2

Merits - 2 per dot

Willpower - 6 per dot

New Charm/Spell/Evocation - 12

New Caste/Favored Charm or Spell - 10

Point Expenditures
Merits:
Int 2 to 3: 10
Wits 2 to 3: 10

Xp earned: 55
Xp banked:
Solar xp banked:

Tachyon · Mar 9, 2024

Name: Knotmaster Nott
Concept: Enigmatic Prophet, Subtle Architect of Fate
Caste: Chosen of Secrets
Age: 28
Totemic Anima: A knot made of multicolored strings
Faction: Gold
Caste Sign: The Guardians
Birth Sign: The Mask
Limit Trigger: An unforeseen enemy or complication poses an obstacle to the Sidereal’s plans.

Overview
The Knotmaster, or Nott, is a native to the city of Ombrelune. Born as REDACTED BY FATE of House Akechi, he spent most of his youth and young adulthood as a carefree and lazy-but-lovable rake who hung out with his cousin Sayuri and sometimes her friend Sjet. His younger cousin was always a bit more.. competent? Driven? More successful anyhow, not as much of a slacker as Nott. This created some discomfort for Nott, and he began to take more risks and made wilder schemes to 'make up' for squandering the privilege his upbringing had given him.

Many were the occasions when Sayuri had to stitch him up after a bar-brawl, or he had asked Sjet's opinion on some strange object he had 'won at dice' (often times this was the cause of the previously mentioned bar-brawl). Sjet's mother unnerved Nott, as the woman would not only immediately see through his bullshit, but would also not put up with it. She was one of the few who he could never smooth-talk, and so she earned his begrudging respect.

As he got more involved in the wilder side of the city's underbelly, Nott spent more time in the harbor and the multiple taverns there. It was here he met the 300 pound mountain of muscles named Garret, and Nott wisely identified this as an individual that could not only drink a tremendous amount, but would also be useful whenever various misunderstandings occured regarding property laws. What began as a fairly calculated and pragmatic attempt at securing an unwitting bodyguard soon blossomed into a genuine friendship.

Although he often embroiled his friends into the various trouble he caused, he was equally good at getting them out of it, and it was rare that his friends had to pay the price for his hijinks.

<Story about how he sneaks aboard Pandemos ship with Garret's (possibly unknown) help and steals a map. Said map reveals the location of First Age ruins on the island, and he takes Sjet there to investigate. The two of them becomes seperated, Nott Exalts and is whisked away to Yu-Shan, forever forgotten by his friends and family.>
Attributes
Str: ●●
Dex: ●●●
Sta: ●●

Cha: ●●●
Man: ●●●●
App: ●●

Per: ●●●●
Int: ●●●●
Wits: ●●●●

Abilities
Archery
*Athletics: ●●●
*Awareness: ●●
Brawl
Bureaucracy: ●
Craft:
Dodge: ●
Integrity:
**Investigation: ●●●
**Larceny: ●●●●● (Disguise)
*Linguistics: ●●●●● (Poetry)
**Lore: ●●● - Literature
**Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee
**Occult: ●●●
Performance:
*Presence: ●●●
Ride
Sail
*Socialize: ●●● (Read Intentions)
**Stealth: ●●●●● (Shadowing)
Survival:
Thrown:

*Favored Ability
**Caste Ability
Backing 2 (Bureau of Destiny)
Resources 2 (From his salary, although it is at lower level to pay for bribes that keep his reports from Bronze Faction eyes)
Artifact 3 (Ever-veiled Devil Masque)

Eltriss, Chosen of Journeys. Master of the Shadow Throne style. Gold Faction Sidereal.

Contacts 1 (Ombrelune Criminals)
Resplendant Weaving 2
Manse 3 (Sidereal, Pattern-Spiders Eye)
Language (Old Realm)
Familiar 1 (Rex the Cat)
Dice Limit: Sidereals can’t add more than (higher of Essence or 3, maximum 5) bonus dice from Excellencies or other magic on (Attribute + Ability) rolls. Automatic successes count as two dice toward this limit. They can’t add more than (higher of Essence or 3, maximum 5) to static values. (Unlike other Exalted, this isn’t halved).

Excellencies: Sidereals can add dice to (Attribute + Ability) rolls for one mote per die or raise static values for two motes per +1.
With Ability 3, the Sidereal can pay one mote to reduce an (Attribute + Ability) roll’s target number by one (usually to 6). With Ability 5, she may pay two motes to reduce its target number by two. With Ability 5, Essence 3, she may pay three motes, one Willpower to reduce its target number by three.

All caste/favored + Athletics, Awareness, Dodge and Socialize

Dodge

Cost: 3m; Mins: Dodge 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal is one with the world, balanced within and without.
The Sidereal gains perfect balance and can stand on or move across surfaces too narrow or weak to support her normally without needing to roll.

Athletics

Cost: 3m; Mins: Athletics 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal momentarily severs the invisible tether that binds her to the ground.
The Sidereal can use a reflexive move action to jump one range band in any direction without needing to roll, which counts as her movement action. Alternatively, she can inflict +1 target number on a falling damage roll.
With an Athletics 4, Essence 2 repurchase, the Sidereal can pay a three-mote surcharge to end a horizontal leap in mid-air. On her next turn, she must use this Charm again to continue the leap or fall to the ground. She can choose to descend one range band in addition to her forward movement.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Eliding the moments between her footsteps, the Sidereal acts without motion.
The Sidereal ignores wound penalties and mobility penalties on a movement action with any Ability. Alternatively, she can negate the penalty on a Stealth roll from moving in wide open terrain (Exalted, p. 204), flashing instantly between hiding places.

Awareness

Cost: —; Mins: Awareness 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Divination
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal’s senses extend into her immediate future, probing for anything that could cause her harm.
The Sidereal can roll to detect an immediate threat in advance of when she would be able to detect it normally. This roll uses whatever dice pool and difficulty would be used to detect the threat; if that’s not clear, the Sidereal rolls (Perception + Awareness) against difficulty 1-5. Success doesn’t reveal the threat but gives the Sidereal a feeling of unease that lets her know there is some form of impending danger. This foreboding adds (Essence) dice on her roll to actually detect the threat.
This Charm’s premonitions typically occur a few minutes in advance, but if this isn’t feasible, the
Storyteller should ensure the warning comes in time to be potentially useful to the Sidereal. She can’t sense dangers that only threaten her in the long run, like a slow-acting poison or a courtier planning to frame her.

Occult

Cost: —; Mins: Occult 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal has an intuitive understanding of astrological divinations, fortune-telling, and similar folk magics.
She gains the Thaumaturgist Merit and the two-dot Astrological Horoscope ritual or a similar fortune-telling or divinatory ritual. She may subsequently learn up to four dots worth of thaumaturgical rituals of any kind for no experience point cost, although she must have access to a tutor.
This Charm can be repurchased up to (Essence/2, rounded up) times, letting the Sidereal learn five additional dots of rituals for each purchase.

Larceny

Cost: 5m; Mins: Larceny 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal rumples the strands of her fate in a flash of glittering green sparks, affecting the disreputable demeanor of the romantic outlaw.
Criminals who interact with the Sidereal count as having a Minor Tie of admiration to her. If characters interacting with her have any negative Ties toward criminals or those condemned by a ruler, government, or religion, those Ties are treated as one step weaker with regard to her.

Cost: 5m, 1wp (1m, 1wp); Mins: Larceny 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute, Shaping (Fate, Mind), Stackable
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
Tugging at someone’s name, the Sidereal pulls it free of his fate and appends it to her own.
The Sidereal rolls (Wits + Larceny) against the Resolve of a character within short range to steal his name — or one of the names he goes by, if there’s more than one. Sobriquets, like “the Roseblack” or an Abyssal’s title, can also be stolen.
If the Sidereal succeeds, she takes the name and can truthfully use it to identify herself. Her victim can’t use the stolen name to identify himself, whether directly or indirectly. Other character with Resolve lower than the roll’s success can’t remember that it’s the victim’s name.
The Sidereal’s victim can steal his name back by identifying her as the thief and winning a noteworthy victory over her — defeating her in combat, decisively outmaneuvering her in social intrigues, etc. He must make a brief monologue in which he reclaims the name.
Other characters can pay one Willpower to regain memories suppressed by this Charm if they have a Major or Defining Ties toward the victim or have evidence that the name is his. It can also be resisted with magic that specifically protects against memory-altering Psyche effects.
The Sidereal may have up to (Essence) stolen names at a time, reducing the mote cost of subsequent uses to one mote, one Willpower.

Cost: 2m, 1wp; Mins: Larceny 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Twisting the strands of her fate, the Sidereal inverts her semblance into that of her nemeses.
The Sidereal rolls to instantly disguise herself as an enemy of fate, without needing equipment. She ignores penalties for disguising herself as characters of a different race, sex, or body type or impersonating specific characters. She can manifest supernatural sensory displays and mimic the
Caste Marks and anima banners of Exalted enemies of fate.
Characters without superhuman or magically enhanced senses can’t roll opposing the Sidereal’s disguise unless she acts out of character; even then, they suffer +1 target number. Success doesn’t reveal the Sidereal’s identity, only that she’s not what she seems.
With a Larceny 5, Essence 3 repurchase, divination, magical scrying, magic based on someone’s identity, and similar effects can’t provide information that contradicts this disguise, giving false results where necessary. Magic that enhances mundane efforts to contest disguises is unimpeded.

Stealth

Cost: 2m; Mins: Stealth 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal steps lightly through the tapestry of fate.
The Sidereal ignores up to (Essence) points of penalty on a Stealth roll. If the roll’s target number is reduced, each point of reduction lets her ignore an additional point of penalty.

Linguistics

Cost: 3m; Mins: Linguistics 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal speaks someone’s name with an intonation that echoes the pattern of his fate, filling his heart with warmth, happiness, and a feeling of connection to her.
Addressing someone by name or nickname — either verbally or in writing — the Sidereal rolls (Charisma + Linguistics). This counts as both a roll to instill a positive Tie toward the Sidereal and a roll to inspire happiness. The Sidereal is never perceived as the source of this effect.
If the Sidereal uses this Charm on someone hostile to her or upset with her, he forgets the reason for that, losing his train of thought. Subsequent events may remind him of it, and he remembers it if he spends Willpower to resist both of this Charm’s influences.
If the Sidereal has stolen a name with Name-Pilfering Practice (p. XX), she can use this Charm to plant it on another character, addressing him by that name. If she succeeds, she transfers it and its benefits to him, in addition to the above effects.
Reset: This Charm can’t be used against a character more than once per scene.

Socialize

Cost: 5m; Mins: Socialize 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal erases any stigma or controversy her actions may carry, making her faux pas and indiscretions unremarkable to others.
When the Sidereal commits a faux pas or violates a custom, she makes a special (Manipulation + Socialize) instill roll against all who witnessed it, ignoring multiple target penalties. A character whose Resolve is beaten won’t care about the faux pas and can’t form negative Ties toward the Sidereal or weaken positive Ties to her as a result. It doesn’t excuse consequences for violating
laws. If the Sidereal’s extra successes against a character equal or exceed his Essence, he’s convinced the Sidereal’s conduct was appropriate and admirable, gaining an appropriate Minor Principle.
A character who was directly harmed or inconvenienced by the Sidereal’s act or who has an Intimacy opposed to it may pay one Willpower to resist this influence.

Secrets

Cost: —; Mins: Any Secrets Ability 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any Secrets Charm
The Sidereal gets on her formidable intellect in delicate negotiations and clandestine intrigues, employing deductive reasoning to plot out a path through a conversation.
When calculating Guile and Resolve, the Sidereal can use a Secrets Caste Ability instead of Integrity or Socialize. She may also use Intelligence instead of Appearance to add bonus dice on influence rolls (Exalted, p. 218).

Cost: 4m; Mins: Any Secrets Ability 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any three Secrets Charms
The Sidereal’s discerning eye seeks out those she can trust with her secrets.
Contemplating some specific piece of information, the Sidereal makes a special (Perception + Secrets Ability) read intentions roll against a character. Success lets her player asks the Storyteller one of the following questions, plus an additional question for every 3 extra successes:
• Does he know this information?
• What would he do to obtain this information?
• How would this information help or hurt him?
• Who would he share this information with?
If the Storyteller doesn’t have an answer in mind for a question, the Sidereal’s player should provide one, as if introducing a fact.
Reset: Once per scene.

Serenity

Cost: 1m or 3m, 1wp; Mins: Any Serenity Ability 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute, Shaping (Fate), Stackable
Duration: One story
Prerequisite Charms: Any three Serenity Charms
The Sidereal proclaims Venus’s disfavor, souring her victim’s fortunes in his social life and romantic pursuits.
The Sidereal rolls (Charisma + Serenity Ability) opposing her target’s (Wits + Serenity Ability) roll. This costs one mote for mortals or three motes, one Willpower for others. Success curses him, inflicting misfortune on his pursuit of a social, business, or political goal chosen by the Sidereal. Once per scene, the Sidereal’s player may impose +1 target number on a influence roll, read intentions roll, or a Bureaucracy roll related to this objective. The Sidereal need not be present.

Cursing a character requires a constellation-themed interaction with him. Upon taking this Charm, the Sidereal’s player chooses two of the below options. Additional options can be purchased for one bonus point or three experience points apiece.

Abstemious Monk’s Regret (The Musician): The Sidereal’s target declines an opportunity to indulge in a sensual pleasure, leisure activity, or casual social event that he enjoys.
Broken Promise Punishment (The Lovers): The Sidereal’s target breaks a promise to her. She becomes aware when he does so and can use this Charm reflexively.
Faithless Rake’s Doom (The Pillar): The Sidereal’s target interferes in or tries to break up a relationship — romantic or otherwise — or ends one of his own relationships.
Foolish Heart Affliction (The Peacock): The Sidereal’s target ignores advice he sought from her in matters of romance, friendship, or politics. She becomes aware when he does so and can use this Charm reflexively.
Vexatious Suitor Curse (The Ewer): The Sidereal’s target confesses his feelings to someone.
The Sidereal can curse multiple characters with this Charm.

Chosen interactions: Broken Promise Punishment, Abstemious Monk's Regret, Foolish Heart Affliction

Cost: 4m; Mins: Any Serenity Ability 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any three Serenity Charms
The Sidereal understands all the ways fate brings people together.
When the Sidereal witnesses an interaction between two people in a relationship — friends, family, lovers, business partners — she makes a special (Perception + Serenity Ability) read intentions roll against the higher of the two’s Guile. Success lets her player asks the Storyteller one of the following questions, plus an additional question for every 3 extra successes:
• What keeps them together?
• What’s the biggest problem facing their relationship?
• How far would each of them go to help the other?
• Which one of them should I talk to first if I want to accomplish some specific goal?
If the Storyteller doesn’t have an answer in mind for a question, the Sidereal’s player should provide one, as if introducing a fact.
Reset: Once per scene.
Sidereal, Standard
Socketed in Starmetal amulet.
Keywords: Wild-Born
The bearer of this faceted emerald can detect the presence of fate-altering Shaping effects and discern their function with a difficulty 5 ([Intelligence or Perception] + Occult) roll. For effects that already allow such a roll, she instead adds a non-Charm success.

This starmetal mask resembles a regular-looking person with two horns protruding from their forehead. It is almost exclusively of use for Sidereals, as it magnifies the potency of their resplendent destinies.

Attunement: Five motes
Evocations of Ever-Veiled Devil Masque
The sidereal ignores up to <Essence> penalties when disguising themselves in accordance with one of their resplendent destinies.
The Sidereal can have one more Resplendent Destiny than normal, as long as it is created using the Mask constellation.
The Sidereal can reroll <Essence> 1s on disguise rolls.

Prerequeste: Masque of the Uncanny
When using the prerequestite charm, the sidereal can disguise themselves as any spirit, not just enemies of fate, and may without cost create a Resplendent Destiny fitting this disguise that does not count towards the normal cap. She may only have one additional resplendent destiny this way.
Further more, the Sidereal gains a number of merit dots equal to half of their Resplendent Weaving merit (minimum one) tied to this resplendent destiny. Such merits to do not materialize instantly, a demon-worshipping cult does not spring up over night because of this charm, but will come to bear shortly as the groundwork have been prepared by destiny.

Cost:-; Mins: Larceny 5, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Whenever the sidereal crafts a Resplendent Destiny, they may choose <Essence> specialties which to gain whenever they wear that destiny, and for every 10 on a roll that benefits from such a specialty they gain 1 mote. Motes gained this way cannot exceed motes spent on the roll.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Larceny 3, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Psyche, Shaping (Fate)
Duration: Scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
Dressing in their observers' mind's eye, the sidereal appears as whomever is most appropriate.
The Sidereal makes a Wits+Larceny disguise roll as an instant action. For the rest of the scene, anyone who's Resolve was beat by the Sidereal's roll will perceieve the Chosen as whomever they most expect to see in whatever context they are in. A husband and a father who enters into his private chambers could see the sidereal as either his wife or his son, whomever he would be least surprised to find in that environment as chosen by the storyteller. Different people can perceive the Sidereal differently at the same time, putting the sidereal in a precarious situation of juggling multiple identities against multiple people.
The Sidereal does not automatically know who they are perceived as , but can learn it <something about reading hororscope, or horoscope-based interactions>
<something about intimacies allowing one to see through.>

Cost: ??; Mins: ??
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Create a disguise for a Resplendent Destiny as an instant action.

This lighthouse situated in the Ombrelune docks seem perpetually shrouded in mist. The light it casts is faint and can only be seen from a ship at sea, from the shore the lighthouse seem abandoned and is easily overlooked.
Anima
For one mote, a Sidereal can manifest her Caste Mark for as long as she wants or sense the approximate
location of any nearby heavenly gates (p. XX).

Auspicious Prospects for Secrets: The Oracles may pay one mote to learn whether concealing or revealing a piece of information would align with destiny.
Lesser Sign of Jupiter: The Oracle may pay five motes to reflexively make Jupiter’s lesser sign, drawing it in emerald stardust. Until her next turn, she and allies within close range gain +1 non-Charm Guile and add (her Essence, maximum 5) non-Charm dice on Manipulation, Larceny, and Stealth rolls.
Greater Sign of Jupiter: Once per story, the Oracle may pay twenty motes and one Willpower to reflexively make Jupiter’s greater sign, traced across the sky in emerald radiance. She, her allies, and up to (Essence x2) other characters are immune to effects opposing their Guile and add (her Essence) to their Resolve. Un-Exalted characters can’t lie to them or refuse to answer their questions they unless they spend one Willpower per lie or refusal; characters with Essence less than the Sidereal’s can’t resist. This lasts one scene. Additionally, for that scene and the next (Essence) days, Investigation rolls against the blessed characters fail automatically and they’re immune to magic that would scry on them or divine their future.

Prophecies
None

Horoscopes
None

Resplendent Destinies
Unassuming soldier
Essence: 1
Peripheral Motes: 26/31 with 5 committed
Personal Motes: 11/11
Willpower: 5

Dodge: 2
Parry: 2

Guile: 5 (Calculated with larceny)
Resolve: 5 (Calculated with larceny)

Health matrix:
-0x1
-1x3
-2x4
-4x1
Incx1

Intimacies
Defining Principle - I am a risk-taker
Defining Tie - Old friends (Longing)
Major Principle - Being part of the Bureau gives my life meaning
Major Principle - I wasted most of my mortal life
Major Tie - Ombrelune (Home)
Major Tie - Mentor (Respect)
Minor Principle - Running away is the better part of valor
Minor Tie - Rex the Cat (Adoration)
Minor Principle - Winning is easiest before your opponent knows the game has started.
Minor Principle - Likes masks
Minor Tie - Droplets (Fear)
Abilities & Attributes, 46exp
Stealth +2, 8exp
Larceny +2, 8exp
Linguistics +2 8exp
Lore +2, 8exp
Awareness +1, 4exp
Wits +1, 10exp
Total 37 ability dots

Merits, 6exp
+3 merits, +6exp
Total of 18 merit dots

Charms, 3exp
+1 Horoscope Interaction, 3exp

55/55 exp spent

Equusheart · Mar 16, 2024

WORK IN PROGRESS Name: Sayuri
Gender: Female
Age: 24
Exalt Type: Dragon Blooded
Caste: Wood
Supernal Ability: --

Attributes
Str: 2
*Dex: 5
Sta: 3

Cha: 4
Man: 3
App: 3

Per: 3
*Int: 5
Wits: 3

Abilities:
**Archery - ●●●●●
Athletics -
Awareness -
Brawl -
Bureaucracy -
*Craft - ●●
*Dodge - ●●
Integrity -
*Investigation - ●●●
Larceny -
Linguistics -
*Lore - ●●
**Medicine - ●●●●●
Melee -
Occult -
Sorcery -
*Performance - ●●
Presence -
Resistance -
**Ride - ●●●
Sail -
**Socialize - ●●●
*Stealth - ●●
**Survival - ●●●
Thrown -
War -

**Favored Ability
*Caste Ability
Merits
Artifact - ●●●●

Familiar - ●●●●

Influences - ●●

Language - ●●
- Dragon tongue
- Old Realm

Resources - ●●
Archery

Harvest of the Hunter
Cost: 1m; Mins: Archery , Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Dragon-Blood may go to hunt with an empty quiver yet never lack for arrows. Anything that grows will yield up arrows to the archer’s gathering hands. She can create useable ammunition for a bow or crossbow from any kind of plant, whether it’s a marsh reed or a stalk of corn. In combat, she doubles 8s on an ammunition check for an Archery weapon. As long as she rolls a single success, she’s guaranteed to scavenge a single arrow. Outside of combat, she may use this Charm to gather enough arrows to fill her quiver as long as there’s sufficient plant life to draw her harvest from, although the Storyteller may require a special ammunition check to create arrows in barren deserts or other areas devoid of plant life.

Arrow Thorn Technique
Cost: 3m; Mins: Archery 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Balanced, Dual, Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Harvest of the Hunter

Thorns grow to wreathe the shaft of the Dragon-Blood’s arrow in flight. On a withering attack, she adds +1 Overwhelming, or (Essence) Overwhelming if the attack benefits from aiming. Decisive attacks adds (Essence/2, rounded up) threshold successes on the attack roll as dice of damage, or (Essence) threshold successes if she aimed.

Unobsctructed Hunter's Aim (p 163)
Cost: 1m per die; Mins: Archery 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Balanced, Excellency, Uniform, Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Sighting along the flow of living Essence, the Dragon-Blood unleashes a flawless shot. She may add bonus dice to an Archery roll for one mote each.
As long as she attacks a living target — or an undead one, which stands out as a void in the Essence of the world — each added die negates one point of penalty from visual obstruction such as poor lighting or smoke.

Medicine

Disease Banishing Technique
Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Medicine 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Balanced, Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Dragon Blooded strengthens her patient’s body against the malaise that ravages it. She doubles 9s on a roll to treat a disease. If her threshold successes exceed (higher of the disease’s virulence or morbidity), then her ministrations grant her patient a temporary Resistance specialty in that disease until it has run its course. A character can only benefit from one such specialty at a time.

Venom Expulsion Method
Cost: 2m; Mins: Medicine 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Balanced, Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Tapping her patient’s pressure points with swift, precise strikes, the Dragon Blood halts the flow of poison through his body. She may roll to cure poison as a miscellaneous action without facing increased difficulty for rushing treatment. If she takes a full hour to administer aid, she instead doubles 9s.

Wound Closing Technique
Cost: 5m; Mins: Medicine 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Dragon Blood spends fifteen minutes tending to a patient’s wounds, at the end of which she rolls (Intelligence + Medicine). Each success converts a single level of lethal damage to bashing, speeding the rate at which it heals (Exalted, p. 173). Alternatively, if she rolls successes equal to (her patient’s wound penalty +1), she may heal a single level of bashing damage. Once a character has been treated with Wound Closing Technique, he must receive at least a day of bed rest or fully heal all damage before he can benefit from it again.

Aliment Sensing Meditation
Cost: 4m; Mins: Medicine 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Balanced, Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Dragon Blood observes the natural rhythms of her patient’s body, intuiting any ailments that afflict him. She may complete a roll to diagnose a patient (Exalted, p. 237) in a handful of seconds. Successfully diagnosing a disease, poison, or similar ailment grants her a temporary Medicine specialty in it. She retains the specialty indefinitely, but may only have one specialty granted by this Charm at a time.

Nature’s Healing Bounty
Cost: 1m; Mins: Medicine 3, Survival 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

A master of herbalism and nature lore, the Dragon Blood finds all she needs to heal her patients in gardens or the wilderness. As long as she has access to medicinal herbs or similar flora, she may roll Medicine to treat injury, disease, poison, or other afflictions without equipment (Exalted, p. 580), or converts the bonus die from already exceptional equipment to a non-Charm success.

Grievous Wound Alteration Energy
Cost: -- (+1wp); Mins: Medicine 5, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Wood
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Wound Closing Technique

Even the most horrific injuries inflicted by the Anathema yield to the Dragon Blooded physician’s life-saving prowess. This Charm upgrades Wound Closing Technique, allowing the Dragon Blood to pay a one Willpower surcharge to treat aggravated damage with it. She rolls (Intelligence + Medicine), each success converting a level of aggravated damage to lethal. Any successes above her patient’s total aggravated damage convert levels of lethal damage to bashing.

Rebirth of Flesh and Ivy
Cost: 10m, 5i, 1wp; Mins: Medicine 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Perilous, Signature (Wood)
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Grievous Wound Alteration Energy

Vines and ligneous tendrils spring from the Dragon Blood’s anima as she lays hands upon a wounded ally. Ivy stitches shut bleeding wounds; lianas twist to set broken bones; bark grows over damaged limbs to reinforce their strength. The Dragon Blood rolls (Intelligence + Medicine), instantly healing levels of non-aggravated damage equal to her successes as plants replace damaged tissue. If the target suffers from any crippling injuries or effects that he could eventually heal or recover from naturally (including magically inflicted effects such as Joint Wounding Attack or Crippling Pressure Point Strike), the Dragon Blood may split her successes between healing damage and alleviating these wounds, spending two successes for each point of crippling penalty she wishes to cancel. The player of the healed character may choose to be marked by this healing, accepting a scar that resembles wood more closely than flesh or strands of green interwoven with restored tissues. This Charm can only be used once per story, unless reset by saving a dying character (one whose incapacitated health level is damaged) through medical care.

Master Healer Meditation (p 220)
Cost: 1m per die; Mins: Medicine 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Balanced, Excellency, Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Blessed with understanding of the flow of living Essence through the body, the Dragon-Blooded physician refines her skill to perfection. She may add bonus dice to a Medicine roll for one mote each.
If she adds enough to reach her dice limit (p. 162), she also adds a non-Charm success on the roll.

Ride

Scattered Pearl Hoof Falls
Cost: 2m per success; Mins: Ride 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Balanced, Excellency, Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The hoofbeats of the Dragon Blood's mount strike the ground as swiftly and lightly as pearls falling from a broken necklace, speeding her onwards to her goal. She may add automatic successes to a Ride roll for two motes each, and she ignores one point of mobility penalty from her mount's barding.

Great Heart Companion
Cost: 3m; Mins: Ride 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Even the best trained warhorse trembles at the perils that the Dragon Blood faces, but the bond between mount and rider is strong enough to withstand any test. She may grant her mount +2 Resolve against a threaten roll or other fear based influence, or herself +1 Defense against an unhorse gambit.

Dance of the Jade Bridle
Cost: 4m; Mins: Ride 3, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Great Heart Companion

Even the mightiest beasts learn to bow before the dragon. The Dragon Blood rolls ([Attribute]+Ride) against an animal's Resolve, impressing or subduing it with a stunt over the course of a few minutes of interaction. She might win a tiger's respect by staring it down using Charisma, wrestle a river dragon using Strength to secure a place on its back, or leap out of a tree to land on a strix using Dexterity. On a success, the animal allows the Dragon Blood to saddle and mount it, forming a Minor Tie of loyalty to her.

A single use of this Charm is insufficient to completely tame a wild animal, but it begins the process. Kindly treatment, roleplaying interactions, and magic such as Beast-Taming Aspect (p. 271) over the course of one or more sessions can tame even the most feral beast, at the Storyteller's discretion.

Socialize

Loquacious Courtier Technique
Cost: 2m per success or +1 Gile; Mins: Socialize 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental or Reflexive
Keywords: Balanced, Excellency, Fire, Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Dragon Blood endears herself to all company with pleasing and faultless manners. She may add automatic successes to Socialize rolls or raise her Guile for two motes each.

Survival

Ration Enhancing Method
Cost: 2m; Mins: Survival 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Balanced, Excellency, Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The wilderness welcomes the Dragon Blood’s presence, recognizing her as a Prince of the Earth. She may add automatic successes to a Survival roll for two motes each. If she enhances a roll to forage for food, it yields enough edible plants or game to feed a single additional character besides her for one day per threshold success.

Beast Taming Aspect
Cost: 3m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Balanced, Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Dragon Blood’s mien gives pause to even the most ferocious predators, proving to them that she deserves their respect. She doubles 9s on a roll to train an animal (Exalted, p. 554) or to influence it using Performance or Presence. Even if she uses this Charm to scare off a dangerous predator, her noble bearing causes the beast to regard her with respect. Over the course of weeks, she can claim such an animal as her familiar. This takes a number of weeks equal to (its Resolve), and the Dragon Blood must successfully interact with it using this Charm at least once each week. Once this is done, that animal becomes her familiar at no experience cost.

Animal Empathy Technique
Cost: 4m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1
Keywords: Balanced, Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Beast Taming Aspect

The Dragon Blood needs no words to communicate with animals, mimicking their bestial body language or vocalizations to engage them. She adds (Essence) non-Charm bonus dice on an influence roll made against an animal using any Ability. In addition, her target doesn’t gain the Resolve bonus for lacking a common language (Exalted p. 221).

Wild Wandering Forester’s Charm
Cost: 3m; Mins: Survival 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Wood
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Dragon Blood knows the wilderness as well as she knows her own domain, aware of the secrets and wonders hidden within it. She rolls ([Intelligence or Wits] + Survival) to introduce a fact (Exalted, p. 237) about a wilderness region that she’s familiar with. She might recount her knowledge of an animal species native to the region, the location of a rare medicinal herb, or effective preparations against a hazard she might encounter.

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Health Levels
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-1x2
-2x2
-4x1
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Essence: ●●
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 31
Committed:
Willpower: ●●●●●

Join Battle: ( 3 + Awareness)

Parry: (Weapon Defense + Weapon Ability + Dexterity)/2
Evasion: (Dodge + 5)/2

Total Soak:
Hardness:

Guile: (3 + Socialize)/2
Resolve: (3 + Integrity)/2

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Weapons
Artifact Archery Weapon Ranges
Close Short Medium Long Extreme*
-1 +5 +3 +1 -1
Family
Father: Hashi
Mother: Kazumi

Siblings
Ryu - brother
Kenji - brother
Pranee - sister
Mitsuo - brother
Amba - sister
Tai - brother

Other Family
Sanda - grandmother (through her mother)
Nott - cousin (doesn't remember him as her cousin)
XP Earned:
XP Banked: 18
Bit of Inspiration

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