Dice Exalted 3e: Dead of Night (Char)

D. Rex · Jun 1, 2020

Solars only

House Rules (subject to change)
(Bonuses reflecting Unconquered Suns boon)
20 BP
+3 merit dots OR +1 favored charm
Essence 1
No starting artifacts (but mundane exotic materials are allowed to start with)
Lunar Mates allowed, but i will only make one as an active NPC (for my sake)

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Psychie · Jun 1, 2020

Name: Ledaal Karyn
Age: 33
Caste: Zenith
Supernal Ability: Lore

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 5
Sta: 2

Cha: 3
Man: 2
App: 2

Per: 4
Int: 5
Wits: 3

Abilities
*Archery: 4
*Athletics: 2
Awareness: 3
Brawl: 1
Bureaucracy: 2
Craft
Dodge: 5
*Integrity: 2
*Investigation: 3
Larceny
*Linguistics: 3
*Lore: 5
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee: 1
*Occult: 5
Performance
*Presence: 1
*Resistance: 2
Ride
Sail
*Socialize: 2
Stealth: 1
Survival: 1
Thrown
War

Specialties
Archery - Bows
Lore - Scarlet Empire Knowledge
Investigation - Finding all the Answers
Awareness - Spotting Small Details
Occult - Sorcery
Eidetic Memory: 2
Eye of Crimson Warning: 2
The ruby set in the talisman pulses with warning light when it comes within ten miles of dangerous sorcerous forces—a sorcerer wreaking havoc with spells, a demon bound to ill ends or unbound and rampaging, an ancient curse fallen upon the land. Any tracking rolls the wearer makes to pinpoint or chase down such perils enjoys double 9s.
Languages: 4 - Old Realm, Skytongue, High Realm, Low Ream, Riverspeak
Resources: 3

Willpower: 8

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Anima Effects
By feeding a mote of Essence into their anima, all Solars can evoke the following effects:
• The Solar may feel the brilliant presence of the sun relative to herself and know the exact time of day thereby. This works even if she’s underground or in the Wyld beyond Creation.
• The Solar may cause her Caste Mark to appear and display itself for as long as she desires.

Zenith Anima Effects
• For one mote, the Zenith’s anima leaps from her hand to a corpse she’s touching, igniting it in Solar flame. This power incinerates the corpse and ensures the soul of the deceased will not return as a hungry ghost. In addition, the Zenith may perceive the strongest Intimacies of the deceased and may choose to accept them. When she is ready, she may pay one mote, touching a target of those Intimacies to pass on feelings of peace, love, and
assurance, shedding them in the process. She may also transfer them to an object, allowing it to convey comfort or a sense of duty to the subject. Conversely, she may touch someone who caused the deceased to suffer, paying one mote and rolling ([A social Attribute] + Presence) with three automatic non-Charm successes against their Resolve to transfer pain suffered by the deceased back on the one who caused it. The Storyteller is free to dictate the length and weight of such attrition.
• For 10 motes, one Willpower, the Zenith channels her Essence into an aura of divine retribution, surging around an attack. This power supplements a successful decisive attack against a creature of darkness, preventing the Solar’s Initiative from returning to its base value after the attack. When the Zenith’s anima is at bonfire, reduce the cost of this power by five motes and ignore the Willpower. This power may only be used once per day, resetting when the sun is at its zenith.
• For seven motes, the Zenith may order a dematerialized spirit to manifest using a (Charisma + Presence) persuade action with (Essence) automatic successes. All spirits inherently recognize the Unconquered Sun’s authority in the priest-kings and are compelled as if by a Defining Intimacy, but may still have Defining Ties or Principles which counter this advantage. If successful, the Zenith’s very command draws the spirit into the material world,
so that it does not need to pay the cost to materialize.

Anima Appearance: When Karyn's Anima flares bright, it takes the form of a graceful crane, with its wings spread wide above her.

The Great Curse
Limit Trigger: The Solar’s allies suffer a setback or defeat because of a mistake he made.

Crushing Doubt
The Solar is crippled by self-doubt. He will seek the assistance of his allies in every task, no matter how simple, and will pass his duties and responsibilities on to others whom he believes are more capable than him. If he is separated from allies, he must try to return to them or else find some other companions, and will flee from any potential danger or obligation he encounters along the way.
Duration: Session. Crushing Doubt can be ended prematurely if the Solar is forced to face a significant danger alone and succeeds, or if he single-handedly saves an ally from a significant danger.
Archery

Cost: 1m; Mins: Archery 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
With skill and effort, the Exalt guides her arrow to its mark. The Exalt may use this Charm to supplement a withering or decisive attack, reducing the benefits of cover. The defense bonus of heavy and light cover is reduced by one, while characters under no cover suffer a -1 penalty to their normal Defense.
In addition, after taking an aim action, the Solar may activate this Charm to strike an opponent in full cover. The Exalt shoots along an arc or angle that perfectly matches her opponent’s position. So long as there is some opening where an arrow can get through, Wise Arrow treats a character in full cover as if he merely has +3 Defense.

Awareness

Cost: 5m; Mins: Awareness 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
A breath of Essence seals the five senses into a more perfect form. The Solar’s senses are heightened and attuned to minute motions and sounds, dim and noisy conditions. She can differentiate between subtle tastes and textures with only the slightest variation. Thus sharpened, it is more difficult for characters to escape her notice, or to deceive her hunting senses. For the rest of the scene, the Exalt’s Awareness rolls benefit from double 9s. If the effect of any Unsurpassed (Sense) Discipline applies, reroll 6s until they cease to appear. Use of Sensory Acuity Prana comes without the danger of sensory overload; the Charm helps the Solar manage her senses more effectively.

Dodge

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.

Investigation

Cost: —; Mins: Investigation 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver is attuned to her subconscious, and is preternaturally aware of her surroundings. If the Exalt possesses this Charm, she feels an instinct each time she encounters a scene in which a case scene or profile character action (p. 224) should be used. At this point, the Storyteller informs the player which action is appropriate, and vaguely why—if danger is present, the player is informed that the Solar senses a trap and should use a case scene action; if there is a suspicious character, the player is made aware of that character so that a profile action can be used.
This Charm does not entail automatic success at each prospective action. It merely informs the player which action should be performed, and why. As the Solar notices many things the player does not, this Charm can be used to generate reasons for investigations it would otherwise be impossible for a normal character to perceive.

Linguistics

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.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Linguistics 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Written-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Whirling Brush Method
The Solar concentrates all of her talent into a perfect expression of form. With this Charm, she may perfectly copy any written work down to the finest detail. Her flawless precision makes her script impossible to tell apart from the original, allowing her to create a perfect replica of a work. If the Exalt focuses intently on aesthetic elements, she may even use this Charm to copy them, flawlessly reproducing pictograms, illustrations and even maps. The Exalt may also forge signatures effortlessly, but cannot use this Charm to forge seals or other impressions affixed to a document. It is impossible to pierce this deception through normal means. Magic which can detect the Solar’s forgery must overcome a difficulty equal to the Solar’s (Linguistics + Essence) score at the time of writing.

Lore

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.

Cost: —; Mins: Lore 4, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Harmonious Academic Methodology
The Solar is a living font of vital knowledge. This Charm enhances rolls to introduce or challenge facts. She can now roll to establish a fact whenever her knowledge of historical events, cultural norms, local myths and rumors, number systems, etc. is challenged. If the topic in question falls into the Solar’s Lore expertise—that is, the background reflected by her Lore rating—or any of her Lore specialties, she gains one automatic success on the roll, and any extra successes she generates are doubled. However, the criteria under which Storytellers may veto introduced facts remain unchanged.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Lore 5, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Bottomless Wellspring Approach
The Solar draws the legend of Creation from deep within her consciousness. This Charm supplements an attempt to introduce or challenge a fact (p. 237), awarding one automatic success and rerolling 6s until 6s no longer appear. If the Exalt has learned Immanent Solar Glory (p. 334), the Solar may always roll to establish her knowledge, even if the Storyteller determines she succeed without a roll.

Cost: 6m; Mins: Lore 5, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Lore-Inducing Concentration
By focusing intently on a subject, the Solar can produce a sudden insight. This Charm is a ([Mental Attribute] + Lore) based read intentions action against a difficulty based on whether the subject of this examination falls into the Solar’s area of expertise. This read intentions action can be used on an object to reveal its purpose and function, such as with a mysterious artifact, though it does not reveal how to use it. It can also be used on geography which the Solar has studied, to give the Lawgiver or the person she is advising (Solar’s Essence) non-Charm bonus dice for Survival or War rolls for the rest of the scene. If she is a student of Shogunate architecture, she could tell that a dilapidated structure being used for a market was a Shogunate-era Immaculate temple. If she is a mathematician, the numbers speak to her; she may solve a complex proof in her head, in a matter of seconds. With this Charm, the Solar polymath awakens the world from its dark slumber.

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Lore 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Truth-Rendering Gaze
By examining a relic of the past, the Lawgiver can unlock the secret of how to use it. Using this Charm requires that the Solar touch an artifact whose purpose or use is unknown, rolling (Intelligence + Lore) against a difficulty of the artifact’s rating. If successful, the Exalt gains a vision that reveals how to activate or employ the artifact. If the object or structure’s rating is N/A, the difficulty is 8-10, and rather than revealing exactly how the construct functions, the Solar only learns a fact about it which brings her closer to understanding it. This latter use can only be employed once per story.

Cost: 15m, 1wp; Mins: Lore 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Sacred Relic Understanding + Any two Lore Charms
The Solar can unlock the true potential of an artifact. Grasping an artifact to which she is attuned, and which is capable of Evocations, the Lawgiver sends her Essence surging through the relic’s chakras, merging its spirit with her own. Roll the Solar’s ([Intelligence or Wits] + Lore) against a difficulty of (the object’s rating + 2), or 10 if it’s N/A. If the roll gains at least one success, the Solar automatically unlocks one of the artifact’s Evocations without spending experience points. If the Solar rolls successes in excess of the difficulty, she unlocks half the extra successes (rounded down) in Evocations. This Charm may be used once per story, and may not be used again on the same artifact until an amount of experience has been invested in it equal to the cost of the Evocations that were unlocked for free. The Exalt may not use this Charm to aid another character in awakening Evocations until she is Essence 5+. Waive this requirement if Lore is her Supernal Ability.

Cost: —; Mins: Lore 5, Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Truth-Rendering Gaze + Any two Lore Charms
This Charm is special, in that it requires the Solar’s Lore rating to reflect a background of intense mathematic study. With this Charm, the Exalt’s study of number theory and proofs unlocks her ability to approach complex problems mathematically. Add (Essence) non-Charm bonus dice to her Craft, spell effects, and speculative Bureaucracy rolls, to Lore rolls which require logic or mathematics, and to any use of Wyld-Shaping Technique.

Occult

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.
The Talisman of Ten Thousand Eyes
A phylactery of great sorcerous puissance, this talisman is wrought from rune-etched orichalcum and set with a gleaming ruby of ten facets. Each facet seems to reflect ten more within its depths, which reflect even more, creating the illusion of infinity that gives this relic its name. You have claimed the talisman as your own, using it either to initiate yourself into sorcery or as a wellspring of power to draw upon. Its ten thousand eyes are ever watchful, giving warning when malefic forces roam unchecked, and serving as a lens through which you may cast your sight or presence.

Shaping Rituals
The sorcerer may hone her senses through the talisman to open her inner eye, paying a point of Willpower whenever she makes an Awareness roll to Join Battle or notice a hidden threat while wearing the talisman. She gains one sorcerous mote for every two successes on this roll. These motes last
for the duration of the scene, and can be spent towards any spell she casts. If she is joining battle against or searching out malevolent sorcerous forces—enemy sorcerers, bound demons, strange beings created by sorcery—she also adds her Occult in bonus dice to the roll.
When the sorcerer takes the first shape sorcery action to begin casting a spell and stunts it with a description of how she casts the spell through the talisman or draws on its power, she gains (stunt rating + 2) sorcerous motes towards completing this spell. This benefit can only be received once per scene. Stunts to enhance the sorcerer’s control spell do not count against the once per scene limit. A sorcerer with an Essence pool may spend a scene in meditation to commit ten motes to the talisman. Once she begins shaping a spell while wearing the talisman, she may draw on the power she’s invested, contributing up to (Essence + 2) sorcerous motes towards the spell until the full commitment of ten motes has been converted into ten
sorcerous motes, or the spell is cast (or countered).
Committed motes are converted to sorcerous motes on a one-to-one basis normally, but are converted into two sorcerous motes when casting the sorcerer’s control spell.
The sorcerer must wait until she’s had a full night’s sleep before she can charge the talisman again.

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.
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, 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 will-o’-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. 196) 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 the sorcerer, 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 re-summon it until its full duration has elapsed.
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.
Health Levels
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Join Battle: 6 +3

Willpower: 8
Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Parry: 3
Evasion: 5
Resolve: 3
Guile: 2

Virtuous Guardian of Flame
Parry: 6
Perception: 8 Dice
Soak: 6, Hardness 1
Health Levels: 6

Personal Soak: 2
Armored Soak: +3
Total Soak: +5 (+1 from Virtuous Guardian)

Weapons and Armor
Composite Bow
Composite bows are made of layers of different woods, often reinforced with layers of horn. This reinforced construction gives them more power in a smaller size—like the self bow, they’re about three feet long. The only weakness of a composite bow, other than its expense, is that it’s held together with glue. If it becomes wet, the glue weakens, and the bow can come to pieces. As a result, most composite bows are bound in waterproof leather
covers, and very few cultures native to humid climes make common use of them.
Tags: Lethal, Archery (Long), Mounted
Medium Weapon, +9 Damage, 1 Overwhelming
Accuracy: Close -2, Short +4, Medium +2, Long +0, Extreme -2

Chain Shirt
A chain shirt is a pullover shirt made from links of extremely fine mail. This garment protects the wearer’s chest, abdomen, shoulders and back. The armor’s sleeves reach only halfway down the upper arm. Because they are unobtrusive and can be worn beneath most clothing, chain shirts are common among those who have reason to fear assassins.
Light Armor, Concealable, Soak +3
Defining Principle: The Unconquered Sun's Light Will Once More Shine in the Hearts of All Men
Major Tie: Longing to See Her Family Again
Major Tie: The Immaculate Order (Disgust)
Major Tie: House Ragara (Hatred)
Minor Tie: Knowledge is the Key to Everything

Ledaal Karyn was born in the Imperial City to parents that were both Wood Aspected Dragon Blooded, and considering her pedigree, it was almost certain that Karyn would also join the other Exalts of House Ledaal. But things were not to work out that way.

As time went by, it became obvious that Karyn was not going to become one of the Princes of the Earth, but she was still looked upon with love by the members of her family, and she was able to indulge herself in her studies. While in school, one of the other Dynasts with Karyn was accused of a vile murder, and things were looking bad for him. It was at this time that Karyn stepped up and began her own investigation, and was able to not only prove that her classmate was innocent, she was able to point out that the guilty party was an Exalt from House Ragara. This proved to be a pivotal event in her life.

Pouring herself into her studies, Karyn quickly became an investigator of high regard, and she joined the ranks of the Thousand Scales. But the members of House Ragara looked upon her with anger. How dare a mere mortal turn on one of their precious Exalts? It wasn't like he killed anyone really important, just a human. The mother of this disgraced Exalt decided that Karyn's life was forfeit, and hired assassins to kill her.

If she had not Exalted as a Solar of the Zenith Caste, she most certainly would have died, but instead, she was able to fight them off and escape. Now on the run, Karyn's very existence as a Solar was now humiliation and punishment enough for the Exalts of House Ragara, and the mother decided to let others eliminate Karyn and not soil her hands any further.
Attribute increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase - current rating x2
Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x 2) -1
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit new rating - x 3
Willpower - 8
Solar Charm - 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm - 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell - 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation - 10

Xp Earned: 4
Xp Banked: 4

BP Spending
6 - Willpower to 8
12 - Various Abilities
1 - Merits
1 - Extra Specialty
Extra Charm Selected

Sherwood · Jun 1, 2020

Name: Jontom
Age: 24
Caste: Dawn
Supernal Ability: Brawl/Martial Arts

Attributes
Str: 3
Dex: 5
Sta: 5

Cha: 3
Man: 1
App: 3

Per: 2
Int: 3
Wits: 5

Abilities
*Archery: 2
*Athletics: 3
*Awareness: 5
*Brawl: 1
Bureaucracy
Craft
*Dodge: 3
Integrity
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 1
*Martial Arts: 5
Medicine
*Melee: 1
Occult
Performance: 1
*Presence: 3
*Resistance: 2
Ride: 1
Sail
Socialize: 1
*Stealth: 3
Survival: 1
Thrown
*War: 3

Specialties
Martial Arts - Swords
Awareness - Spotting Concealment
Presence - Commanding the Masses
War - Small Unit Tactics
Languages: 2 - Riverspeak, Firetongue, Low Realm
Martial Arts: 4
Pain Tolerance: 4

Willpower: 7

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Anima Appearance: As Jontom's Essence flares his Anima, it takes the appearance of a massive golden lion standing over him.

Anima Effects
By feeding a mote of Essence into their anima, all Solars can evoke the following effects:
• The Solar may feel the brilliant presence of the sun relative to herself and know the exact time of day thereby. This works even if she’s underground or in the Wyld beyond Creation.
• The Solar may cause her Caste Mark to appear and display itself for as long as she desires.

In addition to these universal effects, Solars of each Caste enjoy a number of innate benefits:
Dawn Anima Effects
• At bonfire/iconic anima display, the Dawn adds half her Essence score (round up) to her base Initiative upon resetting to base after a successful decisive attack.
• For 10 motes, all of the Dawn’s combat and movement Charms with outstanding reset conditions are automatically reset. This effect can only be used once per day, becoming available again at sunrise.
• The Dawn Caste inspires terror in her foes. She adds half her Essence score (round up) in dice to all intimidating social influence. She may also intimidate targets which do not feel fear, such as automatons, golems, and certain undead.

The Great Curse
Limit Trigger:
The Solar sees innocents suffering, and is either unable or unwilling to help them.

Heart of Flint
The Solar’s heart is hardened against all emotion, becoming distant and utterly lacking in empathy or feeling. While in Limit Break, he is treated as having no Intimacies whatsoever, making his decisions based purely on what is most efficient. His lack of empathy imposes a -2 penalty on all social rolls.
Duration: Session. Heart of Flint can be ended prematurely if the Solar’s apathy allows a character that he holds a Major or Defining positive Tie towards to come into life-threatening danger.
Athletics

Cost: 2m; Mins: Athletics 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt leaps with the speed and grace of a striking hawk. Using this technique, a Solar may automatically leap forward or straight up one range band. A Solar using this Charm can easily leap to the top of a twenty foot wall or cross a Nexus street over rooftops, without having to roll. This Charm counts as the Solar’s movement for the turn. If the Solar continues to leap to a different range band each turn, the cost is reduced to one mote after the first activation.

Cost: 3m or 3i per dot; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar draws remarkable strength from deep within her core. For every three motes of Essence or Initiative the Exalt spends, her Strength score increases by one. Each dot of increase also raises the base damage of her decisive attacks by one. The Solar’s Strength cannot be increased by more than her Essence rating through use of this Charm, and may not grant her more than double her Strength score. Through use of Increasing Strength Exercise, Solars can reach the Strength minimums required to attempt certain feats of strength (p. 229).

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Increasing Strength Exercise, Monkey Leap Technique
The Exalt draws down on the Essence around her, pulling it through her upper body, her lungs, her core and down into her legs, and then explodes skyward, rising in a brilliant, Essence-laden arc. This Charm supplements a non-ranged attack which can be made against aerial targets up to short range, or ground targets at short range. The Solar leaps at her target, striking with incredible force—damage is doubled after it is rolled. If the Exalt uses this attack to move to short range, it counts as her movement action for the round. After striking an aerial opponent, the Exalt may fall one range band without taking damage.
Thunderbolt Attack Prana is expressly permitted to be used in conjunction with Charms of other Abilities, and it is suggested that the player use it to create a signature attack that fits the character’s attitude and style.

Presence

Cost: 5m or 7m; Mins: Presence 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver embodies virility, magnetism and grace, empowering her forces of persuasion. For five motes, this Charm grants three bonus dice to all forms of social influence from all Abilities except Stealth. In addition, the cost of all social influence Charms are reduced by one mote, to a minimum of one. The seven mote version of this Charm extends the duration to indefinite.

Cost: —; Mins: Presence 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver is a singular and terrifying being, awesome to behold. Learning this Charm grants one bonus die to all Presence rolls and allows the Exalt to reroll (Essence or three, whichever is greater) non-successes on rolls to intimidate. In addition, if the Solar has activated Majestic Radiant Presence, a character must resist an automatic intimidate attempt before he’s able to attempt an ambush attack. This effect does not make the Solar aware of her attacker—it simply means that, as her assassin draws a bead on her from the shadows, her fierce look and deadly grace emanates forth to cow him. The intimidate action may only be supported by Charms that are ongoing or otherwise can be used unconsciously.

Resistance

Cost: 3m; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: One tick
Prerequisite Charms: None
A child cannot cleave a tree with a dull knife, nor can a foe hope to strike down the Solar with his petty blade. Against a withering or decisive attack, this Charm reduces raw damage by two. Against a decisive attack it also grants the Exalt four hardness. Note that the hardness bonus cannot be applied during crash.

Cost: 1m per damage die removed; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Durability of Oak Meditation
The Solar channels Essence through her enduring toughness, hardening her skin and muscles beyond their mortal limits. After an attack hits her, but before damage is rolled, she may increase her soak at a rate of one mote per point. She may no more than double her natural soak in this fashion. This effect is incompatible with any magic that allows the Exalt to soak a decisive attack with withering only magic.
At Resistance 5+, Essence 3+, the Solar may use this Charm to remove successful dice of withering damage after damage has been rolled, at a rate of two motes per success. This use costs one point of Willpower, two points of Initiative, and has the Perilous keyword.

Cost: —; Mins: Resistance 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The bodies of the Exalted are much more durable than those of mere mortals. To help simulate this, an Exalt may buy extra health levels with this Charm. The purchasing choices are based on the character’s Stamina rating:

At Stamina 1 and 2: One -1 and one -2 health level.
3 and 4: One -1 and two -2 health levels.
5: One -0, one -1, and one -2 health level.

The Solar may purchase Ox-Body Technique (Resistance) times. If she increases her Stamina after purchasing Ox-Body Technique, her health levels automatically change to reflect the new rating.

Cost: 10m; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ox-Body Technique
Even when unconscious, the Solar’s body and Essence work in unison to knit wounds and mend broken bones. Roll the Solar’s (Stamina + Resistance) to speed her natural healing by a factor of (Essence x successes). Alternately, successes on this roll can be added directly to the successes of Wound-Mending Care Technique on page 342.
The Solar must spend an hour at rest for this power to take effect, but the boosted healing lasts for one day, so long as the Solar remains at rest.
Single Point Shining Into the Void Style
Single Point Shining Into the Void is a sword style that emphasizes blinding speed and deadly-perfect finishing moves. Students learn to draw their blade as though it were an extension of their own body, transitioning effortlessly from the draw to a strike or parry. When a master duels a lesser swordsman, the fight often ends in a single stroke, the blade sheathed almost in the same instant it’s drawn. When faced against a foe who matches her in skill, the Single Point stylist fights with swift blows and an almost meditative focus, seeking the single moment of weakness in her foe’s defenses that will allow her to slash through him entirely.

Single Point Shining Into the Void Weapons: This style uses slashing swords and their artifact equivalents, reaper daiklaves, delivering lightning-fast attacks from the draw. It cannot be used unarmed.

Armor: This style is compatible with light and medium armor.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mastery, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The clashing steel and ferocious blows of the swordsman’s enemies do not disrupt her focus—rather, she welcomes them, gleaning the weaknesses of each foe’s fighting style from their offense. After successfully parrying an attack, the stylist can use Gathering Light Concentration to reverse the onslaught penalties inflicted by it. Instead of applying them to her Defense, she applies them to her attacker’s Defense until his next turn.
Mastery: At Essence 3+, the Solar may spend an extra 3i when activating Gathering Light Concentration to cancel all onslaught penalties she’s suffering from, and inflict them on her attacker.

Cost: 6m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only, Mastery
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Committing fully to a lethal blow, the swordsman cleaves through her enemies with killing speed. Shining Starfall Execution adds (her Dexterity/2, round up) to the raw damage of a decisive attack. If she is at Initiative 15+, she adds her full Dexterity instead. However, if the attack misses, then the stylist adds (Dexterity /2) to the amount of Initiative she loses.
Mastery: Shining Starfall Execution also doubles 10s on the damage roll at Initiative 15+.

Cost: 10m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Form, Mastery, Terrestrial
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Gathering Light Concentration, Shining Starfall Execution
Sheathing her blade for a brief moment, the swordsman centers her mind and Essence. As she draw her sword once again and enters this form, it is as a lightning bolt of flashing steel, moving with unimaginable speed and control. While in this form, it is customary to sheathe one’s sword after each strike, and draw it anew for each new one—not merely as a show of this style’s formidable speed, but to contain and dissipate the overwhelming buildup of Essence that might erupt beyond the stylist’s control without such restraint. The first time the swordsman uses this Charm in a fight, she rolls her sword into battle with a (Wits + Martial Arts) Join Battle roll, giving it its own Initiative track separate from her own. This does not represent the sword gaining intelligence or agency of its own, but rather, the superior speed of the stylist allowing her to strike twice during each round. When the sword’s turn comes up in Initiative order, the swordsman may choose to make an attack with it, or to delay the action until later in the round. No other actions can be taken (including movement actions), and if the stylist does not choose one of these options, the sword’s turn is wasted.
The sword’s Initiative is separate from the swordsman’s own—withering attacks made by one cannot add to the other’s Initiative, and decisive attacks made by one do not reset the other to base Initiative. The base raw damage of decisive attacks made on the sword’s turn cannot exceed the swordsman’s own Initiative, even if the sword’s is higher. When the stylist is dealt Initiative damage, the character who damaged her may choose whether to apply it to her own Initiative or the sword’s, but cannot split the damage across both pools. The sword also loses a point of Initiative at the end of every round it was not used to successfully land an attack. If the sword’s Initiative is reduced to zero, then the stylist is forced out of this form, and cannot reactivate it again for three rounds. When she does, she does not reroll Join Battle, but only sets the sword to base Initiative. If the swordsman leaves this form voluntarily before the end of the fight, note the sword’s current Initiative rating. If it is reactivated later during the scene, the sword’s Initiative is reset to this value, rather than making a new Join Battle roll.
Special activation rules: Whenever the martial artist achieves the highest Join Battle value at the start of a fight, she may reflexively activate Single Point Shining Into the Void Form.
Mastery: The martial artist gains the following benefits:
• When using the sword’s turn to make a decisive attack, its damage is not capped by the stylist’s own Initiative.
• The sword does not lose Initiative on turns it did not successfully land an attack.
• If the sword’s Initiative is reduced to zero or less, the stylist loses the benefits of this form, but it still remains active. Once three rounds have passed, its benefits resume without the swordsman needing to activate it or pay its cost again. Additionally, if the swordsman crashes an enemy who reduced his sword’s Initiative to zero, then he may immediately roll Join Battle for it again and take an action with it on the same tick, as per the usual rules for Initiative Shifting (p. 194).

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only, Mastery, Terrestrial
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Single Point Shining Into the Void Form
Seizing the crucial moment, the swordsman lunges forward into an all-or-nothing attack, her blade blurring into a flash of crimson-flecked steel. Against an enemy with lower Initiative, Fatal Stroke Flash adds the difference to the raw damage of a decisive attack against him. The bonus damage cannot exceed the swordsman’s own Initiative. However, if the attack misses, then the stylist’s own Initiative falls to equal the enemy’s before he suffers the usual Initiative loss for missing a decisive attack.
Mastery: The martial artist may also double up to (Essence) 9s on the attack roll.

Cost: 5m (+1wp); Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual, Mastery, Terrestrial
Duration: One round
Prerequisite Charms: Fatal Stroke Flash
Moving faster than her foes can even blink, the stylist’s blade seems like a flowing river of steel. Liquid Steel Flow adds the stylist’s Dexterity to the raw damage of all her withering attacks. After landing a successful attack, she may pay a point of Willpower to extend this Charm’s duration to one scene. Making a decisive attack ends the Liquid Steel Flow, as the swordsman focuses all her speed into one deadly-perfect strike that converts up to (Dexterity/2, round up) dice of raw damage to automatic successes. If Fatal Stroke Flash is used to enhance this decisive attack, its Willpower cost is waived if the stylist paid Willpower into Liquid Steel Flow.
While this style’s form is active, if the stylist and her sword both act on the same tick to make decisive attacks, then the benefits of this Charm apply to both attacks before it ends. The swordsman does not seem to make two attacks, but a single stroke of steel that can fell even the mightiest enemies.
Mastery: As long as the martial artist is at Initiative 11+, he also adds one automatic success on all attack rolls he makes against enemies of lower Initiative.

Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only, Terrestrial
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Single Point Shining Into the Void Form
As one heartbeat begins, the stylist draws her sword from its scabbard. By the heartbeat’s end, the blade is already stained with the blood of her enemy. The swordsman may attack an enemy out to medium range, drawing her blade and flashing to the enemy’s side in a single lunge that counts as her movement action for the round. She adds one automatic success to both the attack and damage roll for each range band she crosses, channeling the devastating momentum of her advance into the strike. However, if the attack misses, the swordsman loses control of her momentum, sliding past her target to end her movement at short range beyond him.
When the stylist and her sword take their turns together on the same tick, they may unleash the devastating attack known as the Countless Strikes Sheathed, combining the two turns into the single action of activating this Charm. The swordsman makes the attack roll before beginning her movement, and chooses whether she will use her own Initiative or the sword’s to make the final decisive attack. If the swordsman’s movement toward her target brings her within close range of other enemies whose Defenses would be hit by her attack roll, she may choose to reflexively strike them. Against each such enemy, she may choose to make a withering strike, which deals her Essence in Initiative damage and adds to the Initiative pool chosen for the final attack (including any Initiative Breaks received), or a decisive strike, which lets her forgo up to (her Dexterity) points of Initiative from the chosen pool and roll it as damage which ignores hardness. If one of these preliminary decisive strikes incapacitates a non-trivial opponent, the Initiative invested in it is recovered. Once the swordsman has cleared all enemies between her and the final target, she concludes with a decisive attack against the final target. Those struck by the Countless Strikes Sheathed do not even realize they have been attacked until the swordsman sheathes her blade at the conclusion of the final strike, at which point their wounds burst open.
Health Levels
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-1 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] - [ ][ ][ ]
-3 [ ]
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Join Battle: 10 +3

Willpower: 7

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Parry: 6
Evasion: 4
Resolve: 3
Guile: 1

Natural Soak: 5
Armored Soak: +5 (Lamellar)
Total Soak: 10

Armor and Weapons
Lamellar armor is a breastplate composed of a series of interlocking horizontal bands. Lamellar is lighter and more flexible than a standard breastplate and allows better air circulation. Lamellar armor is assumed to include greaves to protect the wearer’s lower legs, a skirt to protect his upper legs and bracers to protect his wrists and arms.
Medium Armor +5 Soak, -1 Mobility, 0 Hardness

Slashing Sword
A slashing sword has a single-edged blade about three feet long. These swords are quick and used primarily for arcing cuts. The slashing sword is favored by cavalry, as its shape and length make it suited for use from horseback.
Medium Sword, +2 Accuracy, +9 Damage, +1 Defense, 1 Overwhelming
Defining Principle: To Become the Greatest Swordsman of this Age
Defining Principle: Will Never Willingly Leave a Comrade Behind
Major Tie: Dragon Blooded (Distrust)
Minor Tie: Lookshy (Fond Memories)

Jontom is a native of Lookshy, and he was a long time member of the city's military force, rising up in the ranks until he was placed in command of a squad of heavy infantry. His career was hardly stellar and he would certainly never be an officer, but he was a good squad leader and was good friends with the men and women under his command.

He probably would still be in the service of the Seventh Legion if it were not for an incident that nearly took his life. It was during a diplomatic mission to the Blessed Isle that he was given the task of taking his small squad and providing an escort to the envoy. Things were going along well, up until they were beset upon by raiders intent on taking the envoy hostage. Jontom rallied the squad and they set off to make a hasty retreat, but then one of his men took an arrow to the leg, crippling him and making it impossible for him to run.

Jontom immediately jumped to his defense, ordering others of the squad to grab the wounded man and carry him out while he stood his place as rear guard. He fully expected to die, but as Jontom moved forward to the attack, the Unconquered Sun recognized his mettle and gifted him with Exaltation as a warrior of the Dawn Caste. With his newly found power, Jontom was able to not only buy enough time to get his men out safely, but he was able to lay low the attacking force and bring forth a stunning victory from the jaws of defeat.

He was now faced with a problem. Many people saw the blazing light of his Exaltation, and while Lookshy was not a stronghold of the Immaculate Order, they were in the heart of the Blessed Isle, and forces of Immaculate Monks would certainly be coming for him. Jontom decided to say goodbye to his friends, telling them to get the envoy to safety, and he then set off to find his way in the chaos of the Age.
Attribute increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase - current rating x2
Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x 2) -1
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit new rating - x 3
Willpower - 8
Solar Charm - 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm - 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell - 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation - 10

Total Xp Earned: 4
Xp Banked: 4

Solar Xp:

BP spending - 20
8 - Stamina to 5
3 - Int to 3
9 - Abilities
Extra Charm selected

Red Shadow Claws · Jun 2, 2020

Name: Luanna (Soaring Horizon)
Age: 18
Caste: Zenith
Supernal Ability: Survival
Anima: A white and gold forest, with a white and golden boar glaring in it's midst

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 3
Sta: 2

Cha: 4
Man: 2
App: 3

Per: 4
Int: 2
Wits: 5

Abilities
Archery
Athletics: 1
*Awareness: 4
Brawl
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge
*Integrity: 3
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics
*Lore: 2
Martial Arts
Medicine
*Melee 3
Occult
*Performance: 1
*Presence: 3
*Resistance: 4
*Ride: 4
Sail
Socialize
*Stealth: 4
*Survival: 5
Thrown
War

Specialties
Lore - Geography
Ride - Familiar
Stealth - Forest
Survival - Boars
Languages: 2 - Riverspeak, Forest-tongue, Low Realm
Ambidextrous: 2
Boundless Endurance: 2
Direction Sense: 1
Danger Sense: 3
Iron Stomach: 1
Familiar: 3

Willpower: 5

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Anima Effects
By feeding a mote of Essence into their anima, all Solars can evoke the following effects:
• The Solar may feel the brilliant presence of the sun relative to herself and know the exact time of day thereby. This works even if she’s underground or in the Wyld beyond Creation.
• The Solar may cause her Caste Mark to appear and display itself for as long as she desires.

In addition to these universal effects, Solars of each Caste enjoy a number of innate benefits:
Zenith Anima Effects
• For one mote, the Zenith’s anima leaps from her hand to a corpse she’s touching, igniting it in Solar flame. This power incinerates the corpse and ensures the soul of the deceased will not return as a hungry ghost. In addition, the Zenith may perceive the strongest Intimacies of the deceased and may choose to accept them. When she is ready, she may pay one mote, touching a target of those Intimacies to pass on feelings of peace, love, and assurance, shedding them in the process. She may also transfer them to an object, allowing it to convey comfort or a sense of duty to the subject. Conversely, she may touch someone who caused the deceased to suffer, paying one mote and rolling ([A social Attribute] + Presence) with three automatic non-Charm successes against their Resolve to transfer pain suffered by the deceased back on the one who caused it. The Storyteller is free to dictate the length and weight of such attrition.
• For 10 motes, one Willpower, the Zenith channels her Essence into an aura of divine retribution, surging around an attack. This power supplements a successful decisive attack against a creature of darkness, preventing the Solar’s Initiative from returning to its base value after the attack. When the Zenith’s anima is at bonfire, reduce the cost of this power by five motes and ignore the Willpower.
This power may only be used once per day, resetting when the sun is at its zenith.
• For seven motes, the Zenith may order a dematerialized spirit to manifest using a (Charisma + Presence) persuade action with (Essence) automatic successes. All spirits inherently recognize the Unconquered Sun’s authority in the priest-kings and are compelled as if by a Defining Intimacy, but may still have Defining Ties or Principles which counter this advantage. If successful, the Zenith’s very command draws the spirit into the material world, so that it does not need to pay the cost to materialize.

The Great Curse
Limit Trigger:
The Solar is hindered or defeated by the self-indulgent and intemperate behavior of those around him.

All-Consuming Grief
The Solar is overwhelmed by regret or sorrow, and can do nothing but stop to mourn what he has lost or to brood upon the injustices that have befallen him. He’ll try to go off to be alone to grieve, if possible; if not, then the Solar ignores his surroundings and focuses inward on his pain. He stirs from his grief for nothing, not even to help his allies.

Duration: Scene. All-Consuming Grief can be ended prematurely if the Solar is attacked or if someone to whom he has a Major or Defining Tie is incapacitated.
Awareness

Cost: 5m; Mins: Awareness 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
A breath of Essence seals the five senses into a more perfect form. The Solar’s senses are heightened and attuned to minute motions and sounds, dim and noisy conditions. She can differentiate between subtle tastes and textures with only the slightest variation. Thus sharpened, it is more difficult for characters to escape her notice, or to deceive her hunting senses. For the rest of the scene, the Exalt’s Awareness rolls benefit from double 9s. If the effect of any Unsurpassed (Sense) Discipline applies, reroll 6s until they cease to appear. Use of Sensory Acuity Prana comes without the danger of sensory overload; the Charm helps the Solar manage her senses more effectively.

Cost: 3m or 6m, 1wp; Mins: Awareness 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Sensory Acuity Prana
The Solar’s visual acuity is heightened to several times that of a normal mortal. This Charm represents an array of mechanical benefits: the Solar may perform difficulty 2 or 3 sight-based actions without a roll. She gains an additional two dice to notice hidden persons or devices, to catch sleight of hand and see through disguises. In dim conditions, she sees as well as in broad daylight. Deeper visual hindrances such as dense smoke or fog represent less of a struggle: reduce the difficulty of seeing in such conditions by 1, and remove the -1 penalty to detect hidden threats in such environments. These effects reflect the Exalt’s ability to notice and process hundreds of minute details, as well as to focus and manage light sources more effectively. The Solar’s visual range is also increased: she can see tiny details at 100 yards, quickly count masses of troops, and notice threats well in advance of her position.
Special activation rules: The player may choose to activate Keen Sight Technique by paying six motes, one willpower. Doing so sets the duration of this Charm to Indefinite. Despite being Simple type Charms, each Keen (Sense) Technique can be activated simultaneously by paying the full cost of each. In addition, these Charms are compatible with Sensory Acuity Prana as well as with each other.

Melee

Cost: 3m; Mins: Melee 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt channels Essence through skill, honing her accuracy in order to strike true. Her attack gains one automatic success. Additionally, all 1s are rerolled until 1s no longer appear.

Cost: 1m per die or success; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Excellent Strike
The Solar strikes with telling force, burning Essence surging into the body of her target and shattering it from within. On a withering attack, the Exalt spends up to her (Strength) score in motes before making the attack. If the attack hits, each mote spent adds a single die to the postsoak damage of the attack. This strike has the potential to increase minimum damage (p. 184).
On a decisive attack, the Exalt may spend up to (Essence or three, whichever is greater) motes before making the attack to transfer an equal number of extra successes from her attack roll into the raw damage of the blow.

Presence

Cost: 3m; Mins: Presence 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar’s passionate appeals can soften even the stoniest of hearts. This Charm supplements an instill or persuade action, granting the Solar one automatic success and additionally granting one non-Charm bonus die for every two points the target’s Resolve is boosted by any means. The Solar cannot gain more than three bonus dice in this fashion.

Resistance

Cost: 3m; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: One tick
Prerequisite Charms: None
A child cannot cleave a tree with a dull knife, nor can a foe hope to strike down the Solar with his petty blade. Against a withering or decisive attack, this Charm reduces raw damage by two. Against a decisive attack it also grants the Exalt four hardness. Note that the hardness bonus cannot be applied during crash.

Cost: —; Mins: Resistance 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The bodies of the Exalted are much more durable than those of mere mortals. To help simulate this, an Exalt may buy extra health levels with this Charm. The purchasing choices are based on the character’s Stamina rating:

At Stamina 1 and 2: One -1 and one -2 health level.
3 and 4: One -1 and two -2 health levels.
5: One -0, one -1, and one -2 health level.

The Solar may purchase Ox-Body Technique (Resistance) times. If she increases her Stamina after purchasing Ox-Body Technique, her health levels automatically change to reflect the new rating.

Cost: 10m; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ox-Body Technique
Even when unconscious, the Solar’s body and Essence work in unison to knit wounds and mend broken bones. Roll the Solar’s (Stamina + Resistance) to speed her natural healing by a factor of (Essence x successes). Alternately, successes on this roll can be added directly to the successes of Wound-Mending Care Technique on page 342.
The Solar must spend an hour at rest for this power to take effect, but the boosted healing lasts for one day, so long as the Solar remains at rest.

Ride

Cost: —; Mins: Ride 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt has the talent of a veteran equestrian, knowing a handful of ancient and proven techniques to control, console, and sustain her mount through the most arduous circumstances. Purchasing this Charm provides the Solar with three of the listed techniques, and the player may work with the Storyteller to expand the techniques available through this Charm. Additional techniques can be purchased for 2xp or a single bonus point.
Harmony of Spirits Style: The Lawgiver can spend one mote reflexively to stop herself from falling off a mount. The Exalt can activate this effect when she is asleep, unconscious or otherwise incapacitated, and will not fall off the mount from being asleep or otherwise unconscious during ordinary travel. Against any attack which might knock her from her mount, she gains +1 Defense.
Horse-Summoning Whistle: The Lawgiver can spend one mote reflexively to call a loyal mount to her side. The mount makes its way to her as circumstances best allow.
Master Horseman’s Eye: The Solar can spend one mote reflexively when evaluating a mount to perfectly recognize its strengths and weaknesses.
Speed-Sustaining Technique: The Lawgiver can spend one mote reflexively and touch a mount to sustain it for two hours. Effort during that time does not exhaust the creature, and it does not suffer harmful random incidents such as thrown shoes and injured hooves. <--------
Spirit-Steadying Assurances: The Solar can spend one mote reflexively to stop a mount from panicking. For one instant, the mount shakes off all natural or supernatural fear, and may not be intimidated by direct effort for (Essence) rounds, or indirect circumstances for the scene’s duration.
Blood Rider’s Toughness: The Solar and her mount are as a single being with one skin. The Solar will never chafe or develop sores from long rides, and both the Lawgiver and her mount may ride for twice as long without food, water, or rest.

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Ride 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Drawn steadily to the pulse of battle, the Lawgiver and her mount’s heart beat as one. Normally, if a rider wishes to let her mount attack, it uses up her attack action for the turn. With this Charm, activated when the player rolls Join Battle, the Exalt’s mount gains an Initiative track with a starting value equal to her own, and may make attacks on its own turn. In addition, when the Solar commands her mount to perform a Ride-based movement action, it no longer uses up the Exalt’s movement action for the turn.

Survival

Cost: 5m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through the use of this Charm, the Solar becomes able to survive in even the most hostile conditions without special preparation. This Charm negates all environmental penalties to Survival rolls and eliminates the deleterious effects of exposure to extreme climates. The coldest glacier and the hottest desert are no more deadly to the Solar than the gentlest rolling plain. She ignores inclement weather even when lightly dressed, and does not suffer undue blisters, bug bites or plant poison even when walking barefoot through the jungle. This Charm does not protect the Exalt against environmental damage.
In addition, Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit lowers the difficulty to forage and find shelter by 2, to a minimum of 1.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Survival 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through the use of this Charm, the Exalt can deal with nearly any wild animal. Herbivores and smaller omnivores will not break and run when the Solar approaches, and will even become somewhat docile, allowing the Exalt to pet or handle them. Predators are less susceptible to this Charm, and most will simply let the Solar pass unmolested through their territory. This Charm does not work on sentient animals or familiars, animals that are trained to attack, or animals that are maddened by pain, hunger, or disease.

Cost: 10m, 1wp, 1xp; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Friendship with Animals Approach
An Exalt with a familiar has experienced the gift of having been chosen twice. The Exalt reaches through her anima to touch the bond she shares with her companion animal, elevating its spiritual status and according herself the following powers:
Unbreakable Loyalty: The familiar gains a Defining Tie of loyalty to the Solar, if it does not already have one. No influence of any kind—other than that of the Solar—can make the familiar act against this Intimacy.
Essence-Drawing Method: The familiar becomes a font of spiritual energy. The Solar may reflexively draw up to five motes from her pet once per day. The Exalt must be within short range of the familiar she wishes to tap. If the Exalt taps more than five motes from multiple pets in a scene, the motes she draws will only last until her next turn.
Power-Renewing Bond: The Solar draws strength from her familiar bond. Once per day, through interaction with her familiar, the Exalt may draw a single point of Willpower as a simple action lasting at least a few seconds. This contact renews the Solar’s mental energies and can even negate a -1 crippling penalty to the Exalt’s social influence actions. The Solar may only use this power once per day, no matter how many familiars she has.
Sense-Riding Discipline: The Exalt may borrow the senses of a familiar through a moment of intense concentration. This simple action requires the Solar to concentrate on pushing her consciousness into the mind of her familiar, rendering her incapable of taking any other actions until she has returned to her own mind. This power can be invoked when the character is asleep or otherwise inactive, and has no known range limitation. At Survival 5, the Exalt further extends her influence into the familiar’s motor functions, merging seamlessly with her charge in order to control its actions.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Survival 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One week
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Tied Pet
The Solar holds dominion over the beasts of the field. With this Charm she can train an animal, familiar or otherwise, to follow her commands. Through exercise and repeated practice, she can also train the beast to use special abilities that are latent, such as an eagle’s disarm ability (p. 563), or techniques designed by the player or the Storyteller which are appropriate to the animal.
Normally, training an animal to unlock its latent potential requires a minimum of Survival 3, and two specialties: one in animal husbandry, and another specific to the animal—falconry for a hawk, lion taming for a great cat, and so on. The trainer makes an extended roll with an interval of one month and a goal of 10, modified by the animal’s attitude—docile and tamed beasts presenting no penalties, familiars representing a number of bonus dice equal to the trainer’s Intimacy to the animal, and hostile, wild, or otherwise untrainable animals representing a penalty of -2 or -3. The trainer must spend the entire month interacting with the beast, teaching it words, signals, commands, and running it through exercises daily. Any significant amount of time the trainer spends away from the beast during this time saps successes away at a rate of one success for every two or three days. Success at the extended roll means that the animal learns to use the technique and can be order to do so on command.
A Solar with Beast-Mastering Behavior gains (Essence) automatic successes to this roll, and shortens the interval of the roll to one week. Using this Charm exempts her from the specialty requirements of normal training, while the Charm Friendship with Animals Approach may eliminate the penalty associated with wild or hostile animals.
At Survival 5+, Essence 3+, the Solar can teach a familiar she has enhanced with Spirit-Tied Pet to use magical abilities, such as the eagle’s special ability Iron Wings Carry. Doing so costs the Solar two experience points per ability trained.The player and the Storyteller can work together to develop new and appropriate abilities for the Solar to teach her familiar.
Also at Survival 5+, Essence 3+, the Exalt can use Beast-Mastering Behavior on a familiar she has enhanced with Bestial Traits Technique, to teach it to use a special ability that it can only use during Deadly Predator Method, for a cost of two experience points. Such abilities need not be wholly appropriate for the animal in question. A flying squirrel might gain the power to generate a charge like an electric eel, while a tyrant lizard might learn to spit a fireball from its mouth.

Cost: 10m, 1wp, 2xp; Mins: Survival 4, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Tied Pet
With this Charm, the Solar can invest her Spirit-Tied Pet with traits beyond its natural capacity. This Charm supplements a normal beast-training roll, rerolling all 1s until 1s fail to appear. In addition to teaching her charge a new command, she can also increase one of the following traits upon the successful completion of the extended roll.
• Strength, Dexterity, Stamina, or Perception +1. This may not be repurchased for the same Attribute more than once, and may not give a familiar an Attribute rated higher than 10.
• Athletics, Brawl, Larceny, Martial Arts, Performance, Resistance, Stealth, or Survival, by one dot, to a maximum of the Exalt’s rating in that Ability.
• Steeliness (Merit): This special merit permanently raises the familiar’s Resolve against intimidation or otheר fear inducing effects by 1. This may only be purchased once.

Cost: —; Mins: Survival 5, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Bestial Traits Technique
The Solar reaches into the substance of her familiar, and draws out that which is soft and vulnerable, hardening muscle, bone and hide. The familiar’s soak increases by three, and its hardness by one. The Solar may enhance a single familiar with this Charm (Essence) times.

Cost: —; Mins: Survival 5, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Bestial Traits Technique
The Solar taps a wellspring of Essence to increase her familiar’s vitality and stature. Each purchase of this Charm increases a familiar’s health levels, adding one -1 health level and two -2 health levels to its health track. In addition, each repurchase increases her familiar’s size by 10%, to be manifested normally or only during Saga Beast Virtue and Deadly Predator Method. The Solar may enhance a
single familiar with this Charm (Essence) times.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Survival 5, Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Hide-Hardening Practice, Life of the Aurochs
The Exalt infuses her familiar with Solar anima, unlocking the form of the sacred beast. Her familiar grows in size by 25%, and gains +1 to all Attributes, and both defenses. It also gains up to (Essence) mutations, determined by the player upon purchase of the Charm. The Exalt can choose to activate Saga Beast Virtue with as many or as few of the designated mutations as she chooses. While in Saga Beast form, the familiar is completely immune to fear-inducing effects.
Health Levels
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Join Battle: 9

Willpower: 5

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Parry: 3
Evasion: 2
Resolve: 4
Guile: 1

Natural Soak: 2
Armored Soak: +3 (Chain Shirt)
Total Soak: 5

Armor and Weapons
Chain Shirt
A chain shirt is a pullover shirt made from links of extremely fine mail. This garment protects the wearer’s chest, abdomen, shoulders and back. The armor’s sleeves reach only halfway down the upper arm. Because they are unobtrusive and can be worn beneath most clothing, chain shirts are common among those who have reason to fear assassins. Cost: ••
Tags: Concealable
Light Armor; Soak +3; Mobility Penalty 0; Hardness 0

Spear
The cestus is an arrangement of leather straps that fits around the hand like a fingerless glove. These straps are covered in brass or iron studs, serving to enhance the wearer’s punches. The metal gauntlets that are part of most forms of heavy armor can also be designed to work as cestuses. They’re usually used in pairs. Cost: •
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Piercing, Reaching
Medium Melee Weapon; Accuracy +2; Damage +9; Defense +1; Overwhelming 1

Spear: Dice 8, Damage 11, OVW 1
Defining Principle: Save the Unconquered Sun
Defining Principle: Animals have the same rights as humans
Major Tie: Halta (Pride)
Major Principle: My travels cannot be impeded
Major Principle: Realm Dragon Blooded (Hatred)
Major Tie: Red Tusks (Familiar)
Minor Principle: I don't need anyone else

Luanna was born and raised in Halta. Like most Haltans, she learned the facts of life of living in such a place, where one doesn't set foot on the ground, unless they had to, and preferably, only outside the forest. She was a feral child, and preferred her own company, or that of animals, to that of other humans.
On one of her many adventures through the forest, she spotted a baby hellboar lost in the forest. The thing was being hunted by goblins, and she swooped down to grab it, and rescue it. It became a friend, and grew up besides her, becoming a companion, but as it grew, due to its size and reputation, the more shunned she became by her people, for fear that it's animalistic nature would cause much damage, that she actually welcomed it, and it became her only friend.
That was until three months ago, when a group of Realm Dynasts entered the forest, and spotting it, they hunted it, and captured it, to take back to their Menagerie. Outraged, but unable to best a Dragon-Blooded, she sought to follow them, and to find a chance to rescue her friend from it's confinement. It was a ardous trip, and one with many lucky breaks, but she had managed to get to the Blessed Isle itself, following closely on the heels of the Dyansts, when she found her chance to free Red Tusks from his confinement. The moment she touched him, a bright golden light shone around her, and she could feel a connection blossom between them, and watched in marvel as her energy seemed to course through it, and change it into a glimmering golden boar.
Red Tusks (Hellboar)
Hellboars are one of the most feared beasts of the East and Blessed Isle, extreme omnivores that can crack human bones between their tusks just as easily as they gruffle up roots and tubers. Hellboars will cripple their prey with a bite that crunches through ligaments and bone, then stomp them to death before eating the remains. Hunters are not foolish enough to try to take down these beasts—save perhaps for Dynasts with more foolhardy pride than good sense—but sometimes follow behind them, waiting until the boar has eaten its fill before scavenging carrion or root vegetables upturned by its wandering snout.
Essence: 1; Willpower: 5; Join Battle: 5 dice
Health Levels: -0/-1x6/-2x7/-4/Incap.
Hellboars will wander away from any prey that seems like too much trouble to subdue, generally fleeing after taking 5+ levels of damage in hopes of finding carrion or foliage to devour instead.
Speed Bonus: +1
Actions: Feats of Strength: 14 dice (may attempt Strength 6 feats);
Hide Food For Later: 5 dice;
Intimidating Grunt: 6 dice;
Resist Poison/Disease: 5 dice;
Senses: 4 dice (see Keen Nose)
Resolve 2, Guile 1

Combat
Attack (Bite): 8 dice (Damage 15, minimum 5).
Attack (Stomp): 6 dice (Damage 12)
Combat Movement: 8 dice
Evasion 3, Parry 2
Soak/Hardness: 15/6

Special Attacks
Bone-Crunching Bite: The hellboar’s heavy incisors and powerful molars can easily shatter bone with a bite, crippling its prey before the beast finishes it off. An enemy damaged by a decisive bite attack is inflicted with a Crippling penalty to all Strength and Dexterity-based actions equal to the extra successes on the attack for the rest of the scene. This penalty can stack up to a maximum of -5.
Death Stomp: The hellboar’s decisive stomp attacks deal +5 damage against prone enemies.
Trample: When the hellboar closes in on a rushed enemy and makes a stomp attack on the same turn, a successful hit knocks that enemy prone. The penalties for being prone are applied to that character’s Defenses retroactively when calculating extra successes on the attack.
Femur-Smashing Crunch (Latent): When the hellboar delivers an attack that raises an enemy’s crippling penalty from Bone-Crunching Bite to -5, it may pay a point of Willpower to fracture their legs or spinal cord, knocking them prone and leaving them unable to take any movement actions for the rest of the scene. A character may recover from this crippling paralysis with a miscellaneous (Stamina + Resistance) roll action at difficulty 4.

Merits
Berserker: Wound penalties that would apply to the boar’s attack rolls are instead converted to bonus dice.
Iron Stomach: Hellboars can eat anything from bones to offal to poisonous foliage, and come off little the worse for it. They apply the double 8s rule on all rolls to forage for food or to resist an ingested poison.
Keen Nose: Hellboars apply the double 9s rule on Perception-based rolls made using scent.
Predator’s Hunger: Whenever a hellboar rolls Join Battle against an enemy it could conceivably eat, if it has not eaten within the last day or more, it may reroll any 1s until they fail to appear. A hellboar’s master can train it to apply this Merit to all Join Battle rolls as a latent ability by conditioning it to equate successful battle with a feast of carrion.

Saga Beast Virtue
Essence: 1; Willpower: 5; Join Battle: 6 dice
Health Levels: -0/-1x6/-2x7/-4/Incap.
Hellboars will wander away from any prey that seems like too much trouble to subdue, generally fleeing after taking 5+ levels of damage in hopes of finding carrion or foliage to devour instead.
Speed Bonus: +1
Actions: Feats of Strength: 15 dice (may attempt Strength 7 feats);
Hide Food For Later: 6 dice;
Intimidating Grunt: 7 dice;
Resist Poison/Disease: 6 dice;
Senses: 5 dice (see Keen Nose)
Resolve 3, Guile 2

Combat
Attack (Bite): 9 dice (Damage 16, minimum 5).
Attack (Stomp): 7 dice (Damage 13)
Combat Movement: 9 dice
Evasion 4, Parry 3
Soak/Hardness: 19/6

Mutations
Unusual Hide (***) - add +3 soak
Experience Costs:
Attribute increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase - current rating x2
Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x 2) -1
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit new rating - x 3
Willpower - 8
Solar Charm - 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm - 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell - 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation - 10

Total XP: 4
Spent XP: 0
Banked XP: 4

Total Solar XP: 0
Spent Solar XP: 0
Banked Solar XP: 0

Stuff I Bought:

+3 Merits dots/+1 Charm - Took the +1 Charm

BP: 15/15
1 Charm - 4 BP
Familiar merit - 3 BP
Awareness 3 to 4 - 1 BP
Melee 2 to 3 - 1 BP
Resistance 3 to 4 - 1 BP
Stealth 3 to 5 - 2 BP
Survival 3 to 5 - 2 BP
Language (Low Realm) - 1 BP

Random Word · Jun 5, 2020

Name: Ember
Age: 30
Caste: Night
Supernal Ability: Larceny

Attributes
Str: 1
Dex: 5
Sta: 1

Cha: 1
Man: 5
App: 5

Per: 2
Int: 5
Wits: 2

Abilities (28 at or under 3; 10 above 3; 10 BP spent)
*Athletics: 3
*Awareness: 1
*Brawl: 1
*Bureaucracy: 5
*Dodge: 3
Integrity: 0
*Larceny: 5
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 1
*Occult: 5
*Performance: 3
*Socialize: 5
*Stealth: 5

Specialties
Socialize - While Disguised
Occult - Fire Magic
Stealth - Urban
Languages: 3 - [Native: Flametongue] Riverspeak, Guild Cant, High Realm (Prasadi Accent)
Resources: 3
Backing (Guild Troubleshooter): 3

Suzerain of Endless Flame (Merit ••): Fire answers readily to the sorcerer’s will. Whenever the sorcerer casts a spell that creates or manipulates fire as its primary effect, or summons a fire elemental, its cost is lowered by three sorcerous motes. If it’s her control spell, she may also waive a single point of Willpower from its cost once per day.

The Burning Name (Merit ••): With the utterance of her patron’s name, the sorcerer may call forth flames, sending them streaming from her eyes, fingertips, or mouth. She might use this to light a campfire or incinerate ropes that bind her hands, and can also use it as an attack, rolling (Intelligence + Occult) to direct the flames, which are treated as a light mundane weapon with the lethal, thrown (short), and mounted tags.

13 Merit points (Base 10 + UCS Blessing 3)

Willpower: 10 (10 BP spent)

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed: 0

Limit: 2/10

Anima Effects
By feeding a mote of Essence into their anima, all Solars can evoke the following effects:
• The Solar may feel the brilliant presence of the sun relative to herself and know the exact time of day thereby. This works even if she’s underground or in the Wyld beyond Creation.
• The Solar may cause her Caste Mark to appear and display itself for as long as she desires.

In addition to these universal effects, Solars of each Caste enjoy a number of innate benefits:
Night Anima Effects
• For two motes, the Night can dampen her anima, treating all Peripheral Essence expenditures as if they were Personal for one instant.
• For three motes, the Night can ignore up to (higher of 3 or Essence) penalties to a Stealth attempt for one instant. These motes are always considered Personal, regardless of the pool they’re spent from.
• When the Night’s anima is at the bonfire/iconic level, it wraps around and suffuses her form, hiding her figure and masking her visage in flame. She is merely a fearsome silhouette shrouded in all the hues of evening. It becomes impossible to discern her identity. This is considered a perfect effect, and cannot be pierced by Eye of the Un- conquered Sun (see p. 273) or other all-seeing magic.

The Great Curse
Limit Trigger:
The Solar is denied a favorite pleasure or vice, either by circumstance, another character, or his own decisions.

Rampaging Avarice
The Solar is filled with rampant greed, no longer willing to let anything come between him and what he wants. Whenever he is faced with the opportunity to indulge in a favorite pleasure or vice, he will do so. If someone would deny him a pleasure, he will take it by force, even if it would be trivial to obtain it otherwise. While he can re- strain himself from committing acts of murder or rape, he will not hesitate to destroy property or physically harm others to get what he wants – but only after he’s done en- joying it.
Duration: Session. Rampaging Avarice can be ended pre- maturely if the Solar harms an innocent in order to get what he wants—but only after he’s done enjoying it.
Bureaucracy

Cost: 5m; Mins: Bureaucracy 1, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver becomes preternaturally adept at navigating through bureaucracies. She can naturally sense who to talk to in order to produce results, who expects or is amenable to bribes, which functionaries are actually useful or friendly and which are officious tyrants abusing their meager sliver of power. The Solar may add her Bureau- cracy score to the read intentions actions of any Ability so long as it helps her in producing a desired bureaucrat- ic result, such as obtaining a license, gaining a passport or securing an audience.

Cost: 8m; Mins: Bureaucracy 5, Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One task
Prerequisite Charms: Deft Official’s Way
Through the use of this Charm, the Solar can cause a bureaucracy to finish a task in record time. Using this Charm causes the organization to work faster by a number of degrees equal to a Solar’s Essence. A task that would be accomplished in a century takes only a season; a task that would be accomplished in a season takes only a month; what would take a month takes only a week; what takes a week only takes day, and what could be accomplished in days just takes minutes. Any request that would take less than a day is processed immediately; the Solar is lit- erally moved to the front of the queue and is transferred into the services of an organization the moment she makes her request. Therefore, at Essence 3, a Solar could obtain records from a Fair Folk freehold that would normally take a century in just a week. At Essence 5, she could obtain it in minutes.

Occult

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.

Sevenfold Art Invocation: The sorcerer channels Essence through esoteric formulae and rigorously-practiced mudras. Once per scene, when she stunts the first shape sorcery roll of a spell with invocations or mudras, she gains (stunt rating + 2) sorcerous motes towards completing the spell. Enhancing her control spell doesn’t count against this once-per-scene limit.

Cost: 15sm, 1wp
Keywords: Decisive-only, Perilous Duration: Instant
The sorcerer shapes flames of diamond and ruby into the form of a majestic bird of prey, evoking the elemental majesty of the garda birds. The player rolls (Perception + Occult) as a decisive attack against an enemy at up to long range, then sends the raptor streaking forth to consume her foe in deadly flames. The brilliant raptor embodies the sorcerer’s will, with a base lethal damage equal to (her Initiative + current temporary Willpower), and resets her to base Initiative on a successful attack. As long as the raptor deals 3+ levels of damage to its target, it ignites a bonfire (p. 230) that engulfs him and all terrain within short range of him, and burns until the end of the scene.
A sorcerer who knows Flight of the Brilliant Raptor as her control spell may use it to attack a target one range band beyond long range by paying an extra 5sm when casting the spell.

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 will-o’-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. 196) 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 the sorcerer, adding (Essence) natural soak against all but unblockable attacks.
The guardian has soak (Essence + 5), Hardness (Essence), and (Essence + Intelligence) −0 health lev- els. 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 dissi- pates 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.
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.

Cost: 6m; Mins: Occult 3, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt expands her knowledge of the realm of spirits to all corners of her mind, shunning knowledge that binds her understanding. While this Charm is in effect, the Lawgiver automatically speaks and understands Old Realm, even if it is not a language she has learned, but loses her ability to comprehend any other language. In addition, the Solar also naturally comprehends other spirit languages as old and strange as Old Realm, languages for which there exists little to no record. While this Charm is in effect, the Solar gains (half her Essence, rounded down, minimum one) automatic successes to all Occult rolls and shaping actions.

Cost: —; Mins: Occult 5, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ancient Tongue Understanding
The Exalt directs the flow of her Essence out of the world and draws it in, bringing back a quickening breath of realms beyond. Once per scene, the Solar may enact a free full Occult Excellency. This Charm may be reset by raising the Exalt’s anima to iconic and shedding it back to the dim level.

Larceny

Cost: 6m; Mins: Larceny 4, Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Until the Exalt sleeps Prerequisite Charms: None
Master chameleons, the Solars donned disguises and at- tended the fetes of the raksha, to hear them confess their nefarious plans for Creation. This Charm recreates a disguise attempt (see p. 224), but allows the Exalt to make a myriad of extraordinary changes to her appearance. She may change her gender, double her age or halve it, alter her height by ten inches in either direction, change her ethnicity, adjust her voice and alter her accent. She can even change her scent. The Solar gains two automatic successes to her disguise attempt, ignores penalties for adapting a different race or gender, and gains double 9s.
This disguise cannot be pierced by mundane senses. Nor can it be thwarted by inhuman sensory acuity, such as the nose of a hound or the eye of a hawk. Senses heightened to supernatural levels by Charms such as Keen Sight Discipline have a chance to pierce this deception, but subtract 2 successes from their attempts. Magic which pierces this effect does not reveal the Solar’s identity, only that the Exalt is not what she appears to be.
Typically Solars used this Charm to hide their identities or to appeal to specific criteria such as “Only women are allowed into the sept.” However, should it be used to impersonate a specific character, magic which pierces this effect will only reveal the apparent body double of the Charm’s subject. For example, if the Solar disguises herself as the Scarlet Empress, magic which pierces her disguise will see her as a tall, porcelain-skinned red-haired woman with cunningly accurate makeup, as opposed to what the Solar actually looks like.

Cost: —(5m, 1wp); Mins: Larceny 5, Essence 2 Type: Permanent
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise
The Exalt shows only what she wishes to be seen. Discarding all other facets, she becomes a continuous unity of form.
This Charm upgrades its prerequisite, replacing the cost and allowing the Exalt to disguise herself as a specific person without suffering a penalty for impersonating a specific character, or for changing her body type significantly. In addition to the bonuses associated with Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise, it also adds (Essence) non-Charm successes to the roll to establish the disguise.
The impersonation is perfect. It cannot be pierced by mundane or inhuman sensory acuity. Characters are not entitled to attempt to see through the disguise unless the Solar behaves in a grossly inaccurate way. Even so, a witness using Charms or other magic to penetrate the disguise suffer a -4 dice penalty to do so. In addition, should he fail at this attempt, his next attempt suffers an additional -1. This penalty cannot exceed -5.
In addition to these effects, the Exalt may adapt Essence-based visual dynamics not covered by simple makeup or disguise. Her hair might stand on end and crackle with lightning; she might hover inches off the ground or display the anima of a different kind of Exalt. None of these displays are real. That is, displaying a Fire Aspect’s anima will not actually burn anything, though witnesses will feel the intensity of its heat. She may appear to float, but her feet are still touching the ground.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Larceny 2, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
With hands quicker than the eye, the Exalt relieves a hapless soul of his material burden. This Charm enhances a normal pickpocketing attempt (see p. 224). Unless contested by magic, this attempt cannot fail; when such a conflict arises, this Charm adds the Solar’s Essence in automatic successes. To use this Charm, the Exalt must be close enough to touch her target. In every other way, this Charm follows the rules of a normal pickpocketing attempt. The character may not steal items that are in use or artifacts that have been attuned.
Characters using ordinary senses cannot detect this theft with Awareness. Characters with inhuman sensory acuity, such as a spider feeling vibrations in its web, or those using magic, like a Celestial Lion’s Intemperate Gaze, suffer a -4 dice penalty to spot the theft. Flawless Pickpocketing Technique is also completely immune to magic that detects Larceny-based actions, unless the user also knows Flawless Pickpocketing Technique.

Cost: —; Mins: Larceny 1, Essence 1 Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt adapts the nature of the iconic criminal, who must one day become a master of her craft. She is a creature of the criminal element; duplicity is in her every word and step. This Charm allows the Solar to invoke and discard a number of special distinctions at her leisure, which allow her to gather information, infiltrate criminal society, and protect her position there.
The distinctions are as follows:
Familiarity: To a member of a criminal organization, she seems familiar—that is, she can play on a Minor Intimacy to make her target believe she is a criminal with whom to be treated: a member of the organization, a prospect for initiation, etc.
Dissonance: Magistrates or other officials seeking to establish her identity suffer a -2 penalty to their Bureaucracy and Investigation actions. Persons who do not know her personally but may have spotted her or seen her hanging around the scene of a crime find her unrecognizable and cannot remember doing so.
Vulnerability: The Exalt makes herself seem the best possible target for a type of crime dictated by the player. Confidence men will see her as an easy mark, gamblers will seek to engage her with betting gossip or games of chance, thugs will try to mug her, and so forth. This effect has a visual component: thieves are less likely to steal from an Exalt wearing armor and a battle axe, while a serial killer might find a person who wears her hair a certain way irresistible.
Receptivity: Similar to vulnerability, interested parties perceive the Exalt as a local player. Rather than prey on her directly, she may be identified as a drug buyer or seller, or a person looking to make a bet, hire a prostitute, or take part in other illicit or seedy activities. Such parties will be interested in providing her with information about where to go and who to talk to.

Cost: 6m; Mins: Larceny 2, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Seasoned Criminal Method
Even amidst the Imperial Treasury, the Lawgiver projects her right to be there. This Charm makes it nearly impossible to voluntarily question the Exalt’s presence. As long as the Solar is dressed and behaving as expected for the present circumstances, she cannot normally be consid- ered suspicious. Characters who do suspect something “off” about her may try to read her intentions, but the Exalt’s Guile is at +2 against such attempts. The player may reconstitute the character’s Guile using Larceny instead of Socialize; Charms that protect against read intentions actions are explicitly allowed to enhance this effect. Which characters suspect the Lawgiver depends entirely on the dramatic whim of the Storyteller.

Socialize

Cost: 5m; Mins: Socialize 3, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar attunes herself to the patterns of social interaction, allowing Essence to guide her responses. While this Charm is active, the Exalt adapts to the expectations of a host culture, and is able to instinctively and reflexively follow its customs, behaving appropriately for the situation at hand. This Charm does not grant the Exalt perfect understanding of a society, but covers greetings, eating and gift customs, and flirtation mores. This Charm eliminates all penalties incurred by unfamiliarity with cultural expectations and group dynamics, and prevents a character from committing any major faux pas. In addition, those who hold positive Intimacies for the culture the Solar has attuned herself to gain a temporary positive Minor Tie of respect or admiration for the Solar, while those who hold negative Intimacies for foreigners or outsiders have that Intimacy temporarily lowered by one level of intensity.

Stealth

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Stealth 2, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver’s stealth technique is honed until it’s flawless. Perfect Shadow Stillness allows a reroll of any Stealth-based action, preserving the 10s from those results and rerolling the remaining dice. At Stealth 5, succeeding at a stealth attempt with this Charm awards the Solar one point of temporary Willpower.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Stealth 3, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar leaps in and out of battle with nigh untraceable speed. The Exalt may use her (Dexterity + Stealth) to Join Battle. Her Join Battle result also acts as an attempt to enter Stealth. If she beats her opponent’s Awareness-based Join Battle roll, she is automatically concealed, so long as there is a viable place to hide. If her foe uses a Join Battle roll modified to use any other Ability than Awareness, then he must make an Awareness roll to spot her, suffer- ing a penalty equal to the difference in their Initiative, even if he rolled higher. If he fails the Awareness check, the Solar still vanishes from view.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Stealth 4, Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Blinding Battle Feint
The Solar stalks her prey unseen, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. While concealed, the Solar uses this technique to focus on an opponent. Feeling along the pulse of the world’s Essence, she stalks her target from the shadows, her veins coursing with lethal readiness. With this Charm, the Solar ignores the -3 penalty to Stealth rolls for moving while concealed. In addition, on each round in which she succeeds at the contested roll to evade detection by her mark, she gains an amount of Initiative equal to her extra successes on the roll. When the Exalt senses the perfect moment to strike, she may then leap from concealment to unleash a decisive attack, as long as she’s been hidden by this Charm for at least a round.
For each round that she remains under the effects of this Charm, the Solar gains a mounting -1 penalty to her Stealth rolls, and if she is discovered or if she voluntarily leaves concealment or terminates the Charm without making a decisive attack, she loses all of the Initiative she gained through her most recent activation of the Charm.
Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ][ ]
I [ ]

Join Battle: 3 (Wits+Awareness)/10 (Dex+Stealth)

Willpower: 10

Essence: 1
Personal: 13/13
Peripheral: 29/33
Committed: 0

Virtuous Guardian of Flame Defend Other Parry: 6
Parry: 3
Evasion: 4
Resolve: 1
Guile: 5 (6 in disguise)

Natural Soak: 1
Armored Soak: 0
Total Soak: 1 (2 with Virtuous Guardian of Flame up)

Firebending
Flames leap from her fingertips to strike her foes.
Living Flames, +4 Accuracy, +7 Damage, 1 Overwhelming
Withering: Int 5 + Occult 5 + Fire Magic 1 + Accuracy 4/3 = 15/14 (Close/Short)
Withering Damage: Int 5 + 7 Damage = 12 Min 1
Decisive: Int 5 + Occult 5 = 10
Defining Principle: I will not be merely a footnote in history.
Defining Principle: So many fools; So much wealth; So little time to part them.
Major Principle: I will suffer nothing that mars my appearance.
Major Principle: My professional reputation is worth far more than Jade.
Major Principle: Wealth, beauty, and nobility are a privileges which, if unearned, should be taken away.
Major Principle: People are not what they think they are; they are what they hide.
Major Principle: I can't resist revealing a juicy secret.
Major Principle: If I hear the music, I'm going to dance.
Major Principle: I owe it to anyone I intend to kill to first know them well; Anything less will sacrifice my humanity.
Major Tie: Guild Factor Mai Xian (Respect, Gratitude)
Major Tie: Lady Moonlit Glade (Respect, Gratitude)
Minor Tie: The former splendor of the Realm (Awe)
Minor Tie: Dragon Blooded (Fascination)
Minor Tie: The Disfigured (Hatred) [We often hate reminders of what we hate about ourselves]

The people of Ysyr are steeped in sorcery, bearing the weight of its mark from cradle to grave, but some bore it more heavily than others. Ember was born a nameless orphan, given up by her parents for the extremity of her mutations. Her hunched back, facial deformities, and difficulties breathing were clearly more than her parents had bargained for, even in a people who all suffer mutation of some form or another. So it was by some contrivance she came to find herself at the Humble Respite for Inchoate Souls.

She did not truly acknowledge the strangeness of her surroundings until she was older. She never found it particularly unusual that no one could find the Humble Respite for Inchoate Souls who did not already know its location, nor that two of the instructors were dead, nor another an ornate music box. The Humble Respite for Inchoate Souls, where most orphanages might be concerned primarily with finding a workhouse to take their wayward children, seemed singularly devoted to providing them a world-class - if eclectic - education covering topics from Shogunate history and Spirit court etiquette to lock picking and false facing. Armed with the dubiously legal tutelage of the orphanage’s instructors, Ember and her peers began to frequent the markets and gambling parlours of their neighbourhood, running small scams and stealing anything not nailed down. Ember resented that she was almost always the distraction, the object of pity, or the horror in the dark. Never did she so much as catch a glimpse of the storied perfection of the Sorcerer-lords who ruled them, but the stories were enough to spark a hunger that burned bright in her soul for years.

The mysterious benefactor of the institution, the Lady Moonlit Glade, rarely found time to grace them with her presence, but these rare moments form Ember’s most cherished childhood memories. The Lady Glade would bring exotic sweets and strange and wondrous toys that seemed to operate as if by magic – brightly coloured paper animals that would move and play, crystal pinwheels that would fly into the air at a touch, motes of light that would flee from crowds of enthusiastically screaming children, bursting to reveal candied nuts when caught. Every year she would hold a fireworks display at Calibration, demonstrating to the older children how to pack the alchemical dusts and set their creations off. The few classes she taught were always entertaining but cryptic, simultaneously immediately useful and hiding deeper meaning slowly unraveled over years to come. To Ember, all of this paled before the way she made Ember feel like a real person, someone valuable for more than her pitiful or frightening appearance. She taught Ember breathing techniques to calm her lungs when they burned, and mudras to dull the pain she felt every day, but it was the Lady’s mere presence salved the pain deep within Ember’s soul.

So it came to be that when Ember was fifteen and presented with a choice it was no real choice at all. Only the students who most impressed the Lady Moonlit Glade with some feat of their devising by the end of the year would be permitted to continue in her tutelage, while the others would return to a comfortable life of relative normalcy. A handful of the other children had begun to manifest remarkable powers, and Ember knew she would have to accomplish something extraordinary to stand a chance against them. When the Lady Glade reached her Ember proclaimed without thinking that she would steal sorcery from a sorcerer. Lady Glade merely smiled her enigmatic smile and nodded approvingly before carrying on down the line.

She studied her mark for months, obtaining paperwork real and forged, perfecting her disguise, studying the proper mannerisms and etiquette for serving in one of the high academies that readied promising candidates for the grueling ascension rituals that may, if a candidate was exceedingly lucky, result in an awakening to sorcery. She obtained a job as a serving girl, a position which, though lowly, was not without its own prestige at an institution of such import, by posing as the shunned illegitimate daughter of a moderately powerful noble. The young scion scheduled for the Ascension trial would spend a month in seclusion meditating and performing purification rituals, and she would be the only one allowed into his chamber. Sadly for him, his month was derailed as she drugged, bound, and interrogated him, perfecting her new disguise and committing everything he knew about the ritual and his every mannerism to memory. She prepared as best she could, and on Ascension Day she left the scion unconscious in his cell, donning her disguise and his voluminous ceremonial robes, gritting her teeth through the pain as she stood as straight as she could. This would be nothing compared with the pain to come.

Everyone knew the ascension ritual was almost certainly fatal to the spiritually unworthy. The unprepared. The lesser peoples who slaved and toiled to run Ysyr. People like her. Desperation warred with fear in Ember’s mind as she sat in the ritual circle, and then the pain obliterated such petty concerns from her mind. She felt her soul fray and tear as the terrible unbound energies of the sorcerous engine beneath casually grazed her, and only a combination of sheer bloody minded force of will and the unexpectedly efficacious meditation techniques and mudras taught to her by Lady Glade kept her soul in one piece. Hours later, when her eyes snapped open she could see for the first time in her life.

She was brought before the Master of Ascension and when the Ritual of Perfection was completed and the robes were shed to reveal a flawlessly beautiful young woman where they expected a handsome young man there was some quiet knowing laughter, but no comments. This wasn’t the first time a perfected candidate had looked significantly different from when they had entered, and it wouldn’t be the last. She chose the name Ember to complete her ascension - the unassuming and unappealing black coal left behind in the hearth that was eager to blossom into beautiful, powerful flame given fuel and room to breathe. Ember stood and stared into the provided mirror until long after everyone except her newly assigned attendants had filed out of the chamber, tears of joy running down her face as her fingers ran across her new shape. Of course they would soon discover the scion in his cell, but Ember was unafraid. Under Ysyri law the sorcerer who walked out of the ascension ritual wasn’t even legally the same entity who entered. He would simply have to try again next year, the indignities he suffered swept under the rug. If he passed next year she would have a formidable enemy, but that was an insignificant price to pay for this victory.

Her improbable good fortune and Lady Glade’s implausible tutelage simply seemed to accelerate from here. No matter where in Creation she went, no matter what school she attended, for two or three days a year Lady Glade - immediately recognizable despite her new face and name - would show up as visiting faculty and teach classes she would spend years unravelling the full significance of. She studied sorcery at the College of Fire in Ysr, etiquette and foreign relations at the House of Fragrant Smoke in Kamthahar while masquerading as a Fire Aspected Prince of the Earth, subterfuge and tradecraft at the Hall of Reflected Imperfections high in the glass towers of Chiaroscuro, economics and administration at the personal academy of Guild Factor Mai Xian. On her 22nd Calibration Lady Glade appeared to her once final time, congratulating her on her successful education and imparting to her a small memento and the promise that someday she would have need of Ember, and on that day she would again call upon her.

In the years since Ember demonstrated herself so uniquely invaluable to Factor Xian she was offered, and accepted, a position on her election campaign for Hierarch. Ember has organized and led trade caravans to Stygia, stolen priceless recipes and business secrets, negotiated treaties, reformed failing economies, and on very rare occasions assassinated particularly pernicious threats. She built an impressive reputation for herself in certain circles, and though Xian did not win a spot on the Directorate, Ember had built up the contacts required to work as a Guild consultant for wealthy clients across Creation. With the outbreak of the Realm Civil War and the resurgence of the Anathema her services have never been more in demand, and the deepest of pockets have always belonged to House Ragara. She has been on retainer for Ragara for the last year operating out of Lord’s Crossing, primarily gathering intelligence and assisting on sorcerous projects.

When at the age of 30 and the height of her storied career she drew her Second Breath as a Chosen of the Unconquered Sun in the midst of a shocked House Ragara planning meeting she felt it was a reward well earned. She merely calmly informed them this was a qualifying material event that demanded renegotiation under the terms of their contract, and that her fees would be increasing significantly going forward.
Attribute increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase - current rating x2
Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x 2)-1
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit new rating - x 3
Willpower - 8
Solar Charm - 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm - 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell - 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation - 10

BP spending - 20
10 - Willpower to 10
10 - Abilities
Extra Merits selected

Pumpkin Spice Cyanide · Jun 21, 2020

Name: Cathak Mors
Age: 28
Caste: Dawn
Supernal Ability: Melee

Attributes
Str: ●●●●●
Dex: ●●●●●
Sta: ●●●●●

Cha: ●●●●
Man: ●
App: ●●

Per: ●●●
Int: ●●
Wits: ●●●●

Abilities
*Archery: ●●● +firearms
**Athletics: ●●●●● +destruction
*Awareness: ●●●
*Brawl: ●●
Bureaucracy
Craft:
*Dodge: ●●●
**Integrity: ●●
Investigation
Larceny
**Linguistics:●
Lore:
Medicine
*Melee:●●●●● +axes
Occult
Performance:
**Presence:●●● +intimidation
*Resistance:●●●●●
Ride:
Sail
Socialize:
Stealth:
**Survival:●
*Thrown
*War:●
Languages: ●● - High Realm, Low Realm, Forest-tongue
Influence ●
Mighty Threw ●●●
Pain Tolerance: ●●●●

Willpower: 5

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Anima Banner:

Anima Effects
By feeding a mote of Essence into their anima, all Solars can evoke the following effects:
• The Solar may feel the brilliant presence of the sun relative to herself and know the exact time of day thereby. This works even if she’s underground or in the Wyld beyond Creation.
• The Solar may cause her Caste Mark to appear and display itself for as long as she desires.

In addition to these universal effects, Solars of each Caste enjoy a number of innate benefits:
Dawn Anima Effects
• At bonfire/iconic anima display, the Dawn adds half her Essence score (round up) to her base Initiative upon resetting to base after a successful decisive attack.
• For 10 motes, all of the Dawn’s combat and movement Charms with outstanding reset conditions are automatically reset. This effect can only be used once per day, becoming available again at sunrise.
• The Dawn Caste inspires terror in her foes. She adds half her Essence score (round up) in dice to all intimidating social influence. She may also intimidate targets which do not feel fear, such as automatons, golems, and certain undead.

The Great Curse
Limit Trigger:
The Solar is faced with the opportunity to advance his own cause by harming an innocent or ignoring one’s suffering.

Berserk Anger
The Solar rampages out of control, attacking and killing anything he sees. His killing spree begins with his enemies, but then turns to any innocent or uninvolved bystanders of the fight. He may spare characters he has a positive Tie towards from his rampage, but this protection vanishes if they try to impede him in any way.

Duration: Scene. Berserk Anger can be ended prematurely if the Solar runs out of valid victims to kill, or if he incapacitates someone he has a positive Tie toward.
Athletics

Cost: 2m; Mins: Athletics 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt leaps with the speed and grace of a striking hawk. Using this technique, a Solar may automatically leap forward or straight up one range band. A Solar using this Charm can easily leap to the top of a twenty foot wall or cross a Nexus street over rooftops, without having to roll. This Charm counts as the Solar’s movement for the turn. If the Solar continues to leap to a different range band each turn, the cost is reduced to one mote after the first activation.

Cost: 3m or 3i per dot; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar draws remarkable strength from deep within her core. For every three motes of Essence or Initiative the Exalt spends, her Strength score increases by one. Each dot of increase also raises the base damage of her decisive attacks by one. The Solar’s Strength cannot be increased by more than her Essence rating through use of this Charm, and may not grant her more than double her Strength score. Through use of Increasing Strength Exercise, Solars can reach the Strength minimums required to attempt certain feats of strength (p. 229).

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Increasing Strength Exercise, Monkey Leap Technique
The Exalt draws down on the Essence around her, pulling it through her upper body, her lungs, her core and down into her legs, and then explodes skyward, rising in a brilliant, Essence-laden arc. This Charm supplements a non-ranged attack which can be made against aerial targets up to short range, or ground targets at short range. The Solar leaps at her target, striking with incredible force—damage is doubled after it is rolled. If the Exalt uses this attack to move to short range, it counts as her movement action for the round. After striking an aerial opponent, the Exalt may fall one range band without taking damage.
Thunderbolt Attack Prana is expressly permitted to be used in conjunction with Charms of other Abilities, and it is suggested that the player use it to create a signature attack that fits the character’s attitude and style.

Melee

Excellent Strike
Cost: 3m; Mins: Melee 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt channels Essence through skill, honing her accuracy in order to strike true. Her attack gains one automatic success. Additionally, all 1s are rerolled until 1s no longer appear.

Fire and Stones Strike
Cost: 1m per die or success; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Excellent Strike
The Solar strikes with telling force, burning Essence surging into the body of her target and shattering it from within. On a withering attack, the Exalt spends up to her (Strength) score in motes before making the attack. If the attack hits, each mote spent adds a single die to the postsoak damage of the attack. This strike has the potential to increase minimum damage (p. 184).

On a decisive attack, the Exalt may spend up to (Essence or three, whichever is greater) motes before making the attack to transfer an equal number of extra successes from her attack roll into the raw damage of the blow.

One Weapon, Two Blows
Cost: 3m; Mins: Melee 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Excellent Strike
Sensing an opening, the Solar strikes with surpassing speed. Immediately after making a withering attack which lowers an opponent’s current Initiative from a value greater to a value less than the Solar’s own, she may use this Charm to unleash a second attack against that opponent. This second attack may be withering or decisive.

Peony Blossom Technique
Cost: 1m, 1wp, 3a; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: One Weapon, Two Blows
Drawing her raging anima inward, the Solar’s offense is renewed in a sudden burst of flashing, streaking fire. When the Exalt’s anima is at bonfire, she may use this Charm to make an additional attack, even if she’s already attacked that turn. The Exalt moves like ice on hot metal, expelling her anima with her attack and returning her to the dim level.

Dipping Swallow Defense
Cost: 2m; Mins: Melee 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
With speed and grace, the Exalt flashes to her own defense. Even when she is beleaguered she strikes away blows with preternatural accuracy. The Solar can ignore all penalties to parry an attack with her full Defense. In addition, any attack she successfully parries with Dipping Swallow Defense grants her one point of Initiative.

This Charm cannot by itself remove the penalties from a surprise attack.

Call the Blade
Cost: 1m; Mins: Melee 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Extending her hand, the Solar may summon her weapon with but a thought. This Charm can reach a weapon within short range. Roll (Wits + Melee) at difficulty 4. On a success, the weapon flashes to hand instantly, without traversing the space between. On a failure, the weapon leaps to the Solar’s hand, overcoming friction and gravity to do so. However, it is unable to defeat doors, chains, or other similar obstacles, and even if the path is unobstructed, the weapon does not return until the Solar’s next turn. The Exalt cannot use this power to steal weapons, only to call her own weapon to hand.

Presence

Cost: 5m or 7m; Mins: Presence 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver embodies virility, magnetism and grace, empowering her forces of persuasion. For five motes, this Charm grants three bonus dice to all forms of social influence from all Abilities except Stealth. In addition, the cost of all social influence Charms are reduced by one mote, to a minimum of one. The seven mote version of this Charm extends the duration to indefinite.

Cost: —; Mins: Presence 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver is a singular and terrifying being, awesome to behold. Learning this Charm grants one bonus die to all Presence rolls and allows the Exalt to reroll (Essence or three, whichever is greater) non-successes on rolls to intimidate. In addition, if the Solar has activated Majestic Radiant Presence, a character must resist an automatic intimidate attempt before he’s able to attempt an ambush attack. This effect does not make the Solar aware of her attacker—it simply means that, as her assassin draws a bead on her from the shadows, her fierce look and deadly grace emanates forth to cow him. The intimidate action may only be supported by Charms that are ongoing or otherwise can be used unconsciously.

Resistance

Cost: —; Mins: Resistance 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The bodies of the Exalted are much more durable than those of mere mortals. To help simulate this, an Exalt may buy extra health levels with this Charm. The purchasing choices are based on the character’s Stamina rating:

At Stamina 1 and 2: One -1 and one -2 health level.
3 and 4: One -1 and two -2 health levels.
5: One -0, one -1, and one -2 health level.

The Solar may purchase Ox-Body Technique (Resistance) times. If she increases her Stamina after purchasing Ox-Body Technique, her health levels automatically change to reflect the new rating.

Cost: 10m; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ox-Body Technique
Even when unconscious, the Solar’s body and Essence work in unison to knit wounds and mend broken bones. Roll the Solar’s (Stamina + Resistance) to speed her natural healing by a factor of (Essence x successes). Alternately, successes on this roll can be added directly to the successes of Wound-Mending Care Technique on page 342.
The Solar must spend an hour at rest for this power to take effect, but the boosted healing lasts for one day, so long as the Solar remains at rest.
Weapons:

Heavy
Accuracy: +0
Damage: +11
Defense: -1
Overwhelming: 1

Tags: Lethal, Melee, Reaching, Chopping, Two-Handed

Armor:

Heavy
Soak: 7
Mobility Penalty: -2
Health Levels
-0 ●●●●●
-1 ●●●●● ●
-1 ●●●●● ●
-3 ●
I ●

Join Battle: 7, +3

Willpower: 6

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Parry: 5 (dex+mel+specialty/2)[+/-weapon]
Evasion: 2 (dex+doge+spec/2)(-mobilepenalty)
Resolve: 4
Guile: 1

Natural Soak: 5
Armored Soak: 7
Total Soak: 12

Armor and Weapons
Weapons:

Heavy
Accuracy: +0
Damage: +11
Defense: -1
Overwhelming: 1

Tags: Lethal, Melee, Reaching, Chopping, Two-Handed

Armor:

Heavy
Soak: 7
Mobility Penalty: -2
Defining Principle: To protect Creation from the looming darkness
Defining Principle: To be the best one can be.
Major Tie: House Cathak (Longing)
Major Tie: Revenge (Sesus Tori)
Major Tie: There are many good Dragon Bloods
Minor Tie: Distrust (Anathema)

Background:
The famous Cathak Mors. A soldier of great renown despite his mortal status. His might and valiance put most soldiers to shame, and make even the Dragon Bloods turn their head in interest.

Through grit and pride he earned the respect of his House. Focused on becoming the best he could be so as to be worthy of his name. Even forgoing his coming of age ceremony to join his first Wyld Hunt.

That he never exalted, unlike his sisters, was no matter to Mors. Should mortality be his challenge, he would overcome it like everything else. Thus he began his military career in earnest. Being both an example and inspiration to his peers.

Years later, when the Anathema returned and took over the Imperial city. Mors fought at the vanguard of the Dynast Legions. His efforts making him a war hero! And there after Cathak Mors fought hard to defend the territories of the Realm against the monstrous invasion.

Of course, when one gets so successful, jealous eyes will always take notice. And Mors was no exception to this...

Cathak Aran. Mors eldest sister. She grew angry as her brothers exploits began to outpace her own. It brought her great shame that when approached by suitors and others that their tongues near always spoke of Mors and not her. SHE was Dragon Blooded and he was but a mortal! And his success was bringing her shame by making her look bad in comparison. Shame that she would not tolerate. Aran conspired with one Sesus Tori, to bring disaster.

In a heated battle in the east, the Legion fought against encroaching Anathema forces. Mors was the one that lead the charge. But no sooner did the armies clash than the legions armies rout. It was a decisive victory for the Anathema that forced the Realm to cede ground.

It was a fools gambit. One that was meant to fail. And the responsibility for the disaster was placed squarely on Mors. Lies, slander, and sabotage. Underhanded politics was his undoing. General Sesus Tori was the one responsible. For the orders given to charge and the subsequent loss. But Tori was a Dragon Blood with much influence. Mors had no chance at justice. The corruption too great to fight against.

Mors taken in chains. His fortune and property seized, and what couldnt be siezed was burned, including his beloved pet. His family disowned him and stripped him of all honors. Placing him behind bars to await execution.

With nothing left, Mors braved the injustice. He would not let them see him in weakness. But one took notice of him. The Unconquered Sun, seeing the greatness in the man, breathed power into him. Filling Mors body with essence and strength.

As the jailers came to escort him to execution... Mors was gone. He had ripped through chain and bars with his bare hands and broke free from the prison.

There was no understanding now. There was no going back. He was an Anathema. Like those he fought against so hard not that long ago. But... he was left with a dire warning. That great tragedy was about to befall Creation. As a man of duty... he knew what he had to do. Even if it would drive his family, and all that he knew, farther away from him. He could not let creation fall.

Dictums of the Burning Heart

Fair Play
Never attack an unarmed foe
Never charge an unhorsed opponent
Never attack from behind
Never cheat
Avoid torture

Nobility
Exhibit self-discipline
Show respect for authority
Obey the law
Administer justice
Protect the innocent
Live life worthy of respect and honor

Valor
Exhibit courage in word and deed
Avenge the wronged
Defend the weak and innocent
Fight with honor
Never abandon a friend, ally or noble cause

Honor
Always keep one's word
Always maintain one's principles
Never betray a confidence or comrade
Avoid deception
Respect life

Courtesy
Exhibit manners
Be polite and attentive
Be respectful of host and authority

Loyalty
To God, sovereign, country and code
Attribute increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase - current rating x2
Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x 2) -1
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit new rating - x 3
Willpower - 8
Solar Charm - 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm - 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell - 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation - 10

Total Xp Earned:
Xp Banked:

Solar Xp:

BP spending - 20
Stamina x4 - 12
Ability x6 - 6
Willpower x1 - 2

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