Dice Exalted 3E Solars of the Sky - Characters

Rykon · Jul 25, 2018

XP Grand Totals
24 XP
18 SXP

The crew roster starts here.

Reminder...
House Rules in place:
Character Creation
8/6/4 +2 free Attribute dots,
40 dots in Abilities
4 Specialties
20 Merit dots (Martial Artist merit unnecessary)
25 Charms
Starting Essence is 2

Bonus Points, Experience, and Solar Experience will all use the following cost guide. Each player will have 80 bonus points to spend at character creation.

Attributes 8/dot
Abilities 4/dot, 3 if favored
Specialty 2
Willpower 8/dot
Merits 3/dot
Charms and Spells 10, 8 if favored
Evocations 8 (+2 per evocation for each artifact dot after 3)

Note: All supernal ability charms will treat essence as 5 for all purposes. Supernal occult will make Celestial and Solar circle sorcery E2 and E3 respectively.

Raising any 2nd+ Craft or Martial Art to an equal or lesser rating of your highest is 2 XP cheaper.

There is one more house rule, technically. It's a set of criteria I use to give XP based on what happens in a limit break. What the character does in limit break (if it occurs) will be a collaborative effort between Story Teller and Player.

Sherwood · Jul 25, 2018

Name: Axtis Jen
Caste: Dawn
Age: 40
Supernal Ability: Archery

Attributes
Str: 3
Dex: 5
Sta: 3

Cha: 4
Man: 2
App: 3

Per: 4
Int: 3
Wits: 4

Abilities
**Archery: 5 - Bows
*Athletics: 3
*Awareness: 5 - Keen Eyesight
Brawl: 1
Bureaucracy: 2
Craft: 3 - Airship Mechanic
*Dodge: 5 - Ranged Attacks
Integrity: 2
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 3
Martial Arts
Medicine
*Melee: 2
Occult
Performance: 1
*Presence: 5
*Resistance: 3
Ride
*Sail: 5 - Airships
Socialize: 1
*Stealth: 2
Survival: 1
Thrown
War: 3
Artifact - Orichalcum Powerbow - Hunting Hawk: 4
Artifact - Orichalcum Lamellar Armor - Dauntless: 5
Artifact - Wings of the Raptor: 4
Contacts: 3
Followers - Ships Crew of 12 for the Righteous Indignation: 1
Hearthstone - Gem of Incomparable Wellness: 4 (+4 motes per hour)
Hearthstone - Gem of Fair Winds: 4 (+4 motes per hour)
Languages: 2 - Skytongue, Forest-Tongue, Riverspeak
Resources: 3

Willpower: 7
Essence: 2
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 40 / 27
Committed: 13

Anima Power
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.

Virtue Flaw: 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.
Archery - Supernal Ability

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.

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Archery 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Wise Arrow
The Solar strums her bow and fills the air with sharp notes. This Charm allows the Exalt to attack multiple targets, or a single target multiple times, by spreading her total current Initiative between decisive attacks. Each attack must contain at least three Initiative, and extra Initiative must be spread as evenly as possible between shots. For example, an Exalt with 11 Initiative attacking three targets could make two decisive attacks with four raw damage, and a third with only three. In addition, each 10 she rolls on an attack increases the base damage of that attack by one. The Exalt’s Initiative does not reset until she has completed every attack, and she may not make more attacks than she has ammunition or Dexterity. This attack can be made without an aim action.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Archery 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Palming a mote of Essence, the Lawgiver pulls a thorn from her heart and fires it at the breast of her enemy. With this Charm, the Solar may continue firing her bow even when she has run out of arrows. In addition, once per scene, the Exalt may suffuse a phantom or physical arrow with the import of one of her Intimacies. Doing so gives her attack a number of non-Charm bonus dice equal to the Intimacy’s strength, but also temporarily numbs her to that Intimacy. She may not use this attack again until she has spent significant effort in restoring or remembering the Intimacy, or in the case of a negative Intimacy, has been reminded of her motivation for her ire.
Adamant Arrow Technique: At Essence 3+, the Solar may infuse a single phantom or physical arrow per scene with her enduring Essence. So long as she lives, the arrow cannot be destroyed or pulled from the target. Such arrows can be moved by cutting away the base into which they have landed—a tree can still be cut down, a wall still reduced to rubble—but the arrow will remain inviolate.
Only the Solar who fired this arrow, or one blessed with her permission, may remove it from its resting place.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Archery 4, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Phantom Arrow Technique
Charging her arrow with Essence, the Exalt fires a heavy shot that rends the air as it passes onto her target, lighting the arrow on fire. If the arrow strikes flammable materials, a violent blaze instantly seeks to consume the struck object. This fire is natural, and may spread to surrounding objects or cause combustible materials to explode. When used in a decisive attack against a target, it adds one automatic success to the damage roll. If the attack does at least three health levels of damage, the target catches on fire, and must contend with (Solar’s Essence) lethal dice of damage every turn until he’s able to extinguish himself.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Trance of Unhesitating Speed
Seething with remonstrative ire, the Solar palms a storm of Essence and fills the sky with demonstrative fire. With this attack, the Solar unleashes a barrage of arrows around a focus, striking up to (Essence * 3) targets up to medium range from her initial target. Roll a single attack against the defenses of every target, and then apply damage. These extra decisive attacks carry a base damage of her Perception—divvy up her current Initiative evenly among the remaining shots to determine the total raw damage of each attack. Arrows reaching out to medium range from her initial target are expressly allowed to ignore the range limitations of her weapon without penalty. The Exalt’s Initiative does not reset until every damage roll has been completed.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Trance of Unhesitating Speed
To invite the wrath of the Lawgiver is to invoke one’s own doom. The Solar gains (Essence) automatic successes to her Join Battle result, and if she acts before her target, her first attack is unblockable. Flashing Vengeance Draw is expressly permitted to be used in combination with Charms that boost Join Battle results, so long as they are not based in Melee, Thrown, or Brawl.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Fiery Arrow Attack
The Solar shoots from her heart; the arrow is part of her. As such, she can sometimes reach out and draw her Essence across an arrow in flight, causing it to flash and flare, surging toward its target like a smite from the sun. This Charm can only be activated on an attack supplemented by Fiery Arrow Attack; when the attack generates at least one 10, this Charm adds one automatic success to the attack, and for each 10 in the attack roll it adds one die to the attack’s raw damage. As the name suggests, Dazzling Flare Attack goes off like a spectacular flare that can be seen for miles—every target using shadows for cover within two range bands must roll Stealth, with a -2 success penalty to the attempt, or be revealed.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Archery 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Phantom Arrow Technique
Honing her skill and focusing her will, the Exalt births a stunning varicolored bow from her palm. This Charm creates a weapon with stats identical to a powerbow, described on page 598. The weapon is made of solidified Essence forged in all the colors of Solar anima, and glows like a torch. For additional purchases, players may add custom Evocations to Immaculate Golden Bow. Players should work with their Storyteller to create Evocations that fit the character’s personality or iconic anima manifestation. In addition, Immaculate Golden Bow has the following power:
Sky-Eater’s Crest: For four motes, Immaculate Golden Bow is transformed for a single turn, growing wings, spines, fins, or other appendages appropriate to the Exalt’s iconic manifestation, providing a barrier of heavy cover against ranged attacks.

Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Perilous, Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Arrow Storm Technique
Holding arrows between each finger, the Solar draws down on her target, firing with profound speed and focus. The Solar may draw and attack a single target repeatedly, launching multiple withering attacks until she either misses or crashes her opponent. Revolving Bow Discipline can only be used within short or close range, and can’t be used on targets already in crash.
At Essence 4+, the Solar gains one point of temporary Willpower when she crashes a foe with this attack.

Cost: 3m per duplicate, 1wp; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Phantom Arrow Technique
The Lawgiver hones her killing prowess, splitting an arrow into a devastating barrage. The Exalt only needs a single arrow to fire this shot; her one arrow splits into multiple arrows and all are directed against a single target. The Solar may split her shot into a maximum of (Dexterity) arrows. If the attack hits, each created arrow hits with a raw damage equal to the Solar’s current Initiative minus her successes on the previous damage roll. Therefore, if she rolls 10 damage dice and gains two successes on the first roll, the second roll will feature eight damage dice. If that gains four successes, her third damage roll will be four dice. If the Exalt runs out of damage dice due to successful hits, her created arrows cannot do less than (Essence) damage each.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dazzling Flare Attack
The Lawgiver draws a blazing bolt of Essence across her bow and fires it. The attack ignores the range of her weapon, and can be made from medium or long range without an aim action, or extreme range with an aim action. The Exalt must have higher Initiative than her target to use this attack; the conjured Spike does not use the Solar’s Initiative to do damage, but instead has a raw damage equal to her current temporary Willpower multiplied by one or the rating of any Intimacy she is trying to uphold or protect. Solar Spike is incompatible with Fiery Arrow Attack and Rain of Feathered Death, and does not reset the Exalt’s Initiative to base on a hit. Solar Spike may only be used once per scene, but can be reset by landing a withering attack with six 10s rolled across the attack and damage rolls.

Cost: 3m, 3a; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Solar Spike
The Solar’s judgment scourges her target with devouring flames. She may only pay to use this attack when unleashing Solar Spike, and when her anima is at bonfire. Instead of conjuring Solar Spike, the Solar draws her anima as if she were pulling an arrow from a quiver, her iconic manifestation taking the form of a living, screaming missile. This attack follows the rules of Solar Spike, but adds the Solar’s Initiative to the raw damage of the attack. This does cause the Lawgiver’s Initiative to reset on a hit, but if Heart-Eating Incineration kills her target, the target’s body and soul are engulfed in a torrent of flames and burned away completely, restoring a number of motes to the Solar equal to her Intimacy rating for the target plus his permanent Essence score. Using Heart-Eating Incineration resets the Solar’s anima to the dim level. Spirits destroyed with this attack may still reform as they normally might.

Cost: 6m, 1wp
Mins: Archery 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dazzling Flare Attack
The Solar channels her fiery Essence into an arrow that explodes on impact. This is a non-standard decisive attack that targets no particular character directly, but the range band they’re standing in. The shot lands without a roll, and everything at close range to the arrow is subject to an explosion that can’t be parried, only dodged. The explosion has an attack pool of the Solar’s Initiative (maximum 10 dice), and rolls decisive damage equal to the Solar’s Initiative. If this attack is successful against at least one enemy, then it resets the Solar’s Initiative to base. It can expressly be used to blow up inanimate objects, scenery, and siege weaponry without affecting the Solar’s Initiative.
All characters struck by this attack are knocked out of the exploded range band and land prone, losing one Initiative each, not transferred to the Solar. Characters blown down by this Charm have no control over where they land; characters who dodge this explosion are automatically knocked to the next range band, but they do not lose Initiative nor do they fall to prone, simply rolling to their feet or skidding along on their heels without losing balance.
If used to damage a battle group, Nova Arrow Attack causes disarray and panic, applying a -2 success penalty to its next attack.

Cost: 3m, 1wp and 1m per damage die
Mins: Archery 5, Essence 5
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Heart-Eating Incineration, Nova Arrow Attack
The Exalt pours incandescent Solar Essence through her bow, firing a streaking shot of immolating flame. If the Solar has 15+ Initiative then she may use this Charm to unleash a horrific attack against opponents a minimum of three range bands away. If successful, this attack does (greater of Essence or three) automatic damage, and dice on the damage roll may be augmented at a rate of one mote per die, to a limit of (half current Initiative rounded up).
Where this arrow strikes, it will send out a line of burning destruction, one range band for every five Initiative (rounded up). Everything caught in this burning nova swath takes damage; characters are subject to a high intensity (6L/round) bonfire, while scenery takes fiat levels of damage. A character struck with this attack is likewise flung backwards one range band for every three health levels lost from the attack. If a Solar uses this Charm against a ship made of natural materials, every three damage successes equals a point of hull damage. If she uses it against a battle group, they are automatically at -2 successes from their next rout check. Solar Judgment Flare can be used without an aim action.

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; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Monkey Leap Technique
Striking an efficacious pose, the Exalt catches the wind to slow a fall. This allows her to drop down two range bands without taking damage. In order to survive a very long fall with this Charm, the Solar must use it at least once every three bands. The Exalt can also use this Charm to drift long distances through the air, expending her movement action to float forward a single range band even as she continues to fall. With an adequate amount of thrust, the Exalt can glide across long horizontal distances without falling, equaling her initial movement forward. For example, if she were to leap out over a chasm two range bands across with Monkey Leap Technique, she could then activate Soaring Crane Leap to glide across the second range band on her next turn. Appropriate stunts can increase straight across movement before the Exalt begins to drop.

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.

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.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind
The Solar’s preternatural awareness of her surroundings makes her nearly impossible to harm. Even when struck unaware, she may part herself from her foe’s attack, undoing the damage that was done to her. This Charm may be activated in response to an ambush attack, a trap, or other damaging effect the Solar is completely unaware of, setting her Evasion to two against the attack and adding an additional point of Evasion for every 1 or 2 in the attack (before Charms such as Excellent Strike). If the Solar’s Evasion recovers to its full value, she may apply additional Dodge Charms if necessary.

Cost: —; Mins: Dodge 4, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind
The Solar’s skill at evasion is such that her dodges wither away at her opponent’s momentum. When she successfully dodges an attack, her opponent loses one point of Initiative in addition to any other Initiative he may have lost for failing the attack.

Cost: —; Mins: Dodge 5, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Searing Quicksilver Flight
This Charm permanently upgrades its prerequisite; the one point of Initiative lost by the opponent is gained by the Solar.

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Dodge 5, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Force-Stealing Feint
The Solar’s perfect form is quicker than an eyeblink and more tractile than water. Once per scene, the Solar may invoke this Charm to dodge any attack from any source without a contest. The Solar’s anticipation of harm is so perfect that she can even evade recurring uncountable damage with a single use. As a cyclone tears apart a mountain, the Exalt steps through the vortex unharmed. As the Pole of Earth spills down atop her, she escapes into the seeps and fissures of the world, moving like a fleeing shadow. This Charm may be reset by using Reed in the Wind to dodge three decisive attacks from dangerous opponents.

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.

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.

Resistance

Cost: 2m; Mins: Resistance 1, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through the practiced motions of a master, the Lawgiver dons her armor with supernatural speed. With this Charm, it takes a character ([armor’s mobility penalty] + 1) turns to don or remove a suit of armor.

Cost: 4m or 6m; Mins: Resistance 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Whirlwind Armor-Donning Prana
The Solar slides into her armor like it was second skin, Essence smoothing the way. The Exalt invokes this Charm when she equips her armor. So long as she wears her armor, its mobility is treated as if it were 0, removing the penalty to her movement, Stealth actions, and Evasion. If the Exalt is wearing light or medium armor, this Charm costs four motes. If she is wearing heavy armor, it costs six motes. If her armor’s mobility is already 0, she can reroll a single non-successful die on her Join Battle roll.

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: 4m; Mins: Resistance 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ox-Body Technique
Once per day, the Exalt can draw from the deep well of her vitality to restore her momentum. Roll half the Solar’s total health levels, rounded up, and add successes to her Initiative score. Do not include temporary health levels created by Iron Skin Concentration, Living Bonds Unburdened, or similar Charms. This Charm is reset when the Solar awakens from a full night’s rest.

Sail

Cost: —; Mins: Sail 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar is the consummate mariner, seasoned by hardships, tried by adversity and proven true. This Charm gives the Exalt the following advantages:
• The Solar’s expertise often saves the ship. Reroll any 6s in the result of a Sail roll until 6s no longer appear.
• She is inured to supernatural horror. Fear effects caused by monsters, behemoths, demons, Yozis, and other existentially terrifying beings have less of an effect. Add half the Exalt’s Sail (rounded up) to her Resolve against such influence.
• If she fails a balance check on land or sea, she still falls down, but then she immediately falls up, landing on her feet. In addition, she can never fall from a ship. Even the most stumble-footed bastard will find a way to keep from going overboard.
• By land or by sea, the Exalt knows the exact distance and route to anywhere she’s been before.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Sail 3, Essence 1
Type:Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Essence of a ship knows its master. This Charm claims a ship. If it was not owned by one of the Exalted, the ship disregards its former master. Those who do not bear the Exalt’s remit suffer a -1 penalty to all actions taken on the Solar’s ship until she has formally welcomed them aboard. The Exalt may renounce her welcome at any time, restoring this penalty at her pleasure. In addition, if the Lawgiver’s positive intimacy toward the ship achieves Major or Defining status, the Exalt may draw up to five motes from her bond with the ship, once per day, but she must be shipboard to do so. Drawing motes from more than one ship or familiar in a day causes all motes past five to dissipate at the end of the round.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Sail 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Ship-Claiming Stance
The Solar channels her Essence through the ship’s hull, smoothing the timbers with a thin layer of frictionless anima and causing it to glide more easily through or over the water. This Charm increases the ship’s speed by one for its duration.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Sail 4, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: Ship-Sleeking Technique
The Solar’s anima enshrouds the ship, concentrating around the bow and waterline and causing it to cut through the water more effectively. The ship’s speed is increased by one for the Charm’s duration. This Charm is incompatible with Wave-Riding Discipline.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Sail 5, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One turn
Prerequisite Charms: Ship-Claiming Stance
By bracing herself against the ship and channeling Essence through it at the moment of impact, the Solar can cause her anima to absorb the damage, leaving the ship unharmed. The Exalt triggers this effect at the moment of impact, negating all damage to the ship’s hull and masts. The Solar may only protect an area of the ship within (Essence * 20) feet of her current position. Some hazards, such as coral reefs or hidden rocks may cause continuous damage to the ship, forcing the Lawgiver to trigger this effect repeatedly. If so, ignore the willpower cost for repeated consecutive uses.
Orichalcum Hunting Hawk (Orichalcum Powerbow, Artifact ••••)

Core book, 623
Though few records speak of it today, there once stood a forge-manse called Skyfire, built upon the peak of the highest mountain in the West. Its master, the artisan Shan Irrak of the Golden Forge, was renowned among those who worked orichalcum. In time, he fell in love with a predator-spirit of the skies named Red Wing, and forged a magnificent weapon in her honor: a powerbow carved in the likeness of a hawk, with perfect rubies for eyes, glittering orichalcum claws, and flawlessly carved and polished wings. It was a weapon of devotion, and a pure expression of the aerial predator. He made Hunting Hawk a gift of his love, but that love survived the ages no more than did Shan Irrak or his fantastic manse. Red Wing was torn asunder when the Fair Folk invaded Creation, and the magnificent bow fell from the pages of history, lost in the tumult of the Wyld Crusade.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+12 DMG, OVW 4)
Accuracy: Close −1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1
Tags: Lethal, Archery (Long)
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Dreams of the First Age

Evocations of Hunting Hawk
A Solar who attunes to Orichalcum Hunting Hawk may close his eyes and see with the glittering cut-ruby clarity of the bow, piercing through all earthly haze and distraction. Any attack made with the bow which benefits from an aim bonus ignores all penalties due to poor visibility—up to and including being able to instinctively sight and target in pitch blackness, or when blind.

Dauntless (Orichalcum Lamellar Armor, Artifact •••••)

Core book 624
When Zan the Invincible, Sword of Heaven, stood alone against an army of thirty men, his Circlemates worried. When he stood alone against an army of sixty men, they asked him to wait for them next time. Finally, when he stood alone against an army of one hundred men, they knew they must act. While the Dawn’s back was turned, Arem Bear-Arms, the silent Nightbringer, collected strands of hair from every soldier in the single-handedly crushed battalion in the blink of an eye. He gave them to Zhui the Traveler, the industrious Copper Spider, who used them to fashion arcane fibers that would lash together orichalcum plates in a suit of shining lamellar armor, enchanted with a blessing from the spirit of zeal for the challenge of battle. To this, Zhui added great domed pauldrons etched with Old Realm runes depicting tales of grand triumph, and a hauberk of orichalcum to wear beneath the plates.
From then on, Zan’s Circlemates were assured that though he would continue to leap headfirst into overwhelming odds, he would have their aid even in their absence. An Exalt who revels in the thrill of combat and possesses unparalleled valor finds that this armor amplifies her natural ability to throw herself wholly into strife and emerge victorious.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (Soak +8, Hardness 7, Mobility Penalty −1)
Tags: None
Hearthstone slot(s): Dauntless possesses two hearthstone sockets, one on each shoulder.

Evocations of Dauntless
By paying four extra motes at attunement, Dauntless grants the Solar great strength and ferocity, adding one non-Charm automatic success to any attempt to lift or break an object and treating his Strength as if it were three higher for all such attempts. It also loves to absorb punishment: any decisive damage roll that has at least a single 1 in the result is reduced by a single success; while in full defense, the armor absorbs all the 1s and 2s of attack rolls made by battle groups, adding them to the Solar’s Initiative. The Exalt may gain no more than five Initiative per round in this fashion.

Wings of the Raptor (Moonsilver Artifact ••••)

While it’s said that Teremi Salo cut the first Wings of the Raptor from a wind dragon’s hide, these feathered cloaks were usually sewn with moonsilver thread from the skins of hybroc or strix. The cloak’s moonsilver clasp has a socket for a single hearthstone. Attuning the cloak commits one mote.

Evocations of the Wings of the Raptor
Unless the Exalt is dissonant with moonsilver, she unlocks Raptor Takes Flight for no experience cost when she first attunes to the Wings of the Raptor.

Raptor Takes Flight
Cost: 10m (8m), 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Dissonant
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisites: None
The cloak unfurls into feathered wings with a 20-foot span. As long as the wearer has sufficient clearance, she can fly as though she had the five-dot version of
the Wings Merit (Exalted, p. 167). For each of the following Charms the Exalt knows, reduce the cost of Raptor Takes Flight by two motes: Soaring Crane Leap, Unbound Eagle Approach, Eagle-Wing Style. A Lunar with a flying form reduces the cost by five motes.
Treat Raptor Takes Flight as Eagle-Wing Style for purposes of activating Bonfire Anima Wings.
Dissonant: The wings’ precision and maneuverability are equivalent to the Merit’s three-dot version.

Gem of Incomparable Wellness (Wood, Greater)

Keywords: Dependent, Linked
This cluster of emerald crystals continually changes shape, with new crystals budding and subsuming the old. Endless vitality suffuses its bearer, mending her wounds with unnatural swiftness. If she commits three motes to the stone, she regains one bashing health level per ten minutes, one lethal health level per hour, and one aggravated health level per day. Fatal diseases or lethal deprivation, such as starvation, dehydration, or drowning, only render her unconscious. Even dismemberment or cremation merely fills her health track with lethal or aggravated damage, respectively, from which she will eventually regenerate. This power only terminates if the Exalt loses attunement to the stone, or if it becomes inert or is destroyed.

Gem of Fair Winds (Greater)

Keywords: Manse-born
This azure blue stone has a small white swirl on one side. It ensures that all winds within three miles of this stone blows in the direction the swirl is facing. The wind blows no harder or softer than normal, but always blows in the correct direction. If someone changes the stone’s orientation, the direction of the wind shifts gradually over the next 15 minutes until it blows in the new direction.
Health Levels
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Willpower: 7
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 40 / 27
Committed: 13

Join Battle: 9 +3 Successes - +5 Successes from Flashing Vengeance Draw (3m)

Parry: 4
Evasion: 5 / 6 vs Ranged Attacks

Resolve: 4
Guile: 2

Personal Soak: 3
Total Soak: 11 / Hardness: 7

Powerbow: Type: Medium (+12 DMG, OVW 4) Accuracy: Close −1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1
Short Sword: Type: Light (+7 DMG, OVW 1) Accuracy: +4
Defining: Protect the Lives of her Crew
Defining: Protect the Ship - Righteous Indignation
Major: Her Children (Love)
Major: Make the World a Better Place
Minor: Hatred of Slavery

When Axtis was in her late teens, she fell in love with a dashing airship pilot named Ragnar Jen, and after a whirlwind romance, the two were married with a pair of adorable twins on the way. With Ragnar's work in the sky, Axtis was naturally drawn to the joy of flying over the Haltan countryside next to her husband. She would frequently join him in his trips across the region, and soon learned the in's and out's of operating an airship.

On one cloudy day of another routine cargo run between towns in the north-east, disaster struck in the form of another airship attacking them right out of the blue. After a few well placed shots from a catapult, their own ship was damaged and a third of the crew were dead, along with the Captain and her beloved Ragnar. Soon, the other ship was maneuvering up along side to board them, and the remaining crew were in a panic. All Axtis could do was hold her dead husband and sob uncontrollably.

As Axtis was crying for her loss, her young son and daughter came up to her and begged her to keep them safe. Suddenly, a bright lance of sunlight cut its way through the thick clouds and illuminated Axtis with the glory of the Sun. Something inside her clicked, and she assured her twins that she was going to make it all ok. Pushing aside her grief, she started snapping orders to the crew in a tone of command that would not be denied. While the surviving crew prepared to be boarded, Axtis grabbed the bow from the hands of the dead Captain and could feel the power inside it.

Burning with the newfound power of the Unconquered Sun, the woman was able to repel the invading pirates, leaving her broken and battered, but alive with her children. It did not take her long to realize that her life as a mere mortal wife and mother was long gone, and she was going to have to go on the run to stay alive. Leaving her normal life behind, Axtis took to her beloved sky once more, this time as a Exalted of the Sun, struggling to rebuild her life. As the years went by, her children grew to adulthood and Axtis continued to journey across Creation, looking for her next adventure.
Trait Experience Cost
Attributes 8/dot
Abilities 4/dot, 3 if favored
Specialty 2
Willpower 8/dot
Merits 3/dot
Charms and Spells 10, 8 if favored
Evocations 8 (+2 per evocation for each artifact dot after 3)

Xp Earned: 24
Xp Banked:

Solar Xp:
Banked:

Wish List
Hauberk-Summoning Gesture
Sight Without Eyes pg 255
There is no Wind pg 257
Hull-Taming Transfusion pg 390
War Charms

Psychie · Jul 25, 2018

Name: Griffon
Caste: Night
Age: 31
Supernal Ability: Larceny

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 5
Sta: 3

Cha: 3
Man: 5
App: 4

Per: 3
Int: 2
Wits: 4

Abilities
Archery: 1
*Athletics: 5
*Awareness: 4
*Brawl
Bureaucracy
Craft: 1
*Dodge: 5 - Ranged Attacks
Integrity: 2
*Investigation: 5
**Larceny: 5 - Sleight of Hand
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 1
*Martial Arts: 5 - Flamepieces
Medicine
Melee: 1
Occult: 3
Performance: 1
Presence: 3
*Resistance: 3
Ride
Sail: 2
*Socialize: 5
*Stealth: 5 - Vanish in Plain Sight
Survival: 1
*Thrown: 1
War
Ambidextrous: 1
Artifact - Blue Jade Devil Caster - Sirrush: 4
Artifact - Starmetal Reinforced Buff Jacket - Kaijin: 3
Artifact - Starmetal Serpent Sting Staff - Gnomon: 4
Artifact - Lightning Ballista: 4 (On the Righteous Indignation)
Contacts: 3
Languages: 2 - Skytongue, Riverspeak, Forest-Tongue
Manse - Stone of the Vanisher: 2 (+2 motes per hour)
Resources: 3

Willpower: 7
Essence: 2
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 40 / 25
Committed: 15

Night Caste 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 Unconquered Sun (see p. 273) or other all-seeing magic.

Virtue Flaw: 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 restrain himself from committing acts of murder or rape, he will not hesitate to destroy property or physically harm others to get what he wants.
Duration: Session.
Rampaging Avarice can be ended prematurely if the Solar harms an innocent in order to get what he wants—but only after he’s done enjoying it.
Athletics

Cost: 3m; Mins: Athletics 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar draws Essence through her pores and into her bones, suffusing and lightening her form and steadying her step. For the rest of the scene, she has perfect balance, and can stand or run on things too narrow or weak to support her normally, with no chance of falling or breaking through. She can run on a guy wire, stand on a crumbling parapet, balance on the tip of a pine tree, and perform many similar feats without needing to roll (Dexterity + 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; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Like a flashing bolt, the Exalt streaks toward her goal, trailing streamers of anima. This Charm can be used to enhance a rush action (see p. 197). The Exalt moves with terrific speed—add one automatic success and reroll all 5s and 6s until 5s and 6s fail to appear. Lightning Speed can also be used each interval of a foot race or other test of speed (see p. 197).

Cost: 3m; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Until the Exalt stops running
Prerequisite Charms: Graceful Crane Stance, Lightning Speed
Lightening her step and balancing carefully, the Exalt may run across fluid surfaces. She may dash over unstable surfaces as if they were solid and move over surfaces no thicker than rice paper without breaking through. At full speed, she may also move across lava or other dangerous surfaces without getting hurt. This effect lasts until the Exalt stops dashing. As long as she is moving at a quick pace, she need not pay the activation cost again.
At Athletics 5, Essence 2+, the Exalt can pause on unstable surfaces without breaking through, changing the duration of this Charm to “one stunt.” She can walk slowly across the surface of a still pond, pause on the crumbling parapet of a castle to give a speech, and so on. This means if she’s using the Charm to dash across the water to reach a boat, then decides to pause on the water’s surface to address the captain, she must use the Charm twice. If the Exalt is still standing on an unstable surface and is unwilling or unable to renew Feather Foot Style, she becomes subject to the normal laws of gravity and buoyancy. Also note: while she may safely dash across a caustic or burning surface, standing on top of lava and other dangerous surfaces will cause harm.

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 nonranged 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.

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.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind
The Solar’s preternatural awareness of her surroundings makes her nearly impossible to harm. Even when struck unaware, she may part herself from her foe’s attack, undoing the damage that was done to her. This Charm may be activated in response to an ambush attack, a trap, or other damaging effect the Solar is completely unaware of, setting her Evasion to two against the attack and adding an additional point of Evasion for every 1 or 2 in the attack (before Charms such as Excellent Strike). If the Solar’s Evasion recovers to its full value, she may apply additional Dodge Charms if necessary.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Dodge 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt slips away from an attack that would have struck her. When using this Charm, the Solar successfully evades an attack roll bearing successes equal to her Evasion. This Charm may be invoked after the attack roll is made.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Drifting Leaf Elusion
Like a shadow on water, the Solar’s presence haunts her enemies with dreams of the untouchable. For an instant, this Charm removes any penalties to the Exalt’s Evasion.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Dodge 4, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Shadow Over Water
The Exalt permeates her being with Essence, becoming partly atomized. For the rest of the scene, when dodging attacks by opponents with lower Initiative than her own, the Lawgiver ignores all penalties to her Evasion. Attacks which miss her often seem to pass harmlessly through her dreamlike form. While this Charm is active, Reed in the Wind costs only one Initiative per Evasion, and each round that the Solar remains within close range of an enemy without being struck by an attack—either due to her Evasion, or due to not being attacked—she gains a point of Initiative.

Larceny - Supernal Ability

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: 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: 1m; Mins: Larceny 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt’s jaded insights give her a talent for seeing through the gambits of her opponents. This Charm supplements a read intentions action against an opponent in a game of chance or strategy, lowering the target’s Guile by two. If successful, it tells the Lawgiver how her opponent feels about his current chances. For example, a target who is acting morose but feels exultant is almost certainly bluffing.

Cost: 1m or 5m; Mins: Larceny 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt may open a mundane lock simply by touching it and paying five motes. Alternately, she may challenge a sorcerous lock with her picking tools, paying one mote to gain double 9s and (Essence) automatic successes. This version of the Charm guarantees that she successfully picks the lock even if her roll fails, however, a failure constitutes some unwanted occurrence—perhaps she springs a trap, breaks the lock loudly, snaps her lock-pick, etc.

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 attended 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: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Larceny 3, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar becomes the light which swallows the shadow. The player rolls (Wits + Larceny), doubles and banks any successes. Banked successes can be reflexively applied to a single Larceny or Stealth action. This effect lasts until the Exalt sleeps, and can be renewed only once per day.

Cost: -1 Initiative per success; Mins: Larceny 4, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Living Shadow Preparedness
The Lawgiver can borrow against her own talent to bolster larcenous action. This Charm can be used to aid in protecting the Lawgiver’s disguise during a roll off, to pick a lock, to pickpocket, or to establish Stealth. It can also be used to enhance any social action contrived to swindle a target. For every one automatic success the Charm adds to the selected action, the Solar loses one Initiative from her next Join Battle result. The maximum number of successes a Solar can add between battles is half her Join Battle pool, rounded up. This debt is automatically cleared after completing a full night’s rest. Unshakable Rogue’s Spirit cannot be used in combat.

Cost: 6m; Mins: Larceny 4, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Flawless Pickpocketing Technique
Long ago, the Solars stole the implements of their virtue from beneath the gaze of the gods’ own masters. This Charm is similar in all ways to its prerequisite, except that it allows the Solar to steal an object from plain sight. The Exalt might swipe a book from a table or take a sword from a soldier’s scabbard. Such a theft cannot be noticed for (Solar’s Essence) minutes unless circumstances call attention to it, such as a soldier attempting to draw his stolen blade.

Cost: 1wp; Mins: Larceny 5, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Stealing from Plain Sight Spirit
The Exalt moves with imperceptible speed, manipulating Essence flows to steal an object out of reach. This Charm supplements a normal attempt to steal or pickpocket, save that it gives the Solar’s attempt double 9s and allows her to reach an object (Essence) yards away. She may even steal objects behind glass without disturbing the glass through use of this Charm.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Larceny 4, Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Lock-Opening Touch
Some doors are not locked by conventional means; some are sealed by complex sorcery or mechanisms hidden out of sight; still others are bounded by dozens or even hundreds of locks, making it implausible to pick them all. Yet no door may bar the Lawgiver’s entrance. The Exalt reaches for the door as if to touch it, and then steps forward. When her foot falls, she is on the other side of the portal. The Solar can use this talent to pass through a locked window, a sewer grate, a dropped portcullis or even an archway that drips lightning. This Charm is based on the Solar’s illimitable skill for infiltration; she cannot pass through solid walls or reach into a sealed chest and fish around.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Larceny 5, Essence 3
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise
With a rending of air, the Solar sweeps away the mask she once wore. This Charm supplements a disguise attempt by reducing the time it takes from five minutes to instant. When used in combination with another Larceny-based disguise Charm, ignore the Willpower cost.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Larceny 4, Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Flawless Pickpocketing Technique
Stealing from the Lawgiver is a risky proposition at best. With this Charm, the Exalt gains two automatic successes to an Awareness roll to detect any attempt to pickpocket from her person.
Upon successfully noticing an attempted theft with this Charm, the theft is not only thwarted, but the thief is left open to reprisal. If the thief is close enough to touch, the Lawgiver becomes aware of every object on his person that may be stolen (as per the rules of pickpocketing on page 224) and can attempt to steal one of these objects with all of the same advantages as Flawless Pickpocketing Technique.

Cost: 3m, 4i; Mins: Larceny 5, Essence 3
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Stealing from Plain Sight Spirit, Reversal of Fortune
This Charm demonstrates the skill of a Lawgiver to steal the very weapon from her foe’s hand. When used, this Charm alters a disarm gambit (see p. 199) in the following ways:
• The cost of the gambit is replaced by the cost of the Charm.
• The gambit is considered a reflexive action rather than a combat action, leaving the Exalt free to attack in addition to disarming. Doing so carries no Defense penalty.
• The Lawgiver’s Initiative roll gains double 9s.
On a success, the Exalt steals her target’s weapon. If the stolen weapon is an artifact, it breaks the target’s attunement and allows the Exalt to commit motes to instantly attune the weapon. If the Exalt cannot or will not pay these motes, the weapon is merely cast aside as if it were disarmed normally.
A Solar who uses whips, lassos, rope darts or other prehensile weaponry may use this Charm at the range of her weapon.

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: 2m; Mins: Resistance 1, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through the practiced motions of a master, the Lawgiver dons her armor with supernatural speed. With this Charm, it takes a character ([armor’s mobility penalty] + 1) turns to don or remove a suit of armor.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Resistance 3, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Whirlwind Armor-Donning Prana
The Solar can call her armor from conceptual Elsewhere—defined categorically as a point somewhere in existence that is “not here”—allowing her to don each piece of armor as if she were putting it on normally. If the Solar owns a shield, she may call it to hand as well. The Lawgiver can also send her armor Elsewhere through use of this Charm.

Stealth

Cost: 3m; Mins: Stealth 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver evades detection by hiding in plain sight. A Solar with this Charm is able to drift unnoticed through crowds or alone. This Charm models her talent for blending in and remaining unobtrusive. When active, characters cannot notice her unless she takes overt action. Such actions include any display of prowess—leaping from the street to the rooftops, braving a snowstorm in summer clothes, etc. Join Battle always counts as an overt action. This skill does not work against alert guards or those who intend to stop everyone (as with a checkpoint), but can be overcome by magic only if the user has a Minor or greater Intimacy to the Solar or a Major or Defining Intimacy to a cause the Exalt’s presence directly threatens. Certain Charms may aid in detecting the Exalt. Roll the Lawgiver’s ([Wits or Dexterity] + Stealth) against her opponent’s relevant (Attribute + Ability) or Resolve, if the attacking Charm is based on the opponent’s Integrity.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Stealth 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Easily-Overlooked Presence Method
The surreptitious Exalt may even hide in the spaces between thoughts. Roll the Exalt’s (Dexterity + Stealth) against her subject’s Resolve. On a success, she vanishes from her subject’s notice, and cannot be perceived. This effect applies to every witness whose Resolve is surpassed by the Solar’s skill.
Not even overt action can reveal the Exalt to those affected by Mental Invisibility Technique. The Lawgiver may step out of her coat in a snowstorm or leap to the rooftops from the street without being noticed. However, rolling Join Battle or taking violent action ends this Charm’s effects.
Additionally, subjects may spend one Willpower to break free of the Solar’s deception if the Exalt’s presence is pointed out to him, the Solar intentionally reveals herself to him, or the Exalt attempts to harm or steal something he values at the level of a Major or Defining Intimacy.

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, suffering a penalty equal to the difference in their Initiative, even if he rolled higher. If he fail the Awareness check, the Solar still vanishes from view.

Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Stealth 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Blinding Battle Feint
Standing unseen in the midst of her enemies, the Exalt revels in her control of battle’s flow. Once per scene, while concealed during combat, the Exalt may roll Join Battle and add her result to her current Initiative, so long as she has landed at least one decisive attack. Any Charms the Exalt uses to enhance her roll are automatically muted.
The Righteous Devil is a figure of burning fury and solemn judgment, a wandering hero who protects the innocent and banishes the wicked into a fiery hell of their own making. Students of the style master the firewand (p. 589), wielding these exotic weapons with a deadly precision that’s more art than archery. However, the heart of the Righteous Devil style is not in its fiery attacks, but in the judgment that precedes them. When the strong and powerful use their positions to oppress those beneath them, when the selfish put their own needs above those of the community, when the once-righteous turn from their ideals to pursue their own desires—these are the crimes which the Righteous Devil judges most harshly, and his verdict is spoken in cleansing flames. Many students of this style have a Principle encompassing this code of ethics, though there are some who turn against the moral teachings of their sifus, or who simply learn the martial techniques of the style with no heed for the ethics behind them.

Righteous Devil Weapons: Righteous Devil style uses firewands, as well as any other flame-discharge weapons.

Armor: Righteous Devil style is compatible with light and medium armor.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Drawing in a quick breath, the Righteous Devil tastes the wickedness of a world in need of judgment. As she exhales, pulling down hard on the trigger, she burns that world clean with fire. Blossom of Inevitable Demise applies double 10s on the damage roll of a decisive attack. It can also extend the range of a firewand attack to medium, although doing so still requires an aim action as usual (p. 195).

Cost: 2m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mastery
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Ebon grains of firedust stream from the stylist’s hands as she moves like lightning, sighting and reloading faster than her enemies can blink. When the stylist aims with a firewand, she may also reload it (and/or draw it), without needing to take a separate action. If there are any enemies at close range to her, she must succeed on a (Wits + Martial Arts) roll at difficulty 2 to successfully execute this maneuver. On a failed roll, she successfully loads the weapon, but does not gain the advantages of aiming.
Enemies whom she has successfully intimidated or chastised with social actions during that fight do not count for this restriction (even if they spent Willpower to resist).
Mastery: Cloud of Ebon Devils can be used to supplement a Join Battle roll, in which case it allows the Righteous Devil to reflexively aim and draw or ready a weapon before any character acts in the fight.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual, Mastery
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Sighting along the flows of Essence that connect her weapon with its mark, the Righteous Devil sends her will down a fine line of possibility, transforming it into inevitability. Kiss of the Sun Concentration adds any dice from aiming to the post-soak damage of a withering attack, or converts them to a single die added to the raw damage of a decisive attack. Disarm gambits, or any other gambit that could benefit from superhuman precision, add the full amount of aim dice to their Initiative roll instead of a single die.
Mastery: When used with a decisive attack, the full amount of aim dice are added to the raw damage of he attack. Withering attacks and precision-based gambits convert the aim dice to automatic successes on the damage roll.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 2;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Form
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Blossom of Inevitable Demise, Cloud of Ebon Devils, Kiss of the Sun Concentration
Creation itself seems to hold its breath as the stylist cloaks herself in the majestic and terrible stillness of the Righteous Devil Form. An inescapable gravity seems to exude from her confident, unwavering posture, sending the innocent scurrying away to safety and calling the unjust to reap the whirlwind of judgment they’ve sown. The first time the Righteous Devil enters this form in a fight, she may roll (Charisma + Presence + Essence) to intimidate all enemies or inspire them with an emotion of shame, guilt, or remorse as appropriate to their sins. Affected enemies take a penalty equal to the stylist’s Charisma on disengage, withdraw, or Stealth-based actions unless they pay Willpower to resist. Additionally, at the beginning of each turn, the Righteous Devil may reflexively aim against any enemy whose Resolve was overcome by the activation of this form, or by a similar influence roll made in combat (even if he resisted).
Additionally, while in this form, the Righteous Devil can use firewands effectively in close combat, using the butt or handle of a flame weapon to effectively bludgeon enemies. When used in this way, they are treated as medium weapon with the bashing, martial arts, and shield tags. Firewands with an affixed bayonet instead have the lethal tag. While this use is not compatible with effects that specifically modify ranged attacks, such as the range extension of Blossom of Inevitable Demise, it can still benefit from other Charms of this or other staff or spear compatible styles.
Special activation rules: Whenever the stylist successfully lands a decisive attack after taking an aim action on her previous turn, she may reflexively activate Righteous Devil Form.

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Terrestrial, Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Righteous Devil Form
Closing her eyes, the Righteous Devil perceives the ebb and flow of Essence around her through a mandala of blue rings, nine notched discs of silver-blue light that spin around her foes in her mind’s eye. If her anima banner is at the bonfire level, this azure abacus becomes visible to all within its light, the silvery rings orbiting around the stylist and aligning as she lines up a shot. Firing through this reticule mandala hones in on an enemy’s weakest point, granting benefits commensurate to the enemy’s level of cover.
• Enemies that do not benefit from cover lose all soak against the attack, except for that provided by Charms and other magical effects. Artifact armor is not considered a magical effect.
• Enemies under light cover halve their mundane soak against the attack.
• Enemies under heavy cover subtract -1 from their mundane soak for every extra success on the attack roll, but not below half their full value.
• Enemies under full cover are unaffected.
Azure Abacus Meditation may only be used once per scene, unless reset by successfully landing a decisive attack against an enemy under light or heavy cover and then building up to Initiative 12+.
Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood always treat enemies as having at least light cover with this Charm, preventing her from fully negating soak.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Righteous Devil Form
A halo of gold and cobalt Essence rings the tip of the firewand’s barrel as the Righteous Devil sights a foe, sending six golden wings spiraling forward to speed the tongue of flame towards him. This Charm boosts the damage of an attack based on the distance it’s made from, adding +4 against an enemy at close range, +3 against an enemy at short range (and so on, if magic is used to extended the range of the attack). This bonus is added as successes on a withering attack or dice on a decisive attack.
Snake Style
Snake style is swift and agile, moving with the speed of a striking serpent to fell stronger or better-armed foes before they even have a chance to act. Its strikes emphasize precision over brute strength, and a master of the style can pierce through armor, paralyze an enemy with a pressure-point strike, or even deliver poisonous Essence through her fingertips. It flourishes in dojos of the South and the East, where students learn to emulate the motion and tactics of the native serpents, but as one of the ancient animal styles whose lineage dates back to the First Age, its practitioners can be found throughout all of Creation.
Snake Weapons: Snake style’s unarmed attacks are usually two-fingered fang attacks that stab at pressure points and exposed tendons. It can also be used armed with a seven-section staff or hooked sword, which are wielded with extraordinary speed and finesse. Any unarmed attack enhanced by a Snake Charm can always be stunted to deal lethal damage.
Armor: Snake style is compatible with light armor.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mastery, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Ducking and weaving, the snake confounds predators’ attempts at violence. Serpentine Evasion adds +1 to the martial artist’s Evasion against a single attack. If the attack is made after the martial artist has already taken her turn that round, she may declare this Charm after the attack has already been rolled—enemies who cannot even keep pace with her in battle have no hope of striking her.
Mastery: Successfully evading an attack after using this Charm cumulatively lowers the cost of subsequent activations of it by one mote until the martial artist’s next turn.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual, Mastery
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The snake claims its victory not by striking hardest, but by striking first. Against an enemy with lower Initiative or who hasn’t taken their turn yet this round, Striking Cobra Technique adds the martial artist’s Dexterity to the raw damage of a withering attack, or one die to the raw damage of a decisive attack. Against enemies in Initiative Crash, the withering damage boost is added after soak, while the decisive damage boost is converted to an automatic success.
Mastery: Add the martial artist’s (Essence + 2) to her Initiative when determining if she can use this Charm against an enemy.

Cost: 8m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 1;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Form
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Serpentine Evasion, Striking Cobra Technique
The martial artist steps back into the posture of a wary snake—head back, ready to attack or retreat. Her motions become sinuous and hypnotic, as mesmerizing as they are deadly. Enemies are entranced by this posture, taking a -1 penalty on all attack rolls against her—which increases to a -3 penalty if their Initiative rating is lower than the martial artist’s. In addition, this flexible pose makes it easier to roll with attacks and thus minimize their impact, adding the stylist’s Dexterity rating to her soak. Special activation rules: Whenever the martial artist makes a withering attack which lowers an enemy’s current Initiative value from greater than her own to less than her own, she may reflexively activate Snake Form.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual, Terrestrial
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Snake Form
Essence hardens the Snake stylist’s fingers into fangs capable of piercing through steel. The Armor-Penetrating Fang Strike allows a withering attack to ignore all of an enemy’s soak from armor, or a decisive attack to ignore (higher of Essence or 3) hardness.
Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood may only use this Charm once per scene, unless she resets it by dealing 3+ levels of damage with a Snake style decisive attack and then builds back up to Initiative 12+.
Sirrush (Blue Jade Devil Caster, Artifact ••••)

The Solar champion Vaznia took up dozens of artifacts across the ages, but few held her interest for long. Among those arms were Sirrush and Anshar, a pair of artifact flame pieces she commissioned to match a favored concubine’s eyes. She gifted them to her lieutenant Rylo Stormsong without ever wielding them in battle. A thrill-seeker, Rylo went looking for trouble in every teahouse and dark alley of Old Wu-Jian. Thus she entangled herself in all manner of violent altercations, from battling armies of thugs sent by double-crossed crimelords to stealing relics from hidden shrines to forbidden undersea gods.
In extricating herself from such situations she employed her twin devil casters to deadly effect. Eventually she found herself outmatched, hunted by an affronted sorcerer’s seademons. Leaping from the pinnacle of the Crescent Temple into the sea-spray to escape pursuit, she never surfaced.
Sirrush was found a thousand years later by Wu-Jian mudlarks. It worked its way up through the city’s teeming layers in cutthroat deals and throat-cut thefts, until one of the now-defunct Lords Criminal traded it to the outcaste pirate Storm Mother’s Son for a cargo of firedust.
Sirrush’s counterpart Anshar remains lost.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+12 DMG, OVW 4)
Accuracy: Close +1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1
Tags: Lethal, Archery (Short), Flame, One-Handed, Mounted, Slow
Hearthstone slot(s): None
Era: Dreams of the First Age

Evocations of Sirrush

Firedust-Gathering Practice
Cost: 1m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dissonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
As the wielder fires Sirrush, a breeze draws fresh grains of firedust from her ammunition pouch into its barrel. Activating this Evocation reloads the weapon without an action.
Special activation rules: Unless the Exalt is dissonant with jade, she unlocks this Evocation for no experience cost when she first attunes to Sirrush.

Lightning Draw Method
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
Sirrush all but leaps into its wielder’s hand when danger looms. On the first round of combat, she may treat her Initiative as (Wits) higher than it actually is to determine when she acts in the round, but must use her turn to make an attack.
Special activation rules: This Evocation awakens at no cost when the wielder wins Join Battle against at least one non-trivial foe.

Storm-Dueling Maneuver
Cost: 5m, 2i; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Clash, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Lightning Draw Method
Sirrush responds to threats before its wielder can even process that they’re there. Whenever she is the target of a surprise attack (Exalted, p. 203) from close or short range, she can activate this Evocation to clash with a withering or decisive attack, reflexively drawing Sirrush if it isn’t ready. She cannot use this Evocation
to clash an ambush. This doesn’t count as her combat action for the turn.

Kaijin (Starmetal Reinforced Buff Jacket, Artifact •••)

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

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

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

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

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

Gnomon (Starmetal Serpent Sting Staff, Artifact ••••)

Seven-Finger Wu is a name spoken with both reverence and outrage in the towers of Heaven, as the only thief known to have ever slipped past Yu-Shan’s gates and pilfered the orchard where the peaches of immortality grow. With a flash of his sword and a rapid sprint, he made off with a severed branch bearing enough sacred fruit to see his life through into the next age. He carved the branch into a peachwood walking stick, then disguised himself as a wandering hermit before stealing into Heaven a second time. With cunning, deception, and sheer nerve, he disguised himself as an elder Sidereal Exalt and hoodwinked a newly Exalted neonate into banding the staff with starmetal, completing the artifact for him before he absconded once again.
With Gnomon in hand, Seven-Finger Wu’s legend grew greater as he cheated time itself. He stole the ruby eye of Hesiesh from a Solar’s wedding band as it was being placed on her finger by her Lunar mate. He left an elegant poem in the private offices of Anys Syn’s celestial manse praising her prowess in pursuing him. However, when the Ichneumon Aeon arose from the Wyld, he banded together with his hunters to destroy the temporal predator, sacrificing his life to save Anys Syn from a fatal century-blow. Out of respect, she had the staff buried in the Night Caste’s tomb. Its location is lost to all but her, but legends of a peach tree of immortality that’s taken root in Creation have caught the ears of savants and scavenger princes alike.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Bashing, Melee, Reaching, Flexible, Martial Arts
Hearthstone slot: 1
Era: Gossamer Dawn Epoch

Evocations of Gnomon
Seven-Finger Wu’s trickery endowed Gnomon with an illusory mantle of celestial legitimacy. This quirk in destiny fools any Sidereal Exalted or god who works for the Bureau of Destiny into thinking that the staff’s wielder is a legitimate agent of Heaven. This is equivalent to a Minor Tie of trust.

Step Between Seconds
Cost: 2m, 2i, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dissonant, Perilous, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
Time slows to a standstill as the wielder drives Gnomon down into the ground. She has a heartbeat’s worth of frozen time in which to move between moments. To use this Evocation, the wielder must win Join Battle at the beginning of combat and use it on her first turn. Time halts around her, allowing her to take a single action with any Ability during the frozen time — either a combat action, a miscellaneous action, or any other action she could normally take on her turn. She cannot use it to activate Simple-type Charms. Once time resumes, she takes her actions for the turn normally. Step Between Seconds doesn’t count as her combat action or movement action for the round if she attacks or moves while time is stopped. Outside of combat, the wielder may use this Evocation once per scene to take a single action in frozen time.
If the wielder attacks an enemy in frozen time, the normal flow resumes a split-second before she completes the attack. Her foe, perceiving the attack as an almost imperceptible blur, suffers the −2 Defense penalty for a surprise attack. Likewise, if she makes an opposed roll — such as pickpocketing a character or entering concealment — characters opposing it suffer a −3 penalty. Some actions, like social influence, cannot be used to affect other characters while time is stopped, at the Storyteller’s discretion.
Dissonant: This Evocation can only be used outside of combat once per day.
Resonant: An Essence 4 repurchase of this Evocation allows the wielder to make a decisive attack during frozen time without resetting to base Initiative on a hit.

Heaven-Defying Trickster’s Staff
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Dissonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Any Martial Arts Form Charm,
Step Between Seconds
When Gnomon’s wielder uses Step Between Seconds, she may use her action during the frozen time to reflexively activate any Martial Arts Form Charm she knows.
Dissonant: Characters dissonant with starmetal cannot awaken this Evocation.

Final Hour Hastening
Cost: 3m, 2i; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dissonant, Perilous, Resonant, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Step Between Seconds
Gnomon unwinds the moment of an attack into a seeming eternity as its wielder delivers a barrage of innumerable strikes. Against an enemy with lower Initiative, this attack is unblockable. Enemies with equal or higher Initiative suffer −2 Parry instead. If the attack hits, the barrage magically inflicts an additional point of onslaught penalty on the target.
This Evocation’s cost is waived if used during the frozen time of Step Between Seconds.
Dissonant: This Evocation can only be used against enemies whose Initiative is less than or equal to the wielder’s, not greater.
Resonant: The wielder adds (Essence) to her effective Initiative to determine whether her attack is unblockable.

Lightning Ballista (Artifact ••••)

Lightning ballistae were among the foremost siege weapons of the First Age, great engines of brass and silver with inner workings of intricately wrought orichalcum and blue jade. When fired, the ballista releases a powerful blast of lightning that sears and scorches whatever it hits, turning flesh and wood to ash and melting steel or stone. In order to operate the engine, it must be powered by a hearthstone; a few enterprising sorcerers have circumvented this, such as by binding willing air elementals into a ballista. A hearthstone powering the weapon doesn’t provide increased mote recovery to its master, although it still provides its other effects.

Attunement: 5m; Tags: Lethal, Siege (Long)
Accuracy: Close −4, Short −2, Medium +5, Long +3, Extreme +1;
Damage/Overwhelming: +20/5
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Special: Attacking requires the Evocation Stormblast Barrage, though feats of demolition don’t.

Stormblast Barrage
Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
After spending a turn aiming, a lightning ballista’s master may use this Evocation to make a single unblockable withering or decisive attack roll against all characters in a line out to long range, friend or foe. Withering attacks have a flat +3 Accuracy bonus. On a withering attack, the firing character makes a separate damage roll for each character hit by the attack, but cannot gain more than (higher of Essence or 3) Initiative from damage dealt to any one enemy. On a decisive attack, she divides her Initiative evenly among all enemies hit by the attack (round up) to determine the damage rolled against them, ignoring Hardness. Battle groups take (her full Initiative) in damage, and do not count against the total Initiative she must distribute.
After a scene in which this Evocation is used, the lightning ballista must receive maintenance before it can be fired again. This is a difficulty 3 roll for a character using Craft (First Age Artifice), or difficulty 6 for a character using Craft (Artifacts). A failed roll cannot be retried until a full day has passed.
Special activation rules: This Evocation awakens at no cost when a character attunes to a lightning ballista.

Stone of the Vanisher (Water, Standard)

Keywords: Steady
When this cloudy gray stone is socketed in an attuned artifact, its bearer’s image fades like mist from pursuers’ minds. On any roll to investigate her, track her, or contest her efforts to go to ground, change the highest successful non-10 die to a 1.
Health Levels
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Willpower: 7

Personal: 16
Peripheral: 40 / 25
Committed: 15

Join Battle: 8 + 3 successes, 10 + 3 with Blinding Battle Feint (3m)

Parry: 4 - 5 with Gnonom
Evasion: 5 / 6 vs Ranged Attacks

Personal Soak: 3
Total Soak: 11
Hardness: 7

Guile: 5
Resolve: 3

Sirrush Artifact Flame Piece: Type: Medium (+12 DMG, OVW 4)
Accuracy: Close +1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1
Gnomon Artifact Serpent Sting Staff: Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Bashing, Melee, Reaching, Flexible, Martial Arts
Defining: Become the Richest Woman in Creation
Major: Understanding Others' Desires is the Key to My Success
Major: Never Steal From a Friend
Major: Demons (Hatred)
Minor: Sidereals (Distrust)
Minor: Dynasts (Dislike)
Minor: Find the Mate to Sirrush, Anshar.

Griffon was raised on the streets of Whitewall as a orphan in a street gang. As she grew up, her talents as a pickpocket and all around thief developed well enough for her to earn a reputation in the city's criminal underworld. Soon enough, the young girl found herself rising in the ranks of criminals, and was making a good living as a crook in charge of her own little gang of five ruffians that looked up to her.

One day, Griffon was approached to do a special job, one that involved some lightweight breaking and entering into the mansion of a wealthy noble in town to recover some special documents with the bonus of being able to steal anything she could from the house in addition to the payment for doing the robbery. With her small team in tow, the six easily slip past the outer walls and locks on the house and begin to ransack the place, taking as many valuables as they could carry as Griffon made her way to the office to look for the papers.

With as easy as it was to get in, it should have clued her in that there was a problem. No house that fine would have such lax security. It turned out that the owner of the mansion had hired a mage to summon a of demon to guard the place. The monster came out of nowhere and began to tear into the group, and the lightweight weapons that the team had were next to useless against the servant of Malfias.

Griffon refused to give up the fight, and as she struggled against the Blood Ape, she took her Second Breath as a Solar Exalt. Using her newly discovered powers, she was able to defeat the demon and get out of the mansion with the documents in tow, with only two of her crew of sneak thieves still alive to share the spoils.

It turned out that the man that had originally hired her was a Sidereal that had foreseen her Exaltation, and he then took her under his wing to find a safe place to flee the Wyld Hunt. Griffon has now taken to her new role as one of the defenders of Creation in stride, but, even after all this time, she has not forgotten just how close to death she came at the hands of the Sidereal Exalted, and has held a bit of resentment to the Fateweavers for that.
Trait Experience Cost
Attributes 8/dot
Abilities 4/dot, 3 if favored
Specialty 2
Willpower 8/dot
Merits 3/dot
Charms and Spells 10, 8 if favored
Evocations 8 (+2 per evocation for each artifact dot after 3)

Xp Earned: 24
Xp Banked:

Solar Xp Earned: 18
Solar Xp Banked:

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Name: Lioness
Caste: Zenith
Anima: A stalking lioness sizing up and then pouncing on her opponent.
Concept: Blade dancer
Supernal Ability: Presence

Appearance

Background
It is a well-known and much lamented fact that being poor is one of the most expensive things a person can do. If a good pair of boots cost twice the price of a poor pair of boots, but last ten times as long, the poor end up spending five times as much on boots as the rich do. When it comes to paying for injuries that keep you from working, being poor is even more costly. It was such an injury that sent the tall, fierce girl they would come to call Lioness onto the streets and away from her father's home.

His arms had broken while he was working on the airship port in Icehome, and what little money they had saved covered neither the doctor's fees or what they needed to live. Thus, Lioness had her first encounter with debt. To help pay them, she took to the streets, fighting in underground rings where children were pitted against each other for the amusement of adults. The pits were not enough however, and as her family's debts increased and their fortunes worsened, the young girl had to go elsewhere for work.

When the she first came to Madam Wu, she was mistaken for a boy, but the wizened old woman looked into her eyes and saw something no one else had. Exactly what she saw is a question she has never answered anyone, not even Lioness herself, but whatever it was, the old woman took her under her wing. She was cleaned, fed, and given new clothes. When she was well enough, she was taught to turn her natural talents into true skill, first with her fists, then with the blade. A naturally graceful fighter, she was soon also taught how to dance without a weapon, and without seeming as if she wanted to kill her partner.

Slowly, but surely, the reserved, wounded girl who had come aboard in Icehome came out of her shell and proved herself to be a charming, if somewhat naive young woman. Of course, everyone on the ship has to earn their keep, so when a particularly wealthy client asked to be entertained by the new girl, she was instructed on how to behave herself and sent to his cabin. When the client left satisfied and Lioness was no worse for wear, Madam Wu smiled knowingly. It is a rare man who wants a whore who could kill him with her bare hands, but Madam Wu's House of Pleasure caters to all needs.

One of those to whose needs it caters was a man named Tepet Kian, a middle aged dynastic scholar and a wealthy one at that. He too saw something in the young woman Lioness had become in the intervening years. What he saw was rather less mystical than what Madam Wu had and distinctly carnal. When his time in Icehome was over, he approached Madam Wu and payed out Lioness's debt, leaving her family enough to get by with for quite some time, so long as she went with him.

Indentured servitude to a dynast in disgrace is quite a different beast to being on a floating brothel sailing between the Haslanti trade-cities, but Lioness has always been adaptable and for now she had the knowledge that her family would be fine. The question of whether she herself would be was, to her mind, one that could be answered at a later date.

That date moved up considerably when the Wyld Hunt caught up with Tepet Kian. In one of the Hundred Kingdoms that few who do not inhabit them give one whit about, the former Dynast had set himself up as a divine sorcerer-king. While he was not foolish enough to think the would never be found by the Wyld Hunt, he was foolish enough to think that he could withstand them with nothing but mortal militias, summoned spirits, and one particularly talented Northern woman.

The leader of the Hunt that came was one Cynis Rirazon, the man who more than anyone had shaped Kian's thoughts on Sorcery. The man's early treatises were flawed, of course, his ideas antiquated, and his grasp of the Celestial Circle obviously entirely absent. Still, To Tepet Kian's mind he had more talent than the rest of the Realm intelligentsia combined. The fact that the old sorceror could probably out-cast the young solar, of course, not even entering his mind. No, for the old man's preservation, he sent Lioness to Cynis Rirazon with the task of diverting him so that the rest of the hunt could be safely dealt with. Conveniently, this would also make it next to impossible for the old man to make a living doing anything other than retiring to a tower somewhere and take up his intellectual ambitions once more.

The passions of House Cynis are famed across Creation, and Cynis Rirazon was a son of his House as much as he was an academic. Lioness's mortal beauty and quick wits were sufficient to draw him away from the tavern where his fellow Shikari were spending their first night in Kian's territory. They was not, however, sufficient to to keep him there once battle was joined and the screams of demons, dragons, and mortal men filled the night air. As the old sorceror was rushing from her room, she reached out to grab hold of the dragon-blooded, a move that would surely cost her life, and at once time seemed to stand still. She was filled with warmth and light such as she hadn't known since she left her home behind forever many years before, and a voice not unlike her father's said: "From high to low, all Creation will be bathed in My light, and you may bring that light into places where no one else can walk."

Shortly afterwards, the inn was turned to kindling, Lioness had claimed the blade of a Prince of the Earth, and Tepet Kian's demonic force had been torn to pieces by the powerful and well-coordinated Wyld Hunt. Borne on sorcerous wings, Kian's words reached Lioness, telling her that he was fleeing and, laconically, that he would greatly appreciate it if she could see her way to joining him. For a moment, she knew doubt. She could leave Tepet Kian, his quest, and his affections behind and travel on her own back north. Home. It lasted only a moment, though. In the end, this changed nothing. She had made a pledge, she owed a debt, and if Tepet Kian did not need the Sun's light, who did?
Strength ●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●●●

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

Perception ●●
Intelligence ●●
Wits ●●●●

Abilities Caste: Athletics, Integrity, Performance, Presence, Resistance. Favored: Awareness, Brawl/Martial Arts, Melee, Socialize
Archery
Athletics ●●●●
Awareness ●●●●● (Join Battle)
Brawl ●●●
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge
Integrity ● (Resolve)
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics
Lore ●
Martial Arts ●●●●● (Swords)
Medicine
Melee ●●●
Occult
Performance ●●●●● (Dance)
Presence ●●●●● (Seduction)
Resistance ●●●●
Ride
Sail
Socialize ●●●●●
Stealth
Survival
Thrown
War ●
Merits
Artifact ●●● (Shori, Orichalcum Reaper Daiklave)
Artifact ●●●● (The Shifting Cloth, Moonsilver and Orichalcum Silken Armour)
Fast Reflexes ●●●
Fleet of Foot ●●●●
Language ● (Native: Skytongue; Riverspeak)
Pain Tolerance ●●●●
Selective Conception ●

Artifacts and Hearthstones
Shori (Orichalcum Reaper Daiklave, Artifact ●●●)
With this blade, the Solar warrior-queen Calan inflicted the wound that would claim the life of Gorol Thrice-Damned, the most heinous traitor to walk Creation. Following the battle, Calan gave up the blade to honour her fallen Lunar Mate who had given her life in the hope of saving hers.

Shori is a wickedly sharp orichalcum blade with a hilt of red jade and starmetal. Its guard bears an intricate carving of a great city that bears a striking resemblance to Meru at the hight of its glory, despite being forged centuries before that great city's glory days.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 5)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hearthstone slot(s): 3
Era: War of the Gods
Special: Shori can be wielded while sheathed, gaining the Bashing tag instead of Lethal

Slipping Through the Smallest Gap
Cost: 2m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None

Shori is among the sharpest blades ever forged and easily slips through the tiniest gap in an opponent's armour. When supplementing a Withering attack, this Charm lets its wielder ignore 4 points of Soak from armour. When supplementing a Decisive attack, it lets them ignore 2 points of Hardness.

For a Fallen Brother
Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Slipping Through the Smallest Gap

When used in just retaliation, Shori jumps more eagerly into the fight. This Charm supplements any attack against an enemy who attacked the wielder or someone towards whom the wielder has a positive Intimacy during the current or previous round. On such a strike, it adds two automatic successes to the attack roll.

Dread Premonition
Cost: 1m per success; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive, Resonant
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: For a Fallen Brother

Somehow, the intricate lines of Moonsilver in the hilt and guard help move Shori to where it needs to be to block the attack of the wielder's foes. The wielder may pay 1 mote per success to remove up to (Essence/2, round up) successes from an opponent's attack.

Resonant: If the wielder is resonant with Shori, they may activate this ability after the attack roll has been made.

Strikes Like Lightning
Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Dread Premonition

Moving with the swiftness of a lightning strike, Shori falls upon its wielder's unsuspecting foes. Following a successful attack, this Charm allows the wielder to make a second attack.

Special Activation Rules: This Charm may only be activated once per round.

The Shifting Cloth (Moonsilver and Orichalcum Silken Armor, Artifact ●●●●)

Attunement: 4m
Type: Light (+5 Soak, Hardness 4, Mobility Penalty −0)
Tags: Buoyant, Concealable, Silent
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era:
Special: Does not interfere with Martial Arts that cannot normally be used while wearing armor.

The wearer gains +1 non-Charm success on all rolls to resist extreme temperatures and weather, and get a +1 bonus to Apperance if they are not Dissonant with Orichalcum.

Unless the Exalt is dissonant with moonsilver, she unlocks Shimmering Guise for no experience cost when she first attunes to the Shifting Cloth.

Shimmering Guise
Cost: 2m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None

Over the course of a few seconds, the Shifting Cloth takes a new form. This can be anything the wearer desires, but the cloth itself always leaves its own mark on the final outfit, meaning that those who know the artifact well are able to identify it. Any part of the outfit that is not contiguous with the largest piece is made from mundane materials, and will deteriorate over the course of a day after Shimmering Guise is activated next. If the new outfit is used as part of a disguise, the wearer gets +1 non-Charm success on the disguise roll.

Shifting Grip
Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Counterattack, Perilous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Shimmering Guise

Should it ever be struck in anger, the Shifting Cloth is more than capable of showing its displeasure at such harsh treatment. In response to any attack with a weapon that strikes home, the wearer may activate this Charm to make a Disarm gambit against the attacker with an attack pool of (Wits + Presence). Should the gambit succeed, the weapon remains tangled in the Shifting Cloth and its former owner must succeed in a Disarm gambit with Difficulty 4 to retrieve it.

Silver Shell
Cost: 5m; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dissonant
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Shimmering Guise

The Shifting Cloth was made for battlefields as well as for ballrooms, and it is not always in the wearer's best interest to dress for the latter. After activating this Charm, the the Shifting Cloth gets a bonus to both its Soak and Hardness ratings equal to the wearer's (Essence).

Dissonant: If the wearer is dissonant with Moonsilver, it also gets a Mobility Penalty of -1 and the armour can only be used with Martial Arts that allow the use of Medium Armour.

Veil of the Hidden
Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisites: Shimmering Guise

The Cloth shifts to cover the wearer's entire body, including their face and hands, though the fabric is delicate enough that it is still possible for the wearer to use their senses without penalty. Their voice and other sounds are muffled and the armour hides them from view giving them a +4 bonus on all Stealth rolls and imposing a -2 penalty on attempts to identify them by voice or other such characteristics.

Vestment of the Righteous
Cost: 10m; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisites: Shifting Grip, Silver Shell, Veil of the Hidden

The wearer channels their Anima into the Shifting Cloth and it takes on a glorious and radiant appearance reflecting their Exalted nature and personal Anima Banner. The Cloth shines as a Burning Anima Banner and the wearer is filled with an implacable sense of righteousness. While this Charm is active, they gain a +1 bonus to their Resolve, mortal opponents are unable to strike them, and all others suffer a -2 penalty to attack them.

Resonant: If they are resonant with Orichalcum, the wearer gains 2i whenever they successfully strike an opponent.
Essence:
Permanent: ●●

Charms
Athletics
*Monkey Leap Technique [2m; Supplemental; Instant; Jump up to one range band.]
**Soaring Crane Leap [3m; Reflexive; Instant; Slow falls and soar horizontally]
*Increasing Strength Exercise [3m or 3i per dot; Simple; One Scene; +1 strength and +1 decisive damage.]
**Thunderbolt Attack Prana [4m, 1wp; Supplemental; Instant; Jump to enemy and deal double post-roll Decisive damage.]

Brawl
*Ferocious Jab [1m; Supplemental; Instant; Add opponent's onslaught penalty to damage.]
**Heaven Thunder Hammer [7m; Reflexive; Instant; Punch opponent a great distance on successful Decisive attack.]

Melee
*Call The Blade [1m; Reflexive; Instant; Summon own weapon from within Short range.]
**Summoning the Loyal Steel [1m; Simple; Indefinite; Banish own weapon to Elsewhere. Return it reflexively.]

Performance
*Masterful Performance Exercise [2m; Supplemental; Instant; +1 sux and reroll 1s forever.]
**Graceful Reed Dancing [1m; Supplemental; Instant; Double 9s on dance.]
***Battle-Dancer Method [1m; Reflexive; Instant; +(Performance/2) to Parry, Dodge (and Resolve).]
**Thousand Courtesan Ways [5m; Reflexive; -; Indefinite; +1 App, make Seduction attempts without Intimacy, make Seduction attempts in parallel with other Social actions.]
***Celestial Bliss Trick [3m, 1wp; Simple; Mute; Instant; Best sex ever. Induce Defining Intimacy of lust for (Ess) weeks and gain (Ess) Sux on social influence for the Scene.]

Presence
*Listener-Swaying Argument [3m; Supplemental; Instant; +1 sux to Instill or Persuade actions. Non-charm dice to overcome Resolve boosts.]
**Impassioned Discourse Technique [3m; Supplemental; Instant; +1 sux to Persuade actions. Bonus dice when arguing from a Principle.]
***Fulminating Word [1wp; Reflexive; Instant; On Bargain, Threaten and Persuade actions based on Defining Principle Decision Points cost 2wp.]
*Harmonious Presence Meditation [5m or 7m; Reflexive; One scene or Indefinite; +3 dice to all social abilities. 1m dicount on all social charms.]
**Threefold Magnetic Ardor [4m; Supplemental; Instant; On Instill and Persuade actions, having higher App than Resolve gives bonus sux.]
***Unnerving Solar Presence [6m; Reflexive; Instant; Remove Ess dice from enemy social influence.]
***Awakened Carnal Demiurge [5m, 1wp; Simple; Indefinite; +1 App. -1 Resolve on Seduction attempts.]
****Rose-Lipped Seduction Style [2m, 1wp; Supplemental; Instant; Double 9s on seduction. May seduce those who would otherwise find it Unacceptable.]
**Majestic Radiant Presence [6m; Simple; One scene; Others must spend 1wp to attack or speak against.]
***Authority-Radiating Stance [5m, 1wp; Reflexive; One scene; Allies out to Medium range are immune to non-magical fear. +1 sux on Rally rolls.]
****Crowned King of Eternity [-; Reflexive; Instant; Free full Presence, Performance, or Socialize Excellency once per scene.]

Resistance
*Ox-Body Technique [-; Permanent; Permanent; -1x1, -2x2.]
**Body-Mending Meditation [10m; Simple; Instant; Multiply healing factor by (sux on Sta+Res)x(Ess) ]
*Essence-Gathering Temper [1i; Reflexive; Instant; gain (raw damage)/2 motes, no more than Sta.]

Socialize
*Motive-Discerning Technique [3m; Supplemental; Mute; Instant; Double 9s on read intentions.]
**Humble Servant Approach [1m; Reflexive; -; Instant; -2 enemy Guile to find out what the other wants from you. Must successfully read intentions on target first.]
***Wise-Eyed Courtier Method [6m; Simple; -; Instant; Make read intentions +(Ess) sux against everyone in the room.]
*Shadow Over Day [1m or 2m; Reflexive; Instant; Add 1 or 2 to Guile.]

Single Point Shining Into the Void Style
*Gathering Light Concentration [3m; Reflexive; Instant; Inflict Onslaught Penalty on opponent]
*Shining Starfall Execution [6m; Supplemental; Instant; Add dex/2 (dex) to decisive damage (and double 10s. Initiative 15+)]
**Single Point Shining Into the Void Form [10m; Simple; One Scene; Sword joins battle with Wits+Martial Arts]
***Fatal Stroke Flash [1m, 1wp; Supplemental; Instant; Add opponent's initiative differences to decisive attack damage, and double 9s on attack roll.]
****Liquid Steel Flow [5m(+1wp); Reflexive; One Round (One Scene); Add Dex to withering damage. Convert dex/2 dice to sux when ending it with a decisive attack. +1 att sux on enemies with lower ini. Nix wp cost of FSF.]
****Horizon-Swallowed Star Flash [8m, 1wp; Reflexive; Instant; Reflexive clash attack. Get initiative for extra sux on attack roll.]

Shifting Cloth
*Shimmering Guise [2m; Simple; Instant; Change the apperance of the Shifting Cloth]
**Shifting Grip [3m; Reflexive; Instant; Make Disarm gambit as counterattack.]

Awareness
*Sensory Acuity Prana [5m; Reflexive; One Scene; double 9s on awareness]
**Keen Sight Technique [4m or 6m, 1wp; Reflexive; One Scene or Indefinite; +2 dice on sight-based awareness.]

*Thunderclap Rush Attach [3m; Reflexive; Instant; Jump to Short range and attack with any ability.]
**Falling Hammer Strike [1m; Supplemental; Instant; Make onslaught penalties stick.]

*Dipping Swallow Defense [2m; Reflexive; Instant; Ignore penalties to Parry and gain 1i on successful parry.]
**Hail-Shattering Practice [1m/sux; Reflexive; Instant; Remove up to (Ess) sux from enemy attack. Used after attack has been rolled.]
**War Lion Stance [2m; Reflexive; One scene; Scene-long Defend Other. Breaks of distance larger than Close Range.]
**Bulwark Stance [5m; Reflexive; Until next turn; Ignore all penalties to DV. Others get penalty to damage rolls.]
***Heavenly Guardian Defense [i1/dam + 4m or 4m or 4m, 1wp. Reduce Decisive damage at the rate of 1i/damage. Parry unparriable or unexpected attacks for 4m.]

*Durability of Oak Meditation [3m; Reflexive; One Tick; -2 Raw Damage. Hardness 4.]

***Void-Slicing Wind [6m, 1wp; Simple; Instant; Decisive attack and instant-travel with Medium Range. +1 att and dam sux for each range band.]
****Six-Demon Scabbard Binding [1m, 1wp (or 4m); Reflexive; Instant; Clash magical effects and cut paths through the Wyld.]
*****Blinding Nova Flare [-; Simple; Instant; Decisive attack with both pools at once. Lower makes Diff 5 gambit that needs not hit, if successful, second attack is unblockable and undodgable.]
Essence:
Permanent: ●●
Personal: 16/16 (16)
Peripheral: 30/30 (40)
Committed:
5 Shori
4 The Shifting Cloth
1 Summoning the Loyal Steel

7 (5) Harmonious Presence Meditation
4 (5) Awakened Carnal Demiurge
4 (5) Thousand Courtesan Ways

Willpower: 6/6

Limit 0/10
Limit Trigger: The Solar's allies suffer a setback or defeat because of a mistake she made.

Intimacies:
Defining Principle: "Those with power over others must use that power for the benefit of those they have power over."
Defining Principle: "I pay my debts."
Major Principle: "Loyalty should be unhesitating."
Major Tie: Rapists (hatred)
Major Tie: Xilanada (it's complicated)
Minor Tie: The crew of the Righteous Indignation (Loyalty)

Join Battle: (4+5+1+1) = 11

Offenses:
Withering Attack: (5+5+1+3) = 14
Withering Damage: (2+12) = 14
Decisive Attack: 11

Defenses:
Evasion: (5+0)/2 = 3
Parry: (5+5+1)/2 +1 = 7
Soak: (3+7) = 10
Hardness: (0+4) = 4

Health:
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
-X [ ]

Social Defenses:
Resolve: (4+1+1)/2 = 3
Guile: (2+5+1)/2 = 4
In-game Spending: 0/16 XP, 2/12 SXP
8 Unnerving Solar Presence
8 Shadow Over Day
10s Shifting Grip

Bonus Points: 0/80
6 Favored Abilities (2 points)
64 Favored Charms (8 Charms)
8 Willpower 5->6
2 Specialty

Epiphany · Jul 31, 2018

Still a work in progress...

Name: Xilanada (formerly Tepet Kian)
Caste: Twilight
Anima: A towering banner embossed with the Sun
Concept: Obsessive Sorcerer making the most of a second chance
Supernal Ability: Occult

Appearance
A seemingly young blonde woman, evidently of Chayan origins to those familiar with the people. Her accent is indistinct, though, and the directness of her gaze and ferocity of her intellect aren't traits common to Chayans. She favors a robe with cloak when traveling, and a nice dress when in-town. Xilanada smiles easily and often, and there's little about her that suggests anything other than perhaps a talented hedge mage or healer.

Background
Before and after Xilanada, there was Tepet Kian.

Tepet Kian was born with a certain natural genius and a flair for scholarship that gave his family high hopes as he grew up. Unfortunately, Exaltation never found him and he resigned himself to the Ministry of the Thousand Scales. Instead, he passionately pursued his love of occult theory and sorcerous research during his off-hours, slowly building up considerable skill at critiquing existing theorems while positing his own revisions to the established orthodoxy of Sorcery. He eventually married Cynis Anias, an Air-Aspected Sorceress who indulged her husband's hobbies by opening up her personal libraries to him for study. After reading some of his work, she even allowed him to use her as his 'pen name' in order to get his critiques and theories more widely read and debated (she had no interest in academia but found the reputation Kian could cultivate for her useful). Their collaboration continued for twenty years, culmiating in Kian writing a seminar and speech for her when she was invited to guest-lecture at the Heptagram concerning 'her' ideas.

Delighted at the implicit honor (for it'd been his ideas that got her in the door), Kian remained at home and redoubled his efforts to decipher ancient sorcerous texts dating back to the earliest days of the Shogunate. One evening, he had an epiphany and saw instantly how Emerald Circle Sorcery contained the echoes of something greater. Working out formulas spontaneously, Kian found a way to mathematically express the Sapphire Circle of Sorcery and instantly contradict seventeen long-held tenets of Emerald Circle theory. Overwrought with his discovery, the mortal Dynast rose from his desk and realized the candles had burned out long ago; he saw now by the light of his own anima.

Horrified at the revelation, Tepet Kian fled the Blessed Isle as covertly as he could, ending up months later in Great Forks. The spirits and peoples of the city were far more welcoming to a man of his newfound power and in time Kian amassed quite the following for his miracles in the city and in villages and towns beyond. He grew prideful, though, and eventually brought the Wyld Hunt down upon himself and his followers/worshippers. He fought back with every spell, Charm and mortal warrior he had at his disposal and the slaughter was great on both sides. In the end, he escaped barely but at the cost of everyone who'd ever listened to him.

Overcome with grief and the hundreds he'd sent to their death, Kian swore off his old life and sought a new one to escape his pursuers and sins alike. A chance encounter with Shalrina, the Daimyo of Faces, gave him his chance. After negotiating a price, he had his choice of lives to trade for...and he was struck at the sight of a young blonde woman who looked exactly like his dim memories of ancient glory in an Age long gone. With a touch, the Twilight Caste Sorcerer left Tepet Kian behind and became Xilanada once more.

But the Wyld Hunt is not so easily escaped and so Xilanada sought an escape from the coastal East...only to find it aboard an airship.
Attributes
Strength 2
Dexterity 5
Stamina 2

Charisma 3
Manipulation 4
Appearance 2

Perception 3
Intelligence 5
Wits 3

Abilities
Archery
Athletics 1
Awareness 2
Brawl
Bureaucracy 3
Craft
Dodge 3
Integrity 1
Investigation 3
Larceny
Linguistics 3
Lore 5
Martial Arts
Medicine 3
Melee
Occult 5
Performance
Presence
Resistance 1
Ride
Sail 2
Socialize 2
Stealth 2
Survival 2
Thrown 2
War
Merits
? Eidetic Memory 2
? Familiar 1-3
Artifact 3-5
Hearthstone 2 or 4
Language 3 (Native: High Realm, Old Realm, Riverspeak, Skytounge)
Manse 3 or 5 Makes Hearthstone/Demesne obsolete
Quick Draw 1 or 4
Resources 3

Contacts (Vetter Fae, a Garrista (crew leader) in the city of Lawless who rose through the ranks thanks to her funding him via a Mercury Ant) (Acquired in Play)

Artifacts and Hearthstones

The Hawk Star's Jess
(Starmetal Sling of Distant Surprise, Artifact •••)
Among the oldest known artifacts, dating back to the Divine Revolution, this weapon’s forgotten maker tamed the mighty Hawk Star, binding a measure of its power into a fist-sized starstone to be spun into wire and woven into a sling. Together, that Sidereal and the Hawk Star’s Jess cast down many demons and behemoths that served the enemies of the gods.
The Jess has been used many times since to defeat powerful, dangerous foes that threatened the order of Creation. Its stones slew gigantes of Dis in their days of empire, struck down a Solar prince in the Usurpation, and pierced the brain of the mile-high wolfstag that followed its raksha masters into the world during the Contagion. It remains a valued tool in the hands of the Five-Score Fellowship, loaned out to end marauding demons, behemoths, and other mighty monsters that oppose the will of Heaven.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Quincunx
(Orichalcum Breastplate,
Artifact ••••)
Forged in the High First Age by the renowned Twilight sorcerer Devon, who believed that the secrets of the universe could be harnessed with careful mathematical reckoning, the Quincunx put to rest any claims that a sorcerer could not hold his own on the battlefield. When his Circlemate, the Dawn warrior Kati, plunged headlong into Malfeas alone to settle a score with a demon lord, Devon saw little choice but to gird himself for battle and follow, donning the Quincunx as a sorcerous defense against the alien geometries he would encounter there. The breastplate was buried along with its creator and lies entombed still, waiting for the hand that will awaken its mystical potential once more.
This breastplate consists of two perfectly symmetrical pentagonal plates of burnished orichalcum. Both are inlaid with resonant crystals aligned in significant occult patterns and inscribed with runes. The front plate has one hearthstone socket in the center of the prominent quincunx pattern that gives the artifact its name. The breastplate is worn over a long, high-collared tunic with flared sleeves, lined with the fur and Essence of five huraka. The sorcerer who dons this armor can calculate his opponent’s next move and capture mystical energies to power acts of occult might.

Attunement: 4m
Type: Light (+5 Soak, Hardness 4, Mobility Penalty −0)
Tags: None
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Dreams of the First Age

Evocations of the Quincunx
A character attuned to the Quincunx gains +1 Defense while shaping sorcery, attempting countermagic, or distorting a spell.
A Twilight Caste Solar at bonfire anima may pay six motes and one Willpower to harmonize her anima banner with the Quincunx, stacking its Hardness bonus with the armor’s for the rest of the scene.

Aegis of Geometric Perfection
Cost: 1m+; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
The Quincunx’s design embodies perfection, channeling its wearer’s Essence to harmlessly disperse force. The wearer may spend up to (Essence) motes on this Evocation before an attack is rolled against her. If she is shaping a spell, she may spend up to (Essence + Occult) instead. Each mote spent reduces the raw damage of a withering attack by one, while every three motes spent, rounded down, reduces decisive damage by one die.

Harmonic Crystal Vessel
Cost: 3m, 1i; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Perilous, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Aegis of Geometric Perfection, Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
In tomes depicting treasures of the lost Age, the Quincunx is sometimes called the Harmonic Crystal Vessel for its ability to utilize crystal’s natural resonance to trap sorcerous energy. This Evocation supplements a countermagic action (Exalted, p. 446), banking dispersed sorcerous motes in the Quincunx. The wearer may use these sorcerous motes to cast her own spells or to power the Quincunx’s Evocations. Unspent motes are lost at end of scene.
Resonant: The countermagic roll benefits from double 9s.

Resonance of Sorcerous Essence
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Harmonic Crystal Vessel, Supernal
Control Method
Whenever the Solar enhances an Occult roll with Supernal Control Method (Exalted, p. 356), she may bank a single sorcerous mote in this armor for each 10 on the roll.

Sorcerer’s Crystal Aegis
Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Clash, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Harmonic Crystal Vessel Channeling sorcerous power through the Quincunx’s crystals, the wearer perfectly calculates the trajectory of an attack and sends whips of Essence lashing to intercept the strike. She reflexively rolls (Wits + Occult) to clash an attack against her. On a success, she doesn’t deal damage; instead, the Quincunx banks sorcerous motes equal to her total successes. This doesn’t count as the wearer’s combat action for the turn.
Resonant: Winning the clash also strips (Essence) Initiative from the attacker, which is added to the wearer’s Initiative.

Brilliant Backlash Cascade
Cost: 25m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Resonant, Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Celestial Circle Sorcery, Sorcerer’s Crystal Aegis
The Quincunx’s master releases a torrent of gathered power as an unblockable withering attack with (Wits + Occult) against all enemies within short range. The attack has raw damage equal to (her Intelligence + Essence + extra successes) and Overwhelming (Essence). An enemy that takes damage is knocked back one range band and falls prone; crashing an enemy knocks him back an additional range band. Creatures of darkness are especially vulnerable to this attack, and cannot apply their soak against the damage. The Quincunx’s wearer only gains Initiative from the highest damage roll against an enemy caught in the blast.
This Evocation can only be used once per scene, unless reset by banking 10+ sorcerous motes in the Quincunx on a single tick.

Celestial Anima Harmony
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 5
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Brilliant Backlash Cascade, Spirit-Drawing Oculus
This Evocation upgrades Spirit-Drawing Oculus (Exalted, p. 359). When the Solar gains motes from it, she also banks that many sorcerous motes in the Quincunx.

Spirit-Grounding Stone (Earth, Greater) Keywords: Wild-Born. This gold-speckled brown stone abhors the evanescence of the spiritual world. All spirits that find themselves within one mile of the stone become material at no cost, though Essence 4+ spirits may pay a Willpower point to remain immaterial for the duration.

Hierophant’s Eye (Greater) Keywords: Dependent, Linked. This black octagonal stone blazes with orange-gold light along each of its perfect edges. The Hierophant’s Eye grants one automatic non-Charm success to every shape sorcery action while socketed into an attuned artifact.
(Free, from Manse 5)

Manse 5
The character owns a manse—a magnificent magical tower, fortress, palace, or estate raised atop a demesne and designed to capture and channel its power. Many manses are designed to express minor magical powers to enhance the beauty or comfort of the building, such as columns of free-standing water filled with colorful fish, or floors which stay warmed with channeled fire Essence even in the depths of winter.
With five dots, the character is the owner of a manse raised atop an exceptionally powerful demesne, with a concomitantly powerful hearthstone (replicating the benefits of the four dot Demesne and Hearthstone Merits).
Essence:
Permanent: ●●

Charms

Bureaucracy:

Frugal Merchant Method
Cost: 1m; Mins: Bureaucracy 1, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
With a cursory examination, the Lawgiver can determine the exact quality of any good offered for sale. She can tell if it is in poor, average, or excellent condition. However, this grants her no knowledge of the market value of any particular good, nor does it tell her the purpose of an object. By inspecting a scavenged mechanism of the First Age, she could tell if it was functional, but not how it functions.

Insightful Buyer Technique
Cost: 3m; Mins: Bureaucracy 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Frugal Merchant Method
Through use of this Charm, the Solar gains an intuitive feel for a marketplace at a given instant, allowing her to intuit roughly how much a given object will fetch in any one market. Though the Exalt need not be physically present in the market, this Charm must be used with a particular sales venue in mind. The Solar cannot discover previously unknown markets through use of this Charm. She can, however, review distant markets to determine which would be the best to sell a good. The more specific the venue contemplated, the more accurate the forecast. A Solar using this technique can make a perfectly accurate assessment at the moment of sale, but the longer she waits between using this Charm and the actual sale of the goods, the larger her margin for error, as economies shift with time.

Dodge:
Reed in the Wind
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.

Reflex Sidestep Technique
Cost: 5m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind
The Solar’s preternatural awareness of her surroundings makes her nearly impossible to harm. Even when struck unaware, she may part herself from her foe’s attack, undoing the damage that was done to her. This Charm may be activated in response to an ambush attack, a trap, or other damaging effect the Solar is completely unaware of, setting her Evasion to two against the attack and adding an additional point of Evasion for every 1 or 2 in the attack (before Charms such as Excellent Strike). If the Solar’s Evasion recovers to its full value, she may apply additional Dodge Charms if necessary.

Leaping Dodge Method
Cost: 1m, 2i; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Reflex Sidestep Technique
The Exalt feels the coursing Essence of Creation moving through her. With a thought, she grasps the flow and is carried away. Upon a successful Dodge, the Solar may invoke this Charm, burning her momentum to create a sudden burst of movement. She may leap backward, forward, up or down (if applicable) a single range band.

Lore:
Harmonious Academic Methodology
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.

Bottomless Wellspring Approach
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.

Lore-Inducing Concentration
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.

Truth-Rendering Gaze
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.

Thrown:
Triple Distance Attack Technique
Cost: 1m; Mins: Thrown 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar imbues her weapon with Essence, lightening the weapon at the moment of launch and perfecting its course. This Charm extends the range of a thrown weapon to long range. At Thrown 5, Essence 3+, the Solar can use this Charm to make an attack across four range bands.

Cascade of Cutting Terror
Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Thrown 4, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Triple Distance Attack Technique Once per combat, the Solar can unleash this attack against a single target, giving her the full dice benefits of having used a full Thrown Excellency. This attack cannot be dodged, only blocked. If successful, the attack is joined by dozens or hundreds of copied weapons, striking points all around the target, doing twice the damage successes to all significant objects and insignificant opponents within short range of the initial strike. If the Exalt wins Join Battle and opens with this attack, she does not need to take an aim action to launch it from medium or long range.
The Solar can reset Cascade of Cutting Terror by hurling away her last missile and then recovering at least a single throwing weapon with a stunt.

Occult:
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Celestial Circle Sorcery
Spirit-Detecting Glance

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

Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
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.

Celestial Circle Sorcery
Cost: —; Mins: Occult 4, Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
The Solar ascends to the Second Circle and becomes an avatar bearing aspects of Heaven and Hell in her mind. In all the world, there are only a handful of sorcerers at this level of power. Upon learning this Charm, the Exalt gains the ability to cast spells from the Celestial Circle of sorcery. In addition, the Solar learns one shaping ritual and one Celestial spell for free. The spell selected acts as an additional control. Celestial Circle Sorcery may not be learned prior to Essence 3 by selecting Occult as a Supernal Ability.

Spells:

Beckoning That Which Stirs the Sky
Cost: Ritual, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: (1 + threshold successes) hours
As the sorcerer recites ancient prayers to deities long forgotten beneath the open sky, huge chitinous limbs emerge from above, weaving the wind and clouds to her will. Shaping the weather is an (Intelligence + Occult) roll that takes a few minutes to complete, with a difficulty based both on how drastic the change the sorcerer wishes to make is and how typical the desired weather is for her current climate and season. Creating a light rain in a temperate climate might only be difficulty 1, while strengthening a heavy rain to a thunderstorm or halting it completely might be difficulty 2-3. Summoning a tempest from blue skies, or utterly stifling a hurricane, would be difficulty 7+. Likewise, any attempt to create rain might incur increased difficulty if attempted in a desert, as would calling a blizzard outside of the winter season.
If the sorcerer succeeds, That Which Stirs the Sky weaves the desired weather in an area out to (Essence + threshold successes) miles from the point cast the spell. It lasts for (1 + threshold successes) hours before reverting to normal. Subsequent castings by any sorcerer cannot alter the weather within the spell’s range until its duration elapses. Characters within the weather can identify its unnatural origin with a (Perception + [Occult or Survival]) roll of difficulty 1-5, with subtler alterations being more difficult to detect.
A sorcerer with this as her control spell may create sorcerous weather that follows her as she moves; this costs half her threshold successes, rounded up.

Death of Obsidian Butterflies
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.

Demon of the First Circle
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.

Infallible Messenger
The sorcerer shapes a small, six-winged messenger spirit to convey her words to another character. The spirit flies with immense speed, capable of crossing hundreds of miles in an hour or all Creation in less than a day—only the boundaries between realms of existence will stop it from delivering its missive. Upon arrival, the cherub is visible only to its intended target, to whom it can deliver a message of up to five minutes in length before dissipating. Sorcerers can convey social influence through the Infallible Messenger, but cannot normally use their Charms to enhance the roll.
A sorcerer who knows Infallible Messenger as her control spell may pay an additional point of Willpower to project her senses through the cherub’s own, allowing her to use Awareness and Investigation Charms while delivering the missive. Having this spell as her control will also cause a number of tells to begin manifesting in the sorcerer’s vicinity, even when the spell has not been cast. It may appear in murals or paintings that she owns, carved amongst the gargoyles of her residence, or briefly fluttering in the periphery of a mirror’s reflection.

Mists of Eventide
Cost: 7sm, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: Three rounds
The sorcerer lulls the Essence of air into sleep, transforming it into an opalescent fog of slumber. Mists of Eventide creates a cloud centered on a point out to medium range from the sorcerer, spreading to engulf all characters within short range of the center. Each round that a character breathes or has skin exposed to the mist, he must roll against its poison (Damage 3i/round, Duration 6 rounds, -3 penalty). Characters who are crashed while suffering from the Mists of Eventide’s effects do not take damage from it—instead, they fall into magical slumber, rendered comatose for a single day. Special activation rules: Mists of Eventide can only be cast once per scene, unless reset when a Mists-poisoned opponent falls into Initiative Crash.
A sorcerer who knows Mists of Eventide as his control spell can control the dreams of anyone who sleeps within his mists, causing them not only to dream what he commands, but to physically act out those dreams while sleepwalking. They can even be forced to battle their allies. The sorcerer may also reflexively release a spume of the mists from his breath once per scene; a target who breathes in these mists suffers the effects of the spell as though it had been cast. Sorcerers with Mists of Eventide as their control spell sleep fitfully with their eyes wide open unless surrounded by the mists.
Distortion (Goal Number: 5): Distorting the mists weakens their efficacy, halving the duration of each dose. Additionally, an opposing sorcerer may wake a character forced into magical slumber with distortion actions targeting him, made at the same goal number.

Summon Elemental
Cost: Ritual, 2wp
Duration: Instant
Drawing and shaping Essence through one of the five elements, the sorcerer calls an elemental into being and binds it to her will. Casting this spell requires a ritual of four hours as the sorcerer channels Essence through icons of the element, draws up sigils of creation and binding, or communes with the appropriate Elemental Dragon. At the end of her ritual, she summons an elemental of up to Essence 3 into existence, creating it out of pure Essence rather than calling it from somewhere else.
Once summoned, the elemental must be bound to the sorcerer’s will, as per Demon of the First Circle (p. 473), except that an elemental cannot break free—if the binding fails, the elemental simply disperses back into raw Essence, and the sorcerer doesn’t regain the Willpower spent on the spell. At the end of a bound elemental’s term of service or assigned task, it usually undergoes the same fate of dissipation, although elementals who have developed a fully-formed personality and identity may persist past the end of their binding at the Storyteller’s discretion. Summon Elemental can only be cast once per day.

Virtuous Guardian of Flame
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. XX) with a Parry of ([higher of Essence or Intelligence] + 1). The virtuous guardian can even notice threats of which the sorcerer is unaware, rolling (Essence + Perception + Occult) to detect hidden enemies. Wooden projectiles or weapons successfully blocked by the guardian are burnt to ashes. If it parries an unarmed attack or other natural attack, the attacker suffers one die of lethal damage, ignoring Hardness. Even when its parries fail, its flames blunt the force of attacks against her, adding (Essence) natural soak against all but unblockable attacks.
The guardian has soak (Essence + 5), Hardness (Essence), and (Essence + Intelligence) −0 health levels. When the sorcerer Joins Battle, it gains Initiative equal to hers. It cannot take any actions of its own; instead, this Initiative is used solely as a buffer against withering attacks. If the guardian is crashed, it dissipates for a scene, unable to protect the sorcerer, but reforms after that. If its health track is filled with damage, it’s utterly destroyed, and the sorcerer cannot resummon it until its full duration has elapsed.
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.

Incomparable Body Arsenal
Cost: 30sm, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: (Essence) hours
The sorcerer reshapes her body into a clanking metallic form of rust-streaked black iron, mimicking her human appearance but roughly cast, studded with rivets where segments of her metal skin meet. While in this form, the sorcerer may reflexively produce any manner of mundane weapons from her body—rusty iron spikes burst from her skin, knives extend from fingertips, an arm lengthens into a broadsword or warhammer, and jagged metal blades fire from her mouth. None of these weapons can be disarmed or destroyed. The spell grants her benefits equivalent to heavy artifact armor (p. 599), while rendering her capable of functioning without air, completely immune to mundane poisons, and unaffected by extremes of temperature, even when they manifest as environmental hazards. She doubles 9s on all ([Strength or Stamina] + Ability) rolls, and adds one success to all withering and decisive attack rolls. A sorcerer who knows Incomparable Body Arsenal as her control spell may create and master Evocations for it, which can only be used while this spell is active. These Evocations can enhance the armor-nature of this spell, its weapons, or a combination of both.

In addition, characters with an Essence pool gain access to the following powers while this spell is active:

God-Weapon Armament (8m; Reflexive; Indefinite; Stackable): When the sorcerer manifests a weapon from her Incomparable Body Arsenal, she may use this Charm to grant it the traits of an artifact weapon. The weapons created with this Charm can take on exotic and overtly magical forms—an artifact firewand might manifest as a dragon-headed helm that spit fires, while razor claws might take the form of foot-long serrated claws extending from the fingers of one hand. Multiple invocations of this Charm can be stacked to create multiple artifact weapons.

Metal Behemoth Might (10m; Supplemental; Instant): When the sorcerer attempts a feat of strength, she may add +2 to her effective Strength for determining what feats she may attempt. This is not added to her dice pool.

Unstoppable Juggernaut Endurance (5m, 1wp; Simple; Indefinite): The sorcerer may reinforce her vitality with this spell, gaining one -2 health level and two -4 health levels. Damage fills these temporary health levels before the sorcerer’s natural health levels of the same wound penalty, and the levels fade away when filled with damage. This power can only be used once during the spell’s duration.

Shadows of the Ancient Past
Cost: 10sm, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
The sorcerer calls up the lingering echoes of the past to reenact themselves before her. The sorcerer may choose a specific time in the past she wishes to view, such as “One hundred years ago, on the first day of Ascending Air,” or a subjective time that relates to something in the scene, such as “When this corpse died.” The spell creates translucent, insubstantial illusions that fill the room or area and display the events of the specified point in time. The sorcerer may mentally pause the action for detailed examination with Awareness or Investigation actions, or accelerate the flow of time within the illusion so that up to an entire day passes by in the space ofthe scene. Attempting to view events from more than five centuries ago call only vague, indistinguishable images that rarely convey useful details. The events of the recent present—within the past year or so—have yet to form substantial echoes, providing only the barest of imagery conjured.
A sorcerer who knows Shadows of the Ancient Past as her control spell may mentally record all illusions conjured by any casting of this spell. She may cause them to reappear at a later point at any time by taking a shape sorcery action at no cost. Distortion (Goal Number: 5): Distorting this spell allows the opposing sorcerer to falsify the illusions for the duration of the spell, warping and obfuscating the truth. While she cannot totally eliminate the information the casting sorcerer is attempting to discern, she may introduce all manner of contradictory evidence, red herrings, or misleading images in an attempt to throw him off the trail.

Travel Without Distance
Cost: 25sm, 2wp
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: Instant
The sorcerer shapes a blazing corona of Essence around herself through mudras that describe the warp and weft of space. As she completes the spell, she is engulfed in whirling clouds of Essence and energy, and then is gone. She may reappear in any location within (Essence x 10) miles, as long as she has seen it before, either firsthand or through scrying magics. She appears in a safe location at the chosen duration in a swirling vortex of light sure to impress the locals. Travel Without Distance is mildly disorienting—the sorcerer suffers a -2 fatigue penalty on all actions for (6 - Stamina) hours afterwards, and cannot cast it again until this penalty has run its course. This spell is highly valued by both the Sidereal and Lunar Exalted, who maintain hidden meeting-places that can only be reached with this spell.
A sorcerer who knows Travel Without Distance as her control spell may bring up to (Essence + 1) willing characters within short range along with her when she casts this spell. All transported characters suffer the fatigue penalty from disorientation.

For Sorcery, I like the Summon spells of course, Invulnerable Skin of Bronze, Mists of Eventide, Infallible Messenger
on the Celestial level: Incomparable Body Arsenal, Shadows of the ancient Past, Travel Without Distance.
There are also some spells in the DB book What Fire Has Wrought. I like: Beckoning That Which Stirs the Sky, Unslaksble Thirst of the Devil-Maw, Virtuous Guardian of Flame.

TBD
Essence:
Permanent: ●●
Personal: 16/16
Peripheral: 40/40
Committed:

Willpower: 5/5

Limit 0/10
Limit Trigger:

Intimacies:
Defining Principle: "There's nothing more important to me than Sorcerous discovery."
Major Principle: "I'll never be responsible for the lives of others until I prove myself worthy."
Major Tie: Lioness (It's Complicated)
Major Tie: Fellow Sorcerers (Delighted camaraderie)
Major Tie: The Wyld Hunt (Fear)
Minor Tie: Her former wife and children (Fond affection)
Minor Tie: The Realm (Ambivalence)
Minor Tie: Her Circlemates (Friendly)

Join Battle:

Offenses:
Withering Attack: () =
Withering Damage: () =
Decisive Attack:

Defenses:
Evasion: (Dexterity 5 + Dodge 3)/2 = 4
Parry: ()/2 +1 =
Soak: () =
Hardness: ( + ) =

Health:
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
-X [ ]

Social Defenses:
Resolve: ()/2 =
Guile: ()/2 =
In-game Spending: 0/0

Bonus Points: 0/80

Midboss · Aug 1, 2018

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Name: Varrick Loken aka: the Bronzen Hammer
Caste: Twilight
Age: 27
Supernal Ability: Craft
Voice Actor: Patrick Seitz

Attributes
Str: 4
Dex: 3
Sta: 4

Cha: 3
Man: 1
App: 3

Per: 4
Int: 4
Wits: 3

Abilities
*Archery: 3
*Athletics: 3
Awareness: 2
Brawl:
Bureaucracy
**Craft (Weapon): 5
**Craft (Artifact): 4
**Craft (Cooking): 2
**Craft (Architecture): 2
Dodge: 2
*Integrity: 3
Investigation
Larceny:
Linguistics: 2
*Lore: 4
Martial Arts
*Medicine: 3
*Melee: 5
*Occult: 3
Performance:
Presence: 2
*Resistance: 4
Ride
*Sail: 2
Socialize: 1
Stealth:
Survival: 2
Thrown:
War:
Language: 2, Old Realm, Riverspeak, Forest Tongue
Manse: 5
- Hearthstone: Candent Carbuncle
Resources: 2
Artifact: 3 Bracers of universal crafting
Artifact 4: Kamenkraft
Mentor: 3 Sai-Ri the Trickster. A lunar that has occasionaly been appearing in Varrick's life and providing the occasional piece of guidance between taunting him and driving him into trouble. Yet however, these troubles ocassionaly seem to bring in some long term benefit or lesson.
Influence: 1

Willpower: 7/7

Essence: 2
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 30/40
Committed: 10

Anima Power
• For five motes, the Twilight projects an aura of pure force, reflexively gaining five Hardness for one turn. At the bonfire/iconic level, this power activates itself automatically at no cost. This effect doesn’t stack with other magic that raises Hardness, but it can be used during Initiative Crash.

• For 10 motes, one Willpower, the Twilight’s anima flares blue and white and consumes her body over the course of the round. On her next turn, she vanishes into her anima and ceases to exist. If the Exalt moves or suffers knockdown before the action is completed, it fails and the effect is wasted. After using this power, the Twilight will not reappear until the following sunset. When she does, it will be at a place of power within 10 miles of her vanishing point, chosen by the Storyteller. She might appear at a temple, a demesne, a major crossroads, the door of a god’s sanctum, the precise center of a city, etc.

• For 10 motes, the Twilight may touch an Essence 1-3 elemental or a demon of the first circle, conjoining its Essence to her anima. Roll Intelligence + Occult against the creature’s Resolve. If successful, this creates a pact that changes the spirit into her familiar, allowing her to target it with applicable Survival Charms. In addition, the Twilight can reflexively summon the spirit instantly for three motes, drawing it through the Essence of the world to appear beside her. She may banish the creature again, reflexively, for free, returning it to the tides of Essence that suffuse Creation until needed. The Twilight may have up to (Essence) spirit familiars bound in this fashion at once.

Virtue Flaw:
Berserk Anger
1
Archery:
Wise Arrow

Athletics:
Increasing Strength Exercise

Craft:
Tireless Workhorse Method
Arete Shifting Prana
Brass Scales Falling
Craftsman needs no tools
Flawless Handiwork Method

Integrity:
Enduring Mental Toughness

Lore:
Wyld Dispelling Prana
Chaos Repelling Pattern
Harmonious Academic Methodology

Medicine:
Ailment Rectifying Method
Plague Banishing Incitation
Wound Mending Care Technique

Melee:
Excellent Strike
Call the blade
Summoning the Loyal Steel

Occult:
Spirit Detecting Glance
Spirit Cutting Attack
Ghost Eating Technique

Sorcery:
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery (Pact with an Ifrit lord)
- Invulnerable skin of bronze (control spell)
- Summon Elemental

Resistance:
Durability of Oak Mediation
Ox Body Technique
Artifact ●●●●
Kamenkraft is an Orichalcum Grand Gore-Maul with an ever-burning Red Jade core. Its design is reminiscent of a highly stylized forge.
Kamenkraft itself is an impatient brute of an artisan, quick to anger and eager to start and complete artisanal works. While it is a grand-goremaul, attuned crafters find Kamenkraft surprisingly wieldly and accurate as a forging tool, its many edges and protrusions perfectly suited towards all manner of delicate and precise work. Its essence seems to permeate crafting materials in a manner that brings to mind Craftsman Needs No Tools, though this power is turned to different ends.

Burning Everforge
Type: permanent
Kamenkraft comes with its own Major Crafting Slot. On a Join Battle roll, if the slot is empty it can be filled; if not, the project can be changed (cancelled and re-chosen, or simply modified). At the end of combat, if the slot has a project and Kamenkraft has enough stored materials, the Project can be rolled for completion. Every time Kamenkraft doesn't successfully craft something during or at the end of a combat, its Hearth cools down and its Evocations become unusable. The Everforge is re-ignited only by crashing an opponent or completing a Crafting project with an Exceptional Success.
Special Activation: This evocation is acquired for free upon completing a Major, Superior or Legendary project with an Exceptional Success while in the presence of Kamenkraft.

Insatiable Hunger
Cost: 5m, 1wp
Type: Reflexive
Duration: Until next action
Kamenkraft glows molten-hot and its Orichalcum begins to flow like thick molasses. Successfully parrying mortal weapons destroys them entirely as Kamenkraft snares them in its churning Orichalcum, breaking them down into raw materials for use in crafting. Every snared weapon generates 2 initiative and 2 temporary sxp which, if not used, fades at the end of the scene.
Artifacts are not destroyed instantly, they remain retrievable with a difficulty 4 gambit until the end of the Scene, and resist the melting power for the rest of the story. If the Artifact is retrieved, those initiative and cxp points are lost. At the end of the Scene, the artfact sinks into Kamenkraft's Everforge, where only the Crafter (and weapon-teleportation Charms) can retrieve it. At the end of the Story, they are unmade into purified components and magical materials.
These materials exist Elsewhere and can be called forth for any Project in which Kamenkraft is used, including Evocations.

Inspiration in Violence
Cost: 3m
Type: Simple
Duration: Instant
Kamenkraft's Ever-hearth roars with heat and gutters with flame, burning with the heat of creation as it strikes. If this attack Crashes or slays a foe, it generates [Craft] temporary sxp and heats up Kamenkraft's forge with a cumulative +1 non-charm damage bonus, up to [The wielder's preferred Craft rating], until the end of the next round. If this causes an Initiative Shift, this Evocation also generates temporary sxp equal to the successes on the wielder's Join Battle roll. Activating Insatiable Hunger also prolongs this effect.
This damage bonus applies both to Withering and Decisive attacks made with Kamenkraft. Going into Crash resets this damage bonus to 0, but does not prevent it from being built up again.

Forged in conflict
Cost: 3m or 5m + 10sxp
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-Only
Duration: Instant
Health Levels of Damage dealt by the supplemented attack are treated as Craft succeses divided among any number of Basic Projects (minimum of 1 each). If a foe is killed using this Evocation (and Kamenkraft has the appropriate Materials, including those on the slain foe's person) the character may pay an extra 2 motes and 10 sxp for these successes to be used to complete the Project in Kamenkraft's Major Slot and, if completed, a new project may be chosen immediately, either by the wielder or by Kamenkraft itself.

The Caldera of Creation. Hidden in the Mountains of the North East, there is a volcano, and within its caldera is a forge where once, the very best craftsmen of creation and beyond worked to build wonders. When Varrick discovered it, it was in a state of disrepair and all but one of its artifacts looted. He claimed the manse as his own and hopes one day to restore, a first step to his dream.
Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]

Willpower: 7/7
Personal: 16/16
Peripheral: 30/40
Committed: 10

Join Battle: + Successes
Parry: 4+weapon
Evasion: 3

Resolve: 3
Guile: 1

Personal Soak: 4
Total Soak: 6/6 Hardness: 2
Defining: I will build a city where humanity can once again raise from its ashes
Defining: Constructing new and better items is my life
Major: The Fiar Folk (hatred)
Major: Crew: vitriolic friendship
Minor: Sai-Ri (mixed and confusing feelings)

It all began in a small village at the East of Nexus. Among the other children, Viktor was always the tall quiet one of the lot. Combined with his quietness, slightly explosive temper and preference for direct solutions, people just tended to assume he was slow. This reputation led to more than a few fights which only made everything worse.

Cracks into this belief did not appear until he somehow managed to secure a job as the local blacksmith's apprentice. At first, the man teaching him took his silence as the same slow mind others thought of him. That impression was soon to be dispersed however when he saw he didn't have to explain the same thing twice, or that what he was producing was surprisingly well crafted for a beginner. With this began a strong bong between master and apprentice that would tech the boy love for craftsmanship.

What was a promising bond was cruelly cut short by an attack by the Fair Folk. The smith lay dead, like others within the village. Consumed by anger, he swore the bring death to the murderers. He locked himself in the forge and worked for days on end, never stopping to eat or sleep. His canvas was the cold iron found in storage and with it, he forged the tools of his vengeance. By the time he stepped out, he held a large blade of iron, a weapon that looked as rustic as he did but had been tempered for reliability. However, this was not what the other villagers immediately noticed. What they picked up was the symbol shining on his forehead, the one that designated him as one of the anathema.

So now on one hand he had a vengeance to fulfil, and on the other the Wyld Hunt was soon going to pay a visit. Between the two of them, he had no reason to remain. He chased after the group for weeks on end. It was on these travels that he met a strange woman. She seemed to know what he was up to, and seemed to enjoy ridiculing his quest, pointing out how low his chances were if he just charged in. This little song and dance went on for a while until he angrily asked what she would do if she was so clever.

Subtlely but surely, he was guided to a hidden volcano in the mountains. What he found there were ruins... that yet felt strangely familiar. Nothing but a hammer remained of what had once been build there. And then he realised, with this place, he could build the proper weapons to defeat these Fair Folk... but he would need allies, and materials.

And so one day, this airship flies by his volcano....
Str to 4: 8
Sta to 4: 8
Craft Skill + 10: 30
Melee to 5: 6
Lore to 4: 3
Occult to 3: 3
Willpower to 7: 16
Resistance to 4: 3

Trait Experience Cost
Attribute increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase - current rating x 2
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
Xp Banked
Solar Xp

Greenstalker · Aug 1, 2018

Name: Silent Shadow
Caste: Night
Age: 30
Supernal Ability: Stealth

Attributes
Str: 4 (3+1 free) ⬤⬤⬤⬤
Dex: 5(4+1 free) ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤
Sta: 4 ⬤⬤⬤⬤

Cha: 2 ⬤⬤
Man: 2 ⬤⬤
App: 3 ⬤⬤⬤

Per: 3 ⬤⬤⬤
Int: 2 ⬤⬤
Wits: 5(4+1 8BP) ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤

Abilities
Archery:
Athletics: 5 - Acrobatics (2 BP) ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤
Awareness: 5 - Ambush ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤
Brawl: 1 ⬤
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge: 5 - Martial Arts ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤
Integrity: 4 (1+3 9 XP) ⬤⬤⬤⬤
Investigation: 1 ⬤
Larceny:
Linguistics: 1 ⬤
Lore:
Martial Arts Tiger Style - Tiger Claws(2BP)): 5 ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤
Martial Arts Ebon Shadow - Tiger Claws(2 BP): 5 (5BP) ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤
Medicine: 2 (1+1 2BP) ⬤⬤
Melee:
Occult:
Performance:
Presence:
Resistance: 5 ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤
Ride
Sail: 1 ⬤
Socialize: 1 ⬤
Stealth: 5 - Ambush, Combat (2 BP) ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤
Survival: 2 - Forest ⬤⬤
Thrown: 1 ⬤
War
Attunement: 5m
Type: Light (+5 Accuracy, damage +10, Defense +0, Overwhelming 3)
Tags: Concealable, worn, brawl, lethal
Hearthstone slot(s): Spring Razor boasts 2 hearthstone sockets hidden within wrists of gloves.

Evocations of Spring Razor

A Solar or Dragon-Blooded who attunes to Spring Razor gains Howling Lotus Strike at no cost.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Spring Razor’s edge burns with venomous emerald Essence as it delivers a fateful, poisonous strike. A decisive attack supplemented by this Charm poisons its target on a successful hit. This toxin possesses the traits of

Damage/Interval: 3i/round (L in Crash)
Duration: 5 rounds
Penalty: -2
Vector: Damage or ingestion

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Stackable, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Howling Lotus Strike

A rippling haze of emerald-and-scarlet Essence roils around Spring Razor’s edge as the wielder slashes at her foes. On a successful attack, this nimbus of power intensifies the effects of any poison currently afflicting its target: the poison increases both its damage and duration by +1 until the toxin has run its course. Multiple uses of this Evocation stack—thus, three attacks with Venom-Intensifying Stroke would extend the duration of a poison by 3 rounds, and increase its damage by +3.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Venom-Intensifying Stroke

This Evocation permanently intensifies the poison produced by Howling Lotus Strike, ensuring that no matter how well the target rolls to resist the poison (p. 232), its duration cannot be reduced below one round.

Special activation rules: This Evocation may only be purchased by non-hideous (p. 162) characters with Dexterity 4+, Appearance 4+, or a specialty in an elegant fighting style applicable to Spring Razor.

Cost: 2m, 2i; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Venom-Intensifying Stroke

This Evocation must be used on the wielder’s turn, and may only be used once per round. The Exalt feeds her Essence into Spring Razor, causing beautiful pink-andcrimson flowers to begin to bud across the surface of its blade. After three activations (for a total commitment of 6m), these Essence-wrought buds come into full and deadly bloom, intensifying the poison that lives deep within the weapon’s Essence. While the flowers are in full bloom, the poison delivered by Howling Lotus Strike increases its damage and duration by one each. The flowers adorning Spring Razor can be destroyed with a specially-targeted disarm gambit (which does not remove the weapon from its wielder’s hand), ending the Evocation prematurely.

Special activation rules: This Evocation may only be purchased by non-hideous (p. 162) characters with Dexterity 4+, Appearance 4+, or a specialty in an elegant fighting style applicable to Spring Razor.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Deadly Flowers Blooming, Seven Widows Venom

Veins of pink-and-crimson Essence flash across Spring Razor’s edge as it makes a fateful cut, granting its target the gifts of beauty and death. After being successfully struck with this attack, flowers begin to slowly appear and blossom across the target’s body. On each of the target’s subsequent turns, these flowers lessen the duration of all poisons afflicting the target by 1, and grow closer to achieving full bloom. After consuming four intervals of poison, the flowers unfurl and flood the victim’s system with concentrated, Essence-enriched toxins, immediately inflicting poison damage equal to twice the damage they prevented by consuming intervals of active poisons. If the victim has no poison intervals in his system for the flowers to consume, their growth stalls. In either case, they sublimate into Essence at the end of the scene. This Evocation can’t be directed against the same target twice in a scene.

Special activation rules: This Evocation may only be purchased by non-hideous (p. 162) characters with two of the following traits: Dexterity 4+, Appearance 4+, or a specialty in an elegant fighting style applicable to Spring Razor.

Attunement: 4m
Type: Light (+5 Soak, Hardness 4, Mobility Penalty −0)
Tags: Silent, Special (counts as no armor when used with martial arts)
Hearthstone slot(s): 1

Evocations of Midnight Thorn

Midnight Thorn’s wearer adds a non-Charm success on all Stealth rolls she makes while concealed by forests, jungle, or other plant-based concealment.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dissonant, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None

Midnight Thorn’s armored links become as silent and soft as leaves. This Evocation enhances a Stealth roll made while in plant-based concealment, lowering any penalties by the wearer’s (Essence).

Dissonant: As long as the wearer isn’t dissonant with jade, this Evocation awakens at no cost when she successfully ambushes a non-trivial enemy.

Resonant: As long as the wearer’s roll beats at least one non-trivial enemy, she gains a point of Initiative.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Leaf-Sussurus Mimicry

Opening her palm and feeding Essence into the bracer bearing Sextes Jylis’ sigil, the wearer creates a flower. She may use this Evocation once on her turn to throw such a flower to a point at close range, where it grows into a bush or shrub in seconds. This counts as light cover (Exalted, pp. 198-199). Once this Evocation ends, the razor blooms wither into nothingness.

An Essence 3 repurchase upgrades flowers to briar walls, providing heavy cover. An enemy that attempts to take cover behind it or use it as concealment for a Stealth roll suffers (Essence) dice of lethal damage, ignoring Hardness, from the thorns.

Resonant: Midnight Thorn’s wearer may reflexively roll to take cover behind her Razor Bloom Barrier with (higher of Stealth or Survival) bonus dice.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Invisible Statue Spirit, Leaf-Sussurus Mimicry

This Evocation upgrades Invisible Statue Spirit (Exalted, p. 403). While the Solar is in plant-based concealment, the Charm’s cost is waived.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Razor Bloom Barrier

Whenever the wearer takes non-bashing decisive damage, she may use Razor Bloom Barrier reflexively. If her attacker is at close range, he must succeed on a (Dexterity + Athletics) roll against the wearer’s (Essence + 2) or be knocked prone by the rapid growth, taking one die of decisive bashing damage that ignores Hardness.

Cost: 4m, 2i; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Razor Bloom Barrier

Hidden in the shadows, Midnight Thorn finds the peace to grow and flourish. To use this Evocation, the wearer must have established Stealth behind plant-based concealment, and no enemy that’s aware of her can be within short range or closer. A layer of firm bark grows over Midnight Thorn’s surface, adding (Survival) soak and +2 Hardness.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Dark Sentinel’s Way, Razor Bloom Barrier

This Evocation upgrades Dark Sentinel’s Way (Exalted, p. 406). When she uses it to protect an ally, she may reflexively use Razor Bloom Barrier to create cover that applies to her ward’s Defense.

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Resonant, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Elusive Forest Shadow

Razor blooms fly from the armor like arrows as the wearer strikes from stealth, harrying her foes and catching them off guard. This Evocation can enhance an unexpected attack made with any Ability, stripping away (Essence) points of Initiative from the target and granting it to the wearer on a hit. Alternatively, she may transfer these points of Initiative to an ally within short range, creating an opening for him to take advantage of.

Resonant: This Evocation also adds one bonus success on the damage roll of an unexpected attack.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Elusive Forest Shadow, Traceless Passage

This Evocation upgrades Traceless Passage (Exalted, p. 412). When the Solar uses it to conceal her tracks while moving through a forest, jungle, or other vegetation-dense terrain, she doubles 7s.

Shadow Lion - Lunar, Blacksmith, Martial arts instructor

Gem of the Shield-Sister Tree (Wood, Standard) (socketed to Spring Razor Claw)
Keywords: None (linked to manse)

When this gray-dappled green orb is socketed in an attuned artifact, living vegetation twists and bends of its own accord to protect the bearer. When the bearer takes cover (Exalted, pp. 198-199) behind living vegetation, light cover protects as heavy, while heavy protects as full.

Stone of Resilient Bamboo (Wood, Standard) (socketed to Silken Midnight Thorn)
Keywords: None

This stone gleams the pale green of young bamboo leaves. When its bearer sockets it in an attuned artifact and commits one mote, it helps shrug off minor injuries. She adds two to her soak, can parry lethal attacks unarmed without a stunt, and halves healing times for bashing damage.

One bonus die on rolls to detect danger

One Bonus Die to Join Battle

Attunement: 5m

Night-black belts made from leather from the wings of giant bats, trimmed with black jade and soulsteel, these artifacts can control shadows and cause them to conceal the wearer. Whenever she wishes, the wearer can add three dice to all stealth rolls. However, this is the least of the belt’s powers. When the wearer expends ten motes, she can transform into a living shadow for one scene. In this form, she can slip under the space beneath a door or slide through the thinnest crack. In well-lit regions, observers notice the existence of an unusual shadow if they make a (Perception + Awareness) roll at difficulty 3, unless the wearer conceals himself in a larger shadow.

When the character is a shadow, she is dematerialized and can only affect or be affected by other dematerialized creatures or by Charms and weapons capable of attacking dematerialized foes. If the wearer uses such a Charm or weapon while dematerialized, she can use it to affect a materialized foe. Otherwise, she is immune to all materialized threats, although she can be trapped in a room that is sealed tightly enough. The character can wear any armor and take any object she can carry into the shadows with her. However, she cannot transform other living things into shadow. Once the scene ends, the character must remain in solid form for at least ten minutes before transforming back into a shadow. The wearer must commit five motes to use this artifact.

native: Rivertongue, Skytongue, Forest-tongue

Willpower: 7 ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤
Essence: 2 ⬤⬤
Personal: 16 / 16
Peripheral: 25 / 40
Committed: 15

Night Caste 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 Unconquered Sun (see p. 273) or other all-seeing magic.

Limit Trigger: The Solar’s allies suffer a setback or defeat because of a mistake he made.
Cost: 3m; Mins: Athletics 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar draws Essence through her pores and into her bones, suffusing and lightening her form and steadying her step. For the rest of the scene, she has perfect balance, and can stand or run on things too narrow or weak to support her normally, with no chance of falling or breaking through. She can run on a guy wire, stand on a crumbling parapet, balance on the tip of a pine tree, and perform many similar feats without needing to roll (Dexterity + 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 nonranged 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.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Monkey Leap Technique

Striking an efficacious pose, the Exalt catches the wind to slow a fall. This allows her to drop down two range bands without taking damage. In order to survive a very long fall with this Charm, the Solar must use it at least once every three bands. The Exalt can also use this Charm to drift long distances through the air, expending her movement action to float forward a single range band even as she continues to fall. With an adequate amount of thrust, the Exalt can glide across long horizontal distances without falling, equaling her initial movement forward. For example, if she were to leap out over a chasm two range bands across with Monkey Leap Technique, she could then activate Soaring Crane Leap to glide across the second range band on her next turn. Appropriate stunts can increase straight-across movement before the Exalt begins to drop.

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: —; Mins: Awareness 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Sensory Acuity Prana

Upon learning this technique, the Solar’s senses guard her from threats she is not consciously aware of. Whenever the Solar is in danger—even if she is not consciously aware of the threat—her relevant senses will home in on the source of danger, enhancing her Awareness to make the threat known to her. Surprise Anticipation Method has two functions. First: for every 9 she rolls on an Awareness check to reveal a hidden enemy, trap, or any source of harm not readily apparent, she gains a single mote of Essence, and for every 10 she gains two. This charge of Essence can only be used to offset the cost of activating Awareness Charms to reveal a threat. Motes returned in this fashion may retroactively lower the cost committed to Awareness Charms of a scene or longer duration, both lowering the committed cost and returning the discounted mote(s) to the Solar’s mote pool. Second: her senses function even when she is asleep or Incapacitated, allowing her to use any of her Awareness Charms subconsciously. A threat revealed to the Solar while she is asleep or unconscious automatically revives her, allowing her to defend herself.

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.

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.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind

The Solar’s preternatural awareness of her surroundings makes her nearly impossible to harm. Even when struck unaware, she may part herself from her foe’s attack, undoing the damage that was done to her. This Charm may be activated in response to an ambush attack, a trap, or other damaging effect the Solar is completely unaware of, setting her Evasion to two against the attack and adding an additional point of Evasion for every 1 or 2 in the attack (before Charms such as Excellent Strike). If the Solar’s Evasion recovers to its full value, she may apply additional Dodge Charms if necessary.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Dodge 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Exalt slips away from an attack that would have struck her. When using this Charm, the Solar successfully evades an attack roll bearing successes equal to her Evasion. This Charm may be invoked after the attack roll is made.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Drifting Leaf Elusion

Like a shadow on water, the Solar’s presence haunts her enemies with dreams of the untouchable. For an instant, this Charm removes any penalties to the Exalt’s Evasion.

Cost: —(5m, 1wp); Mins: Integrity 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None

Exposure to Wyld energies can cause hallucinations, addiction, insanity, and even terrible mutations. When the Exalt is exposed to such energies, she immediately senses the warping danger that surrounds her. She may then choose to pay five motes, one Willpower to immunize her mind, body, and equipment against the Wyld’s twisting power for as long as she keeps motes committed. The Solar’s sense of such danger becomes instinctive; she may even activate this Charm while she is asleep or incapacitated. This Charm can also be used to shield the Solar against other environmental effects which would warp her mind or body, such as the twisting choral of the demon prince with voice like crystal facets, or the tainted Essence emanating from the intestines of a malfunctioning First Age manse. But be warned: once the Lawgiver is addicted to the Wyld or mutated by twisting energies, this Charm will not discontinue such effects; it will only prevent her condition from worsening.

While Integrity-Protecting Prana protects the Solar and her possessions from being subject to environmental twisting powers, it does not allow her to ignore Wyld phenomena. She can still be torn apart by Wyld-spawned ravenous cyclones of burning teeth and giant hundred-armed mantises. This Charm also does not defend against attacks that might warp her mind or body directly, such as the Wyld-Mind Strike of the Thousand Venoms Mistress, or fiat-level changes to her existence caused by alterations to the Loom of Fate.

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: 3m; Mins: Stealth 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lawgiver evades detection by hiding in plain sight. A Solar with this Charm is able to drift unnoticed through crowds or alone. This Charm models her talent for blending in and remaining unobtrusive. When active, characters cannot notice her unless she takes overt action. Such actions include any display of prowess—leaping from the street to the rooftops, braving a snowstorm in summer clothes, etc. Join Battle always counts as an overt action. This skill does not work against alert guards or those who intend to stop everyone (as with a checkpoint), but can be overcome by magic only if the user has a Minor or greater Intimacy to the Solar or a Major or Defining Intimacy to a cause the Exalt’s presence directly threatens. Certain Charms may aid in detecting the Exalt. Roll the Lawgiver’s ([Wits or Dexterity] + Stealth) against her opponent’s relevant (Attribute + Ability) or Resolve, if the attacking Charm is based on the opponent’s Integrity.

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, suffering 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: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Stealth 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Blinding Battle Feint

Standing unseen in the midst of her enemies, the Exalt revels in her control of battle’s flow. Once per scene, while concealed during combat, the Exalt may roll Join Battle and add her result to her current Initiative, so long as she has landed at least one decisive attack. Any Charms the Exalt uses to enhance her roll are automatically muted.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Stealth 5, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Shadow Victor’s Repose

Triumphant, the Lawgiver’s eyes flash upon hidden places, showing her the way to victory. Upon incapacitating an opponent, the Lawgiver may trigger this Charm. If she has already used Shadow Victor’s Repose in the scene, she may reuse it.

Cost: —; Mins: Stealth 5, Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Flash-Eyed Killer’s Insight

Meditating on future combat, the Exalt speaks a design into her soul that erases her from combat’s flow. This Charm permanently upgrades Shadow Victor’s Repose. When the Exalt uses it to reroll Join Battle, she also momentarily vanishes (Essence) rounds from the short term memories of all opponents, allowing her next unexpected attack to act as an ambush provided it occurs within that period.

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.

Cost: 5m, 1wp
Mins: Stealth 5, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Stalking Wolf Attitude

While concealed, the Lawgiver may grapple an opponent who has failed their Awareness check without taking a penalty to her concealment, gaining one non-Charm automatic success in the attempt, and one automatic success in the Initiative roll. If successful, the Exalt pulls her victim into the shadows.

This is completely impossible to notice. The grabbed opponent seems simply to vanish. While the Lawgiver is still concealed, her victim is hidden for (control) rounds, unless the Solar’s Stealth check fails. The grapple is automatically released; though she is still thought to be holding the opponent in concealment, combat between the Lawgiver and her victim proceeds as if there was no grapple occurring. During this time, the Solar may attack her hidden foe without breaking concealment, but takes a -1 die penalty to her Stealth check for doing so. Victims killed during this attack die in an unnoticeable fashion and their bodies cannot be discovered for (Solar’s Essence) rounds, and then not without a difficulty 3 Awareness check that explicitly ignores the Solar’s whereabouts, regardless of its result.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only, Mastery
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Students of the Ebon Shadow style fade in and out of sight in combat, emerging as if from nowhere to strike before vanishing back into the shadows. When the martial artist takes a Stealth action in combat, she may use Nothing But Shadows to apply a penalty equal to (higher of 3 or her Essence) to the opposed roll of any enemy with a lower Initiative than her, to a maximum of -5.

Alternatively, when the martial artist is hit with a decisive attack, she may use Nothing But Shadows to play dead, slowing her heart rate to nearly nothing. This is treated as an attempt to go to ground by faking death, rather than seeking concealment. The usual penalties apply, but the martial artist applies the benefits of this Charm on all rolls she makes to go to ground for free, and also adds any wound penalties she is suffering as bonus dice on all rolls—the more damage she has taken, the more convincing her false death.

Mastery: Every 1 that a non-trivial enemy rolls on his (Perception + Awareness) opposing the supplemented action gives the martial artist a point of Initiative, up to a maximum of (Stealth) points per activation.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mastery, Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Pinpointing a seam or flaw in an enemy’s armor, the martial artist strikes through it with the expert precision of a trained assassin. Seven Points of Weakness Strike subtracts (the martial artist’s Stealth) from her enemy’s armored soak. Unexpected attacks double the amount of soak ignored.

Mastery: If this Charm reduces an enemy’s armored soak to zero against a withering attack, any remaining points of soak reduction are converted to post-soak damage dice.

Cost: 8m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Form, Mute
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Nothing But Shadows, Seven Points of Weakness Strike

The martial artist’s outline begins to distort and flicker, as if it were a shadow cast by a candle’s unsteady flame. She moves with eerie speed and unnatural grace, making her enemies question whether she is even human. If her anima banner flares, it seems shapeless and dark, an umbral mantle enveloping her in its depths. Any enemy who fails an opposed roll to spot her when she enters stealth loses a point of Initiative, and she adds (her Stealth/2, round up) to her base Initiative when she resets after making a decisive unexpected attack. She also adds +1 to her Defense. If the martial artist is killed while in the Ebon Shadow Form, her body evaporates into an acrid black smoke, leaving behind no physical remains by which she might be identified.

Special activation rules: Whenever the martial artist makes a Stealth roll in combat that beats the opposing rolls of all enemies in the combat, she may reflexively activate Ebon Shadow Form. Enemies within range lose Initiative for failing their roll as described above.

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only, Mastery, Terrestrial
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ebon Shadow Form

The Ebon Shadow moves in flashes, evading an enemy’s attack without seeming to ever cross through space. Elusive Flicker Evasion forces an enemy to make two attacks rolls for a decisive attack against the martial artist, taking the lower result.

Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood may only use this Charm once per scene, though it can be reset by incapacitating a non-trivial opponent with an unexpected decisive attack.

Mastery: When an enemy misses the martial artist, he loses points of Initiative equal to the difference between the two attack rolls, up to a maximum of the martial artist’s Stealth.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual, Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ebon Shadow Form

The Ebon Shadow crosses from hiding place to hiding place as though she could walk through shadows, vanishing and reappearing across the battlefield. Shadow-Stepping Motion can supplement any movement action taken while in stealth, applying double 9s to the roll and negating the increased penalty for crossing wide-open terrain. If the martial artist uses Shadow-Stepping Motion to close in on an enemy before making an unexpected attack against him, her sudden lunge doubles the penalties inflicted by a surprise decisive attack, or adds the martial artist’s Stealth to the post-soak damage of surprise withering attack.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Moving with the speed and agility of a leaping tiger, the martial artist closes the distance to her prey. Crimson Leaping Cat Technique steals a point of Initiative from an enemy upon successfully rushing him. If the martial artist makes an attack against that enemy before the end of the next round, any extra successes on the rush are added as bonus dice to her attack roll.

Cost: 6m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mastery, Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Rigorous training, intense discipline, and the suffusing Essence of the tiger gives the martial artist’s claw strikes the force to rend flesh and disembowel fallen enemies, making her a bare-handed killer. Striking Fury Claws converts up to (Strength) extra successes that would be added to the raw damage of a withering attack to postsoak dice of damage instead. Against an enemy who took a disengage or withdraw action on his last turn, these post-soak dice are instead converted to successes added to the damage roll.

Mastery: Extra successes converted by this Charm add both to the raw damage of the attack and to post-soak damage (or successes against fleeing enemies).

Cost: 10m, Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Form, Terrestrial
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Crimson Leaping Cat Technique, Striking Fury Claws

Dropped into the crouched, predatory pose of a tiger preparing to pounce, the martial artist’s Essence comes to embody the pinnacle of predatory grace. Her fingers seem like claws as they move through their strikes, and her eyes narrow to cat-like slits. While Tiger Form is active, the martial artist may double up to (Strength) extra successes when calculating the raw damage of withering attacks, and takes no penalties for fighting while prone.

She also adds (Essence) dice to rush actions and all rolls to contest a disengage. She gains any Initiative spent by an enemy attempting to disengage from within range of him.

Special activation rules: Whenever the martial artist lands a decisive attack that deals 3+ levels of damage, she may reflexively activate Tiger Form.

~~Terrestrial~~~~: A Dragon-Blood may double up to the lowest of Strength, Dexterity, and Wits extra successes when calculating the raw damage of withering attacks.~~

Cost: 5m; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Terrestrial
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Tiger Form

Essence strengthens the martial artist’s skin, suffusing it with the toughness of a tiger’s hide. Celestial Tiger Hide adds the martial artist’s Strength to her natural soak, and grants her Hardness equal to her Essence. She adds +2 to both values against attacks made from long or extreme range.

When the martial artist is struck with a decisive attack, she may pay a point of Willpower to deny it to her utmost, shattering the Essence of this Charm against the blow. This final defense, called the Undying Predator’s Roar, immediately ends this Charm, but subtracts the martial artist’s Hardness from the raw damage of the attack. After using the Undying Predator’s Roar, Celestial Tiger Hide cannot be activated again until the martial artist has taken 3+ levels of damage to her health track over the course of the fight.

~~Terrestrial~~~~: A Dragon-Blood cannot use the Undying Predator’s Roar.~~

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Spring Razor’s edge burns with venomous emerald Essence as it delivers a fateful, poisonous strike. A decisive attack supplemented by this Charm poisons its target on a successful hit. This toxin possesses the traits of arrow frog venom (p. 234).

Damage/Interval: 3i/round (L in Crash)
Duration: 5 rounds
Penalty: -2
Vector: Damage or ingestion

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dissonant, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None

Midnight Thorn’s armored links become as silent and soft as leaves. This Evocation enhances a Stealth roll made while in plant-based concealment, lowering any penalties by the wearer’s (Essence).

Dissonant: As long as the wearer isn’t dissonant with jade, this Evocation awakens at no cost when she successfully ambushes a non-trivial enemy.

Resonant: As long as the wearer’s roll beats at least one non-trivial enemy, she gains a point of Initiative.
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Willpower: 7 (16 BP) ⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤⬤

Personal: 16 / 16
Peripheral: 25 / 40
Committed: 15

Join Battle: Wits+Awareness=5+5+1(fast reflexes)=11 (+1 danger sense) (+1 ambush specialty) or
Dexterity+Stealth (blinding battle feint 3m)= 5+5+1(fast reflexes)+1 (ambush or combat specialty)= 12

Parry: Dexterity+Martial Arts= 5+5+1(specialty)=11/2= 6
Evasion: dexterity+dodge=5+5+1(specialty)=11/2= 6

Personal Soak: 4+2(Stone of Resilient Bamboo)= 6
Total Soak:6+5(armor) = 11
Hardness: 4

Guile: Manipulation+Socialize=2+1=3/2= 2
Resolve: Wits+integrity=5+4=9/2= 5

Withering Attack: dexterity+martial arts= 5+5+1(speciality)+5(accuracy)= 16
Decisive Attack: Dexterity+martial arts=5+5+1(specialty)= 11

Withering Damage: Strength+damage=4+10= 14
Defining: Learning all martial arts on the creation
Major: Mentor Lunar Shadow Lion (Respect)
Minor: Guild Slavers (Dislike)
Major: Sweet Lily (Friendship)
Minor: Thief Guild Leader Garon (Hatred)
Major: Crew (Trust)

Wukang Kai born in a brothel in the Cinnabar district of Nexus to a western oriented whore. He took his mothers hair and eyes with darker green for both however he born with a light bronze skin which was more of a eastern touch which probably came from his father. He born healthier and stronger than most of the kids which coincides at time his father assumed to be one of dragonblooded visited the brothel months ago. Wukang grew in the brothel with limited interaction with customers along with other kids grew in there along with his best friend Sweet Lily.

At an early age Wukang was taken in by thief guild, Red River Gang which brothel is part of front business front of gang. Wukang was put on many tasks but he is found especially good with knives and forced to become a killer. He learned from the best and often send to missions both in and out of Nexus. Meanwhile his best friend Sweet Lily was already decided on to become a prized escort in the brothel. At age 16 Wukang already killed more than two dozen target silently and efficiently sometimes poisoning them, sometimes using targets perverted desires to his own advantage and with a knife to chest in the bed.

At age 18 Wukang was already a legend among gang members and was considered as next leader of gang which grew up considerably thanks to targets that were killed by Wukang and information gathered by Sweet Lily. Both Wukang and Sweet Lily were considered next generation leaders of gang however gang leader Garon didn't like these developments. Garon made a deal with a Guild Slaver Fei-Hong and send Wukang to a trap mission. Wukang realized it too late when the sleeping gas took effect. When Wukang woke up he was chained and was already in the north-east forest in a slave caravan to be sold to one of fair-folks.

Caravan that got slaves along with Wukang came to under attack from a couple of lunars and Wukang used the commotion to kill the guard with the chains on his wrists than took out the keys and got out of caravan. However he is soon confronted by a dragonblooded guard and during encounter a purple light covered Wukang's body and formed a tiger while the empty circle golden mark appeared on his forehead. Both lunars decided to take newly awakened solar with them to their twin manse hidden deep in thick forest.

Wukang learned more about poisons and antidotes and how to survive in forest from Cheerful Snake and his mate Shadow Lion thought him tiger style. While he was on an errand for lunars he saw a vision of a golden light with four arms but it quickly became dark and vision changed a little to a figure ofshadow with similar four yet different four arms and each arm pointed to a different direction. Wukang followed two close arms and found body of a dead dragonblloded who had a broken green jade reaper daiklave and a scroll. Wukang brought broken daiklave to Shadow Lion since she was a blacksmith and Shadow Lion reforged that daiklave into a razor claw giving it to Wukang. The scroll had a martial art instructions but after reading it Wukang decided to not tell his mentors about it since it was an assassination style.

Wukang was named as Stalking Tiger by his mentors due to his natural ability to set ambushes. Both mentors were attacking to slaver caravans time to time. During one such raid Wukang decided to to follow them. While lunars were fighting guards Wukang sneaked to caravan to set slaves free without knowledge of lunars. However this caravan was a trap set by Wyld Hunt as soon as he opened the door dragonblooded poured out of caravan meanwhile an encirclement appeared around both lunars. Both Cheerful Snake and Shadow Lion had been expecting this development since one of their friends warned them about it but Wukang's presence botched their plan. While trying to save Wukang Cheerful Snake took a fatal blow and died. Witnessing his own failure lead to his mentors death Wukang howled hard and suddenly he filled with anger. However he didn't get into a frenzy on the contrary he become cold-blooded and started to rip off limbs of dragonblooded that killed his mentor. He was toying with them ripping their limbs, gouging their eyes out, throwing salt to their wounds, cutting fingers and even pulling nails out.

Wukang spend around 10 days to hunt all of the wyld hunt members that took part in the ambush. Even if he had chance he didn't kill more than one person a day and he kept torturing them. Only after last one died Wukang came to his senses and realized what he did. During this time wukang became some sort of boogeyman and people started call him Silent Shadow since he was using Ebon Shadow Form and his anima's concealment abilities. He returned to twin manse and mourned with Shadow Lion. Shadow Lion let Wukang to attune to Cheerful Snakes Manse and keep his hearthstones as well as his Silken Midnight Thorn armor.

Shortly after Wukang saw the shadowy four armed figure again and this time all four arms were directing to same way. Wukang decided to go-on a journey, he was too much sheltered in the forest and he realized that he needs to learn more about creation and people on it. More than anything he listened stories about different martial arts from Shadow Lion for almost 10 years and got obsessed about learning them. He joined a merchant caravan as bodyguard. Since he was in a forest with green jade weapon and armor people thought he was a dragonblooded and he manage to keep his mark in check to not let anyone find out about it. He continued to act as a bodyguard for various caravans, ships and airships. Currently Stalking Tiger is 30 for two years he made a name for himself as a bodyguard and he was lastly hired by an airship captain called Axtis Jen.
Xp Earned: 24
Xp Banked: 0

Solar Xp Earned: 18
Solar XP banked: 1

BP Spend:
5 BP Martial Arts: Ebon Shadow 5
16 BP Willpower 2
9 BP Fast Reflexes 3
9 BP Artifact Belt of Shadow Walking 3
2 BP Stealth - Combat (specialty)
8 BP Wits 1
8 BP Elusive Flicker Evasion
8 BP Celestial Tiger Hide
3 BP Medicine 1
2 BP Martial Arts Tiger Claws (specialty)
2 BP Martial Arts Tiger Claws (specialty)
6 BP Languages 2
2 BP athletics - acrobatics (specialty)

XP Spend:
8 XP Keen Sight Technique
8 XP Flash-Eyed Killer's Insight
8 XP Mind Shroud Meditation

Solar XP Spend:
8 XP Shadow-Stepping Motion
9 XP Integrity from 1 to 4

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