Dice [Exalted] O Brave New World (Characters)

Random Word · Dec 30, 2020

Standard character creation rules. All merits are on the table.

Flat XP costs, so sum the cost of buying all 4 dots of an attribute or 5 of an ability, then divide by 4 or 5 respectively, to get the per-dot cost.

Unicorns for everyone*! (*Who buys them as Familiars)

D. Rex, if you want Erembour to ever do anything useful rather than simply oscillating between dangerous and incredibly inconvenient, you can optionally buy her as a 5 dot Ally. You can't make her hate the Sun any less in either its golden or green flavours, but you could buy a narrative where she would sometimes be willing to help when you can convince her you aren't furthering - or better yet, are opposing - the aims of either Sun.

You can earn up to 6 XP immediately, 2 XP each for two positive/neutral connections to other players and one negative connection.

Each character should be described by up to five Aspects. These define the kind of drama and complications you want other players and myself to introduce into your life, and what kind of story your character is part of.

Each character should specify at least three Flags, scenes you'd like to have them experience. It's helpful if at least one is an establishing scene. Think of the first scene in a movie when a character is introduced - what's the first glimpse you want everyone to have of your character? What piece of them is it essential everyone knows about, and what kind of scene would exemplify it?

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XP Earned So Far:
Defeat the Raksha Raiding Party
Break the Siege of Kabir
Find the Location of the Alcazar of Twelve Ewers
Resolve the Diplomatic Incident between the Fayum and Bintanath
The Hall of Enduring Silence
The Fayum Civil War
Eight Forged King
Secure the Tin
Unite the Vassals

Regular XP: 27 for everyone + 6 at character creation

Everyone: 10 Bonus XP of your favourite flavour.
Morrolan: 6 Lunar XP
Renna: 3 Solar XP
Atusa: 3 Solar XP
John: 3 Solar XP

Rykon · Dec 30, 2020

Name: Jean Latrans | John Barker
Caste: Twilight
Age: 24
Supernal Ability: Craft
Totemic Anima: A Coyote stalks and studies his prey
Limit Trigger: The Solar tells a lie, deliberately deceives someone, or breaks a sworn oath

Aspects
Daydreaming Chef - "I wonder what that tastes like..."
Insatiably Curious - "Cliffhangers are the real anathema. I need answers."
Everything has a purpose - "Hey! I could have made something out of that."
Playful spirit - "Relax and have fun. You can take the next life seriously."
Seeker of Miracles - "I will unravel the secrets of lost artifice and weave new wonders once again."

Current Flags
● Create a dish that brings someone to tears when they taste it.
● Uncover a secret to an existing sorcerous working.
● Establish a location for a future workshop at a demesne.
● Secure a supply of at least one magical metal.
● Conduct a study of Hazel's demon binding specifically for the purpose of aggravating Erembor.
● Explore a mostly unlooted first age structure.
● Conduct an investigation or examine evidence for a criminal case or legal dispute.
● Acquire rare materials from the wilderness by hand.
● Complete construction of a manse.
● Engage a renowned chef in a public competition with significant stakes on the line.
● Create a weapon of such enviable quality that it starts a fight.
● Complete a construction that restores a once lost luxury.
● Repair a broken vehicle.
● Establish a lasting bond with an animal through craftsmanship.
● Create something poorly for a deliberate and useful purpose.
● Obtain something of value by bargaining with an influential supernatural being.
● Identify an obscure detail about a mysterious substance through taste or scent.
● Spend a scene learning something new about another player character's history or hobby.
● Uncover a vivid memory from a past life.
● Create something to be used for a harmless prank.
John was raised up as the heir to a small family diner called Barker's Alley Restaurant, more locally known as simply the "BAR". His father, Alan Latrans was growing to the tender age of 50 when his son John took the second breath while out scavenging for herbs. Though the light has left many in the area spreading rumors of a Solar in the midst of town, the young chef managed to flee would be pursuers with the help of his newly minted power. Though his escape was not completely without consequence.

Since his Exaltation, the search for the rumored solar drew more attention to the area. Between his elevated skills and expanding clientele, Barker's earned a lot of public praise. Seeing a peasant's diner be so highly lauded brought out the competitive streak in their neighbors. The most notable contender brought the challenge of a food war, a competition of pride between two professional cooks. His opponent, a lost egg exalt of the Burning Sands, fresh from the Diamond Road ready to climb the Sassarin spires for her own glory. Many attempts had been made over the years to push the Latrans out of their location yet none so prestigious as one of the Exalted.

True to her origins, John's opponent Kasra assembled a dish bursting with heat, the kind of force that would bring even the hardiest diners to their knees with the impact of her enhanced peppers and seasonings. John chose a subtler route, weaving a gentle but complex profile of flavors from mild ingredients that absorbed the heat from the diner's mouths and enhanced the innate potential of far more humble ingredients. Through his tactical choice in sniffing out his competing dish, he flipped her signature meal into an appetizer and won the judge's votes. For her part of the wager, Kasra was now obligated to serve as a chef at Barker's Alley for 3 years.

Just as well for John. With the newfound surge of essence, he needed the space and freedom to discover the secret behind what had just happened to him. Every once in a while he'd either exchange letters or return to oversee Barkers in person to make sure the place is in good condition or to cover for Kasra and enable her to take some time off.

In his spare time, John has been studying the crafts of fellow artisans assimilating what care and techniques they've accumulated to expand his perception of possibilities. With each task he puts his hand to, he feels a muscle memory of the spirit directing his hands to create or revive lost wonders of a mystical era. If only he could dispense with distractions and stigmas to fully focus on the art of creation. Alas, many would seek to execute him for his awakening or exploit his talents for causes he had little investment in. A nation held but a small and fleeting life, but dining was eternal.
Attributes
Strength ●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●●

Charisma ●●
Manipulation ●
Appearance ●●●●

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

Abilities
Archery
Athletics ●●●
Awareness ●●●
Brawl ●
Bureaucracy ●●●
Craft ●●●●● (Cooking, Alchemy, Metalworking, Architecture, Masonry, Carpentry, Tailoring, Leatherworking, Gemcrafting, Art, Artifacts, Geomancy)
Dodge
Integrity ●●
Investigation ●●
Larceny
Linguistics ●
Lore ●●● (Cuisine, Achaean Commerce, Achaean Settlements)
Medicine ●
Melee ●●●●●
Occult ●●●
Performance ●
Presence ●●
Resistance ●
Ride
Sail
Socialize ●●●
Stealth
Survival ●●
Thrown
War
Resources ●● (Diner's Income)
Contacts ● (Barkers Alley Regulars)
Influence ● (Heir to Barker's Alley)
Languages ●● (Native: Flametongue, Riverspeak, Old Realm)
Retainer ●●●● (Kasra)

Kasra is a Fire-Aspect Dragon-Blooded Chef. She is a Lost Egg with no known affiliation with the Realm or the Seventh Legion. Currently employed at Barker's Alley Restaurant.

Aspects
Dreams of grandeur
Princess of pepper
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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 this Charm may not grant her more than double her Strength score. Through use of Increasing Strength Exercise, Solars can reach the Strength minimums required to attempt certain feats of strength (p. 229).

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Increasing Strength Exercise,
Monkey Leap Technique
The Exalt draws down on the Essence around her, pulling it through her upper body, her lungs, her core and down into her legs, and then explodes skyward, rising in a brilliant, Essence-laden arc. This Charm supplements a non-ranged attack which can be made against aerial targets up to short range, or ground targets at another range band. 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 another range band, 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.

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 Exalt’s senses of taste and smell are capable of ﬂawless identification of ﬂavors, textures, and scent profiles. This Charm represents an array of mechanical benefits, as well as two distinct functions of the senses taste and smell. The Solar can recognize an individual by scent alone, and she can tell older scents from new ones, enabling her to tell how recently an individual was present. Add +2 successes to Survival rolls to hunt for food, track a character, or find water, using her sense of smell. This Charm automatically extends the range of these actions to (Essence * 200) yards.

This Charm also creates a library of scents which your character can reference. Upon learning this Charm, the library is populated with the scents of any Major or Defining Intimacy the character may have, but it can also include scents outside the confines of intimacies if the Storyteller deems them reasonable, including any scent the character has encountered in the last 24 hours, the smell of a favorite food or drink, or scents linked to strong memories such as love or pain. Entries in a Solar’s scent library can be used to aid in Investigation and Survival rolls, as well as in the smell-based Awareness Charms further up the tree.

This Charm also creates a taste index. Similar to the scent library, the taste index allows the Exalt to immediately recognize any taste she has experienced within the realm of reason. The Solar can identify obscure, complex, or similar ﬂavors and she can deconstruct a meal she has eaten to its basic ingredients, so long as she has experienced most of the ﬂavors at some point in time. The taste index isn’t populated the same way as the scent library; most characters do not have Major or Defining intimacies for ﬂavors. Rather, the Solar may perfectly recognize any ﬂavor the Storyteller considers reasonable. If the character has been a master chef all of her life, her palate is going to be considerably more robust than that of an islander with little contact with the outside world. Conversely, those who have lived or traveled in remote locations may have had access to rare and exotic food, drink, and poison.

This Charm follows the special activation rules of Keen Sight Technique (p. 267).

Reference:
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.

Craft
Note: See http://exalted3e.wikidot.com/hr:craft-rewrite

Cost: 6m; Mins: Craft 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None

This Charm supplements an attempt to build or repair something, allowing the Solar to work without tools or a workshop. If used to create or repair an Artifact or manse, it counts as a basic workshop and doesn't let the Solar work any faster than normal. If used on a mundane project, this Charm reduces the time required by two increments on the following chart:

Decades <-> Years <-> Months <-> Weeks <-> Days <-> Hours <-> Minutes <-> Seconds

Reduce the cost of this Charm by 2m if using it with tools that would be sufficient to complete the project normally.

Cost: -; Mins: Craft 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: None

Upon purchasing this Charm, the Solar gains two additional Craft specialties for each Craft specialty they have. Further specialties may be purchased for 1xp, and take one third of the normal time to train.

A Solar with at least 12 Craft specialties may repurchase this Charm to trade their Craft specialties for a universal specialty that applies to all uses of the Craft skill. If they lose more than 12 specialties this way, they gain 1xp for each extra specialty lost.

Lore

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

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

Melee

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

Cost: 1m; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Call the Blade
With a moment of concentration, the Solar may banish a weapon Elsewhere. She may reﬂexively lift commitment to this Charm, summoning her weapon to hand in a ﬂash of Essence.

Occult

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

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.

Socialize

Cost: 3m; Mins: Socialize 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm supplements a read intentions action (p. 218), applying the double 9s rule to the Solar’s roll. In addition, the Exalt may substitute Wits for Perception when she is reading the intentions of a person with whom she is speaking.

A Socialize 4+ repurchase enhances this Charm’s performance. When the Solar discerns the intentions of her target, the player may speculate on the existence of one of the target’s related Intimacies. If the player is correct, the Solar becomes aware of that Intimacy as per Cunning Insight Technique.

A Socialize 5 repurchase enhances this Charm when it is used to speculate about a target’s Intimacy; if the player’s frst speculation is incorrect, the player may inquire about the existence of a second Intimacy.

Survival

Cost: 3m; Mins: Survival 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through the use of this Charm, the Exalt can deal with nearly any wild animal. Herbivores and smaller omnivores will not break and run when the Solar approaches, and will even become somewhat docile, allowing the Exalt to pet or handle them. Predators are less susceptible to this Charm, and most will simply let the Solar pass unmolested through their territory. This Charm does not work on sentient animals or familiars, animals that are trained to attack, or animals that are maddened by pain, hunger, or disease.
Shaping Rituals
Sevenfold Art Invocation: The sorcerer channels Essence through esoteric formulae and rigorously-practiced mudras. Once per scene, when she stunts the first shape sorcery roll of a spell with invocations or mudras, she gains (stunt rating + 2) sorcerous motes towards completing the spell. Enhancing her control spell doesn’t count against this once-per-scene limit.

Terrestrial Spells
Control Spell - Infallible Messenger
Cost: 5sm, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: Until message is delivered
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 fve 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, carven amongst the gargoyles of her residence, or brieﬂy ﬂuttering in the periphery of a mirror’s reﬂection.
John doesn't possess artifacts at this time, instead relying on mortal implements of his own make at the time being.

Mortal Melee Weapons
Reference (Accuracy/Damage/Defense/Overwhelming)
Light (4/7/0/1)
Medium (2/9/1/1)
Heavy (0/11/-1/1)

Unarmed-Light Weapon. Tags: Bashing, Brawl, Grappling, Natural

Cestus-Light Weapon. Tags: Bashing, Brawl, Smashing, Worn
Khatar-Light Weapon. Tags: Lethal, Brawl, Piercing
Knife-Light Weapon. Tags: Lethal, Melee, Thrown(short)
Short Sword-Light Weapon. Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hammer-Medium Weapon. Tags: Bashing, Melee, Smashing; sometimes Improvised
Spear-Medium Weapon. Tags: Lethal, Melee, Piercing, Reaching
Straight Sword-Medium Weapon. Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Poleaxe/Halberd(Guandao)-Heavy Weapon. Tags: Lethal, Melee, Chopping, Reaching, Two-Handed

On Summoning the Loyal Steel...
Currently, John has 3m committed for a Straight Sword, a Hammer, and a Guandao

Mortal Armor
Reference (Soak/Mobility Penalty/Hardness)
Light (3/0/0)
Medium (5/-1/0)
Heavy (7/-2/0)

Breastplate-Light Armor. Tags: None
Buff Jacket-Light Armor. Tags: None
Chain Shirt-Light Armor. Tags: Concealable
Reinforced Buff Jacket. Tags: Silent
Health Levels
-0x1
-1x2
-2x2
-4x1
Ix1

Essence: ●
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed: 3
Willpower: ●●●●●

Join Battle 6

Parry 5 (+1/-1 depending on the weapon)
Evasion 3/3/2 (unarmored, light armor, medium armor)

Total Soak 2/5/7
Hardness 0

Guile 2
Resolve 3

Intimacies
Defining Tie-Joy from Cooking. "Nothing like the smile on a client's face after a good meal."
Defining Principle-"I say what I mean, and mean what I say. Better to be my authentic self."
Major Principle-If you aren't having fun, it's your own fault.
Major Tie-Love of discovery
Major Tie-Protective of Hazel "My mate has suffered more than her fair share."
Major Tie-Suspicious of Erembor "It's bound for a reason, and that reason isn't trustworthiness."
Minor Tie- Love for Hazel
Minor Tie-Dislikes Sassarin sorcerers. "I don't like listening to people full of themselves. Especially after they just took a big loss."
Minor Tie-Respects Kasra "She makes good food, but not good enough to give up Barkers."
Minor Tie-Respects Atusa "Her and her clan are nice people. I've learned a ton in my time around them."
Minor Tie-Frustrated with Renna and Morollan "Hazel's had a hard enough time without having to worry about a demon hunt."
Minor Tie-Loyalty to Comrades "It's nice to have people who understand what this whole experience is like."
Bonus Points 15
Abilities 13
Specialties 2
Athletics*
Monkey Leap Technique
Soaring Crane Leap

Awareness
Sensory Acuity Prana
Keen Taste and Smell Technique
Surprise Anticipation Method
Genius Palate Summation
Keen Sight Technique
Unswerving Eye Method
Keen Hearing and Touch Technique
Studied Ear Espial
Knowing Beyond Silence
Unsurpassed Taste and Smell Discipline
Unsurpassed Sight Discipline
Blink
Eye of the Unconquered Sun

Bureaucracy*
~~Frugal Merchant Method~~
Deft Official's Way
Measuring Glance
Speed the Wheels
Bureau-Rectifying Method
Enlightened Discourse Method

Craft
Arete Shifting Prana x2
Craftsman Needs No Tools
Flawless Handiwork Method x2
Supreme Masterwork Focus x3
Thousand Forge Hands
Master Craftsman's Eye
Crack-Mending Technique
Tireless Workhorse Method
Benevolent Worker's Joy
First Movement of The Demiurge
Essence-Forging Kata
Divine Inspiration Technique
Vice-Miracle Technique
Glorious Solar Chef
Twilight Chemistry
Consumption Demanding Cuisine

Integrity*
~~Stubborn Boar Defense~~

Investigation*
Watchman's Infallible Eye
Inquisitor's Unfailing Notice
Crafty Observation Method
Judge's Ear Technique
Divine Induction Technique
Miraculous Stunning Insight

Lore
Harmonious Academic Methodology
Bottomless Wellspring Approach
First Knowledge's Grace
Flowing Mind Prana
Hidden Wisdom Bestowal
Lore-Inducing Concentration
Truth Rendering Gaze
Sacred Relic Understanding
Wake the Sleeper
Wyld Dispelling Prana
Chaos Repelling Pattern

Medicine
Wound-Mending Care Technique
Wound-Cleansing Meditation
Instant Treatment Methodology
Anointment of Miraculous Health
Wholeness-Restoring Meditation
Flawless Diagnosis Technique
Touch of Blissful Release
Body Purifying Admonitions
Contagion-Curing Touch

Melee
Call the Blade
Summoning the Loyal Steel
Excellent Strike
One Weapon, Two Blows
Dipping Swallow Defense
Bulwark Stance
Fivefold Bulwark Stance
Fire and Stones Strike
Rising Sun Slash
Hungry Tiger Technique
Perfect Strike Discipline
Solar Counterattack
Foe-Cleaving Focus

Occult
~~Terrestrial Circle Sorcery~~
Celestial Circle Sorcery
Solar Circle Sorcery
~~Spirit Detecting Glance~~
Spirit Cutting Attack
Spirit Repelling Diagram
Spirit-Caging Mandala
Wyld Binding Prana
Ghost-Eating Technique
Carnal Spirit Rending
Ancient Tongue Understanding
Dark Minder's Observances
Gloaming Eye Understanding
Ephemeral Induction Technique

Presence*
Listener-Swaying Argument
Harmonious Presence Meditation
Excellent Friend Approach
Tiger's Dread Symmetry

Performance*
Masterful Performance Exercise
Perfect Harmony Technique
Mood-Inducing Music

Resistance*
Ox-Body Technique x5
Body Mending Meditation
Durability of Oak Meditation
Front-Line Warrior's Stamina
Poisoning-Resisting Meditation
Illness-Resisting Meditation
Immunity to Everything Technique

Ride*
Master Horseman's Techniques

Sail*
Salty Dog Method

Stealth*
Easily Overlooked Presence Method

War*
War God Descendent
Holistic Battle Understanding
Ideal Battle Knowledge Prana

D. Rex · Dec 30, 2020

Name: Hazel
Caste: No-moon
Concept: Wyld Mutant
Age: 19

Essence: ●
Willpower: ●●●●●

Spirit Totem: A black cat.

Attributes
Strength ●●
*Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●●●

Charisma ●●●●
Manipulation ●●
Appearance ●●

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

Abilities
Archery ●●●●● +firewands
Athletics
Awareness ●●●
Brawl
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge ●●●
Integrity ●●
Investigation
Larceny ●●
Linguistics ●
Lore ●●● +Geomancy
Medicine
Melee
Occult ●●●●● +demonology +shaping
Performance
Presence ●●●
Resistance ●●
Ride
Sail
Socialize
Stealth ●●●
Survival
Thrown
War
Merits

Heart's Blood ●
Artifact ●●●● (Moonsilver Dragon Sigh Wand)

Language ●● low realm (native), Flametongue, old realm

Ally ●●●●● : Erembour
Influence ●●: Malfeas
Manse: ●●●●●

Thaumaturgist (Terrestrial Circle Sorcery)

Mutation points x5 -5limit
Bounding Legs 2
Second Mouth 1 (Tail)
Tail 1
Unusual hide 1 (fur) +1 Soak

Flaw
Wyld Mutant

Anima Effect:
• For five motes, the No Moon shrouds herself in a shadowy penumbra until her next turn. Vision-dependent rolls made against her suffer a −2 penalty until her next turn. This power is free at bonfire anima.
• For three motes, she senses the location and general nature of a nearby place of power or occult significance — a demesne, manse, spirit sanctum, shadowland, Wyld zone, otherworldly gateway, sorcerous working, or similar. She adds (highest mental Attribute) non-Charm successes on rolls to navigate towards it. The Storyteller should choose not the closest place of power, but the one that’s most interesting and narratively relevant.
• Once per day, while her anima is at bonfire, she can expend it completely to either gain one Willpower, add (Essence + [highest mental Attribute]) sorcerous motes to a spell she’s shaping, or add a free full Excellency on a mental Attribute-based roll other than Join Battle.
Weapons:

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Material: Moonsilver
Tags: Lethal, Archery (Short), Flame, Slow

Category: Heavy
Damage: 14
Overwhelming: 5
Attunement: 5

Range
Close: +1
Short:+5

Adds +4 damage to whithering instead of strength.

Die pool
Close: [Per5+Arc5+Spe1+Ran1] 12
Short: [Per5+Arc5+Spe1+Ran5] 16

Damage
Withering: [Wpn14+4] 18
Decisive: [Initiative]

Description

The firewand is easily as long as she is tall. It's made of a dark rich ebony wood, looking almost black. Swirling Veins of rounded moonsilver are carved into the side of the wood, forming shapes of stars. The main barrel is a bright mirrored moonsilver, holding the gun together is bands of orichalcum, ornately etched with prayers to Luna and hieroglyphs of the night sky. At the end of the barrel, rather than the mouth of a dragon, is a funnel. And when looking at it dead on, it looks pock marked at first glance, but you will soon see that it makes it reminiscent of the full moon itself. When fired, the wand belches out flames as black as night with a thunderous cacophon, spattered with brilliant white glowing sparks that are spread throughout the flame.

Armor:

Hearthstones:

Manse/Demesne:
Health Levels
-0 ●
-1 ●●
-2 ●●●●
-4 ●●
I ●

Essence: ●●
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 38/33

Nocturn: 5

Mote Recovery
Combat: +5/round
Natural: +5/hour, relaxed +10/hour
Demesne:

Willpower: ●●●●●
Limit: ●●●●● OOOOO

Join Battle: 6 [successes+3]

Parry:
Evasion: 6

Natural Soak:3
Armor Soak:
Bonus Soak: 1 (Unusual Hide)
Total Soak: 4

Hardness: 0

Guile: 2
Resolve: 3

Rush: 7
Disengage: 11
Cover: 11

Sorcery
Shaping: [Int5+Occ5+Spe1] 11,

Other bonuses
Tail: +2 die to maintain balance.
Bounding Legs: The mutant’s powerful legs add 2 dice on jumping-based rolls. This only applies to combat movement if she leaps to a position at least one range band higher or lower.

Penalties
Wyld Mutant: -3 to social interactions with strangers.
Unusual Hide: -1 on disguise to pass as normal.
Intimacies
Defining Principle - I am still human.
Defining Principle - To become a Sorceress worthy of Luna's faith in her.
Major - Old Circle (Affection)
Major - Solars (Positive)
Major - Chimerism (Fear)
Minor - Erembour (ambition)
Minor - Own appearance (Negative)

Derangement, (Minor) Delusion: The tail speaks with the voice of an enigmatic god called The Storyteller.

Aspects
•Spitefully Stubborn
•Eccentric
•Prodigal Lunar Sorceress of the Ages that makes Solars weep with Envy
•Malfean Princess
•Self-Conscious

Background Summary

As a little girl, the greatest wonders to her were that of magic. Letting her mind go wild with the magical feats of the Dragon Blooded and the Immaculate Order. Stories were always welcomed by her, and she hung onto every embellishment. It was her dream, to one day, be like them. To have her dragon blood awaken into a grand Sorceress and become mighty and wise like her heroes.

The problem was, Hazel was a but a simple peasant. An orphan to boot. There was little chance that such blood flowed through her. But it didnt stop her from dreaming. Perhaps one of her ancestors had an affair with with a Prince of fire! Or other such nonsense. Childhood imagination.

But this did not stop her from acting out her dreams. In the back alleys and river wharfs, it was perhaps he favorite pastime to find and watch the traveling shamans and local diviners. While most where given little, if any, credit... Hazel believed. Sometimes with her badgering, and sometimes their good nature, but the girl learned from them. Learning about their magic and their wisdom. Some even tried to show her how.

And as the years passed, her wonder never died. And she found herself at stalls, trying her hand at telling the fortunes of bemused travelers or bored locals. It couldn't be said she was good, but she enjoyed it.

Yet, on one particular day, an actual Dynast walked through by, dressed in the robes of the Immaculate Order. Her heart nearly exploded, as she recognized their name from the stories she knew and loved. And to her excitement, the amused Dynast found her setup to be quite novel, so allowed her to read his fortune.

Even if she couldn't give him a performance, the memory of having tea with him was not something she would ever forget.

But not because of why she thought...

In quite they sat, as she poured the tea and told him the rules. And in more silence they finished. The girl could barely contain her excitement, could barely focus. However, when Hazel looked at the leaves, her breath stopped and her eyes glazed over. The world passed by in a blur to her and she spoke in a language she could not understand. Seeing things she could not understand.

It was over quickly. But confused and embarrassed she looked to the Dynast... and his face as serious as stone, and his hand at his weapon. He looked stunned. Like he had heard something he had never thought he would hear.

The Dynast got up and turned to his brethren. The spoke in hushed tones. And when they turned back... the girl was gone.

As among the breeze, one snippet of that conversation was overheard by her. "...we need to kill her and everyone else who might have heard..."

Horrified, Hazel ran for her life... unfortunately she did not have much of a head start.

How it was that she had kept running, she did not know.

Days, it had been. And every day she hear them behind her. Every day an arrow sank next to her. Even now, she had ran into the jungle, further and further east. Stopping only she could run no more, where fate somehow kept her safe until she woke.

It was a black night, with not even a moon to guide her. She still did not stop, looking behind her, their lights were too close. But so too were lights on front of her. They were here too.

Her head swam with fear and grief, that she would die. And as her head spun, so too did the world. The lights stretching into a swirl until the petered out entirely, leaving her on pitch black.

Her and the Silver Lady.

Helpless and scared she cried, the lady of the moon embraced her like a mother. Comforted her.

As she pulled Hazel to her feet, the black became alight with stars all around them. She called Hazel a child of the moon, and as such she had nothing to fear of the night. She pulled Hazel into a dance and they twirled about the stars for several steps before she spoke again.

Saying that if the moon did not look upon her, then nothing else would. To let it be her comfort and her shield. The Lady let go of Hazel and reached for the stars, and pulled down the night, wrapping it about the girls shoulders like a mantle. As the night was peeled away, it shown where they were as clear as day.

On a cliff, three monks with lanterns held high, frozen in time.

Once more the silver lady took hold of Hazels hands, "Let no one stop you. Reach for the power I know you have. I trust you. Now trust me, but know there will be hardship." With those final words, she spun Hazel and let her go, sending the girl off the edge of the cliff and into the dark.

The vison ended as suddenly as it begun. And her feet once more pounded against the jungle mud at a full run towards the lights ahead. Trust me. She heard once more in her head, she did and something swelled inside her. Hazel picked up speed she didn't know she was capable of. The girl burst out of the brush at full sprint...

She ran between the Monks, and from the cliff she leaped, falling backwards in faith.

In the air she gracefully turned to look... and the last they saw of her was her defiant eyes reflecting the light of their lanterns back at them.

And from the darkness, seconds later. A splash.

The horrors of the Wyld were like nothing she could have predicted. Even with her new power. It was frightening, how it twisted her body. Bending bone and shaping flesh. Even now she could not recognize herself. And not just her body, but also her mind. Every day she could feel the taint penetrate every inch of her. And every day brought the horrid realization that she might lose another bit of herself.

It had been ayear, and only a few days ago did the Wyld Hunt finally give up, only for another group of predators to pick up her trail. She did not know who or what they were, but she would not give in.

However she did not get far. As the beasts eventually cornered her. Beasts, as well as men and women. They were creatures of protean flesh like her. They too were Moon Mad. They took her by surprise and forced her to the ground.

The man, he raised his spear, about to plunge it into her. But the woman stopped him with a touch, and gave him a nod. That this was who they were looking for. And not some random chimera.

The woman saw that Hazel was released, "Luna has smiled on you, that so little has been taken. I have seen much worse. You can understand me, yes?" She asked.

Hazel nodded in a wide eyes stare. The woman smiled in response."I am Leaf-Song. Seer of my tribe, and I am here to bring you home."

Limit Trigger:
The lunar is notably humiliated or rejected as a direct result of her appearance or mutations.

Limit Break:

Primal hunger and hearts passion collide into a dangerous combination. Reverting to a madness that compels her to a tively hunt for a fleeting feeling of "love and humanity". This becomes a defining intimacy she must try to accomplish at any cost. All inhibitions are shed in search of the basest instinct, and no shame is too great a cost. This freedom burns with a dangerous desperation. While seduction, reason and wiles may be her first effort, she will quickly resort to bribes, begging. The longer this progress, the worse it becomes. Any lengths means any lengths. Threats, violence, taboos, or worse. All but means to an end. While physical intimacy is the most common outlet sought, other methods are viable so long as they serve the same goal. These are a little more challenging given that the Lunar is not in a healthy state of mind.

Should the scene end with no resolution, she will either revert to a wild nature in hope of relief, or collapse into a catatonic ball of shame and regret (which she very well may do anyway.)

This lasts for one scene, after which her limit resets. The limit can be ended early if; as a result of her actions she is able to meet her goal in such a way that it establishes a positive or negative tie. Her actions bring notable harm to a major or defining intimacy.

Flags
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BP 15
2 - Archery ●
4 - Occult ●●
2 - Influence (Malfeas) ●●
2 - Language ●●
5 - Sunken Manse ●●●●●

Non-Caste, Non-Favored Attribute increase - 11
Caste/Favored Attribute increase - 10
Ability increase - 6
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit - new rating x3
Willpower - 8
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Lunar Charm - 10 (9 if Casteless)
Caste/Favored Lunar Charm - 8
Martial Arts Charm - 10
Spell - 10 (8 if Intelligence is a Caste/Favored Attribute)
Evocation - 10
Animal Latent Ability - 6

XP earned: 6
Xp Banked: 6

6 - Archery ●

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Excellencies: Dexterity, Perception, Intelligence, Wits, Charisma

Perception

Sense-Sharpening Change
Cost: 4m (or 1m); Mins: Perception 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar shifts her body to hone one of her senses. She chooses a single sense, rerolling 1s until they cease to appear on Perception rolls using it and ignoring (Essence) points of penalty from overstimulation or understimulation of that sense, even on non-Perception rolls. She could ignore penalties to vision caused by darkness or blinding light, but not by fog or distance.

The Lunar may stack this Charm to enhance different senses. The cost of activations beyond the first is reduced to one mote.

Perceiving the Hidden World
Cost: 4m; Mins: Perception 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Protean
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar’s senses awaken to the ephemeral existence of spirits. She can perceive (but not
touch) dematerialized entities.
Protean: In animal forms with sense-enhancing Merits, the Lunar intuits whenever a
dematerialized spirit comes within long range, prompting her to use this Charm if she chooses.

Wits

Squirrel’s Cunning Technique
Cost: 3m; Mins: Wits 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
Infinitely devious, the Lunar conceals contraband, weaponry, or ill-gotten gains in all manner of
hiding places. She makes a conceal evidence roll with ([Intelligence or Wits] + Larceny). If the concealed object is light enough to hold, she adds (essence) successes, and her concealment can only be opposed by characters with superhuman or magically enhanced senses for this charms duration. She may exempt characters from this effect.

Intelligence

Inevitable Genius Insight
Cost: 1m; Mins: Intelligence 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar’s keen mind synthesizes disparate insights to reveal new truths. She adds ([most relevant of Bureaucracy, Craft, Investigation, Larceny, Linguistics, Medicine, Occult, Socialize, Survival or War]/2 rounded up) dice roll to a lore roll. She treats specialties in that ability as lore specialties to justify introducing or challenging a fact, and adds them to the dice.

Penumbra Witch Mastery
Cost: 3m; Mins: Intelligence 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
A student of Creation’s mysteries and those that lie beyond the world, the Lunar’s insight illumines uncanny darkness. She adds (higher of Essence or 3) dice and rerolls 1s until they cease to appear on a sorcery- or thaumaturgy-related roll; a roll to understand or introduce a fact about a supernatural being, artifact, manse, or similar phenomenon; or a read intentions, profile character, or case scene roll opposing a spirit or fae.

Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Cost: —; Mins: Intelligence 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any four Mental Attribute Charms
Crossing the Terrestrial Circle’s threshold, the Lunar is initiated into mysteries unknown. She
may use Terrestrial Circle sorcery. She learns one Terrestrial spell — her control spell — and one shaping ritual for free.

Cloaked in Moonfire
Cost: —; Mins: Intelligence 4, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
The Lunar’s anima banner shifts and warps as sorcerous Essence flows through it. While her anima is glowing or higher, she doesn’t lose sorcerous motes on turns wherein she doesn’t gather additional sorcerous motes.

Dexterity

Agile Beast Defense
Cost: 1m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Protean, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Reflexes honed by Essence, the Lunar defends faster than her foes can imagine. Successfully defending against an attack grants one Initiative, and she can parry lethal damage barehanded. If her attacker’s Initiative is lower than hers or he rolls any 1s, she gains +1 Defense.

Protean: In animal shapes with the Tiny Creature or Minuscule Size Merits, this Charm may be declared after the attack roll.

Bending Before the Storm
Cost: 2m; Mins: Dexterity 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Agile Beast Defense
The Lunar moves with impossible grace that only a shapechanger could achieve, shifting her form and stance to close gaps in her defense. She halves all penalties, rounded down, to her Defense. Against lower-Initiative attackers, she ignores all Defense penalties. This doesn’t affect penalties from surprise attacks (Exalted, p. 203)

Stamina

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

Exorcism (••)
With the one dot ritual the exorcist may attempt to banish a ghost with chanting, ritual gestures, and a variety of mystical appurtenances. She may pay one Willpower to begin an extended action with a difficulty of the ghost’s
Essence and a goal number of its Willpower, rolling (Intelligence + Occult) dice at each interval. Each roll is a combat action that cannot be placed in a flurry. She must remain within short range of the ghost she’s exorcising, which takes a -3 penalty on all actions while the exorcism is underway. Success dispatches it back to the Underworld. The exorcist must maintain concentration, and automatically fails if she is damaged by a decisive attack or crashed.

The two dot ritual allows an exorcist with a specialty in demonology, and with a specialty in knowledge of a specific demon, to drive that demon out of a host, causing spirit to flee into a clay vessel, statue, tree, cattle or other proxy for a month and a day. This ritual’s procedure is the same as that of one to drive out a ghost, save that it uses the demon’s Resolve as a difficulty. A sorcerer who has bound a sealed demon may free it by commanding it out of the containing vessel—if she can find it.

There is another two dot version of a demonic exorcism that involves forcing a spirit back into its sanctum, but this works for no more than a single night, has a goal number of (the spirit’s Willpower x2), and a terminus of three, after which the same exorcist may not attempt to banish it for a year and a day.

Reading the Tea Leaves (••)
The one-dot ritual involves the taking of tea in order to divine a character’s destiny. The character whose destiny is to be read must empty tea leaves into a hot teacup, then dwell over the steam and reflections in the cup, and drink it down while emptying his mind of clutter. When the tea is gone, only the leaves remain, and the mystic may divine her target’s greater destiny with a difficulty 2 (Perception + Occult) roll. A greater destiny informs the character’s next defining accomplishment. It is not a prediction of where the character’s life will end, but rather the next major course it will take. The mystic may also read a character’s immediate destiny to get an idea of the most important life-event the character will engage in that day, though it is difficulty 4. Failing this roll still gives the thaumaturgist an accurate result, but the details are extremely hazy. Even when successful, the tea-reader often cannot explain or doesn’t understand what she sees.

The two-dot version of this ritual has almost the exact same procedure, but a different use. The mystic can use different flavors of tea with different seasonal associations to divine the best opportunities for success and failure a character has during a certain month. The mystic cannot dictate exactly what the tea will show her—she can’t tell whether a merchant taking a trip down the Diamond Road to Gem will be beset by Yena’s daughters—but she can generally see either the largest failure or success in the merchant’s life during the time in which he plans to take the trip. This is a difficulty 3 roll, and failing it still gives accurate but hazy information, with the potential for misinformation. A botch for either ritual always misinforms.

Reading tea leaves is generally common. In a populace of ten thousand, there will be at least one tea reader if tea consumption is an important part of regional culture.

Sorcery
Pact

Scarred by Nightmares
Perhaps you were a child lost in the warped depths of the Wyld or a hero treading where the logic of the world crumble away. Perhaps you were already an initiated sorcerer, wracked by maddening dreams or secrets best left unknown. However it happened, you saw it. Something numinous, a forgotten god or primal monster that spanned the horizon, more beautiful than anything you’ve ever seen and more horrifying than anything you’ve seen since. You caught only a glimpse of this outer thing, but it has marked you. A sliver of the Wyld now resides within the deepest dreaming parts of your mind, and the power of chaos serves your sorcerous will.

Shaping Rituals

When the sorcerer sleeps, her player may describe the strange visions that haunt her. She recovers no Willpower from sleep, instead rolling (Wits + Occult) and gaining one sorcerous mote per success. These motes last until the next time she sleeps, and can be spent towards any spell she casts. If the sorcerer spends all of the sorcerous motes granted by a dream casting her control spell, each counts as two motes towards meeting the spell’s cost. Once per story, the sorcerer’s player may stunt to describe how the current situation was somehow symbolized by her dreams, essentially declaring that her past dreams retroactively foreshadow the present. Doing so awards her a number of sorcerous motes equal to (her Essence x [stunt level + 1]), which last for the duration of the scene.

Control Spell

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.

Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

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

A sorcerer who knows Flight of the Brilliant Raptor as her control spell may use it to attack a target one range band beyond long range by paying an extra 5sm when casting the spell.

Ritual 2wp

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.

Cirrus Skiff
Cost: 15sm, 1wp
Keywords: None
Duration: Until ended
The sorcerer calls down a Cirrus Skiff to bear her skyward, a small white puffy cloud just large enough for her and one other passenger to ride upon. The cloud descends from the sky and hovers near the sorcerer like a faithful puppy until she steps on, at which point it rises into the air, obeying her mental commands. It is slow-moving, managing a pace of only (Essence x 6) miles per hour, but is virtually unlimited in its flight capability, able to rise upward with no limit other than the ability of its caster to endure the rarefied air of the upper atmosphere. In combat, the sorcerer rolls (Wits + Occult) in place of standard movement rolls to mentally direct the cloud, but otherwise faces no complications or penalties.

If the sorcerer wishes to sleep, study, or otherwise rest on the Cirrus Skiff without having to give it constant instructions, she may give it a set command, such as “Fly a mile up into the air and stay there” or “Circle around the satrap’s palace,” which it will obey until she gives it new orders. The sorcerer may disembark from the skiff for up to one scene without ending this spell, but any absence beyond that ends the spell, sending the cloud flying back up into the stratosphere.

A character who knows Cirrus Skiff as her control spell may cast it with an Indefinite duration. Her conjured cloud will follow after her after she disembarks, eagerly awaiting her return without ever leaving. It will follow simple instructions from the sorcerer, even when she’s not riding it, and can be summoned by the sorcerer’s call from anywhere in Creation, proceeding to her side at the best speed it can manage.

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 thunderstorm from blue skies or diminishing a hurricane to a severe storm would be difficulty 5+. 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. This spell can never create extreme natural disasters such as hurricanes, though it can diminish them to lesser weather.

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.

Distortion (Goal Number: 10): Distorting this spell reverses the alteration to the weather. It doesn’t merely revert back to its previous conditions, but is changed in the other direction — if the original sorcerer had calmed a thunderstorm, distortion would result in an even greater storm; if she’d summoned rain, distortion could result in intensely arid heat.

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 flying hundreds of miles an hour or across Creation in a day. Only the boundaries between realms will stop the messenger. Upon arrival the Cherub is visible only to it's intended target, to whom it can deliver a message up to five minutes in length.
Spirit Shape

Cat (domestic)
From bobcats that prowl the Northern mountain ranges to jagarundi that stalk through tropical forests, Creation’s fiercest predators are sometimes its smallest. These traits cover small predatory cats as well as domesticated house-cats, a common sight in any farming community where rodents threaten the harvest as well as in the palaces of nobles.

Essence: 1; Willpower: 4; Join Battle: 4 dice
Health Levels: -0/-1/-2/-4/Incap. Domesticated cats will flee after taking any damage, while wild cats will flee after taking three levels of damage.

Actions:
Climbing and Jumping: 7 dice;
Senses: 7 dice (see Night Vision);
Stealth: 8 dice (see Tiny Creature)
Wriggle Through Small Spaces: 7 dice

Resolve 2, Guile 2

Combat
Attack (Bite): 4 dice (4). Damage increases to 12 against enemies of the cat’s size or smaller.
Attack (Claw): 6 dice (2). Damage increases to 8 against enemies of the cat’s size or smaller.
Attack (Grapple): 4 dice (5 dice to control). Cats can only grapple enemies of their size or smaller. They cannot throw/slam grappled enemies.

Combat Movement: 7 dice
Evasion 1, Parry 1 (see Tiny Creature)
Soak/Hardness: 2/0

Special Attacks
Ambush Hunter: The cat adds three dice on all attack rolls made from stealth.

Batting Paws: Whenever the cat makes a decisive savaging attack against a clinched enemy, it uses its rear paws to bat at it and snap its neck, adding +5 to the raw damage of the attack.

Leaping Pounce: If a cat moves into close range with an enemy of the same size or smaller and deals 5+ damage to it with a withering attack on the same turn, it may pay a point of Willpower to reflexively make a clinch attack against its prey

X Stalking Shadow Hunter (Latent): When the cat makes a withering attack from stealth against a larger enemy, it uses the higher of the two damage ratings for its attacks. This does not allow it to grapple larger characters.

X Underfoot Menace (Latent): The cat treats any attack it makes against a larger enemy as being made from stealth for the purposes of its Ambush Hunter and Leaping Pounce special attacks.

Merits
Keen Hearing: Cats double 9s on hearing-based Perception rolls.

Lands on its Feet: Cats apply the double 8s rule on all balance checks. When a cat suffers falling damage, it ignores all dice of damage associated with the fall, and converts automatic levels of damage from the fall to dice that must be rolled.

Night Vision: Cats can see in dim conditions as though they were in broad daylight, and reduce the difficulty of Perception-based checks made in deeper darkness by one.

Tiny Creature: Cats add +2 Evasion against any attack made by a larger foe. In addition, larger characters subtract two successes from any Awareness-based roll made to notice it.

Heart's Blood

Once bred as fierce hunting animals for Southern Dragon-Blooded, eight-tailed mole hounds now run free and feral throughout the deserts. From afar, they resemble wolves in size and shape, but in addition to their eponymous eight tails, these creatures possess thick armored plates. Mole hounds are pack beasts, hunting in groups of six to twelve. With their wide feet, they tunnel with impressive speed, burrowing beneath sand or soil as fast as they can run atop it.

Essence: 1; Willpower: 3; Join Battle: 6 dice
Health Levels: −0/−1x2/−2x5/−4x3/Incap.

Actions:
Feats of Strength: 7 dice (may attempt
Strength 3 feats);
Threaten: 4 dice (6 with packmates);
Senses: 8 dice (see Keen Nose), Stealth: 6 dice (7 while burrowing);
Tracking: 7 dice

Resolve 2
Guile 1

COMBAT
Attack (Bite): 7 dice (Damage 14)
Attack (Grapple): 6 dice (5 dice to control)
Combat Movement: 8 dice
Evasion 4, Parry 2 (4 when defending allies)
Soak/Hardness: 8/10

SPECIAL ABILITIES
Burrow: The mole hound burrows underground and moves a full range band to its target’s position with a single reflexive move action, ignoring difficult terrain. It can burrow through sand and soil, including packed dirt, but not through stone or other solid barriers. Unexpected attacks it makes after this movement in the same turn add two automatic successes to the
damage roll.

Massive Charge: If the mole hound moves at least one range band toward a target and makes a decisive attack against it on the same turn, the attack gains the Smashing tag (Exalted, p. 586).

MERITS
Earthsight: While burrowing, a mole hound perceives through vibrations. It can pinpoint a target’s location and note its actions without seeing it, as long as it produces vibrations in the ground. Flying foes, for instance, confuses this sense.

Keen Nose: Double 9s on scent-based Perception rolls.

Safety in Numbers: A mole hound protects injured packmates, granting an ally who has taken 3+ levels of damage one automatic success on disengage rolls as long as it uses the defend other action on their behalf. Enemies increase onslaught penalties by one per three hounds attacking together. A battle group of mole hounds can’t use this ability. By default, only other mole hounds count as packmates, but a master can train it to recognize human allies as part of the pack as a latent ability.

Great Cat

Essence: 1; Willpower: 5; Join Battle: 6 dice (see Stalking Cat Advantage)

Health Levels: -0/-1x4/-2x4/-4/Incap. Great cats will typically flee after taking six levels of damage.

Actions:
Feats of Strength: 7 dice (may attempt
Strength 5 feats); Intimidating Growl: 5 dice;
Senses: 6 dice (see Keen Scent and Night Vision); Stealth: 7 dice (see Camouflage);
Tracking: 6 dice (see Keen Scent)

Resolve 3, Guile 2

Combat
Attack (Bite): 9 dice (Damage 16)
Attack (Claw): 13 dice (Damage 12)
Attack (Grapple): 9 dice (10 dice to control). Cannot slam or throw grappled enemies.

Combat Movement: 10 dice
Evasion 4, Parry 4
Soak/Hardness: 6/0

Special Attacks
Ambush Hunter: The great cat adds three dice on all attack rolls made from stealth.

Leaping Pounce: If a great cat moves into close range with an enemy of the same size or smaller and deals 5+ damage to it with a withering attack on the same turn, it may pay a point of Willpower to reflexively make a grapple gambit against its prey.

Mauling Bite: When the great cat makes a savaging decisive attack against a clinched enemy, it adds +4 to the raw damage of this attack. It can receive this bonus only once per clinch, unless reset by crashing the clinched enemy.

Pouncing Shadow: Great cats may pay a point ofWillpower when they roll Stealth to ignore the usual -3 penalty for moving while concealed. In addition, each turn it spends in stealth, it stocks a single die, up to a maximum of three dice. On the turn that it breaks stealth, it adds these dice both to any movement actions it makes and to the raw damage of any grappling or decisive attacks it makes.

Merits
Camouflage: The patterning of a great cat’s fur allows it to blend into the scenery. Whenever it is in its native territory—a tiger in a jungle, a lion on the savannah, a sabertooth in the plains or tundra—it applies double 9s on Stealth rolls. A great cat can be trained to stalk through unfamiliar environments as a latent ability, allowing it to apply double 9s to any Stealth roll it makes while hiding under cover, and double 8s while in its native territory.

Keen Nose and Hearing: Great cats apply the double 9s rule on Perception-based rolls made using scent or hearing.

Night Vision: Great cats can see in dim conditions as though they were in broad daylight, and reduce the difficulty of Perception-based checks made in deeper darkness by one.

Stalking Cat Advantage: Great cats adds one automatic success to any Join Battle roll made while in stealth.

Essence: 1; Willpower: 3; Join Battle: 4 dice
Health Levels: -0/-1/-2/-4/Incap. Most species of venomous snake will flee after taking any damage.

Actions:
Senses: 5 dice (see Keen Nose); Stealth: 7 dice
(see Camouflage and Tiny Creature)
Resolve 2, Guile 2

Combat
Attack (Bite): 7 dice (Damage 3 and poison when decisive, damage 2i/round, duration 3 rounds, -2 penalty).
Damage increases to 9 against enemies the snake’s size or smaller.
Combat Movement: 7 dice
Evasion 1 (see Tiny Creature)
Parry 1
Soak/Hardness: 5/0

Merits
Camouflage: While in their native environment, venomous snakes double 9s on Stealth rolls.

Keen Nose: Snakes double 9s on scent-based Perception rolls.

Tiny Creature: Snakes adds +2 Evasion against any attack made by any foe larger than a housecat. In addition, characters of that size subtract two successes from any Awareness-based roll made to notice it.

Essence: 1; Willpower: 3; Join Battle: 4 dice
Health Levels: -0/-1/-2/-4/Incap.

Raitons scatter when attacked, even if they are not actually harmed.

Actions:
Fly: 8 dice;
Senses: 5 dice (see Carrion Hunter); Stealth: 4 dice (see Tiny Creature); Tracking: 6 dice (see Carrion Hunter)

Resolve 1, Guile 1

Combat
Attack (Peck): 6 dice (Damage 3). Against creatures of its own size or smaller, the raiton’s peck deals 9 damage.

Combat Movement: 8 dice

Evasion 1, Parry 1 (see Tiny Creature)
Soak/Hardness: 1/0

Merits

Carrion Hunter: Raitons add three automatic successes on any Perception-based roll to detect, locate, or track the scent of dead flesh, making them a common sight at battlefields. This bonus also applies on rolls to identify diseased carrion.

Tiny Creature: Raitons add +2 Evasion against any attack made by a larger foe. In addition, larger characters subtract two successes from any Awareness-based roll made to notice them.

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Sherwood · Dec 30, 2020

Name: Renna Taeger
Age: 36
Caste: Dawn
Supernal Ability: Brawl/Martial Arts

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 5
Sta: 2

Cha: 5
Man: 3
App: 3

Per: 2
Int: 3
Wits: 3

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

**Caste/Favored Abilities
Artifact Armor -Baldaquin (Orichalcum Lamellar Armor): 3
Artifact Weapon - Beloved Adorei (Orichalcum Daiklave): 3
Command - Size 3, Might 0, Elite Drill: 3
--Superior Weaponry for the Company: 2
Familiar - (Unicorn - Asha): 3
Hearthstone - Mount-and-Rider Onyx: 2
Languages - Firetongue, Riverspeak: 1
Martial Arts: 4
Resources: 2

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

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

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

Limit Break:
Chains of Honor
The Solar is overwhelmed with regret for his past misdeeds, and cleaves to an unbreakable code of honor. He will not tell any lies, including lies of omission or halftruths, nor will he break a promise or sworn oath he has made. If he has deceived anyone in the past, he will strive to find them, tell them the truth, and do whatever he can to atone. Likewise, he will seek out those whom he has broken oaths to, and take on whatever labors or tasks they assign to correct his failure.
Duration: Session. Chains of Honor can be ended prematurely if the Solar is forgiven by someone to whom he has broken an oath or harmed by means of deception.
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.

Performance
Omni-Applicable

Cost: 2m; Mins: Performance 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar’s talent is not free or instinctual, but rather the hard-won excellence that comes from a lifetime of practice. This Charm supplements a Performance-based action, granting one automatic success and rerolling 1s until 1s fail to appear. This Charm also makes the Exalt’s 1s unavailable to magic that might interfere with her performance.

Oratory

Cost: 1m; Mins: Performance 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Masterful Performance Exercise
The Solar speaks with the voice of Heaven, magnifying her authority. This Charm supplements a Performance-based speech, granting it double 9s.

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: —; 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.

Ride

Cost: —; Mins: Ride 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt has the talent of a veteran equestrian, knowing a handful of ancient and proven techniques to control, console, and sustain her mount through the most arduous circumstances. Purchasing this Charm provides the Solar with three of the listed techniques, and the player may work with the Storyteller to expand the techniques available through this Charm. Additional techniques can be purchased for 2xp or a single bonus point.

Harmony of Spirits Style: The Lawgiver can spend one mote reflexively to stop herself from falling off a mount. The Exalt can activate this effect when she is asleep, unconscious or otherwise incapacitated, and will not fall off the mount from being asleep or otherwise unconscious during ordinary travel. Against any attack which might knock her from her mount, she gains +1 Defense.

Speed-Sustaining Technique: The Lawgiver can spend one mote reflexively and touch a mount to sustain it for two hours. Effort during that time does not exhaust the creature, and it does not suffer harmful random incidents such as thrown shoes and injured hooves.

Blood Rider’s Toughness: The Solar and her mount are as a single being with one skin. The Solar will never chafe or develop sores from long rides, and both the Lawgiver and her mount may ride for twice as long without food, water, or rest.

War

Cost: 3m; Mins: War 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Solars descend from the highest war god in Heaven. They speak armies into existence, and their mere presence is a call to arms. This Charm supplements the Strategic Maneuver roll (p. 211); as the Lawgiver develops a tactic for victory, fighters of the world are drawn to her call to glory. Ignore the -1 penalty for troops with poor drill, and increase the battle group’s effective Size by one upon joining battle.

Cost: 5m; Mins: War 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: War God Descendent
Reaching out to the hearts of her charges with an impassioned speech and fatal purpose, the Solar invokes their reasons for fighting. This Charm is activated when the Exalt begins the long, arduous process of drilling her soldiers. As she toughens them with want and rain, she reminds them of the hardships they have endured at the hands of their tormentors. When they hunger, her words feed them. When they shiver, her exhortations warm them. Fed by the Solar’s will, they suffer less from long marches, empty bellies, or harsh climates. When the Lawgiver is finished drilling these troops, her commitment to the Charm ends, and her soldiers are forever improved: they cannot suffer demoralizing effects (such as the Demoralize stratagem on page 212) that are not created by Reflexive or Simple types of magic. In addition, ignore penalties on the Strategic Maneuver roll having to do with hunger, bad weather, or the physical exhaustion associated with long marches over difficult terrain.
Single Point Shining Into the Void is a sword style that emphasizes blinding speed and deadly-perfect finishing moves. Students learn to draw their blade as though it were an extension of their own body, transitioning effortlessly from the draw to a strike or parry. When a master duels a lesser swordsman, the fight often ends in a single stroke, the blade sheathed almost in the same instant it’s drawn. When faced against a foe who matches
her in skill, the Single Point stylist fights with swift blows and an almost meditative focus, seeking the single moment of weakness in her foe’s defenses that will allow her to slash through him entirely.
Single Point Shining Into the Void Weapons: This style uses slashing swords and their artifact equivalents, reaper daiklaves, delivering lightning-fast attacks from the draw.
It cannot be used unarmed.
Armor: This style is compatible with light and medium armor.

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

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

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

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

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

Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only, Terrestrial
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Single Point Shining Into the Void Form
As one heartbeat begins, the stylist draws her sword from its scabbard. By the heartbeat’s end, the blade is already stained with the blood of her enemy. The swordsman may attack an enemy out to medium range, drawing her blade and flashing to the enemy’s side in a single lunge that counts as her movement action for the round. She adds one automatic success to both the attack and damage roll for each range band she crosses, channeling the devastating momentum of her advance into the strike. However, if the attack misses, the swordsman loses control of her momentum, sliding past her target to end her movement at short range beyond him.
When the stylist and her sword take their turns together on the same tick, they may unleash the devastating attack known as the Countless Strikes Sheathed, combining the two turns into the single action of activating this Charm. The swordsman makes the attack roll before beginning her movement, and chooses whether she will use her own Initiative or the sword’s to make the final decisive attack. If the swordsman’s movement toward her target brings her within close range of other enemies whose Defenses would be hit by her attack roll, she may choose to reflexively strike them. Against each such enemy, she may choose to make a withering strike, which deals her Essence in Initiative damage and adds to the Initiative pool chosen for the final attack (including any Initiative Breaks received), or a decisive strike, which lets her forgo up to (her Dexterity) points of Initiative from the chosen pool and roll it as damage which ignores hardness. If one of these preliminary decisive strikes incapacitates a non-trivial opponent, the Initiative invested in it is recovered. Once the swordsman has cleared all enemies between her and the final target, she concludes with a decisive attack against the final target. Those struck by the Countless Strikes Sheathed do not even realize they have been attacked until the swordsman sheathes her blade at the conclusion of the final strike, at which point their wounds burst open.
Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood cannot use Countless Strikes Sheathed.
Auravash the Twilight craftsman saw a need for the daiklave Adorei when he looked upon the Dawn of his Circle, Brother of Brothers, Night of His Heart, whom he considered to be an idiot and perhaps the single greatest reaver the Celestial Host had ever produced. He also saw a man who sowed his oats with gods and devils, spirits of the Wyld and the protected daughters of princes and the select and inviolate priestesses of various cults. Auravash forged Adorei to save the Idiot of His Heart from causing a national scandal, touching off a war, or bringing down the Deliberative on the heads of their Circle.
Adorei was to be the perfect defender: powerful, temperate, and empathic. It would guide the unruly Dawn to true greatness, instilling him with a sense of decency and balance. When Auravash awoke the blade, he heard her sigh with relief to have finally been made, and he was glad, for he could feel the stolid power emanating from the inviolable weapon. But Adorei fell madly in love with the Twilight’s Brother of Brothers and he ruined the daiklave as surely as he’d ruined the resolve of countless temple priestesses. The Dawn and his blade were inseparable, and she exulted in his prowess, increasing it by allowing him to understand his opponents on the instinctual level, in order to find a way to defeat them.
It would not be the sword to settle the Dawn’s wild heart, but a Lunar named Ashala. But that is a tale for another day. Adorei was lost in the fires of the Usurpation, and now it sits clasped in the lid of a sarcophagus in a lonely tomb, where its living glow pines for love of the Solar who would carry it into the light of Creation once again.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Adorei has three hearthstone sockets.

Evocations of Adorei
If the Solar who wields Adorei exults in battles, the blade offers +1 to Accuracy upon attunement. The weapon will form an instant Major Tie of affection to a Solar who takes her out of the darkness of the tomb to carry her into battle. If the wielder uses her as their favored weapon, polishes her blade bright and acknowledges her as a companion, her bond will continue to grow until she has a Defining Tie. At the Defining level, Adorei grants one automatic success to all withering damage rolls. At this level, Adorei automatically knows all of her wielder’s Intimacies. Her Defining Tie is predicated on being taken into battle and experiencing her wielder’s battle prowess, and being the medium through which it manifests. After three stories in which the Tie is Defining, Adorei will love her wielder forever and nothing can break or lower the Tie, not even death.
Adorei speaks in the mind of her wielder. She makes her will known through a language of strong emotions and instincts.

Broken Thunder forged this armor for Shadow-of-Mars to guard her as she set off on the Eight Directions Embassy, traveling to every corner of Creation and beyond as an emissary of the Exalted Host. She wore it as she entreated Western Fair Folk nobles to endorse the Formless Concordance, as she sailed into Old Stygia’s bleak harbor to pay deference to the Dual Monarchs, and as her sandship skimmed across the Endless Desert toward an audience with the Demon City’s princes. Through every storm and quake, through all the bluster and blandishments, she remained true to her mission, and the armor remained true to her.
Centuries later, older and wiser, Shadow-of-Mars set traveling aside to make her home in Asmay on the Isle of Nine Cities, near Luthe. She passed Baldaquin to a new generation of Quicksilver Falcons, that they might be likewise protected as they traveled the Great Western Ocean and realms beyond in service to the newly established Deliberative.
Each rondel on this suit of small orichalcum plates bears the insignia of the nigh-mythical Eight Directions Embassy — eight arrows radiating outward from the Imperial Mountain.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (Soak +8, Hardness 7, Mobility Penalty −1)
Tags: None
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Eight Directions Era

Evocations of Baldaquin
While the Exalt travels in order to act as an intermediary or advocate for another, she adds (Essence) bonus dice to all rolls to endure or bypass hostile environments and hazards.

Keywords: None
This stone’s surface is a tangled interweaving of black and white. Socketed in an attuned artifact, it allows bearer and steed to fight as one. Increase the bearer’s mounted combat withering bonus (Exalted, p. 203) by one and increase the difficulty of unhorse gambits against her by one.
White as Northern snow with eyes that glow an unearthly blue, bearing an iridescent horn that glitters in cold sunlight, graceful beyond the finest poetry — a unicorn seems like a dream given life. Unicorns have served as war mounts for raksha nobles for ages, and as the subjects of stories and nightmares for many a mortal. A unicorn’s horn, while lovely, is a deadly weapon, and those who approach unwisely find their blood staining the snow. Masterless unicorns run solo or gather in groups of three to ten in the northern Wyld’s bordermarches, defending fantastical lands of pristine allure from any who would despoil or reshape them. Some unicorns boast glorious wings, with massive spans and feathers as pure white as their coats. Unicorns are highly intelligent, and happily converse with those who don’t offend them; but they’re Wyld creatures, not animals, with alien drives that make them highly unpredictable.
Unicorns obsess over harmony and pleasing aesthetics. Unity, symmetry, and wholehearted dedication — to anything, be it love, wealth, or the basest cruelty — attract them. By contrast, contradiction and turmoil are unspeakably ugly to them. Beauty, too, draws a unicorn, but its idea of beauty is as strange and ever-shifting as the Wyld itself. A unicorn smiles upon a blood-spattered battlefield as often as a sublime flower arrangement, as long as the latter doesn’t mar the former; it would stamp the flowers into pulp to keep them from spoiling war’s gruesome elegance. Unicorns are proud, haughty beings who spare no mercy for any who insult or mistreat them; they view captivity as the worst offense of all, and those held against their will sicken and die quickly. But unicorns don’t stay dead: They rise again from the ice in Wyld lands after a year and a day, and hold grudges that last centuries.

Essence: 3, Willpower: 8, Join Battle: 8 dice
Health Levels: −0x2/−1x2/−2x3/−4x2/Incap.
Intimacies:
Defining: “I must preserve perfection in all its forms.”;
Major: “Insults are forever.”;
Myself and My Kind (Pride)

Speed Bonus: +5

Actions: Feats of Strength: 8 dice (may attempt Strength 3 feats); Fly: 10 dice (winged only); Inspire: 9 dice; Northern Navigation and Survival: 7 dice; Occult Knowledge: 12 dice; Persuade: 6 dice; Read Intentions: 5 dice; Resist Disease/Poison: 10 dice; Senses: 8 dice; Threaten: 8 dice; Tracking: 5 dice
Appearance 5, Resolve 5, Guile 5

COMBAT
Attack (Horn): 12 dice (Damage 16)
Attack (Kick/Stomp): 9 dice (Damage 13)
Combat Movement: 10 dice
Evasion 4, Parry 3
Soak/Harness: 7/0

SPECIAL ABILITIES
Gore: Decisive horn attacks add extra successes to damage against enemies with lower Initiative, as long as the unicorn hasn’t taken any other actions (including reflexive movement actions) that turn.
Sky Runner: In Creation, unicorns can run across the surface of snow or water without sinking in. In the Wyld, they can take to the sky, galloping over clouds and mist as though they were solid ground. Winged unicorns can fly normally in any environment.

MERITS
Cold Iron Bane: Weapons of iron deal aggravated damage to unicorns.
Glorious Aura: A character must pay one Willpower to attack the unicorn as long as it hasn’t attacked her yet this scene; once she spends a Willpower, she may attack at will for the scene. The unicorn’s Inspire rolls have a target number of 5, as long as the emotion it’s inspiring aligns with its Intimacies in context.
Hearts Unmasked: Unicorns can sniff out the stench of dissonance and asymmetry. The unicorn may use its Senses and Tracking pools to detect conflict of any kind, including physical combat, arguments, or internal turmoil such as clashing Intimacies. They can also sense magical conflicts, such as the use of Wyld-Shaping Technique (Exalted, p. 335) to carve reality out of chaos.
Oaths Eternal: A unicorn cannot go back on its word once given; its pride is a magical force that prevents it from doing so. However, it doubles 8s on non-attack actions to uphold a promise or agreement.
Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 / 23
Committed: 10
Willpower: 6
Fate Point: -1

Parry DV: 6 +1 from Adorei
Dodge DV: 4
Resolve: 2
Guile: 2

Join Battle: 7 +3i

Soak: 2
Armor: 8
Total: 10
Hardness: 7

Weapons
Beloved Adorei
Type: Medium (+4 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Adorei grants one automatic success to all withering damage rolls.
Defining Principle: Return the Solars to Power
Defining Principle: To Become the Greatest General of the Age
Defining Principle: Never Leave a Man Behind
Major Tie: Her Unicorn, Asha (love)
Major Tie: Her Lunar Bondmate, Morrolan (love)
Major Principle: Protect the Lives of Her Men
Minor Principle: The Immaculate Order (disgust)
Minor Tie: Yozi Worshipers (hate)

Aspects
Golden General
Stubborn to a T
Born in the Saddle
Boundless Enthusiasm
Master Swordswoman

Renna born to a large nomadic horse tribe in the southeast. Raised in the saddle, the precocious young lass quickly became the leader of her little band of friends, leading them into different sorts of make believe adventures and finding trouble where ever the tribe would travel. With her proud parents doing their best to keep a watchful eye on her, Renna blossomed into a beautiful young woman, catching the eye of many of the boys. It was a good time in her life, and in time, she would probably have fallen in love and gotten married to some lucky fellow and led a perfectly ordinary life if it were not for the day that changed her life forever.

It was late in the night when Renna was awoke by her father rising from their tents and heading out into the darkness. Being nosy, the teenage girl climbed out of her bedroll, grabbed her quarterstaff and followed him until she could see that there was a moderate sized gathering of several members of the community standing around a makeshift altar with one of the young children tied up on it, his face gripped in terror.

As it turned out, their group of nomads was home to a small number of Yozi cultists, and they were about to sacrifice the boy in order to try and garner some measure of power from and gain favor with their infernal masters. For a long moment, Renna just stood there in shock. Then, a fountain of rage burst up inside of her. How dare they? Commit a heinous murder of one of her friends right in front of her? Someone should do something! Looking back towards the assembled tents of the community, Renna briefly considered running back for help, but by the time she got there and had anyone able to believe her, it would be too late. No. She had to stop it herself. It was time for her to act.

Barreling forward, Renna burst into the midst of the cultists, her staff whirling and cracking the skulls of two of them, interrupting the chanting and disrupting the whole ritual. Perhaps her timing could have been better, because with the binding chant gone, the minor demon that they were summoning was now unleashed and free to run amok.

At this point, the smart thing would have been to run away screaming, and many of the cultists did just that. But Renna was hardly the smartest one of the bunch, and she turned to face the demon as it was materializing. In truth, even as good as she was with her staff, she stood little chance of success against the demon. But as Renna took her first steps towards the monster, a sudden wellspring of power burst up inside of her, and a blazing glow lit up the night as she took her Second Breath as one of the great Solar Exalted!

With this new power, Renna was able to destroy the demon and free the intended sacrifice. By the time that she returned to the camp, the whole tribe was riled up by the fight. Despite her victory, she was looked upon by the nomads as the true evil, thanks to the warped teachings of the Immaculate Order. It was with tears in her eyes that she was run out of the village by the very people that she once called friends. At least she was able to grab a few things before the wrath of the people was fully turned on her.

Weeks go by with Renna on the run. Traveling randomly at first, she soon could feel something calling to her, drawing her south. Soon enough, Renna comes across a large merchant encampment, with dozens of wagons and scores of people in it. Whatever it is that is calling to her was there. Cautiously she approached, the feeling of something in there that was important to her growing stronger. Much to her surprise, what she now beheld was the beautiful vision of a unicorn locked up in a pen!

Walking closer, she could hear that there was a fancy merchant talking about how he was going to sell the unicorn to some noble's zoo for piles of jade. This amazing creature did not belong in a cage, and the very thought of that was infuriating to her. When Renna approached the pen, the unicorn made eye contact with her, and suddenly, she could feel the thoughts of it in her mind!

It is about time you arrived. I've been waiting for you for so long, I was wondering if you would ever show up.

Who are you? How is it possible for you to talk to me in my mind?

<chuckle> Always the same questions at first. I am Asha, and we have been friends from ages past. I can answer all of your questions, and provide you with the birthright you have earned as a Solar. But first, we both need to be far away from here. Free me, and we shall ride together once more!

With her trusty quarterstaff in hand, she runs forward and quickly knocks out the pair of guards watching Asha, yanks open the pen and leaps onto the back of the unicorn, her years of practice riding serving her well as Asha bolts from the pen and out to freedom. As they run, Asha tells Renna how he has been her boon companion in past Exaltations, and knows where her last incarnation has been laid to rest. There, she will be able to recover the suit of armor and weapon that was interred with the body of her last Exaltation, preparing her for the day that the Wyld Hunt will come for her.

True to his word, Renna recovers her magic weapons and armor, and with each day, with the help of Asha, she grows stronger and can remember more and more details from her past. Memories of being a great general fill her thoughts and dreams, giving her a new purpose: to become the greatest leader of men that this age has ever seen, and to rebuild the fallen Solar Deliberative.
Trait - Experience Cost
Attribute increase - 10 XP each
Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase - 5 xp each
Caste/Favored Ability increase - 4 xp each
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit - new rating x 3
Willpower 8
Solar Charm - 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm - 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell - 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation - 10

Total Xp: 30
Banked Xp:

Solar Xp Banked:

Call the Blade - purchased as an Evocation of Adorei - p347

Athletics
Graceful Crane Stance - p261

Awareness
Sensory Acuity Prana - p267

Dodge
Reed in the Wind - p299
Reflex Sidestep Technique - p299

Occult
Spirit-Detecting Glance - p354 Occult 1
Spirit-Cutting Attack - p354 Occult 2

Performance
Soul-Firing Performance - p361 Performance 5

Presence
Tiger’s Dread Symmetry - p370
Majestic Radiant Presence - p370 e2, Presence 4

Resistance
Ox-Body Technique - p375 Resistance 2+
Body-Mending Meditation - p375 Resistance 2
Durability of Oak Meditation - p374 Resistance 2
Spirit Strengthens the Skin - p374 Resistance 2
Iron Skin Concentration - p374 Resistance 3
Diamond-Body Prana - p376, e2, Resistance 4

Ride
Flashing Thunderbolt Steed - p380
Seasoned Beast-Rider’s Approach - p381

Socialize
Mastery of Small Manners - p393

War
Ideal Battle Knowledge Prana - p421
--Tiger Warrior Training Technique - p421, e2

Martial Arts
Horizon-Swallowed Star Flash - p437
Six-Demon Scabbard Binding - p437
Blinding Nova Flare - p437

Psychie · Dec 30, 2020

Name: Morrolan
Age: 40
Caste: Full Moon
Totem Animal: Elephant

Attributes
**Str: 5
**Dex: 4
**Sta: 5

**Cha: 3
Man: 2
App: 3

Per: 3
Int: 2
Wits: 5

Abilities
Archery
Athletics: 3 - Feats of Strength
Awareness: 3
Brawl: 2 - Boxing
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge: 1
Integrity: 2
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 1
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee: 5 - Direlance
Occult
Performance
Presence: 3 - Fearsome Mein
Resistance: 2
Ride
Sail
Socialize
Stealth: 3
Survival: 1
Thrown: 1
War: 2
Allies - Rogosh Eagle Eye, Outcaste Dragon Blood Wood Aspect: 3
Artifact Armor - Unison (Moonsilver Reinforced Buff Jacket): 5
Artifact Weapon - Zelator (Orichalcum Dire Lance): 4
Command: 2 points put towards Red Arms Mercenaries
Hearts Blood: 2 -- River Dragon, Lion, Eagle, Austrich, Sand Swimmer, Gorilla
Hearthstone - Jewel of the Heroes Panoply: 4
Languages - Firetongue, Riverspeak, Forresttongue: 2
Resources: 3

Anima Effects
For one mote, a Lunar can:
• Make her Caste Mark appear for as long as she desires.
• Make her Tell obvious for as long as she desires.
• Discern the moon’s phase and the precise time of day.

Full Moon
• For five motes, the Full Moon adds (Essence, maximum 5) non-Charm dice on movement rolls and feats of strength and gains (higher of Essence or 3) natural soak until her next turn.
This is free at bonfire anima.
• She adds (highest physical Attribute/2, rounded up) non-Charm Resolve against threaten rolls and other fear-based influence.
• Once per day, when she lands a decisive attack that resets her Initiative, she may pay 10 motes, one Willpower to roll Join Battle, adding (highest physical Attribute) non-Charm dice.

Limit Trigger:
The immorality or transgressions of others hinder the Lunar.

Monstrous Urge:
Sinner-Devouring Judgment
The Lunar embodies divine retribution, a monster out of cautionary tales. If she witnesses someone engaging in any activity that she deems immoral based on her Principles or violating the customs of a culture to which she belongs or toward which she has a positive Tie, she must punish them. The punishment’s severity must be at least commensurate to the violation, and must come rapidly, before the Limit Break ends.
Duration: Session. This ends if someone the Lunar seeks to punish convinces her that her own actions have violated one of her Major or Defining Intimacies.
Excellencies
Charisma, Dexterity, Stamina, and Strength

General Charms

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

Mutations:
Trunk (••) — Innate
The mutant has a prehensile trunk, tongue, or similar appendage. It’s a fully functional limb — though it suffers a −1 offhand penalty — and a light weapon with the Bashing, Brawl, Disarming, Flexible, Grappling, and Natural tags.
Unusual Hide (••••)—Innate
One of the most common mutations bestowed by the Wyld, this Merit grants an unusually resilient hide of some sort. The character gains additional points of natural soak equal to the Merit’s value. One or two dots generally represents fur, feathers, leaves, or light scales. Three dots indicate flesh far beyond the human norm—the leathery hide of a rhino or crocodile, or the exoskeletal carapace of an insect, perhaps. Four or five dots grant an armored hide which may be made of bony armor, an obsidian carapace, or perhaps even a body of living stone.
Drawback: The character obviously looks like a Wyld mutant, with all the stigma that accompanies such status, and suffers a penalty equal to her rating in this Merit on all disguise rolls to pass for normal.

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

Mutations
Giant (••••)—Innate
Prerequisite: Stamina •••
The character is enormous, standing somewhere between seven and a half to ten feet in height. Her great size grants an extra -0 health level. This Merit may also be gained as a result of Wyld mutation.
Drawback: The character’s great size is very distinct, imposing a -3 penalty on all disguise rolls to pass as anyone of lesser stature, and making the character memorable wherever she goes.
Carapace/Shell (••) — Innate
Prerequisite: Unusual Hide ••
The mutant has bulky armor of bone or chitin, a turtle’s shell, or pangolin-like armored plates. Soak from Unusual Hide is doubled but counts as armored soak. It explicitly stacks with soak from worn armor. She gains (Unusual Hide) Hardness.
Drawback: The mutant counts as wearing medium armor, and suffers a −1 mobility penalty in addition to any from other armor.

Appearance
Subterfuge Charms

Cost: —; Mins: Appearance 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar conceals the marks of her divinity to better walk among humanity. While at dim anima, her Tell (p. XX) is perfectly concealed from characters who’ve never seen it before. Even magic can’t pierce this concealment, excepting Eye of the Unconquered Sun and comparable effects. Characters who’ve seen the Lunar’s Tell before can still roll to detect it, but their 1s subtract successes.
At glowing anima, the Lunar’s Tell isn’t automatically revealed, instead requiring a roll to detect. If a character hasn’t seen the Lunar’s Tell, 1s subtract successes from his roll. With Appearance 4, Essence 4, 1s and 2s on rolls to detect the Lunar’s Tell at dim anima subtract successes.
At glowing or above, characters that haven’t seen her Tell are likewise penalized by their 1s and 2s, while those who have seen it are penalized by 1s.

Charisma
Influence

Cost: 2m; Mins: Charisma 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar’s confidence radiates from her every word, swaying the opinions of crowds or terrifying massed ranks of troops. Her influence rolls with any Attribute ignore multiple target penalties, and she can use Excellencies to add successes instead of dice for two motes each.

Warfare

Cost: 2m; Mins: Charisma 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Totemic (Strength)
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar roars over the din of battle to lead her forces. She adds (higher of Essence or 3) bonus dice to a Charisma-based command action. With Initiative 12+, she also rerolls 1s until they cease to appear.
Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape is a creature that hunts in groups may learn this as a Strength Charm.

Dexterity
Offense

Cost: 3m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Time seems to slow as the Lunar acts on well-honed instinct. This Charm must be used at the start of the round. The Lunar adds (higher of Dexterity or Wits) to her Initiative to determine when she acts. If she uses her turn to attack an enemy who hasn’t acted that round, she adds a non-Charm die.

Stamina
Defense

Cost: —; Mins: Stamina 2, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Standing firm as she interposes her weapon between herself and the world, the Lunar becomes an unshakable aegis. When she blocks with a medium or heavy weapon, unarmed attack, or natural weapon, she may use Stamina instead of Dexterity to calculate Parry.

Endurance

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

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

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

Strength
Hearts Blood

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

Offense

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

Cost: 2m; Mins: Strength 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ferocious Biting Tooth
Reveling in bestial supremacy, the Lunar lays low her prey. She adds (1 + attack roll 10s) dice to the post-soak damage of a withering attack, maximum (Strength), or the damage of a decisive attack, maximum (lower of Essence or Strength) dice. Against crashed foes, she counts 9s as well as 10s.

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

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Strength 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Hybrid Body Transformation
Flesh and Essence swelling with the unleashed power of her almighty rage, the Lunar assumes a dread warform. To use this Charm, Hybrid Body Transformation (p. XX) must be active. The Lunar gains the following benefits:
• She adds (Strength) to the raw damage of her withering attacks.
• She adds (Strength) dice on feats of strength and movement actions.
• She adds (Strength) natural soak.
• She treats her Strength as (Essence) higher for determining what feats of strength she may attempt.
However, the Lunar suffers the following drawbacks in this state:
• She suffers a −1 Defense penalty that can’t be negated.
• She loses the benefits of resonance with artifacts, and becomes dissonant with any artifact she’s not normally resonant with.
Special activation rules: When the Lunar uses Hybrid Body Transformation, she may reflexively activate this Charm.
“It has been thirty years since our first failed campaign against the Hexmanse. That such a cabal of blood sorcerers and devil-loosers could not merely endure the light of the Sun, but even thrive, is an abomination. The lost Deliberative, for all its flaws, for all its failures — perhaps it did not root the sorcerers out, but it kept them underground. Now they exert their will unchecked, and who will fight them but I?
“A decade to cut my way free of the devil-world their sorceries banished me to. Another to forge Zelator, a thing to pierce their spells and end their contemptible lives. A third to build alliances, call in favors, raise an army.
“Today we ride against Fortis Minor. A month from now, we cross the Grand Sledge and enter the southern Qun-Lun. Within a year we will be at the gates of Shorn, the heads of half the Hexmanse on pikes, the other half ready to fall beneath our hooves, beneath my spear. They will regret their arrogance and their wickedness. That I guarantee.”
— Ostra Luka, In the Shadow of the Deliberative
Forged by a sorcerer-cataphract to defeat an occult cabal, the direlance Zelator’s long, narrow blade is engraved with an Old Realm character meaning “divine retribution.” The heavy shaft, likewise of orichalcum, bears this Old Realm inscription: “End transgression against the celestial order through harmonious action.” The scarlet tassels are of horsehair from Ostra Luka’s steed, preserved against the millennia by the Art of Permanence.

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

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

At first glance, Unison is an outfit of ordinary — if stylish — black clothing. Only when its master charges it with Essence does it appear as the formidable artifact it is. Unison is no mere accessory, but an extension of self, fashioned by the vanquished Lunar queen Kirka of the Empty Palace, whose famed Simhata Legions were slaughtered mercilessly by the countless forces of the raksha lords. Her lands, people, and wonders all lost to the Wyld, she seethed with rage at everything that had been taken from her and vowed vengeance against the Fair Folk. For decades she labored alone in her hollow subterranean fortress-manse to forge a suit of armor that would be an inextricable part of her being — something they could never take away from her without also taking her life. Together, Kirka and the armor she called Unison slew thousands of the Fair Folk’s soldiers before death claimed her and severed their connection forever.
The dormant artifact still covers her rotting corpse in the entry hall of her manse, disconnected now from Creation by miles of bordermarches, forgotten by time.
Unison layers black silk and thin leather under a long hauberk of closely knit chain links that glimmer subtly in the light. This form-fitting chainmail is a dark, silver-gray alloy of moonsilver, steel, and liquid mercury from the Empty Palace’s hearthroom, infused with the long-dead Lunar queen’s blood. Fingerless chain gloves and a pair of sleek greaves complete the suit. As the wearer unlocks its true power, Unison transforms first itself and then its Exalt in a growing synchronization that culminates in perfect harmony of form. After having been attuned to it for a long time, its master starts to think of herself and the armor as literally one being, even when not wearing it.

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

Evocations of Unison
Unison enables three stages of transformation, called miens, that draw it increasingly closer to its master. When the wearer shifts from one mien to another, all motes committed to the old mien count towards the new mien’s cost.
All miens terminate at end of scene.
Argent Handshake Mien (3m): Like two strangers dancing the tango for the first time, Unison and its wearer take the first step in becoming partners as ordinary clothing transforms into battle armor. Upon rolling Join Battle, the wearer may enter this mien to give Unison +2 soak and +1 Hardness. In Argent Handshake Mien, Unison becomes familiar with its wearer, and sends its protective Essence coursing through her chakras to mingle with her own.
Quicksilver Host Mien (5m, 2i): Asserting its identity, Unison supplements the Exalt’s power with its own wild, adaptable character. While in Argent Handshake Mien, the wearer may shift into this mien as a miscellaneous action. The armor becomes a skintight weave of compact rings like tiny scales — conforming flawlessly to the Exalt’s body — and loses its mobility penalty. Its quicksilver surface allows its wearer to glide between breezes, increasing her Evasion by 1. She may revert to Argent Handshake Mien as a miscellaneous action.
Final Unity Mien (7m, 3i): The Exalt merges completely with the armor. Her armored body, made head-to-toe of Unison’s distinctive moonsilver alloy, may show cosmetic characteristics of her anima banner or spirit shape, such as glowing Old Realm runes for an iconic mandala or silvery feathers for a Lunar with an eagle icon. While in Quicksilver Host Mien, the wearer may shift into this mien as a miscellaneous action. The armor’s Hardness increases by (Essence), and she adds (Essence) to her unarmed attacks’ raw decisive damage. She cannot be knocked prone or knocked back by smash attacks. She weighs twice as much as usual and automatically sinks in water. She may revert to Quicksilver Host Mien as a miscellaneous action. Characters dissonant with moonsilver cannot enter this mien.

Keywords: Dependent, Linked
While this glittering white gem is socketed in an artifact, reduce that artifact’s attunement cost by two, to a minimum of one.
Health Levels
-0 [ ] (+[ ] Only in DBT Form)
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] - [ ]
-4 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
I [ ]

Essence: 1
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 38 / 30
Committed: 8
Willpower: 7

Parry DV: 6
Dodge DV: 3
Resolve: 4
Guile: 1

Join Battle: 8 + 3i - +5i from Sinuous Striking Grace (3m)

Soak: 5
Armor: +8, +2 from Argent Handshake Mien
Shapeshifted: +8 from Unusual Skin, +5 from DBT
Total Soak: 13 human / 26 DBT, +2 from Ardent Handshake Mein
Natural Hardness: 4
Armor Hardness: 7, +1 from Argent Handshake Mien

Weapons
Zelator
Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 5)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Piercing, Reaching;
Two-Handed when on foot
The spear makes baneful attacks against sorcerers, sorcerous constructs, sorcerously transformed opponents, and summoned spirits. Its decisive attacks against such foes add one bonus die to the damage roll and deal aggravated damage. If the target is a sorcerer who has gathered sorcerous motes, three of the gathered motes are dispersed and lost.
Elephant Form
COMBAT
Attack (Stomp): 15 dice (Damage 16, minimum 4)
Attack (Tusks): 12 dice, or 13 with bladed tusks (Damage
18, minimum 5); Tags: Piercing (with blades only)
Attack (Trunk): 13 dice (Damage 15); Tags: Flexible
Attack (Grapple): 11 dice (14 dice to control)
Combat Movement: 7 dice
Evasion 2, Parry 4
Soak/Hardness: 16/6, or 20/6 with armor

SPECIAL ABILITIES
Gore: Decisive tusk attacks add extra successes to damage against enemies with lower Initiative, as long as the elephant hasn’t taken any other actions (including reflexive movement actions) that turn.
Massive Charge: If the elephant moves at least one range band toward a target and makes a decisive attack against it on the same turn, the attack gains the Smashing tag (Exalted, p. 586).
Overwhelming Might: Elephants make unopposed grapple control rolls against enemies of smaller size, unless the victims use magic allowing them to
grapple larger foes, such as Dragon Coil Technique (Exalted, p. 280).
Rampaging Stampede: Spend one Willpower to flurry a withering stomp attack with a decisive tusk or trunk attack, each with a different target.
Trample: If the elephant reflexively pursues an enemy after a successful rush and makes a stomp attack against them on its next turn, a successful hit
knocks the enemy prone. Apply the Defense penalty from being prone (Exalted, p. 202) retroactively when calculating the attack’s threshold successes.
Trunk Grapple (Latent): An elephant takes no Defense penalty for grappling, but can’t make savaging attacks. However, one with bladed tusks automatically deals lethal damage on a decisive throw, as it tosses the enemy into the air and then slices them — perhaps in half.

MERITS
Keen Nose: Gain double 9s on scent-based Perception rolls.
Legendary Size: An elephant suffers no onslaught penalties from attacks from smaller opponents, unless they’re magically inflicted. Withering attacks from smaller enemies cannot crash it unless they have at least 10 post-soak damage dice, although attackers still gain the full amount of Initiative damage dealt.
Decisive attacks from smaller enemies cannot deal more than (3 + attacker’s Strength) levels of damage to it, not counting levels added by Charms or other magic.
Defining Tie: His Solar Bond (devotion)
Defining Principle: Protect the Lives of his Men
Major Tie: Luna (devotion)
Major Tie: Sorcerers (distrust)
Minor Tie: The Guild (distrust)
Minor Tie: Rogosh (trust)
Minor Tie: Fellow Celestial Exalts (loyalty)

Aspects
Endless Endurance
With Our Strength, Our Foes Will Be Crushed
Kind and Peaceful Until Angered
Protective of Innocents
Able to Look a Third Circle Demon in the Eye Without Flinching

Morrolan was raised on the mean streets of Great Forks, laboring on the docks hauling heavy loads onto and off of the various merchant ships that come into the port. He probably would have stayed there for a long time if it were not for the chance encounter in a tavern with the leader of the mercenary force known as the Red Arms. The Captain, an Outcaste Dragon Blooded man named Ivar, saw some potential in the huge, muscular man, and offered him the chance to travel far and wide and learn the trade of being a soldier. Compared to the boring life of being a dock hand, this sounded like paradise.

As the years passed and Morrolan traveled with the Red Arms, he learned the ways of fighting with a weapon, and soon became a skillful swordsman. Using his new talent with the blade, he rose up the ranks to be a squad leader directly under the command of Ivar himself. He was a good soldier, and was quite content with his role in life, up to the day that he Exalted as a Lunar in front of the company and everything changed.

It was orders from some rich merchant that led Morrolan to his fate. The company was ordered to attack a fortress that was controlled by a rival merchant, not knowing that they were walking into a trap. The fighting was fierce, and when Ivar ordered the retreat, Morrolan stood his ground to buy some time for the rest of the Red Arms to escape. It was this noble sacrifice that led him to Exalt as a Lunar.

As he fought against the throngs of soldiers, another warrior appeared, a woman on a gleaming white unicorn. She charged into battle along side him, giving Morrolan a grin as she revealed herself to be a fellow Celestial Exalt, a Solar! Together, they were able to stop the onrushing hordes and save the lives of the men. Unfortunately, Ivar was a former member of the Immaculate Order and charged at them, intent on killing them both.

The fight between Ivar, Morrolan and the Solar was a terrible thing to behold. In the end, the two Celestial Exalts won the day. As the two looked to each other, Morrolan could sense the deep connection he had to this stranger, this amazing woman, and knew he was meant to be at her side.

At this point, the woman calls out from astride her unicorn, "I am Renna Taeger, warrior and Exalted of the Unconquered Sun! I have come here in your time of need and have fought to save your lives, asking only that those who wish to seek out glory along side me stay. All that wish to leave are free to do so, and no none will stand against you. Who is with me?"

Morrolan takes a deep breath, and says, "Unlike these men, I have never met you before, but you have fought along side me to save the lives of these fine men. All of you, listen! I am Morrolan, Exalt of Luna, and I stand with this Renna Taeger, for now and always as her sword and shield. Will any of you join us?"

The lieutenant of the company, a Outcaste Dragon Blooded named Rogosh, nods. "Aye. Just because you are a bit bigger and uglier than before (no small accomplishment there, I have to say!), you are still my friend, and I will be proud to stand with the two of you, Lady Renna and Lord Morrolan!"
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Attribute increase - 6
Caste/Favored Attribute increase - 7
Ability increase - 6
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit - new rating x3
Willpower - 8
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Lunar Charm - 10 (9 if Casteless)
Caste/Favored Lunar Charm - 8
Martial Arts Charm - 10
Spell - 10 (8 if Intelligence is a Caste/Favored Attribute)
Evocation - 10
Animal Latent Ability - 6

Xp Earned: 30
Xp Banked: 5

Lunar Xp Banked:
Fate Points: 2

Wish List
General
Many-Faced Moon Transformation - p144

Appearance
Feral Smile Tactic - 146

Dexterity
Emerald Grasshopper Form - p179
Finding the Needle’s Eye - p180
-Striking Mospid Method - p180

Stamina
Impenetrable Beast-Armor - p251
-Durant Quicksilver Adaptation - p251
--Invulnerable Moonsilver Carapace - p253, e2
Unyielding Battle Vigor - 256

Strength
Mountainous Spirit Expression - p265, e2

Wits
Squirrel’s Cunning Technique - p289
-Many-Pockets Meditation - p290, e2

jaydude · Jan 1, 2021

WIP

Name: Atusa Hematti
Age: 28
Caste: Zenith
Concept: Faqari Clan Leader
Supernal: Presence
Limit trigger: The Solar is faced with the opportunity to advance his own cause by harming an innocent or ignoring one’s suffering.
Anima Banner: A golden lion

Appearance
Atusa is an olive-skinned woman of slightly above average height, with green eyes and curly brown hair that reaches down to her shoulders. Several years living onboard a township and serving on sandships have given her an athlete's build, and an attractively rugged appearance.

In battle, she dons either bronze lamellar armor or a camel-hide buff jacket, along with loose, sand-colored trousers, and brown boots of camel-hide. When travelling onboard a sandship, she wears the buff jacket, trousers and boots, and a dark red headscarf that covers everything but her face. When making formal appearances, she wears ankle-length sleeveless robes that hug her body and have side-slits to allow full leg movement, along with a pair of calf-length leather sandals, and a necklace, a girdle and a pair of bracelets of fine bronze.

Her crown is a bronze diadem that resembles the head of a falcon, the bird of prey being the symbol of the Hematti clan.

Caste Effects:

For one mote, the Zenith’s anima leaps from her hand to a corpse she’s touching, igniting it in Solar flame. This power incinerates the corpse and ensures the soul of the deceased will not return as a hungry ghost. In addition, the Zenith may perceive the strongest Intimacies of the deceased and may choose to accept them. When she is ready, she may pay one mote, touching a target of those Intimacies to pass on feelings of peace, love, and assurance, shedding them in the process. She may also transfer them to an object, allowing it to convey comfort or a sense of duty to the subject. Conversely, she may touch someone who caused the deceased to suffer, paying one mote and rolling ([A social Attribute] + Presence) with three automatic non-Charm successes against their Resolve to transfer pain suffered by the deceased back on the one who caused it. The Storyteller is free to dictate the length and weight of such attrition.

For 10 motes, one Willpower, the Zenith channels her Essence into an aura of divine retribution, surging around an attack. This power supplements a successful decisive attack against a creature of darkness, preventing the Solar’s Initiative from returning to its base value after the attack. When the Zenith’s anima is at bonfire, reduce the cost of this power by five motes and ignore the Willpower. This power may only be used once per day, resetting when the sun is at its zenith.

For seven motes, the Zenith may order a dematerialized spirit to manifest using a (Charisma + Presence) persuade action with (Essence) automatic successes. All spirits inherently recognize the Unconquered Sun’s authority in the priest-kings and are compelled as if by a Defining Intimacy, but may still have Defining Ties or Principles which counter this advantage. If successful, the Zenith’s very command draws the spirit into the material world, so that it does not need to pay the cost to materialize.

Aspects:
* Warrior Priest-Queen
* Daughter of the desert
* Ruler of a future Faqari Empire

Flags:
* ~~At least one scene of a character from outside of the clan - PC or NPC - having an audience with her in her throne room.~~
* ~~A scene of her leading and commanding her people in a battle, or in some other crisis.~~
* ~~A scene where she engages in diplomacy with the representative of another faction in the area.~~
* ~~A scene where she meets with the Nomarch of the Fayum.~~
* ~~A scene where she witnesses something that makes her question her continued fealty to the Fayum.~~
* A scene in which she has a second encounter with Acekara.
* A scene in which she beats Acekara to death with brass knuckles of iron. One blow for each month the Raksha has survived since their last battle (As far as Atusa's concerned, Acekara should have died then, not later).
* A scene in which she treats with the Ur-Pharaoh, and/or one of his representatives.
* A storyline in which she and the Hematti explore either a tomb or lost city that was once very important to the Faqari.
* At least one scene of her meeting with a fellow Celestial Exalted, and trying to convince them to join her.

Goal:
Peacefully Resolve the Diplomatic Incident
Win the Fayum Civil War/Secure independence for the Hematti
Secure the loyalty and unity of the former Fayum vassals
Increase the power and wealth of myself and the Hematti (Raise Influences and Resources to 4)

Discover the tomb of Umarkut, a previous Ur-Pharaoh believed to be a Solar and one of my past lives

Learn the truth about the current Ur-Pharaoh

Unify the Faqari Clans into a Great Empire
Backstory (WIP):
The Hematti were just one of the many Faqari clans of the Achaean river valley, until a stroke of fortune that took place after the return of the Solar Exalted.

Atusa was the first child of the clan leader and his wife, making her the heir by default. Growing up, she learned Steel Devil Style at the hands of the clan's greatest warriors, and was tutored in how to captain a sandship and rule her people by her parents.

She spent two years fostered by the Fayum, after her father Arsaphes swore fealty to them.

The Hematti fought for the Sassarin Principate prior to and during the Battle of the Silesian Gate, with Atusa's father dying during the battle.

At some point after Atusa became the clan leader, the Hematti came across one of the Unconquered Sun's temples buried beneath the sands. Atusa led a scouting party into the ruin, and emerged the next day at noon with a pair of orichalcum short daiklaves in her hands, and a disk of light shining from her forehead.
Essence: 1
Personal Essence: 13/13
Peripheral Essence: 24/33

Committed Essence: 5 (Short daiklaves)

Willpower: 5
Join Battle: 5
Health Levels: -0, -1, -1,-1,-1, -2, -2, -2, -2, -4, Incapacitated
Resolve 3, Guile 3

Attacks
Orichalcum Short Daiklaves (Withering 15 dice, Decisive 10 dice, Raw Damage 12, Overwhelming 3)

Actions
Rush: 7
Disengage: 7

Evasion 4, Parry 5
Armor: Buff Jacket (Soak 3, Mobility Penalty 0)
Natural Soak: 2
Armored Soak: 3
Hardness: 0
Attributes
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 5
Stamina: 2

Perception: 2
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 3

Charisma: 5
Manipulation: 3
Appearance: 3

Abilities
28 points + 11 bonus points
~~Archery~~
Athletics: 2
Awareness: 2
Brawl: 1
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge: 2
Integrity: 2
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics: 1 (Flametongue native)
Lore: 2 (Achaea + Locura)
Martial Arts: 5 (Steel Devil Style)
Medicine
Melee
Occult: 1 (Djinn)
Performance: 2
Presence: 4
Resistance: 2
Ride: 1
Sail: 3 (Sandships)
Socialize: 3
Stealth: 2
Survival: 2 (Desert)
~~Thrown~~
War: 2
Merits
10 dots + 4 bonus points
Artifact 3 (Orichalcum Short Daiklaves)
Influence 3 (Faqari clan leader)
Language 1 (Flametongue native, Old Realm)
Martial Arts 4 (Steel Devil Style)
Resources 3 (Income generated by clan)
Sobriquet (The Blade Who Turned a Hundred Ships)

Panoply

Atusa found these weapons while exploring a temple of the Unconquered Sun within her clan. Each one resembles a double-edged shortsword.

(Further write-up coming)
Excellencies
Athletics
Martial Arts
Integrity
Presence
Resistance
Sail
Socialize

Athletics
Graceful Crane Stance

Integrity
Stubborn Boar Defence

Presence
Listener-Swaying Argument
Harmonious Presence Meditation
Tiger's Dread Symmetry
Impassioned Discourse Technique

Resistance
Ox Body Technique x2
Body Mending Meditation

Sail
Ship-Claiming Stance

Socialize
Mastery of Small Manners
Motive-Discerning Technique

15 Charms
Naked Fang Draw
Double Attack Technique
Steel Devil Strike
Steel Devil Form
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Defining Principle - I will form the Faqari into a great empire, as the Unconquered Sun has called upon me to do.
Defining Principle - Never again will I be subservient to another Faqari
Defining Principle - I am the woman most suited to rally and rule the Faqari

Major Tie - Hematti Clan (Responsibility)
Major Tie - Fair Folk (Disdain)

Minor Tie - Acekara (Disdain)
Minor Tie - Gyasi (Affection)
Minor Principle - I have little love for attempts to flatter me
Trait - Experience Cost
Attribute increase - 10 XP each
Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase - 5 xp each
Caste/Favored Ability increase - 4 xp each
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

Experience:
27 experience
3 Solar experience
10 bonus experience

12xp on 5-Star Ally (Moswen, Night Caste)
8xp on Mastery of Small Manners
***** Ally - Moswen (Upgraded to Night Caste, 12 xp)

Dice [Exalted] O Brave New World (Characters)

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Three Thousand Club

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Four Thousand Club

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D. Rex

Magic Eight Ball

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jaydude

Five Thousand Club

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