Dice Into the Ruins - Exalted 3e Characters

Psychie · Sep 11, 2022

Characters will go here.

Standard character generation rules apply. No custom Charms allowed at this stage. Any of the three main Exalted types are valid options to play. We will be starting out in the River Provinces region of Creation, and I have plans to send you East, so have languages appropriate to the region.

Xp Tracker: 60
Lunar Xp: 16
Solar Xp: 16
Aredin: +3 extra Solar Xp

On Attributes and Ability ratings up to 3 there are no training times. Above that and you will have to spend a week of training to justify boosting your rating to 4 or 5. Charms have no training times, since the powers of your Exaltation are gifts from your divine patron.

Rykon · Sep 11, 2022

Name: Aredin Lentier
Caste: Eclipse
Age: 32
Totemic Anima: The shadowy silhouette of a soaring falcon rises overhead, wreathed in a white corona of light.
Supernal Ability: Presence
Limit Trigger: The Solar’s allies suffer a setback or defeat because of a mistake he made.

History Overview
Born and raised of merchant stock, Aredin hails from what was once a modest riverside village of the scavenge. Like many humble backwaters of its kind, the place no longer exists. The entire settlement was ravaged and pillaged by a monstrous band of Fae, and the many that never made it out presumed food for the dream starved marauders. For years since, many other people shared this fate only for the count of survivors to dwindle with each passing meal.

It wasn’t until adulthood that he and his surviving kin learned that these faerie brigands were merely servants bound to an accursed relic in the employ of a depraved cult. The villages a mere sacrifice for their servants or fuel for their rituals and slave pens. Though the relic was broken and the mastermind brought to heel, the cult of the White Wraith lingers in the scavenge searching for other means to recover their lost power.

To this day tales are still told and even sung about a prince by the name of Fahn Credys. Once seen as an honest man, fallen from grace by the hand of avarice and the promises of a gossamer devil, sentenced to chum the waters quenching a smoking ruin of his own making.

Nearly a decade after the fall of the White Wraith, they emerged again in a tomb that Aredin had begun to explore in hopes of finding a relic of his own with which to fight back. He was caught off guard, outnumbered, and unarmed. In desperation the young prince reached into the newly discovered crypt to draw a gleaming blade reflecting the blinding light from his brow.

His victory was not without cost, as the celestial display of his anima did not go unnoticed. Aredin now secures his assets and effects, on the run to stay one step ahead of both the White Wraith and the Wyld Hunt.
Attributes
Strength ●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●●●

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

Perception ●●
Intelligence ●●
Wits ●●●

Abilities
Archery
Athletics ●●●●●
Awareness ●●●
Brawl
Bureaucracy ●●●
Craft
Dodge ●
Integrity ●●
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics ●
Lore ●●● +Ruins
Medicine
Melee ●●●●● +Sword
Occult ●●●
Performance ●●●●● +Music
Presence ●●● +Persuasion
Resistance ●●
Ride ●
Sail
Socialize ●●●
Stealth ●●●
Survival ●
Thrown
War
Artifact ●●● (Beloved Adorei, Orichalcum Daiklave)
Influence ●●● (Merchant Prince of the Guild)
Resources ●●●●●
Languages ●●● (N Riverspeak, High Realm, Guild Cant, Old Realm)
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 nonranged 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 move ment 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.

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.

Melee

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

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

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

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.

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

Cost: 2m; Mins: Melee 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
With speed and grace, the Exalt flashes to her own defense. Even when she is beleaguered she strikes away blows with preternatural accuracy. The Solar can ignore all penalties to parry an attack with her full Defense. In addition, any attack she successfully parries with Dipping Swallow Defense grants her one point of Initiative. This Charm cannot by itself remove the penalties from a surprise attack.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Until next turn
Prerequisite Charms: Dipping Swallow Defense
The Solar’s mastery of defensive Essence flows guides her weapon to intercept all blows. Until her next turn, the Lawgiver ignores all penalties to her Parry Defense. The Chosen’s definitive guard dampens her foes’ strikes. Any damage roll made against the Solar takes a -1 penalty for each 1 rolled on the attack roll, up to a maximum of the Solar’s Essence rating.

Occult

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.

Performance

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.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Performance 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Masterful Performance Exercise
The Solar suffuses her form with Essence, intensifying her every angle and motion. This Charm raises her Appearance by one for the rest of the scene, even if this increases it past five. An erotic vision made manifest, she may attempt and succeed at seductive persuade actions without targeting an Intimacy. In addition, she may make her movements and words effortlessly erotic, subtly or overtly sensualizing her social influence actions. She might be using a read intentions action to draw out someone’s opinion on a social issue while subtly enticing him with an instill action, or she might play a song to remind a prince of his homeland while using an inspire action to stir a fire in the belly of his wife. In such cases, her social influence is made with a single roll, each different action sharing the roll’s results.

Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Performance 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Thousand Courtesan Ways
The Exalt performs the body-mudra of sighs and whispers upon a lover, unleashing a torrent of unimaginable ecstasy. This intense lovemaking lasts at least three minutes, inducing a world-shaking climax in her partner. In the afterglow, the Exalt becomes the object of a temporary Defining Tie of lust that lasts for (Essence) weeks, and gains (Essence) automatic successes to social influence actions targeting her lover for the rest of the scene

Presence

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

Resistance

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

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

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

Ride

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

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

Horse-Summoning Whistle: The Lawgiver can spend one mote reflexively to call a loyal mount to her side. The mount makes its way to her as circumstances best allow. Master Horseman’s Eye: The Solar can spend one mote reflexively when evaluating a mount to perfectly recognize its strengths and weaknesses.

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

Spirit-Steadying Assurances: The Solar can spend one mote reflexively to stop a mount from panicking. For one instant, the mount shakes off all natural or supernatural fear, and may not be intimidated by direct effort for (Essence) rounds, or indirect circumstances for the scene’s duration.

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

Stealth

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Stealth 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver’s stealth technique is honed until it’s flawless. Perfect Shadow Stillness allows a reroll of any Stealthbased action, preserving the 10s from those results and rerolling the remaining dice. At Stealth 5, succeeding at a stealth attempt with this Charm awards the Solar one point of temporary Willpower.
Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hearthstone slot(s): 3

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.

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.

Type: Mundane Medium (Soak +5 Mobility Penalty -1, Hardness 0)
Tags: Silent

A heavier version of the buff jacket, the reinforced buff jacket is a common armor among light cavalry, post-riders in dangerous territory, heavy scouts, brigands and mercenary infantry. It is also the standard armor of the Realm’s light infantry.

The reinforced buff jacket is cut along the same pattern as the standard buff jacket, but the shoulders, neck and vitals are armored with swatches of chain or small metal plates. The overall effect is a heavier, more protective armor that isn’t much more fatiguing than the standard buff jacket.
Health Levels
-0x1
-1x4
-2x6
-4x1
Ix1

Essence: ●●
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 40
Committed: 5
Willpower: ●●●●●

Join Battle 6

Parry 7
Evasion 3 (-1 Armor)

Total Soak 8 (5 Armor)
Hardness 0

Guile 3
Resolve 3

Intimacies
Defining(Tie) Fondness for Family
Defining(Tie) I will end the cult of the White Wraith
Defining(Principle) I want to see the four corners of the earth with my own eyes
Major(Tie) Respect for the working class merchants
Major(Tie) Vicious Hatred of Fae
Major(Tie) Comeradery with Circle
Major(Tie) Love of Music
Major(Principle) Butchery of innocents will not be tolerated
Major(Tie) Trust in Gray Stone
Major(Tie) Protective of Mercy
Minor(Tie) Suspicious of Spirits
Minor(Tie) Despises Creatures of Darkness
Minor(Principle) Don't disturb me when I'm fishin'
BP 15
Caste/Favored Ability dots 11pts.
Merits 4pts.

--Essence 1-- (0+)
One Weapon, Two Blows, 8xp (8/50)
Bulwark Stance, 8xp (16/50)
Call the Blade, 8xp (24/50)
Summoning the Loyal Steel, 8xp (32/50)
Ox-Body Technique, 8xp (40/50)
Master Horseman's Techniques, 10xp (50/50) (MHT Techniques: Harmony of Spirits Style, Horse-Summoning Whistle, Spirit-Steadying Assurance)

--Essence 2-- (50+)
MHT-Speed-Sustaining Technique, 2xp (52/125)
MHT-Blood Rider's Toughness, 2xp (54/125)
MHT-Master Horseman's Eye, 2xp (56/125)
Graceful Crane Stance, 8xp (64/125)
Lightning Speed, 8xp (72/125)
Leaping Tiger Attack, 8xp (80/125)
Salty Dog Method, 8xp (88/125)
Speed the Wheels, 8xp (96/125)
Ox-Body Technique. 8xp (104/125)
Motive-Discerning Technique, 8xp (112/125)
Ox-Body Technique. 8xp (120/125)
Fivefold Bulwark Stance, 8xp (128/125)

--Essence 3-- (125+)
Ox-Body Technique, 8xp (136/200)
Spirit Cutting Attack, 8xp (144/200)
Uncanny Perception Technique, 8xp (152/200)
Drifting Leaf Elusion, 8xp (160/200)
Shadow Over Water, 8xp (168/200)
Flow Like Blood, 8xp (176/200)
Reed In the Wind, 8xp (184/200)
Searing Quicksilver Flight, 8xp (192/200)
Reflex Sidestep Technique, 8xp (200/200)

--Essence 4-- (200+)
Drifting Shadow Focus, 8xp (208/300)
Force-Stealing Feint, 8xp (216/300)
Seven Shadow Evasion, 8xp (224/300)
Safety Between Heartbeats, 8xp (232/300)
Summoning the Loyal Steel, 8xp (240/300)
Iron Raptor Technique, 8xp (248/300)
Peony Blossom Attack, 8xp (256/300)
Solar Counterattack, 8xp (264/300)
Hail-Shattering Practice, 8xp (272/300)
Rising Sun Slash, 8xp (280/300)
Hungry Tiger Technique, 8xp (288/300)
Perfect Strike Discipline, 8xp (296/300)
Flashing Edge of Dawn, 8xp (304/300)

--Essence 5--(300+)
Fervent Blow, 8xp (312)
Frugal Merchant Method, 8xp (320)
Enlightened Discourse Method, 8xp (328)
Consumer-Evaluating Glance, 8xp (336)
Irresistible Salesman Spirit, 8xp (344)
Listener-Swaying Argument, 8xp (352)
Harmonious Presence Meditation, 8xp (360)
Majestic Radiant Presence, 8xp (368)
Threefold Magnetic Ardor, 8xp (376)
Awakened Carnal Demiurge, 8xp (384)
Impassioned Discourse Technique, 8xp (392)
Fulminating Word, 8xp (400)
Authority Radiating Stance, 8xp (408)
Crowned King of Eternity, 8xp (416)
Perfect Harmony Technique, 8xp (424)
Mood-Inducing Music, 8xp (432)
Battle Anthem of the Solar Exalted, 8xp (440)
Heart-Compelling Method, 8xp (448)
Soul-Stirring Cantata, 8xp (456)
Stillness Drawing Meditation, 8xp (464)
Trance of Fugue Vision, 8xp (472)
Unmatched Showmanship Style, 8xp (480)
Soul Voice, 8xp (488)

Integrity 2, 2xp
Resistance 2, 1xp
Ride 1, 3xp
Athletics 4, 5xp
Athletics 5, 7xp
---(purchased above/planned below)
Resistance 3, 3xp
Resistance 4, 5xp
Resistance 5, 7xp
Presence 4, 5xp
Presence 5, 7xp
Sail 1, 3xp
Sail 2, 1xp
Sail 3, 3xp
Bureaucracy 4, 5xp
Bureaucracy 5, 7xp
Socialize 4, 5xp
Socialize 5, 7xp
Dodge 2, 1xp
Dodge 3, 3xp
Dodge 4, 5xp
Dodge 5, 7xp
Ride 2, 2xp
Ride 3, 4xp
Charisma 3, 8xp
Manipulation 3, 8xp
Sail 4, 5xp
Sail 5, 7xp
Stealth 4, 6xp
Stealth 5, 8xp
Ride 4, 6xp
Ride 5, 8xp
Integrity 3, 4xp
Awareness 4, 6xp
Awareness 5, 8xp
Perception 3, 8xp
Intelligence 3, 8xp
Adorei-Heart Knowing Blade E1, 10xp
Adorei-No Other Blade E1, 10xp
Adorei-Magnanimous Sunfire Blast E2, 10xp
Adorei-Holy Miracle Strike E3, 10xp
Adorei-Battle Dance of the Warrior Wed E3, 10xp
Survival 2, 2xp
Survival 3, 4xp
Linguistics 2, 2xp
Linguistics 3, 4xp
Occult 4, 5xp
Occult 5, 7xp
War 1, 3xp
Archery 1, 3xp
Lore 4, 6xp
Lore 5, 8xp
War 2, 2xp
Archery 2, 2xp
Investigation 1, 3xp
Investigation 2, 2xp
Larceny 1, 3xp
Larceny 2, 2xp

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

Bureaucracy
Deft Official's Way
Speed The Wheels
Frugal Merchant Method
Enlightened Discourse Method
Consumer-Evaluating Glance
Irresistible Salesman Spirit

Dodge
Drifting Leaf Elusion
Shadow Over Water
Flow Like Blood
Reed In the Wind
Searing Quicksilver Flight
Reflex Sidestep Technique
Drifting Shadow Focus
Force-Stealing Feint
Seven Shadow Evasion
Safety Between Heartbeats

Integrity
Stubborn Boar Defense

Melee
One Weapon, Two Blows
Bulwark Stance
Call the Blade
Summoning the Loyal Steel
Fivefold Bulwark Stance
Iron Raptor Technique
Peony Blossom Attack
Solar Counterattack
Hail-Shattering Practice
Rising Sun Slash
Hungry Tiger Technique
Perfect Strike Discipline
Flashing Edge of Dawn
Fervent Blow

Occult
Spirit-Cutting Attack
Uncanny Perception Technique

Performance
Perfect Harmony Technique
Mood-Inducing Music
Battle Anthem of the Solar Exalted
Heart-Compelling Method
Soul-Stirring Cantata
Stillness Drawing Meditation
Trance of Fugue Vision
Unmatched Showmanship Style
Soul Voice

Presence
Listener-Swaying Argument
Harmonious Presence Meditation
Majestic Radiant Presence
Threefold Magnetic Ardor
Awakened Carnal Demiurge
Impassioned Discourse Technique
Fulminating Word
Authority Radiating Stance
Crowned King of Eternity

Resistance
Ox-Body Technique x4

Ride
Master Horseman's Techniques

Sail
Salty Dog Method

Socialize
Motive-Discerning Technique

jaydude · Sep 13, 2022

Name: Grey Stone
Caste: Zenith
Concept: Warrior Monk/Former sohei
Supernal: Resistance
Limit trigger: The Solar is insulted, belittled, or deliberately frustrated by another character
Anima Banner: Sunlight forms into a golden, gigantic and muscled man dressed in the attire of a First Age monk of the Unconquered Sun. This monk moves as Grey Stone does.

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.
Backstory:
Once a mortal sohei of Lookshy, Grey Stone found his destiny drastically altered during his sixty-third year on Creation, when exploring a long abandoned temple of the Unconquered Sun. Laying eyes upon the temple's altar triggered a vision from that very same god, in which his entire worldview was completely changed, and he was marked as one of the Unconquered Sun's new generation of champions.

Grey Stone went into self-imposed exile from Lookshy following his Exaltation, though he continued to carry out his old duties throughout the Riverlands, teaching wisdom and punishing corrupt spirits. Soon though, word of what he'd become reached the Shogunate Successors, and he found himself up against the Wyld Hunt. One of the Dragon-blooded who came after him was a young Mnemon Dynast who wielded Faith's Pillar, a White Jade Grand Goremaul precious to her house. After shattering his foe's skull with a well-placed elbow and burying her remains, Grey Stone took the weapon for himself.
Essence: 2
Personal Essence: 16/16
Peripheral Essence: 35/40

Committed Essence: 5 (Faith's Pillar)

Willpower: 7
Join Battle: 5
Health Levels: -0, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,-1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -3, Incapacitated
Resolve 3, Guile 1

Attacks
Faith's Pillar (10 dice Withering, 8 dice Decisive, Withering Damage 18, Overwhelming 5, Bashing, Melee, Reaching, Smashing, Two-Handed)
Unarmed (13 dice Withering, 8 dice Decisive, Withering Damage 14, Overwhelming 1, Bashing, Brawl, Grappling, Natural)

Actions
Rush: 6
Disengage: 6

Evasion 4, Parry 4
Soak/Hardness: 4/0
Attributes
Strength: 4
Dexterity: 4
Stamina: 4

Perception: 3
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 2

Charisma: 5
Manipulation: 1
Appearance: 3

Abilities
(28 points + 11 bonus points)
Athletics: 3
Awareness: 3
Brawl: 1
Dodge: 3
Integrity: 3
Linguistics: 2
Lore: 2 (Immaculate Faith)
Medicine: 3
Melee:
Martial Arts: 5
Occult: 3
Presence: 3
Resistance: 4
Socialize: 1
Survival: 2

Specialities:
Athletics (Lifting Heavy Objects)
Martial Arts (Blunt Attacks)
Medicine (First Aid)
Occult (Gods)
Merits
Artifact 3 (Faith's Pillar)
Languages 2 (Riverspeak native, Old Realm, Forest-tongue)
Martial Arts 4 (Earth Dragon Style)
Pain Tolerance 4

Panoply

Mnemon Beral, son of Mnemon herself, set the house standard for proselytizing across Creation. His journeys led him to every corner of Creation, then to the secretive cities of the inhuman Mountain Folk below its surface. The Jadeborn do not speak of their faith in their few exchanges with the Dynasty, but they speak of Beral with the utmost respect.

Mnemon Beral never returned home. Faith’s Pillar did. The Mountain Folk carved it out of respect for Beral’s wisdom and courage against the unholy monsters of the depths, and he carried it into battle against those horrors. After he fell in defense of a Mountain Folk city, the Jadeborn entrusted the weapon to his family.

Faith’s Pillar is a glittering white jade obelisk representing the Imperial Mountain, with symbols for the four outer Directions on each of its faces. At the end of its long haft, the pommel bears a sign of the Center, just as the mountain’s roots reach far below the light of day. Faith’s Pillar traditionally serves monks of House Mnemon, consecrated in a Mountain Folk dedication ceremony kept by house savants.

Attunement: 5m; Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 5)
Tags: Bashing, Melee, Reaching, Smashing, Two-Handed
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Reign of the Scarlet Empress
Excellencies
Athletics
Awareness
Brawl
Dodge
Integrity
Medicine
Martial Arts
Occult
Presence
Resistance
Survival

Earth Dragon Style

Cost: 5m, 1i; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual, Earth, Perilous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Unbowed by pain, the Immaculate withstands blow after blow. She ignores (Stamina/2, rounded up) points of wound penalties to her Parry. Against withering attacks, she adds (higher of Essence or 3) natural soak; against decisive attacks, she adds +1 to her Hardness from armor or other magic.

This Charm costs one mote less in medium armor, and two motes less in light armor. While unarmored, it costs two motes less and the Initiative cost is waived.

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

The Immaculate draws strength from her firm stance. She adds (lower of Essence or Strength) dice of raw withering damage, or doubles 10s on a decisive damage roll. Additionally, an unarmed attack gains the Smashing tag.

Athletics

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: 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: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Increasing Strength Exercise, Monkey Leap Technique

The Exalt draws down on the Essence around her, pulling it through her upper body, her lungs, her core and down into her legs, and then explodes skyward, rising in a brilliant, Essence-laden arc. This Charm supplements a non-ranged attack which can be made against aerial targets up to short range, or ground targets at short range. The Solar leaps at her target, striking with incredible force— damage is doubled after it is rolled. If the Exalt uses this attack to move to short range, it counts as her movement action for the round. After striking an aerial opponent, the Exalt may fall one range band without taking damage.

Thunderbolt Attack Prana is expressly permitted to be used in conjunction with Charms of other Abilities, and it is suggested that the player use it to create a signature attack that fits the character’s attitude and style.

Integrity

Cost: 1m; Mins: Integrity 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Bridge
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None or any 5 Presence, Resistance, or Socialize Charms

Even in extreme pain, the Exalt does not succumb to despair. The Solar may ignore wound, illness, and crippling penalties to her Resolve or Guile for one tick. At Integrity 3+, this Charm can be repurchased, giving it an alternate cost and duration. For five motes, one Willpower the duration extends to one scene. At Integrity 5+, Essence 3+, this Charm may be repurchased a second time, allowing the Exalt to pay eight motes, one Willpower to extend the effect to one day.

Occult

Cost: 3m; Mins: Occult 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar can look through the pall of reality to glimpse the realm of spirits beneath. With this Charm, the Solar can see (but not touch) immaterial spirits.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Occult 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Detecting Glance

The Solar infuses her attack with the emotive force of her anima, to strike an immaterial spirit. This Charm supplements a single attack to strike a spirit which has not materialized. If the Solar is not using the prerequisite or another similar magic, this attack is made at -3 dice. Spirit-Cutting Attack may be used in combination with the Charms of other Abilities.

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
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None

The bodies of the Exalted are much more durable than those of mere mortals. To help simulate this, an Exalt may buy extra health levels with this Charm. The purchasing choices are based on the character’s Stamina rating:

At Stamina 1 and 2: One -1 and one -2 health level.

3 and 4: One -1 and two -2 health levels.

5: One -0, one -1, and one -2 health level.

The Solar may purchase Ox-Body Technique (Resistance) times. If she increases her Stamina after purchasing Ox-Body Technique, her health levels automatically change to reflect the new rating.
Cost: 10m; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ox-Body Technique

Even when unconscious, the Solar’s body and Essence work in unison to knit wounds and mend broken bones. Roll the Solar’s (Stamina + Resistance) to speed her natural healing by a factor of (Essence x successes). Alternately, successes on this roll can be added directly to the successes of Wound-Mending Care Technique on page 342. The Solar must spend an hour at rest for this power to take effect, but the boosted healing lasts for one day, so long as the Solar remains at rest.
Faith's Pillar

Cost: 2m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: None

A life of virtue begins with a foundation of faith. Touching Faith’s Pillar to the ground, the wielder consecrates the ground on which she stands. As long as she doesn’t move from this point, she adds (Essence + the dedicated Principle) to her natural soak and gains (Essence) Hardness.

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Resonant, Withering-only
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Faith Maintains

When the faithful call, the very stones answer. On her turn, the wielder draws Faith’s Pillar through earth, loose stones, or even solid rock, compacting them into a boulder to serve as her hammer’s head. This boulder adds (lower of Strength or the dedicated Principle) dice of raw damage and +1 Overwhelming on withering attacks with Faith’s Pillar. Enemies may attempt to destroy the boulder with a difficulty 4 gambit, ending this Evocation.

Resonant: While standing on ground consecrated by Faith Maintains, the wielder’s withering smash attacks don’t cost Initiative.
Defining Principle - It is my sacred duty to protect Creation

Major Tie - Circle (Trust)
Major Tie - Immaculate Faith (Respect)
Major Tie - Scarlet Empire (Distrust)
Major Tie - Unconquered Sun (Faith)

Minor Tie - Immaculate Philosophy (Disdain)
Minor Principle - I'm interested in being a bit decadent now that I'm no longer an official sohei
Bonus points:
15
11 on Abilities
4 on additional Willpower

Experience:
50 experience
16 Solar experience

12 exp on bringing Dexterity to 4.
Attributes
Strength to 5
Dexterity to 5
Stamina to 5

Abilities
Athletics to 5
Awareness to 5
Integrity to 5
Resistance to 5

Athletics Charms
Ten Ox Meditation
Armor-Eating Strike (Essence 2)

Chowlett · Sep 13, 2022

Images generated by Stable Diffusion AI, based on Midjourney AI
Name: Silent Glade
Caste: Night
Concept: Stealth / Sorcery
Supernal: Stealth
Limit trigger: The Solar sees innocents suffering, and is either unable or unwilling to help them.
Anima Banner: Several enormous trees grow and twist around each other, causing areas of vibrant green and deep shadow.

Caste Effects:
- For two motes, the Night can dampen her anima, treating all Peripheral Essence expenditures as if they were Personal for one instant.
- For three motes, the Night can ignore up to (higher of 3 or Essence) penalties to a Stealth attempt for one instant. These motes are always considered Personal, regardless of the pool they’re spent from.
- When the Night’s anima is at the bonfire/iconic level, it wraps around and suffuses her form, hiding her figure and masking her visage in flame. She is merely a fearsome silhouette shrouded in all the hues of evening. It becomes impossible to discern her identity. This is considered a perfect effect, and cannot be pierced by Eye of the Unconquered Sun or other all-seeing magic.
Backstory:
Silent Glade was - still is - the shaman to a small village, deep in the eastern jungles, just a little distance from the river the outsiders called Maruto, which rose - so it was rumoured - near a great lost city. He was born under auspices that marked him for the role and raised accordingly, learning the names and habits of all the local spirits and small gods, along with being inducted into the ways of minor magics, so that he was able to take over smoothly when his predecessor entered his final sleep.

And so he served, hearing his villagers' pleas, treating with the spirits, reading the signs and omens. And the people revered him, but held him as one of their own.

Up until the day the outsiders came. Sailing up the Maruto, speaking that outsider tongue that Silent Glade understood just enough of. The trees, they said, were of impeccable quality. The Dynasty would surely pay well for such fine timber. Logging would start within the month. But what of the natives, should they find any? Savages, all of them. End their bloodlines.

It was at that moment that Silent Glade drew his second breath. Becoming one with the shadows of the trees, he crept towards the outsiders. Waiting, unseen but a few feet from them, he rested his hand on the bark of a tree and was granted a boon in his moment of exaltation - a fine blade of green jade, perfect both for slipping unseen between the ribs of those who would destroy his way of life, and also for severing their heads and sending them floating back downstream as a warning.

When he returned to his village, the inhabitants could see the mark of the Unconquered Sun on his forehead, and their reverence turned to worship. But Silent Glade knew he could not stay. Even here, he knew that so-called Princes of the Earth hunted those like him down, and he would not so endanger his kin. And so, with their faith bolstering him, he once again slipped into the shadows and headed away from them, into the west.
Essence: 2
Personal Essence: 16/16
Peripheral Essence: 21/40(/30)

Committed Essence: 10 (5 in Daiklaves, 5 in Belt)

Willpower: 2/5
Join Battle: 10d (Dex + Stealth)
Health Levels: -0, -1, -1, -2, -2, -4, Incapacitated
Resolve 3 , Guile 3

Attacks
Root and Branch (Withering: 15d atk, +12d dmg, 4 ovw; Decisive 10d. Lethal, Melee, Balanced)
Darts (Withering: 10/9/8d atk, +9d dmg, 1 ovw; Decisive 6d. Lethal, Thrown (medium), Concealable, Mounted, Poisonable)

Actions
Rush: 7d
Disengage: 5d

Evasion 3, Parry 5
Soak/Hardness: 5 / 0
Attributes
Physical - Secondary
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 5
Stamina: 2

Social - Tertiary
Charisma: 1
Manipulation: 4
Appearance: 2

Mental - Primary
Perception: 4
Intelligence: 4
Wits: 3

Abilities
Archery:
Athletics: 2
Awareness: 5 (Spec: In low light)
Brawl:
Bureaucracy: 1
Craft: 1 (Woodworking)
Dodge:
Integrity: 2
Investigation: 3
Larceny:
Linguistics:
Lore: 5 (Shamanistic knowledge of the eastern forests) (Spec: Spirits, The First Age, Mortal settlements)
Martial Arts:
Medicine:
Melee: 5 (Spec: Unexpected attacks)
Occult: 4
Performance:
Presence:
Resistance: 1
Ride:
Sail:
Socialize: 2
Stealth: 5 (Spec: Hiding in nature)
Survival: 2
Thrown: 3
War:
Merits
Language 2 (Old Realm, Riverspeak) + native language Forest-tongue
Cult 1
Hearthstone 2 - Monkey Stone (easy climbing), socketed in daiklave
Artifact 3 (Green Jade Short Daiklave, paired)
Artifact 3 (Belt of Shadow Walking)
Thaumaturgist (Free with Terrestrial Circle Sorcery)
Spirit Speaker 1 - (Lore specialties may apply to social actions against Spirits and other magical beings, and to Resolve / Guile against them)

Flaw
Megrims (minor): On a botch, or on falling to 0 temp WP, roll WP at difficulty 1. On a failure, can't spend WP for several days.

Panoply
Root and Branch, paired Green Jade Daiklaves.
Branch is socketed with the Monkey Stone.
Monkey Stone: 1 automatic success on rolls to climb, leap, swing and other acrobatic or arboreal actions. Elevated and Treacherous Terrain is never difficult.

Darts

Chain shirt

+3 dice to all stealth rolls.

10m: Transform into a living shadow for one scene. In this form, she can slip under the space beneath a door or slide through the thinnest crack. In well-lit regions, observers notice the existence of an unusual shadow if they make a (Perception + Awareness) roll at difficulty 3, unless the wearer conceals himself in a larger shadow.

When the character is a shadow, she is dematerialized and can only affect or be affected by other dematerialized creatures or by Charms and weapons capable of attacking dematerialized foes. If the wearer uses such a Charm or weapon while dematerialized, she can use it to affect a materialized foe. Otherwise, she is immune to all materialized threats, although she can be trapped in a room that is sealed tightly enough. The character can wear any armor and take any object she can carry into the shadows with her. However, she cannot transform other
living things into shadow. Once the scene ends, the character must remain in solid form for at least ten minutes before transforming back into a shadow. The wearer must commit five motes to use this artifact.
Stealth
Perfect Shadow Stillness - 1m, 1wp (Reroll stealth, keeping 10s. [At Stealth 5], succeeding with this charm restores 1wp)

Cost: 1m, 1wp
Reflexive, Instant
The Lawgiver’s stealth technique is honed until it’s flawless. Perfect Shadow Stillness allows a reroll of any Stealth-based action, preserving the 10s from those results and rerolling the remaining dice. At Stealth 5, succeeding at a stealth attempt with this Charm awards the Solar one point of temporary Willpower.

Invisible Statue Spirit - 5m (While not moving, become truly invisible - but not undetectable to other senses)

Cost: 5m
Reflexive, Mute, Indefinite
Assuming perfect stillness, the Solar fades from sight. A Solar with this Charm can affect true invisibility. However, the Exalt cannot move, nor can she take violent action without breaking this deception. Characters using Invisible Statue Spirit are not immaterial and can still be detected by touch, scent, taste, or hearing.

Blinding Battle Feint - 3m (Join Battle with Dex+Stealth; and Hide if beats opponent's normal JB)

Cost: 3m
Supplemental, Instant
The Solar leaps in and out of battle with nigh untraceable speed. The Exalt may use her (Dexterity + Stealth) to Join Battle. Her Join Battle result also acts as an attempt to enter Stealth. If she beats her opponent’s Awareness-based Join Battle roll, she is automatically concealed, so long as there is a viable place to hide. If her foe uses a Join Battle roll modified to use any other Ability than Awareness, then he must make an Awareness roll to spot her, suffering a penalty equal to the difference in their Initiative, even if he rolled higher. If he fail the Awareness check, the Solar still vanishes from view.

Guardian Fog Approach - 3m (Help another character with Stealth)

Cost: 3m
Simple, Mute, Instant
Through quick action, the Solar may obscure someone with her own efforts to remain hidden. The Solar must be touching the one she wishes to hide, and must herself attempt a Stealth action at the same time. The Solar works to obscure her charge, covering him with her body, shrouding him with her cloak, or guiding him into a cleverly concealed niche. Add half the Solar’s successes (rounded up) and any stunt bonuses on this action as dice to her charge’s own Stealth roll.

Dark Sentinel's Way - 1m (When Defending Other, remain in Stealth)

Cost: 1m
Reflexive, Mute, Instant
While using a defend other action on a subject, a hidden Solar may use this Charm to conceal her defense of that subject. Upon parrying an incoming attack, the Solar flickers briefly into view, then vanishes, returning her to concealment as if she had never left it. The Solar must be within close range of her subject or otherwise using Charms which allow her to apply defend other benefits From Beyond close range.

Smoke and Shadow Cover - 3m (Concealment is cover)

Cost: 3m
Reflexive, Mute, Instant
The Exalt is at one with the shadows, drawing safety from even the most intangible concealment. While this Charm is active, the Solar treats concealment as cover. Mild concealment (such as
hiding in partially obscuring shadows, behind light foliage, or in obscuring fog) is treated as light cover, while heavy concealment (such as deep, full-body covering shadows, undergrowth that obscures all but the character’s eyes, or thick, opaque smoke) is treated as heavy cover. Completely pitch-black, lightless environments count as full cover. Using concealment as cover requires a take cover combat action (see p. 198) replacing Dodge with Stealth unless the character is already concealed. In that case, her hiding place counts as cover until she moves out of it or something happens to obviate it, such as flames banishing the shadows she’s crouched in. Furthermore, this Charm also penalizes non-ranged attacks by one success in addition to any dice penalties the attack might accrue from fighting in low visibility conditions.

Shadow-Crossing Leap Technique - 5m, 1wp (Instantly move 1 range band from cover to cover)

Cost: 5m, 1wp
Reflexive, Mute, Instant
Unfurling her unseen anima, the Solar leaps to join the darkness she has conquered. While concealed, Exalt may move up to one range band, from one place of cover to an equal place of cover, without penalty. There must be a path for the Solar to make this leap: she cannot leap through solid walls or closed doors. This transition is instantaneous, the Solar blinking out of one location and flashing into another without passing through the space between. This Charm is incompatible with Blurred Form Style.
At Essence 4+, the Solar can flash into hiding places that do not have a clear path to move by passing through structures that are transparent or partially opaque, such as windows or gates.
At Essence 5+, the Solar may use this Charm even when she is not concealed, as long as she is moving through places where visual penalties might apply. If she is not concealed and not actively trying to stay concealed, this Charm no longer costs a point of Willpower to use. Crossing a range band with Shadow-Crossing Leap Technique always counts as the Exalt’s movement action for the round.
At Essence 6+, when concealed, the Exalt may move one range band per turn using this Charm, and an additional range band using her normal movement. This use always costs a point of Willpower.

Easily-Overlooked Presence Method - 3m (Become unnoticeable in plain sight, until overt action taken)

Cost: 3m
Simple, Scene
The Lawgiver evades detection by hiding in plain sight. A Solar with this Charm is able to drift unnoticed through crowds or alone. This Charm models her talent for blending in and remaining unobtrusive. When active, characters cannot notice her unless she takes overt action. Such actions include any display of prowess—leaping from the street to the rooftops, braving a snowstorm in summer clothes, etc. Join Battle always counts as an overt action.
This skill does not work against alert guards or those who intend to stop everyone (as with a checkpoint), but can be overcome by magic only if the user has a Minor or greater Intimacy to the Solar or a Major or Defining Intimacy to a cause the Exalt’s presence directly threatens.
Certain Charms may aid in detecting the Exalt. Roll the Lawgiver’s ([Wits or Dexterity] + Stealth) against her opponent’s relevant (Attribute + Ability) or Resolve, if the attacking Charm is based on the opponent’s Integrity.

Occult
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

Action: Shape Sorcery - Nominate spell. Roll Intelligence + Occult; gather that many sorecerous motes. If that exceeds the spell's cost, it is cast. Otherwise, repeat in future rounds.
Shape Sorcery cannot be flurried. It can be skipped, but 3 motes are lost each round it is skipped. Reflexive gathering of motes (via shaping) prevents this loss.

Many spells cast 1 Willpower up front. This is restored if the spell is successfully cast.
In crash, the willpower is not restored; and all spells cost 3 additional motes.

Rules exist for countering and distorting other spells.

Spirit Detecting Glance - 3m (See immaterial spirits)

Cost: 3m
Reflexive, Scene
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.

Ancient Tongue Understanding - 6m (Know Old Realm, and other similar forgotten tongues, at the cost of all other languages)

Cost: 6m
Reflexive, Scene
The Exalt expands her knowledge of the realm of spirits to all corners of her mind, shunning knowledge that binds her understanding. While this Charm is in effect, the Lawgiver automatically speaks and understands Old Realm, even if it is not a language she has learned, but loses her ability to comprehend any other language. In addition, the Solar also naturally comprehends other spirit languages as old and strange as Old Realm, languages for which there exists little to no record. While this Charm is in effect, the Solar gains (half her Essence, rounded down, minimum one) automatic successes to all Occult rolls and shaping actions.

Lore
Harmonious Academic Method (Essence successes on Lore+Specialty. Add a Specialty after every Story. After introducing or challenging a fact, add a new Lore Topic)

Melee
Dipping Swallow Defence (Momentarily ignore all Parry penalties. +1i per attack defended)
Bulwark Stance (Ignore Parry penalties for one turn. 1s on attacks subtract)

Thrown
Precision of the Striking Raptor - 1m (Withering: Treat Range as Close. If it was already Close, -1 defence)

Cost: 1m
Supplemental, Instant, Withering-only
The Solar imbues her chosen weapon with Essence, to feel its every angle and weight as part of her body. Its strike becomes an extension of her will.
The Solar’s accuracy is calculated as if it was made from close range, regardless of the distance from which she is throwing. If Precision of the Striking Raptor is used at close range, the target’s defense is lowered by one. This Charm does not allow the Exalt to strike a target beyond the range of her weaponry.

Steel Storm Descending - 2m (Decisive: If beat all enemies at Join Battle, add Initiative difference to attack)

Cost: 2m
Supplemental, Instant, Decisive-only
The character harnesses the spirit of her throwing weapons, allowing her to strike a perfect blow at The Moment of release.
To use this Charm, the Solar must win Join Battle and make a decisive attack. Winning Join Battle means beating the roll results of all enemies present in the scene. Steel Storm Descending supplements this attack, granting a number of bonus dice equal to the difference between her Initiative and the Initiative of her target.
At Thrown 5+, Essence 3+, this attack does not reset the Solar to base Initiative.

Flashing Draw Mastery - 3m (1 auto success on Join Battle; and acts in 1st round as if rolled Ess+1 more)

Cost: 3m
Supplemental, Instant
The breathtaking speed with which a Lawgiver calls a weapon to hand is often the last miracle her opponent sees.
This Charm adds a single automatic success to the Solar’s Join Battle roll, and treats her roll as if she scored (Essence + 1) additional successes for the purpose of determining attack order in the first round of combat. These successes are not “real”—they neither increase her Initiative, nor do they count as dice added by Charm.
Flashing Draw Mastery is expressly permitted to be used in combination with Charms that boost Join Battle results, so long as they are not based in Archery, Melee, or Brawl.

Swarm-Culling Instinct - 2m (For each 10 in Join Battle, re-roll a non-success, and repeat. If beat all enemies, attack [Dexterity] opponents)

Cost: 2m
Supplemental, Instant, Uniform
The Lawgiver answers the call of battle with a swarm of deadly steel.
This Charm supplements a Join Battle roll, allowing the Solar to reroll a number of non-successes equal to the number of 10s in her result. 10s occurring in rerolled dice spark additional rerolls. In addition, if the Solar wins Join Battle, she may attack (Dexterity) opponents, rolling each attack separately so that she may alternate effectively between withering and decisive attacks.
Swarm-Culling Instinct is expressly permitted to be used in combination with Charms that boost Join Battle results, so long as they are not based in Archery, Melee, or Brawl.

Spells (one free)
Cirrus Skiff
Flight of Separation (Control spell - can speak to birds; birds have a Minor Tie of fondness)
Spoke the Wooden Face

Cost: 7sm, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: Three rounds
The sorcerer lulls the Essence of air into sleep, transforming it into an opalescent fog of slumber. Mists of Eventide creates a cloud centered on a point out to medium range from the
sorcerer, spreading to engulf all characters within short range of the center. Each round that a character breathes or has skin exposed to the mist, he must roll against its poison
(Damage 3i/round, Duration 6 rounds, -3 penalty). Characters who are crashed while suffering from the Mists of Eventide’s effects do not take damage from it—instead, they fall into
magical slumber, rendered comatose for a single day.
Mists of Eventide can only be cast once per scene, unless reset when a Mists-poisoned opponent falls into Initiative Crash.

Shaping Ritual: Silent Glade draws his power from his deep connection to the shadowed places of the eastern forests, and the leylines that cross them.

Whenever she begins a scene
in darkness or shadow heavy enough to qualify as
concealment for attempting stealth, she gains three
sorcerous motes, which last until The End of the scene and
can be spent towards any spells she casts. Additionally,
whenever she takes a shape sorcery action to shape a spell
while in stealth, she gains an additional sorcerous mote
as long as the spell’s target is unaware of her. She also
receives these benefits while under the night sky during
the new moon or Calibration, even without being concealed.

Thaumaturgies
Reading the Tea Leaves (greater)
Unquenchable Flame
Exorcism (lesser)

Excellencies
Each favoured/caste ability, and any non-such with other charms in.

1m/die, to a limit of the Attr+Abil in question. 2m/static point, to a limit of half Attr+Abil
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Defining Tie (Protection)- The people of my village, who worship me as their protector-god
Major Principle (Protection) - I will protect those whom the corrupt Realm and its allies label as "uncivilised", for who else will do so
Major Tie (Vendetta) - Those who would exploit and destroy my homeland, particularly The Guild
Minor Tie (Kinship) - Merciful Fire of Emancipation, for she knows what it is to be downtrodden, and her fires echo my shadows

Limit Trigger: The Solar sees innocents suffering, and is either unable or unwilling to help them.
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Bonus points:
- 2 on Stealth 3->5
- 2 on 2 dot of Merit
- 4 on Thaumaturgies
- 2 on Melee 3->5
- 2 on Lore 3->5
- 1 on Occult 3->4
- 1 on Awareness 3->4
- 1 on Socialise 1->2

Experience:
8 XP - Invisible Statue Spirit
3 XP (+ 5 Solar) - Mists of Eventide
3 XP - Thrown 2->3
32 XP - 4 Thrown charms

3 Solar - Investigation 2->3
1 Solar - Thrown 1->2
7 Solar - Awareness 4->5
5 Solar (+3 XP) - Mists of Eventide
(16 Solar total)
Athletics dots.
Graceful Crane Stance (Ath charm) Attain perfect balance, which lets you walk on ledges too small or weak to normally support you, with no chance of falling or breaking through.
Sensory Acuity Prana (Awa charm, prereq) Enhance all senses. Gain double 9s on all Awareness rolls
Keen Sight Technique (Awa charm) Increases vision to superhuman levels. Among other benefits the Solar can perform difficulty 2 or 3 sight-based tests without rolling, see in dim light and much more.
Keen Hearing and Touch Technique (Awa charm) Increases hearing and touch to superhuman levels. Among other benefits the Solar can identify fabrics with but a touch, hear ants marching outside and much more.
Unsurpassed Sight Discipline (Awa charm, Ess 3) Permanently upgrades the prerequisite. Vision becomes godlike, enabling the Solar to read at a hundred yards, count raindrops in a storm and even see in zero-visibility environments
Unsurpassed Hearing and Touch Discipline (Awa charm, Ess 3) Permanently upgrades the prerequisite. Hearing and touch become godlike, enabling the Solar to listen on whispered conversations miles away, hear an approaching storm and much more

...Melee charms
...Stealth charms
...Thrown dots and charms?

Eonivar · Sep 17, 2022

Name: Merciful Fire of Emancipation "Mercy" "Merciful Fire"
Name before Exaltancy: Jin, Property of Cynis Alena
Age: 24
Caste: Twilight
Concept: Former Slave Experiment/Assistant
Supernal: Occult
Limit Break: The Solar’s emotions lead her into a course of action
that she regrets
Virtue Flaw: Deliberate Cruelty

The Solar is consumed by cold cruelty, no longer recognizing others as worthy of respect or life. She will harm
others without a second thought if she benefits from doing
so, and has no aversion whatsoever to the use of torture,
terror, and mutilation. Her manner is cruel and scathing,
even to friends and allies, mocking and verbally tormenting them as a matter of course.
Duration: Session. Deliberate Cruelty can be ended prematurely if the Solar’s actions cause harm to someone she
has a Major or Defining positive Tie towards.

Anima Banner: Mercy's Anima Banner Shines like a Setting Sun with a great orange fire that casts colors of violet, black, blue, and blood red shadows around her. In particular once can feel the heat of her passion and the distinct burning smell of fire.
For 5 motes: The Twilight projects an aura of pure force, reflexively gaining five Hardness for one turn. At the bonfire/iconic level, this power activates itself automatically at no cost. This effect doesn’t stack with other magic that raises Hardness, but it can be used during Initiative Crash.

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

For 10 motes, the Twilight may touch an Essence 1-3 elemental or a demon of the first circle, conjoining its Essence to her anima. Roll Intelligence + Occult against the creature’s Resolve. If successful, this creates a pact that changes the spirit into her familiar, allowing her to target it with applicable Survival Charms. In addition, the Twilight can reflexively summon the spirit instantly for three motes, drawing it through the Essence of the world to appear beside her. She may banish the creature again, reflexively, for free, returning it to the tides of Essence that suffuse Creation until needed. The Twilight may have up to (Essence) spirit familiars bound in this fashion at once.
Jin, now known as Merciful Fire of Emancipation, does not remember her parents. Her earliest childhood memory was of the strange man who sold her as a slave to the Dynast Family Cynis and given to serve and be a companion to Cynis Alena, a Dynast that was of the same age at the time. Jin and Alena became close friends in their early years of innocince. Alena was smart but not overly so, and Jin seemed to pick up lessons and learning easily, even when Alena was not looking. So Jin basically helped Alena in her schooling, making the Dynast seemed a lot smarter than she really was. Over time, as they grew into their teens, their relationship changed. In comformity with her other dynast peers, Alena began to mistreat and abuse Jin, to the point it gave Alena pleasure to do so. In her service and naivite, Jin became cowed and gaslighted into her devotion to the dynast, to the point of love, taking whatever abuse she recieved as a sign of Alena's love for her.

Alena sought to follow her father's footsteps in Sorcery and applied and was accepted to (with a bit of help from Jin) the Heptagram. She brought Jin along as her faithful servant, Jin took everything she could find behind Alena's back, and helped Alena even though Jin had been used as Alena's test subject many times. Jin began to find a dark hatred in her heart for her Dynast owner but Alena's continued abuse and gas-lighting as well as Jin's twisted devotion for Alena made Jin think that she did not have the power or tools to fight back.

And yet the Heptagram was not enough for Alena, Alena failed out of the school because she could not have Jin to test for her. Undeterred, she took Jin and some retainers with some money, and left the Blessed Isle to reside to reside in a Cynis Colony on the edge of the Scavenger Lands <GM I am open to suggestions as to a place here>.

Alena attempted to summon other beings to learn from them, Alena could not perform the magic as well as her father. The Dynast had entraped (with Jin's help) an Ifirit Lord name Rhys-Ifan. The Ifirit Lord knew and was connected to Jin's Past Self from the First Age and saw Jin for what she really was and would speak to Jin, telling her the truths of her relationship with Cynis Alena and the way the Dynast treated her, things that Jin did not want to hear at first, but after a year the whispers from the Ifirit Lord changed Jin forever.

I was on a fateful day during the Autumn Equinox when the sun was setting in the lab of Alena's mansion that Jin realized that she had the power all along to change the world and break free of her prison, and that power was knowledge.

And as Jin's Anima Banner blazed upon this very revelation, setting the mansion on fire, sealing her pact with Rhys-Ifan while Alena cowered before her begging for mercy. The hatred welled up deep inside Jin, but part of her is still very much in love with her former Dynast Master, so she granted mercy, and there Jin became Merciful Fire of Emancipation.

The hatred of a childhood of abuse flowed through Mercy and she proceded to burn all the Dynast houses and set every slave in the town free. The town burned with her fury and release. She became a legend in the region, and worshiped by the slaves in the region, her worship becoming a cult. Just as the Wyld Hunt came for her, a mysterious stranger came to Mercy and whisked her away. Marcy seemed to recognize this odd fellow as the man who sold her, but she could not definitely tell if this was the same man or not. She could never remember his name. He gave her his coin magical coin purse and she wandered for a time, acquiring the Black Wind artifact and binding her Demon Wasp Steed Opalescent Glory (Opal).

Recently her destiny took her to Nexus, and it was there that Mercy found her Circle, recognizing them without actually knowning them, memories of the First Age of her former life coming unbidden upon seeing her new brothers and sisters. And now she moves on into a new phase of her life, not really sure of what may come next.
Attributes
Primary:
Perception 4
Intelligence 5
Wits 3

Secondary:
Strength 2
Dexterity 4
Stamina 3

Tertiary:
Charisma 3
Manipulation 2
Appearance 2

Abilities:
Athletics 1
(C) Linguistics 1
(F) Awareness 3
(F) Dodge 4 (Specialty Unarmored)
(C) Integrity 1
(C) Craft - Cooking 1
(C) Lore 3
(C) Medicine 1
(C/Supernal) Occult 5 (Specialty Demons)
Performance 2 (Specialty Prayers)
(F) Resistance 2
Socialize 1
Stealth 1
Survival 2
(F) Thrown 4 (Specialty Skycutter)
(F) Ride 2
Artifact 5 - Black Wind (Attuned)
Skycutter Artifact (Medium Thrown, +12 Damage, Overwhelming 4, Attunement 5)

Evocations of Black Wind
A Solar who attunes Black Wind gains the following power:
When the skycutter tears through an opponent’s flesh
(inflicting lethal damage with a decisive attack), the arc of
blood that trails behind it freezes into a gleaming blade that
arcs along after Black Wind. Each such blade adds +1 to the
raw damage of all withering attacks made with Black Wind.
All blood blades evanesce into motes of red-black Essence
after the skycutter isn’t thrown for two consecutive turns,
and the weapon can sustain no more than five blades at
once. This power is ineffective against bloodless foes.

Life-Drinking Resurgence
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Black Wind’s spirit speaks only in the moment of death,
and has nothing to say to those who kill for passion or
profit—its soul opens only to those who kill for an ideal.
For such an individual, death becomes power. Once this
Evocation has been awakened, Black Wind creates two
blood blades when it slays a non-trivial opponent with a
decisive attack, rather than one.
Special activation rules: This Evocation cannot be
purchased with experience. It awakens after the skycutter’s
master uses it to kill a non-trivial opponent in direct
support of a Major or Defining Principle.

Dark Life Detection (NOT ACTIVATED YET)
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Carrying 100 murderers upon her back or in her hand,
the Solar gains a keen sense for hunting killers. Wielding
Shih Azen’s weapon grants her one automatic success on
Awareness rolls to detect the main target of an investigation
she’s undertaking, as established by successful evidencegathering actions. It also gives her one die on Investigation
rolls to examine or discover evidence produced by a serial
murderer, as established by the Storyteller. This doesn’t
confer knowledge of the crime or the criminal’s identity
or the fact that they are a murderer to the wielder, it only
enhances her chances of discovering a pattern.
Special activation rules: This Evocation awakens at no
cost once the Solar has successfully investigated a killer
and slain them with Black Wind.

Seven Traumas Technique (NOT ACTIVATED YET)
Cost: 3m, 1+ blades; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Life-Drinking Resurgence
Hardening her blood blades with killing Essence, Black
Wind’s master returns her sanguine projectiles to their
source with deadly results. Each blood blade expended
to power this Evocation raises the base damage of a
decisive attack by two dice, and causes the attack to ignore
one point of Hardness.
Special activation rules: Rather than being bought with
experience, Seven Traumas Technique awakens at no cost
once the Solar has used the skycutter to slay a target whose
death satisfies both a Defining Principle and a Defining
Tie at once.

Errant Orbit Scythe (NOT ACTIVATED YET)
Cost: 4m, 1wp, 1+ blades; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar takes Black Wind’s power to hand, and the
skycutter yields its killing blades to her masterful
technique. She hurls its blood blades out on independent
missions of destruction, making a number of withering
attacks equal to the number of blades expended,
to a maximum of (Essence or 5, whichever is lower)
attacks. These attacks may be directed at multiple
opponents or at a single opponent; each grants Initiative
equal to half the amount of damage inflicted on its target
(round up).
Special activation rules: This Evocation can’t be
purchased with experience. It awakens after the first time
the Solar accumulates five blood blades at once, after
gaining Essence 3

Soul-Reaving Release (NOT ACTIVATED YET)
Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 4;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dark Life Detection, Errant
Orbit Scythe, Seven Traumas Technique
Having concluded a murder investigation and identified
the culprit to her own complete certainty, the Solar hurls
Black Wind into the sky. If the culprit is within 10 miles,
the skycutter will attempt to strike him down. If the target
is a trivial opponent and outdoors, the skycutter likely
returns bearing some blood blades and the criminal’s
severed body parts (generally including the head) in its
wake. If it fails to kill with its single attack, it either returns
with only blood blades and perhaps a severed limb, or
empty-handed. If the target is well-guarded, indoors, or
otherwise inaccessible, the skycutter returns bearing some
evidence of his location—green roof tiles struck from a
building, a signpost ripped off a teahouse, a branch severed
from a cherry tree, or the like. This is largely a matter of
narrative and need not be rolled. If a player or very
important Storyteller character is the target of this
Evocation, treat Black Wind’s strike as a decisive surprise
attack following a standard Join Battle roll.
At Essence 5+, if the Solar knows her target to be a powerful
supernatural being, hidden behind sturdy fortifications,
or well-guarded against her attack, the Solar may draw
out the souls of all 100 murderers within the skycutter as
she hurls it into the air. These manifest as 100 blood blades
screaming in Black Wind’s wake like a dark comet scarring
the sky. The blades expend themselves smashing down
walls and ceilings, cutting down defenders, and otherwise
clearing a path for the skycutter and whatever blades
remain to destroy the murderer. Treat this as a decisive
ambush attack following a Join Battle roll based on
(Dexterity + [Awareness or Thrown]) and enjoying double
7s. The Solar must slay 100 murderers with Black Wind
before she can use this ultimate form of Soul-Reaving
Release again (this can’t be quickened with the Dawn
anima power).
Special activation rules: Rather than being bought with
experience, this Evocation awakens after the Solar uses
Black Wind to slay a serial murderer whose killings directly
offend or defy one of her Major or Defining Principles,
such as murdering someone in a land she has sworn to
protect, or sowing fear in a land where the Solar has sworn
that she will be the only object of fear. It can only be
activated at the definitive conclusion of a successful
investigation.

Artifact 3 - Mysterious Magical Change Purse (Attuned)

User: Unknown
Crafter: Unknown
Era: The Time Before
Mercy received this from the Mysterious Merchant who saved her from the Wylde Hunt. She has come to rely on its monthly funds to survive.
Once attuned, and only while attuned, the userʼs destiny has a new thread attached to it. Heaven recognizes them as member of the Celestial Bureaucracy that needs to be paid. They gain one point of the Salary Merit (Resources Merit 3).
Resonant: A character resonant with Starmetal may also make one Salary 3 (Resources 5) purchase once per Season. After being used this way the user must wait a month before they may pull any wealth from Endless Change Purse.
Attuning Endless Change Purse costs 3 motes.

Language - Old Realm
Language - Low Realm
(Purchased with Bonus Points) Cult 3 - Cult of the Merciful Fire

The Cult Established by Slaves and Emancipated Slaves worshiping Merciful Fire.

The character may spend a Willpower point without actually losing the point a number of times per story equal
to her Cult rating. Higher Cult ratings exist, allowing the
character to spend one free Willpower point per scene,
but such veneration is reserved for the mightiest of spirits—
at present, no Exalt in the Second Age is so widely worshiped, and very few even among the mightiest of gods
can boast such reverence.

(Purchased with Bonus Points) Language - Riverspeak
(Purchased with Bonus Points) Language - Forest-tongue
(Purchased with Bonus Points) Burning Name Merit from Ifirit Shaping

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

Having contracted with a lord of flame, the sorcerer commands the fealty of lesser fires. She doubles 8s on rolls to resist environmental hazards based on fire or heat, and adds her Essence to both soak and hardness against purely flame-based attacks such as firewand blasts

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

Bonus Point Expenditures
2 - 2 Dots of Occult
2 - 1 Dot of Dodge
2 - 1 Dot of Thrown
2 - 1 Dot of Willpower
7 Points of Merits
Occult

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

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

Ghost Eating Technique
Cost: 3m; Mins: Occult 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Cutting Attack
This Charm is the technique by which the Solars slew the enemies of the gods, and spirits hate and fear it. This Charm may supplement attacks made by other Abilities. An attack supplemented by this Charm does aggravated damage against spirits, and draws a number of motes from the spirit equal to the highest wound penalty inflicted by the attack. For example, striking off a number of -1 health levels would give the Solar one mote. Striking off a number of -2 health levels and a -4 would give the Solar four motes. If a spirit is slain by this attack, it is destroyed permanently, and the pattern of its Essence is subsumed by the Solar’s anima. Destroying a spirit with this Charm grants the Exalt (Solar’s Essence + spirit’s Essence) motes.

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

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

Resistance

Ox-Body Technique
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.

Sorcery

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

Dodge

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

Dust Motes Whirling
Cost: 2m; Mins: Dodge 4, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind
The Solar is as elusive as a dust mote whirling through a
ray of light. This Charm supplements a disengage attempt,
granting double 9s

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

Thrown

Precision of the Striking Raptor
Cost: 1m; Mins: Thrown 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar imbues her chosen weapon with Essence, to
feel its every angle and weight as part of her body. Its
strike becomes an extension of her will. The Solar’s accuracy is calculated as if it was made from close range,
regardless of the distance from which she is throwing. If
Precision of the Striking Raptor is used at close range,
the target’s defense is lowered by one. This Charm does
not allow the Exalt to strike a target beyond the range of
her weaponry.

Ride

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

Spells:

Invulnerable Skin of Bronze (Control)
Cost: 20sm, 1wp
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
The sorcerer suffuses the void between her skin and the
surrounding air with Essence, weaving a second skin of
shining bronze, supple and flexible as silk but cold and
impervious as any metal. The Invulnerable Skin of Bronze
gives the sorcerer +6 natural soak and Hardness 6, while
rendering her immune to poison delivered through
contact. Her metal-armored limbs deal lethal damage
and use the traits of medium weapons when she makes
unarmed attacks. While her mobility is not normally
impaired, she is considered to be wearing medium armor,
which might deny her the use of certain Martial Arts
styles or other effects. Her bronze skin is also heavy—she
will sink in water or mud, and fragile surfaces won’t
support her weight.
In addition, characters with an Essence pool gain access
to the following powers while this spell is active:
• Brazen Aegis Rebuke (3m, 1wp; Reflexive; Instant;
Counterattack, Decisive-only): Even hardened steel
recoils from the Invulnerable Skin of Bronze, ringing
off its indestructible surface. After being hit with an
attack in close combat, the sorcerer may use this power
to counterattack with a disarm gambit. This counterattack
is both unblockable and undodgeable.
• Invincible God-Metal Flash (10m, 2a or 3a; Reflexive;
Instant; Decisive-only): When even the Invulnerable
Skin of Bronze cannot withstand the force of an enemy’s
blows, the sorcerer may shed it in a burst of protective
Essence. While her anima is at the burning or bonfire
level, she may use Invincible God-Metal Flash to reduce
the raw damage of a decisive attack by her (Essence +
5), discharging her anima through the spell. The skin of
bronze shatters as it absorbs the attack, and the sorcerer
cannot cast it again until its original duration has elapsed.
Her anima is returned to the dim level.
• Sorcerer’s Impervious Mantle (4m; Reflexive; Instant;
Withering-only): The sorcerer’s Essence surges through
her armored skin, reducing the minimum damage of a
withering attack by one.
A sorcerer who knows Invulnerable Skin of Bronze as her
control spell may add her Essence to the soak and Hardness
bonus she receives as long as she is unarmored. Even without
the spell, her skin takes on a faint bronze tint. She may also
add her Essence to her soak when the spell is not in effect.
Distortion (Goal Number: 12): Distorting the spell forces
the sorcerer to feel the full weight of her metal skin bearing
down on her, imposing a -4 mobility penalty for one scene.
If her total mobility penalty exceeds (the higher of her
Strength or Athletics), then she loses the ability to take
reflexive move actions, and must take a miscellaneous
action to cross a range band even under normal
circumstances. Distortion also disables all three of the
spell’s special powers.

Virtuous Guardian of Flame
Cost: 15sm, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
The sorcerer draws a flaming sword from her own heart, shaping a fiery sentinel to keep vigil over her. As she completes the spell, the burning blade collapses into a will-o’-the-wisp no larger than a torchlight — the sorcerer may conceal the Virtuous Guardian of Flame by commanding it to rest within an existing lit lantern or torch she carries. Should she be attacked, the wisp flares back into sword shape to fend off her enemy, protecting her as per the defend other action (Exalted, p. 196) with a Parry of (higher of Essence or Intellligence + 1). The virtuous guardian can even notice threats of which the sorcerer is unaware, rolling (Essence + Perception + Occult) to detect hidden enemies. Wooden projectiles or weapons successfully blocked by the guardian are burnt to ashes. If it parries an unarmed attack or other natural attack, the attacker suffers one die of lethal damage, ignoring Hardness. Even when its parries fail, its flames blunt the force of attacks against the sorcerer, adding (Essence) natural soak against all but unblockable attacks.

The guardian has soak (Essence + 5), Hardness (Essence), and (Essence + Intelligence) -0 health levels. When the sorcerer Joins Battle, it gains Initiative equal to hers. It cannot take any actions of its own; instead, this Initiative is used solely as a buffer against withering attacks. If the guardian is crashed, it dissipates for a scene, unable to protect the sorcerer, but reforms after that. If its health track is filled with damage, it’s utterly destroyed, and the sorcerer cannot resummon it until its full duration has elapsed.

A sorcerer with this as her control spell may awaken Evocations from it, enhancing the guardian’s defensive power or wielding it offensively.

Distortion (Goal Number: 15): Distorting the virtuous guardian lets the distorting sorcerer temporarily usurp it from its caster, stealing its protection away from her for one scene.

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

Summon Elemental
Cost: Ritual, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Drawing and shaping Essence through one of the five
elements, the sorcerer calls an elemental into being and
binds it to her will. Casting this spell requires a ritual of
four hours as the sorcerer channels Essence through icons
of the element, draws up sigils of creation and binding, or
communes with the appropriate Elemental Dragon. At
the end of her ritual, she summons an elemental of up to
Essence 3 into existence, creating it out of pure Essence
rather than calling it from somewhere else.
Once summoned, the elemental must be bound to the
sorcerer’s will, as per Demon of the First Circle (p. 473),
except that an elemental cannot break free—if the binding
fails, the elemental simply disperses back into raw Essence,
and the sorcerer doesn’t regain the Willpower spent on
the spell. At the end of a bound elemental’s term of service
or assigned task, it usually undergoes the same fate of
dissipation, although elementals who have developed a
fully-formed personality and identity may persist past the
end of their binding at the Storyteller’s discretion. Summon
Elemental can only be cast once per day.

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.

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.

Shaping Ritual (Terrestrial)
Pact with the Ifirit Lord Laris-Ifan

You have stood in the court of one of the ifrits or another
elemental lord of fire. Beneath the judgment of his burning
eyes, you passed whatever test of righteousness he saw
fit to impose. The pact you struck lets you draw strength
from the element of fire and shape its destructive power
to your will.
Shaping Rituals
Whenever the sorcerer takes a shape sorcery action, she
may draw an additional (Essence) sorcerous motes from
any fire within medium range, coaxing its power into her
spell. This diminishes the flame—a hallway of torches will
be extinguished by a single invocation, while a bonfire might
die down to small flames after the first, then go out altogether
after the second. However, if the sorcerer is fighting near
(or in!) a burning building, she has a nearly endless source
of sorcerous motes to draw on. She may draw from fire
elementals or other spirits of flame as well, draining
(Essence) motes from their pools, but only if her shape
sorcery roll exceeds their Resolve, and no more than once
per scene against any one spirit. When the sorcerer draws
Essence to fuel her control spell, flames are not diminished,
and spirits do not lose the motes drawn from them.
The sorcerer’s patron offers her power in exchange for
burnt offerings, breathing in the smoke of her tribute a
rewarding her with glory. The sorcerer may make a prayer
roll (Charisma + Performance, difficulty 5 minus the
Resources value of any sacrifices offered along with the
prayer) seeking power from her patron. Success grants
her sorcerous motes equal to (her Essence + extra successes
on the roll). These motes last for the duration of the story,
and can be spent towards any spell she casts. She cannot
pray for power more than once a day, and receiving new
motes replaces any granted by past prayers.
The sorcerer has learned to cultivate the flames of passion
in her own heart, using them to stoke the power of her
spells. Whenever she would gain a point of Willpower
from upholding an Intimacy that represents a passionate
emotion or fervent belief, she may instead claim 5
sorcerous motes. These motes last until the next sunrise,
and can be spent towards any spell she casts. Additionally,
she may shed a level of intensity from such an Intimacy
to channel its fire towards a spell she is shaping, adding
sorcerous motes equal to the (original) intensity of the
Intimacy. She cannot tap an Intimacy more than once per
day this way
Principle - Defining - "I will never be enslaved or controlled again, I am free and only I will determine my own fate"

Cynis Alena (Hate and Love) - Defining - "My love for you caused me to be Merciful the first time, you deserve death for the lifetime of cruelty and torture you put me and others through for your own self gain and yet...I am not sure if I will be able to kill you when the next opportunity comes for me to do so."

Dynasts (Hatred) - Major "They are not worthy of rule over Creation, over all peoples and beings, their time ends now"

Slavers/Those who participate in Slavery (Hatred) - Major "No man or woman or being has a right to control another"

Principle - Major - "How can I fight Dynast and Slavery if I am on the run continually?"

The Guild (Disgust) Major "A corrupt organization that partakes in slavery and other contemptuous practices"

The Ifirit Lord Laris-Ifan (Trust) Major - "Laris-Ifran lifted the veil from my eyes and has shown me the truth of the world, he was an ally to me in the First Age, and he once again allied to me now."

Mercy's Solar Circle (Brotherly/Sisterly Love) Major "I never had a lot of friends as Alena would not allow them, but I feel like I know my Circle better than I have known any other person"

Black Wind (Apprehensive yet with the same goals) Minor "We were acquainted in the First Age, when I wandered close to your place of hiding, you called to me, and now we are bound together, i worry about the path you take me though..."

The Merchant Who Sold Jin to Cynis Alena and then helped Mercy escape the Wyld Hunt (Secretly without Mercy's Knowledge a Siderial of the Gold Faction). Minor (Curiousity/Wary) "Who are you and why are you interested in me? Why do you help me?"

Necia Khione, High Priestess of the Cult of the Merciful Fire (Grateful yet concerned) Minor "I set you free, you spread my story, and your and the others support gives me the strength to carry on and yet you do not need to this..."

Opalescent Glory (aka Opal, Mercy's bound Agata Demon, a familiar linked through Mercy's Twilight Anima Ability) (Love) Minor - "I cannot journey without my dear friend and companion, I love to fly with you!"

Principle - Minor - "I like being able to create and cook my own food on my own..even if it is burnt"
Agata, the Beauteous Wasp, Opalescent Glory
Demon of the First Circle
No one forgets their first glimpse of an agata. The demon
shimmers like a giant wasp carved from rainbow crystal.
Its wings hum like cascading water; its voice is birdsong
at dawn. An uncanny golden nimbus crowns it with a
dream of glory.
Lovely as they are, the agata are perilous to approach. Their
minds work on an abstruse level beyond the understanding of mortals, while their emotions are fluid as quicksilver.
Thus, for all their brilliance, their philosophies are largely
untranslatable, while their behavior often appears childlike, eccentric, or even mad. A beauteous wasp may destroy
a thing it treasures or abandon a friend in time of need, then
laugh or weep, or continue on its way as though nothing
had happened. To the agatae themselves, such actions are
both normal and reasonable, such that they stare uncomprehendingly at those who question their motives.
The agata is a riding-beast by nature. It feels an immediate
bond to its rider, an intense love mixed with wild, overwhelming outbursts of other emotions. It is rare indeed for
an agata to harm its rider, but they have been known to shake
mortals off to their deaths—sometimes to mourn thereafter
in deep and elaborate ways, at other times to shrug off all
thoughts of mortality and move on to other things.
Essence: 2; Willpower: 6; Join Battle: 6 dice
Personal Motes: 70
Health Levels: -0/-1x3/-2x3/-4/Incap.
Speed Bonus: +3
Actions: Demon Lore: 6 dice; Flying maneuvers: 12
dice; Inspire: 6 dice; Resist Poison/Illness: 8 dice;
Senses: 7 dice; Tracking: 5 dice
Appearance 5, Resolve 3, Guile 2
Combat
Attack (Claw): 6 dice (Damage 14)
Attack (Sting): 5 dice (Damage 13 and poison when decisive, damage 2i/round, duration 5 rounds, -3 penalty).
Agatae can only sting while airborne.
Combat Movement: 6 dice (12 when airborne)
Evasion 3 (5 while airborne), Parry 3
Soak/Hardness: 8/0
Merits
Shimmering Crystal Beauty: Anyone who looks upon
the agata is treated as having a Minor Tie of wonder
towards it for purposes of social influence rolls.
Vigorous Steed: The agata can bear two fully armored
people on its back while flying at a speed of thirty miles
an hour. It may use its Evasion in place of its Parry to
protect a rider with a defend other action.
Offensive Charms
Principle of Motion (10m, 1wp; Reflexive; Instant;
Essence 2): The agata moves with blinding speed, taking
a flurry without the usual restrictions—it can flurry two
of the same action if desired, and it ignores the usual penalties to dice pools and Defense.
Defensive Charms
Kaleidoscopic Dodge (5m, 3i; Reflexive; Instant; Essence
2): For a moment, the beauteous wasp seems to disintegrate into rainbow brilliance, as though it were refracted
through a prism, adding +2 Evasion against an attack. A
successful dodge allows the agata to reflexively move one
range band in any direction, if it wishes.
Jeweled Heart Allure (6m; Reflexive; One scene;
Essence 2): The agata radiates beauty that dumbfounds
even battle-hardened warriors, forcing characters to pay
a point of Willpower before they can attack it in a scene
unless they have an Intimacy that represents ruthlessness, pitilessness, or a desperate reason to fight it that
is greater than the Minor Tie created by Shimmering
Crystal Beauty.
Mobility Charms
Wind-Stirring Wing Tempest (5m, 1i; Supplemental;
Instant; Essence 1): The agata doubles 9s on a movement
roll. If it is moving downward while airborne, it doubles
8s as well.
Miscellaneous Charms
Hurry Home (10m, 1wp; Simple; Instant; Essence 1): The
demon fades away and vanishes on its next turn, drawn
instantly to its summoner’s side. This Charm is unavailable when the demon is unbound.
Materialize (35m, 1wp; Simple; Instant; Essence 1): The
agata solidifies itself in a flash of prismatic light.
Measure the Wind (5m; Simple; Instant; Essence 1): The
agata can discern the nature of anyone who rides it.
Essence Rating: 2
Personal Essence Pool: 16
Peripheral Essence Pool: 34/40
Attuned Essence: 8
Willpower: 7
Health Levels
-0
-1
-1
-1
-2
-2
-2
-4
Incapacitated

Join Battle (Wits + Awareness) = 6
Evasion (Dex+Unarmored Dodge/2, Round Up) = 5
Natural Soak = 3+(2 Essence from Invulnerable Skin of Bronze (Control)) = 5
Natural Soak With Invulnerable Skin of Bronze (Control) invoked = 11 + Hardness 8
Disengage Pool (Dexterity+Unarmored Dodge) = 9
Withering Attack with Black Wind = (Dexterity+Thrown+Accuracy) = (9+8) = 17
Decisive Attack with Black Wind = (Dexterity+Thrown) = 9
Withering Attack with Burning Name = (Occult+Intelligence+Accuracy, one auto success) = (10+10) = 20
Decisive Attack with Burning Name = 10
Experience Total: 60
-8 Learn the Occult Charm - Ghost Eating Technique
-8 Flight of the Brilliant Raptor
-12 Raise Perception from 3 to 4
-8 Raise Willpower from 6 to 7
Current Experience Not Spent: 24

Solar Experience Total: 16
-6 Sorcery Shaping Merit : Unburnt Majesty
-6 Sorcery Shaping Merit: Suzerain of Endless Flame
-1 Raise Awareness (Favored ability) from 1 to 2
-3 Raise Awareness (Favored ability) from 2 to 3
Current Solar Experience Not Spent: 0

Purr · Sep 29, 2022

O Mighty Fat Cat is a loyal friend and a lover of humor. He believes in living life to its fullest and being as dependable as he can be. He never takes himself too seriously. Plus, he's a cat so he likes to live life his own way! At one time, he was worshipped by the very people that saved him. Now, he saves those who cannot save themselves. =)

This handsome guy but with a big Buddha-like belly! (Image: AfricanActionHeroes.com - unable to find Artist name. If found, please notify me!) And when he smiles, he looks like this! (Image credit: Dee Jay Soundcloud) This but all cat and no bus. (Image credit: Ghibli Studios) (And let's add a little cool instrumental music for him, shall we? "Hunting (Version 1992)" by Deep Forest)

Name: O Mighty Fat Cat (Nickname: "Da Chonk")
Age: 32
Caste: Full Moon (Survivor)

Attributes
Str: 5 (Caste)
Dex: 4 (Caste)
Sta: 5 (Favored)

Cha: 4
Man: 2
App: 2

Per: 4
Int: 2
Wits: 5 (Favored)

Abilities
Archery
Athletics 2
Awareness 3
Brawl 3
Bureaucracy 2
Craft
Dodge 1
Integrity 3
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics 1
Lore
Martial Arts 3 (White Reaper Style)
Medicine
Melee
Occult
Performance
Presence 2
Resistance 2
Ride
Sail
Socialize 2
Stealth 3
Survival 1
Thrown
War

Specialties
1. Awareness - Initiative.
2. Stealth - Vanishing (initially evading detection as opposed to maintaining it).
3. Socialize - Raising people's spirits (making them happier).
4. Martial Arts - Non-lethal attacks (prefers not to kill unless it is something irrevocably demonic).
Health Levels
In Human Form:

[ ] 0
[ ][ ] | [ ][ ] | [ ][ ] -1
[ ][ ] | [ ][ ] | [ ][ ] -2
[ ] -4
[ ] Incapacitated

In Deadly Beastman Form and Animal form: ?

Willpower: 4/6
Essence: 2
Personal: 24/18 remaining
Peripheral: 42/24
Committed Essence: 18
5 motes (5m) - Primal Fury Moonsilver Gloves.
5m - Brilliant Manifold.
3m - Gem of Incomparable Wellness (socketed in Brilliant Manifold).
5m - Spellbreaker.

For a Lunar, Personal Motes are (15 + Essence), so in your case, that's now 17.
Peripheral Motes are (34 + [Essence x 4]), so that gives Fat Cat 42 motes.

Your committed Essence from artifacts comes out of your Peripheral motes, so they lock up however many motes that they require.

Join Battle: 9

Parry DV: 4
Dodge DV: 3
Resolve: 4
Guile: 2

Natural Soak: 5 (11 in Deadly Beastman Transformation)
Armored Soak: +8
Hardness +7
Mobility Penalty: -2 (-1 from Carapace, -1 from Unison)
Total Soak: 13 (19 in Deadly Beastman Transformation)

You can spend Willpower points to do the following things:
• Add one automatic success to a single roll. You can only spend one Willpower point per roll this way, and you must spend it before you make the roll.
• Increase a single static value (such as Defense or Resolve) by 1. You can only spend one Willpower point per opposing roll, and you must do so before your opponent’s player rolls.
• Reject certain kinds of social influence (see Chapter Five).
• Use a Charm that costs Willpower.

• One-Point Stunts: The benefits of stunting are simple: any rolled action enhanced by a stunt gains two extra dice. If the stunted action is the application of a static value (such as using Defense to block an opponent’s leaping sword slash), then that static value rises by 1. Players should be able to use a one-point stunt on almost every action.
• Two-Point Stunts: A two-point stunt stands above and beyond other stunts. These are intended to be less common than one-point stunts; to be a two-point stunt, the action needs to stand out memorably as a highlight of the scene.
Exceptional stunts on rolled actions are rewarded with two extra dice and one automatic success. Exceptional stunts on static value applications raise the static value by 2. A player might get two or three of these in an evening of play. Whenever a player describes a two-point stunt, her character gains a point of Willpower, up to a maximum of her permanent Willpower rating.
Bonus Points (15/15. Extra Merits = 7 BP. Stamina from 4 to 5 = 3 BP. Strength from 4 to 5 = 3 BP. Willpower from 5 to 6 = 2 BP)

MERITS (15)
0. (Free) Linguistics (Native language): Forest-tongue.
1-3. Charmed Existence: 3 (see description).
4-7. Hearthstone - Gem of Incomparable Wellness: 4 (see description).
8-10. Heart's Blood: 3 (p. 118, Lunar).
11. Linguistics: 1 (p. 162, Core. Per Psychie, River-speak).
12. Direction Sense (p. 160, Core).
13-15. Artifact Weapon: 3. Primal Fury (Moonsilver gloves).
16-20. Artifact Armor: 5. Brilliant Manifold (Moonsilver Silken Armor w/ +1 Merit cost to become howdah for animal form).
21-24 (2 Background Merit points plus 6 XP) Martial Arts - White Reaper Style (Core, p. 438).

MERIT DESCRIPTIONS
1-3. Charmed Existence.

Your life is somehow protected, and you do not face the perils that others must. It could be that you are simply lucky. Because of this Merit, you may ignore a single one on every roll you make~~, as though you had an extra success~~. This Merit makes it far more unlikely that you will ever botch ~~and grants you more successes than others might obtain.~~ (Strikethrough mine)

Note. Cost: 3 (normally 5, but per Psychie, reduced to 3 as 1s no longer cancel Successes as they did in previous White Wolf games).

4-7. Hearthstone: 4 (p. 135, Arms of the Chosen) - Gem of Incomparable Wellness (socketed in Unison armor). - See Equipment.

8-10. Heart's Blood: 3 (p. 118, Lunar)

Heart’s Blood (• to •••; +•) — Story Prerequisite: Lunar Exalt

This Merit depicts a Lunar with several animal forms at character creation. One dot provides the shapes of around six relatively weak animals, comparable to one-dot Familiars (Exalted, p. 161), and two or three stronger animals, comparable to two-dot Familiars, from a single region.

Two dots provide the shapes of one to two dozen weaker animals, six stronger animals, and one or two extremely powerful animals, comparable to three-dot Familiars, from a single region.

Three dots provide the same benefits as two dots, plus the shapes of two to three additional stronger or extremely powerful animals.

For an additional dot, the Lunar can select animal forms from any number of regions.

For most animals, you can simply use natural animals that exist here on Earth. Foxes, dolphins, gorillas, elephants, ravens, mosquitoes, ants, stuff like that. It can be from any climate, but since you are from the central and eastern parts of Creation, you can more easily justify savanna and jungle monsters/creatures, along with river and Inland Sea creatures.

(See p. 556, Core for details on Exalted animals.)

List of "relatively weak animals."
1. Gnat (what is tinier, flies, and could could go more unnoticed?).
2. Gecko (for their bitty size, climbing ability, and adhesive digits to steal hats with).
3. Little bee-eater (tiny bird with bright colors).
4. Black-footed cat (felis nigripes, the world's deadliest cat, one bad teeny tiny little furball).
5. Sugar glider (petaurus breviceps, for their ability to climb and glide so very quietly. Oh, and they're mischievous!).
6. Monkey (capuchin monkey for their prehensile tails and opposable thumbs).
7. Caracal (larger, faster, and more agile than the tiny black-footed cat).
8. Honey badger (for its versatility, thick hide, and nigh-immunity to venom. Not to mention, their attitude!).
9. Savannah hawk (large raptor with fantastic eye-sight).
10. Egyptian fruit bat (a.k.a. "flying foxes" for their flight, small size, terrific eyesight, and echolocation).
11. Asian small-clawed otter (aonyx cinerius, for its size and ability to get around in water or on land).
12. Black-necked spitting cobra (naja nigricollis, spits blinding venom, delivers venomous bites, 1.2 - 2.2 meters in length).

List of "stronger animals"
1. Cheetah (for its stealth and sprinting ability).
2. Silverback Gorilla (for its climbing ability, opposable digits, and overall fearsomeness).
3. Dolphin (for its overall non-threatening image, swimming stamina, and ability to dive deep).
4. Claw Strider (fictitious Exalted-game lethal predatory creature, like a dinosaur raptor with resemblance to tyrannosaurus rex. Fast).
5. Austrech (fictitious Exalted-game Chocobo-style creature found near deserts and Inland Sea, fast, tough, can carry a person or two?).
6. Strix (giant forest owl with 15 foot wingspan, capable of snatching up human-sized prey).

List of "extremely powerful animals"
1. Roc (outrageously huge hawk-like bird capable of carrying away an elephant or a party of Exalted buddies?).
2. Yeddim (fictitious Exalted-game furred pack animal of colossal size; the African elephant has nothing on this beastie!).
3. Armored Terror (one huge and nasty fish 30 feet long and weighing 4 tons. It can take down armored ships!).
4. Ox-Dragon (basically a Legendary-sized triceratops capable of doing massive ramming damage).
5. Tyrant Lizard (the Tyrannosaurus Rex of Exalted, it is everything that image conjures up and more).

11. Linguistics: 1 (Per Psychie, choose River-speak, p. 162, Core)

Language (•)—Purchased This Merit may be re-purchased as many times as desired. Each purchase grants the character fluency in one language in addition to his native tongue. If the character possesses Linguistics 1+, then they are also literate in any written forms of the language. The ‘civilized’ inhabitants of each of the outer Directions speak a different language (actually a number of closely-related regional dialects), while the Scavenger Lands has its own particular language and the mighty Realm has two official languages. There are also countless local languages that are only spoken by tribal or ethnic groups spread around Creation’s rim. The major languages of Creation are:

• High Realm: The formal language of Dynasts and patricians of the Blessed Isle, as well as their servants. All official business of the Realm is conducted in High Realm. Its written form is a phonetic alphabet of complex brush work characters.

• Low Realm: The tongue of the Realm’s commoners, generally constituting local bastardizations of High Realm drifted into near-incomprehensibility to outsiders. It shares the written stylings of High Realm, but often uses simplified character depictions which can be rendered without brushes or careful calligraphy.

• Old Realm: The native language of the spirits and those that created them, as well as of the Fair Folk. It was widely spoken in the First Age, especially by savants and sorcerer-engineers, and used for many official documents. Characters must have Lore 1+ or Occult 1+ to learn this language. There exist several styles for writing Old Realm, the most extravagant of which is a complex glyphic system where symbol arrangement is as important as symbol choice, and the same phrase might be read in several ways, often as a deliberate choice by the writer intended to impart subtle and layered meaning.

• Dragontongue: Derived from recovered elements of a priestly language that was lost during the shogunate, luminaries of House Mnemon birthed and spread this language over the course of two centuries. It is a mix of Old Realm and High Realm, with elements of a lost shogunate tongue, and excludes the mind from the wider, more dangerous concepts inherent to Old Realm, keeping a person in mind of the Dragons, the Poles, the natural world and the Perfected Hierarchy. It is a beautiful language more than a scholarly one, and even in satrapies which have been thoroughly suppressed by the Realm, there is a rush by savants and poets to learn this language of poets and princes. Its written form utilizes very challenging yet beautiful brushstrokes.

• Riverspeak: The language of the Scavenger Lands. The Guild has promoted this loanword-filled tongue as the unofficial “trade language” of the Threshold; it is probably the most widely-understood language in Creation. Its written form employs a simple glyphic alphabet whose characters can easily be shaped with a quill, stylus, or even a stick of charcoal.

• Skytongue: A language family spoken in the North. Its written form employs a simple runic alphabet.

• Flametongue: A language family spoken in the South. Its written form employs a sophisticated alphabet of flowing lines and curves; meaning can be greatly influenced by the manner in which characters connect to one another.

• Forest-tongue: A language family spoken in the East, beyond the bounds of the Scavenger Lands. Its written form consists of a wide array of branching ideograms, connected vertically and diagonally.

• Seatongue: A language family spoken in the West. Its written form consists of a simple alphabet of lines and dots whose connection to one another can be exceedingly complex.

• Guild Cant: A secret language spoken only by members of the Guild. Its written form is composed of simple horizontal and vertical lines, designed to be able to be written quickly and unobtrusively when necessary.

• Local Tongues: Creation contains countless languages spoken by specific “barbarian” tribes, insular ethnic enclaves, isolated island-dwellers, and various other small groups. Four such languages may be learned with a single Merit purchase.

12. Direction Sense (•)—Innate (p. 160, Core)

The character is never completely lost, and is able to naturally determine her orientation relative to the five Poles. In addition to always knowing her facing and acting as a living compass, she lowers the difficulty on attempts to navigate toward a fixed, known location or to retrace her steps by 2.

13-15. Artifact Weapon: 3. Primal Fury (Moonsilver gloves). See Equipment.

16-20. Artifact Armor: 5. Brilliant Manifold (Moonsilver Silken Armor w/ +1 Merit cost to become howdah for Spirit-animal form).

21-24 (2 Background Merit points plus 6 XP) Martial Arts - White Reaper Style (Core, p. 438). Per Psychie, Martial Arts now counts as "to hit" in Hand to Hand for all Lunar forms!

None! =)

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FLAWS (page numbers and ideas based off of the Werewolf Players Guide)
Flaw: Amnesia (p. 19) cannot remember his own birth name or the names of his family or where he is from prior to his life with the One Village in the Celestial Wildlands. He remembers the faces and voices and possesses only a child's amount of memories about his beloved family. This was taken from him by his time in the Wyld [see Background] and it might never be restored (a fact O Mighty Fat Cat has come to sadly live with).

Flaw: Enemy (p. 24) The Boss [see Background] cannot forgive what happened to him and continues to hunt "the biggest fattest Chonk in all of Creation!! I will have my revenge!" O Mighty Fat Cat does not know his old enemy seeks revenge upon him. At least, not yet). =)

Flaw: Scholastically-deprived Upbringing (p. 24, based off of Twisted Upbringing). O Mighty Fat Cat was first raised by his educated parents as a child, but later raised by jungle natives [see Background]. Because of this, his scholastic education has suffered. He is literate and knows basic concepts that most schooled people know, but there are holes in his knowledge. Things school-educated characters take for granted are sometimes unknown to O Mighty Fat Cat. As such, he comes across as someone who [like his Player] knows only a little about Creation or even the lands where he was born. He knows nothing of politics or the names of some countries).
Charm List
1. Hybrid Body Transformation (p. 143, Lunars)
2. Beast Form Empowerment (p. 143, Lunars)
3. Deadly Beastman Transformation (p. 269, Lunars)
4. Emerald Grasshopper Form (p. 179, Lunars)
5. Towering Beast Form (p. 264, Lunars, required for Fat Cat form per Psychie)
6. Ox-body Technique (p. 375, Core)
7. Ox-body Technique (p. 375, Core)
8. Glance-Oration Technique (p. 145, Lunars)
9. Skulking Rat Spirit (p. 191, Lunars)
10. Terrifying Ogre Alteration (p. 269, Lunars)
11. Finding the Needle’s Eye (p. 180, Lunars)
12. Impenetrable Beast-Armor (p. 251, Lunars)
13. Agile Beast Defense (p. 185, Lunar)
14. Instinct-Driven Beast Movement (p. 189, Lunar)
15. Lodestone Reckoning Manner (p. 287, Lunar)
16. Ever-Wary Fox Technique (p. 236, Lunars).
17. Mountainous Spirit Expression (Lunars, p. 265)
18. Sense-Sharpening Change (Lunars, p. 236)
19. Sinuous Striking Grace (Lunars, p. 181)

Charm Descriptions
1. Hybrid Body Transformation (Lunars, p. 143)

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.

2. Beast Form Empowerment (Lunars, p. 143)

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.

3. Deadly Beastman Transformation (Lunars, p. 269)

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. 143) 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.

4. Emerald Grasshopper Form (Lunars, p. 179)

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Dexterity 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Archetype (Wits)
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar compresses the fullness of her divinity into the humblest of forms. She changes into an animal shape she possesses with the Minuscule Size Merit. Special activation rules: If the Lunar uses this Charm to shift from one Minuscule Size form to another, she waives its cost.

Archetype: A Lunar whose spirit shape has Minuscule Size may learn this as a Wits Charm.

5. Towering Beast Form (Lunars, p. 264, required for Fat Cat form per Psychie)

Cost: 15m, 1wp (5m per turn/hour); Mins: Strength 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Archetype (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.

Archetype: A Lunar whose spirit shape has Legendary Size may learn this as a Stamina Charm.

6 and 7. Ox-Body Technique (Core, p. 375)

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.

8. Glance-Oration Technique (Lunars, p. 145)

Cost: 3m; Mins: Appearance 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Through perfect control of her body and demeanor, the Lunar is capable of great expressiveness even without speech. She uses body language to convey an influence roll or a single sentence, ignoring the Resolve bonus for using body language (Exalted, p. 221). She can convey far more than usual through body language, though highly abstract concepts or complicated technical information remain beyond her.

9. Skulking Rat Spirit (Lunars, p. 191)

Cost: 3m; Mins: Dexterity 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute, Protean
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar moves without trace, leaving no sign of her presence. She rerolls 1s until they cease to appear on a Stealth roll, conceal evidence roll, or cover tracks roll.

Protean: In shapes with Tiny Creature or Minuscule Size, the Lunar also rerolls 2s until they cease to appear.

10. Terrifying Ogre Alteration (Lunars, p. 269)

Cost: —; Mins: Strength 5, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Deadly Beastman Transformation

The Lunar refines her war-form, unleashing the full power of the beast within. Upon purchasing this Charm, she chooses four dots of mutations reflecting her spirit shape. She gains them while Deadly Beastman Transformation is active.

11. Finding the Needle’s Eye (Lunars, p. 180)

Cost: 3m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite
Charms: None

The Lunar’s limbs flex and warp along unexpected angles to avoid obstacles between her and her prey. She rerolls (higher of Essence or 3) 1s on an attack roll and imposes a −1 penalty on her target’s Defense.

With Dexterity 4, the Lunar may attack a lower-Initiative enemy through full cover with an appropriate stunt, but he receives +3 Defense.

Protean: In shapes with a tail, tentacles, or similar flexible appendages, attacks with them reroll an additional 1.

12. Impenetrable Beast-Armor (Lunars, p. 251)

Cost: 3m; Mins: Stamina 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar thickens her skin, forming a thick hide, bony plates, or tough scales. She adds (higher of Essence or 3) natural soak against a withering attack or gains Hardness (Stamina) against a decisive attack.

13. Agile Beast Defense (Lunars, p. 185)

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 shapes with Tiny Creature or Minuscule Size, this Charm may be declared after the attack roll.

14. Instinct-Driven Beast Movement (Lunars, p. 189)

Instinct-Driven Beast Movement
Cost: 2m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Protean
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar moves in a blur of superhuman speed. She adds a success to a movement action or an interval of a speed-based extended action. Succeeding on an opposed roll in combat grants one Initiative.

Protean: In animal shapes with Speed Bonuses, the Initiative awarded to the Lunar for a successful opposed roll is stripped from one of the characters opposing her (her choice).

15. Lodestone Reckoning Manner (Lunars, p. 287)

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Wits 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Archetype (Perception)
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None

Uncharted lands and perilous seas yield their secrets to the wayfaring Lunar. She spends a scene plotting a course and rolls (Wits + [Sail or Survival]) with (higher of Essence or 3) bonus dice and double 9s, banking all successes. She may add up to (Essence) banked successes as non-Charm successes on Survival rolls to forage or find shelter along the journey, or Sail rolls to navigate hazards at sea. This Charm can only be used once per journey. It ends once all banked successes are spent.

A Wits 5 repurchase doubles 8s on this Charm’s roll, and lets the Lunar use it instantly, without needing to plot a course; the banked successes, and any Charms enhancing Lodestone Reckoning Manner, are available to her whenever she travels. She can only do so once per day.

Archetype: A Lunar whose spirit shape is migratory can learn this as a Perception Charm.

16. Ever-Wary Fox Technique (Lunars, p. 236)

Cost: 3m; Mins: Perception 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar faces many foes and perils, cultivating a keen instinct for danger. She adds a non-Charm success on a roll opposing Stealth or to detect a hidden peril such as a trap, poisoned drink, or approaching storm. She may use this Charm to make such Perception rolls while asleep or incapacitated, removing any penalty she might suffer from such states, including that of Bear Sleep Technique. She may awaken instantly upon successfully detecting a threat, or even revive herself from unconsciousness if incapacitated, though she still suffers the effects of incapacitation.

17. Mountainous Spirit Expression (Lunars, p. 265)

Cost: —; Mins: Strength 5, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Archetype (Stamina)
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Towering Beast Form
Suffusing her body with illimitable beast-power, the Lunar grows unto a gigantic monster of myth. She may activate Towering Beast Form to grant her current shape Legendary Size instead of changing into a different form. Clothing and moonsilver artifacts rescale with her for this Charm’s duration; equipment incompatible with her increased size vanishes Elsewhere.

18. Sense-Sharpening Change (Lunars, p. 236)

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 under stimulation of that sense even on non-Perception rolls. She could ignore penalties to vision caused by darkness or blinding light, but not by fog or distance. The Lunar may stack this Charm to enhance different senses. The cost of activations beyond the first is reduced to one mote.

19. Sinuous Striking Grace (Lunars, p. 181)

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.

Note: Perception - follow the Sense-Sharpening Change track for nice goodies including eventually mote returns. =)

Bear Sleep Technique (p. 256, Lunars)
Bending Before the Storm (p. 185, Lunar)
Bounding Bharal Technique (p. 275, Lunar)
Coiled Serpent Strikes (p. 186, Lunar)
Ferocious Biting Tooth (p. 266, Lunars)
Graceful Crane Stance (p. 188, Lunars)
Halting the Scarlet Flow (p. 256, Lunars)
Magpie’s Nest Resourcefulness (p. 289, Lunars)
Spider-Climbing Attitude (p. 189, Lunars)
Squirrel’s Cunning Technique (p. 290, Lunars)
Weapon-Snatching Coils (p. 180, Lunars)
MUTATIONS (16/16) - Useable with Spirit Shape/Fat Cat/Totem Form per Psychie.
1. Carapace/Shell (••) (p. 119, Lunar)
2. Claws & Fangs (•) (p. 165, Core)
3. Deadly Weaponry (•) (p. 119, Lunar)
4. Enhanced Sense - Sight (•••) (p. 165, Core)
5. Fleet of Foot (••••) (p. 161, Core) 4
6. Night Vision (••) (p. 120, Lunar) 2
7. Tail (•) (p. 166, Core)
8. Unusual Hide (••) (p. 166, Core) 2

1. Carapace/Shell (••) (p. 119, Lunar)

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.

2. Claws & Fangs (•) (p. 165, Core)

Claws/Fangs/Hooves/Horns (• or ••••)
Innate
The character gains some form of natural weaponry, generally in the form of horns, or short but sharp claws and fangs. The one dot version of this Merit allows the character to inflict lethal rather than bashing damage with either unarmed decisive strikes or decisive savaging attacks during a grapple (the latter represents fangs). The four-dot version of this Merit grants larger, more dangerous natural weapons, allowing the character’s strikes or bites to both inflict lethal damage when savaging, and to be treated as a medium weapon for withering attacks.

Drawback: Natural weaponry granted by the four-dot version of this Merit imposes a -1 penalty on disguise attempts.

3. Deadly Weaponry (•) (p. 119, Lunar)

Innate
Prerequisite: Claws/Fangs/Hooves/Horns or other natural weapons.

This mutation depicts especially dangerous natural weapons: long claws, piercing tusks, a stinging tail, etc. One of the mutant’s natural attacks gains one of the Balanced, Chopping, Disarming, Flexible, Piercing, or Smashing tags. With four-dot natural weaponry, she applies two tags. This mutation can be purchased multiple times to enhance different natural weapons, but can’t enhance the same natural weapon multiple times.

4. Enhanced Sense - Sight (•••) (p. 165, Core)

Innate

One of the character’s senses becomes preternaturally acute, like that of a wild animal. The character adds two dice to all Perception rolls related to that sense.

Drawback: This Merit is physically obvious in unusual eye color or shape, large ears, an elongated nose, or some other similar mutation.

5. Fleet of Foot (••••) (p. 161, Core)

Fleet of Foot (••••)
Purchased Prerequisite: Dexterity •••

The character is particularly swift and nimble, moving through the world like a shadow racing the light. She adds one additional die to all rolls depending on sheer foot speed, most notably rush, disengage, and withdraw actions (see p. 197-199).

6. Night Vision (••) (p. 120, Lunar)

Innate

The mutant’s eyes are adapted to darkness, halving penalties or increased difficulty, rounded down, from darkness or low-light environments.

7. Tail (•) (p. 166, Core)

Tail (• to ••)
Innate

The character has a tail, which might be scaly, furred, tufted, or fleshy like a rat. For one dot, the tail adds two dice to attempts to maintain balance. For two dots, the tail is also prehensile, and may act as a fully functional limb, although it suffers a -1 off-hand penalty. The tail may be hidden under clothes, although this negates its benefits

8. Unusual Hide (••) (p. 166, Core)

Unusual Hide (• to •••••)
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.

Future Mutations

Bounding Legs (•••) (p. 119, Lunar)

Innate

The mutant’s powerful legs add two 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.

Hypermobility (••) (p. 120, Lunar)

Innate
Flexible joints let the mutant contort and compress her body. She adds one die on rolls to squeeze through tight spaces or establish or resist control of a grapple, and on Dexterity rolls where her flexibility benefits her, like taking cover or hiding in tight spaces.

Silent Movement (p. 121, Lunar)

Silent Movement (•••)
Innate
Soft paws, velvety feathers, or similar adaptations muffle the mutant’s movement. Rolls to detect her purely through hearing suffer a −2 penalty.

Spinnerets (•••) (p. 121, Lunar)

— Innate
Like a spider, the mutant can spin lines of adhesive silk. These are exceptional equipment (Exalted, p. 580) for weaving, climbing, laying snares, swinging between handholds, etc. They’re also exceptional equipment for lifting or suspending heavy objects — a feat of strength rolled with (Stamina + applicable Craft), using (higher of Stamina or Craft) instead of Strength to determine if the feat can be attempted. The mutant can make ranged attacks with webbing. They’re light weapons with the Bashing, Thrown (Short), Disarming, Flexible, Grappling, and Subtle tags. If she’s grappling an enemy from beyond close range, she can only take restrain or drag actions, and a character can sever the thread — ending the grapple — with a difficulty 3 gambit.

Subtlety (want retractable claws? Need this to do it.) (p. 166, Core)

Subtlety (••)
Innate
Prerequisite: Another physically obvious Supernatural Merit, such as claws, quills, or extra limbs.

This Merit may be purchased as many times as desired. Subtlety must be attached to another already-purchased Supernatural Merit; it makes that Merit non-obvious to observers when not in use. Examples might include fully retractable claws, extra limbs which fold up into easily-concealed pouches or cavities on the character’s body, or gills that close up tight enough to be invisible when not in use. The Wyld is rarely kind enough to bestow this Merit on those who feel its touch; it is most commonly granted as a blessing of the Fair Folk to their human servants, though some sorcerers have also studied the art of infusing subtlety into the works of the Wyld.

Wall Walking (••••) (p. 167, Core)

The character gains the ability to cling to, as well as walk or crawl across, walls and even ceilings. Ceilings and inherently slick surfaces with little purchase (such as Chiaroscuro glass) count as difficult terrain.
Drawback: The character’s hands and feet become visibly nonhuman, possibly sporting sticky suction pads, tiny climbing claws, or spurs like a lizard.

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O Mighty Fat Cat in Spirit Animal Form. (see Great Cat in p. 565 in Exalted Core book. See also p. 131 in Lunars book for Animal details). =)

Strength Feats of Strength 5 or higher.
Evasion: 4
Parry: 4

Special Abilities
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 of Willpower 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. (Note: Latent ability not purchased.)

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.

Battle Cat (Latent): See p. 566 in Lunars.
Intimacies
Defining Principle: I want to use my gifts and abilities to put more goodness into Creation.
Defining Principle: Life must be lived/I love to learn and share with others.
Defining Principle: I hate no one.
Defining Principle tied to Brilliant Manifold: I will fulfill my promise to Antonia, the Wood Elemental - to go to Rathess, to find Spellbreaker in the tomb of the Lunar Mor'du, and return it to the Tower of Dunbar to free Cadence and thus fortify Dunbar's tower and Antonia's woods.

Major Principle: I am a cat and I will do as I damn well please. =)
Major Principle: When I agree to help, I can be relied on to see it through.
Major Principle: I appreciate Luna's gifts and I will help Luna whenever I reasonably can.
Major Tie: The Old Village (this is the forest village who nursed him back to health and raised him after his Exalted foray into the Wyld).

Minor Tie: Aredin (Rykon's character).
Minor Principle: I love stories and storytelling.
Minor Principle: I do not kill without strong reason.
Minor Principle: I never take myself TOO seriously. =)

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Limit Trigger: An adversary exploits the Lunar’s mercy or compassion.

Monstrous Urges: 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.

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Anima Effects

Anima Banner A Lunar’s anima banner blazes forth into visibility as she expends Essence. For every five motes of Peripheral Essence she spends in an instant, her anima banner rises one level.

ANIMA LEVEL EFFECTS
Dim - The Lunar’s anima is invisible. This is its default level when she’s not spending Essence.

Glowing - The Lunar’s anima outlines her body in glowing light. Her Caste Mark appears, shining through anything placed over it. Her Tell and moonsilver tattoos become obvious to all who see her. Stealth and disguise rolls suffer a −3 penalty.

Burning - The Lunar’s anima shines in an argent aura around her. Objects touched by it may be left damp and warped, as if exposed to the night air and elements for many days. Her Caste Mark is subsumed into her anima, reappearing at dramatic moments. Stealth is impossible.

Bonfire/Iconic - The Lunar’s anima ignites into a brilliant bonfire stretching high into the sky, visible for miles around. Upon reaching bonfire, and at suitably dramatic moments, her anima manifests a personalized iconic display: a stylized depiction of her spirit shape, a quicksilver mirror depicting warped reflections, whirling blades inlaid with an intaglio of luminous runes, phantasmal limbs holding symbols of power, etc. Her anima completely illuminates her surroundings within short range. Stealth is impossible.

It takes 15 minutes for the anima banner to recede from bonfire to burning or from burning to glowing, and half an hour to recede from glowing to dim.

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.
Primal Fury (Moonsilver gloves, Artifact •••)

Primal Fury (Moonsilver gloves ***)
User: Jaylen Zabek
Smith: Nerissa Eshe
Early in Nerissaʼs apprenticeship, Zan challenged her to build a new artifact of her own design. To that point she had chiefly been reproducing constructions Zan or other Copper Spiders had created.
She went to speak with her Lunar mate, Jaylen Zabek. Zebek was much older than Nerissa, having exalted a hundred years before she was born. In addition to that he was originally paired with her prior incarnation. This had always made Nerissa uncomfortable around him. The two did not speak often so he was rather surprised when she came to his manse. Jaylen had just recently returned from an expedition into the Wyld. Sadly while there, his team had been ambushed by Fair Folk, many died. Jaylen had lost the majority of his artifact panoply in the attack.
Nerissa decided that she would forge Jaylen a new weapon, one that would work from his core philosophy of battlefield manipulation. She knew it would not -could not- replace the items he formerly had. Yet, maybe in years he would treasure it as well.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 3) or Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4) see below.
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Worn, Concealable
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Eight Directions Era

Due to the elemental nature of Primal Furyʼs evocation Dragon-Blooded resonant with it as if it were jade.

Evocation of Primal Fury
This set of moonsilver gloves fits over a userʼs hands like a second skin. They are small and light but have elegantly etched and inlaid figures made of jade on both palms and backhands. Each image is of a noble wolf-man towering over his enemies. A user who attunes Primal Fury can choose to upgrade the damage category of her unarmed hand attacks from light weapons to medium weapons. The userʼs hands stay that category for the entire combat, gaining all the advantages and disadvantages. They must decide which their hands will qualify as at the start of any conflict.
Primal Fury costs 5 motes to attune.

Flowing Water
Cost:-; Min: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keyword: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: None
Jaylen was an avid Martial Artist. Over his many decades he had mastered more than one style. Primal Fury is compatible with any Martial Arts style that allows for unarmed attacks. In addition while using a Form type charm a user reduces the cost of evocations of Primal Fury by 1 mote.

Northern Wind
Cost: 3m; Min: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keyword: Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Flowing Water
Striking with the force of the Elemental Pole of Air, a target may be slowed or even stopped in their tracks.
The user performs a Gambit at difficulty 3. If successful ice forms around the target's legs and holds them in place for [success/2] round up actions. The target may make a Strength + Athletics roll to break free. Every success reduces the number of actions they are immobile by 1.
Resonant: When used by a resonant character, targets require two successes on their Strength + Athletics to reduce the number of action they are immobile.

Motivating Flames
Cost: 3m; Min: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keyword: Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: None
Having control of the a battlefield is a massive advantage--one that Jaylen always said was necessary for victory. When too many men decided to dog pile him, he would forcibly eject them.
The user may perform a Gambit at difficulty 4 to move another character in close range away. If the Gambit is successful the target is knocked back one Range band in a direction of their choosing.
For every two successes beyond that the target is blasted away one further Range band. The target suffers falling damage (p. 232) for every range band they are moved back. If they are knocked off a cliff or tall building the falling damage stacks.
Resonant: A character resonant with moonsilver may make a second Gambit at Difficulty 8 to knockback all targets within close range. If the Gambit is successful they knock directly back all characters.

Drawing Vines
Cost: 4m; Min: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keyword: Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Motivating Flames
Jaylen would often strike the ground, sending vines out at a distant archer and pulling them closer to both himself and his allies. The user may perform a Gambit at difficulty 4 to pull another character closer to them. This has a maximum range of Long. For every two successes beyond the difficulty the target is pulled one Range band closer.
Resonant: A character who is resonant with moonsilver changes the type of this evocation to reflexive, explicitly allowing the user to pull back a target who successes at a Disengage (p. 198).

Grounded Earth
Cost: 5m, 1w; Min: Essence 3
Type: Simple, Dissonant
Keyword: None
Duration: Scene
Prerequisite: Drawing Vines, Northern Wind
Each element granted Jaylen a different way to help control a fight. Nerissa wished not only to give Jaylen control of a battle, but also immunity to unforeseen outcomes. The user reaches down to touch the earth below their feet. As they stand back up their body is covered in a second rocky skin. This skin gives the user a number of temporary -0 health levels equal to their Essence.
In addition they may spend 3 motes to regenerate a temporary health level that was lost during the battle.
Dissonant: A character dissonant with moonsilver may not regenerate their temporary health levels.

Brilliant Manifold (Moonsilver Silken Armor, Artifact ••••• [1 additional • for Howdah]).

Provided by this link which was generously offered for gaming by this Storyteller (Asinus) in this thread.
Changed into Moonsilver by one very generous Psychie. =)

Shifting Silks

Brilliant Manifold
~~(Orichalcum and Starmetal~~ Moonsilver Shifting Silks, Artifact ●●●●) ✔✔

At first glance, any variety of Shifting Silks appears to be an outfit of simple, dull grey cloth, consisting of loose pants with a drawstring belt, a long-sleeve, casual shirt, gloves, and cloth shoes. The outfit, when first put on, seems to be far too large for anyone. However, closer scrutiny the outfit will reveal an inner lining of one or more of the five magical materials, which drastically changes the more powerful functions of the Shifting Silks. This armor, made using secret, long-lost techniques from the First Age is woven of a material more unyielding than white jade, yet softer than evening light. It is otherwise identical to Artifact Silken Armor (p. 600).

In the First Age, Shifting Silks were highly sought by those with great means. The means to craft them were incredibly esoteric, even by First Age standards, but a well-crafted Shifting Silk would sell for a thousand times its weight in gold. So it was that Heart of Singing Crowns, the Twilight Craftsman, endeavored to perfect the process. Weaving meticulously, fiber by fiber, year by year, she created hundreds of pieces, each a masterwork in its own right. But she sold or otherwise discarded every one, dissatisfied with the quality of her work. For generations these works passed down from family to family, their impermanence a constant reminder of her defect as an artisan.

After a century of crafting and styles changed, she had grown depressed, falling into a pit of despair. It was only then that her friend Black Song in Rain, Chosen of Secrets, interceded. He shared with her the knowledge of a great and powerful artifact with which she might be able to craft a Shifting Silk to satisfy her desire for perfection: the Loom of Fate.

Black Song in Rain took Heart of Singing Crowns to Yu-Shan, and there he revealed to her the Loom of Fate and the threads of Heart of Singing Crowns. The grandeur and intricate power of the greatest of Artifacts seared itself into her memory forever, giving her the understanding of the interconnectedness of all things. Heart of Singing Crowns set to work, weaving together a Shifting Silk inlaid with an intricate maze of Orichalcum and Starmetal. When she was nearly finished, she turned to Black Song in Rain and asked him one final favor, “In all my centuries, I have never created perfection, and now I know that I never will. All metals are alloys, just as we are all invariably interconnected to one another. I have spent more than my fair time in Creation and I have grown old. Help me weave my own threads of Fate into my work so that when my Spark returns to Creation, my work will always return to me. Black Song in Rain could see that she was resolved and though he was willing, he professed that he was not a great craftsman like her. She answered, “Over the last few weeks of labor, I have been gently awakening your mind, subtly teaching you the techniques you will need to complete my work and giving you the resolve necessary to do it. I am sorry my friend.”

And so it was that when Heart of Singing Crowns died and her Spark left her body, Black Song in Rain continued her work and wove her threads from the Loom of Fate into Brilliant Manifold. But, clever as he was, Black Song in Rain took also a single thread of his own Fate and wove it in with hers so that when her Spark returned to Creation, he would be able to find Heart of Singing Crowns again.

Brilliant Manifold focuses its wearer’s mind, spirit, and body into pursuing a single purpose, even when that purpose requires a thousand detours. Brilliant Manifold possesses a single hearthstone socket and doesn’t count as armor for the purpose of martial arts styles which cannot be practiced in armor.

Evocations of Brilliant Manifold

A Solar or Sidereal Exalt who attunes to Brilliant Manifold gains Shifting Wardrobe at no cost. Once attuned, the outfit shifts like water to fit the wearer like a glove. The outfits will always fit as well as the wearer desires. Brilliant Manifold will emulate any jewelry the wearer desires, as well as perfume, and keeps the wearer in a constant state of cleanliness, keeping away dust, dirt, and blood. The wearer receives one non-charm bonus die to all appearance-based Social rolls while wearing the Brilliant Manifold because of this ability to keep herself presentable.

Once attuned, the Exalt must specify an objective-based Purpose. This Purpose must be a possible, concluding goal: “Defeat all evil” is not suitable, but “Defeat the Death Lord who is plaguing my city” is. Upon choosing this purpose, the Exalt immediately makes that purpose a defining intimacy which cannot lessen until the purpose is changed. Her purpose may not be changed, unless the purpose is completed or otherwise becomes impossible or irrelevant. Brilliant Manifold will do everything in its power to help the wearer complete this purpose.

Shifting Wardrobe ✔✔✔
Cost: 1m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None

For one mote of Essence and a moment of concentration, the Shifting Silks will change their form into any clothing the wearer can imagine and will remain so changed until uncommitted. This outfit can change radically, from little more than a series of overlapping scarves to full robes, or full Dynast plate armor. The "Silks" mentioned in the name is misleading, as the Shifting Silks can mimic leather, metal, and hemp just as easily as they mimic silk. The clothes appear real in every manner (sight, touch, sound, etc.), but their true nature may be revealed using certain charms which identify the presence of ongoing sorceries (e.g. All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight) or strip away magical disguises (e.g. Eye of the Unconquered Sun).

Furthermore, the artifact has the ability to emulate the surroundings of the wearer, dampen sounds, and neutralize scents, making her difficult to detect if she wishes, giving her a +2 bonus to all stealth related rolls and making her nearly imperceptible to mundane senses when fully at rest. To shift the form of the Shifting Silks in any way, whether color, jewelry, camouflage, or scent, costs one mote of essence.

Ubiquitous Truth Understanding ✔✔✔
Cost: 2m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The mind is the key to the body and spirit, so it is that Brilliant Manifold protects the mind and ensures absolute resolution. When targeted by an attempt to influence her in a way that opposes one or more of her Intimacies that is related to her purpose, she may spend two motes and may instead add a bonus to her Resolve based on the intensity of her purpose itself.

If she opposes that influence with her purpose directly, she may increase the bonuses added to her Resolve by an additional two.

This Evocation can only be used once per scene, but may be reset by failing a resolve check against an attempt to influence her.

Ardent Excellence Approach ✔✔✔
Cost: 2m; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

In the face of opposition, she is steadfast and undaunted. In any ability roll relevant to completing her purpose in which she does not have an excellency, she may call upon her purpose or an auxiliary, related intimacy and spend two motes, as if she had an excellency in the relevant ability, to gain an additional die on her roll. She may stack this Evocation a number of times equal to the strength of that intimacy.

In any ability roll relevant to completing her purpose in which she has an excellency, she may call upon her purpose or an auxiliary, related intimacy and spend two motes to reroll an unsuccessful die. She may stack this Evocation a number of times equal to the strength of that intimacy.

She may only call on each intimacy this way once per story.

Vast Aura of Fabricating Destiny ✔✔✔
Cost: -; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Psyche
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Ubiquitous Truth Understanding

Brilliant Manifold slowly, but surely, interweaves the Threads of Fate of those around the wearer with her own. Upon spending one week around the wearer, characters form a Minor intimacy of “Aid (the Wearer) in her Purpose.” The more time spent around the wearer, the stronger the intimacy becomes. After one month, the intimacy is strengthen to Major, and after one year, it becomes a Defining intimacy. This intimacy lasts until the purpose is accomplished, after which, a new intimacy begins to form. A Sidereal’s Arcane Fate prevents tangles in the loom as ties are instantly severed, however other heroes may find their ways to avoid divine censure.

The speed at which intimacies are formed is affected by the wearer’s other intimacies. If a target has a minor or major intimacy directly opposed to the wearer’s purpose, that intimacy must be erased first. This can be done actively through social interaction, or Vast Aura of Fabricating Destiny will degrade a major intimacy to a minor intimacy after two months in the wearer’s presence, and a minor intimacy will be erased after two weeks in the wearer’s presence. Defining intimacies are impossible for Vast Aura of Fabricating Destiny to degrade.

Once per story, when aiding the wearer in accomplishing her purpose in some way, characters may take a bonus on one roll equal to the strength of their intimacy. If the strength of their intimacy increases during a story in which a character has already used this effect, he may use it again at the new rating.

Maiden’s Excellence Approach✔✔
Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Evocations: Ardent Excellence Approach

When pursuing her Purpose, the wearer can call upon one of her intimacies in order to reduce the target number of an action at a cost of one willpower. The target number is reduced by the strength of the intimacy minus one (for example if a Solar is channeling a Major Intimacy in line with their Purpose their target number would be 5-9 for one success, or 10 for two successes).

Maiden’s Excellence Approach grants the wearer permanent immunity to Astrology effects save by the Maiden’s themselves.

Using this Evocation more than once per story may invoke Divine Censure.

Illustrious Sphere of Certain Destiny ✔
Cost: -; Mins: Essence 4
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Vast Aura of Fabricating Destiny and Maiden’s Excellence Approach

All purposes are mere cogs of the machinery of the grand design. The completion of one purpose resonates forwards in time and throughout the world, setting forth in motion helpful events to aid her in her the completion of her next purpose.

The Storyteller is encouraged to tie the completion of one purpose into aiding the wearer of Brilliant Manifold in completing her next purpose. Furthermore, the Storyteller should weigh the intensity and scope of the help given against the magnitude of the purpose completed and the new purpose. For instance, completing the purpose “Arrive in Whitewall safely” might not contribute much help to the purpose “Discover how the Jade Prison broke.” Whereas, completing the latter purpose might grant a large amount of aid towards “found a sovereign kingdom in the Wyld.”

The effects of Illustrious Sphere of Certain Destiny do not cause harm or chaos, but instead tend to affirm order and good in Creation.

EDIT: The Exalted Player who wrote this up is incredible!

Hearthstone (••••) - Gem of Incomparable Wellness (socketed in Brilliant Manifold Silken armor) (p. 135, Arms of the Chosen).

Keywords: Dependent, Linked

This cluster of emerald crystals continually changes shape, with new crystals budding and subsuming the old. Endless vitality suffuses its bearer, mending her wounds with unnatural swiftness. If she commits three motes to the stone, she regains one bashing health level per ten minutes, one lethal health level per hour, and one aggravated health level per day.

Fatal diseases or lethal deprivation, such as starvation, dehydration, or drowning, only render her unconscious. Even dismemberment or cremation merely fills her health track with lethal or aggravated damage, respectively, from which she will eventually regenerate. This power only terminates if the Exalt loses attunement to the stone, or if it becomes inert or is destroyed.

Per Psychie, "It is a powerful one that makes you very hard to kill, but not quite impossible."

Sirrush (Blue Jade Devil Caster, Artifact ••••)

From p. 67 in Arms of the Chosen

The Solar champion Vaznia took up dozens of artifacts across the ages, but few held her interest for long. Among those arms were Sirrush and Anshar, a pair of artifact flame pieces she commissioned to match a favored concubine’s eyes. She gifted them to her lieutenant Rylo
Stormsong without ever wielding them in battle.

A thrill-seeker, Rylo went looking for trouble in every teahouse and dark alley of Old Wu-Jian. Thus she entangled herself in all manner of violent altercations, from battling armies of thugs sent by double-crossed crimelords to stealing relics from hidden shrines to forbidden undersea gods. In extricating herself from such situations she employed her twin devil casters to deadly effect. Eventually she found herself outmatched, hunted by an affronted sorcerer’s seademons. Leaping from the pinnacle of the Crescent Temple into the sea-spray to escape pursuit, she never surfaced.

Sirrush was found a thousand years later by Wu-Jian mudlarks. It worked its way up through the city’s teeming layers in cutthroat deals and throat-cut thefts, until one of the now-defunct Lords Criminal traded it to the outcaste pirate Storm Mother’s Son for a cargo of firedust.
Sirrush’s counterpart Anshar remains lost.

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

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

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

XP Paid Evocations: None yet unlocked.

The Fountain-Summoning Stone (Standard)

The Fountain-Summoning Stone (Standard)
Keywords: Steady
This hearthstone is a dark oval emerald, cold and moist to the touch. If the Fountain-Summoning Stone is buried in the soil and left undisturbed for a short period (ranging from a minute in fertile riverlands to half an hour in the desert), it will presently spring back to the surface atop a gushing fountain of water, which persists until the sun rises and sets. The Fountain-Summoning Stone won’t operate anywhere that a spring couldn’t possibly appear, such as a balcony garden or in a barrel of soil aboard a ship.

Stoneheart Coffer (p. 117, Arms of the Chosen) - I think this would be ideal for a Transporter. =)

(Artifact ••)

Merchant princes transport their most fragile goods in these white jade boxes, while scavenger lords unearthing them in ancient ruins tremble with hope at what fabulous First Age riches they might contain. Lined with rainbow skins from immortal seven-colored serpents of the uttermost East, each is virtually indestructible, and their contents — from delicate glassware to ancient crumbling scrolls — share their nigh-indestructibility.

While the coffer is closed, even the roughest treatment or most extreme temperature leaves its contents undamaged. Breaking the coffer is a Strength 10+ feat, at difficulty 15 to slowly bash through or difficulty 20 to smash it open with one blow. Its magic doesn’t ward off decay; ripe fruit won’t bruise within but will go rotten. Coffers range in size from petite jewel-boxes to a Dynast’s traveling trunk. Each opens to a jade key, though keys to First Age coffers are usually long lost. Picking a coffer’s lock is difficulty 7; making a new key is a major repair project requiring Craft (Artifact).
Regular XP: 0 remaining out of 60.

1. 5 XP - Merit: Martial Arts (needed 9 total; used 4 Lunar XP).
2. 10 XP - Perception Charm: Ever-Wary Fox Charm (Lunars, p. 235).
3. 10 XP - Evocation: Shifting Wardrobe Evocation for Brilliant Manifold armor (see Equipment on Da Chonk's character sheet).
4. 8 XP - Stamina Charm: Mountainous Spirit Expression (Lunars, p. 265).
5. 10 XP - Perception Charm: Sense-Sharpening Change (Lunars, p. 236).
6. 8 XP - Dexterity Charm: Sinuous Striking Grace (Lunars, p. 181).
7. 10 XP - White Reaper Style Martial Arts Charm: Falling Scythe Flash (Core, p. 438).

Lunar XP: 0/16 (12 XP for Perception from 3 to 4. 4 for Merit - Martial Arts; needed 9 total).

Note: Paid for Martial Arts Merit with 9 XP for the first 2 dots (1st dot for 3 XP, 2nd dot for 6 XP). Then used the 2 Background Merit points (gained by changing Artifacts) for the last 2 dots totaling 4 dots.

TRAIT EXPERIENCE COST
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Attribute increase current rating x4 (−1 if Casteless)
Caste/Favored Attribute increase current rating x3
Ability increase current rating x2
New Ability 3
Specialty 3
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
O Mighty Fat Cat's physical origins are directly inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's delightful film, My Neighbor Totoro and the irreplaceable and loveable Cat Bus!

I just LOVE this movie and I love the Cat Bus! Roooowr! 8D
"Totoro Takes The Cat Bus | My Neighbor Totoro | HBO Max Family"

His trade as a transporter comes from The Transporter action films. It sounds like a fun and rewarding way to make a living in Creation. But instead of calling him a transporter (which sounds modern to me), I think I'll refer to him as a... deliverer! (It sounds cooler than courier.) =)

"The Transporter - Movie clip - rules"

I really enjoy Deep Forest (especially his first album) and I often use it when getting into O Mighty Fat Cat's head! =)

"Deep Forest - Savana Dance (LP Version) (Audio)"

Here's some good traveling music when delivering. =)

"Bodhisattva" by Steely Dan

Partial lyrics
Bodhisattva
I'm gonna sell my house in town
And I'll be there to shine in your Japan
To sparkle in your China, yes, I'll be there
Bodhisattva
Look out!

And who can create a character named Da Chonk without including GIFs like these, huh? =)

And one for dear ol' Maru, the coolest cat in Japan ever (Hana on the left doing the licking is lots of fun too)! 8D

Ultimately... this is O Mighty Fat Cat's heart - in special stories like these!

"Fox Fires - Animated Short Film"

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O Mighty Fat Cat's Goals - because every character of mine should have them! =)

Weekend treks (Short-term goals):
1. Learn more of what it is to be a Lunar and the surrounding area where the Circle will operate from as they flee the Wyld Hunt.
2. Learn about each member of the Circle as to better understand them and why they do what they do.
3. Learn more about his own strange, wonderful powers and abilities and how to make the best use of them.

Grand expeditions (Long-term goals):
1. Ensure the long-term safety and productivity of the One Village/return to them with things they could benefit from.
2. Become one of the greatest Deliverers with a well-earned reputation for dependability, integrity, and discretion.
3. Find some way to give back to Luna - be it in quests, items, or some service - that honestly shows how much Fat Cat appreciates Her.
As a Transporter (he calls himself the more medieval title of a "Deliverer"), O Mighty Fat Cat uses his Wyld-augmented Spirit Shape (Giant Housecat) to do most of the transporting. Otherwise, he uses his Emerald Grasshopper or Towering Beast Forms when necessary. He is really big about seeing every job through to the end and sticking to the letter of any deal he makes (or barring that, the spirit of the deal).

O Mighty Fat Cat has done the occasional job for free when it comes to helping out people in need (especially those who worship or assist Luna or friends in need). He does not have a blood-family to go back to so he likes to help people sold into slavery return back to theirs.

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Background: The short version. =)

O Mighty Fat Cat was separated from his tailor-merchant family at a very young age. While traveling through the jungle he saw human hunters intent on his family. He warned them and led the hunters on a chase to the edge of the Wyld. He entered the Wyld and it permanently changed him. It was killing him, but coming here resulted in his family being able to escape the hunters. Luna saw fit to spare him by Exalting him.

Thanks to Luna, he made it to a hidden jungle village where peaceful people took him him. However, the Wyld had changed him into a tiny kitten with an endless appetite. Lovingly, the One Village fed him and fed him and he grew and grew. A long time afterward, the hunters-become-slavers found the One Village and attacked it intent on enslaving everyone in it.

O Mighty Fat Cat, for the first time in his human form, bade them leave, but they would not. A short battle ensued and the slavers gave up their ways to become hunters once again. The One Village was saved and in this way, the boy who became O Mighty Fat Cat returned his love for the people who saved him.

Today, O Mighty Fat Cat has no memory of his own name or his family's. He has a mixed education resulting in nearly all of Creation being a new place to him. He left the One Village and now works with the Guild to help people less fortunate than he as a Transporter.

Background: The long version - The tale of O Mighty Fat Cat (in about 4,400 words). =)

Once there was a boy who got lost in a jungle. He lost his name and much more, but gained a whole new life. A life under Luna.

He was a small boy who loved to play and hunt and explore and share. He lived with his family who worked in honest trade as honest traveling. tailors. They dealt in quality clothing, footwear, and all manner of things to keep people safe from the elements and comfortable - so comfortable that their finest line was said to be like living in a home you wore on your person! Long-lasting, affordable, and wonderfully-made, they were the envy of many of their competitors. But the lorded this fact over no one; instead, they were happy to be helping people.

One day, while traveling through the jungle, the boy's curiosity got the better of him and he became separated from his family's caravan. They became very worried because there were hunters about. Hunters with dogs trained to trap and hurt.

Perhaps he was born under a lucky star, but the boy spotted the hunters first. He knew them for who they were - they were hunters who would harm his family! They were following the signs of caravan tracks on the brown earth and the bending of the green leaves upon the earth's skin.

The boy never thought of himself as a brave creature - just a child in a wonderful world of terrific smells and sights and fantastic discoveries - but when he saw the hunters silently following the tracks of his family's caravan, he made decisions that made him more than what he was before.

To run to his family was to betray their location. But to wait too long without warning them was to open them to ambush, cruelty, and sorrow.

Still a boy, how could he know that the humans hunted his family for their fine coats and dependable boots? His family was said to be magical. Their undergarments were said to provide virility and fertility. Their socks were said to ward off fatigue and minor ailments. Their vests were said to ward off evil spirits. But were these not evil spirits in the guises of armed people now stalking his family to kill them for their material gains?

The boy was too young then to know of concepts like goodness, neutrality, and evil. He only knew that he loved his family more than everything in all Creation, that he valued their lives and the lives of their friends more than he valued his own, and that people and all creatures should live life as they pleased, free to chase their own tails or their own destinies and not to live under the curses and whips of any other creatures.

Freedom for all souls was more than a necessity - it was a road to the liberation of the soul, an uphill climb toward making a better you, and a lifelong journey for all beings to succeed or fail, rise or fall, live or die! And no one should take that from anyone else.

This the boy knew. This the boy lived by. This the boy was willing to die for. For his family. For his beliefs. For even tiny skinny children have dreams and desires. And this boy was willing to sacrifice them all for all that he loved. I did not love himself; it was that he simply saw himself only as a very small acorn in a supremely vast jungle.

And so, he made a plan to save his family.

It was a simple plan for he was a simple boy. He remembered his family had traveled this way before. Many times. He believed he knew this part of the jungle better than the hunters and more thoroughly than the dogs they led. And he knew of the rim of the jungle where strange things thrived, stranger happenings took place, and things beyond the understanding of people came to be so often that even his family wholly avoided the place. The boy did not have a name for this place, but the people did. They called it - the Edge of the Wyld.

Hidden in the brush, the boy saw the spears of the hunters and did not know exactly what they were for. Nor their bows. Nor their blowguns or even their knives. He was too young to be trained with weapons. He do not like to hurt people or animals. He had no experience doing it and wanted none. He knew he could not fight them for he was too small. But perhaps he could mislead them? Steal their focus? And warn his family at the same time?

The boy's soul was complete and filled in its resolve - he felt he must try. He also felt alone and his fear was growing.

On a whim, he looked up to the night sky. There was the moon! Peeking out from behind the clouds like a fellow child playing a game, the moon seemed to watch over all things. Unlike the sun who slept half the day, the boy had seen the moon in daytime as well as nighttime. It was always there!

Was it a he or a she? She, he decided. For she was always beautiful to behold. The sun was too strong to stare at. Look too long and you hurt your eyes badly. Maybe lose them. But to stare at the moon? The longer you looked, the less alone you felt. And so the boy blew a kiss to the moon - the same kind of kiss he blew to his mother and father and siblings.

He thanked the beautiful moon for looking over him and asked for her help in saving his family. The moon seemed to wink back or was it his imagination?

The boy followed the hunters and their dogs, careful to stay where the wind would not betray his scent, where he hoped he could hear well and not be heard or seen, where the ground would not likely betray his passing. This was all he knew but as any child can tell you, when you play hide-and-seek, such skills are essential for success. When the hunters had come so close to the boy's family caravan that he was sure they would find them, the boy sprang up from behind a bush and screamed at the top of his lungs. This warning though small was clear in the quiet of the jungle. All who heard it knew what it meant - danger!

With one look at the boy vanishing into the green, the hunters decided that having one little hostage was better than coming upon the alerted caravan without one. And so they gave chase. The boy knew of places that he was small enough to go that they would have a hard time following. And so he went from hollow log to bush-tunnel to fallen tree to sunken bog. Using their muscles and tools, the hunters destroyed or uncovered each hiding place the boy ventured to leaving only ugly ruin and angry sounds in their wake. But, the boy reasoned, the farther the boy led them, the safer his family was. This game of life and death continued until the boy found himself standing beside a tree, a gangly purple tree that slowly unfurled and waved to him. He looked again and heard green water that seemed to laugh and leaves that whistled very strange jokes.

He had found the Edge of the Wyld!

The hunters finally spotted the boy running and when they did, they loosed their dogs upon him. The hounds came on, their eager fangs bared for their prey. What else could the boy do but flee - flee straight into the unknown? He ran by another waving tree, jumped over more laughing water, and slipped under and around the leaves that crackled with wisecracks in what did indeed sound like human tongue.

It was here where the dogs faltered, though the boy did not know it. Each of the four-footed predators came to the edge, slowed, then stopped. They stood together but uncertain, shaking in indecision, and eager for their masters' guidance. Then their masters came. Clutching their useless spears and blowguns, they beheld the Edge of the Wyld and what they saw made them shake with dread, for it was all they had been told and more. The branches beckoned, the grass danced, and the flowers blew raspberries at them. This the hunters could not endure. They turned their backs on the unknown and left sullen-eyed, but otherwise unchanged.

Meanwhile the Edge of the Wyld gained a small new neighbor for the boy kept running and running unchecked in a headlong flight believing the hunters and their dogs were still hot on his heels. He did not stop to listen or look back even once and thus remained ignorant.

Deeper and deeper fled the boy through rainbow streams, blue-misted woods, and past still lakes where the waters reflected the destinies of creatures long passed away and many yet to be born. The boy soon felt terribly tired and not long after, he felt strange and woozy and sick. For the first time in his life, he felt afraid. Very afraid. He realized he had run so far that his family would not find him. Perhaps ever. This very land was changing him though he did not know it. All he knew was that his eyelids were as heavy as rocks, his feet stumbled about as if his feet were clad in thick vines. He moved as if in a dream he could not wake from, try as he might. He had no idea where he was going or for how long he could continue.

But continue he must! To lead the hunters and dogs away! To secure his family's freedom! Compared to theirs, his own freedom meant nothing for they contributed to the universe while he only felt he took. He shuddered and began to cry for he had never been so alone in his life. Thirsty, he lapped from pools never tasted by mortal beings. He brushed up against plants never beheld by the most adventurous of travelers. In the distance, he heard musics and the very dancing of the wind and in his kitten-like curiosity, he longed to see it with his own eyes. But his body was failing him. His fear was crippling his mind. His young soul suffered like never before.

And yet his little feet plodded onward. These hunters would have to catch him. He would not stop and make it easy for them.

He decided he would keep moving until he died.

The boy''s rise to becoming a Lunar - a rare being of untold power and unknowable destiny - did not come upon a great and bloody battlefield where he left countless corpses in his wake. Nor had his soul awoken to face some incredibly gigantic forest-devouring beast to which he would have to do battle with for seven days and seven nights. No.

The change came upon him under triple-canopy wilderness where the slow-moving clouds were completely obscured and where all the Wyld seemed to both taunt and encourage the boy as if it wanted him to join with it permanently. And perhaps he would. Except that there in night-caressed forest, the high branches seemed to part, the thick leaves pushed away from one another as if in welcome to a single shaft of pure cosmic light - a moonbeam. It gently fell through the night... and onto the boy.

He did not know it. He did not know that Luna was with him or that the moonbeam stayed upon him with every wobbling step and with every trembling breath. All he knew was he could not stop lest he fail his family. Slowly, surely, he felt a force growing inside of him that seemed to promise him. It said, "You will not die this day. You will live. But from this point onward, you must appreciate all that you are given."

"I will," replied the boy inside his mind. "Thank you so much for being with me."

The boy closed his eyes and smiled a big, big smile. It was all he could do was to walk and give thanks to whatever was speaking inside of him. He knew then that whatever happened, he was no longer alone. He trusted this voice with all that he was. He felt he could be miles underground, on another world, or trapped in a topsy-turvy dream of some mad magician. It did not matter. From this point on, the boy felt he would never be alone again for as long as he lived. This feeling, this voice, this moonlight would always be with him. Inside of him. Part of his very spirit.

And when he opened his eyes, he saw that he was surrounded by moonlight. Gentle, soft, calming moonlight.

Everything seemed so large now. The grass had somehow grown so that it was now up past his shoulders. The flowers too seemed larger than the horses that pulled his family's caravan. He still felt groggy, his senses weak. He felt small. Smaller than ever. But yet he continued on, his four feet stumbling and staggering yet still moving forward, step by little step.

Then he heard again the sound of guidance - music! There was music in the air! Lots of it! There were flutes and drums and singing and it all sounded so joyful! So welcoming! Had the plants of this mystical realm learned how to make their own music? He did not know the song, but it was something better than fear to listen to! This the boy knew. And so he continued on without fail with the will and stamina of a soul possessed until the leaves stopped their wisecracking and the water ceased in its laughter and the trees waved fond farewells to him. He tried to wave back, but he lacked the strength. All there was now was the music and his desire to be as close to it as possible.

He stopped only when he realized that he was surrounded. Surrounded by... people! People he did not recognize! And they were giants! The biggest people he had ever seen! They were in a huge circle around him where they were dancing to strange wooden flutes held to their mouths and odd sticks sounding on the tight skins of drums. But the music fell silent now. He had been hearing singing too though this too had suddenly ceased.

The boy looked up dazedly, beyond exhaustion, on the verge of life and death - the last precipice. The huge dancers and musicians were gawking and staring down at him. The boy gawked and stared back. A pitiful meow left his lips at them. Then the world swam and dipped and flew and swirled and unable to continue, the boy's great heart gave way. He fell to the earth.

Or rather, he would have except one of the giant people ran up and collected him. Gently, he caressed his still fur. The boy did not know this. The boy did not know anything for what felt like a long, long time. When after what felt like forever, the boy awoke to the sensation of what tasted like milk being carefully poured into his mouth. There was food cut up into tiny niblets in wooden bowls that smelled wonderful to his tiny pink nose.

He opened his eyes and there they were. People. Lots and lots of people. They were enormous. They looked very different than the hunters. The dogs these people had were friendly and kind. Just like their masters.

This one village had saved him. The boy thought of The One Village as the most comfortable place in all of Creation though he did not know what Creation was any better than any other average child of his background. Days and night passed and eventually the haze around the boy's mind dissipated enough that he finally realized what was clear to everyone else - he was a kitten! A tiny orange ball of fluffy... kitten! No wonder everyone else was so big! No wonder he felt so light! He decided the moon had turned him into a kitten to give him four legs to reach safety! His spirit felt so very free though he still felt terribly weak.

As long as he felt weak, the people of the One village fed him. And they fed him. And fed him! And fed him some more! The boy-become-kitten was ravenous - impossible to fill! This astounded the people greatly for no one could believe this poor lone sick kitten from the Edge of the Wyld could eat so much! The caring people of the One village put their heads together and came to a conclusion - they could feed him no matter how much he would eat! These were people of the land who respected and nurtured and passed on the earth's secrets with great reverence and appreciation. Violence was not their way, nor was traveling outside their chosen realm, but food? Oh yes! Food they could do!

And so it became a game to the whole village! Feed the kitten! Which food does the skinny kitty like most? Let us find out! In what seemed no time at all, the people of the One village were placing food after food, dish after dish, and drink after drink before the kitten - and the kitten devoured them all with equal gusto! The One village redoubled their efforts - to the same result! If you put something in front of the kitten that he could get his little kitty mouth around, he made it disappear and mewed for more!

On and on this went, day after day, week after week, so much that it became a traditional holiday for the One village that they celebrate to this day! Fat Kitten Day!

But the name of the holiday was not meant to last. For the more they fed the kitten, the larger he became. And the larger he became, they more their notions of him changed. He grew and grew and grew! No normal cat - no normal being - could devour so much food and drink! This was more than a lucky kitten come in from the Edge of The Wyld from places unknown. This... they decided... could be a powerful spirit. A magical being.

Or... even... a god?

Finally. After months and months of feeding the grateful, affectionate feline, the hunters made their return to the area. They had stumbled upon this peaceful place, the One Village. They did not come for the boy whom they thought swallowed up by the Edge of the Wyld. They came for the people themselves. Peaceful people. Healthy people. People who would not fight back after they tasted the whips and barbs of their masters. For these hunters were more than hunters of profits or of beasts, they were hunters of people.

Slavers.

The people of the One Village had a single defense that had served them well for generations - their ability to stay hidden - but the slavers threatened their families and forced them to come out and bow their heads in submission or, they threatened, they would chop off the hands of their loved ones at the wrists and burn the hands in front of them! In the confusion and chaos, a young man with dark, dark skin strode without fear. He strode toward the boss of the slavers. The slavers saw him and loosed their dogs. But to their astonishment, the dogs fell back in total doubt. The dogs would not touch him. They bayed warnings to their masters that went unheeded.

The slavers felt they needed no dogs to take down a single young man. In their hubris, they decided they would get the young man themselves!

Their boss led the charge and at the boy they came rushing on! Their thinking? To make an awful example of the first of these people who dared challenge them! They circled him and demanded the name of the young man, but he did not answer. In truth, he had forgotten it. They demanded the villagers tell them who he was, but no one there had ever seen him!

The young man, bolstered by his love of Luna and his love of the people of the One Village, stood before the slaver boss and grinned. And his was a wide, wide smile.

"You are black!" shouted the boss pointing at the youth's skin. But the youth shook his head.

"You are Junglese!" the boss used the term he knew to identify people of the jungle. But again the youth shook his head.

"What manner of man are you then?!"

The youth's eyes grew wide. Very wide. The boss's eyes did too as they stared at one another. The boy answered.

"I am... Blackanese!"

The slavers howled in laughter for they had never heard of such a thing. But now the young man had all of their attention which is what he wanted.

"You must leave," commanded the young man. Now his voice was very deep, very man-like, especially for a dark-skinned heavy-set lad. "You must leave now or you will not like what will happen to you."

"You dare command me?! Learn your place!" screamed the boss and he and all of his men rushed at the young man!

Accounts of what happened after this moment differ. Ask one, she will tell you that the gods themselves heard their prayers. Ask another, and he will tell you that he never imagined that the young man had been with the One village all along. Ask the slavers? They will likely tell you, each in their own way, that they came to the wrong village. Had they known, they would have never set foot near it nor told another soul. They would have done their utmost to forget the One village and strike this memory from their brains as best they could.

Perhaps the young man himself could tell it best. One moment, the slavers were leaping at him. He was smiling. Giggling. He leaped high into the air and when he looked down, he was above the huddle of the slavers.

There was a transformation.

And when the young man came down, there was a tremendous crash. Then silence. He looked down at the bushes. They seemed much smaller now. The trees waved up at him. They seemed smaller too. He looked down at his four huge feet, back at his great lashing fluffy tail, and he unconsciously licked one paw to smooth back whiskers longer than young saplings. He did not miss the absolutely flabbergasted looks of all of the people that gazed upon his mighty majestic form - or the dozen hardly-able-to-breathe slavers whom the young man-turned-gigantic-cat was now sitting upon. Indeed, he was sitting on all of them!

The slavers had no idea such a gigantic housecat had ever existed. The people of the One Village had no idea that the tiny kitten with whom they had invested so much love and care could also inhabit the now-very-well fed form of a muscularly-fat young man. With a big, big smile, the enormous cat flicked away the spears and blowguns of the slavers. Then he stared down at them.

The boss wheezed and whimpered and tried to wiggle out from underneath the humongous cat's body, but it was not to be. This cat was just too fat! He felt he would die! So he used the one tool he had left - his mouth.

"O Mighty Fat Cat!" he pleaded. "Spare us and we will flee this village never to return!"

"MRRRROWR?" replied the newly-named humongous cat. He was very expressive as he shook his huge smiling head. It became clear to all that this offer was not enough.

"O Mighty Fat Cat!" the boss blubbered. "Let us go and we will leave you all of our valuables and tell no one of your home!"

"BR-R-R-R-OWWRR?" The answer was no.

"What?! Fine! OOOOH MIGHTY FAT CAT!" he cried. "Release us and... we will do all that I have declared and we all promise to give up slavery! We will become hunters and hunt only the proper animals for our trade! Right, men? Promise him now!" Every one of his slavers-become-hunters eagerly agreed and nodded wholeheartedly.

"MMMMMRRRROWW?"

"That STILL isn't good enough?"

The biggest cat of the jungle just smiled and slowly shook his head. Now even the villagers wondered what the slavers had to agree to.

Finally, O Mighty Fat Cat looked down at the boss. With one huge paw, he patted his big furry belly.

"What?" the boss looked about, his face twisted up in confusion. He turned to the villagers. "What does he want? Someone tell me! Tell me!!"

A moment later, all things had changed.

The astonished villagers looked on. Now they had the spears, bows, and blowguns though they did not need threaten anyone with them. The villagers instead pointed and jeered and held their bellies as their great laughter filled the jungle! And why not? There, on his back, smiling, enormous, and unchallengeable lay O Mighty Fat Cat! His big feet clawed the air in delight and he purred up such a sound as to delight all who heard this contagious sound...

... with the exception of the now-weaponless hunters forced to rub his soft furry belly in front of everyone! Scowling, grimacing, and unable to bear this public humiliation, the boss of the hunters looked to his busy men and swore upon his very soul. "IF ANY OF YOU BREATHE A WORD OF THIS TO ANYONE, I WILL HAVE YOU BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE!"

"You had better not!" cried the villagers. "Or we will tell everyone we see of this moment!"

"NOOO!" the belly-rubbing hunters cringed. "PLEASE NOOO!"

One of their number looked over. "I dunno, boss," looking down as he worked upon O Mighty Fat Cat's warm and soft fur, he gave a goofy grin. "Dis isn't so bad, is it?"

"SHUT! UP!" the boss shouted at him, "AND KEEP RUBBING!"

That moon-filled night, a great and wonderful purring was heard throughout the entire jungle. It was so loud and true that nearly all creatures who heard it were filled with peace and playfulness and thoughts of happiness. The whole Edge of the Wyld giggled. It is said even the crescent moon hanging in the night sky seemed to become one big heavenly smile.

The end. =)
Something to wonder a little about: Are "fire wands" and "devil casters" the same things?

Sherwood · Dec 18, 2022

Name: Amara Kaji
Age: 36
Caste: Dawn
Supernal Ability: Brawl/Martial Arts

Attributes
Str: 3
Dex: 5
Sta: 3

Cha: 4
Man: 1
App: 2

Per: 3
Int: 2
Wits: 5

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

Specialties
Awareness - Join Battle
Dodge - Evasion
Martial Arts - Swords
Thrown - Blades
Artifact Armor - Kaijin: 3
Artifact Sword - Destiny: 5
Artifact - Endless Change Purse: 3
--Resources 3/Salary: 1 (from Endless Change Purse)
Hearthstone - Stone of Resilient Bamboo: 2
Languages - Forest-tongue, Flametongue, Riverspeak: 2
Martial Arts: 4 - Single Point Shining Into the Void Style

Artifact - Fire Dancer Starmetal Hearthstone Bracers
Artifact - Future Sight Jade Boots

Flaw: Amputee - Missing Right Arm
Flaw: One Eye

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 tells a lie, deliberately deceives someone, or breaks a sworn oath.

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

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

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

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

Cost: 3m; Mins: Athletics 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar draws Essence through her pores and into her bones, suffusing and lightening her form and steadying her step. For the rest of the scene, she has perfect balance, and can stand or run on things too narrow or weak to support her normally, with no chance of falling or breaking through. She can run on a guy wire, stand on a crumbling parapet, balance on the tip of a pine tree, and perform many similar feats without needing to roll (Dexterity + Athletics).

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.

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: 2m; Mins: Melee 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
With speed and grace, the Exalt flashes to her own defense. Even when she is beleaguered she strikes away blows with preternatural accuracy. The Solar can ignore all penalties to parry an attack with her full Defense. In addition, any attack she successfully parries with Dipping Swallow Defense grants her one point of Initiative. This Charm cannot by itself remove the penalties from a surprise attack.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Until next turn
Prerequisite Charms: Dipping Swallow Defense
The Solar’s mastery of defensive Essence flows guides her weapon to intercept all blows. Until her next turn, the Lawgiver ignores all penalties to her Parry Defense. The Chosen’s definitive guard dampens her foes’ strikes. Any damage roll made against the Solar takes a -1 penalty for each 1 rolled on the attack roll, up to a maximum of the Solar’s Essence rating.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Melee 5, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Bulwark Stance
Accepting no form of defeat, the Solar gazes along the edge of her blade and sees what it would see. The ebb and flow of battle becomes clear to her; she sees the arcs of incoming attacks as glowing trails of Essence, and moves with impossible, fluid speed to strike the path of all harm. For a full scene, the Exalt may ignore certain penalties to
her Parry Defense and reduce the cost to use Bulwark Stance by two motes and Dipping Swallow Defense by one. In addition, when she uses Dipping Swallow Defense, it raises her Parry Defense by one.

Resistance

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

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

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

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

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

Survival

Cost: 5m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through the use of this Charm, the Solar becomes able to survive in even the most hostile conditions without special preparation. This Charm negates all environmental penalties to Survival rolls and eliminates the deleterious effects of exposure to extreme climates. The coldest glacier and the hottest desert are no more deadly to the Solar than the gentlest rolling plain. She ignores inclement weather even when lightly dressed, and does not suffer undue blisters, bug bites or plant poison even when walking barefoot through the jungle. This Charm does not protect the Exalt against environmental damage.
In addition, Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit lowers the difficulty to forage and find shelter by 2, to a minimum of 1.
Single Point Shining Into the Void Style
Single Point Shining Into the Void is a sword style that emphasizes blinding speed and deadly-perfect finishing moves. Students learn to draw their blade as though it were an extension of their own body, transitioning effortlessly from the draw to a strike or parry. When a master duels a lesser swordsman, the fight often ends in a single stroke, the blade sheathed almost in the same instant it’s drawn. When faced against a foe who matches her in skill, the Single Point stylist fights with swift blows and an almost meditative focus, seeking the single moment of weakness in her foe’s defenses that will allow her to slash through him entirely.
Single Point Shining Into the Void Weapons: This style uses slashing swords and their artifact equivalents, reaper daiklaves, delivering lightning-fast attacks from the draw.
It cannot be used unarmed.
Armor: This style is compatible with light and medium armor.

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

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

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

Cost: 8m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Clash, Decisive-only, Mastery, Terrestrial
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Single Point Shining Into the Void Form
Moving without the least sign of effort, the swordsman repels the blows of her attackers in a flash of steel before sheathing her sword, as if to seal away the wasted force of their strikes. Horizon-Swallowed Star Flash allows the martial artist to make a reflexive clash attack. A successful attack grants Initiative equal to her extra successes, up to a maximum of her Wits. This Initiative is added before calculating the raw damage of the attack. While this style’s form is active, the stylist chooses whether to use her Initiative pool or her sword’s when making this clash attack. If she clashes, and then in the same round uses the other Initiative pool to make a decisive attack against the same enemy, that attack also receives the +1 damage bonus of being a clash attack. This combination move is known as the Shattered Mirror Nova-Strike.
Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood treats the clash attack granted by this Charm as her attack action for the round, and cannot make another. If she has already attacked this round, then it counts as her attack for her next turn.
Mastery: The martial artist’s attacker loses Initiative equal to the amount that the swordsman gains with this Charm.
Health Levels
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Willpower: 9
Essence: 2
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 40 / 21
Committed: 19

Join Battle: 9 +3i
Form Charm Join Battle: 11

Parry: 6
Evasion: 4
Resolve: 2
Guile: 1

Natural Soak: 3
Armored Soak: +8, Hardness 7
Hearthstone Soak: 2
Total Soak: 13

Weapons
Destiny
Attunement: 5m
Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 3)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced

Evocations of Destiny
A user of Destiny may change the result of one die on an attack or damage roll, moving it up or down one digit. For example if a player rolls seven dice with the results “5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 2, 10,” they can change one of the dieʼs digits. In the above example, they might change the “6” up one digit to a “7” thus adding an additional successes. The magic of Destinyʼs evocations directly relates to the numbers rolled on dice. As such some players may also choose to decrease a number rolled.

When a player rolls their attack and it has three “7s” the user increases their weapon parry by 1 for three actions. Should they roll three “7s” again they may increase their parry by an additional 1, to a maximum of their (Melee or Martial Artist, whichever skill they use with Destiny), or extend the duration by 1 action, to a maximum of five actions.

Evocations of Fire Dancer
A user of Fire Dancer may place one of their Intimacies, which must be Defining, as their “innermost desire”. While the Intimacy is set and Fire Dancer is worn the user increases their Withering Damage by 4 when fighting for a cause related to the Intimacy.

You can spend Willpower points to do the following things:
• Add one automatic success to a single roll. You can only spend one Willpower point per roll this way, and you must spend it before you make the roll.
• Increase a single static value (such as Defense or Resolve) by 1. You can only spend one Willpower point per opposing roll, and you must do so before your opponent’s player rolls.
• Reject certain kinds of social influence (see Chapter Five).
• Use a Charm that costs Willpower.

• One-Point Stunts: The benefits of stunting are simple: any rolled action enhanced by a stunt gains two extra dice. If the stunted action is the application of a static value (such as using Defense to block an opponent’s leaping sword slash), then that static value rises by 1. Players should be able to use a one-point stunt on almost every action.
• Two-Point Stunts: A two-point stunt stands above and beyond other stunts. These are intended to be less common than one-point stunts; to be a two-point stunt, the action needs to stand out memorably as a highlight of the scene.
Exceptional stunts on rolled actions are rewarded with two extra dice and one automatic success. Exceptional stunts on static value applications raise the static value by 2. A player might get two or three of these in an evening of play. Whenever a player describes a two-point stunt, her character gains a point of Willpower, up to a maximum of her permanent Willpower rating.
Crafter: Jovita Korad
User: Jovita Korad, Tesni Summersky
An inscription can be seen on the side of the blade written in Old Realm reading, “Flesh is far easier cut than steel.” This starmetal reaper daiklave has an infamous past full of murder and betrayal. Forged during the First Age from an exceptionally auspicious meteorite, Destiny has seen many wielders over the ages.
Its lore and infamy, however, come from its original user and smith Jovita Korad. The Endings Caste Sidereal spent a good deal of his time considering the reasons behind the design of the human body. He would often engage in philosophical debates with the greatest exalted minds of the age on all manner of subjects, but human form was his specialty.
One day he told a gathered group of scholars that he had found the answer and presented them with Destiny and its sister sword, Exile. He then proceeded to slaughter all the attendees while reciting his reasoning of why humans were made of flesh. Once he had killed the last man, he wiped the blood from his weapon and stated “Flesh is far easier to cut than steel.”
Naturally a manhunt was set to capture the rogue exalted and bring him to justice. However, Jovita surrendered himself willingly. He turned over documents pertaining to each scholar's misdeeds ranging from child abuse, to rape, to human experimentation, and even to consorting with the enemies of Creation. Many of the scholars were exalts themselves and such knowledge coming to light would have been damning. His life was spared but he was exiled beyond Creationʼs borders.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 3)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Second Deliberative Era

Evocations of Destiny
Destiny has a muted shine as if it was asked to suppress its true splendor. In the right starlight, however, one can see a purple glimmer from its form. It holds a single hearthstone just above the cross guard. A user of Destiny may change the result of one die on an attack or damage roll, moving it up or down one digit. For example if a player rolls seven dice with the results “5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 2, 10,” they can change one of the dieʼs digits. In the above example, they might change the “6” up one digit to a “7” thus adding an additional successes. The magic of Destinyʼs evocations directly relates to the numbers rolled on dice. As such some players may also choose to decrease a number rolled.

Cost: -;Min: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keyword: Uniform, Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: None
As the blades were unveiled, many in the audience were spellbound by their beauty. The starmetal reflected the light of the Unconquered Sun breaking it into a rainbow. Other more paranoid members saw the weapons as a threat to life and limb, and rightly so. The paranoid onlookers came at Jovita with a fury only desperate men and women could muster. All the same, he turned their blades.
When a player rolls their attack and it has three “7s” the user increases their weapon parry by 1 for three actions. Should they roll three “7s” again they may increase their parry by an additional 1, to a maximum of their (Melee or Martial Artist, whichever skill they use with Destiny), or extend the duration by 1 action, to a maximum of five actions.
At Essence 3, should they roll six “7s” the user may spend 1 mote to trigger this evocation twice.
At Essence 5, should they roll nine “7s” the user may spend 3 motes (1 + 2) to trigger this evocation three times.
Resonant: A character resonant with Starmetal who rolls three “7s” twice, or more, may increase both their Parry by 1 and the number of turned it is active.

Cost: -;Min: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keyword: Dual, Resonant, Dissonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: Steel Deflects Steel
Jovita spent years, in some cases decades, collecting evidence that his “noble” peers were actually horrific monsters. He studied them, always the philosopher and doctor, never the assassin. In doing so he gained their trust and found their weakness. On a withering attack after a player has rolled their attack, but before it is reported, they add their Essence to their overwhelming. They can do this if the attack roll has “7”, “8”, “9”, and “10”. On a Decisive attack the damage roll gains double 10s.
Dissonant: A character dissonant with Starmetal only gains double tens on Essence damage dice.
Resonant: A Character resonant with Starmetal need only have 3 of the 4 numbers consecutively to activate this ability. For example, “7, 8, 9” or “8, 9, 10”.

Cost: 4m; Min: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keyword: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Gaps in the Armor
Jovita practiced the esoteric Sidereal Martial Arts in secret, training himself for the day he would strike. He made sure that only his most trusted friends knew of his martial prowess, lest his prey become wary. On that destined day he unveiled his true skill and parried with a mastery of sword that none expected.
On a Withering attack roll, if the player rolls three “8s” they may choose to spend 4 motes and gain a second attack on the same target after the first resolves. Their second attack may be Withering or Deceive. This Evocation may only be activated two times in any one turn. On a Decisive attack roll, should the player roll three “8s” the user may spend 4 motes and make a second damage roll equal to half their original damage roll.

Cost: -;Min: Essence 3
Type: Permanent, Dissonant, Resonant
Keyword: Decisive-only
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: Once Hit Twice Cut
Jovita cut down Solar and Lunar the same. He slew Dragon Blooded and Sidereal without prejudice. All that mattered in the moment was ending wickedness. He did so with the efficiency of an automaton, almost as if he knew the consequence of every action.
Should a player roll four “10s” on a Decisive attack they may refund the mote cost of any one charm or evocation used on that attack.
Dissonant: A character dissonant with Starmetal may only apply this Evocation to Essence 3 or lower Charms and Evocations.
Resonant: A character Resonant with starmetal who rolls 5+ “10s” may refunds the mote cost of any two Charms and/or Evocations.

Cost: 3m, 2w; Min: Essence 4
Type: Simple
Keyword: None
Duration: Scene
Prerequisite: Efficiency of Auspicious Action
Jovita orchestrated the slaughter as if it were an elegant play; maybe even a tribute to Saturn herself. Each victim was an actor in his or her own tragedy, with Jovita as the triumphant protagonist at centerstage. So it was preformed and so Destiny, and the Loom of Fate, recorded it. The player may enhance the basic ability of Destiny to now affect up to (Essence) dice. It costs 3 motes to change the digit of a die after the first time.
This power is explicitly incompatible with Efficiency of Auspicious Action. If a play buys 10s those motes are not refunded, however motes on other Evocations or Charms are.

Cost:-; Min: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keyword: Uniform
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: Steel Deflects Steel
Destiny was not the only blade that Jovita forged for this event. He knew that if he was to undertake this path, at the end was death or exile. As such, he forged Exile.
Should a user have Exile they may apply any of the evocations of Destiny to enhance Exile and vice versa.
In addition if the user rolls three “9s” on an attack they may reroll any “10s” on their damage roll.

Cost: 3m; Min: Essence 4
Type: Reflexive
Keyword: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Steel Deflects Steel
A century after Jovita died, a young Solar exploring beyond Creation recovered Destiny. Her name was Tesni Summersky. With Destiny she returned home to the South of Creation where she took charge of a small kingdom. Troubled by the swordʼs past as a weapon of assassination, she sought to alter its morality. Tesni used it to aid her circle mates and harm her adversaries.
Once learned, Redeemed Blade enhances Destinyʼs basic ability and allows it to affect the allies the user has a positive intimacy for. Alternately if they have a negative intimacy for an adversary, the user may affect them as well. Should the user know Redeemed Blade and Forgone Conclusion they may use Redeemed Blade multiple times but are still limited by their Essence times.

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

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

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

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

User: Irena Blueglass
Crafter: Bling
Era: The Time Before
An interesting item originally owned by a god of wealth, named Bling, who died well before the start of the First Age. Over the centuries it found its way into the hands of the Sidereal Exalted passed from a mentor to their student. The last exalted to use it was Irena Blueglass, a Chosen of Serenity. Endless Change Purse was lost when Irena died during the Usurpation.
Should anyone find it in the age of Sorrow they will find that their fiscal needs are no more.
Once attuned, and only while attuned, the userʼs destiny has a new thread attached to it. Heaven recognizes them as member of the Celestial Bureaucracy that needs to be paid. They gain one point of the Salary Merit (Resources Merit 3).
Resonant: A character resonant with Starmetal may also make one Salary 3 (Resources 5) purchase once per Season. After being used this way the user must wait a month before they may pull any wealth from Endless Change Purse.
Attuning Endless Change Purse costs 3 motes.

Keywords: None
This stone gleams the pale green of young bamboo leaves. When its bearer sockets it in an attuned artifact and commits one mote, it helps shrug off minor injuries. She adds two to her soak, can parry lethal attacks unarmed without a stunt, and halves healing times for bashing damage.

Future Sight (White Jade Boots ***) User: Zan, Kendra
Smith: Zan
Era: War of the Gods
These boots were built and named during the Godʼs War. After the war it became increasingly more difficult to create or use time dilation magics. Zan first used them to give himself more time to learn from the Jadeborn. Later on he used them to make more gear in a day than would be normally possible.
However, Future Sight took on a much different use after the war had ended. With time dilation all but impossible, they sat on Zanʼs workshop shelf for several decades. They were passed on to a promising young student named Kendra. Kendra watched Zan reforged them with plates of white Jade to aid the young terrestrial in her duties to the Realm.

Evocation of Future Sight
The user of Future Sight no longer tires from travel on foot, be that a forced march across desert or a slow push through dense forest (they can still be fatigued by exertion, such as combat). Their feet never get cold or hot and are never swollen or blistered.
Future Sight costs 5 motes to attune.

Cost: -;Min: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keyword: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: none
Future Sight significantly improves the userʼs speed on foot. While walking the user can cover 10 miles an hour, if they run they can cover 30 miles an hour, terrain permitting. When used in combat the user is considered to have a +2 Speed Bonus as if mounted. Often allowing them to run down all but the fastest of mounts.

Cost: 3 or 4m per hl; Min: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keyword: Dissonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Long Haul
After decades Zan managed to get some of the original time dilation of Future Sight working again. It manifested in a very odd way but still
proved useful, especially since Kendra was a poor healer. The user of Future Sight may borrow health from their future self.
At the cost of 3 motes per Bashing or 4 motes per Lethal the user may heal themselves. This comes with a cost- for every Health Level healed they replace one die in their dice pools with an inauspicious die. Every “1” rolled by an inauspicious die subtracts one success from the roll. This can cause the roll to fail or botch. These dice remain in the userʼs die pool until they roll a “1”.
Dissonant: A character dissonant with Jade also subtracts one success on the roll of a “2” on an inauspicious die. This removes the die from their pool as well.

(Starmetal Hearthstone Bracers ***) User: Josse Martinus
Smith: Josse Martinus
Era: Dreams of the First Age
Originally planned to be a simple modification of Hearthstone bracers, Fire Dancer took on a life of its own as Josse forged it. The young Battles Castes Sidereal originally just wished for a set of bracers that could hold two heartstones, but during his labor he poured his hopes and dreams into Fire Dancerʼs creation.
Each night he would slave away at the forge speaking to Fire Dancer as if the pair were a person telling the bracers of the world and where he would take them. Together they would dance the night away on both the battlefield and the ballroom to keep Creation safe.

Evocations of Fire Dancer
A user of Fire Dancer may place one of their Intimacies, which must be Defining, as their “innermost desire”. While the Intimacy is set and Fire Dancer is worn the user increases their Withering Damage by 4 when fighting for a cause related to the Intimacy.
Equally, while set the Intimacy is blatantly obvious to any observer. A character that has “Love of my wife” set so cannot hide that Tie. The chosen Intimacy cannot be used to defend against social actions while connected to Fire Dancer.
It costs 4 motes to attune Fire Dancer which has two hearthstone sockets placed on the forearms lined by an etching of dancing couples.

Cost: -;Min: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keyword: -
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: None
Josseʼs musings and overly romanticized creation of Fire Dancer along with his auspicious nature bleeds through.
The user rolls at target number 6 for Performance and gains the Specialty “Dance” while wearing Fire Dancer.

++These Evocations are not paid for yet++
Defining Principle: I am my own master
Defining Principle: I will be the greatest swordsman of this Age.
Major Principle: I place my trust in my own skills and instincts.
Major Tie: The Immaculate Order (Disgust)
Major Tie: The Circle (Loyalty)
Minor Tie: The Unconquered Sun (Devotion)
Minor Tie: Jessup Oleg (owes a debt)
Minor Tie: The Realm (Hatred)

Amara was born in the city of Chiaroscuro to a poor family that could barely afford to raise her. In order to be able to give Amara a chance at life, her sad parents sold the youngster to a local businessman that runs a stable of gladiatorial fighters. The feisty young woman was simply a servant at first, but as she worked, she would watch the swordsmen practice. Soon enough, she started to pester the arms master to help her learn how to use a sword, and after a while she actually became pretty good; well enough to hold her own in matches with a good number of her fellow gladiators.

As a fighter, she earned better food and accommodations than what she had as a simple servant, so she dove into the ring with gusto, enjoying the thrill of battle and the roar of the crowd.

It was in the arena that Amara nearly died, and at the same time, reached her Exalted status. One of fighters had a personal grudge against Amara, and decided to fight dirty and cripple the woman. With a nasty swing of his sword, he nearly takes off half of her face, ruining her eye and giving her a wicked scar. Then as she is struggling to see from her one good eye, Amara's opponent slices off her right arm, just below the shoulder!

A lesser warrior would have simply given into the grievous wound and probably have bled to death. But Amara, reaches down and yanks her sword from the hand of her severed arm and with a sudden surge of power, she explodes in light as she impales the other fighter through his heart, killing him instantly. At this point, Amara collapses in the dirt, holding the bleeding stump of her arm even as the blood flow slowly eased off.

Her owner, Jessup, was no fan of the Immaculate Order, and he manages to spirit her away from the arena and let her go off into the night to escape the Wyld Hunt. Over the next few years, Amara was able to seek out the final resting place of one of the old Solars from the First Age, and was able to recover the armor and weapon that was interred with him. She now is on the move, keeping one step ahead of the Hunt in her efforts to build up her power and become the greatest swordsman of this Age.
Trait Experience Cost
Attribute increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase - current rating x 2
Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x 2) -1
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit new rating - x 3
Willpower - 8
Solar Charm - 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm - 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell - 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation - 10

Xp Earned: 60
Xp Banked: 1
Solar Xp Banked: 1

Wish List
Soaring Crane Leap - E1, Athletics 3, pg 261

Summoning the Loyal Steel - E1, Melee 3, pg 349
Solar Counterattack - E1, Melee 4, pg 347

Six-Demon Scabbard Binding - MA 5, pg 437
Blinding Nova Flare - MA 5, pg 437

Evocations

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Chowlett

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