Dice The Redux of the Tale of a Falling Empire - Characters

jaydude · Jul 5, 2021

Characters start with the Essence 2 Advancement template:

Motes: 7
Attributes: Assign one 4 and two 3s
Abilities: Assign one 5, one 4, six 3s, one 1
Charms: 9 Charms
Merits: Pick a primary, secondary, and two tertiary Merits

Minor Milestones: 2

Major Milestones: 1

Personal Milestones:
Manato: 0
Taeran: 1
Kitava: 1
Ferela: 1
Jontom: 0

Exalt Milestones:
Manato: 0
Taeran: 0
Kitava: 1
Ferela: 0
Jontom: 0

Milestone guide:

Character	Exalt Milestone condition:
Manato (Fire)	Influence a significant character or group to take action with passionate deeds or speeches.
Taeran (Water)	Adapt plans to accommodate a significant change of circumstances.
Kitava (Air)	Take an action toward furthering a long-term goal.
Ferela (Water)	Adapt plans to accommodate a significant change of circumstances.
Jontom (Air)	Take an action toward furthering a long-term goal.

Rykon · Jul 7, 2021

Name: Tepet Manato
Age: 34
Aspect: Fire
Concept: Garrison Commander
Secondary School: House of Bells

Lineage
Father: Tepet Sojiro, Dragonlord of the 1st Tepet Legion, Fire Aspect
Mother: Yushoto Yune, Lookshy Expatriate Physician, Wood Aspect
Force ●●●●
Finesse ●●●
Fortitude ●●●

Awareness ●●●
Athletics ●●●
Close Combat ●●●●●
Craft
Embassy
Integrity
Navigate ●●●
Performance ●●●
Physique ●●●
Presence ●●●
Ranged Combat
Sagacity
Stealth ●
War ●●●●
Primary-Artifact ●●●●● Volcano Cutter
Secondary Command ●●●●
Tertiary Influence ●●
Tertiary Resources ●●
Excellencies

Prerequisite: [Ability] 1

Whatever the Exalt attempts, she does so with superhuman ability.

When purchasing this Charm, choose an Ability. Spend 1 mote. This applies on Step 1 during combat. Outside of combat, this may be used to boost passive values. Add that Ability as a dice bonus to an applicable roll involving the chosen Ability. You may add Close Combat dice to Close Combat attacks, or add Integrity dice to Integrity rolls to resist the sway of a Deathlord, but may not use Stealth dice to add to a Close Combat attack or Ranged Combat to add dice to a Navigation roll. This Charm may be purchased more than once, but you must choose a different Ability every time.

Athletics

Prerequisite: Athletics 2
The Exalt leaps with speed and grace, carrying them soaring into the air, or from rooftop to
rooftop.

The Exalt may leap vertically one range band into the air as a movement action. Additionally, she may leap forward horizontally to leap across rooftops, move stylishly through the air, and avoid appropriate hazards and obstacles, bypassing them without a roll.

Soaring Crane Leap (Upgrade, Athletics 4, Essence 2): Striking an efficacious pose, the Exalt catches the wind to slow a fall. Commit 1 mote for one scene. While active, the Exalt floats, she may choose to fall only one range bands per round, she is immune to fall damage, and she may use her reflexive movement action to float one range band across while airborne.

Mountain-Crossing Leap Technique (Upgrade, Athletics 5, Essence 3): The Exalt infuses her legs with great spiritual pressure to launch into the sky, surmounting mountains, or striking foes among the clouds. Spend two motes to leap forward three range bands, or two into the sky straight above as a simple movement action which can be flurried. When jumping upward, she may remain at the apex of her jump long enough to take her combat action before falling back to the ground. Upon landing, the Exalt ignores falling damage and craters the ground where she lands, knocking prone all extras within close range and damaging the ground below her.

Effortlessly Rising Flame (Dragon-Blooded): A burst of flame sends the Dragon-Blooded
soaring. The Exalt may reflexively rise from prone when this Charm is activated.

Close Combat Offense

Prerequisite: Close Combat 3

The Exalt’s strikes find their mark regardless of any obstacles.

Spend 1 mote on Step 3. Double the extra successes after applying Defense but before any bonus successes are applied. Additionally, remove all penalties hindering a single Close Combat attack.

Close Combat Defense

Prerequisite: Close Combat 4 or Integrity 4

It is the prerogative of the Exalted to stand vigil over those she holds dear, standing between them and all harm.

Commit 1 mote for the scene. The Exalt may take reflexive Defend Other actions on behalf of another character within close range.Special: This Charm may be used in response to an attack on Step 2

Hearth-Defending Vigil (Dragon-Blooded): While defending a member of their hearth, spend 1 additional mote on Step 2 to ignore all penalties to Defense for a single action.

Prerequisites: Close Combat 3

The Exalt moves with purpose, firmly barring the way of an attack.

When attacked, spend 2 motes on Step 2. On Step 4, roll your choice of Attribute + Close Combat, and add your successes to your Defense against the attack.

Performance

Prerequisites: Performance 2

The Exalt’s music invigorates the hearts of those around her, urging them to bold action.

Commit 1 mote. Treat all Minor Intimacies belonging to characters who can hear the Exalt as Major Intimacies instead for the duration of the Exalt’s performance. All influenced characters are additionally immune to fear-based effects. While using this Charm, the Exalt can’t flurry; she must focus on her art.

Prerequisite: Embassy 3 or Performance 3

The Dragon-Blood speaks into the wind, sending their voice afar on subtle currents of air.

Spend 1 mote. The Exalt may send a spoken message of no more than a few sentences to a chosen target within the same narrative location (such as a town or city). The message cannot be overheard or intercepted by mundane means. Magical attempts to do are made at Difficulty 7. To reach their hearthmates, the Exalt may send a message much further such as a neighboring city or town.

Dragon’s Voice Mastery (Upgrade, Embassy or Performance 5, Essence 3): The target may be in a neighboring location. Hearthmates need only be in the same Direction.

Special: Using this Charm allows the Exalt to access Air aura.

Physique

Prerequisite: Physique 3

The Exalt’s impressive strength and stamina makes her at home in her armor, even in the direst circumstances.

An Exalt with this Charm no longer suffers a mobility penalty from wearing armor, and is as comfortable in full plate as they are in silken pajamas. They suffer no additional penalties for taking physical actions (such as running, climbing, or swimming) while wearing armor.

Prerequisite: None

By virtue of her Exalted health, the character endures greater levels of injury.

The Exalt gains an additional -1 level. This may be purchased a number of times equal to the character’s Physique.

Dragon-Blooded: The Exalt gains an additional -2 Health Level.

War

Prerequisite: War 3

The Exalt may quickly train even the most inveterate militia into a fighting force to be reckoned with.

Commit 2 motes for a scene. With a dramatic scene of drilling and instruction, a group of noncombatants or conscripts can be trained to fight competently; they become a battle group of conscripts (p. xx) with Size equal to the amount of people trained and Regular Drill. As an unrolled Recruitment venture, the Exalt may spend a week of downtime or one session involving a dramatic scene drilling a unit trained with this Charm, allowing her to select one of the following benefits. Each benefit provided by this Charm can only be applied to a given unit once:
• The conscripts become soldiers (p. xx).
• Gain one additional Outnumber Quality.
• Designate Loyalty to the Exalt, or a target of her choosing as their Minor Virtue.

Divine Army Supremacy (Upgrade, War 5, Essence 3): The Exalt may effortlessly forge any army into a divine weapon with words of wisdom and exemplary demonstration. Training a unit no longer uses one of the Exalt’s ventures. She may also train units of spirits, animals or other non-humans, who retain their characteristics but improve their Drill like a regular unit.
Additional benefits may be selected:
• Gain one additional Outnumber Quality.
• Units with Regular Drill gain Veteran Drill. Units with Veteran Drill gain Elite Drill.
• Designate a specialized enemy, such as creatures of darkness (p. XX), the living, fae, or beastfolk. The unit increases their Drill by the Exalt’s Essence against that type of foe.
• The unit no longer fears death. They possess perfect morale (p. xx). Requires at least Veteran Drill.

Prerequisite: War 3

The Dragon-Blooded darkens the horizon with thunderstorms, gale-force winds or snowfalls that precede their army.

Commit 1 mote. The enacts this Charm as a tactic for a single battle. Enemy battle groups suffer a three-dice environmental penalty on all physical actions taken in combat. Individuals suffer a two-dice penalty instead. Allies are unaffected.

Anathema-Slaying Tempest (Upgrade, Essence 3): The Dragon-Blood commands the skies themselves, calling down bolts of lightning, avalanches and terrible squalls to smite their enemies. If the Exalt possesses 5 Power at the start of a round, they may expend it to inflict a one-time environmental hazard against an enemy battle group with difficulty 5 and Damage equal to Essence + Force, representing a bolt of lightning, avalanche or similar danger.

Special: Using this Charm allows the Exalt to access Air aura.

Evocations

Prerequisite: none

Spend 2 Anima to thrust Volcano Cutter into the ground, creating an eruption point at the wielder’s feet. This eruption point is an environmental hazard with the stats of a burning building (p. XX), extending through the entirety of his Range band and lasting the scene, or until she uses Pregnant Flame Exhumation or Pyroclastic Holocaust Judgment. When an eruption point successfully damages a significant enemy or battle group, the wielder gains one Power.

Resonant: The wielder ignores damage from eruption points while she holds Volcano Cutter
Virtues
Major-Courage
Minor-Wonder

Intimacies
TBD

Parry: 6
Evasion: 3

Volcano Cutter (Red Jade Grand Daiklave)
Accuracy +1, Damage +2, Defense +1, Overwhelming 3

Soak: 2 (+4 Reinforced Breastplate)
Hardness: 2

Health Levels
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-1 [ ] [ ] [ ]
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Incap [ ]

WlfSamurai · Jul 7, 2021

Name: Ragara Neva Taeran
Age: 22
Aspect: Water
Concept: Spy/Assassin
Secondary School: House of Bells
Force ●●●
Finesse ●●●●
Fortitude ●●●

Awareness ●●●
Athletics ●●●
Close Combat ●●●
Craft
Embassy
Integrity ●●●
Navigate ●
Performance
Physique ●●●
Presence ●●●
Ranged Combat ●●●●
Sagacity
Stealth ●●●●●
War
Primary Artifact ●●●●● Silent Death (Black Jade Infinite Chakram): medium range, 2 accuracy, 1 damage, 1 overwhelming

Secondary Artifact ●●● Black jade-lined leather armor (light armor)

Tertiary Contacts ●● (Kandaran criminal underworld)
Tertiary Resources ●●
Excellencies:

Prerequisite: [Ability] 1

Whatever the Exalt attempts, she does so with superhuman ability.

When purchasing this Charm, choose an Ability. Spend 1 mote. This applies on Step 1 during combat. Outside of combat, this may be used to boost passive values. Add that Ability as a dice bonus to an applicable roll involving the chosen Ability. You may add Close Combat dice to Close Combat attacks, or add Integrity dice to Integrity rolls to resist the sway of a Deathlord, but may not use Stealth dice to add to a Close Combat attack or Ranged Combat to add dice to a Navigation roll. This Charm may be purchased more than once, but you must choose a different Ability every time.

Prerequisite: [Ability] 1

Whatever the Exalt attempts, she does so with superhuman ability.

When purchasing this Charm, choose an Ability. Spend 1 mote. This applies on Step 1 during combat. Outside of combat, this may be used to boost passive values. Add that Ability as a dice bonus to an applicable roll involving the chosen Ability. You may add Close Combat dice to Close Combat attacks, or add Integrity dice to Integrity rolls to resist the sway of a Deathlord, but may not use Stealth dice to add to a Close Combat attack or Ranged Combat to add dice to a Navigation roll. This Charm may be purchased more than once, but you must choose a different Ability every time.

Athletics (Evasion):

Prerequisites: Athletics 2

Attacks strike empty space, the Exalt’s dodge so fast as to be nearly imperceptible.

Spend 2 motes on Step 2. On Step 4, roll your choice of Attribute + Athletics, and add your successes to your Defense against the attack.

Athletics (Movement):

Prerequisite: Athletics 1

The Exalt gains perfect balance, able to stand on wire, a crumbling parapet, or the top of a pine tree without issue.

Commit 1 mote. For the rest of the scene, the Exalt can stand on or run along things too narrow or weak to support them normally, with no chance of falling or breaking through. They never have to roll Finesse + Athletics to avoid falling. Increase the cost of the Knockdown gambit by her Essence.

Spider-Foot Style (Upgrade, Athletics 3): The Exalt scales sheer surfaces and even ceilings like a spider, feet bound to all things by inertia and Essence. While Graceful Crane Stance is active, the Exalt may scale sheer surfaces, run across all liquids as if it were solid ground, and even runs upside down along the ceiling. This effect comes to an end when the Exalt stands still.

Perfect Climbing Attitude (Dragon-Blooded): The Exalt may carve handholds from stone or earthen surfaces, allowing them to remain still or for others to climb behind them. Handholds count as exceptional equipment for climbing. The handholds persist while the mote remains committed.

Prerequisite: Athletics 2

The Exalt leaps with speed and grace, carrying them soaring into the air, or from rooftop to rooftop.

The Exalt may leap vertically one range band into the air as a movement action. Additionally, she may leap forward horizontally to leap across rooftops, move stylishly through the air, and avoid appropriate hazards and obstacles, bypassing them without a roll.

Awareness:

Prerequisite: Awareness 3

Detecting an ambush before it happens, the Exalt reacts just in time.

Commit 1 mote. This may be used on Step 1 as a simple action which lasts for the scene or reflexively in response to a surprise attack made against the character on Step 4 by spending 1 mote instead. This negates any non-magical bonuses the attacker may have from making a surprise attack.

Ranged Combat:

Prerequisite: Ranged Combat 2

The Exalt never need fear exhausting her supply of ammunition, for her Essence is a neverending font of it.

Commit 1 mote. For as long as the mote remains committed, the Exalt draws ammunition from her anima. This reduces all Ranged Combat penalties by one, including flurry penalties, to a minimum of zero. No narrative effect can force the Exalt to be out of ammunition.

Resistance:

Prerequisite: None

By virtue of her Exalted health, the character endures greater levels of injury.

The Exalt gains an additional -1 level. This may be purchased a number of times equal to the character’s Physique.

Dragon-Blooded: The Exalt gains an additional -2 Health Level.

Stealth:

Prerequisite: Stealth 2

Quiet the breath. Quiet the heart. Be still. Be silent.

Commit 1 mote. The Exalt doubles 9s on all Stealth rolls to remain undetected. If she didn’t move on her last turn, she doubles 8s instead. This includes the Outmaneuver Build Power action.

Prerequisite: Stealth 3

The Exalt clothes herself in another’s garb, or employs trickery to pass as someone she is not.

Commit 1 mote when assembling a disguise. If this disguise is general (a servant, a trader, a soldier, etc.) it remains impenetrable to mortal senses for as long as the mote remains committed. Resist magical senses with Finesse + Stealth. If the disguise is of a specific person, significant characters may attempt to discover the ruse, resisted by the Exalt’s Finesse + Stealth.
Essence: 2
Motes 7/7

Virtues
Major - Courage
Minor - Discipline

Intimacies
TBD

Defense 4
Parry: 4
Evasion: 4

Attack:
Silent Death (Black Jade Infinite Chakram): medium range, 2 accuracy, 1 damage, 1 overwhelming

Soak: 3 (2 armor)
Hardness: 4

Health Levels
[_][_] 0
[_][_][_] -1
[_][_][_] -2
[_] Incap
Minor Milestones: 2
- Purchased: Reflex Shot Technique
Major Milestones: 1
Personal Milestones: 1
Exalt Milestones: 0

Random Word · Jul 7, 2021

Name: Ragara Neva Kitava
Age: 43
Aspect: Air
Concept: Satrap
Secondary School: The Spiral Academy
Force ●●●●
Finesse ●●●
Fortitude ●●●

Awareness ●●●
Athletics ●●●
Close Combat
Craft ●●●
Embassy ●●●●●
Integrity ●●●
Navigate ●
Performance
Physique
Presence ●●●
Ranged Combat ●●●
Sagacity ●●●●●
Stealth
War
Resources ●●●●
Backing ●●●●● House Ragara
Artifact ●●● Emerald Thurible
From Advantage Tertiary Followers ●● Bureaucrats
Tertiary Influence ●● Kandara
Excellencies
Embassy Excellency
Sagacity Excellency

Embassy

Prerequisite: Embassy 2
The Dragon-Blood diplomat presents her target with the perfect welcoming gift — or the perfect bribe.
When the character offers a gift or a bribe to her target, she gains double 9s so long as the intended social action is persuade or instill (p. XX). No matter the scruples or moral strictures the target character may adhere to, they are never offended by the gift. Where appropriate, the character may also add her dots of Resources to this roll, if a display of wealth would further the cause. While in Fire aura, she may use this Charm to automatically instill a temporary, positive Minor Intimacy to herself, once per scene.

Prerequisite: Embassy 3 or Performance 3
The Dragon-Blood speaks into the wind, sending their voice afar on subtle currents of air.
Spend 1 mote. The Exalt may send a spoken message of no more than a few sentences to a chosen target within the same narrative location (such as a town or city). The message cannot be overheard or intercepted by mundane means. Magical attempts to do are made at Difficulty 7. To reach their hearthmates, the Exalt may send a message much further such as a neighboring city or town.

Dragon’s Voice Mastery (Upgrade, Embassy or Performance 5, Essence 3): The target may be in a neighboring location. Hearthmates need only be in the same Direction.
Special: Using this Charm allows the Exalt to access Air aura.

Prerequisite: Embassy 2
The Exalt storms the labyrinthine halls of bureaucracy, cleaving through all that impedes her.
Spend 1 mote while navigating a bureaucracy. The Exalt chooses one of the following effects to apply to a leadership or bureaucratic venture. She chooses this when she spends the mote:
• Once per session, make a second roll on the venture during an interval, regardless of the time scale involved.
• Reduce the difficulty of a venture roll by one to a minimum of one.
• Ignore the results of cutting corners once per scene.

Prerequisite: Embassy 2 or Integrity 2
The Exalt measures another, and nothing escapes her careful eye.
While interacting with another character, roll Finesse + Embassy. Success grants one question. Note the number of extra successes. During this scene, you may expend one of these successes to ask one of the following questions. If the total number of successes exceeds the number of available questions, the player may improvise additional questions in the spirit of this Charm. The Storyteller will answer truthfully.
• Does the character feel positively, negatively, or neutrally about me?
• Do the character and I share a Virtue?
• Do the character and I share an Intimacy?
• What haven’t I noticed about the character
• How could I get the character to do what I want?
Wise-Eyed Courtier Method (Upgrade, Embassy 4 or Integrity 4): The Exalt gains access to the following questions.
• Who’s really in authority here?
• What do I have that someone here wants?
• What would constitute a grievous faux pas in this circle?
• What grudge is being hidden?
• Who doesn’t belong here?
Blood-to-Blood Intuition (Dragon-Blooded): Dragon-Blooded may ask the following question: How are the character and I related?

Integrity

Prerequisite: Integrity 3
The Exalt’s confidence in her ally’s position lends them the strength to stand firm.
Spend 1 mote and name an ally who is the target of a social action. The Exalt makes a declaration in their friend’s favor. This may be a simple statement of confidence, like “I trust you to do the right thing,” or a deeper conversation, whatever feels appropriate to the scene. Increase the difficulty of the social action by two.
Staunch Ally (Dragon-Blooded): On Step 3 of a social action, the Exalt increases her ally’s Resolve bonus from Integrity to two.

Presence

Prerequisite: Presence 3 or War 3
The Exalt blesses her underlings with a small measure of her own power, greatly increasing
their natural abilities.
Commit 1 mote and designate one of the Exalt’s mortal followers, or commit 2 motes and designate a group. Choose a single Ability. For as long as those motes remain committed, the Exalt’s underlings substitute the Exalt’s rating in that Ability for their own.

Prerequisite: Presence 3
The Exalt embodies magnetism and grace, charming every courtier she meets. No matter her behavior, all people listen when she speaks.
Commit 1 mote for one scene. For the duration, the Exalt may add an automatic success to all social influence, excluding Read Intentions actions. She ignores up to three dice of mundane situational penalties to her social influence actions that arise from her unfamiliarity with customs, fashion, or past actions.
Majestic Radiant Presence (Upgrade, Essence 2): The Exalt’s spirit shines with aspects of glory and terror; enemies hesitate to raise their voice or weapon against her. Commit 1 additional mote. Characters attempting to oppose the Exalt socially or physically must accept a hard bargain (p. XX) to do so. At Active Anima, waive the additional commitment.
Friend-to-All-Nations Attitude (Dragon-Blooded): At home in any land, Dragon-Blooded draw new allies with ease thanks to their princely reputation. Gain two dice on an Instill action to give the target a positive Tie towards the Exalt, her hearthmates, or an organization she belongs to.

Sagacity

Prerequisite: Sagacity 1
The Exalt has internalized the inner workings of Creation’s Essence, giving the power to reshape
the world at its fundament.
The sorcerer gains the ability to learn and cast First Circle Spells. This Charm can be repurchased at Sagacity 3, Essence 3 to gain access to Second Circle Spells. A final repurchase at Sagacity 5, Essence 5 grants access to Third Circle Spells. Not every Exalt can use every circle; see p. XX.
With each purchase of this Charm, the sorcerer also gains a free Spell and shaping ritual.

Prerequisite: Sagacity 4
The Exalt focuses intensely on an item or a place with a hidden nature, using their Essence to divine function and purpose.
Spend 1 mote. The Exalt may automatically divine the purpose and function of a mundane object, a structure, or even the geomancy and advantages of natural terrain. For Artifacts, First Age Artifice and other magical objects and technologies, make a Force + Sagacity roll against difficulty 5 to achieve the same effect. Success may reveal details like the name of an Artifact, its history and previous wielders or momentous events it may have been involved in. If applicable, add their Essence in dice to a single relevant Craft, Navigate or War rolls based on information gleaned from this Charm.
Elemental Truth Observation (Dragon-Blooded): The Essence of jade and the elements whisper their truths to the Dragon-Blooded savant. When studying jade artifacts or terrain that matches the Exalt’s Aspect, this Charm automatically succeeds.

Prerequisite: Sagacity 3
The Exalt is a master instructor able to pass on esoteric truths and incredible talents to their students. Such is their wisdom, they may pass on knowledge that would otherwise take years to learn.
Commit 2 motes for the duration. Treat as a special Research venture with three obstacles and a time scale of scenes each representing a couple days of instruction. Upon completion, the Exalt may select one of the following options for all students:
• Move a single topic from the target’s Tertiary Pool to Secondary.
• Add an additional topic to their Tertiary Pool based on one of the Exalt’s Abilities.
Additionally, the Exalt may give the target a Minor Intimacy towards the Exalt or change the target’s Minor Virtue to one of the Exalt’s own Virtues. This Charm may only affect the same students once per story. The Exalt may instruct up to twice her Essence in students.
Flowing Mind Practice: At Essence 2, the Exalt may select two options with each activation.

Prerequisite: Spirit-Cutting Glance, Sagacity 4 or Awareness 4
The Exalt may gaze into the world’s Essence and unravel the patterns of magic that make up
Creation. The secrets of Creation’s mystical workings, spirit magics, and sorcery are unveiled.
Commit 1 mote for the scene. The Exalt perceives the presence of Essence, including dematerialized spirits and borders between worlds such as the Wyld or shadowlands as gauzy distortions. Attuned artifacts appear as though lit from within, and hearthstones burn like embers. Whenever a character uses Essence to power Charms or any other effects, these are always visible to the user as though the character had an active anima. They may make Force + Sagacity rolls to try to understand spirit magics, sorcerous workings and other strange phenomena like
those produced by demesnes, the Wyld and the Underworld or to identify the use of a Charm. Such effects may have variable difficulty — typically three plus the creator’s Essence or a difficulty modified by the effect’s nature and complexity.
Essence: 2
Motes: 4/7 (2m committed to Underling Promoting Practice, 1m, committed to Harmonious Presence Meditation)

Virtues
Major-Ambition [Awe the Salons of the Imperial City with the brilliance of her Reforms]
Minor-Discipline

Intimacies
Stagnation is Death [Major] [Ambition] - "Everything can be improved, and must be."
Sorcery is the Fulcrum that Moves the World [Major] [Ambition] - "It is the instrument by which we will unlock the secrets of the Realm Before."
Perfection in All Things [Minor] [Discipline] - "To aim for anything less is to disappoint the blood."
House Ragara (Loyalty) [Minor] [Discipline] - "The family was there for me when I needed it. I will be there for the family."
Ragara Neva Taeran (Love) [Minor] [Discipline]

Parry: N/A
Evasion: 4

Soak: 1
Hardness: 4

Health Levels
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-2 [ ] [ ]
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Using Milestones
• A personal Milestone lets you acquire a new Mode or repurchase a Charm. You may also gain, intensify, or change an Intimacy if the story supports it.
• A minor Milestone lets you pick a new Charm, or increase an Ability by +1.
• A major Milestone lets you increase an Attribute by +1, raise an existing Merit, or pick a new Merit. You may also change your Virtues if the story warrants such.
• Exalt Milestones may be used for the benefit of either a personal or minor Milestone, but must be used for Exalt-specific things — such as acquiring a new Exalt Charm, new Mode, or repurchasing an Exalt Charm. If a character would acquire both in the same session of play, they stack.
• Whenever the Circle increases their Essence, each character may choose another Ox Body or Excellency to acquire for free. This includes starting characters at Essence ratings higher than 1.

Personal: 1
- Purchasing Mode Wise-Eyed Courtier Method
Minor: 2
- Sagacity 4 -> 5
- All-Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight
Major: 1
- Resources Tertiary -> Secondary
Exalt: 1
- Charm: Harmonious Academic Methodology

Chowlett · Jul 7, 2021

Name: Ledaal Ferala
Age: 81
Aspect: Water
Concept: Undercover Investigator
Secondary School: The Spiral Academy
Force ●●●
Finesse ●●●●●
Fortitude ●●●

Awareness ●●●●●
Athletics ●●●
Close Combat ●●●●
Craft
Embassy ●●●
Integrity ●●●
Navigate
Performance
Physique ●●●
Presence
Ranged Combat ●
Sagacity ●●●
Stealth ●●●
War
Primary: Artifact ●●●● (Seven-section staff)
Secondary: Contacts ●●● (Underworld)
Tertiary: Artifact ●● (Silk armour)
Tertiary: Familar ●● (Snake)

(From Advantage - one Merit at ●●, changeable)
Advantage: Resources ●●
Anima
(Passive) - Walk on water; move and fight underwater at no penalty
(Active) - Add Essence automatic successes to gambit attempts to Disarm or Pilfer. When an opponent targets her with a grapple or attempts to Ensnare her, add Essence to Defense.
(Iconic) - Once per turn, may roll an attack twice on Step 3 and choose to keep the better result.

Excellencies / Ox Bodies
Ox Body Technique
Awareness Excellency (Spend 1 mote to add Awareness dice to an Awareness roll)
Close-Combat Excellency (Spend 1 mote to add Awareness dice to an Awareness roll)

Athletics

Prerequisite: Finesse 2 or Athletics 2
The Exalt avoids a blow and leaps away, putting space between her and her enemy.
Spend 1 mote after successfully defending against an attack to move one range band as a reflexive action. This is Step 4 unless modified by the mode.
Hopping Firecracker Evasion (Dragon-Blooded): A Dragon-Blooded creates difficult terrain between her and her opponent.

Awareness

Prerequisite: Awareness 3
The Exalt surveys the scene, reconstructing what recently transpired there.
While investigating the evidence of an event, roll Finesse + Awareness. Note the number of extra successes. During this scene, you may expend one success to ask one of the following questions. If the total number of successes exceeds the number of available questions, the player may improvise additional questions in the spirit of this Charm. The Storyteller will answer truthfully.
• What happened here?
• What object was integral to the event?
• How many people were involved?
• When did the event take place?
• How can I identify the responsible party?

Prerequisite: Awareness 3
The Exalt’s persistence grinds away lies to reveal the truth.
When another character knowingly lies to the Exalt, he must make a hard bargain: either the Exalt knows the character is lying, or the character reduces all future dice pools for fooling the Exalt by two. This effect may trigger multiple times per scene, and the reductions stack to a maximum of the Exalt’s Awareness + Essence. At the end of the story, all reductions are reset.

Close Combat

Prerequisite: Close Combat 3
The Exalt blesses her weapon or fists with elemental fury.
Commit 1 mote. For the duration of the scene, the Exalt’s weapon is wrapped in an element matching her aura. At Essence 2, she may bless a Hearthmate’s weapon with this Charm.
Air: Its attacks are deadly cold. When it deals damage, the target suffers a cumulative -1 die penalty to physical rolls for the rest of the scene, to a maximum of -5.
Earth: The weapon grows heavy with the earth’s grace. Increase damage by one.
Fire: Flames surround the blade, empowering the wielder. Increase Overwhelming by one.
Water: The weapon twists and flows. It gains the Flexible tag. If it already has one, gain a bonus die to attack rolls, which does not count toward the limit.
Wood: Reaching vines sprout from it. It gains the Disarming tag. It already has it, gain a bonus die to attack rolls, which does not count toward the limit.
Special: Using this Charm allows the Exalt to access any aura.

The Exalt moves in time with the flow of battle, slipping between swords with dismaying ease.
Commit 1 mote for the scene. The Exalt adds one to her Defense against attacks at close range, and steals 1 Power from her attacker when she successfully defends against such an attack. If the target has no Power to steal, he suffers a two-die penalty to his next attack instead.

Serpent Style

Prerequisites: Close Combat 2, Athletics 1
Ducking and weaving, the Exalt confounds all attackers.
Spend 2 motes on Step 2. Add one to the Exalt’s Defense and two to Soak.
Terrestrial: If the Exalt successfully defends against a decisive attack from an opponent with lower Power, the Exalt gains 1 Power.

Prerequisites: Close Combat 2, Athletics 2, Serpentine Evasion
The Exalt assumes the sinuous and hypnotic movements of the snake, ready for attack and retreat.
Commit 1 mote on Step 1 for the scene. Set the Exalt’s soak equal to half Finesse, round down, before adding soak bonuses from other Charms. Opponents who can see the Exalt suffer a one-die penalty when attacking the Exalt, or a three-die penalty if the Exalt has more Power than them.
Terrestrial: An opponent with less Power than the Exalt loses one soak and one Hardness against the Exalt’s attacks.

Prerequisites: Close Combat 3, Essence 2, Athletics 3, Snake Form
The Exalt lashes out with a serpentine ribbon of Anima, striking an opponent from afar.
The Exalt may make unarmed or form weapon attacks out to short range, including clashes. While in Snake Form, extend this to long range. If the Exalt initiates a grapple with this Charm, they can immediately pull the grappled opponent into close range without needing to utilize the Pull gambit.
Terrestrial: The Exalt may spend 1 mote on Step 3 of an enhanced decisive attack to reduce the opponent’s soak by three.

Stealth

Prerequisite: Stealth 3
The Exalt makes herself approachable, an underworld type like anyone else.
Spend 1 mote. After the Exalt spends a dramatic scene engaging with criminals and gangsters, she spends this mote to create a temporary minor Intimacy to the group. This Intimacy lasts until the character next reaches a minor milestone and may be leveraged, strengthened, or eroded as normal. While she has this Intimacy, members of the group treat her as one of their own without question.

Prerequisite: Stealth 2
The Exalt steps into the shadowy realm of the criminal underworld, wearing deception like a cloak.
Commit 1 mote and choose one of the following modes.
(Special: The character gains all of the modes attached to this Charm upon purchase.)
Familiarity: Appear to be a member of a criminal organization, allowing her to use any appropriate Intimacies to leverage against members of the organization.
Dissonance: Officials attempting to identify or track the Exalt reduce their Awareness and Embassy pools by two.
Vulnerability: Appear vulnerable, attracting those who would take advantage. Lower the target’s Resolve by one whenever you leverage your vulnerability.
Receptivity: Appear to be an interested buyer or patron of criminal activities (drug buyer or seller, gambler, etc). Others will offer appropriate information regarding such activities when asked.

Evocations of Magistrate's Law

Cost: 1 mote
An officer of the law must be alert at all times; both to the hidden undercurrents in a crime scene or witness's statements, and to any who would seek to remove her from the pursuit of justice by violent means.

For 1 mote, the Exalt may reroll 1s on an Awareness roll related to detecting hidden enemies, traps, or any source of harm maliciously placed; or related to investigating an event or when questioning a witness to a crime or other event (as per Crafty Observation Method & Witness Rapport Technique). If at least one 1 is rerolled and becomes a success, the mote is refunded.

Cost: 1 mote
An officer of the law is a beacon of authority, commanding respect from even the most hardened criminal. To willingly harm such a person goes against the very inborn nature of all in society.

For 1 mote, the Exalt may attempt a Reflexive Persuade action (at the minor inconvenience level), convincing the target to honour the Exalt's station. Minor combatants may simply lay down their weapons (at the Storyteller's discretion); any that wish to continue fighting must pay 1 Power each time they attack the Exalt.

Alternatively for 1 mote, the Exalt may attempt a Reflexive Instill action to create a minor Intimacy of respect towards herself. Additional successes may explicitly be used to Strengthen this Intimacy. A combatant with such an Intimacy is at a die penalty on all actions in opposition to the Exalt (1 die for a Minor Intimacy, 2 dice for a Major).

These actions gain double-9s, and have 1 additional automatic success against targets with lower Power than the Exalt.
If made in combat, these actions may be attempted against multiple targets without penalty, so long as all targets are engaging the Exalt in combat. Only one attempt may be made per round.
Resonant: By committing a mote, a Dragon-Blooded wielder may have the combat penalties also apply to attacks against her Hearthmates.

Charms considered for switching in
Flickering Shadow Evasion - 2 motes, roll Att+Athletics and add to defence
Enhanced Senses (x1 or x2) - Double 9s on one or two senses

Prerequisite: Awareness 2 or Embassy 2
The Exalt senses when more powerful people are pulling the strings, and follows the money and favors traded all the way to the top.
Commit 1 mote while investigating a situation. This may be a crime scene, a fraudulent operation, a politician’s activities, or other appropriate subject. The character can exchange successes on relevant Awareness or Embassy rolls to ask the following questions, which the Storyteller must answer truthfully. If the total number of successes exceeds the number of available questions, the player may improvise additional questions in the spirit of this Charm.
• Who does the target work for?
• What is not as it seems?
• Who benefits the most from the actions being investigated?
• Has the target recently come into money — an inheritance from a long-lost relative, a gambling windfall, or other lucky find?
• To whom did the target owe any large debts, whether monetary or in favors owed?
• If the target keeps an accounting ledger, is there a second one tucked away?

Prerequisite: Awareness 3

By examining a person’s possessions, the Exalt learns about the person.

While examining a target’s personal possessions or other evidence associated with them, roll Finesse + Awareness. Note the number of extra successes. During this scene, you may expend one success to ask one of the following questions. If the total number of successes exceeds the number of available questions, the player may improvise additional questions in the spirit of this Charm. The Storyteller will answer truthfully.

• What Intimacy most drives the target?

• What social class does the target belong to?

• How does the target present themself to others?

• What distinctive trait would I notice about the target if I met them?

• What telltale sign does the target leave behind?

Prerequisite: Awareness 2
The Exalt’s deft questioning and formidable presence draws the truth out of witnesses.
Commit 1 mote while questioning a witness to a crime or other interaction. Trivial characters answer all of the Exalt’s questions truthfully. If a non-trivial character attempts to tell a half-truth or leave out information, the Storyteller alerts the player to their obfuscation. This grants the Exalt a bonus success to any further Read Intentions rolls to discern the truth.

Wind-Carried Words Technique - send message within ~city, or further for hearthmates
Elemental Protection Technique - Better Soak and Hardness against Aura element and one other
Essence: 2
Motes: 4/7
Anima: 5 (Burning)

Virtues
Major: Justice
Minor: Courage

Intimacies
Major: "I will see the guilty punished" (Justice)
Minor: "I try to help the mortals not be unduly downtrodden" (Justice)
Minor: The criminal underworld (respect) (Courage)

Resolve base: 4

Weapon: Magistrate's Law - Black Jade and Ebony Seven-Section Staff (Artifact 4 or 5)
Tags: Melee, Artifact, Disarming, Flexible
Accuracy: +1+1=+2
Damage: +1
Defence: +1
Overwhelm: 1+2=3
(Power cost 1 lower for Disarm gambits)
(Ignore Defence bonus from Full Defence. Power cost 1 lower (min 1) for Ensnare gambits)

In its natural combat-ready form, Magistrate's Law is a 4.5 ft long smooth staff of black jade cunningly woven into ebony wood, split into the traditional seven sections, and bearing a slight gleam as of the marble floor of an imposing courtroom. To allow the bearer to not be out of place in any setting, with a thought the staff's appearance can be reconfigured (so long as it retains the rough shape of staff, and is between 2.5 and 7 ft long), whether it be to a long, smooth staff of office with gold filigree, or a short gnarled wooden walking-stick of a wizened old man.

Parry: 4 (half Finesse+CC)
(Evasion: 3)

Soak: 2 (1 base, +1 armour) / 3 in Snake Form
Hardness: 4 (2 base + 2 Essence)

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D. Rex · Jul 7, 2021

Name: Ragara Ramuron
Age: 35
Aspect: Earth
Concept: Body Guard
Secondary School: Paisap's Stair
Force: ●●●
Finesse: ●●●
Fortitude ●●●●

Awareness ●●●
Athletics ●●●
Close Combat ●●●●●
Craft
Embassy
Integrity ●●●
Navigate
Performance
Physique ●●●●
Presence ●●●
Ranged Combat ●●●
Sagacity ●●●
Stealth ●
War
Primary
Five-Jade Fists ●●●●(●)
Light Jade
Tags: Worn, paired, smashing, defensive, artifact
Acc: +2
Damage: 1
Defense: 1
OVW: 3

+1 power from withering attacks
+1 with Full defend or Defend Other
-1 cost to knockback, knockdown

Secondary
Hearthstone ●●●(●)

Tertiary
Resource ●●

Armor ●●
Heavy White Jade
Tags: Worn, Bouyant, Artifact
Soak +5
Hardness +1
Mobility Penalty -2

Aspect: Earth
Earth Aspects are implacable foes on the battlefield, standing firm to defend their allies. Stoic and resilient, they believe in strong foundations and sturdy structures, whether they’re building a community, an architectural marvel, or an imperial legion. What an Earth Aspect builds endures. Their yellow and white animas smell of loam and rumble like the shifting earth. At the iconic level, mountains loom behind them and oxen and rocky dragons plod along in their glow. At the end of each session, Earth Aspects gain an Exalt Milestone if they stood their ground
against a foe.

Anima
A Dragon-Blooded’s elemental Aspect dictates her anima banner’s appearance. It glows with colors associated with that element, and may make the Terrestrial’s own Aspect markings stand out more. At the iconic level it’s accompanied by related sounds and scents, like crackling fire or crashing waves. When a Dragon-Blooded has five or more anima, all characters within close range must make reflexive Physique rolls at a difficulty equal to the Exalt’s Essence plus two or take one level of damage from exposure to raw elemental essence.

Anima Effects
Fury of the Earth (Passive): The Earth Aspect reduces the cost of the knockback or knockdown gambits against Extras (p. XX) to zero. Outside of combat, she may knock an Extra within short range prone or one range band away without making an attack roll.

Pasiap Still Stands (Active): Add the Earth Aspect’s Essence to the cost of grapple, knockback,and knockdown gambits used against them. This cannot make the cost exceed 10.

Unyielding Stone (Iconic): Add the Exalt’s Essence to her Soak for the remainder of the scene. The character cannot be targeted with the knockout or knockdown gambits.
Excellencies
Close Combat Excellency

Charms x9

Awareness

All-Encompassing Earth Sense
Prerequisite: Awareness 3

The Dragon-Blooded can sense the vibrations of a soldier taking a step as easily as a leaf falling from a branch.

Commit 1 mote. The Exalt automatically perceives a hidden danger or concealed character out to medium range as long as they are on the same surface, or no more than one range band above on structures or scenery resting on the ground, such as a roof or a tree branch.

If the target is hidden flawlessly, contest it with a roll off using Awareness. The Dragon-Blood gains double 8s on this roll. This may not sense threats which are airborne, waterborne or taking other measures to avoid moving across a solid service. Hearthmates within range may benefit from this enhanced perception.

Special: Using this Charm allows the Exalt to access Earth aura.

Feeling the Dragon’s Bones (Upgrade: Awareness 5, Essence 2): By spending an additional mote, the Exalt applies this effect in all directions, rather than just her immediate range band.

This also reveals any hidden traps for structures. Double 7s on any contested rolls.

Close Combat (Offense)

Dragon-Graced Weapon
Prerequisite: Close Combat 3
The Exalt blesses her weapon or fists with elemental fury.

Commit 1 mote. For the duration of the scene, the Exalt’s weapon is wrapped in an element matching her aura. At Essence 2, she may bless a Hearthmate’s weapon with this Charm.

Air: Its attacks are deadly cold. When it deals damage, the target suffers a cumulative -1 die penalty to physical rolls for the rest of the scene, to a maximum of -5.

Earth: The weapon grows heavy with the earth’s grace. Increase damage by one.

Fire: Flames surround the blade, empowering the wielder. Increase Overwhelming by one.

Water: The weapon twists and flows. It gains the Flexible tag. If it already has one, gain a bonus die to attack rolls, which does not count toward the limit.

Wood: Reaching vines sprout from it. It gains the Disarming tag. It already has it, gain a bonus die to attack rolls, which does not count toward the limit.

Special: Using this Charm allows the Exalt to access any aura.

Close Combat (Defense)

Loyal Guardian Approach
Prerequisite: Close Combat 4 or Integrity 4

It is the prerogative of the Exalted to stand vigil over those she holds dear, standing between them and all harm.

Commit 1 mote for the scene. The Exalt may take reflexive Defend Other actions on behalf of another character within close range.

Special: This Charm may be used in response to an attack on Step 2.

Hearth-Defending Vigil (Dragon-Blooded): While defending a member of their hearth, spend 1 additional mote on Step 2 to ignore all penalties to Defense for a single action.

Portentous Warding Defense
Prerequisites: Close Combat 3

The Exalt moves with purpose, firmly barring the way of an attack.

When attacked, spend 2 motes on Step 2. On Step 4, roll your choice of Attribute + Close Combat, and add your successes to your Defense against the attack.

Integrity

Righteous Lion Spirit
Prerequisite: Integrity 4, Essence 2

The deepest passions of the Exalted are the stuff of myth and opera, beyond any other’s ability to corrupt.

Upon learning this Charm, the Exalt strengthens one of her Major Intimacies, making it unbreakable. She cannot be forced to act against it by any outside influence — only through her own choice may she betray those feelings. Regaining this effect once broken or changing the targeted Intimacy requires a dramatic action that qualifies as a major Milestone.

Physique (Might)

Captivating Battlefield Display
Prerequisite: Physique 4 or Presence 4, Essence 2

The Exalt’s incredible display draws all eyes — and weapons — to him.

Spend 1 mote on step 2 and target an opponent who is attacking an ally. The target’s attack now hits the Exalt instead. The ally may attack the target on step 8 of this resolution as a counterattack, even if she’s already acted this round. This extra attack does not count towards the action limit. She may not augment this attack with Charms.

Iron Skin Concentration
Prerequisite: Physique 3

Through endurance training, the Exalt learns to withstand blows that would topple a lesser person.

Permanently increase the character’s base Soak by one. At Physique 5, this Charm may be purchased a second time.

Ox Body
Prerequisite: None

By virtue of her Exalted health, the character endures greater levels of injury.

The Exalt gains an additional -1 level. This may be purchased a number of times equal to the character’s Physique.

Dragon-Blooded: The Exalt gains an additional -2 Health Level.

Earth Dragon Style
The Elemental Dragon of Earth is forceful, but deliberate. Immaculate students undergo extreme training for strength and durability, so they might stand toe-to-toe with unruly gods and Anathema.

Earth Dragon Weapon Tags: Natural, Smashing, Two-Handed. Earth Dragon martial artists wield weapons with significant impact and reach, such as tetsubos, warhammers, and great axes. Even unarmed they emphasize impact with elbows, knees, and two-handed hammer blows. After aiming, the martial artist may treat their natural weapons as medium weapons.

Earth Dragon Armor: Earth Dragon style is compatible with all armor.

Complementary Abilities: Earth Dragon martial artists require some combination of Integrity and Physique.

Stillness-of-Stone Strike
Prerequisites: Close Combat 2, Complementary Ability Total 3

The Exalt beats an opponent with staggering force, as if wielding the weight of the world.

Spend 1 mote on Step 1 when enacting the Knockback or Knockdown gambit. Either gambit costs 2 Power. If the gambit’s attack roll succeeds with at least two extra successes, the Exalt may pay an additional 2 Power on Step 5 to enact both gambits at once.

Dragon-Blooded: An opponent struck with an enhanced gambit acts as if they’re standing on difficult terrain until the end of the Dragon-Blood’s next turn.

Earth Dragon Form

Prerequisites: Close Combat 3, Complementary Ability Total 4, Stillness of Stone Strike

With slow, deliberate movements, the Exalt crafts a stable stance worthy of the Earth Dragon’s grandeur.

Spend 1 mote on Step 1 for the scene. The Exalt’s soak increases by three. The Exalt also adds two bonus dice when using Knockback or Knockdown gambits, or when attacking prone opponents.

Special: Using this Charm allows the Exalt to access Earth aura.

Dragon-Blooded: The Dragon-Blood ignores wound penalties and increases Hardness by one.
Virtues
Major: Courage
Minor: Loyalty

Intimacies
Major Tie: Satrap, protect (Unbreakable)
Major Tie:
Minor Tie: Scarlet Empire (Loyalty)
Minor Tie: House Ragara (Loyalty)

Motes: 7

Parry: 6 (+1 from weapon)
Evasion: 4

Soak: 4 (1 hearthstone, 1 iron skin)
Armored: 5
Total Soak: 8 +3 (EDF) +2(iconic)
Hardness: 5 (+1 armor, +1 EDF)

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Sherwood · Nov 14, 2021

Name: Cathak Jontom
Caste: Air Aspect
Age: 38

Attributes
Force: 3
Finesse: 5
Fortitude: 3

Abilities
Athletics: 4
Awareness: 3
Close Combat: 5
Craft
Embassy
Integrity: 3
Navigation: 1
Performance
Physique: 3
Presence: 3
Ranged Combat: 3
Sagacity
Stealth: 3
War
Primary - Artifact Sword - Shieldbreaker: 5
Secondary - Hearthstone (Jewel of Swift Strike): 3
Tertiary - Resources 2
Tertiary - Artifact Armor: 2

Dragon-Blooded Exalt Advantages
Prince of the Earth: As the only kind of Exalt fully recognized by the Immaculate Faith, Dragon-Blooded find support anywhere. Once per session, the character may select one Merit and treat it as t:hough it had a dot rating equal to her Essence, working its acquisition with the Storyteller. This benefit lasts for the duration of the session.
Ten Thousand Dragons Fight as One: When making teamwork actions, after calculating the total successes to add as dice, add an additional die. Dragon-Blooded may use any Hearth-based teamwork effects from their Charms on any other Exalt.
Resonance: Dragon-Blooded are resonant with all types of jade.

Dragon-Blooded Aspects
The five Dragon-Blooded Aspects represent each of the elements.
Air
Air Aspects are idealists, visionaries, scholars, and innovators. They see the potential inherent in everyone, and view the world as it could be. Their blue and white anima banners whirl and billow like stormclouds. At the iconic level, lightning flashes, and birds and dragons glide within.
At the end of each session, Air Aspects gain an Exalt Milestone if they took an action toward furthering a long-term goal.
Anima Effects
Buoyed by the Wind (Passive): Once per turn the Air Aspect leaps one additional range band vertically or horizontally. She takes no falling damage from short range drops.
Mela’s Breath (Active): Subtract two dice from all ranged attacks targeting the Air Aspect.
Eye of the Hurricane (Iconic): Short-term benefits rarely sway the Air Aspect. Add successes equal to the Exalt’s Essence on rolls to persuade or inspire a target toward a long-term goal.

The Great Curse strikes the Princes of the Earth like it does all Exalted, but leaves a somewhat lighter mark on their existence. The Dragon-Blooded still find their Exalted natures roused against them, Elemental Aspects pushing their personalities and virtues to dangerous extremes, but to a lesser extent. Once instigated, they don’t have a set duration, and Dragon-Blooded potentially return to normal within the events of a single scene.
Each Aspect possess its own additional condition for inciting the Great Curse.
• An Air Aspects finds their ideals challenged by individual failings or the state of the world.
Charms

Prerequisite: [Ability] 1
Whatever the Exalt attempts, she does so with superhuman ability.
When purchasing this Charm, choose an Ability. Spend 1 mote. This applies on Step 1 during combat. Outside of combat, this may be used to boost passive values. Add that Ability as a dice bonus to an applicable roll involving the chosen Ability. You may add Close Combat dice to Close Combat attacks, or add Integrity dice to Integrity rolls to resist the sway of a Deathlord, but may not use Stealth dice to add to a Close Combat attack or Ranged Combat to add dice to a Navigation roll. This Charm may be purchased more than once, but you must choose a different Ability every time.

Prerequisite: Athletics 1
The Exalt gains perfect balance, able to stand on wire, a crumbling parapet, or the top of a pine tree without issue.
Commit 1 mote. For the rest of the scene, the Exalt can stand on or run along things too narrow or weak to support them normally, with no chance of falling or breaking through. They never have to roll Finesse + Athletics to avoid falling. Increase the cost of the Knockdown gambit by her Essence.

Prerequisite: Athletics 4
The Exalt becomes a blur of motion, anima streaming in their wake as they flash from one point to another.
Spend 1 mote. Double 8s on a movement action involving running or swimming or to any venture roll involving foot racing, chases, or swift escapes. This does not apply to attacks made following a Rush. If used when moving towards an enemy, the Exalt gains one Power.

Prerequisite: Awareness 3
Detecting an ambush before it happens, the Exalt reacts just in time.
Commit 1 mote. This may be used on Step 1 as a simple action which lasts for the scene or reflexively in response to a surprise attack made against the character on Step 4 by spending 1 mote instead. This negates any non-magical bonuses the attacker may have from making a surprise attack.

Prerequisite: Close Combat 3
The Exalt’s strikes find their mark regardless of any obstacles.
Spend 1 mote on Step 3. Double the extra successes after applying Defense but before any bonus successes are applied. Additionally, remove all penalties hindering a single Close Combat attack.

Prerequisite: Close Combat 2
Her blows send the enemy reeling.
Spend 1 mote on Step 5. On a withering attack, reduce the target’s Defense by one until the start of the next turn. On a decisive attack, reduce the target’s Soak by one until the start of the next turn. If the target has Soak 6 or higher, instead halve the target’s soak (round down). This Charm does not stack with itself.

Prerequisite: Close Combat 3
The Exalt blurs into action, attacking with a furious series of blows.
Spend 2 motes on Step 1. After resolving a Close Combat attack, the character makes a second Close Combat attack against the same target or a different one. This attack is treated as though it were part of a flurry. The initial attack does not suffer the dice penalty.

Prerequisite: Close Combat 3
The Exalt blesses her weapon or fists with elemental fury.
Commit 1 mote. For the duration of the scene, the Exalt’s weapon is wrapped in an element matching her aura. At Essence 2, she may bless a Hearthmate’s weapon with this Charm.
Air: Its attacks are deadly cold. When it deals damage, the target suffers a cumulative -1 die penalty to physical rolls for the rest of the scene, to a maximum of -5.

Prerequisite: Close Combat 2
The Exalt moves into a fluid defensive stance, turning away attacks easily.
Spend 1 mote on Step 2. At your choice, either clear any penalties affecting your Defense, or reset your Hardness after a concentrated attack.

Prerequisite: Close Combat 5, Essence 2
The Exalt puts her weapon between herself and a hazard, blocking the environment itself.
Spend 2 motes. The Exalt applies her Defense against a single instance of a hazard, a trap, a disease, a great fall, or some other source of harm that she could not normally apply her Defense against. She compares her Defense rating to the difficulty of the hazard. If it is the same or greater, she ignores the effects as if she had passed the roll to resist it. Once per session, characters can use a Stunt to improvise with this Charm, allowing them to escape a collapsing building or parry the ground while falling from a great height. If appropriate, mundane weapons may be destroyed by being used to block the environment.
Special: This Charm may be used on any Step, in response to any environmental damage, disease, poison, trap, or similar hazard. It cannot be used against weapon damage or damage from attacks. It must follow the same rules of activation otherwise.

Prerequisite: Athletics 4 or Close Combat 4
The Exalt moves in time with the flow of battle, slipping between swords with dismaying ease.
Commit 1 mote for the scene. The Exalt adds one to her Defense against attacks at close range, and steals 1 Power from her attacker when she successfully defends against such an attack. If the target has no Power to steal, he suffers a two-die penalty to his next attack instead.

Prerequisite: Physique 3
Through endurance training, the Exalt learns to withstand blows that would topple a lesser person.
Permanently increase the character’s base Soak by one. At Physique 5, this Charm may be purchased a second time.
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Essence: 2
Motes: 7

Parry DV: 6
Evasion DV: 4

Natural Soak: 2
Armored Soak: +4
Total Soak: 6
Hardness: 4 (5)

Daiklave - Shieldbreaker
Accuracy +2, Damage +1, Defense +1, Overwhelming 3
Virtues
Major: Discipline
Minor: Loyalty

Intimacies
Major: Lunar Exalted (Burning Hatred)
Minor: Older Sister, Lyn (Rivalry)
Minor: The Legions of House Cathak (Loyal Support)

From an early age, Jontom knew that he wanted to be one of the greatest swordsmen in Creation, and from day one, he pushed himself as hard as he could to learn the art of swordplay. But no matter what he would do or how good he became, his older sister Lyn was always one step ahead of him, and she never let the opportunity go by without rubbing his nose in his status as second place in the family. She was the prodigy of the family, always overshadowing Jontom's accomplishments.

It was in the middle of his fifteenth year that Jontom finally achieved his Exaltation as an Air Aspect. He was out on a family outing with his parents, his uncle, and two younger siblings when one of the Moon Mad attacked. Both his father and uncle were able to do some damage to the Lunar before they both lost their lives, leaving young Jontom as the only thing between his mother, his younger brothers, and the wild Lunar.

The first swing of the shapeshifter shattered his sword, leaving him unarmed. In a desperate move, he leapt for the Daiklave that his father had, but since he was only a mortal, he didn't have the strength to be able to wield the magic weapon. But just as the Lunar made his move to finish off the young man, Jontom suddenly took his Second Breath, and with his newly discovered power, he was able to bring the heavy sword up in the path of his charging foe and he impaled the Lunar, giving it a mortal wound. With a sudden jerk, he yanked the sword out and then took the head of the Lunar clean off its shoulders, ending its threat to Creation.

From that day, Jontom has gone on to be a part of several Wyld Hunts to locate and kill the Anathema out there, making Creation a safer place for everyone.

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