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[Red Shadow Claws]

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[Sherwood]

• Attributes and Abilities
• Merits and Essence
• Charms
• Combat Stats
• Artifacts and Hearthstones
• Background
• Experience and Spending

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  Weiss Contauge
  Night Caste
  
  Attributes
  Str: 2
  Dex: 5
  Sta: 2
  
  Cha: 4
  Man: 4
  App: 3
  
  Per: 2
  Int: 2
  Wits: 3
  
  Abilities
  Archery
  *Athletics: 2
  *Awareness: 2
  Brawl
  Bureaucracy: 1 - Criminal Organizations
  Craft
  Dodge
  *Integrity: 2
  *Investigation: 1
  *Larceny (Supernal): 5
  Linguistics: 1
  Lore
  Martial Arts
  Medicine
  *Melee: 3 - Swords
  Occult: 2
  Performance: 1
  *Presence: 1
  *Resistance: 1
  Ride
  Sail
  *Socialize: 1 - Small Manners
  *Stealth: 5 - Vanish in Plain Sight
  Survival
  Thrown
  War
  
  

  Weiss2

  • Sherwood
  • Jun 8, 2017
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  Artifact – Belt of Shadow Walking: 3
  Artifact – Infinite Resplendence Amulet of Moonsilver: 3
  Artifact – Reaper Daiklave – Shining Ice Mirror: 3
  Contacts: 3
  Hearthstone - The Memory Stone: 2
  Languages: 2 - Riverspeak, Skytongue, Forest-Tongue
  Resources: 2
  
  Night Anima Effects
  For two motes, the Night can dampen her anima, treating all Peripheral Essence expenditures as if they were Personal for one instant.
  For three motes, the Night can ignore up to (higher of 3 or Essence) penalties to a Stealth attempt for one instant. These motes are always considered Personal, regardless of the pool they’re spent from.
  When the Night’s anima is at the bonfire/iconic level, it wraps around and suffuses her form, hiding her figure and masking her visage in flame. She is merely a fearsome silhouette shrouded in all the hues of evening. It becomes impossible to discern her identity. This is considered a perfect effect, and cannot be pierced by Eye of the Unconquered Sun (see p. 273) or other all-seeing magic.
  
  Essence: 1
  Personal: 13
  Peripheral: 33
  Committed: 10
  Willpower: 6
  
  Mote pools replenish themselves over time. Characters with mote pools regain five motes of Essence at the end of each round while in combat, as the dynamism of battle stirs the world around them. Outside of battle, characters regain five motes per hour (seven total from the Memory Stone). In the most relaxed of times—such as when a character is asleep, meditating, or quietly reading—they respire Essence at a rate of ten motes per hour (twelve total from the Memory Stone). Motes in the peripheral pool are replenished before motes in the personal pool.
  
  

  Weiss1

  • Sherwood
  • Jun 8, 2017
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  Athletics Excellency
  Graceful Crane Stance
  
  Spoiler

  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).
  Monkey Leap Technique
  
  Spoiler

  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.
  
  Awareness Excellency
  
  Integrity Excellency
  
  Investigation Excellency
  
  Larceny Excellency
  Flawless Pickpocketing Technique
  
  Spoiler

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

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

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

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

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

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

  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.
  One Weapon, Two Blows
  
  Spoiler

  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.
  Call the Blade
  
  Spoiler

  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.
  Summoning the Loyal Steel
  
  Spoiler

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

  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
  
  Spoiler

  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 Excellency
  
  Resistance Excellency
  Ox-Body Technique
  
  Spoiler

  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.
  
  Socialize Excellency
  
  Stealth Excellency
  Easily-Overlooked Presence Method
  
  Spoiler

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

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

  Cost: 5m; Mins: Stealth 3, Essence 1
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: Mute
  Duration: Indefinite
  Prerequisite Charms: Perfect Shadow Stillness
  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.
  
  
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  Evasion DV: 3
  Parry DV: 5
  Resolve: 3
  Guile: 4
  Join Battle: 5 dice + 3 base
  
  Natural Soak: 2
  Armored Soak: 5
  Total Soak: 7
  Hardness: 4
  
  Health Levels
  
  [ ] -0
  [ ][ ][ ] -1
  [ ][ ][ ] -2
  [ ] -4
  [ ]
  
  Shining Ice Mirror - Reaper Daiklave: Accuracy +3, Damage +12, Defense +1, Overwhelming 4, Attunement 5, Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
  
  

  Weiss3

  • Sherwood
  • Jun 8, 2017
• 
  Infinite Resplendence Amulet – Moonsilver
  
  Spoiler

  This artifact is a set of modular attire made from a blend of the various Magical Materials. The amulet can generate any form of outfit the wearer can imagine, however grand or humble. Changing the clothing is a diceless miscellaneous action. Repairing or cleaning a worn outfit takes the same action as creating a new one. Protection: The Amulet provides the wearer with a soak of 5L/5B that does not count as armor for the purposes of Charms, plus an extra success to all Resistance or Survival rolls to reduce or avoid the effects of deleterious environmental conditions, toxins or disease. In addition, it gives a +2 bonus dice to all Stealth rolls and to Larceny to assume a disguise.
  The Memory Stone (Standard)
  
  Spoiler

  Keywords: Linked
  This hearthstone is outwardly clear and colorless, with a shifting prismatic radiance held deep within. It perfectly reflects and stores all of its bearer’s memories within its facets, so long as it resides within an attuned hearthstone socket and those memories were made while carrying the stone. The bearer of the Memory Stone may draw pristine recollections from the stone’s depths whenever she chooses, granting her perfect recall. If the stone ever falls from attunement for more than a day, all stored memories within it fade away, and the stone’s former master must once more rely upon her own fallible recollections.
  Belt of Shadow Walking
  
  Spoiler

  A night-black belt made from leather from the wings of giant bats, trimmed with black jade and soulsteel, these artifacts can control shadows and cause them to conceal the wearer. Whenever she wishes, the wearer can add three dice to all stealth rolls. However, this is the least of the belt’s powers. When the wearer expends ten motes, she can transform into a living shadow for one scene. In this form, she can slip under the space beneath a door or slide through the thinnest crack. In well-lit regions, observers notice the existence of an unusual shadow if they make a (Perception + Awareness) roll at difficulty 3, unless the wearer conceals himself in a larger shadow.
  
  When the character is a shadow, she is dematerialized and can only affect or be affected by other dematerialized creatures or by Charms and weapons capable of attacking dematerialized foes. If the wearer uses such a Charm or weapon while dematerialized, she can use it to affect a materialized foe. Otherwise, she is immune to all materialized threats, although she can be trapped in a room that is sealed tightly enough. The character can wear any armor and take any object she can carry into the shadows with her. However, she cannot transform other living things into shadow. Once the scene ends, the character must remain in solid form for at least ten minutes before transforming back into a shadow. The wearer must commit five motes to use this artifact.
  Shining Ice Mirror (Blue Jade Reaper Daiklave)
  
  Spoiler

  Accuracy +3, Damage +12, Defense +1, Overwhelming 4, Attunement 5, Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
  Shining Ice Mirror is beautiful and minimalist by the standards of most daiklaves, with a thin, slightly curved jade blade the color of ice catching the afternoon sun and a hilt woven with the thinnest of precious starmetal wires. It’s a blade of deliberate nature, rewarding foresight in battle while disdaining those who hack and rend their way through their foes. Ancient records indicate the daiklave was forged by the Terrestrial sorceress Mikako Khem as a gift for the Solar her family served as retainers. Shining Ice Mirror was shaped entirely in frozen flames at the heart of manse now long destroyed, and served as a sign of Gens Mikako’s bond of devotion until the night of the Usurpation. Surviving documents from the Shogunate indicate that it was unearthed from its Solar owner’s grave and carried into battle against the Winter Folk in several major battles, reverently returned after each untombing with great propitiating rituals. The weapon was believed lost during the Wyld Crusade, until it was recently unearthed by Haslanti League explorers during the excavation of First Age ruin buried beneath a massive glacier.
  
  Shining Ice Mirror possesses a single hearthstone socket at the bottom of its hilt.
  
  Evocations of Shining Ice Mirror
  A Solar who pays two extra motes to attune to Shining Ice Mirror may partake of its perfect balance and discerning spirit so that an aim action (+3 bonus) taken with the intent to strike with the blade also conveys the benefits (but not costs) of a full defense action (+2 Defense).
  
  Winter Night Cut
  Cost: 3m, 2i; Mins: Essence 1
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: Withering-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  Shining Ice Mirror exhales a freezing breath when the Solar’s technique sends her opponent into fatal disarray. This Evocation may be activated after the Solar crashes her opponent with Shining Ice Mirror to wreathe the foe in a numbing cold. Until they recover from in Initiative Crash, they suffer a -2 penalty to all actions and a -1 penalty to Defense.
  
  Special activation rules: In order to awaken this Evocation, the Solar must first share a perfect moment of killing resolve with the daiklave—she must slay a significant opponent whose health track is undamaged in a single decisive attack.
  
  Frozen Soul Resolve
  Cost: 1m, 1i; Mins: Essence 1
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: Perilous
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  In the moment when fear’s cold fingers attempt to grasp the Exalt’s heart, she may draw upon her bond with Shining Ice Mirror to make her heart harder and colder than ice. Upon using this Evocaton, she raises her Resolve by one against an attempt to threaten, intimidate, overawe, or terrify her, and this does not count as a Charm bonus. However, all passionate Ties are lowered in intensity by one for the remainder of the scene.
  
  Special activation rules: This Evocation awakens at no experience cost when the Solar uses Shining Ice Mirror to defeat an enemy that she holds an Intimacy of fear or awe for; or a significant enemy that has attempted to threaten or intimidate her, or attempted to subject her to supernatural fear or awe.
  
  Cold Moon Slash
  Cost: 6m, 2i, 1wp; Mins: Essence 2
  Type: Simple
  Keywords: Decisive-only, Perilous
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Winter Night Cut
  The Solar sets her feet, raises Shining Ice Mirror to her shoulder, and unleashes a powerful slash, sending a crescent wave of freezing Essence to strike a foe at up to short range. If this decisive attack damages its target, they also suffer a -2 penalty to mobility and to feats of strength for the next (Essence) turns. Successfully striking the opponent with this Evocation grants the Solar one point of Willpower. During her turn, the Exalt may move before using this Evocation, but not afterwards.
  
  At Essence 4+, Cold Moon Slash can strike out to medium range if an aim action is used beforehand.
  Special activation rules: In order to awaken this Evocation, the Solar must defeat a significant foe she has maneuvered into unfavorable fighting conditions by deliberately exploiting Intimacies she uncovered with read intentions actions.
  
  Ice-Fixing Strike
  Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
  Type: Simple
  Keywords: Withering-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Cold Moon Slash, Frozen Soul Resolve
  The Solar swing Shining Ice Mirror in an Essence-laden arc, intensifying the killing cold it has already spread onto the battlefield into a mantle of ice. The Solar makes a withering attack against an opponent suffering penalties from Winter Night Cut or Cold Moon Slash, and if it inflicts damage, they’re immediately covered in a mantle of encumbering frost which makes movement actions and flurries impossible, and which inflicts a further -1 penalty to all actions and to Defense. This icy mantle breaks apart once the target no longer suffers any penalties from Winter Night Cut or Cold Moon Slash.
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  Intimacies
  Money is Just a Tool to be Used to Gain Power - Defining
  The Circle (Loyalty): Major
  Rival Criminals (Wary Respect): Minor
  Law Enforcement (Disgust): Minor
  
  
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  Experience Points
  Character growth is expressed with experience points, given out at the end of every session, which players spend to increase characters’ traits, as well as to buy new Charms and spells. Each character gains five experience points at the end of every session. These points may be spent immediately, or saved to be spent later. Solar Xp cannot be used to buy Charms, but can be used for anything else.
  
  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
  Trait Experience Cost
  Willpower 8
  Solar Charm 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
  Martial Arts Charm 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
  Spell 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
  New Evocation 10
  
  Xp Earned:
  Xp Banked:
  Solar Xp:
  Solar Xp Banked:
  

 

[Midboss]

“I can promise you the show of your life.”​

• Attributes and Abilities
• Merits and Essence
• Charms
• Combat Stats
• Background
• Experience and Spending

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  Birth Name: Serah
  Exalted Name: Thunderous Voice of the Sun
  Zenith Caste
  
  Attributes
  Str: 3
  Dex: 3
  Sta: 3
  
  Cha: 5
  Man: 1
  App: 5
  
  Per: 3
  Int: 2
  Wits: 3
  
  
  Abilities
  Archery:
  *Athletics: 2
  Awareness: 2
  *Brawl: 2
  Bureaucracy:
  Craft:
  *Dodge: 2
  *Integrity: 3
  Investigation:
  Larceny:
  *Linguistics: 2
  Lore: 1
  Martial Arts: 4 - Silver Voiced Nightingale Style
  Medicine: 1
  Melee:
  *Occult: 1
  *Performance: 5 - Metal
  *Presence: 4 - Working the Crowds
  *Resistance: 2
  Ride:
  Sail:
  *Socialize: 2
  Stealth:
  Survival: 1
  Thrown:
  War:
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Languages: 2 (Fire Tongue, Old Realm, River Speak)
  Resources: 2 Thanks to her many concerts and events, Serah has manage to accumulate a lot of money with which she has been able to live the high life.
  Martial Arts: 4 (silver voiced nightingale style)
  Artifact: 3 Balescream https://www.reddit.com/r/exalted/comments/44gsxd/balescream_artifact_3_guitar_3e_work_in_progress/
  
  
  
  
  
  Influence: 2. Thanks to her musical talent, Serah has become a celebrity in the region who's concerts attracts the crowds in their thousands.
  
  
  Zenith Anima Effects
  
  For one mote, the Zenith’s anima leaps from her hand to a corpse she’s touching, igniting it in Solar flame. This power incinerates the corpse and ensures the soul of the deceased will not return as a hungry ghost. In addition, the Zenith may perceive the strongest Intimacies of the deceased and may choose to accept them. When she is ready, she may pay one mote, touching a target of those Intimacies to pass on feelings of peace, love, and assurance, shedding them in the process. She may also transfer them to an object, allowing it to convey comfort or a sense of duty to the subject. Conversely, she may touch someone who caused the deceased to suffer, paying one mote and rolling ([A social Attribute] + Presence) with three automatic non-Charm successes against their Resolve to transfer pain suffered by the deceased back on the one who caused it. The Storyteller is free to dictate the length and weight of such attrition.
  
  • For 10 motes, one Willpower, the Zenith channels her Essence into an aura of divine retribution, surging around an attack. This power supplements a successful decisive attack against a creature of darkness, preventing the Solar’s Initiative from returning to its base value after the attack. When the Zenith’s anima is at bonfire, reduce the cost of this power by five motes and ignore the Willpower. This power may only be used once per day, resetting when the sun is at its zenith.
  
  • For seven motes, the Zenith may order a dematerialized spirit to manifest using a (Charisma + Presence) persuade action with (Essence) automatic successes. All spirits inherently recognize the Unconquered Sun’s authority in the priest-kings and are compelled as if by a Defining Intimacy, but may still have Defining Ties or Principles which counter this advantage. If successful, the Zenith’s very command draws the spirit into the material world, so that it does not need to pay the cost to materialize.
  
  
  Essence: 1
  Personal: 13
  Peripheral: 33
  Committed:
  Willpower: 6
  
  Mote pools replenish themselves over time. Characters with mote pools regain five motes of Essence at the end of each round while in combat, as the dynamism of battle stirs the world around them. Outside of battle, characters regain five motes per hour (seven total from the Memory Stone). In the most relaxed of times—such as when a character is asleep, meditating, or quietly reading—they respire Essence at a rate of ten motes per hour (twelve total from the Memory Stone). Motes in the peripheral pool are replenished before motes in the personal pool.
  
  
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  Excellencies:
  Athletics
  Brawl
  Dodge
  Integrity
  Linguistics
  Occult
  Performance
  Presence
  Resistance
  Socialise
  
  Charms
  
  Integrity:
  - Stubborn Board Defence
  - Integrity Protecting Prana
  
  Performance:
  - Masterful Performance Exercise
  - Perfect Harmony Technique
  - Mood Inducing Music
  - Battle Anthem
  - Thousand Courtesan Ways
  
  Presence:
  - Listener Swaying Argument
  - Harmonious Presence Meditation
  - Tiger's Dread Symmetry
  
  Resistance:
  - Ox Body Technique
  
  Silver Voiced Nightingale Style
  - Voice of the Night Bird
  - Inspiring Battle Hymn
  - Terrifying Battle Shriek
  - Silver Voiced Nightingale Form
  
  
• 
  Evasion DV: 3
  Parry DV: 3
  Resolve: 3
  Guile: 1
  Join Battle:
  
  Natural Soak: 3
  Armored Soak:
  Total Soak: 3
  Hardness:
  
  Health Levels
  [ ] -0
  [ ][ ][ ] -1
  [ ][ ][ ][ ] -2
  [ ] -4
  [ ]
  
  
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• 
  Intimacies
  Principals
  Defining:
  I will use my art to raise the spirits of Creation's people and usher a new age of hope.
  Major:
  Art: Love and fascination
  Freedom: Attachment
  Minor:
  
  Ties:
  Major:
  The Conductor: Arch Enemy
  The Circle: Friendship and Loyalty
  Minor:
  
  
  Pre Exaltation:
  
  Before she become the Sun's Thunderous voice, Serah was a singer within the city of Redmoon's great opera theatre, a role for which she had been prepared ever since she had been a child.
  
  As a child, she was brought from the run down orphanage by the troupe's master who heard in her voice a future potential to bring the crowds in. She grew up within the Opera house, going through a very strict and thorough education into the arts of theatre and music. Singing keys were taught, dancing steps were practiced, roles were memorised, breathing exercises were mastered. Nothing less than perfection in her exercises was demanded of her and failure brought punishment. As unnecessarily strict as this child rearing was, it did deliver its results: Barely in her teens, Serah had become an attraction to the town of Redmoon and its surroundings, her angelic voice bringing in the crowds. But despite the success, gilded life and crowds, Serah wanted another life... specifically one that did not involve her every word and actions being controlled and rehearsed, one that involved actually leaving the opera house from time to time. Finally, she wanted to not merely sing for entertainment, she wanted to use it for so much more. Art could raise people's spirits and it was the greatest tragedy she wasn't permitted to do so. However, it was only after reaching adult age that she found out the horrific truth about the opera house and her troupe master: he was not human but one of the fair folk. He used the opera to slowly but surely suck the spirit out of the public and the town around it.
  
  He first reaction was one that came naturally when finding out that there was a Fair Folk around: get the Malfeas away. For the first time since her "adoption", Serah had left the opera house. Her first contact with the street was a sharp learning curve. She left town along with a merchant caravan and paid her way with music. She travelled for several months, quickly adapting to her new found freedom and finally using the opportunity to experiment with her music and try new things. Despite discovering and trying these new styles of music she could never quite find the sound that she was looking for.
  
  That was to change during one journey. After getting lost in the jungle (turned out that no, she could not find her way without a guide), she came across an old abandoned shrine. On its altar lay an instrument much like a sanx. She followed her first instinct and tried playing it but could not get any sound out of it, no matter how she tried. Fighting her disappointment, she decided she could at least sell the mysterious instrument, the magical materials it was made off no doubt making it valuable. However, the only place nearby where she was likely to find a client with the means was back at Redmoon. She was somewhat apprehensive at the idea of returning but decided the gains outweighed the dangers. When she returned however, she heard the news that her former jailer had a major once in a lifetime concert that was open to all. She knew deep in her heart that this could not be any good and that she was the only one that knew the truth. Despite the fact she could have run away again and avoid the disaster, she chose not to this time.
  
  The night of the event, as the orchestra started its entrancing music, the crowd became immobile and transfixed. Serah jumped on the stage and attempted to awaken the crowd with her own voice as a response. It was a brave gesture but of little use. What was worse, she now had the attention of every fair folk in the room, including her former master, who was not just any fair folk but a Rashka noble. His song came out and pierced straight into her mind, beginning to unravel it. She continued on, fighting back with a song that weakened but did not stop. As she did so, a voice spoke inside her head.
  
  "Do you want to awaken them ? Then take this instrument in your hands and play... play for the world."
  
  She did so and took the guitar and ran her hand on the strings. This time, a sound like she had never heard resounded around the hall. It was like a cry from a Gaia, a scream from Malfeas, the pounding of the machinery inside Autochton. It was the sound she had been looking for all this time. At the same time, she exploded in golden sunlight. Now given new strength, she sang and played. Former master and apprentice sang on, one to hypnotise the crowd and one to awaken it. The musical duel was one that was heard all around town.... including by a local delegation of the Wyld Hunt. As the duel approached its climax, new interlopers joined in the fight, attacking both sides with equal fervour. Both sides could agree on one thing: they needed to escape if they were to live. But both knew they would meet again one day and finish this fight.
  
  
  
  Post Exaltation:
  After that show and very very public exaltation, Serah knew that she would quickly receiving a visit from her friendly neighbourhood Wyld Hunt. This was quite the acceleration in her program. She was not just leaving the opera house, she was leaving Redmoon and with great urgency.
  
  
  
• 
  
  Experience Points
  
  Character growth is expressed with experience points, given out at the end of every session, which players spend to increase characters’ traits, as well as to buy new Charms and spells. Each character gains five experience points at the end of every session. These points may be spent immediately, or saved to be spent later. Solar Xp cannot be used to buy Charms, but can be used for anything else.
  
  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
  Trait Experience Cost
  Willpower 8
  Solar Charm 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
  Martial Arts Charm 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
  Spell 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
  New Evocation 10
  
  Xp Earned:
  Xp Banked:
  Solar Xp:
  Solar Xp Banked:
  
  Bonus Points: 3
  Performance to 4: 1
  Performance to 5: 1
  Presence to 4: 1
  Martial Arts to 4: 1
  Artifact from 3 to 4: 1
  Perception to 3: 3
  Linguistics to 2: 1
  Socialize to 2: 1
  Influence to 2: 1
  Resources to 2: 1
  

 

[Raparth]

• Synopsis
• Background
• Attributes and Abilities
• Merits and Essence
• Charms
• Combat and Influence
• Bonus and Experience Points

• 
  
  Name: Selim ibn-Sol
  
  Concept: Flashy duelist
  
  Caste: Dawn
  
  Anima: Spinning wheels of blades, forming a sunburst
  
  Supernal: Thrown
  
  
• 
  
  (WIP)
  
  Born to a Denzik family with a long and proud history of military service, Selim spent his earliest years learning what he could of the city-ship and how it could be protected. The ways of sword and sail, ballistae and boarding were engrained in him relentlessly. Studies continued when Denzik city-ship stopped at port, but where his family hoped he would learn of all the possible threats of those who lived on land, young Selim was enraptured by the endless wonder of these bustling cities. Denzik held thousands, but it was eternally dependent on the food and commerce of outsiders, always hungry for fuel to feed its endless migration.
  
  
• 
  
  Caste Abilities: Awareness, Dodge, Melee, Resistance, Thrown
  
  Favored Abilities: Athletics, Larceny, Presence, Sail, Socialize
  
  
  Attributes:
  
  Physical:
  
  --- Strength: 4
  
  --- Dexterity: 5
  
  --- Stamina: 2
  
  Social:
  
  --- Charisma: 2
  
  --- Manipulation: 2
  
  --- Appearance: 3
  
  Mental
  
  --- Perception: 2
  
  --- Intelligence: 2
  
  --- Wits: 5
  
  
  Abilities:29 +5
  
  Athletics: 3
  
  Awareness: 5 (Always Ready)
  
  Brawl: 1
  
  Dodge: 3
  
  Integrity:
  
  Larceny: 3
  
  Linguistics: 1
  
  Melee: 3 (Blades)
  
  Presence: 2
  
  Resistance: 1
  
  Sail: 3
  
  Socialize: 4
  
  Thrown: 5 (Blades)
  
  
• 
  
  Merits:
  
  Ambidextrous: 1
  
  Artifact: 5 (Faithful Sisters, currently held: Journey and Battle)
  
  Fast Reflexes: 3
  
  Quick Drawn: 4 (Thrown)
  
  Resources: 4
  
  Languages: 2 (Native: Seatongue, Flametongue, Riverspeak)
  
  
  Essence: 1
  
  Personal Essence: 13
  
  Peripheral Essence: 33
  
  
  
• 
  
  Excellencies: Athletics, Awareness, Dodge, Larceny, Melee, Presence, Resistance, Sail, Socialize, Thrown
  
  
  Athletics:
  
  Graceful Crane Stance
  
  
  Awareness:
  
  Sensory Acuity Prana
  
  
  
  Dodge:
  
  Reed in the Wind
  
  
  Larceny:
  
  Seasoned Criminal Method
  
  
  Melee:
  
  Dipping Swallow Defense
  
  
  Presence:
  
  Harmonious Presence Technique
  
  
  Resistance:
  
  Ox-Body Technique
  
  
  Sail:
  
  Salty Dog Method
  
  
  Socialize:
  
  Motive-Discerning Technique
  
  
  Thrown:
  
  Triple Distance Attack Technique
  
  Cascade of Cutting Terror
  
  Precision of the Striking Raptor
  
  Steel Storm Descending
  
  Flashing Draw Mastery
  
  Swarm-Culling Intent
  
  Shrike Saving Discretion
  
  
• 
  
  Willpower: 5
  
  
  Limit: 0
  
  Limit Trigger:
  
  
  Physical Combat:
  
  Join Battle (Wits+Awareness):
  
  Parry (Unarmed): 3
  
  Parry (Faithful Sisters): 5
  
  Evasion (Unarmored/Light): 4
  
  Natural Soak: 2
  
  
  Weapons:
  
  Unarmed: +4 Accuracy, +7 Damage, +- Defense, 1 Overwhelming; Bashing, Brawl, Grappling, Natural
  
  Faithful Sisters (generic): +5 Accuracy, +10 Damage, +- Defense, 4 Overwhelming; Balanced, Cutting, Lethal, Melee/Thrown (Medium)
  
  Faithful Sister (Battle): +14 Damage, 5 Overwhelming; Cutting, Lethal, Thrown(Medium)
  
  
  Thrown Artifact Accuracies: +5 Close, +4 Short, +3 Medium, +0 Long, -2 Extreme
  
  
  Wounds:
  
  [-0]
  
  [-1] [-1] [-1]
  
  [-2] [-2] [-2]
  
  [-4]
  
  [Inc]
  
  
  Social Influence:
  
  Resolve: 3
  
  Guile: 3
  
  Read Intentions: 6 (Perc+Soc) or 9 (Wits+Soc)
  
  
  Intimacies:
  
  Defining Principle: “I will prove myself the greatest duelist in Creation.”
  
  Major Principle: “Life is to be enjoyed.”
  
  Major Principle: “Battle is art; art is life.”
  
  Major Tie: Faithful Sisters
  
  Minor Tie: Denzik city-ship (hometown pride)
  
  Minor Tie: Lintha Family (“I will have revenge.”)
  
  Minor Tie: Circle (loyalty, kinship)
  
  Minor Principle: “If you’re going to do something, do it superbly.”
  
  Minor Principle: “Oh, just one more can’t hurt…”
  
  
  
  
• 
  
  Bonus Points:
  
  9 on Merits
  
  6 on Caste/Favored Abilities