Dice Trial By Fire - Characters

Sherwood · Mar 29, 2020

All Characters will be posted here for review.

Lunars or Solars are allowed, normal character creation rules apply with one exception. No Artifacts or Hearthstones are allowed at game start.

Xp Totals:
69 Regular Xp
51 Solar Xp
51 Lunar Xp

D. Rex · Mar 29, 2020

Name: Bard
Caste: Zenith
Supernal Ability: Performance
Concept: Wayward Bard searching for his purpose.

Anima Banner: An alabaster and gold Kookaburra alight with the blinding glow of the sun reflecting off it's pearlescent feathers.

Attributes
Str:●
Dex:●●●●●
Sta:●●●

Cha:●●●●●
Man:●●●●●
App:●●●

Per:●●
Int:●●
Wits:●●●●

Abilities
Archery
*Athletics: ●●●
**Awareness: ●●●●●
Brawl:
Bureaucracy:
Craft:
**Dodge: ●●●●●
*Integrity: ●
Investigation:
Larceny:
Linguistics: ●
Lore: ●●●●
**Martial Arts: ●●●●● +Nightingale
Medicine:
Melee:
**Occult: ●
*Performance: ●●●●● +Stringed Instruments
*Presence: ●●●●● +Instill
*Resistance: ●●●
Ride
Sail
**Socialize: ●●●●●
Stealth:
Survival:
Thrown:
War:

*Caste Abilities
**Favored Abilities
Merits

Martial Arts ●●●● : Silver Voiced Nightingale Style

Language ●●●●●● : Seatongue, Skytongue, Dragontongue, Low Realm, High Realm, Riverspeak, Old Realm

Strong Lungs ●: The character is practiced at holding her breath for long periods of time, like the famed pearl divers of the West. She may hold her breath for (Stamina + Athletics) minutes before she begins to suffocate or drown; under duress, this becomes ([Stamina + Athletics] x 2) rounds.

Weapon
Kiai waves - bashing, thrown (short), Martial arts.

Acc - +5(close), +4(short [+2 pkb]
Damage - +10 +1(strong lungs) [+2pkb]
Overwhelming - 3

Essence: 2
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 40/27
Committed: 13
Willpower: 5

Join Battle: 9 +3 Successes

Natural Soak: 3
Armored Soak: 7
Total Soak: 10

Hardness: 4
Mobility Penalty: 0

Parry: 6 [+2pkb] (dex+MA+spc/2^)
Evasion: 5 [+2pkb] (dex+dog+spc/2^)

Resolve: 3 (wit+int+spc/2^)
Guile: 5 (man+soc+spc/2^)

Health Levels
-0 ●
-1 ●●●●
-2 ●●●●● ●
-4 ●
I ●

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 decisiveattack 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.

Limit Break:
The Solar’s allies suffer a setback or defeat because of a mistake he made.

Crushing Doubt
The Solar is crippled by self-doubt. He will seek the assistance of his allies in every task, no matter how simple, and will pass his duties and responsibilities on to others whom he believes are more capable than him. If he is separated from allies, he must try to return to themor else find some other companions, and will flee from any potential danger or obligation he encounters along the way.

Duration: Session. Crushing Doubt can be ended prematurely if the Solar is forced to face a significant danger alone and succeeds, or if he single-handedly saves an ally from a significant danger.
Excellencies: Athletics, Awareness, Dodge, Martial Arts, Performance, Presence, Resistance, Socialize

Martial Arts
Silver Voiced Nightingale Style

Voice of the Night Bird
Cost: —; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Mastery
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None

The nightingale is no bird of prey, to swoop down with curved beak and cruel talons. Its greatest virtue is its song—and with that song, the students of Nightingale style give voice to their victory. This Charm allows the martial artist to make kiais, unleashing forceful waves of sound that strike her enemies like physical blows. A kiai has the traits of a mundane light weapon with the bashing and thrown(short) tags, save she rolls its attacks with Martial Arts (Silver-Voiced Nightingale style) rather than Thrown. The martial artist may flurry a kiai attack with Performance-based influence without the usual flurry penalties, as long as the content of the social influence is woven into the lyrics or emotional tenor of her song.

Mastery: The martial artist’s kiai has the traits of a light artifact weapon.

Inspiring Battle Hymn
Cost: 5m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mastery
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Voice of the Night Bird

As battle breaks out, the Nightingale raise her voice in a song that promises triumph, steeling the hearts of her allies so that they may fight more fiercely.

Inspiring Battle Hymn rerolls all 1s on the Join Battle roll of the martial artist and all allies capable of hearing her. Characters who received this benefit add +1 Resolve against threats, supernatural fear, or similar forms of influence for the duration of the fight.

Mastery: If the martial artist wins Join Battle, she may gain a single point of temporary Willpower, or grant it to an ally who also won Join Battle. This can raise characters above their permanent Willpower.

Terrifying Battle Shriek
Cost: 4m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mastery
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Voice of the Night Bird
The Nightingale’s voice rings out in a deafening overture
or in mocking lyrics, promising a horrible death to her foes. The martial artist rolls (Charisma + Performance) to intimidate a single enemy. A successful influence roll strikes fear into the enemy’s heart, forcing to take a move action on his turn to move away from the martial artist or hide from her if possible. Very weak or cowardly opponents may surrender or retreat entirely.

Unlike other Simple Charms, Terrifying Battle Shriek may be placed in a flurry, and benefits from being used against enemies who have been hit with a kiai attack on the same turn. The target of this Charm is treated as having a Minor Tie of fear towards the martial artist if he has been hit with a kiai on the same turn, or a Major Tie if the kiai attack was decisive.

Mastery: An enemy who yields to the Nightingale’s influence and retreats or cowers from her loses Initiative equal to her (Charisma/2). She does not gain this Initiative.

Silver-Voiced Nightingale Form
Cost: 8m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 1;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Form
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Inspiring Battle Hymn, Terrifying Battle Shriek

Standing straight and pitching her voice to reach all listeners, the Nightingale begins a song that rings out with exquisite clarity, a melody in perfect synchronization with her every movement. This perfect harmony of music and motion adds +1 to her Evasion, while the circular breathing used to maintain her song in the midst of battle adds her Performance to the raw damage of her withering kiai attacks. Finally, whenever an enemy pays Willpower to resist a Performance-based influence roll made by the Nightingale, she gains three points of Initiative.

Special activation rules: Whenever the Nightingale successfully overcomes a non-trivial enemy’s Resolve with Performance-based influence relevant to an ongoing fight, she may reflexively activate Silver-Voiced Nightingale Form. She gains Initiative from any characters whopay Willpower to resist the initial influence roll, as described above.

Hearing the Heart’s Song
Cost: 5m, 2i; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mastery, Perilous, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Silver-Voiced Nightingale Form

Honing her senses, the Nightingale hears the music of her foe’s heart, catching a strain of melody that betrays his intent to attack. Hearing the Heart’s Song adds (the martial artist’s Performance/2, round up) to her Evasion against a decisive attack. If she successfully defends against the attack, she gleans insights into her enemy’s heart, making a reflexive read intentions action against his Guile and adding her (boosted) Evasion in non-Charm bonus dice.

Mastery: Successfully reading an enemy’s intentions with this Charm allows the martial artist to steal one point of Initiative from him for each extra success on her roll.

Dodge

Reed in the Wind
Cost: 2i per 1 Evasion; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Exalt draws upon her own momentum to bend and flow with opposing forces. For every two Initiative spent in response to an attack, the player may raise the Exalt’s Evasion by one.

Reed in the Wind raises the cap on how much the Solar can enhance her Evasion by her Essence.

At Dodge 5+, Essence 3+, a successful dodge with Reed in the Wind restores one mote. This bonus may only occur once per round.

Searing Quicksilver Flight
Cost: —; Mins: Dodge 4, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind

The Solar’s skill at evasion is such that her dodges wither away at her opponent’s momentum. When she successfully dodges an attack, her opponent loses one point of Initiative in addition to any other Initiative he may have lost for failing the attack.

Lore

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

Performance

Masterful Performance Exercise
Cost: 2m; Mins: Performance 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar’s talent is not free or instinctual, but rather the hard-won excellence that comes from a lifetime of practice. This Charm supplements a Performance-based action, granting one automatic success and rerolling1s until 1s fail to appear. This Charm also makes the Exalt’s 1s unavailable to magic that might interfere with her performance.

Respect-Commanding Attitude
Cost: 5m; Mins: Performance 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: One Performance action
Prerequisite Charms: None

The return of the Solars is a miracle never before seen. The universe inclines to hear their voices once again. When this Charm supplements a Performance action of any length, characters are inclined to stop and listen. This does not guarantee that the Lawgiver is persuasive in her arguments, but it does guarantee that her audience listens respectfully to her entire performance. Characters may pay one Willpower to leave the performance, but if they wish to interrupt or attack the Lawgiver, they must pay two Willpower, and may only approach her by blending into her demonstration, capping the actions of each affected character by their individual (Charisma + Performance) ratings until one of them is able to successfully stop her act. This Charm does not function after combat has started, but if activated beforehand, it remains active after Join Battle has been rolled, up until the Solar is forced to stop her performance.

Phantom-Conjuring Performance
Cost: —(1m); Mins: Performance 4, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Masterful Performance Exercise,
Respect-Commanding Attitude

While under the effect of at least one of the prerequisites, the Exalt may pay one mote, conjuring phantom images from the Essence of her surroundings. These phantoms coalesce within short range of the Solar, and aid in illustrating her narrative. Apparitions might appear as small animals, person-sized characters, and allusions of scenery in a chiaroscuro.

At Performance 5, Essence 3+, the Lawgiver’s apparitions grow larger and more robust. She can depict larger beasts and monsters and more substantial scenery. Phantoms may appear to curl from the smoke of her breath, the light of her eyes, or her very anima.

Perfect Harmony Technique
Cost: 1m; Mins: Performance 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Masterful Performance Exercise

The Solar can shape her voice, or the voice of her instrument, into a perfect harmony of sound. This Charm supplements musical performances, granting them double 9s.

Mood-Inducing Music
Cost: 1m; Mins: Performance 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One song
Prerequisite Charms: Perfect Harmony Technique

Taking up a musical instrument, the Exalt pours her Essence through her fingers as she plays, evoking the soul of a composition. This Charm supports social influence being employed by other characters in the scene. The player names a mood which the song should induce, with an intended effect. It can be a calming song to prevent hostility, a market song to induce trade, a romantic song to aid in seduction, and so on. After the player has named the effect of the song, the Storyteller can decide how it affects the scene, adding or subtracting bonus dice equal to the Solar’s Essence. For example, a song with a calming influence will penalize social influence that attempts to provoke anger, while romantic music enhances sexual persuasion. This Charm enhances and penalizes the social influence of anyone who can hear it. The Solar’s music can also instead be tailored to enhance a dance or a song sung by a specific character.

Battle Anthem (of the Solar Exalted)
Cost: 1m; Mins: Performance 5, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One song
Prerequisite Charms: Mood-Inducing Music

The Lawgiver draws down the Essence of battle and manifests it through the medium of her instrument. While playing this song in combat, the Solar and her allies each automatically gain one Initiative per round, and their successful withering attacks each award an additional point of bonus Initiative. Allied battle groups who can hear the Solar’s music enjoy (Solar’s Essence) bonus dice to their to their attacks. While using this Charm, the Solar can’t take any non reflective actions.

Under the effects of Soul voice, allies gain 2 initiative per round. And battle groups gain (essence) automatic successes to their attacks.

Master Thespian Style
Cost: 1m; Mins: Performance 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Masterful Performance Exercise

The greatest actors have the talent of making their audience forget. The Solar spends five minutes getting into character, psyching herself up, tuning her voice, repeating lines or otherwise practicing dance moves or musical movements. As long as she stays in character, this Charm raises the Exalt’s Guile by one for the rest of the scene. Characters who fail to read her intentions while this Charm is active will pick up on false Intimacies or motivations that align with the role the Lawgiver is playing, and be convinced they are real.

If the Exalt enters a scene with a dramatic stunt befitting the role she wishes to play, she may activate this Charm reflexively. This Charm is expressly permitted to be combined with Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise.

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

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

Voice-Hurling Method
Cost: 2m; Mins: Performance 4, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Masterful Performance Exercise

With skill to humble a master ventriloquist, the Exalt throws her voice. With this Charm, the Solar can cast her voice out to short range, making it appear to come from particular objects, locations, people or animals. Voice-Hurling Method supplements a single social influence action or regular dialogue lasting no longer than ten seconds. When the character is concealed, she may use it to speak without giving away her position, penalizing her opponent’s Awareness by two successes in the process.

Presence

Listener-Swaying Argument
Cost: 3m; Mins: Presence 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar’s passionate appeals can soften even the stoniest of hearts. This Charm supplements an instill or persuade action, granting the Solar one automatic success and additionally granting one non-Charm bonus die for every two points the target’s Resolve is boosted by any means. The Solar cannot gain more than three bonus dice in this fashion.

Resistance

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

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

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

Socialize

Mastery of Small Manners
Cost: 5m; Mins: Socialize 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar attunes herself to the patterns of social interaction, allowing Essence to guide her responses. While this Charm is active, the Exalt adapts to the expectations of a host culture, and is able to instinctively and reflexively follow its customs, behaving appropriately for the situation at hand. This Charm does not grant the Exalt perfect understanding of a society, but covers greetings, eating and gift customs, and flirtation mores. This Charm eliminates all penalties incurred by unfamiliarity with cultural expectations and group dynamics, and prevents a character from committing any major faux pas. In addition, those who hold positive Intimacies for the culture the Solar has attuned herself to gain a temporary positive Minor Tie of respect or admiration for the Solar, while those who hold negative Intimacies for foreigners or outsiders have that Intimacy temporarily lowered by one level of intensity.
Wip
Armor
Whispers of Perfection
Orichalcum Silk Armor - Soak 5, hard 4, att 4

Stone Stands Against the Ocean
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: None
As waves break against a boulder, hordes break against the Exalted. This evocation is unlocked automatically on attuning to Whispers of Perfection. The wearer adds non-charm successes to join battle equal to the size factor of the largest battle group opposing him.This evocation only looks at number of attackers; legendary size does not activate it.

Hearthstones

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

(Sidereal, Greater)
Keywords: Manse-Born
This gold-tinged orange jewel grants innate understanding of how Essence flows through martial stances and katas. While socketed in an attuned artifact, the bearer gains two Initiative when she uses a Form’s special activation rules to assume it reflexively.

Other

This sanxian is made of polished kauri wood and strung with silver and gold. The snakeskin covering its soundbox came from a serpent-god. The soul of an old master performer is bound into the strings, which never break or need tuning, and aids performances. When attuned for three motes, playing this sanxian adds two successes to Performance rolls. These add to whatever bonus an Exalted player can add through Charms. Any duffer can sound good playing this sanxian; a Solar musician could make Deathlords weep or call stars from the skies.

This artifact comes in a variety of forms including studded bands, chokers, torcs, collars or delicate necklaces. Although no artifacts are common, these collars are sufficiently simple that the Realm’s Dragon-Blooded artisans can create them without vast amounts of difficulty. Wealthy Dynasts own and wear them when possible, not just for their useful properties, but also as displays of fortune and opulence.
The purpose of this collar is to keep its wearer clean in every respect. She could spend weeks living beneath a rubbish heap and emerge at the end as though she had just spent hours preparing for a grand ball. The artifact negates all penalties to Social rolls that would be applied due to the character being dirty or unkempt. Attuning to the collar extends its powers beyond the Exalt’s clothing to her physical body. The artifact’s cleansing light adds
two dice to (Stamina + Resistance) rolls made against disease or poison. The wearer must commit one mote to use this artifact.

These are slightly modified Perfected Kata Bracers with a lower Commitment cost. They take 5m to attune, and once you activate your Form Charm, it adds your Essence to the accuracy, damage and defense of your unarmed attacks and of attacks made with the active Form-type Charm’s particular weapons. You may choose to inflict bashing or lethal damage at will and you may parry lethal attacks unarmed.

In addition:
Orichalcum bracers let Solars inflict aggravated damage on creatures of darkness.

Instrument
Lute
Intimacies
Defining principle - Darkness sings, and must be countered in kind.
Major tie - To never betray or abandon Lunar Mate.
Major tie - To always keep your cool for the sake of others.
Major tie - A deed worth doing is worth doing with fervor.
Minor tie - Dynast Politics (Dismissal)
Minor - Admiral Peleps Ruu (Respect)
Minor tie - Past Lives (Curiosity)

Background

An illegitimate scion between houses Iselsi and Nellens. Wanted by neither, but unable to be rejected completely due to political reasons.

Iselsi Rito was sent to the far islands with little but a scornful overseer. Out of sight, out of mind.

With a knack for the music and charm, the boy grew up a popular lad, earning spending money through his talents. Busy he became, until the calling for a bard became synonymous with him. Simply refering to him as "the bard", or even just "Bard" when addressing him.

Years passed, and things went well as could be until a horrid dark storm threatened their island. One of evil that aimed to devour their island.

The friendly Peleps dragon blooded fleet had come to lend its aid. But was quickly over its head when the heart of the storm made its call. A song from the abyss that called to the people to send themselves into the ocean to be eaten.

Seeing his fellow islanders driven mad by this song... Bard could not stand by why his people suffered so. Not while Peleps work so hard to try and protect them.

Bard strode to the coast and faced the storm, exaltation found him. The first strum of his lute cut through the ocean like a knife, and his performance countered the abyssal(water depths) song.

His performance was divine. Throughout the island the madness abated and the fires in their hearts renewed. They worked harder. The dragon blooded, moved to tears by the song, also worked harder. Their sorcerers finding power and inspiration in the music. And with the help of this musician, they were able to save the island and drive this evil storm back where it came from.

However... an anathema this bard was. But good memories they had of him. The admiral showed mercy, hidden in an act of execution. Her heart having been moved not just by the song, but by his aid.

When it came time to kill him the Admiral, Peleps Ruu, had her firewand half filled. Shot him and sent him to the see, but still alive was the Bard. The Admiral saw a boat was left for him to flee. With which he did.

Slightly disfigured by the injury. He was still assumed dead. It would heal in time, at least. For now... he needed to get far from here, and learn what his exaltation meant. He felt a pull in his heart somewhere. Might as well head that way.
Attribute increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase - current rating x 2
Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x 2) - 1
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit - new rating x 3
Willpower - 8
Solar Charm - 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm - 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell - 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation - 10

Xp Earned: 55/54

Xp spending
2xp - Appearance 2
1xp - Lore 2,3
8xp - Charm
16xp - 2x Charm
24xp - 3x charm

Solar Xp Earned: 34/33
Solar Xp spending
8sxp - Appearance 3
2sxp - Appearance 2
12sxp - Lore 2,3,4
3sxp - old realm
8sxp - MA charm

BP: 15/15

Wits 4 - 3bp
Awareness 4, 5 - 2bp
Dodge 4, 5 - 2bp
MA 4,5 - 2bp
Performance 4,5 - 2bp
Presence 4,5 - 2bp
Socialize 4,5 - 2bp

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Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise

Psychie · Mar 29, 2020

Name: Spider
Caste: Full Moon
Totem Form: Giant Spider

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

Cha: 3
Man: 2
App: 3

Per: 3
Int: 3
*Wits: 5

Abilities
Archery:
Athletics: 2
Awareness: 4 - Join Battle Rolls
Brawl: 1
Bureaucracy:
Craft:
Dodge: 3
Integrity: 2
Investigation:
Larceny:
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 2
Martial Arts:
Medicine:
Melee: 5 - Twin Blades
Occult: 3
Performance: 2
Presence: 4
Resistance: 2
Ride:
Sail:
Socialize:
Stealth: 3 - Vanish in Plain Sight
Survival: 3
Thrown: 1
War: 1
Hearts Blood: 2 - 15 forms
--wasp, scorpion, housefly, cat, fox, ferret, rottweiler, sand swimmer, polar bear, gorilla, dolphin, octopus, eagle, hawk, owl
Ambidexterity: 1
Fast Reflexes: 3
Languages: 3 - Skytongue, Firetongue, Riverspeak, Old Realm
Pain Tolerance: 4
Resources: 2

Anima Effects
By spending one mote, a Lunar can:
• Make her Caste Mark appear for as long as she desires.
• Make her Tell apparent to all onlookers for as long as she desires.
• Discern the moon’s phase and the precise time of day.
Full Moon
• For five motes, the Full Moon adds (Essence, maximum 5) non-Charm dice on movement rolls and feats of strength and gains (higher of Essence or 3) natural soak until her next turn. This power is free at bonfire anima.
• An indomitable warrior, she adds (highest physical Attribute / 2) Resolve against threaten rolls and other fear-based influence as a non-Charm bonus.
• Once per day, when she lands a decisive attack that resets her Initiative, she may pay ten motes and one Willpower to roll Join Battle with (highest physical Attribute) non-Charm dice.

Tell:
Dark black insect-like eyes.

Limit Trigger
The character discovers a significant obstacle that prevents her from achieving one of her or her Circle’s goals when success seemed almost certain.

Limit Break
Bellowing Tyrant Proclamation
The Lunar swells with overbearing pride. Anyone she can perceive must be made to acknowledge her authority or superiority. Those who don’t, or who fail to make their understanding of their own inferiority sufficiently explicit, must be convinced otherwise. This can take many forms — verbally berating someone, challenging him to a duel or competition, flaunting one’s power or wealth, or loudly proclaiming oneself a Lunar could all suffice, so long as they cause others to submit.
Duration: Session. Bellowing Tyrant Proclamation ends prematurely if the Lunar suffers a significant defeat or setback as a result of trying to prove her superiority.
Excellencies
Charisma, Dexterity, Perception, Stamina, Strength, Wits

General Charms

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

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

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

Mutations
Unusual Hide - 2
One of the most common mutations bestowed by the Wyld, this Merit grants an unusually resilient hide of some sort. The character gains additional points of natural soak equal to the Merit’s value. One or two dots generally represents fur, feathers, leaves, or light scales. Three dots indicate flesh far beyond the human norm—the leathery hide of a rhino or crocodile, or the exoskeletal carapace of an insect, perhaps. Four or five dots grant an armored hide which may be made of bony armor, an obsidian carapace, or perhaps even a body of living stone.
Wall Walking - 4
The character gains the ability to cling to, as well as walk or crawl across, walls and even ceilings. Ceilings and inherently slick surfaces with little purchase (such as Chiaroscuro glass) count as difficult terrain.

Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar wears ten thousand faces, yet she’s always herself. She alters her current form’s appearance: increasing or reducing her height by 10 inches; increasing or decreasing her weight by up to 10%; altering her apparent age; changing or removing sexual characteristics; changing skin tone, eye color, and hair color and length; and/or cosmetic changes like adding scars or birthmarks. She can alter both human and animal forms.
The Lunar can conceal her identity with this transformation. She makes a disguise roll instantly, ignoring penalties for lacking equipment or disguising herself as someone of a different race, sex, or body type. However, she can’t imitate a specific individual.
Changes made with this Charm are permanent. A second use, whose Willpower cost is waived, can undo such changes.

Charisma Charms

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

Cost: 4m; Mins: Charisma 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Speaking with natural authority, the Lunar fills her listeners with the urge to obey. She rerolls (higher of Essence or 3) failed dice on a persuade, bargain, or threaten roll.
Protean: In a human shape that holds a superior position over each target of the influence — whether in a formal or informal hierarchy — the Lunar rerolls 1s until they cease to appear before rerolling other failures.

Dexterity Shifting Charms

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Dexterity 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Totemic (Wits)
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar compresses the fullness of her divinity into the humblest of forms. She changes into an animal shape she possesses with the Minuscule Size Merit.
Special activation rules: If the Lunar uses this Charm to shift from one Minuscule Size form to another, she waives its cost.
Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape has Minuscule Size may learn this as a Wits Charm.

Dexterity Attack Charms

Cost: 3m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Perilous, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar’s limbs flex and warp along unexpected angles to avoid obstacles between her and her prey. She rerolls (higher of Essence or 3) 1s on an attack roll and ignores a single point of Defense bonus from weapons, cover, or the Full Defense action.
With Dexterity 4, the Lunar may attack a lower-Initiative enemy through full cover with an appropriate stunt, but he receives +3 Defense.
Protean: If the Lunar attacks with an animal shape’s tail, tentacles, or similar flexible appendages, she ignores an additional point of Defense bonus.

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

Cost: 2m; Mins: Dexterity 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Sinuous Striking Grace
The Lunar acts with fluid grace and incomparable coordination. She makes a flurry (Exalted, p. 195) that includes at least one physical action, reducing the penalty on each flurried action by one and ignoring the Defense penalty.
With Dexterity 5, Essence 3, the Lunar may pay a four-mote surcharge to flurry three actions, although she still can’t include more than one of the same action in the flurry.

Cost: 2m, 1wp; Mins: Dexterity 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Cunning Beast-Warrior Reflexes
The Lunar’s predatory instincts seize on a flaw in her prey’s defense, striking with lightning speed. She makes an attack with (higher of Essence or 3) bonus dice. If this crashes her target or deals 3+ decisive damage, she reflexively makes a decisive attack against him. She rolls damage equal to the target’s current onslaught penalty — counting onslaught inflicted by the initial attack (but not by itself) — and ignores Hardness. This doesn’t include the Lunar’s Initiative or reset it.
If the Lunar’s initial attack incapacitates her target, she makes the reflexive attack against another enemy in range. It still uses her initial target’s onslaught penalty to determine damage.

Cost: —; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar is master of as many weapons as she has hands to wield them. While she has one full-cost attunement to an artifact weapon, she reduces the attunement cost of further artifact weapons by three motes each. This doesn’t stack with other discounts.
If she ends her full-cost attunement, she must commit enough motes to bring another attunement to its full cost, or else all discounted attunements end.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Dexterity 4, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Finding the Needle’s Eye
The Lunar feels the flow of Essence through every motion, guiding her inexorably to strike true. She rerolls (higher of Essence or 3) failed dice on a withering attack roll, beginning with 6s and moving down.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Dexterity 5, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Striking Mospid Method
Striking with unmatched speed and grace, the Lunar embodies the perfect warrior. When she adds a full Excellency to a withering attack roll, she adds a non-Charm success, and rolls a non-Charm die for every 10.

Dexterity Mobility Charms

Cost: 3m; Mins: Dexterity 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar shapeshifts to lighten her bones and strengthen her footing. She gains perfect balance, and can stand or run on surfaces too narrow or weak to support her normally without needing to roll.

Cost: 1m, 1i; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Graceful Crane Stance
A fallen Lunar may regain her footing without moving, reshaping her form so that she stands upright. She reflexively rises from prone (Exalted, p. 198), rerolling 1s until they cease to appear. This doesn’t count as her move action, and can be done outside her turn.

Perception Charms

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

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

Stamina Charms
Endurance

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

Cost: 3m; Mins: Stamina 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar thickens her skin, forming a thick hide, bony plates, or tough scales. She adds (higher of Essence or 3) natural soak against a withering attack or gains Hardness (Stamina) against a decisive attack.

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

Strength Charms

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

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

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Strength 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Hybrid Body Transformation
Flesh and Essence swelling with the unleashed power of her almighty rage, the Lunar assumes a dread warform. To use this Charm, Hybrid Body Transformation (p. XX) must be active. The Lunar gains the following benefits:
• She adds (Strength) to the raw damage of her withering attacks.
• She adds (Strength) dice on feats of strength and movement actions.
• She adds (Strength) natural soak.
• She treats her Strength as (Essence) higher for determining what feats of strength she may attempt.
However, the Lunar suffers the following drawbacks in this state:
• She suffers a −1 Defense penalty that can’t be negated.
• She loses the benefits of resonance with artifacts, and becomes dissonant with any artifact she’s not normally resonant with.
Special activation rules: When the Lunar uses Hybrid Body Transformation, she may reflexively activate this Charm.
Health Levels
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Willpower: 8

Essence: 2
Personal: 17
Peripheral: 42 / 32
Committed: 10

Join Battle: 11 +3i successes (+5i for 3m with Sinuous Striking Grace)

Parry: 6 - +1 from the Hundred Rings
Evasion: 4
Resolve: 4
Guile: 1

Natural Soak: +5 - +2 from Beast Form Empowerment, +2 from Hearthstone
Armored Soak: +8, Hardness +7 - +2 Soak, +1 Hardness from Argent Handshake Mien
Total Soak: +13L - +2 from Beast Form Empowerment, +2 from Hearthstone, +4 from DBT

Weapon Damage
Paired Moonsilver Short Daiklaves
Attunement: 5m; Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hearthstone slot(s): 2

The Hundred Rings of Hadam-Ul (Moonsilver Dire Chain - Artifact 3)
Attunement: 5m (3m); Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Bashing, Disarming, Flexible, Grappling,
Martial Arts, Reaching
Hearthstone slot(s): 2

Armor
Unison - Moonsilver Reinforced Buff Jacket
The haunted, blood-soaked forests of Ashbloom, deep in the Northeast, once held Logerion, a shining arboreal metropolis of the First Age. Knows-the-Horizon, a young Lunar socialite and savant, was drawn to the cosmopolitan city, with its wise birds, its palaces of living wood, and its Solar queen’s joyous court.
When the city burned in the Usurpation, its queen and her favorites put to the sword, Knows-the-Horizon fled into the Northeast’s deep forests. Isolated from the elegant dance of urban society and the depths of the First Age’s libraries and scholastic societies, she sought out the Lunar mystic Opal Heart, whose teachings offered solace in contemplating the intricacies of the wilderness spirit courts and the mysteries of Luna’s cycle of change.
In recognition of that cycle, Knows-the-Horizon forged a pair of moonsilver blades, calling down the minor moon-gods Phaessa and Deinon and — in exchange for rediscovering the key to the Midnight Sky Gate and returning it to the Court of the Silver Chair — binding them into the swords that would bear their names. She blooded her new blades well against the Shogunate. When she perished in battle, others in the Silver Pact took up the swords in her name.
These paired blades are curved like scimitars, or the crescent moon. Etchings on each blade bear lost scriptures to Luna in a forgotten First Age tongue. But while their form is identical, the two can’t be mistaken for one another. Phaessa shines a brilliant silver-white, and hums with predatory intensity; Deinon gleams darkly beneath its tarnish, cleaving the air with a susurrus of whispers.

Attunement: 5m (2m due to Charm); Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hearthstone slot(s): 2
Era: Birth of the Silver Pact

Evocations of Phaessa and Deinon
Depending on which blade’s power is ascendant, the blades can be either waxing, waning, or neither. While waxing, Phaessa dazzles prey with searing silver radiance, adding one non-Charm die to threaten rolls and withering damage rolls. While waning, Deinon bewilders foes with a hypnotic play of shadows, adding one non-Charm die to Stealth rolls and decisive damage rolls.
The blades become waxing upon incapacitating an opponent. They become waning upon gaining an Initiative Break. Whenever the blades become waxing, they cease to be waning, and vice versa. The blades cease to be waxing or waning at end of scene.
When a resonant wielder wins Join Battle, the blades become her choice of waxing or waning.

Lone Blades
If the wielder employs Deinon without Phaessa — if she’s been disarmed of Phaessa, for example — she gains no benefits from the blades being waxing. If she wields Phaessa without Deinon, she gains no benefits from the blades being waning.

Attunement: 5m (3m due to hearthstone); Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Bashing, Disarming, Flexible, Grappling,
Martial Arts, Reaching
Hearthstone slot(s): 2

Evocations of the Hundred Rings
Upon attuning to the Hundred Rings, the wielder awakens Serpent Ornament Embrace for free.

Serpent Ornament Embrace
Cost: 1m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Like the beast at its core, the Hundred Rings are of indeterminate size. The dire chain shrinks down to become a necklace, bracelet, or girdle of moonsilver links, gaining the Concealable tag (Exalted, p. 588). It can be readied and restored to full size reflexively with a second activation.

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

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

Keywords: Dependent, Linked
While this glittering white gem is socketed in an artifact, reduce that artifact’s attunement cost by two, to a minimum of one.

Keywords: None
This stone gleams the pale green of young bamboo leaves. When its bearer sockets it in an attuned artifact and commits one mote, it helps shrug off minor injuries. She adds two to her soak, can parry lethal attacks unarmed without a stunt, and halves healing times for bashing damage.
Defining Principle: Hatred of Slavery
Defining Principle: I am my own Master
Major Tie: Luna (Gratitude)
Major Tie: Devoted to her Solar Bond (Protective)
Major Tie: Lunars (Loyalty)
Minor: The Immaculate Order (Amused Contempt)
Minor: Fellow Slaves (Compassion)
Minor Tie: Solar Exalted (Curiosity)

She never knew her family. How could she, since they had all been killed when she was just a baby? She also never quite understood why her life was spared; after all, what use was an infant to a bunch of desert nomads? No one ever told her why. No one ever bothers to give such details to a slave.
The tribe called themselves the Vashni. They lived hard lives in the desert, making a home in a place where most could not. If life was hard for the members of the tribe, it was nearly Malfeas for a young slave girl. She never even had a name. They just called her chula. She was a thing, a piece of property to be used as they saw fit.

Her days were filled with torture and humiliation, and her nights were consumed with loneliness and the wish to belong to a family of her own. She picked up a bone chip one day, and would lay awake at night carving at it with her small stone knife. She would create her salvation. Her freedom. She would call for a monster to come and rescue her. It would come and take her far away to a better place. Every night, she carved the bone chip into the rough shape of a spider; the first thing that came to her mind in the desert heat.

The carving took shape slowly, but finally, she was done. She carried it with her everywhere. She talked to it, whispering stories of how great it was, and giving it a terrible hunger. It would come for her and free her. Finally, one day, it did.

Members of the tribe were being hunted by some monster living out in the wastes. One by one, the villagers were taken. The warriors seemed helpless trying to find this predator that was feeding on their people. The tribe's shaman finally stood before his people and begged their gods for deliverance. He proclaimed that the one to free them from this scourge would receive the blessings of the gods themselves.

That night, she decided to hunt this beast herself. She was certain that she had called it out by some means, and it was up to her to stop it. It didn't take her long to gather her things. One advantage to not having much. Her only weapon was her simple stone knife. It would have to do.
The tracks lead her deep into the wasteland until she found its layer. A cave hidden behind the rocks and brush. She knew it was a foolish thing to go inside to fight the creature but she had no choice. Too many lives lay at her feet for calling it out.

A giant spider awaited her. She could feel its hunger and hatred flowing from it. With a wordless cry she charged. Pain blurred her mind as she became something less than human, something primal. Fueled by her rage, she fought on, ignoring the wounds and poison in her body. After what seemed to be hours, she found herself kneeling at the side of her fallen foe. Her final trophy was to take the fangs; proof of her victory.

As her breath heaved in her chest, the former slave girl looked up to see a beautiful silver glow coming from the depths of the cave the spider was in. Curiosity gripped her, and she looked on as a tall woman clad in shining robes came walking out to stand in front of her. The woman reached down and cupped her face in a soft hand and smiled. With a nod, the woman motioned for the ragged girl to rise. "You have suffered for so long, but you have never lost your fire, your strength. I am proud to claim you as one of my newborn children, a Full Moon warrior of my Chosen. Rise, young one, and let all of Creation tremble in the knowledge that a new Lunar now walks among them!" Suddenly, the pain of her wounds and the poison burning in her body was gone, and the former slave girl was healed, now stronger than ever. She was now ready to face her former tormentors. She was chula no more.

She returned to the tribe and threw down the fangs before the shaman. Before the tribe, she demanded her due. Where were the blessings he had promised the one to rid them of this foe? He had no answer. He just stared in horror at her, murmuring only one word, "Anathema!" One of the warriors of the tribe cried out that she was a liar to claim victory when so many skilled warriors had fallen to the beast. He said he would prove this by dispatching this arrogant chula that would think it was a person.

Her rage returned. She could feel the strength flow through her once more. How dare he? He would pay for his words! She had her own blessing. One from her God, the one that had granted her the strength to prevail in the face of certain death. She could feel her body change, the power of her Essence running through her, fueling her might. Lunging forward, she impaled the arrogant man, pulled him in close, and slowly reached out and slit his throat with her dagger before dropping the bleeding body down in the dirt.

She then turned to face the others. "The next one to call me chula will join him in the Underworld! No one will ever call me that again! I am Spider, Blessed of Luna! I should kill you all, but in my strength I am also merciful. More so than the lot of you deserve! Know this! Cross my path again and next time I will not stay my hand!"

That was the last she ever saw of them. Free from her slavery, Spider set out to start her new life, determined to make a name for herself.
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Attribute increase - current rating x4 (–1 if Casteless)
Caste/Favored Attribute increase - current rating x3
Ability increase - current rating x2
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit - new rating x3
Willpower - 8
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Lunar Charm - 10 (9 if Casteless)
Caste/Favored Lunar Charm - 8
Martial Arts Charm - 10
Spell - 10 (8 if Intelligence is a Caste/Favored Attribute)
Evocation - 10
Animal Latent Ability - 6

Xp Earned: 69
Xp Banked: 3

Lunar Xp Banked: 6

Wish List
Dexterity
Agile Beast Defense - p185
Coiled Serpent Strikes - p186

Stamina
Halting the Scarlet Flow - p256
Rugged Beast Endurance - p256
Durant Quicksilver Adaptation - p251
Invulnerable Moonsilver Carapace - E2, p253

Strength
Claws of the Silver Moon - E2, p269

jaydude · Mar 30, 2020

Name: Kuaidao (Quick Blade)
Age: 22
Caste: Dawn
Concept: Former member of the Legions/Scarlet Empire Defector
Supernal: War
Limit trigger: The Solar sees innocents suffering, and is either unable or unwilling to help them.
Anima Banner: A pale-gold dragon with a red tint.

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

Backstory:
Kuaidao was born on the Blessed Isle, the fifth child of a wealthy patrician couple. Alongside his siblings, he slept comfortably and never went hungry, and learned horse-riding and armed combat as he grew up. Like his parents, his household staff and the majority of people he interacted with, he venerated the Scarlet Empress and the Dynasts even in spite of their elitist attitudes towards mortals, and followed the spirit of the Immaculate Philosophy in the hope of being reborn as a Dragon-blooded one day. He saw firsthand the corruption and cruelty of the Scarlet Empire, but at the time he considered them necessary evils.

Hoping to die in the name of the Scarlet Empress, and having few prospects at home as a mortal fifth son, he signed up with the Imperial Legions after he turned eighteen, shortly before the Empress's disappearance was revealed to the public. He continued his service in the legion and soon reached officer rank, predominantly seeing action in the Realm's northern satrapies and subsequently learning the local language, but he gradually started to become disillusioned with the Scarlet Empire from this point on. The Dynasts and their Great Houses were squabbling with each other in preparation for the inevitable civil war for the Scarlet Throne, and to this end they were starting to neglect and oppress the mortals under their dominion moreso than they had before.

For Kuaidao, the tipping point came when he and his men were sent to the North to put down an icewalker rebellion led by a man named Ulfric of the Redfurs. It turned out that Ulfric was actually a Zenith Caste Solar, who ambushed the Imperial forces and decimated them alongside his men. Kuaidao saw his men cut down all around him before he himself was face to face with Ulfric, who leveled a daiklave of orichalcum at him. Whether it was due to a veteran soldier's composure, resignation to the possibility of death, or a few leftover shreds of zealotry towards the Scarlet Empire, Kuaidao stood his ground and charged at Ulfric, ducking under the swing of the daiklave and slashing at his opponent's armor...

...and when his sword made contact, a great flash of light visible for miles around enveloped his entire body.

Kuaidao was unable to believe what was happening to him, a sentiment not helped by the martial and military knowledge of all his past incarnations suddenly flooding into his mind, and Ulfric took advantage of his distraction to knock him out. When he came to, Kuaidao found himself in a small cave with the Zenith, who explained everything. What he was, the truth about the Solars and the Sidereals, the Usurpation and the events leading up to it, and everything that had transpired afterwards. It took the newly exalted Solar time before he was able to believe what he was hearing, but by the time the Zenith was done talking, Kuaidao saw the world in a completely different light. The Bronze Faction Sidereals had taken the easy way out by destroying the Solar Deliberative, rather than try and reason with - or even manipulate - the wayward Solars. The Shogunate they installed in its place had been an insufficient replacement, as demonstrated by the mass death and destruction caused by the Great Contagion and the invasion of the Fair Folk. And that the Solars, now with the opportunity to learn from their mistakes and try again, could restore true peace, prosperity and justice to Creation.

Having convinced Kuaidao of the truth, Ulfric revealed his intention to take his men and join up with the Bull in the North, and offered to let Kuaidao travel with him. Kuaidao however was uncertain about joining the icewalker tribes after all the years he'd spent fighting them, and he was reluctant to travel with the man responsible for the deaths of several of his men. The Zenith accepted this with good grace, and left Kuaidao with a steel sword, a mammoth hide buff jacket, and enough provisions to get him back to the 'civilized' parts of the North. With that, the two Solars went their separate ways.

Knowing that the other Imperial survivors would see him as an Anathema, Kuaidao traveled to the Far North, where he found service as an officer in the Haslanti League, training and leading raiders against the icewalker tribes. Both were tasks that he excelled at due to his nature as a Dawn Caste, though he kept the truth of what he really was secret, lest he risk drawing the ire of the Wyld Hunt. Instead he was content to pose as a mere talented mortal, while keeping an ear out for any news of fellow Celestial Exalted.

At one point in his new career, he and his men fought a battle against a Raksha-led horde of hobgoblins. They prevailed, but Kuaidao was forced to display signs of his Solar nature in order to survive. After the fae survivors had retreated, he found a young woman with torn clothes, covered in blood and freezing to death. Though puzzled about her, and how she had ended up there, he nevertheless took her back to the city he was protecting at the time, without asking questions. Following his return, he learned that she was Maja Visby, a member of one of the Haslanti League's Seven Peerless Polar Explorer Dynasties, though at the time he did not realize that she had Exalted as one of the Chosen of Luna.

Though the city was willing to overlook his Solar nature and treat him as a hero, Kuaidao knew that this state of affairs would not last indefinitely, as news of battle would reach the Wyld Hunt sooner or later. When it did, and he later discovered Wyld Hunt agents trying to investigate him, Kuaidao left the city, and by extension the Haslanti League. He did not protest when Maja chose to follow him.
Essence: 2
Personal Essence: 16/16
Peripheral Essence: 30/40

Committed Essence: 10

Willpower: 5
Join Battle: 7 dice
Health Levels: -0, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -3, Incapacitated
Resolve 3, Guile 2

Attacks
Guardian Host (Orichalcum & White Jade Daiklave): 14 W. Accuracy, 11 D. Accuracy, 15 Damage, Overwhelming 4 (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4) (Lethal, Melee, Chopping)
Straight Sword: 13 W. Accuracy, 11 D. Accuracy, 12 Damage, Overwhelming 2 (+2 Accuracy +9 Damage, +1 Defense, +2 Overwhelming) (Lethal, Melee, Balanced)

Actions
Rush: 10
Disengage: 8

Evasion 4, Parry 7
Soak/Hardness: 11/7 (Dauntless, Soak +8, Mobility Penalty -1, Hardness +7, Attune 5)
Attributes
Strength: 3
Dexterity: 5
Stamina: 3

Perception: 3
Intelligence: 3
Wits: 3

Charisma: 3
Manipulation: 1
Appearance: 3

Abilities
Athletics: 5
Awareness: 3
Dodge: 3
Integrity: 3
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 3 (Scarlet Empire)
Melee: 5 (Sp: Swords)
Performance: 2
Presence: 3
Resistance: 3
Ride: 2
Socialize: 2
Stealth: 2
Survival: 2
War: 5 (Sp: Large armies)
Merits
Fast Reflexes 3
Languages 2 (Skytongue, Low Realm, High Realm native)
Pain Tolerance 4
Resources 1 (Money left over from army pay)

Panoply

Unbound Light had nothing but contempt for the Wyld, for centuries she and her fellows had lost countless warriors attempting to expand the truth of Creation. She resolved that she would no longer waste lives to the madness of chaos, to do this she would need a weapon that shared her contempt for instability.

She sought the great Thousand Shards of Majesty, a mighty dragon of earth that had long dwelled near the Pole of Earth and plead her case. Moved by the Solar’s devotion to her people and stability, he allowed himself to be sealed in a titanic Yasal crystal. Using her sorcerous prowess, Unbound Light shrank the great crystal to the size of a hearthstone to be the centerpiece of her weapon. She called upon her sworn Dragon-Blooded, her loyal commanders who shared her grief for wasted lives and set them to work gathering vast sums of Orichalcum and White Jade. Over the following centuries she worked with her greatest Terrestrial smiths, refining vast fortunes of white jade and Orichalcum into a worthy shape. Four generations of her Terrestrial followers devoted their lives to bringing forth the mighty weapon. On the thousandth year the weapon was complete and the now tired Solar inscribed the names of her brave subjects onto the length of the Daiklave.

The hosts of chaos grew to fear the great guardian and her gem hosts as she broke any fae invader to approach her territory. However her drive to justify the sacrifice needed to forge her weapon led her to becoming more and more distant from her people. Over the centuries that the guardian stood her vigil she never noticed her followers growing corrupt and envious of the power of her weapon. When the Usurpation came she was faced by a mortal army led by descendants of the friends which she had sacrificed for her kingdom and Creation. While outrage and shock flared within her an overwhelming grief led her to drop her weapon for she could not harm those that she had given so much to protect.

The triumphant Terrestrials denied their former master a burial and their commander thought it fitting to take her head as a trophy using her own weapon. As she raised the weapon, the spirit of the mighty dragon within struck out in a blinding flash of golden light, crystalizing the entire kingdom. The weapon would then remain at the core of now buried fields of gemstone that it created, waiting patiently for a new soldier to take up the mantle of the Guardian and wreak a horrible vengeance on those that destroyed Creation’s stability.

The weapon's current wielder, Kuaidao, has little to no idea of this weapon's backstory. If he did, or at least knew of what had happened to it following the Usurpation, he would deduce that another Exalt must have taken it from the midst of the crystalized kingdom, for he found it within the cache of the Invisible Fortress.

The Guardian Host is a reaver daiklave of unusually simple if breathtaking appearance, the weapon is primarily composed of perfectly refined white jade carefully fused with Orichalcum which gives it a unique white-gold colour with a hilt carefully wrapped in plain but masterfully worked behemoth leather. The only two hints of ornamentation on the sword is the beautifully inscribed lines of Old Realm that can be seen running down the length the blade in clear light and the perfectly cut Yasal crystal that is embedded into the guard.

When Zan the Invincible, Sword of Heaven, stood alone against an army of thirty men, his Circlemates worried. When he stood alone against an army of sixty men, they asked him to wait for them next time. Finally, when he stood alone against an army of one hundred men, they knew they must act.

While the Dawn’s back was turned, Arem Bear-Arms, the silent Nightbringer, collected strands of hair from every soldier in the single-handedly crushed battalion in the blink of an eye. He gave them to Zhui the Traveler, the industrious Copper Spider, who used them to fashion arcane fibers that would lash together orichalcum plates in a suit of shining lamellar armor, enchanted with a blessing from the spirit of zeal for the challenge of battle. To this, Zhui added great domed pauldrons etched with Old Realm runes depicting tales of grand triumph, and a hauberk of orichalcum to wear beneath the plates.

From then on, Zan’s Circlemates were assured that though he would continue to leap headfirst into overwhelming odds, he would have their aid even in their absence. An Exalt who revels in the thrill of combat and possesses unparalleled valor finds that this armor amplifies her natural ability to throw herself wholly into strife and emerge victorious.

Long after the time of Zan and his Circle, this armor found its way into the cache of the Invisible Fortress, where it was eventually taken up by Kuaidao, another of the Dawn Solars.

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

(Acquired in this post)

This is a piece of leather measuring roughly three feet by three feet, with many filaments of Starmetal, Soulsteel, and Moonsilver woven across it. When five motes of Essence are committed to it, the wires begin to glow, moving across the face of the leather square and forming the lines of a relief map of the area around the user's current position, giving details of the terrain out several miles. In addition to showing the lay of the land, small moving motes of light show each and every person in the area, including the various Exalts that are shown by brighter motes of light.
Excellencies
Athletics
Awareness
Dodge
Integrity
Melee
Presence
Resistance
War

Athletics

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

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

The Exalt leaps with the speed and grace of a striking hawk. Using this technique, a Solar may automatically leap forward or straight up one range band. A Solar using this Charm can easily leap to the top of a twenty foot wall or cross a Nexus street over rooftops, without having to roll. This Charm counts as the Solar’s movement for the turn. If the Solar continues to leap to a different range band each turn, the cost is reduced to one mote after the first activation.

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

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

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

Awareness

Cost: 5m; Mins: Awareness 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

A breath of Essence seals the five senses into a more perfect form. The Solar’s senses are heightened and attuned to minute motions and sounds, dim and noisy conditions. She can differentiate between subtle tastes and textures with only the slightest variation. Thus sharpened, it is more difficult for characters to escape her notice, or to deceive her hunting senses. For the rest of the scene, the Exalt’s Awareness rolls benefit from double 9s. If the effect of any Unsurpassed (Sense) Discipline applies, reroll 6s until they cease to appear. Use of Sensory Acuity Prana comes without the danger of sensory overload; the Charm helps the Solar manage her senses more effectively.

Integrity

Cost: —; Mins: Integrity 2, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Bridge
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None or any 3 Bureaucracy, Presence, or War Charms

The Lawgiver’s resolve cannot be easily broken. Once the Solar has resisted a persuade action, she gains +2 to her Resolve if the issue is raised again. The Solar’s Lunar mate is always capable of insinuating herself into the Solar’s graces and may ignore this Charm’s effect.

Lore

Cost: —; Mins: Lore 3, Essence
Type: Permanent
Keywords: No
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar’s mind covers a spectrum of mastered topics. With this Charm, add the Solar’s Essence in non-Charm automatic successes to any Lore roll that involves a Lore specialty. In addition, the player may add an additional Lore specialty to her list of Lore topics at the end of each story. The Storyteller may veto any particular topic, in which case the player is allowed to choose another specialty that’s more acceptable. Finally, at any point in which the Solar succeeds at a moderately or extremely difficult roll to introduce or challenge a fact (p. 237), the player may request to add a related topic to the Solar’s library of known topics. As with all other topics, this is allowable only at the Storyteller’s discretion.

Melee

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

The Exalt channels Essence through skill, honing her accuracy in order to strike true. Her attack gains one automatic success. Additionally, all 1s are rerolled until 1s no longer appear.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Melee 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Excellent Strike

Sensing an opening, the Solar strikes with surpassing speed. Immediately after making a withering attack which lowers an opponent’s current Initiative from a value greater to a value less than the Solar’s own, she may use this Charm to unleash a second attack against that opponent. This second attack may be withering or decisive.

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

With speed and grace, the Exalt flashes to her own defense. Even when she is beleaguered she strikes away blows with preternatural accuracy. The Solar can ignore all penalties to parry an attack with her full Defense. In addition, any attack she successfully parries with Dipping Swallow Defense grants her one point of Initiative. This Charm cannot by itself remove the penalties from a surprise attack.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Until next turn
Prerequisite Charms: Dipping Swallow Defense

The Solar’s mastery of defensive Essence flows guides her weapon to intercept all blows. Until her next turn, the Lawgiver ignores all penalties to her Parry Defense. The Chosen’s definitive guard dampens her foes’ strikes. Any damage roll made against the Solar takes a -1 penalty for each 1 rolled on the attack roll, up to a maximum of the Solar’s Essence rating.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Melee 4, Essence
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Counterattack, Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dipping Swallow Defense

The Exalt draws focus from her foe’s temerity. To strike her is to invite death. The Exalt may use this Charm in response to any attack she attempts to parry, creating a Melee counterattack that occurs after the opponent’s attack result, but before damage has been rolled. This attack functions as a regular decisive attack. Solar Counterattack does not count as the Exalt’s combat action and cannot be used in response to another counterattack.

Presence

Cost: —; Mins: Presence 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lawgiver is a singular and terrifying being, awesome to behold. Learning this Charm grants one bonus die to all Presence rolls and allows the Exalt to reroll (Essence or three, whichever is greater) non-successes on rolls to intimidate. In addition, if the Solar has activated Majestic Radiant Presence, a character must resist an automatic intimidate attempt before he’s able to attempt an ambush attack. This effect does not make the Solar aware of her attacker—it simply means that, as her assassin draws a bead on her from the shadows, her fierce look and deadly grace emanates forth to cow him. The intimidate action may only be supported by Charms that are ongoing or otherwise can be used unconsciously.

Resistance

Cost: —; Mins: Resistance 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None

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

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

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

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

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

Cost: 10m; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ox-Body Technique

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

War

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

Solars descend from the highest war god in Heaven. They speak armies into existence, and their mere presence is a call to arms. This Charm supplements the Strategic Maneuver roll (p. 211); as the Lawgiver develops a tactic for victory, fighters of the world are drawn to her call to glory. Ignore the -1 penalty for troops with poor drill, and increase the battle group’s effective Size by one upon joining battle.

Cost: 5m; Mins: War 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: War God Descendent

Reaching out to the hearts of her charges with an impassioned speech and fatal purpose, the Solar invokes their reasons for fighting. This Charm is activated when the Exalt begins the long, arduous process of drilling her soldiers. As she toughens them with want and rain, she reminds them of the hardships they have endured at the hands of their tormentors. When they hunger, her words feed them. When they shiver, her exhortations warm them. Fed by the Solar’s will, they suffer less from long marches, empty bellies, or harsh climates. When the Lawgiver is finished drilling these troops, her commitment to the Charm ends, and her soldiers are forever improved: they cannot suffer demoralizing effects (such as the Demoralize stratagem on page 212) that are not created by Reflexive or Simple types of magic. In addition, ignore penalties on the Strategic Maneuver roll having to do with hunger, bad weather, or the physical exhaustion associated with long marches over difficult terrain.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: War 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: League of Iron Preparation

At the dawn of the world, man knew nothing of the gods save that they were inviolate and could not be vanquished. The Solar Exalted changed that. Through the use of this Charm, even the worst gutter-sweepings and bandits can be trained into an elite fighting force. This Charm enhances the effects of Drill (p. 206). The Solar’s training regimens are brilliant, ingraining her troops with perfect actions codified from a peerless mind for war. With this Charm, she can train an undisciplined unit up to Average after just a week, and she can instill an Average unit with Elite status after only a month. Any unit which gains Average Drill under the aegis of this training also gains the combat traits of battle-ready soldiers, while any unit raised to Elite Drill gains the combat traits of elite troops.

In addition, at Essence 3+, the Solar can further enhance an Elite battle group with her transforming will.

Demon-Fighting Principle: For 2xp, she can train her elite units to be more effective at fighting ghosts, demons, and other nighted creatures from the haunted tracts of Creation. The battle group gains +2 Might against such foes.

Giant-Slaying Tactics: For 2xp, the Exalt’s elite are versed in battle tactics having to do with fighting gigantic opponents. Her forces gain +2 Might against behemoths or other titanic foes. This effect does not stack with Demon-Fighting Principle.

Glory of the Inevitable: The Solar’s Tiger Warriors need no truth but life is death, and death comes on the battlefield. For 3xp, she can instill her elite battle group with perfect morale (p. 210), making it impossible to fail a rout check without powerful magical influence.

Cost: 2m; Mins: War 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: War God Descendent

Looking into the Essence of the battlefield, the Solar tactician knows the forces arrayed against her, if not in fact then in unerring instinct. This Charm supplements the Strategic Maneuver roll (see p. 211) to establish a stratagem, allowing the Solar to ignore all penalties from unfamiliarity with the opposing force or its generals.

Cost: 1m; Mins: War 3, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Holistic Battle Understanding

The Lawgiver knows the path to victory is through efficiency and planning. With less time for preparation, and fewer tools, she can quickly turn a battlefield into an abattoir. By supplementing a Strategic Maneuver roll with Redoubt-Raising Gesture, the Solar can complete a specific stratagem with one less success than is required.

Cost: 4m; Mins: War 4, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Redoubt-Raising Gesture

Poring over maps and strategies real and remembered, the Solar sees perfect stillness beneath the chaotic Essence of combat. This Charm supplements the Strategic Maneuver roll, adding one automatic success plus (Essence) dice. In addition, the Exalt may choose to split her successes into multiple stratagems. The Solar may deploy no more stratagems than her Essence rating.
The Guardian Host

Cost: 15m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None

At the command of the Guardian, massive shards of gemstone erupt under their foes' ranks, shattering formations and leaving a vast wealth of gemstones across the battlefield. Bounty of the Pure Earth is an attack that strikes all enemies in a line up to medium range as an unblockable withering attack which leaves enemies prone. The vast gems that are pulled from the earth during this attack remain on the battlefield with (Essence/2, rounded up) titanic mounds of gems left on the field. These Brilliant Gem deposits are similar to diamonds but take on the hue of the jade with the closest elemental pole. On a less relevant note is the immense value that the mineral debris of this evocations leave behind as the gems are quite durable and make fantastic essence conductors.

Cost: 8m Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: 1 Day
Prerequisites: Bounty of the Pure Earth

At the command of their master the vast deposits of gems that litter the battlefield begin to shatter and flow together, before long the wielder of the Guardian Host is surrounded by ranks of gemstone golems. By expanding a single Brilliant Gem cluster on the field the Guardian can create a single size (Essence) battlegroup of Uncut Warriors wielding armaments chosen by the Guardian upon their creation. These crude constructs are clumsy golems that will only remain functional for a single day before collapsing into dust, furthermore they cannot function individually and cannot be separated from the rest of the group. Only (EssenceX2) Uncut Warrior or Polished Soldier units can be active at any one time.

Uncut Warriors appear as vaguely humanoid composed of dozens of uncut geodes of precious gems wielding weapons of rough composition. They are identical to a battlegroup composed of Conscripts (pg.496) with the following modifications: +1 Strength, -1 Dexterity, +1 Might, Perfect Morale and have a soak equivalent to heavy armour.

Dauntless

Cost: 5m, 2i; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: None

Those who risk nothing gain nothing in return, while those who risk everything win the chance to prove it was all worth it. With this Evocation the Exalt can push past her normal limits by drawing strength from Dauntless’ innate encouragement. If activated while the Exalt is in crash, the cost simply drops her Initiative further into the negative. The armor’s soak is reduced by three points, but gains one non-Charm success on a withering attack made with Melee, Brawl or Martial Arts for the rest of the scene. In addition, successfully gaining the upper hand over her opponent reinforces the Exalt’s confidence and drive to press her advantage as far as possible. Each time she successfully hits a target with a withering attack made with Melee, Brawl or Martial Arts, she may increase the armor’s soak by 1. The armor’s soak cannot be increased past its soak value.
Defining Principle - For the good of all, the world must be changed, and the Solars can make it a better place than it was in the past
Defining Principle - Anyone can change their ways, and everyone deserves a chance to do so

Major Principle - Mortals deserve no less goodness than the Exalted do
Major Principle - No commander should give orders he isn't willing to carry out himself
Major Tie - The Scarlet Empire (Betrayal)
Major Tie - Believers of the Immaculate Faith (Distrust)
Major Tie - Maja Visby (Affection)

Minor Tie - Fae (Distrust)
Minor Tie - The Haslanti League (Old Loyalty)
Minor Tie - The Icewalker Tribes (Distrust)
Minor Tie - Ulfric (Respect)
Bonus points:
15 for abilities

Experience:
66 experience (51 spent)
45 Solar experience (20 spent)
Melee Charms
Solar Counterattack
Call the Blade
Summoning the Loyal Steel
Agile Dragonfly Blade - Essence 2
Fivefold Bulwark Stance - Essence 2

Resistance Charms:
Body-Mending Meditation
Front-Line Warrior's Stamina
Whirlwind Armor-Donning Prana
Tiger Warrior's Endurance - Essence 2
Hauberk Summoning Gesture - Essence 2

War Charms:
Holistic Battle Understanding
Redoubt-Raising Gesture
General of the All-Seeing Sun
Four Glories Meditation
One with Five Forces

Ideal Battle Knowledge Prana
Battle Path Ascendant
Transcendent Warlord's Genius

Guardian Host Evocations:
Guardian Host Assembly
Gemstone Solar Refinement - Essence 2
Paragon Guard Summoning - Essence 3
Thousand Guard Renewal - Essence 3
Awaken the Faultless - Essence 4

Dauntless Evocations:
Pounding Heart Triumph (Unlocked upon defeating an opponent or battlegroup that represents a Major or Defining threat)
Taste of Victory Rhythm - Essence 2
Champion’s Fatal Strike - Essence 3
Daredevil Bravado Defense - Essence 3

Random Word · Apr 5, 2020

Name: Maja Visby
Caste: Casteless
Spirit Shape: Arctic Fox
Anima Banner: A blizzard of red-flecked silver snow raging around a collapsing palace of rose coloured ice.

Mostly for the tails. The tails are great. Clothes and ears are nice, too.
Attributes (9/5+1/7+2) 9 BP

Str: ● ● ● ● ●

Dex: ● ●

Sta: ● ● ● ● ●

Cha: ● ●

*Man: ● ● ● ● ●

*App: ● ● ● ● ●

Per: ● ● ● ● ●

Int: ● ●

Wits: ● ● ● ● ●

Abilities (27+2 dots. 0 over 3) 0 BP 5 xp

Athletics: ● ● ●
Awareness: ● ● ●
Brawl: ● ● ● (Grappling)
Bureaucracy: ●
Integrity: ● ● ● (Mind-altering Magic)
Larceny: ●●
Linguistics: ●
Lore: ●
Occult: ●
Presence: ● ● ● ●
Resistance: ● ●
Ride: ●
Socialize: ● ● ● (Identifying Weakness)
Stealth: ● ●
Survival: ● ● ●
Merits (10/10 spent):
Influence (Haslanti League): ●
Claws+Fangs (Tell): ●

Claws/Fangs/Hooves/Horns (• or ••••)—Innate
The character gains some form of natural weaponry, generally in the form of horns, or short but sharp claws and fangs. The one dot version of this Merit allows the character to inflict lethal rather than bashing damage with either unarmed decisive strikes or decisive savaging attacks during a grapple (the latter represents fangs). The four-dot version of this Merit grants larger, more dangerous natural weapons, allowing the character’s strikes or bites to both inflict lethal damage when savaging, and to be treated as a medium weapon for withering attacks.
Drawback: Natural weaponry granted by the four-dot version of this Merit imposes a -1 penalty on disguise at- tempts.

Enhanced Sense (Hearing, Tell): ● ● ●

Enhanced Sense (•••)—Innate
One of the character’s senses becomes preternaturally acute, like that of a wild animal. The character adds two dice to all Perception rolls related to that sense.
Drawback: This Merit is physically obvious in unusual eye color or shape, large ears, an elongated nose, or some other similar mutation.

Pain Tolerance: ● ● ● ●

Pain Tolerance (••••)—Purchased
Prerequisite: Resistance •••• (Assuming Stamina •••• is fair substitute for Lunars, as abilities are crazy expensive)
While the character still feels pain, he’s better at coping with it than most. -2 wound penalties are reduced to -1, while -4 wound penalties are reduced to -3.

Languages: ●

--Skytongue, Riverspeak

Essence (6 BP):

Willpower: 8 (6 BP)
Essence: 2
Personal: 17
Peripheral: 35/42 (1 Commited to Tiara, 1 to Wings, 5 to Belt)
Committed: 7

Anima Effects:

By spending one mote, a Lunar can:
• Make her Caste Mark appear for as long as she desires.
• Make her Tell apparent to all onlookers for as long as she desires.
• Discern the moon’s phase and the precise time of day.

Casteless
• At dim anima, the cost of shifting into human shapes is discounted by two motes.
• At bonfire anima, the cost of shifting into animal shapes is discounted by two motes. This doesn’t apply to Charms like Towering Beast Form or Emerald Grasshopper Form.
• Once per day, she may use the once-per-day power of any Lunar Caste. Once she’s done so, she can’t use it again until she’s used the powers of all three Castes, or the session ends — e.g., a Casteless who uses the Full Moon power must use the Changing Moon and No Moon powers before she could use the Full Moon power again.

Tell:
Vulpine fangs and ears.

Limit:
Limit Trigger: The Lunar discovers a significant obstacle that prevents her from achieving one of her or her Circle’s goals when success seemed almost certain.

Limit Break:
Vainglorious Siren Promenade
A living divinity, the Lunar craves the worship and adulation she’s owed by right. Everyone she sees must adore, love, or obsess over her. Those who don’t, or who fail to sufficiently fawn over her, must be won over by whatever means she chooses to employ — artistic performances, lavish gifts, seduction, demagoguery, healing ailments, destroying hated edifices, working spectacular miracles, etc.

Duration: Session. Vainglorious Siren Promenade ends prematurely if the Lunar’s attempts to win over a significantly dangerous adversary give him an advantage over her or her allies.
Excellencies: Strength, Dexterity, Stamina, Appearance, Manipulation, Perception, Wits

Universal Charms

Hybrid Body Transformation
Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar shifts into hybrid form, combining her human self and her spirit shape. Upon purchasing this Charm, her player chooses six dots of mutations reflecting her spirit shape. While in her true human form, she may use this Charm to gain all the chosen mutations. This doesn’t count as being in an animal form for Protean Charms.
Players can freely describe the visual appearance of their Lunars’ hybrid forms — their features might be purely animalistic, such as a tiger’s head or dragonfly wings, or indirect reflections of a spirit shape, like multiple arms for a spider or a prehensile neck for a giraffe . Players can include purely cosmetic traits, like changed skin color or animal ears, that aren’t included in the mechanical benefits of their selected mutations.

Constrictor: ● ● ●

Constrictor (•••) — Innate
The mutant has clinging tentacles, a strangling tail, or similar features. She doesn’t lose rounds of control over a grapple when her victim attacks her, though she still does if he damages her. She can spend a round of control to drag her victim with her move actions even if she doesn’t restrain him that round.

Deadly Weaponry (Fangs+Claws, Piercing): ●

Deadly Weaponry (•) — Innate
Prerequisite: Claws/Fangs/Hooves/Horns
This mutation depicts especially dangerous natural weapons: long claws, piercing tusks, stinging tails, etc. One of the mutant’s natural attacks gains one of the Balanced, Chopping, Disarming, Flexible, Piercing, or Smashing tags. With four-dot natural weaponry, she applies two of these tags.

Frightening Voice: ● ●

Frightening Voice (••) — Innate
The character has the paralyzing cry or growl of a born predator. She ignores penalties for flurrying threaten rolls with attacks.

Many-Faced Moon Transformation
Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar wears ten thousand faces, yet she’s always herself. She alters her current form’s appearance: increasing or reducing her height by 10 inches; increasing or decreasing her weight by up to 10%; altering her apparent age; changing or removing sexual characteristics; changing skin tone, eye color, and hair color and length; and/or cosmetic changes like adding scars or birthmarks. She can alter both human and animal forms.
The Lunar can conceal her identity with this transformation. She makes a disguise roll instantly, ignoring penalties for lacking equipment or disguising herself as someone of a different race, sex, or body type. However, she can’t imitate a specific individual.
Changes made with this Charm are permanent. A second use, whose Willpower cost is waived, can undo such changes.

Appearance Charms

Glance-Oration Technique
Cost: 4m; Mins: Appearance 1, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

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

Perfect Symmetry
Cost: 5m; Mins: Appearance 4, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Glance-Oration Technique
The Lunar’s posture and body language reflect unassailable self-assurance. She gains a bonus dot of Appearance, which can raise her above Appearance 5. She waives Glance-Oration Technique’s cost.

Feral Smile Tactic
Cost: 3m; Mins: Appearance 2, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Protean
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The intensity of the Lunar’s mien awakens instinctual panic. She doubles 9s on a roll to instill a
Tie of fear towards herself (or her current form) or threaten her target.
Protean: Characters with a Tie of fear towards the Lunar’s current human or animal shape lose one Initiative (which she doesn’t gain) if her roll beats their Resolve in combat, even if they resist with Willpower.

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

Changing Plumage Mastery
Cost: —; Mins: Appearance 2, Essence 1 Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Many-Faced Moon Transformation
The Lunar shifts her semblance to suit her needs. She may reflexively invoke any of the following benefits:
Faceless Trickster Approach: The Lunar assumes a forgettable countenance, imposing a −2 penalty on Investigation rolls to ascertain her identity. Characters who haven’t met her personally but have seen her in passing can’t remember doing so, finding her unremarkable.
Ogre-Prince Inversion: The Lunar gains the Hideous Merit (Exalted, p. 162). If she already has it, she may instead suppress it.
Seven-Colored Silkworm Flourish: The Lunar alters the appearance of worn mundane clothing and accessories as a miscellaneous action, or reflexively when she shapeshifts. This usually requires no roll, though assuming particularly lavish outfits or imitating bespoke clothing might require an (Appearance + Craft) roll. The clothing reverts to its true form if removed.
Stolen Scent Perfume: The Lunar can commit two motes to replace her body’s scent with that of any form she possesses. The substitution is perfect, as though she’d changed into that shape (p. XX).

Essential Mirror Nature
Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Appearance 3, Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: Protean, Totemic (Manipulation) Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: Shifting Penumbra Stance
The Lunar vanishes into the halls of the Scarlet Dynasty and the demon-ridden bowels of Hell with equal ease. Her Caste Mark and anima banner take on an appearance suitable to a different type of Exalt, though she can’t mimic effects like a Dragon-Blood’s anima flux. Her anima banner doesn’t reveal her Tell or moonsilver tattoos (p. XX) while disguised. Her iconic anima still displays her personalized imagery, but assumes an appearance suiting the type of Exalt she’s mimicking.
Alternatively, the Lunar can manifest supernatural sensory displays, such as seeming to hover inches above the ground or smelling of sulfur, instead of mimicking another type of Exalt. Appropriately chosen displays add (Essence) non-Charm successes on rolls to disguise herself as a spirit, fae, or similar supernatural being.
Magic like Burning Eye of the Deliverer (Exalted, p. 358) that automatically sees through magical disguises can’t contest this Charm, save for Eye of the Unconquered Sun.
Protean: While in another Exalt’s shape, the Lunar waives this Charm’s cost if she mimics his anima banner, and its duration is extended indefinitely while she remains in his shape. At bonfire anima, she displays his iconic imagery.
Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape mimics the appearance of a plant or animal may learn this as a Manipulation Charm, with One of the Herd and Shifting Silver Masquerade (p. XX) as its prerequisites.

Shifting Penumbra Stance
Cost: 5m, 1a; Mins: Appearance 3, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Subtle Silver Declaration
Wreathing herself in anima, the Lunar steps outside certainty to enter the lands of mystery. She rolls (Appearance + [Larceny, Presence, or Socialize]) as a special disguise, shrouding herself in a shifting congeries of light. Characters whose (Perception + Awareness) rolls are beaten by her roll can’t discern any details about her identity or what manner of creature she is, unsure whether she’s a god, demon, or something stranger. Read intentions and profile character rolls can still reveal information unrelated to her identity. Those who beat the Lunar’s roll can only tell she’s one of the Lunar Exalted — any details of her identity beyond that remain concealed.

Myriad Graces Appeal
Cost: 3m; Mins: Appearance 4, Essence 2 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Feral Smile Tactic, Glance- Oration Technique, Seductive Moonlit Dream
When the Lunar stunts to add a second Attribute to her Appearance to determine how many Charm dice she can add on an influence roll and applies a full Excellency, she also adds that Attribute to her base Appearance to determine how many non-Charm bonus dice her Appearance adds (Exalted, p. 218). This can’t raise the Appearance bonus above (higher of Appearance or 5).

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Appearance 5, Essence 2 Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: Myriad Graces Appeal, Perfect Symmetry
The Lunar gazes inward to see her soul’s beauty, letting it shine forth into the eyes of others. After five minutes of meditation, she gains a bonus dot of Appearance, which can raise her Appearance above 5. She applies bonus dice from Appearance on inspire and bargain rolls made with any Attribute.

Strength Charms:

Deadly Claw Blow
Cost: —; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Thews surging with savage might, the Lunar deals a telling blow. She uses Strength instead of
Dexterity to roll a non-ranged attack with a heavy weapon, unarmed attack, or natural weapon.
This Charm doesn’t benefit from effects that grant bonus Strength dots or that replace the Lunar’s Strength with a higher value. She always uses her unmodified Strength to attack, and doesn’t add dice from bonus Strength dots on attack rolls.

Grizzly Bear Embrace
Cost: 2m; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only, Protean Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar’s muscles surge with ferocious Essence, giving them the strength of steel hawsers. She adds a grapple’s attack roll extra successes as dice on the Initiative roll. Against lower- Initiative enemies (determined before paying the gambit’s cost), she also adds these dice to the control roll.
Protean: In animal forms with Legendary Size or grapple-related abilities, the Lunar adds (Essence + Strength) to her Initiative to determine if she receives the control roll bonus.

Deadly Beastman Transformation
Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Strength 3, Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: One scene

Prerequisite Charms: Hybrid Body Transformation
Flesh and Essence swelling with the unleashed power of her almighty rage, the Lunar assumes a dread war-form. To use this Charm, Hybrid Body Transformation must be active. The Lunar gains the following benefits:
• She adds (Strength) dice on withering damage rolls, feats of strength, and movement actions.
• She adds (Strength) natural soak.
• She treats her Strength as (Essence) higher for determining what feats of strength she may attempt.
However, the Lunar suffers the following drawbacks in this state:
• She suffers a −1 Defense penalty that can’t be negated.
• She loses the benefits of resonance with artifacts, and becomes dissonant with any artifact she’s not normally resonant with.
Special activation rules: When the Lunar uses Hybrid Body Transformation, she may reflexively activate this Charm.

Surging Thew Technique
Cost: 3m; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Protean Duration: Instant Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar strains her might to its utmost and beyond. She adds +1 to her Strength rating to determine if she may attempt a feat of strength (Exalted, p. 229). If successful, she may complete a feat that normally takes an extended period of time, such as bashing through a brick wall, in an instant, if the Storyteller deems it feasible. Even if not, the time required to complete it is dramatically accelerated.
Protean: In an animal shape that already meets a feat’s Strength minimum, the Lunar instead adds a non- Charm die.

Dexterity Charms:

Graceful Crane Stance
Cost: 3m; Mins: Dexterity 1, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar shapeshifts to lighten her bones and strengthen her footing. She gains perfect balance, and can stand or run on surfaces too narrow or weak to support her normally without needing to roll.

Night Stalker Approach
Cost: 2m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute, Totemic (Manipulation) Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Gleaning subtlety from the shadows, the Lunar darkens her soul’s light. She mutes all motes spent on a Larceny roll, Stealth roll, or action taken in concealment.
Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape has Tiny Creature or Minuscule Size may learn this as a Manipulation Charm.

Perception Charms:

Understanding the Prey
Cost: 4m; Mins: Perception 2, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar’s keen senses cut to the truth of a person. She doubles 9s on a roll to read intentions,
profile a character, or contest a disguise.

Exquisite Heart’s Taste
Cost: 4m; Mins: Perception 3, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute, Protean
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Understanding the Prey

A bead of sweat glistening on a brow, a dilated pupil, or a slight irregularity of breath betrays the secrets of even the most stone-faced courtier. When the Lunar profiles a character or read his intentions, his Guile is penalized by any of his Intimacies that support revealing the sought information as though it were his Resolve (Exalted, p. 215). This Charm is inapplicable against automatons, mindless undead, and similar beings.

Protean: In animal shapes with the Keen Nose Merit, the Lunar also adds (Intimacy) bonus dice.

Soul-Piercing Predator Gaze
Cost: 6m; Mins: Perception 3, Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: Protean
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Exquisite Heart’s Taste

The divine predator uncovers her prey’s weaknesses. The Lunar makes a special read intentions or profile character roll. If successful, the Storyteller reveals that character’s most significant weakness to the Lunar’s player: syphilis plaguing a master swordsman, a Dynast’s overwhelming debts, a merchant prince’s poor reputation, a Wyld monstrosity’s vulnerability to ash wood, etc. She may seek to find a character’s greatest weakness in general, or in a specific arena. However, there must be evidence, no matter how scant, from which she can infer this information. She gains a temporary specialty in exploiting this weakness in an Ability of her choice. It lasts indefinitely, but she can only have one specialty granted by this Charm at a time.

Protean: In a human or animal shape that her target has a Tie of fear towards, the Lunar can use Exquisite Heart’s Taste at no cost to penalize his Guile with that Intimacy.

Stamina Charms:

Ox-Body Technique x1
Cost: —; Mins: Stamina 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar is endowed with superhuman vitality. She gains additional health levels based on her Stamina rating:

Stamina 1-2: Two −2 levels.

Stamina 3-4: Two −2 levels and one −4 level.

Stamina 5: Two −2 levels and two −4 levels.

This Charm may be purchased (Stamina) times. If the Lunar’s Stamina increases, her health levels change to reflect her new rating.

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

Wits Charms:

Desert Basilisc Diadem
Cost: —; Mins: Wits 2, Essence 1 Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar can half-absorb hearthstones, socketing them in her flesh. She gains absorbed hearthstones’ benefits as though they were socketed in an attuned ar- tifact. Hearthstones that enhance weapons apply their benefit to her unarmed attacks and natural weapons, if appropriate, while hearthstones that enhance armor apply to her natural soak. Such effects are compatible with any magic that transforms parts of the Lunar’s body into weapons or armor. If she uses Last Warrior’s Unity (p. XX) to merge with an artifact weapon that has one or more empty hearthstone slots, she may treat absorbed hearthstones as being socketed in those slots for the duration.
Absorbing or removing a hearthstone is a miscellaneous action, and the Lunar may socket (higher of Essence or 3) hearthstones at a time. If she conceals an embedded hearthstone with clothing or the like, it can only be noticed by characters who’ve spotted her Tell this scene (p. XX).

Cost: —; Mins: Wits 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Desert Basilisc Diadem
Sculpting her chakras and Essence meridians into a geomantic pattern, the Lunar draws forth a pearl that embodies her soul. Upon purchasing this Charm, she manifests a greater hearthstone that expresses her nature: her Caste, spirit shape, a Defining Intimacy, etc. It counts as socketed with Desert Basilisc Diadem, although it doesn’t count toward that Charm’s maxi- mum and can’t be removed from her body (including
to socket in an artifact, unless she uses Last Warrior’s Unity). She can manifest Linked hearthstones; she counts as the manse which sustains them. She always enjoys the increased mote recovery for being in an attuned greater demesne (Exalted, p. 160). Such hearthstones are indestructible while the Lunar lives (unlike those socketed using Desert Basilisc Diadem), but shatter upon her death unless they’re Steady.
The Storyteller should veto hearthstone choices that are overpowered if made permanent in this fashion, such as the Gem of Incomparable Wellness.
Health Levels:
- 0 [ ]
- 1 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
- 3 [ ][ ][ ]
- Incap

Willpower: 8
Essence: 1
Personal: 17
Peripheral: 35/42
Committed: 7

Join Battle: 8

Parry: 4 [5 if Grappling]
Evasion: 1 (0 in war form)
Resolve: 4 [5 if mind-altering magic]
Guile: 4

Natural Soak: 5 (10 in war form)
Armored Soak: 0
Hardness: 0

Weapons:

Unarmed
Withering Attack: Str(5)+Brawl(3) [Grappling(1)] + Accuracy(4) = 12 [13]; Decisive Attack: Str(5)+Brawl(3) [Grappling(1)] = 8 [9]
Withering Damage: 12(1), 17(1) in war form.
Tags: Bashing, Brawl, Grappling, Natural (Lethal + Piercing for Claws + Fangs)

Armor
None
Spirit form:

Dog stats seem a reasonable guess for an arctic fox. Probably a bit too high.

Essence: 1; Willpower: 4; Join Battle: 4 dice
Health Levels: -0/-1x2/-2x2/-4/Incap. Dogs will usually flee after taking two levels of damage, unless fighting to protect their master or at his command. Wolves generally flee after taking four levels of damage. Actions: Intimidate: 3 dice; Senses: 6 dice (see Keen Nose); Stealth: 3 dice; Tracking: 7 dice (see Keen Nose) Resolve 2, Guile 1
Combat
Attack (Bite): 9 dice (Damage 9)
Attack (Grapple): 6 dice (5 dice to control) Combat Movement: 8 dice
Evasion 4, Parry 3
Soak/Hardness: 4/0

Keen Nose: Dogs and wolves apply the double 9s rule on Perception-based rolls made using scent.
Tiny

Essence: 1; Willpower: 5; Join Battle: 7 dice Health Levels: −0x2/−1/−2/−4/Incap
Actions: Fly: 10 dice; Senses: 10 dice (see Keen Hearing, Night Vision, Wide-Range Vision); Endure Cold: 5 dice; Resist Poison/Disease: 6 dice; Tracking: 6 dice; Stealth: 11 dice (see Silent Flying)
Resolve 2, Guile 1
Combat
Attack (Peck): 6 dice (Damage 10L) Attack (Talons): 9 dice (Damage 6L)
Attack (Grapple): 9 dice (5 dice to control. Owls can only savage grappled enemies, unless they have the Tiny Creature or Minuscule Size Merits)
Combat Movement: 9 dice Evasion 4, Parry 2 Soak/Hardness: 3/0
Special Abilities
Carried Away: When a withering talon attack deals 5+ damage to an enemy with Tiny Creature or Minuscule Size, the owl may forgo receiving Initiative to reflexively grapple its victim. Each point of Initiative it forgoes adds a die to the control roll of a successful grapples.
Death Dive: When an owl moves into close range with an enemy after beginning at a height of long range above it and makes a decisive attack, it adds four dice on the attack roll and doubles 10s on damage. Once per scene, unless reset by rising back to long range above all enemies.
Dread Clutches: When an owl savages a grappled foe with Tiny Creature or Minuscule Size, it can also drag him along with its movement action.
Swooping Descent: An owl that descends into close range with an enemy and makes a decisive unexpected attack on the same turn adds two successes on the attack roll.
Merits
Keen Hearing: Double 9s on hearing-based Perception rolls.
Night Vision: Owls can see in dim conditions as though in broad daylight, and reduce the
difficulty of Perception-based rolls in deeper darkness by one. Silent Flying: Double 9s on Stealth rolls while flying.
Wide-Range Vision: An owl can swivel its head to an incredible extent, adding one die on vision-based Perception rolls, or three dice opposing Stealth.

Osprey
Field Mouse
Trout
Intimacies:

"I will never allow myself to be imprisoned again." Defining
"I will be like the legendary explorers of old; I will find something so valuable my people will love and accept me again." Defining
"I owe Kuaidao my life, and more importantly my freedom. I will find a way to repay him." Defining
Kuaidao (Gratitude) Defining

"No matter how angry you are, and no matter how satisfying it might be, some things shouldn't be smashed." Major
Raksha (Hatred/Fear) Major
The Power of Essence (Exhilaration) Major
What Have I Become? (Fear) Major
Claustrophobia (Derangement) Major
Family (Love) Major
Exploration (Love) Major
Sorcery (Fascination) Major
Sorcery (Fear) Major
Luna (Gratitude) Major
Twin Rivers Entwined (Admiration) Major
Bard's Music (Adoration) Major
Kuaidao (Love) Major

Flying (Exhilaration) Minor
Gemstones (Fascination) Minor
Bagrash Kol (Fascination) Minor
The Silver Pact and its Ways (Curiosity) Minor
Spider's Bravery (Admiration) Minor
Dynasts (Hatred) Minor
"These feelings only ever hurt the people I care about, and make me feel awful." Minor

Background:

In point form to be expanded:

- Daughter of one of the Seven Peerless Polar Explorer Dynasties of the Haslanti League.

- Never paid a great deal of attention in class, and was more interested in the practical details of expeditions and actually being allowed to go on one than the lore required to understand the findings. Learned to brawl in prospector's alehalls, 'adventures' away from home, and from the family master-at-arms.

- Finally she is permitted to travel on an expedition to Ascension with her father.

- The expedition is captured during a blizzard by the sorcerers of the Transcendent Phrenic Gates Society, a remnant of Bagrah Kol's empire who study mind-altering and subjugating magics in a palace of rose-coloured everlasting ice near the Pole of Air. Dream-eaten slaves mine diamonds and more exotic fare in the labyrinthine shafts below, overseen by hordes of goblin taskmasters and a sorcerously enslaved Raksha, Tears-Like-Diamonds. She is separated from her father.

- Maja, found to be extraordinarily strong-willed and resilient, often taking as much as a week of concerted effort to wear down, is assigned as a challenging training exercise rather than shipped to the mines.

- Her time in captivity is soul-crushing and exhausting, with no clear hope of escape, but a silver bird that visits the small, high window of her cell every few nights helps keep her spirits up. She has little to do in the cell, and focusing on exercise helps to keep her sane, though the poor quantity and quality of her food often makes this difficult.

- After almost a year of imprisonment she spots a new student, Kalman El Kimiya, who is clearly the laughing stock of the class, expected to amount to nothing. She sees her path to escape, or at least an improvement in her conditions, and grasps it with every fibre of her being. After resisting him for a day and carefully observing his mannerisms and technique, she relents on the second day, to the incredulity of his instructors and classmates. She selects a carefully chosen few of his mannerisms and techniques, and ensures those techniques are unusually successful when applied to her, significantly boosting his reputation, and subtly reinforcing the idea that he is a prodigy whenever the opportunity arises. Such is her reputation that it is presumed anything that works well on her is an effective technique on any strong-willed subject.

- As Kalman is promoted to instructor she continues to listen carefully to his teachings and ensure they are efficacious. She convinces him that the deprivations and hardships she is placed through as part of breaking her will are a sign of weakness on the part of the Sorcerer, and that he would look more impressive still were he able to dominate her quickly while she was well fed, rested, and comfortable.

- Having obtained better living conditions, and now being able to leave some choice meats out for the silver bird when it arrives by moonlight, she leverages the gratitude she has built up over the last two years of bolstering his career to seduce Kalman. Kalman does not know the fate of her father, and his attempts to have him fetched from the mines if he is there come back empty. She learns that the Transcendent Phrenic Gates Society divines the sorcerous potential of young children from around Creation and kidnaps them to begin their instruction. This in mind, she feels some small measure of remorse when, well fed and strength restored, she strangles the life out of Kalman one night, collecting winter travelling gear, provisions, and choice treasures from his quarters before attempting to make good her escape. Though it pains her greatly, she resolves to flee without seeking her father, in the hopes of rallying the League for an assault on this palace.

- She is caught in the attempt. As she lies broken, bloody, and burned on the ice the silver bird perches on her shoulder and tells her that this is not her appointed hour. Exalting, she tears the terrified sorcerer who apprehended her limb from limb, and begins a destructive rampage through the halls. She accidentally smashes the sorcerous seal binding Tears-Like-Diamonds to the Society's will, and it and its goblin minions eagerly abandon the mines to devour the hated denizens of the palace. In the ensuing chaos she reaches the gate room the Society uses to travel. She terrifies the operator into opening the gates for her in exchange for his life, and identifying landscape features she recognizes as being near her home city she dives through.

- Tears-Like-Diamonds pursues her through the gate with a much reinforced slavering horde of hobgoblins, well fed on souls and eager to repay the great favour Maja has done for it with the sweet kiss of razor ice and cold embrace of terror. So begins a five day running battle in which Maja is hounded, harried, but resolutely never herded as she runs without pause through a fierce blizzard and alternatively terrifies into flight or fights off hordes of pursuers.

- By the fifth day she is completely exhausted, clothing torn and bloody, and the biting cold, at first a source of strength as she welcomed it into her bones, now becomes overwhelming. She collapses a day's travel outside the city.

- It takes a special kind of madness to sally forth against a blizzard in the far North. They are almost always the will of deadly elementals, raksha, or worse, but seeing one travelling on an unerring course directly for the city he was protecting, Kuaidao could be forgiven for inferring whatever rode the storm intended to ravage his new home. When he met the blizzard well outside the city - the better to protect its residents - he led its defenders in a hard fought victory over Tears-Like-Diamonds and drove it from the field.

- Imagine, then, his surprise at finding a half-dead woman on the ice as the storm receded, and her gratitude at prying her eyes open and seeing him - the first friendly face she had witnessed in years.

- While Kuaidao was celebrated as a hero for saving the city and rescuing a long thought dead scion, Maja faced suspicion and fear. She was clearly fae-touched, marked by foul magic and ill omens, and her strange behaviour did nothing to soothe their concerns. Her trauma and claustrophobia saw her wake up screaming in the night, dive out her window to sleep in the frozen courtyard, leave the city to walk in the woods for days at a time, and lash out at those who tried to care for her seemingly at random. Maja found herself a stranger in her own home, and felt a closer connection to her saviour than her own people. When he left, she followed without hesitation.
Moonsilver Hearthstone Amulet (Tiara) [Attunement cost 1m]

Night-blacks 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.

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

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

Raptor Takes Flight [LEARNED]
Cost: 10m, 1wp/5m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Dissonant
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisites: None
The cloak unfurls into feathered wings with a 20-foot span. As long as the wearer has sufficient clearance, she can fly as though she had the five-dot version of the Wings Merit (Exalted, p. 167). For each of the following Charms the Exalt knows, reduce the cost of Raptor Takes Flight by two motes:
Soaring Crane Leap, Unbound Eagle Approach, Eagle-Wing Style. A Lunar with a flying form reduces the cost by five motes.
Treat Raptor Takes Flight as Eagle-Wing Style for purposes of activating Bonfire Anima Wings.
Dissonant: The wings’ precision and maneuverability are equivalent to the Merit’s three-dot version.

Wind-and-Falcon Unity
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Raptor Takes Flight
Wearer and wings move in harmony. This Evocation permanently upgrades its prerequisite, removing the −3 precision penalty from the Wings merit.
Special activation rules: This Evocation awakens at no cost when the wielder, who must have been attuned for at least one story and is aerially engaged with a dangerous foe, defeats that foe or emerges from Initiative Crash.

God-Eagle Rules the Sky
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Wind-and-Falcon Unity
The Exalt flies with an eagle’s swiftness and a wind-god’s grace. This Evocation permanently upgrades Raptor Takes Flight. The wearer gains +1 Evasion and two bonus dice to combat movement while flying. She moves at 80 miles per hour outside of combat. On activating Raptor Takes Flight, the wearer has the option to immediately launch herself one range band into the air.
Resonant: Only a wielder resonant with moonsilver can awaken this Evocation.

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.

Keywords: Dependent, Linked
This gemstone’s appearance varies depending on the angle from which it’s viewed — blue or green, bright or dull, clear or opaque. Socketed in an attuned artifact, it grants access to the following Evocations:
Frozen Sorcery: Emerald
Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
With a warding gesture, the bearer halts a just-cast Terrestrial Circle spell that either targets her directly or encompasses her within its initial area of effect, freezing the magic in its tracks. She may attempt to shatter the frozen spell as a miscellaneous action that can’t be flurried. This requires a (Wits + Occult) roll against difficulty (caster’s Essence + 3). A success shatters the frozen spell, countering it. If she doesn’t attempt this action or fails the roll, the spell thaws out at the beginning of her next turn, before she acts, and goes off as intended. This Evocation can only be used once per scene.

Frozen Sorcery: Sapphire
Cost: 20m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Frozen Sorcery: Emerald
This Evocation functions as Frozen Sorcery: Emerald, except that it freezes a spell of the Celestial Circle, the difficulty is (caster’s Essence + 5), and it can only be used once per story. This resets at the end of any scene in which the bearer defeats, suborns, or makes peace with an enemy sorcerer. The Dawn Caste anima power cannot reset this Evocation.

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

Keywords: Manse-Born
This gold-tinged orange jewel grants innate understanding of how Essence flows through martial stances and katas. While socketed in an attuned artifact, the bearer gains two Initiative when she uses a Form’s special activation rules to assume it reflexively.

Keywords: Dependent, Linked

No climate is too harsh, no journey too arduous for the bearer of this polished opal whose colours seem to periodically swirl to rearrange themselves into maps of far off locales. They may stand at the bottom of the ocean, swim in an active volcano, wear summer clothes on the frozen peaks near the Pole of Air, and brave the depths of the Eastern jungles unmolested by biting insects and poisonous plants.

The bearer reduces the difficulty of rolls to navigate to previously unvisited locations by 2, and they have a perfect sense of direction relative to suitably puissant landmarks for their plane. In Creation, for example, they always know their position relative to all of the Elemental Poles.
If the bearer commits three motes they negate up to (Stamina) points of environmental penalties on survival rolls, ignore the deleterious effects of exposure to extreme or inclement weather, and reduce the damage from magical environmental effects by (Stamina). Up to (Essence)x5 members of an expedition guided by the bearer gain one non-Charm bonus success on Survival rolls.
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Attribute increase - current rating x4 (–1 if Casteless)
Caste/Favored Attribute increase - current rating x3
Ability increase - current rating x2
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit - new rating x3
Willpower - 8
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Lunar Charm - 10 (9 if Casteless)
Caste/Favored Lunar Charm - 8
Martial Arts Charm - 10
Spell - 10 (8 if Intelligence is a Caste/Favored Attribute)
Evocation - 10
Animal Latent Ability - 6

Xp Earned: 66
Lunar Xp Earned: 48
Xp Spent: 74 (-8 remaining)
Lunar Xp Spent: 42 (6 remaining)

8 XP - Night Stalker Approach
9 XP - Desert Basilisc Diadem
8 XP - Surging Thew Technique
9 XP - Radiant Basilisc Jewel
8 XP - Shifting Penumbra Stance
8 XP - Essential Mirror Nature
8 XP - Myriad Graces Appeal
8 XP - Incomparable Paragon Assurance

5 LXP - First two dots of Larceny
5 LXP - First two dots of Stealth
2 LXP - Second dot of Resistance
3 LXP - Second dot of Charisma
9 LXP - Fourth dot of Manipulation
6 LXP - Fourth dot of Presence
12 XP - Fifth dot of Manipulation

Wish List

Cost: 15m, 1wp (5m per turn/hour); Mins: Strength 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Totemic (Stamina)
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: None

Her body swelling with supernatural might, the Lunar expands into the form of one of Creation’s greatest beasts. She shapeshifts into an animal form with Legendary Size.
At the end of each subsequent turn, if she didn’t make a decisive attack or spend 8+ motes on offensive magic, she must pay five motes, or this Charm ends. Outside of combat, she must pay five motes every hour.
Special activation rules: If the Lunar uses this Charm to shift from one Legendary Size form to another, she waives its activation cost, maintaining the original 15-mote commitment.
Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape has Legendary Size may learn this as a Stamina Charm.

Angry Rhino Charge
Cost: —; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 1 Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar advances on her prey with inescapable force. She gains one Initiative when she successfully rushes or opposes a disengage, and can use Strength instead of Dexterity on such rolls.

Yeddim’s-Back Method
Cost: 6m; Mins: Strength 3, Essence 2 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Surging Thew Technique
The Lunar is a living pillar of near-endless might. She converts (Strength) dice on a feat of strength to non- Charm successes.

Many-Beasts Might
Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Strength 4, Essence 2 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Protean
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Yeddim’s-Back Method
Adapting to whatever obstacle lies before her, the Lunar taps unexpected sources of strength. When she stunts to add a second Attribute to the amount of
bonus dice she can add on a feat of strength and applies a full Excellency, she adds that Attribute to her base Strength to determine if she may attempt the feat.
Protean: In animal shapes whose effective Strength rating for attempting feats is lower than the Lunar’s, she uses her Strength instead.

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

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

Relentless Lunar Fury
Cost: 5m; Mins: Stamina 3, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Protean Duration: One scene Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar unleashes the primal rage howling in her soul, drawing terrifying power from fury. This Charm can only be used when she takes decisive damage. She enters a berserk rage, halving all wound and crippling penalties (round down), and gaining 1 Initiative when- ever she suffers further decisive damage. Her rage doesn’t prevent tactical or intelligent decision-making, but she can’t withdraw, use social influence for purposes unrelated to combat, or cease fighting until all enemies are incapacitated or have fled. Ending this Charm prematurely crashes the Lunar, setting her to Initiative –3 (if not already lower).
Protean: In animal shapes with Berserker, the Lunar adds one die on all rolls with physical Attributes.

Snake-Finger Style
Cost: 5m; Mins: Dexterity 3, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute, Totemic (Manipulation) Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar’s fingers move with supreme precision and fluidity, dipping in and out of a merchant’s pocket or teasing a lock’s tumblers open from inside. She doubles 9s on a roll to pickpocket a character, pick a lock, disable a trap, cheat at cards or dice, poison a drink, or similar actions. She suffers no penalties or increased difficulty from lacking equipment.
Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape has Tiny Creature or Minuscule Size may learn this as a Manipulation Charm.

Predator-and-Prey Mirror
Cost: 3m; Mins: Appearance 2, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Glance-Oration Technique
The Lunar adopts the bearing of predator or prey at her leisure. While using this Charm, she may freely shift between these two postures:
Predator: Characters perceive the Lunar as their natural predator — she seems an auditor to a corrupt bureaucrat, or a bandit to a humble farmer.
Prey: The Lunar presents herself as timid, vulnerable, and valuable. Anyone unfamiliar with her perceives her as an easy mark until she proves otherwise.
Regardless of the option chosen, the Lunar can lever- age its impact as though it were a Minor Intimacy.

Seductive Moonlit Dream
Cost: 3m; Mins: Appearance 2, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Protean
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar embodies passion, drawing eyes and weak- ening wills. She doubles 9s on an instill roll to create a Tie of lust or attraction toward herself (or her current form), or a persuade or bargain roll for seduction.
Protean: Characters with Ties of lust, love, desire, etc. toward the Lunar’s current human shape treat their Resolve as 1 lower when determining how many bonus dice her Appearance adds (Exalted, p. 218).

One of the Herd
Cost: 3m; Mins: Appearance 2, Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: Totemic (Manipulation) Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
Subtly mimicking those around her, the Lunar van- ishes into bustling crowds or herds of animals. While she’s within short range of a group of four or more characters — a mercenary company, a Dynastic estate’s household servants, a wolf pack — and behaves like other members of the group, observers can’t distin- guish her from other group members unless they per- ceive her Tell. This Charm ends if she takes an overt action, including Joining Battle or blatantly displaying supernatural power.
Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape mimics the appearance of a plant or animal may learn this as a Manipulation Charm.

Subtle Chameleon Practice
Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Appearance 3, Essence 2 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute, Protean
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Changing Plumage Mastery
The Lunar becomes a living mirror of her surround- ings, shifting her skin’s color and texture to blend in. She adds (Appearance) dice on Stealth rolls and doesn’t need hiding places to enter concealment. Any situational dice her surroundings add on Stealth rolls become non-Charm successes.
Attacking or moving to a different range band sup- presses this Charm’s benefits until the end of the next turn in which the Lunar doesn’t attack or change range bands. This Charm ends if the Lunar is hit by an attack.
Protean: In animal shapes with Camouflage, moving between range bands doesn’t suppress this Charm’s benefit while in that animal’s native environment.

Moonlight Curtain Drawn
Cost: 3m; Mins: Manipulation 2, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
Vanishing into the depths of herself, the Lunar hides her true face. She gains +1 Guile. If an effect oppos- ing her Guile would reveal information inconsistent with her current animal or human shape, potentially revealing her as a shapeshifter or impostor, the bonus increases to +3.
A Manipulation 4, Essence 2 repurchase of this Charm extends its duration to Indefinite.

Argent Deceiver Smile
Cost: —(2m); Mins: Manipulation 3, Essence 1 Type: Permanent
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Moonlight Curtain Drawn
Radiating honesty and sincerity, the Lunar conceals her silvered tongue. While using Moonlight Curtain Drawn, she may pay two motes to apply its +3 Guile bonus against any effect that would reveal information indicating that she’s lying, or that her behavior is in- tended to deceive even for an instant.

Moonlight-on-Mist Puzzle
Cost: 5m; Mins: Manipulation 2, Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
A natural genius at deception, the Lunar ensures no traces remain to contradict her lies. She completes a roll to conceal evidence or conceal tracks instantly, doubling 9s. She may optionally roll with Manipulation instead of the Attribute normally used for those actions.

Gloaming Auspice Trickery
Cost: 3m; Mins: Manipulation 2, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Moonlight-on-Mist Puzzle
Such is the Lunar’s exuberance in her own apparent good fortune that rivals don’t notice as she pulls cards from her sleeves or swaps honest dice for weighted sets. She doubles 7s on a roll with any Attribute to cheat at a game of chance or similar contest without being noticed, or to poison food, drink, or a weapon unnoticed. This Charm’s efficacy diminishes with repetition — the second time she uses it in a scene, she doubles 8s; all subsequent uses that scene double 9s.

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

Rykon · May 20, 2021

Name: Valden Craig
Caste: Night
Age: 21
Totemic Anima: A raccoon reclines upon a throne of pilfered treasures rolling a coin wrought of sunlight across its fingers while watching onlookers from within a churning cosmos of starlight and darkness with an amused grin upon its face.
Supernal Ability: Stealth
Limit Trigger: The Solar’s allies suﬀer a setback or defeat because of a mistake he made.

History Overview
-Valden was raised to be an enforcer in the service of a crime family lead by a card-carrying merchant prince. The family had been in business for three generations, favored by a rising god in Great Forks. Aside from open trade in vices like tobacco or alcohol, the prince and his rivals waged war in darkness. Pillaging caravans, sabotaging properties, extortion, blackmail, and assassination were all part of a normal season for him and his brothers and sisters in the shadows.

-Various families and syndicates had formed into various factions over the years. Eventually, the gods within the alliance over Valden's prince grew envious of their peer deity. In their covetousness they plotted to supplant his dominion and take the additional power and authority for themselves. This upheaval entailed removing the god's servants first. So, various agents of allied families catered a holiday feast in line with the annual traditions they always kept. For Valden's party, however, the food and drink were laced with a subtle intoxicating poison, and the attendants fired upon with arrow and flame alike. In resisting the assault and numbing toxins, Valden Craig drew his second breath and eventually made an escape from behind the obfuscation of smoke. Under the cover of the hazy air and bright dancing flames, Valden methodically executed each assailant in the building to exact his vengeance.

-Valden left the party and headed north from the heart of the riverlands. With few of his friends or family left alive, he preferred news of his survival stay concealed. For now, he sought to know who and what he now was in truth, rather than what foreign sycophants would say at his execution.
Attributes
Strength ●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●●●

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

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

Abilities
Archery
Athletics ●●●
Awareness ●●●
Brawl
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge
Integrity ●●●
Investigation ●
Larceny ●●●●●
Linguistics ●
Lore ●●● +Criminal Organizations
Medicine
Melee ●●●●● +Swords
Occult
Performance ●●●
Presence ●●●
Resistance ●●
Ride
Sail
Socialize ●●● +Bluffing
Stealth ●●●●●
Survival ●●●
Thrown ●● +Knives
War
Pain Tolerance ●●●●
Natural Immunity ●●
Languages ●● (Native: Riverspeak, Skytongue, Old Realm)
Ambidextrous ●
Iron Stomach ●
Athletics

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

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

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

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

Awareness

Cost: 5m; Mins: Awareness 2, Essence 1
Type: Reﬂexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
A breath of Essence seals the five senses into a more perfect form. The Solar’s senses are heightened and attuned to minute motions and sounds, dim and noisy conditions. She can diﬀerentiate between subtle tastes and textures with only the slightest variation. Thus sharpened, it is more difficult for characters to escape her notice, or to deceive her hunting senses. For the rest of the scene, the Exalt’s Awareness rolls benefit from double 9s. If the eﬀect of any Unsurpassed (Sense) Discipline applies, reroll 6s until they cease to appear. Use of Sensory Acuity Prana comes without the danger of sensory overload; the Charm helps the Solar manage her senses more eﬀectively.

Cost: 3m or 6m, 1wp; Mins: Awareness 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Sensory Acuity Prana
The Solar’s visual acuity is heightened to several times that of a normal mortal. This Charm represents an array of mechanical benefits: the Solar may perform difficulty 2 or 3 sight-based actions without a roll. She gains an additional two dice to notice hidden persons or devices, to catch sleight of hand and see through disguises. In dim conditions, she sees as well as in broad daylight. Deeper visual hindrances such as dense smoke or fog represent less of a struggle: reduce the difficulty of seeing in such conditions by 1, and remove the -1 penalty to detect hidden threats in such environments. These eﬀects reﬂect the Exalt’s ability to notice and process hundreds of minute details, as well as to focus and manage light sources more eﬀectively. The Solar’s visual range is also increased: she can see tiny details at 100 yards, quickly count masses of troops, and notice threats well in advance of her position.

Special activation rules: The player may choose to activate Keen Sight Technique by paying six motes, one willpower. Doing so sets the duration of this Charm to Indefinite. Despite being Simple type Charms, each Keen (Sense) Technique can be activated simultaneously by paying the full cost of each. In addition, these Charms are compatible with Sensory Acuity Prana as well as with each other.

Integrity

Cost: —; Mins: Integrity 2, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Bridge
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None or any 3 Bureaucracy, Presence, or War Charms
The Lawgiver’s resolve cannot be easily broken. Once the Solar has resisted a persuade action, she gains +2 to her Resolve if the issue is raised again. The Solar’s Lunar mate is always capable of insinuating herself into the Solar’s graces and may ignore this Charm’s eﬀect.

Larceny

Cost: 3m; Mins: Larceny 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
With hands quicker than the eye, the Exalt relieves a
hapless soul of his material burden. This Charm enhances a normal pickpocketing attempt (see p. 224). Unless contested by magic, this attempt cannot fail; when such a conﬂict arises, this Charm adds the Solar’s Essence in automatic successes. To use this Charm, the Exalt must be close enough to touch her target. In every other way, this Charm follows the rules of a normal pickpocketing attempt. The character may not steal items that are in use or artifacts that have been attuned.

Characters using ordinary senses cannot detect this theft with Awareness. Characters with inhuman sensory acuity such as a spider feeling vibrations in its web, or those using magic, like a Celestial Lion’s Intemperate Gaze, suﬀer a -4 dice penalty to spot the theft. Flawless Pickpocketing Technique is also completely immune to magic that detects Larceny-based actions, unless the user also knows Flawless Pickpocketing Technique.

Cost: 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 specifc 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.

Melee

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

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

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

Performance

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

Cost: 1m; Mins: Performance 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Masterful Performance Exercise
The Solar’s unerring ear and perfectly tuned voice allows her to ﬂawlessly mimic the normal speaking voice of someone she is familiar with. For this mimicry to be ﬂawless, she must spend at least an hour memorizing the speech patterns and vocal inﬂections of the character whose voice she wishes to copy. This Charm supplements a single social inﬂuence action or regular dialogue lasting no more than ten seconds.

Presence

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

Resistance

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

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

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

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

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

Socialize

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

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

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

Stealth

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

Cost: 3m; Mins: Stealth 3, Essence 1
Type: 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 Defning Intimacy to a cause the Exalt’s presence directly threatens.

Certain Charms may aid in detecting the Exalt. Roll the Lawgiver’s ([Wits or Dexterity] + Stealth) against her opponent’s relevant (Attribute + Ability) or Resolve, if the attacking Charm is based on the opponent’s Integrity.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Stealth 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Easily-Overlooked Presence Method
The surreptitious Exalt may even hide in the spaces between thoughts. Roll the Exalt’s (Dexterity + Stealth) against her subject’s Resolve. On a success, she vanishes from her subject’s notice, and cannot be perceived. This eﬀect applies to every witness whose Resolve is surpassed by the Solar’s skill.

Not even overt action can reveal the Exalt to those affected by Mental Invisibility Technique. The Lawgiver may step out of her coat in a snowstorm or leap to the rooftops from the street without being noticed. However, rolling Join Battle or taking violent action ends this Charm’s eﬀects.

Additionally, subjects may spend one Willpower to break free of the Solar’s deception if the Exalt’s presence is pointed out to him, the Solar intentionally reveals herself to him, or the Exalt attempts to harm or steal something he values at the level of a Major or Defining Intimacy.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Stealth 5, Essence 3
Type: Reﬂexive
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Mental Invisibility Technique
One of the greatest of all deceptions—the Solar vanishes from memory. Roll the Exalt’s (Dexterity + Stealth) and add her Essence in automatic successes to the result. Record the result. The Exalt slips out of the thoughts and memories of everyone who has ever known her, hiding in their minds. Upon meeting, she is unrecognizable to those who should know her.

Once per day, individuals aﬀected by this Charm may attempt to recognize the Exalt or remember her involvement in a past event. Roll the subject’s (Wits + Lore) against a difficulty equal to the Exalt’s result. If the roll does not succeed, he does not recognize the Solar, and the Exalt remains a nameless, shadowy distortion in his memories.

Survival

Cost: 5m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1
Type: Reﬂexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through the use of this Charm, the Solar becomes able
to survive in even the most hostile conditions without
special preparation. This Charm negates all environmental penalties to Survival rolls and eliminates the deleterious eﬀects of exposure to extreme climates. The coldest glacier and the hottest desert are no more deadly to the Solar than the gentlest rolling plain. She ignores inclement weather even when lightly dressed, and does not suﬀer undue blisters, bug bites, or plant poison even when walking barefoot through the jungle. This Charm does not protect the Exalt against environmental damage. In addition, Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit lowers the difficulty to forage and find shelter by 2, to a minimum of 1.
Weapons
Kingmaker ●●●● Starmetal Daiklave
Acc:+3(14) Dam:+12(15) Def:+1(7) Ovw: 5 Atn:5 Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Evocations
A Sidereal or Solar Exalt who attunes to Kingmaker automatically unlocks the first Evocation, By the Sword. In addition, such a wielder can sever or forge bonds between men. When he takes an Instill action during combat to create, strengthen, or erode a Tie of Loyalty (whether to himself or another), double the effect of any existing Wound penalty on the target's Resolve to resist the influence.

Cost: - Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: None
Kings are born in the crucible of war, and the greatest write their legends personally. This is when the bonds of fealty are forged. Allied battle groups fighting alongside the wielder of Kingmaker have the TN of attack actions they make reduced by one on any turn in which the wielder actively fights in the vanguard of the army.

Shards of Hate ●●● Soulsteel/Starmetal Rainspikes (Set of Throwing Knives)
Ranges (C/S/M/L/E): +5/+4/+3/+0/-2
Dam:+10(13) Ovw:3 Atn:5 Tags: Lethal, Melee, Thrown(Short)
Evocations
If a Solar, Abyssal, or Sidereal attunes these knives, every subsequent attack after the first with a shard of hate against same target gains one cumulative reroll of a non-success attack die or damage die, in any combination, except those that show 1s. These are called Spite charges, which reset at the end of the scene.

Armor
Buff Jacket
Soak: 3, MP:0, Hardness:0 Tags: None

Mundane Reinforced Buff Jacket (Medium Mundane Armor)
Soak: 5, MP:-1, Hardness:0 Tags: Silent

Other
Belt of Shadow Walking ●●●
Attunement: 5

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

When the character is a shadow, she is dematerialized and can only aﬀect or be aﬀected by other dematerialized creatures or by Charms and weapons capable of attacking dematerialized foes. If the wearer uses such a Charm or weapon while dematerialized, she can use it to aﬀect a materialized foe. Otherwise, she is immune to all materialized threats, although she can be trapped in a room that is sealed tightly enough. The character can wear any armor and take any object she can carry into the shadows with her. However, she cannot transform other living things into shadow. Once the scene ends, the character must remain in solid form for at least ten minutes before transforming back into a shadow. The wearer must commit five motes to use this artifact.
Health Levels
-0x1
-1x3
-2x4
-4x1
Ix1

Essence: ●
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed: 15
Willpower: ●●●●●

Join Battle 8

Parry 7
Evasion 3/3/2 (unarmored, light armor, medium armor)

Total Soak 3/6/8 (unarmored, light armor, medium armor)
Hardness 0

Guile 3 (4 when Bluffing)
Resolve 4

Intimacies
"I will turn my blades to a worthy cause."-Defining

Loyalty to kin and comrade-Major
Distrusting of Spirits-Major
Distrusting of Fae-Major
"Above all else, people deserve to make their own decisions."-Major
Kleptomania-Major

Curiosity toward Celestial Exalts-Minor
Distrusting of Dragon-Blooded-Minor
Empathy for the downtrodden-Minor
"Narcotics are not worth the trouble."-Minor
Alcoholic-Minor
BP 15
Larceny, Melee, Stealth 5 each

Call the Blade 8
Summoning the Loyal Steel 8
Mental Invisibility Technique 8
Vanishing From Mind's Eye Method 8
Ox-Body Technique 8
Keen Sight Technique 8
--(Current Capability)--
Graceful Crane Stance 8
--Essence 2-- (56)
Lightning Speed 8
Leaping Tiger Attack 8
Lock Opening Touch 8
Triple Distance Attack Technique 8
Precision of the Striking Raptor 8
Watchman's Infallible Eye 8
Ox-Body Technique 8
Angle-Tracing Edge 8
Cascade of Cutting Terror 8
--Essence 3-- (128)
Joint-Wounding Attack 8
Steel Storm Descending 8
Flashing Draw Mastery 8
Swarm-Culling Instinct 8
Ox-Body Technique 8
Bulwark Stance 8
Fivefold Bulwark Stance 8
Seasoned Criminal Method 8
Excellent Strike 8
One Weapon, Two Blows 8
--Essence 4-- (206)
...
--Essence 5--(300+)

Intelligence 2, 4
Charisma 2, 4
Manipulation 2, 3, 12
Resistance 2, 1
Thrown 2, 1
Athletics
Monkey Leap Technique
Increasing Strength Exercise
Thunderbolt Attack Prana
Graceful Crane Stance
Lightning Speed
Leaping Tiger Attack

Awareness
Sensory Acuity Prana
Keen Sight Technique

Integrity
~~Stubborn Boar Defense~~

Investigation
Watchman's Infallible Eye
Crafty Observation Method
Judge's Ear Technique

Larceny
~~Flawless Pickpocketing Technique~~
Lock Opening Touch
~~Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise~~
Seasoned Criminal Method
Swift Gambler's Eye
Lightning Hand Sleight

Melee
~~Dipping Swallow Defense~~
Call the Blade
Summoning The Loyal Steel
Bulwark Stance
Fivefold Bulwark Stance
Excellent Strike
One Weapon, Two Blows

Presence
~~Tiger's Dread Symmetry~~

Performance
Masterful Performance Exercise
Cunning Mimicry Technique

Resistance
Ox-Body Technique [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]

Socialize
~~Motive-Discerning Technique~~

Stealth
Perfect Shadow Stillness
Easily Overlooked Presence Method
Mental Invisibility Technique
Vanishing From Mind's Eye Method

Survival
~~Hardship Surviving Mendicant Spirit~~

Thrown
Triple Distance Attack Technique
Precision of the Striking Raptor
Angle-Tracing Edge
Cascade of Cutting Terror
Joint-Wounding Attack
Steel Storm Descending
Flashing Draw Mastery
Swarm-Culling Instinct

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