Dice War of Despair (Exalted 3e) - Characters

[WlfSamurai]

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1. Standard Exalted 3e character creation rules
2. Miracle of the Solars charms are allowed

Links to the RP threads:
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Chapter 1

 

[Blackadder]

• Background
• Attributes and Abilities
• Merits
• Diamond Hounds (Mass Combat)
• Essence
• Charms
• Combat Stats
• XP Spending

• Cleon Narsis
  Concept: Mercenary commander/tactician
  Dawn Caste
  
  The Diamond Hounds were originally a mercenary company taking advantage of the strife in the Hundred Kingdoms, switching from one paymaster to another as opportunity arose, helmed by Farrel Narsis, Cleon's father.
  
  Then his father took an arrow in the throat, and Cleon, battle-experienced but new to command, was questionably regarded by his lieutenants. Facing them down, he began to speak... and then a glorious flash of sun gave him determination and vision.
  
  When he was done, they were agog, as Cleon had dissected their habits and failings, and vowed to make them far greater a force on the battlefield. Through his iron discipline, the Diamond Hounds were honed into an elite force, and Cleon made them in demand throughout the Scavenger Lands as a force to be reckoned with - one that deserved its place in Nexus' hiring halls.
  
  Then the Deathlords swept in, and the Houds found themselves augmented by the leavings of other scattered mercenaries and soldiers. Numbering over 300, Cleon led them towards the west, plotting as to how to create a mighty army that could challenge the pestilent dead.
  
  Soon, he encountered fellow Solar Ozric Vold, and a deal was struck.
  
  
  
  
  
  Intimacies
  Defining Principle: "Glory is to be found in war."
  Major Tie: The Diamond Hounds (Loyalty)
  Major Tie: Creatures of Death (Despise)
  Minor Tie: The Circle (Loyalty)
• Attributes
  Intelligence 5
  Wits 3
  Perception 3
  
  Strength 2
  Dexterity 4
  Stamina 3
  
  Charisma 3
  Manipulation 2
  Appearance 2
  
  Abilities
  Caste: Awareness, Brawl, Dodge, Melee, War
  Favored: Integrity, Lore, Occult, Presence, Resistance
  Supernal: War
  
  Athletics 1
  Awareness 2 (Spotting Ambushes)
  Brawl 2
  Dodge 2
  Integrity 3
  Investigation 2
  Linguistics 1
  Lore 2
  Melee 3 (Swords)
  Occult 3 (Ghosts)
  Presence 2
  Resistance 2
  Stealth 2
  War 5 (Strategic Maneuvers)
• 
  Artifact 3 (Sage Strife - Orichalcum Reaper Daiklave)
  Artifact 3 (Orichalcum Chain Shirt)
  Command 3 (The Diamond Hounds)
  Eidetic Memory 2
  Languages 1 (Native: Riverspeak, Old Realm)
  Quick Draw 1 (Melee)
  
• 
  THE DIAMOND HOUNDS
  Size: 3
  Drill: Elite (+2 to command rolls)
  Might: 0
  Magnitude: 10 points
  
  Attack (Straight Sword): 14 dice (Damage 15, minimum 2)
  Evasion 5, Parry 7
  Soak/Hardness: 13/0 (Alchemically treated armor)
  
  The Diamond Hounds cannot suffer demoralizing effects 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.
  
• 
  Anima Effects:
  • At bonfire/iconic anima display, the Dawn adds half her Essence score (round up) to her base Initiative upon resetting to base after a successful decisive attack.
  • For 10 motes, all of the Dawn’s combat and movement Charms with outstanding reset conditions are automatically reset. This effect can only be used once per day, becoming available again at sunrise.
  • The Dawn Caste inspires terror in her foes. She adds half her Essence score (round up) in dice to all intimidating social influence. She may also intimidate targets which do not feel fear, such as automatons, golems, and certain undead.
  
  Essence: 1
  Personal: 13
  Peripheral: 24 (33) [9 committed]
  Willpower: 7
  
  Limit Trigger: The Solar’s allies suffer a setback or defeat because of a mistake he made.
  
  Mote pools replenish themselves over time. Characters with mote pools regain five motes of Essence at the end of each round while in combat, as the dynamism of battle stirs the world around them. Outside of battle, characters regain five motes per hour. In the most relaxed of times—such as when a character is asleep, meditating, or quietly reading—they respire Essence at a rate of 10 motes per hour. Motes in the peripheral pool are replenished before motes in the personal pool.
  
• 
  Excellencies: Awareness, Brawl, Dodge, Integrity, Lore, Melee, Occult, Resistance, Presence, War
  
  Melee
  Excellent Strike
  Dipping Swallow Defense
  Bulwark Stance
  
  Occult
  Spirit Detecting Glance
  Spirit-Cutting Attack
  Ghost-Eating Technique
  
  War
  War God Descendant
  League of Iron Preparation
  Rout-Stemming Gesture
  Holistic Battle Understanding
  Ideal Battle Knowledge Prana
  Tiger Warrior Training Technique
  Redoubt-Raising Gesture
  General of the All-Seeing Sun
  Four Glories Meditation
  One With Five Forces
• 
  Evasion DV: 3
  Parry DV: 5
  Resolve: 3
  Guile: 1
  Join Battle: 5d10 + 3
  
  Sage Strife: Acc +3, Damage 14, Def +1, Overwhelming 5 [Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced]
  
  Natural Soak: 3
  Armored Soak: 5
  Total Soak: 8
  Hardness: 4
  
  Health Levels
  [ ] -0
  [ ][ ] -1
  [ ][ ] -2
  [ ] -4
  [ ] I
  
• 
  XP:
  Solar XP:
  
  Bonus Points
  Favored Charms x1 - 4
  Merits +3 - 3
  Caste/Favored Abilities +4 - 4
  Willpower +2 - 4

 

[Sherwood]

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

• 
  Mnemon Sasha
  Dawn Caste
  
  Attributes
  Str: 3
  Dex: 5
  Sta: 3
  
  Cha: 4
  Man: 2
  App: 3
  
  Per: 2
  Int: 3
  Wits: 2
  
  Abilities
  **Archery (Supernal): 5 - Bows
  *Athletics: 1
  *Awareness: 2
  *Brawl: 1
  Bureaucracy: 1
  Craft
  *Dodge: 5 - Ranged Attacks
  Integrity: 1
  Investigation
  Larceny
  Linguistics: 1
  Lore: 1
  Martial Arts
  Medicine
  *Melee: 2
  Occult
  Performance
  *Presence: 3 - Rally the Troops
  *Resistance: 1
  Ride: 1
  Sail
  Socialize: 1
  *Stealth: 1
  Survival: 1
  Thrown
  *War: 4 - Small Unit Tactics
  
• 
  Allies - Tepet Rann, Dragon Blooded Lieutenant: 3
  Artifact - Short Powerbow - Moonlit Huntress: 3
  Artifact - Lamellar Armor - Freedom's Cadence: 3
  Command - Size 3, Might 0 group with Elite Drill: 3
  Languages: 3 High Realm, Low Realm, Riverspeak, Flametongue
  Resources: 2
  
  Anima Effects:
  • At bonfire/iconic anima display, the Dawn adds half her Essence score (round up) to her base Initiative upon resetting to base after a successful decisive attack.
  • For 10 motes, all of the Dawn’s combat and movement Charms with outstanding reset conditions are automatically reset. This effect can only be used once per day, becoming available again at sunrise.
  • The Dawn Caste inspires terror in her foes. She adds half her Essence score (round up) in dice to all intimidating social influence. She may also intimidate targets which do not feel fear, such as automatons, golems, and certain undead.
  
  Essence: 1
  Personal: 13
  Peripheral: 33
  Committed: 10
  Willpower: 7
  
  Mote pools replenish themselves over time. Characters with mote pools regain five motes of Essence at the end of each round while in combat, as the dynamism of battle stirs the world around them. Outside of battle, characters regain five motes per hour. In the most relaxed of times—such as when a character is asleep, meditating, or quietly reading—they respire Essence at a rate of 10 motes per hour. Motes in the peripheral pool are replenished before motes in the personal pool.
  
• 
  Archery Excellency
  Phantom Arrow Technique
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 1m; Mins: Archery 3, Essence 1
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: None
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  Palming a mote of Essence, the Lawgiver pulls a thorn from her heart and fires it at the breast of her enemy. With this Charm, the Solar may continue firing her bow even when she has run out of arrows. In addition, once per scene, the Exalt may suffuse a phantom or physical arrow with the import of one of her Intimacies. Doing so gives her attack a number of non-Charm bonus dice equal to the intimacy’s strength, but also temporarily numbs her to that Intimacy. She may not use this attack again until she has spent significant effort in restoring or remembering the Intimacy, or in the case of a negative Intimacy, has been reminded of her motivation for her ire.
  Adamant Arrow Technique: At Essence 3+, the Solar may infuse a single phantom or physical arrow per scene with her enduring Essence. So long as she lives, the arrow cannot be destroyed or pulled from the target. Such arrows can be moved by cutting away the base into which they have landed—a tree can still be cut down, a wall still reduced to rubble—but the arrow will remain inviolate. Only the Solar who fired this arrow, or one blessed with her permission, may remove it from its resting place.
  Fiery Arrow Attack
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 2m; Mins: Archery 4, Essence 1
  Type: Supplemental
  Keywords: Decisive-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Phantom Arrow Technique
  Charging her arrow with Essence, the Exalt fires a heavy shot that rends the air as it passes onto her target, lighting the arrow on fire. If the arrow strikes flammable materials, a violent blaze instantly seeks to consume the struck object. This fire is natural, and may spread to surrounding objects or cause combustible materials to explode. When used in a decisive attack against a target, it adds one automatic success to the damage roll. If the attack does at least three health levels of damage, the target catches on fire, and must contend with (Solar’s Essence) lethal dice of damage every turn until he’s able to extinguish himself.
  Dazzling Flare Attack
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 3m; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 2
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: Decisive-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Fiery Arrow Attack
  The Solar shoots from her heart; the arrow is part of her. As such, she can sometimes reach out and draw her Essence across an arrow in flight, causing it to flash and flare, surging toward its target like a smite from the sun. This Charm can only be activated on an attack supplemented by Fiery Arrow Attack; when the attack generates at least one 10, this Charm adds one automatic success to the attack, and for each 10 in the attack roll it adds one die to the attack’s raw damage. As the name suggests, Dazzling Flare Attack goes off like a spectacular flare that can be seen for miles—every target using shadows for cover within two range bands must roll Stealth, with a -2 success penalty to the attempt, or be revealed.
  Nova Arrow Attack
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 6m, 1wp
  Mins: Archery 5, Essence 3
  Type: Simple
  Keywords: Decisive-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Dazzling Flare Attack
  The Solar channels her fiery Essence into an arrow that explodes on impact. This is a non-standard decisive attack that targets no particular character directly, but the range band they’re standing in. The shot lands without a roll, and everything at close range to the arrow is subject to an explosion that can’t be parried, only dodged. The explosion has an attack pool of the Solar’s Initiative (maximum 10 dice), and rolls decisive damage equal to the Solar’s Initiative. If this attack is successful against at least one enemy, then it resets the Solar’s Initiative to base. It can expressly be used to blow up inanimate objects, scenery, and siege weaponry without affecting the Solar’s Initiative.
  All characters struck by this attack are knocked out of the exploded range band and land prone, losing one Initiative each, not transferred to the Solar. Characters blown down by this Charm have no control over where they land; characters who dodge this explosion are automatically knocked to the next range band, but they do not lose Initiative nor do they fall to prone, simply rolling to their feet or skidding along on their heels without losing balance. If used to damage a battle group, Nova Arrow Attack causes disarray and panic, applying a -2 success penalty to its next attack.
  Wise Arrow
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 1m; Mins: Archery 2, Essence 1
  Type: Supplemental
  Keywords: Uniform
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  With skill and effort, the Exalt guides her arrow to its mark. The Exalt may use this Charm to supplement a withering or decisive attack, reducing the benefits of cover. The defense bonus of heavy and light cover is reduced by one, while characters under no cover suffer a -1 penalty to their normal Defense. In addition, after taking an aim action, the Solar may activate this Charm to strike an opponent in full cover. The Exalt shoots along an arc or angle that perfectly matches her opponent’s position. So long as there is some opening where an arrow can get through, Wise Arrow treats a character in full cover as if he merely has +3 Defense.
  Trance of Unhesitating Speed
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Archery 3, Essence 1
  Type: Simple
  Keywords: Decisive-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Wise Arrow
  The Solar strums her bow and fills the air with sharp notes. This Charm allows the Exalt to attack multiple targets, or a single target multiple times, by spreading her total current Initiative between decisive attacks. Each attack must contain at least three Initiative, and extra Initiative must be spread as evenly as possible between shots. For example, an Exalt with 11 Initiative attacking three targets could make two decisive attacks with four raw damage, and a third with only three. In addition, each 10 she rolls on an attack increases the base damage of that attack by one. The Exalt’s Initiative does not reset until she has completed every attack, and she may not make more attacks than she has ammunition or Dexterity. This attack can be made without an aim action.
  Rain of Feathered Death
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 3m per duplicate, 1wp; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 3
  Type: Simple
  Keywords: Decisive-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Phantom Arrow Technique
  The Lawgiver hones her killing prowess, splitting an arrow into a devastating barrage. The Exalt only needs a single arrow to fire this shot; her one arrow splits into multiple arrows and all are directed against a single target. The Solar may split her shot into a maximum of (Dexterity) arrows. If the attack hits, each created arrow hits with a raw damage equal to the Solar’s current Initiative minus her successes on the previous damage roll. Therefore, if she rolls 10 damage dice and gains two successes on the first roll, the second roll will feature eight damage dice. If that gains four successes, her third damage roll will be four dice. If the Exalt runs out of damage dice due to successful hits, her
  created arrows cannot do less than (Essence) damage each.
  Solar Spike
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 3
  Type: Simple
  Keywords: Decisive-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Dazzling Flare Attack
  The Lawgiver draws a blazing bolt of Essence across her bow and fires it. The attack ignores the range of her weapon, and can be made from medium or long range without an aim action, or extreme range with an aim action. The Exalt must have higher Initiative than her target to use this attack; the conjured Spike does not use the Solar’s Initiative to do damage, but instead has a raw damage equal to her current temporary Willpower multiplied by one or the rating of any Intimacy she is trying to uphold or protect. Solar Spike is incompatible with Fiery Arrow Attack and Rain of Feathered Death, and does not reset the Exalt’s Initiative to base on a hit. Solar Spike may only be used once per scene, but can be reset by landing a withering attack with six 10s rolled across the attack and damage rolls.
  Heart-Eating Incineration
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 3m, 3a; Mins: Archery 5, Essence 3
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: Decisive-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Solar Spike
  The Solar’s judgment scourges her target with devouring flames. She may only pay to use this attack when unleashing Solar Spike, and when her anima is at bonfire. Instead of conjuring Solar Spike, the Solar draws her anima as if she were pulling an arrow from a quiver, her iconic manifestation taking the form of a living, screaming missile. This attack follows the rules of Solar Spike, but adds the Solar’s Initiative to the raw damage of the attack. This does cause the Lawgiver’s Initiative to reset on a hit, but if Heart-Eating Incineration kills her target, the target’s body and soul are engulfed in a torrent of flames and burned away completely, restoring a number of motes to the Solar equal to her Intimacy rating for the target plus his permanent Essence score. Using Heart-Eating Incineration resets the Solar’s anima to the dim level. Spirits destroyed with this attack may still reform as they normally might.
  Solar Judgement Flare
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 3m, 1wp and 1m per damage die
  Mins: Archery 5, Essence 5
  Type: Simple
  Keywords: Decisive-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Heart-Eating Incineration, Nova Arrow Attack
  The Exalt pours incandescent Solar Essence through her bow, firing a streaking shot of immolating flame. If the Solar has 15+ Initiative then she may use this Charm to unleash a horrific attack against opponents a minimum of three range bands away. If successful, this attack does (greater of Essence or three) automatic damage, and dice on the damage roll may be augmented at a rate of one mote per die, to a limit of (half current Initiative rounded up). Where this arrow strikes, it will send out a line of burning destruction, one range band for every five Initiative (rounded up). Everything caught in this burning nova swath takes damage; characters are subject to a high intensity (6L/round) bonfire, while scenery takes fiat levels of damage. A character struck with this attack is likewise flung backwards one range band for every three health levels lost from the attack. If a Solar uses this Charm against a ship made of natural materials, every three damage successes equals a point of hull damage. If she uses it against a battle group, they are automatically at -2 successes from their next rout check.
  Solar Judgment Flare can be used without an aim action.
  
  Athletics Excellency
  
  Awareness Excellency
  
  Brawl Excellency
  
  Dodge Excellency
  Reed in the Wind
  
  Spoiler

  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
  
  Spoiler

  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.
  Reflex Sidestep Technique
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 5m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: Uniform
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind
  The Solar’s preternatural awareness of her surroundings makes her nearly impossible to harm. Even when struck unaware, she may part herself from her foe’s attack, undoing the damage that was done to her. This Charm may be activated in response to an ambush attack, a trap, or other damaging effect the Solar is completely unaware of, setting her Evasion to two against the attack and adding an additional point of Evasion for every 1 or 2 in the attack (before Charms such as Excellent Strike). If the Solar’s Evasion recovers to its full value, she may apply additional Dodge Charms if necessary.
  
  Melee Excellency
  
  Presence Excellency
  Harmonious Presence Meditation
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 5m or 7m; Mins: Presence 2, Essence 1
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: None
  Duration: One scene
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  The Lawgiver embodies virility, magnetism and grace, empowering her forces of persuasion. For five motes, this Charm grants three bonus dice to all forms of social influence from all Abilities except Stealth. In addition, the cost of all social influence Charms are reduced by one mote, to a minimum of one. The seven mote version of this Charm extends the duration to indefinite.
  Tiger’s Dread Symmetry
  
  Spoiler

  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 Excellency
  
  Stealth Excellency
  
  War Excellency
  Ideal Battle Knowledge Prana
  
  Spoiler

  Cost: 3m; Mins: War 2, Essence 1
  Type: Supplemental
  Keywords: None
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  The Sun’s Chosen speak in tongues of valor and know the ways of war. As one who has studied or waged war for a lifetime, the Solar simply knows what to do in any combat situation. This Charm applies the double 9s rule to all of the Solar’s order actions (p. 209). At War 5, Essence 3+, the Exalt may pay six motes, three Initiative to enhance her orders with double 8s.
• 
  Evasion DV: 5 / 6 vs Ranged Attacks
  Resolve: 2
  Guile: 2
  Join Battle: 4 +3
  
  Natural Soak: 3
  Armored Soak: 8
  Hardness: 7
  
  Health Levels
  [ ] -0
  [ ][ ] -1
  [ ][ ] -2
  [ ] -4
  [ ] I
  
  Slashing Sword: Accuracy +2, Damage +9, Defense +1, Overwhelming 1 Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
  Short Powerbow - Damage +10, Overwhelming +3, Attunement 5 Tags: Lethal, Archery (Long), Mounted
  
  Black Company Stats
  Essence: 1; Willpower: 4; Join Battle: 6 dice
  Health Levels: -0/-1x2/-2x2/-4/Incap.
  Actions: Senses: 4 dice; Threaten: 4 dice
  Appearance 2, Resolve 2, Guile 1
  Combat
  Attack (Chopping sword): 7 dice (Damage 12,
  minimum 2)
  Attack (Long spear): 5 dice (Damage 14)
  Attack (Shield bash): 6 dice (Damage 12)
  Combat Movement: 4 dice
  Evasion 2, Parry 4
  Soak/Hardness: 8/0 (Reinforced buff jacket)
  
  
• 
  Freedom's Cadence - Lamellar Medium Artifact Armor - Soak +8, Hardness +7, Attunement 5
  
  Spoiler

  Evocations of Freedom’s Cadence
  The lamellar pauldrons, vambraces and fist-guards that come with the armor allow for dramatic blocks and parries against hard-striking heavy weaponry, but do not count as actual armor. A Sidereal, Solar, or Getimian Exalted may pay three extra motes when attuning this armor to loosen the substance of its Essence, causing it to no longer count as armor. This part of the attunement is cancelled if the wearer suffers crash.
  
  Stepping Through Strife
  Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
  Type: Permanent
  Keywords: None
  Duration: Permanent
  Prerequisites: None
  The Exalt who dons this armor becomes aware that battle is only a means to progress along a path, not an end unto itself. Once she takes one step toward the end of the fight, the next follows easily, so long as she does not falter. The first Evocation of Freedom’s Cadence grants the wearer (greater of Essence or three, maximum five) bonus dice on any attack or social influence action she takes against an opponent that she gained Initiative Break for Crashing, as long as that opponent is still in Initiative Crash. However, if the opponent achieves an Initiative Shift on the Exalt, she instead takes a penalty of (Essence) dice on any such action she takes against that opponent while she is in Initiative Crash.
  
  Snow-Gathering Elusion
  Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: Perilous, Stackable, Uniform
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisites: None
  The more snow accumulates in an avalanche, the more unstoppable its course down the mountain. Likewise does this armor carry the Exalt forward to her destiny, regardless of what lies in her path; the more momentum she builds, the more advantage she gains. Whenever the wearer successfully uses her Evasion to avoid an attack, she may activate the second Evocation of Freedom’s Cadence to add one to the armor’s soak for the rest of the scene. She may stack one additional use of this effect, for a maximum of +2 soak.
  
  Destination-Hunting Impulse
  Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 2
  Type: Simple
  Keywords: Perilous
  Duration: One scene
  Prerequisites: Stepping Through Strife
  The mercurial Essence flowing through this armor is at its most potent when pushing its wearer on to her fated destination. With this power, once the Exalt has succeeded at one rush action, each additional one she takes in the scene gains one bonus success, even if she takes other actions in between. These successes are cumulative so long as the rush actions are successful; if she fails one, the bonus success count resets to zero. This bonus cannot exceed five automatic successes. This effect is cancelled immediately if the wearer is crashed and must be reactivated if it is to be used again.
  
  Clear Path Defense
  Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2
  Type: Permanent
  Keywords: Uniform
  Duration: Permanent
  Prerequisites: Snow-Gathering Elusion
  The more time a single Exalt spends with Freedom’s Cadence, the more accustomed the armor becomes to the obstacles that stand in her way, and thus accustomed to nudging her out of alignment with them. When the Exalt awakens this Evocation, the armor gains a permanent +1 increase to its soak.
  
  Pound the Drums
  Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Simple
  Keywords: Perilous
  Duration: One scene
  Prerequisites: Clear Path Defense, Destination-Hunting Impulse
  Tapping into the spirit energies lingering in the starmetal she wears, the Exalt may harness a yet-smoldering shard of Gu-Shaiyen’s power and share it with those who fight at her side. As she invests her Essence in the armor, the faint sound of drums grows louder and louder, until it rings out vigorously across the battlefield. This effect creates an automatically successful inspire action that affects the wearer and her allies. Those affected feel their hearts pound in time with the exhilarating drumbeat, and each gains one Initiative at the end of the round as long as they’re within short range or closer of the Exalt and have not been struck with an attack that round. To maintain this effect round to round, the Exalt must flurry a miscellaneous action in which she dances along with the battle rhythm in each round. This effect ends if the Exalt is crashed, knocked down, or successfully grappled.
  
  Short Powerbow - Moonlit Huntress - Damage +10, Overwhelming +3, Attunement 5 Tags: Lethal, Archery (Long), Mounted
  
  Spoiler

  Moonlit Huntress was crafted in a potent Eastern demesne in the days when Creation was still untamed, shaped by the steady claw of the Lunar artisan Meheret. Burning ritually cultivated wood from the demesne, she heated and shaped the moonsilver by night, and hid it by day. Each night of its construction, she quenched it in the blood of a mighty beast hunted just for its making. After carrying it for some centuries, she later made of it a wedding gift to her Solar wife, who shared Meheret’s passion for the hunt. The bow passed back into Lunar hands after the Usurpation. Its last owner, Fangs-of-Ivory, was slain by the Wyld Hunt three years ago. Moonlit Huntress still sleeps where the Lunar hid it, awaiting the arrival of a new Lunar or Solar master. Magic binds it into a clear stream somewhere in the East. It can only be seen at night during a full moon when the thaw is a month past and the stream is no longer rushing but no longer still, when the moonlight bends on the water in the rock bed where the bow rests. Then it’s the curve of a bow sleeping beneath the surface may be seen, and Moonlit Huntress claimed. Moonlit Huntress is a gracefully recurved bow decorated with carved lunar phases along its arms. The two new moons of this design are hearthstone sockets.
  
  Evocations of Moonlit Huntress
  A Solar or Lunar attuned to moonlit huntress gains a blessing from the weapon, which fluidly shifts depending on her standing in the ebb and flow of battle:
  • No Moon (0 or fewer Initiative): +1 non-Charm success to Stealth rolls.
  • Waning Moon (1-4 Initiative): +1 non-Charm success to disengage actions.
  • Half Moon (5-9 Initiative): +2 non-Charm successes to Awareness rolls.
  • Waxing Moon (10-14 Initiative): +3 automatic successes to rush and disengage actions.
  • Full Moon (15+ Initiative): The character may aim reflexively from up to long range for a decisive attack.
  Doing so grants no aiming bonus.
  
  Moonlit Huntress Aura
  Cost: 1wp; Mins: Essence 2
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: None
  Duration: Three turns
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  The archer experiences a moment of near-release in which she almost loses herself in the flowing and deadly instincts of Moonlit Huntress. Rather than being carried away, her long communion with the bow mingles these killing instincts with the archer’s own Essence, granting a powerful unity of user and weapon. Activating this Evocation grants 15 points of Initiative, and while it is active, the character enjoys the benefits of all five phases of Moonlit Huntress at once, regardless of her current Initiative rating. This Evocation may only be used once per day.
  Special activation rules: The character must have primarily wielded Moonlit Huntress in battle for at least two stories before she can purchase this Evocation.
  
  
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  Intimacies
  Lives of her Men (Loyalty/Protection): Major
  Immaculate Order (Fear/Disgust): Major
  The Undead (Hatred): Major
  The Circle of Exalts (Loyalty): Minor
  
  Mnemon Sasha knelt down next to Cathak Gren, her commander in charge of the three hundred and fifty men that set forth from their camp that morning. Their mission was simple enough; slow down a column of undead long enough for reinforcements to get to the area and save the towns behind them from certain doom. The problem? They were outnumbered four-to-one, and even with the terrain advantage they have, it will most likely mean the deaths of them all. But, that was what the higher ups called 'acceptable losses'. Sacrifice a few to save many. Sasha understood the reasoning, she just didn't like how this particular company was picked to make the needed sacrifice. Political bullshit. All of it. Gren has pissed off enough people that the Colonel wants him out of the way, and is willing to throw away the lives of 350 good men and women to do it. But what can I do about it, besides make my death as expensive as possible for the enemy? Not a damn thing, and it fucking sucks.
  
  As expected, the fighting was brutal, with waves of the dead coming for them. They were doing well as could be expected for the level of training that the troops under their command have, but the relentless assault was taking its toll. Soon enough, Sasha watches with horror as Gren is cut down, leaving her in charge of the remaining forces. The men are starting to waver. If I can't rally them, we'll be cut down piecemeal and our sacrifice here will be for nothing! A fire burns in her belly as she charges forward to Gren's fallen form and she snatches up his magic bow and leaps up into the saddle of his frightened horse. With a loud voice, she calls out, "Stand strong! The lives of thousands count on us today! We must prevail!" To punctuate her words, she raises up her newly claimed bow and knocks an arrow, watching with amazement as the arrow bursts into flames as it is fired off.
  
  The Essence enhanced arrow lands in the middle of a formation of zombies and explodes, scattering body parts in a disgusting rain across the battlefield. As impressive as that was, something inside Sasha knew that was not the limit to her new-found powers. Mustering up her hidden reserves of strength, she fires again, this time ripping a massive hole in the enemy's lines of fire and destruction. The troops that were at one point starting to waver in their resolve now lets out a cheer of exultation as the now turn the tide of battle away from the undead before them. Sasha continues to rain explosions into the enemy, helping to bring the fight to a rapid end. The field was theirs.
  
  Sasha finally finds herself sitting on a bolder, drinking down the water from her canteen, wondering just what the hell she is supposed to do now. She glances down at the glowing nimbus that still surrounds her and shakes her head. Well, you always wanted to be an Exalt, even if you were expecting it to be one of the Dragons that would bless you. I'm Anathama. Won't mother be so proud of her little girl now? A quiet set of footsteps breaks her free from her ponderings.
  
  "Lieutenant? We have our casualty count ready for you."
  
  She doesn't look up, just asks, "How bad is it? Just tell me."
  
  "One hundred and forty still live, but some will probably not survive their wounds. It would have been much worse if it were not for you."
  
  "Heh. Careful, Larson. Talking like that can get you in trouble with the Immaculate Order. After all, I'm one of the enemy now. There is no way that the men won't talk about how their lives were saved by their Lieutenant Exalting as a Solar in the middle of the fight."
  
  Larson and his fellow soldier trade a look. "Ma'am? If it weren't for you, we'd all be dead right now. It was no secret that we were selected for this mission to root out the troublemakers in the Legion. If the Colonel had her way, none of us would be here talking about our victory today. We are yours to the end. What are your orders?"
  
  She finally looks up at the half dozen men standing in front of her. "You do realize that I can never go back? It is a death sentence to Exalt as a Solar. All of you would be better off to return to the rest of the Legion and forget all about me."
  
  Larson lets out a laugh. "If we were smart, we wouldn't be here to begin with. Lieutenant, look at those soldiers out there." He waves at the survivors of the fight. "I have talked to them, and they are all in agreement to follow you, if you would have us. We may be the misfits of the Legion, but we stand as one behind you. Raise the banner, and we will follow you to the very gates of Malfias."
  
  Sasha sits for a moment more, then stands and calls out, "Company, fall in!" She moves to the front of the assembled men and women as they help one another to stand in formation. Once they are still and quiet, watching her, she steps up on the rock she was once sitting on. In a powerful voice, she calls out, "It has been an honor to stand along side you, training with you, eating the same muck and marching through the same mud as all of you here today. Not only have you helped to save the lives of thousands of civilians that were in the path of that column of dead, against all odds you have won the day! This is the finest hour of my life, knowing that I was a part of this band of brothers to succeed here today." A ragged cheer goes up from the assembled soldiers, their eyes locked onto Sasha.
  
  "Right now, you have an important decision to make. You can return to the rest of the Legion and tell them of this victory, and continue to serve the Realm in the name of the Empress, may she live forever. Or, you can choose to follow me, knowing that you will never be able to return to your homes on the Blessed Isle, that you will be marked as traitors for following me; for following one of the Solar Exalted. I cannot promise you an easy life, or one of much wealth and riches. But I will never ask of you to do any mission that I would not be willing to do myself. Creation needs us, and I feel that we can do some good in this fight before the sun sets on our lives. If any wish to leave, no one will hold you back or judge you in any way as less than the hero you are. So, now as I stand here on the field of battle that has been bought and paid for with the blood of the fallen, WILL YOU STAND WITH ME?"
  
  As one, they answer with a wordless cheer, signaling their agreement to follow their Lieutenant from this day forward.
  
  Sasha jumps down and searches for something, then once more stands on the bolder to face her troops. "From this day, we no longer march under the banner of the Blessed Isle. Instead," she raises up a spear with a tattered black cloak tied to it, "we now are the Black Company. A new legend takes root, and someday all of Creation will know our names and our enemies will tremble at the sounds of our footsteps coming for them!" Once more, a huge cheer can be heard from each of the troops.
  
  "Before that day can come, we have much work to do. Let us tend for our wounded and bury our fallen. The sooner we leave this valley of the dead, the better."
  
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  Experience Points
  Character growth is expressed with experience points, given out at the end of every session, which players spend to increase characters’ traits, as well as to buy new Charms and spells. Each character gains five experience points at the end of every session. These points may be spent immediately, or saved to be spent later. Solar Xp cannot be used to buy Charms, but can be used for anything else.
  
  Trait Experience Cost
  Attribute increase current rating x 4
  Non-Caste/Favored Ability increase current rating x 2
  Caste/Favored Ability increase (current rating x 2) -1
  New Ability 3
  Specialty 3
  Purchased Merit new rating x 3
  Trait Experience Cost
  Willpower 8
  Solar Charm 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
  Martial Arts Charm 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
  Spell 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
  New Evocation 10
  
  Xp:
  Solar Xp:
  
  

Solar Game

• Sherwood
• Apr 8, 2017

 

[Crocodile]

• Background
• Attributes and Abilities
• Merits
• Charms
• Sorcery and Sorcerous Works
• Combat Stats and Social Influence
• Essence
• Bonus Point/XP Spending

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  Ozric Vold
  Concept: Sorcerer King
  Caste: Twilight
  Sobriquets: Sorcerer King, Scavenger King, Spirit Speaker, Ghost Fist, Binder
  
  Ozric Vold is a man of ambition, few can deny that. He appeared out of the North, seemingly choosing to flee the antics of the Bull rather than join his cause. Many whisper that Vold is an escaped slave, one trained for academic pursuits as a sorcerous assistant. It is true though Vold rarely discusses his past or the experiences that have molded him into the man who calls himself a Sorcerer King. His Second Breath was said to have been earned in a game of riddles with a Raksha Lord whom held Vold for a time as a plaything and gift from his previous Dynast master in return for occult knowledge. Vold managed to win his freedom and his life in that game, the Raksha Lord having bound itself in oath to the game's outcome.
  
  It would go some way to explaining Vold's curious nature at times. He does not hide that he experiences curious prophetic dreams born of the Wyld energies within his mind. The Wyld holds little power over his flesh now and he seems to savor powerful emotions at times in his presence. His dreams and the will of something more powerful has guided him to the Riverlands. He used his new powers and more so knowledge of occult affairs to grow into a wealthy and influential Scavenger Lord. His accumulation of wealth so great he purchased claims to a great swath of land in the Hundred Kingdoms and built a impressive sorcerous castle to reside within.
  
  The local rulers were reluctant to recognize a self-proclaimed king of what was seemingly empty land. However, they could not deny a man who was willing to play court wizard for them at times. Vold forged his power on knowledge and ability. The rulers of the Hundred Kingdoms gave into his seemingly eccentric demand to be recognized as Sorcerer King or Scavenger King by those who would deride him more as an upstart.
  
  When the dead came, Vold was forced to call up many Demons and Elementals to protect his holdings. Many of them perished as well admittedly, forcing him to cast about desperately for mercenary companies willing to work with him to save his lands. So many other lands have fallen, but Vold now seems determined to turn his lands into a refuge against the Undead. Opportunistic but also necessary to rally survivors and soldiers to repel the agents of Oblivion.
  
  So far, Vold has managed to find curiously enough allies in other Solars that have appeared, two of which control hosts of troops he is more than happy to compensate and give shelter to. To him, this is simply the next phase of his dreams that call for him to raise up a mighty kingdom to throw down the undead.
  
  Intimacies
  Defining: Unify the Riverlands under my banner (Desire)
  Major: Save the Riverlands (Ambition)
  Major: Protect the people (Affection)
  Minor: Crush the Undead (Hatred)
  Minor: The Circle (Loyalty)
  
  Limit Trigger
  -The Solar is faced with the opportunity to advance his own cause by harming an innocent or ignoring one's suffering.
  
  
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  Attributes
  Physical
  Strength 2
  Dexterity 2
  Stamina 3
  
  Social
  Charisma 3
  Manipulation 3
  Appearance 3
  
  Mental
  Perception 3
  Intelligence 5
  Wits 3
  
  
  Abilities
  Caste
  Craft - Blacksmith 1
  Linguistics 1
  Lore 3
  Medicine 2
  Occult 5 (Sorcerous Works) - Supernal
  
  Favored
  Brawl 3 (Unarmed)
  Investigation 3
  Performance 3 (Oratory)
  Presence 3
  Resistance 1
  
  Other
  Bureaucracy 3
  Integrity 3
  Socialize 3 (Intrigue)
  
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  Child of Madness
  The sorcerer is immune to the twisting power of the Wyld, and need never fear mutation, delusion, or addiction from time spent in chaos. However, her Wyld affinity makes her vulnerable to iron, causing her to take aggravated damage from weapons made of it as though she were one of the raksha.
  
  Followers 1 (Voldsworn)
  A curious but small array of slaves bought and freed by Ozric Vold in his early travels. They are devoted to their master, more so in having pledged themselves to him freely. Vold considers them the first of his subjects and retainers as he moves to build a true new nation out of the ruined Scavenger Lands.
  
  Influence 4 (The Scavenger King)
  Ozric Vold considers himself a king, if only due to the insane amounts of wealth he has accumulated in his pursuits as a Scavenger Lord. He has used his wealth and great intellect to force many nations to recognize his claims from his lonely sorcerous castle. Few deny him such but deridingly refer to him as the Scavenger King. Rather than be offended, Vold has taken up the title for himself to make the insult a true title.
  
  Languages 3 (Riverspeak + High Realm, Old Realm, Skytongue)
  Ozric is well versed in the natives tongues of the North, his homeland. However, having been a highly educated Realm slave in the service of a sorcerer, Vold learned High Realm and Old Realm to perform his duties. Riverspeak he picked from his master's need to dicker and barter with Guild merchants that passed through the area on rare occasion or more so free traders.
  
  Resources 5 (The Scavenger King)
  Ozric Vold is insanely wealthy. So wealthy he has built a great castle in the Hundred Kingdoms and laid claim to all the surrounding lands near it. Few bother him, dreading having to face the Demons and Elementals Vold employees as its guards and staff often. Much of this wealth has been gained from his adventuring as a Scavenger Lord or selling his services as a sorcerer to the various kingdoms, merchants and other parties in the region.
  
  
  Arcanum Keep
  

  
  
  
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  Excellencies: Brawl, Craft, Integrity, Investigation, Linguistics, Lore, Medicine, Occult, Performance, Presence, Resistance, Socialize
  
  Brawl
  -Fists of Iron Technique
  
  Integrity
  -Stubborn Boar Defense
  
  Investigation
  -Watchman's Infallible Eye
  
  Occult
  -Spirit Detecting Glance
  -Spirit Cutting Attack
  
  Occult (Sorcery)
  Shaping Rituals: Scarred by Nightmares
  -Terrestrial Circle Sorcery: Death of Obsidian Butterflies, Demon of the First Circle, Invulnerable Skin of Bronze (Control), Summon Elemental
  
  Performance
  -Masterful Performance Exercise
  -Impassioned Orator Technique
  
  Presence
  -Harmonious Presence Technique
  
  Resistance
  -Ox-Body Technique x1
  -Poison Resisting Meditation
  
  Socialize
  -Motive Discerning Technique
  
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  Archetype: Scarred by Nightmares
  Shaping Ritual Terrestrial
  When the sorcerer sleeps, her player may describe the strange visions that haunt her. She recovers no Willpower from sleep, instead rolling (Wits + Occult) and gaining one sorcerous mote per success. These motes last until the next time she sleeps, and can be spent towards any spell she casts. If the sorcerer spends all of the sorcerous motes granted by a dream casting her control spell, each counts as two motes towards meeting the spell’s cost. Once per story, the sorcerer’s player may stunt to describe how the current situation was somehow symbolized by her dreams, essentially declaring that her past dreams retroactively foreshadow the present. Doing so awards her a number of sorcerous motes equal to (her Essence x [stunt level + 1]), which last for the duration of the scene.
  
  
  Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
  -Death of Obsidian Butterflies
  -Demon of the First Circle
  -Invulnerable Skin of Bronze
  -Summon Elemental
  
  Sorcerous Works
  
  
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  Combat
  Natural
  Brawl: 5+4 (9)
  Damage: 9
  Parry: 3
  Dodge: 1
  
  Invulnerable Skin of Bronze
  Brawl: 5+2 (7)
  Damage: 11
  Parry: 4
  Dodge: 1
  
  Natural Soak: 4
  Skin of Bronze Soak: 9
  Skin of Bronze Hardness: 6
  
  Social Influence
  Presence: 6
  Performance: 6
  Socialize: 6
  
  Resolve: 3
  Guile: 3
  
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  Essense 1
  Personal 13/13
  Peripheral 33/33
  
  Committed: 0
  
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  Bonus Points
  Willpower 5 to 6 (2)
  Investigation 2 to 3 (1)
  Lore 1 to 3 (2)
  Medicine 1 to 2 (1)
  Occult 3 to 5 (2)
  Child of Madness (4)
  Resources 3 to 5 (2)
  Influence 3 to 4 (1)
  
  Experience
  Current:
  Total:
  
  Solar Experience
  Current:
  Total:
  
  

 

[Raparth]

• Synopsis
• Background
• Attributes and Abilities
• Merits and Essence
• Charms
• Combat and Influence
• Bonus and Experience Points
• Wish Lists, Ambitions, and Projects

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  Name: Hadria Salar
  Concept: Ambitious merchant / power-broker
  Caste: Eclipse
  Anima: A growing web of contracts, written in glimmering gold and sparkling white
  Supernal: Bureaucracy
  
  
  
  
  
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  (WIP)
  
  An ambitious heiress to the ruling house of Porcellana (a city of the Saltspire League), Hadria long schemed to overtake Plenilune as the greatest of the Saltspire city-states, largely by ordering the other members into a harmonious whole. The Bull of the North's conquest and further entrenchment of Plenilune's primacy did not sit well with her, and so she began to look beyond the region to other opportunities or allies. An attack on her caravan by the undead caused her to take the Second Breath, and she has since tried to find others of her kind (that have not fallen in with the Bull) to aid in her homeland's liberation. The collapse of Thorns under the assault of a Deathlord has pulled her in yet another direction. Surely the support of a properly restored Saltspire League would be essential to any lasting victories against the undead. Under her guidance, of course. How she balances her desires for her home and the threat of the Underworld remains to be seen. Whether tomorrow or in years to come, all accounts will be settled.
  
  Managing resources and people are her greatest talents, but she's practiced enough to hold her own (since outside support could vanish at any moment).
  
  
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  Caste Abilities: Bureaucracy, Larceny, Linguistics, Presence, Socialize
  Favored Abilities: Awareness, Brawl/Martial Arts, Dodge, Integrity, Resistance
  
  Attributes:
  Physical:
  --- Strength: 2
  --- Dexterity: 4
  --- Stamina: 3
  
  Social:
  --- Charisma: 2
  --- Manipulation: 5
  --- Appearance: 4
  
  Mental:
  --- Perception: 3
  --- Intelligence: 2
  --- Wits: 2
  
  Abilities:
  Awareness: 2
  Brawl: 1
  Bureaucracy: 5 (Trade)
  Dodge: 3 (Unarmored)
  Integrity: 2
  Larceny: 2
  Linguistics: 3
  Martial Arts (Crane): 5 (Hooksword)
  Occult: 1
  Presence: 3 (Persuasion)
  Resistance: 2
  Ride: 1
  Socialize: 3
  
  
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  Merits:
  Martial Artist: 4
  Resources (Salt Trade): 5
  Languages: 2 (Native: Skytongue; Riverspeak, Forest-tongue)
  Contacts (Salt Traders): 3
  Influence (Saltspire League): 3
  Followers (merchant expedition): 3
  
  Essence: 1
  Personal Essence: 13
  Peripheral Essence: 26/33
  Committed: 7
  
  Charm Commitments:
  Harmonious Presence Meditation (7m)
  
  
  Solar Anima Effects
  Where anima effects enhance a dice pool, they do not count as dice added by a Charm (p. 251-252).
  By feeding a mote of Essence into their anima, all Solars can evoke the following effects:
  • The Solar may feel the brilliant presence of the sun relative to herself and know the exact time of day thereby. This works even if she’s underground or in the Wyld beyond Creation.
  • The Solar may cause her Caste Mark to appear and display itself for as long as she desires.
  
  Eclipse Anima Effects
  • For 10 motes, one Willpower, the Eclipse sanctifies an oath she has witnessed. The Exalt touches the oathgivers (or their words, as they pass through the air), her caste mark flashing imperceptibly. If she wishes, her anima briefly flares, swirling with the words and runes by which Heaven has given her the right to arbitrate such matters.
  Oath-givers who break pacts sanctified by the Eclipse (including the Exalt herself ) are subject to a terrible curse. The details of the curse are devised by the Storyteller, ideally reflecting the oath broken. A woman who breaks a hospitality oath might find herself incapable of rest beneath any roof for a year and a day, while a man who murdered the one he swore to protect may find his defenses utterly failing him when he must next fight for his life.
  
  • The Eclipse has diplomatic immunity when treating with the enemies of Creation. So long as the Eclipse approaches them on legitimate business of some kind, shades, spirits, the demon princes of Hell, and the Fair Folk may not attack the Eclipse or her companions without just cause, and such creatures must observe the local rules of hospitality. Such beings may still attempt to provoke members of the Solar’s embassy into breaking the peace, thus voiding this effect’s protection.
  • The Eclipse represents all the subtle movements of Essence under Heaven, the strange and self-referencing powers that stir when night merges with day. Eclipses can learn the Charms of spirits, Fair Folk and similar supernatural beings which have the Eclipse keyword for eight experience points each.
  
  
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  Excellencies: Awareness, Brawl, Bureaucracy, Dodge, Integrity, Larceny, Linguistics, Martial Arts, Presence, Resistance, Socialize
  
  Awareness:
  Sensory Acuity Prana
  
  Bureaucracy:
  Frugal Merchant Method
  Insightful Buyer Technique
  Deft Official's Way
  Speed the Wheels
  
  Dodge:
  Reed in the Wind
  Reflex Sidestep Technique
  
  Integrity:
  Stubborn Boar Defense
  
  Larceny:
  Seasoned Criminal Method
  
  Linguistics:
  Whirling Blush Method
  Letter-within-a-Letter Technique
  
  Martial Arts:
  Empowering Justice Redirection
  
  Presence:
  Harmonious Presence Meditation
  
  Resistance:
  Ox-Body Technique
  
  Socialize:
  Mastery of Small Manners
  
  
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  Willpower: 5
  
  Limit: 0
  Limit Trigger: Hadria is hindered or defeated by the self-indulgent and intemperate behavior of those around her.
  
  Physical Combat:
  Join Battle (Wits+Awareness): 4
  Parry (Unarmed): 3
  Parry (Hooksword): 6
  Evasion (Unarmored): 4
  Natural Soak: 3
  
  Weapons:
  "Wit" (Feathersteel Hooksword): +2 Accuracy, +9 Damage, +1 Defense, 1 Overwhelming; Lethal, Martial Arts, Disarming
  "Poise" (Ironwood War Fan): +4 Accuracy, +7 Damage, +0 Defense, 1 Overwhelming; Lethal, Martial Arts, Disarming
  Unarmed: +4 Accuracy, +7 Damage, +- Defense, 1 Overwhelming; Bashing, Brawl, Grappling, Natural
  
  Wounds:
  [-0]
  [-1] [-1] [-1]
  [-2] [-2] [-2] [-2]
  [-4]
  [Inc]
  
  Social Influence:
  Resolve: 2
  Guile: 4
  Read Intentions: 6
  
  Intimacies:
  Defining Principle: "I will ensure that society is prosperous, harmonious, and orderly."
  Major Principle: “Always pay your debts, especially to your enemies.”
  Major Principle: “Wealth and comfort are to be enjoyed.”
  Major Tie: Procellana and the rest of the Saltspire League (protection/affection)
  Minor Tie: The Circle (kinship)
  Minor Tie: The Undead (hatred)
  
  
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  Bonus Points:
  10pts for 10 Merits (Languages +1, Contacts 3, Influence 3, Followers 3)
  5pts for C/F Abilities (+2 Bureaucracy, +2 Martial Arts, +1 Dodge)
  
  Experience Earned:
  Solar Experience Earned:
  
  Experience Spent:
  
  
  Solar Experience Spent:
  
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  Note to self: Only normal XP can buy Solar Charms
  
  Charm Wish List:
  Listener-Swaying Argument (8 xp)
  Motive-Discerning Technique (8 xp)
  Shadow Over Day (8 xp)
  Quicksilver Falcon's Eye (8xp)
  Enlightened Discourse Method (8 xp)
  Consumer-Evaluating Glance (8 xp)
  All-Seeing Master Procurer (8 xp)
  Keen Hearing and Touch Technique (8 xp; needs Awareness 3)
  Fluttering Cry of Warning (8 solar xp)
  Crane Form (8 solar xp; needs Essence 2)
  Terrestrial Circle Sorcery (8xp; needs Occult 3)
  
  Stats Wish List:
  Awareness 2 to 3 (3 xp)
  Integrity 2 to 3 (3 xp)
  Appearance 4 to 5 (16 xp)
  Charisma 2 to 3 (8 xp)
  Willpower +1 (8 xp)
  
  Ambitions:
  
  • Master and spread the Order-Conferring Trade Pattern (although she doesn't know about it directly yet)
  • Deal with the Guild (whether by replacing or controlling it)
  • Place the Circle in an advantageous position, ready to assume prominent membership (if not outright control) of the Confederation of Rivers
    
  • Gain personal control over the Saltspire city-states
  Current Project: Establish a stronghold within Nexus.
  
  Planned Projects:
  
  • Free Nexus, then fill the power vacuum left there
  • Weaponize salt on a massive scale against the dead
  • Become the primary source of all salt in the Scavenger Lands
  • Establish the Circle as the mediators and fulcrum of the forces of the living within the Scavenger Lands
  • Ensure that the general populous hears great things about the Circle and their efforts (PR, PR, PR)
    
  • Either scare the Bull of the North into retreating from the Saltspire League (to reinforce elsewhere), draw his armies out to weaken themselves against the dead, or incline him to turn over the League in order to secure diplomatic favor with the Circle
  • Find out as much as she can about everything the Circle is involved with; manage that information to ensure everything proceeds according to the correct designs

 

[Greenstalker]

• Background
• Attributes and Abilities
• Merits
• Essence
• Charms, Martial Arts And Evocations
• Combat Stats
• XP Spending

• 
  Sun Wukang
  Concept: Martial Artist assassin/spy
  Night Caste
  
  Intimacies
  Defining Principle: "Always have a plan b and if possible a plan c"
  Major Tie: Mentor Sun Daiyu (Loyalty)
  Major Tie: Pelep Pugen (Hatred)
  Minor Tie: Five Days Darkness (Gratitude)
  
  Wukang born at Nexus as a no named baby from one of many hoes in a brothel. At early ages he has been raised to be a pickpocket and 'entertainer' for guests though it was not his performance guests were interested in which he quickly realized his role in the brothel as an information gatherer for side jobs of brothels mistress.
  
  When he was still young, he has been visited by a dragon blooded named Pelep Pugen. After a heated argument dragon-blooded tried things that were not on the menu as a result Wukang escaped from brothel which enraged dragon-blooded and he burned the brothel to ground after having his way with many of the girls in it.
  
  After a while the incident Wukang was found at outskirts of Nexus by a martial arts master Sun Daiyu. She took Wukang as his disciple as she felt something from young man named him as Wukang and took him to a village which acts as a base for Sun clan spies and assassins who are trained to be stay hidden in plain sight with secondary occupations.
  
  Wukang is trained in espionage, martial arts, assassination and social interactions. He made a name for himself as one of tiger style martial artists in the world but his actual earnings as one of most skilled assassins who does not even need a weapon to kill his targets.
  
  Pelep Pugen somehow found Wukang's trail and send a wild hunt after young man while he was still in Sun village. His mentor and most of high rankings of village was not around when hunt came and they burned down village on false accusation. Sun village people were not pushovers however and they were on par with mortal monks however two dragon blooded that came with hunt were another story. In the desperate situation Wukang saw a blinding light that casts a silhouette with four arms first but light quickly faded and left its place to purplish one while the figures silhouette somewhat disoriented. 'Kill Them' figure spoke and suddenly Wukang found himself being on par with dragon blooded. They knew it was a fake hunt so they were not prepared against an anathema. Wukang managed to kill one of dragon bloodeds but Pelep Pugen the second dragon blooded manage to run away swearing his revenge on Wukang.
  
  After elders and his mentor returned Wukang is banished from Sun Village but he kept his place as disciple of Sun Daiyu. Following instructions from dark four armed figure Wukang found himself in the sewers of Nexus only to find a secret entrance to old city buried under Nexus and at there he found his Razor Claws which reminded him some of his old memories from an age that was forgottne. He also remembered dark figures name He learned ebon shadow style from 'Five Days Darkness' in his previous life.
• Attributes
  
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  Charisma ●●○○○
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  Wits ●●●●●
  
  Abilities
  Caste: Awareness, Athletics, Dodge, Larceny, Stealth
  Favored: Integrity, Brawl (Martial Arts), Socialize, Resistance, Investigation
  Supernal: Stealth
  
  Athletics ●●●○○
  Awareness ●●●○○
  Brawl ●○○○○
  Dodge ●●●●●
  Integrity ●●●○○
  Investigation ●○○○○
  Larceny ●○○○○
  Linguistics ●○○○○
  
  Socialize ●●●○○
  Resistance ●○○○○
  Stealth ●●●●●
  Survival ●○○○○
  
  Martial Arts (Ebon Shadow Style) ●●●●●
  Martial Arts (Tiger Style) ●●●●●
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  Martial Artist ●●●●
  Resources ●●
  Mentor ●●
  Iron Stomach ●
  Languages ● (Native: Riverspeak, Forest Tongue)
  Artifact ●●● (Razor Claw)
  
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  Night Anima Effects
  • For two motes, the Night can dampen her anima, treating all Peripheral Essence expenditures as if they were Personal for one instant.
  
  • For three motes, the Night can ignore up to (higher of 3 or Essence) penalties to a Stealth attempt for one instant. These motes are always considered Personal, regardless of the pool they’re spent from.
  
  • When the Night’s anima is at the bonfire/iconic level, it wraps around and suffuses her form, hiding her figure and masking her visage in flame. She is merely a fearsome silhouette shrouded in all the hues of evening. It becomes impossible to discern her identity. This is considered a perfect effect, and cannot be pierced by Eye of the Unconquered Sun or other all-seeing magic.
  
  Essence: 1
  Personal: 13 (13)
  Peripheral: 28 (33) [5 attuned, 0 committed]
  Willpower: 5
  
  Limit Trigger: The Solar’s allies suffer a setback or defeat because of a mistake he made.
  
  Mote pools replenish themselves over time. Characters with mote pools regain five motes of Essence at the end of each round while in combat, as the dynamism of battle stirs the world around them. Outside of battle, characters regain five motes per hour. In the most relaxed of times—such as when a character is asleep, meditating, or quietly reading—they respire Essence at a rate of 10 motes per hour. Motes in the peripheral pool are replenished before motes in the personal pool.
  
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  Excellencies: Athletics, Awareness, Brawl, Dodge, Integrity, Investigation, Larceny, Socialize, Resistance, Stealth
  
  CHARMS
  

  Monkey Leap Technique

  
  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.
  

  Sensory Acuity Prana

  
  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.

  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.
  

  Reflex Side Step Technique

  
  Cost: 5m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: Uniform
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind
  
  The Solar’s preternatural awareness of her surroundings makes her nearly impossible to harm. Even when struck unaware, she may part herself from her foe’s attack, undoing the damage that was done to her. This Charm may be activated in response to an ambush attack, a trap, or other damaging effect the Solar is completely unaware of, setting her Evasion to two against the attack and adding an additional point of Evasion for every 1 or 2 in the attack (before Charms such as Excellent Strike). If the Solar’s Evasion recovers to its full value, she may apply additional Dodge Charms if necessary.
  

  Drifting Leaf Elusion

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

  Integrity protecting Prana

  
  Cost: —(5m, 1wp); Mins: Integrity 3, Essence 1
  Type: Permanent
  Keywords: None
  Duration: Permanent
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  
  Exposure to Wyld energies can cause hallucinations, addiction, insanity, and even terrible mutations. When the Exalt is exposed to such energies, she immediately senses the warping danger that surrounds her. She may then choose to pay five motes, one Willpower to immunize her mind, body, and equipment against the Wyld’s twisting power for as long as she keeps motes committed. The Solar’s sense of such danger becomes instinctive; she may even activate this Charm while she is asleep or incapacitated. This Charm can also be used to shield the Solar against other environmental effects which would warp her mind or body, such as the twisting choral of the demon prince with voice like crystal facets, or the tainted Essence emanating from the intestines of a malfunctioning First Age manse. But be warned: once the Lawgiver is addicted to the Wyld or mutated by twisting energies, this Charm will not discontinue such effects; it will only prevent her condition from worsening.
  
  While Integrity-Protecting Prana protects the Solar and her possessions from being subject to environmental twisting powers, it does not allow her to ignore Wyld phenomena. She can still be torn apart by Wyld-spawned ravenous cyclones of burning teeth and giant hundred-armed mantises. This Charm also does not defend against attacks that might warp her mind or body directly, such as the Wyld-Mind Strike of the Thousand Venoms Mistress, or fiat-level changes to her existence caused by alterations to the Loom of Fate.
  

  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.
  

  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.
  

  Blinding Battle Feint

  
  Cost: 3m; Mins: Stealth 3, Essence 1
  Type: Supplemental
  Keywords: None
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  
  The Solar leaps in and out of battle with nigh untraceable speed. The Exalt may use her (Dexterity + Stealth) to Join Battle. Her Join Battle result also acts as an attempt to enter Stealth. If she beats her opponent’s Awareness-based Join Battle roll, she is automatically concealed, so long as there is a viable place to hide. If her foe uses a Join Battle roll modified to use any other Ability than Awareness, then he must make an Awareness roll to spot her, suffering a penalty equal to the difference in their Initiative, even if he rolled higher. If he fails the Awareness check, the Solar still vanishes from view.
  

  
  EBON SHADOW STYLE
  

  Nothing But Shadows

  
  Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1
  Type: Reflexive
  Keywords: Decisive-only, Mastery
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  
  Students of the Ebon Shadow style fade in and out of sight in combat, emerging as if from nowhere to strike before vanishing back into the shadows. When the martial artist takes a Stealth action in combat, she may use Nothing But Shadows to apply a penalty equal to (higher of 3 or her Essence) to the opposed roll of any enemy with a lower Initiative than her, to a maximum of -5.
  
  Alternatively, when the martial artist is hit with a decisive attack, she may use Nothing But Shadows to play dead, slowing her heart rate to nearly nothing. This is treated as an attempt to go to ground by faking death, rather than seeking concealment. The usual penalties apply, but the martial artist applies the benefits of this Charm on all rolls she makes to go to ground for free, and also adds any wound penalties she is suffering as bonus dice on all rolls—the more damage she has taken, the more convincing her false death.
  
  Mastery: Every 1 that a non-trivial enemy rolls on his (Perception + Awareness) opposing the supplemented action gives the martial artist a point of Initiative, up to a maximum of (Stealth) points per activation.
  

  Seven Point of Weakness Strike

  
  Cost: 4m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1
  Type: Supplemental
  Keywords: Mastery, Withering-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  
  Pinpointing a seam or flaw in an enemy’s armor, the martial artist strikes through it with the expert precision of a trained assassin. Seven Points of Weakness Strike subtracts (the martial artist’s Stealth) from her enemy’s armored soak. Unexpected attacks double the amount of soak ignored.
  
  Mastery: If this Charm reduces an enemy’s armored soak to zero against a withering attack, any remaining points of soak reduction are converted to post-soak damage dice.
  

  Ebon Shadow Form

  
  Cost: 8m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 1
  Type: Simple
  Keywords: Form, Mute
  Duration: One scene
  Prerequisite Charms: Nothing But Shadows, Seven
  Points of Weakness Strike
  
  The martial artist’s outline begins to distort and flicker, as if it were a shadow cast by a candle’s unsteady flame. She moves with eerie speed and unnatural grace, making her enemies question whether she is even human. If her anima banner flares, it seems shapeless and dark, an umbral mantle enveloping her in its depths. Any enemy who fails an opposed roll to spot her when she enters stealth loses a point of Initiative, and she adds (her Stealth/2, round up) to her base Initiative when she resets after making a decisive unexpected attack. She also adds +1 to her Defense. If the martial artist is killed while in the Ebon Shadow Form, her body evaporates into an acrid black smoke, leaving behind no physical remains by which she might be identified.
  
  Special activation rules: Whenever the martial artist makes a Stealth roll in combat that beats the opposing rolls of all enemies in the combat, she may reflexively activate Ebon Shadow Form. Enemies within range lose Initiative for failing their roll as described above.
  

  
  TIGER STYLE
  

  Crimson Leaping Cat Technique

  
  Cost: 4m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1
  Type: Supplemental
  Keywords: Uniform
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  
  Moving with the speed and agility of a leaping tiger, the martial artist closes the distance to her prey. Crimson Leaping Cat Technique steals a point of Initiative from an enemy upon successfully rushing him. If the martial artist makes an attack against that enemy before the end of the next round, any extra successes on the rush are added as bonus dice to her attack roll.
  

  Striking Fury Claws

  
  Cost: 6m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1
  Type: Supplemental
  Keywords: Mastery, Withering-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  
  Rigorous training, intense discipline, and the suffusing Essence of the tiger gives the martial artist’s claw strikes the force to rend flesh and disembowel fallen enemies, making her a bare-handed killer. Striking Fury Claws converts up to (Strength) extra successes that would be added to the raw damage of a withering attack to postsoak dice of damage instead. Against an enemy who took a disengage or withdraw action on his last turn, these post-soak dice are instead converted to successes added to the damage roll.
  
  Mastery: Extra successes converted by this Charm add both to the raw damage of the attack and to post-soak damage (or successes against fleeing enemies).
  

  Tiger From

  
  Cost: 10m, Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 1
  Type: Simple
  Keywords: Form, Terrestrial
  Duration: One scene
  Prerequisite Charms: Crimson Leaping Cat Technique,
  Striking Fury Claws
  
  Dropped into the crouched, predatory pose of a tiger preparing to pounce, the martial artist’s Essence comes to embody the pinnacle of predatory grace. Her fingers seem like claws as they move through their strikes, and her eyes narrow to cat-like slits. While Tiger Form is active, the martial artist may double up to (Strength) extra successes when calculating the raw damage of withering attacks, and takes no penalties for fighting while prone.
  
  She also adds (Essence) dice to rush actions and all rolls to contest a disengage. She gains any Initiative spent by an enemy attempting to disengage from within range of him.
  
  Special activation rules: Whenever the martial artist lands a decisive attack that deals 3+ levels of damage, she may reflexively activate Tiger Form.
  
  Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood may double up to the lowest of Strength, Dexterity, and Wits extra successes when calculating the raw damage of withering attacks.
  

  
  SPRING RAZOR EVOCATIONS
  

  Howling Lotus Strike

  
  Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1;
  Type: Supplemental
  Keywords: Decisive-only
  Duration: Instant
  Prerequisite Charms: None
  
  Spring Razor’s edge burns with venomous emerald Essence as it delivers a fateful, poisonous strike. A decisive attack supplemented by this Charm poisons its target on a successful hit. This toxin possesses the traits of arrow frog venom
  
  Name: Arrow Frog Venom
  Damage: 3i/round (L in Crash)
  Duration: 5 rounds
  Penalty: -2
  Vector: Damage or ingestion
  
  

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  Evasion DV: 5
  Parry DV: 5 (for both styles)
  Resolve: 4
  Guile: 3
  Join Battle: 8d10+3
  
  Green Jade Razor Claw (Spring Razor) acc: +5 (+5 dex +5 MA) dam: +10 (12) def:+0 OW: 3 att: 5 (tags: Lethal Brawl Conceable Worn)
  
  Natural Soak: 4
  Armored Soak: 0
  Total Soak: 4
  Hardness: 0
  
  Health Levels
  [ ] -0
  [ ][ ][ ] -1
  [ ][ ][ ][ ] -2
  [ ] -4
  [ ] I
  
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  XP:
  Solar XP:
  
  Bonus Points
  Favored Ability: 12 pt
  merits: 3 pt
  

 

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• Background
• Attributes & Abilities
• Merits
• Essence
• Charms
• Combat Stats

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  Lumen Magna
  
  Intimacies
  -Defining Principle: The lives of all men, even those who have done wrong, are worth saving.
  -Major Tie: Humanity (Protective Desire)
  -Major Tie: Undead (Hatred)
  -Defining Principle: I search for the Unconquered Sun within the self, so that I may become Unconquerable.
  
  Limit Trigger
  Lumen Magna is unwilling or unable to further his cause or aid the suffering.
  
  Concept
  -A warrior of the light, seeking to protect all of Creation from the undead menace.
  
  Caste
  -Zenith
  
  Backstory
  Lumen Magna, the Knight of Solerus, is a knight-errant from the very edges of the Scavenger Lands. His village, whose name has been lost to the annals of history, was always protected by a renegade Exalted knight who the villagers worshipped as a local deity and named the Knight of Solerus, which means 'knight of the sun' in their native tongue. On the day his village was destroyed, the previous Knight, known only as Solaire, stood alone facing a horde of the undead. Lumen alone moved to join him, and the Knight welcomed the help. He turned to Lumen, slammed his daiklaive into the earth, and shouted "We will crush the hungry dead with martial skill and jolly cooperation! NOW CHARGE!" With that final deafening roar, Lumen and the Knight charged headlong into the ranks of the foe, smashing aside the undead with blow after blow. The battle raged and raged, but in the end Solaire was mortally wounded. As Solaire lay bleeding on the ground, he looked to Lumen and gasped out "I...i-i pass the light unt-to you." With that, Solaire died, and Lumen was suddenly struck with a vision of the Unconquered Sun. In his mind, he heard a voice: "This is just the beginning of the terror. Your duty is no longer only to the people of your village, but to all of Creation. You have been given your duty, and it is your life now to see that duty to the end."
  
  Ever since that day, Lumen, now the Knight of Solerus, has led his people from place to place, never settling, but always rescuing the survivors of the undead attacks. And day after day, battle after battle, Lumen seeks the voice and light he saw within himself, so that he may become one with his own Unconquerable Sun, and fulfill his duty to Creation.
  
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  Attributes
  
  Physical
  Strength: 5
  Dexterity: 4
  Stamina: 4
  
  Social
  Manipulation: 1
  Charisma: 4
  Appearance: 2
  
  Mental
  Perception: 3
  Intelligence: 2
  Wits: 4
  
  Abilities
  
  Caste & Favored
  Awareness, Melee, Resistance, War, Athletics, Integrity, Lore, Presence, Ride, Socialize
  
  Supernal: Resistance
  
  Stats
  Awareness: 2
  Melee: 5
  Resistance: 4
  War: 3
  Athletics: 2
  Integrity: 3
  Lore: 2
  Presence: 3
  Survival: 1
  Ride: 2
  Socialize: 2
  Medicine: 2
  
  Specialties
  -Melee (Swords)
  -Resistance (While Armored)
  -Ride (While Armored)
  -Presence (Inspire The Troops)
  
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  Cult: 3
  Language: Low Realm
  Artifact: 3 (Sunstrike - Reaver Daiklaive)
  Artifact: 3 (The Sun's Bulwark - Articulated Plate)
  Giant: 4
  
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  Pools
  
  Personal
  13 | 13
  
  Peripheral
  22 | 22 (11 Attuned)
  
  
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  Excellencies
  -Awareness, Melee, Resistance, War, Athletics, Integrity, Lore, Presence, Ride, Socialize
  
  Charms
  Melee
  -Dipping Swallow Defense
  -Bulwark Stance
  -Excellent Strike
  -One Weapon, Two Blows
  -Fire and Stones Strike
  -War Lion Stance
  
  Resistance
  -Durability of Oak Meditation
  -Iron Skin Concentration
  -Ox Body Technique
  -Front Line Warrior's Stamina
  -Essence Gathering Temper
  -Spirit Strengthens The Skin
  -Iron Kettle Body
  
  Athletics
  -Increasing Strength Exercise
  
  Integrity
  -Integrity Protecting Prana
  
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  Join Battle
  6d10+3
  
  Evasion DV = Heck No
  
  Parry DV = 6
  
  Sunstrike Stats
  -Withering Accuracy: 12d10
  -Decisive Accuracy: 9d10
  -Withering Damage: 17+Successes (Overwhelming 4)
  
  Soak
  -Natural: 4
  -Armored: 15
  -Hardness: 10