Dice Chronicle of the Scavenger Lands (Exalted 3E) - Characters

jaydude · Mar 18, 2019

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Rykon · Mar 23, 2019

Name: Ryan Shepherd
Caste: Dawn
Concept: Rising Warlord
Supernal: Melee
Age: 20
Home: Alsein

Essence: ●
Willpower: ●●●●●●

Anima: A regal sheepdog with a coat that shines like morning sunlight.

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

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

Background Summary
Ryan was born to a homestead with a modest field and modest flock. Being the second son, he tended the sheep with his trusty canine companions until he was eventually conscripted into his lord's militia. As if by fate, he managed to earn favor by saving his lord's son from an assassination attempt at the hands a visiting diplomat. His reward was being elevated as a squire to an older landed warrior. Eventually earning his place among the military elite, Ryan fought the war to its end, exalting in the field covering a retreat at the eventual fall of their lord's short-lived line. Though the war was lost, Ryan's family remains intact as refugees in Nexus, just wealthy enough to avoid the chains of the more enterprising princes of the Guild. For now, Ryan has departed his homeland to build a fighting company of his own powerful enough to stamp out the conspiracy of lords that slaughtered the rulers of Alsein and take back the lands he and his dogs once trod in his youth.
Attributes
Strength ●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●●●

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

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

Abilities
Archery
Athletics ●●●
Awareness ●●● +Join Battle
Brawl
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge ●
Integrity ●●● +Resolve
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics ●
Lore ●●●
Medicine
Melee* ●●●●● +Swords
Occult
Performance ●
Presence ●●●
Resistance ●
Ride ●
Sail
Socialize ●●●
Stealth ●●●
Survival ●
Thrown
War ●●● +Commanding Troops
Merits
Influence ●● (Respected Mercenary Commander)
Command ●● (Average Military Troops, Size 3)
Resources ●● (Contract pay)
Languages ● (Native: Riverspeak, Old Realm)
Artifact ●●● (Seething Drake - Red Jade Daiklave)
Ally ● (Lyla - Guild Merchant Princess)
Excellencies
Athletics, Awareness, Dodge, Integrity, Lore, Melee, Performance, Presence, Resistance, Ride, Socialize, Stealth, Survival, War

Cost: 1m per die or 2m per +1; Mins: Ability 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
For each mote spent add 1 die to a roll using the relevant ability or add one to a static value for every 2 motes spent up to a maximum of [Attribute + Ability] motes.

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.
WIP

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.

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.

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.

Fivefold Bulwark Stance

Cost: 1wp; Mins: Melee 5, Essence 3
Type: Reﬂexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dipping Swallow Defense, Excellent Strike
Tuning her understanding of martial Essence through her dedicated weapon-mastery, the Solar can momentarily achieve ﬂawless combat efficiency. Once per scene, the Exalt may use a full Melee Excellency, paying only a single willpower to activate the Charm. Perfect Strike Discipline can be reset by incapacitating an opponent with a Melee attack.

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: 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.

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.

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.

Holistic Battle Understanding
Weapons
Seething Drake (Red Jade Daiklave ●●●)
Attunement: 5m
Traits Ac: +3 Da: +12 De:+1 Ov:5 Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Total Ac: 14 Da: 15 De: 7 Ov: 5 Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Evocations: None yet

Straight Sword
Traits Ac: +2 Da: +9 De:+1 Ov:1 Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Total Ac: 13 Da: 12 De: 7 Ov: 1 Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced

Armor
Defiant Golden Bulwark (Orichalcum Breastplate ●●●)
Attunement: 4m
Soak: 5 Mobility Penalty: 0 Hardness: 4 Tags: None
Evocations: None yet

Reinforced Buff Jacket
Soak: 5 Mobility Penalty: -1 Hardness: 0 Tags: Silent
Health Levels
-0x1
-1x3
-2x4
-4x1
Ix1

Essence: ●
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed: 0
Willpower: ●●●●●●

Join Battle 9

Parry 7
Evasion 2

Total Soak 8
Hardness 4

Guile 3
Resolve 5

Intimacies
Defining Tie - Home (Longing nostalgia)
Defining Principle - A soldier without dignity is a brigand
Major Tie - Protective of comrades
Major Tie - Love of dogs
Major Principle - A good reputation earns good coin
Minor Tie - Loathing for backstabbers
Minor Tie - Empathy for farmers
Minor Tie - Distrustful of lesser spirits
Minor Tie - Affection for Lyla
Minor Tie - Loyal to Ysandre
BP 15
Attributes 6pts.
Wits 4, 5 (tertiary)
Abilities 6pts.
Melee 1-5
War 3
Merits 1pt.
Languages 1
Willpower 2pts.
Willpower 6

XP 25
Charms 24pts.
Bulwark Stance
Fivefold Bulwark Stance
Holistic Battle Understanding

Next
Ideal Battle Knowledge Prana
League of Iron Preparation
War 4
Notes: This is close to an exhaustive list of charms that overlap in these criteria: how I could potentially see the character develop as the story progresses, charms that enhance the character's identity from past to future, and charms that I think provide value (or prereqs to value) in the respective ability trees. If others were looking at taking charms on this list and think I am stepping on their turf too much, please let me know sooner rather than later and I can adapt. Hope this serves as useful for someone, storyteller included.

Favored Ability Charms

Notes: Subject to potential expansion. This will really depend on the progression of the game. Most of the purpose of taking this ability is for strength boosts.

Lightning Speed
Leaping Tiger Attack
Graceful Crane Stance

Notes: Fairly low priority for utility. Taken to fill out the 5 caste abilities.

Surprise Anticipation Method
Unswerving Eye Method
Inner Eye Focus
Unsurpassed Sight Discipline

Notes: This ability was only really taken due to caste selection. This list was taken from a character I made prior that was a dodge-supernal night caste. So all of this is rock bottom priority, but the mechanics here were thoroughly deliberated on. Any dodge focused PCs feel free to pillage this list for implicit advice.

Reed in the Wind
Drifting Leaf Elusion
Shadow Over Water
Drifting Shadow Focus
Searing Quicksilver Flight
Force-Stealing Feint
Flow Like Blood
Safety Between Heartbeats
Thousand Steps Stillness
Reflex Sidestep Technique

Notes: The entire focus here is for participating in lore building legitimately with the established mechanics of the game. Intended lore topics include: The Hundred Kingdoms. Farming. Animal Husbandry. Warfare.

Harmonious Academic Methodology
Bottomless Wellspring Approach

Notes: Taking some basic utility and raw power. Signature power here being Blazing Solar Bolt. Obviously as the supernal ability, there should be some significant investment here, however, seeing as how we have 3 melee driven combatants in the party, I will endeavor not to trample on other players' desired niches. Much of the progression here will be trumped by taking some specific war charms first.

Bulwark Stance
Fivefold Bulwark Stance
Call the Blade
Summoning the Loyal Steel
Sandstorm-Wind Attack
Edge of Morning Sunlight
Corona of Radiance
Blazing Solar Bolt
Sharp Light of Judgment Stance
Solar Counterattack
Flashing Edge of Dawn
Fervent Blow
Peony Blossom Technique
Iron Whirlwind Attack
Invincible Fury of the Dawn
Heaven Sword Flash
Circle of Bright Reaving
Fire and Stones Strike
Rising Sun Slash
Hungry Tiger Technique
Foe-Cleaving Focus

Notes: low priority flavor for a hobby level skill in music eventually being leveraged on a solar scale. This is to help draw on the legend of the shepherd King David and other historical shepherds that passed the time with casual music playing. Also an extension for Dawn Caste Intimidation.

Perfect Harmony Technique
Mood-Inducing Music
Masterful Performance Exercise
Impassioned Orator Technique

Notes: Moderate priority, mostly the first few are important. The last three are reminders that they exist more than they are a burning desire for power.

Ox-Body Technique x 4
Body-Mending Meditation
Durability of Oak Meditation
Front-Line Warrior's Stamina
Poison-Resisting Meditation
Illness-Resisting Meditation
Immunity to Everything Technique

Note: Might not end up taking any of these, but just in case, I went ahead and listed a handful of charms that were interesting. These are entirely dependent upon the course the game. Mounted combat as whole adds quite a headache at first and will not be dived into lightly.

Master Horseman's Techniques
Flashing Thunderbolt Steed
Elusive Mount Technique
Seasoned Beast-Rider's Approach

Notes: This is mostly a listing for a potential point where Ryan tries to develop a lasting bond with a familiar and ensure that it's strong enough to defend itself. Also some navigation and wilderness utility.

Friendship with Animals Approach
Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit
Trackless Region Navigation
Unshakeable Bloodhound Technique
Spirit-Tied Pet
Beast-Mastering Behavior
Bestial Traits Technique
Hide-Hardening Practice
Food-Gathering Exercise

Notes: The only reason this isn't the supernal ability is that the bulk of the desired power here is Essence 1, with the top utility being at the start of Essence 2. Everything else here is what I'd call "gravy" picks rather than "meat and potatoes".

Holistic Battle Understanding
Ideal Battle Knowledge Prana
Rout-Stemming Gesture
League of Iron Preparation
Tiger Warrior Training Technique
Magnanimity of the Unstoppable Icon
Immortal Warlord's Tactic
Redoubt-Raising Gesture
General of the All-Seeing Sun

Potential Unfavored Charm Picks

Notes: While we are in river country, naval combat is mostly driven by siege weapons and ship oriented action time rather than unit action time. I personally am not interested in tackling that piece of the system right now, nor do I think it would be conducive to sharing the spotlight with the rest of the circle in times of conflict. However, this one charm is really useful even if sail is a very minor aspect of the game. Given that it would also grant an excellency the "XP tax" of taking a non-favored could be EASILY justified by the +2 or more Resolve against fear as a permanent effect. Seriously, any dabblers might want to consider picking this up if they want a good value pick.

Salty Dog Method

Notes: These really need no justification.

Spirit-Detecting Glance
Spirit-Cutting Attack

Notes: Really this one would only be taken to grab an excellency if it was shown that not having dots in the ability hampered the character's ability to fulfill his role. However, this seems more like the ability of a scout or inquisitor, and I am perfectly willing to leave this in the capable hands of our night caste.

Watchman's Infallible Eye
This is where I'll be posting Ryan's evocation tree of Zelator Daiklave Edition as things lean toward completion.

Red Shadow Claws · Mar 25, 2019

Name: Quill “Etched Diamond”
Caste: Twilight
Anima Banner: A Black Diamond with golden glyphs of old Realm, spelling the names of the Incarna.
Limit Trigger: The Solar's allies suffer a setback or defeat because of a mistake he made.

Age: 35

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 4
Sta: 3

Cha: 3
Man: 2
App: 2

Per: 3
Int: 5
Wits: 3

Abilities
Archery
Athletics 1
Awareness 2
Brawl
Bureaucracy 2 (Precious gems and metals)
Craft (Jewelry) 5
Craft (Artifacts) 4 (Jewelry)
Dodge
Integrity 2
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics 2 (Native – Riverspeak)
Lore 5 (Shogunate Era)
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee 4
Occult 3
Performance
Presence 2
Resistance 3
Ride
Sail
Socialize 1 (Finding Flaws)
Stealth
Survival 3 (Prospecting)
Thrown
War
Merits
Artifact 3 (Sun’s Brush)
Contacts 3 (The Jade Contemplation)
Resources 1
Language: High Realm 1
Language: Old Realm 1
Language: Forest Tongue 1

Willpower: 7

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Anima Banner: A Black Diamond with golden glyphs of old Realm, spelling the names of the Incarna.

Anima Power:
Craft
Brass Scales Falling
Craftsman Needs No Tools
Flawless Handiwork Method
Crack-Mending Technique
Tireless Workhorse Method

Lore
Harmonious Academic Methodology
Bottomless Wellspring Approach
Lore-Inducing Concentration
Truth-Rendering Gaze
Sacred Relic Understanding
Wake the Sleeper

Linguistics
Whirling Brush Method

Melee
Excellent Strike
Dipping Swallow Defense
Call the Blade
Summoning the Loyal Steel

Occult
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

Resistance
Durability of Oak Meditation

Sorcery
Keel Cleaves the Clouds (Control Spell)

Survival
Friendship With Animals Approach
Legacy of Wonders
Artifacts are a legacy of wonders, a shining testament to the might of the Chosen, a burning glyph in the face of Creation that embodies all that is fundamentally Right and Just. A pentagram of five wondrous metals can be alloyed in any way to set right any problem of the world, with only ingenuity, determination and vision, any artificer may forge the wonders to determine the course of an age. You might have studied at the Valkshawsen Academy for Sorcerers at Lookshy, or you might have studied the art of thousand crafts under the emerald sun of Ligier himself to learn from his skill, perhaps your passion for the craft allowed you to initiate yourself into the art of Sorcery.

Shaping Rituals
Whenever the sorcerer forges an artifact, she gains (Intelligence + Occult) Sorcerous Motes, plus two motes times the Artifact's dot rating. These motes last for the duration of a story. Motes gained from further performances of this ritual replace the motes gained by previous performances.

When the sorcerer stunts a shape sorcery action with a description of how she casts the spell through the artifact, she gains (stunt rating + 2) sorcerous motes towards completing this spell. This benefit can only be received once per scene per spell. Stunts to enhance the sorcerer’s control spell can receive this benefit any number of times.

Through study of an artifact, a sorceror can gains momentary insights and so gather wisps of power. By spending a scene in study of an Artifact, other than her own creations, the sorceror can gain sorcerous motes equal to the threshold successes on an Intelligence + Occult roll with a Difficulty equal to the Artifact's rating. These motes last for a day.

Sorcery Spells
Keel Cleaves the Clouds
Cost: 25sm, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
As fog or clouds touch the seas, the sorcerer speaks honeyed lies to a ship, convincing it that it may sail forward upon them. The enchanted ship may sail over mist, fog, or other vapors as though they were water, and can ascend vertically through such vapors until it’s skimming over their surface. In sufficiently misty environs, it’s even possible for the ship to rise high enough to sail on the clouds themselves. However, while vapor-borne, the ship cannot benefit from Speed bonuses from oars or currents. If this spell ends, or there’s no vapor left for the ship to sail on, it descends downwards, landing safe and undamaged, albeit potentially landlocked.
A sorcerer with this as her control spell is constantly wreathed by pale mists, though she may disperse them with a thought unless distracted by involved activity, deep contemplation, or tumultuous emotion. She may walk on mist or fog as though it were solid ground, albeit as difficult terrain (Exalted, p. 199).
Sun's Brush
Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Chopping
Hearthstone slot(s): 2

Sun’s Brush serves as a writing implement as well as a weapon. It has an illimitable supply of gold ink, and its blade-tip is capable of writing on any surface not warded by nigh-impervious magic. Using Sun’s Brush to write on an enemy is a difficulty 2 foe-scribing gambit. If the wielder includes social influence in this message, she adds one non-Charm die on her Linguistics roll for every threshold success on the gambit’s Initiative roll. These markings can eventually be washed away, but always last at least (Essence) days.

Invocations Unlocked:
Filling Blank Pages
Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dissonant, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
Ignorance is the greatest enemy of all. The wielder may use this Evocation on her turn to reflexively roll to introduce a fact (Exalted, p. 237). If she describes her attack that turn with a stunt based on the introduced fact, she adds a non-Charm bonus success on the roll. At the Storyteller’s discretion, this can apply to other actions using Sun’s Brush. This Evocation is still subject to the once-per-scene restriction on introducing facts.
Special activation rules: As long as the wielder isn’t dissonant with orichalcum, this Evocation awakens at no cost when she succeeds with 5+ successes on a roll to introduce or challenge a fact.
Health Levels
-0 [ ][ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]

Willpower: 7

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Join Battle: 5

Parry: 5
Evasion: 2

Total Soak: 3
Hardness: 0

Guile: 2
Resolve: 3

Unarmed –
Intimacies
Ysandre (Major) - Adoration
Jade Contemplation (Major) - Source of Knowledge
Great Forks (Major) - A great place to live in
Immaculate Order (Major) - They twisted the words of the Incarna
History (Defining) - To rise above the past, one must learn it, and learn from it
Restore the Sunforge to operation (Major)

Background
BP Expenditures:
Willpower from 5 to 7 – 4 BP
Craft (Jewelry) from 3 to 5 – 2 BP
Resistance from 2 to 3 - 1 BP
Lore from 3 to 5 - 2 BP
Occult from 2 to 3 – 1 BP
Melee from 3 to 4 – 1 BP
Craft (Artifacts) from 1 to 3 – 2 BP

Trait Experience Cost
Attribute Increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability Increase - current rating x 2
Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x 2) -1
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit - new rating x 3
Willpower 8
Solar Charm 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation 10

Xp Earned: 35
Xp Banked: 2

Solar Xp Earned: 4
Solar Xp Banked: 0

Craft Xp Earned: 19 silver
Craft Xp Banked: 19 silver

Bought with XP:
Wake the Sleeper
Brass Scales Falling
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Craft (Artifact) 4
Tireless Workhorse Method

Esbilon · Mar 25, 2019

Name: Ysandre
Caste: Zenith
Anima: A swan rising majestically with its wings spread wide.
Concept: Queen in Exile

Appearance

Background
*Born as the eldest child of the king of Nalia
*Her family claims descent from Venus herself, supposedly the Goddess of Love walked through Creation and was taken by the people of Nalia, bestowing her favor and a child on the young king. In truth, while they do have divine blood, they are descended from Wun Ja, god the Shining Metropolis, who desired a bastion of civilization on the border to the Far East, and while Nalia is a small country, no one can claim that it does not value the trappings of civilization.
*Though beautiful and courteous when she wanted to be, was something of a wild child with a quite the temper when roused.
*Insisted on joining her younger brothers in the practice yard.
*Though Nalia has traditionally had agnatic primogeniture (eldest son inherits everything), her father named her his sole heir.
*Her father fell sick when she was 18
*Quincel, te oldest of her brothers, and conservative elements in the local Immaculate Order forced her to flee for her life with only the family's ancestral daiklave in her possession
*They came for her not at night, but at just as the Sun rose highest in the sky, and at that moment, the Unconquered Sun spoke to her and claimed her as his own.
*He offered her the choice of fighting now and plunging her country into a deadly civil war, or to flee and only return when she could retake her and keep her people safe at the same time.
*She fled down river to Great Forks where she hoped her claim to divine heritage might gain her favor with the three gods who rule there, and where her Anathema nature might not be held quite as much against her as it would in other places.
Attributes
Strength ●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●●

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

Perception ●●●
Intelligence ●●
Wits ●●

Abilities
Archery
Athletics ●
Awareness ●●●●●
Brawl
Bureaucracy ●
Craft
Dodge
Integrity ●●●
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics ●
Lore ●
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee ●●●●● (Swords)
Occult ●
Performance ●●●●● (Solo Performances)
Presence ●●●●● (Persuasion)
Resistance ●
Ride ●
Sail ●
Socialize ●●● (Upper Class)
Stealth
Survival ●
Thrown
War ●

Caste: Athletics, *Integrity, *Performance, Lore, **Presence, *Resistance, Survival, *War
Favored: Awareness, Bureaucracy, Linguistics, Melee, Socialize
Merits
Artifact ●●● (Joy, the ancestral family sword)
Contacts ● (Loyalists in the home country)
Influence ●● (Some pull locally due to her former status, and some pull at home)
Language ● (Native: Riverspeak; Old Realm)
Resources ●●● (Assets abroad secured prior to exile)

Artifacts and Hearthstones
Joy (Orichalcum Daiklave, Artifact ●●●)
This blade was forged for the first king of Nalia by Wun Ja as a gift the dynasty she created to be a speck of civilization in an uncivilised world.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 5)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hearthstone slot(s): 2
Era: Time of Tumult
Special: Joy gives off a mild aura of peace and observers must spend 1wp to consider a character carrying no weapons but Joy to be armed.

Servants part before the Sovereign
Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-Only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None

Joy is king among common weapons as its wielder is the sovereign of their people. When Joy is used to make a Decisive attack against a foe armed with a mundane weapon, the attack also counts as a feat of strength to break the foe's weapon. To resolve this, roll the wielder's Strength + Athletics with 2 automatic successes from Joy. If the wielder achieves 3 successes, the opponent's weapon is rendered unusable, if they achieve 5 or more successes, the opponent's weapon is cut clean through. Note that the wielder of Joy may attempt this feat of strength even if they do not have Strength 3 or higher.
Essence:
Permanent: ●

Charms
Excellencies: Awareness, Bureaucracy, Integrity, Linguistics, Melee, Performance, Presence, Resistance, Socialize, War

-Melee-
*Excellent Strike [3m; Supplemental; Uniform; Instant]
**One Weapon, Two Blows [3m; Reflexive; None; Instant]
***Peony Blossom Technique [1m, 1wp, 3a; Reflexive; None; Instant]
*Dipping Swallow Defense [2m; Reflexive; None; Instant]
**Solar Counterattack (Mel 3, Ess 1)

-Integrity-
*Stubborn Boar Defense [-; Permanent; Bridge; Permanent]

-Performance-
*Masterful Performance Exercise [2m; Supplemental; Mute; Instant]
**Thousand Courtesan Ways [5m; Reflexive; None; Indefinite (Scene)]
*Respect-Commanding Attitude [5m; Supplemental; None; One Performance action]

-Presence-
*Listener-Swaying Argument [3m; Supplemental; None; Instant]
**Impassioned Discourse Technique [3m; Supplemental; None; Instant]
***Fulminating Word (Pre 5, Ess 3)
*Harmonious Presence Meditation [5m (7m); Reflexive; None; One Scene (Indefinite)]
**Threefold Magnetic Ardor [4m; Supplemental; None; Insant]
***Awakened Carnal Demiurge [5m, 1wp; Simple; Indefinite]
*Poised Lion Attitude (Pre 4, Ess 1) [MotSE 25]

-Socialize-
*Motive-Discerning Technique [3m; Supplemental; Instant]
*Shadow over Day [1m; Reflexive; Instant]

-Joy Evocations-
*Servants part before the Sovereign [3m; Supplemental; Instant]
(4 others that probably require Ess 2+)

**War Lion Stance (Mel 4, Ess 1)

**Master Thespian Style (Per 4, Ess 2)
**Impassioned Orator Technique (Per 3, Ess 1)
***Fury-Inciting Speech (Per 4, Ess 2)
****Dogmatic Contagion Discipline (Per 5, Ess 2) [Or **Phantom-Conjuring Performance (Per 4, Ess 2)]
**Perfect Harmony (Per 3, Ess 1)
***Heart-Compelling Method (Per 4, Ess 2)
****Soul-Strirring Cantata (Per 5, Ess 2)
**Memory-Reweaving Discipline (Per 5, Ess 3)

**Blazing Glorious Icon (Pre 5, Ess 3)
***Mind-Wiping Gaze (Pre 5, Ess 3)
****Hypnotic Tongue Technique (Pre 5, Ess 3)

**Intent-Tracing Stare (Soc 5, Ess 1)
Essence:
Permanent: ●
Personal: 13/13 (13)
Peripheral: 23/23 (33)
Committed:
5 Joy
5 Awakened Carnal Demiurge

Willpower: 5/6

Intimacies:
Def - "A well lived life is the highest virtue."
Maj - Her brother Quincel (betrayal)
Maj - "A ruler must serve their people."
Min - The Immaculate Philosophy (conflicted disdain)

Limit 0/10
Limit Trigger: The Solar sees innocents suffering, and is either unable or unwilling to help them.

Join Combat: 5

Offenses:
Evasion:
Parry:
Soak:

Withering Attack:
Withering Damage:
Decisive Attack:

Health:
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
-X [ ]

Social Defenses:
Resolve:
Guile:
Teresu Arumi
Water Aspect Dragonblooded, formerly of Lookshy.

Intimacies
Defining Principle - I want to make the Scavenger Lands a better and safer place for all who live in them
Major Tie - Evildoers (Contempt)
Major Tie - Masaru (Sisterly love)
Major Tie - Lookshy (Loyalty and Duty)
Major Tie - Sworn Kinship (Camaraderie)
Minor Principle - I will take the side of justice whenever I can
Minor Tie - Ysandre (Loyalty)
In-game Spending: 24/0S
8 ***Fulminating Word (Pre 5, Ess 3)
8 *Poised Lion Attitude (Pre 4, Ess 1) [MotSE 25]
8 **Solar Counterattack (Mel 3, Ess 1)

SXP awarded: 2
2 Turning Arumi, 17-04-20

Bonus Points: 0/15
2 Willpower
8 Favored Abilities
4 Primary Attribute
1 Merit

Sherwood · Jun 9, 2019

Name: Ailera Kerion
Caste: Night
Supernal Ability: Larceny

Attributes
Str: 3
Dex: 5
Sta: 2

Cha: 4
Man: 4
App: 3

Per: 2
Int: 3
Wits: 3

Abilities
Archery
*Athletics: 3
*Awareness: 4
**Brawl: 1
Bureaucracy: 1
Craft
**Dodge: 3
Integrity: 2
**Investigation: 2
*Larceny: 5 - Stealing Without a Trace
Linguistics: 1
Lore
**Martial Arts: 5 - Unarmored Combat
Medicine
Melee
Occult
**Performance: 2
Presence: 1
Resistance: 2
Ride
Sail
*Socialize: 3 - Fitting into the Crowd
*Stealth: 3 - Vanish in Plain Sight
Survival: 3
**Thrown: 2
War

*Caste Abilities
**Favored Abilities
Artifact: Frost-Thorn Knuckles - 3
Artifact: Infinite Resplendence Amulet: 4
Artifact: Belt of Shadow Walking
Contacts: 3
Languages: 2 - Skytongue, Riverspeak, Flametongue
Martial Arts: 4
Resources: 1

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 (18)
Committed: 15
Willpower: 7

Join Battle: 7 +3 Successes

Natural Soak: 2 (+3)
Armored Soak: 5
Total Soak: 7 (+3)

Parry: 6
Evasion: 5
Resolve: 3
Guile: 4

Health Levels
[ ] 0
[ ][ ] -1
[ ][ ] -2
[ ] -4
[ ] I

Night Anima Effects
For two motes, the Night can dampen her anima, treating all Peripheral Essence expenditures as if they were Personal for one instant.
For three motes, the Night can ignore up to (higher of 3 or Essence) penalties to a Stealth attempt for one instant. These motes are always considered Personal, regardless of the pool they’re spent from.
When the Night’s anima is at the bonfire/iconic level, it wraps around and suffuses her form, hiding her figure and masking her visage in flame. She is merely a fearsome silhouette shrouded in all the hues of evening. It becomes impossible to discern her identity. This is considered a perfect effect, and cannot be pierced by Eye of the Unconquered Sun (see p. 273) or other all-seeing magic.

Limit Break: When my allies suffer a setback or defeat due to a mistake on my part.

Rampaging Avarice
The Solar is filled with rampant greed, no longer willing to let anything come between him and what he wants. Whenever he is faced with the opportunity to indulge in a favorite pleasure or vice, he will do so. If someone would deny him a pleasure, he will take it by force, even if it would be trivial to obtain it otherwise. While he can restrain himself from committing acts of murder or rape, he will not hesitate to destroy property or physically harm others to get what he wants.
Duration: Session. Rampaging Avarice can be ended prematurely if the Solar harms an innocent in order to get what he wants—but only after he’s done enjoying it.
Athletics

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

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

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

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Increasing Strength Exercise, Monkey Leap Technique
The Exalt draws down on the Essence around her, pulling it through her upper body, her lungs, her core and down into her legs, and then explodes skyward, rising in a brilliant, Essence-laden arc. This Charm supplements a 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.

Larceny

Cost: —; Mins: Larceny 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt adapts the nature of the iconic criminal, who must one day become a master of her craft. She is a creature of the criminal element; duplicity is in her every word and step. This Charm allows the Solar to invoke and discard a number of special distinctions at her leisure, which allow her to gather information, infiltrate criminal society, and protect her position there.
The distinctions are as follows:
Familiarity: To a member of a criminal organization, she seems familiar—that is, she can play on a Minor Intimacy to make her target believe she is a criminal with whom to be treated: a member of the organization, a prospect for initiation, etc.
Dissonance: Magistrates or other officials seeking to establish her identity suffer a -2 penalty to their Bureaucracy and Investigation actions. Persons who do not know her personally but may have spotted her or seen her hanging around the scene of a crime find her unrecognizable and cannot remember doing so.
Vulnerability: The Exalt makes herself seem the best possible target for a type of crime dictated by the player. Confidence men will see her as an easy mark, gamblers will seek to engage her with betting gossip or games of chance, thugs will try to mug her, and so forth. This effect has a visual component: thieves are less likely to steal from an Exalt wearing armor and a battle axe, while a serial killer might find a person who wears her hair a certain way irresistible.
Receptivity: Similar to vulnerability, interested parties perceive the Exalt as a local player. Rather than prey on her directly, she may be identified as a drug buyer or seller, or a person looking to make a bet, hire a prostitute, or take part in other illicit or seedy activities. Such parties will be interested in providing her with information about where to go and who to talk to.

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

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

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

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

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

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Larceny 5, Essence 3
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise
With a rending of air, the Solar sweeps away the mask she once wore. This Charm supplements a disguise attempt by reducing the time it takes from five minutes to instant. When used in combination with another Larceny-based disguise Charm, ignore the Willpower cost.

Socilaize

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.

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 Defining Intimacy to a cause the Exalt’s presence directly threatens.
Certain Charms may aid in detecting the Exalt. Roll the Lawgiver’s ([Wits or Dexterity] + Stealth) against her opponent’s relevant (Attribute + Ability) or Resolve, if the attacking Charm is based on the opponent’s Integrity.
Tiger Style
Tiger style emulates the ferocious strength and swift, pouncing strikes of the predatory cats. A Tiger stylist treat combat as a dance between predator and prey, pursuing her foe with unmatched speed and unrelenting patience. Once she closes in on her victim, she brings him down like a tiger fells its prey—knocking him to the ground, crippling his limbs, and moving in for the killing strike. Many who follow the path of Tiger style become arrogant, impatient, or cruel, as their trust in their killing power becomes absolute. Others learn different lessons, adapting the patient bearing of a cat stalking its prey through the jungle.
Tiger Weapons: Tiger style uses unarmed attacks—generally raking claws strikes—or tiger claws to slash the flesh of enemies. Any unarmed attack that is enhanced by a Tiger Charm can always be stunted to deal lethal damage.
Armor: Tiger style is compatible with light armor.
Complementary Abilities: Tiger stylists make great use of the Athletics Ability to move across the battlefield and chase down their foes. Some also use Stealth, ambushing enemies to end fights before they have even begun.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform, Mastery
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.

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 post-soak 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).

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.
(Moonsilver Razor Claws, Artifact 3)
The Frost-Thorn Knuckles are gauntlets of rune-etched moonsilver. They have no blades, instead forming talons of diamond-hard ice when attuned.
Amid the uttermost North’s glacial cold, the huntress Orphan-Maker wrought the Frost-Thorn Knuckles from the Essence of great beasts. The moonsilver of their forging was tempered with a hawk’s swiftness, had a mammoth’s endurance folded into its metal, and was strengthened with a tyrant lizard’s sinews. With the Frost-Thorn Knuckles, Orphan-Maker cut out the Many-Limbed Queen’s heart, stalked the sorcerer Yevash Jul in his own eldritch lair to drink his heart’s blood, and drove an invading host of Winter Folk back into the Wyld.
Orphan-Maker was buried with her weapons, put to rest in a tomb carved into a savage mountainside by her fellow Silver Pact elders. It went undisturbed until just recently, when the Lunar’s new incarnation — Cat-Footed Jal — followed her past life’s memories back to the sepulcher. As she confronted her predecessor’s hungry ghost, Jal spoke of her own hunt, a vendetta against the Guild merchants whose heroin had left her lover dead. She took the weapons from the tomb with her predecessor’s blessing, and left a trail of ice-cold corpses behind her.
The last on Jal’s list, the merchant prince and scavenger lord Lace of Thorn, has sequestered herself in the fortified merchant city of Koja. She has spent an empress’s ransom retaining Exigents, outcastes, and mercenary spirits as bodyguards, and would handsomely reward anyone who proves their strength to her.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 3)
Tags: Lethal, Brawl, Thrown (Medium), Concealable, Piercing, Worn
Hearthstone slot(s): 2
Era: Reign of the Facet Princes

Evocations of the Frost-Thorn Knuckles
When attuned, the Frost-Thorn Gauntlets grow claws of ice that grant the piercing tag. The wielder can attack out to medium range with the claws using Thrown, sending the talons flying forward like darts before reflexively creating new ones. In addition, she awakens Rimebound Predator Endurance at no cost.

Rimebound Predator Endurance
Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: None
Drawing on a hunting beast’s tenacity, the wielder numbs herself to cold and pain. She ignores penalties or environmental hazards resulting from severe cold, and adds +(Survival) to her base soak if unarmored. If she has Survival 4+ or a Survival specialty that relates to frigid environs, she also ignores one point of wound penalty.
Resonant: At Essence 2, this Evocation’s duration is extended to one hour. If the wielder renews it at the end of the hour, she waives its Willpower cost.

The amulet can generate any form of outfit the wearer can imagine, however grand or humble. Changing the setting requires contact and a diceless miscellaneous action. Repairing or cleaning a worn outfit takes the same action as creating a new one.
The Amulet provides an extra success to all Resistance or Survival rolls to reduce or avoid the effects of deleterious environmental conditions, toxins or disease.
In addition, each Amulet has one material-specific feature by default, and composite designs include multiple features.

Moonsilver: The wearer gets two bonus dice to Stealth rolls and two bonus dice to assume a disguise with Larceny, as well as adding +5L/+5B protection that does not count as armor for Charms.
Starmetal: Such garments conceal numerous pockets folded into Elsewhere, providing sufficient storage space to carry up to a ton of assorted items safely out of reach of the world, provided the objects could actually fit through a pocket opening no larger than a foot across. Only the attuned wearer can reach into Elsewhere via these pockets; to others, they are merely stitched folds.

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.
Intimacies
Defining Principle: To Become the Greatest Thief in Creation
Major Principle: My Comrades in Arms (Loyalty)
Major Principle: Law and Order (distaste)
Major Principle: Sidereals (hatred)
Minor Principle: Dragon-Blooded (Amused Contempt)
Minor Principle: Greedy
Minor Tie: Loyalty to Ysandre
Minor Principle: Mortals can live only so long....

Ailera grew up on the streets in the city of Lookshy, running with a local gang of ruffians. It was this band of criminals that she called her family, and despite the hardships, Ailera was happy. Under the care of the various thieves and beggars, the youngster learned the trade of being a skilled criminal, using her small size to slip into and out of tight situations. Over the years, Ailera gathered under her wing a handful of other urchins that she was teaching the arts of breaking and entering, and soon enough, she garnered a reputation in the streets of being able to steal just about anything.

One fateful day, Ailera was approached by a old man to do a job of stealing a jade artifact from the home of one of the lesser nobles of the city. He offered a huge amount of money as payment, and with the added bonus of being able to steal whatever else that she could carry. The offer was just too good to pass up, a warning sign that she should have been mindful of.

With her band of fellow thieves in tow, they staked out the residence for a week to get a feel of the place, then they set about the task at hand of making their move. Things were going well. Perhaps too well, because as they were ransacking the residence, they discovered that the jade statue was guarded by some kind of magic automation. Methodically, it moved through the house in pursuit of the criminals, killing them with brutal efficiency. Ailera finally had enough, and with the jade artifact in hand, she led the automation on a grand chase through the house, trying to give her fellow thieves a chance to escape, until it had her cornered.

It was at this point as she turned to face her pursuer that she took her Second Breath as a Solar Exalt. With the rush of the power of the Unconquered Sun flowing through her, Ailera was able to smash the automation, and with a handful of items that she was able to secure, she left the mansion to deliver her prize to the old man and collect her payment.

When she arrived at the meeting place, the old man was there, and he revealed himself to actually be one of the Chosen of Secrets, and he had foreseen her Exaltation in the Loom of Fate, and had placed her onto the path that would bring this about. The job was never about the jade artifact, it was all about getting Ailera to face her destiny and become one of the Night Caste of the Unconquered Sun.

Instead of taking the money that was offered to her for a job well done, Ailera instead threw the jade statue down and shattered it in rage. How dare he set her up like that? This 'job' nearly ended her life as it did for many of the others that went inside with her. Refusing his money and his offer of help to learn the true scope of her newly found powers, Ailera stormed out of the meeting with the rest of the items that she had managed to take away from the manor home with her. She would learn to master her own abilities, setting forth on her own path, and to hell with the Sidereal.

Now on the move and on the run from both the Wyld Hunt and the Dragon-Blooded noble that she robbed, Ailera seeks to make her name and find her true place in Creation.
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: 35
Xp Banked: 2
Essence 2 at 50 xp

Solar Xp Earned: 4
Solar Xp Banked: 2

Wish List
Unshakable Rogue’s Spirit (larceny)
Master Plan Meditation (larceny)
Perfect Mirror (larceny)
Reversal of Fortune (larceny)
Whirling Brush Method (linguistics)
Motive-Discerning Technique (socialize 3)
Quicksilver Falcon’s Eye (socialize 3)
Shadow Over Day (socialize 3)
Celestial Tiger Hide (tiger style, e2)
Iron Claw Grip (tiger style, e2)
Raging Tiger Pounce (tiger style, e2)
Mental Invisibility Technique (stealth, e2)

Epiphany · Jun 13, 2019

Still a work in progress...

Name: Catseye Kishan
Caste: Eclipse
Anima: A roaring lion wrought of living flame, standing atop a mountain peak. Its mane bears streaks of stylized sigils; when peripheral essence is spent while iconic, the mane fans out and spells out 'As the treaty is written, so agreement is made'.
Concept: Thorns Patriot determined to free her homeland.
Supernal Ability: Occult

Background
Once, Thorns was the greatest city in the Scavenger Lands.

At least, that's how Catseye felt about it. She was raised in the city's courts, the firstborn daughter of the youngest son of a minor noble family, effectively ensuring she'd forever be close to power but never partake of it herself. Availing herself of the sages of the courts, she received a fine education in commerce and trade, in languages and the art of reading the significance in a single lifted eyebrow. By the time she reached the Age of Maturity, Catseye was already a cunning operator, trafficking in secrets and courtly intrigue. While lacking the enlightenment to wield true Sorcery, she studied the arts of thaumuturgy at the feet of a goddess her family was allied with. And by the time she was twenty, Catseye was ready to hit the road to seek her fortune.

That was her cover story, of course. A minor noble with mercantile interests across Thorns, she was in an excellent position to visit other countries to set up trade agreements, discuss Thorns' innovations while seeing what business practices were in play in each host country. Secretly, she took detailed notes, investigated offices and books as the occasion allowed, and reported all to a conjured spirit who ferried messages back and forth to Thorns. It was an added thrill to a line of work she already enjoyed and Catseye had every intention of continuing it for the forseeable future.

On her way back from Lookshy one day, she crossed the border into Thorns and stepped into the newly formed Shadowland. To her horror, she discovered her city had fallen, its people slaughtered and the survivors held in captivity to a Deathlord monster. Juggernaut was a thing of legends, and this legend had swallowed up her homeland. The Deathlord's soldiers came for her then and she almost surrendered to share in her people's fate. Except part of her resisted, refused the easy way out. Catseye fled on foot, into the surrounding forests only to come across the ghosts of Thorns' ancestors, most of whom were enslaved by the Mask as well. They wanted to turn her over to the Mask in hopes of eased restrictions. With confidence and conviction, the young woman spoke passionately about the need for the living to carry on to ensure a future for the dead. In the end, she struck a deal that they would smuggle her out of the border so long as she made regular offerings and eventually returned to free them.

When she and they agreed, the Lion of Meru Resplendent rose in iconic form and sealed their bargain.

In the years since, Catseye has been on the run, evading the Wyld Hunt while trying to build a base of power to free her people. Sorcery at last made sense to her and she's become an expert Sorcerer, wise in the lore of spirits and demons, able to bind those she can and negotiate with those she can't. Needing to stay mobile, she settled into an arrangement of mutual convenience with an Outcaste Water Aspect ship captain who traded passage and a cut of the ship's profits in exchange for all the demonic and elemental aid a Dragon-Blooded might need. Catseye has already met with and begun negotiations with a variety of City Fathers and local powers but an Exalt as young as her doesn't wield the power yet to convince or compel their aid.

So she studies, trains and cultivates her power...while keeping a lookout for others like her.
Attributes
Strength 2
Dexterity 3
Stamina 2

Charisma 2
Manipulation 5
Appearance 2

Perception 5
Intelligence 4
Wits 2

Abilities
Archery 3
Athletics 1
Awareness 4
Brawl
Bureaucracy 4 - Making a deal
Craft
Dodge 1
Integrity 3
Investigation 5 - Hidden clues
Larceny 1
Linguistics 3
Lore 1
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee
Occult 5 - Summoning
Performance
Presence 4
Resistance 1
Ride
Sail 1
Socialize 4 - Understanding Others
Stealth 2
Survival
Thrown
War
Merits
Artifact 3
Language 1 (Riverspeak, Old Realm)
Hearthstone 4
Resources 2 (Salary from Mara in exchange for Sorcerous services)

Flaws
Obsession (Major: Anything that she can use to free her homeland)

Artifacts

Short Powerbow, Artifact 3
Although it is as large as any other weapon made for Exalts, this powerbow is just small enough for use while mounted.
Damage: +10
Overwhelming: 3
Attunement: 5
Tags: Lethal, Archery (Long), Mounted
Hearthstone Slot: 1
+4 to hit at short range

Hearthstones

Keywords: Dependent, Linked.
This black octagonal stone blazes with orange-gold light along each of its perfect edges. The Hierophant’s Eye grants one automatic non-Charm success to every shape sorcery action while socketed into an attuned artifact.
Essence:
Permanent: ●
Personal: 13/13
Peripheral: 33/33

Charms

Bureaucracy:

Cost: 1m; Mins: Bureaucracy 1, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
With a cursory examination, the Lawgiver can determine the exact quality of any good offered for sale. She can tell if it is in poor, average, or excellent condition. However, this grants her no knowledge of the market value of any particular good, nor does it tell her the purpose of an object. By inspecting a scavenged mechanism of the First Age, she could tell if it was functional, but not how it functions.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Bureaucracy 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Frugal Merchant Method
Through use of this Charm, the Solar gains an intuitive feel for a marketplace at a given instant, allowing her to intuit roughly how much a given object will fetch in any one market. Though the Exalt need not be physically present in the market, this Charm must be used with a particular sales venue in mind. The Solar cannot discover previously unknown markets through use of this Charm. She can, however, review distant markets to determine which would be the best to sell a good. The more specific the venue contemplated, the more accurate the forecast. A Solar using this technique can make a perfectly accurate assessment at the moment of sale, but the longer she waits between using this Charm and the actual sale of the goods, the larger her margin for error, as economies shift with time.

Dodge:

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.

Occult:

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

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

Spells:

Cost: Ritual, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: (1 + threshold successes) hours
As the sorcerer recites ancient prayers to deities long forgotten beneath the open sky, huge chitinous limbs emerge from above, weaving the wind and clouds to her will. Shaping the weather is an (Intelligence + Occult) roll that takes a few minutes to complete, with a difficulty based both on how drastic the change the sorcerer wishes to make is and how typical the desired weather is for her current climate and season. Creating a light rain in a temperate climate might only be difficulty 1, while strengthening a heavy rain to a thunderstorm or halting it completely might be difficulty 2-3. Summoning a tempest from blue skies, or utterly stifling a hurricane, would be difficulty 7+. Likewise, any attempt to create rain might incur increased difficulty if attempted in a desert, as would calling a blizzard outside of the winter season.
If the sorcerer succeeds, That Which Stirs the Sky weaves the desired weather in an area out to (Essence + threshold successes) miles from the point cast the spell. It lasts for (1 + threshold successes) hours before reverting to normal. Subsequent castings by any sorcerer cannot alter the weather within the spell’s range until its duration elapses. Characters within the weather can identify its unnatural origin with a (Perception + [Occult or Survival]) roll of difficulty 1-5, with subtler alterations being more difficult to detect.
A sorcerer with this as her control spell may create sorcerous weather that follows her as she moves; this costs half her threshold successes, rounded up.

Cost: 15sm, 1wp
Keywords: Decisive-only, Perilous
Duration: Instant
Sculpting Essence into volant black glass, the sorcerer unleashes a cascade of obsidian butterflies. She rolls (Perception + Occult) as an undodgeable decisive attack applied in a line against enemies out to medium range. This line is wide enough to strike all opponents within the width of a single range band and reaches high enough to strike aerial enemies who are at short range to the ground (medium range enemies in the air can still be targeted by directing the butterflies to fly along an upward path, rather than a horizontal one). Battle groups are especially vulnerable to being cut down by this spell, taking a -2 penalty to Defense against it.
The attack deals raw damage equal to the sorcerer’s (Essence + extra successes), or (Essence + Occult + extra successes) against a battle group. It does not reset the sorcerer to base Initiative. Scenery made of wood, glass, or other fragile materials is generally destroyed. After this spell has been cast, the obsidian butterflies fall to the ground and shatter, creating terrain that may be hazardous for barefooted characters to traverse—treat as an environmental hazard inflicting two dice of lethal damage, difficulty 2 to resist with a (Dexterity + Athletics) roll, and if the character is barefoot, difficult terrain as well. Any character wearing armored boots can generally ignore the debris. A sorcerer who knows Death of Obsidian Butterflies as her control spell gains (Essence) bonus dice to the spell’s attack roll. When her emotions run hot, butterfly silhouettes rise from her shadow. When she is angry, her fingernails turn to sharp volcanic glass, making it possible to cut cloth or paper, rend wood or flesh and other similar stunts.

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

The sorcerer shapes a small, six-winged messenger spirit to convey her words to another character. The spirit flies with immense speed, capable of crossing hundreds of miles in an hour or all Creation in less than a day—only the boundaries between realms of existence will stop it from delivering its missive. Upon arrival, the cherub is visible only to its intended target, to whom it can deliver a message of up to five minutes in length before dissipating. Sorcerers can convey social influence through the Infallible Messenger, but cannot normally use their Charms to enhance the roll.
A sorcerer who knows Infallible Messenger as her control spell may pay an additional point of Willpower to project her senses through the cherub’s own, allowing her to use Awareness and Investigation Charms while delivering the missive. Having this spell as her control will also cause a number of tells to begin manifesting in the sorcerer’s vicinity, even when the spell has not been cast. It may appear in murals or paintings that she owns, carved amongst the gargoyles of her residence, or briefly fluttering in the periphery of a mirror’s reflection.

Cost: 7sm, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: Three rounds
The sorcerer lulls the Essence of air into sleep, transforming it into an opalescent fog of slumber. Mists of Eventide creates a cloud centered on a point out to medium range from the sorcerer, spreading to engulf all characters within short range of the center. Each round that a character breathes or has skin exposed to the mist, he must roll against its poison (Damage 3i/round, Duration 6 rounds, -3 penalty). Characters who are crashed while suffering from the Mists of Eventide’s effects do not take damage from it—instead, they fall into magical slumber, rendered comatose for a single day. Special activation rules: Mists of Eventide can only be cast once per scene, unless reset when a Mists-poisoned opponent falls into Initiative Crash.
A sorcerer who knows Mists of Eventide as his control spell can control the dreams of anyone who sleeps within his mists, causing them not only to dream what he commands, but to physically act out those dreams while sleepwalking. They can even be forced to battle their allies. The sorcerer may also reflexively release a spume of the mists from his breath once per scene; a target who breathes in these mists suffers the effects of the spell as though it had been cast. Sorcerers with Mists of Eventide as their control spell sleep fitfully with their eyes wide open unless surrounded by the mists.
Distortion (Goal Number: 5): Distorting the mists weakens their efficacy, halving the duration of each dose. Additionally, an opposing sorcerer may wake a character forced into magical slumber with distortion actions targeting him, made at the same goal number.

Cost: Ritual, 2wp
Duration: Instant
Drawing and shaping Essence through one of the five elements, the sorcerer calls an elemental into being and binds it to her will. Casting this spell requires a ritual of four hours as the sorcerer channels Essence through icons of the element, draws up sigils of creation and binding, or communes with the appropriate Elemental Dragon. At the end of her ritual, she summons an elemental of up to Essence 3 into existence, creating it out of pure Essence rather than calling it from somewhere else.
Once summoned, the elemental must be bound to the sorcerer’s will, as per Demon of the First Circle (p. 473), except that an elemental cannot break free—if the binding fails, the elemental simply disperses back into raw Essence, and the sorcerer doesn’t regain the Willpower spent on the spell. At the end of a bound elemental’s term of service or assigned task, it usually undergoes the same fate of dissipation, although elementals who have developed a fully-formed personality and identity may persist past the end of their binding at the Storyteller’s discretion. Summon Elemental can only be cast once per day.

Cost: 15sm, 2wp
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
The sorcerer draws a flaming sword from her own heart, shaping a fiery sentinel to keep vigil over her. As she completes the spell, the burning blade collapses into a will-o’-the-wisp no larger than a torchlight —the sorcerer may conceal the Virtuous Guardian of Flame by commanding it to rest within an existing lit lantern or torch she carries. Should she be attacked, the wisp flares back into sword shape to fend off her enemy, protecting her as per the defend other action (Exalted, p. XX) with a Parry of ([higher of Essence or Intelligence] + 1). The virtuous guardian can even notice threats of which the sorcerer is unaware, rolling (Essence + Perception + Occult) to detect hidden enemies. Wooden projectiles or weapons successfully blocked by the guardian are burnt to ashes. If it parries an unarmed attack or other natural attack, the attacker suffers one die of lethal damage, ignoring Hardness. Even when its parries fail, its flames blunt the force of attacks against her, adding (Essence) natural soak against all but unblockable attacks.
The guardian has soak (Essence + 5), Hardness (Essence), and (Essence + Intelligence) −0 health levels. When the sorcerer Joins Battle, it gains Initiative equal to hers. It cannot take any actions of its own; instead, this Initiative is used solely as a buffer against withering attacks. If the guardian is crashed, it dissipates for a scene, unable to protect the sorcerer, but reforms after that. If its health track is filled with damage, it’s utterly destroyed, and the sorcerer cannot resummon it until its full duration has elapsed.
A sorcerer with this as her control spell may awaken Evocations from it, enhancing the guardian’s defensive power or wielding it offensively.
Distortion (Goal Number: 15): Distorting the virtuous guardian lets the distorting sorcerer temporarily usurp it from its caster, stealing its protection away from her for one scene.

TBD

In-game Spending: 0/5

Bonus Points: 15/15
15 spent on 15 dots of Caste/Favored Abilities

D. Rex · Oct 3, 2019

Name: Doctor Zedradon 'Plaguebane'
Caste: Twilight
Supernal Ability: Medicine

Anima Banner: A mighty autumnal oak tree in front of a setting sun, with leaves of gold and royal purple, a trunk of bronze, and falling leaves swirling about in the breeze.

Attributes
Str: ●●●
Dex: ●●●●●
Sta: ●●●

Cha: ●●●
Man: ●●
App: ●●

Per: ●●●
Int: ●●●●●
Wits: ●●●

Abilities
Archery
Athletics: ●●●
**Awareness: ●●●
Brawl:
*Bureaucracy: ●
*Craft: ●● +medicine
Dodge: ●
Integrity: ●●●
*Investigation:
Larceny:
*Linguistics: ●
*Lore: ●●●● +negative afflictions
Martial Arts:
*Medicine: ●●●●● +Surgery +Disease
**Melee: ●●●●● +Grimscythe
*Occult: ●●●
Performance:
Presence:
**Resistance: ●●●●
Ride
Sail
**Socialize: ●●
Stealth:
**Survival: ●●●
Thrown:
War

*Caste Abilities
**Favored Abilities
Merits
Artifact ●●●
Artifact ●●●
Hearthstone ●●
Natural Immunity ●●
Sorbiquet ●● (Plaguebane)
Influence ● (Respected Physician)
Language ● Low Realm, Riverspeak
Familiar ●

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 (22)
Committed: 11
Willpower: 5

Join Battle: 6, +3 Successes

Natural Soak: 3
Armored Soak: 8
Total Soak: 11

Hardness: 7, (+4 At Bonfire Anima)
Mobility Penalty: -1

Parry: 6
Evasion: 3

Resolve: 3
Guile: 2

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

Twilight Anima Effects
• For five motes, the Twilight projects an aura of pure force, reflexively gaining five Hardness for one turn. At the bonfire/iconic level, this power activates itself automatically at no cost. This effect doesn’t stack with other magic that raises Hardness, but it can be used during Initiative Crash.
• For 10 motes, one Willpower, the Twilight’s anima flares blue and white and consumes her body over the course of the round. On her next turn, she vanishes into her anima and ceases to exist. If the Exalt moves or suffers knockdown before the action is completed, it fails and the effect is wasted. After using this power, the Twilight will not reappear until the following sunset. When she does, it will be at a place of power within 10 miles of her vanishing point, chosen by the Storyteller. She might appear at a temple, a demesne, a major crossroads, the door of a god’s sanctum, the precise center of a city, etc.
• For 10 motes, the Twilight may touch an Essence 1-3 elemental or a demon of the first circle, conjoining its Essence to her anima. Roll [Intelligence + Occult] against the creature’s Resolve. If successful, this creates a pact that changes the spirit into her familiar, allowing her to target it with applicable Survival Charms. In addition, the Twilight can reflexively summon the spirit instantly for three motes, drawing it through the Essence of the world to appear beside her. She may banish the creature again, reflexively, for free, returning it to the tides of Essence that suffuse Creation until needed. The Twilight may have up to (Essence) spirit familiars bound in this fashion at once.

Limit Break:
The Solar is faced with the opportunity to advance his own cause by harming an innocent or ignoring one’s suffering
Excellencies: Awareness, integrity, lore, medicine, melee, occult, resistance

Integrity

Stubborn Boar Defense
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.

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.

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.

Medicine

Ailment-Rectifying Method
Cost: 3m; Mins: Medicine 1, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Disease and pestilence cannot stand against the Solar Exalted. This Charm represents an hour spent treating a patient for an illness the Exalt has properly diagnosed. Roll the Exalt’s (Intelligence + Medicine) against the disease’s morbidity (p. 233) and add half the extra successes to the patient’s Resistance roll at the next interval. Through this Charm, the Solar can weaken or even cure supernatural maladies such as the Great Contagion. However, the target must remain in bed, and must be bathed, fed, and otherwise given care for the duration of the next interval. These ministrations can be performed by the Solar’s assistants. The Exalt may use this Charm to treat her own diseases, though some may require a stunt or special instruments to treat.

Plague-Banishing Incitation
Cost: 2m, 1wp; Mins: Medicine 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ailment-Rectifying Method

If the Lawgiver generates at least double her patient’s Stamina or Resistance (whichever is greater) in successes through the use of the prerequisite, she may use this Charm to demand that a malaise leave her patient’s body. This causes the disease’s interval to conclude immediately allows the patient the benefit of all, rather than half, of the Solar's extra successes from the prerequisite. If successful the pestilence immediately vacates the host, amd the patient begins to recover over the course of a day. If the Solar saves a character from deaths door through the use of this charm, she gains some point of temporary willpower.

Wound-Mending Care Technique
Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Medicine 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Through mastery of Essence flows and a keen understanding of the body, the Solar can repair even the most ruinous damage at an incredible pace. The Solar spends fifteen minutes to an hour doctoring the patient, depending on the severity of the wounds. She still requires the normal medicines, bandages, and any tools that might be needed for more complex operations, but her results are nonetheless miraculous. Roll (Intelligence + Medicine) with double 9s at the end of the treatment. This is the number of bashing or lethal health levels that will be restored if the patient remains in bed for the rest of the day. In addition, if the Solar’s treatment would raise her patient two or more wound levels, she gains a point of Willpower.

Wound-Cleansing Meditation
Cost: 10m; Mins: Medicine 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Wound-Mending Care Technique

The Solar’s advanced medical techniques allow her to draw the poison from unnatural wounds. With this Charm, the Solar spends an hour cleaning and wrapping wounds, disinfecting and draining injuries and preparing the patient for more complex internal treatment. At the end of the treatment, convert the patient’s aggravated damage to lethal damage. This allows the Solar to treat damaged tissue and to attempt to reattach severed limbs with Wound-Mending Care Technique. This Charm does not allow the regrowth of lost tissue.

Flawless Diagnosis Technique
Cost: 1m; Mins: Medicine 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar hones her medical abilities to an unearthly degree. By examining a patient closely and hearing about his symptoms, the Exalt can flawlessly diagnose his illness. This Charm supplements a (Perception + Medicine) attempt to generate a formal diagnosis, preventing the Solar from making any error in her analysis. Note that this Charm does not provide the Exalt with a vast storehouse of medical knowledge, but is based on her Lore and Medicine ratings. If the character encounters an unfamiliar disease, she is able to determine its general type and whether it is magical in nature. Though she may not always know exactly what she is looking at, this Charm guarantees she will never misdiagnose a patient. Lastly, if she encounters a disease which she specializes in treating, or which she has flawlessly diagnosed more than five times in a season, then she gains one mote each time she diagnoses it through the use of this Charm.

Contagion-Curing Touch
Cost: —; Mins: Medicine 4, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Plague-Banishing Incitation

The Solar permanently gains (Essence) successes to treat forms of disease, even if she does not have the proper tools or medicine to do so. Her efforts still must be efficacious and logical, but even if she lacks the most ideal instruments, she can still attempt to cure a plague or other sickness. Once a patient has been treated by the Solar, if he recovers, he gain four automatic non-Charm successes to resist disease virulence for the rest of the season.

Instant Treatment Methodology
Cost: 5m, 1wp or 5i, 1wp; Mins: Medicine 4, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Wound-Cleansing Meditation

This Charm allows the Solar to complete up to an hour of medical treatment in a handful of seconds. Using this Charm lowers the treatment time required for one Simple-type Medicine Charm. The Solar still requires the proper medicines and surgical tools, but may eliminate the need for such with a properly medical stunt, such as tapping her patient’s pressure points to increase the flow of Essence or massaging a person’s heart until it starts beating.

Wound-Banishing Strike
Cost: 5m; Mins: Medicine 5, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Instant Treatment Methodology

The Solar medician may strike at a temporary wound, such as a damaged nerve, a clouded eye, or a blocked meridian in order to instantly heal it. In combat, the Solar may counter the temporary crippling effects of certain Charms and magic such as Crippling Pressure Point Strike (p. 248) through the use of a difficulty 3 Medicine-based gambit directed at her patient. The difficulty of the Medicine “attack” roll is equal to the temporary penalty she wishes to remove; extra successes on this roll add bonus dice to the Initiative roll of the gambit. In addition, any 10s on the Initiative roll grant the Solar an equal number of Initiative if the gambit succeeds. The Exalt performs this treatment instantly and may stunt to forego the use of conventional medical instruments, striking pressure points, dashing out a burn with fresh snow, throwing acupuncture needles and so on. The Lawgiver’s expert touch can smooth the flow of Essence to realign chakras, push bones back into place, remove minor tears in muscle fibers and so on—so long as the crippling is temporary, the Solar can instantly heal it.

Master Chirurgeon Meditation
Cost: —; Mins: Medicine 5, Essence 4
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any Medicine Charm

The Exalt hones her Essence through her medical knowledge to save lives. Through practice and meditation, internal vows and moments of celestial focus, she calibrates her spirit. This Charm permanently lowers the cost of the Medicine Excellency to one mote per two dice.

Melee

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

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

One Weapon, Two Blows
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.

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.
Rolls

Bonuses
Soulsteel Grimscythe

Attunement: 5m
Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 5)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Piercing, Reaching, Two-Handed

Ability
If the wielder looks through the glass they can see and speak to any dematerialized Ghosts. As long as the wielder doesn't lose sight of the Ghost(s) he can interact with them as if it they materialized, this extends to striking the spirit with the soulsteel Scythe. Ghosts seeking to hide from the Wielder in combat must re-establish stealth or achieve 100% cover.

End of Servitude
Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisites: None

The Blade expands the wearer's senses so that he can see sorcerous binding of necromancy. The binding appear to the wielder as green chains of pyre flame that connect a necromancer to the Ghosts he has bound. If the Ghost is bound to a task or place, the Pyre Chain instead is bound to something more relevant.

Emancipation can cut through these bindings as easily as it can cut through the ghosts. Breaking the binding is functionally similar to distortion in sorcery (Core 466), but has no terminus and the wielder doesn’t need to be initiated into the necromantic circle. The wielder makes attacks with the axe against the sorcerous binding using Intelligence + Occult, which can be enhanced by Charms, at a difficulty of the the spell used to bind the ghost: 1 for shadowlands circle, 3 for Labyrinth Circle, 5 for Void Circle. The Wielder must acquire a number of successes equal to the essence of the Ghost and the Necromancer.
Cutting the Sorcerous Binding free’s the ghost from the necromancers control.

A Debt to Be Repaid
Cost: 10m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: 1 year, 1 day
Prerequisites: End of Servitude

When a sorcerous binding of a Ghost is cut, Emancipation can conscript the ghost to indentured servitude. Essence illuminates the sorcerous binding that held the ghost to the necromancers will. The loose binding moves toward Emancipation and entangles itself around the blade by the end of the current turn. The Ghost becomes immediately bound to serve the wielder of Emancipation and will fight alongside the wielder if they are in combat. The Ghost is bound to the Scythe for a year and a day, After which the Ghost is set free with his debt of service repaid. For all intents and purposes, the ghost acts as if he was summoned by the wielder with necromancy.

Ghosts who serve a Solar find themselves redeemed and cleansed of any taint related to oblivion at the end of their service. Ghosts that serve an Abyssal find themselves thoroughly corrupted by the void and emerge as servants of oblivion.

Most Ghosts become part of a Battle-Group of Warghosts with elite Drill that can be summoned by the wielder of the scythe, the magnitude of this unit can fluctuate over time, but is generally around Size 2-3, unless the wielder does “aggressive recruiting” and should be expected to pay experience to increase the size of the unit.
Significantly powerful ghosts might act as singular characters outside the battle group, but such ghosts should be purchased by the player as retainers or allies, with experience. Particularly skilled groups of ghosts might be “recruited” by purchased them as followers or a mentor. Not all ghosts bound to emancipation are recognized for their talents, so it is reasonable for the wielder to “discover” ghosts with useful skills by spending experience to buy them as a merit.

Ride the Spirit Walker
Cost: 2m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: While Committed
Prerequisites: None

The wielder can commit 2 motes to reinforce the sorcerous link of any ghost bound to Emancipation. When the wielder look through the obsidian glass of the scythe blade, they can focus their senses and share the senses of any ghost bound to it. The wielder can use any of the ghosts senses, which while muted, allow the wielder to perceive everything as if he were with the ghost. The wielder does not actually use the ghosts senses, but instead uses his own through the ghost as a conduit and may enhance them with appropriate charms. The Wielder may also speak to the ghost or speak through the ghost, but social attacks cannot be enhanced with the wielders charms.

Attunement: 1

While these medical artifacts were first manufactured for the Anathema, most in use today trace back to the Shogunate. Each is an orichalcum-inlaid green jade case one foot long, one foot wide, and three inches deep, engraved either with the mark of the Twilight Caste or Sextes Jylis’ sigil. All share the same contents — moonsilver and orichalcum acupuncture needles, starmetal diagnostic tools, jade surgical instruments, bandages of wood spider silk, vials of First Age panaceas, and other wondrous paraphernalia. While using the satchel’s contents, the Exalt adds a non-Charm bonus success on Medicine rolls that use these tools, reduces the mote cost of all non-Excellency Medicine Charms by one (to a minimum of one), never suffers penalties from inadequate equipment, and can staunch and sterilize wounds without a roll. Attuning the satchel costs one mote.

At the end of each story, the Exalt must roll (Wits + Medicine) at difficulty 3 to renew any supplies the satchel is running short of and to purge it of insalubrious Essence. On a failed roll, she must restock the satchel with a successful roll using any appropriate Ability (Survival to gather rare herbs, Bureaucracy to trade for necessary supplies, Larceny to steal them from a rival physician, etc.) before she can use the satchel again.

Green Jade Reinforced Buff Jacket

Type: Medium (+8 Soak, Hardness 7, Mobility Penalty −1)
Tags: Silent

Once, during a particularly violent time in the Shogunate's history, a Dragon-blooded doctor saved the life of a Dragon-blooded smith who had been wounded trying to defend his village from attack, and let his wounds become infected. In gratitude, the smith crafted this armor for the doctor as he operated in the area, imbuing it with the power to draw life energy from the world and transfer it into either the doctor's patients or his own body, healing whatever wounds they might have acquired in the process.

Hearthstone

The Health Stone (Standard)
Keywords: Manse-born

This stone is mahogany red and marked with a black spiral. It repels spirits of rot and disease within two miles of the stone. Food keeps at least twice as long and is always obviously foul before it can make anyone sick. Also, every within this area who wears an amulet marked with a spiral like the one on the stone gains two additional dice to resist and recover from all diseases and infections. This stone does not prevent desired fermentation or aging, but aged meat is less likely to rot and wine and beer are less likely to go off.
Intimacies

Defining Principle: To heal all who ask for help.
Major Tie: The Sick and Wounded (Care)
Minor Tie: Abyssals (Pity)
Minor Tie: Sass (Will retaliate)
Minor Tie: High Rank/Status (Casual Dismissal)
Minor Tie: Medical Journal(Aspiration)
Minor Tie: To unbind those in chains of slavery

Background

A promising young doctor in Thorns he once was. While a man of talent, the deck was stacked against him already. Yet as a new and brutal disease sprung up, it was Zedradon that was the vanguard of trying to fight it back, to try and save the afflicted of the already tortured populace.

However it was not just any malady, but the newest toy of The Mask of Winters. And upon catching word that such a doctor was successfully undoing it, his interest piqued. But rather than make an example of the man, his DeathKnights plucked him from the streets and forced him into service. To tend to the DeathKnights and the prisoners of war, and to aid in new necrosurgery expirements.

A sick glee it must have been to turn a healer to the blackest ends of its spectrum. But the man did so, under the pain of death and the release of worse things if he didnt commit. And the only reward being the threat of Exaltation on the Deathlords whim.

Many horrid things did the doctor witness. Many tortures and atrocities to good and once good people. Many abominations that would never see the light of day. Many tortures sustained at the hands of cruel overseers.

And many days he spent at the bars of the cities dungeons, screaming out for help. Only for those to afraid to aid him pass him by, and not even look at him. Such was his punishment for thinking he could help them. And the feeling of asking for help, and it never coming burned into his soul.

Yet, his time there... it made him tough. It made him strong. And he learned of things he never could from a mortal doctor.

The turning point came with the prodigy of the Mask of Winters. A Deathknight named Hope's End in the Green Mist. Whom the Deathlord had high expectations.

Her training came at the Deathlord's own hand. And it often left her broken and severed. Left to Zedradon to be "repaired" or even "upgraded". At first, she spurned and mocked the doctor. Like every abyssal before. But as the time passed, every subsequent visit shown her broken further.

As time passed further, the tone of her voice became less mocking... and more pleading. Jokes to be saved sounded more sincere. Even to the admittance that the doctors stoic kindness was about all she had to look forward to.

However, word of this growing bond reached the ears of the Mask of Winters. And he knew how to end it in a lovely way. She was weak willed anyway.

Once more Hope's End in the Green Mist returned to the doctor. A Mangled corpse on the edge of "life". Behind her, the Mask of Winters himself.

With his prodigy laid on the table, he spoke. Giving to the doctor an offer of escape from his hell. "Kill her, and you will take her place. Or you may save her, and she will kill you."

But to the doctor, his eyes was on the abyssal. Not much was left of her once pretty face, but in her eye, she could see tears well up from eyes that should be cried out, and lips that trembled out a wordless plea for help.

Something did not snap. Instead something inside him was sewn back together. A spark of hope that told him what he had to do.

No sooner than the words left the Deathlords mouth that the doctor grabbed his bag and got to work.

The bemused Deathlord looked on.

Something guided the doctors hands. Easing pain and repairing irreparable damage. With movements swift, and hand steady, his work was perfect.

For two hours the doctor toiled, a gentle smile on his face that brought a peace over the trembling abyssal. And not even a fear for his own life would stop him.

The Deathlord watched. Watching something he did not expect would happen. Something that was confirmed to him as he watched the mark of Twilight emblazen itself on the doctors forehead. A prize he could only have dreamed of. Yet something he would soon regret that he allowed unfold.

When the doctor was done. He stepped slowly away from the abyssal. Backing against the wall, and he would wait and watch her rise. Now perfectly whole, she looked at her lord, and with pleasure in his voice it spoke, "Kill him."

She approached the doctor. Slowly, hesitantly. But he stood still. And accepted the unsteady dagger into his stomach. But as the blood began to pool... the abyssal did not twist the blade.

"Im sorry...You should have killed me... at least then... we both would have been saved..." she whispered.

The words burned at the doctors heart. A heat that coursed through his body and into a brilliant anima with such intensity it through the Deathlord back.

The doctor reached up with both hands, grasping the abyssals head and slamming her into the wall. "SALVATION! IF THAT IS WHAT YOU WISH THEN SPEAK THOSE WORDS!" The doctors voice boomed through the city itself.

The abyssal was like putty in the doctors hands. "I cant..." she cried. But... looking at him, memories began to come to the surface. Even has his touched burned her with such great pain. But watching him exalt to his fullest, she began to remember when that fire didnt bring pain...

"SAY IT!" The doctors hands caught fire like they were dipped into the sun, and the abyssal screamed in pain. The Deathlord futilely tried to break through the aura, but there was a bigger force at play keeping him from doing so.

The abyssal, no longer screamed in pain but now in regret. She released the dagger and gripped the doctors wrists, ignoring the divine fire, "SAVE ME!" She pleaded, and the sincerity in her prayer was heard by the higher being.

And with mercy as unending as his might, the power of the Unconquered Sun was channeled through the doctor. The sunfire blazed, and even the Deathlord had to shield himself from its light.

The abyssal caught fire, and surged with an essence so powerful it turned her body to ash, body and fleshed crumbled to a fine dust, and the doctor was left holding a weeping spirit. A spirit rich in the power of the sun, and her solar marking burning anew.

The Deathlord then cried out in pain as his control of her being was ripped away from his clutches. He would plague this exalt no more, as her spirit was now returned to where it rightly should have been.

With a fury the Deathlord turned his fury to the doctor, unleashing his power at the anima... pushing it back finally. But the banner wrapped around the doctor, and he and the spirit disappeared.

A deadly darkness now filled the room, as the Mask of Winters now realized his mistake. He was angry now. Very angry.

At a manse, miles away, the doctor stood over the body of a dead Abyssal who had been asleep at the guard. Its throat slit by the very dagger that stabbed the exalt.

The body of the abyssal was stripped of its clothes to replace the ones of the doctor that burnt to ash. So too did the exalt pick up a weapon the dead abyssal no longer needed. A soulsteel grimscythe that the exalt now willed to serve him. And a far greater purpose it would fullfill.

Resting it on the shoulder, the exalt walked from the manse, stopping only to look at the setting sun. How merciful the Unconquered Sun was. To take pity on even the fallen souls. The doctor knew he needed to live up to that standard.

He smiled, after all, he knew the pain of asking for help and being passed by. So long as he neared this mark, he swore to the setting sun, that he would be the one to always give help.

He continued, and in the distance, he could here a furious roar in the distance. An angry yell that was said to last three days before subsiding.

A great amount of suffering was set on creation. He had a lot of work to do.
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

Essence 2 at 50 xp
Xp Earned: 35/30
Xp spending
3 - Specialty (Disease)
8 - Ox-Body Technique
8 - str 3
4 - Ath 3
1 - Surv 2
3 - surv 3
3 - Merit, Familiar

Solar Xp Earned: 2/2
Solar Xp spending
2 - Ath 2

BP: 15/15
1x Stamina -4
2x Medicine -2
1x Resistance -1
2x Melee -2
1x Lore -1
1x Bureaucracy-1
1x Sorbiquet -2 (Plaguebane)
1x Language -1
1x Influence -1

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Name: Axtis Jen
Age: 21
Caste: Dawn
Supernal Ability: Archery

Attributes
Str: 3
Dex: 5
Sta: 3

Cha: 3
Man: 1
App: 3

Per: 3
Int: 2
Wits: 4

Abilities
**Archery: 5 - Bows
*Athletics: 2
**Awareness: 5 - Join Battle rolls
Brawl
Bureaucracy
Craft
**Dodge: 5 - Ranged Attacks
Integrity: 2
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics: 1
Lore
Martial Arts
Medicine
**Melee: 3
Occult
Performance
*Presence: 2
**Resistance: 2
*Ride: 5 - Mounted Combat
Sail
Socialize: 1
*Stealth: 3
*Survival: 2
Thrown
War: 2

**Caste Ability
*Favored Ability
Artifact Bow - Summer Thunder: 3
Artifact Armor - Kaijin: 3
Artifact Swords - Paired Short Daiklaves
Familiar - Unicorn (Majherri): 3
Hearthstone - 2: Mount-and-Rider Onyx (Lunar, Standard)
Languages: 3 - Flametongue, Riverspeak, Forest-tongue
Resources: 2

Willpower: 6

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 (18)
Committed: 15

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

Limit Trigger
The Solar tells a lie, deliberately deceives someone, or breaks a sworn oath.

Limit Break
Chains of Honor
The Solar is overwhelmed with regret for his past misdeeds, and cleaves to an unbreakable code of honor. He will not tell any lies, including lies of omission or half truths, nor will he break a promise or sworn oath he has made. If he has deceived anyone in the past, he will strive to find them, tell them the truth, and do whatever he can to atone. Likewise, he will seek out those whom he has broken oaths to, and take on whatever labors or tasks they assign to correct his failure.
Duration: Session. Chains of Honor can be ended prematurely if the Solar is forgiven by someone to whom he has broken an oath or harmed by means of deception.
Archery Charms

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.

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.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Archery 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One tick
Prerequisite Charms: Wise Arrow
The Exalt opens her eyes not to the visual world, but to the world of Essence, sensing her target in that fashion. She may make an Archery attack without penalties for visual conditions. Smoke, fog, and pitch darkness are no longer a problem for her, though other factors such as high winds and cover still apply against the attack.
At Archery 5+, Essence 3+, the Solar can momentarily see through cover, perceiving her targets as silhouettes the colors of bright anima.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Charms

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

Awareness Charms

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.

Dodge Charms

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.

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 Charms

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.

Resistance Charms

Cost: —; Mins: Resistance 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The bodies of the Exalted are much more durable than those of mere mortals. To help simulate this, an Exalt may buy extra health levels with this Charm. The purchasing choices are based on the character’s Stamina rating:
At Stamina 1 and 2: One -1 and one -2 health level.
3 and 4: One -1 and two -2 health levels.
5: One -0, one -1, and one -2 health level.
The Solar may purchase Ox-Body Technique (Resistance) times. If she increases her Stamina after purchasing Ox-Body Technique, her health levels automatically change to reflect the new rating.

Ride Charms

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

Cost: 4m; Mins: Ride 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One hour
Prerequisite Charms: Master Horseman’s Techniques
By tapping her own spirit, the Solar can imbue her mount with endless energy. The mount can run at full speed for an hour without becoming fatigued, and gains an automatic success toward all movement and balance-related actions. Furthermore, while this Charm is active the Exalt may use the Athletics Charms Graceful Crane Stance and Monkey Leap Technique (p. 261) while mounted, allowing her mount to keep its footing on the worst terrain and to leap across gaps or over obstacles.

Stealth Charms

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Stealth 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver’s stealth technique is honed until it’s flawless. Perfect Shadow Stillness allows a reroll of any Stealthbased action, preserving the 10s from those results and rerolling the remaining dice. At Stealth 5, succeeding at a stealth attempt with this Charm awards the Solar one point of temporary Willpower.
After the War of the Gods, the Solar outrider Kestra Lightning-Hoof returned home to lead her people. The children of the steppe, however, would not have her, for they were the tribe of swift-hooved Hiparkes, and was she not of the Sun’s tribe now? Undeterred, she and her Sun-blessed steed hunted great Hiparkes, forcing the horse-god to kneel and breaking him to her will. She sheared his mane and twisted it into a string for her orichalcum bow, and she rode him home in triumph to demand her people’s fealty.
The long powerbow Summer Thunder was borne by Kestra and her heirs all across the East, from northeastern tundra to savannahs betwixt Summer Mountains and Dreaming Sea. Its wielders fought the Shadow-Riders of Wan, hunted behemoths and numinous terrors at world’s edge, and forged armies to rule prairie and steppe. The bow was buried with its last Solar master in what became Medo, and one of that land’s cyclopean walls was built over the tomb.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+12 DMG, OVW 4)
Accuracy: Close −1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1
Tags: Lethal, Archery (Long), Mounted
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: War of the Gods

Evocations of Summer Thunder
If the Exalt twists a strand from a willing steed’s mane or tail into Summer Thunder’s bowstring and spends one Willpower, that steed becomes bonded and gains +1 Resolve for as long as the bow remains attuned. Mounts summoned with Phantom Steed are automatically bonded. Summer Thunder’s Evocations only function while riding a bonded mount.

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

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

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

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

Keywords: None
This stone’s surface is a tangled interweaving of black and white. Socketed in an attuned artifact, it allows bearer and steed to fight as one. Increase the bearer’s mounted combat withering bonus (Exalted, p. 203) by one and increase the difficulty of unhorse gambits against her by one.
Health Levels
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Willpower: 7

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 (18)
Committed: 15

Join Battle: 10 +3 Successes

Parry: 4
Evasion: 6
Resolve: 3
Guile: 1

Soak: 3
Armored Soak: 8
Hardness: 7
Total Soak: 11

Summer Thunder
Type: Medium (+12 DMG, OVW 4)
Accuracy: Close −1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1
Tags: Lethal, Archery (Long), Mounted
Hearthstone slot(s): 1

Paired Short Daiklaves
Type: Light (+10 DMG, OVW 3)
Accuracy: +5
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Defining: To be the Greatest Archer in All of Creation
Defining: Hatred of Demons
Major (Hate): Those that abuse their power
Major (Positive): Defender of my Comrades in Arms
Major (Positive): Protective of Majherri
Minor (Positive): Horses are people, too

Axtis Jen may not have been born in the saddle, but she may have well been. Raised as a part of one of many nomadic horse tribes of the southwest, Axtis learned how to ride and how to use the bow, and would most likely have had a very ordinary and happy life in the tribe except for one small detail: Her father was a Yozi cultist.

It was late one Calibration night when a teenage Axtis was having trouble sleeping, and she heard her father rise and leave his tent and go walking out into the night by himself. Curious, she followed to see what he was up to, and what she found was an image that will forever haunt her nightmares. There was her father, the kind and loving man that she grew up idolizing, standing alongside five other members of the tribe as they were about to perform a series of human sacrifices as a part of a ritual to summon several demons to grant them power! Axtis knew that she had to do something, so she went and grabbed her bow, the only weapon that came to mind that she could use to stop this abomination from happening.

Just as the knife was about to be plunged into the heart of the first victim, Axtis launched her first arrow of the night, piercing the chest of the lead cultist before he had the chance to commit the murder, and it disrupted the ceremony. Blood was spilled, but not in the way it was intended, and the demons that were supposed to be bound and controlled were suddenly called forth, free of any restrictions.

The first to fall to the demons' hunger was, of course, the cultists. They then turned their attention on the nearby tents of Axtis' family and friends, intent on wiping them all out! The only thing keeping them from doing so was Axtis herself, and as she swore by the Unconquered Sun that she would not let that happen, a miracle took place and she received her Second Breath as a Solar Exalted.

Using her newfound power, Axtis supercharged her bow and laid the demons low, killing them all and saving the lives of her clan. The problem was, as the remaining members of her family rose to see her blazing in the light of her anima, they called her the demon, shunning her from her home and casting her out with nothing more than the clothes on her back and the bow in her hand.

Bitter and alone, Axtis wandered aimlessly for days trying to find some direction for her life, some purpose for which to dedicate herself to. It was at this point that the young Dawn Caste started to feel another presence in her mind, a slight pull calling her farther to the east. As she traveled, she finally came across an arrogant Dragon Blooded hunter and his entourage with a captive unicorn that the Exalt was trying to break to the bridle and saddle. It was at a glance that Axtis knew that it was this beautiful creature that was calling out to her in her mind. She had to free it.

As the hunter and his people were sleeping that night, Axtis crept into his camp and approached the cage that the unicorn was in. As she reached out to touch the animal and clam it, she heard a voice in her mind, It took you long enough to find me.

It was a shock, but somehow, it was a familiar feeling, having this voice in her mind. She tried to send a thought back to the unicorn, Who are you? How is it possible that you are in my mind?

<laughter> Always the same questions. We have known each other before, in your past Exaltations, when you wore different bodies. I am Majherri, and in each life, we have been friends and companions. Help free me from this pen, and I can help keep you away from the Wyld Hunt and teach you what it means to be a Solar Exalt. Tell me, what is your name this time around?

Axtis Jen, and I'll try to come up with some new questions to ask you in the future. But for now, lets just get us both out of here.

Amen to that, Axtis Jen. I have had more than enough of the efforts of this Dragon Blood trying to ride me. That privilege is reserved for you alone. Let us ride, my friend!

Together, Axtis and Majherri break free from the camp and ride off into the night, being hotly pursued by the hunter and his people. It takes her days of running, but finally they shake the hunters that were chasing them. True to his word, Majherri helps teach Axtis the truth of the fall of the Solar Exalted and coaches her in the use of her powers. As they travel together, they come across the final resting place of one of her prior incarnations, and she was able to claim her old bow and armor. Now, a little bit older and wiser, the pair is still out there, looking for a purpose that is worthy of them.
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: 35
Xp Banked: 4
Essence 2 at 50 xp

Solar Xp: 2

Intimacies	Ties	Principles
Defining	● Thorns (I will free my people at any cost)
Major	● The Mask of Winters (Unrelenting hatred)	● Never tell more of the truth than is absolutely necessary
	● Everlasting Amber (My missing mentor, I hope she's okay!)	● Friends are more valuable than diamonds; don't give them away.
Minor	● Great Forks (My favorite place, outside of Thorns)	● Ghosts are people too and deserve a fair shake
	● Lookshy (Such assholes...)	● Never break your word, once you've given it

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