Weapons in essence have only light, medium, or heavy types and then tags to differentiate them. So a longfang is an Artifact, Reach, and maybe Piercing or Thrown tagged weapon. It could be Medium or Heavy.
Sure.
Eh, he's outcaste he doesn't have to care about your damn dead puppet empressMars above, this is going to cause some drama. What's our group tolerance for PC conflict?I don't know how Sojiro feels about the Order, but at the very least attacking Realm troops is likely to go over extremely poorly. There is likely to be some desire to beat some sense into Tulak, but that may be put on hold by the more pressing concern of a giant flying whale attack.
. If Destiny says Ijara needs you then so be it, but that doesn't help Sojiro.
Tulak definitely has blood on his hands but see's the monster as more of a threat than the realm at the moment. He's got no problem with biting his tougue when he needs to
You already seem to have an idea in mind, judging from your character sheet.
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Oops. Clearly my character was better at naming elementals than I was
Is it a Garuda or a Garda Bird you want to summon? Also, just because I want to confirm; are the two bonus successes from Destiny the result of both Ijara and her Fortuitous Fellowship applying the bonus success they each get from Ijara's uses of Weaving Destiny?
In terms of obstacles, I have the following:
You have 24 extra successes in total. How do you wish to spend them?
- Creating Summoning Circle (difficulty 3) - 6 extra successes
- Obtaining And Using Appropriate Ritual Items (difficulty 3) - 7 extra successes
- Detailing the Nature of Service (difficulty 5) - 6 extra successes
- Binding the Garda Bird (difficulty 3 for elemental) - 5 extra successes
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jaydude
for what happens with the remaining 5 successes, if anything.
I'll look into this tomorrow. Somewhat tired right now.Oops. Clearly my character was better at naming elementals than I was
Yes, the two successes were from using the two Destiny's once per scene powers together. I believe that's acceptable, but Fortuitous Fellowship is a homebrew Sidereal mode by one of the writers on the 3e Sidereals book (Crumplepunch), so exactly how Destiny interacts with Followers and Teamwork is not clear.
Now that I look it up, traditionally you can't summon Garda Birds in 3e because they're too high Essence - in... well... Essence, do we waive things like that, and assume you can summon lower Essence variants of any elemental since you're creating it from scratch? If not, do you have a suggestion for another fun elemental to summon? I think Thunderbirds had lower Essence. I'll have to try to find a list of elementals somewhere. They're always scattered all over the place. I might get myself in trouble with an elemental court for the hubris of creating a Garda Bird, but that could be fun
24 points! Let's see if I can even legally spend all that.
Common advantages: Increase Ally’s dice pools upon success (1 success, maximum +3); increase service time (3 successes per story, maximum +2 increases); allow for free materialization (3 successes); summoned entity has additional qualities (5 successes, maximum +2 qualities)
Okay. Let's buy +3 to all dice pools (wow, this thing is almost like a second circle demon) for 3 successes. Materialization isn't an issue, so skip that one. Service time sounds useful, so let's buy two more stories for 6 successes. That leaves 15. I can spend 10 more on two Qualities, and then I've run out of things to buy with successes. I'll leave it up to you
Huh. Adding Qualities is hard. It's really not clear which of these are okay to pick. What sort of Qualities are fair to add to a Garda Bird?
Nice for carrying stuff.
Enormous Size: Withering attacks by individuals against this character suffer a two-success penalty. Knockback, knockdown, and pull gambits increase their cost by 1.
This one just seems silly.
Legendary Size: This character is gigantic. Extras cannot hurt this character, and they cannot suffer more than 1 damage per turn from any attack unless supple- mented by magic or from another creature of legendary size. Mundane weapons lose all tags when used against it. Withering attacks by smaller individuals suffer a three-success penalty against it. Knockback, knockdown, and pull gambits increase their cost by three. This char- acter always has dominance when in a grapple.
What does this even do? Add five dice for 1m to the primary pool? These characters don't even have Abilities.
Divine Excellence: See Excellency, p. 185
Both very useful. First one is way more fun, second is a strong combat option.
Nine Terrors Visage: Spend 1 mote to change shape and form; replicating a specific person in detail requires a primary pool roll.
Principle of Motion: Once per turn, spend 2 motes or 2 Health levels to take an additional action. This ignores the action limit.
This is just insanely useful if it applies to all Fire related Sorcerous Workings.
Hand of Destiny: Once a story, the god may mark a certain part of their domain for personal attention, compelling subordinate spirits to drop everything and work inexorably toward the end result of a project. This Charm reduces the time scale of a venture by a factor of two, to a minimum of completion in one scene. Using this Charm without permission from a superior earns censure from the Celestial Bureaucracy.
Useful for violence, but not super exciting since we have plenty of PCs covering violence:
Elemental Strike: Spend 1 mote on Step 1. Increase the Power generated by a withering attack or the dam- age by a successful decisive attack by Essence.
Elemental Vortex: Spend 1 mote. Characters who end their turn within close range suffer a 1 damage per interval elemental hazard.
This is super fun, and could be mirage-flavoured to fit with the fire theme and drop the bit about the Wyld:
Glamour: Create illusions indistinguishable from reality. In the Wyld, these last indefinitely. In Creation, they last a minimum of one scene and a maximum of the story, depending on their complexity. Glamour can- not create artifacts or other wonders. Exalted may at- tempt to see through glamours with an Awareness or Integrity roll, difficulty 5.
Primary Pool (12): Embodying Their Element andWielding Natural Power
Secondary Pool (9): Mastery of Their Natural Habitat and Unsubtle Physical Feats
Tertiary Pool (8)
Resolve: 3
Health Levels: 5 to 10 (depending on hardiness)
Essence: 1-4
Defense: 5
Hardness: 3-7
Soak: 3 (6 for tough characters)
ATTACKS, QUALITIES, AND CHARMS
Domain
Domain’s Beneficence
Domain’s Curse
Weapon: Elemental Panoply (+1 Accuracy, +1 Defense, +2 Damage, 3 Overwhelming)
Just my two cents for what it's worth, but could always take the Rifts approach and make it a fledgling Garda Bird if necessary. 3E does state that Elemental "Summoning" is more akin to creation of a spirit than binding of an existing being. Feeding it essence and identity over time would let it grow and persist naturally eventually if not allowed to disperse and could eventually take on the role of familiar.
Oh yeah, I didn't know about that beforehand. I'll go with the suggestion of
Rykon
and have it be a fledging Garda Bird (one at Essence 3) that Ijara summoned.
Oh! That makes so much more sense
Thank you.
I think they would report to their elemental court, who may report to a lesser dragon, who would report to a terrestrial god, who may report to another terrestrial god, who would ostensibly report to possibly multiple someones in the bureau of seasons and/or nature.
I'd say probably a mix of using the literal element, alongside whatever mental and emotional stuff makes sense.
