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Sherwood · May 28, 2024

Name: Sasha Taeger
Gender: Female
Age: 55
Exalt Type: SIdereal
Caste: Secrets

Attributes
Str: 3
Dex: 5
Sta: 3

Cha: 3
Man: 1
App: 3

Per: 2
Int: 4
Wits: 3

Abilities
Archery
*Athletics: 2
*Awareness: 3
Brawl
Bureaucracy: 1
Craft
*Dodge: 3
Integrity
*Investigation: 2
*Larceny: 1
Linguistics: 1
*Lore: 3
*Martial Arts: 5
Medicine
Melee
*Occult: 3
Performance
Presence
*Resistance: 3
Ride
*Sail: 3
Socialize
*Stealth: 1
Survival
Thrown
War

Specialties
Martial Arts: Swords
Lore: Demons
Dodge:
Lore: First Age Knowledge
Martial Arts (free): 4
Backing - Convention of the North (free): 2
Resources (free): 3
Artifact Weapon - Destiny, Starmetal Short Daiklave: 5
Artifact Armor - Starmetal Serene Misfortune Sash: 4
Eidetic Memory: 2
Hearthstone - Demon-Banishing Jewel: 2
Languages - Old Realm (free), Skytongue, Riverspeak: 1

First Age Airship - the Righteous Indignation: 5
Retainer - DB Engineer: 4

Secrets
Auspicious Prospects for Secrets: The Oracles may pay one mote to learn whether concealing or revealing a piece of information would align with destiny.
Lesser Sign of Jupiter: The Oracle may pay five motes to reflexively make Jupiter’s lesser sign, drawing it in emerald stardust. Until her next turn, she and allies within close range gain +1 non-Charm Guile and add (her Essence, maximum 5) non-Charm dice on Manipulation, Larceny, and Stealth rolls.
Greater Sign of Jupiter: Once per story, the Oracle may pay twenty motes and one Willpower to reflexively make Jupiter’s greater sign, traced across the sky in emerald radiance. She, her allies, and up to (Essence x2) other characters are immune to effects opposing their Guile and add (her Essence) to their Resolve. Un-Exalted characters can’t lie to them or refuse to answer their questions they unless they spend one Willpower per lie or refusal; characters with Essence less than the Sidereal’s can’t resist. This lasts one scene. Additionally, for that scene and the next (Essence) days, Investigation rolls against the blessed characters fail automatically and they’re immune to magic that would scry on them or divine their future.

Limit Trigger: Serious difference of opinion or competing goals strain the Sidereal’s relationship with an ally, subordinate, or superior.

Solipsistic Certitude
The Sidereal sees no need to take the opinions, concerns, or advice of others into consideration, confident in her own wisdom. She makes decisions based solely on her own judgment and priorities; even if she’s given advice that seems obviously correct to her, she’s too proud to act on it. She likewise ignores any criticism of her choices or actions.
Duration: Session. This ends if the Sidereal suffers a significant defeat or setback that could’ve been avoided if she’d heeded someone else’s guidance.
Excellencies
Excellencies are Sidereals’ fundamental supernatural prowess. They can add dice to (Attribute + Ability) rolls for one mote per die or raise static values for two motes per +1.
With Ability 3, the Sidereal can pay one mote to reduce an (Attribute + Ability) roll’s target number by one (usually to 6). With Ability 5, she may pay two motes to reduce its target number by two. With Ability 5, Essence 3, she may pay three motes, one Willpower to reduce its target number by three.
Sidereals gain Excellencies for each Caste or Favored Ability they have at 1+ and each other Ability they know a Charm from.

Resistance Charms

Cost: 3m; Mins: Resistance 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Reflecting on the sacrifices she may one day be called upon to make, the Sidereal imbues her enemies with her own generosity of spirit.
After a withering attack hits her, but before damage is rolled, the Sidereal can imposes a –2 penalty on the damage roll. If she has a positive Tie or compassionate Principle applicable to her attacker, the penalty increases to (Intimacy + 1).
If the Sidereal is unarmored, she can penalize decisive attacks.

Cost: —; Mins: Resistance 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal has cultivated great inner discipline, suffusing her with supernal vitality.
The Sidereal gains additional health levels based on her Stamina rating:
Stamina 1-2: One −0 level.
Stamina 3-4: One −0 level and one −1 level.
Stamina 5: Two −0 levels.
This Charm may be purchased (Resistance) times. If the Sidereal’s Stamina increases, her health levels change to reflect her new rating.

Sail Charms

Cost: —; Mins: Sail 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Expecting no peace in her travels, the Sidereal is rarely disappointed — or caught off guard.
The Sidereal gains the following benefits:
• She adds (Sail) dice on Perception rolls with any Ability to notice hidden dangers while traveling (by ship or otherwise), and on Join Battle rolls while aboard a vehicle.
• She strikes fear into the heart of oceangoing foes: enemy sailors, sea monsters, hostile aquatic animals, and similar marine enemies count as having a Minor Tie of fear toward her.
• When she recruits a surrendered foe into her crew, any negative Ties he has toward her are lost and he gains a Major Tie of loyalty to her.
• In naval combat, she reduces the Momentum cost of naval stratagems by one if the roll’s target number is reduced by any amount. Positioning stratagems instead award one extra Momentum, even if they fail.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Sail 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal exhales a puff of wind that untangles the thread of a ship’s fate from the weave of sky and sea.
The Sidereal blesses a ship, adding (her Essence) dice on any character’s rolls to navigate naval hazards, enact Positioning or Escape stratagems, or otherwise maneuver it. The ship’s Speed isn’t penalized by bad weather, opposing wind or currents, or the like, and its crew is immune to environmental penalties. It won’t take on any water no matter how badly damaged it may be, though this won’t help with any it’s already taken on.
Special activation rules: This Charm’s Willpower cost is waived if renewed at the end of its duration.

Dodge Charms

Cost: 3m; Mins: Dodge 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal is one with the world, balanced within and without.
The Sidereal gains perfect balance and can stand on or move across surfaces too narrow or weak to support her normally without needing to roll.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal takes steps to avoid a future where her enemy’s quiver has anything left.
The Sidereal rolls a special (Wits + Dodge) disarm gambit against an enemy wielding a ranged weapon within medium range. Instead of using his Defense, the target opposes the attack roll with a (Wits + combat Ability) ammunition check (Exalted, p. 202). If successful, he’s revealed to have unexpectedly run out of ammunition and suffers withering damage equal to the Initiative roll’s extra successes, awarding Initiative to the Sidereal as usual. If he’s previously cached any ammunition nearby, it also turns out to have somehow disappeared or become unusable. He suffers +1 target number on rolls to scavenge for more ammunition.
Characters with Charms like Phantom Arrow Technique are immune to this gambit.
Special activation rules: This Charm can be flurried.

Secrets Charms

Cost: —; Mins: Any Secrets Ability 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any Secrets Charm
The Sidereal gets on her formidable intellect in delicate negotiations and clandestine intrigues, employing deductive reasoning to plot out a path through a conversation.
When calculating Guile and Resolve, the Sidereal can use a Secrets Caste Ability instead of Integrity or Socialize. She may also use Intelligence instead of Appearance to add bonus dice on influence rolls (Exalted, p. 218).

Investigation Charms

Cost: 5m; Mins: Investigation 1, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Divination, Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Upon learning this Charm, the Sidereal spits up a small spider of living emerald, a jubilant assistant that skitters into the strands of her fate until she beckons it forth.
The Sidereal’s spider emerges so that she may ask it a single factual question, to which it provides an accurate answer. It can’t answer questions involving speculation, matters of opinion, or subjective judgments, nor does it have any insight into supernatural powers or people’s thoughts, plans, and emotions. It also can’t reveal any information that anyone’s taken efforts to conceal, nor can it reveal information if it’s not known to anyone in existence.
Examples of information the secretary can provide straightforwardly include the name of the local carpenter, how long ago a widow’s wife died, how many oxen an old friend owns, or the temperature of in Nexus. A question like “what’s the Bull of the North doing?” will typically give an accurate but not useful result, as the secretary can’t ascertain the Solar’s intentions or speculate as to the purpose of his current activities. Questions like “who’s winning this war?” or “which of these two men is more beautiful” are too speculative or subjective for the secretary to answer; it can only chitter its apologies.
This Charm may be repurchased any number of times, each repurchase adding an Evocation to the Sidereal’s secretary that can expand the range of its information gathering and talent as an assistant. These Evocations’ themes and functions derive from the secretary’s established personality, the Sidereal’s Caste, and the themes of the constellation of the Key and the Scripture of That Old Thing. If the Sidereal has a pattern spider familiar, she can also use these Evocations through it.

Lore Charms

Cost: 1m; Mins: Lore 1, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal has glimpsed hints of a grand design in dreams and half-remembered visions and gained certain insights thereby.
After a night’s sleep, the Sidereal gains a temporary Lore specialty in a topic of her choice. It must be related or thematically relevant to the current story’s events, the Five Maidens, or the Celestial Bureaucracy. She can stack up to (higher of Essence or 3) uses of this Charm.
Once per story, the Sidereal may permanently purchase a specialty gained with this Charm for one experience point as a training effect.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Lore 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Systematic Understanding of Everything
The Sidereal is possessed of unusual competences, employing methods and techniques only dreamt of.
The Sidereal applies a Lore specialty to an action with another Ability. She might use a mathematics specialty on an engineering project, a specialty in Yu-Shan for bureaucratic dealings, or a metallurgy specialty to target a weak spot in an enemy’s armor.
Reset: Once per scene.

Occult Charms

Cost: 2m; Mins: Occult 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Until next turn
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal’s Caste Mark shines as a symbol of her authority over spirits, illuminating the unseen world.
Dematerialized characters within short range of the Sidereal become visible to her and any other characters she wishes to extend this benefit to. She can focus this light on a dematerialized character within long range as a miscellaneous action, rolling (Perception + Occult) against his Evasion to render him visible.
Spirits can always see the light shed by the Sidereal’s Caste Mark, letting the knowledgeable roll to recognize its use

Cost: 3m; Mins: Occult 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Mark of Exaltation
Patterns of Essence sing to the Sidereal, revealing the subtle harmonies of the cosmos.
The Sidereal can sense when a spirit is within earshot by soft ringing of bells that surrounds them, even if they’re dematerialized. This typically extends out to medium range, though environmental conditions and magic may increase or decrease it. She can roll (Perception + Occult) instead of the usual roll to oppose such spirits’ Stealth or read their intentions. A successful read intentions roll also reveals whether they belong to the Celestial Bureaucracy and, if so, learn what position they hold.
With Occult 5, Essence 2, the Sidereal can hear the subtler music of sorcery, Evocations, and spirit or fae Charms. While this reveals the presence of such effects and their general nature, it doesn’t reveal what they do or how they work.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Occult 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal uses her understanding of the Wyld’s chaotic energies and the Underworld’s deathly stillness to corrupt the pattern of an enemy’s fate.
The Sidereal rolls a withering or decisive (Wits + Occult) attack against an enemy within medium range with this baleful energy. A withering attack uses the Accuracy of an artifact Archery weapon (Close −1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1). It ignores armored soak, with (Intelligence + 3 + extra successes) raw damage and Overwhelming (Essence + 1). Decisive attacks ignore Hardness from armor. She can enhance this attack with Archery Charms, Thrown Charms, or Martial Arts Charms that are compatible with any ranged weapons, but can’t combine Charms from multiple such Abilities unless they’re explicitly compatible with other Abilities.
Enemies who’re immune to exposure to the Wyld, like a Solar using Integrity-Protecting Prana (Exalted, p. 303), are also protected from this attack, receiving +5 soak and Hardness 5 against it. The undead likewise receive this benefit.

Athletics Charms

Cost: 3m; Mins: Athletics 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal momentarily severs the invisible tether that binds her to the ground.
The Sidereal can use a reflexive move action to jump one range band in any direction without needing to roll, which counts as her movement action. Alternatively, she can inflict +1 target number on a falling damage roll.
With an Athletics 4, Essence 2 repurchase, the Sidereal can pay a three-mote surcharge to end a horizontal leap in mid-air. On her next turn, she must use this Charm again to continue the leap or fall to the ground. She can choose to descend one range band in addition to her forward movement.
Crane Style
Crane style is a defensive style, emulating the grace of the crane in avoiding the blows of an enemy. Its student learns not just to fight with physical blows, but to empathize with her enemy, speaking or debating with him in an attempt to bring the fight to an end without violence. However, those who mistake the Crane master’s restraint for weakness find themselves quickly meeting the ground. When she must, a student of this style can unleash devastating counterattacks, flowing with the force of an enemy’s blow so she can strike back in turn.
Crane Weapons: Crane style practitioners typically dual wield a war fan and hook sword, using the fan for defense while disarming enemies with the sword. Unarmed attacks usually consist of graceful kicks, but a Crane stylist lacking his usual weapons might use one hand to deliver rapid chops while holding back the other for powerful lunges and sweeping blows.
Armor: Crane style is incompatible with armor.
Complementary Abilities: Many Crane stylists use Presence, Performance, or Socialize in combat to sway their opponents into peaceful resolution or compromise, and later Charms of this style empower such efforts.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mastery, Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Crane stylists do not initiate hostilities—they end them. Empowering Justice Redirection can supplement any attack against an enemy who has attacked the martial artist or a character she is protecting with a defend other action during the current or previous round. It adds one successes to the attack roll, and one die to the post-soak damage of the attack. This increases to two successes and two post-soak dice of damage if the provoking attack successfully landed.
Mastery: The dice of damage added by this Charm are converted to automatic successes.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mastery, Uniform
Duration: Until next turn
Prerequisite Charms: None
The sheltering wings of the Crane stylist shield her allies from the aggression of their enemies. Fluttering Cry of Warning adds +2 Parry whenever the martial artist parries an attack directed at an ally protected by one of her defend other actions until her next turn. Additionally, an enemy who overcomes the Crane stylist’s Parry and chooses to attack her ward rather than the martial artist must pay a point of Initiative to do so.
Mastery: Fluttering Cry of Warning allows the martial artist to take a defend other action reflexively, even if it is not her turn.
User: Jovita Korad, Tesni Summersky
An inscription can be seen on the side of the blade written in Old Realm reading, “Flesh is far easier cut than steel.” This starmetal short daiklave has an infamous past full of murder and betrayal.
Forged during the First Age from an exceptionally auspicious meteorite, Destiny has seen many wielders over the ages.
Its lore and infamy, however, come from its original user and smith Jovita Korad. The Endings Caste Sidereal spent a good deal of his time considering the reasons behind the design of the human body. He would often engage in philosophical debates with the greatest exalted minds of the age on all manner of subjects, but human form was his specialty.
One day he told a gathered group of scholars that he had found the answer and presented them with Destiny and its sister sword, Exile. He then proceeded to slaughter all the attendees while reciting his reasoning of why humans were made of flesh. Once he had killed the last man, he wiped the blood from his weapon and stated “Flesh is far easier to cut than steel.”
Naturally a manhunt was set to capture the rogue exalted and bring him to justice. However, Jovita surrendered himself willingly. He turned over documents pertaining to each scholar's misdeeds ranging from child abuse, to rape, to human experimentation, and even to consorting with the enemies of Creation. Many of the scholars were exalts themselves and such knowledge coming to light would have been damning. His life was spared but he was exiled beyond Creation's borders.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 3)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Second Deliberative Era

Evocations of Destiny
Destiny has a muted shine as if it was asked to suppress its true splendor. In the right starlight, however, one can see a purple glimmer from its form. It holds a single hearthstone just above the cross guard. A user of Destiny may change the result of one die on an attack or damage roll, moving it up or down one digit. For example if a player rolls seven dice with the results “5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 2, 10,” they can change one of the dieʼs digits. In the above example, they might change the “6” up one digit to a “7” thus adding an additional successes.
The magic of Destinyʼs evocations directly relates to the numbers rolled on dice. As such some players may also choose to decrease a number rolled.

Cost: - ; Min: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keyword: Uniform, Stackable
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: None
As the blades were unveiled, many in the audience were spellbound by their beauty. The starmetal reflected the light of the Unconquered Sun breaking it into a rainbow. Other more paranoid members saw the weapons as a threat to life and limb, and rightly so. The paranoid onlookers came at Jovita with a fury only desperate men and women could muster. All the same, he turned their blades.
When a player rolls their attack and it has three “7s” the user increases their weapon parry by 1 for three actions. Should they roll three “7s” again they may increase their parry by an additional 1, to a maximum of their (Melee or Martial Artist, whichever skill they use with Destiny), or extend the duration by 1 action, to a maximum of five actions.
At Essence 3, should they roll six “7s” the user may spend 1 mote to trigger this evocation twice.
At Essence 5, should they roll nine “7s” the user may spend 3 motes (1 + 2) to trigger this evocation three times.
Resonant: A character resonant with Starmetal who rolls three “7s” twice, or more, may increase both their Parry by 1 and the number of turned it is active.

Cost: - ; Min: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keyword: Dual, Resonant, Dissonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: Steel Deflects Steel
Jovita spent years, in some cases decades, collecting evidence that his “noble” peers were actually horrific monsters. He studied them, always the philosopher and doctor, never the assassin. In doing so he gained their trust and found their weakness.
On a withering attack after a player has rolled their attack, but before it is reported, they add their Essence to their overwhelming. They can do this if the attack roll has “7”, “8”, “9”, and “10”. On a Decisive attack the damage roll gains double 10s.
Dissonant: A character dissonant with Starmetal only gains double tens on Essence damage dice.
Resonant: A Character resonant with Starmetal need only have 3 of the 4 numbers consecutively to activate this ability. For example, “7, 8, 9” or “8, 9, 10”.

Cost: 4m; Min: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keyword: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Gaps in the Armor
Jovita practiced the esoteric Sidereal Martial Arts in secret, training himself for the day he would strike. He made sure that only his most trusted friends knew of his martial prowess, lest his prey become wary. On that destined day he unveiled his true skill and parried with a mastery of sword that none expected.
On a Withering attack roll, if the player rolls three “8s” they may choose to spend 4 motes and gain a second attack on the same target after the first resolves. Their second attack may be Withering or Deceive. This Evocation may only be activated two times in any one turn. On a Decisive attack roll, should the player roll three “8s” the user may spend 4 motes and make a second damage roll equal to half their original damage roll.

Cost: - ; Min: Essence 3
Type: Permanent, Dissonant, Resonant
Keyword: Decisive-only
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: Once Hit Twice Cut
Jovita cut down Solar and Lunar the same. He slew Dragon Blooded and Sidereal without prejudice. All that mattered in the moment was ending wickedness. He did so with the efficiency of an automaton, almost as if he knew the consequence of every action.
Should a player roll four “10s” on a Decisive attack they may refund the mote cost of any one charm or evocation used on that attack.
Dissonant: A character dissonant with Starmetal may only apply this Evocation to Essence 3 or lower Charms and Evocations.
Resonant: A character Resonant with starmetal who rolls 5+ “10s” may refunds the mote cost of any two Charms and/or Evocations.

Cost: 3m, 2w; Min: Essence 4
Type: Simple
Keyword: None
Duration: Scene
Prerequisite: Efficiency of Auspicious Action
Jovita orchestrated the slaughter as if it were an elegant play; maybe even a tribute to Saturn herself. Each victim was an actor in his or her own tragedy, with Jovita as the triumphant protagonist at centerstage. So it was preformed and so Destiny, and the Loom of Fate, recorded it. The player may enhance the basic ability of Destiny to now affect up to (Essence) dice. It costs 3 motes to change the digit of a die after the first time.
This power is explicitly incompatible with Efficiency of Auspicious Action. If a player buys 10s those motes are not refunded, however motes on other Evocations or Charms are.

Cost:-; Min: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keyword: Uniform
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: Steel Deflects Steel
Destiny was not the only blade that Jovita forged for this event. He knew that if he was to undertake this path, at the end was death or exile. As such, he forged Exile. Should a user have Exile they may apply any of the evocations of Destiny to enhance Exile and vice versa. In addition if the user rolls three “9s” on an attack they may reroll any “10s” on their damage roll.

Cost: 3m; Min: Essence 4
Type: Reflexive
Keyword: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Steel Deflects Steel
A century after Jovita died, a young Solar exploring beyond Creation recovered Destiny. Her name was Tesni Summersky. With Destiny she returned home to the South of Creation where she took charge of a small kingdom. Troubled by the swordʼs past as a weapon of assassination, she sought to alter its morality. Tesni used it to aid her circle mates and harm her adversaries. Once learned, Redeemed Blade enhances Destinyʼs basic ability and allows it to affect the allies the user has a positive intimacy for. Alternately if they have a negative intimacy for an adversary, the user may affect them as well. Should the user know Redeemed Blade and Forgone Conclusion they may use Redeemed Blade multiple times but are still limited by their Essence
times.

Upon her loom of sacred cypress, Ouzha Nine-Handed wove nine sashes from nine bolts of rainbow fabric. Nine measures of starmetal she used for her weft, beaten thinner than a maiden’s hair. Nine are the colors of the sashes themselves: crimson and ultramarine, jonquil and viridian, cyan and gamboge, indigo and rose, and a singular black snipped from cloth-of-night. She wove for nine years and smiled at her works, for Ouzha feared nothing in the world but death, and fear was the tenth fabric upon her loom.
Each of the Serene Misfortune Sashes is a delicate froth of woven rainbow and irregular brocade, unique in its pattern from its sister-sashes. They may be tied around the waist or fastened with a needle-fine starmetal pin, their hues shifting subtly to suit the wearer’s outfit and complexion. Of the eight sashes whose locations are known to Heaven, some are kept by the Cerulean Lute’s quartermasters for Sidereals of suitable temperament. Others belong to the treasure-wardrobes of powerful celestial gods, having been given as gifts by Ouzha (and subsequently changing hands several times). Some of these gods have been known to lend their sashes — freely or otherwise — to allies and proteges, whether to curry favor or enrich their sash’s burgeoning mythos. Of the ninth, nothing is known.
Woven with Ouzha’s fear of death, the sashes are silken armor that subtly bend fate to transform their wearer’s tragedies into calamitous bad luck. One might escape certain doom by the grace of their sash, only to find their lives crumbling around them. They are infrequent plot devices in heavenly plays. In tragedies, their wearers batter their fists against the ground in despair; in comedies, they look upon their misfortune and smile. They say: Calamities may pass with time, but death gives no reprieve.

Attunement: 4m
Type: Light (Soak +5, Hardness 4, Mobility Penalty −0)
Tags: Special, Silent
Hearthstone Slot(s): 0
Era: The Season of Nine Shoguns

Evocations of the Serene Misfortune Sash
The Serene Misfortune Sashes don’t count as armor for determining their compatibility with Martial Arts.

**Indicates Evocations not yet purchased.**

Keywords: None
This glinting star sapphire exists in both the material realm and the immaterial, making it tangible to dematerialized beings. A weapon socketed with it can be used to attack dematerialized enemies. If its wielder could already do so thanks to other magic, she adds a non-Charm die on the attack roll.
Health Levels
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-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
Incapacitated [ ]

Essence: 1
Personal: 11
Peripheral: 31 / (22)
Committed: 9
Willpower: 5

Join Battle: 6 +3i

Dodge DV: 5
Parry DV: 6
Resolve: 4
Guile: 3

Soak
Natural: +3
Armored: +5, +4 Hardness
Total: +8

Destiny
Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 3)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced

Evocations of Destiny
A user of Destiny may change the result of one die on an attack or damage roll, moving it up or down one digit. For example if a player rolls seven dice with the results “5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 2, 10,” they can change one of the dieʼs digits. In the above example, they might change the “6” up one digit to a “7” thus adding an additional successes.
The magic of Destinyʼs evocations directly relates to the numbers rolled on dice. As such some players may also choose to decrease a number rolled.

When a player rolls their attack and it has three “7s” the user increases their weapon parry by 1 for three actions. Should they roll three “7s” again they may increase their parry by an additional 1, to a maximum of their (Melee or Martial Artist, whichever skill they use with Destiny), or extend the duration by 1 action, to a maximum of five actions.
Defining Principle: Some Secrets Must be Kept.
Major Tie: Jupiter (Love and Devotion)
Major Tie: The Exalts of her Circle (Watchful Pride)
Minor Tie: The Righteous Indignation (Protective)
Minor Tie: Gold Faction Members (Camaraderie)

Sasha was born in the great city of Nexus under an auspicious sign of Fate. It was in her twelfth year that she was first approached by Cranston Maxtus, one of Jupiter's Chosen. He explained that Sasha has been selected to serve in the Celestial Bureaucracy as a fellow Oracle of Fate. She was then taken to the glorious city of Yu-Shan where she began her studies under Cranston's watchful eye.

Once she was of age, her Exaltation was an occasion to celebrate as she officially joined the ranks of the Chosen of Secrets. After slogging through the first decade as one of the Chosen, Sasha was recruited to join the Convention of the North, and she began her work in earnest to show that she had earned her high praise she received from her teachers. It was during this time that Sasha also joined the Gold Faction, and with the Return of the Solars, her plotting to bring the Chosen of the Sun back to power began in earnest.
Unified Experience Point Costs
Trait / Experience Cost
Attributes / 10 per dot
Abilities / 5 per dot
Caste/Favored Abilities / 4 per dot
New Specialty / 2
Merits / 2 per dot
Willpower / 6 per dot
New Charm, Spell, or Evocation / 12
New Caste/Favored Charm or Spell / 10

Xp Earned: 55
Xp Banked: 1

12 - Evocation
10 - Charm
8 - MA to 5
24 - Merits

Sherwood · May 28, 2024

Our ride, the Righteous Indignation!

Attunement: 5m
Speed: Geomantic engine +15
Maneuverability: +3; Hull: -0/-1x2/-2x2/-4/Incap.

Cargo: The airship can carry two tons of cargo, or forty standing men in tight quarters.

Maximum Height: 4

Evocation Passive effect: Ignore penalties due to Winds/storms

Psychie · May 28, 2024

Name: Ryma Telgar
Age: 28
Exalt Type: Solar
Caste: Dawn
Supernal Ability: Archery

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 5
Sta: 3

Cha: 3
Man: 2
App: 2

Per: 4
Int: 3
Wits: 4

Abilities
**Archery: 5
Athletics: 2
*Awareness: 4
*Brawl: 1
Bureaucracy
Craft
*Dodge: 5
Integrity
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics: 1
Lore
Martial Arts
Medicine
*Melee: 2
Occult
*Performance: 3
*Presence: 2
*Resistance: 1
Ride
*Sail: 2
Socialize: 1
*Stealth: 3
Survival: 1
Thrown
War: 1

Specialties
1 Archery - Bows
2 Dodge - Ranged Attacks
3 Performance - String Instruments
4 Stealth - Vanish in Plain Sight
Artifact Weapon - Moonlit Huntress Moonsilver Long Powerbow: 3
Artifact Armor - Baldaquin Orichalcum Lamellar Armor: 3
Artifact - Collar of Dawn's Cleansing Light: 2
Hearthstone - Gem of Day's Light: 4
Languages - Riverspeak, Skytongue, Forresttongue: 2
Resources: 2

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 sees innocents suffering, and is either unable or unwilling to help them.

Virtue Flaw
All-Consuming Grief
The Solar is overwhelmed by regret or sorrow, and can do nothing but stop to mourn what he has lost or to brood upon the injustices that have befallen him. He’ll try to go off to be alone to grieve, if possible; if not, then the Solar ignores his surroundings and focuses inward on his pain. He stirs from his grief for nothing, not even to help his allies.
Duration: Scene. All-Consuming Grief can be ended prematurely if the Solar is attacked or if someone to whom he has a Major or Defining Tie is incapacitated.
The Solar Exalted may use their Excellencies to enhance any rolled action, or any application of a static value. To enhance a rolled action, the Solar simply spends one mote of Essence per die added to the roll. The Solar may spend up to (Attribute + Ability) motes, subject to the normal limitations on adding dice to a roll with magic (see “Using Charms and Charm Limitations,” above). When using an Excellency to enhance a static value, the Solar spends two motes of Essence for every point by which she raises the static value, and may spend up to (Attribute + [Ability that contributes to the static value]) motes, again, subject to normal static value-raising limitations. All Excellency use is of instant duration. If the Excellency is being used to enhance a dice roll it is considered supplemental. If it is being used in a defense it is considered reflexive.

Gaining Excellencies: Solars automatically gain an Excellency for each Caste and Favored Ability in which they possess at least one dot, as well as any Ability for which they have learned at least one Charm. This costs no experience points during play and does not count against starting Charms at character creation.

Archery

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: 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Performance
Omni-Applicable

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

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

Moonlit Huntress was crafted in a potent Eastern demesne in the days when Creation was still untamed, shaped by the steady claw of the Lunar artisan Meheret. Burning ritually cultivated wood from the demesne, she heated and shaped the moonsilver by night, and hid it by day. Each night of its construction, she quenched it in the blood of a mighty beast hunted just for its making. After carrying it for some centuries, she later made of it a wedding gift to her Solar wife, who shared Meheret’s passion for the hunt. The bow passed back into Lunar hands after the Usurpation. Its last owner, Fangs-of-Ivory, was slain by the Wyld Hunt three years ago. Moonlit Huntress still sleeps where the Lunar hid it, awaiting the arrival of a new Lunar or Solar master. Magic binds it into a clear stream somewhere in the East. It can only be seen at night during a full moon when the thaw is a month past and the stream is no longer rushing but no longer still, when the moonlight bends on the water in the rock bed where the bow rests. Then it’s the curve of a bow sleeping beneath the surface may be seen, and Moonlit Huntress claimed.
Moonlit Huntress is a gracefully recurved bow decorated with carved lunar phases along its arms. The two new moons of this design are hearthstone sockets.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+12 DMG, OVW 4)
Accuracy: Close −1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1
Tags: Lethal, Archery (Long)
Hearthstone slot(s): 2

A Solar or Lunar attuned to moonlit huntress gains a blessing from the weapon, which fluidly shifts depending on her standing in the ebb and flow of battle:
• No Moon (0 or fewer Initiative): +1 non-Charm success to Stealth rolls.
• Waning Moon (1-4 Initiative): +1 non-Charm success to disengage actions.
• Half Moon (5-9 Initiative): +2 non-Charm successes to Awareness rolls.
• Waxing Moon (10-14 Initiative): +3 automatic successes to rush and disengage actions.
• Full Moon (15+ Initiative): The character may aim reflexively from up to long range for a decisive attack.
Doing so grants no aiming bonus.

Cost: 1wp; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Three turns
Prerequisite Charms: None
The archer experiences a moment of near-release in which she almost loses herself in the flowing and deadly instincts of Moonlit Huntress. Rather than being carried away, her long communion with the bow mingles these killing instincts with the archer’s own Essence, granting a powerful unity of user and weapon. Activating this Evocation grants 15 points of Initiative, and while it is active, the character enjoys the benefits of all five phases of Moonlit Huntress at once, regardless of her current Initiative rating. This Evocation may only be used once per day.
Special activation rules: The character must have primarily wielded Moonlit Huntress in battle for at least two stories before she can purchase this Evocation.

Broken Thunder forged this armor for Shadow-of-Mars to guard her as she set off on the Eight Directions Embassy, traveling to every corner of Creation and beyond as an emissary of the Exalted Host. She wore it as she entreated Western Fair Folk nobles to endorse the Formless Concordance, as she sailed into Old Stygia’s bleak harbor to pay deference to the Dual Monarchs, and as her sandship skimmed across the Endless Desert toward an audience with the Demon City’s princes. Through every storm and quake, through all the bluster and blandishments, she remained true to her mission, and the armor remained true to her.
Centuries later, older and wiser, Shadow-of-Mars set traveling aside to make her home in Asmay on the Isle of Nine Cities, near Luthe. She passed Baldaquin to a new generation of Quicksilver Falcons, that they might be likewise protected as they traveled the Great Western Ocean and realms beyond in service to the newly established Deliberative.
Each rondel on this suit of small orichalcum plates bears the insignia of the nigh-mythical Eight Directions Embassy — eight arrows radiating outward from the Imperial Mountain.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (Soak +8, Hardness 7, Mobility Penalty −1)
Tags: None
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Eight Directions Era

Evocations of Baldaquin
While the Exalt travels in order to act as an intermediary or advocate for another, she adds (Essence) bonus dice to all rolls to endure or bypass hostile environments and hazards.

Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dissonant, Resonant
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: None
The Crowned Suns braved the courts of Creation’s enemies to forge pacts of embassy, and their strength of will gleams from every plate of the armor many of them wore. While Baldaquin’s wearer and her companions are guests of, or guided by, spirits or the Fair Folk, they gain +1 Resolve and Guile, so long as they respect the local terms of hospitality.
Their host and his retinue cannot attack them without just cause unless the attacker pays one Willpower.
An Eclipse Caste Solar waives this Evocation’s Willpower cost.
Special activation rules: As long as the wielder isn’t dissonant with orichalcum, this Evocation awakens at no cost when she successfully influences or reads the intentions of a spirit or raksha.
Resonant: This Evocation’s duration is Indefinite.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Any one Charm this Evocation augments.
Countless journeys across the Great Western Ocean have impregnated Baldaquin with the Essence of ship and sea. This Evocation enhances the following Charms as described below:
• Fathoms-Fed Spirit (Exalted, p. 386) offers its benefits (Essence + 1) times per day.
• Tide-Cutting Essence Infusion (Exalted, p. 386) increases a ship’s speed by (Essence) points while the Solar is traveling as an intermediary.
• The bonus dice provided by Tide-Carried Omens (Exalted, p. 391) are converted to automatic successes.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Austere Ambassadorial Mien
In forging covenants with wild powers beyond mortal ken, the Quicksilver Falcons of the First Age achieved impossible feats of diplomacy; their successors will do no less. This Evocation rerolls (Essence) failures on a bargain or read intentions roll made while acting as an intermediary.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Austere Ambassadorial Mien
Broken Thunder forged the integrity of the Imperial Mountain into Baldaquin, fortifying it against the vagaries of chaos and alien spirits. Whenever the wearer successfully resists influence used by demons, undead, or Wyld-born creatures or energies, she gains two Initiative and two motes.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Iron-Compass Soul, any one Charm this Evocation augments
Warping from alien energies cannot broach Baldaquin’s iron defense. (Essence) times per day, the wearer may waive the Willpower cost of Integrity-Protecting Prana, Wyld-Dispelling Prana, Chaos-Repelling Pattern, or Chaos-Cutting Galley (Exalted, pp. 303-304, 330, 391).

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Austere Ambassadorial Mien, any one Charm this Evocation augments
Every plate of the armor echoes with a thousand diplomatic discourses and commercial debates. This Evocation enhances the following Charms as described below:
• Enlightened Discourse Method and Semantic Argument Technique (Exalted, pp. 285-286) add the wearer’s full Bureaucracy score while she is acting as an intermediary.
• If the wearer triggers Empowered Barter Stance (Exalted, p. 286) while acting as an intermediary, she receives an additional Willpower.

Cost: 30m, 2wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Faultless Emissary Method, Golden Negotiator’s Voice
Baldaquin recalls how the Eight Directions Embassy forged pacts between the Crowned Suns and the spirit courts, allowing its wearer to forge similar pacts between any two of Creation’s rulers or governments. Once both rulers or their rightful representatives agree to the pact, envoys and their entourages traveling on official business from one ruler’s court to the other’s gain the benefits of diplomatic immunity provided by the Eclipse Caste anima power (Exalted, p. 177). The pact persists through succession, usurpation, or even civil war so long as continuity of government remains. Once either ruler or ruling body officially forswears the pact, or either government ceases to exist in its current form, future envoys lose the pact’s protection, but envoys currently on official business retain its protection for the duration of their embassy.
This Evocation can be used once per story. If the wearer is an Eclipse Caste Solar, she can reset it by completing a major character or story goal (Exalted, p. 170) in her role as intermediary.

Keywords: Steady
This Solar hearthstone is a yellow gem burning with an inner light. It allows the Exalt who owns it to travel confidently, knowing that the light of the Unconquered Sun will be with her. She has only to concentrate on the gem to make it glow like a miniature sun, illuminating everything within up to a mile’s radius with the light of day. The Exalt can determine how far the effect stretches by concentrating on the gem. The effect lasts for as long as needed. Concentrating to activate the effect is a miscellaneous action, though it can be ended reflexively. Hungry ghosts react to this light as they do to the actual sun.
Health Levels
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-4 [ ]
Incapacitated [ ]

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 / 23
Committed: 10
Willpower: 7

Initiative: 8 + 3i

Dodge DV: 6
Parry DV: 3
Guile: 2
Resolve: 2

Natural Soak: 3
Armored Soak: +8, 7 Hardness
Total Soak: 11

Moonlit Huntress Powerbow
Type: Medium (+12 DMG, OVW 4)
Accuracy: Close −1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1

A Solar or Lunar attuned to Moonlit Huntress gains a blessing from the weapon, which fluidly shifts depending on her standing in the ebb and flow of battle:
• No Moon (0 or fewer Initiative): +1 non-Charm success to Stealth rolls.
• Waning Moon (1-4 Initiative): +1 non-Charm success to disengage actions.
• Half Moon (5-9 Initiative): +2 non-Charm successes to Awareness rolls.
• Waxing Moon (10-14 Initiative): +3 automatic successes to rush and disengage actions.
• Full Moon (15+ Initiative): The character may aim reflexively from up to long range for a decisive attack.
Doing so grants no aiming bonus.
Defining Tie: The Unconquered Sun (Love)
Major Tie: Demons (Hate)
Major Tie: The Circle (Protective Devotion)
Minor Tie: The Immaculate Order (Disgust)

Ryma was raised in a small town far in the East, living up in the treetops to avoid the Fae and other wild animals that prowl the forest floor. As a young girl, she would laugh and play like any other child, and as she grew, her attention turned away from playing to wanting to be a grown-up and to serve her community as a member of the city guard. Ryma would practice with the bow constantly, and soon became a crack shot. Soon enough, Ryma had earned her position as a sergeant in the city guard, and she wore her uniform with pride.

One day, a stranger came to town. An Outcaste Dragon Blood, and he demanded that the town to surrender to him and follow him as the ruler of the city. Immediately the city guard was dispatched to teach this would-be tyrant a lesson. When confronted, the Dragon Blooded called for his special guard: a pair of Blood Apes. Most of the city guard scattered and ran, leaving Ryma to face this monster on her own. Standing her ground, she faced off against the demons and the Exalt, knowing that she stood no chance but still refusing to quit. As she drew her bowstring back to fire off her first shot, the Unconquered Sun suddenly rewarded her courage with her own Exaltation, marking her as a Solar of the Dawn Caste.

Using her newly-found powers, Ryma was able to destroy the demons and win her battle against the Dragon Blooded. Instead of being welcomed as a savior of the town, she was met with fear and anger, with the town guard now being deployed to hunt her down. Her former mates didn't want to kill her, but there was no way that she would be welcome there anymore. Before leaving, Ryma went to the fallen Exalt and claimed his artifact bow and armor for herself. Feeling bitter at the betrayal, she left the East and went north, looking for someplace to call home.
Unified Experience Point Costs
Trait / Experience Cost
Attributes / 10 per dot
Abilities / 5 per dot
Caste/Favored Abilities / 4 per dot
New Specialty / 2
Merits / 2 per dot
Willpower / 6 per dot
New Charm, Spell, or Evocation / 12
New Caste/Favored Charm or Spell / 10

Xp Earned: 55
Xp Banked: 1

Archery to 5 - 8
Awareness to 4 - 4
Dodge to 5 - 8
Willpower to 7 - 12
Stamina to 3 - 10
Merits - 12

Red Shadow Claws · Jun 1, 2024

Name: Oleguer a.k.a. "Words as Weapons"
Gender: Male
Exalt Type: Lunar
Caste: Changing Moon
Age: 36
Totem Animal: Auruch
Tell: The ends of his hair resembles tassels
Limit Condition: An adversary exploits the Lunar’s mercy or compassion.

Attributes
Str: 3
*Dex: 5
Sta: 2

*Cha: 5
Man: 2
*App: 5

Per: 3
*Int: 4
Wits: 3

Abilities
Archery:
Athletics: 2 (Rush)
Awareness: 3 (Join Battle)
Brawl: 3
Bureaucracy: 2
Craft:
Dodge: 3 (In Medium Armor)
Integrity: 3
Investigation:
Larceny:
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 1
Martial Arts:
Medicine:
Melee: 4 (Grand Daiklaive)
Occult:
Performance: 3 (Booming Voice)
Presence: 3
Resistance: 1
Ride:
Sail:
Socialize:
Stealth:
Survival:
Thrown:
War: 5 (Rallying Troops)
Heart's Blood - 1
Backing - 2 (Silver Pact)
Command - 3 (Bull's Eye archery company)
Language - 1 (Native: Flametongue, Skytongue)
Manse - 3 (Hearthstone: Stone of the Ram's Horn)
Artifact - 3 (Pyre of Legions)
Artifact - 4 (Lion Argent Regent)
Fast Reflexes - 3

Anima Effects
For one mote, a Lunar can:
• Make her Caste Mark appear for as long as she desires.
• Make her Tell obvious for as long as she desires.
• Discern the moon’s phase and the precise time of day.
Changing Moon
• For five motes, the Changing Moon lends her words hypnotic allure, adding (Essence/2, rounded up) non-Charm dice on an influence roll. Anyone who perceives the influence will hear her out; leaving or interrupting her before she’s finished costs one Willpower to resist for the scene. This power’s cost is Mute and is waived at bonfire anima.
• At dim anima, she gains +1 non-Charm Guile and adds (Essence/2, rounded up) non-Charm dice on Stealth and disguise rolls.
• Once per day, she can pay three motes, one Willpower when she makes an influence roll to ignore negative Ties her targets have towards her (or her current shape). These Ties can’t be used to bolster Resolve or in Decision Points.
Excellencies
Dexterity, Charisma, Appearance, Intelligence, Perception

The simplest manifestations of Lunar power are Excellencies. Lunars can add dice to an (Attribute + Ability) roll for one mote per die using that Attribute’s Excellency. She may also use Excellencies to raise her static values — Evasion, Parry, Resolve, and Guile — paying two motes per +1 bonus. Normally, Lunars can’t add more than (Attribute) dice to a roll or raise a static value by more than (Attribute/2, rounded down). Automatic successes count as two dice toward this limit. However, a Lunar can increase her dice cap with stunts, adding her rating in a second Attribute — one appropriate to the stunt — to her rating in the action’s Attribute to determine her total dice limit. When stunting a Dexterity roll for a footrace by describing how her striking looks catch rivals off guard, she could add up to (Dexterity + Appearance) dice. If she stunted Guile by describing how her logical thinking revealed no emotion, she could raise it by up to ([Manipulation + Intelligence]/2). As always with stunts, the Storyteller must approve the player’s description (Exalted, p. 187).
Furthermore, the Strength and Stamina Excellencies have additional uses. The Strength Excellency can add dice to a Strength-based withering damage roll before soak, while the Stamina Excellency can raise soak. This costs one mote per damage die or point of soak, maximum (Attribute/2, rounded down). While damage rolls and soak can’t be stunted, players can still raise the dice caps for these with a suitable description per the usual stunt rules, although this doesn’t add any other benefits of stunting. These limits only applies to Excellencies, not to other magic that adds damage or soak. Players must declare these Excellencies before rolling.

Universal Charms

Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar shifts into hybrid form, combining her human self and her spirit shape. Upon purchasing this Charm, her player chooses six dots of mutations reflecting her spirit shape. While in her true human form, she may use this Charm to gain all the chosen mutations. This doesn’t count as being in an animal form for Protean Charms.
Players can freely describe the visual appearance of their Lunars’ hybrid forms — their features might be purely animalistic, like a tiger’s head or dragonfly wings, or indirect reflections of a spirit shape, like multiple arms for a spider or an articulated neck for a giraffe. Players can include purely cosmetic traits, like changed skin color or animal ears, that aren’t represented by mutations.
Mutations: Horns (1), Unusual Hide (3), Imposing Features (2)

Appearance Charms

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

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

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

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

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

Charisma Charms

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

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

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

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

Dexterity Charms

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

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

Intelligence Charms

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

Perception Charms

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

Cost: 3m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar’s limbs flex and warp along unexpected angles to avoid obstacles between her and her prey. She rerolls (higher of Essence or 3) 1s on an attack roll and imposes a −1 penalty on her target’s Defense. With Dexterity 4, the Lunar may attack a lower-Initiative enemy through full cover with an appropriate stunt, but he receives +3 Defense.
Protean: In shapes with a tail, tentacles, or similar flexible appendages, attacks with them ignore an additional point of Defense bonus.
Aurochs
Aurochs are wild cattle roaming the forests and plains throughout Creation, particularly in the South. They are huge herbivorous animals, weighing up to 3,000 pounds and standing six feet at the shoulder. Both the bulls and cows have horns, though the bulls’ are larger, their curves more pronounced. The aurochs’ skull is longer than that of its smaller cattle cousins, and its neck and shoulder musculature is thicker, to support its majestic horns.
Aurochs fight savagely with other members of the herd over food, mates, or anything else that provokes their ire. Several Icewalker tribes consider the aurochs a sacred animal. It is a symbol of fertility and fortitude, representing its worshipers’ ability to remain steadfast in the face of adversity. Elsewhere, the aurochs is a choice sacrifice to local gods and spirits, the leftover meat feeding worshipers for several months, and providing them with hides, bones, horns, and sinews to trade or use for tools and crafting. Nobles and tribal leaders drink from an aurochs’ horn decorated with precious metals and jewels as a sign of their wealth and stature.
In the South, the aurochs is sacred to the war god Ahlat and his Brides. They sacrifice the animals by the hundreds to their patron and receive the blessings of his strength and favor in return. Ahlat frequently elevates the aurochs’ spirit avatars, bringing them to live with him in Yu-Shan as glorious war-aurochs gods.
In some regions, villagers capture an aurochs and pit it against young warriors as a show of the warriors’ skill and bravery. Surviving a gore wound is often as much an honor for the warrior as actually subduing the beast. Farmers domesticate aurochs and put them to use plowing fields, drawing carts laden with trade goods, turning heavy mill stones, and performing other tasks that otherwise require several horses — or strong-backed people — to complete.
During the harvest months, village festivals invite competitors to test their strength against that of an aurochs, piling sledges high with heavy stones and seeing how many people it takes to pull as much weight as one bull can by itself. The village parades the winners around town on the aurochs’ back, both human and beast crowned with the fruits of the harvest.

Essence: 1; Willpower: 5; Join Battle: 7 dice
Health Levels: −0x2/−1x6/−2x6/−4x3/Incap.
Actions: Feats of Strength: 9 dice (may attempt Strength 7 feats); Intimidate: 7 dice; Senses: 5 dice
Resolve 3, Guile 1

Combat
Attack (Horns): 10 dice (Damage 15)
Attack (Stomp): 6 dice (Damage 13)
Combat Movement: 10 dice
Evasion 5, Parry 2
Soak/Hardness: 7/0

Special Abilities
Deadly Charge: Every range band the aurochs moves toward a single enemy in a straight line grants it two Initiative. This Initiative accumulates until it closes to close range with that enemy and makes a decisive attack. If the aurochs takes any action other than moving directly toward the chosen enemy, it loses all Initiative built up with this ability.
Gore: Decisive horn attacks add threshold successes to damage against enemies with lower Initiative, as long as the aurochs hasn’t taken any other actions (including reflexive movement actions) that turn.
Horn Toss: After dealing 3+ levels of damage to an enemy with a decisive horn attack, the aurochs may reflexively grapple and immediately slam him for additional damage, catching him in its horns and tossing him. Make a control roll with its Feats of Strength pool, and then it may throw the enemy out to short range. It can only use this ability once per scene and cannot attempt grapple gambits without using this ability.
Trample: If the aurochs reflexively pursues an enemy after a successful rush and makes a stomp attack against them on its next turn, a successful hit knocks the enemy prone. Apply the Defense penalty from being prone (Exalted, p. 202) retroactively when calculating the attack’s threshold successes.
Invincible God-Beast Hide (Magical, 12m): Reduce one decisive attack’s raw damage by the aurochs’ soak rating. An attack failing to deal damage grants the beast three Initiative.
Strength of the Loyal Beast (Magical, 5m): Aurochs can work for long periods without rest, and require their masters to keep up. The aurochs lends her its implacable strength, allowing her to ignore all fatigue penalties and granting her one bonus success on all Resistance rolls, for the scene.

Merits
Beast of Burden: Double 8s on feats of strength to haul or carry a heavy burden.
Stampede: Whenever a stampeding battle group of aurochs moves into close range with a character, it immediately attempts a reflexive engage gambit (Exalted, p. 209) against her; if successful, she takes one level of automatic bashing damage at the end of each turn she remains engaged.
Stubborn Survivalist: The aurochs’ hide is extremely thick, protecting it from the environment and from predators’ horns, teeth, and claws. Do not subtract wound penalties from its Defense. Attacks made from short range or further reduce their minimum damage against the aurochs by one unless they benefit from an Aim action.
Sturdy as Stone: An aurochs cannot be knocked back or prone except by magical effects or creatures with legendary size. A grappled aurochs cannot be thrown or slammed unless magic such as Dragon Coil Technique (Exalted, p. 280) is used, or if the attacker is of legendary size.
War-God’s Blessing (Magical, 3m): Double 8s on Join Battle and rush rolls. Whenever the aurochs makes a successful decisive attack against an opponent with lower Initiative, it resets to a base Initiative of 4 rather than 3. Treat this as a latent ability while a Bride of Ahlat, or someone else the god favors, trains the aurochs.

Storyteller Tactics
Both male and female aurochs fight when provoked. Usually, they do so to display dominance within the herd, but humans can instigate an aurochs charge with just a bit of teasing. In battle, an aurochs uses its bulk and long legs to its advantage, rushing often and smashing anything that might provide cover to its foes. It fights aggressively and only uses defensive actions to protect its young or at a master’s command. To prove its dominance, it never stops pursuing fleeing enemies until they successfully withdraw or go to ground. An aurochs flees when it takes damage in its first −4 health level. A herd of aurochs is a Size 2 battle group with poor Drill and Might 0, and stampedes when provoked en masse or frightened.
Hearthstones
Stone of the Ram's Horn - Earth, Standard - Keywords: None
When this furrowed brown orb is socketed into a nonranged weapon, it grants the power to strike with enormous force. That weapon gains the Smashing tag. If it already has Smashing, reduce the Initiative cost of its smashing attacks by one.

Lion Argent Regent (Moonsilver Reinforced Buff Jacket Artifact 4)
Spoiler=History]During the War of Gods, one of the most formidable Lunar generals was Lion's Mane. He led the charge against countless creatures of the titans. But while he was successful, his mortal soldiers had to be replenished after every battle. At one battle, he managed to capture Sendaya, the second soul of the Ebon Dragon, a spirit of guerilla warfare, and gave him to his Solar mate, a Twilight named Weaver of Tales, who used Moonsilver to bind the elusive spirit, and then used the Moonsilver to fashion a suit of armor. Once he donned this armor, he was now not only able to keep his mortal troops alive better, but he also came up with strange stratagems to confound his enemies. When he finally fell, during the First Age, it was entombed with him in an unremarkable tomb.
[/Spoiler]

Attunement: 5m; Type: Medium (Soak +8, Hardness 7, Mobility Penalty -1)
Tags: Silent
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: War of Gods

Evocations
Lion Argent Regent counts as exceptional equipment (Exalted p. 580) for War stratagems or actions to recruit soldiers for war.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Lion Argent Regent is always ready for battle, and prepare to attack swiftly, even those hiding from him.
The wielder doubles 9s on Join Battle Rolls and foes in concealment suffers a -3 penalty on their Join Battle rolls.
Resonant: Be Prepared evocation awakens for free, for Wielder who are resonant the first time they attune to it.

Evocations not awakened yet

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
Lion Argent Regent lies in wait to strike at the right time.
While the wielder is in darkness or dim light like the moon light, other characters whose visibility is impeded by it can't notice her unless they have a specific reason to look for an ambusher or intruder in the dark or if she takes overt actions like joining battle or displaying superhuman prowess. Even then, the visibility penalty subtracts successes instead of dice from Perception rolls against her.

Pyre of Legions (Red Jade Grand Daiklave, Artifact •••)

Cathak Falu was never well-loved by her comrades or her commanders in the house legions. She was an adequate but unexceptional officer, never equaling the martial glory of her fellow Dragon-Blooded no matter how doggedly she practiced weapon drills with her daiklave or memorized strategies from The Thousand Correct Actions. Perhaps this could have been forgiven, if not for her lack of social graces, her standoffish demeanor, and her taciturn brooding. She was most comfortable on the battlefield, and spent the rest of her time isolated from the women and men of her legion.
Her fellow Dynasts often wondered why she hadn’t been married off quietly and never spoken of again, and rarely cared whether or not she was in earshot of their questions.
It was at the Rainbow Scales that Cathak Falu, for once in her life, won the admiration of all in her house. The Dynasty lost a soldier, but the invaders lost a vanguard. House Cathak recovered her blade from the boiling river that had been the Rainbow Scales. Now celebrating the former reject as the pinnacle of soldierly virtue, Cathak elders show the blade called Pyre of Legions to their young heirs in its resting place before Cathak Falu’s tomb, her burning handprint still visible upon its hilt.

Attunement: 5m; Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 6)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Reaching, Two-Handed, Smashing (Due to Stone of Ram's Horn)
Hearthstone slot(s): 2 (Stone of Ram's Horn)
Era: Reign of the Scarlet Empress

Evocations of the Pyre of Legions
Falu’s last desperate thoughts were burned into Pyre of Legions when she fell in battle, carved into searing hot jade, and any who wield the blade feel them coursing through their own heart as surely as though they were her own. Its wielder gains a Defining Principle of “I will give anything to protect my comrades” that cannot be weakened or altered so long as she’s attuned to the daiklave.

Evocations not awakened

Cost: 2m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
Pyre of Legions’ loyal soul empowers those that stand with their comrades, such that they may face a thousand foes as one. Withering attacks against battle groups ignore (Strength) points of soak; decisive attacks against them add (Strength) bonus dice on the attack roll.
Special activation rules: This Evocation awakens at no cost when attuned by a Dragon-Blooded Cathak scion.
Resonant: A character resonant with jade may pay an additional two motes to use this Evocation against an individual enemy with lower Initiative.

Cost: 4m, 1i; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Perilous, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Loyalty-Kindling Warmth
Flames leap from Pyre of Legions to guard a comrade, burning away volleys of arrows and pushing back errant blades. She takes a defend other action to protect an ally within medium range. Used together with Flame Warden Stance (p. XX), it extends that Charm’s range to medium as well.
Resonant: When defending her ward against the attacks of battle groups, the wielder gains +1 Parry.

Cost: 3m, 3i, 1ahl; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous, Resonant
Duration: Until next turn
Prerequisites: All-Consuming Guardian Stance
The passion within Pyre of Legions cannot be contained in the form of a single hero — she’s consumed alive, becoming a walking pyre that scorches the earth around her. On her turn, she wreathes herself in a bonfire (difficulty 5, damage 4L/round) that extends out to short range, moving with her. The flames deal her no damage (other than the health level cost). If she activated this Evocation on her previous turn, she waives its mote cost.
Resonant: The bonfire gains +1 difficulty and +2L Damage.

Cost: 2i; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Army-Routing Aegis
The air around Pyre of Legions shimmers and burns with heroism, encouraging ferocious loyalty in soldiers following that awesome apparition. While the wielder is rolled into combat, the mote cost of her War Charms is reduced by (her wound penalty + 1), to a minimum of one mote. Exalted with non-Ability Charms apply this discount to any Charms that deal with leading battle groups or defeating enemy strategies.

Cost: 2ahl, 3a; Mins: Essence 4
Type: Simple
Keywords: Dissonant, Uniform
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Army-Routing Aegis
The wielder’s anima banner burns away in the crucible of the Pyre, leaving in its place a towering inferno that can be seen for leagues. Battle groups don’t add their Size to attack rolls or damage against the wielder, and treat her as a battle group of Size (higher of Essence or Strength) to determine whether they can move past her without disengaging (Exalted, p. 209).
She waives the health level cost of Army-Routing Aegis while this Evocation is active.
Special activation rules: As long as the wielder isn’t dissonant with jade, this evocation awakens at no cost when she upholds a Major or Defining Tie of loyalty when confronting a significant threat alone.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 4
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Somber Pyre Conflagration
No matter how an inferno scars the countryside, it leaves fertile soil ripe for the future. The Exalt ignores wound penalties, and may spend Willpower in place of health levels for the cost of Pyre of Legions’ Evocations. She’s treated as having a −4 wound penalty for Unstoppable Heart-Stoking’s Incandescence’s discount.
This Evocation can only be activated once per story. This may be reset by accomplishing a legendary social goal (Exalted, p. 134). The Dawn Caste anima can’t reset this Evocation.
Special activation rules: This evocation cannot be awakened with experience points. It awakens at no cost if the wielder is reduced to her −4 health level while upholding Pyre of Legions’ Intimacy.
Health Levels
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-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
Incapacitated [ ]

Essence: 1
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 28 / 38
Committed: 10
Willpower: 5

Dodge DV: 4
Parry DV: 5
Guile: 3 (Appearance based)
Resolve: 3

Join Battle: 8 dice (May use Perception)
Rush: 8 dice
Disengage: 8 dice

Soak
Natural Soak: 2
Armored Soak: 8/7
Combined: 10

Weapons
Pyre of Legion (Grand Daiklaive)
Attunement: 5m; Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 6)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Reaching, Two-Handed, Smashing (Due to Stone of Ram's Horn)
Hearthstone slot(s): 2 (Stone of Ram's Horn)
TRAIT - EXPERIENCE COST

Xp Earned: 55/55
Lunar Xp Earned: 0/0

Expenditures
War 3 to 5 - 10 XP
Melee 3 to 4 - 5 xp
Pyre of Legions - 6 xp
Argent Lion Regent - 8 xp
Fast Reflexes - 6 xp
Dexterity 3 to 5 - 16 xp
2 Specialties - 4 xp
Limit Condition: An adversary exploits the Lunar’s mercy or compassion.

Defining Principle: Lead a large army
Major Tie: Worship Ahlat
Major Tie: The Silver Pact - admiration
Major Principle: Seek knowledge
Major Principle: Help the Downtrodden
Major Tie: Bull's Eye
Minor Tie: Harborhead - pride

Background:
Oleguer was born near Harborhead, a member of the Totikari tribe. Like most men in Harborhead, he learned fighting from a young age, but also proved to have a head for strategy. His skills proved useful when conducting raids on other tribes, to capture their bulls, a favored pastime of Harborheadites. But the young man was fascinated by the Brides of Ahlat, even though he knew he couldn't become one, since he's a male.
But as relentless and as determined as he is, he didn't let it fully stop him. He came up with a plan to show off his prowess and skill to Ahlat, and to gain a measure of respect from the Southern God of War and Cattle. The first phase was to conduct daring raids on other tribes, and take their prized bulls. Once he's gathered a hundred of those, he sought to enact a ritual to sacrifice them to Ahlat to gain his favor. But alas, members of the various tribes he stole from has found his hiding spot, and were set upon him to take back their prized bulls, and teahc him a lesson.
It would have probably gone very badly for him, but his antics have caught the attention of another god, Luna, and as his enemies revealed themselves, he was Chosen by Luna, and managed to singlehandedly defeat them. but with a new patron, he stayed his hand from killing them, and even gave them back their prize bulls. It was time for him to chart his own course.
Leaving Harborhead, and not wanting to gain the attention of the Imperial Legions stationed there, and began to head out into the desert. His skill at arms, and his readiness to help those suffering from Dynasts and the Realm has gained him the loyalty of a growing number of men that formed a mercenary group that he leads, the Bull's Eye. And while he's a swordsman, they focus on the bow, to harass his enemies. Together, they have traveled further, helping those who are downtrodden. So, when he heard about a rebellion in Kulinth, in the North, they made their way there. It was there that he met other Lunars, who tattooed him, and with the help of Tegama, he was inducted into the Silver Pact. A strange feeling arose in him recently, and following it, he has made his way further.

Random Word · Jun 11, 2024

Name: Eldtakker Winter Sun

Gender: Male

Age: 24

Exalt Type: Solar

Caste: Night

Attributes

Physical	Social	Mental
Strength: ●●○○○	Charisma: ●○○○○	Perception: ●○○○○
Dexterity: ●●●●●	Manipulation: ●●●●●	Intelligence: ●●●●●
Stamina: ●●○○○	Appearance: ●○○○○	Wits: ●●●●●

Abilities

Archery: ○○○○○	Bureaucracy: ○○○○○	Craft: ○○○○○
*Athletics (f): ●●○○○	*Presence (f): ●●●○○	Investigation: ○○○○○
*Awareness: ●○○○○	*Socialize (c): ●●●●● (Cons)	Linguistics: ●○○○○
*Brawl (f): ●●○○○	Performance: ○○○○○	*Lore (f): ●●●○○ (Alchemy)
*Dodge (c): ●●○○○	Ride (c): ●●●○○	Medicine: ○○○○○
*Martial Arts: ○○○○○	Sail: ○○○○○	Melee: ○○○○○
*Stealth (c): ●●●●○	Survival: ○○○○○	*Occult (f): ●●●●○ (Sorcery)
Thrown: ○○○○○	War: ○○○○○	Integrity: ○○○○○
*Larceny (s): ●●●●● (Heists)		Resistance: ○○○○○

Demonic Living Shadow Tattoos (Artifact ●●●●●)(5m) [Create shadow serpents. They can manipulate simple objects and pass through tiny gaps. Can see through their eyes with concentration, but things in darkness are easily visible while those in light are obscured. Can create illusions out of living shadow. Can waive WP cost on spells of manipulation, control, deception 1/day. Stolen from hell. Owners would like it back.]
White Treatise (Artifact ●●●●●)(5m) [Sorcerous Artifact, source of Initiation. Can buy a second Control Spell. Waive willpower on Control spell 1/day. Can teach spells. Enables short-term temporary variant workings (Scene long? Day long?) with faster creation time. Stolen from the Underworld. Owners would like it back.]
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 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: Supplemental

Keywords: None

Duration: Instant

Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar leaps in and out of battle with nigh untraceable speed. The Exalt may use her (Dexterity + Stealth) to Join Battle. Her Join Battle result also acts as an attempt to enter Stealth. If she beats her opponent’s Awareness-based Join Battle roll, she is automatically concealed, so long as there is a viable place to hide. If her foe uses a Join Battle roll modified to use any other Ability than Awareness, then he must make an Awareness roll to spot her, suffering a penalty equal to the difference in their Initiative, even if he rolled higher. If he fails the Awareness check, the Solar still vanishes from view.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Stealth 4, Essence 1

Type: Simple

Keywords: Mute

Duration: Indefinite

Prerequisite Charms: Blinding Battle Feint

The Solar stalks her prey unseen, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. While concealed, the Solar uses this technique to focus on an opponent. Feeling along the pulse of the world’s Essence, she stalks her target from the shadows, her veins coursing with lethal readiness. With this Charm, the Solar ignores the -3 penalty to Stealth rolls for moving while concealed. In addition, on each round in which she succeeds at the contested roll to evade detection by her mark, she gains an amount of Initiative equal to her extra successes on the roll. When the Exalt senses the perfect moment to strike, she may then leap from concealment to unleash a decisive attack, as long as she’s been hidden by this Charm for at least a round.

For each round that she remains under the effects of this Charm, the Solar gains a mounting -1 penalty to her Stealth rolls, and if she is discovered or if she voluntarily leaves concealment or terminates the Charm without making a decisive attack, she loses all of the Initiative she gained through her most recent activation of the Charm.

Sorcery

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.

Presence Charms

Cost: 5m or 7m; Mins: Presence 2, Essence 1

Type: Reflexive

Keywords: None

Duration: One scene

Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lawgiver embodies virility, magnetism, and grace, empowering her forces of persuasion. For five motes, this Charm grants three bonus dice to all forms of social influence from all Abilities except Stealth. In addition, the cost of all social influence Charms are reduced by one mote, to a minimum of one. The seven mote version of this Charm extends the duration to indefinite.

Socialize Charms

Cost: 3m; Mins: Socialize 3, Essence 1

Type: Supplemental

Keywords: Mute

Duration: Instant

Prerequisite Charms: None

This Charm supplements a read intentions action (p. 218), applying the double 9s rule to the Solar’s roll. In addition, the Exalt may substitute Wits for Perception when she is reading the intentions of a person with whom she is speaking.

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

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

Cost: 1m or 2m; Mins: Socialize 3, Essence 1

Type: Reflexive

Keywords: Mute

Duration: Instant

Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar flenses herself of emotion and expression, shedding her façade to become inscrutable. The Solar may reflexively raise her Guile by one point. At Essence 2+, the Solar may pay two motes for two points of Guile.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Socialize 5, Essence 2

Type: Simple

Keywords: None

Duration: Indefinite

Prerequisite Charms: Shadow Over Day

The Exalt shrouds her mind, concealing her inner thoughts behind fivefold walls. This Charm indefinitely raises her Guile by three points.

Larceny Charms

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: —(5m, 1wp); Mins: Larceny 5, Essence 2

Type: Permanent

Keywords: Mute

Duration: Permanent

Prerequisite Charms: Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise

The Exalt shows only what she wishes to be seen. Discarding all other facets, she becomes a continuous unity of form.

This Charm upgrades its prerequisite, replacing the cost and allowing the Exalt to disguise herself as a specific person without suffering a penalty for impersonating a specific character, or for changing her body type significantly. In addition to the bonuses associated with Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise, it also adds (Essence) non-Charm successes to the roll to establish the disguise.

The impersonation is perfect. It cannot be pierced by mundane or inhuman sensory acuity. Characters are not entitled to attempt to see through the disguise unless the Solar behaves in a grossly inaccurate way. Even so, a witness using Charms or other magic to penetrate the disguise suffer a -4 dice penalty to do so. In addition, should he fail at this attempt, his next attempt suffers an additional -1. This penalty cannot exceed -5.

In addition to these effects, the Exalt may adapt Essence-based visual dynamics not covered by simple makeup or disguise. Her hair might stand on end and crackle with lightning; she might hover inches off the ground or display the anima of a different kind of Exalt. None of these displays are real. That is, displaying a Fire Aspect’s anima will not actually burn anything, though witnesses will feel the intensity of its heat. She may appear to float, but her feet are still touching the ground.

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.

Sorcery Spells

Cost: Ritual, 1wp

Keywords: None

Duration: One dream

Staring into a polished mirror, still pond, or other reflective surface, the sorcerer brandishes a scrap of clothing, lock of hair, or similar symbolic link to another character, using it to gain power over that person’s dreams. The next time the target sleeps, he experiences an especially vivid and memorable dream created by the sorcerer. She rolls (Intelligence + Presence) to instill, persuade, or inspire the dreaming character, as best fits the imagery and emotional tenor of the dream she creates. He cannot apply any Intimacies to enhance Resolve against this influence, nor can he pay Willpower to resist unless the influence threatens one of his Intimacies. The symbolic link to the dreamer is burnt to a fine white ash upon his waking, requiring the sorcerer to procure another before she can cast this spell on him again.

A sorcerer who knows Silent Words of Dreams and Nightmares as her control spell may cast it without needing a link to her target, so long as she has interacted with him in person previously. Once she has done so, she must meet with him once more before she can cast this spell without a link again.

Distortion (Special): Distorting the Silent Words of Dreams and Nightmares requires the opposing sorcerer to find either the character who cast it or the spell’s victim before he sleeps. Instead of having a set goal number, every two successes the distorting sorcerer accumulates before the terminus of the action elapses adds +1 to the victim’s Resolve against the dream’s influence, up to a maximum bonus of +4.

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. Controlling someone in this fashion costs one point of Willpower per individual. 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

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.
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Health Levels

-0 [ ][ ]

-1 [ ][ ]

-2 [ ][ ]

-4 [ ]

Incapacitated [ ]

Essence: 1

Personal: 13

Peripheral: 12 / 33

Committed: 21

Willpower: 6

Join Battle: 7 + 7/7m OR 13 + 10/10m

Dodge DV: 4 + 3/6m

Resolve: 3

Guile: 5 + 5/10m (+1 specialty) OR 9 + 1/2m

Soak

Natural: +2

Armored: 0

Total: 2
Defining Principle: (WIP)

Major Tie: (WIP)

Major Tie: (WIP)

Minor Tie: (WIP)

Minor Tie: (WIP)

Born to alchemical nobility in Grieve.
Always inciting trouble, convinced friends to steal famous pie before feast with an elaborate scheme involving an angry cat, a tumble down the stairs, a haunting, and framing an enemy.
Badly burned trying to steal something from an alchemy lab when young.
Shuffled aside to the assassination and subterfuge wing of the family. Learned much of alchemy and developed a fondness for masks, robes, makeup, and disguises to hide his appearance.
Occasionally served as an agent for the All-Seeing Eye, as his family has for generations. Was initiated into the family cult, worshipping the demon [Insert something story appropriate here if relevant, otherwise maybe Zsofika or that dream trader guy?]
Drew his second breath attempting to steal the secret of the White Elixir from a rival house that had eclipsed his own in influence and wealth since its discovery.
Fled the Wyld Hunt into the Underworld, possibly met Lunar bondmate, performed heists in Stygia and Acheron, learned the ways of the dead, stole the White and Black Treatises and fled to Hell.
Performed heists in Malfeas. Stole a living shadow tattoo from Mara.
Infiltrated Yu-Shan to try to steal something - a relic of Saturn? - and was caught somehow by Sasha. Accepted a deal to work for her in exchange for not turning him in to the Heavenly authorities for execution.
Back in town to steal the secret of the White Elixir and redeem his sleighted honour.
Unified Experience Point Costs

Trait / Experience Cost

Attributes / 10 per dot

Abilities / 5 per dot

Caste/Favored Abilities / 4 per dot

New Specialty / 2

Merits / 2 per dot

Willpower / 6 per dot

New Charm, Spell, or Evocation / 12

New Caste/Favored Charm or Spell / 10

XP Spent: 32
6x Favoured Ability Dots = 24 XP
1x Willpower = 6 XP

Xp Earned: 55

Xp Banked: 23

Eonivar · Jun 23, 2024

Name: Briar Laughing-Shadow

Age: 28
Caste: No Moon
Concept: Lunar Witch/Funeralist/Healer
Spirit-Shape : A white and grey Lunar Moth with the moon in many phases on their wings
Tell: A shadow which usually does its own thing.

Anima Banner:
No Moon Caste Marks burn as empty circles, glittering with silver light. Their anima banners are dreamlike veils of dark blue and purple, tinted with silver radiance at their edges. As a banner’s intensity rises, the blues and purples grow darker while the silver grows brighter and more prominent. A No Moon’s iconic anima might depict her spirit shape, congeries of alien eyes, whirling mandalas of silver runes, vast shadows of uncertain form, or similar displays.

Limit Break: The Lunar offers advice or wisdom but is not heeded.

Backstory:
Briar Laughing-Shadow was born in Skandar-Bhal, and raised like their family and ancestors before as physicians, spiritualists, and funeralists in the School of Pale Sky. Briar was exceptionally smart and learned many disciplines. One dark night under the black new moon. Briar noticed their shadow walking away in the torch light, and his shadow bading for them to follow...and they followed it. After a journey of tests and puzzles, Briar arrived at a dark grove of standing stones high in the cold mountains around Skandar-Bhal, a manse they had never been to before. Waiting their for them, shining brightly, was Luna herself, who bade him welcome and brought forth their exaltation as a Lunar.

Luna bade Briar that their destiny was beyond the sacred gates of Skandar-Bhal despite what their elders had told them. That their Solar-Mate reborn in this life, a man by the name Eldtakker Winter Sun, was in need of their talents, and that their destinies were once again linked in this Age. So Briar that night, gathered their things and had started to leave in secret, but was discovered by Vanamaithri himself, who initiated Briar into the Silver Pact under the No-Moon Caste and then bade them leave and never return unless fate should guide them so.
Eventually they found Winter Sun, and now they accompany Winter Sun in their journeys.
Attributes
Primary:
(C)Perception 4
(C)Intelligence 5
Wits 3

Secondary:
Strength 2
(F)Dexterity 5
Stamina 3

Tertiary:
(F) Charisma 4
Manipulation 2
Appearance 2

Abilities:
Athletics 3
Awareness 3 (In Darkness)
Brawl
Craft
Dodge 5 (Dodge in melee)
Integrity 1
Investigation
Larceny 1
Linguistics 1
Lore 4
Medicine 5
Melee 5 (Whips)
Occult 5 (Spirits)
Presence
Resistance 1
Socialize
Stealth 5
Survival
War
Universal

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

Dexterity

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

Night Stalker Approach
Cost: 2m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Archetype (Manipulation), Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Gleaning subtlety from the shadows, the Lunar darkens
her soul’s light. She mutes all motes spent on a Larceny
roll, Stealth roll, or action taken in concealment.
Archetype: A Lunar whose spirit shape has Tiny
Creature or Minuscule Size may learn this as a
Manipulation Charm.

Skulking Rat Spirit
Cost: 3m; Mins: Dexterity 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute, Protean
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar moves without trace, leaving no sign of her
presence. She rerolls 1s until they cease to appear on a
Stealth roll, conceal evidence roll, or cover tracks roll.
Protean: In shapes with Tiny Creature or Minuscule
Size, the Lunar also rerolls 2s until they cease to appear.

Intelligence

Penumbra Witch Mastery
Cost: 3m; Mins: Intelligence 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental Keywords: None Duration: Instant Prerequisite Charms: None
A student of Creation’s mysteries and those that lie beyond the world, the Lunar’s insight illumines uncanny darkness. She adds (higher of Essence or 3) dice and rerolls 1s until they cease to appear on a sorcery- or thaumaturgy-related roll; a roll to understand or introduce a fact about a supernatural being, artifact, manse, or similar phenomenon; or a read intentions, profile character, or case scene roll opposing a spirit or fae.

Bone-Mending Technique
Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Intelligence 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None The Lunar’s medical prowess drags patients back from death’s door. After an hour of treatment, she rolls (Intelligence + Medicine) at a difficulty equal to the total levels of damage in her patient’s health track. If successful, the rate at which her patient naturally heals non-aggravated damage (Exalted, p. 173) is multiplied by (Lunar’s Intelligence + Medicine + 5) while resting. This lasts until he ceases resting or heals all damage.

If the Lunar’s treatment is based on a fact she’s previously introduced, such as a medicinal herb she can use to make poultices or the healing arts of a nearby society she can employ, she adds (Lore) to her patient’s healing rate.

Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Cost: —; Mins: Intelligence 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent Keywords: None Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any four Mental Attribute Charms
Crossing the Terrestrial Circle’s threshold, the Lunar is initiated into mysteries unknown. She may use Terrestrial Circle sorcery. She learns one Terrestrial spell — her control spell — and one shaping ritual for free.

Ivory Circle Necromancy
Cost: —; Mins: Intelligence 3, Essence 1
Type: Permanent Keywords: None Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any four Mental Attribute Charms
Crossing the Ivory Circle’s threshold, the Lunar is initiated into mysteries unknown. She may use Ivory Circle Necromancy. She learns one Ivory spell — her control spell — and one shaping ritual for free.

Cloaked in Moonfire
Cost: —; Mins: Intelligence 4, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Terrestrial Circle Sorcery The Lunar’s anima banner shifts and warps as sorcerous Essence flows through it. While her anima level is glowing or higher, she doesn’t lose sorcerous motes on turns wherein she doesn’t gather additional sorcerous motes

Perception

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

Unwavering Predator’s Eye
Cost: —(3m); Mins: Perception 2, Essence 1
Type: Permanent Keywords: Archetype (Wits) Duration: Permanent Prerequisite Charms: None
Reading subtle cues in her foes’ body language and scent, the Lunar is ready to act before they are. She may Join Battle with Perception instead of Wits. For three motes, she doubles 9s on a Join Battle roll.

Perceiving the Hidden World
Cost: 4m; Mins: Perception 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive Keywords: Protean Duration: One scene Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar’s senses awaken to the ephemeral existence of spirits. She can perceive (but not touch) dematerialized entities.

Spirit-Rending Fury
Cost: 1m; Mins: Perception 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: One tick
Prerequisite Charms: Perceiving the Hidden World The Lunar’s fangs rend the veil between worlds. For one tick, she may attack or otherwise physically interact with dematerialized characters. If she can’t perceive dematerialized targets, she suffers a -3 penalty on physical actions against them. While this Charm is active, dematerialized characters can physically interact with the Lunar — for example, with counterattacks or clash attacks. She can’t end this Charm prematurely to avoid this.
Necromancy

Ivory Necromancy Shaping Ritual - Hollow Envoy Wisdom

Ghostly possession is feared in cultures throughout Creation, a subversion of the natural order as the dead claw into the hearts and minds of the living. Few but storied are the occultists and mediums who learn to open themselves to possession in communion with the departed. Whether she channels the wisdom of a favored ancestor or makes herself a prison for an abhorrent wraith, the medium cannot help but be changed over the course of years of possession. In partnership or opposition, she makes ghosts’ memories her own and becomes one of the few living souls to know what death feels like before her time — a sensation that opens her mind to the enlightenment of the grave.

Shaping Rituals

Advocate of the Fallen: When the necromancer makes a promise, negotiates a deal, or otherwise mediates with an undead being, she may hallow her word, gaining (3 + his Essence) necromantic motes that she may use on spells that further that promise or which resonate with his nature and passions. These motes refresh at midnight until she fulfills her promise. She may keep only one such hallowed promise at a time.

Bound Soul Wellspring: Once per scene, the necromancer may drain power from a bound or willing ghost at up to short range. She rolls (Charisma + Occult) with (ghost’s Essence) bonus dice, banking one necromantic mote for each success. The ghost is left drained, suffering a -3 penalty to all actions for seven days. It can’t be drained again during this period. She may drain a hostile ghost possessing her as if it were bound.

Ecstatic Service Enlightenment: Once per scene, when the necromancer undertakes a significant or dangerous action to commemorate or appease a ghost, she rolls (Intelligence + Occult) with (Intimacy towards the ghost) bonus dice, banking necromantic motes equal to her successes. These remain until the end of the scene.

Necromancer Spells

Raise the Skeletal Horde (Control Spell)
Cost: 13nm, 2wp Keywords: None Duration: Indefinite
The necromancer unleashes a cascade of purple lightning from her palm, striking nearby corpses. With an unearthly spasm, the moaning dead rise to their feet.
The necromancer rolls (Intelligence + Occult) against difficulty 1. Success animates a Size 1 battle group of zombies with poor Drill and Might 1. The necromancer may improve its Size by spending three extra successes per additional dot of Size, maximum Size (necromancer’s Essence). To reanimate larger numbers, she must cast the spell repeatedly. This spell requires sufficient corpses to reanimate. Nearly a dozen are necessary to raise a Size 1 battle group, larger numbers require a mass of corpses as can be found on a battlefield, a graveyard, or similar site. Zombies persist indefinitely and possess a Defining Tie of obedience to the necromancer that cannot be weakened.
Control: The necromancer may raise a Size 1 battle group of zombies without nearby corpses, calling ancient dead from the ground beneath her feet. Battle groups of reanimated zombies under her command possess average Drill. Wherever the necromancer goes, corpses begin to groan and shift where they lie, their final rest disturbed by her passing.
Distortion (15): Distortion weakens the strength of the necromancer’s bindings. She rolls (Intelligence + Occult) against a difficulty of (battle group’s Size + 1). Failure causes the battle group to lose a point of Size and restore all Magnitude. If the battle group is Size 1, it instead suffers five levels of damage to Magnitude.

Flesh-Sloughing Wave
Cost: 13nm, 1wp Keywords: Decisive-only Duration: Instant
The necromancer shapes a singing sphere of ivory Essence in hand and hurls it down to shatter at her feet, unleashing a wave of shrieking light to cleave flesh from bone.
The necromancer unleashes a wave of Essence, rolling an unblockable (Perception + Occult) decisive attack against all living enemies within range, ignoring cover. Each hit enemy suffers (Intelligence + extra successes) dice of damage, or (Intelligence + Essence + extra successes for battle groups. Damaged characters suffer an additional die of lethal damage, ignoring Hardness, at the start of each of their turns as their flesh seeks to escape them. This ends if a damage die doesn’t roll any successes. This spell also tears the flesh free from all corpses within range, leaving only clean bone behind.

Sorcery

Terrestrial Circle Shaping Ritual - Cloak of Forgotten Midnights

The Cloak of Forgotten Midnights is a sorcerous relic (Exalted, p. 470), letting its wielder initiate into sorcery. Its Evocations create and control darkness, and can draw on it as a wellspring of sorcerous power.

The cloak is exceptional equipment (Exalted, p. 580) for Stealth rolls made in darkness and Occult rolls involving spirits or fae related to darkness, night, or the moon.

As a sorcerous relic, the cloak can be taken at character creation as a sorcerous initiation instead of requiring the Artifact Merit. It has the following shaping rituals:

Mystical Focus: A sorcerer with a mote pool may commit up to ten additional motes to the cloak after a scene spent interacting with it. When she takes a Shape Sorcery action, she may release up to (Essence + 2) of these committed motes to add that many toward the spell. When casting her control spell, each committed mote released contributes two sorcerous motes. This ritual can only be used once per day.

Night-Witch Arcana: The sorcerer can use this ritual while in darkness that would let her make a Stealth roll to enter concealment. Once per scene, when she takes a Shape Sorcery action in such conditions, she gains an additional (Essence) motes. (She doesn’t need to be in concealment). If she has established concealment in the darkness, she’s not limited to once per scene, as long as any targets her spell has are unaware of her.

Sorcerer’s Mantle: Once per scene, when the sorcerer stunts a Shape Sorcery roll by describing how she draws power from the cloak, she gains an additional (stunt + 2) sorcerous motes. She’s not limited to once per scene when casting her control spell.

Learned Evocations of the Cloak of Forgotten Midnights

One With Night
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: None
The night keeps no secrets from the cloak’s wearer.
The cloak’s wearer ignores vision-based penalties from
poor lighting, unimpeded even by total darkness — including
magical darkness. When she makes a Shape
Sorcery roll in such conditions, she adds bonus dice
equal to the darkness’ penalty.
Resonant: The bonus dice are non-Charm when casting
her control spell.

Sorcery Spells

The Violent Opening of Closed Portals (Control)
Cost: 15sm, 1wp
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
The sorcerer rolls (Intelligence + Occult) as a special feat
of demolition against all doors, windows, gates, or similar
portals within a single structure out to (higher of Essence
or 3) range bands. This ignores the minimum Strength
requirement for such feats. Portal that are warded or
strengthened by magic or other extraordinary means, like a
First Age lock, are immune to this.
This spell is as destructive as its name suggests. Wooden
doors are blasted to flinders, while sturdier portals are
blown off their hinges, battered and bent out of shape, or
otherwise rendered inoperable. For those within close range
of a demolished portal, it’s an environmental hazard with
difficulty 3, Damage (Essence, maximum 5) L. Depending on
the portal, the difficulty and damage may be higher.
Alternatively, this spell can create an opening in a wall
or other barrier that has none. The sorcerer rolls a feat as
above to blast open a hole that’s just large enough for her to
pass through, extending up to short range in length. Anyone
within close range of the other side of the portal suffers a
hazard as above.
Control: The sorcerer’s passions influence doors and
other portals around her. Doors swing open exuberantly
when she’s in good spirits, rattle in their frames when she’s
angered, or lock themselves when she wishes to be alone.
She can use this to her advantage, adding (Essence) dice on
lockpicking rolls and feats of demolition against portals.
Defining - The Wisdom of the World must be gathered, even stolen if need be, and used for the greater good
Major - Solar Mate from Ages ago - Eldtakker Winter Sun (Close Friendship/Almost Sibling Like)
Major - Driven to understand and practice Necromancy and Sorcery (Driving)
Minor - The Dead Must be Respected and Taken Care of in the Necessary Way
Minor - The Immaculate Order have no respect for the dead or the living (Hatred)
Essence Rating: 1
Personal Essence Pool: 16
Peripheral Essence Pool: 38
Attuned Essence:
Willpower: 5
Health Levels
-0
-1
-1
-2
-2
-4
Incapacitated

Anima Banner Abilities:
• For five motes, the No Moon shrouds herself in a shadowy penumbra until her next turn, imposing a -2 penalty on vision-dependent rolls against her, including most attacks. This is free at bonfire anima.

• For three motes, she senses the location and general nature of a nearby place of power or occult significance — a demesne, manse, spirit sanctum, shadowland, Wyld zone, otherworldly gateway, sorcerous working, etc. She adds (highest mental Attribute) non-Charm successes on rolls to navigate towards it. The Storyteller should choose not the closest such locale, but the one that’s most interesting and narratively relevant.

• Once per day, while her anima is at bonfire, she can reflexively expend it completely to either gain one Willpower, add (Essence + [highest mental Attribute]) sorcerous motes to a spell she’s shaping, or add a free full Excellency (which counts as Charm dice) on a mental Attribute-based roll other than Join Battle
Merits:
Language - Skytongue (Native)
Merit - Backing Silver Pact (2)
Merit - Language - Old Realm (gained with XP)
Merit - Artifact - Night hag's Braid (4)

Moonsilver Direlash
Attunement: 5m; Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG,+0 DEF, OVW 3)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Disarming, Grappling, Flexible, Reaching
Hearthstone Slot(s): 1
Era: The Eight Directions Embassy

Evocations of the Night Hag’s Braid
This direlash’s Evocations curse enemies with a fae delirium
that echoes Kethara’s curse, sapping their strength
to empower the direlash’s wielder. Its Evocations also
aid sorcerers who rely on spells in combat.
Upon attuning to the Night Hag’s Braid, the wielder
awakens Accursed Lash for free.

Accursed Lash
Cost: 5m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual, Psyche, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
A feverish delirium afflicts those scourged by the Night
Hag’s Braid.
The wielder rerolls up to (Essence) 6s on a withering or decisive damage roll. If she deals 3+ decisive damage or crashes her target with a withering attack, she curses him for the rest of the scene.

When a cursed enemy makes an (Attribute + Ability) roll, up to (Essence) 6s subtract successes. 6s also count as 1s for determining if the roll botches (Exalted, p. 186). The cursed enemy also suffers -1 Resolve and Guile. This Psyche effect can’t be resisted with Willpower.

Resonant: The wielder adds an automatic success on the attack roll.

Merit - Hearts Blood (3) - (Not all forms determined yet) Known Forms: Raven, Wolf, Bear, Orca, large bird of prey, Stag, Butterfly, grasshopper, hummingbird, dragonfly, house fly, spider, shark,
Merit - Stolen Faces (3) - (Not all forms determined yet) Commoner boy, noble woman, non-binary commoner, old woman witch,
Character Build Notes
Charm Selection (15 Charms)
13 Charms Select
1 Necromancy Spell
1 Artifact Evocation

Experience Gained: 55
Experience Spent: 54

Experience Expenditures:

4 - Merit - Backing Silver Pact (2)
2 - Merit - Language Old Realm
8 - Ability Increase +2 Occult
8 - Ability Increase +2 Melee
8 - Ability Increase +2 Stealth
8 - Ability Increase +2 Dodge
8 - Ability Increase +2 Lore
8 - Ability Increase +2 Medicine

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