Dice Into the Ruins - Exalted 3e Characters

Psychie · Sep 11, 2022

Characters will go here.

Standard character generation rules apply. No custom Charms allowed at this stage. Any of the three main Exalted types are valid options to play. We will be starting out in the River Provinces region of Creation, and I have plans to send you East, so have languages appropriate to the region.

Xp Tracker: 79
Lunar Xp: 30
Solar Xp: 30
Sidereal Xp: 30
Aredin: +3 extra Solar Xp

On Attributes and Ability ratings up to 3 there are no training times. Above that and you will have to spend a week of training to justify boosting your rating to 4 or 5. Charms have no training times, since the powers of your Exaltation are gifts from your divine patron.

Rykon · Sep 11, 2022

Name: Aredin Lentier
Caste: Eclipse
Age: 32
Totemic Anima: The shadowy silhouette of a soaring falcon rises overhead, wreathed in a white corona of light.
Supernal Ability: Presence
Limit Trigger: The Solar’s allies suffer a setback or defeat because of a mistake he made.

History Overview
Born and raised of merchant stock, Aredin hails from what was once a modest riverside village of the scavenge. Like many humble backwaters of its kind, the place no longer exists. The entire settlement was ravaged and pillaged by a monstrous band of Fae, and the many that never made it out presumed food for the dream starved marauders. For years since, many other people shared this fate only for the count of survivors to dwindle with each passing meal.

It wasn’t until adulthood that he and his surviving kin learned that these faerie brigands were merely servants bound to an accursed relic in the employ of a depraved cult. The villages a mere sacrifice for their servants or fuel for their rituals and slave pens. Though the relic was broken and the mastermind brought to heel, the cult of the White Wraith lingers in the scavenge searching for other means to recover their lost power.

To this day tales are still told and even sung about a prince by the name of Fahn Credys. Once seen as an honest man, fallen from grace by the hand of avarice and the promises of a gossamer devil, sentenced to chum the waters quenching a smoking ruin of his own making.

Nearly a decade after the fall of the White Wraith, they emerged again in a tomb that Aredin had begun to explore in hopes of finding a relic of his own with which to fight back. He was caught off guard, outnumbered, and unarmed. In desperation the young prince reached into the newly discovered crypt to draw a gleaming blade reflecting the blinding light from his brow.

His victory was not without cost, as the celestial display of his anima did not go unnoticed. Aredin now secures his assets and effects, on the run to stay one step ahead of both the White Wraith and the Wyld Hunt.
Attributes
Strength ●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●●●

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

Perception ●●
Intelligence ●●
Wits ●●●

Abilities
Archery
Athletics ●●●●●
Awareness ●●●
Brawl
Bureaucracy ●●●
Craft
Dodge ●
Integrity ●●
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics ●
Lore ●●● +Ruins
Medicine
Melee ●●●●● +Sword
Occult ●●●
Performance ●●●●● +Music
Presence ●●● +Persuasion
Resistance ●●
Ride ●
Sail
Socialize ●●●
Stealth ●●●
Survival ●
Thrown
War
Artifact ●●● (Beloved Adorei, Orichalcum Daiklave)
Influence ●●● (Merchant Prince of the Guild)
Resources ●●●●●
Languages ●●● (N Riverspeak, High Realm, Guild Cant, Old Realm)
Athletics

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

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

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Increasing Strength Exercise, Monkey Leap Technique
The Exalt draws down on the Essence around her, pulling it through her upper body, her lungs, her core and down into her legs, and then explodes skyward, rising in a brilliant, Essence-laden arc. This Charm supplements a nonranged attack which can be made against aerial targets up to short range, or ground targets at another range band. The Solar leaps at her target, striking with incredible force—damage is doubled after it is rolled. If the Exalt uses this attack to move to another range band, it counts as her move ment action for the round. After striking an aerial opponent, the Exalt may fall one range band without taking damage. Thunderbolt Attack Prana is expressly permitted to be used in conjunction with Charms of other Abilities, and it is suggested that the player use it to create a signature attack that fits the character’s attitude and style.

Awareness

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

Lore

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

Melee

Cost: 3m; Mins: Melee 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt channels Essence through skill, honing her accuracy in order to strike true. Her attack gains one automatic success. Additionally, all 1s are rerolled until 1s no longer appear.

Cost: 1m per die or success; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Excellent Strike
The Solar strikes with telling force, burning Essence surging into the body of her target and shattering it from within. On a withering attack, the Exalt spends up to her (Strength) score in motes before making the attack. If the attack hits, each mote spent adds a single die to the post-soak damage of the attack. This strike has the potential to increase minimum damage (p. 184).

On a decisive attack, the Exalt may spend up to (Essence or three, whichever is greater) motes before making the attack to transfer an equal number of extra successes from her attack roll into the raw damage of the blow.

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

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

Cost: 3m; Mins: Melee 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Excellent Strike
Sensing an opening, the Solar strikes with surpassing speed. Immediately after making a withering attack which lowers an opponent’s current Initiative from a value greater to a value less than the Solar’s own, she may use this Charm to unleash a second attack against that opponent. This second attack may be withering or decisive.

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

Cost: 5m; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Until next turn
Prerequisite Charms: Dipping Swallow Defense
The Solar’s mastery of defensive Essence flows guides her weapon to intercept all blows. Until her next turn, the Lawgiver ignores all penalties to her Parry Defense. The Chosen’s definitive guard dampens her foes’ strikes. Any damage roll made against the Solar takes a -1 penalty for each 1 rolled on the attack roll, up to a maximum of the Solar’s Essence rating.

Occult

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

Performance

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

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

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

Presence

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

Resistance

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

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

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

Ride

Cost: —; Mins: Ride 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt has the talent of a veteran equestrian, knowing a handful of ancient and proven techniques to control, console, and sustain her mount through the most arduous circumstances. Purchasing this Charm provides the Solar with three of the listed techniques, and the player may work with the Storyteller to expand the techniques available through this Charm. Additional techniques can be purchased for 2xp or a single bonus point.

Harmony of Spirits Style: The Lawgiver can spend one mote reflexively to stop herself from falling off a mount. The Exalt can activate this effect when she is asleep, unconscious or otherwise incapacitated, and will not fall off the mount from being asleep or otherwise unconscious during ordinary travel. Against any attack which might knock her from her mount, she gains +1 Defense.

Horse-Summoning Whistle: The Lawgiver can spend one mote reflexively to call a loyal mount to her side. The mount makes its way to her as circumstances best allow. Master Horseman’s Eye: The Solar can spend one mote reflexively when evaluating a mount to perfectly recognize its strengths and weaknesses.

Speed-Sustaining Technique: The Lawgiver can spend one mote reflexively and touch a mount to sustain it for two hours. Effort during that time does not exhaust the creature, and it does not suffer harmful random incidents such as thrown shoes and injured hooves.

Spirit-Steadying Assurances: The Solar can spend one mote reflexively to stop a mount from panicking. For one instant, the mount shakes off all natural or supernatural fear, and may not be intimidated by direct effort for (Essence) rounds, or indirect circumstances for the scene’s duration.

Blood Rider’s Toughness: The Solar and her mount are as a single being with one skin. The Solar will never chafe or develop sores from long rides, and both the Lawgiver and her mount may ride for twice as long without food, water, or rest.

Stealth

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Stealth 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver’s stealth technique is honed until it’s flawless. Perfect Shadow Stillness allows a reroll of any Stealthbased action, preserving the 10s from those results and rerolling the remaining dice. At Stealth 5, succeeding at a stealth attempt with this Charm awards the Solar one point of temporary Willpower.
Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hearthstone slot(s): 3

Auravash the Twilight craftsman saw a need for the daiklave Adorei when he looked upon the Dawn of his Circle, Brother of Brothers, Night of His Heart, whom he considered to be an idiot and perhaps the single greatest reaver the Celestial Host had ever produced. He also saw a man who sowed his oats with gods and devils, spirits of the Wyld and the protected daughters of princes and the select and inviolate priestesses of various cults. Auravash forged Adorei to save the Idiot of His Heart from causing a national scandal, touching off a war, or bringing down the Deliberative on the heads of their Circle.

Adorei was to be the perfect defender: powerful, temperate, and empathic. It would guide the unruly Dawn to true greatness, instilling him with a sense of decency and balance. When Auravash awoke the blade, he heard her sigh with relief to have finally been made, and he was glad, for he could feel the stolid power emanating from the inviolable weapon.

But Adorei fell madly in love with the Twilight’s Brother of Brothers and he ruined the daiklave as surely as he’d ruined the resolve of countless temple priestesses. The Dawn and his blade were inseparable, and she exulted in his prowess, increasing it by allowing him to understand his opponents on the instinctual level, in order to find a way to defeat them.

It would not be the sword to settle the Dawn’s wild heart, but a Lunar named Ashala. But that is a tale for another day.

Adorei was lost in the fires of the Usurpation, and now it sits clasped in the lid of a sarcophagus in a lonely tomb, where its living glow pines for love of the Solar who would carry it into the light of Creation once again.

Adorei has three hearthstone sockets.

Evocations of Adorei
If the Solar who wields Adorei exults in battles, the blade offers +1 to Accuracy upon attunement. The weapon will form an instant Major Tie of affection to a Solar who takes her out of the darkness of the tomb to carry her into battle. If the wielder uses her as their favored weapon, polishes her blade bright and acknowledges her as a companion, her bond will continue to grow until she has a Defining Tie. At the Defining level, Adorei grants one automatic success to all withering damage rolls. At this level, Adorei automatically knows all of her wielder’s Intimacies. Her Defining Tie is predicated on being taken into battle and experiencing her wielder’s battle prowess, and being the medium through which it manifests. After three stories in which the Tie is Defining, Adorei will love her wielder forever and nothing can break or lower the Tie, not even death.

Adorei speaks in the mind of her wielder. She makes her will known through a language of strong emotions and instincts.

Type: Mundane Medium (Soak +5 Mobility Penalty -1, Hardness 0)
Tags: Silent

A heavier version of the buff jacket, the reinforced buff jacket is a common armor among light cavalry, post-riders in dangerous territory, heavy scouts, brigands and mercenary infantry. It is also the standard armor of the Realm’s light infantry.

The reinforced buff jacket is cut along the same pattern as the standard buff jacket, but the shoulders, neck and vitals are armored with swatches of chain or small metal plates. The overall effect is a heavier, more protective armor that isn’t much more fatiguing than the standard buff jacket.
Health Levels
-0x1
-1x4
-2x6
-4x1
Ix1

Essence: ●●
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 40
Committed: 5
Willpower: ●●●●●

Join Battle 6

Parry 7
Evasion 3 (-1 Armor)

Total Soak 8 (5 Armor)
Hardness 0

Guile 3
Resolve 3

Intimacies
Defining(Tie) Fondness for Family
Defining(Tie) I will end the cult of the White Wraith
Defining(Principle) I want to see the four corners of the earth with my own eyes
Major(Tie) Respect for the working class merchants
Major(Tie) Vicious Hatred of Fae
Major(Tie) Comeradery with Circle
Major(Tie) Love of Music
Major(Principle) Butchery of innocents will not be tolerated
Major(Tie) Trust in Gray Stone
Major(Tie) Protective of Mercy
Minor(Tie) Suspicious of Spirits
Minor(Tie) Despises Creatures of Darkness
Minor(Principle) Don't disturb me when I'm fishin'
BP 15
Caste/Favored Ability dots 11pts.
Merits 4pts.

--Essence 1-- (0+)
One Weapon, Two Blows, 8xp (8/50)
Bulwark Stance, 8xp (16/50)
Call the Blade, 8xp (24/50)
Summoning the Loyal Steel, 8xp (32/50)
Ox-Body Technique, 8xp (40/50)
Master Horseman's Techniques, 10xp (50/50) (MHT Techniques: Harmony of Spirits Style, Horse-Summoning Whistle, Spirit-Steadying Assurance)

--Essence 2-- (50+)
MHT-Speed-Sustaining Technique, 2xp (52/125)
MHT-Blood Rider's Toughness, 2xp (54/125)
MHT-Master Horseman's Eye, 2xp (56/125)
Graceful Crane Stance, 8xp (64/125)
Lightning Speed, 8xp (72/125)
Leaping Tiger Attack, 8xp (80/125)
Salty Dog Method, 8xp (88/125)
Speed the Wheels, 8xp (96/125)
Ox-Body Technique. 8xp (104/125)
Motive-Discerning Technique, 8xp (112/125)
Ox-Body Technique. 8xp (120/125)
Fivefold Bulwark Stance, 8xp (128/125)

--Essence 3-- (125+)
Ox-Body Technique, 8xp (136/200)
Spirit Cutting Attack, 8xp (144/200)
Uncanny Perception Technique, 8xp (152/200)
Drifting Leaf Elusion, 8xp (160/200)
Shadow Over Water, 8xp (168/200)
Flow Like Blood, 8xp (176/200)
Reed In the Wind, 8xp (184/200)
Searing Quicksilver Flight, 8xp (192/200)
Reflex Sidestep Technique, 8xp (200/200)

--Essence 4-- (200+)
Drifting Shadow Focus, 8xp (208/300)
Force-Stealing Feint, 8xp (216/300)
Seven Shadow Evasion, 8xp (224/300)
Safety Between Heartbeats, 8xp (232/300)
Summoning the Loyal Steel, 8xp (240/300)
Iron Raptor Technique, 8xp (248/300)
Peony Blossom Attack, 8xp (256/300)
Solar Counterattack, 8xp (264/300)
Hail-Shattering Practice, 8xp (272/300)
Rising Sun Slash, 8xp (280/300)
Hungry Tiger Technique, 8xp (288/300)
Perfect Strike Discipline, 8xp (296/300)
Flashing Edge of Dawn, 8xp (304/300)

--Essence 5--(300+)
Fervent Blow, 8xp (312)
Frugal Merchant Method, 8xp (320)
Enlightened Discourse Method, 8xp (328)
Consumer-Evaluating Glance, 8xp (336)
Irresistible Salesman Spirit, 8xp (344)
Listener-Swaying Argument, 8xp (352)
Harmonious Presence Meditation, 8xp (360)
Majestic Radiant Presence, 8xp (368)
Threefold Magnetic Ardor, 8xp (376)
Awakened Carnal Demiurge, 8xp (384)
Impassioned Discourse Technique, 8xp (392)
Fulminating Word, 8xp (400)
Authority Radiating Stance, 8xp (408)
Crowned King of Eternity, 8xp (416)
Perfect Harmony Technique, 8xp (424)
Mood-Inducing Music, 8xp (432)
Battle Anthem of the Solar Exalted, 8xp (440)
Heart-Compelling Method, 8xp (448)
Soul-Stirring Cantata, 8xp (456)
Stillness Drawing Meditation, 8xp (464)
Trance of Fugue Vision, 8xp (472)
Unmatched Showmanship Style, 8xp (480)
Soul Voice, 8xp (488)

Integrity 2, 2xp
Resistance 2, 1xp
Ride 1, 3xp
Athletics 4, 5xp
Athletics 5, 7xp
---(purchased above/planned below)
Resistance 3, 3xp
Resistance 4, 5xp
Resistance 5, 7xp
Presence 4, 5xp
Presence 5, 7xp
Sail 1, 3xp
Sail 2, 1xp
Sail 3, 3xp
Bureaucracy 4, 5xp
Bureaucracy 5, 7xp
Socialize 4, 5xp
Socialize 5, 7xp
Dodge 2, 1xp
Dodge 3, 3xp
Dodge 4, 5xp
Dodge 5, 7xp
Ride 2, 2xp
Ride 3, 4xp
Charisma 3, 8xp
Manipulation 3, 8xp
Sail 4, 5xp
Sail 5, 7xp
Stealth 4, 6xp
Stealth 5, 8xp
Ride 4, 6xp
Ride 5, 8xp
Integrity 3, 4xp
Awareness 4, 6xp
Awareness 5, 8xp
Perception 3, 8xp
Intelligence 3, 8xp
Adorei-Heart Knowing Blade E1, 10xp
Adorei-No Other Blade E1, 10xp
Adorei-Magnanimous Sunfire Blast E2, 10xp
Adorei-Holy Miracle Strike E3, 10xp
Adorei-Battle Dance of the Warrior Wed E3, 10xp
Survival 2, 2xp
Survival 3, 4xp
Linguistics 2, 2xp
Linguistics 3, 4xp
Occult 4, 5xp
Occult 5, 7xp
War 1, 3xp
Archery 1, 3xp
Lore 4, 6xp
Lore 5, 8xp
War 2, 2xp
Archery 2, 2xp
Investigation 1, 3xp
Investigation 2, 2xp
Larceny 1, 3xp
Larceny 2, 2xp

Role Bonus
Bringing two or more parties with a meaningful dispute to accords, gaining a noteworthy advantage for the character or the Circle through diplomatic means, successfully navigating and thwarting social or geographical obstacles preventing the character or Circle from achieving a significant goal, exploiting a cultural tradition or legal system in furtherance of a Major or Defining Intimacy, bringing someone’s Intimacies closer to aligning with those of the Eclipse or with the goals of his Circle, inspiring or taking part in the creation or transformation of a social institution.
Athletics
Graceful Crane Stance
Lightning Speed
Leaping Tiger Attack

Bureaucracy
Deft Official's Way
Speed The Wheels
Frugal Merchant Method
Enlightened Discourse Method
Consumer-Evaluating Glance
Irresistible Salesman Spirit

Dodge
Drifting Leaf Elusion
Shadow Over Water
Flow Like Blood
Reed In the Wind
Searing Quicksilver Flight
Reflex Sidestep Technique
Drifting Shadow Focus
Force-Stealing Feint
Seven Shadow Evasion
Safety Between Heartbeats

Integrity
Stubborn Boar Defense

Melee
One Weapon, Two Blows
Bulwark Stance
Call the Blade
Summoning the Loyal Steel
Fivefold Bulwark Stance
Iron Raptor Technique
Peony Blossom Attack
Solar Counterattack
Hail-Shattering Practice
Rising Sun Slash
Hungry Tiger Technique
Perfect Strike Discipline
Flashing Edge of Dawn
Fervent Blow

Occult
Spirit-Cutting Attack
Uncanny Perception Technique

Performance
Perfect Harmony Technique
Mood-Inducing Music
Battle Anthem of the Solar Exalted
Heart-Compelling Method
Soul-Stirring Cantata
Stillness Drawing Meditation
Trance of Fugue Vision
Unmatched Showmanship Style
Soul Voice

Presence
Listener-Swaying Argument
Harmonious Presence Meditation
Majestic Radiant Presence
Threefold Magnetic Ardor
Awakened Carnal Demiurge
Impassioned Discourse Technique
Fulminating Word
Authority Radiating Stance
Crowned King of Eternity

Resistance
Ox-Body Technique x4

Ride
Master Horseman's Techniques

Sail
Salty Dog Method

Socialize
Motive-Discerning Technique

jaydude · Sep 13, 2022

Name: Grey Stone
Caste: Zenith
Concept: Warrior Monk/Former sohei
Supernal: Resistance
Limit trigger: The Solar is insulted, belittled, or deliberately frustrated by another character
Anima Banner: Sunlight forms into a golden, gigantic and muscled man dressed in the attire of a First Age monk of the Unconquered Sun. This monk moves as Grey Stone does.

Caste Effects:
- For one mote, the Zenith’s anima leaps from her hand to a corpse she’s touching, igniting it in Solar flame. This power incinerates the corpse and ensures the soul of the deceased will not return as a hungry ghost. In addition, the Zenith may perceive the strongest Intimacies of the deceased and may choose to accept them. When she is ready, she may pay one mote, touching a target of those Intimacies to pass on feelings of peace, love, and assurance, shedding them in the process. She may also transfer them to an object, allowing it to convey comfort or a sense of duty to the subject. Conversely, she may touch someone who caused the deceased to suffer, paying one mote and rolling ([A social Attribute] + Presence) with three automatic non-Charm successes against their Resolve to transfer pain suffered by the deceased back on the one who caused it. The Storyteller is free to dictate the length and weight of such attrition.
- For 10 motes, one Willpower, the Zenith channels her Essence into an aura of divine retribution, surging around an attack. This power supplements a successful decisive attack against a creature of darkness, preventing the Solar’s Initiative from returning to its base value after the attack. When the Zenith’s anima is at bonfire, reduce the cost of this power by five motes and ignore the Willpower. This power may only be used once per day, resetting when the sun is at its zenith.
- For seven motes, the Zenith may order a dematerialized spirit to manifest using a (Charisma + Presence) persuade action with (Essence) automatic successes. All spirits inherently recognize the Unconquered Sun’s authority in the priest-kings and are compelled as if by a Defining Intimacy, but may still have Defining Ties or Principles which counter this advantage. If successful, the Zenith’s very command draws the spirit into the material world, so that it does not need to pay the cost to materialize.
Backstory:
Once a mortal sohei of Lookshy, Grey Stone found his destiny drastically altered during his sixty-third year on Creation, when exploring a long abandoned temple of the Unconquered Sun. Laying eyes upon the temple's altar triggered a vision from that very same god, in which his entire worldview was completely changed, and he was marked as one of the Unconquered Sun's new generation of champions.

Grey Stone went into self-imposed exile from Lookshy following his Exaltation, though he continued to carry out his old duties throughout the Riverlands, teaching wisdom and punishing corrupt spirits. Soon though, word of what he'd become reached the Shogunate Successors, and he found himself up against the Wyld Hunt. One of the Dragon-blooded who came after him was a young Mnemon Dynast who wielded Faith's Pillar, a White Jade Grand Goremaul precious to her house. After shattering his foe's skull with a well-placed elbow and burying her remains, Grey Stone took the weapon for himself.
Essence: 2
Personal Essence: 16/16
Peripheral Essence: 35/40

Committed Essence: 5 (Faith's Pillar)

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

Attacks
Faith's Pillar (10 dice Withering, 8 dice Decisive, Withering Damage 18, Overwhelming 5, Bashing, Melee, Reaching, Smashing, Two-Handed)
Unarmed (13 dice Withering, 8 dice Decisive, Withering Damage 14, Overwhelming 1, Bashing, Brawl, Grappling, Natural)

Actions
Rush: 6
Disengage: 6

Evasion 4, Parry 4
Soak/Hardness: 4/0
Attributes
Strength: 4
Dexterity: 4
Stamina: 4

Perception: 3
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 2

Charisma: 5
Manipulation: 1
Appearance: 3

Abilities
(28 points + 11 bonus points)
Athletics: 5
Awareness: 5
Brawl: 1
Dodge: 3
Integrity: 5
Linguistics: 2
Lore: 2 (Immaculate Faith)
Medicine: 3
Melee:
Martial Arts: 5
Occult: 3
Presence: 5
Resistance: 5
Socialize: 1
Survival: 2

Specialities:
Athletics (Lifting Heavy Objects)
Martial Arts (Blunt Attacks)
Medicine (First Aid)
Occult (Gods)
Merits
Artifact 3 (Faith's Pillar)
Languages 2 (Riverspeak native, Old Realm, Forest-tongue)
Martial Arts 4 (Earth Dragon Style)
Pain Tolerance 4

Panoply

Mnemon Beral, son of Mnemon herself, set the house standard for proselytizing across Creation. His journeys led him to every corner of Creation, then to the secretive cities of the inhuman Mountain Folk below its surface. The Jadeborn do not speak of their faith in their few exchanges with the Dynasty, but they speak of Beral with the utmost respect.

Mnemon Beral never returned home. Faith’s Pillar did. The Mountain Folk carved it out of respect for Beral’s wisdom and courage against the unholy monsters of the depths, and he carried it into battle against those horrors. After he fell in defense of a Mountain Folk city, the Jadeborn entrusted the weapon to his family.

Faith’s Pillar is a glittering white jade obelisk representing the Imperial Mountain, with symbols for the four outer Directions on each of its faces. At the end of its long haft, the pommel bears a sign of the Center, just as the mountain’s roots reach far below the light of day. Faith’s Pillar traditionally serves monks of House Mnemon, consecrated in a Mountain Folk dedication ceremony kept by house savants.

Attunement: 5m; Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 5)
Tags: Bashing, Melee, Reaching, Smashing, Two-Handed
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Reign of the Scarlet Empress
Excellencies
Athletics
Awareness
Brawl
Dodge
Integrity
Medicine
Martial Arts
Occult
Presence
Resistance
Survival

Earth Dragon Style

Cost: 5m, 1i; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual, Earth, Perilous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Unbowed by pain, the Immaculate withstands blow after blow. She ignores (Stamina/2, rounded up) points of wound penalties to her Parry. Against withering attacks, she adds (higher of Essence or 3) natural soak; against decisive attacks, she adds +1 to her Hardness from armor or other magic.

This Charm costs one mote less in medium armor, and two motes less in light armor. While unarmored, it costs two motes less and the Initiative cost is waived.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual, Earth
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Immaculate draws strength from her firm stance. She adds (lower of Essence or Strength) dice of raw withering damage, or doubles 10s on a decisive damage roll. Additionally, an unarmed attack gains the Smashing tag.

Athletics

Cost: 3m or 3i per dot; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar draws remarkable strength from deep within her core. For every three motes of Essence or Initiative the Exalt spends, her Strength score increases by one. Each dot of increase also raises the base damage of her decisive attacks by one. The Solar’s Strength cannot be increased by more than her Essence rating through use of this Charm, and may not grant her more than double her Strength score. Through use of Increasing Strength Exercise, Solars can reach the Strength minimums required to attempt certain feats of strength (p. 229).

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

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

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

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

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

Integrity

Cost: 1m; Mins: Integrity 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Bridge
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None or any 5 Presence, Resistance, or Socialize Charms

Even in extreme pain, the Exalt does not succumb to despair. The Solar may ignore wound, illness, and crippling penalties to her Resolve or Guile for one tick. At Integrity 3+, this Charm can be repurchased, giving it an alternate cost and duration. For five motes, one Willpower the duration extends to one scene. At Integrity 5+, Essence 3+, this Charm may be repurchased a second time, allowing the Exalt to pay eight motes, one Willpower to extend the effect to one day.

Occult

Cost: 3m; Mins: Occult 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Solar can look through the pall of reality to glimpse the realm of spirits beneath. With this Charm, the Solar can see (but not touch) immaterial spirits.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Occult 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Detecting Glance

The Solar infuses her attack with the emotive force of her anima, to strike an immaterial spirit. This Charm supplements a single attack to strike a spirit which has not materialized. If the Solar is not using the prerequisite or another similar magic, this attack is made at -3 dice. Spirit-Cutting Attack may be used in combination with the Charms of other Abilities.

Presence

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The Solar may purchase Ox-Body Technique (Resistance) times. If she increases her Stamina after purchasing Ox-Body Technique, her health levels automatically change to reflect the new rating.
Cost: 10m; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ox-Body Technique

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

Cost: 2m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: None

A life of virtue begins with a foundation of faith. Touching Faith’s Pillar to the ground, the wielder consecrates the ground on which she stands. As long as she doesn’t move from this point, she adds (Essence + the dedicated Principle) to her natural soak and gains (Essence) Hardness.

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Resonant, Withering-only
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Faith Maintains

When the faithful call, the very stones answer. On her turn, the wielder draws Faith’s Pillar through earth, loose stones, or even solid rock, compacting them into a boulder to serve as her hammer’s head. This boulder adds (lower of Strength or the dedicated Principle) dice of raw damage and +1 Overwhelming on withering attacks with Faith’s Pillar. Enemies may attempt to destroy the boulder with a difficulty 4 gambit, ending this Evocation.

Resonant: While standing on ground consecrated by Faith Maintains, the wielder’s withering smash attacks don’t cost Initiative.
Defining Principle - It is my sacred duty to protect Creation

Major Tie - Circle (Trust)
Major Tie - Immaculate Faith (Respect)
Major Tie - Scarlet Empire (Distrust)
Major Tie - Unconquered Sun (Faith)

Minor Tie - Immaculate Philosophy (Disdain)
Minor Principle - I'm interested in being a bit decadent now that I'm no longer an official sohei
Bonus points:
15
11 on Abilities
4 on additional Willpower

Experience:
54 experience
20 Solar experience

12 exp on bringing Dexterity to 4.

12 exp on bringing Athletics to 5 (5+7 exp)
12 exp on bringing Awareness to 5 (5+7 exp)
12 exp on bringing Integrity to 5 (5+7 exp)
7 exp on bringing Resistance to 5 (7 exp)
Attributes
Strength to 5 (16 exp)
Dexterity to 5 (16 exp)
Stamina to 5 (16 exp)

Abilities

Athletics Charms
Ten Ox Meditation
Armor-Eating Strike (Essence 2)

Chowlett · Sep 13, 2022

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Name: Silent Glade
Caste: Night
Concept: Stealth / Sorcery
Supernal: Stealth
Limit trigger: The Solar sees innocents suffering, and is either unable or unwilling to help them.
Anima Banner: Several enormous trees grow and twist around each other, causing areas of vibrant green and deep shadow.

Caste Effects:
- For two motes, the Night can dampen her anima, treating all Peripheral Essence expenditures as if they were Personal for one instant.
- For three motes, the Night can ignore up to (higher of 3 or Essence) penalties to a Stealth attempt for one instant. These motes are always considered Personal, regardless of the pool they’re spent from.
- When the Night’s anima is at the bonfire/iconic level, it wraps around and suffuses her form, hiding her figure and masking her visage in flame. She is merely a fearsome silhouette shrouded in all the hues of evening. It becomes impossible to discern her identity. This is considered a perfect effect, and cannot be pierced by Eye of the Unconquered Sun or other all-seeing magic.
Backstory:
Silent Glade was - still is - the shaman to a small village, deep in the eastern jungles, just a little distance from the river the outsiders called Maruto, which rose - so it was rumoured - near a great lost city. He was born under auspices that marked him for the role and raised accordingly, learning the names and habits of all the local spirits and small gods, along with being inducted into the ways of minor magics, so that he was able to take over smoothly when his predecessor entered his final sleep.

And so he served, hearing his villagers' pleas, treating with the spirits, reading the signs and omens. And the people revered him, but held him as one of their own.

Up until the day the outsiders came. Sailing up the Maruto, speaking that outsider tongue that Silent Glade understood just enough of. The trees, they said, were of impeccable quality. The Dynasty would surely pay well for such fine timber. Logging would start within the month. But what of the natives, should they find any? Savages, all of them. End their bloodlines.

It was at that moment that Silent Glade drew his second breath. Becoming one with the shadows of the trees, he crept towards the outsiders. Waiting, unseen but a few feet from them, he rested his hand on the bark of a tree and was granted a boon in his moment of exaltation - a fine blade of green jade, perfect both for slipping unseen between the ribs of those who would destroy his way of life, and also for severing their heads and sending them floating back downstream as a warning.

When he returned to his village, the inhabitants could see the mark of the Unconquered Sun on his forehead, and their reverence turned to worship. But Silent Glade knew he could not stay. Even here, he knew that so-called Princes of the Earth hunted those like him down, and he would not so endanger his kin. And so, with their faith bolstering him, he once again slipped into the shadows and headed away from them, into the west.
Essence: 2
Personal Essence: 16/16
Peripheral Essence: 26/30 (/40 - 10 committed)

Committed Essence: 10 (5 in Daiklaves, 5 in Belt)

Willpower: 5/5
Join Battle: 10d (Dex + Stealth)
Health Levels: -0, -1, -1, -2, -2, -4, Incapacitated
Resolve 3 , Guile 3

Attacks
Root and Branch (Withering: 15d atk, +12d dmg, 4 ovw; Decisive 10d. Lethal, Melee, Balanced)
Darts (Withering: 14/13/12d atk, +9d dmg, 1 ovw; Decisive 10d. Lethal, Thrown (medium), Concealable, Mounted, Poisonable)

Actions
Rush: 7d
Disengage: 5d

Evasion 3, Parry 5
Soak/Hardness: 5 / 0
Attributes
Physical - Secondary
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 5
Stamina: 2

Social - Tertiary
Charisma: 1
Manipulation: 4
Appearance: 2

Mental - Primary
Perception: 4
Intelligence: 4
Wits: 3

Abilities
Archery:
Athletics: 2
Awareness: 5 (Spec: In low light)
Brawl:
Bureaucracy: 1
Craft: 1 (Woodworking)
Dodge:
Integrity: 2
Investigation: 3
Larceny:
Linguistics:
Lore: 5 (Shamanistic knowledge of the eastern forests) (Spec: Spirits, The First Age, Mortal settlements)
Martial Arts:
Medicine:
Melee: 5 (Spec: Unexpected attacks)
Occult: 4
Performance:
Presence:
Resistance: 1
Ride:
Sail:
Socialize: 2
Stealth: 5 (Spec: Hiding in nature)
Survival: 2
Thrown: 5
War:
Merits
Language 2 (Old Realm, Riverspeak) + native language Forest-tongue
Cult 1
Hearthstone 2 - Monkey Stone (easy climbing), socketed in daiklave
Artifact 3 (Green Jade Short Daiklave, paired)
Artifact 3 (Belt of Shadow Walking)
Thaumaturgist (Free with Terrestrial Circle Sorcery)
Spirit Speaker 1 - (Lore specialties may apply to social actions against Spirits and other magical beings, and to Resolve / Guile against them)

Flaw
Megrims (minor): On a botch, or on falling to 0 temp WP, roll WP at difficulty 1. On a failure, can't spend WP for several days.

Panoply
Root and Branch, paired Green Jade Daiklaves.
Branch is socketed with the Monkey Stone.
Monkey Stone: 1 automatic success on rolls to climb, leap, swing and other acrobatic or arboreal actions. Elevated and Treacherous Terrain is never difficult.

Darts

Chain shirt

+3 dice to all stealth rolls.

10m: Transform into a living shadow for one scene. In this form, she can slip under the space beneath a door or slide through the thinnest crack. In well-lit regions, observers notice the existence of an unusual shadow if they make a (Perception + Awareness) roll at difficulty 3, unless the wearer conceals himself in a larger shadow.

When the character is a shadow, she is dematerialized and can only affect or be affected by other dematerialized creatures or by Charms and weapons capable of attacking dematerialized foes. If the wearer uses such a Charm or weapon while dematerialized, she can use it to affect a materialized foe. Otherwise, she is immune to all materialized threats, although she can be trapped in a room that is sealed tightly enough. The character can wear any armor and take any object she can carry into the shadows with her. However, she cannot transform other
living things into shadow. Once the scene ends, the character must remain in solid form for at least ten minutes before transforming back into a shadow. The wearer must commit five motes to use this artifact.
Stealth
Perfect Shadow Stillness - 1m, 1wp (Reroll stealth, keeping 10s. [At Stealth 5], succeeding with this charm restores 1wp)

Cost: 1m, 1wp
Reflexive, Instant
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.

Invisible Statue Spirit - 5m (While not moving, become truly invisible - but not undetectable to other senses)

Cost: 5m
Reflexive, Mute, Indefinite
Assuming perfect stillness, the Solar fades from sight. A Solar with this Charm can affect true invisibility. However, the Exalt cannot move, nor can she take violent action without breaking this deception. Characters using Invisible Statue Spirit are not immaterial and can still be detected by touch, scent, taste, or hearing.

Blinding Battle Feint - 3m (Join Battle with Dex+Stealth; and Hide if beats opponent's normal JB)

Cost: 3m
Supplemental, Instant
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 fail the Awareness check, the Solar still vanishes from view.

Guardian Fog Approach - 3m (Help another character with Stealth)

Cost: 3m
Simple, Mute, Instant
Through quick action, the Solar may obscure someone with her own efforts to remain hidden. The Solar must be touching the one she wishes to hide, and must herself attempt a Stealth action at the same time. The Solar works to obscure her charge, covering him with her body, shrouding him with her cloak, or guiding him into a cleverly concealed niche. Add half the Solar’s successes (rounded up) and any stunt bonuses on this action as dice to her charge’s own Stealth roll.

Dark Sentinel's Way - 1m (When Defending Other, remain in Stealth)

Cost: 1m
Reflexive, Mute, Instant
While using a defend other action on a subject, a hidden Solar may use this Charm to conceal her defense of that subject. Upon parrying an incoming attack, the Solar flickers briefly into view, then vanishes, returning her to concealment as if she had never left it. The Solar must be within close range of her subject or otherwise using Charms which allow her to apply defend other benefits From Beyond close range.

Smoke and Shadow Cover - 3m (Concealment is cover)

Cost: 3m
Reflexive, Mute, Instant
The Exalt is at one with the shadows, drawing safety from even the most intangible concealment. While this Charm is active, the Solar treats concealment as cover. Mild concealment (such as
hiding in partially obscuring shadows, behind light foliage, or in obscuring fog) is treated as light cover, while heavy concealment (such as deep, full-body covering shadows, undergrowth that obscures all but the character’s eyes, or thick, opaque smoke) is treated as heavy cover. Completely pitch-black, lightless environments count as full cover. Using concealment as cover requires a take cover combat action (see p. 198) replacing Dodge with Stealth unless the character is already concealed. In that case, her hiding place counts as cover until she moves out of it or something happens to obviate it, such as flames banishing the shadows she’s crouched in. Furthermore, this Charm also penalizes non-ranged attacks by one success in addition to any dice penalties the attack might accrue from fighting in low visibility conditions.

Shadow-Crossing Leap Technique - 5m, 1wp (Instantly move 1 range band from cover to cover)

Cost: 5m, 1wp
Reflexive, Mute, Instant
Unfurling her unseen anima, the Solar leaps to join the darkness she has conquered. While concealed, Exalt may move up to one range band, from one place of cover to an equal place of cover, without penalty. There must be a path for the Solar to make this leap: she cannot leap through solid walls or closed doors. This transition is instantaneous, the Solar blinking out of one location and flashing into another without passing through the space between. This Charm is incompatible with Blurred Form Style.
At Essence 4+, the Solar can flash into hiding places that do not have a clear path to move by passing through structures that are transparent or partially opaque, such as windows or gates.
At Essence 5+, the Solar may use this Charm even when she is not concealed, as long as she is moving through places where visual penalties might apply. If she is not concealed and not actively trying to stay concealed, this Charm no longer costs a point of Willpower to use. Crossing a range band with Shadow-Crossing Leap Technique always counts as the Exalt’s movement action for the round.
At Essence 6+, when concealed, the Exalt may move one range band per turn using this Charm, and an additional range band using her normal movement. This use always costs a point of Willpower.

Easily-Overlooked Presence Method - 3m (Become unnoticeable in plain sight, until overt action taken)

Cost: 3m
Simple, Scene
The Lawgiver evades detection by hiding in plain sight. A Solar with this Charm is able to drift unnoticed through crowds or alone. This Charm models her talent for blending in and remaining unobtrusive. When active, characters cannot notice her unless she takes overt action. Such actions include any display of prowess—leaping from the street to the rooftops, braving a snowstorm in summer clothes, etc. Join Battle always counts as an overt action.
This skill does not work against alert guards or those who intend to stop everyone (as with a checkpoint), but can be overcome by magic only if the user has a Minor or greater Intimacy to the Solar or a Major or Defining Intimacy to a cause the Exalt’s presence directly threatens.
Certain Charms may aid in detecting the Exalt. Roll the Lawgiver’s ([Wits or Dexterity] + Stealth) against her opponent’s relevant (Attribute + Ability) or Resolve, if the attacking Charm is based on the opponent’s Integrity.

Occult
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

Action: Shape Sorcery - Nominate spell. Roll Intelligence + Occult; gather that many sorecerous motes. If that exceeds the spell's cost, it is cast. Otherwise, repeat in future rounds.
Shape Sorcery cannot be flurried. It can be skipped, but 3 motes are lost each round it is skipped. Reflexive gathering of motes (via shaping) prevents this loss.

Many spells cast 1 Willpower up front. This is restored if the spell is successfully cast.
In crash, the willpower is not restored; and all spells cost 3 additional motes.

Rules exist for countering and distorting other spells.

Spirit Detecting Glance - 3m (See immaterial spirits)

Cost: 3m
Reflexive, Scene
The Solar can look through the pall of reality to glimpse the realm of spirits beneath. With this Charm, the Solar can see (but not touch) immaterial spirits.

Ancient Tongue Understanding - 6m (Know Old Realm, and other similar forgotten tongues, at the cost of all other languages)

Cost: 6m
Reflexive, Scene
The Exalt expands her knowledge of the realm of spirits to all corners of her mind, shunning knowledge that binds her understanding. While this Charm is in effect, the Lawgiver automatically speaks and understands Old Realm, even if it is not a language she has learned, but loses her ability to comprehend any other language. In addition, the Solar also naturally comprehends other spirit languages as old and strange as Old Realm, languages for which there exists little to no record. While this Charm is in effect, the Solar gains (half her Essence, rounded down, minimum one) automatic successes to all Occult rolls and shaping actions.

Lore
Harmonious Academic Method (Essence successes on Lore+Specialty. Add a Specialty after every Story. After introducing or challenging a fact, add a new Lore Topic)

Melee
Dipping Swallow Defence (Momentarily ignore all Parry penalties. +1i per attack defended)
Bulwark Stance (Ignore Parry penalties for one turn. 1s on attacks subtract)

Thrown
Precision of the Striking Raptor - 1m (Withering: Treat Range as Close. If it was already Close, -1 defence)

Cost: 1m
Supplemental, Instant, Withering-only
The Solar imbues her chosen weapon with Essence, to feel its every angle and weight as part of her body. Its strike becomes an extension of her will.
The Solar’s accuracy is calculated as if it was made from close range, regardless of the distance from which she is throwing. If Precision of the Striking Raptor is used at close range, the target’s defense is lowered by one. This Charm does not allow the Exalt to strike a target beyond the range of her weaponry.

Steel Storm Descending - 2m (Decisive: If beat all enemies at Join Battle, add Initiative difference to attack)

Cost: 2m
Supplemental, Instant, Decisive-only
The character harnesses the spirit of her throwing weapons, allowing her to strike a perfect blow at The Moment of release.
To use this Charm, the Solar must win Join Battle and make a decisive attack. Winning Join Battle means beating the roll results of all enemies present in the scene. Steel Storm Descending supplements this attack, granting a number of bonus dice equal to the difference between her Initiative and the Initiative of her target.
At Thrown 5+, Essence 3+, this attack does not reset the Solar to base Initiative.

Flashing Draw Mastery - 3m (1 auto success on Join Battle; and acts in 1st round as if rolled Ess+1 more)

Cost: 3m
Supplemental, Instant
The breathtaking speed with which a Lawgiver calls a weapon to hand is often the last miracle her opponent sees.
This Charm adds a single automatic success to the Solar’s Join Battle roll, and treats her roll as if she scored (Essence + 1) additional successes for the purpose of determining attack order in the first round of combat. These successes are not “real”—they neither increase her Initiative, nor do they count as dice added by Charm.
Flashing Draw Mastery is expressly permitted to be used in combination with Charms that boost Join Battle results, so long as they are not based in Archery, Melee, or Brawl.

Swarm-Culling Instinct - 2m (For each 10 in Join Battle, re-roll a non-success, and repeat. If beat all enemies, attack [Dexterity] opponents)

Cost: 2m
Supplemental, Instant, Uniform
The Lawgiver answers the call of battle with a swarm of deadly steel.
This Charm supplements a Join Battle roll, allowing the Solar to reroll a number of non-successes equal to the number of 10s in her result. 10s occurring in rerolled dice spark additional rerolls. In addition, if the Solar wins Join Battle, she may attack (Dexterity) opponents, rolling each attack separately so that she may alternate effectively between withering and decisive attacks.
Swarm-Culling Instinct is expressly permitted to be used in combination with Charms that boost Join Battle results, so long as they are not based in Archery, Melee, or Brawl.

Joint-Wounding Attack - 3m (A Decisive attack dealing 3+ damage inflicts a -3 dice penalty for the scene)

Cost: 3m
Supplemental, Crippling, Decisive-only, Stackable, Instant
The Solar marks her target and strikes with deadly purpose.
If her attack does at least three damage, it adds a -3 penalty to all of her opponent’s dice pools for the rest of the scene.
This can be portrayed as a stunning blow to the head, a scratched eye, injured hand, or other similar injuries. Any particular wounding does not automatically heal at The End of the scene; the target may need special care to restore lost sight or use of a hand suffering nerve damage.

Mist on Water Attack - 2m per turn (A Decisive-only attack silences its struck target for Essence turns. Their death is undetectable)

Cost: 2m per turn
Supplemental, Decisive-only, Mute, Instant

The Solar pours the cold instinct of her training into a blade, suffusing it with stifling Essence.
This Charm supplements a decisive attack, silencing the struck target up to (Essence) turns. A victim of this attack cannot produce sound. He can neither cry out nor raise alarm, nor will his fist through a window produce the sound of shattered glass, nor will his body plummeting from the rooftops to the street make even the tiniest sound of thud or splatter.
Characters thus affected may not be detected by any hearing-based Awareness, and those who are killed will die in an unnoticeable fashion, determined by the Storyteller: they may die standing up, reclining naturally, or their bodies may simply fall soundlessly out of sight. In any case, the target’s death cannot be discovered until the effects of Mist on Water Attack have passed.

Spells (one free)
Cirrus Skiff
Flight of Separation (Control spell - can speak to birds; birds have a Minor Tie of fondness)
Spoke the Wooden Face

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.
Mists of Eventide can only be cast once per scene, unless reset when a Mists-poisoned opponent falls into Initiative Crash.

Shaping Ritual: Silent Glade draws his power from his deep connection to the shadowed places of the eastern forests, and the leylines that cross them.

Whenever she begins a scene
in darkness or shadow heavy enough to qualify as
concealment for attempting stealth, she gains three
sorcerous motes, which last until The End of the scene and
can be spent towards any spells she casts. Additionally,
whenever she takes a shape sorcery action to shape a spell
while in stealth, she gains an additional sorcerous mote
as long as the spell’s target is unaware of her. She also
receives these benefits while under the night sky during
the new moon or Calibration, even without being concealed.

Thaumaturgies
Reading the Tea Leaves (greater)
Unquenchable Flame
Exorcism (lesser)

Excellencies
Each favoured/caste ability, and any non-such with other charms in.

1m/die, to a limit of the Attr+Abil in question. 2m/static point, to a limit of half Attr+Abil
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Defining Tie (Protection)- The people of my village, who worship me as their protector-god
Major Principle (Protection) - I will protect those whom the corrupt Realm and its allies label as "uncivilised", for who else will do so
Major Tie (Vendetta) - Those who would exploit and destroy my homeland, particularly The Guild
Minor Tie (Kinship) - Merciful Fire of Emancipation, for she knows what it is to be downtrodden, and her fires echo my shadows

Limit Trigger: The Solar sees innocents suffering, and is either unable or unwilling to help them.
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Bonus points:
- 2 on Stealth 3->5
- 2 on 2 dot of Merit
- 4 on Thaumaturgies
- 2 on Melee 3->5
- 2 on Lore 3->5
- 1 on Occult 3->4
- 1 on Awareness 3->4
- 1 on Socialise 1->2

Experience:
8 XP - Invisible Statue Spirit
3 XP (+ 5 Solar) - Mists of Eventide
3 XP - Thrown 2->3
32 XP - 4 Thrown charms
16 XP - 2 Thrown charms

3 Solar - Investigation 2->3
1 Solar - Thrown 1->2
7 Solar - Awareness 4->5
5 Solar (+3 XP) - Mists of Eventide
12 Solar - Thrown 3->5
(28 Solar total)

7 XP, 2 Solar XP remain
Athletics dots.
Graceful Crane Stance (Ath charm) Attain perfect balance, which lets you walk on ledges too small or weak to normally support you, with no chance of falling or breaking through.
Sensory Acuity Prana (Awa charm, prereq) Enhance all senses. Gain double 9s on all Awareness rolls
Keen Sight Technique (Awa charm) Increases vision to superhuman levels. Among other benefits the Solar can perform difficulty 2 or 3 sight-based tests without rolling, see in dim light and much more.
Keen Hearing and Touch Technique (Awa charm) Increases hearing and touch to superhuman levels. Among other benefits the Solar can identify fabrics with but a touch, hear ants marching outside and much more.
Unsurpassed Sight Discipline (Awa charm, Ess 3) Permanently upgrades the prerequisite. Vision becomes godlike, enabling the Solar to read at a hundred yards, count raindrops in a storm and even see in zero-visibility environments
Unsurpassed Hearing and Touch Discipline (Awa charm, Ess 3) Permanently upgrades the prerequisite. Hearing and touch become godlike, enabling the Solar to listen on whispered conversations miles away, hear an approaching storm and much more

...Melee charms
...Stealth charms
...Thrown dots and charms?

Eonivar · Sep 17, 2022

Name: Maeve (Méabh) Laughing-Shadow

Age: 28
Caste: No Moon
Concept: Lunar Witch/Funeralist/Healer
Spirit-Shape : A raven that is as black as night with small starry like white specks like stars upon a close look
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:
Maeve was born the little sister of Raksi in the first age. Her elder sister was a brilliant philosopher and scholar and selected by Luna to be one of her children. Competition with her sister drove Maeve into studies of the dead and of sorcery. She was prepared to live the life of a funeralist when Luna chose her and Maeve became Maeve Laughing-Shadow. Now a No Moon Lunar, her knowledge and power increased until her heart was taken by the one of the Creators of the Mountain Titan of the East, a Solar Twilight known as Enki the Dream-Maker. Maeve moved to the Mountain to live with her mate became known as the Raven Witch of the Mountain. She rather liked the Mountain and settled down there with her mate.

When the Usurpation came, Meave and Enki had gone to the blessed isle to meet with the Deliberative and talk about his circle's creation and its success in fending off the Fey. A spirit warned Maeve that she was in danger, and she proceeded to find Enki only to find him dead at the hands of a faceless warrior. Maeve fled as the Deliberative was destroyed by a massive army of Dragon-blooded. Maeve returned to the East noting a large host of Dragonblooded heading east. She was met by the rest of Enki's circle who had rallied some forces to meet the host in battle so the mountain could be hidden in the deep valleys and forests of the far Eastern Lands. The battle was fierce, Maeve fell in battle, struck by many arrows and run through by a magical spear from behind, the same spear which had killed her mate Enki...but Enki's circle saved her and sent her comatose form back to the mountain under the Titan Spirits Taru's protection. Maeve was placed in a stasis to mend their wounds and be awoken in a time of need.
Attributes
Primary:
(C)Perception 5
(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+2 = 5 (In Darkness)
Brawl
Craft
Dodge 3+2 = 5 (Dodge in melee)
Integrity 1
Investigation
Larceny 2
Linguistics 1
Lore 2
Medicine 3+1 = 4
Melee 3+2 = 5 (Whips)
Occult 3+2 = 5 (Spirits)
Presence
Resistance 1
Socialize
Stealth 3+2 = 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.

Appearance

Subtle Silver Declaration
Cost: —; Mins: Appearance 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent

Prerequisite Charms: None The Lunar conceals the marks of her divinity to better walk among humanity. While at dim anima, her Tell (p. 133) is perfectly concealed from characters who’ve never seen it before. Even magic can’t pierce this concealment, excepting Eye of the Unconquered Sun and comparable effects. Characters who’ve seen the Lunar’s Tell before can still roll to detect it, but their 1s subtract successes. At glowing anima, the Lunar’s Tell isn’t automatically revealed, instead requiring a roll to detect. If a character hasn’t seen the Lunar’s Tell, 1s subtract successes from his roll. With Appearance 4, Essence 4, 1s and 2s on rolls to detect the Lunar’s Tell at dim anima subtract successes

At glowing or above, characters that haven’t seen her Tell are likewise penalized by their 1s and 2s, while those who have seen it are penalized by 1s

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.

Summon Ghost

Cost: Ritual, 2wp Keywords: None Duration: Instant

Under the veil of night, the necromancer calls forth one of the restless dead to bind them in her service.

At night or in the Underworld, the necromancer performs an hour-long ritual to summon a human ghost of up to Essence 3. A black portal forms above the ritual site, drawing the summoned ghost through, accompanied by a wordless susurrus.

Ghosts summoned by this spell must be bound with an (Intelligence + Occult) roll against their Resolve. Ghosts with Essence 2+ or who are unusually potent — such as specters or sorcerers — gain +2 Resolve against this.

Success lets the necromancer impose a Defining Tie of loyalty to her for a year and a day that cannot be weakened or altered by any means. Alternatively, she may assign a task and a Defining Principle of “I must complete my task.” A ghost is bound by the letter of the necromancer’s commands rather than the spirit of them. If the necromancer fails, the
ghost escapes back through the portal and cannot be bound for the rest of the story.

By default, the ghost is summoned from the Underworld; it’s a typical member of the “type” of undead to which it belongs (e.g., honored ancestor, mortwights, war ghosts). To summon specific ghosts, the necromancer must know a ghost’s name or identity and possesses a symbolic link to him such as a piece of his corpse, a treasured keepsake, or grave goods

Bone Puppet Dance

Cost: 13nm, 1wp Keywords: None Duration: Instant

With a dire syllable of command, the necromancer’s brand blooms on her victim’s ribcage, calling his skeleton to free itself from his flesh.

The necromancer rolls (Intelligence + Occult) against the Resolve of a target at up to medium range. If successful, the necromancer may command the target’s bones for (1 + threshold successes) rounds. Every round, the victim must take a miscellaneous action to roll (Stamina + Resistance) against a difficulty of the necromancer’s (Intelligence). On failure, the necromancer may select one of the following effects:

• The victim’s skeleton twists and dances within his flesh. The victim suffers three dice of witheringdamage as her body contorts, which doesn’t award Initiative to the necromancer. In Initiative Crash, the victim’s flesh tears, inflicting three dice of lethal damage instead, ignoring Hardness.

• She can force the victim to fall prone, make him move one range band in any direction, force him to drop a weapon or object or inflict similar effects by seizing control of his
skeleton at Storyteller’s discretion.

• The skeleton attempts to tear the victim apart. The necromancer makes a decisive attack through the skeleton that automatically hits, adding one die of damage for each remaining rounds of the spell’s duration. The necromancer resets to base Initiative afterward. This automatically ends the spell.

Alternatively, this spell may be cast on a corpse to permanently raise it as a bonesider (Exalted, p. 506) with a Defining Tie of obedience to the necromancer that cannot be altered.

Control: Skeletons that kill their host tear themselves free of the victim to become bonesiders with a Defining Tie of obedience to the necromancer that cannot be altered. Bonesiders born from the spell are loyal to the necromancer; however this does not extend to those infected by the bonesider. Whenever the necromancer experiences intense emotion, such as anger or sadness, her own skeleton twists in odd ways, contorting her like a gruesome marionette.

Distortion (8): Distorting Bone Puppet Dance allows a contesting necromancer to take control of a skeleton affected by this spell (or give control back to the skeleton’s owner, ending the effect)

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.

Hidden Moon Mantle

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1 Type: Permanent Keywords: None Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: One With Night, Subtle Silver Declaration
The cloak conceals its nature, shrouding the sacred in darkness.

This Evocation conceals the cloak’s supernatural nature. Its appearance doesn’t change, but observers feel no differently about its cloth of spun darkness than they do any luxurious fabric, and take its moonsilver for the material’s mundane cousin. It’s impossible to tell that it’s an artifact without using magic. Characters who see through the Lunar’s Tell aren’t affected.

In animal shapes, the cloak vanishes, becoming an actual part of the Lunar’s Tell. In a snake’s shape, her scales become black as midnight; as a strix, her outstretched wings seem to contain the night sky. This doesn’t replace her Tell, although it can alter it — a scar might become a scar-shaped void filled with starry darkness.

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.

Infallible Messenger

Cost: 5sm, 2wp Keywords: None

Duration: Until message is delivered

The sorcerer shapes a small, six-winged messenger spirit to convey her words to another character. The spirit flies with immense speed, capable of crossing hundreds of miles in an hour or all Creation in less than a day—only the boundaries between realms of existence will stop it from delivering its missive. Upon arrival, the cherub is visible only to its intended target, to whom it can deliver a message of up to five minutes in length before dissipating. Sorcerers can convey social influence through the Infallible Messenger, but cannot normally use their Charms to enhance the roll.

Control: A sorcerer who knows Infallible Messenger as her control spell may pay an additional point of Willpower to project her senses through the cherub’s own, allowing her to use Awareness and Investigation Charms while delivering the missive. Having this spell as her control will also cause a number of tells to begin manifesting in the sorcerer’s vicinity, even when the spell has not been cast. It may appear in murals or paintings that she owns, carven amongst the gargoyles of her residence, or briefly fluttering in the periphery of a mirror’s reflection.

Invulnerable Skin of Bronze

Cost: 20sm, 1wp Keywords: None Duration: One day

The sorcerer suffuses the void between her skin and the surrounding air with Essence, weaving a second skin of shining bronze, supple and flexible as silk but cold and impervious as any metal. The Invulnerable Skin of Bronze gives the sorcerer +6 natural soak and Hardness 6, while
rendering her immune to poison delivered through contact. Her metal-armored limbs deal lethal damage and use the traits of medium weapons when she makes unarmed attacks. While her mobility is not normally impaired, she is considered to be wearing medium armor, which might deny her the use of certain Martial Arts styles or other effects. Her bronze skin is also heavy—she will sink in water or mud, and fragile surfaces won’t support her weight.

In addition, characters with an Essence pool gain access to the following powers while this spell is active:

• Brazen Aegis Rebuke (3m, 1wp; Reflexive; Instant; Counterattack, Decisive-only): Even hardened steel recoils from the Invulnerable Skin of Bronze, ringing off its indestructible surface. After being hit with an attack in close combat, the sorcerer may use this power to counterattack with a disarm gambit. This counterattack is both unblockable and undodgeable. • Invincible God-Metal Flash (10m, 2a or 3a; Reflexive; Instant; Decisive-only): When even the Invulnerable Skin of Bronze cannot withstand the force of an enemy’s blows, the sorcerer may shed it in a burst of protective Essence. While her anima is at the burning or bonfire level, she may use Invincible God-Metal Flash to reduce the raw damage of a decisive attack by her (Essence + 5), discharging her anima through the spell. The skin of bronze shatters as it absorbs the attack, and the sorcerer cannot cast it again until its original duration has elapsed. Her anima is returned to the dim level. • Sorcerer’s Impervious Mantle (4m; Reflexive; Instant; Withering-only): The sorcerer’s Essence surges through her armored skin, reducing the minimum damage of a withering attack by one.

Control: A sorcerer who knows Invulnerable Skin of Bronze as her control spell may add her Essence to the soak and Hardness bonus she receives as long as she is unarmored. Even without the spell, her skin takes on a faint bronze tint. She may also add her Essence to her soak when the spell is not in effect.

Distortion (Goal Number: 12): Distorting the spell forces the sorcerer to feel the full weight of her metal skin bearing down on her, imposing a -4 mobility penalty for one scene. If her total mobility penalty exceeds (the higher of her Strength or Athletics), then she loses the ability to take reflexive move actions, and must take a miscellaneous action to cross a range band even under normal circumstances. Distortion also disables all three of the spell’s special powers.
Defining - The Wisdom of the World must be gathered, even stolen if need be, and used for the greater good to fight the Usurpers and all foes worldly or unworldly.
Major - Solar Mate from the First Age - Enki the Dream-maker
Major - Taru the God of the Titan
Major - The Mountain her home
Major - The Usurpers (Hatred)
Major - Driven to understand and practice Necromancy and Sorcery (Driving)
Minor - The Dead Must be Respected and Taken Care of in the Necessary Way
Major - Luna (A Child's Love)
Minor - Raksi - Older Sister
Essence Rating: 2
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 Forest Tongue (Native)
Merit - Ally (2) - Taru, god of the Titan
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.

Night Hag’s Feast
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1 Type: Permanent Keywords: None Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Accursed Lash, Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

The Night Hag’s Braid draws power from the fevered visions of those under its curse.

When a cursed enemy’s roll is penalized by his 6s, the wielder gains one curse point for each success subtracted from his roll, up to a maximum of (Essence + Occult) total. She can spend curse points on spells as though they were sorcerous motes. At the end of the scene, all curse points are lost.

With an Essence 2 repurchase, the wielder can spend curse points as though they were motes to pay the costs of this weapon’s Evocations and of any magic that enhances an Occult roll.

A third purchase, also at Essence 2, lets the wielder spend four curse points in place of one Willpower for one of the above effects or for spells.

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

Bonus Point Expenditure (15 Points)

+3 Attribute - Perception +1
+4 Ability - Occult +2
+4 Ability - Stealth +2
+4 Ability - Dodge +2

Experience Gained:

XP Gained : 69
XP Spent: 65

Experience Expenditures:
3 - Merit - Language Old Realm (2)
8 - Spell - Necromancy - Summon Ghost
8 - Spell - Necromancy - Bone Puppet Dance
8 - Spell - Sorcery - Infallible Messenger
8 - Spell - Sorcery - Invulnerable Skin of Bronze
8 - Artifact Evocation - Night Hag's Braid - Night Hag's Feast
8 - Artifact Evocation - Cloak of Forgotten Midnights - Hidden Moon Mantle
6 - Raise Medicine from 3 to 4 (+1)
8 - Charm - Appearance - Subtle Silver Declaration

Lunar XP Gained: 30
Lunar XP Spent: 28

Lunar XP Expenditures:
+14 Lunar Ability - Melee +2
+14 Lunar Ability - Awareness +2

Wish list
Charm - Intelligence - Shadow-Hands Invocation
Charm - Dexterity - Snake-Finger Style
Charm - Dexterity - Thieving Magpie Trick
Charm - Dexterity - Midnight Phantom Movement
Braid Evocations
Cloak Evocations
Bronze Skin Spell
Fire Sword Spell

Purr · Sep 29, 2022

O Mighty Fat Cat is a loyal friend and a lover of humor, peace, travel, and friendship. He believes in living life to its fullest and he never takes himself too seriously. At one time, he was worshipped by the very people that saved him. Now, he tries to save those who cannot save themselves. =)

This but all cat and no bus... (Image credit: Ghibli Studios) ... topped with a magical howdah!

In his human form, this handsome guy but with a big Buddha-like belly! (Image: AfricanActionHeroes.com - unable to find Artist name. If found, please notify me!)
Name: O Mighty Fat Cat (Nickname: "Da Chonk")
Age: 32
Caste: Full Moon (Survivor)

Attributes (9/7/5)
Strength: 5 (Caste)
Dexterity: 4
Stamina: 5 (Caste)

Charisma: 5 (Favored)
Manipulation: 1
Appearance: 2

Perception: 5 (Favored)
Intelligence: 3
Wits: 3

Abilities (28)
Archery
Athletics 2
Awareness 4
Brawl (Prerequisite Brawl 1 for Martial Arts Merit waived by Psychie)
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge 3
Integrity 3
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics 1
Lore
Martial Arts 5 (White Reaper Style)
Medicine 1
Melee
Occult
Performance
Presence 3
Resistance 2
Ride
Sail
Socialize
Stealth 3
Survival 2
Thrown
War

Specialties
1. Awareness - Join Battle.
2. Martial Arts - Withering/non-lethal attacks (prefers not to kill unless it is something irrevocably demonic).
3. Presence - Raising people's spirits (making others happy/content).
4. Stealth - Evading and escaping.

Tell - his eyes reflect (yellow) light like a cat's does when light is shined into them. Rawrz!
Health Levels
In Human Form:

Your character begins with seven health levels: a −0 level, two −1 levels, two −2 levels, a −4 level, and an Incapacitated level.

One -0, one -1, and one -2 health level (per Ox-body Technique Charm)
3 0-dice levels
4 -1 levels
4 -2 levels
1 -4 level
1 -Incapacitated level
[ ][ ][ ] 0
[ ][ ][ ][ ] -1
[ ][ ][ ][ ] -2
[ ] -4
[ ] Incapacitated

In Deadly Beastman Form and Animal form: ?

Willpower: 6/6
Essence: 2

Motes (see below)
Personal: 17
Peripheral: (42) 19/29 (spent 10 on Taru ritual)
Committed Essence: 18 (so 42 - 18 = 24 Peripheral motes).
5 motes (5m) - Primal Fury Moonsilver Gloves.
5m - Brilliant Manifold Moonsilver Silken Armor/Magical Howdah.
3m - Gem of Incomparable Wellness (socketed in Brilliant Manifold).
~~5m - Spellbreaker.~~

(Core 113) "Your character begins at Essence 1. Lunars have (15+ Essence) personal motes and (34 + [Essence x 4]) peripheral motes, for 16 personal motes and 38 peripheral motes at Essence 1."

For a Lunar, Personal Motes are (15 + Essence), so in your case, that's now 17.
Peripheral Motes are (34 + [Essence x 4]), so that gives Fat Cat 42 motes.

Your committed Essence from artifacts comes out of your Peripheral motes, so they lock up however many motes that they require.

Join Battle: ?

Parry DV: ?
Dodge DV: ?
Resolve: ?
Guile: ?

Natural Soak: ? (? in Deadly Beastman Transformation)
Armored Soak: +?
Hardness +?
Mobility Penalty: -1 (-1 from Carapace)
Total Soak: ? (? in Deadly Beastman Transformation)

You can spend Willpower points to do the following things:
• Add one automatic success to a single roll. You can only spend one Willpower point per roll this way, and you must spend it before you make the roll.
• Increase a single static value (such as Defense or Resolve) by 1. You can only spend one Willpower point per opposing roll, and you must do so before your opponent’s player rolls.
• Reject certain kinds of social influence (see Chapter Five).
• Use a Charm that costs Willpower.

• Two-Point Stunts: A two-point stunt stands above and beyond other stunts. These are intended to be less common than one-point stunts; to be a two-point stunt, the action needs to stand out memorably as a highlight of the scene.
Exceptional stunts on rolled actions are rewarded with two extra dice and one automatic success. Exceptional stunts on static value applications raise the static value by 2. A player might get two or three of these in an evening of play. Whenever a player describes a two-point stunt, her character gains a point of Willpower, up to a maximum of her permanent Willpower rating.
Total per Psychie.
69 Regular XP. Regular XP available: 0!
30 Lunar XP. Lunar XP available: 2.

Regular XP:
1. 8 XP - Impenetrable Beast-Armor (Lunars, p. 251)
2. 8 XP - Perception Charm: Ever-Wary Fox Charm (Lunars, p. 235).
3. 8 XP - Perception Charm: Sense-Sharpening Change (Lunars, p. 236).
4. 8 XP - Unwavering Predator’s Eye (p. 238, Lunars)
5. 8 XP - Stamina Charm: Mountainous Spirit Expression (Lunars, p. 265).
6. 8 XP - Ox-Body Technique (Core, p. 375).
7. 3 XP - Linguistics: 1 (p. 162, Core. Per Psychie, River-speak).
8. 3 XP - Merit - Thermal Vision (Supernatural, Lunar, 121).
9. 15 XP Wings Merit (5 dot, Supernatural, Core, 167).

(9. 6 XP - Merit - Subtlety (retractable claws and wings)

Lunar XP:
1. 6 XP - Merit: Martial Arts (see below).
2. 12 XP - Perception (Favored) from 4 to 5.
3. 10 XP - Evocation: Shifting Wardrobe Evocation for Brilliant Manifold armor (see Equipment on Da Chonk's character sheet).

Note: Paid for 4-dot Martial Arts Merit with 9 XP for the first 2 dots (1st dot for 3 XP, 2nd dot for 6 XP). Then used the 2 Background Merit points (gained by changing Artifacts) for the last 2 dots totaling 4 dots. O.K.'d by Psychie.

TRAIT EXPERIENCE COST
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Attribute increase current rating x4 (−1 if Casteless)
Caste/Favored Attribute increase current rating x3
Ability increase current rating x2
New Ability 3
Specialty 3
Merit new rating x3
Willpower 8
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Lunar Charm 10 (9 if Casteless)
Caste/Favored Lunar Charm 8
Martial Arts Charm 10
~~Spell 10 (8 if Intelligence is a Caste/Favored Attribute)~~
Evocation 10
Animal Latent Ability 6
Bonus Points (15/15. Extra Merits = 7 BP. Stamina from 4 to 5 = 3 BP. Strength from 4 to 5 = 3 BP. Willpower from 5 to 6 = 2 BP)

MERITS (15 points at start, 29 as of 31 Aug 2024)
0. (Free) Linguistics (Native language): Forest-tongue.
1. Charmed Existence: 3 (see description).
2. Hearthstone - Gem of Incomparable Wellness: 4 (see description).
3. Heart's Blood: 4 (p. 118, Lunar).
4. Linguistics: 1 (p. 162, Core. Per Psychie, River-speak).
5. Direction Sense (p. 160, Core).
6. Artifact Weapon: 3. Primal Fury (Moonsilver gloves).
7. Artifact Armor: 5. Brilliant Manifold (Moonsilver Silken Armor w/ +1 Merit cost to become howdah for animal form).
8. (2 Background Merit points plus 6 XP) Martial Arts - White Reaper Style (Core, p. 438).
9. Thermal Vision (p. 121, Lunar)
10. Wings (•••••)

MERIT DESCRIPTIONS
1. Charmed Existence.

Your life is somehow protected, and you do not face the perils that others must. It could be that you are simply lucky. Because of this Merit, you may ignore a single one on every roll you make~~, as though you had an extra success~~. This Merit makes it far more unlikely that you will ever botch ~~and grants you more successes than others might obtain.~~ (Strikethrough mine)

Note: Cost: 3 (normally 5, but per Psychie, reduced to 3 as 1s no longer cancel Successes as they did in previous White Wolf games).

2. Hearthstone: 4 (p. 135, Arms of the Chosen) - Gem of Incomparable Wellness (socketed in Unison armor). - See Equipment.

3. Heart's Blood: 4 (p. 118, Lunar)

Heart’s Blood (• to •••; +•) — Story Prerequisite: Lunar Exalt

This Merit depicts a Lunar with several animal forms at character creation. One dot provides the shapes of around six relatively weak animals, comparable to one-dot Familiars (Exalted, p. 161), and two or three stronger animals, comparable to two-dot Familiars, from a single region.

Two dots provide the shapes of one to two dozen weaker animals, six stronger animals, and one or two extremely powerful animals, comparable to three-dot Familiars, from a single region.

Three dots provide the same benefits as two dots, plus the shapes of two to three additional stronger or extremely powerful animals.

For an additional dot, the Lunar can select animal forms from any number of regions.

For most animals, you can simply use natural animals that exist here on Earth. Foxes, dolphins, gorillas, elephants, ravens, mosquitoes, ants, stuff like that. It can be from any climate, but since you are from the central and eastern parts of Creation, you can more easily justify savanna and jungle monsters/creatures, along with river and Inland Sea creatures.

(See p. 556, Core for details on Exalted animals.)

List of "relatively weak animals."
1. Gnat (what is tinier, flies, and could could go more unnoticed?).
2. Gecko (for their bitty size, climbing ability, and adhesive digits to steal hats with).
3. Little bee-eater (tiny bird with bright colors).
4. Black-footed cat (felis nigripes, the world's deadliest cat, one bad teeny tiny little furball).
5. Sugar glider (petaurus breviceps, for their ability to climb and glide so very quietly. Oh, and they're mischievous!).
6. Monkey (capuchin monkey for their prehensile tails and opposable thumbs).
7. Caracal (larger, faster, and more agile than the tiny black-footed cat).
8. Honey badger (for its versatility, thick hide, and nigh-immunity to venom. Not to mention, their attitude!).
9. Savannah hawk (large raptor with fantastic eye-sight).
10. Egyptian fruit bat (a.k.a. "flying foxes" for their flight, small size, terrific eyesight, and echolocation).
11. Asian small-clawed otter (aonyx cinerius, for its size and ability to get around in water or on land).
12. Black-necked spitting cobra (naja nigricollis, spits blinding venom, delivers venomous bites, 1.2 - 2.2 meters in length).

List of "stronger animals"
1. Pestletail (Core, 567). Ankylosaurus/Paleoscincus-like dinosaur wit
2. Silverback Gorilla (for its climbing ability, opposable digits, and overall fearsomeness).
3. Dolphin (for its overall non-threatening image, swimming stamina, and ability to dive deep).
4. Rhinoceros (battle animal with hard hide and hard hits).
5. Austrech (fictitious Exalted-game Chocobo-style creature found near deserts and Inland Sea, fast, tough, can carry a person or two?).
6. Strix (giant forest owl with 15 foot wingspan, capable of snatching up human-sized prey).

List of "extremely powerful animals"
1. Roc (outrageously huge hawk-like bird capable of carrying away an elephant or a party of Exalted buddies?).
2. Yeddim (fictitious Exalted-game furred pack animal of colossal size; the African elephant has nothing on this beastie!).
3. Armored Terror (one huge and nasty fish 30 feet long and weighing 4 tons. It can take down armored ships!).
4. Ox-Dragon (basically a Legendary-sized triceratops capable of doing massive ramming damage).
5. Tyrant Lizard (the Tyrannosaurus Rex of Exalted, it is everything that image conjures up and more).

4. Linguistics: 1 (Per Psychie, choose River-speak, p. 162, Core)

• Riverspeak: The language of the Scavenger Lands. The Guild has promoted this loanword-filled tongue as the unofficial “trade language” of the Threshold; it is probably the most widely-understood language in Creation. Its written form employs a simple glyphic alphabet whose characters can easily be shaped with a quill, stylus, or even a stick of charcoal.

• (Native Tongue) Forest-tongue: A language family spoken in the East, beyond the bounds of the Scavenger Lands. Its written form consists of a wide array of branching ideograms, connected vertically and diagonally.

5. Direction Sense (•)—Innate (p. 160, Core)

The character is never completely lost, and is able to naturally determine her orientation relative to the five Poles. In addition to always knowing her facing and acting as a living compass, she lowers the difficulty on attempts to navigate toward a fixed, known location or to retrace her steps by 2.

6. Artifact Weapon: 3. Primal Fury (Moonsilver gloves). See Equipment.

7. Artifact Armor: 5. Brilliant Manifold (Moonsilver Silken Armor w/ +1 Merit cost to become howdah for Spirit-animal form). See Equipment.

8. (2 Background Merit points plus 6 XP) Martial Arts - White Reaper Style (Core, p. 438). Per Psychie, Martial Arts now counts as "to hit" in Hand to Hand for all Lunar forms!

9. Thermal Vision (•)

(Lunar, 121)
Innate. Prerequisites: Enhanced Sense (Vision).

The mutant’s specialized sensory organs can perceive heat. She converts Enhanced Sense’s dice to successes on rolls to detect something significantly hotter or colder than its surroundings: tracking an assassin’s movements through pitch blackness, identifying a disguised zombie among mortals, etc.

10. Wings (•••••)

(Core, p. 167)
—Innate
The five dot version of this Merit grants powerful wings(or equivalent means of flight, such as gas-filled bags) and true, functional flight. A flying character in combat moves no faster than other characters; her advantages are in her ability to pass over most forms of difficult terrain with ease, and in the severe trouble many close-ranged fighters experience in reaching her to attack her.
Drawback: In addition to the stigma of mutation, the character suffers a -4 penalty to attempts to disguise herself as a non-winged individual. Actions taken in the air which require any degree of finesse or precision (including attacks in combat) suffer a -3 penalty; drawing a bow or swinging a spear without getting in the way of one’s own wings is more difficult than it looks!

* * *

FLAWS (page numbers and ideas based off of the Werewolf Players Guide)
Flaw: Amnesia (p. 19) cannot remember his own birth name or the names of his family or where he is from prior to his life with the One Village in the Celestial Wildlands. He remembers the faces and voices and possesses only a child's amount of memories about his beloved family. This was taken from him by his time in the Wyld [see Background] and it might never be restored (a fact O Mighty Fat Cat has come to sadly live with).

Flaw: Enemy (p. 24) The Boss [see Background] cannot forgive what happened to him and continues to hunt "the biggest fattest Chonk in all of Creation!! I will have my revenge!" O Mighty Fat Cat does not know his old enemy seeks revenge upon him. At least, not yet). =)

Flaw: Scholastically-deprived Upbringing (p. 24, based off of Twisted Upbringing). O Mighty Fat Cat was first raised by his educated parents as a child, but later raised by jungle natives [see Background]. Because of this, his scholastic education has suffered. He is literate and knows basic concepts that most schooled people know, but there are holes in his knowledge. Things school-educated characters take for granted are sometimes unknown to O Mighty Fat Cat. As such, he comes across as someone who [like his Player] knows only a little about Creation or even the lands where he was born. He knows nothing of politics or the names of some countries).
Charm List
1. Hybrid Body Transformation (p. 143, Lunars)
2. Beast Form Empowerment (p. 143, Lunars)
3. Deadly Beastman Transformation (p. 269, Lunars)
4. Emerald Grasshopper Form (p. 179, Lunars)
5. Towering Beast Form (p. 264, Lunars, required for Fat Cat form per Psychie)
6. Ox-body Technique (p. 375, Core) TAKEN TWICE
7. Unwavering Predator’s Eye (p. 238, Lunars)
8. Glance-Oration Technique (p. 145, Lunars)
9. Wolf-Eye Advantage (p. 238, Lunars)
10. Terrifying Ogre Alteration (p. 269, Lunars)
11. Finding the Needle’s Eye (p. 180, Lunars)
12. White Reaper Style Martial Arts Charm: Falling Scythe Flash (Core, p. 438).
13. Agile Beast Defense (p. 185, Lunar)
14. Instinct-Driven Beast Movement (p. 189, Lunar)
15. Lodestone Reckoning Manner (p. 287, Lunar)
16. Ever-Wary Fox Technique (p. 236, Lunars).
17. Mountainous Spirit Expression (Lunars, p. 265)
18. Sense-Sharpening Change (Lunars, p. 236)
19. Sinuous Striking Grace (Lunars, p. 181)
20. Impenetrable Beast-Armor (p. 251, Lunars)

Charm Descriptions
1. Hybrid Body Transformation (Lunars, p. 143)

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.

2. Beast Form Empowerment (Lunars, p. 143)

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Hybrid Body Transformation

The Lunar’s hybrid form grows increasingly bestial, reflecting more of her spirit shape’s nature. She chooses an additional six dots of mutations reflecting her spirit shape to those she gains when using Hybrid Body Transformation. This Charm’s mutations are incompatible with those conferred by Chimera-Soul Expression. If the Lunar knows both, she must choose which one applies its mutations when she uses Hybrid Body Transformation.

3. Deadly Beastman Transformation (Lunars, p. 269)

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Strength 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Hybrid Body Transformation

Flesh and Essence swelling with the unleashed power of her almighty rage, the Lunar assumes a dread warform. To use this Charm, Hybrid Body Transformation (p. 143) must be active. The Lunar gains the following benefits: • She adds (Strength) to the raw damage of her withering attacks. • She adds (Strength) dice on feats of strength and movement actions. • She adds (Strength) natural soak. • She treats her Strength as (Essence) higher for determining what feats of strength she may attempt.

However, the Lunar suffers the following drawbacks in this state: • She suffers a −1 Defense penalty that can’t be negated. • She loses the benefits of resonance with artifacts, and becomes dissonant with any artifact she’s not normally resonant with.

Special activation rules: When the Lunar uses Hybrid Body Transformation, she may reflexively activate this Charm.

4. Emerald Grasshopper Form (Lunars, p. 179)

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.

5. Towering Beast Form (Lunars, p. 264, required for Fat Cat form per Psychie)

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

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

Archetype: A Lunar whose spirit shape has Legendary Size may learn this as a Stamina Charm.

6. Ox-Body Technique (Core, p. 375)

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.

7. Unwavering Predator’s Eye (Lunars, p. 238)

Cost: —(3m);
Mins: Perception 2, Essence
1Type: 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.
Archetype: Lunars with predatory spirit shapes may learn this as a Wits Charm.

8. Glance-Oration Technique (Lunars, p. 145)

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

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

9. Wolf-Eye Advantage (Lunars, p. 238)

Cost: 2m;
Mins: Perception 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Archetype (Wits)
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Sense-Sharpening Change, Unwavering Predator’s Eye
Essence refines the Lunar’s senses in battle, eliminating flaws in her awareness. She rerolls 1s until they cease to appear on a Join Battle roll or a roll opposing Stealth in combat. While Sense-Sharpening Change is active, beating an enemy’s Stealth roll in combat awards the Lunar one Initiative.

10. Terrifying Ogre Alteration (Lunars, p. 269)

Cost: —; Mins: Strength 5, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Deadly Beastman Transformation

The Lunar refines her war-form, unleashing the full power of the beast within. Upon purchasing this Charm, she chooses four dots of mutations reflecting her spirit shape. She gains them while Deadly Beastman Transformation is active.

11. Finding the Needle’s Eye (Lunars, p. 180)

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 reroll an additional 1.

12. Impenetrable Beast-Armor (Lunars, p. 251)

Cost: 3m; Mins: Stamina 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar thickens her skin, forming a thick hide, bony plates, or tough scales. She adds (higher of Essence or 3) natural soak against a withering attack or gains Hardness (Stamina) against a decisive attack.

13. Agile Beast Defense (Lunars, p. 185)

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

Reflexes honed by Essence, the Lunar defends faster than her foes can imagine. Successfully defending against an attack grants one Initiative, and she can parry lethal damage barehanded. If her attacker’s Initiative is lower than hers or he rolls any 1s, she gains +1 Defense.

Protean: In shapes with Tiny Creature or Minuscule Size, this Charm may be declared after the attack roll.

14. Instinct-Driven Beast Movement (Lunars, p. 189)

Instinct-Driven Beast Movement
Cost: 2m; Mins: Dexterity 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Protean
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar moves in a blur of superhuman speed. She adds a success to a movement action or an interval of a speed-based extended action. Succeeding on an opposed roll in combat grants one Initiative.

Protean: In animal shapes with Speed Bonuses, the Initiative awarded to the Lunar for a successful opposed roll is stripped from one of the characters opposing her (her choice).

15. Lodestone Reckoning Manner (Lunars, p. 287)

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Wits 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Archetype (Perception)
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None

Uncharted lands and perilous seas yield their secrets to the wayfaring Lunar. She spends a scene plotting a course and rolls (Wits + [Sail or Survival]) with (higher of Essence or 3) bonus dice and double 9s, banking all successes. She may add up to (Essence) banked successes as non-Charm successes on Survival rolls to forage or find shelter along the journey, or Sail rolls to navigate hazards at sea. This Charm can only be used once per journey. It ends once all banked successes are spent.

A Wits 5 repurchase doubles 8s on this Charm’s roll, and lets the Lunar use it instantly, without needing to plot a course; the banked successes, and any Charms enhancing Lodestone Reckoning Manner, are available to her whenever she travels. She can only do so once per day.

Archetype: A Lunar whose spirit shape is migratory can learn this as a Perception Charm.

16. Ever-Wary Fox Technique (Lunars, p. 236)

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.

17. Mountainous Spirit Expression (Lunars, p. 265)

Cost: —; Mins: Strength 5, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Archetype (Stamina)
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Towering Beast Form
Suffusing her body with illimitable beast-power, the Lunar grows unto a gigantic monster of myth. She may activate Towering Beast Form to grant her current shape Legendary Size instead of changing into a different form. Clothing and moonsilver artifacts rescale with her for this Charm’s duration; equipment incompatible with her increased size vanishes Elsewhere.

18. Sense-Sharpening Change (Lunars, p. 236)

Cost: 4m (or 1m); Mins: Perception 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar shifts her body to hone one of her senses. She chooses a single sense, rerolling 1s until they cease to appear on Perception rolls using it, and ignoring (Essence) points of penalty from overstimulation or under stimulation of that sense even on non-Perception rolls. She could ignore penalties to vision caused by darkness or blinding light, but not by fog or distance. The Lunar may stack this Charm to enhance different senses. The cost of activations beyond the first is reduced to one mote.

19. Sinuous Striking Grace (Lunars, p. 181)

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

Note: Perception - follow the Sense-Sharpening Change track for nice goodies like the following three. =)

Argent Goddess Eye
Cost: —;
Mins: Perception 3, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Sense-Sharpening Change
Seeing the world around her with utter clarity, the Lunar draws power from the perfection of her senses. When she succeeds on a Perception roll to detect a concealed enemy or hidden danger, she gains motes equal to the 9s and 10s on her roll. This can’t exceed the number of motes spent enhancing the roll. If the Lunar knows Understanding the Prey (p. 242), this Charm also benefits read intentions and profile character rolls.

More Charms worth considering.
Bear Sleep Technique (p. 256, Lunars)
Bending Before the Storm (p. 185, Lunar)
Bounding Bharal Technique (p. 275, Lunar)
Coiled Serpent Strikes (p. 186, Lunar)
Ferocious Biting Tooth (p. 266, Lunars)
Graceful Crane Stance (p. 188, Lunars)
Halting the Scarlet Flow (p. 256, Lunars)
Magpie’s Nest Resourcefulness (p. 289, Lunars)
Spider-Climbing Attitude (p. 189, Lunars)
Squirrel’s Cunning Technique (p. 290, Lunars)
Weapon-Snatching Coils (p. 180, Lunars)
MUTATIONS (16/16) - Useable with Spirit Shape/Fat Cat/Totem Form per Psychie.
1. Carapace/Shell (••) (p. 119, Lunar)
2. Claws & Fangs (•) (p. 165, Core)
3. Deadly Weaponry (•) (p. 119, Lunar)
4. Enhanced Sense - Sight (•••) (p. 165, Core)
5. Fleet of Foot (••••) (p. 161, Core) 4
6. Night Vision (••) (p. 120, Lunar) 2
7. Tail (•) (p. 166, Core)
8. Unusual Hide (••) (p. 166, Core) 2

1. Carapace/Shell (••) (p. 119, Lunar)

Innate. Prerequisite: Unusual Hide ••
The mutant has bulky armor of bone or chitin, a turtle’s shell, or pangolin-like armored plates. Soak from Unusual Hide is doubled but counts as armored soak. It explicitly stacks with soak from worn armor. She gains (Unusual Hide) Hardness.

Drawback: The mutant counts as wearing medium armor, and suffers a −1 mobility penalty in addition to any from other armor.

2. Claws & Fangs (•) (p. 165, Core) (Retractable per Subtlety.)

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

Drawback: Natural weaponry granted by the four-dot version of this Merit imposes a -1 penalty on disguise attempts.

3. Deadly Weaponry (•) (p. 119, Lunar) (Retractable per Subtlety.)

Innate. Prerequisite: Claws/Fangs/Hooves/Horns or other natural weapons.

This mutation depicts especially dangerous natural weapons: long claws, piercing tusks, a stinging tail, etc. One of the mutant’s natural attacks gains one of the Balanced, Chopping, Disarming, Flexible, Piercing, or Smashing tags. With four-dot natural weaponry, she applies two tags. This mutation can be purchased multiple times to enhance different natural weapons, but can’t enhance the same natural weapon multiple times.

4. Enhanced Sense - Sight (•••) (p. 165, Core)

Innate. One of the character’s senses becomes preternaturally acute, like that of a wild animal. The character adds two dice to all Perception rolls related to that sense.

Drawback: This Merit is physically obvious in unusual eye color or shape, large ears, an elongated nose, or some other similar mutation.

5. Fleet of Foot (••••) (p. 161, Core)

Fleet of Foot (••••)
Purchased Prerequisite: Dexterity •••

The character is particularly swift and nimble, moving through the world like a shadow racing the light. She adds one additional die to all rolls depending on sheer foot speed, most notably rush, disengage, and withdraw actions (see p. 197-199).

6. Night Vision (••) (p. 120, Lunar)

Innate. The mutant’s eyes are adapted to darkness, halving penalties or increased difficulty, rounded down, from darkness or low-light environments.

7. Tail (•) (p. 166, Core)

Tail (• to ••)
Innate. The character has a tail, which might be scaly, furred, tufted, or fleshy like a rat. For one dot, the tail adds two dice to attempts to maintain balance. For two dots, the tail is also prehensile, and may act as a fully functional limb, although it suffers a -1 off-hand penalty. The tail may be hidden under clothes, although this negates its benefits

8. Unusual Hide (••) (p. 166, Core)

Unusual Hide (• to •••••)
Innate. One of the most common mutations bestowed by the Wyld, this Merit grants an unusually resilient hide of some sort. The character gains additional points of natural soak equal to the Merit’s value. One or two dots generally represents fur, feathers, leaves, or light scales. Three dots indicate flesh far beyond the human norm—the leathery hide of a rhino or crocodile, or the exoskeletal carapace of an insect, perhaps. Four or five dots grant an armored hide which may be made of bony armor, an obsidian carapace, or perhaps even a body of living stone.

Drawback: The character obviously looks like a Wyld mutant, with all the stigma that accompanies such status, and suffers a penalty equal to her rating in this Merit on all disguise rolls to pass for normal.

9. Subtlety (want retractable claws? Need this to do it.) (p. 166, Core)

Subtlety (••)
Innate
Prerequisite: Another physically obvious Supernatural Merit, such as claws, quills, or extra limbs.

This Merit may be purchased as many times as desired. Subtlety must be attached to another already-purchased Supernatural Merit; it makes that Merit non-obvious to observers when not in use. Examples might include fully retractable claws, extra limbs which fold up into easily-concealed pouches or cavities on the character’s body, or gills that close up tight enough to be invisible when not in use. The Wyld is rarely kind enough to bestow this Merit on those who feel its touch; it is most commonly granted as a blessing of the Fair Folk to their human servants, though some sorcerers have also studied the art of infusing subtlety into the works of the Wyld.

10. Wings! (Retractable per Subtlety.)

Future Mutations

Bounding Legs (•••) (p. 119, Lunar)
Hypermobility (••) (p. 120, Lunar)
Silent Movement (p. 121, Lunar)
Wall Walking (••••) (p. 167, Core)

* * *

O Mighty Fat Cat in Spirit Animal Form. (see Great Cat in p. 565 in Exalted Core book. See also p. 131 in Lunars book for Animal details). =)

Strength Feats of Strength 5 or higher.
Evasion: 4
Parry: 4

Special Abilities
Ambush Hunter: The great cat adds three dice on all attack rolls made from stealth.

Leaping Pounce

If a great cat moves into close range with an enemy of the same size or smaller and deals 5+ damage to it with a withering attack on the same turn, it may pay a point of Willpower to reflexively make a grapple gambit against its prey.

Mauling Bite

When the great cat makes a savaging decisive attack against a clinched enemy, it adds +4 to the raw damage of this attack. It can receive this bonus only once per clinch, unless reset by crashing the clinched enemy.

Pouncing Shadow

Great cats may pay a point of Willpower when they roll Stealth to ignore the usual -3 penalty for moving while concealed. In addition, each turn it spends in stealth, it stocks a single die, up to a maximum of three dice. On the turn that it breaks stealth, it adds these dice both to any movement actions it makes and to the raw damage of any grappling or decisive attacks it makes.

Merits
Camouflage

The patterning of a great cat’s fur allows it to blend into the scenery. Whenever it is in its native territory—a tiger in a jungle, a lion on the savannah, a sabertooth in the plains or tundra—it applies double 9s on Stealth rolls. A great cat can be trained to stalk through unfamiliar environments as a latent ability, allowing it to apply double 9s to any Stealth roll it makes while hiding under cover, and double 8s while in its native territory. (Note: Latent ability not purchased.)

Keen Nose and Hearing: Great cats apply the double 9s rule on Perception-based rolls made using scent or hearing.

Night Vision

Great cats can see in dim conditions as though they were in broad daylight, and reduce the difficulty of Perception-based checks made in deeper darkness by one.

Stalking Cat Advantage: Great cats adds one automatic success to any Join Battle roll made while in stealth.

Battle Cat (Latent): See p. 566 in Lunars.
Intimacies
Defining Principle: I am Luna's servant.
Defining Principle: I hate no one.
Defining Principle tied to Brilliant Manifold: I will stop the Demon Queen from freeing her husband.
Defining Principle tied to Brilliant Manifold: ~~I will fulfill my promise to Antonia, the Wood Elemental~~ ~~- to go to Rathess, to find Spellbreaker in the tomb of the Lunar Mor'du, and return it to the Tower of Dunbar to free Cadence and thus fortify Dunbar's tower and Antonia's woods~~. Fulfilled!

Major Principle: I do not kill without strong reason.
Major Tie: Celestial Wildlands (his true home - this is the forest village who nursed him back to health and raised him after his Exalted foray into the Wyld).

Minor Tie: Aredin (Rykon's character).
Minor Principle: I do not kill without strong reason.

Negative Major Principle: I will not aid Slavers (including the Thieves' Guild).

* * *

Limit Trigger: An adversary exploits the Lunar’s mercy or compassion.

Monstrous Urges: Sinner-Devouring Judgment

The Lunar embodies divine retribution, a monster out of cautionary tales. If she witnesses someone engaging in any activity that she deems immoral based on her Principles or violating the customs of a culture to which she belongs or toward which she has a positive Tie, she must punish them. The punishment’s severity must be at least commensurate to the violation, and must come rapidly, before the Limit Break ends.

Duration: Session. This ends if someone the Lunar seeks to punish convinces her that her own actions have violated one of her Major or Defining Intimacies.

* * *

Anima Effects

Anima Banner A Lunar’s anima banner blazes forth into visibility as she expends Essence. For every five motes of Peripheral Essence she spends in an instant, her anima banner rises one level.

ANIMA LEVEL EFFECTS
Dim - The Lunar’s anima is invisible. This is its default level when she’s not spending Essence.

Glowing - The Lunar’s anima outlines her body in glowing light. Her Caste Mark appears, shining through anything placed over it. Her Tell and moonsilver tattoos become obvious to all who see her. Stealth and disguise rolls suffer a −3 penalty.

Burning - The Lunar’s anima shines in an argent aura around her. Objects touched by it may be left damp and warped, as if exposed to the night air and elements for many days. Her Caste Mark is subsumed into her anima, reappearing at dramatic moments. Stealth is impossible.

Bonfire/Iconic - The Lunar’s anima ignites into a brilliant bonfire stretching high into the sky, visible for miles around. Upon reaching bonfire, and at suitably dramatic moments, her anima manifests a personalized iconic display: a stylized depiction of her spirit shape, a quicksilver mirror depicting warped reflections, whirling blades inlaid with an intaglio of luminous runes, phantasmal limbs holding symbols of power, etc. Her anima completely illuminates her surroundings within short range. Stealth is impossible.

It takes 15 minutes for the anima banner to recede from bonfire to burning or from burning to glowing, and half an hour to recede from glowing to dim.

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.

Full Moon • For five motes, the Full Moon adds (Essence, maximum 5) non-Charm dice on movement rolls and feats of strength and gains (higher of Essence or 3) natural soak until her next turn. This is free at bonfire anima.

• She adds (highest physical Attribute/2, rounded up) non-Charm Resolve against threaten rolls and other fear-based influence.

• Once per day, when she lands a decisive attack that resets her Initiative, she may pay 10 motes, one Willpower to roll Join Battle, adding (highest physical Attribute) non-Charm dice.
Primal Fury (Moonsilver gloves, Artifact •••)

Primal Fury (Moonsilver gloves ***)
User: Jaylen Zabek
Smith: Nerissa Eshe
Early in Nerissaʼs apprenticeship, Zan challenged her to build a new artifact of her own design. To that point she had chiefly been reproducing constructions Zan or other Copper Spiders had created.
She went to speak with her Lunar mate, Jaylen Zabek. Zebek was much older than Nerissa, having exalted a hundred years before she was born. In addition to that he was originally paired with her prior incarnation. This had always made Nerissa uncomfortable around him. The two did not speak often so he was rather surprised when she came to his manse. Jaylen had just recently returned from an expedition into the Wyld. Sadly while there, his team had been ambushed by Fair Folk, many died. Jaylen had lost the majority of his artifact panoply in the attack.
Nerissa decided that she would forge Jaylen a new weapon, one that would work from his core philosophy of battlefield manipulation. She knew it would not -could not- replace the items he formerly had. Yet, maybe in years he would treasure it as well.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 3) or Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4) see below.
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Worn, Concealable
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Eight Directions Era

Due to the elemental nature of Primal Furyʼs evocation Dragon-Blooded resonant with it as if it were jade.

Evocation of Primal Fury
This set of moonsilver gloves fits over a userʼs hands like a second skin. They are small and light but have elegantly etched and inlaid figures made of jade on both palms and backhands. Each image is of a noble wolf-man towering over his enemies. A user who attunes Primal Fury can choose to upgrade the damage category of her unarmed hand attacks from light weapons to medium weapons. The userʼs hands stay that category for the entire combat, gaining all the advantages and disadvantages. They must decide which their hands will qualify as at the start of any conflict.
Primal Fury costs 5 motes to attune.

Flowing Water
Cost:-; Min: Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keyword: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: None
Jaylen was an avid Martial Artist. Over his many decades he had mastered more than one style. Primal Fury is compatible with any Martial Arts style that allows for unarmed attacks. In addition while using a Form type charm a user reduces the cost of evocations of Primal Fury by 1 mote.

Northern Wind
Cost: 3m; Min: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keyword: Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Flowing Water
Striking with the force of the Elemental Pole of Air, a target may be slowed or even stopped in their tracks.
The user performs a Gambit at difficulty 3. If successful ice forms around the target's legs and holds them in place for [success/2] round up actions. The target may make a Strength + Athletics roll to break free. Every success reduces the number of actions they are immobile by 1.
Resonant: When used by a resonant character, targets require two successes on their Strength + Athletics to reduce the number of action they are immobile.

Motivating Flames
Cost: 3m; Min: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keyword: Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: None
Having control of the a battlefield is a massive advantage--one that Jaylen always said was necessary for victory. When too many men decided to dog pile him, he would forcibly eject them.
The user may perform a Gambit at difficulty 4 to move another character in close range away. If the Gambit is successful the target is knocked back one Range band in a direction of their choosing.
For every two successes beyond that the target is blasted away one further Range band. The target suffers falling damage (p. 232) for every range band they are moved back. If they are knocked off a cliff or tall building the falling damage stacks.
Resonant: A character resonant with moonsilver may make a second Gambit at Difficulty 8 to knockback all targets within close range. If the Gambit is successful they knock directly back all characters.

Drawing Vines
Cost: 4m; Min: Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keyword: Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Motivating Flames
Jaylen would often strike the ground, sending vines out at a distant archer and pulling them closer to both himself and his allies. The user may perform a Gambit at difficulty 4 to pull another character closer to them. This has a maximum range of Long. For every two successes beyond the difficulty the target is pulled one Range band closer.
Resonant: A character who is resonant with moonsilver changes the type of this evocation to reflexive, explicitly allowing the user to pull back a target who successes at a Disengage (p. 198).

Grounded Earth
Cost: 5m, 1w; Min: Essence 3
Type: Simple, Dissonant
Keyword: None
Duration: Scene
Prerequisite: Drawing Vines, Northern Wind
Each element granted Jaylen a different way to help control a fight. Nerissa wished not only to give Jaylen control of a battle, but also immunity to unforeseen outcomes. The user reaches down to touch the earth below their feet. As they stand back up their body is covered in a second rocky skin. This skin gives the user a number of temporary -0 health levels equal to their Essence.
In addition they may spend 3 motes to regenerate a temporary health level that was lost during the battle.
Dissonant: A character dissonant with moonsilver may not regenerate their temporary health levels.

Brilliant Manifold (Moonsilver Silken Armor, Artifact ••••• [1 additional • for Howdah]).

Provided by this link which was generously offered for gaming by this Storyteller (Asinus) in this thread.
Changed into Moonsilver by one very generous Psychie. =)

Shifting Silks

Brilliant Manifold
~~(Orichalcum and Starmetal~~ Moonsilver Shifting Silks, Artifact ●●●●) ✔✔

At first glance, any variety of Shifting Silks appears to be an outfit of simple, dull grey cloth, consisting of loose pants with a drawstring belt, a long-sleeve, casual shirt, gloves, and cloth shoes. The outfit, when first put on, seems to be far too large for anyone. However, closer scrutiny the outfit will reveal an inner lining of one or more of the five magical materials, which drastically changes the more powerful functions of the Shifting Silks. This armor, made using secret, long-lost techniques from the First Age is woven of a material more unyielding than white jade, yet softer than evening light. It is otherwise identical to Artifact Silken Armor (p. 600).

In the First Age, Shifting Silks were highly sought by those with great means. The means to craft them were incredibly esoteric, even by First Age standards, but a well-crafted Shifting Silk would sell for a thousand times its weight in gold. So it was that Heart of Singing Crowns, the Twilight Craftsman, endeavored to perfect the process. Weaving meticulously, fiber by fiber, year by year, she created hundreds of pieces, each a masterwork in its own right. But she sold or otherwise discarded every one, dissatisfied with the quality of her work. For generations these works passed down from family to family, their impermanence a constant reminder of her defect as an artisan.

After a century of crafting and styles changed, she had grown depressed, falling into a pit of despair. It was only then that her friend Black Song in Rain, Chosen of Secrets, interceded. He shared with her the knowledge of a great and powerful artifact with which she might be able to craft a Shifting Silk to satisfy her desire for perfection: the Loom of Fate.

Black Song in Rain took Heart of Singing Crowns to Yu-Shan, and there he revealed to her the Loom of Fate and the threads of Heart of Singing Crowns. The grandeur and intricate power of the greatest of Artifacts seared itself into her memory forever, giving her the understanding of the interconnectedness of all things. Heart of Singing Crowns set to work, weaving together a Shifting Silk inlaid with an intricate maze of Orichalcum and Starmetal.

When she was nearly finished, she turned to Black Song in Rain and asked him one final favor, “In all my centuries, I have never created perfection, and now I know that I never will. All metals are alloys, just as we are all invariably interconnected to one another. I have spent more than my fair time in Creation and I have grown old. Help me weave my own threads of Fate into my work so that when my Spark returns to Creation, my work will always return to me. Black Song in Rain could see that she was resolved and though he was willing, he professed that he was not a great craftsman like her. She answered, “Over the last few weeks of labor, I have been gently awakening your mind, subtly teaching you the techniques you will need to complete my work and giving you the resolve necessary to do it. I am sorry my friend.”

And so it was that when Heart of Singing Crowns died and her Spark left her body, Black Song in Rain continued her work and wove her threads from the Loom of Fate into Brilliant Manifold. But, clever as he was, Black Song in Rain took also a single thread of his own Fate and wove it in with hers so that when her Spark returned to Creation, he would be able to find Heart of Singing Crowns again.

Brilliant Manifold focuses its wearer’s mind, spirit, and body into pursuing a single purpose, even when that purpose requires a thousand detours. Brilliant Manifold possesses a single hearthstone socket and doesn’t count as armor for the purpose of martial arts styles which cannot be practiced in armor.

Evocations of Brilliant Manifold

A Solar or Sidereal Exalt who attunes to Brilliant Manifold gains Shifting Wardrobe at no cost. Once attuned, the outfit shifts like water to fit the wearer like a glove. The outfits will always fit as well as the wearer desires. Brilliant Manifold will emulate any jewelry the wearer desires, as well as perfume, and keeps the wearer in a constant state of cleanliness, keeping away dust, dirt, and blood. The wearer receives one non-charm bonus die to all appearance-based Social rolls while wearing the Brilliant Manifold because of this ability to keep herself presentable.

Once attuned, the Exalt must specify an objective-based Purpose. This Purpose must be a possible, concluding goal: “Defeat all evil” is not suitable, but “Defeat the Death Lord who is plaguing my city” is. Upon choosing this purpose, the Exalt immediately makes that purpose a defining intimacy which cannot lessen until the purpose is changed. Her purpose may not be changed, unless the purpose is completed or otherwise becomes impossible or irrelevant. Brilliant Manifold will do everything in its power to help the wearer complete this purpose.

Shifting Wardrobe ✔✔✔
Cost: 1m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None

For one mote of Essence and a moment of concentration, the Shifting Silks will change their form into any clothing the wearer can imagine and will remain so changed until uncommitted. This outfit can change radically, from little more than a series of overlapping scarves to full robes, or full Dynast plate armor. The "Silks" mentioned in the name is misleading, as the Shifting Silks can mimic leather, metal, and hemp just as easily as they mimic silk. The clothes appear real in every manner (sight, touch, sound, etc.), but their true nature may be revealed using certain charms which identify the presence of ongoing sorceries (e.g. All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight) or strip away magical disguises (e.g. Eye of the Unconquered Sun).

Furthermore, the artifact has the ability to emulate the surroundings of the wearer, dampen sounds, and neutralize scents, making her difficult to detect if she wishes, giving her a +2 bonus to all stealth related rolls and making her nearly imperceptible to mundane senses when fully at rest. To shift the form of the Shifting Silks in any way, whether color, jewelry, camouflage, or scent, costs one mote of essence.

Ubiquitous Truth Understanding ✔✔✔
Cost: 2m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The mind is the key to the body and spirit, so it is that Brilliant Manifold protects the mind and ensures absolute resolution. When targeted by an attempt to influence her in a way that opposes one or more of her Intimacies that is related to her purpose, she may spend two motes and may instead add a bonus to her Resolve based on the intensity of her purpose itself.

If she opposes that influence with her purpose directly, she may increase the bonuses added to her Resolve by an additional two.

This Evocation can only be used once per scene, but may be reset by failing a resolve check against an attempt to influence her.

Ardent Excellence Approach ✔✔✔
Cost: 2m; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Stackable
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

In the face of opposition, she is steadfast and undaunted. In any ability roll relevant to completing her purpose in which she does not have an excellency, she may call upon her purpose or an auxiliary, related intimacy and spend two motes, as if she had an excellency in the relevant ability, to gain an additional die on her roll. She may stack this Evocation a number of times equal to the strength of that intimacy.

In any ability roll relevant to completing her purpose in which she has an excellency, she may call upon her purpose or an auxiliary, related intimacy and spend two motes to reroll an unsuccessful die. She may stack this Evocation a number of times equal to the strength of that intimacy.

She may only call on each intimacy this way once per story.

Vast Aura of Fabricating Destiny ✔✔✔
Cost: -; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Psyche
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Ubiquitous Truth Understanding

Brilliant Manifold slowly, but surely, interweaves the Threads of Fate of those around the wearer with her own. Upon spending one week around the wearer, characters form a Minor intimacy of “Aid (the Wearer) in her Purpose.” The more time spent around the wearer, the stronger the intimacy becomes. After one month, the intimacy is strengthen to Major, and after one year, it becomes a Defining intimacy. This intimacy lasts until the purpose is accomplished, after which, a new intimacy begins to form. A Sidereal’s Arcane Fate prevents tangles in the loom as ties are instantly severed, however other heroes may find their ways to avoid divine censure.

The speed at which intimacies are formed is affected by the wearer’s other intimacies. If a target has a minor or major intimacy directly opposed to the wearer’s purpose, that intimacy must be erased first. This can be done actively through social interaction, or Vast Aura of Fabricating Destiny will degrade a major intimacy to a minor intimacy after two months in the wearer’s presence, and a minor intimacy will be erased after two weeks in the wearer’s presence. Defining intimacies are impossible for Vast Aura of Fabricating Destiny to degrade.

Once per story, when aiding the wearer in accomplishing her purpose in some way, characters may take a bonus on one roll equal to the strength of their intimacy. If the strength of their intimacy increases during a story in which a character has already used this effect, he may use it again at the new rating.

Maiden’s Excellence Approach✔✔
Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Evocations: Ardent Excellence Approach

When pursuing her Purpose, the wearer can call upon one of her intimacies in order to reduce the target number of an action at a cost of one willpower. The target number is reduced by the strength of the intimacy minus one (for example if a Solar is channeling a Major Intimacy in line with their Purpose their target number would be 5-9 for one success, or 10 for two successes).

Maiden’s Excellence Approach grants the wearer permanent immunity to Astrology effects save by the Maiden’s themselves.

Using this Evocation more than once per story may invoke Divine Censure.

Illustrious Sphere of Certain Destiny ✔
Cost: -; Mins: Essence 4
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Vast Aura of Fabricating Destiny and Maiden’s Excellence Approach

All purposes are mere cogs of the machinery of the grand design. The completion of one purpose resonates forwards in time and throughout the world, setting forth in motion helpful events to aid her in her the completion of her next purpose.

The Storyteller is encouraged to tie the completion of one purpose into aiding the wearer of Brilliant Manifold in completing her next purpose. Furthermore, the Storyteller should weigh the intensity and scope of the help given against the magnitude of the purpose completed and the new purpose. For instance, completing the purpose “Arrive in Whitewall safely” might not contribute much help to the purpose “Discover how the Jade Prison broke.” Whereas, completing the latter purpose might grant a large amount of aid towards “found a sovereign kingdom in the Wyld.”

The effects of Illustrious Sphere of Certain Destiny do not cause harm or chaos, but instead tend to affirm order and good in Creation.

EDIT: The Exalted Player who wrote this up is incredible!

Hearthstone (••••) - Gem of Incomparable Wellness (socketed in Brilliant Manifold Silken armor) (p. 135, Arms of the Chosen).

Keywords: Dependent, Linked

This cluster of emerald crystals continually changes shape, with new crystals budding and subsuming the old. Endless vitality suffuses its bearer, mending her wounds with unnatural swiftness. If she commits three motes to the stone, she regains one bashing health level per ten minutes, one lethal health level per hour, and one aggravated health level per day.

Fatal diseases or lethal deprivation, such as starvation, dehydration, or drowning, only render her unconscious. Even dismemberment or cremation merely fills her health track with lethal or aggravated damage, respectively, from which she will eventually regenerate. This power only terminates if the Exalt loses attunement to the stone, or if it becomes inert or is destroyed.

Per Psychie, "It is a powerful one that makes you very hard to kill, but not quite impossible."

Sirrush (Blue Jade Devil Caster, Artifact ••••)

From p. 67 in Arms of the Chosen

The Solar champion Vaznia took up dozens of artifacts across the ages, but few held her interest for long. Among those arms were Sirrush and Anshar, a pair of artifact flame pieces she commissioned to match a favored concubine’s eyes. She gifted them to her lieutenant Rylo
Stormsong without ever wielding them in battle.

A thrill-seeker, Rylo went looking for trouble in every teahouse and dark alley of Old Wu-Jian. Thus she entangled herself in all manner of violent altercations, from battling armies of thugs sent by double-crossed crimelords to stealing relics from hidden shrines to forbidden undersea gods. In extricating herself from such situations she employed her twin devil casters to deadly effect. Eventually she found herself outmatched, hunted by an affronted sorcerer’s seademons. Leaping from the pinnacle of the Crescent Temple into the sea-spray to escape pursuit, she never surfaced.

Sirrush was found a thousand years later by Wu-Jian mudlarks. It worked its way up through the city’s teeming layers in cutthroat deals and throat-cut thefts, until one of the now-defunct Lords Criminal traded it to the outcaste pirate Storm Mother’s Son for a cargo of firedust.
Sirrush’s counterpart Anshar remains lost.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+12 DMG, OVW 4)
Accuracy: Close +1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1
Tags: Lethal, Archery (Short), Flame, One-Handed, Mounted, Slow
Hearthstone slot(s): None
Era: Dreams of the First Age

Evocations of Sirrush
Firedust-Gathering Practice
Cost: 1m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dissonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
As the wielder fires Sirrush, a breeze draws fresh grains of firedust from her ammunition pouch into its barrel. Activating this Evocation reloads the weapon without an action.
Special activation rules: Unless the Exalt is dissonant with jade, she unlocks this Evocation for no experience cost when she first attunes to Sirrush.

Lightning Draw Method
Cost: —; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
Sirrush all but leaps into its wielder’s hand when danger looms. On the first round of combat, she may treat her Initiative as (Wits) higher than it actually is to determine when she acts in the round, but must use her turn to make an attack.
Special activation rules: This Evocation awakens at no cost when the wielder wins Join Battle against at least one non-trivial foe.

XP Paid Evocations: None yet unlocked.

The Fountain-Summoning Stone (Standard)

The Fountain-Summoning Stone (Standard)
Keywords: Steady
This hearthstone is a dark oval emerald, cold and moist to the touch. If the Fountain-Summoning Stone is buried in the soil and left undisturbed for a short period (ranging from a minute in fertile riverlands to half an hour in the desert), it will presently spring back to the surface atop a gushing fountain of water, which persists until the sun rises and sets. The Fountain-Summoning Stone won’t operate anywhere that a spring couldn’t possibly appear, such as a balcony garden or in a barrel of soil aboard a ship.

Stoneheart Coffer (p. 117, Arms of the Chosen) - I think this would be ideal for a Transporter. =)

(Artifact ••)

Merchant princes transport their most fragile goods in these white jade boxes, while scavenger lords unearthing them in ancient ruins tremble with hope at what fabulous First Age riches they might contain. Lined with rainbow skins from immortal seven-colored serpents of the uttermost East, each is virtually indestructible, and their contents — from delicate glassware to ancient crumbling scrolls — share their nigh-indestructibility.

While the coffer is closed, even the roughest treatment or most extreme temperature leaves its contents undamaged. Breaking the coffer is a Strength 10+ feat, at difficulty 15 to slowly bash through or difficulty 20 to smash it open with one blow. Its magic doesn’t ward off decay; ripe fruit won’t bruise within but will go rotten. Coffers range in size from petite jewel-boxes to a Dynast’s traveling trunk. Each opens to a jade key, though keys to First Age coffers are usually long lost. Picking a coffer’s lock is difficulty 7; making a new key is a major repair project requiring Craft (Artifact).
O Mighty Fat Cat's physical origins are directly inspired by Hayao Miyazaki's delightful film, My Neighbor Totoro and the irreplaceable and loveable Cat Bus!

I just LOVE this movie and I love the Cat Bus! Roooowr! 8D
"Totoro Takes The Cat Bus | My Neighbor Totoro | HBO Max Family"

His trade as a transporter comes from The Transporter action films. It sounds like a fun and rewarding way to make a living in Creation. But instead of calling him a transporter (which sounds modern to me), I think I'll refer to him as a... deliverer! (It sounds cooler than courier.) =)

"The Transporter - Movie clip - rules"

I really enjoy Deep Forest (especially his first album) and I often use it when getting into O Mighty Fat Cat's head! =)

"Deep Forest - Savana Dance (LP Version) (Audio)"

Here's some good traveling music when delivering. =)

"Bodhisattva" by Steely Dan

Partial lyrics
Bodhisattva
I'm gonna sell my house in town
And I'll be there to shine in your Japan
To sparkle in your China, yes, I'll be there
Bodhisattva
Look out!

And who can create a character named Da Chonk without including GIFs like these, huh? =)

And one for dear ol' Maru, the coolest cat in Japan ever (Hana on the left doing the licking is lots of fun too)! 8D

Ultimately... this is O Mighty Fat Cat's heart - in special stories like these!

"Fox Fires - Animated Short Film"

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O Mighty Fat Cat's Goals - because every character of mine should have them! =)

Weekend treks (Short-term goals):
1. Learn more of what it is to be a Lunar and the surrounding area where the Circle will operate from as they flee the Wyld Hunt.
2. Learn about each member of the Circle as to better understand them and why they do what they do.
3. Learn more about his own strange, wonderful powers and abilities and how to make the best use of them.

Grand expeditions (Long-term goals):
1. Ensure the long-term safety and productivity of the One Village/return to them with things they could benefit from.
2. Become one of the greatest Deliverers with a well-earned reputation for dependability, integrity, and discretion.
3. Find some way to give back to Luna - be it in quests, items, or some service - that honestly shows how much Fat Cat appreciates Her.
As a Transporter (he calls himself the more medieval title of a "Deliverer"), O Mighty Fat Cat uses his Wyld-augmented Spirit Shape (Giant Housecat) to do most of the transporting. Otherwise, he uses his Emerald Grasshopper or Towering Beast Forms when necessary. He is really big about seeing every job through to the end and sticking to the letter of any deal he makes (or barring that, the spirit of the deal).

O Mighty Fat Cat has done the occasional job for free when it comes to helping out people in need (especially those who worship or assist Luna or friends in need). He does not have a blood-family to go back to so he likes to help people sold into slavery return back to theirs.

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Background: The short version. =)

O Mighty Fat Cat was separated from his tailor-merchant family at a very young age. While traveling through the jungle he saw human hunters intent on his family. He warned them and led the hunters on a chase to the edge of the Wyld. He entered the Wyld and it permanently changed him. It was killing him, but coming here resulted in his family being able to escape the hunters. Luna saw fit to spare him by Exalting him.

Thanks to Luna, he made it to a hidden jungle village where peaceful people took him him. However, the Wyld had changed him into a tiny kitten with an endless appetite. Lovingly, the One Village fed him and fed him and he grew and grew. A long time afterward, the hunters-become-slavers found the One Village and attacked it intent on enslaving everyone in it.

O Mighty Fat Cat, for the first time in his human form, bade them leave, but they would not. A short battle ensued and the slavers gave up their ways to become hunters once again. The One Village was saved and in this way, the boy who became O Mighty Fat Cat returned his love for the people who saved him.

Today, O Mighty Fat Cat has no memory of his own name or his family's. He has a mixed education resulting in nearly all of Creation being a new place to him. He left the One Village and now works with the Guild to help people less fortunate than he as a Transporter.

Background: The long version - The tale of O Mighty Fat Cat (in about 4,400 words). =)

Once there was a boy who got lost in a jungle. He lost his name and much more, but gained a whole new life. A life under Luna.

He was a small boy who loved to play and hunt and explore and share. He lived with his family who worked in honest trade as honest traveling. tailors. They dealt in quality clothing, footwear, and all manner of things to keep people safe from the elements and comfortable - so comfortable that their finest line was said to be like living in a home you wore on your person! Long-lasting, affordable, and wonderfully-made, they were the envy of many of their competitors. But the lorded this fact over no one; instead, they were happy to be helping people.

One day, while traveling through the jungle, the boy's curiosity got the better of him and he became separated from his family's caravan. They became very worried because there were hunters about. Hunters with dogs trained to trap and hurt.

Perhaps he was born under a lucky star, but the boy spotted the hunters first. He knew them for who they were - they were hunters who would harm his family! They were following the signs of caravan tracks on the brown earth and the bending of the green leaves upon the earth's skin.

The boy never thought of himself as a brave creature - just a child in a wonderful world of terrific smells and sights and fantastic discoveries - but when he saw the hunters silently following the tracks of his family's caravan, he made decisions that made him more than what he was before.

To run to his family was to betray their location. But to wait too long without warning them was to open them to ambush, cruelty, and sorrow.

Still a boy, how could he know that the humans hunted his family for their fine coats and dependable boots? His family was said to be magical. Their undergarments were said to provide virility and fertility. Their socks were said to ward off fatigue and minor ailments. Their vests were said to ward off evil spirits. But were these not evil spirits in the guises of armed people now stalking his family to kill them for their material gains?

The boy was too young then to know of concepts like goodness, neutrality, and evil. He only knew that he loved his family more than everything in all Creation, that he valued their lives and the lives of their friends more than he valued his own, and that people and all creatures should live life as they pleased, free to chase their own tails or their own destinies and not to live under the curses and whips of any other creatures.

Freedom for all souls was more than a necessity - it was a road to the liberation of the soul, an uphill climb toward making a better you, and a lifelong journey for all beings to succeed or fail, rise or fall, live or die! And no one should take that from anyone else.

This the boy knew. This the boy lived by. This the boy was willing to die for. For his family. For his beliefs. For even tiny skinny children have dreams and desires. And this boy was willing to sacrifice them all for all that he loved. I did not love himself; it was that he simply saw himself only as a very small acorn in a supremely vast jungle.

And so, he made a plan to save his family.

It was a simple plan for he was a simple boy. He remembered his family had traveled this way before. Many times. He believed he knew this part of the jungle better than the hunters and more thoroughly than the dogs they led. And he knew of the rim of the jungle where strange things thrived, stranger happenings took place, and things beyond the understanding of people came to be so often that even his family wholly avoided the place. The boy did not have a name for this place, but the people did. They called it - the Edge of the Wyld.

Hidden in the brush, the boy saw the spears of the hunters and did not know exactly what they were for. Nor their bows. Nor their blowguns or even their knives. He was too young to be trained with weapons. He do not like to hurt people or animals. He had no experience doing it and wanted none. He knew he could not fight them for he was too small. But perhaps he could mislead them? Steal their focus? And warn his family at the same time?

The boy's soul was complete and filled in its resolve - he felt he must try. He also felt alone and his fear was growing.

On a whim, he looked up to the night sky. There was the moon! Peeking out from behind the clouds like a fellow child playing a game, the moon seemed to watch over all things. Unlike the sun who slept half the day, the boy had seen the moon in daytime as well as nighttime. It was always there!

Was it a he or a she? She, he decided. For she was always beautiful to behold. The sun was too strong to stare at. Look too long and you hurt your eyes badly. Maybe lose them. But to stare at the moon? The longer you looked, the less alone you felt. And so the boy blew a kiss to the moon - the same kind of kiss he blew to his mother and father and siblings.

He thanked the beautiful moon for looking over him and asked for her help in saving his family. The moon seemed to wink back or was it his imagination?

The boy followed the hunters and their dogs, careful to stay where the wind would not betray his scent, where he hoped he could hear well and not be heard or seen, where the ground would not likely betray his passing. This was all he knew but as any child can tell you, when you play hide-and-seek, such skills are essential for success. When the hunters had come so close to the boy's family caravan that he was sure they would find them, the boy sprang up from behind a bush and screamed at the top of his lungs. This warning though small was clear in the quiet of the jungle. All who heard it knew what it meant - danger!

With one look at the boy vanishing into the green, the hunters decided that having one little hostage was better than coming upon the alerted caravan without one. And so they gave chase. The boy knew of places that he was small enough to go that they would have a hard time following. And so he went from hollow log to bush-tunnel to fallen tree to sunken bog. Using their muscles and tools, the hunters destroyed or uncovered each hiding place the boy ventured to leaving only ugly ruin and angry sounds in their wake. But, the boy reasoned, the farther the boy led them, the safer his family was. This game of life and death continued until the boy found himself standing beside a tree, a gangly purple tree that slowly unfurled and waved to him. He looked again and heard green water that seemed to laugh and leaves that whistled very strange jokes.

He had found the Edge of the Wyld!

The hunters finally spotted the boy running and when they did, they loosed their dogs upon him. The hounds came on, their eager fangs bared for their prey. What else could the boy do but flee - flee straight into the unknown? He ran by another waving tree, jumped over more laughing water, and slipped under and around the leaves that crackled with wisecracks in what did indeed sound like human tongue.

It was here where the dogs faltered, though the boy did not know it. Each of the four-footed predators came to the edge, slowed, then stopped. They stood together but uncertain, shaking in indecision, and eager for their masters' guidance. Then their masters came. Clutching their useless spears and blowguns, they beheld the Edge of the Wyld and what they saw made them shake with dread, for it was all they had been told and more. The branches beckoned, the grass danced, and the flowers blew raspberries at them. This the hunters could not endure. They turned their backs on the unknown and left sullen-eyed, but otherwise unchanged.

Meanwhile the Edge of the Wyld gained a small new neighbor for the boy kept running and running unchecked in a headlong flight believing the hunters and their dogs were still hot on his heels. He did not stop to listen or look back even once and thus remained ignorant.

Deeper and deeper fled the boy through rainbow streams, blue-misted woods, and past still lakes where the waters reflected the destinies of creatures long passed away and many yet to be born. The boy soon felt terribly tired and not long after, he felt strange and woozy and sick. For the first time in his life, he felt afraid. Very afraid. He realized he had run so far that his family would not find him. Perhaps ever. This very land was changing him though he did not know it. All he knew was that his eyelids were as heavy as rocks, his feet stumbled about as if his feet were clad in thick vines. He moved as if in a dream he could not wake from, try as he might. He had no idea where he was going or for how long he could continue.

But continue he must! To lead the hunters and dogs away! To secure his family's freedom! Compared to theirs, his own freedom meant nothing for they contributed to the universe while he only felt he took. He shuddered and began to cry for he had never been so alone in his life. Thirsty, he lapped from pools never tasted by mortal beings. He brushed up against plants never beheld by the most adventurous of travelers. In the distance, he heard musics and the very dancing of the wind and in his kitten-like curiosity, he longed to see it with his own eyes. But his body was failing him. His fear was crippling his mind. His young soul suffered like never before.

And yet his little feet plodded onward. These hunters would have to catch him. He would not stop and make it easy for them.

He decided he would keep moving until he died.

The boy''s rise to becoming a Lunar - a rare being of untold power and unknowable destiny - did not come upon a great and bloody battlefield where he left countless corpses in his wake. Nor had his soul awoken to face some incredibly gigantic forest-devouring beast to which he would have to do battle with for seven days and seven nights. No.

The change came upon him under triple-canopy wilderness where the slow-moving clouds were completely obscured and where all the Wyld seemed to both taunt and encourage the boy as if it wanted him to join with it permanently. And perhaps he would. Except that there in night-caressed forest, the high branches seemed to part, the thick leaves pushed away from one another as if in welcome to a single shaft of pure cosmic light - a moonbeam. It gently fell through the night... and onto the boy.

He did not know it. He did not know that Luna was with him or that the moonbeam stayed upon him with every wobbling step and with every trembling breath. All he knew was he could not stop lest he fail his family. Slowly, surely, he felt a force growing inside of him that seemed to promise him. It said, "You will not die this day. You will live. But from this point onward, you must appreciate all that you are given."

"I will," replied the boy inside his mind. "Thank you so much for being with me."

The boy closed his eyes and smiled a big, big smile. It was all he could do was to walk and give thanks to whatever was speaking inside of him. He knew then that whatever happened, he was no longer alone. He trusted this voice with all that he was. He felt he could be miles underground, on another world, or trapped in a topsy-turvy dream of some mad magician. It did not matter. From this point on, the boy felt he would never be alone again for as long as he lived. This feeling, this voice, this moonlight would always be with him. Inside of him. Part of his very spirit.

And when he opened his eyes, he saw that he was surrounded by moonlight. Gentle, soft, calming moonlight.

Everything seemed so large now. The grass had somehow grown so that it was now up past his shoulders. The flowers too seemed larger than the horses that pulled his family's caravan. He still felt groggy, his senses weak. He felt small. Smaller than ever. But yet he continued on, his four feet stumbling and staggering yet still moving forward, step by little step.

Then he heard again the sound of guidance - music! There was music in the air! Lots of it! There were flutes and drums and singing and it all sounded so joyful! So welcoming! Had the plants of this mystical realm learned how to make their own music? He did not know the song, but it was something better than fear to listen to! This the boy knew. And so he continued on without fail with the will and stamina of a soul possessed until the leaves stopped their wisecracking and the water ceased in its laughter and the trees waved fond farewells to him. He tried to wave back, but he lacked the strength. All there was now was the music and his desire to be as close to it as possible.

He stopped only when he realized that he was surrounded. Surrounded by... people! People he did not recognize! And they were giants! The biggest people he had ever seen! They were in a huge circle around him where they were dancing to strange wooden flutes held to their mouths and odd sticks sounding on the tight skins of drums. But the music fell silent now. He had been hearing singing too though this too had suddenly ceased.

The boy looked up dazedly, beyond exhaustion, on the verge of life and death - the last precipice. The huge dancers and musicians were gawking and staring down at him. The boy gawked and stared back. A pitiful meow left his lips at them. Then the world swam and dipped and flew and swirled and unable to continue, the boy's great heart gave way. He fell to the earth.

Or rather, he would have except one of the giant people ran up and collected him. Gently, he caressed his still fur. The boy did not know this. The boy did not know anything for what felt like a long, long time. When after what felt like forever, the boy awoke to the sensation of what tasted like milk being carefully poured into his mouth. There was food cut up into tiny niblets in wooden bowls that smelled wonderful to his tiny pink nose.

He opened his eyes and there they were. People. Lots and lots of people. They were enormous. They looked very different than the hunters. The dogs these people had were friendly and kind. Just like their masters.

This one village had saved him. The boy thought of The One Village as the most comfortable place in all of Creation though he did not know what Creation was any better than any other average child of his background. Days and night passed and eventually the haze around the boy's mind dissipated enough that he finally realized what was clear to everyone else - he was a kitten! A tiny orange ball of fluffy... kitten! No wonder everyone else was so big! No wonder he felt so light! He decided the moon had turned him into a kitten to give him four legs to reach safety! His spirit felt so very free though he still felt terribly weak.

As long as he felt weak, the people of the One village fed him. And they fed him. And fed him! And fed him some more! The boy-become-kitten was ravenous - impossible to fill! This astounded the people greatly for no one could believe this poor lone sick kitten from the Edge of the Wyld could eat so much! The caring people of the One village put their heads together and came to a conclusion - they could feed him no matter how much he would eat! These were people of the land who respected and nurtured and passed on the earth's secrets with great reverence and appreciation. Violence was not their way, nor was traveling outside their chosen realm, but food? Oh yes! Food they could do!

And so it became a game to the whole village! Feed the kitten! Which food does the skinny kitty like most? Let us find out! In what seemed no time at all, the people of the One village were placing food after food, dish after dish, and drink after drink before the kitten - and the kitten devoured them all with equal gusto! The One village redoubled their efforts - to the same result! If you put something in front of the kitten that he could get his little kitty mouth around, he made it disappear and mewed for more!

On and on this went, day after day, week after week, so much that it became a traditional holiday for the One village that they celebrate to this day! Fat Kitten Day!

But the name of the holiday was not meant to last. For the more they fed the kitten, the larger he became. And the larger he became, they more their notions of him changed. He grew and grew and grew! No normal cat - no normal being - could devour so much food and drink! This was more than a lucky kitten come in from the Edge of The Wyld from places unknown. This... they decided... could be a powerful spirit. A magical being.

Or... even... a god?

Finally. After months and months of feeding the grateful, affectionate feline, the hunters made their return to the area. They had stumbled upon this peaceful place, the One Village. They did not come for the boy whom they thought swallowed up by the Edge of the Wyld. They came for the people themselves. Peaceful people. Healthy people. People who would not fight back after they tasted the whips and barbs of their masters. For these hunters were more than hunters of profits or of beasts, they were hunters of people.

Slavers.

The people of the One Village had a single defense that had served them well for generations - their ability to stay hidden - but the slavers threatened their families and forced them to come out and bow their heads in submission or, they threatened, they would chop off the hands of their loved ones at the wrists and burn the hands in front of them! In the confusion and chaos, a young man with dark, dark skin strode without fear. He strode toward the boss of the slavers. The slavers saw him and loosed their dogs. But to their astonishment, the dogs fell back in total doubt. The dogs would not touch him. They bayed warnings to their masters that went unheeded.

The slavers felt they needed no dogs to take down a single young man. In their hubris, they decided they would get the young man themselves!

Their boss led the charge and at the boy they came rushing on! Their thinking? To make an awful example of the first of these people who dared challenge them! They circled him and demanded the name of the young man, but he did not answer. In truth, he had forgotten it. They demanded the villagers tell them who he was, but no one there had ever seen him!

The young man, bolstered by his love of Luna and his love of the people of the One Village, stood before the slaver boss and grinned. And his was a wide, wide smile.

"You are black!" shouted the boss pointing at the youth's skin. But the youth shook his head.

"You are Junglese!" the boss used the term he knew to identify people of the jungle. But again the youth shook his head.

"What manner of man are you then?!"

The youth's eyes grew wide. Very wide. The boss's eyes did too as they stared at one another. The boy answered.

"I am... Blackanese!"

The slavers howled in laughter for they had never heard of such a thing. But now the young man had all of their attention which is what he wanted.

"You must leave," commanded the young man. Now his voice was very deep, very man-like, especially for a dark-skinned heavy-set lad. "You must leave now or you will not like what will happen to you."

"You dare command me?! Learn your place!" screamed the boss and he and all of his men rushed at the young man!

Accounts of what happened after this moment differ. Ask one, she will tell you that the gods themselves heard their prayers. Ask another, and he will tell you that he never imagined that the young man had been with the One village all along. Ask the slavers? They will likely tell you, each in their own way, that they came to the wrong village. Had they known, they would have never set foot near it nor told another soul. They would have done their utmost to forget the One village and strike this memory from their brains as best they could.

Perhaps the young man himself could tell it best. One moment, the slavers were leaping at him. He was smiling. Giggling. He leaped high into the air and when he looked down, he was above the huddle of the slavers.

There was a transformation.

And when the young man came down, there was a tremendous crash. Then silence. He looked down at the bushes. They seemed much smaller now. The trees waved up at him. They seemed smaller too. He looked down at his four huge feet, back at his great lashing fluffy tail, and he unconsciously licked one paw to smooth back whiskers longer than young saplings. He did not miss the absolutely flabbergasted looks of all of the people that gazed upon his mighty majestic form - or the dozen hardly-able-to-breathe slavers whom the young man-turned-gigantic-cat was now sitting upon. Indeed, he was sitting on all of them!

The slavers had no idea such a gigantic housecat had ever existed. The people of the One Village had no idea that the tiny kitten with whom they had invested so much love and care could also inhabit the now-very-well fed form of a muscularly-fat young man. With a big, big smile, the enormous cat flicked away the spears and blowguns of the slavers. Then he stared down at them.

The boss wheezed and whimpered and tried to wiggle out from underneath the humongous cat's body, but it was not to be. This cat was just too fat! He felt he would die! So he used the one tool he had left - his mouth.

"O Mighty Fat Cat!" he pleaded. "Spare us and we will flee this village never to return!"

"MRRRROWR?" replied the newly-named humongous cat. He was very expressive as he shook his huge smiling head. It became clear to all that this offer was not enough.

"O Mighty Fat Cat!" the boss blubbered. "Let us go and we will leave you all of our valuables and tell no one of your home!"

"BR-R-R-R-OWWRR?" The answer was no.

"What?! Fine! OOOOH MIGHTY FAT CAT!" he cried. "Release us and... we will do all that I have declared and we all promise to give up slavery! We will become hunters and hunt only the proper animals for our trade! Right, men? Promise him now!" Every one of his slavers-become-hunters eagerly agreed and nodded wholeheartedly.

"MMMMMRRRROWW?"

"That STILL isn't good enough?"

The biggest cat of the jungle just smiled and slowly shook his head. Now even the villagers wondered what the slavers had to agree to.

Finally, O Mighty Fat Cat looked down at the boss. With one huge paw, he patted his big furry belly.

"What?" the boss looked about, his face twisted up in confusion. He turned to the villagers. "What does he want? Someone tell me! Tell me!!"

A moment later, all things had changed.

The astonished villagers looked on. Now they had the spears, bows, and blowguns though they did not need threaten anyone with them. The villagers instead pointed and jeered and held their bellies as their great laughter filled the jungle! And why not? There, on his back, smiling, enormous, and unchallengeable lay O Mighty Fat Cat! His big feet clawed the air in delight and he purred up such a sound as to delight all who heard this contagious sound...

... with the exception of the now-weaponless hunters forced to rub his soft furry belly in front of everyone! Scowling, grimacing, and unable to bear this public humiliation, the boss of the hunters looked to his busy men and swore upon his very soul. "IF ANY OF YOU BREATHE A WORD OF THIS TO ANYONE, I WILL HAVE YOU BEATEN WITHIN AN INCH OF YOUR LIFE!"

"You had better not!" cried the villagers. "Or we will tell everyone we see of this moment!"

"NOOO!" the belly-rubbing hunters cringed. "PLEASE NOOO!"

One of their number looked over. "I dunno, boss," looking down as he worked upon O Mighty Fat Cat's warm and soft fur, he gave a goofy grin. "Dis isn't so bad, is it?"

"SHUT! UP!" the boss shouted at him, "AND KEEP RUBBING!"

That moon-filled night, a great and wonderful purring was heard throughout the entire jungle. It was so loud and true that nearly all creatures who heard it were filled with peace and playfulness and thoughts of happiness. The whole Edge of the Wyld giggled. It is said even the crescent moon hanging in the night sky seemed to become one big heavenly smile.

The end. =)
Luna has given Fat Cat the ability to "respec" himself, hence this new write-u (31 Aug 2024).

Sherwood · Jun 13, 2024

Name: Delilah Kanto
Gender: Female
Age: 55
Exalt Type: SIdereal
Caste: Serenity

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 5
Sta: 3

Cha: 4
Man: 3
App: 5

Per: 2
Int: 3
Wits: 3

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

Specialties
Martial Arts: War-God Rings
Lore: Demons
Dodge: Unarmored Defense
Lore: First Age Knowledge
Martial Arts (free): 4
Backing - Convention of the East (free): 2
Resources (free): 3
Artifact - Waymakers Starmetal War-God Rings: 3
Artifact - Collar of Dawn's Cleansing Light: 2
Eidetic Memory: 2
Familiar - Pattern Spider named Cid: 3
Hearthstone - Demon Banishing Jewel: 2
Hearthstone - Stone of Resilient Bamboo: 2
Languages - Old Realm, High Realm, Riverspeak, Foresttongue: 2

Serenity
Auspicious Prospects for Serenity (1m; Reflexive, Instant): The Joybringer learns whether an interpersonal relationship or someone’s happiness would align with destiny.
Lesser Sign of Venus (5m; Reflexive; Until next turn): The Joybringer makes Venus’ lesser sign in a flourish of cerulean stardust. She and all allies within close range add (her Essence, maximum 5) non-Charm dice on bargain, inspire, instill, persuade, and read intentions rolls. Resolve bonuses from their positive Ties increase by one. In scenes of social interaction, this lasts long enough for the Sidereal and each of her allies to take one action. This is free at bonfire.
Greater Sign of Venus (20m, 1wp; Simple; Instant; Psyche): Once per story, the Joybringer may make Venus’ greater sign, illuminating the battlefield with a sapphire light. All participants in the battle stand down. For (Sidereal’s Essence) days, affected characters can’t reinitiate hostilities with each other unless they enter a Decision Point and cite a Defining Intimacy to spend (higher of Sidereal’s Essence or 3) Willpower. This doesn’t apply to attacking characters not involved in the original battle, nor does it apply to fighting back in self-defense.

Virtue Flaw
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: —; 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.

Craft Charms

Cost: 2m per die; Mins: Craft 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal plies her raw materials with honeyed words and winsome grace, bringing forth their hidden beauty.
The Sidereal adds up to ([Appearance or Charisma]/2, rounded up) non-Charm dice on a Craft roll, paying two motes per die. If she does, she ignores penalties from lacking suitable tools; flattery and grace are all she needs.
A Sidereal with Elemental Vision can instead add up to (Appearance or Charisma) non-Charm dice instead if she’s working with raw materials of that element. Likewise, if she has World-Shaping Artistic Vision, she gains the same benefit on rolls to which it applies.

Cost: 5m, 2s/g/wp; Mins: Craft 4, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Creation of Beauty
The Sidereal draws inspiration from her understanding of fate and destiny, overcoming creative challenges through innovative design.
The Sidereal adds a non-Charm success on a Craft roll. If it’s made at target number 4, she adds two successes instead. If she completes a project with that roll, the finished product has an unexpected but useful feature: an outfit might have easily concealed secret pockets, a sword might be durable enough to use for leverage in feats of strength, an artifact’s Evocations might incorporate an unexpected theme, etc.
This Charm costs silver points on basic and major projects, gold points on superior projects, and white points on legendary projects.

Cost: 8m; Mins: Craft 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal weaves her blueprints into the pattern of fate, ensuring her project’s swift completion.
The Sidereal undertakes a basic or major project, completing most such tasks in a matter of minutes as long as she has all necessary tools and materials. The most arduous, work-intensive projects can be completed in an hour if basic or a day if major.
A Craft 5, Essence 3 repurchase lets the Sidereal pay a two-mote, one-Willpower surcharge to undertake superior projects with this Charm. Creating artifacts requires (Artifact – 1) months, or half that for repairs; the time to complete a manse is halved; mundane largescale projects can be completed in no more than (10 – Essence) weeks. She can’t use this Charm to create N/A artifacts or First Age artifice.

Dodge Charms

Cost: 2m; Mins: Dodge 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Foreseeing her enemy’s attacks, the Sidereal arranges to be elsewhere when they land.
The Sidereal ignores (higher of Essence or 3) points of Evasion penalty. If her attacker has a positive Tie to her, she ignores all Evasion penalties. This can’t negate penalties from surprise attacks.
If the Sidereal is unarmored or if she has no Evasion penalties to negate, she can dodge an attack whose successes equal her Evasion.

Cost: —; Mins: Dodge 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Keeping things light and cheery, the Sidereal hides her worries behind a smile.
The Sidereal can calculate Guile with (Appearance + Dodge). This doesn’t include any bonus dots of Appearance the Sidereal has.
With Dodge 4, Essence 2, the Sidereal can pay five motes to inflict +1 target number on a roll against her Guile. This becomes +2 if she’s acting in support of a Tie of romantic or sexual desire. This effect is Mute.

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.
Affected characters can still use Charms like Phantom Arrow Technique or Generalized Ammunition Technique to produce ammunition.
Special activation rules: This Charm can be flurried.

Cost: 7m; Mins: Dodge 4, Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform, Perilous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Absent Self
Sensing an impending danger rippling toward her through the skeins of fate, the Sidereal deftly steps out of its path.
The Sidereal can use Evasion to defend against any hostile effect: undodgeable attacks, environmental hazards, falling damage, social influence, Shaping effects, etc. If the effect is one that could normally be defended against with an opposed roll or static value, the Sidereal substitutes her Evasion for successes on the roll or the applicable static value. If it isn’t, the Storyteller should assign a dice pool for the source’s effect to roll against the Sidereal’s Evasion. Against ongoing or recurring effects, once the Sidereal successfully defends with this Charm, she’s immune for the rest of the scene.
Duck Fate can only defend against the actions and magic of other characters and environmental effects with defined mechanics. Appropriate stunts may bypass this limitation, letting a Sidereal dodge performance reviews, debts, her feelings, etc.

Presence Charms

Cost: 4m; Mins: Presence 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Ecstatic in battle, the Sidereal welcomes the blows of her enemies and denies them power thereby.
The Sidereal adds (Charisma) soak against a withering attack. If her attacker’s Initiative is lower than hers or if she’s successfully influenced him with a threaten action this scene, the bonus increases to (Charisma + 2).
If the Sidereal is unarmored, she can use this Charm after being hit by an attack, but before the damage roll.

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 among the strands of her fate until she beckons it forth.
The Sidereal’s spider emerges so 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 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.

Occult Charms

Cost: 4m; Mins: Occult 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mute
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sidereal’s Caste Mark shines with spiritual light, a symbol of her authority over spirits that illuminates the unseen world.
The Sidereal can perceive dematerialized characters. Spirits — both materialized and dematerialized — can see the Sidereal’s Caste Mark as if her anima were at glowing or higher. This display is sufficient for knowledgeable spirits to roll to recognize this Charm’s use.

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.
Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style
Dreaming Pearl Courtesan is a subtle style—graceful, elusive, and lethal. A student learns to maneuver herself into the perfect position to strike, gaining the confidence and trust of her victims as she navigates the veils of defenses they put up between themselves and the world. Once the Dreaming Pearl Courtesan has reached her victim at his most vulnerable—whether that is in the tangle of his boudoir’s sheets, a friendly conversation in a tearoom, or a secret meeting at court—she reveals her true nature as a killer, fighting with a deadly grace and the elusiveness of a dream.
Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Weapons: Dreaming Pearl Courtesan style uses elegant unarmed strikes that seem more like dance moves than attacks, as well as war fans and whips. Courtesans also learn to wield numerous improvised weapons with this style through the use of the Charm Elegant Weapon Repertoire, strangling enemies with a silken sash or slashing them with the jagged edge of a broken teacup.
Armor: Dreaming Pearl Courtesan style is incompatible with armor.
Complementary Abilities: Many Dreaming Pearl Courtesans use Dodge, both to evade the attacks of their enemies and to withdraw from close combat. It is also common for them to use Performance or Presence to make influence rolls both in and out combat, which later Charms of this style enhance.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mastery, Uniform; Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Dreaming Pearl Courtesan dances away from the blows of her enemies without effort, as if her body was nothing more than so many cherry blossoms caught on the wind. Demure Carp Feint adds +1 to the martial artist’s Evasion, or adds one success on a roll to disengage. If the martial artist’s Appearance is higher than the Resolve of her attacker, or of all enemies she is disengaging from, this increases to +2. Successfully defending against or disengaging from an enemy whose Resolve is beaten by the martial artist’s Appearance grants her a point of Initiative, as her provocative elegance and sinuous grace gain her an improved footing.
Mastery: When the martial artist gains Initiative with this Charm, her attacker loses a point of Initiative as well. When disengaging, all enemies whose Resolve is beaten lose the point of Initiative (although this does not increase the amount the martial artist receives).

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental; Keywords: Dual, Mastery
Duration: Instant;
Prerequisite Charms: None
A paper fan, a colorful sash, a pair of chopsticks, a ball gown’s train—all of these can be killing weapons in the hands of a student of this style. Elegant Weapon Repertoire adds the accuracy bonus of a weapon to the raw damage of a withering attack made with it, or one die to the raw damage of a decisive attack.
Alternatively, this Charm can supplement a ready weapon action to suffuse an accessory, garment, or some similar ornamental object with Essence, allowing the martial artist to wield it as a weapon. For the rest of the scene, it is treated as a mundane light weapon, with tags based on the exact nature of the item, as described below. While several examples are provided for each category, the Storyteller is encouraged to reward creative ideas that fit within the aesthetics of this style.
Disarming: The disarming tag applies to garments or accessories that can be used to leverage weapons out of their wielder’s grip—primarily sashes or sleeves that have had lead weights sewn into them for this specific purpose (which overrides the usual tag they would receive). These weapons usually also have the bashing and flexible tags.
Grappling: The grappling tag applies to accessories and garments that could conceivably be used to entangle or tie up an enemy, such as the sash of a kimono, a long scarf, a ball gown train, a blanket or sheet, or a length of silken rope. These weapons usually also have the bashing and flexible tags.
Piercing: The piercing tag applies to accessories that are small or sharp enough to conceivably slip through the defenses of armor, such as hairpins, cutlery, a broken teacup, knitting needles, or elegantly decorated false nails. These weapons usually also have the lethal tag.
Shield: The shield tag applies to accessories and garments that seem well-suited to fending off attacks with their broad surface, such as paper fans, hand mirrors, or the long sleeves of a robe. These weapons usually also have the bashing tag.
Mastery: Elegant Weapon Repertoire adds +1 to the Overwhelming value of any weapon readied with it for the duration of the fight.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mastery
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
An iridescent sheen comes over the martial artist’s garments as Essence enfolds them, turning silk as strong as steel. Any clothing the martial artist wears while this Charm is active is treated as mortal light armor. This is explicitly compatible with this style, but not with any other styles that forbid armor. In addition, whenever the martial artist is hit by an attack, she may spend up to her (Appearance) in motes, adding one point to her armored soak against that attack for each mote spent this way.
Mastery: The first time the martial artist uses this Charm to defend against a decisive attack in a fight, she reveals the supernal resilience of her seemingly vulnerable figure, gaining hardness 10 against the attack as well as a surge of three motes that can be spent to add to the armor’s soak, or on similar effects, such as many Solar Resistance Charms. These motes vanish at the end of the scene if not spent.

Cost: 8m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Form
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Demure Carp Feint, Elegant Weapon Repertoire, Pearlescent Filigree Defense
The Dreaming Pearl Courtesan embodies grace and beauty even in the midst of bloodshed, weaving through melee as if dancing through steps of a ballroom waltz, cutting down foes with gestures so delicate they can scarcely be noticed. The martial artist may make attacks out to short range, slashing a fan to unleash a razor-edged wind, letting a silk sash flow like a weaving serpent to strike enemies, or sending needles of nacreous Essence spiking from her fingernails. Any clothing she enchants with Pearlescent Filigree Defense gains the traits of light artifact armor, while weapons readied with Elegant Weapon Repertoire gain light artifact traits.
Special activation rules: Whenever the martial artist successfully disengages with 5+ successes, she may reflexively activate Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form.

Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form
Just as there is beauty in the budding and blossoming of flowers in the springtime seasons, so too is there a melancholy elegance in the fall of leaves as the autumnal seasons come in turn. It is with this mournful grace that the Dreaming Pearl Courtesan dispatches her victims. The Flurry of August Leaves enhances an attack based on the tags of the weapon used to make it. If the weapon has multiple valid tags, the martial artist can only choose one of the available options.
• Clearing the Banquet Table (Disarming): A successful disarm gambit allows the martial artist to fling her enemy’s weapon out to medium range (or long range, with Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form active). The Initiative cost of the gambit is waived.
• Lethal Paper Fan Attack (Shield): As part of the attack, the martial artist may reflexively take a full defense action at no Initiative cost, effortlessly blending offensive and defensive motion in an elegant fan dance.
• Unraveling Loose Threads (Piercing): A successful attack with a piercing weapon neutralizes the enemy’s armor, setting its base soak and hardness to zero against her for the next two rounds.
• Resplendent Sash Grapple (Grappling): Upon landing a grapple gambit with a grappling weapon, the martial artist may waive the Initiative cost of the gambit and roll (Initiative + Essence) to determine how many rounds of control she gains (if this would be a higher pool than her usual control roll). If the enemy is at short range or further from her (for example, if she is using Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form to attack from range), he is immediately dragged to within close range of her as the weapon coils around him.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form
Moving through the sultry, languid forms of a hypnotic kata, the Dreaming Pearl Courtesan beguiles her enemies with ethereal music and the fragrant scent of flower petals. Fragrant Petal Fascination Kata adds the martial artist’s Essence in bonus successes to an inspire roll made to fill enemies with emotions of love, lust, mercy, distraction, or similar, and suffers no penalties for targeting multiple characters. With appropriate stunting, it may also enhance other types of social actions that align with the hypnotic, seductive nature of this Charm.
In combat, an enemy whose Resolve is overcome by the influence roll loses a point of Initiative, even if he spends Willpower to resist. The Dreaming Pearl Courtesan gains all Initiative lost this way, up to a maximum of her (Appearance).
Special activation rules: Once an enemy has been exposed to the Fragrant Petal Fascination Kata, he is immune to further uses of it for the rest of the scene, regardless of whether he succeeded or failed in resisting it.

Cost: 4m, 2i; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mastery
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Fragrant Petal Fascination Kata
Catching hold of the Dreaming Pearl Courtesan is like trying to remember last night’s dream—at first, one might be able to grasp it hazily, but as time passes, it slips away into nothingness. The Seven Storms Escape Prana subtracts dice equal to the martial artist’s Appearance from a roll made to oppose one of her disengage attempts, to rush her, or from the control roll of a clinch against her. If the Dreaming Pearl Courtesan’s successes on the opposed action exceed the Resolve of the opponent, then he must pay a point of Willpower to maintain his focus or else automatically fail the roll.
Mastery: The duration of this Charm is extended to one round, imposing the penalty on all applicable opposed actions.
These starmetal wind-and-fire wheels are large enough for a small child to fit through, though their bladed edges are scarcely thicker than paper. Their hand grips are carved from a mineral that cannot be found in Creation, each with a delicate recess for a hearthstone.
Plaintive Abiona forged them for her Circlemate Unforgiving Lightning to wield against the Sequence of Irreducibles, a chasseur of the Scorpion Empire. The Sequence had folded and encysted itself deep within Creation’s substrate. Its armored scales were distance; its talons, fractal blight. Thus, Abiona forged a weapon to cut space itself, using the arch of a heavenly gate as a whetstone to hone the Waymakers’ edges. Thus armed, Unforgiving Lightning descended into the Cascade, cutting a clear path through the infested space of its dominion to strike at its heart-lemma. He prevailed, though his right hand was forever warped by its predatory geometries.
The Waymakers were returned to Abiona after Unforgiving Lightning’s death in a Silver Pact ambush. Too grief-stricken to bear the sight of them in another Sidereal’s hands, she sealed them away within the Sequence of Irreducibles’ corpse, a strangely-angled maze of envenomed crystal and nacreous porcelain. She’s spread rumors of them as she travels through Creation to ensure they’re found by a worthy wielder, as long as she never has to meet them.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 3)
Tags: Lethal, Martial Arts, Disarming
Hearthstone Slot(s): 2
Era: Inverted Mountain Incident

Evocations of the Waymakers
The Waymakers’ wielder adds one die on withering and decisive damage rolls against fae and one success or contend with magic that warps space or makes it behave unusually, like certain Getimian Charms.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Resonant, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
The Waymakers wound space itself, cutting open a portal to strike at distant foes.
The wielder’s attack can strike out to short range and ignores light and heavy cover. Full cover remains impassable.
With Essence 2, the wielder can attack out to medium range but requires an aim action to do so.
Resonant: The wielder can cut open larger portals that obviate the need for precision, letting her attack through full cover. However, it grants +3 non-Charm Defense against her attack.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Any one Charm this Evocation enhances
When the wielder moves without motion, space around her is cut by her passage.
The wielder reduces the cost of Distance-Severing Stride (p. XX) or other magic that lets her move without crossing the space between by two motes. If she succeeds on an opposed roll for that effect, she gains one Initiative.

Cost: 2m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Cutting Rift
The wielder traps an enemy with an unexpected portal, sending him right where she wants him.
When an enemy within short range of the wielder moves between range bands, voluntarily or not, the wielder rolls (Wits + Martial Arts) opposing his (Dexterity + [Athletics or Dodge]). If he fails, he’s unable to avoid the portal, which leaves him one range band in any direction from his starting location. If he had any remaining movement from magic that lets him move multiple range bands, he completes it but must continue in the same direction he set out in. If this endangers him — e.g., causing him to fall — the Storyteller should allow a roll to avoid it.
The wielder can use Cutting Rift reflexively to extend this Evocation’s range.
Reset: Once per round.
Resonant: If this brings the enemy within close range of the wielder, she may reflexively make a decisive attack.

Cost: 4m, 1i; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Clash, Decisive-only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Unexpected Portal Detour
Countering an attack with her portals, the wielder redirects it where it can do no harm.
The wielder clashes an attack by an enemy at any range with a decisive (Wits + Martial Arts) attack. If successful, she doesn’t roll damage or reset Initiative, but her attacker loses Initiative equal to the 1s on his attack. His attack is redirected through another portal against scenery or a trivial character chosen by the Storyteller, which suffers whatever harm the Storyteller deems appropriate.
Resonant: The wielder gains the lost Initiative.

Cost: —(+3m, 1wp); Mins: Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Dissonant, Resonant, Uniform
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Wandering Gate Deflection
The wielder turns her enemies’ numbers against them with deftly positioned portals.
When the wielder uses Wandering Gate Deflection, she may pay a three mote, one Willpower surcharge to let her redirect a clashed attack to a second enemy within close range, using her attack roll against his Defense to determine whether it hits but keeping any Charms used on the first attack. Any Initiative a withering attack would grant the attacker goes to the stylist instead. If it was a decisive attack, the attacker loses Initiative for 1s before he resets but doesn’t subtract them from his damage roll. The redirected attack’s target must use any defensive Charms before the clash is rolled.
Resonant: When using this Evocation multiple times in a single round, waive the Willpower cost of uses past the first.
Dissonant: The attack can only be redirected to crashed or trivial enemies.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Resonant
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Hidden Gateway Passage, Revolving Portal Misdirection
The wielder cuts open twin gateways, spiritual mirrors of the Waymakers.
The wielder creates a portal at her location and another at a point within medium range. Characters can use move actions to cross between portals or make attacks. Characters can also make attacks through the portal. The distance between the portals doesn’t count against the attack’s range, and they can potentially bypass cover. Environmental effects like a spreading bonfire can also pass through the portals.
On the wielder’s turn, she can use her movement action to reflexively move one of the portals one range band in any direction.
Special activation rules: This Charm can be flurried with a disengage roll to enter the portal or a rush roll after entering it with a reflexive move action.
Resonant: When an enemy attempts to move through the portals, he must roll (Dexterity + Athletics) against the wielder’s (Wits + Martial Arts) to do so. The wielder may likewise roll to oppose attack rolls or other hostile effects made through a portal or against a difficulty set by the Storyteller for unrolled effects and environmental effects.

**Indicates Evocations not yet purchased**

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.

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.

Keywords: None
This stone gleams the pale green of young bamboo leaves. When its bearer sockets it in an attuned artifact and commits one mote, it helps shrug off minor injuries. She adds two to her soak, can parry lethal attacks unarmed without a stunt, and halves healing times for bashing damage.
Health Levels
-0 [ ][ ][ ]
-1 [ ][ ][ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
Incapacitated [ ]

Join Battle: 8 +3i

Essence: 2
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 37 / 30 /
Committed: 7
Willpower: 7

Defense Values
Dodge DV: 6 [+1/+2 from Demure Carp Feint, 3m]
Parry DV: 6
Resolve: 3
Guile: 5

Soak
Natural: 3
Hearthstone: 2
Total: 5
Heroes Iron Skin: +4 (+6) [4m, Instant]
Pearlescent Filigree Defense: +3, [+5 with Form Charm active], [1m for one Scene], +5 from Appearance, 10 Hardness [+5m additional]

Weapons
Waymakers Starmetal War-God Rings
Type: Light (+5 ACC, +10 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 3)
Tags: Lethal, Martial Arts, Disarming
Pattern Spider named Cid
The pattern spiders dwell among the Loom of Fate’s threads, working tirelessly and methodically to sustain Creation’s reality. When the weave of fate is frayed, they are the first to repair the damage, patching small rifts entirely and stabilizing larger damage until divine intervention arrives. They weave planned destinies into the Loom — not to mention the time spent spinning threads of fate while heavenly committees plan, revise, and discard potential destinies. From the Loom, they have little influence over the outcomes of distant
events, capable of only the slightest adjustments to probabilities. But without the pattern spiders nudging the odds, destiny would fall apart — there aren’t enough spirits or Sidereals to tend to everything the pattern spiders do.
A pattern spider’s carapace is made from living metal and crystal, though they are born, not made. They’re specialists by nature, each filling a particular niche in the Loom’s metaphysical ecology. They vary greatly in size depending on their age, purpose, and experience. Most range from smaller than a fingernail to the size of a large dog, while the oldest pattern spiders, called august weavers, can grow to the size of an elk. Asna Firstborn, mother of all pattern spiders, rivals lesser elemental dragons in size. Pattern spiders’ voices are low and sibilant; while they tend to be terse, some are notorious chatterboxes.
Many outside the Bureau of Destiny think of patten spiders as docile servitors, mistaking the weavers’ diligence and the fulfillment they find in their work for servility. In truth, pattern spiders are highly opinionated in matters of destiny, particularly within their areas of expertise. Many put considerable time into correcting the most minute of details in planned destinies, like a secretary correcting punctuation in his superior’s reports. Larger concerns are submitted to the Bureau of Destiny on spunsilk memoranda. Such petitions are given considerable weight — who knows the Loom better than its weavers?
The pattern spiders have a society of their own, made up of 25 colleges — one for each constellation of Sidereal astrology — with the august weavers overseeing their younger kin. Young spiders debate the merits of different destiny-weaving techniques between shifts, while their elders reminisce about past weaves they’re particularly proud of.
Pattern spiders are particular in their choices of friends and confidantes among their Sidereal colleagues. Winning one’s trust can take years, and their respect, even longer. Many respond well to flattery from those whose praise of a spider’s work is informed by their understanding of the expertise that goes into weaving destiny. Those who can befriend a pattern spider are highly esteemed within the Bureau of Destiny.
The below traits represent a dog-sized pattern spider. Smaller spiders can be represented by adding Tiny Creature (Exalted, p. 561) or Minuscule Size (Lunars, p. 361). All three sizes of pattern spider are suitable as three-dot familiars (Exalted, p. 161) for Sidereals.

Essence: 2; Willpower: 6; Join Battle: 7 dice
Personal: 70
Health Levels: −0/−1×2/−2×2/−4/Incap.
Actions: Bureaucracy: 5 dice; Climb: 10 dice; Debate Metaphysics: 9 dice; Feats of Strength: 7 dice (can attempt Strength 3 feats); Read Intentions: 5 dice; Senses: 9 dice; Social Influence: 5 dice; Stealth: 10 dice; Tracking: 7 dice; Weaving: 12 dice.
Appearance 1, Resolve 3, Guile 3

COMBAT
Attack (Bite): 8 dice (Damage 12L)
Attack (Grapple): 8 dice (6 dice to control)
Combat Movement: 10 dice
Evasion: 4; Parry: 2
Soak/Hardness: 5/4

INTIMACIES
Defining Principle: My work sustains Creation, and I take pride in it.
Defining Tie: The Loom of Fate (Reverence)
Major Principle: When it comes to destiny, I know best.
Major Tie: Creation (Interest)
Minor Tie: The Bureau of Destiny (Respect)
Minor Tie: Enemies of Fate (Revulsion)

MERITS
Cult 1: Pattern spiders are empowered by the Bureau of Destiny’s collective gratitude.
Eightfold Eyes of Fate: Pattern spiders can detect the presence of fate-altering Shaping effects with a difficulty 5 Senses roll. They can distinguish between harmful effects and beneficial ones, but they can’t discern any more detail than that.
Living Metal: Pattern spiders are immune to poison and disease, as well as crippling effects that target organs, nerves, and the like. They don’t need to eat, drink, sleep, or breathe.
Wallcrawling: Pattern spiders can climb up walls and ceilings.

OFFENSIVE CHARMS
Pattern Venom (4m, 1i; Supplemental; Instant; Decisive-only, Eclipse, Shaping (Fate); Essence 2): A decisive bite attack carries a metaphysical toxin that causes bad luck. It has Damage 1/round, Duration 5 rounds, and a −3 penalty. It doesn’t deal damage. Instead, if there are any successes on the damage roll for an interval, the poisoned character suffers a stroke of misfortune.
An overturned wagon might put difficult terrain in his way, or his weapon might slip from his grasp. If there’s nothing more fitting, the victim loses one Willpower. Eclipse Castes convey this venom through their unarmed attacks.
Silken Fate Snare (5m; Supplemental; Until the clinch ends; Essence 2): When the pattern spider restrains a grappled enemy, it wraps him in webbing. The spider can take other non-reflexive actions while grappling and suffer no Defense penalties for grappling. The opponent’s penalties to attacks increase by one. This can’t be used on the turn the spider makes the grapple gambit.
Web of Woven Destiny (10m; Simple; One scene, Essence 2): The spider spins a web out to short range, which is difficult terrain for other characters. While within the web, the spider doubles 9s on movement actions and on hearing-based Senses rolls against others within the web.

MISCELLANEOUS CHARMS
Hurry Home (10m, 1wp; Simple; Instant): The pattern spider vanishes on its next turn, reappearing within the Loom of Fate. Pattern spider familiars may return to their companion instead.
Materialize (35m, 1wp; Simple; Instant): The pattern spider weaves its physical form from threads of crystal and metal.
Measure the Wind (5m; Simple; Instant): The pattern spider takes the measure of anyone whose current destiny bears the influence of the constellation associated with that spider’s college.
Read the Weave (5m; Simple; Instant; Eclipse; Essence 2): This Charm works like the Auspicious Prospects anima power (p. XX), but only for destinies related to the constellation associated with that spider’s college. They don’t benefit from fulfilling auspicious prospects.
Defining Principle: My work sustains Creation, and I take pride in it.
Major Principle: As long as it gets results, its worth considering.
Major Tie: Venus (Love and Devotion)
Major Tie: The Exalts of her Circle (Watchful Pride)
Minor Tie: Gold Faction Members (Camaraderie)

Delilah 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 Venus' Chosen. He explained that Del has been selected to serve in the Celestial Bureaucracy as a fellow Joybringer. 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 Serenity. After slogging through the first decade as one of the Chosen, Del was recruited to join the Convention of the East, 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 Del 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.
Attribute increase / current rating ×4
Non-Caste, Non-Favored Ability increase / current rating ×2
Caste/Favored Ability increase / (current rating ×2) − 1
New Ability / 3
Specialty / 3
Purchased Merit / new rating ×3
Willpower / 8
Charm / 10 (8 if Caste/Favored)
Sidereal Martial Arts Charm / 10
Spell / 10 (8 if Occult Favored)
Evocation / 10

Xp Earned: 79
Xp Banked: 15

Sidereal Xp:

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