Dice Lore: People, places, and interesting things of The Underways of Gethamane

Lochar · Sep 24, 2018

This thread is for the gathered lore and locations the players find in Gethamane and the wider world of Creation.

1. The City of Gethamane

2. Notable People

3. The Underways

Lochar · Sep 24, 2018

The City of Gethamane

Currently known facts:
Entry into the city of Gethamane is through the great onyx doors that close off the underground city from the world. The doors themselves stand thirty feet high, and when open is wide enough to allow a yeddim through unhindered. The doors open to the slightest touch, but cannot be budged by the strongest of blows. The doors are bound and inlaid with jade of all colors, runed with other magical metals that resist all attempts to divulge their meaning, or even their removal.

Introduced Fact: Deunan has partially deciphered the glyphs that rune the doors and the caverns themselves, as they appear to be a created language that can still be vaguely tracked back to Old Realm if one were to do an indepth study. Or be a Supernal Lore Solar... Currently still an 'unknown' language, but Deunan can decode parts of it with an Int+Linguistics Difficulty 3.

The tunnel into the city goes nearly a hundred yards in, before opening up to a vast cavern, twisting with stalactites and stalagmites that nearly touch each other. Vast darkness would greet a newcomer, except embedded into the rock are three foot tall flat black stones that glow with a cold light.

This is the first, highest level of Gethamane. Here is where what traders there are come, generally the Guild and the slave trade. The people of Gethamane trade furs, meats, gathered flora, and the occasional sorcerous item wrested from the depths of the Underways.

Gaining access to the lower levels of Gethamane require one to go through carved entryways in the stalagmites of the first level. Pathways from here lead down further into twisting tunnels that open up into smaller rooms and caves.

The second level of Gethamane is considered the Administrative section of the city. Here, the council and others run the city, enforcing the three laws.

The third level contains the pathways and chambers that make up the homes and living quarters of the people.

Introduced Fact: The Drunkard's Walk is a tavern on this level, and has some of the best, and most interesting, brews of alcohol. Known well enough that even those outside the insular population are willing to brave the wariness of the people to try a beer made from Garden mushrooms. Mushrooms that, when fermented, tend to have a staggeringly wild set of properties.

The fourth level is forbidden to Outsiders, as here larger caves give way to small fields of blue-lit grasses, and nestled in those grasses are the mushrooms that feed Gethamane. These are the Gardens of Gethamane, and it is through these Gardens that the people survive.

Riddled throughout all four levels of Gethamane are additional passages that bypass all levels and go directly to the Underways, the maze of caves and tunnels that cross under what is likely most of the Groaning Mountains. Most of these passages have been collapsed, some multiple times. All are guarded, for sometimes the monsters and unknown creatures that call the Underways home rise up...

Specific questions:
Slavery: Allowed, but usually held to the more rich as slaves are not considered citizens of Gethamane and therefore do not automatically receive a share of food from the Gardens. Any child that is a union of a citizen and a slave is a citizen. A child of born of two slaves is a citizen as well. Children born in this way are usually adopted out.

Lochar · Sep 24, 2018

Notable People

1. Gethamane
The Council of Twelve:
The ruling council of Gethamane, it is they who make most of the cities final administrative decisions. On the council are five Farmers, five Gatherers, and two Traders.

The Farmer's Guild
Each family that is involved in the farming of the mushroom fields is a member of the farmer's guild. The guild is tasked with ensuring everyone in Gethamane receives enough food to live off of, as the mushrooms are technically sufficient to live off.

The heads of the five largest families are usually the five farmer members of the council.

The Hunter's Guild
The hunter's guild is made up of those individuals who leave Gethamane to scavenge and hunt outside the city. Sometimes entire families, sometimes a single person from a much larger family of farmers. The five oldest hunters are the members of the council.

The Traders
While not a guild per se, the Traders are all those who deal with Outsiders, and usually play middle man to the rest of those living in Gethamane when they want to gain something outside their own means. The two Trader positions on the council are bartered for and sold, much like any other commodity.

Lochar · Sep 24, 2018

The Underways

A mishmash maze of tunnels that go underneath the city of Gethamane. Strange monsters roam these tunnels, occasionally forcing their way to the city itself and taking victims. No one has ever mapped these tunnels fully, and none have ever discovered the reason for the monsters.

Lochar · Sep 24, 2018

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Sherwood · Sep 24, 2018

Name: Duncan Hayat
Caste: Dawn
Supernal Ability: Martial Arts
Age: 23

Attributes
Str: 3
Dex: 5
Sta: 3

Cha: 2
Man: 2
App: 3

Per: 3
Int: 2
Wits: 4

Abilities
Archery
*Athletics: 3 - Feats of Strength
*Awareness: 4 - Join Battle
Brawl
Bureaucracy
Craft
*Dodge: 1
*Integrity: 1
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics: 1
Lore
**Martial Arts: 5 - Swords
Medicine
Melee
*Occult: 2
Performance: 2
*Presence: 1
*Resistance: 3 - Resisting Pain
Ride: 2
Sail
Socialize
*Stealth: 2
Survival: 2
Thrown
War: 1
Merits
Artifact Armor - Reinforced Buff Jacket: 3
Artifact Daiklave - Shining Ice Mirror: 3
Linguistics: 2 Skytongue, Riverspeak, Forest-Tongue
Martial Arts: 4
Resources: 2

Willpower: 6
Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 / 23
Committed: 10

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

Virtue Flaw: Heart of Flint
The Solar’s heart is hardened against all emotion, becoming distant and utterly lacking in empathy or feeling. While in Limit Break, he is treated as having no Intimacies whatsoever, making his decisions based purely on what is most efficient. His lack of empathy imposes a -2 penalty on all social rolls.
Duration: Session.
Heart of Flint can be ended prematurely if the Solar’s apathy allows a character that he holds a Major or Defining positive Tie towards to come into life-threatening danger.
Athletics

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

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

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

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.

Resistance

Cost: 3m; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: One tick
Prerequisite Charms: None
A child cannot cleave a tree with a dull knife, nor can a foe hope to strike down the Solar with his petty blade. Against a withering or decisive attack, this Charm reduces raw damage by two. Against a decisive attack it also grants the Exalt four hardness. Note that the hardness bonus cannot be applied during crash.

Cost: 1m per damage die removed; Mins: Resistance 2,
Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Withering-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Durability of Oak Meditation
The Solar channels Essence through her enduring toughness, hardening her skin and muscles beyond their mortal limits. After an attack hits her, but before damage is rolled, she may increase her soak at a rate of one mote per point. She may no more than double her natural soak in this fashion. This effect is incompatible with any magic that allows the Exalt to soak a decisive attack with withering only magic.
At Resistance 5+, Essence 3+, the Solar may use this Charm to remove successful dice of withering damage after damage has been rolled, at a rate of two motes per success. This use costs one point of Willpower, two points of Initiative, and has the Perilous keyword.

Cost: 2m or 6m; Mins: Resistance 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant or Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit Strengthens the Skin
This Charm hardens the Exalt’s skin, making it incredibly difficult to cut or pierce. Against a withering attack, the Solar can pay two motes to apply her Stamina as soak against unsoakable damage as an instant effect. Against a decisive attack, she may pay six motes after damage has been rolled to create (Stamina) -0 health levels, which take damage first, effectively shunting the attack away from her bones and vital organs. She still feels the pain of the strike, but a blow that appears to run her through may be shrugged off while drawing a mere trickle or no blood at all. If the created health levels exceed the damage successes
for that attack, subsequent attacks’ damage is automatically applied to remaining created -0’s before damage begins registering with her regular health levels.
The motes for the decisive version’s cost are committed indefinitely. The Solar keeps her commitment to this Charm for as long as she remains injured; after combat ends, the health levels convert from -0 to -1 wounds, requiring the Solar to seek rest or treatment in order to end the Charm. These health levels are the first healed by any kind of rest or magical healing. Healing these levels is the only way to end the Charm; once they are healed they vanish. Undamaged health levels vanish at the end of the scene. The Solar may choose to continue fighting while carrying shunted injuries, but each day she does so increases the wound penalty by -1.
At Essence 3+, the Solar may create up to (Stamina + Essence) health levels, but choosing to do so changes the cost of the Charm to five motes + one mote for every -0 created beyond the Solar’s Stamina.

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.

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.
Single Point Shining Into the Void Style
Single Point Shining Into the Void is a sword style that emphasizes blinding speed and deadly-perfect finishing moves. Students learn to draw their blade as though it were an extension of their own body, transitioning effortlessly from the draw to a strike or parry. When a master duels a lesser swordsman, the fight often ends in a single stroke, the blade sheathed almost in the same instant it’s drawn. When faced against a foe who matches her in skill, the Single Point stylist fights with swift blows and an almost meditative focus, seeking the single moment of weakness in her foe’s defenses that will allow her to slash through him entirely.
Single Point Shining Into the Void Weapons: This style uses slashing swords and their artifact equivalents, reaper daiklaves, delivering lightning-fast attacks from the draw. It cannot be used unarmed.
Armor: This style is compatible with light and medium armor.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Martial Arts 2, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mastery, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The clashing steel and ferocious blows of the swordsman’s enemies do not disrupt her focus—rather, she welcomes them, gleaning the weaknesses of each foe’s fighting style from their offense. After successfully parrying an attack, the stylist can use Gathering Light Concentration to reverse the onslaught penalties inflicted by it. Instead of applying them to her Defense, she applies them to her attacker’s Defense until his next turn.
Mastery: At Essence 3+, the Solar may spend an extra 3i when activating Gathering Light Concentration to cancel all onslaught penalties she’s suffering from, and inflict them on her attacker.

Cost: 6m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only, Mastery
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Committing fully to a lethal blow, the swordsman cleaves through her enemies with killing speed. Shining Starfall Execution adds (her Dexterity/2, round up) to the raw damage of a decisive attack. If she is at Initiative 15+, she adds her full Dexterity instead. However, if the attack misses, then the stylist adds (Dexterity /2) to the amount of Initiative she loses.
Mastery: Shining Starfall Execution also doubles 10s on the damage roll at Initiative 15+.

Cost: 10m; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Form, Mastery, Terrestrial
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Gathering Light Concentration, Shining Starfall Execution
Sheathing her blade for a brief moment, the swordsman centers her mind and Essence. As she draw her sword once again and enters this form, it is as a lightning bolt of flashing steel, moving with unimaginable speed and control. While in this form, it is customary to sheathe one’s sword after each strike, and draw it anew for each new one—not merely as a show of this style’s formidable speed, but to contain and dissipate the overwhelming buildup of Essence that might erupt beyond the stylist’s control without such restraint. The first time the swordsman uses this Charm in a fight, she rolls her sword into battle with a (Wits + Martial Arts) Join Battle roll, giving it its own Initiative track separate from her own.
This does not represent the sword gaining intelligence or agency of its own, but rather, the superior speed of the stylist allowing her to strike twice during each round. When the sword’s turn comes up in Initiative order, the swordsman may choose to make an attack with it, or to delay the action until later in the round. No other actions can be taken (including movement actions), and if the stylist does not choose one of these options, the sword’s turn is wasted.
The sword’s Initiative is separate from the swordsman’s own—withering attacks made by one cannot add to the other’s Initiative, and decisive attacks made by one do not reset the other to base Initiative. The base raw damage of decisive attacks made on the sword’s turn cannot exceed the swordsman’s own Initiative, even if the sword’s is higher. When the stylist is dealt Initiative damage, the character who damaged her may choose whether to apply it to her own Initiative or the sword’s, but cannot split the damage across both pools. The sword also loses a point of Initiative at the end of every round it was not used to successfully land an attack. If the sword’s Initiative is reduced to zero, then the stylist is forced out of this form, and cannot reactivate it again for three rounds. When she does, she does not reroll Join Battle, but only sets the sword to base Initiative. If the swordsman leaves this form voluntarily before the end of the fight, note the sword’s current Initiative rating. If it is reactivated later during the scene, the sword’s Initiative is reset to this value, rather than making a new Join Battle roll.
Special activation rules: Whenever the martial artist achieves the highest Join Battle value at the start of a fight, she may reflexively activate Single Point Shining Into the Void Form.
Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood must pay a point of Willpower each round she wishes to attack twice. Otherwise, she may only make one attack per round, choosing whether to “use” her own Initiative or the sword’s each round.
Mastery: The martial artist gains the following benefits:
• When using the sword’s turn to make a decisive attack, its damage is not capped by the stylist’s own Initiative.
• The sword does not lose Initiative on turns it did not successfully land an attack.
• If the sword’s Initiative is reduced to zero or less, the stylist loses the benefits of this form, but it still remains active. Once three rounds have passed, its benefits resume without the swordsman needing to activate it or pay its cost again. Additionally, if the swordsman crashes an enemy who reduced his sword’s Initiative to zero, then he may immediately roll Join Battle for it again and take an action with it on the same tick, as per the usual rules for Initiative Shifting (p. 194).

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 2;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only, Mastery, Terrestrial
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Single Point Shining Into the Void Form
Seizing the crucial moment, the swordsman lunges forward into an all-or-nothing attack, her blade blurring into a flash of crimson-flecked steel. Against an enemy with lower Initiative, Fatal Stroke Flash adds the difference to the raw damage of a decisive attack against him. The bonus damage cannot exceed the swordsman’s own Initiative. However, if the attack misses, then the stylist’s own Initiative falls to equal the enemy’s before he suffers the usual Initiative loss for missing a decisive attack.
Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood can only use this Charm after parrying an attack that caused the attacker’s Initiative to fall beneath her own. Upon doing so, she may use Fatal
Stroke Flash against him on her next turn.
Mastery: The martial artist may also double up to (Essence) 9s on the attack roll.

Cost: 5m (+1wp); Mins: Martial Arts 5,
Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual, Mastery, Terrestrial
Duration: One round
Prerequisite Charms: Fatal Stroke Flash
Moving faster than her foes can even blink, the stylist’s blade seems like a flowing river of steel. Liquid Steel Flow adds the stylist’s Dexterity to the raw damage of all her withering attacks. After landing a successful attack, she may pay a point of Willpower to extend this Charm’s duration to one scene. Making a decisive attack ends the Liquid Steel Flow, as the swordsman focuses all her speed into one deadly-perfect strike that converts up to (Dexterity/2, round up) dice of raw damage to automatic successes. If Fatal Stroke Flash is used to enhance this decisive attack, its Willpower cost is waived if the stylist paid Willpower into Liquid Steel Flow.
While this style’s form is active, if the stylist and her sword both act on the same tick to make decisive attacks, then the benefits of this Charm apply to both attacks before it ends. The swordsman does not seem to make two attacks, but a single stroke of steel that can fell even the mightiest enemies.
Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood cannot pay Willpower to extend this Charm’s duration.
Mastery: As long as the martial artist is at Initiative 11+, he also adds one automatic success on all attack rolls he makes against enemies of lower Initiative.

Cost: 8m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Clash, Decisive-only, Mastery, Terrestrial
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Single Point Shining Into the Void Form
Moving without the least sign of effort, the swordsman repels the blows of her attackers in a flash of steel before sheathing her sword, as if to seal away the wasted force of their strikes. Horizon-Swallowed Star Flash allows the martial artist to make a reflexive clash attack. A successful attack grants Initiative equal to her extra successes, up to a maximum of her Wits. This Initiative is added before calculating the raw damage of the attack.
While this style’s form is active, the stylist chooses whether to use her Initiative pool or her sword’s when making this clash attack. If she clashes, and then in the same round uses the other Initiative pool to make a decisive attack against the same enemy, that attack also receives the +1 damage bonus of being a clash attack. This combination move is known as the Shattered Mirror Nova-Strike.
Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood treats the clash attack granted by this Charm as her attack action for the round, and cannot make another. If she has already attacked this round, then it counts as her attack for her next turn.
Mastery: The martial artist’s attacker loses Initiative equal to the amount that the swordsman gains with this Charm.

Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Martial Arts 5, Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-only, Terrestrial
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Single Point Shining Into the Void Form
As one heartbeat begins, the stylist draws her sword from its scabbard. By the heartbeat’s end, the blade is already stained with the blood of her enemy. The swordsman may attack an enemy out to medium range, drawing her blade and flashing to the enemy’s side in a single lunge that counts as her movement action for the round. She adds one automatic success to both the attack and damage roll for each range band she crosses, channeling the devastating momentum of her advance into the strike. However, if the attack misses, the swordsman loses control of her momentum, sliding past her target to end her movement at short range beyond him.
When the stylist and her sword take their turns together on the same tick, they may unleash the devastating attack known as the Countless Strikes Sheathed, combining the two turns into the single action of activating this Charm. The swordsman makes the attack roll before beginning her movement, and chooses whether she will use her own Initiative or the sword’s to make the final decisive attack. If the swordsman’s movement toward her target brings her within close range of other enemies whose Defenses would be hit by her attack roll, she may choose to reflexively strike them. Against each such enemy, she may choose to make a withering strike, which deals her Essence in Initiative damage and adds to the Initiative pool chosen for the final attack (including any Initiative Breaks received), or a decisive strike, which lets her forgo up to (her Dexterity) points of Initiative from the chosen pool and roll it as damage which ignores hardness. If one of these preliminary decisive strikes incapacitates a non-trivial opponent, the Initiative invested in it is recovered. Once the swordsman has cleared all enemies between her and the final target, she concludes with a decisive attack against the final target. Those struck by the Countless Strikes Sheathed do not even realize they have been attacked until the swordsman sheathes her blade at the conclusion of the final strike, at which point their wounds burst open.
Terrestrial: A Dragon-Blood cannot use Countless Strikes Sheathed.
Shining Ice Mirror (Blue Jade Reaper Daiklave, Artifact •••)

Shining Ice Mirror is beautiful and minimalist by the standards of most daiklaves, with a thin, slightly curved jade blade the color of ice catching the afternoon sun and a hilt woven with the thinnest of precious starmetal wires. It’s a blade of deliberate nature, rewarding foresight in battle while disdaining those who hack and rend their way through their foes.
Ancient records indicate the daiklave was forged by the Terrestrial sorceress Mikako Khem as a gift for the Solar her family served as retainers. Shining Ice Mirror was shaped entirely in frozen flames at the heart of manse now long destroyed, and served as a sign of Gens Mikako’s bond of devotion until the night of the Usurpation.
Surviving documents from the Shogunate indicate that it was unearthed from its Solar owner’s grave and carried into battle against the Winter Folk in several major battles, reverently returned after each untombing with great propitiating rituals. The weapon was believed lost during the Wyld Crusade, until it was recently unearthed by Haslanti League explorers during the excavation of First Age ruin buried beneath a massive glacier. Now a terrible shadow stalks the daiklave as it makes its way across the North. Its last three owners have been found torn asunder, their blood frozen around them; and yet no records survive to indicate where the weapon was once entombed.
Shining Ice Mirror possesses a single hearthstone socket at the bottom of its hilt.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hearthstone slot: 1

Evocations of Shining Ice Mirror
A Solar who pays two extra motes to attune to Shining Ice Mirror may partake of its perfect balance and discerning spirit so that an aim action taken with the intent to strike with the blade also conveys the benefits (but not costs) of a full defense action.

Orichalcum Reinforced Buff Jacket

Attunement: 5m
Type: Medium (+8 Soak, Hardness 7, Mobility Penalty −1)
Tags: Silent
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ][ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] - [ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]

Willpower: 6
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 / 23
Committed: 10

Join Battle: 9 +3 Successes
Sword Join Battle: 10 +3 Successes
Parry: 7
Evasion: 3
Resolve: 3
Guile: 1

Personal Soak: 3
Total Soak: 11
Hardness: 7

Shining Ice Mirror: Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Defining: Will Do Anything to Protect Comrades
Major: Lets Try To Make Creation A Better Place For All
Major (hatred): Bandits
Major: Save the World from Creatures of Darkness
Minor (hatred): Those That Abuse Their Power
Minor (disgust): Demons

Duncan Hayat grew up in a small town in the River Provence area of Creation. He led a good life, working in the city militia to help keep the townspeople safe, and would have been happy to spend the rest of his life there if it were not for one fateful day when an expected caravan came up missing. Duncan was one of a group of soldiers that were sent out to investigate. What they found was a scene of pure horror. The small wagon train was set upon by a band of raiders, led by a Dragon-Blooded Outcaste. Many of the wagon train's merchants were already dead, with others set aside to become slaves. Duncan and the other soldiers immediately launched into battle with the raiders, and soon Duncan found himself facing off against the Outcaste with a trio of fellow guards.

One by one, his fellow guardsmen were cut down by the Dragon-Blooded, but Duncan refused to give up; the image of the butchered merchants still fresh in his mind. The few remaining soldiers were all that stood between freedom and slavery for the survivors of the wagon train. Despite the fact that he knew that the Exalt was just toying with him, he continued to fight, struggling against his own wounds. Duncan soon found himself down on one knee, holding his bleeding side with one hand as he glared up at the Outcaste as he refused to give up. Suddenly, a bright beam of sunlight lanced down through the clouds and struck the wounded man, filling him with a brilliant burst of energy. Rising to his feet once more, Duncan could feel the bleeding wound on his side knitting up even as he stood before the stunned Exalt.

With his newfound power and skill granted to him, Duncan turned the tide of the fight, driving the Dragon-Blooded back until he was finally able to deliver a killing blow to his enemy, and he stood there for a moment, gasping for breath as he glowed bright with the power of the Unconquered Sun. Soon, he was approached by the Sergeant, and was told that because of his Exaltation as a Solar, it would not be safe for him to return to the town from whence they came. "Don't get me wrong; we all owe you our lives for facing off against that Exalt. But if you come home, you will be labeled Anathama and run off if you are not killed outright. Take the artifacts and what money you can from the fallen men and ride away. We will have to report what happened, since there are too many people that have seen your transformation. If you are ever back in this neck of the woods, remember you will always have a friend in me."

Taking the artifact armor and sword from his fallen foe, Duncan then went on the run from the Wyld Hunt.
Trait Experience Cost
Attribute Increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability Increase - current rating x 2
Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x 2) -1
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit - new rating x 3
Willpower 8
Solar Charm 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation 10

Xp Earned:
Xp Banked:

Solar Xp Earned: 2
Solar Xp Banked:

Wish List
Six-Demon Scabbard Binding
Blinding Nova Flare
Ox-Body Technique

Psychie · Sep 24, 2018

Name: Tepet Deunan
Caste: Twilight
Supernal Ability: Lore
Age: 31

Attributes
Str: 2
Dex: 4
Sta: 2

Cha: 3
Man: 3
App: 3

Per: 4
Int: 5
Wits: 2

Abilities
*Archery: 1 - Bows
Athletics
*Awareness: 3
*Brawl: 1
*Bureaucracy: 1
Craft
*Dodge: 5 - Ranged Opponents
Integrity: 1
*Investigation: 1
Larceny
Linguistics: 1
**Lore: 5 - Research
Martial Arts
*Medicine: 1
Melee
*Occult: 5 - Sorcery
Performance
Presence
*Resistance: 1
Ride: 1
Sail
Socialize
*Stealth: 1
Survival: 2
Thrown
War
Artifact Armor - Quincunx: 4
Artifact Powerbow: 3
Languages: 4 - Old Realm, Skytongue, High Realm, Low Realm, Riverspeak
Resources: 2

Willpower: 8
Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 / 24
Committed: 9

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

Virtue Flaw: Compassionate Martyrdom
Consumed by overwhelming compassion, the Solar cannot see the suffering of others without intervening. Whenever he sees a suffering innocent, he must intervene to help them in the most dramatic way possible. If she is being harmed, the Solar must either intercede to take the blows meant for her, or else kill her aggressor. If her suffering is caused by poverty, sickness, or other prevailing conditions of her life, the Solar must find some similarly dramatic method in which to help her, working without cease to do so.
Duration: Session. Compassionate Martyrdom can be ended prematurely if the Solar sees that the actions he has taken have caused the people she is trying to protect to fear or reject her, or if she loses a combat that she started because of the Limit Break.
Archery

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

Awareness

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

Dodge

Cost: 2i per 1 Evasion; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Exalt draws upon her own momentum to bend and flow with opposing forces. For every two Initiative spent in response to an attack, the player may raise the Exalt’s Evasion by one. Reed in the Wind raises the cap on how much the Solar can enhance her Evasion by her Essence. At Dodge 5+, Essence 3+, a successful dodge with Reed in the Wind restores one mote. This bonus may only occur once per round.

Lore - Supernal Ability

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.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Lore 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Harmonious Academic Methodology
Affecting a calm and patient demeanor, the Solar is able to project the light of her knowledge into the darkest of places. While affecting this Charm, the Solar ignores all penalties to teach someone. She can educate a person who is deemed medically incapable of learning, such as someone who is developmentally disabled, or someone who has suffered traumatic injury or privation by the Fair Folk. This Charm does not affect social influence rolls to persuade a character of something.

Cost: 1xp+; Mins: Lore 5, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: First Knowledge’s Grace
The Lawgiver is a master instructor, capable of passing on truths and talents as surely as the sun passes daylight. To activate this Charm, the Solar commits a number of experience points from her own unspent experience total. She may confer these experience points to another character by delivering a lesson she has constructed, allowing her to train a character’s Attributes or Abilities up to a rating of 5, even if this puts the character beyond her own rating. However, for each three experience points the Solar spends on the character in question, that character must adopt, at the Minor level, an Intimacy the Solar holds. The Solar may choose which Intimacy is conferred. For each three experience points conferred, the Solar may confer individual Intimacies, or she may increase a single Intimacy’s intensity from Minor to Major, or from Major to Defining, so long as she holds that Intimacy at the Major or Defining level herself. Intimacies conferred in this manner cannot be decayed for any reason until the character has performed at least one task equal to that Intimacy’s intensity (p. 215).
The Solar has sole discretion over who is able to benefit from the experience points on offer. Refer to training times on page 178 to determine how long each training session should take. At the end of each story, the Solar may roll a number of dice equal to experience points spent on this Charm, regaining a number of experience equal to her successes, but not beyond the total amount of experience she expended in training. A Solar with Socialize Charms related to the creation of personas may use this Charm while in the guise of a persona, but she must pay from both her main unspent experience total and the persona’s unspent experience total to do so. Lastly, the Solar cannot benefit from this or any other experience-granting training Charm in the same story in which she uses it to benefit someone else.

Cost: —; Mins: Lore 4, Essence 2
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Harmonious Academic Methodology
The Solar is a living font of vital knowledge. This Charm enhances rolls to introduce or challenge facts. She can now roll to establish a fact whenever her knowledge of historical events, cultural norms, local myths and rumors, number systems, etc. is challenged. If the topic in question falls into the Solar’s Lore expertise—that is, the background reflected by her Lore rating—or any of her Lore specialties, she gains one automatic success on the roll, and any extra successes she generates are doubled. However, the criteria under which Storytellers may veto introduced facts remain unchanged.

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.

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

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

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

Cost: 5sm, 2wp
The sorcerer shapes a small, six-winged messenger spirit to convey her words to another character. The spirit flies with immense speed, capable of crossing hundreds of miles in an hour or all Creation in less than a day—only the boundaries between realms of existence will stop it from delivering its missive. Upon arrival, the cherub is visible only to its intended target, to whom it can deliver a message of up to five minutes in length before dissipating. Sorcerers can convey social influence through the Infallible Messenger, but cannot normally use their Charms to enhance the roll.
A sorcerer who knows Infallible Messenger as her control spell may pay an additional point of Willpower to project her senses through the cherub’s own, allowing her to use Awareness and Investigation Charms while delivering the missive. Having this spell as her control will also cause a number of tells to begin manifesting in the sorcerer’s vicinity, even when the spell has not been cast. It may appear in murals or paintings that she owns, carven amongst the gargoyles of her residence, or briefly fluttering in the periphery of a mirror’s reflection.

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

Cost: 15sm, 1wp
Keywords: None
Duration: One hour
Bending the winds to her will, the sorcerer creates a servile dust devil to ride. The Stormwind Rider is treated as a flying mount (p. 202), although it cannot take the sorcerer to more than short range above the ground. (Wits + Occult) replaces the usual rolls for all combat movement actions. The whirlwind can carry up to (Essence x 2) additional characters, or one hundred pounds of cargo in place of a single passenger. While it cannot soar as high as the Cirrus Skiff, the Stormwind Rider can travel at nearly 100 miles an hour and maneuver through forests or cities. In a race with other characters, the sorcerer rolls (Intelligence + Occult + current temporary Willpower) for each interval.
In combat, characters within the Stormwind Rider are treated as having light cover against attacks made from outside of it, and vice versa. A passenger who is crashed or hit with a decisive attack is knocked out of the whirlwind, and suffers falling damage if applicable. A sorcerer who knows Stormwind Rider as her control spell is buffeted by winds whenever she is beset by strong emotions. Sudden movements cause a small vortex powerful enough to scatter papers, upset furniture and topple someone caught off-guard. Her vertical leaps are buoyed by wind, allowing her to leap upward a single range band as her movement action; she can do so up to (Stamina) times before needing to rest.
In addition, characters with an Essence pool gain access to the following powers while this spell is active:
• Enduring Tempest (5m; Reflexive; Instant): Once this spell’s duration has elapsed, the sorcerer may use enduring Tempest to extend its duration for another hour. She may do so for as long as she has Essence to continue using this power.
• Zephyr Rush (1m, 1wp; Supplemental; Instant): The sorcerer whips the Stormwind Rider into a sudden frenzy of speed, allowing her to move up to two range bands with a single movement action in combat or doubling 8s on one interval of a race.
Distortion (Goal Number: 15): Distorting a stormwind rider causes it to buck and swerve violently in its flight, threatening to throw off its riders. All characters carried by the whirlwind must succeed at a difficulty 4 (Dexterity + Athletics) roll to maintain balance, although the sorcerer who cast it may substitute (Wits + Occult). Characters who fail their roll fall out of the whirlwind.

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

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

The Quincunx (Orichalcum Breastplate, Artifact ••••)

Forged in the High First Age by the renowned Twilight sorcerer Devon, who believed that the secrets of the universe could be harnessed with careful mathematical reckoning, the Quincunx put to rest any claims that a sorcerer could not hold his own on the battlefield. When his Circlemate, the Dawn warrior Kati, plunged headlong into Malfeas alone to settle a score with a demon lord, Devon saw little choice but to gird himself for battle and follow, donning the Quincunx as a sorcerous defense against the alien geometries he would encounter there. The breastplate was buried along with its creator and lies entombed still, waiting for the hand that will awaken its mystical potential once more.
This breastplate consists of two perfectly symmetrical pentagonal plates of burnished orichalcum. Both are inlaid with resonant crystals aligned in significant occult patterns and inscribed with runes. The front plate has one hearthstone socket in the center of the prominent quincunx pattern that gives the artifact its name. The breastplate is worn over a long, high-collared tunic with flared sleeves, lined with the fur and Essence of five huraka. The sorcerer who dons this armor can calculate his opponent’s next move and capture mystical energies to power acts of occult might.

Attunement: 4m
Type: Light (+5 Soak, Hardness 4, Mobility Penalty −0)
Tags: None
Hearthstone slot(s): 1
Era: Dreams of the First Age

Evocations of the Quincunx
A character attuned to the Quincunx gains +1 Defense while shaping sorcery, attempting countermagic, or distorting a spell.
A Twilight Caste Solar at bonfire anima may pay six motes and one Willpower to harmonize her anima banner with the Quincunx, stacking its Hardness bonus
with the armor’s for the rest of the scene.

Aegis of Geometric Perfection
Cost: 1m+; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None
The Quincunx’s design embodies perfection, channeling its wearer’s Essence to harmlessly disperse force. The wearer may spend up to (Essence) motes on this
Evocation before an attack is rolled against her. If she is shaping a spell, she may spend up to (Essence + Occult) instead. Each mote spent reduces the raw damage of a withering attack by one, while every three motes spent, rounded down, reduces decisive damage by one die.
Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]

Willpower: 8
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33 / 24
Committed: 9

Join Battle: 5 +3 Successes
Parry: 3
Evasion: 5 - 6 vs Ranged Attacks
Resolve: 2
Guile: 2

Personal Soak: 2
Total Soak: 7 Gains +1 Defense while shaping sorcery, attempting countermagic, or distorting a spell.
Hardness: 4

Orichalcum Powerbow
Type: Medium (+12 DMG, OVW 4), Accuracy: Close −1; Short +5; Medium +3; Long +1; Extreme −1
Short Sword
Light Accuracy +4, Damage +7, Defense +0, Overwhelming 1
Defining: Master Reality Through Sorcery
Defining: Self Discipline and Knowledge is Everything
Major: Burning Curiosity and a Desire to Learn
Major: Protect Creation From the Creatures of Darkness
Minor (hatred): Bullies
Minor (regret): Loss of her Family and House

Tepet Deunan grew up on the Blessed Isle in the city of Eagle's Launch. She was raised in a good home with loving parents, but things began to sour for her as it became clear that she was not going to Exalt as one of the Princes of the Earth like her parents did. Even so, Deunan had a pleasant upbringing, and was free to pursue her own passions as a scholar and savant. It was in the summer of her twenty-ninth year that she joined up in a archaeological dig with several other university graduate students in the Threshold, excavating a newly discovered First Age complex of buildings, with one that probably includes a long forgotten tomb of some Solar or Lunar Anathema. Only the great Celestial Incarne knew the truth of that.

It took months for the team on the dig to be able to figure out how to gain access to the sealed buildings and bypass the various wards and traps, but when the doors opened for the first time in thousands of years, Deunan was the first to step through the portal to look inside. As the team began the slow, steady process of cleaning up the foyer, one of the other students found the hidden entrance to the tomb itself! Once the tomb was opened, it unleashed a pair of demons that were tasked to guard the mortal remains of the fallen Exalt. The demons began to tear into the students, and the screams called the handful of guards that were there to protect the excavation site. They were no match for the creatures of Malfias, and one by one, they were torn into by the demons.

While Deunan stood between one of the monsters and a handful of young students, a sudden understanding blossomed inside her of how to stop the Blood Apes, opening the door to a larger world. Tapping into her newfound knowledge and powers, she cast her first spell of Death of Obsidian Butterflies, catching the demons off guard. With this knowledge from her past Exaltation, Deunan was able to defeat the tomb guardians and save the lives of the rest of the expedition.

Her moment of glory was short lived as the few remaining guards pointed at her and labeled her 'Anathema' and scattered away from the new threat to their lives. It didn't matter that she was able to save them; everyone in the dig regarded her as a demon as evil as the servants of Malfias that she just vanquished and fled. Using what time she had available to her, Deunan went to the tomb to see what was waiting there for her. She found a wondrous bow and a suit of armor, and the newly Exalted Twilight claimed them as spoils of her victory. Now on the run, Deunan headed north and seeks to master her magical powers and find allies to help protect her from the Wyld Hunt.
Trait Experience Cost
Attribute Increase - current rating x 4
Non-Caste/Favored Ability Increase - current rating x 2
Caste/Favored Ability increase - (current rating x 2) -1
New Ability - 3
Specialty - 3
Purchased Merit - new rating x 3
Willpower 8
Solar Charm 10 (8 if in a Caste or Favored Ability)
Martial Arts Charm 10 (8 if Brawl is a Caste or Favored Ability)
Spell 10 (8 if Occult is a Caste or Favored Ability)
New Evocation 10

Xp Earned:
Xp Banked:

Solar Xp Earned: 2
Solar Xp Banked:

Wish List
Lore Charms
Beckoning that Which Stirs the Sky
Thunder Wolf Howl
Unslakable Thirst of the Devil-Maw
Ox-Body Technique
Perfect Shadow Stillness
Easily-Overlooked Presence Method
Blinding Battle Feint
Celestial Circle Sorcery
Magma Kraken
Travel Without Distance
Shadows of the Ancient Past

Rykon · Sep 24, 2018

Name: Maximillian Ashburn
Caste: Night
Concept: Underworld Brawler
Age: 20
Supernal: Dodge
Hometown: Port Calin

Background
Max grew up in Port Calin as the child of a coal miner and a minor bureaucrat. With an older sister and younger brother, the boy was often left to his own troublesome devices as a kid, getting dragged into fights often from school age and well into adolescence. Shortly before graduating primary school, however, what was once a fairly stable home, turned to turmoil when his mother came down with a sudden illness. Max dipped out of school to watch over his ailing mother for two years while the family supported his older sister Liz in finishing school and younger brother Alan in primary school.

Given old habits, it was a matter of time before Max began wandering out of the house while his mother lay in bed rest while his father worked the mines. Money'd been hard to come by and so Max ran with a few different street crews, mostly swiping small bits here and there off of passing nobles. Eventually, Max walked off the street and into the fighting pits, growing tired of petty crime.

Underground fighting was legally frowned upon, mostly due to the brutality and deaths. For Max, it was what helped him feel most alive, weaving around the clumsy, battering the arrogant. The adrenaline, the achievement, the perfection of self... all of it drove his hunger for more. Eventually, the risk and reward method of earnings became too much, when the father came home late, missing a leg.

From that day til Exaltation, Max took jobs as a personal guard and consultant for higher class thugs, making some contacts with bigger crime lords and some dirty merchant princes. It didn't always come with the high prize purse like the underground fight club, but it was stable, reliable, and mostly safe... so long as cooler heads prevailed. The bosses and associates often spoke of the benefits and virtues of Guild enlistment, Max shirked such invitations well into adulthood, seeing himself as somehow cleaner from his disassociation with the roots of greater evils than himself.

When he did finally take the second breath, he'd Exalted under the full sight and fury of a Dynast while protecting a mobster's son. Max has had to flee his hometown to search for a new path while making sense of his new place in the world. Taking the only road he knew he could manage, the young fighter ran north to stow away with a caravan.

Relationships
Liz often voiced regret for Max's path, feeling as if she held some fault for some perceived theft of opportunity. Max has noticed a hint of such feelings, but was never able to discuss her move into their mother's field, and how proud he was of her. Being on the run on the Anathema has made keeping contact very difficult.

Alan and Max always were at odds, brotherhood rivalry runs hot with those of similar age and Alan always balked at the scorn levied at him for Max's reputation as a ruffian and thief. Max had fled before they could reconcile bad blood and has no idea how his brother took the news of him being a Solar or even if he knows at all.

Last Max knew both parents were either sick or crippled at home and in the care of his sister now entering the workforce while his brother Alan struggles through Secondary School.
Essence: ●
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 36
Committed: 5
Willpower: 5

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

Attributes
Str ●●
Dex ●●●●●
Sta ●●

Cha ●●
Man ●●
App ●●●

Per ●●●●●
Int ●
Wits ●●●●●

Abilities
Archery
Athletics ●●●
Awareness ●●●
Brawl ●●●●● +Unarmed
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge ●●●●● +Unarmed
Integrity
Investigation ●●●
Larceny ●●●
Linguistics ●
Lore ●
Medicine
Melee
Occult
Performance ●●●●● +Voice
Presence ●
Resistance ●●●
Ride
Sail
Socialize ●●● +Guile
Stealth ●●●●●
Survival
Thrown
War ●●●
Merits
Artifact ●●● Belt of Shadow Walking
Resources ●●● - Underworld Muscle
Languages ●●● - Native: Riverspeak, Old Realm, Skytongue, High Realm
Contacts ●●● - The Guild
Athletics
Graceful Crane Stance
Monkey Leap Technique

Awareness
Sensory Acuity Prana
Keen Sight Technique

Brawl
Ferocious Jab

Dodge
Reed in the Wind
Drifting Leaf Elusion
Shadow Over Water
Drifting Shadow Focus
Searing Quicksilver Flight
Force-Stealing Feint
Flow Like Blood
Safety Between Heartbeats
Thousand Steps' Stillness
Belt of Shadow Walking
Attunement: 5m
Taken from the corpse of the Dynast that witnessed his Exaltation. Thankfully Max's anima left no other witnesses.

Night-black belts made from leather from the wings of giant bats, trimmed with black jade and soulsteel, these artifacts can control shadows and cause them to conceal the wearer. Whenever she wishes, the wearer can add three dice to all stealth rolls. However, this is the least of the belt’s powers. When the wearer expends ten motes, she can transform into a living shadow for one scene. In this form, she can slip under the space beneath a door or slide through the thinnest crack. In well-lit regions, observers notice the existence of an unusual shadow if they make a (Perception + Awareness) roll at difficulty 3, unless the wearer conceals himself in a larger shadow.

When the character is a shadow, she is dematerialized and can only aﬀect or be aﬀected by other dematerialized creatures or by Charms and weapons capable of attacking dematerialized foes. If the wearer uses such a Charm or weapon while dematerialized, she can use it to aﬀect a materialized foe. Otherwise, she is immune to all materialized threats, although she can be trapped in a room that is sealed tightly enough. The character can wear any armor and take any object she can carry into the shadows with her. However, she cannot transform other living things into shadow. Once the scene ends, the character must remain in solid form for at least ten minutes before transforming back into a shadow. The wearer must commit five motes to use this artifact.

Buff Jacket (Resources ● Light Armor)
Soak 3, Mobility -0, Hardness 0
Health Levels
-0x1
-1x2
-2x2
-4x1
Ix1

Essence: ●
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 36
Committed: 5
Willpower: ●●●●●

Join Battle 6

Parry 6
Evasion 6

Total Soak 5
Hardness 0

Guile 3
Resolve 3

Intimacies
Defining Principle - I will perfect my fighting art
Major Principle - Even criminals should have limits
Major Tie - Regret of lost time with Siblings
Minor Principle - Why should I feel bad, I don't steal as much as taxes do!
Minor Tie - Resentment toward the Nobility of Port Calin
BP 15
Abilities 13 Points
Merits 2 Points
Work in Progress

Red Shadow Claws · Sep 24, 2018

Name: Snow Blossom
Caste: Zenith
Age: 27

Attributes
Str: 3
Dex: 3
Sta: 5

Cha: 4
Man: 2
App: 3

Per: 2
Int: 2
Wits: 3

Abilities
Archery
Athletics 2 (Balance)
Awareness 2
Brawl 3
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge 1
Integrity 3
Investigation 1
Larceny
Linguistics (Native – Skytongue)
Lore 4 (Fae)
Martial Arts
Medicine 3 (Treating Injuries)
Melee
Occult 3
Performance
Presence 3
Resistance 4
Ride
Sail
Socialize
Stealth
Survival 5 (Animals of the North)
Thrown
War
Merits
Artifact 2 (Traveler’s Staff)
Boundless Endurance 2
Cult 1
Iron Stomach 1
Natural immunity 2
Tempered by the Elements (Cold) 2

Willpower: 7
Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Anima Banner: A swirling of snow flakes, cascading down and forming the image of a deer.
Anima Power:
Athletics
Graceful Crane Stance

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

Monkey Leap Technique

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

Awareness

Sensory Acuity Prana

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

Brawl
Fists of Iron Technique

Cost: 1m; Mins: Brawl 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm allows the Exalt to parry lethal damage with her bare hands. In addition, her bare-handed decisive strike does lethal damage and her withering damage ignores (Essence + Intimacy) soak. The Intimacy in this context can be a Tie (as the Solar strikes a hated enemy or defends a beloved friend) or a Principle (as the Solar exults in the thrill of violence).

Thunderclap Rush Attack

Cost: 3m; Mins: Brawl 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Solar’s aggression fuels her Essence, quickening her movements, allowing her to blur into combat range of an opponent to make a first strike. This Charm allows the Solar to move a single range band without consuming her movement action, to make an attack regardless of her position in the Initiative order. The attack in this instance must be made the moment the Solar blurs forward, and so this Charm can only be activated at short range. This attack counts as her turn for the round, and doesn’t have to be a Brawl attack. If contested by another character using Thunderclap Rush Attack, the better stunt wins. The target of Thunderclap Rush Attack may not use a Clash (p. 202) to defend against the Solar’s attack unless he’s using a Charm with the Clash keyword.
At Brawl 5, Essence 3+, the character may add one Willpower to the cost of this Charm—when she uses it against her opponent, it automatically strips (Essence or 5, whichever is lower) Initiative from her target and awards it to her, before the attack is made.
This Charm can be used once per target, per scene, but can be refreshed against a single target by crashing that target.

Lore
Wyld-Dispelling Prana

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Lore 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Varies
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver is the embodiment of order. With her knowledge and will, chaos is cast asunder. Through use of this Charm, the Exalt may fix her notice on any object, structure, or character (including herself ) at the moment it is first affected by the twisting power of the Wyld. The Solar’s solid knowledge flows out in a rush of Essence, sluicing away the Wyld’s influence. In addition, roll ([the Solar’s Mental Attribute] + Lore) with (Essence) non-Charm bonus dice, with a difficulty based on the source of the warping, with the bordermarches being difficulty 3 and the deep Wyld being difficulty 5. Any extra successes on this roll equates to a number of turns (in combat) or minutes (out of combat) for which the target of Wyld- Dispelling Prana becomes immune to further twisting. This Charm may affect a character at up to medium range, and requires multiple uses to protect objects or structures larger than a horse.

Medicine

Wound-Mending Care Technique

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Medicine 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through mastery of Essence flows and a keen understanding of the body, the Solar can repair even the most ruinous damage at an incredible pace. The Solar spends fifteen minutes to an hour doctoring the patient, depending on the severity of the wounds. She still requires the normal medicines, bandages, and any tools that might be needed for more complex operations, but her results are nonetheless miraculous. Roll (Intelligence + Medicine) with double 9s at the end of the treatment. This is the number of bashing or lethal health levels that will be restored if the patient remains in bed for the rest of the day. In addition, if the Solar’s treatment would raise her patient two or more wound levels, she gains a point of Willpower.

Occult
Ancient Tongue Understanding

Cost: 6m; Mins: Occult 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
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.

Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

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

Presence
Harmonious Presence Meditation

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
Ox-Body Technique

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

Durability of Oak Meditation

Cost: 3m; Mins: Resistance 2, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Dual
Duration: One tick
Prerequisite Charms: None
A child cannot cleave a tree with a dull knife, nor can a foe hope to strike down the Solar with his petty blade. Against a withering or decisive attack, this Charm reduces raw damage by two. Against a decisive attack it also grants the Exalt four hardness. Note that the hardness bonus cannot be applied during crash.

Survival
Food-Gathering Exercise

Cost: 3m; Mins: Survival 1, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One hour
Prerequisite Charms: None
The land gives its strength to the Lawgiver. The Solar may use this Charm to make a ([Charisma or Wits] + Survival) roll against a difficulty assigned by the Storyteller. Each extra success on this roll represents enough food gathered to feed a single person for a day. The fare guaranteed by this Charm is of a meager sort—berries, grubs, nuts, seeds, insects, and small animals—but the Solar has no need of a spear or bow or net to hunt such game. If the Storyteller decides there simply isn’t any sort of sustenance in the region, or the player fails the roll, the Solar still finds enough food to feed at least one person. In addition, for every hour the Solar continues to use this Charm, the Solar works toward a climactic encounter with the rawest expression of survivalist skill possible. This guarantees that after repeated use, the Solar will have at least one chance per day to catch a large fish, kill a game animal, trap a large bird or find a fruit-bearing tree. This encounter will happen regardless of Storyteller decree, but is still contingent on a difficulty 6 roll in the worst case scenario.

Friendship with Animals Approach

Cost: 3m; Mins: Survival 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through the use of this Charm, the Exalt can deal with nearly any wild animal. Herbivores and smaller omnivores will not break and run when the Solar approaches, and will even become somewhat docile, allowing the Exalt to pet or handle them. Predators are less susceptible to this Charm, and most will simply let the Solar pass unmolested through their territory. This Charm does not work on sentient animals or familiars, animals that are trained to attack, or animals that are maddened by pain, hunger, or disease.

Hardship Surviving Mendicant Spirit

Cost: 5m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through the use of this Charm, the Solar becomes able to survive in even the most hostile conditions without special preparation. This Charm negates all environmental penalties to Survival rolls and eliminates the deleterious effects of exposure to extreme climates. The coldest glacier and the hottest desert are no more deadly to the Solar than the gentlest rolling plain. She ignores inclement weather even when lightly dressed, and does not suffer undue blisters, bug bites or plant poison even when walking barefoot through the jungle. This Charm does not protect the Exalt against environmental damage.
In addition, Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit lowers the difficulty to forage and find shelter by 2, to a minimum of 1.

Element-Resisting Prana

Cost: —; Mins: Survival 5, Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit
Through this Charm, the Solar becomes able to survive in any environment. When the prerequisite is active, the Solar can withstand the heat and toxic fumes in the caldera of an active volcano, can walk underwater with no ill effects, and can even withstand the hostile and inimical climes of the Elemental Poles. While Hardship-Surviving Mendicant Spirit is active, reduce damage from all elemental sources of environmental damage by the Exalt’s Resistance rating.
Traveler's Staff - This gnarled staff is an enchanted branch from an ancient tree found in a Greater Wood Manse located on the Blessed Isle. It can be used as a mundane quarterstaff in combat, but this is not its intended purpose, which is to provide food, firewood and shelter. At sunset, the user may plant the staff into the earth and commit three motes. The branch then grows into a fruit tree—usually apple—and sprouts enough wondrous fruit to feed the owner and several others for the evening. If she needs firewood, the owner can use the tree’s branches to provide it—wood gathered this way burns readily. Come morning, she can cut off a large branch to replace the original staff. The tree then dies and rapidly rots away. By sunset, no sign of its presence remains.
Sorcerous Initiation

Scarred By Nightmares
Ritual: When the sorcerer sleeps, her player may describe the strange visions that haunt her. She recovers no Willpower from sleep, instead rolling (Wits + Occult) and gaining one sorcerous mote per success. These motes last until the next time she sleeps, and can be spent towards any spell she casts. If the sorcerer spends all of the sorcerous motes granted by a dream casting her control spell, each counts as two motes towards meeting the spell’s cost. Once per story, the sorcerer’s player may stunt to describe how the current situation was somehow symbolized by her dreams, essentially declaring that her past dreams retroactively foreshadow the present. Doing so awards her a number of sorcerous motes equal to (her Essence x [stunt level + 1]), which last for the duration of the scene.

Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

Wood Dragon's Claws

Cost: 5sm, 1wp Keywords: None Duration: Until dismissed
The sorcerer transforms her hands into huge, gnarled claws of thorny oak, like those of the majestic elemental dragons of wood. Slashing with these claws uses the traits of a light artifact weapon with the same tags as an unarmed attack, save that its damage tag is lethal rather than bashing. They are compatible with Martial Arts styles that use claw-type weapons or rending strikes, such as Tiger style. They render the sorcerer’s hands incapable of fine manipulation such as writing, wielding a weapon, or turning a doorknob. In addition, characters with an Essence pool gain access to the following powers while this spell is active: • Bramble Hell Torment (10m; Simple; Instant; Decisive-only): When the sorcerer makes a decisive savaging attack against a clinched enemy, her claws explode into impaling spikes, adding (Essence) successes to the damage roll. This power can only be used once per grapple. • Living Thorn Transformation (3m; Reflexive; Instant): Warping and twisting her claws, the sorcerer may grant them the tag of her choice for the rest of the scene. She might extend them into a lash of scourging brambles to grant them the flexible tag, reshape them into a bludgeoning club-fists to grant them the smashing tag, or similar. Only one tag can be granted by this power at a time. A sorcerer who knows Wood Dragon’s Claws as her control spell may create and master Evocations for the claws, which can only be used while this spell is active. Distortion (Goal Number: 12): Distorting the Wood Dragon’s Claws causes them to begin growing wildly, engulfing the enemy sorcerer’s arms in a tangle of twisting roots. He cannot take any actions that require the use of his arms, including attacking, until he has succeeded on an extended (Strength + Athletics) roll (difficulty: 2; interval: one round; goal number: 10) to break free of this entanglement. If he is grappling an enemy when the distortion occurs, the distraction of his own spell turning on him allows that character to reflexively break free. The spell cannot be dismissed while it is distorted.
Health Levels
-0 [ ][ ]
-1 [ ][ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]

Willpower: 7

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33
Committed:

Join Battle: 5

Parry: 3
Evasion: 2

Total Soak: 5
Hardness: 0

Guile: 1
Resolve: 3

Unarmed –
Intimacies
Defining (positive): Compassion to those weaker
Major (positive): The people of Whitewall
Major (negative): Expel the Fae from Creation
Minor (positive): The Healing Pillars of the Elk

Background
BP Expenditures:
Willpower from 5 to 7 – 4 BP
Survival from 3 to 5 – 2 BP
Resistance from 3 to 4 - 1 BP
Lore from 3 to 4 - 1 BP
Occult from 2 to 3 – 1 BP
Medicine from 2 to 3 – 1 BP
Integrity from 2 to 3 – 1 BP

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

Xp Earned:
Xp Banked:

Solar Xp Earned: 2
Solar Xp Banked: 2

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