Dice Shadows of the Setting Sun (CS)

WlfSamurai · Mar 18, 2021

Please post your character sheets here.

Standard character creation rules
Solars, Lunars, and Dragon-Blooded permitted
Character background
- Please write a character background for your character
- It can be as long or as short as you like
- It should include:
  - Where your character is from
  - What was their family life like growing up?
  - How your character Exalted
  - At least one other person, place, or thing your character cares about (make them up if needed). The more the better!
  - What your character’s outlook is on the world (what do they think of all that’s going on? Or what do they know?)
  - What your character hopes to accomplish as an Exalt (if they do hope to accomplish anything)

For reference and character help, Charm trees:
MadLetter's Charm Cascades - Lunar, Solar, Dragon-Blooded

XP Tracking:

11 total regular XP earned (not including the 10 at character creation)
4 total Solar/Lunar XP earned

NPCs

Name: Judge Jokaza Ryst
Caste: N/A (Mortal)
Concept: Whitewall Judge
Personality: Stubborn, harsh, but fair

Judge Ryst was born and raised in Whitewall. Her father before her was a Whitewall Judge. And his father before him was a Whitewall Inspector. She is well-dressed; polite, but proper. When Judge Ryst smiles, it is with the least amount of effort possible. She never takes her cold eyes off you if she's speaking to you.

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Name: Aaki “Whistling Death”
Aspect: Air
Concept: Whitewall Guardian
Personality: Outgoing, arrogant, flirt

Aaki is a Whitewall Guardian who has been in service of the city for about six years now. He thinks very highly of himself, mostly due to his work with the Guardians.

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Name: Haze
Caste: N/A (Mortal)
Concept: Scout / Huntress
Personality: Hard, but easy-going in the right context

Haze has been a Whitewall agent for many years now. Before that, she has a past she’d rather forget.

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Name: Ranna
Caste: N/A (Mortal)
Concept: Icewalker weaver acting leader
Personality: Brash, but usually quiet. Private.

When the White Elk Tribe last went on a raid, the were met with plague-walkers. Escaping, a small group of survivors formed around Ranna when there was no one else who would take charge.

Rykon · Mar 18, 2021

Name: Toun Whitefang
Caste: Full Moon
Concept: Tribal Wargod
Age: 24
Homeland: Ice Walker Territories - Snowdrift
Tell: Sharp Canines

Essence: ●
Willpower: ●●●●●

Spirit Totem: Arctic Fox.

Few things teach a boy how to defend himself like an older brother. Where nobles squabble over inheritance, titles, money, and land nomads feud over more refined topics. Who gets the last scrap of roasted meat? Who gets the new bracers? Who gets to play with dad’s knife? These were the critical debates for Toun and his elder brother Ruac and the rhetoric in the school of hard knocks pulled no punches. For the children of the infamous Aegir Hammerhead, no struggle was an easy win, even for the eldest by three calibrations. Competition and ambition burned in their veins, all the better to ward off the biting cold.

In the frigid tundras and rolling foothills that surround Snowdrift peak, refuge of the mighty hunter god Whitefang, life never stopped to wait on the weak. Even as pouting, feuding toddlers both children were constantly tested for survival fitness. Forestry, tracking, scouting, and trapping, all skills that meant feast or famine came from old Hammerhead and his wife Kati. By the time each could walk, Toun and Ruac had to carry their own weight and belongings. The reaches of the north are cruel and unforgiving even to this day. Many of their peers fell to illness, the elements, or the beasts that lurk amidst the brush, snow, or sparse woodlands. Aegir was often away for weeks at a time on a raid, hunt, or both. Education often fell to the elders, or itinerant shamans and envoys of their god.

Unfettered by the chains of Immaculate calendars and dogma, the tribe of the Arctic Fox paid their due to Whitefang annually. When the blizzards began to blanket the rolling expanse of the Snowdrift foothills, the entire clan marched up a winding trail leading to a cavernous den carved into the mountainside. Encircling the stone palace of Fox-god Whitefang was a fortress marked with a masoned wall of unhewn rock leading to an archway painted fresh each year in blood from the burnt offerings. The rune sigils drawn by a small order of shamanic priests led by a favored one, elevated with a gift of essence and knowledge of primal magic. Each year the high priest welcomed the host with open arms, accepting the tribe for refuge for the harshest weeks of winter in exchange for the tribes offerings as the seasons turned.

Year after year, as more calibrations passed Toun took to wild with a hunger laden with ambition. Even with Aegir afield away from the home camp the youngest worked tirelessly to master the art of snatching prey. Ruac grew more and more distant as squabbles became less petty and both children understood the cutthroat world they walked upon. Ruac turned to the gods for answers and for power. Unbeknownst to his younger sibling, feuds still boiled from generations past. Toun could occupy his leisure with his drive to be a peerless warrior, yet Ruac could only see that fewer and fewer rangers and raiders filled the fortress at Snowdrift each year. They argued often, Ruac quoted omens and prophecy while Toun sat scowling, fingers in his ears only to earn a hand upside his head. Whitefang’s seer Ravi also saw the times changing and the young man nearly of age seeking after the gods. To Kati it was no surprise that rather than raid, he took up a rod and stayed at Snowdrift fortress when he came of age.

The heavenly machine turned three more cycles with the tribe’s outlook still bleak. Aegir began to retire, joining the elders as they began to raise the next litter of warriors. Toun continued ranging out from the home camp solo, picking fights with lone bears and grown stags. Most that dared cross the mightiest beasts of the wilderness nearly always favored distance, taking bow in hand with Aegir’s sons now favoring sword, spear, and good bait. The boy’s crowning achievement was a snare large enough to hold a moose still. He returned home, pulling a cart as the villagers laughed, thinking he was reduced to being a human ox. Drawing back the covering over his prey he revealed the adult moose in all his splendor with a red smile across his throat.

--Background is WIP--
Attributes
Strength ●●●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●●●●●

Charisma ●●●●
Manipulation ●
Appearance ●●●

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

Abilities
Archery
Athletics ●●●
Awareness ●●● +Hearing
Brawl ●●●
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge
Integrity
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics ●
Lore ●
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee ●●● +Swords
Occult
Performance ●
Presence ●
Resistance ●
Ride
Sail
Socialize ●●
Stealth ●●●
Survival ●●● +Hunting
Thrown
War ●●● +Strategy
Winter: Summer:
Biology: Arctic fox - Wikipedia

Note: Stats derived from the cat template.

Essence: 1; Willpower: 4; Join Battle: 4 dice

Health Levels: -0/-1/-2/-4/Incap.

Actions: Climbing and Jumping: 7 dice; Senses: 7 dice (see Night Vision); Stealth: 8 dice (see Tiny Creature); Wriggle Through Small Spaces: 7 dice

Resolve 2, Guile 2

Combat
Attack (Bite): 4 dice (4). Damage increases to 12 against enemies of the fox’s size or smaller.
Attack (Claw): 6 dice (2). Damage increases to 8 against enemies of the fox’s size or smaller.
Attack (Grapple): 4 dice (5 dice to control). Foxes can only grapple enemies of their size or smaller. They cannot throw/slam grappled enemies.

Combat Movement: 7 dice

Evasion 1, Parry 1 (see Tiny Creature)

Soak/Hardness: 2/0

Special Attacks
Ambush Hunter: The fox adds three dice on all attack rolls made from stealth.

Batting Paws: Whenever the fox makes a decisive savaging attack against a clinched enemy, it uses its rear paws to bat at it and snap its neck, adding +5 to the raw damage of the attack.

Leaping Pounce: If a fox 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 clinch attack against its prey.

Stalking Shadow Hunter (Latent): When the fox makes a withering attack from stealth against a larger enemy, it uses the higher of the two damage ratings for its attacks. This does not allow it to grapple larger characters.

Underfoot Menace (Latent): The fox treats any attack it makes against a larger enemy as being made from stealth for the purposes of its Ambush Hunter and Stalking Shadow Hunter special attacks.

Merits
Keen Hearing: Foxes double 9s on hearing-based Perception rolls.

Lands on its Feet: Foxes apply the double 8s rule on all balance checks. When a fox suﬀers falling damage, it ignores all dice of damage associated with the fall, and converts automatic levels of damage from the fall to dice that must be rolled.

Night Vision: Foxes 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.

Tiny Creature: Foxes add +2 Evasion against any attack made by a larger foe. In addition, larger characters subtract two successes from any Awareness-based roll made to notice it.
Hybrid Body Transformation Mutations:

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 othersimilar mutation.

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.

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 benefts.

Terrifying Ogre Alteration Mutation:

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)

Join Battle 8

Parry 6 (-1WF)
Evasion 3 (-1 MP, -1 WF)

Total Soak 22
Hardness 7

Rush 14 (-1 MP)
Disengage 14 (-1 MP)

Moonsilver Reaper Daiklave
Weapon Ac: +3 Da: +12 Df: +1 Ov: 5 At: 5 Tag: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Total DAc: 9 WAc: 12 Da: 22 Ov: 5 Pa: 5 At:5
Merits
Artifact ●●● Moonsilver Reaper Daiklave
Artifact ●●● Moonsilver Reinforced Buff Jacket
Hearthstone ●● Stone of Resilient Bamboo
Heartsblood ●● (Eagle, Orca, Dog, Cat, Wolf, Raccoon, Otter, Great Stoat, Horse, Simhata, Heron, Lynx, Badger, Shark, Karkinos (Legendary-Sized Sea Crab), Yeddim, Snow Lion, Polar Bear, Grizzly Bear, Owl, Raven, Stag, Moose)
Languages ●● (Skytongue, Riverspeak, Old Realm)
Cult ●● Tribal territories
Influence ●● Tribal lands
Excellencies
Strength, Dexterity, Stamina, Charisma, Appearance, Perception, Intelligence, Wits

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

Universal

Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar shifts into hybrid form, combining his human self and his spirit shape. Upon purchasing this Charm, his player chooses six dots of mutations reflecting his spirit shape. While in his true human form, he 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, such as a tiger’s head or dragonfly wings, or indirect reflections of a spirit shape, like multiple arms for a spider or a prehensile neck for a giraffe. Players can include purely cosmetic traits, like changed skin color or animal ears, that aren’t included in the mechanical benefits of their selected mutations.

Strength

Cost: 15m, 1wp (5m per turn/hour); Mins: Strength 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Totemic (Stamina)
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: None
His body swelling with supernatural might, the Lunar expands into the form of one of Creation’s greatest beasts. He shapeshifts into an animal form with Legendary Size.

At the end of each subsequent turn, if he didn’t make a decisive attack or spend 8+ motes on offensive magic, he must pay five motes, or this Charm ends. Outside of combat, he must pay five motes every hour.

Special activation rules: If the Lunar uses this Charm to shift from one Legendary Size form to another, he waives its activation cost, maintaining the original 15-mote commitment.

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

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 his almighty rage, the Lunar assumes a
dread war-form. To use this Charm, Hybrid Body Transformation (p. XX) must be active. The

Lunar gains the following benefits:
• He adds (Strength) dice on withering damage rolls, feats of strength, and movement actions.
• He adds (Strength) natural soak.
• He treats his Strength as (Essence) higher for determining what feats of strength he may attempt.

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

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

Cost: —; Mins: Strength 5, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Deadly Beastman Transformation
The Lunar refines his war-form, unleashing the full power of the beast within. Upon purchasing this Charm, he chooses four dots of mutations reflecting his spirit shape. He gains them while Deadly Beastman Transformation is active.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar lashes out with strength born of fury. She adds +(Essence) Overwhelming on a withering attack, or adds (lower of Essence or Strength) attack roll extra successes on a decisive attack as damage dice. She can deal lethal damage bare-handed.

Dexterity
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Stamina

Cost: —; Mins: Stamina 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar is endowed with superhuman vitality. She gains additional health levels based on her Stamina rating:
• Stamina 1-2: Two -2 levels.
• Stamina 3-4: Two -2 levels and one -4 level.
• Stamina 5: Two -2 levels and two -4 levels.
This Charm may be purchased (Stamina) times. If the Lunar’s Stamina increases, her health levels change to reﬂect her new rating.

Charisma

Cost: 20m, 2wp; Mins: Charisma 2 or Wits 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Laying his mark upon the world, the Lunar claims a land as hers. He claims a single contiguous region no more than (Essence x 10) square miles as his territory. To do so, he must fully master the land he wishes to claim. He must physically traverse the majority of the region. Any mortal communities living in the territory must accept his presence — they need not make him their leader, but must acknowledge his presence and that they lack the ability or desire to force him out. Finally, if any supernatural beings — such as spirits or fellow Exalted — occupy the region and don’t consent to him claiming it, the Lunar must force them to submit by defeating them in combat or a similar challenge. Land already claimed by another Lunar’s Boundary-Marking Meditation can’t be taken from him unless he voluntarily relinquishes it or dies.

Upon claiming a territory, the Lunar’s player chooses three qualities that describe it, e.g. fertile, shadowy, and dense for a thick forest, or open, windy, and guarded for a steppe village. When a character within the territory takes an action that’s supported by a quality, like foraging in a fertile woodland, he’s treated as having an applicable specialty. When a character takes an action opposed by a quality, like a general enacting a Strategic Maneuver roll to march a large army through the dense forest, each such quality imposes a -1 penalty. The Lunar never suffers these penalties. He can reflexively render a character he perceives immune to her territory’s penalties, or deny him its benefits.

Story events may cause a territory to lose qualities — if the forest burns down, it’s no longer shadowy or dense. Once per story, the Lunar may change a territory’s qualities, replacing lost qualities and potentially swapping existing qualities for new ones as fits the story. A Lunar can’t have more than (higher of Essence or 3) territories. His control of a territory ends if he voluntarily revokes it, or upon his death.

Special activation rules: This may alternatively be learned as a Wits Charm.

Cost: 15m, 1wp; Mins: Charisma 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Boundary-Marking Meditation
Pacing the boundaries of the land he wishes to bless, the Lunar blazes marks onto trees and stones or carves patterns into the earth, suffusing the landscape’s geomancy with fertile Essence. He labors from sunset to sunrise, blessing a region of up to (Essence) square miles, or the entirety of a territory claimed with Boundary-Marking Meditation.

The blessed region’s flora and fauna grow more abundant, and even the most barren climes become capable of sustaining life. Rolls to forage, find shelter, navigate wilderness, or endure mundane environmental hazards within it gain two successes. The land is occasionally marked with uncanny strangeness: flowers blooming only at night, will-o’-the-wisps haunting the edges of gardens, owls flocking in greater number than other birds, etc. This blessing lasts a year and a day, or — if used within the Lunar’s territory — for as long as he holds dominion over it.

Appearance

Cost: 4m; Mins: Appearance 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Totemic (Strength)
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar leads his pack from the front line, inspiring them with his might. He rerolls (Strength) failed dice on an Appearance-based command roll. If this leaves his roll without any 1s and with at least one 10, he gains one Initiative.

Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape hunts in groups may learn this as a Strength Charm.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Appearance 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
Through perfect control of his body and demeanor, the Lunar is capable of great expressiveness even without speech. He uses body language to convey an influence roll or a single sentence, denying his targets the Resolve bonus for lacking a shared language (Exalted, p. 221). He can convey far more than usual through body language, though highly abstract concepts or complicated technical information remain beyond him.

Perception

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. He can perceive (but not touch) dematerialized entities.

Protean: In animal forms with sense-enhancing Merits, the Lunar intuits whenever a dematerialized spirit comes within long range, prompting him to use this Charm if he chooses.

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, he may attack or otherwise physically interact with dematerialized characters. If he can’t perceive dematerialized targets, he suffers a -3 penalty on physical actions against them.

While this Charm’s active, dematerialized characters can physically interact with the Lunar — for example, with counterattacks or clash attacks. He can’t end this Charm prematurely to avoid this.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Perception 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Aggravated, Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Rending Fury
The Lunar’s teeth run red with the spilt blood of immortality. His decisive attack deals aggravated damage to spirits and fae. If such an enemy’s Initiative is lower than his, he adds (Perception) dice of damage. Spirits incapacitated by such attacks are permanently destroyed.

Intelligence

Cost: 3m; Mins: Intelligence 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Totemic (Stamina)
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The movements of armies, battlefield geography, supply lines, and countless other details whirl through the Lunar’s mind as he devises his strategy. He adds (higher of Essence or 3) dice on a Strategic Maneuver roll, rerolling 1s until they cease to appear.

Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape hunts in groups may learn this as a Stamina Charm.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Intelligence 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Totemic (Stamina)
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Predator’s Deadly Cunning
The Lunar’s all-encompassing understanding of his forces ensures their deployment makes the
most of their strengths. He adds a success to a Strategic Maneuver roll, and ignores penalties
equal to the highest (Might + 1) of any allied battle group.

Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape hunts in groups may learn this as a Stamina Charm.

Wits

Cost: —; Mins: Wits 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar walks the boundaries between human and beast, at one with both worlds. Animals feel an instinctive loyalty towards him, equivalent to a Minor Tie. His social influence doesn’t suffer penalties for targeting multiple animals, and they don’t gain Resolve bonuses for lacking a shared language. This doesn’t affect familiars and other magically enhanced animals.

With Wits 3, the Lunar may spend one Willpower while in an animal shape. For that scene, animals of the same species are treated as having a Major Tie of loyalty toward him, unless they are nontrivial and have reason to defy him, e.g., hunger, rabies, or a spirit’s influence.

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Wits 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Totemic (Perception)
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
Uncharted lands and perilous seas yield their secrets to the wayfaring Lunar. He spends a scene plotting a course and rolls (Wits + Survival) with (higher of Essence or 3) bonus dice and double 9s, banking all successes. He 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 him whenever he travels. He can only use this Charm this way once per day.

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

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Wits 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Mute, Protean
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Boundary-Marking Meditation or Lodestone Reckoning Manner
Hidden in cunningly dug boltholes or well-stocked safehouses, the Lunar vanishes from the world. He spends a day working to secure an enclosed space that can hold up to (Essence + Wits) people, rolling (Wits + [Craft, Larceny, or Survival]). This den is impossible for casual observers to notice; only characters actively seeking it can attempt to find it, opposing the Lunar’s roll with a (Perception + [Awareness, Investigation, or Survival]) roll. Attempts to track characters into the den or otherwise indirectly infer its location suffer a (Lunar’s Essence) penalty. The Lunar and those he reveals his lair to can perceive it unhindered.

If the Lunar has a relevant Craft, he gains craft points from creating the den as though he’d completed a basic project.

If the Lunar knows Magpie’s Nest Resourcefulness (p. XX), he can activate it reflexively with this Charm to reveal that he’s previously prepared a den, though this imposes a -2 penalty on her roll. This charm’s Willpower cost is waived if the Lunar uses it in a territory claimed with Boundary-Marking Meditation.
Weapons
Moonsilver Reaper Daiklave
Weapon Ac: +3 Da: +12 Df: +1 Ov: 5 At: 5 Tag: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Total DAc: 10 WAc: 13 Da: 17 Ov: 5 Pa: 6 At:5
Armor
Moonsilver Reinforced Buff Jacket
Soak: +8 Hardness: 7 Mobility: -1 Attunement: 5 Tags: Silent
Health Levels
-0x1
-1x2
-2x4
-4x1
Ix1

Essence: ●
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 38
Committed: 11
Willpower: ●●●●●

Join Battle 8

Parry 6
Evasion 3 (-1 MP)

Total Soak 15
Hardness 7

Rush 8
Disengage 8

Guile 2
Resolve 3

Intimacies
Defining Principle - I am the predator, not the prey. I am Whitefang.
Defining Tie - Luna (Gratitude)
Major Tie - Yurgen Kaneko (Contemptuous Rivalry)
Major Principle - Tribe before Treasure [Loyalty]
Major Tie - Kin (Mourning)
Major Tie - Chickens are delicious
Major Tie - Sigrdrifa (Affection)
Minor Tie - Sigrdrifa (Friendly Rivalry)
Minor Tie - Áleifr (Affection)
Minor Tie - Afureru (Comeradery)
Minor Tie - Tyree (Comeradery)
Minor Principle - Prophecies are either lies or spoilers, keep 'em to yourself. I make my own future.
Minor Principle - Cannibalism isn't for me.
Minor Tie - Scorn of the Shogunate and its heirs

Anima Effect:
• 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 his next turn. This power is free at bonfire anima.
• An indomitable warrior, he adds (highest physical Attribute / 2) Resolve against threaten rolls and other fear-based influence as a non-Charm bonus.
• Once per day, when he lands a decisive attack that resets his Initiative, he may pay ten motes and one Willpower to roll Join Battle with (highest physical Attribute) non-Charm dice.

Limit Trigger: The lunar destroys, abandons, or sacrifices something valuable to him.

Monstrous Urges:
Enraged Behemoth Rampage
The Lunar’s rage boils over into violent fury at the slightest provocation. If he encounters a physical obstacle in the way of his goals — a locked door, the guards of a noble he wishes to court, a booby-trapped corridor — he’ll attack it until it no longer impedes him. If he experiences a sensory stimulus he finds unpleasant, he’ll lash out until it ceases. He can refrain from physically harming anyone or anything he has a positive Tie towards, instead attempting to intimidate them into obedience.

Duration: Scene. Enraged Behemoth Rampage ends prematurely if the Lunar sees that his actions have caused a Storyteller character he has a positive Major or Defining Tie towards to fear or reject him.

Untamed Primal Hunger
The Lunar’s hunger drowns out all else. His player chooses a category of living creature — a species of animal, all animals whose heart’s blood he lacks, Dynasts, anything currently bleeding, etc. He’s driven to hunt his chosen prey and devour it completely (killing it first is optional). If someone attempts to prevent him from hunting or protect his prey, he’ll violently subdue them. He can refrain from physically harming individuals he has positive Ties towards, but a Tie towards a group isn’t sufficient.

Duration: Session normally; scene if there are enough of the chosen prey in the current scene that devouring them all is narratively engaging. Untamed Primal Hunger ends prematurely if a character the Lunar has a positive Major or Defining Tie towards comes to harm as a result of her insistence in the hunt, or her feeding on prey instead of protecting him.
BP 15
Stamina 3, 4, 5 9pts.
Merits 6pts.

XP 10
Terrifying Ogre Alteration 8 | 8

Divine Predator Strike 8 | 16
Unstoppable Beast-Force Blow 8 | 24
Ox-Body Technique 8 | 32
Sinuous Striking Grace 8 | 40
Cunning Beast-Warrior Reflexes 8 | 48
Wasp Sting Blur 8 | 56
--Essence 2 (50+)--
Octopus-and-Spider Barrage 8 | 64
Mountainous Spirit Expression 8 | 72
Prey-Hobbling Bite 8 | 80
Shed Divinity's Nectar 8 | 88
Bear Sleep Technique 8 | 96
Halting the Scarlet Flow 8 | 104
Ox-Body Technique 8 | 112
Ox-Body Technique 8 | 120
Ox-Body Technique 8 | 128
--Essence 3 (125+)--
Thousand Claw Affliction 8 | 136
God-Body Consumption 8 | 144
Finding the Needle's Eye 8 | 152
Weapon Snatching Coils 8 | 160
Wolf Devours Shepherd 10 | 170
Panicked Herd Incitement 10 | 180
Victorious Beast King Spirit 10 | 190
Striking Mospid Method 8 | 198
Foe-Driving Attack 8 | 206
--Essence 4 (200+)--
Unhesitant Scorpion Lash 8 | 214
Unerring Fang Technique 8 | 222
Agile Beast Defense 8 | 230
Coiled Serpent Strikes 8 | 238
Bending Before the Storm 8 | 246
Golden Tiger Stance 8 | 254
Sensing the Deadly Flow 8 | 262
Gleaming Crescent Block 8 | 270
Heron Sheds Rain 8 | 278
Ferocious Guardian Beast Stance 8 | 286
Coiled Serpent StrikesLv.2 8 | 294
Graceful Crane Stance 8 | 302
--Essence 5--
Wind-Dancing Method 8 | 310
Glib tongue Technique 10 | 320
Moonlight-on-Mist Puzzle 10 | 330
Pack Leader Attitude 10 | 340
Fearless Beast-Warrior Exhortation 10 | 350
Vengeful Beast Triumph 10 | 360
Lessons of the Winter Wolf 10 | 370
Wolf-Pack Training Technique 10 | 380
Pack Instinct Affirmation 10 | 390
Lodestone Reckoning Manner 10 | 400
Ever-Wary Fox Technique 8 | 408
Worry the Bone 8 | 416
Observed Prey Instinct 8 | 424
Sense Sharpening Change 8 | 432
Prey's Scent Discernment 8 | 440
Unwavering Predator's Eye 8 | 448
Wolf-Eye Advantage 8 | 456
Understanding the Prey 8 | 464
Serpent-Revealing Savvy 8 | 472
Prey's Scent Discernment 8 | 480
...

LXP 0

Presence 2, 2
Manipulation 2, 4
Presence 3, 4
Manipulation 3, 8
Presence +Intimidation 3
Melee 4, 6
Melee 5, 8
Brawl +Natural Attacks
Brawl 4, 6
Brawl 5, 8
Appearance 4, 12
Appearance 5, 16
War +Leadership
War 4, 6
War 5, 8
Attributes
Manipulation 2, 3
Intelligence 3
Perception 4, 5
Charisma 5
Appearance 4, 5

Abilities and Specialties
Presence 2, 3
Presence +Intimidation
Melee 4, 5
Brawl 4, 5
Brawl +Natural Attacks
War 4, 5
War +Leadership
Performance 2, 3
Stealth 4, 5
Awareness 4, 5
Resistance 2, 3, 4, 5
Survival 4, 5
Athletics 4, 5
Lore 2, 3, 4, 5
Lore +Tribal Societies
Lore +Warfare
Dodge 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Dodge +Projectiles
Performance 3
Lore +Fae
Lore +Demons
Lore +Undead
Occult 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Occult +Divinity
Occult +Wyld
Occult +Creatures of Darkness
Linguistics 2, 3
Martial Arts-Single Point Shining Into the Void 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
MA-SPSItV +Daiklave

Merits
Hearthstone-Chameleon Stone
Resources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Command 2, 3, 4, 5
Martial Artist 4

Strength
Ferocious Biting Tooth
Divine Predator Strike
Ox-Dragon Smash
Snarling Hound Strife
Tiger Claw Swat
Unstoppable Beast Force Blow
Armor-Rending Claw Fist
Prey-Hobbling Bite
Grizzly Bear Embrace
Mangling Grasp Might
Last Warrior's Unity

Dexterity
Offense
Finding the Needle's Eye
Weapon Snatching Coils
Striking Mospid Method
Foe-Driving Attack
Unerring Fang Technique

Defense
Agile Beast Defense
Coiled Serpent Strikes
Bending Before the Storm
Golden Tiger Stance
Sensing the Deadly Flow
Gleaming Crescent Block
Heron Sheds Rain
Ferocious Guardian Beast Stance
Coiled Serpent StrikesLv.2

Mobility
Graceful Crane Stance
Wind-Dancing Method

Stamina
Ox-Body Technique x 5
Bear Sleep Technique
Halting the Scarlet Flow
Impenetrable Beast Armor
Durant Quicksilver Adaptation
Stone Rhino's Skin
Frenzied Bear Fortification
Relentless Lunar Fury
Mother Grizzly Attitude

Charisma
Warfare
Pack Leader Attitude
Fearless Beast-Warrior Exhortation
Vengeful Beast Triumph
Lessons of the Winter Wolf
Wolf-Pack Training Technique

Manipulation
Glib Tongue Technique
Moonlight-on-Mist Puzzle

Appearance
Wolf Devours Shepherd
Panicked Herd Incitement
Victorious Beast-King Spirit

Perception
Mysticism
Demon-Drinking Fang
Senses
Ever-Wary Fox Technique
Worry the Bone
Observed Prey Instinct
Sense Sharpening Change
Prey's Scent Discernment
Unwavering Predator's Eye
Wolf-Eye Advantage
Scrutiny
Understanding the Prey
Serpent-Revealing Savvy
Prey's Scent Discernment

Single Point Shining Into the Void Style-Eventually
Gathering Light Concentration
Shining Starfall Execution
Single Point Shining Into the Void Form
Fatal Stroke Flash
Liquid Steel Flow
Horizon-Swallowed Star Flash
Void-Slicing Wind
Six-Demon Scabbard Binding
Blinding Nova Flare

Sherwood · Mar 18, 2021

Name: Tyree
Age: 21
Caste: Full Moon
Totem Animal: Bear

Attributes
**Str: 5
Dex: 2
**Sta: 5

Cha: 3
Man: 2
App: 3

**Per: 3
Int: 2
**Wits: 5

Abilities
Archery
Athletics: 2
Awareness: 3 - Spotting Ambushes
Brawl: 3 - Dirty Infighting
Bureaucracy
Craft
Dodge: 3
Integrity: 3
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics: 1
Lore: 1
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee: 5 - Lance Fighting
Occult: 1
Performance
Presence: 3
Resistance: 3
Ride
Sail
Socialize
Stealth: 3
Survival: 3 - Hunting
Thrown: 1
War
Artifact Armor - The Night-Tide Aegis of Ryujin (Moonsilver and Black Jade Reinforced Breastplate): 3
Artifact Weapon - Zelator (Orichalcum Dire Lance): 4
Hearthstone -- Gem of Incomparable Wellness: 4
Hearts Blood: 2 -- Snowy Owl, Eagle, Raven, Penguin, Fox, Ferret, Walrus, Dolphin, Octopus, Gorilla, Elk, Dog, Cat, Sabertooth Tiger, Elephant
Languages - Skytongue, Riverspeak, Forresttongue: 2
Resources: 2

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.

Limit Trigger:
The immorality or transgressions of others hinder the Lunar.

Monstrous Urge:
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.
Excellencies
Perception, Stamina, Strength, and Wits

General Charms

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

Mutations:
Claws and Fangs (•)—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.

Unusual Hide (•••••)—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.

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.

Mutations
Giant (••••)—Innate
Prerequisite: Stamina •••
The character is enormous, standing somewhere between seven and a half to ten feet in height. Her great size grants an extra -0 health level. This Merit may also be gained as a result of Wyld mutation.
Drawback: The character’s great size is very distinct, imposing a -3 penalty on all disguise rolls to pass as anyone of lesser stature, and making the character memorable wherever she goes.

Extreme Adaptation - Cold (••) — Innate
The mutant has thick blubber, a water-storing hump, or similar environmental adaptations. She adds two dice on rolls against environmental hazards and poisons of a specific environment and reduces such hazards’ damage by one die.

Appearance
Subterfuge Charms

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. XX) 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
Offense

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.

Perception
Senses

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.

Stamina
Defense

Cost: —; Mins: Stamina 2, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Standing firm as she interposes her weapon between herself and the world, the Lunar becomes an unshakable aegis. When she blocks with a medium or heavy weapon, unarmed attack, or natural weapon, she may use Stamina instead of Dexterity to calculate Parry.

Endurance

Cost: —; Mins: Stamina 1, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar is endowed with superhuman vitality. She gains additional health levels based on her Stamina rating:
• Stamina 1-2: Two −2 levels.
• Stamina 3-4: Two −2 levels and one −4 level.
• Stamina 5: Two −2 levels and two −4 levels.
This Charm may be purchased (Stamina) times. If the Lunar’s Stamina increases, her health levels change to reflect her new rating.

Cost: 10m; Mins: Stamina 2, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Ox-Body Technique
Withdrawing into herself, the Lunar enters a rejuvenating hibernation. The rate at which she heals naturally (Exalted, p. 173) is multiplied by (Essence + Stamina). Time spent hibernating doesn’t count toward the maximum she can go without food or water (Exalted, p. 232).
The Lunar may choose to hibernate until she’s fully healed from all damage, or for a set period of time. She isn’t completely unaware of her surroundings while hibernating, and can roll to detect external stimuli with (Perception + Awareness) at a −4 penalty, which can’t be enhanced by non-Excellency magic. Some stimuli, like being slapped across the face or stabbed, are obvious enough to detect without rolling. Detecting external stimuli lets the Lunar end this Charm prematurely.
With Stamina 5, the Lunar doesn’t age while hibernating.

Cost: 6m, 1wp; Mins: Stamina 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: (Stamina) turns or One minute
Prerequisite Charms: Bear Sleep Technique
The Lunar shapeshifts wounds away, closing cuts and healing bruises. She heals one level of non-aggravated damage at the start of each of her turns. This Charm ends if she’s crashed. Outside of combat, the Lunar heals (Stamina) levels of non-aggravated damage over the course of a minute.
This Charm can only be used once per day. It doesn’t reset if the Lunar still has damage in her health track at the beginning of the new day, or doesn’t receive adequate sleep.

Cost: 5m; Mins: Stamina 1, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Protean
Duration: One day
Prerequisite Charms: None
A paramount survivor, the Lunar thrives in Creation’s harshest reaches. She adapts to a particular environment — searing desert, mosquito-ridden swamp, freezing cold, etc. — gaining temporary Survival and Resistance specialties in that clime. She ignores environmental penalties on rolls those specialties apply to, and ignores deleterious effects of exposure to that clime. She can change her adaptation (e.g., while traveling through the Wyld) by using this Charm again, waiving its Willpower cost if the first use is still active.
A Stamina 4, Essence 3 repurchase halves the damage that the chosen clime’s environmental hazards roll against her, rounded down. This also applies to hazards similar in nature to that environment: A Lunar adapted to frigid cold extends this resilience to icy mist conjured by a raksha.
Protean: In animal shapes native to the chosen environment or adapted to surviving in it, the Lunar receives a one-mote discount on Charms enhancing Survival or Resistance rolls in the chosen clime.

Strength
Hearts Blood

Cost: 15m, 1wp (5m per turn/hour);
Mins: Strength 4, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Totemic (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.
Totemic: A Lunar whose spirit shape has Legendary Size may learn this as a Stamina Charm.

Offense

Cost: 2m; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lunar lashes out with strength born of fury. She adds +(Essence) Overwhelming on a withering attack, or adds (lower of Essence or Strength) attack roll extra successes on a decisive attack as damage dice. She can deal lethal damage bare-handed.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Strength 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ferocious Biting Tooth
Reveling in bestial supremacy, the Lunar lays low her prey. She adds (1 + attack roll 10s) dice to the post-soak damage of a withering attack, maximum (Strength), or the damage of a decisive attack, maximum (lower of Essence or Strength) dice. Against crashed foes, she counts 9s as well as 10s.

Cost: —; Mins: Strength 2, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
Thews surging with savage might, the Lunar deals a telling blow. She can roll nonranged attacks with heavy weapons, unarmed attacks, or natural weapons using Strength instead of Dexterity.
Such attack rolls don’t benefit from effects that grant bonus Strength dots, double successes on Strength rolls, or replace the Lunar’s Strength with a higher value. She always uses her unmodified Strength to attack, and doesn’t add dice from bonus Strength dots or double non-10 successes on attack rolls.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Strength 4, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Divine Predator Strike
The Lunar’s unrelenting rage smashes through any bulwark raised against it. Her enemy’s Hardness is reduced by her attack roll extra successes on a decisive attack, and she doubles 10s on the damage roll.

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. XX) 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.
“It has been thirty years since our first failed campaign against the Hexmanse. That such a cabal of blood sorcerers and devil-loosers could not merely endure the light of the Sun, but even thrive, is an abomination. The lost Deliberative, for all its flaws, for all its failures — perhaps it did not root the sorcerers out, but it kept them underground. Now they exert their will unchecked, and who will fight them but I?
“A decade to cut my way free of the devil-world their sorceries banished me to. Another to forge Zelator, a thing to pierce their spells and end their contemptible lives. A third to build alliances, call in favors, raise an army.
“Today we ride against Fortis Minor. A month from now, we cross the Grand Sledge and enter the southern Qun-Lun. Within a year we will be at the gates of Shorn, the heads of half the Hexmanse on pikes, the other half ready to fall beneath our hooves, beneath my spear. They will regret their arrogance and their wickedness. That I guarantee.”
— Ostra Luka, In the Shadow of the Deliberative
Forged by a sorcerer-cataphract to defeat an occult cabal, the direlance Zelator’s long, narrow blade is engraved with an Old Realm character meaning “divine retribution.” The heavy shaft, likewise of orichalcum, bears this Old Realm inscription: “End transgression against the celestial order through harmonious action.” The scarlet tassels are of horsehair from Ostra Luka’s steed, preserved against the millennia by the Art of Permanence.

Attunement: 5m
Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 5)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Piercing, Reaching;
Two-Handed when on foot
Hearthstone slot(s): 2
Era: Falling Stars Interregnum

Evocations of Zelator
Zelator was forged to defeat witchery. The spear makes baneful attacks against sorcerers, sorcerous constructs, sorcerously transformed opponents, and summoned spirits. Its decisive attacks against such foes add one bonus die to the damage roll and deal aggravated damage. If the target is a sorcerer who has gathered sorcerous motes, three of the gathered motes are dispersed and lost.
Centuries of battle have taught Zelator the weaknesses of sorcery. When attempting to counter or distort a spell (Exalted, p. 466), the wielder is always treated as knowing the spell she is attempting to counter or distort. In addition, whenever the Exalt crashes an opponent, she may reflexively either attempt to distort a spell that’s upon him or perform countermagic against a spell that he is casting. If the Exalt has sensed a sorcerous working being enacted in the region (Exalted, p. 489), she may commit one mote for Zelator to point the way toward the site where it is being enacted.

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.

Black jade and moonsilver heavy artifact armor (Artifact 3) Exalted 3 Artifacts, pg 53
Crafted during the Shogunate for the great Admiral Shio Ryujin, the Night-Tide Aegis is a reinforced breastplate composed of black jade-steel alloy, inlaid with moonsilver taken in a Wyld Hunt he served in his youth. After Ryujin's eventual demise, the armor passed through his family until it came to Shio Mai. She is said to have perished at the height of the madness following the Great Contagion while leading the last defense of Anostos, a semi-mythic city that supposedly sat beside a large inland lake or small sea somewhere south of Zoatham. In the centuries since it has fallen into the hands of the Silver Pact, who consider it more fitting to a Champion of Luna. Descendents of Ryujin would dearly love to reclaim their ancestor's raiment, but to this day it has proven terribly elusive.
The Aegis has customarily been worn over a white hooded coat, adorned with a sash of blue or royal purple and has been re-fitted with dyed grey straps of fine leather from time to time as the old fastenings give way to age and wear. The gauntlets and greaves of the armor cover leather gloves and boots of the same color, but the polished midnight jadesteel and moonsilver surfaces remain as unmarred as ever - battle damage seems to imperceptibly fade on its own with time, as though the fluid nature of the essence that courses through the armor erases all imperfections.

Attunement: 6m / 10m
Type: Heavy (Soak +11, Hardness 10, Mobility Penalty −2)
Tags: None
Hearthstone slot(s): 2

Evocations
The essence of the Aegis is like the midnight ocean, absorbing power both mystic and physical only to return it with crushing, irresistible force. When worn by a Lunar Exalt, the moonsilver in the armor responds to the power of their Essence and shapes the armor's inlay and decorations to more closely resemble his spirit-totem. In the case of the current owner it has resculpted the armor to bear eagles’ heads on either shoulder and wings upon the central breastplate, though should it be claimed by a new owner it would slowly remake itself to suit her. Furthermore, a Lunar Exalt may commit an additional 4m to the armor (raising the total commitment cost to 10m) to attune the spirit of the Aegis to his own mutable nature. Doing so allows the armor to reshape itself as the Lunar changes his own shape, retaining its armor profile regardless of form. This is immediately obvious to anyone viewing the wearer, as the armor does not disappear but physically adjusts itself to take on a configuration appropriate to whatever form the Lunar wears - it will appear as armor or barding as appropriate to the shape, from snake to elephant to bird-of-prey. It always carries the heavy armor Mobility penalty regardless of its configuration, however, so champions of Luna who prize speed and subtlety may find that there are times when they wish to leave the Aegis behind rather than travel girded for war.
Note that the Evocations below, as with the attunement bonus above, are appropriate for a Lunar bearer of the Aegis. A Terrestrial would likely draw forth very different miracles, though they will still reflect the fluidity, changeability, and infinite depths of the lightless seas.

Cost: 1m per HL Requirements: Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only, Stacking
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: None
The spirit of the Aegis ebbs and flows with the cadence of battle, absorbing the killing intent of enemies only to return it upon them many times over. As the foolish man rails at the ocean, so does the foe who seeks to strike down Luna’s champion. Upon taking damage from an enemy’s Decisive attack the wearer may spend motes of essence up to the number of HLs suffered, which remain committed. At the start of any turn the wearer may end this commitment to immediately gain Initiative equal to the committed motes, and the effect ends. This Charm may be used multiple times, but no more than 7 motes can ever be committed this way.
Health Levels
-0 [ ] (+[ ] Only in DBT Form)
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] - [ ][ ][ ]
-4 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] - [ ][ ]
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Essence: 1
Personal: 16
Peripheral: 38 / 24
Committed: 14
Willpower: 7

Parry DV: 6
Dodge DV: 3
Resolve: 4
Guile: 1

Join Battle: 8 + 3i - +5i from Sinuous Striking Grace (3m)

Soak: 5
Armor: +11
Shapeshifted: +5 from Unusual Skin, +5 from DBT
Total Soak: 16 human / 26 DBT
Armor Hardness: 10

Weapons
Zelator
Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14 DMG, +0 DEF, OVW 5)
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Piercing, Reaching;
Two-Handed when on foot
The spear makes baneful attacks against sorcerers, sorcerous constructs, sorcerously transformed opponents, and summoned spirits. Its decisive attacks against such foes add one bonus die to the damage roll and deal aggravated damage. If the target is a sorcerer who has gathered sorcerous motes, three of the gathered motes are dispersed and lost.
Defining Principle: Through Strength will come Victory
Defining Principle: I am my own Master
Major Tie: Luna (Gratitude)
Major Tie: Her Circle of Exalts (Loyalty)
Minor Tie: Other Celestial Exalts (Curiosity)
Minor Tie: Slavery (Hatred)
Minor Tie: The Immaculate Order (Scorn)

Tyree was born in the city of Whitewall to a large and loving family. When she was very little, her family set off on a journey as a part of a caravan heading south. While on the road, a marauding band of barbarians attacked the caravan, and they quickly overpowered the small number of guards and took the rest of the caravan members as prisoners. For the next several years, the poor young girl lived a hard life as a slave, growing up in captivity.

As she got older, Tyree developed a nasty stubborn streak. Refusing to give into life as a slave, Tyree made an attempt to escape and get away. In short order, she was recaptured and given a nasty beating for her trouble. Not deterred, the young girl continued to make efforts to get away and was punished each time.

It was during another late night run that Tyree actually managed to slip away from her captors and out into the snowy wastelands. Running as long as she could, Tyree finally collapsed in exhaustion in the snow. Gasping for breath and crying in pain, she struggled to get back to her feet. As she fought to rise, a woman came walking out of the snow towards her. Thinking that it was one of the barbarians, Tyree tried swinging her fist at the strange woman.

Catching her fist in one hand, the strange woman smiles. "Such a stubborn fighter. That is what I love about you, my dear Tyree. You refuse to give up, no matter what. It will serve you well as one of my Chosen." Through her hand, a sudden blast of energy fills Tyree's body, removing all traces of pain and exhaustion, remaking her body into a new perfect form.
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
Purchased 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

Xp Earned: 21
Xp Banked: 7

Lunar Xp Banked: 2

Wish List
General
Many-Faced Moon Transformation - p144

Appearance
Feral Smile Tactic - 146

Dexterity
Finding the Needle’s Eye - p180
-Striking Mospid Method - p180 needs Dex 4
Agile Beast Defense - p185
Graceful Crane Stance - p188

Stamina
Impenetrable Beast-Armor - p251
-Durant Quicksilver Adaptation - p251
--Invulnerable Moonsilver Carapace - p253, e2
Unyielding Battle Vigor - 256

Strength
-Mountainous Spirit Expression - p265, e2
Angry Rhino Charge - p274
Surging Thew Technique - 276

Wits
Squirrel’s Cunning Technique - p289
-Many-Pockets Meditation - p290, e2

BP Spending
Willpower to 7: 4
Melee to 5: 4
Merits: 7

D. Rex · Mar 19, 2021

Wip

Name: Afureru the Bloodlight Siren
Age: 22
Caste: Dawn
Supernal: War
Anima Banner: Gold Plated Crocodile

Attributes
Str ●●●●
Dex ●●●●●
Sta ●●

Cha ●●●
Man ●
App ●●●●●

Per ●●
Int ●●
Wits ●●●

Abilities
*Archery ●
**Athletics ●●●
*Awareness ●●● +join battle
Bureaucracy
Craft
*Dodge ●●●●● +against battle groups
Integrity
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics
Lore
*Martial Arts ●●●●● +polearms
Medicine
Melee
Occult
Performance
**Presence ●●●●● +Threaten
*Resistance ●●●
**Ride ●●●
Sail
Socialize
Stealth
**Survival ●●●
Thrown
**War ●●●●●
Merits: 10
●●● : Black Jade and Orichalcum Dire Lance
●●● : Red Jade Chain Shirt
●●●●: MA - White Reaper Style
●●● : Influence
●● : Sorbiquet
●● : Command
●● : Familiar (Tyrant Lizard, young)
: Languages - Skytongue(Native)

Anima Effects:
By feeding a mote of Essence into their anima, all Solars can evoke the following effects:
• The Solar may feel the brilliant presence of the sun relative to herself and know the exact time of day thereby.
This works even if she’s underground or in the Wyld beyond Creation.
• The Solar may cause her Caste Mark to appear and display itself for as long as she desires

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

Limit Trigger: The Solar is insulted, belittled, or deliberately frustrated by another character.

Limit Break:
Deliberate Cruelty
The Solar is consumed by cold cruelty, no longer recognizing others as worthy of respect or life. He will harm others without a second thought if he benefits from doing so, and has no aversion whatsoever to the use of torture, terror, and mutilation. His manner is cruel and scathing, even to friends and allies, mocking and verbally tormenting them as a matter of course.

Duration: Session. Deliberate Cruelty can be ended prematurely if the Solar’s actions cause harm to someone he has a Major or Defining positive Tie towards.
A prized heirloom of the Nellrun family. Given to Afureru after she exalted. A beautifully made, yet undecorated halberd. Its long shaft is made of black jade, and its head made of illustrious orichalcum. A long bladed spear point with two half moon blades on either side. (Fangtian Ji: Chinese halberd)

Tags: Lethal, Melee, Chopping, Reaching; Two-Handed when on foot

Heavy
Accuracy +1
Damage +14
Defense +0
Overwhelming 5
Attunement 5

Light
Soak: 3
Hardness: 0
Mobility Penalty: 0
Attunement: 0
Health Levels
-0 ●
-1 ●●●●●
-2 ●●●●● ●●●
-4 ●
I ●

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33/28
Committed: 5
Willpower: ●●●●●
Limit: ●●●●○ ○○○○○

Parry DV: 5
Dodge DV: 5, 6 against BG
Resolve: 2
Guile: 1

Join Battle: 7 +3

Soak: 3
Armor: 3
Total Soak: 6
Armor Hardness: 0
Size: 3
+3 attack/damage/soak

Drill: Average
+1 Defense

Might: 0

Magnitude: Average HL(7) + Size = 10

Attack: +3
Raw Damage: +3
Defense: +1
Soak: +3
Essence: 1; Willpower: 7; Join Battle: 10 dice (base Initiative 5)

Health Levels: -0x5/-1x5/-2x7/-4x7/Incap. Tyrant lizards will attempt to flee upon suffering 15+ levels of damage, unless cornered or protecting their young.
Speed Bonus: +2. Actually training a tyrant lizard toaccept a rider is nigh-impossible without legendary skill, divine blessings, or the prowess of the Chosen.
Actions: Feats of Strength: 12 dice (may attempt
Strength 7 feats, see Incredible Might); Hide in snow or tundra: 8 dice;
Intimidation: 10 dice;
Resist Poison/Disease: 10 dice; Senses: 5 dice (see Relentless Pursuit);
Tracking: 8 dice (see Relentless Pursuit)
Resolve 3
Guile 1

Combat
Attack (Bite): 11 dice (Damage 16, minimum 5). A tyrant
lizard’s bite can easily puncture armor, allowing it to
make piercing attacks (p. 586).
Attack (Slam): 12 dice (Damage 14, minimum 4). The
tyrant lizard uses its head or tail to bash an enemy, and
can make a smashing attack (p. 586).
Attack (Talon rake): 13 dice (Damage 12, minimum 3)
Attack (Grapple): 8 dice (10 dice to control).
Combat movement: 7
Evasion: 4
Parry 6
Soak hardness: 15/5

Brutal Stomp: Whenever the tyrant lizard knocks an enemy prone with a smashing attack, it may pay a point of Willpower to reflexively make a grapple attack that cannot be parried. The tyrant lizard can only restrain the stomped enemy and cannot move without ending the clinch, but the stomped enemy takes six dice of lethal damage that ignore hardness for each round the tyrant lizard holds it. This special attack is not compatible with deadly thrash.

Deadly Thrash: The tyrant lizard may shake a clinched enemy back and forth, shredding it with razor-sharp teeth before flinging it to the ground. The tyrant lizard may savage its clinched victim with a decisive bite attack before flinging it with a decisive throw or slam action. The tyrant lizard’s Initiative does not reset until it has completed both attacks, and it gains an additional point of Initiative for each round of control forfeited after the reset.

Ferocious Bite: When the tyrant lizard makes a decisive bite attack against an enemy with a lower Initiative rating, it adds +10 to the raw damage of the attack. This bonus does not apply to attacks made as part of a deadly thrash. Once per fight, unless reset by rebuilding from base Initiative to Initiative 15+.

Furious Rampage: Whenever the tyrant lizard attacks or rushes an enemy who is in Initiative Crash, it adds three automatic successes on the roll.

Iron Jaws: The tyrant lizard does not take Defense penalties from grappling smaller enemies, and can reflexively take a drag action to move them whenever it moves, carrying them in its mouth (this does not apply to clinches initiated with brutal stomp). Additionally, being attacked only causes it to lose rounds of control over a clinch if that attack successfully damages the tyrant lizard.

Merits
Apex Predator: The tyrant lizard regains a point of Willpower every time it crashes or incapacitates a non-trivial opponent. This cannot raise its current Willpower above the amount it had at the beginning of the fight. It is alsoimmune to any non-magical influence roll meant to intimidate, provoke fear, or play upon fear.

Incredible Might: The tyrant lizard applies double 8s on any feat of strength to lift, carry, or crush something between its jaws.

Legendary Size: The tyrant lizard’s immense size makes it extraordinarily difficult for human-scale enemies to engage it in combat. It does not take onslaught penalties from any attack made by a smaller opponent, although magically-inflicted onslaught penalties still apply against it. Withering attacks made by smaller enemies cannot drop the tyrant lizard below 1 Initiative unless they have a post-soak damage of 10 dice (although attackers can still gain the full amount of Initiative damage dealt). Decisive attacks made by smaller enemies cannot deal more than (3 + attacker’s Strength) levels of damage to the tyrant lizard with a single attack, not counting any levels of damage added by Charms or other magic.

Relentless Pursuit: The tyrant lizard applies the double 8s rule on any scent-based Awareness roll or on any roll to track by scent. It adds five automatic successes on any roll made to oppose an enemy’s (Dexterity + Stealth) roll using scent.

Thick Scales: The sheer size of the tyrant lizard makes it difficult to strike at its vitals, no matter how wounded the beast is. The tyrant lizard does not subtract wound penalties from its Defense. In addition, attacks made from short range or further reduce their minimum damage against the tyrant lizard by one unless they benefit from an Aim action.

Extreme Adaptation (Thick Fur): The mutant has thick blubber, a water-storing hump, or similar environmental adaptations. She adds two dice on rolls against environmental hazards and poisons of a specific environment and reduces such hazards’ damage by one die.
Defining Principle: To destroy those that threaten Creation
Definitely Principle: To create an army worthy of the Unconquered Sun's light.
Major Tie: Creation (Protective)
Major Tie: Loyalty to her Circle
Major Tie: Fortitude (Hatred)
Minor Tie: Past (to make amends)
Minor Tie: Nellrun Homestead (adoptive Family)

The closest thing Afureru ever had to family was her Master. A beast trapped in the depths of Fortitude, a prisoner like all of Fortitude's inhabitants, and of the few who had been confined since the city fell. Rumors said he was a depraved madman, an anathema, or even a disillusioned god. But according to him, he was simply a martial artist.

Afureru was one of a handful children who knew this man as Master and survived. His patronage was not free, and not without risk. They worked, they toiled. For years, suffering through the grueling training of this beast. There was no laws to keep them safe, no rules save for what the strong make, and one only survived by adopting the aspect of the name of their city. But those that endured the Master enjoyed the sweet taste of the fruit of their labor. Might... and through that might, freedom.

Fortune have it, that rumors of war permeated the city. That a powerful leader was organizing the city, creating an army, seeking the cities greatest warriors to lead the charge. These rumors swept over the city, breathing into it a new life. And many answered the call. Including Afureru and her brothers and sisters.

This war was not the first time she spilled blood. But it was the first time she did so on such scale, and it was a wonderful thing. The slickness of blood, the chorus of furious and scared screams, these brought her more joy than any man or woman could. These animals of the north brought her a thrill she did not know she was longing for. As did the unworthy neighbors who were helpless as lambs. A thrill she would soon become infamous for indulging in.

Afureru stood out from the others. Cutting through all her foes like grass. Even her own allies that happened to be in her way. It did not matter to her, everything died sometimes sooner rather than later. Still, she stood above the mortal warriors... wielding the energies of life to cleave through her enemies. Essence coalescing around her in halo's as she mauled wave after wave. A sight to behold. A sight to fear. A sight that would become more and more common with every battle.

Afureru had become a devil. Esteemed and fear, but a devil nonetheless. As her reputation began to grow and spread, she was beginning to become a stain on even the cities vile reputation. Not only that, but she was becoming more and more out of control, but she was becoming strong enough to kill the leaders. Not to mention the Realm was starting to take notice.. She needed to be put down, so he gave the order to those he knew were capable.

Afureru was there to kill an encroaching band of barbarians coming to raid a simple homestead. During the battle, she fell. Not from a barbarians blade, but an arrow in the back. Four arrows in the back. They belonged to one she used to call sister.

Face first on the cold and bloody ground, stunned. This was not the first time she fell in battle. It was not the first time she almost died. But this was the first time since she was a young child, that she felt fear. Fear and helplessness as darkness overtook her.

She awoke in a farmers home. Beside a warmth hearth looking up at a golden spear hanging above it. She could hear prayers being said, prayers for her health. Prayers for her soul. The homesteaders had taken her in, seeing she was barely alive. They had cared for her, and wept for her. They knew who she was, so why would they bother? They saw that was she was felled by her own people. Knew that she might just as likely kill if she survived.

But there was no hope. Afureru was on deaths door. She was dying and she knew it. She was destined to die, and this was her end. She didn't want their pity, she wanted them to leave her alone so that she could die. Too weak to protest, there was little she could do. And for a week, the homesteaders fought against fate to keep her alive.

It was an agonizing week. Not because of pain. Not because of the homesteaders. Because all she had was reflection. To look back on everything and see it for what it was. She knew who she was, an evil woman. This outcome was always expected. The homesteaders were wasting their time. Death was coming.

Yet death did not come soon enough. For hounds of Fortitude returned to finish the job. From her bed she could hear the commotion. Arguing outside, an officer outside arguing the homes elder, who was trying to convince them Afureru wasn't there.

The fool would be killed. He... would be killed. Everyone here would be. She did not know why that thought hurt so much, but it did. Not that mattered... her life was fading and she couldn't even move. There was nothing she could do about it. Even as she heard screams of pain and cruel laughter.

But what if she could? It was her own thought. Unlike any she had before. Her own voice ringing in her head as if was spoken beside her. What if she could move, what would she do? Nothing. She was an evil woman. She killed. That was all she knew. But what if it didn't have to be that way? What if the god was wrong? What if... what if Afureru could choose for herself what she was destined to be?

Pushing past the pain and weakness, Afureru forced herself to move, falling to the floor. Her body screamed for her to move, louder than the numbed pain it felt. What would you do if you had another chance? Go back to killing? A life that left her empty and mad? What if there was a God greater than any other, one who wept at your state? What if you changed? It was impossible. But when did you ever let the impossible stop you before?

Afureru wanted to weep as she desperately tried to climb hearth of the fireplace. That spear. That golden spear that called to her now as loudly as her newfound conscience. An excruciating reach, touching it she cried out in pain and both her and the spear fell to the ground. It burned like the sun, and on her she could feel judgement. Crushing her under her own fear and pride and guilt. Yet she refused to let go. None of that mattered. Because she needed to protect this family. That this be the one act of good she does before she dies.

Then, there was just warmth. She could feel a hand on hers, helping her close her fingers around the spear. That same merciful hand touched her cheek and breathed new life into her. The Unconquered Sun. He filled her. With his faith and his mercy. Faith and mercy she did not deserve.

What would she do if she had a second chance? For she had it now.

The door of homestead burst open in a flood of golden light. And like a wind, Afureru flew to the aid of the elder, and cut down those she once called brethren. Her anima flaring and taking the shape of her soul. A reptile, a killer. The fearsome crocodile plated in gold armor. A beacon of death and destruction... yet... despite their reputation, they also protect.

The golden beast swirled to form a silvery halo at her back. Her body healed to its prime, save for four scars arranged in an uneven square at her back. A reminded of the arrows that woke her to the Creation. A world she was charged to protect. A world with those who walk the path that she once tread.
Excellencies: Archery, Athletics, Awareness, Dodge, Martial Arts, Presence, Resistance, Ride

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.

Dodge

Reed in the Wind
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.

Reflex Sidestep Technique
Cost: 5m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind

The Solar’s preternatural awareness of her surroundings makes her nearly impossible to harm. Even when struck unaware she may part herself from her foes attack, undoing the damage that was done to her. This charm may be activated in response to an ambush attack, a trap, or other damaging effect the Solar is completely unaware of, setting her Evasion to 2 against the attack and adding an addition point of Evasion for every 1 or 2 in the attack (before charms such as Excellent Strike). If the solars evasion recovers to its full value she may apply additional dodge charms if necessary.

Searing Quicksilver Flight
Cost: —; Mins: Dodge 4, Essence 1
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Reed in the Wind

The Solar’s skill at evasion is such that her dodges wither away at her opponent’s momentum. When she successfully dodges an attack, her opponent loses one point of Initiative in addition to any other Initiative he may have lost for failing the attack.

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.

Tiger’s Dread Symmetry
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

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.

Spirit Strengthens the Skin
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 witheringonly 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.

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.

War

War God Descendent
Cost: 3m; Mins: War 1, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

Solars descend from the highest war god in Heaven. They speak armies into existence, and their mere presence is a call to arms. This Charm supplements the Strategic Maneuver roll (p. 211); as the Lawgiver develops a tactic for victory, fighters of the world are drawn to her call to glory. Ignore the -1 penalty for troops with poor drill, and increase the battle group’s effective Size by one upon joining battle.

League of Iron Preparation
Cost: 5m; Mins: War 3, Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: War God Descendent

Reaching out to the hearts of her charges with an impassioned speech and fatal purpose, the Solar invokes their reasons for fighting. This Charm is activated when the Exalt begins the long, arduous process of drilling her soldiers. As she toughens them with want and rain, she reminds them of the hardships they have endured at the hands of their tormentors. When they hunger, her words feed them. When they shiver, her exhortations warm them. Fed by the Solar’s will, they suffer less from long marches, empty bellies, or harsh climates. When the Lawgiver is finished drilling her troops, the commitment to this Charm ends and her soldiers are forever approved. They can not suffer demoralizing effects save for reflixive or simple type magic. On addition, ignore penalties on the strategic Maneuver roll relating to hunger, bad weather or the physical exhaustion associated with long marches over difficult terrain.
White Reaper style uses the long reach of a spear or scythe to take on great numbers of enemies at once. Students of the style are not only capable of fighting when hopelessly outnumbered, but thrill in doing so, fighting their best when surrounded on all sides or single-handedly holding off an army. While it is still formidable to face one on one, the style is strongest when used against battle groups, cutting them down like a reaper harvesting wheat. The distinctive visual signature of this style is the white halo that engulfs its masters as they slay their foes, a corona of Essence that waxes as the martial artist slaughters her enemies and wanes as she uses powerful Charms that discharge it.

White Reaper Weapons: White Reaper is used with scythes and spears. It can also be used with the staff or with unarmed strikes that emulate the wide reach of polearms in whirling strikes, for Reapers who prefer to show mercy to their enemies. Any unarmed attack enhanced by a White Reaper Charm can always be stunted to deal lethal damage.

Armor: White Reaper style is compatible with all armor.

Falling Scythe Flash
Cost: 5m; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1;
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Dual
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

After taking a moment to icily judge the optimal point to apply force to an opponent, the White Reaper strikes without restraint. When used with a withering attack, Falling Scythe Slash doubles the martial artist’s Strength rating for calculating its raw damage.

Alternatively, on a decisive attack against an enemy with lower Initiative, it adds the martial artist’s (Strength/2, round up) to raw damage.

Revolving Crescent Defense
Cost: 4m, 1i; Mins: Martial Arts 3, Essence 1;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Mastery, Uniform
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The White Reaper is most at ease when surrounded by enemies, turning their strength of numbers to her own advantage. The Revolving Crescent Defense cancels all onslaught penalties to the martial artist’s Parry against a single attack, instead converting each point of penalty into a +1 bonus to her Parry.

Mastery: This Charm’s duration is extended until the martial artist’s next turn.

White Reaper Form
Cost: 8m, Mins: Martial Arts 4, Essence 1;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Form
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Falling Scythe Flash, Revolving
Crescent Defense

The martial artist rears up into a grim and terrifying battle posture, regarding her opponents as little more than grass to be scythed down before her. She receives double 10s on all decisive damage rolls and can easily fight large groups single-handedly, treating the Drill of any battle group she attacks as one step lower for calculating their Defense bonus. Groups that already have poor Drill instead take an additional -1 Defense against her attacks. She may also move through the space filled by a battle group without needing to spend Initiative.

More spectacularly, whenever the White Reaper incapacitates or crashes a non-trivial enemy, a halo of sizzling, silver-white Essence surges around her like a second skin. Damaging a battle group also grants her a halo. The martial artist may have up to (higher of 2 or her Essence rating) in halos, up to a maximum of five, with each one adding +1 to her Resolve.

Special activation rules: Whenever the martial artist begins her turn in close range of three or more non-trivial opponents, or in the space filled by a battle group, she may reflexively activate White Reaper Form.
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: 26/21

Stamina 3 - 8xp
Charm(ox body) - 8xp

Solar Xp Banked: 4

BP Spending 15
MA x2 - 2bp
Dodge 2 - 2bp
War 2 - 2bp
Pre 2 - 1bp
Merits x8 - 8bp

Teh Frixz · Mar 20, 2021

Name: The Evervictor Aeliana
Age: 20
Caste: Zenith
Supernal: Performance
Anima Banner: A billowing brazier of flame wreathed in laurels of gold

Attributes
Str ●●●
Dex ●●●●●
Sta ●●●

Cha ●●●
Man ●
App ●●●●●

Per ●●●
Int ●●
Wits ●●

Abilities
Archery ●
**Athletics ●●● +Glamour muscles
Awareness
*Brawl ● ● ● +Everything is a weapon
Bureaucracy
Craft
*Dodge ●●●
**Integrity ●●● +Detachment
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics
Lore
Martial Arts
Medicine
*Melee ●●●● +Combative Performance
Occult
**Performance ●●●●● +Showmanship
**Presence ●●●●
Resistance ●●●
Ride
Sail
*Socialize ●●●
Stealth
**Survival ●●
*Thrown ●●●
War
Merits: 10
●●●● : Cult - Cult of the Evervictor
●● : Influence - Fame of the Evervictor
●●: Poisoned Body
● : Ambidextrous
● : Strong lungs
O : Derangement - Madness

Anima Effects:
By feeding a mote of Essence into their anima, all Solars can evoke the following effects:
• The Solar may feel the brilliant presence of the sun relative to herself and know the exact time of day thereby.
This works even if she’s underground or in the Wyld beyond Creation.
• The Solar may cause her Caste Mark to appear and display itself for as long as she desires

Zenith 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.
• 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.
•For seven motes, the Zenith may order a dematerialized spirit to manifest using a (Charisma + Presence) persuade action with (Essence) automatic successes.

Limit Trigger: The Solar is insulted, belittled, or deliberately frustrated by another character.

Limit Break:
Berserk Anger
The Solar rampages out of control, attacking and killing anything he sees. His killing spree begins with his enemies but then turns to any innocent or uninvolved bystanders of the fight. He may spare characters he has a positive Tie towards from his rampage, but this protection vanishes if they try to impede him in any way.

Duration: Scene. Berserk Anger can be ended prematurely if the Solar runs out of valid victims to kill, or if he incapacitates someone he has a positive Tie toward.
Trained in a variety of mundane arms and armors, Aeliana currently has no 'personal' equipment. Wearing whatever was given to her and fighting with all manner of mundane weaponry as well as brawling and improvising.

As such, she simply carries with her a few sets of comfortable clothing of higher mortal quality, taking food and shelter from whomever provides it or where it may occur.
Health Levels
-0 ●
-1 ●●●●
-2 ●●●●● ●
-4 ●
I ●

Essence: 1
Personal: 13
Peripheral: 33/33
Committed:
Willpower: ●●●●●

Parry DV: 5
Dodge DV: 4
Resolve: 3
Guile: 1
Soak: 4
Armor: 0
Total Soak: 4
Armor Hardness: 0
Defining Principle: The Stage of Life
Major Principle: Exalting is Excess
Minor principle: An actor is a servant is a slave (Hatred)
Major Tie: Cult of The Evervictor
Minor Tie: The Guild

Background:

There is no snow in the early memories of Aeliana. There wasn't ever even a feeling of cold, just the cloying heat of bodies, the dryness of compacted dirt, and the stickiness of blood. For mortals in the greatly crowded cities of the Southern lands, bloodsport was a release to be experienced not just by the rich, but by the common folk. For a pittance, they could witness first hand a soul being hewn from Creation, for a bit more they could be sat close enough to feel the spray of viscera and for a select few willing to pay a different sort of price, they could spend a night of intimacy with one of the condemned Heroes.

Aeliana was the product of one of these unions. A prize bull kept tame by ready access to sows. She wasn't planned, she wasn't wanted, and by all likelihood, both sides of her lineage would have died before the eyes of thousands. Branded arena-scum, Aeliana, along with dozens of others, passed around from attendant to coordinator to flesh broker and back again. Each cycle seeing less and less of her fellows survive until she began to be able to fend for herself. Scrounging food and drink from the stands after the game had ended and surviving on the charities of dying men, Aeliana would have, should have either been ground into nothingness or have left the Arenas in favor of surviving elsewhere but there was the something greater that kept her near. The Glories of Victory.

Bearing witness to the nigh unlimited excesses enjoyed by the victorious few, Aeliana was smitten. The Arena Champions living a life on display was forever tantalizingly close. The finest clothes, the most decadent food, and of course the love of their followers. It was all there to be taken by those willing to endure and play the part.

And play she would.

Each day became a regiment of training, her skills taught to her through the victors of games, her way with words learned by the speeches of the walking dead, and even the way she carried herself learned by mimicking the bravery of the Hopeless. All culminating with the first known arena scum signing up to fight, not as a damned but as a willing participant with a stake in the grand prize.

A ring of gladiatorial combat is no place for what should be considered a child of sixteen years. The crowd was aghast that such a fight would be condoned. She did not have the agency to understand what she had signed up for! Murmurs of disgust riled the crowd as the first fight began. Her opponent, knowing little in the way of mercy but much in the way of showmanship made sure to kick her around in just a way to stoke the fire of the crowd. Each time Aeliana getting up to strike back, she was turned aside at the last second. Each failure and subsequent rising enraging the crowd further.

It just so happened that among the crowd, having his ire stoked, must have been the Unconquered Sun himself. At the day's zenith, Aeliana stood again, facing her foe. Beaten, bloody, demolished, and smiling to the crowd. She charged again and this time, she flared.

Exalting before a crowd, the power of the sun tore through her small body, guiding her blade through armor and flesh and sundering her foe who was burnt to ash around her blade. The crowd had witnessed the birth of an Anathema, of an Exalted, first hand. And they loved her. The Games were to be suspended but the crowd would have none of it, instead, they became a celebration grander than any in recent memory. The Arena-scum turning Champion, the hope of countless on display, and Aeliana, for the first time, was the focus of it.

Years pass and the games continued, Aeliana being dubbed the Evervictor as countless fell to her in more and more grandiose ways. This was the pinnacle of life to be accepted by Aeliana who from her first game on had wanted for nothing except victory. Her entirety becoming the idolization of the Cult of the Evervictor and the satisfaction of the ghosts that were left in her wake. Eventually realizing the power she wielded not just in the Arena but over the legions of adoring fans, Aeliana began her long march to bring herself to the Entirety of Creation, self-assured that Creation wanted her, whether they knew it or not.
Excellencies:
Athletics, Dodge, Integrity, Melee, Performance, Presence, Socialize

Charms

Athletics
Lightning Speed
Monkey Leap technique

Brawl
Fists of Iron Technique

Dodge
Reed in the Wind
Drifting Leaf Elusion
Reflex Sidestep Technique

Performance
Masterful Performance technique
Soul firing performance
Graceful Rees Dancing
Battle-Dancer Method
Thousand Courtesan Ways
Perfect Harmony Technique

Presence
Harmonious Presence Meditation

Integrity
Enduring Mental Toughness

Resistance
Ox Body Technique

Melee
Excellent Strike
Xp Earned: 19
Xp Banked: 1
Solar Xp Banked: 2

BP Spending 15
MA x2 - 2bp
Dodge 2 - 2bp
Pre 1 - 1bp
Merits x6 - 6bp
Str 1 - 4bp

XP spending

Brawl 3 ( 3xp)
Thrown 3 (3xp)
Survival 2 (1xp)
New ability (Archery) (3xp)
New Charm (Perfect Harmony) (8 xp)

Random Word · Mar 21, 2021

Name: Sigrdrífa Tyrsdohtriz, Champion of Snow Leopard
Caste: Night
Concept: Unstoppable Force of Nature

Well, this needs some editing to pare it down by like half.
tl;dr Christmas Presents From a Deathlord, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Nothing. The Answer is Nothing.

There are, broadly, two kinds of Icewalker tribes: Those who take their totem from a (to humans) prey animal - elk and seal, mammoth and walrus, musk ox and mountain goat, hare and goose, and many more - and those who take their totems from predators. While the former are far more numerous, herding their totem animal to provide food and building materials through the harsh winter months, the latter are prized above all others by the Deathlords, for their prey is man. While the prey totem tribes raid settlements and each other opportunistically or when times are lean, the predator totem tribes must raid constantly as a matter of survival, cowing weaker tribes and vulnerable coastal settlements into offering tribute or taking what they will not yield by force, and in so doing contribute much to the Icewalker reputation for savagery and infighting.

From the moment she was born of Tyr, a warrior of one of the bands of Snow Leopard's tribe, the shamans told Sigrdrífa she was born to greatness and the favour of the gods. She never learned who her father was, but she was perceptive enough to see that while her mother was accorded a great deal of respect, she had sacrificed much to obtain it. All but the shamans kept both of them at a distance, the adults watching like hawks whenever she played with the tribe's children. When asked, the shamans would say they were waiting to see how her blessings would manifest, and once she demonstrated herself a hero of the tribe she would be accepted.

Still, her mother was fierce, the shamans wise, and Sigrdrífa did not want for love as she grew, and manifest her blessings did. She was stronger, faster, and hardier than the other children, possessed of uncannily keen senses and heart-stopping beauty. Every year she watched the Handmaidens of the Lover arrive at Calibration, when the storms were fiercest, the nights longest, the air coldest, prey scarcest, and the spirits wildest, radiant in their white veils with frost-blackened lips, supplicating themselves and bearing wondrous gifts, always promising more if the tribe would do the smallest of things - attack specific targets, sell them slaves, adopt small rites into their ceremonies. The elders were wise. They understood survival. Appease the strong, exploit the weak. Never reveal weakness to the strong, but neither antagonise them unnecessarily. They accepted the sorely needed gifts, but refused the additional tasks, and each year the Handmaidens left empty handed but smiling, for it would only take one truly bad year and they had all the time in Creation.

As she grew the Handmaidens began to take a special interest in her, bringing her small gifts - a knife of sharp black obsidian, a warm coat of the finest sable furs in black and silver, beautiful jewellery of silver and onyx and bone, all of which she still wears today - asking if they might be allowed to gift her magics in addition to their honeyed words and adoring smiles, so full of endearing warmth despite frozen lips. The other children were often jealous of her gifts, driving her further into the cold where she came to fondly look forward to the brief warmth of these strange outsiders each year. They were never so careless or brazen as to ask to foster her, and while her mother politely accepted the gifts she declined their offers of more.

The Handmaidens, like the shamans, saw much potential in her, and they were not wrong. She studied under the shaman Ylva, learning the stories of her people, the ways of propitiating and venerating the Spirits and the Ancestors, combating the hungry dead and Fae that made the tundra and ice sheets their hunting grounds, and the unusual but valuable skill of using fine bone tools to defeat the small mechanical wards the outsiders used to seal their most precious treasures. She studied the arts of war and the hunt under her mother, and this is where she truly shined, killing her first snow leopard in single combat at ten. The feast and celebration that followed made her feel like she really belonged, however briefly, but her mother's pride was perhaps more precious still. From then on she was always in search of deeds that would earn her similar acclaim. She killed her first man the next winter, demonstrating a terrifying aptitude for ambushing and silently executing sentries in the dark for someone so young. As she looked at the pile of severed heads in the flickering firelight her eyes were always drawn to the lips, cold and rimed with shining frost of black blood, so like the Handmaidens, and she smiled. She soon become a regular and well respected member of raiding parties.

From then on she was granted the honour of attending the annual convocation of the local tribes, where every year she saw a few more sporting the gifts of the dead, bragging of how their new wards kept the ravenous spirits at bay, and of the fearsome strength of their new weapons. None could help but notice how the first to accept these gifts were now sallow and distant, quick to violence and quicker to anger at any perceived slight. They sometimes gave her curious looks when they saw her jewellery but she joined the rest of her tribe in shunning them, and over the years many stopped showing up.

Sigrdrífa had eyes only for the feasting, drinking, dancing, fumbling romance, and most of all, the competitions. While the handsome boy from one of the Snow Fox bands always won the boy's league, Sigrdrífa and Áleifr of one of the local Sabretooth bands fought viciously for the fanged crown of the girl's league, and the position by Toun's side at the head of the youth table when receiving it, trading year by year. Did he become a little bit more handsome each time? And when did she start to resent Áleifr more for where she was sitting than the crown? Outside the ring the collection of the best fighters were almost inseparable, and became a blur of alcohol, reckless hunts, dares, and making out under the stars. Kissing Toun was every bit as good as she had dreamt. When Áleifr kissed her it was a surprise for exactly as long as it took for her brain to process how good it felt and then the surprise no longer mattered.

Once they had both graduated into the full warrior's league, after one too many beer and one too many snide remarks about Toun having the real crown, Sigrdrífa challenged him to a duel and was shocked to find herself shortly thereafter flat on her back with Toun standing over her, smiling, hand outstretched. He was so fast, and every bit as strong as she was. Having long since equalled or surpassed the warriors in her tribe, this came as an exhilarating surprise. She accepted his hand, leaning in with a grin to kiss him to the cheers of onlookers, then throwing him over her shoulder while he was distracted to a chorus of laughter and groans. She lost the next two rounds as well, but she was hooked. This was a real opponent, and it quickly became an annual tradition.

She drew her second breath leading a hunting party against a vicious spirit beast stalking the tribe after it had claimed two of their best hunters. She laid a trap, ambushed the creature, and the hunting party's spears wounded it badly. They harried and chased it across the tundra, falling back as it advanced and moving in to strike when it retreated, until they tracked it to its lair. In desperation it lashed out, wounding several of the hunting party before collapsing the ice shelf above with a terrible howl. In an act that smashed straight through the thin line between bravery and stupidity, Sigrdrífa refused to leave the wounded and attempted to catch the falling piece of ice to buy them time to crawl away. Against all the odds, and by the blessing of the Sun, she succeeded. An immense snow leopard in a blizzard of golden light lit up the ice sheet like day for miles around as she hurled the massive piece of ice at the spirit beast, pinning it in place before beating it to death with her bare hands, then setting up a makeshift sled and single-handedly hauling home all of the wounded and its corpse.

Her tribe were ecstatic, and her mother inexpressibly proud. This was better than the shamans had dared to dream. Yurgen Kaneko's Exaltation had changed the fortunes of his tribe forever, and surely hers would do the same. She remembered peerless skill she had never learned and a seemingly bottomless font of power suffused her body and mind. She never returned from a hunt empty handed. They never again need fear any hungry ghost, angry spirit, or fae creature, and she hunted dozens effortlessly in the next few weeks. Ylva took her to the mountains sacred to Snow Leopard, and in the greatest honour of her life the spirit named her its Champion.

Word spread. Months later the Bull's emissary's arrived, the tribe emphatically declining his open invitation, and that year at Calibration the Handmaidens did not come alone. Áleifr stood beside them, more radiant than ever with lips blood red and skin white as fresh snow. Sigrdrífa could hear her pulse and feel the heat radiating off her skin even from metres away. She could tell that Áleifr still breathed where the Handmaidens only pretended to, and yet she was clearly different. She had heard the rumours that the Sabretooth tribe had started taking tasks from the Handmaidens. It was a hard year, and she couldn't blame them. Áleifr hissed in pain as Sigrdrífa greeted her by name, and asked her to please call her <Insert Abyssal Title Here> from now on. Sigrdrífa laughed out loud until she realized Áleifr was serious. Well, it was a stupid title, but... perhaps she had heard self important hunters give themselves worse. Maybe it wasn't so bad. Áleifr seemed happy, and when the Handmaidens suggested a hunt in the freezing pitch dark Calibration blizzard she seemed eager, almost hungry to show off. The prize they proposed caught her attention; A wrap made from the skin of the legendary Shadowdancer, a powerful smoke leopard felled by a Moon-chosen ancestor-hero countless generations ago, embroidered with Moonsilver and Black Jade.

She accepted. This was a competition, and completely insane at that. She was back on firmer footing. Áleifr smiled hungrily at her, and for the first time since Exalting she felt like prey. That couldn't stand. She quickly realized that Áleifr had no intention of hunting the spirit beast, and was stalking her. Sigrdrífa could no longer hear her heartbeat, nor feel the heat radiating from her skin, but she could still smell her perfume, and though Áleifr was quiet as the grave she was not silent enough. They clashed in the pitch darkness, and Sigrdrífa's essence surged like never before. She felt the rush as Áleifr sent her flying into ice canyon walls with bone shattering force and she returned the favour before vanishing into the blizzard. They stalked each other and fought for hours, carving a path of destruction across the tundra, until Áleifr had her pinned to the ground on a precipice over a deep chasm in the ice, the golden light of Sigrdrífa's anima swirling and mixing with the darkness swirling around Áleifr, somehow deeper than even the Calibration night around them. They both had frozen blood on their lips, but neither could feel the cold. Áleifr had fangs now, like the Moon-chosen heroes in the stories. Blood ran freely down her face from a mark on her forehead. Both of them were grinning madly despite - because of? - their injuries. Sigrdrífa had never felt a high like this before.

Áleifr leaned in close, her face almost brushing Sigrdrífa's, "Come with me."

"Where?"

"Does it matter? Far from here. Trust me, you'll love it."

Sigrdrífa smiled wider but shook her head, laughing, "No, your people might be weak enough to take tears, but my place is here with mine."

Áleifr sighed, exasperated, "Forget them. You can come back and see them later. I want you to come with me. We can find Toun, he can come, too." At Sigrdrífa's confusion she continued, "He's one of us now. Chosen. We all belong together. We always have. It's better that way, like the Bull."

Sigrdrífa's eyes widened. It was hard to think with Áleifr this close to her. She was never this magnetic before. Still, it changed nothing. She grinned, "If you can win the crown from me this year I'll go with you."

It was Áleifr's turn to be surprised, then disappointed, "That's three seasons away! Don't make me wait that long."

"Then you stay with me."

Áleifr's face contorted, torn. Finally she sighed, "I... can't."

She yelped in surprise as Sigrdrífa laughed derisively, kicking her off and into the chasm, "And yet you expect me to just follow you like a pup!"

Áleifr recovered, pushed off the far side of the chasm, and smashed into the near side with such force it dislodged the ice Sigrdrífa was lying on and sent her plummeting down.

Hours later, breathing heavily and lying side by side on the ice, they finally resolved to complete the hunt for propriety's sake. It wouldn't do to offend the spirits by declaring a hunt and not seeing it through. So it was that half an hour after that they came stumbling back into camp with the carcass of the immense spirit beast a looming shadow behind them, barely visible through the driving snow. They were both laughing; beaten and bloody but unbroken. Everyone gave Áleifr odd looks about the name, but this was Áleifr, someone they all knew, and a guest. That was not easily forgotten, and when Sigrdrífa slipped out to present the trophies from the hunt to Ylva everyone had long since warmed to her. Even mother was smiling and laughing.

Sigrdrífa had never seen Ylva frightened before. Not like this. Not even when surrounded by hungry ghosts. When she recounted the tale of her day with obvious relish Ylva paled. She told Sigrdrífa she had received a dire omen from Snow Leopard: If Sigrdrífa did not leave the camp immediately, cross the White Sea, and complete seven great tasks worthy of song and legend in the eyes of the Spirits before she returned, terrible misfortune would fall upon the tribe and they may never recover. Sigrdrífa was shocked, but she trusted Ylva implicitly, and at her request swore an oath before all the Spirits to see it done. The will of the Spirits was not to be gainsaid. She grabbed her caribou skin travel bag, snatched the Shadowdancer's skin - she had clearly won the hunt - and disappeared into the night, running south for days before she stopped to sleep.

As the sun rose at the end of Calibration she set about finding her first task. How hard could it be, really, getting a song or seven written about you? She'd be home by convocation. But first, Toun was Chosen now? That could mean only one thing: It was time for a rematch.
Attributes
Str: 5
Dex: 2
Sta: 4

Cha: 1
Man: 1
App: 5

Per: 5
Int: 2
Wits: 2

Abilities
Archery
**Athletics: 5 (Feats of Strength)
**Awareness: 5
*Brawl: 5 (Grappling)
Bureaucracy
*Craft: 3 (Icewalker)
Dodge
Integrity: 3
Investigation
**Larceny: 2
Linguistics
Lore: 1 (Snow Leopard Clan Oral History)
Martial Arts
Medicine
Melee
Occult: 1 (The Unquiet Dead)
Performance
*Presence: 1
*Resistance: 5
Ride
Sail
**Socialize: 0
**Stealth: 5 (Tundra)
*Survival: 3
Thrown: 3
War
Artifact [Belt of Shadow Walking nee Snow Leopard Skin With Fancy Name]: 3
Mighty Thews: 3
Pain Tolerance: 4
Languages: Skytongue [Native]

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

Limit Trigger:
The Solar is insulted, belittled, or deliberately frustrated by another character.

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

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

Cost: 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 Exer- cise, Solars can reach the Strength minimums required to attempt certain feats of strength (p. 229).

Cost: 5m; Mins: Athletics 5, Essence 2 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Increasing Strength Exercise
Through intense muscle control, the Solar’s insides erupt with surging Essence power. Reroll all non-successes on a feat of strength.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Athletics 5, Essence 3 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Thunder’s Might
The Exalt’s body is momentarily framed with surging power. This Charm supplements a feat of strength, adding (Strength) non-Charm bonus dice to the attempt. This is explicitly compatible with the bonus granted by Increasing Strength Exercise.

Cost: —; Mins: Athletics 5, Essence 3 Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Power Suffusing Form Technique
Striving toward physical and spiritual perfection, the Solar is an exemplar of physical might. When performing feats of strength, the cost of the Athletics Excellency is permanently reduced to one mote per two dice.

Cost: —; Mins: Athletics 5, Essence 4 Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Legion Aurochs Method
The Solar’s might is permanently enhanced, lowering the
difficulty of all feats of strength by two.

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Athletics 5, Essence 5 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Aegis of Unstoppable Force
Summoning the might of untold forces, the Exalt crosses the threshold of legend. This Charm is the gateway to outrageous shows of physical prowess—the Solar gains double 7s to attempt a feat of strength, and she counts as meeting its Strength prerequisite (p. 229) no matter how high that requirement might be.

Craft

Cost: 6m; Mins: Craft 3, Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Mute
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None

This Charm supplements an attempt to build or repair something, allowing the Solar to work without tools or a workshop. If used to create or repair an Artifact or manse, it counts as a basic workshop and doesn't let the Solar work any faster than normal. If used on a mundane project, this Charm reduces the time required by two increments on the following chart:
Decades <-> Years <-> Months <-> Weeks <-> Days <-> Hours <-> Minutes <-> Seconds

Reduce the cost of this Charm by 2m if using it with tools that would be sufficient to complete the project normally.

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.

Brawl

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).

Cost: 1m; Mins: Brawl 3, Essence 1 Type: Supplemental
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
In a burst of violence, the Solar launches herself at an opponent, seizing him with tremendous force. This Charm supplements a grapple gambit, adding one automatic success to the attack roll, and (Essence or three, whichever is greater) dice to the Initiative roll.

Cost: —(3m); Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 1 Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Vicious Lunge
The fury-driven might of the Lawgiver can crush the life from even the gods. This Charm allows the Solar to roll (Strength + Brawl) to attack with a grapple gambit. At Essence 2+ she may pay three motes to double extra successes on the control roll when using Oak-Curling Clinch.

Cost: 7m; Mins: Brawl 3, Essence 1 Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Ferocious Jab
At the moment of impact, the Solar sends a surge of Essence up her arm or down her leg, multiplying the force of her blow many times over. This Charm is activated after a successful decisive Brawl attack. If the damage roll gen- erates at least one success, the target is knocked prone by the force of the blow, and loses a point of Initiative, which is added to the Solar’s base value (typically 3) when her Initiative resets. This blow strikes with the force of a hur- ricane condensed into the Solar’s fist. The more damag- ing the blow, the more forcefully her opponent will be knocked away from her:
For at least three successes, the opponent is lifted and bodily hurled into an object or surface within close range,
hitting it with an impact equivalent to falling a short distance (see falling damage, p. 232), destroying any less-obdurate objects he collides with, such as wooden furniture.
At four or more successes, the foe is knocked into an object at close range with tremendous force, or is sent sailing a remarkable distance by the force of the blow. If the former, the opponent hits a surface with force sufficient to leave cracks in a stone wall, impacting with a surface as if he had fallen from a medium distance. If the latter, the force of the blow throws him to short range with a short-distance falling impact.
At five or more successes, the foe is thrown to short range and suffers an impact like falling from a medium height.
The Solar can use Heaven Thunder Hammer to knock her opponent into a high ceiling, forcing him to contend with falling damage on the way down. She might also choose to smash him through a weak point in a nearby wall, causing him to suffer a collapse. She might aim to hurl her opponent into a spike protruding from a surface, turning the damage lethal, or knock her enemy from a rooftop, causing him to suffer a fall from a much greater distance. The player should include the environment in their stunts to enhance this Charm’s effectiveness.
At Essence 3+, double the successes for determining the distance the victim is hurled. At 7+, the victim can be hurled to medium range with a medium height impact.

Characters facing falling damage suffer a number of levels of automatic damage, as well as a number of dice of damage. All such damage ignores soak and hardness and is applied directly to a character’s Health Track, as though it were a decisive attack. At longer ranges, Storytellers may adjust the damage suffered up and down at their discretion.
Fall Close Short Medium Long Extreme
Damage Levels None 3B 4L 5-7L 7-10L
Damage Dice None 5B 7B 8-12L 10-14L

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

Larceny

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

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: —; 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: 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 tough- ness, 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.

Stealth

Cost: 3m; Mins: Stealth 3, Essence 1 Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Lawgiver evades detection by hiding in plain sight. A Solar with this Charm is able to drift unnoticed through crowds or alone. This Charm models her talent for blend- ing in and remaining unobtrusive. When active, charac- ters 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.

Survival

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.
Refluffing as the crafted from the hide of the legendary Snow Leopard spirit Shadowdancer, hunted and prepared by some distant Lunar ancestor for the clan.

Belt of Shadow Walking
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.
Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]
-3 [ ]
I [ ]

Essence: 1
Personal: 13/13
Peripheral: 28/33
Committed: 5
Willpower: 8

Parry: 4 +3/6m
Dodge: 1
Resolve: 3
Guile: 1

Join Battle: 7 + 3i

Soak: 4
Armor: 0
Hardness: 0

Weapons
Unarmed
Withering Attack: 11 +7/7m
Withering Damage: 12 min 1
Decisive Attack: 7(8) +7/7m
Parry: 4 +3/6m
Tags: Bashing, Brawl, Grappling, Natural
Defining Principle: Might Makes Right
Defining Tie: People She Considers Her Tribe [Loyalty]
Defining Tie: Thrill of Battle [Love]

Major Principle: "I'm not returning home until I've accomplished a feat worthy of song and legend."
Major Principle: "My Enemies Deserve Only Death."
Major Principle: "If Someone Shows You They Are Your Enemy, Believe Them."
Major Tie: The Hungry Dead [Hatred]
Major Tie: Raksha [Hatred]
Major Tie: Toun [Affection]
Major Principle: "I will not profane the Spirits or the Ancestors. They have given me much, and we are wise to fear them."
Major Tie: Snow Leopard [Devotion]
Major Tie: Tyr (Mom) [Affection]
Major Tie: Ylva [Veneration]
Major Tie: Zoya [Respect]

Minor Principle: "It is selfish to reincarnate immediately without first giving something back in death to those who supported you in life. The tribe needs every edge to survive."
Minor Principle: "Settled people are soft and easily exploited."
Minor Tie: Outside Authority [Mistrust]
Minor Tie: Afureru [Respect]
Minor Tie: The Handmaidens [Gratitude]
Minor Tie: Áleifr [Affection]
Minor Tie: Zoya [Wary Fascination]
Minor Principle: "I miss home."
XP Earned: 24
XP Spent: 16

Solar XP Earned: 4
Solar XP Spent: 4

Craft 1 -> 3 (4 SXP)

Craftsman Needs No Tools (8 XP)
Thunderbolt Attack Prana (8 XP)

BP Spending:
Abilities: 10 BP
Willpower: 5 BP

Esbilon · Mar 21, 2021

Name: Zoya
Caste: Zenith
Anima: A blooming orchid
Concept: Sorceress-Priestess and restorer of Creation

Appearance

Artist credit: Sgt-lonely

Background
The life of a refugee is an unenviable one, though for those who do live it there are few better places to end up than the great city of Whitewall. While the underground sprawl of Underton is doubtlessly a slum, it is a slum that remains warm in winter and where even the poorest can get a bath so long as they do so out of sight of their betters. The bigger reason, though, is that the Syndics are willing to lift out of abject poverty the people who help them drive away the great Shadowland of Marama's Fell. Thus it was that after fleeing slavery in the Realm satrapy of Serrat, some-time street sweeper, some-time garbage hauler Prodan and his young wife Vesna walked out of Whitewall on the first day of Ascending Wood to consecrate the Chrysanthemum Shrines for another year. They did their part putting up the shrines and saying prayers, and when evening fell, conceived a baby girl who would be born nine months later at the very same shrine. With the Syndics' award for reclaiming the great Shadowland by bringing life into the world, they were able to send young Zoya to school rather than have her work alongside her parents in the meanest jobs the city had to offer.

Had they found refuge in another city, it is hard to say what would have become of Prodan and Vesna's daughter, but here she flourished. While they never had as much as they'd have liked, life gave them food on the table, clothes to wear, and a chance to learn. Though her parents had never had schooling beyond what was required to work hard without complaint, Zoya took to education like a fish to water - taking in everything that her teachers offered her and coming back for more at the end of the day. While that would have earned her a pad on the head and a tired smile in Grieve or Icehome, in Whitewall it earned her a scholarship and a chance to leave Underton for the upper city's better schools and brighter days. In addition to her secular education, she learned to offer praise to the Syndics of Whitewall in prayer and song, and if her voice rang clearer and louder than her fellows, it was passion and gratitude as much as natural talent that drove her. It is hard for a child to appreciate how much better their life is than it could have been, but ever since they found her old enough to understand, her parents had told her of the life they lead in the coastal satrapy and how lucky they were to be in a place ruled by those who cared.

It was here she met Unrepentant Miracle, or Mira to her friends. The child of a Guardian officer and a professor of architecture, Mira was born into Whitewall's upper crust and when she saw the shy girl from Underton, she decided to take her under her wing and out of her shell. The two quickly became inseparable - playing together, studying together, singing together. Though their backgrounds differed wildly and they had lived a decade apart, they soon seemed closer than sisters, and when they came of the age where young Whitewallers seek out the steamy private alcoves of the public baths, it came a no surprise that they found them together. It was Mira's idea, of course, and Zoya went happily along with their exuberant mutual exploration, but it soon became clear that this new development in their relationship did not mean the same to both girls. However much she wanted, for this Zoya could not match Mira's passion and after a while they stopped. Their friendship remained despite this, and soon they found childhood and an end and the rigours of adult life before them.

Twenty five years to the day after her conception, Zoya once more went out to Marama's Fell. It was not the first time since her birth she came there. As part of the Syndics' priesthood, she came every year to offer the blessings and thaumaturgical charms that gave the Chrysanthemum Shrines their power of life and protection, and to consecrate the mortal lovers who came with her as well as any children who might come of such love. Among those young lovers this year were Unrepentant Miracle and her betrothed, an admirable young man by the name of Regal Sky. While a child was already growing in Mira's womb, they had delayed getting married so that Zoya might do the honours and so that they might contribute to that great work: Reclaiming Creatiaon from the the forces of the death itself.

Alas, that year the proceedings were interrupted by those very same forces. The marriage had been held and in their joy at the coming of spring (though snow still covered tha land) and young love, the wedding party failed to notice afternoon passing into twilight and with that the ghosts of the fell began stirring. While the chill of the day had been kept away by the warmth of bonfires and happiness, now a bone-gripping cold came over the celebrations and one by one, the fires went out. Out of the cold came a fierce gang of war ghosts led by a monster of some forgotten race - killed when the Fell was first formed in the wake of the Usurpation. Before anyone could react, the groom's head was cut in two by the daiklave wielded by that great ghost, and the bride's stomach opened by a lesser ghost's ice-cold blade. The wedding party quickly sprung to action as among them were several members of the city's elite Guardians, and the sorcerous spells Zoya had long failed to shape finally came when she called for them. The ghosts were beaten back and their leader forever banished from Creation and the Underworld both.

Zoya knelt weeping over her dying friend and with all the passion and fury in her soul, she cried out for the Syndics to save the young woman's life, but no answer came. Raising her voice ever higher and bringing forth ever more heartfelt pleas, she called upon the Unconquered Sun himself and he answered, though not as she had wished. "The dead belong only to themselves, and all souls must move through the circle of reincarnation. You, my daughter, will shine my light across all Creation and split their world from it," and as the bright disk of the noon-day sun shone on Zoya's forehead for the first time, Unrepentant Miracle let out her last breath. Driven by grief and ancient instinct, she took hold of the fallen war ghost's blade and claimed its power for herself. Thus, the soul that left Mira's body did not go to the Underwold to pass through Lethe, it went into the daiklave Skofnung and the Sun's chosen priest was torn between her love for the dead and her duty to Creation.

-Further answers to BG-questions-
Zoya's parents are still alive and reasonably well, as are Mira's who were at the wedding when Zoya Exalted. She cares for all of them and for Whitewall itself.
Zoya also has a sister (age 23) and a brother (age 20).
She's a bit torn on the Syndics at the moment. For one their policies led to the (generally good) life she's been able to live, but they did not come when she needed them the most.
Zoya fundamentally believes in the goodness of the Unconquered Sun, in helping the people of creation and banishing demons, faeries, and the dead from it.
She mistrusts the Realm and the Bull of the North mainly because those are the default positions of Whitewall, but she's reasonably good at keeping an open mind.
Zoya wants to reclaim Marama's Fell as a part of Creation. Since even before her birth she's been content at chipping away at it a little year by year, but now she wants to do something bigger. Much bigger.
She knows some of Whitewall's history as a prayer-city for the Unconquered Sun and she's also got restoring that on her to-do list.
Attributes
Strength ●
Dexterity ●●●
Stamina ●●

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

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

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

Caste Abilities: Athletics, *Integrity, *Performance, **Lore, *Presence, *Resistance, Survival, War
Favored Abilities: Awareness, Investigation, Melee, Occult, Socialize
Merits
Artifact ●●●● (Skofnung)
Backing ●●● (Whitewalls priesthood)
Language ● (Native: Skytongue; Old Realm)
Resources ●● (Priest in Whitewall)

Artifacts and Hearthstones
Skofnung (Soulsteel Daiklave, Artifact ●●●●)
An ancient sword forged from the souls of the twelve greatest kings of the North. It calls out to fallen warriors, compelling them to once more raise their swords in battle.

Current Souls: 17 (Size 2)

Accuracy: +3+1
Damage: +12+1
Defense: +1
Overwhelming: 4
Attunement: 5
Tags: Lethal, Melee, Balanced
Hearthstone slots: 3

Skofnung can house the souls of the fallen. Those who have been called to serve by previous wielders describe the world inside as a vast battlefield surrounding a single great hall of black stone. They would fight from grim morning until a darkness as complete as Oblivion fell, and then feast in the torch-lit hall until morning when the fallen would once more pick up their weapons and join a battle without purpose.

When Skofnung contains souls, it gains the following bonuses to its traits depending on the number
1-6: +1 Accuracy
7-36: +1 Damage
37-144: +1 Defense
145-1200: +1 Accuracy
1200+: +1 Damage

Calling Home the Fallen
Cost: 5m; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: Psyche
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: None

Solemnly placing the sword point first into the soil bloodied by war, the wielder calls to those fallen in battle all around them and compels them to find a new home within Skofnung. Roll (Charisma or Manipulation + Presence) to influence the ghosts of all those fallen in battle no longer three days and three nights before, and who are close enough to be affected. All those whose Resolve is low enough to be influenced are automatically compelled, unless they have an Intimacy they could use to resist the call, in which case they may spend a point of Willpower to resist the call of Skofnung. The range of this power depends on the wielder's Essence rating in the following manner:
Essence 1: Close range
Essence 2: Short range
Essence 3: Long range
Essence 4+: Extreme range

If the wielder is Resonant with Skofnung, their Essence counts as one higher than it is for the purpose of determining range, and only a Major or Defining Intimacy can protect a ghost from being called.

Unleashed from Beyond
Cost: 5m, (1lhl); Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisites: Calling Home the Fallen

Raising the sword high, the wielder summons the fallen to fight once more. This brings forth a Battle Group of the fallen from within Skofnung. This Battle Group has size (Essence/2 rounded up + 1), though it cannot be larger than the total of all souls contained within Skofnung. They arrive armed and ready to fight, but are Immaterial unless the wielder has spent the extra activation cost of (1 lhl), Materializing them through their own blood. Any ghosts slain while called into the world like this return unharmed to the blade once the Charm has run its course, or once they fall in battle. Note: It is not possible to create a battle group larger than the wielder's Essence would allow by activating the Charm multiple times.

The Battle Group's traits are determined by the average member, it further has Perfect Morale and Might 1.

If the wielder is resonant with Skofnung, the Battle Group is of size (Essence/2 rounded up + 2), though still limited by the number of souls contained within the blade.

Wisdom of the Gravebound
Cost: 5m, (or less); Mins: Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisites: Unleashed from Beyond

Holding the sword close to their heart, the wielder calls forth an individual contained within the blade to serve them in a wider capacity than simply as part of an army. Those called forth come fully realized with all the memories and knowledge of their former life, as well as their Intimacies, though they have acquired an additional Defining Intimacy of loyalty (or a similiar emotion) towards the wielder. While the Charm is active, it may be activated once more to call forth another ghost to serve. The cost to activate the Charm goes down by 1m for each ghost already manifested in this manner. No more than (Essence + 1) ghosts can be manifested at once. If the ghosts are involved in combat, they will form a single battle group that supports the wielder.

If the wielder is resonant with Skofnung, the number of ghosts than can be simoultaneously manifested is doubled.

Relics of the Dead
Cost: -; Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisites: Unleashed from Beyond

When the dead come forth, they do so with the finest gear taken from all the battlefields of Creation. Every time the wielder calls forth the ghosts bound within Skofnung, they may decide how the ghosts are armed and armoured (or even dressed with Wisdom of the Gravebound). Furthermore, when called forth with Unleashed from Beyond, the Battle Group formed has Might 2 rather than 1. Similarly, when called forth with Wisdom of the Gravebound, the ghosts may have simple Thaumaturgical items to aid them.

If the wielder is resonant with Skofnung, the ghosts become valid targets for Training Charms such as Tiger Warrior Training Technique or Flowing Mind Prana.

Irresistible Call of Oblivion
Cost: 10m; Mins: Essence 4
Type: Simple
Keywords: Psyche
Duration: Instant
Prerequisites: Wisdom of the Gravebound

By placing the pommel of the sword on the forehead of one recently dead, the wielder may force them into service. Activating this Evocation requires a (Charisma or Manipulation + Presence) roll, and if it beats the ghost's Resolve, it can only be resisted by a Defining Intimacy. If the victim died as a direct consequence of the wielder's actions (was poisoned by them, murdered by assassins sent by them, etc.), no roll is necessary and no Intimacies can protect them. However, the ghost retains all intimacies it had in life, so the wielder of Skofnung should take care when calling forth the ghosts of those who hate them.

What the Void Spews Forth
Cost: 10m (1ahl/scene); Mins: Essence 5
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: Relics of the Dead, Irresistible Call of Oblivion

Raising the blade above their head, the wielder calls calls upon the Void itself to empower the ghosts under their command, and the Void answers. In return for the souls of the slain, Skofnung's ghosts come clad in the raiments of Death itself, and fight with the strength of the Void. When called forth with this Evocation, there is no size limit to the Battle Group summoned, every single soul is called from within Skofnung. They arrived armed and armoured in Soulsteel, granting them a Might rating of 3, and each ghost counts as two for the purposes of determining the Size of the Battle Group. However, once the Charm has run its course, every single ghost as well as the souls of all mortals slain by this army of the dead is doomed to Oblivion. Skofnung is empty once more, and the forbidding castle in its core falls silent.

If the wielder is resonant with Skofnung, they may prolong its Duration by spending paying 1 Aggravated Health Level per additional scene. This damage may not be healed while the Charm is active.
Essence:
Permanent: ●

Charms
Excellencies: Awareness, Integrity, Investigation, Lore, Melee, Occult, Performance, Presence, Resistance, Socialize

-Investigation-
*Watchman's Infallible Eye

-Integrity-
*Stubborn Boar Defense

-Lore-
*Harmonious Academic Methodology
**Bottomless Wellspring Approach (Lor 4, Ess 2)
***Lore-Inducing Concentration (Lor 5, Ess 2)
****Truth-Rendering Gaze (Lor 5, Ess 2)

-Melee-
*Excellent Strike [3m; Supplemental; Uniform; Instant]
**One Weapon, Two Blows [3m; Reflexive; None; Instant]

-Occult-
*Sprit-Detecting Glance
*Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

-Performance-
*Respect-Commanding Attitude [5m; Supplemental; None; One Performance action]

-Presence-
*Harmonious Presence Meditation [5m (7m); Reflexive; None; One Scene (Indefinite)]

-Socialize-
*Mastery of Small Manners

-Skofnung Evocations-
*Calling Home the Fallen
**Unleashed From Beyond

-Sorcery-
*Flight of the Brilliant Raptor (Control spell)
*Summon Elemental

The character became a sorceror by meditating on her own Solar Essence, emulating one of the Mice of the Sun, or by being initiated into sorcerous enlightement by a Solar Exalt or the Unconquered Sun himself.

Shaping Rituals
• The sorcerer draws power from revealing light, channeling it into her spells. Whenever she begins a scene standing directly under rays of bright light, bearing aloft a lit torch or lantern, or ablaze with an anima banner at the burning level, 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 brightly illuminated and clearly visible, she gains an additional sorcerous mote as long as the spell’s target is paying her his full attention and seeking to engage her in combat or debate.

• The sorcerer’s patron offers her power in exchange for burnt offerings, breathing in the smoke of her tribute and rewarding her with glory. The sorcerer may make a prayer roll (Charisma + Performance, difficulty 5 minus the Resources value of any sacrifices offered along with the prayer) seeking power from her patron. Success grants her sorcerous motes equal to (her Essence + extra successes on the roll). These motes last for the duration of the story, and can be spent towards any spell she casts. She cannot pray for power more than once a day, and receiving new motes replaces any granted by past prayers.

• The sorcerer has learned to cultivate the light of virtue in her own heart, using it to charge the power of her spells. Whenever she would gain a point of Willpower from upholding an Intimacy that represents a passionate emotion or fervent belief, she may instead claim 5 sorcerous motes. These motes last until the next sunset, and can be spent towards any spell she casts. If upholding that Intimacy causes in-character hardship that would be sufficient to gain solar experience as though from a Flaw, she gains 10 sorcerous motes, which last for the duration of the story. After the first time this bonus is awarded in a story, subsequent awards are lowered to the sorcerer’s (Essence).

Other Benefits
• Faithful Servant (Merit •): Like one of the Mice of the Sun, the sorceror gains a Defining Tie of loyalty to the Unconquered Sun, which cannot be weakened or altered by any influence rolls or magic.

• Fed by Virtue (Merit ••, •••): Like one of the Mice of the Sun, the sorceror may satisfy hunger or thirst by acting compassionately or courageously to aid another. At three dots, her hunger pains may be allayed by witnessing someone else do the same, provided she has a Defining positive Tie to the person performing the virtuous action.

• Duke of Burning Light (Merit ••): Light and fire answer readily to the sorcerer’s will. Whenever the sorcerer casts a spell that creates light or fire as its primary effect, or manipulates fire, its cost is lowered by three sorcerous motes. If it’s her control spell, she may also waive a single point of Willpower from its cost once per day.

**Crafty Observation Method (Inv 3, Ess 1)
***Judge's Ear Technique (Inv 4, Ess 1)

*****Prophet of Seventeen Cycles (Lor 5, Ess 4)

*Dipping Swallow Defense [2m; Reflexive; None; Instant]
Essence:
Permanent: ●
Personal: 12/13 (13)
Peripheral: 0/18 (33)
Committed:
5 Skofnung
7 Harmonious Presence Meditation
3 Spirit-Detecting Glance

Willpower: 4/5

Intimacies:
Defining Tie: Unrepentant Miracle (Platonic love, guilt)
Defining Principle: Creation must be reclaimed from the Dead and the Raksha.
Major Tie: Whitewall (loyalty)
Minor Tie: The Syndics (conflicted worship)
Minor Tie: The Unconquered Sun (conflicted gratitude)
Minor Tie: The Realm (disgust)
Minor Principle: Slavery is abhorrent

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

Join Combat: 5

Offenses:
Evasion:
Parry:
Soak:

Withering Attack:
Withering Damage:
Decisive Attack:

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

Social Defenses:
Resolve: 2
Guile: 3
Significant souls in Skofnung
Unrepentant Miracle - Zoya's childhood friend.
Unrepentant Miracle's unborn daughter.
Regal Sky - Mira's husband.
In-game Spending: 9/0S
1 Integrity 1->2
8 Stubborn Boar Defense

XP awarded: 24
10 Pre-game interactions - Mar 25.
2 Scene 2 - Apr 14.
7 - June 14.
5 - August 15.

SXP awarded: 4
2 - June 16
2 - August 15.

Bonus Points: 0/15
11 Favored Abilities
4 Primary Attribute

Epiphany · Mar 24, 2021

Name: Mournful Chalice
Age: 30s (looks 20s)
Caste: No-Moon
Concept: Sijanese Funerist determined to bring down the Deathlords
Anima: Caste Mark burns as an empty circle, glittering with silver light. Her anima banner is a dreamliek veil of silver-purple.

Backstory:

Mournful Chalice grew up in Sijan, raised by a pair of Dragon-Blooded parents. Her earliest memories were of the dead; speaking to them, listening to them and learning about simple rituals to please them, for her parents were both primarily of the Deathspeaker Observance. As Mournful Chalice grew, she displayed an unusual brightness of spirit for a place as grim as Sijan and her cheerful optimism, enduring kindness and sweet gentleness won people over. Her parents worried the realities of life in a city of death would crush that spirit but Mournful Chalice grew up focused on the joy of living, knowing it was only transitory.

She was recruited into the Mortwright Observance of the Mortician's Order age the age of 12. No one could deny Mournful Chalice had an exceptional attention to detail, precision in her work and phenomenal manual dexterity, precisely the qualities they look for. She also had the lasting patience to deal with meticulous reconstructive work. That she treated each corpse as someone priceless, deserving of the most tender care, made her even more valuable. By the time she was 18, Mournful Chalice was considered a promising Mortwright but hope had faded that she would follow in her parent's footsteps and Exalt as one of the Dragon-Blooded.

Then disaster struck. A specter managed to break into the halls of the Mortwrights and animate a Black Guard body, inflicting massive destruction in a matter of minutes. Conflicting Arcanoi and enchanted weapons destabilized the crypt-vault laboratories, causing a collapse that killed dozens of people including Mournful Chalice's own parents who'd come to visit her. It took two days for workers to reach her, led by the new ghosts of her mother and father. They found a newly Exalted Lunar who'd turned into a monster and finished the specter in defense of her surviving colleagues.

The Lunar Exalted were not unknown to the ancients of Sijan but none had set foot in the grave city in many years (that anyone knew of). Mournful Chalice was permitted to remain, with the understanding that her nature would need to be concealed from any Wyld Hunt friendly nations. Now gifted with Exaltation, she was swiftly tapped to learn Sijan's exceptional but secret arts of Necrotechnology. The young Casteless Lunar shied away from monstrous uses of the art but swiftly gained strong proficiency in building bodies of the Black Guard nemessaries along with the very finest surgical work, cosmetic alteration and modification. She also learned deeply of occult lore, the thaumaturgical arts of the dead and absorbed all she could of medicine. By the time she turned 20 years old and swore her full oath to join the Observance, the leader of the Mortwrights Lorskos Pinebranch permitted her to study the secret arts of Sorcery practiced by the essence-wielders among the Funerists.

A few years into her formal career, though, and Chalice came to realize she wouldn't be able to stay. The memories of her Exaltation, of the sheer danger of that specter, and the growing knowledge of the rising threat of the Deathlords made neutrality a virtue with a limited shelf life. The Morticians counseled that it was simple essence fever, and perhaps it was, but Chalice had always been a sweet girl, free from anger. Now, every new story of the Deathlords conquering an Underworld nation or harvesting souls for their Soulsteel forges woke an abiding rage that no calm rationality could dispel. In the end, rather than risk her city's delicate political positioning in the lands of the dead, Chalice left her homeland to seek out the lands of a Lunar whose dead Sijan had a contract to care for.

Which is how Mournful Chalice met Keen-Eyed Snowcat, whose domain lay on the northern banks of the Avarice River to the North. The elder Lunar took her in, gave her an education in the ways of the Silver Pact and fixed her Caste before taking her as an apprentice for a span of years. While the two discussed what role Chalice could play in Lunar affairs, Keen-Eyed Snowcat's education on Northern religion in regards to Luna finally touched on the Son-and-Daughter, a twin god-goddess forever standing back to back, whose true selves are revealed only under moonlight. This was the form Luna had taken during Chalice's Exaltation yet the worship of this identity of the Incarna was unique to Whitewall; a city the Sijanese woman had never been to. The elder No-Moon agreed that the younger No-Moon's destiny might lay in that city and encouraged her to go.

Making the long trek to that fabled city, the Mortwright had only to set eyes on one of Whitewall's priestesses to realize what Luna had in mind for her...
Attributes
Strength ●●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●
Stamina ●●

Charisma ●●●
Manipulation ●●
Appearance ●●●

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

Abilities
Archery
Athletics ●
Awareness ●●●
Brawl ●●● (In Animal Form)
Bureaucracy ●
Craft ●●● (Necrosurgery)
Dodge ●●
Integrity ●
Investigation
Larceny
Linguistics ●
Lore ●●● (The Dead)
Martial Arts
Medicine ●●● (Medicine
Melee
Occult ●●● (The Dead)
Performance ●
Presence
Resistance ●
Ride
Sail
Socialize ●
Stealth
Survival ●
Thrown
War
Pick 10

Artifact ●●●
Resplendent Satchel of Healing (Artifact •••)

Backing ●●
The Silver Pact

Language ●●
Riverspeak [Native], Old Realm, Skytongue

Mentor ●●●
Keen-Eyed Snowcat, an elder Lunar

Heart's Blood ●●●
Up to 24 weaker animal shapes, six stronger animals, and up to 5 extremely powerful animals.

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No Moon Anima Effects
• 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.

Moonsilver Tattoos
In addition to fixing the Lunar’s Caste, they render her immune to exposure to the Wyld and to shaping effects inasmuch as they alter solely the body, such as a demon’s petrifying gaze. She can commit one mote to conceal her tattoos indefinitely, rendering them unnoticeable as long as her anima remains dim.

Limit Trigger
Someone unwilling to believe that the Deathlords are a clear and present danger to Creation.

Monstrous Urge: Laughing Devil Spirit
The Lunar destroys illusions of stability and security, a trickster-mentor revealing harsh truths. She conveys these lessons by intervening in Storyteller characters’ lives to sow discord, create problems, and incite chaos. If she has multiple potential victims, she’ll begin with those whose power or privilege afford them the greatest safety or stability — wealthy merchants, mighty warriors, and powerful sorcerers are more satisfying to humble than impoverished peasants or slave laborers.
Duration: Session. This ends if the Lunar’s interventions inadvertently create a significant obstacle to her or her Circle’s goals.
Excellencies
Strength, Dexterity, Perception, Intelligence

Strength
Towering Beast Form

Dexterity
Emerald Grasshopper Form
Tool-Emulating Transformation (5m)
Type: Simple ; Duration: Indefinite ; Keywords: –
Prereqs: Dexterity 3, Essence 1; –
The Lunar's hands transform into whatever tool the Lunar needs. This allows the Lunar to perform one type of Craft without the use of actual tools for the duration of the Charm, and gives them a +1 equipment bonus to all such rolls. This provides the equivalent of a master's workshop for Artifact crafting.
Some Lunars accomplish a similar effect without transforming, by rendering the object they're working with strangely malleable. For such Lunars, Clay-Wetting Practice would be a better name for this Charm.

Instant Construction Technique (4m)
Type: Supplemental ; Duration: Instant ; Keywords: –
Prereqs: Dexterity 3, Essence 1; Tool-Emulating Transformation
This Charm supplements a roll to craft something mundane, making it blazingly fast. Most human-scale projects can be completed in a few seconds or minutes.

Perception - Mysticism
Perceiving the Hidden World

Intelligence - Mysticism
Crossroads Walker Entreaty
Raiton's Dark Auspice

Intelligence - Knowledge
Bone-Mending Technique
Flesh-Sculpting Art
Weaver To Weaponsmith Transformation (3m, 1wp)
Type: Simple ; Duration: Instant ; Keywords: –
Prereqs: Intelligence 2, Essence 1; –
The Lunar meditates for twenty minutes or so, and in the process re-assigns their Craft specialties. The new specialties need not be similar to the old ones, and this transformation is permanent. Many Lunars prefer to return to their original specialties eventually, though; it's disorienting to remember being a blacksmith without knowing how to shoe a horse.

Intelligence - Sorcery
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Cloaked in Moonfire

Shaping Ritual

Thaumaturgy

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.

Peacock Shadow Eyes [Lunar]
Demon of the First Circle (if not a necromancer)
Mists of Eventide
Invulnerable Skin of Bronze (depending on how it interacts with shape-shifting. Ask Wlf)
Beckoning That Which Stirs the Sky [DB]

Wishlist:

Universal
Quicksilver Second Face

Strength
Ferocious Biting Tooth
Terrifying Predator Consumption

Dexterity
Agile Beast Defense
Bending Before the Storm
Skulking Rat Spirit
Cunning Anglerfish Decoy

Stamina
Impenetrable Beast Armor
Ox-Body Technique

Perception
Ever-Wary Fox Technique
Sense-Sharpening Change
Spirit-Rending Fury

Understanding the Prey
Secret Sense Intuition
Uncanny Dreamer’s Insight

Intelligence
Graveyard Hound Vigil
Night's Mercy Panacea
Moonlit Cauldron Apothecary
Luna's Blessed Hands
Penumbra Witch Mastery

Wits
Moon-Follows-Sun Assurance

Character with the Thaumaturgist Merit may learn
thaumaturgic rituals. One-dot rituals cost three experience
points to learn. These rituals represent the simplest and purest
ritual magic available. Two-dot rituals are slightly more
complex or difficult, and cost five experience points to learn.
Training time for a thaumaturgy ritual is (dot rating) weeks.

Exorcism (• or ••)
With the one dot ritual the exorcist may attempt to banish
a ghost with chanting, ritual gestures, and a variety of
mystical appurtenances. She may pay one Willpower to
begin an extended action with a difficulty of the ghost’s
Essence and a goal number of its Willpower, rolling
(Intelligence + Occult) dice at each interval. Each roll is
a combat action that cannot be placed in a flurry. She must
remain within short range of the ghost she’s exorcising,
which takes a -3 penalty on all actions while the exorcism
is underway. Success dispatches it back to the Underworld.
The exorcist must maintain concentration, and
automatically fails if she is damaged by a decisive attack
or crashed.

Crafting Rewrite Rules: Craft Rewrite - Exalted 3e
Funerist Wear: Heavy gray gown and overshawl with the thick silver bracers of the Sijanese Morticians that mark her as an Adept Mortwright.

Resplendent Satchel of Healing : While these medical artifacts were first manufactured for the Anathema, most in use today trace back to the Shogunate. Each is an orichalcum-inlaid green jade case one foot long, one foot wide, and three inches deep, engraved either with the mark of the Twilight Caste or Sextes Jylis’ sigil. All share the same contents — moonsilver and orichalcum acupuncture needles, starmetal diagnostic tools, jade surgical instruments, bandages of wood spider silk, vials of First Age panaceas, and other wondrous paraphernalia. While using the satchel’s contents, the Exalt adds a non-Charm bonus success on Medicine rolls that use these tools, reduces the mote cost of all non-Excellency Medicine Charms by one (to a minimum of one), never suf-fers penalties from inadequate equipment, and can staunch and sterilize wounds without a roll. Attuning the satchel costs one mote.At the end of each story, the Exalt must roll (Wits + Medicine) at difficulty 3 to renew any supplies the satch-el is running short of and to purge it of insalubrious Essence. On a failed roll, she must restock the satchel with a successful roll using any appropriate Ability (Survival to gather rare herbs, Bureaucracy to trade for necessary supplies, Larceny to steal them from a rival physician, etc.) before she can reattune to the satchel.
Health Levels
-0 [ ]
-1 [ ][ ]
-2 [ ][ ]
-4 [ ]
I [ ]

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

Parry DV:
Dodge DV:
Resolve:
Guile:

Join Battle: ? + ?i

Soak: 2?
Armor: 0
Hardness: 0

Weapons
None
Choose Intimacies (Exalted, p. 170) to represent
your Lunar’s beliefs and relationships. Intimacies
can represent motivations, religious beliefs, worldview,
friends and enemies, morals, idiosyncrasies, or
other important parts of her life. Many Lunars have
Intimacies expressing rage, and Ties relating to Luna,
the Silver Pact, their shahan-yas, and inhabitants of
Lunar dominions in which they dwell or with which
they interact.
At least one must be Defining, and one
must be Major. Likewise, at least one must be a positive
Tie, and one must be a negative Tie; these may overlap
with the previous two.

Defining Tie or Principle:
Major Tie or Principle:
Minor Tie or Principle:

Sijan (Patriotic loyalty)
Her dead parents (Exasperated fondness)
Helping those in need (Lifelong passion)
The dead (Reverential respect)
XP Earned:
XP Spent:

Lunar XP Earned:
Lunar XP Spent:

Wish List

BP Spending: 15
Attributes: 3 BP for 1 dot
Abilities: BP for 6 dots
Merits: 3 BP for 3 dots

jaydude · Mar 24, 2021

Name: Makuro Tehraihn
Age: 23
Caste: Changing Moon Lunar
Spirit Shape: Spider (Tiny Creature, Spinnerets, Wall Walking)
Tell: Dark green spider's eyes
Concept: Disciple of the Spider King
Limit trigger: The Lunar has his trust betrayed by someone he cares about.
Anima Banner: An aura of bright indigo light surrounds his body, while web-like strings of silver light trail out from his fingertips as he moves them.

Appearance (How he currently identifies himself)
* Neck-length black hair from his mother, along with fair skin.
* Prefers to go clean-shaven.
* Average height and slender; he doesn't have the muscle of a northern hunter, but he does stay in shape.
* Wears a buff jacket of mammoth hide, with the Hundred Rings worn as a bracelet under his sleeve.
* Handsome and self confident in whatever forms he possesses.

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

Backstory:
Makuro was involved in the affairs of the Silver Pact from a young age.

He was born and raised in the northern town of Kamai, a mountain settlement located southwest of the Spider King's domain. His father was a town guard, and his mother was a huntress. While good-hearted, he quickly developed a reputation for mischief and getting into trouble.

At the age of twelve, Kamai was attacked and razed by an Icewalker Tribe, leaving Makuro and his parents among the handful of survivors. With nowhere else to go, the family of three set off towards the Mountain of the Spider King, whom they knew as a spirit who offered protection to travellers and refugees. They eventually made it there after much hardship, with all three getting adopted into the Tehraihn family.

As did many others who were saved from death by Aum-Ashatra, Makuro and his parents all became devoted subordinates of the Spider King, with Makuro's father even becoming one of his many spiderfolk warriors. Makuro himself was noticed as having a talent for deception, and selected for training as a scout and spy, learning martial arts and how to speak the tongues of the Realm. At the age of eighteen, he began infiltrating the Realm settlements across the near North on missions too valuable for Lunars to be risked on, avoiding detection and serving his matter through nothing but his own cunning.

His exaltation came when he was acting the part of a street hustler within the capital of a minor Realm satrapy. When he was alone one evening, Luna approached him in the form of a wizened fellow criminal, and dared him to assassinate the satrap in her palace, hinting that such a thing could only aid the "spider anathema hidden within the mountains". After Makuro tried to laugh off such a task as impossible for a mortal like him, the wizened criminal told him not to be too sure of that, and gave him a friendly pat on the shoulder before making to leave. Makuro's entire being was instantly hit with a wave of Essence and divine power.

By the time the sun rose the next morning, Makuro was long gone, and the satrapy had been thrown into chaos by the satrap's sudden murder, allowing for its swift liberation by the Silver Pact a few days later. Makuro meanwhile accepted the moonsilver tattoos of a Changing Moon, and began training under the Spider King himself, quickly becoming a deadly spy and assassin with Luna's blessing.

Roughly a year after Makuro's exaltation, the Mountain of the Spider King was visited by another Lunar, a No Moon from Sijan. Mournful Chalice had come with warnings about the Deathlords, thirteen ghosts of unimaginable power who included the Mask of Winters among their ranks, as well as concerns about Marama's Fell, a shadowland close to the city of Whitewall. The Spider King soon came to sympathize with these ill-thoughts, fearing that Marama's Fell could be used as a gateway for another invasion by the dead, and upon learning that Mournful Chalice intended to travel to Whitewall to investigate matters, he dispatched Makuro to accompany her.
Essence: 1
Personal Essence: 16/16
Peripheral Essence: 38/38

Committed Essence: 5

Willpower: 6
Join Battle: 7
Health Levels: -0, -1, -1, -2, -2, -2, -2, -2, -2, -4, -4, -4, Inc.
Resolve 4, Guile 4

Attacks
Hundred Rings (13 Withering, 10 Decisive, 14 Damage, Overwhelming 4)
Unarmed (14 Withering, 10 Decisive, 9 Damage, Overwhelming 1)

Actions
Rush: 7 dice
Disengage: 10 dice

Evasion 5, Parry 6
Soak/Hardness: 6/0 (Buff Jacket, +3 Soak)
Attributes
Strength: 2
Dexterity: 5
Stamina: 3

Perception: 2
Intelligence: 2
Wits: 4

Charisma: 3
Manipulation: 5
Appearance: 4

Abilities
28 points + 4 extra points
~~Archery~~:
Athletics: 2
Awareness: 3
Brawl: 1
Bureaucracy:
Craft:
Dodge: 5
Integrity: 3
~~Investigation:~~
Larceny: 2
Linguistics: 1
~~Lore:~~
Martial Arts: 5 (Centipede Style)
~~Medicine~~:
~~Melee~~:
Occult:
Performance:
Presence:
Resistance: 2
~~Ride~~:
~~Sail~~:
Socialize: 3
Stealth: 3
Survival: 2 (Tundra)
~~Thrown~~:
~~War~~:
Merits
10 dots + 5 bonus points
Artifact 3 (The Hundred Rings of Hadam-Ul )
Backing 2 (Silver Pact)
Heart's Blood 1 (Arctic Hare, Fox, Snow Partridge, Snowy Owl, Rat, Elk, Wolf)
Language 2 (Skytongue native, Low Realm, High Realm)
Martial Arts 4 (Centipede Style)
Mentor 3 (Aum-Ashatra)

Panoply

Once, there was a serpent. It swam the seas of Creation and the Wyld, born of neither world but a terror to both. It was a creature of uncertainty — sometimes large enough to blot out the sun, other times finer than a single strand of hair. No net could catch it; no harpoon could pierce it; even names slid off the beast, which was and remains nameless.

In the end, it fell to Hadam-Ul, a Lunar of modest renown but boundless patience. He followed the behemoth for 100 days and nights, testing its strength and observing its habits. Each day, he dove into the water, grappled with the serpent, and tied another knot into its body before it escaped. With his 100th knot, Hadam-Ul tied its tail to its head — for it could not escape itself.

Out of respect for his prey — and to end the suffering of a beast unable to die — Hadam-Ul forged it into a dire chain, transforming each knot into a linked ring of moonsilver. The serpent’s spirit abides inside the Hundred Rings, eager for a master who’ll unleash it to hunt anew.

Stats:
Attunement: 5m; Type: Medium (+3 ACC, +12 DMG, +1 DEF, OVW 4)
Tags: Bashing, Disarming, Flexible, Grappling, Martial Arts, Reaching
Hearthstone slot(s): 2
15 Charms
Offensive
Sinuous Striking Grace

Defensive
Agile Beast Defense
Bending Before The Storm
Coiled Serpent Strikes

Endurance
Ox-Body Technique x2

Heart's Blood
Nest-Raiding Slyness

Guile
Moonlight Curtain Drawn

Subterfuge
Night Stalker Approach

Shapeshifting
Many-Faced Moon Transformation

Centipede Style
Blurring Scurry Prana
Motion of Myriad Legs
Chitinous Centipede Shell
Centipede Form

Hundred Rings Evocations
Serpent Ornament Embrace (Free upon attunement)
Defining Principle - I will see the corrupt Shogunate Successors destroyed, and the Usurpation avenged.
Defining Tie - Parents (Love)

Major Principle - Enemies of the Shogunate Successors should work together, rather than apart.
Major Principle - I'd prefer to not have to manipulate a trusted friend or ally.
Major Tie - Aum-Ashatra (Loyalty)
Major Tie - Silver Pact (Loyalty)
Major Tie - Shogunate Successors (Enmity)

Minor Tie - Afureru (Cautious Respect)
Minor Tie - Mournful Chalice (Respect)
Minor Tie - Solars (Apprehension)
Minor Tie - The Bull (Apprehension)
Minor Tie - Toun (Polite Interest)
Minor Tie - Tyree (Polite Interest)
Minor Tie - Zoya (Respect)
Bonus points:
8 on stats
5 on Merits
2 on Willpower

Experience:
15 experience
4 Lunar experience
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