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GRAVE GOODS SHAPING TECHNIQUE Cost: 2 motes Duration: One day Type: Simple Minimum Conviction: 3 Minimum Essence: 3 Prerequisite Charms: Soulsteel Shaper As the ghost artisan approaches master status, he gains the ability to modify relics that echo into the deadlands from the living world as part of a character’s Grave Goods Background. With this Arcanos, a ghost artisan can (slowly) transform a grave good into another form without changing its nature or magical Traits. The artisan cannot remove more than about 10 percent of the grave good’s mass if he wants it to retain any magical properties, nor can he add more than about 10 percent in new materials. For example, the artisan might transform a relic sword into a shield or a group of steel mugs. The transformed item remains composed of the same materials — a transformed sword remains mostly steel, a transformed chair mostly wood. If the relic is transformed into a group of items, those items only retain any magical properties when they are together. It takes seven days per dot of the Grave Goods Background to modify a relic in this fashion, which means that a ghost who wishes to change any potent grave good must be prepared to spend a great deal of Essence to do so. SOULSTEEL REBUILDING TECHNIQUE Cost: 3 motes Duration: One day Type: Simple Minimum Conviction: 3 Minimum Essence: 4 Prerequisite Charms: Soulsteel Shaper As the ghost artisan approaches master status, he gains the ability to modify soulsteel artifacts. With this Arcanos, a ghost artisan can (slowly) transform an artifact made mostly or entirely of soulsteel into another form without changing its nature or magical Traits. The artisan cannot remove more than about 10 percent of the artifact’s mass if he wants it to retain its magical properties, nor can he add more than about 10 percent in new materials. The artisan might transform a soulsteel suit of armor into a different sort of armor, for example, or a mated pair of swords. Essentially, any purely physical transformation can be made that does not alter the item’s various artifact subratings, such as Usefulness, Game Impact or Script Immunity, as per Savant and Sorcerer, Chapter Two. It is possible that the Storyteller will allow changes to the item’s Usefulness or Game Impact through this Charm, but changes to the item’s Power, Script Immunity and 49 CHAPTER TWO • THE ARTS OF THE DEAD Essence Drawback are explicitly forbidden. If a single artifact is transformed into a group of items, those items only retain their magical properties when they are together. It takes seven days per dot of the Artifact Background to modify a soulsteel artifact in this fashion, which means that a ghost who wishes to change any potent artifact must be prepared to spend a great deal of Essence to do so. SOULSTEEL FORGING Cost: 5 motes Duration: One day Type: Simple Minimum Conviction: 4 Minimum Essence: 4 Prerequisite Charms: Soulsteel Rebuilding Technique Given a quantity of raw soulsteel, a ghost-artisan with this Charm may help to forge it into a new artifact. Such an artifact lacks magical Traits beyond the standard abilities conveyed by soulsteel as a Magical Material (in the hands of an Abyssal Exalt, a soulsteel melee weapon gets +1 accuracy and drains Essence from the target when damage is done, while soulsteel armor gets +2 soak when attuned by an Abyssal, and so on — see Exalted, Chapter Nine, for details). Creation of the soulsteel item takes as long as it would take to craft an item out of ordinary steel in Creation, but this Arcanos must be activated every day in order to do so. SOULSTEEL MINER’S SENSE Cost: 5 motes Duration: One hour per success Type: Simple Minimum Conviction: 3 Minimum Essence: 3 Prerequisite Charms: Soulsteel Rebuilding Technique While active, this Charm gives a ghost the same sense that a spectre has within the Labyrinth — the ability to more easily detect soulsteel veins within the stone of the Labyrinth itself. The player of the ghost using this Arcanos rolls Perception + Craft, and for every success, the ghost can aid in the search for soulsteel for one hour. This aid comes in the form of a -1 difficulty on any roll to find or mine soulsteel. TENACIOUS MERCHANT’S WAY The merchants of the dead mostly deal in artifacts and relics rather than in coin and jewels, though most kingdoms of the dead do have money of a sort. In any event, Essence is the most important coin of the Underworld. These Arcanoi allow a ghostly merchant to move Essence from ghost to ghost, typically taking his own cut in the process as a broker’s fee.
EXALTED • BOOK OF BONE AND EBONY JANGLING COIN POUCH SENSE Cost: 1 mote Duration: 10 minutes per success Type: Simple Minimum Temperance: 1 Minimum Essence: 1 Prerequisite Charms: None With a successful Perception + Bureaucracy roll made by his player, the user of this Arcanos can detect the existence of nearby money, whether its “real” money minted by a kingdom of the living or dead, burned sacrificial “hell money” sent to the Underworld by suitably pious descendants of the dead or Essence-minted money created by one of the other Arcanoi in this art. Jangling Coin Pouch Sense lasts for 10 minutes per success rolled, but during its duration, it only enables the user to detect actual money — not mere valuables, gems or jewelry, but money that may be used in exchange for goods or services or in payment of taxes. EARNEST CREDITOR TECHNIQUE Cost: 3 motes Duration: Instant Type: Simple Minimum Compassion: 1 Minimum Essence: 1 Prerequisite Charms: None The wise merchant knows when to extend credit to a favored customer — the kind of customer who will bring plenty of business back to the merchant over the long run. This Arcanos allows a ghost to give Essence to another entity — ghost, mortal, god or Exalt. The ghost need only touch the subject of the Arcanos, and the subject receives 2 motes of Essence. The ghost may use this Arcanos as often as he likes, on whichever subjects he likes, and it may be used multiple times upon the same subject. The subject does not need to be willing, but if for some reason he is not, the ghost must succeed in touching the subject before transferring the Essence. CAREFUL DEBTOR STANCE Cost: 1 Willpower Duration: Instant Type: Simple Minimum Conviction: 2 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Charms: Earnest Creditor Technique The wise customer takes on only as much debt as he knows he can afford to pay back. This Arcanos allows a ghost merchant to take motes of Essence from a willing creditor. The ghost and the subject must touch one another to enact this Arcanos. The subject of the Charm must be willing — if he is in any way resistant to the 50 transfer of Essence, the Arcanos automatically fails. The ghost may take as many motes of Essence as his player achieves successes on a Conviction + Bureaucracy roll. BOLD THIEF’S WAY Cost: 3 motes Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Minimum Conviction: 2 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Charms: Jangling Coin Pouch Sense Unlike Careful Debtor Stance, Bold Thief’s Way enables a ghost-thief or unethical ghost-merchant to steal Essence from an unwilling target. Any time the ghost comes into contact with another entity (ghost, god, mortal or Exalt) he may reflexively take Essence from them by spending 3 motes and his player rolling Conviction + Larceny. The ghost takes 1 mote for every success on this roll (so unless his intention is simply to drain the target of Essence, he had better get at least three successes). The ghost may not use this ability if he hits a target with a melee weapon. He must hit with a Brawl or Martial Arts attack. REDIRECTED PRAYER PATH Cost: 1 Willpower Duration: Instant Type: Simple Minimum Temperance: 2 Minimum Essence: 3 Prerequisite Charms: Jangling Coin Pouch Sense Living descendants of ghosts who have sufficient filial piety to remember and honor their ancestors often make sacrifices to their ancestors’ ghosts. These sacrifices become Essence and Willpower in the Underworld (see Exalted: The Abyssals, p. 33, for details). Each such sacrifice appears in the Underworld as a black-jade token inscribed with the name of the ghost for whom it is intended. The token appears in the Underworld location corresponding with the spot in Creation at which the sacrifice is performed. A canny ghost with Redirected Prayer Path can intercept these sacrifices. While standing within five yards of the Underworld spot where the token arrives, the ghost can spend Willpower and activates this Charm. The black jade token appears, with this ghost’s name inscribed on it, and for all intents and purposes, the token and its contents are considered to be his. If two or more ghosts use this Charm simultaneously, each one’s player must make a Manipulation + Larceny roll. The ghost achieving the most successes wins, and the token is inscribed with his name.
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