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CANNIBAL CALL Cost: 1 Willpower Duration: Instant Type: Simple Minimum Temperance: 3 Minimum Essence: 3 Prerequisite Charms: Bold Thief’s Way Ghosts have a difficult time healing damage. Typically, they must use Arcanoi or enter Slumber to do so. Cannibal Call allows a ghost to heal damage by biting another ghost and literally devouring its corpus. This requires a successful bite attack (if the ghost has no special abilities that enable a bite attack like an animal’s bite, the bite is at –3 speed, 0B damage and -2 accuracy and defense, and if using Exalted Power Combat, its rate is 3). If the ghost succeeds, he heals one health level for every two health levels damage done to the target. SECRET IMPERIAL MINT TECHNIQUE Cost: 2 motes per dot, 1 Willpower Duration: Instant Type: Simple Minimum Temperance: 3 Minimum Essence: 3 Prerequisite Charms: Bold Thief’s Way This Arcanos turns Essence into coinage. To properly replicate the local coin, the ghost’s player rolls Intelligence + Larceny, and the ghost spends as many motes of Essence as he wishes, to a maximum of his Temperance. If the player succeeds in the roll, the ghost creates a pile of local coinage sufficient to provide a bonus to his Resources level equal to one dot per 2 motes of Essence spent. This is a temporary Resources level (though the coinage is permanent) — it is sufficient to make a single purchase at that Resources level. Once that purchase is made, the coinage is disbursed into the population, and the ghost reverts to his normal Resources Background (which represents his sustainable income). CHAINS OF THE ANCIENT MONARCHS This art descends from the enforcers and magistrates of the Dual Monarchy in Stygia. Variations on their talents have spread throughout the Underworld, though, to the point where any ghost who holds a true allegiance to an undead sovereign may learn and use these Arcanoi. A ghost who learns this art doesn’t have to truly be an authorized enforcer of his monarch — nor does he have to possess true, deep loyalty to his lord — but he performs the Arcanoi below in his lord’s name. 51 CHAPTER TWO • THE ARTS OF THE DEAD SOUL ANCHOR Cost: 2 motes, 1 Willpower Duration: 10 minutes per success Type: Simple Minimum Temperance: 2 Minimum Essence: 1 Prerequisite Charms: None Minions of various dead monarchs use this Arcanos to keep criminals and battlefield foes from escaping justice. When Soul Anchor is active, no one within 25 yards of the ghost using it is able to use supernatural abilities to move faster than they could at a full sprint. This prohibition even extends to the ghost using Soul Anchor! The ghost may be able to fly or run up walls, and he is still able to do that, but he cannot move faster than he could at an ordinary run. Ghosts and other entities with an Essence higher than that of the ghost using Soul Anchor may spend a Willpower point to overcome the effect of this Arcanos. MONARCH’S GLORIOUS BRILLIANCE Cost: 3 motes Duration: One turn Type: Simple Minimum Conviction: 2 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Charms: None The ghost using Monarch’s Glorious Brilliance channels some of the splendor of his undead liege lord (whether a Deathlord or another monarch) into a coruscating white aura. This brilliance makes the ghost visible from quite a long way off — the light can be seen from a mile away on an ordinary day in the Underworld and from the horizon at night. Entities within 20 yards who happen to be looking in the ghost’s direction at the time this Arcanos is activated are temporarily blinded, and their players must make a Wits + Resistance roll for the characters to look away as quickly as possible. Targets are blinded for three turns, minus one for every success on that Wits + Resistance roll. Those targets that are not blinded by the brilliance must still look away from the glorious light or be blinded, so they are considered to be blind with respect to the ghost using this Arcanos. Foes immune to blindness and those wearing heavy whole-face helmets are immune to this Charm. The effects of blindness are described in Exalted, pages 237-238 — a blind character loses two successes from all attack rolls.
EXALTED • BOOK OF BONE AND EBONY 52 ESSENCE BINDING Cost: 5 motes Duration: One turn per success Type: Simple Minimum Conviction: 2 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Charms: Soul Anchor Essence Binding calls up bands of Essence representing the ghost’s authority in the name of his ruler(s). He then uses those bands to temporarily restrain his foe’s hands or feet. This Arcanos works only on corporeal foes (ghosts in the Underworld, mortals anywhere). The ghost-magistrate spends his Essence, and his player then rolls Dexterity + Bureaucracy at + 2 accuracy to extend his sovereign’s influence. The ghost must determine whether he plans to bind the target’s hands or feet. The attack works only within hand-to-hand combat range, and the target may dodge or block this attack if he is able to do so. If the Essence Binding succeeds, the target’s hands or feet are bound. If the target’s hands are bound to his body, he may use no weapon that requires two hands, and he is considered to be held as the victim of a hold attack. If the target’s feet are bound, he is restricted to using unusual modes of locomotion (walking on his hands, swinging by a rope, flying) or to hopping no more than one-fifth his normal movement per turn. This binding lasts for one turn for every success achieved on the Dexterity + Bureaucracy roll, above. The bonds can be broken by main strength. A total of four successes is required on a Strength + Athletics roll to break them (and this is a simple action). SNARE THE FLEEING THIEF Cost: 5 motes Duration: One turn per success Type: Simple Minimum Conviction: 3 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Charms: Essence Binding A ghost with Snare the Fleeing Thief can use his Essence and his dedication to his liege to halt an enemy in her tracks for a short period of time. This Charm doesn’t merely create binding ropes of Essence. Instead, it encases the enemy’s body in a light somewhat reminiscent of Monarch’s Glorious Brilliance. The enemy can still move around while encased in this brilliance but at a greatly reduced speed — no more than one-fifth her normal movement per turn, no matter what form of locomotion is being used. Snare the Fleeing Thief requires a hand-tohand attack using a Dexterity + Bureaucracy roll at +4 accuracy. This attack can be dodged or blocked as normal. If the ghost bypasses such defenses, the target is bound as described above for one minute per success.
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