25 Lotus Petals

a normal Martial Arts attack. If it hits, the
Exalt’s victim must roll his Resistance +
Essence at a difficulty of the Exalt’s Essence.
If he fails, he instantly dies, and his soul is
immediately reincarnated in a newborn. If
he succeeds, then he suffers the damage of
the attack, which is enhanced by (Exalt’s
Essence) additional damage successes. If the
victim reincarnates, the Exalt may choose
to spend 1 experience point. If he does so,
then he instantly knows the location and
identity of the new incarnation, who is
fated to become a one-dot Ally of the Exalt
in question when he grows to maturity. This
Charm permits the user to have additional
Allies in the same way that the previous
Charm expands Familiar.
EGG-FROM-ASHES TECHNIQUE
Cost: None (12 motes, 1
experience point)
Duration: Permanent
Type:
Special
Min. MA: 6
Min. Essence: 7
Prereqs:
Luminous
Reincarnation Strike
And the moon shed tears of silver and
ice.
When the Exalted who knows this Charm
dies, his corpse burns to a pile of ash. The
next morning, he wakes up in the place
he died, alive, with one Health Level; in
the process the Charm is wiped from his
mind and he must learn it again. He cannot
use any Charms with this Charm as a
prerequisite until he does so. This Charm’s
effect is perfect; a character who knows
it cannot by any means be permanently
killed. Nonetheless it does not prevent a
person’s final death, though Exalts who
have mastered this Charm will naturally
relearn the Style, without need of a tutor,
when they are reborn, and recall all their
other martial knowledge in the same way.
Alternatively, the Exalted can use this as an
attack on himself or another; in this form, it
is an advanced variant of the Soul Refining
Strike. This variation costs 12 motes and 1
XP; the recipient of the attack is burnt away,
and in the ashes he reappears; in all ways he
is the same as before, except these:
Age and infirmity are stripped away; if he
was an adult or older when recieving this
attack, he becomes an adolescent, and any
nonmagical wounds, scars, etc. are healed.
Madness and illness are removed; he is
purified of any derangements, Wyld effects,
poisons, diseases, and so forth.
This does not restore lost Health Levels,
nor will it remove magical markings like a
Lunar’s Tell or tattoos. It is however not a
form of shapeshanging, and will work on a
tattooed Lunar.
TORRENT OF STOLEN WARMTH
Cost:
12 motes (0 motes)
Duration: Instant
Type:
Supplemental (Simple)
Min. MA: 6
Min. Essence: 6
Prereqs: Two versions of
Cinnamon {Caste} Pyre
Soaking up the sunlight and drinking
the waters of the moon, the bird said,
This Charm has two uses.
With the first, the Exalted steals the
warmth of a victim with his touch; this is a
normal Martial Arts attack, but does not deal
damage as normal; instead, roll the attack’s
normal damage pool; for each damage
success, the target loses a dot of Stamina.
If a victim’s Stamina is reduced to 0 by this
Charm, he dies. This use costs 12 motes,
which are committed until the energy so
absorbed is released.
With the second version of this Charm,
the committed motes are released as the
Exalt creates a simulacrum of flame from
the stolen heat; this simulacrum permits
him to make a normal Martial Arts attack
at anyone he can see, using his Perception
rather than Dexterity for the attack roll, and
adding any successes beyond the previous
victim’s Stamina on the damage roll. This
simulacrum’s attack cannot be blocked or
dodged. Its damage cannot be soaked by
armour.
RIVALRY OF IMMORTALS
Cost:
7 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type:
Reflexive
Min. MA: 6
Min. Essence: 7
Prereqs:
Torrent of Stolen
Warmth
“Dragons! Gods! I have come for you!”
Phoenix and dragon are forever rivals in
the city of the gods. While this Charm is
active, the Exalt adds the sum of his Virtues
to all parries, attacks, and damage rolls
against local gods and elementals, and half
the sum of his Virtues to attacks against all
other beings. He can also sense and strike
gods and elementals even when they are
dematerialized.
RELENTLESS SOUL-FIRE CRUCIBLE
Cost:
20 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type:
Simple
Min. MA: 7
Min. Essence: 7
Prereqs: Golden Friends of
P’êng, Egg-from-Ashes
Technique, Rivalry of
Immortals
Then the bird descended to the heavens,
where his light filled the Celestial City
from horizon to horizon.
The Exalt burns away all the dross and
imperfections of his mortal self, temporarily
becoming a silhouette of Essence flame. All
his Attributes are raised to the same value
as his Essence if they are below it. He is
an immaterial form of energy, and is only
vulnerable to the same kinds of attacks
that affect dematerialized gods. Similarly,
his attacks cannot be blocked except by
defences that specifically ward off spiritual
attack. This Charm is incompatible with
armour.
This Charm does not affect the Physical
Attributes of tattooed Lunars; instead,
they simply burn with coronae of blinding
intensity.
CINNAMON {CASTE} PYRE
Solar: These effects are generally Bad
Things that happen to other people.
Dawn: The Exalt burns with crippling
splendor. Enemies in his Pyre must make
a Valor check each turn; if they fail, they
temporarily lose a dot of their highest
Dawn Caste Ability. On a botch, an enemy
loses a dot of every Dawn Caste Ability.
Lost Ability dots return once the victim has
a change to rest and collect himself for at
least a full day.
Zenith: Same as the Dawn effect,
but applicable only to demons and
the undead; a Zenith’s Pyre also burns
corpses automatically, and does one die of
unsoakable lethal damage to undead within
it each turn.