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CHAPTER 2 • EXTENDED CHARM TREESCRAFTPHILOSOPHYSolars are truly peerless craftsmen, having createdthe greatest works humanity has ever seen duringthe First Age. Their Craft Charms aid themimmensely in creating these wonders, providingall the tools needed to create incredible objects withremarkable swiftness.Solar Craft Charms are general in their applicability;they are designed to be used with any of thenumerous crafts a Solar can pursue, though theysometimes favor physical crafts like metal orstoneworking. The Charms branch off in severaldirections — building better objects, strengtheningand purifying them, transforming them into otherthings, and destroying them. All of these areappropriate for Solar Craft, which involves a totalunderstanding of an object’s nature — she whoknows how to make the object also knows how toreshape or destroy it.ABYSSAL EQUIVALENTSAbyssals are notably poor at the Craft ability,focusing as intensely as they do on the art ofdestruction. As a result, there are no Abyssal CraftCharms which imply Solar equivalents.EXISTING CHARMMODIFICATIONSSpiritual Sustenance, Time of Tumult pg. 98.This Charm’s prerequisite is Dust into StoneApproach.Rock-Spinning Technique, Time of Tumult pg. 95. ThisCharm’s prerequisite is Dust into Stone Approach.It can transform any “hard” material such as metal,wood, or stone into cloth.Body-Forging Travail, Castebook: Twilight pg. 69.This Charm’s prerequisite is Impurity-HammeringBlow.NEW CHARMSDUST INTO STONE APPROACHCost: 3 motesDuration: One minuteType: SimpleMinimum Craft: 2Minimum Essence: 2Prerequisite Charms: NoneFor most craftsmen, a great deal of material goesto waste; anything chipped, carved, or cut away incrafting an object is typically unusable. With thisCharm, a Solar craftsman can shape such remnantsinto a fully usable unit of their original material,turning pebbles into stone, sawdust into wood,or scraps into leather. The character must merelygather together a quantity of such scraps, no morethan five pounds in weight, and channel Essenceinto them for one minute; they will seamlessly meldinto a like-sized object made of material similar inquality to that the scraps originated from.This Charm may alternately be used to join togethertwo larger objects made of the same material, or torepair a cracked or fractured object; in that case, thecost is the same, but there is no limit on the weightof the objects in question.STEEL FEATHER PRANACost: 3 motesDuration: Ten minutesType: SimpleMinimum Craft: 3Minimum Essence: 2Prerequisite Charms: Dust into StoneApproachMuch as Rock-Spinning Technique transformssolid materials into cloth, the Steel Feather Pranagrants solidity to soft and lightweight objects. To use91