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= Ryshassa's Custom Charms =

Thanks to: [[Kraken]] for charm costs and mechanics advice, GoldenCat for letting me use these in his game (and checking them out, too!) and FiatVictrix for inspiring the memory-branch of Ryshy's transfer charms. It's ALL his fault! :D

== Lore Charms ==

Ailment-Absorbing Technique

Cost: 4 motes per poison/disease, 1 Willpower 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Simple 
Minimum Lore: 4 
Minimum Essence: 3 
Prerequisite Charms: Wound-Accepting Technique 

This Charm allows the character to absorb physical poisons or diseases from
the body of a target. The character must establish skin-to skin contact with the
target for a turn, and the target must be cooperative. For each turn they remain
in contact, a single poison or disease is absorbed from the target into the
character's body. If the target is affected by more than one, the character may
choose which she is absorbing if she has successfully diagnosed the target
beforehand (using Medicine skill or the Flawless Diagnosis Technique, for
example). Otherwise, the ailments are absorbed in order from most to least
serious. During the transfer process, the progression of any poisons or diseases
affecting them are halted, ensuring that they are absorbed by the receiving
character "as is" -- no better, no worse.

As soon as the transfer come to an end, the character immediately begins to
suffer the adverse effects of the ailments she absorbed, while the target is
completely cured of the same. This Charm is only recommended for use by
characters with high resistance to poison or disease or some method by which
they can cure themselves of such ailments. Neither the character nor the target
can regain Essence while under the effects of this Charm.

Delving the Unsound Mind 
(was: Merciful Embracement of Madness) 

Cost: 6 motes, 1 Willpower 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Simple 
Minimum Lore: 5 
Minimum Essence: 3 
Prerequisite Charms: Empathic Examination Technique, Ailment-Absorbing Technique 

With this Charm, the character may transfer any one mental or spiritual
affliction from a patient onto herself, including those that are sorcerous
in nature. She must have first initiated an empathic link as through the
Empathic Examination Technique, and diagnosed the derangement, ravishment
or other such ailment of the spirit to be transferred. She then enters a
spiritual struggle with the baleful influence dominating the patient's mind,
drawing it away from the patient and onto herself. This process can take
up to a few hours depending on the nature of the ailment.

During this period, the character must both sever the derangement from her
patient without doing him further damage, as well as fight off its effects
as the derangement sinks into her mind instead. This is the essence of
empathic healing -- to heal not only through clinical knowledge but
sympathetic understanding of the ailment as well. Mechanically, this requires
an Intelligence + Lore or Intelligence + Medicine roll with difficulty equal
to the Essence of whatever being inflicted the mental disturbance on the
patient (or the patient's own Essence, if the disturbance is somehow
self-inflicted). If the character using this Charm succeeds at the roll,
both she and her patient are free of the derangement. If she fails the roll,
the patient simply remains deranged. If she botches the roll, the patient
remains deranged and the character loses a permanent Willpower point in the
attempt to protect her sanity.

Harvest of Memory Meditation

Cost: 10 motes, 1 Willpower 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Simple 
Minimum Lore: 5 
Minimum Essence: 4 
Prerequisite Charms: Delving the Unsound Mind 

"To learn from the past, one must preserve it for the future." This proverb
was what inspired Sophia Anthegenia when she perfected the technique of
memory transference. Eventually she learned to transfer memories between
individuals as well as automatons, who could preserve them for generations
to come. This Charm could be considered a predecessor of Sophia's ultimate
technique.

The character invoking the Charm must first touch her target, creating an
empathic link. If the target wants to resist, a successful Brawl or MA attack
is needed to establish the link, through which the character may copy (not
erase) memories from the target's mind into hers. A Manipulation + Lore roll
determines the quality and quantity of the memories she copies. One success is
enough for a general summary of the target's life and identity, or one very
specific, detailed memory. Three successes gives large swaths of important
memories throughout the person's lifetime, enough to build a distinct
personality from. Five or more successes gives the memory recipient access to
anything and everything that she may wish to know about the target, from the
mundane to the deeply buried.

It is possible during the course of transference that the recipient will
encounter memories that are highly intense, even traumatizing. In such cases,
the invoker of the Charm must roll Willpower at a difficulty appropriate to
the shock involved; failure means the empathic link is instantly severed.
A botch on this roll will create a derangement in the recipient's mind
linked to the traumatic memory.

The memories transfered to the recipient are a perfect copy, as detailed
as if she had lived it herself. She becomes a living record of the target's
experiences, though she must use some other means to share them with others
(another Charm, Sorcery, or simply telling it through words or writing).

Gift of Reminiscence

Cost: 4 motes 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Simple 
Minimum Lore: 5 
Minimum Essence: 3 
Prerequisite Charms: Delving the Unsound Mind 

There are times when merely telling a thing is not enough to convey its
full meaning. This Charm is meant to address that. It first requires touch
contact between the character using the Charm and her intended target,
creating an empathic link between them. If the target wants to resist, a
successful Brawl or MA attack is needed to establish the link.

Once the transfer begins, both the initiating character and the target are
are immobilized until the next turn. Thereafter, the character may share one
of the memories in her mind (they may be ones she has acquired from Harvest
of Memory Meditation or other memory transfer methods) with the target,
compelling him to experience it as a flashback on the spot. Depending on
the memory, and the person receiving it, the experience could be anything
from innocuous to severely traumatizing. Whatever the reaction, the memory
is burned into the target's mind and may be recalled ever afterward.

Full-Body Health Transfer Method

Cost: 10 motes, 1 Willpower 
Duration: One turn 
Type: Simple 
Minimum Lore: 5 
Minimum Essence: 4 
Prerequisite Charms: Wound-Accepting Technique 

Through the use of this Charm, the character gives her own life energy to
heal even the most grievous types of damage from her target. She must remain in
skin-to-skin contact with the target for the full duration of the Charm, and the
patient must lie completely prone. If conscious, the target must be cooperative
before health transfer can begin; excessive movement from either party will
disrupt the healing process.

Once the transfer is initiated, the character will take a number of levels of
health damage per turn, while the target of the Charm is healed of the same. The
number of health levels transferred per turn is equal to the transferring
character's Stamina. During the transfer process, bashing damage is absorbed from
the target as is, lethal damage is absorbed as bashing damage, and aggravated
damage is absorbed as lethal damage. If the character is transferring an
aggravated health level or a particularly devastating wound, she must achieve a
number of successes on a Stamina + Resistance roll equal to the number of health
levels she has already transferred from the target, or the transfer will fail and
end prematurely before any further health levels can be taken. Otherwise, the
transfer will continue as long as the character and the target are undisturbed
and skin-to-skin contact is maintained. Neither the character nor the target can
regain Essence while under the effects of this Charm.

The receiving character may only consciously end the healing process after she
has already transferred the full amount of health levels for a turn. It is
therefore of utmost important that she remain attentive of her own state of
health, lest she "overheal" the target and fall below her Incapacitated health
level. This immediately ends the health transfer as the character loses
consciousness and may very well die, if she does not receive immediate care.

== Medicine Charms ==

Empathic Examination Technique

Cost: 6 motes 
Duration: Five minutes 
Type: Simple 
Minimum Medicine: 4 
Minimum Essence: 3 
Prerequisite Charms: Flawless Diagnosis Technique 

Through the use of this Charm, the character may diagnose illnesses of the
mind and soul much as she would those of the body. By touching and maintaining
skin-to-skin contact with the patient, she creates an empathic link through
which she can directly observe or even communicate with a distraught or broken
mind, allowing her to determine with perfect precision what sort of derangement,
ravishment or other source of trauma the patient is affected by. The link also
allows her to determine exactly how she may cure the affliction, but is not, in
itself, a cure -- she must employ her skill as counselor and physician in order
to help the patient recover. This Charm cannot diagnose or help in the treatment
of the Great Curse.

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 = Ryshassa's Custom Charms =
 == Lore Charms ==
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 <b>Ailment-Absorbing Technique</b>
-Cost: 5 motes per ailment, 1 Willpower<br>
+Cost: 4 motes per poison/disease, 1 Willpower<br>
 Duration: Instant<br>
 Type: Simple<br>
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 Prerequisite Charms: Wound-Accepting Technique<br>
-This Charm allows the character to absorb poisons or diseases from the body
+This Charm allows the character to absorb physical poisons or diseases from
-of a target. The character must establish skin-to skin contact with the
+the body of a target. The character must establish skin-to skin contact with the
 target for a turn, and the target must be cooperative. For each turn they remain
 in contact, a single poison or disease is absorbed from the target into the
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 serious. During the transfer process, the progression of any poisons or diseases
 affecting them are halted, ensuring that they are absorbed by the receiving
-character "as is" -- no better, no worse. As soon as the transfer come to an end,
+character "as is" -- no better, no worse.
-<b>Merciful Embracement of Madness</b>
+As soon as the transfer come to an end, the character immediately begins to
-Cost: 10 motes, 1 Willpower<br>
+<b>Delving the Unsound Mind</b><br>
 Duration: Instant<br>
 Type: Simple<br>
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 remains deranged and the character loses a permanent Willpower point in the
 attempt to protect her sanity.
 <b>Full-Body Health Transfer Method</b>
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 Minimum Lore: 5<br>
 Minimum Essence: 4<br>
-Prerequisite Charms: Ailment-Absorbing Technique<br>
+Prerequisite Charms: Wound-Accepting Technique<br>
 Through the use of this Charm, the character gives her own life energy to
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 health, lest she "overheal" the target and fall below her Incapacitated health
 level. This immediately ends the health transfer as the character loses
 consciousness and may very well die, if she does not receive immediate care.
 == Medicine Charms ==

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 = Ryshassa's Custom Charms =
 == Lore Charms ==
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 <b>Ailment-Absorbing Technique</b>
-Cost: 4 motes per poison/disease, 1 Willpower<br>
+Cost: 5 motes per ailment, 1 Willpower<br>
 Duration: Instant<br>
 Type: Simple<br>
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 Prerequisite Charms: Wound-Accepting Technique<br>
-This Charm allows the character to absorb physical poisons or diseases from
+This Charm allows the character to absorb poisons or diseases from the body
-the body of a target. The character must establish skin-to skin contact with the
+of a target. The character must establish skin-to skin contact with the
 target for a turn, and the target must be cooperative. For each turn they remain
 in contact, a single poison or disease is absorbed from the target into the
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 serious. During the transfer process, the progression of any poisons or diseases
 affecting them are halted, ensuring that they are absorbed by the receiving
-character "as is" -- no better, no worse.
+character "as is" -- no better, no worse. As soon as the transfer come to an end,
-As soon as the transfer come to an end, the character immediately begins to
+<b>Merciful Embracement of Madness</b>
-<b>Delving the Unsound Mind</b><br>
+Cost: 10 motes, 1 Willpower<br>
 Duration: Instant<br>
 Type: Simple<br>
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 remains deranged and the character loses a permanent Willpower point in the
 attempt to protect her sanity.
 <b>Full-Body Health Transfer Method</b>
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 Minimum Lore: 5<br>
 Minimum Essence: 4<br>
-Prerequisite Charms: Wound-Accepting Technique<br>
+Prerequisite Charms: Ailment-Absorbing Technique<br>
 Through the use of this Charm, the character gives her own life energy to
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 health, lest she "overheal" the target and fall below her Incapacitated health
 level. This immediately ends the health transfer as the character loses
 consciousness and may very well die, if she does not receive immediate care.
 == Medicine Charms ==

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 = Ryshassa's Custom Charms =
-Thanks to: [[Kraken]] for charm costs and mechanics advice, GoldenCat for letting me use these in his game (and checking them out, too!) and FiatVictrix for inspiring the memory-branch of Ryshy's transfer charms. It's ALL his fault! :D
+Thanks to: [[Kraken]] for charm costs and mechanics advice, [[GoldenCat]] for letting me use these in his game (and checking them out, too!) and [[FiatVictrix]] for inspiring the memory-branch of Ryshy's transfer charms. It's ALL his fault! :D
 == Lore Charms ==