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= DragonBlooded Survival Charms by FatR =

Nature's Healing Bounty
Cost: 1m per 2 dice
Mins: Survival 3,Medicine 1,Essence 2
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Survival Excellency plus any Medicine Charm

Wood-aspected Dragon-Bloods are known for both their innate skill as physicians and for their natural
communion with nature. This Charm represents the intersection of these two skill sets, as the
Dragon-Blood’s knowledge of plant life and herbal remedies can now be combined with his skill as a
healer. The Dragon-Blood can improve his Medicine dice pools by two dice per mote spent, although he
cannot spend more dice than his Survival Ability rating (plus any applicable specialty). This Charm
can stack with the First Medicine Excellency and is an exception to the normal limits on adding dice.
Therefore, if both Charms are activated, the Dragon-Blood’s Medicine dice pool can be increased by a
total of ([his Medicine + specialty] + [his Survival + specialty]). In order to use this Charm, the
Dragon-Blood must have access to plants and herbs capable of fulfilling his medicinal needs.

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Forest's Shielding Embrace
Cost: 4m
Mins: Survival 4,Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Nature's Healing Bounty

Wood Aspects' affinity with wood allows them to call upon the might of Creation's ancient forests
to make their bodies as sturdy as ancient oaks. When this Charm is activated, the Terrestrial's
skin becomes tough and bark-like, and his hair sprout leaves and wines. Most of his body actually
transforms into living wood - the Charm user needs not worry about bleeding (or attempts to drain
his blood, even if they supplemented by magic), and he becomess immune to all Sickness and Poison
effects, unless they inflict aggravated damage. Even better, Forest's Shielding Embrace provides
Hardness equal to the Exalt's (Stamina + Essence) against bashing damage - punches and kicks of
lesser opponents cause more hurt to the attackers themselves, than to the Dragon-Blood's
strengthened body.

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Emerald Dragon's Slashing Scales
Cost: 3m,1wp
Mins: Survival 5,Essence 3
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Forest's Shielding Embrace

An experienced Child of Sextes Jylis is not defenseless even when bare-handed and naked, for his
body itself can grow sharp thorns and barbed wooden spikes, capable of tearing opponent's flesh
to bloody ribbons in unarmed combat. For the duration of this Charm, his unarmed attacks
(including clinches) inflict lethal damage and add the Dragon-Blood's Essence to their damage
rating. He can parry lethal attacks unarmed and without a stunt. Moreover, an opponent, who cannot
do so and attempts to punch, kick or grapple him, automatically impales himself on countless
needles and bards, covering the Terrestrial's body, suffering his own (Strength + the
Dragon-Blood's Essence) in lethal damage. Note, that animals who attempt to bite or claw the Exalt
usually take damage as well.

Emerald Dragon's Slashing Scales has three drawbacks. First, it cannot be invoked unless the Forest's
Shielding Embrace is already active. Second, if the Dragon-Blood wears armor, this Charm does not
modify the damage of his clinches and does not inflict damage on unarmed attackers. Third, growth of
spikes and thorns is violent enough to ruin most mundane clothes

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Quarry Revelation Technique
Cost: 2m
Mins: Survival 3,Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: One Day
Prerequisite Charms: Any Survival Excellency

The Children of Sextes Jylis are master woodsmen and trackers. With this Charm, a Dragon-Blood can track
any quarry whose trail is less than a week old, regardless of terrain or weather conditions. Animal
tracks and spoor literally glow to the Exalt’s eyes, while broken twigs and other signs of a human’s
passage are equally as obvious. Thetracker’s player needs only a single success on a
(Perception + Survival) roll for the tracker to successfully track any quarry not protected by
supernatural stealth or evasion. Supernatural effects that hide a quarry’s tracks are canceled by this
Charm, allowing the Dragon-Blood to find his prey with a follow-up normal Survival roll.

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Trail-Concealing Measurement
Cost: 2m per person
Mins: Survival 4,Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One Day
Prerequisite Charms: Quarry Revelation Technique

Any Dragon-Blood who knows this Charm can blend effortlessly into the woods, instinctively hiding all
evidence of herpassage. While this Charm is active, persons attempting to track the Dragon-Blood
without supernatural aid are completely unable to do so. If the tracker is using supernatural aid such
as Quarry Revelation Technique, the two effects cancel each other out, and normal tracking rules apply.
The Dragon-Blooded invoking this Charm may extend it to other beings, by paying 2 motes of Essence for
each additional subject.

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Hostile Environment Preparation Method
Cost: 1m per subject
Mins: Survival 3,Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One Day
Prerequisite Charms: Any Survival Excellency

With this Charm, the Dragon-Blood’s intuitive knowledge of how to survive in difficult climes allows
him to protect his fellows in all but the harshest conditions. In a hot environment, the Dragon-Blood
can make certain that he and his allies can avoid heat prostration and other hazards. In a cold
environment, he can enable his friends to better preserve body heat and avoid frostbite. For one day,
the Dragon-Blood and his companions get three automatic successes on Survival rolls to resist adverse
environmental conditions. In other words, any environmental penalty of three or less is reduced to
zero. The cost is one mote per person protected.

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Tireless Caravan Prana
Cost: 4m
Mins: Survival 4,Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Cooperative
Duration: One journey
Prerequisite Charms: Hostile Environment Preparation Method

As master survivalists, Wood Aspect Dragon-Blooded are often called upon to lead their fellows
through rough terrain, whether while on a trade caravan or while treasure hunting at theedge of
Creation. The Exalt using this Charm can improve the travel speed, endurance and morale of a group
of personnel who travel with her.

As long as the Exalt maintains the Charm, she and all who travel with her gain a number of
automatic successes on fatigue checks equal to (her Essence – 2 [minimum 1]). Also, all travel
times decrease by ten percent per point of the Exalt’s permanent Essence. The Charm can be used
to affect anyone who travels with the Dragon-Blood, but a single Dragon-Blood can affect only a
number of beings (including people and mounts) equal to her (Essence x 50). If multiple
Dragon-Blooded activate this Charm together, each participant can affect a number of travelers
equal to her (Essence x 50), and the total number of automatic successes gained on fatigue checks
is equal to the combined Essence of all participants minus two. Travel times decrease according to
the highest Essence of any participant (ten percent per point) and are further reduced by an
additional five percent per extra participant. The maximum number of participants who can join in
a single cooperative use of this Charm is equal to the highest permanent Essence of any participant.
As usual, the Essence spent is committed for the duration of the Charm, which lasts until the
destination is reached or until the Dragon-Blood withdraws the commitment.

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Elemental Harmony Method
Cost: -
Mins: Survival 4,Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Hostile Environment Preparation Method

This Charm tunes the character to the five elements of Creation. As a result, he will not be harmed
in the slightest by their manifestations, no matter how violent and dangerous. The Exalt with
Elemental Harmony Method can survive any environmental hazards, be it a bonfire, ocean's crushing
depths, a volcano's caldera, or a pool of boiling acid effortlessly. Even the living things, including
plants, insects and animals will refuse to hurt him, unless deliberately provoked, and diseases will
not infest him. He still can immobilized by natural hazards, and this Charm doesn't provide him with
sustenance or even breathable air, but he will never take damage and never suffer from poisoning or
sickness, unless they are directly inflicted upon him by another character's action.

Elemental Harmony Method is inferior to Solar Charm Element-Resisting Prana in one important way: it
does not function within the Underwolrd, the Wyld regions beyond Bordermarhes, Malfeas or other place,
where the normal elements are twisted beyond recognition, or don't exist at all.

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The Blessing of Sextes Jylis
Cost: 10m,2wp
Mins: Survival 5,Essence 4
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One Year
Prerequisite Charms: Hostile Environment Preparation Method,Nature's Healing Bounty

This Charm, supposedly the first and most basic of fertility-improving Charms invented by Sextes Jylis,
the Immaculate Dragon of Wood, is subtle and doesn't produce immediately apparent effect, yet its
potency and usefulness should not be underestimated. By using it, the Dynast bestows powerful blessing
on both his peasants and the land they cultivate. The workers gain greater vigor, the crops grow faster
and turns out healthy than normal, and various vermin mostly avoid the fields. This greatly increases
the food production for one year. A community supported by this Charm could provide enough food for
itself to survive in any environment that theoretically can support agriculture, even without adequate
tools. In more fertile lands, application of The Blessing of Sextes Jylis roughly doubles the harvest.

This Charm cannot be used on a community, numbering more than 100 active field workers per point of the
Dragon-Blood's permanent Essence. Additionally, while The Blessing of Sextes Jylis doesn't deplete the
land's resources, it is spiritually exhausting for the Chosen himself. If he uses this Charm more than
once per year, he must pay an experience point for each use after the first.

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As it is already obvious, I rewrote the DB's Survival tree for my game. Most of the original Survival
seems nothing more than an uninspired waste of experience for me. I mean buying cluster-Charms to do things
which can (and should) be accomplished by rolling not-particularly-hard-to-obtain number of successes on a
mundane Survival check? What the?..

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+seems nothing more than an uninspired waste of experience for me. I mean buying cluster-Charms to do things which can (and should) be accomplished by rolling not-particularly-hard-to-obtain number of successes on a mundane Survival check? What the?..

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