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= Lunar Melee Combat Charms by Quendalon =

Living Ivory Blade
Cost: 3 or 5 motes
Duration: Indefinite
Type: Simple
Minimum Manipulation: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Body Weapon Technique, Weapon-Shaping Prana
With this Charm, the Lunar extrudes a melee weapon from her own flesh and bone. Such a weapon shifts and flows like moonsilver, and is just as deadly. It costs 3 motes to create a one-handed weapon, or 5 motes to create a two-handed weapon. Such a weapon has the statistics for a normal weapon of its type (selected from the list on p. 327 of Exalted), with an additional +2 to accuracy, and it cannot be disarmed. The Living Ivory Blade may be destroyed by any attack that would destroy a weapon of the Five Magical Materials; this also inflicts one health level of aggravated damage on the character. Otherwise, the weapon persists until the character withdraws the Essence committed to it.

== Comments ==

:I have thematic issues with this charm. For one, it's been done, in the Abyssals book, and it makes a point of mentioning that Abyssal shapeshifting is 'un-natural'. Hardly the forte of the Chosen of Luna. For the second, I think it flies in the face of all that the Lunars atand for. Their version of Glorious Solar Saber, et al, are in their unarmed combat trees. While a lunar may use a tool, when she needs one, she's likely to look with some pretty serious disdain upon one of her fellows who has the capability to shapeshift, and uses it to mimic tools in way that isn't natural. Tool-hand, for instance, allows the lunars hand to /act/ as a tool, it doesn't make her fingers into chisels and scissors. That would be faintly obscene. If you want more customization, you could away get yourself a moonsilver universal weapon (which I think is pretty cool, for a lunar) or work off of the moonsilver claw charms.
::[[Scrollreader]] , with his two koku.

:Interesting thoughts, but I'm not sure how inherent they are in the Lunars as presented. Is Living Ivory Blade significantly more unnatural in its manifestation than Tentacle-Spear Strike or Ossific Shard Shot? - [[Quendalon]]

:While freaky (and they both /are/ freaky) neither of these creates a manufactured weapon from the flesh and bone of the character. They are also high-tier outgrowths of animalistic abilities before them. They surpass the animal into the Exalt scale. I don't see the derivation here. What was your intent with this charm? What niche did you create it for? I have difficulty seeing what it can be used for, that Moonsilver Talons or Weapon Shaping Prana can't already do. And I hesitate to try to assume motivess.
::[[Scrollreader]]

::My intent? I thought it would be Cool. - [[Quendalon]]

:: Then we'll have to agree to disagree. Because I think it's cool. But definately Abyssal.
:::[[Scrollreader]] ,who is over protective of shtick, sometimes, and isn't a big fan of (Exalt) Ways.

:::I'm also protective of schticks, but I don't think that "unnatural shapeshifting" is an Abyssal-only schtick that needs to be protected. In my eyes, the key Lunar schtick is "shapeshifting." Not "natural shapeshifting," not "animal shapeshifting." In theory, a Lunar should be able to turn itself into a tree, a rock, a sword or a god, given sufficiently high Attributes and permanent Essence to develop the relevant Charms. And c'mon, they can already use Shaping the Once-Living Form or Weapon-Shaping Prana to turn a dead bone into a sword; why should it be harder to turn one's own bone into a sword? - [[Quendalon]]

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    <b>Prerequisite Charms:</b> Body Weapon Technique, Weapon-Shaping Prana
 With this Charm, the Lunar extrudes a melee weapon from her own flesh and bone.  Such a weapon shifts and flows like moonsilver, and is just as deadly.  It costs 3 motes to create a one-handed weapon, or 5 motes to create a two-handed weapon.  Such a weapon has the statistics for a normal weapon of its type (selected from the list on p. 327 of <b>Exalted</b>), with an additional +2 to accuracy, and it cannot be disarmed.  The Living Ivory Blade may be destroyed by any attack that would destroy a weapon of the Five Magical Materials; this also inflicts one health level of aggravated damage on the character.  Otherwise, the weapon persists until the character withdraws the Essence committed to it.
 == Comments ==
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 :::[[Scrollreader]] ,who is over protective of shtick, sometimes, and isn't a big fan of (Exalt) Ways.
-:::I'm also protective of schticks, but I don't think that "unnatural shapeshifting" is an Abyssal-only schtick that needs to be protected.  In my eyes, the key Lunar schtick is "shapeshifting."  Not "natural shapeshifting," not "animal shapeshifting."  In theory, a Lunar should be able to turn itself into a tree, a rock, a sword or a god, given sufficiently high Attributes and permanent Essence to develop the relevant Charms.  And c'mon, they can already use Shaping the Once-Living Form to turn a dead bone into a sword; why should it be harder to turn one's <i>own</i> bone into a sword? - [[Quendalon]]
+:::I'm also protective of schticks, but I don't think that "unnatural shapeshifting" is an Abyssal-only schtick that needs to be protected.  In my eyes, the key Lunar schtick is "shapeshifting."  Not "natural shapeshifting," not "animal shapeshifting."  In theory, a Lunar should be able to turn itself into a tree, a rock, a sword or a god, given sufficiently high Attributes and permanent Essence to develop the relevant Charms.  And c'mon, they can already use Shaping the Once-Living Form or Weapon-Shaping Prana to turn a dead bone into a sword; why should it be harder to turn one's <i>own</i> bone into a sword? - [[Quendalon]]

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    <b>Prerequisite Charms:</b> Body Weapon Technique, Weapon-Shaping Prana
 With this Charm, the Lunar extrudes a melee weapon from her own flesh and bone.  Such a weapon shifts and flows like moonsilver, and is just as deadly.  It costs 3 motes to create a one-handed weapon, or 5 motes to create a two-handed weapon.  Such a weapon has the statistics for a normal weapon of its type (selected from the list on p. 327 of <b>Exalted</b>), with an additional +2 to accuracy, and it cannot be disarmed.  The Living Ivory Blade may be destroyed by any attack that would destroy a weapon of the Five Magical Materials; this also inflicts one health level of aggravated damage on the character.  Otherwise, the weapon persists until the character withdraws the Essence committed to it.
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 :::[[Scrollreader]] ,who is over protective of shtick, sometimes, and isn't a big fan of (Exalt) Ways.
-:::I'm also protective of schticks, but I don't think that "unnatural shapeshifting" is an Abyssal-only schtick that needs to be protected.  In my eyes, the key Lunar schtick is "shapeshifting."  Not "natural shapeshifting," not "animal shapeshifting."  In theory, a Lunar should be able to turn itself into a tree, a rock, a sword or a god, given sufficiently high Attributes and permanent Essence to develop the relevant Charms.  And c'mon, they can already use Shaping the Once-Living Form or Weapon-Shaping Prana to turn a dead bone into a sword; why should it be harder to turn one's <i>own</i> bone into a sword? - [[Quendalon]]
+:::I'm also protective of schticks, but I don't think that "unnatural shapeshifting" is an Abyssal-only schtick that needs to be protected.  In my eyes, the key Lunar schtick is "shapeshifting."  Not "natural shapeshifting," not "animal shapeshifting."  In theory, a Lunar should be able to turn itself into a tree, a rock, a sword or a god, given sufficiently high Attributes and permanent Essence to develop the relevant Charms.  And c'mon, they can already use Shaping the Once-Living Form to turn a dead bone into a sword; why should it be harder to turn one's <i>own</i> bone into a sword? - [[Quendalon]]

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