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Drinking the Heart's Blood

Cost: 5 motes, 1 experience point 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Simple 
Min. Ability: 2 
Min Essence: 1 
Prereqs: 

The Lunar consumes the Heart's Blood of any natural animal, permemantly adding it to their library of forms. This requires killing the animal.

Wyld Stopping Sigil

Cost: 8 motes 
Duration: Indefinite 
Type: Simple 
Min. Ability: 3 
Min Essence: 2 
Prereqs: Drinking the Heart's Blood 

An image of the Lunar's tattoos are pulled from the body. The Lunar then shapes and grows the image until it forms a diameter 10 circle, which must be "anchored" on a person or object. The circle remains centered on the object as long as the Lunar commits Essence to the Charm. The area within the circle is immune to being reshaped by the Wyld.

Wyld Shaping Shout

Cost: 10 motes, 1 Willpower 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Simple 
Min. Ability: 4 
Min Essence: 3 
Prereqs: Wyld Stopping Sigil 

The Lunar stares at the howling teeth of the Wyld - and howls back. The Lunar may shape the Wyld to his wishes, as one of the Fair Folk might

If you're using Shaping Combat, this is a Shaping action. Substitue a Virtue for a Grace, and add the Lunar's Essence in bonus dice. The Lunar may use this Charm only once per scene.

If you're not using Shaping Combat, treat this as similiar to the Solar Charm Wyld Shaping Technique. Except, roll the Lunar's Virtue+Ability+Essence, with Virtue and ability being determined roughly by the effect desired. Objects created with this Charm are not real and may not be taken out of the Wyld. Fair Folk may counter the effects of this Charm with their own strange magic.

Wound Forgetting Prana

Cost: 2 motes per health level 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Reflexive 
Min. Ability: 2 
Min Essence: 1 

The Lunar forgets the harm posed by her wounds, if not the pain associated with them. For every motes spent, you may convert one level of lethal damage to bashing.

Unforgotten Warmth Technique

Cost: 10 motes 
Duration: Indefinite 
Type: Reflexive 
Min. Ability: 3 
Min Essence: 1 
Prereqs: Wound Forgetting Prana 

The Lunar accelerates his metabolism, allowing him to heal at an amazing rate. Every hour this Charm is active, the Exalt heals one bashing health level entirely or converts one lethal wound level to bashing. As the name implies, the Lunar gives off a tremendous amount of heat while using this Charm. It can be felt as far away as the Lunar's Essence in yards. Anyone who stays within the radius of heat continously enjoys the benefits of this Charm.

Life Gift Technique

Cost: 5 motes, 1 bashing health level 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Simple 
Min. Ability: 4 
Min Essence: 2 
Prereqs: Unforgotton Warmth Technique 

The Lunar draws some blood forth from his body and gives it to another to drink. Most Lunars spit the blood up from their mouths, but some perfer to cut themselves. The recipient converts all Lethal wounds to bashing. For the next 24 hours, they may make rolls to resist disease and infection using the Lunar's Stamina+Resistance pool. Lunars may not benefit from this Charm.

Meal of the Creator

Cost: 10 motes, 1 aggravated health level 
Duration: Indefine 
Type: Simple 
Min. Ability: 5 
Min Essence: 2 
Prereqs: Life Gift Technique 

The Lunar carves off a piece of his flesh. The person who consumes this meal instantly heals up to the Lunar's Essence worth of health levels of any type and recovers one point of temporary willpower. If they are an Essence Channeler, they recover 10 motes of Essence. If they are a Fair Folk, they gain one Gossamer. The meal stays good until the Lunar ceases to commit Essence and health to the Charm. Lunars may not benefit from this Charm.

Wearing the Skins of the Fallen

Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower, 1 experience point 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Simple 
Min. Ability: 2 
Min Essence: 2 

The Lunar drinks the Heart's Blood of a mortal and adds their shape into their library of form.

Revelation of the Perfected Form

Cost: 1 mote1 
Duration: Indefinite 
Type: Simple 
Min. Ability: 2 
Min Essence: 1 

The Lunar may alter his appearance in various ways large and small. These might include changing eye color, changing height by as much as a foot, changing general build, raising or lowering your voices slightly, et cetera. Each use of this Charm enacts one such change. At any given time, the Lunar may have only as many modifications of this Charm as he has permemant Essence. These modifications do not change a Lunar's stats.

Gift of Shape

Cost: 8 motes  
Duration: Indefinite 
Type: Simple 
Min. Ability: 3 
Min Essence: 1 

The Lunar offers a drop of his blood to a mortal, which the mortal must consume. As long as the Essence for this Charm remains commited, the Lunar may rehsape the mortal at will. The mortal must remain human, but otherwise there is no limit to the potential modifications. The Lunar may increase all of the Mortal's physical stats by 1 dot each to a maximum of 5, and raise or lower the mortal's age by as much as 30 years.

Heart Drinking Kiss

Cost: 5 Motes 
Duration: Instant 
Type: Simple 
Min. Ability: 5 
Min Essence: 3 
Prereqs: Wearing the Skins of the Fallen 

The Lunar drinks blood and eats flesh directly from the beating Heart of an Exalt. By ancient agreement among the Incarna, this can only be done with the consent of the Exalt involved. This adds the Exalt to the Lunar's library of forms. The Exalt who sacrifices a piece of his heart survives the process, but takes three levels of aggravated damage. The Lunar's physical form and anima banner warp to conform to their new shape. The Lunar gains the Exalt's minor Anima powers (such as telling time), but not the Caste specific power. This effect ends if the Lunar's Anima banner flares in the 7+ range.

A Lunar may only have one Exalt in their library of forms at any one time. Removing an Exalt currently in their library costs 3 experience points.

Comments

What happens when the lunar eats the heart and drinks the blood of... say a solar whose attuned to a gem of incomparable wellness? Would the donor in this case be alive after this act? And if so, would the lunar be able to put the skin of the donor exalt on?

Also, bear in mind that the exalts DO have a limit on their abilities/attributes, until they hit essence 5+. Ie. no going over 5 unless you've got some funky merit in place. ~ Haku

Wow, talk about fast service =P I forgot to include one thing - Heart Drinking Kiss doesn't kill the "donor". Exalts are tough, after all. Under this version of Lunars, Attributes may go as high as 7 by default. Its a feature of being a HumbleLunar. I'm not sure I like this. But, Attribute based trees don't make much sense when Attribues run from 1 to 5 - cuz everyone has at least Attribue 2 or so. I also like it because it puts Lunars in line with Dragon Blood in terms of die adders. (since DB include specialties.) -MeiRen

Um....yeah, so it occured to me that having Attributes above 5 really didn't work. I love the idea, it does some cool things, but I think it breaks a rule of Exalted, so..... -MeiRen

Better fast service then no service, yes? ^_- In any event, you could allow Lunars to have a merit or a charm that unlocks their physical ability, up to say... 5 + essence. As for not killing the donor, that's a good thing, I suppose... but then, it seems a tad odd that said exalt doesn't die. I think it's one of those situation where a fellow exalt is dying and gives permission to drink of his blood and eat of his heart, to carry on his quest/mission in his name... etc. ~ Haku

It was intended to be something you do to your Solar spouse, so you can be their body double. (or just have kinky sex.) Doing it to an Exalt who is dying for other reasons would be cool too though. -MeiRen