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Geomancy

Curious Cat Eyes
Cost: 4 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None
With their great insight on how the world works, Lunars can understand little signs in an area that say much. The Lunar rolls Perception+Occult to notice Manses or Demesnes up to a number of miles equal to the successes in the roll (with a +1 difficulty for Manses.) The Lunar also learns if the Sanctum of a major deity exists anywhere within the area of effect. Great disturbances in Essence - such as Wyld Storms, Celestial and Solar Circle Sorcery Spells and the discharge of powerful Artifact weapons - within this area of effect are also perceived by the Lunar if they happenned as far back as (the Lunar's Intelligence) in days.

Changing the Dragon's Scales
Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: Variable
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Curious Cat Eyes
Lunars can apply their knowledge of Essence to change it, as is their mandate, changing the very nature of this world. Using this Charm, the Lunar rolls Intelligence+Occult with a difficulty equal to a Demesne or Manse's level. On a success, it cuts the time nessessary to shift the Aspects of a Demesne from Years to Weeks, as long as the motes for the Charm remains committed and the usual rituals are performed. By committing the willpower, the Lunar can shift its Aspect from Terrestrial to Celestial, and vice versa, taking only as long as it would take for it to shift between different aspects of its same type.

Pulse of the Invisible
Cost: 8 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Curious Cat Eyes
Shaping her eyes into opalescent mists the Lunar becomes able to see the truth of Creation - that all is Essence.

As long as this Charm is active the Lunar is able to see dematerialized spirits as if they were material. She can perceive the direction and strength of Essence flows as well as the locations of power loci such as Manses and Demesnes as far as she could see. Ascertaining more detailed information from what she perceives requires an Intelligence+Occult roll - a single success grants the Lunar basic information (such as knowing Sorcery from Necromancy or the general geomancy of a region) while more successes provide more in-depth and specific information as far as the Lunar's own knowledge goes.

This Charm is a Gift and the Lunar can commit 4 motes to activate it as she shifts into a Hybrid Form to receive its effects for the duration of the change.

Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Cost: 1 willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: None
As Celestial Exalted, Lunars can easily learn the simplest forms of altering Creation's Essence to their whims, reaching the Terrestrial Circle. Note that invoking this Charm only enables the character to cast a single Terrestrial Circle spell. The actual spell itself has an Essence cost, often very high, that the character must pay to actualize the spell. This cost is listed on the spell's description. Terrestrial Circle Sorcery may never be part of a Combo.

Primordial Fire Harmony
Cost: 5 motes per spell, 1 health level
Duration: Indefinite
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Terrestrial Circle Sorcery, Moon-Chasing Chrysanthemum Pattern
Masters of combative Sorcery, the Moon-Chosen learned to write the patterns of their Spells in their very bodies.

The Lunar writes the words of a single spell into burning tattoos within her flesh in a ritual that consumes Resources *** in magical materials to be spent and commits the motes for this Charm - as long as those motes remain committed she cuts the weaving time required for that one spell in one turn. Terrestrial Sorcery is thus woven in an instant, going off at the end of the same turn that the Lunar begins the casting. Celestial Sorcery takes as long as Terrestrial Sorcery.

Celestial Circle Sorcery
Cost: 2 willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Primordial Fire Harmony, Pulse of the Invisible
The pinnacle of Lunar Sorcery, even the No Moons reach it with hardship, and for all other castes, it is a odyssey in and of itself. The first spell is invariably cast during the New Moon, as the Lunar's anima reaches and becomes the Moonlight for miles. Note that invoking this Charm only enables the character to cast a single Celestial Circle spell. The actual spell itself has an Essence cost, often very high, that the character must pay to actualize the spell. This cost is listed on the spell's description. Celestial Circle Sorcery may never be part of a Combo.

Withdrawal of Assumptions
Cost: 3 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 5
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Pulse of the Invisible
Things from beyond creation are the enemy of all Luna's Chosen. Surrounding herself with a halo of silver light, the Lunar strikes out a Creature of Darkness and, with the knowledge of its Essence, breaks it apart! With a touch, the Lunar causes the Creature of Darkness to lose (the Lunar's Essence x3) motes in a brilliant display of Essence. Further the target must suceed in a Willpower roll at a Difficulty equal to the Lunar's Essence - otherwise it reduces its Essence by one dot for all purposes. Creatures reduced to 0 Permanent Essence by this Charm are destroyed permanently. Reduced Permanent Essence returns at the rate of one dot per day - Essence Pools refill normally.

The Shattering of Lights
Cost: 5 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Intelligence: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Pulse of the Invisible
The No Moon shape Essence as they do their own bodies - against them no construct of raw essence is a perfect weapon. The Lunar's caste mark burns the color of the essence construct he faces, shifting the harmony of his essence to it. With a touch(after a successful Brawl or Martial Arts attack or parry by the Lunar - this cannot trigger on a successful parry by the defendant, as the Lunar is directed, and does not have a hold in it), the Lunar can then change the construct one of the following ways:

• Snuff it out entirely. Sentient Essence Constructs may pay 1 willpower and 1 health level to negate it.
• Shift and redirect it - in the case of an essence weapon, the Lunar may make an attack with it, against its owner or any target within its range. In the case of an essence armor, the Lunar may attack its wearer with an Intelligence+Occult roll, with the armor's soak value as its damage rating, in an attack that can only be defended with Natural Soak. The owner of the Essence Construct may pay 1 willpower to cancel the charm before such use.
• Absorb it, gaining a number of motes equal to the cost to activate the charm. Many Lunars do so by placing their jaws on the construct and literally eating it. Sentient Essence Constructs may still pay 1 willpower and 1 health level to negate it.

Unweaving Atemi
Cost: 12 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Intelligence: 5
Minimum Essence: 5
Prerequisite Charms: The Shattering of Lights
The Lunar is able to shift more than his flesh – but also the flows of essence are little more than woven, shaped in a specific form. With this Charm, the Lunar is able to interfere in another’s sorcerous shaping, turning the construct of essence in a beast ready to devour the opponent. The Lunar may activate this Charm when he touches a spell being cast – he has to be able to touch it, physically. Then he then makes an opposed roll of his Intelligence+Occult against the caster’s. If the Lunar wins, the opponent is considered to have botched his roll to hold the spell together, and has to deal with all of the horrible consequences of it. The Lunar has shifted his body to the chaos of the essence around him, and flows with it - not only is the Lunar immune to the consquences, but he can move away a number of yards equal to the Spell's mote cost. This Charm is only effective against spells of a Circle that the invoking Lunar has the ability to cast.

Field of Primordial Madness
Cost: 20 motes, 1 willpower, 1 health level
Duration: Intelligence in Turns
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 5
Minimum Essence: 5
Prerequisite Charms: Unweaving Atemi
Shifting shape and Essence the opens the gates of pure change and madness with herself to the world.

It becomes her world as Essence ebbs and flows in the shifting shapes of the Lunar Exalted - shadows and angles become mere windows to the Lunar's soul and the sky twists with nightmares and dreams wrough in moonlight. The Lunar's Essence fills an area of (Permanent Essence x10) yards. The changing Essence suffuses this area in the following ways.

• All those that oppose the Lunar suffer an enviromental penalty equal to her Essence in dice to all actions.
• The Lunar may make Shaping Actions with Graces equal to her corresponding Virtues.
• The nature of Essence works in a different way - it is unable to hold proper shape. Essence effects that would last for a Scene instead last for One Turn. All scenelong Essence effects active when they step into the field last for one more turn before disappearing. Essence-effects of a longer duration last instead for a number of turns equal to their creator's Essence score. Effects of Instant duration are not affected - their Essence constructs are as ephemeral as the insane world about them. The Lunar's own Essence constructs are affected - with exception made to the Field of Primordial Madness itself.

During the Primordial War this Charm saw much use in countering the World-Shaping of the Primordials.

Holding the Dragon's Pearl
Cost: 2 motes per stone, 1 willpower
Duration: Indefinite
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Curious Cat Eyes
Shifting his flows of Essence, the Lunar turns his body into a living artifact, able to hold a Hearthstone as one. The hearthstone becomes 'socketed' in his flesh, in any of the focuses of essence in a human body - such as the forehead, the back of the hands, the navel, the back of the neck, and others. The Lunar must commit 2 motes per stone thus held, and may not hold more Hearthstones than he has dots of Permanent Essence.

Radiant Dragon Eyes
Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 5
Minimum Essence: 5
Prerequisite Charms: Holding the Dragon's Pearl, Changing the Dragon's Scales
This miraculous work shifts the character's soul into a Demesne and her shape into a Manse. Essence flows explode about her form as she closes her eyes - when they re-open they are works of crystal the color and shape of a Hearthstone. Eyes are windows to the soul and the Lunar's give a glimpse of the miraculous Essence within. For the remainder of the Scene in which this Charm is activated the Lunar remains in a permanent state of a Bonfire Anima display - this nimbus of Essence deals dice of damage equal to the Lunar's Essence in aggravated damage each turn to all that touch the Lunar - soaked separately from the damage of any of the Lunar's own unarmed strikes. Armor does not protect against the hazards of this coruscating essence.

The real purpose of this Charm is that the Lunar receives all the benefits of a Hearthstone of any level up to 5 whose traits fit the Lunar's own purpose and objectives - this Hearthstone is chosen when this Charm is purchased and will remain the same until some great event as the Lunar changing her Nature comes to pass. It is considered to be socketed in the Lunar's body as per Holding the Dragon's Pearl - it is the Lunar's eyes.

Hearthstones of Elemental or Abyssal aspects attune the Lunar to them, preventing surchage from using unaligned Essence effects.

This Charm is a Gift and can be activated when the Lunar shifts into a Hybrid Form for the cost of 10 motes - it gives the Hybrid Form the benefits of a number of separate hearthstones whose total level cannot surpass the Lunar's Essence for the duration. Thoe are set for the Shape they are used in, but the Lunar can choose different configurations for each Hybrid Form. The events necessary for them to change are the same as the ones for the main Hearthstone.

One With the World
Cost: 20 motes, 1 willpower, 1 health level
Duration: Until Abandoned
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 7
Minimum Essence: 7
Prerequisite Charms: Field of Primordial Madness, Radiant Dragon Eyes
Sinking his feet into the ground, the Lunar expands his Anima to the iconic level, and lets it soak in the world around him. An area of the Lunar's Essence x100 is filled with the glow of the Lunar's anima, images important to the Lunar appearing in all shadows and reflective surfaces. The whole area becomes the Lunar - much like a Primordial, the Lunar becomes greater than a single being. He becomes part of the world. It is all his body, and his soul. As long as this Charm lasts, the Lunar may not leave the area, but within it, the Lunar...

• ... can sink into the ground as a Simple Action, moving like blood, multiplying his movement rating by his permanent essence.
• ... may take Shaping Actions within the area as if he had Graces equal to his Virtues...
• ... converting a number of dice equal to Manipulation in automatic successes to those Shaping Rolls.
• ... gains twice his Essence in -0 Health Levels.
• ... doubles all stunt-dice earned within, as well as all rewards for stunts.
• ... and finally, receives a connection to the land. The Lunar can see throughout this whole area, as if he was standing there, able to roll Perception+Awareness as a dice action to feel any part of the area with any of his senses(one per success). He knows the land lives or dies on his existence, and thus, may always channel Compassion and Conviction while this Charm is in effect, and their bonuses are converted to automatic successes instead of dice, always.

When the Lunar is hurt, the area responds accordingly, and a Lunar destroyed while connected to the area leaves only barren ruins.

Thorn of the Silver Empress
Cost: 6 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Pulse of the Invisible
Inside every Lunar, there is a spark of untamed, mad wyld. But it is kept in check. It is the silver within the Lunar that tames it like the command Lunar exerts over the tides of the Wyld. The Thorn of the Silver Empress is the most direct expression of this command as the Lunar pulls this silver perfection from her soul and manifests it as a weapon of pure silver Essence.

This weapon is like a merciful - if fickle - Empress and can always deal Bashing or Lethal Damage as the Lunar prefers. Its weapon statistics are created by the Lunar with a number of points equal to twice her Intelligence score to be allocated to each statistic (Speed and Damage receive +2 to their statistic per point allocated to them.) The weapon has a fixed Rate statistic equal to the Lunar's Essence score.

The Thorn of the Silver Empress brings inescapable order to all Creatures of Chaos it touches - it deals Aggravated Damage against any being born from the Wyld or tainted by it. Those creatures must also behave in the court of the Empress of their Tides, receiving a penalty to all actions equal to the Lunar's Essence score.

Harmony with Reality Technique
Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Tatoo-Cutting Wisdom
With dedication, a Lunar can pull wonders from the dreamland of the Wyld. This Charm uses the connection between the Wyld and Creation inherent to every Lunar to make the target, one creature or object of any size, natural to and safe within Creation. To work this Charm the Lunar must alter the object in some way, such as drawing a symbol upon it. Living creatures must wear something the Lunar has made himself. This symbol requires a Dexterity+Occult roll to be properly created. Portable objects brought into Creation do not evaporate, and creatures too mutated to survive in Creation usually find it comfortable. The object needs the reality around it to be mantained, however.

The Lunar may target objects too large to be moved with this Charm, paying double its cost. This allows the Lunar to stabilize buildings in the chaos to use as bases of operation, or to push back the Wyld one patch of land at a time. If the target of this Charm does not interact meaningfully with things natural for a story, roll the Lunar's Essence at a difficulty of 1, 2 if the target does not interact with real things at all. Creatures suffer a level of aggravated damage that can only be healed in the Wyld if this roll fails. After six cumulative failtures, Creation becomes inospitable to the target again, and objects fall apart if not taken back to the Wyld fast.

Ritual of Lunar Stability
Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: A Lunar Month
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Harmony with Reality Technique
Lunars must be able to protect their lands from the dangers of the Wyld. The Lunar must encircle an area she wishes to protect, encircling it with her scent and presence. This Charm affects a maximum area of one Waypoint, which is about 30 miles accross, and fails if anyone stops the Lunar before its completion. Once the character has invoked the Charm, the Wyld enegies in the region become quiescent. While the local abnormal physical(and metaphysical) laws remain the same, they do not change as long as this Charm is effective. While this Charm is active, no being may shape the region unless they are greater than the Lunar. To affect a territory owned by another being, the Lunar must roll his Intelligence+Occult with a difficulty equal to the being's Essence rating. If the laws in this place are like those of Creation and it is connected to it by its borders, it will become a natural part of it after remaining stabilized by this Charm for(One year minus the Lunar's Essence in months) months. It becomes a true part of Creation then, but can still be reclaimed by the Wyld in its usual fashion.

Chaos Crystalization Chakra
Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Intelligence: 5
Minimum Essence: 5
Prerequisite Charms: Thorn of the Silver Empress, Ritual of Lunar Stability
Sinking the Thorn of the Silver Empress into the ground, the Lunar brings the full power of the Silver Lady to bear, letting her whim and order flow and change the shape of the landscape, to make the order of her Lover. Everything becomes more real, more right, with the chaos banished to far, far away. For the remainder of the scene the Lunar loses the use of the Thorn, but an area equal to (The Lunar's Essence x30) yards becomes an area of stable Creation. This include areas of the Deepest Wyld, no matter how far away from Creation. All objects within it can be removed and brought back into Creation safely, as if they had all been treated with Harmony With Reality Technique. However, if they are not taken back to Creation, they are lost when the Scene has passed and the Chaos swarms back into the protected area. This proccess is lethal for Wyld beings, who suffer unsoakable levels of aggravated damage if caught in those boundaries equal to the Lunar's Essence. Beings of the Underworld or Malfeas, not of Chaos, but simply of a different order, receive a penalty to all their actions equal to the Lunar's Essence while in those boundaries. Ritual of Lunar Stability can be used within it with an instant activation and no ritual, easily mantaining its Creation-ordered existence.