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Changing Blood

Blood Harmony
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Wits: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Totem
With this technique the Lunar becomes capable of splicing her traits with those of all beings she has consumed. Such splicing is never subtle - if one who has consumed a Tyrant Lizard draws upon its Sturdy Mutation muscles bulge, scales appear on her flesh, or her demeanor becomes reptilian. If the same Lunar draws upon the Tyrant Lizard's Huge Mutation she does not only grows to twice her height but also becomes scaled and reptilian-faced.

Bought once this Charm allows the Lunar to draw any Mutations from his Totem.
Bought twice it allows him to draw traits from any Natural Animal on his Library.
Bought thrice the Lunar can draw any Mutation from his Blood Library, no matter how outlandish.

With a Shapeshifting Action, the Lunar can commit 1 mote to draw 1 Mutation Point from any shape in her Blood Library into her other Forms, unfurling wings on her human form, drawing beaks on the form a wolf, or any other hybrids she can think of! The Mutation remains as long as the Lunar mantains the Essence committed. This Charm is a Gift and may be activated in when the Lunar shifts into a Hybrid Form.

The Lunar may commit a maximum number of motes to this Charm equal to his Permanent Essence and draw forth 1 Mutation Point with each.

Skin-Dancing Technique
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Wits: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Totem
Lunars can shift their shapes in many ways, but it takes time for their body to adapt to the new shape, turning his arms slowly into wings or his face into a beak when he becomes a bird... but those who master the Skin-Dancing Technique do it with the deft of a dancer, many steps too fast for the eye to see if it is not careful! Skin-Dancing Technique makes all Shapeshifting Actions mere unrolled dice actions that do not count as a Charm Use.

Flowing Quicksilver Spirit
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Wits: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Skin-Dancing Technique
Lunars who know Flowing Quicksilver Spirit learn how to make their very shapes fluid.

Flowing Quicksilver Spirit makes all Shapeshifting Actions mere reflexive actions that do not count as a Charm Use.

Quicksilver Illumination
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Wits: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Totem
Shapeshifting is to draw another form into one's own natural pattern, an action of harrowing effort! But to those who attained Quicksilver Illumination comes the understanding that a Lunar's flesh is fluid as quicksilver and made to change! Learning this Charm the Lunar subtracts her Essence the Blood Cost of her Forms for the purpose of all Shapeshifting Actions (To a minimum of 0.)

Silver Masquerade
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Wits: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Flowing Quicksilver Spirit, Quicksilver Illumination
Learning the Silver Masquerade makes the Lunar adept to shifting her shapes as so much masks!

Silver Masquerade subtracts twice the Lunar's Essence to the Blood Cost of all Forms. It also allows the Lunar to sidestep the Truth of Luna for a short while - the Lunar can change shape while her Anima Banner is showing at 8+ as long as she does not remain in the same shape for longer than a turn.

Life of the Hummingbird
Cost: 5 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Wits: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Quicksilver Illumination
With the great acceptance of his body, the Lunar is able to take one Heart's Blood, at least temporarily, by drinking at least a drop of it. The blood must be fresh, just out of the body. By drinking it, the Lunar receives the target's Heart's Blood and can shapeshift into her form for a full day and night. By drinking more – a Health Level's worth of blood – the Lunar can remain in this shape until Luna changes her face, for a whole Lunar Phase.

Gift of Brothers
Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower, 1 Experience Point
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Wits: 5
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Life of the Hummingbird
Far to the East, the Grandmother Spider Ahrien of the No Moon Caste awaits for Lunar Champions to come, and when they come, she gives them an ordeal. When it is finished, she cuts them, lets them cut her, and as their blood mingles, they become one with her, and receive her Form. Those who learn this Charm learn the contract - by cutting each other, and willingly joining their blood upon Moonsilver, a Lunar may give a single shape he knows to another Lunar. This costs 1 experience point to learn, or 10 in the case of the shapes of Primordial Behemoths and other great beings. A Lunar with this Charm who kills another of his kind and drinks their Heart’s Blood may pay a number of Experience Points equal to their Essence to absorb their shape, and all of the forms in their Blood Library.

Unnatural Size Meditation
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Stamina: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Totem
The Lunar learns how to shift the size of one of her shapes closer to her human form. This is a reflexive action, with a reflexive expenditure of 2 motes per size mutation level negated during the Shapeshifting Action, be it to make greater beings smaller or small beings greater. The Lunar may shift the Mutation Points changed to elsewhere, as a Tyrant Lizard may receive two purchases of Glorious Hero Form even when it is human-sized to show its prowess. Changing his Shape away from the size-changed form ends this Charm, and the form will be on its normal size when the Lunar next dons it.

Grasshopper-and-Yeddim Exercise
Cost: 5+ motes, 1 willpower
Duration: Indefinite
Type: Simple
Minimum Stamina: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Unnatural Size Meditation
The size of the world is no more a limitation for the Lunar, who may crushing houses with grasshoppers and moving as Yeddim the size of a mouse. Every 5 motes spent grant the Lunar a Change that allows him to change the size of a form one level up or down, giving it the respective mutations(Small, Tiny and Minuscle to make forms smaller, Large, Huge, Giant and Gargantua to make forms bigger). The Lunar may not have more Changes active than half his Essence, rounded down, and thus, there is a limit to how small he may make large forms, or how much larger he can make even those. The form receives all the bonuses of the Mutation.