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Changing Blood

Feral Harmony Technique
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Wits: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: None
With the great acceptance of his body, the Lunar is able to channel gifts in the Heart's Blood of the many beings she holds within her Exaltation. Those traits show his harmony with the creatures, and are rarely subtle. If one with a Tyrant Lizard totem gets the 'Sturdy' mutation, his muscles bulge, his demeanor becomes repilian, scales appear in his muscles. If he gets 'Huge', he becomes not only twice his height, but also scaled, with a reptilian face. 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 three times, the Lunar can draw any Mutation from his Blood Library, no matter how outlandish. With a Shapeshifting Action, the Lunar can commit 2 motes 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 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: Ascendant Wits
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! Learning Skin-Dancing Technique makes Shapeshifting Actions become a mere unrolled dice action during the turn, which does 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
More than simple dancers, Lunars who know Flowing Quicksilver Spirit learn how to make their shapes fluid, shifting with such grace and ease that it is hard to believe that there was something solid about their form... that it was just always fluid, unreal, like quicksilver. This Charm makes Shapeshifting Actions become reflexive actions which the Lunar can use anytime during a turn. He may not shapeshift more times in a single turn than he has dots of Wits, however.

Endless Silver Acceptance
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Wits: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None
There is effort required in Shapeshifting, as the Lunar forces his form to accept another pattern, to become something else. Even for those protean like the Lunars, there is some effort involved... but learning this Charm, they touch their shape with Luna’s love for all that is of Gaia, and make themselves accept other forms more easily. Learning this Charm, the Lunar halves the Blood Cost of his Forms for the purpose of all Shapeshifting Actions by half(rounded down, to a minimum of 0).

Silver Masks Mastery
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Wits: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Flowing Quicksilver Spirit, Endless Silver Acceptance
Lunars are in a great masquerade in the world. Constantly shifting their masks in this ball, carrying so many within their bodies. Some Lunars learn how to do so with ease, shifting such masks without any worry at all. With Silver Masks Mastery, the Blood Cost of the Lunar's shapes is reduced further, and become equal to their equivalent level of Blood Library that would take to have it as a Prize Form. Thus, forms up to 6 points cost only 1 mote, up to 8 points cost 2 motes, up to 10 poitns costs 3, up to 16 costs 4, up to 20 costs 5... and any form with a mutation point cost greater than 20 costs only 6 motes. In addition, the Lunar becomes able to sidestep the Truth of Luna under his masks, if not for long. The Lunar can change shape when her anima banner is showing on the 8+ level, 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: Endless Silver Acceptance
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 Silver 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: None
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: 5
Minimum Essence: 5
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.