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Blood Reshaping

Blood Reshaping Technique
Cost: 5 motes, 1 willpower, 1 Health Level
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Manipulation: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None
By allowing a subject to taste his blood and activating this charm, he may make minor alteractions to the form of a subject, as with Shaping the Ideal Form. Those alterations require a Manipulation + Craft(Shapeshifting) roll. Minor, purely cosmetical alterations require a roll at standard difficulty. More than five minor changes requires a roll at difficulty 3. Ten or more require a roll at difficulty 5. However, the Lunar may add any of the situation bonuses of Shaping the Ideal Form, with an extra difficulty added per bonus dice. The change lasts for a full Lunar Phase, and cannot be used on unwilling subjects, but the Lunar may stipulate a lesser trigger, like ‘just one night’ or ‘just one hour’. The subject may make them permanent if he wishes, fully embracing them. This can serve to increase one’s Appearance rating, paying the usual experience cost, but without any training time, and to give someone a new identity, for 6 experience points.

Wondrous Lunar Transformation
Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower, 1 Health Level
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Manipulation: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Blood Reshaping Technique
By allowing a subject to taste his blood and activating this charm, he may make major alteractions to the form of a subject, turning the subject into any shape on his 'Blood Library' shifting the subject’s gender or granting the subject any mutations the Lunar possesses due to his Totem or by other means. This lasts for a full Lunar Month. Those alterations must be made on a willing subject and require a Manipulation + Craft(Shapeshifting) roll. With a difficulty of the subject's Essence, plus...

• ... 2 when shifting the subject into a member of the same species.
• ... 3 when shifting the subject into a member of a different species.
• ... +1 for each size difference between the subject and his new shape.

The change lasts for a full Lunar Phase, but the Lunar may stipulate a lesser trigger, like 'just one night', 'just one hour' or 'until the hum of a certain song goes through the body'. The subject may make them permanent if he wishes, fully embracing them. This costs a number of experience points equal to the Mutation value of their new form.

Insidious Lunar Change
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Manipulation: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Wondrous Lunar Transformation
With a push of her will, a Lunar can force one’s shape against her will, shifting it in any and all ways she so wishes. Lunars are the greatest lords of shapeshifting, and another’s shape may be decided by the Lunars, and the Lunars alone. This Charm enhances Blood-Reshaping Technique and Wondrous Lunar Transformation, making them work on unwilling targets. This doubles their Essence for the purpose of the transformation, however.

Change of Five Moons
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Manipulation: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Wondrous Lunar Transformation
Usually, changes last until Luna changes her face, but she has many faces, and although nothing remains constant until she adopts the same face once again, a Lunar may make the changes to another last until she does so! This Charm enhances Blood-Reshaping Technique and Wondrous Lunar Transformation, making them last for a whole Lunar Month.

Hold the Moon
Cost: 4 motes 1 willpower
Duration: Indefinite
Type: Simple
Minimum Manipulation: 5
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Change of Five Moons, Insidious Lunar Change
By internalizing the principles of change, a Lunar becomes able to hold a form against all changes of the celestial world! To use Hold the World, the Lunar must touch a subject for a number of minutes equal to the subject’s Essence rating, as silver marks travel from the Lunar to the subject. As long as the motes remain committed, nothing can change the subject’s Shape unless the Lunar wills it, and its shape will be locked in whatever shape it is right now. This Charm may explicitly make Lunar shapeshifting charms last longer than they otherwise would.

Blood Wax Technique
Cost: 6 motes, 1 Health Level
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Manipulation: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Blood Reshaping Technique
Coating his hand in blood, the Lunar touches a victim... and shapes part of her away. Muscles are shaped into jelly, tendons into withered vines; Eyes blinded, lips sealed together. Lunars are masters of shapeshifting, and for them flesh moves like hot wax. The Lunar makes an unarmed attack, and if he suceeds, he Manipulation+Craft(Shapeshifting) with a difficulty of the victim’s Essence; Every success scored by the Lunar means the decrease of one point of Strength, Dexterity, Stamina, Appearance or Perception of the victim.

Victims reduced to zero Strength may not carry or lift anything but the lightest cloth; Victims reduced to zero Dexterity may not move; Victims reduced to zero stamina fall into a coma; Victims reduced to zero appearance become twisted monsters; And Victims reduced to zero Perception loses almost all of their senses, retaining only tact to navigate their way. Two successes are enough to wither a limb or remove a single sense(removing the organ as well, most of the times - making mouths vanish, turning eyes into something unworkable...) if the Lunar so prefers, however. The changes last for a Lunar Month on magical beings, but are permanent on mortals.

Touch of Luna
Cost: 10 motes, 1 willpower, 1 Health Level
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Manipulation: 5
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Blood Wax Technique
The Lunar wreathes her hand in the essence of Luna, the sheer power of the Silver Lady. The ability to change, to shift form as easily as a thought. Wreathed in her power, the Lunar strikes... and those he touches are changed forever. The Lunar makes Touch of Luna as an unarmed attack; Upon striking his foe, he forfeits damage to change the foe's shape to anything he can dream of.

The Lunar rolls his Manipulation+Craft(Shapeshifting), against a difficulty equal to the victim’s Essence; Victims may be willing, adding one success to this roll. If the Lunar succeeds, the target's shape is shifted. He can turn the target into any creature the Lunar can think of, if he can add enough mutation points for all its traits. Successes can be 'spent' changing the creature, adding two mutation points, negative or positive, per success(With 2 points per size-change. Minuscule would cost 6 points). The changes brought by this Charm last only one hour, but the Lunar may wish to spend 1 extra willpower to make them last for an entire Lunar Phase. The subject may make those changes Permanent if he pays the Experience Cost of the Mutations. Those Mutations are Wyld, however, as the Lunar's blood always possess some of the changing essence of chaos which Luna loves.

Shaping the Once-Living Form
Cost: 2 motes, 1 Health Level
Duration: Indefinite
Type: Simple
Minimum Manipulation: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Blood Reshaping Technique
With this Charm, the Lunar can reshape inert once-living material into another form. He can turn a fallen tree into a shelter, a bone into a weapon or hide into clothing. The Lunar cannot shape objects that are already under the influence of Sorcery or Charms. The material to be shaped must be covered into the Lunar's blood, costing 1 Health Level of Lethal damage. The roll to make the objects is Manipulation+Craft(Shapeshifting), with difficulty equal to twice the resources cost of the item to be made. Complex objects, anything more than a belt buckle, take a number of minutes equal to their difficulty, as well.

Mountains of Scattered Ashes
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Manipulation: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Shaping the Once-Living Form
Lunar blood is able to become grander, much like a Lunar’s form can become anything from an emerald grasshopper to a tyrant lizard! By wishing the blood within a once-living form to grow, the Lunar can shape them as greater than they have ever been! This Charm can be purchased three times, and enhances Shaping the Once-Living Form. The first time it is purchased, it allows the Lunar to increase the once-living material from small shapes to a human-sized shape. The second time it is purchased it allows smaller materials to become as large as a grand room or small house. The third time it is purchased allows one to enlarge the once-living things until they take the size of a palace. It costs more to activate this function when using Shaping the Once-Living Form, adding 1 health level and 2 motes per level used.

Twigs to Steel Transformation
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Manipulation: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Shaping the Once-Living Form
A sheen of silver light passes through the object, and even the weakest materials become serviceable by the Lunar. In his hand, twigs become greatswords, the bones of a mice great spears, threads of blood become chains, dry and dead wood becomes the wall of a castle. This Charm is used on a creation made with Shaping the Once-Living Form or other Lunar craft Charms - it instantly makes the material as resilient as a construction of metal or stone of the corresponding size and thickness. In fact, successes in excess of its usual difficulties might make the item Exceptional or Perfect as with any other Craft roll. If the item is made of an unusual material and hardened with Twigs to Steel Transformation, it may receive an Artifact 1-level power to Illustrate how a sword of blood strikes more fluidly, for example.

Blossom the Argent Life
Cost: 10 motes, 1+ Health Level
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Manipulation: 5
Minimum Essence: 5
Prerequisite Charms: Shaping the Once-Living Form
The Lunars have an intimate connection to the Lotus of Life, to the animal avatars, to the flow of life and blood in the world. Using that connection, the Lunar pours her blood on earth, on plants, on rivers or even rocks... and shifts them into life! Using Blossom of the Argent Life, the Lunar may create a number of living beings of roughly her size equal to her Essence for every Health Level spent. He may have less of those, like four of her to create a Tyrant Lizard, or less, like swarms over swarms of locusts. Those living beings are mundane in all ways, answer to the Lunar’s every order and last until the end of the scene, when they break into quicksilver flakes.