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Righteous Devil Style

Righteous Devils are dispensers of Heaven's divine judgment. Those who walk as Righteous Devils follow a single precept - to burn in celestial flame all who defile those who serve at the feet of unrighteousness!

Righteous Devil Style considers attacks made using Firedust-powered weapons as Unarmed attacks. All Charms in this Style are compatible with armor.

Student Techniques

Lighting Draw Stance
Cost: 1 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Martial Arts: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
With this Charm, the martial artist need not have her weapon in hand before Initiative is rolled to use it. Vibrant cobalt lightning crackles and coalesces about her forearm, and in one fluid motion, the Devil readies her firewand and fires. Activating this Charm allows the Devil to draw and ready her weapons with one Reflexive movement that requires no thought and no time. She is able to holster her weapons as fast as she can ready them, going from armed to unarmed and to armed again in fluid, impossible movements whenever she uses this Charm -- this movement is so swift that in social situations it might allow the Devil a surprise attack: roll the Adept's Dexterity+Martial Arts against his opponent's Wits+Awareness to stablish surprise in plain sight using this Charm.

Twin Phoenix Fist
Cost: 4 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Martial Arts: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Lighting Draw Stance
With this Charm the Devil's hands coruscate with burning Essence like twin beating wings - each movement of one synchronized with and empowered by the other!

For the remainder of the Scene the Devil suffers no "off-hand" penalties and lowers her split-action penalties by half her Essence (rounded up) as long as they are evenly distributed between both hands.

Cloud of Ebon Devils
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Martial Arts: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Lighting Draw Stance
Despite the superior damage capabilities of Firedust-based weapons, there are certain drawbacks to using them: the low availability and astronomical price of firedust, just to name a couple. Also, their temperamental nature and need for constant upkeep and repair make them difficult choices for use in the field. But perhaps the biggest difficulty in using firedust-based weapons is that most flamedischarge weapons are single-shot ones -- one must spend time to reload one after each shot. A Righteous Devil can ignore this particular weakness! This Charm allows the Devil to reload his weapon with one Reflexive movement that requires no thought and no time.

Heaven's Kiss Concentration
Cost: 1 mote per 2 die
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Martial Arts: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Lighting Draw Stance
The character draws a breath and concentrates, extending her senses to feel the flow of Essence that unites her, her weapon and her target. In this perfect moment, the Devil fires her strike and the tongue of flame bursting forth seeks out her intended target with knowing assurance. The Devil must choose an oponent and spend one dice action aiming prior to attacking for this Charm to take effect - this Charm specifically allows the Exalt to co-opt actions of Extra Action Charms to aiming. She may then increase the accuracy of her attacks by paying one mote per die added as long as she does not exceed her Dexterity + Martial Arts pool. This Charm can be used against the opponent she has aimed at as many times as she wishes as long as the opponent remains a constant in its position, speed and surroundings: drastic movement, positioning changes or vanishing from sight make this bonus vanish and require the Devil to spend another action aiming before receiving the benefits of this Charm again.

Blossom of Inevitable Demise
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Martial Arts: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Heaven's Kiss Concentration
As with Heaven's Kiss Concentration the character draws a breath and concentrates upon her opponent, but unlike its predecessor the Devil concentrates not on their position and the relationship between their places in the world, but in their opponent's sins against it! During this action of concentration the character recites her opponent's transgressions against Heaven like a mantra before launching that spirals into a blossoming peony of flame. Each violation of Divine or Secular law the Devil recites add their Severity (see Exalted: The Sidereals page 36: secular offenses are disturbances of a kingdom's laws, balance and important Gods) to the raw damage of the attack, but the Devil cannot recite more violations than her Conviction.

The action used to recite the opponent's crimes can be the same one Heaven's Kiss Concentration uses to aim against the opponent - both are the same in their single-minded focus on their target.

The Form

Righteous Devil Form
Cost: 7 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Martial Arts: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Blossom of Inevitable Demise, Twin Phoenix Fist, Cloud of Ebon Devils
Enacting this Form, the Righteous Devil takes on an executioner's terrible stillness. Shadows seem to darken about his eyes and render his features gaunt, giving him an imposing, dreadful gaze. He is the fatal answer to the depraved and unjust, the retribution all who would defy Heaven knew must someday come. After activating this Charm, all extras who lay eyes on the martial artist will move unassumingly, as not to draw attention to themselves, yet swiftly for cover, pull their children inside and bolt their doors - whereas all targets of the martial artist within her Essence x 10 yards feel a sense foreboding and are compelled to confront the Righteous Devil: up until a target actually makes eye contact with her she must suceed in a successful reflexive Willpower roll each turn with a difficulty equal to the Devil's Permanent Essence rating or her character moves to confront the martial artist. Characters may spend a point of temporary Willpower to stop this compulsion. Once a target has spent a turn engaged in combat or parley with the Devil she is immune to this effect for the remainder of the scene. Combat with the Righteous Devil is a difficult thing, however - all attacks against the Devil by those compelled to come to their executioner have their Difficulty increased by half the martial artist's Conviction, rounded down.

As long as she enacts the Righteous Devil form the character can reload and draw her weapons as with Lighting Draw Stance and Cloud of Ebon Devils reflexively.

This is a Martial Arts Form-type Charm and is incompatible with other Charms of like type; should the martial artist activate another Form, this one immediately ends.