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Obsidian Circle

Ebony Illumination
Void Circle Spell
Cost: 60 motes.

The soul of a Nephwrack becomes a chandelier. That of three destroyed Chosen or Gods become the candles. They burn around the Ghost targeted by Ebony Illumination, within the great chandelier that burns like the candles for Five Days and Five Nights in the calendar of Setesh, internalizing the Numbers and Lessons of power. The candles burn to the end, until only a flickering spark remains, and a misma of power covers the ghost. As Setesh marks the Fifth Day, Ebony Illumination is cast. Void opens around the ghost, and all the miasma, all the power and the souls are infused on him... and then there is nothing. Within this void, he sees them all, and conquers them all. Within this void, the Ghost tames power and souls and walks away reborn. Illuminated.

Illuminated Ghosts become proficient at the use of Essence. That grants them the ability to...

• ... make Combos as Exalted. They can mix Martial Arts and Arcanoi as if they were the same Ability.
• ... add dice up to their their highest Passion+Essence.
• ... attain the Bulb of the Perfected Lotus the manner of the Dragon-Blooded.
• ... learn Shadowlands Circle Necromancy.
• ... receive Magical Material Bonus from artifacts by forcing attunement. Their 'natural' material comprises all Grave Goods.
• ... the ability to manifest something akin to an anima, a power that fits their soul, their identity. They receive twice their Essence in Ebony Bleesings. One Ebony Blessing is equivalent to one dot of a Hearthstone as a power innate to the Illuminated, and he may divide those between as many of them as he wishes, or one great Hearthstone-power. Hearthstones whose power include their breaking are powers that take one month to recharge. Hearthstones that affect the items they are socketed in instead affect items attunned to the Ghost. Those Hearthstones are tipically Underworld ones, but they do not have to be - they may be of any Aspect, even Celestial ones through a lens of shadow.

(Relentless Revenant Spirit, the Abyssal Charm that enhances the Abyssal's Ghost after his death now grants all those abilities, plus access to natural attunement of Soulsteel and access to Labyrinth Circle Necromancy. All that on top of doubling its number of starting Arcanoi. It is already bad enough for an Abyssal to lose all of his Charms, flexibility, and access to the higher circles.)

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