MartialArts/BurningDragonStyle

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This style is a reworked version of the Shen-Tao Family Style, as I was very disappointed with the results of the later.

Background

Mnemon Kadama as a gift to his son Mnemon Arcata created the Burning Dragon Style fifty years ago. Kadama led an undistinguished life as Dynasts go. As a child Kadama performed only adequately in all areas he was an average student an average Gateway player, and an average..well let us just say he was average in all things. He excelled at nothing but to his credit Kadama never showed incompetence at anything either, so it would seem that he was to become another of the rank-and-file amongst the Dynasts a cog in the machine that keeps the Empire going as opposed to one who would help steer the great machine that is the Empire. Kadama was grudgingly accepted into the house of bells, after that institution had accepted a number of "donations" from his parents. Graduation came without honors of fanfare, and he was given command of a Talon of soldiers stationed in near gem. His parents all the while scrambled to find a wife for their son as Kadama is only modest looking (for a Dragon blood), and had no true accomplishments, or talents. Finally, eight years after his commission, a wife for Kadama was found in the form of the lovely, intelligent and unexalted Nellens Jira. Jira and Kadama took to each other well, and a year later Arcata was born. Arcata was the brightest light in Kadama's life he filled him with joy, and also ironically brought him something else; for the first time in his life Kadama was good at something, being a father. Kadama, unlike many Dynasts, actually loved his son and doted upon him every chance he got. Arcata was also a source of pride for his father as he had the marks of the Fire Dragon from birth. This was idyllic until Arcata’s sixteenth birthday and still no exaltation. Kadama nervous and wanting the best for his son began to learn all he could of Essence control so he could teach his son and "encourage" exaltation. Being fire aspected Kadama focused on fire essence, and after ten long years of study he reached an epiphany this style being the result. That aside Arcata never exalted, but he was well educated, and unlike his father excelled at everything thrown at him eventually going on to become a highly place member of the All-Seeing-Eye stationed in Gem.

"Practitioners of the Burning Dragon are invincible as they are as unassailable, and deadly as a bonfire"

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Burning Dragon is a fire aspected Terrestrial Martial Art.

Burning Dragon use the Wind-Fire Wheel, and Hook Sword as style weapons.

Basic Charms

Burning Speed</b>

<b>Cost : 1 Motes

Duration : Instant

Type : Reflexive

Min. Martial Arts : 3

Min Essence : 1

' Prereqs : None

Description:The martial artist infuses her body with the essence of fire, gaining superhuman reflexes for a short period. Upon activating this charm the character adds half their permanent Essence rounded up to her initiative total. On any round in which this charm is activated the users first action must be an attack using Martial Arts.

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Smoke Borne Prowess</b>

<b>Cost : 1 Mote

Duration : One turn

Type : Reflexive

Min. Martial Arts : 3

Min Essence : 1

Prereqs : None

Description:Essence flares around the arms and legs of the martial artist as smoky tendrils of heat, invigorating her and aiding in movement.For the duration of the charm the character may add their essence to their Dexterity score for the purposes of calculating movement speed. Also actions regarding tumbling, or balance have their difficulty lowered by one.

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Fiery Vigor</b>

<b>Cost : 3 Motes per Health level.

Duration : Instant

Type : Reflexive

Min. Martial Arts : 3

Min Essence : 2

Prereqs : Burning Speed, Smoke Borne Prowess

Description:Drawing upon the infinite vigor of flame the character heals themselves in the blink of an eye. Any injury inflicted upon the character using this charm flares with bright crimson flame that gutters quickly leaving naught but whole flesh in its wake. This charm gives the martial artist one extra health level per mote of spent powering this charm. The health levels provided by this charm are lost first, and only exist for the duration of one attack. A character may use this charm to gain a maximum of (Essence) health levels per use. This Charm cannot be used to heal retroactively. This Charm does not prevent effects which must inflict health levels of damage upon a target from taking affect; as these are health levels however temporary.

Form Charm

Burning Dragon Form</b>

<b>Cost : 5 Motes

Duration : One Scene

Type : Simple

Min. Martial Arts : 4

Min Essence : 2

Prereqs : Fiery Vigor.

Description:The martial artist drops into a very "hard" low stance, and her skin ripples with the power housed below it. Upon adopting this form the martial artist becomes like a Bonfire, fast, sure, and deadly. The martial artist gains a bonus to initiative equal to their essence, may soak lethal with their bashing soak, and also deal lethal damage with unarmed attacks. For the duration of this Charm the difficulty of athletics actions are reduced by one. Characters cannot use more than one martial arts form-type charm at a time. Activating a form type Charm ends the effects of any other form-type Charm the character was previously using.

Advanced Charms

Invocation of the Dragon.</b>

<b>Cost : 1 Mote per 1L damage

Duration :Instant

Type :Simple

Min. Martial Arts :4

Min Essence :2

Prereqs : Burning Dragon Form.

Description:With this Charm the character momentarily conjures a small ball of swirling, unstable flame between his hands which then streaks forth to strike an opponent, exploding on contact. Upon evoking this Charm the character makes an attack using Essence + Martial Arts roll; this attack has a base damage of 1L per mote spent activating this charm, and a range of (permanent Essence*10). A character may only spend their Martial Arts score in motes per activation of this Charm.

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Burning Insight</b>

<b>Cost : 4 Motes

Duration :Instant

Type : Supplemental

Min. Martial Arts : 4

Min Essence : 3

Prereqs : Invocation of the Dragon.

Description:The martial artists eyes glow like stoked coals allowing her to see the weaknesses in an opponents style. This insight allows the martial artist to strike at an opponent in the most efficient manner. Attacks empowered by this charm add the characters permanent Essence to the base damage, and raise the difficulty of defense versus the attack to three.

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Burning Dragons Caress</b>

<b>Cost : 4 Motes, 1 Willpower

Duration : Instant

Type : Simple

Min. Martial Arts : 4

Min Essence : 3

Prereqs : Burning Insight.

Description:One of the characters limbs bursts into an obviously supernatural fire, as they streak into the air launching a devastating unarmed strike. The character makes an unarmed attack using Dexterity + Martial Arts as usual, should this attack be successful all damage is considered to come from fire, and is soaked as environmental damage. Invoking this Charm also consumes the characters movement for that round; it also cannot be put into a combo with Charms that give bonus dice to attack pools or lower target numbers.

Pinnacle Charm

One With the Dragon</b>

<b>Cost :6 Motes, 1 Willpower

Duration :One scene

Type :Simple

Min. Martial Arts :5

Min Essence :3

Prereqs : Burning Insight, Burning Dragons Caress.

Description:The martial artist masters the basics of fire through introspection of their own Essence. The character may now command the power of fire as easily as the less enlightened breathe. This Charm enhances for all-time the characters command of the fires within and around them. The character may now reflexively spend six motes to invoke an effect similar in all ways to the Fire Aspect Anima ability. A Fire aspected DB who activates this power inflicts damage as if his Essence were two higher; further if both this charm and the fire aspect anima ability is active at once the effects stack. Also when this Charm is active the character adds their Essence to the base damage inflicted by the advanced Charms in this tree. It should be noted with the above power that this damage is not in addition to the damage caused by the flaming aura generated by this Charm, but is in fact replaced by it. Also worth noting is a character who learns this Charm will manifest elementl markings of the fire variety as if they had a breeding of one higher, or in the case of non-Dragonblooded a breeding of one.

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