Rutee/Xiao

Name: Xiao Xueshi (Formally Mnemon Xiao)
Player: Rutee
Caste: Twilight
Concept: The Littlest Sorceress
Motivation: Personally return or oversee the return of the lost knowledge, technology, and magic of the First Age through research and raiding.
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Attributes 4/6/8

 (Physical)                (Social)                   (Mental)
 Strength      [00...]     Charisma      [0000.]      Perception     [00...]
 Dexterity     [000..]     Manipulation  [0....]      Intelligence   [00000]
 Stamina       [00...]     Appearance    [0000.]      Wits           [0000.]

Abilities 28

 (Dawn)                    (Zenith)                   (Twilight)
 Archery       [00...]     Integrity     [.....]     Craft(Magitech)[000..]
 War           [.....]     Perform       [.....]     Investigation  [00...]
 Martial Arts  [.....]     Presence      [.....]     Lore           [0000.]
 Melee         [.....]     .Resistance   [00...]     Medicine       [0....]
 Thrown        [.....]     .Survival     [000..]     Occult         [00000]

 (Night)                   (Eclipse)                 (Specialties)
 Athletics    [.....]      Bureaucracy   [.....]     Investigation: (Research +2)
 Awareness    [.....]      .Linguistics  [000..]     Survival: (Finding Food +1)
 .Dodge       [00...]      Ride          [00...]     Lore: (First Age +1)
 Larceny      [.....]      Sail          [.....]
 Stealth      [.....]      .Socialize    [00...]

Advantages

      Backgrounds                             Virtues
 Familiar       [000..]    Compassion     [000..]    Temperance     [00...]
 Manse          [00...]    Conviction     [000..]    Valor          [0....]
 Artifact       [00...]    Virtue Flaw: Heart of Tears
 Contacts       [0....]

 Willpower [000000....]    Health Levels
 Essence   [0000......]    -0    []
 Limit     [.........!]    -1    []
                           -2    [] []
 Personal: 18/18           -4    []
 Peripheral: 39/43         Incap []
 Committed: 4

Intimacies:

Her Collection:

Her books are the only things in her worn pack that aren't food, and she has read them back to front. They're all books on magical theory and first age wonders, and the ones in her pack, typically, are, within a few nights, actually only read for cosmetic purposes, as she actually already has them committed to memory. Her Manse actually has stacks of them, and like the ones in her pack, are read cover to cover. Of particular note are her copies of the Black and White Treatises. While she has technically progressed beyond the material coverred within, she hasn't learned all of the spells in the Black Treatise, and feels that her understanding of more basic magical theory isn't complete enough to continue the study of the Celestial Circle. Everything she's found in the time since her Exaltation is in this collection, and odds are pretty good that if she doesn't know something offhand, she can find it.

Her great big black doggie, Noctis

Noctis was what woke her up after she collapsed in the Scavenger Lands' plains. Her immediate response after waking up under it's warm tongue was to scream; She thought she was being tasted; After all, Omen Dogs aren't usually so friendly. When she realized she wasn't being eaten, she asked if she wasn't tasty. The dog made no response, and it took quite a while for her to realize that he meant her no harm. She typically rides him around, and usually sleeps with him at her side.

Her Manse, Test of the Ages

She found this relatively soon after her Exaltation, by sheer skill at Geomantic readings. She attuned it to herself, and has stored every book she's found in it, no matter how inane. Due to the lack of real furnishings, they're merely lying around in stacks, with no organization to speak of currently. She plans, on her next return, to organize all the stacks into something coherent. The Manse is aligned with Dragon Lines of Wind energy, and it produces a Mind-Cleansing Gem, set to the Orichalcum Bracers she found on another sojourn. She returns periodically to rest.

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The only one of her professors who did not attempt to harm her when she Exalted, and she did not fail to notice. While all the other professors were frantically casting as many ineffectual counterspells as they could, he merely stood and watched. The other professors hadn't noticed, and thus, he remains safe. She maintains correspondence with him, letters with no signature and written in a different hand then her own.

Charms

Survival:
Friendship with Animals Approach (3m, Scene, Reflexive, Combo-OK) Animals do not harm the Exalt, and she can understand them very easily. They can comprehend her to a limited extent as well. This is currently her only way to properly understand Noctis
\Spirit Tied Pet (10m, 1wp, 1xp, Combo-OK, Touch) Adds one dot of Familiar to the animal.

Dodge:
First Dodge Excellency

Lore:
First Lore Excellency

Occult:
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery (-, Permanent The Exalt can shape Terrestrial Circle Sorceries.
\Celestial Circle Sorcery (-, Permanent) The Exalt can shape Celestial Circle Sorceries.

Spells:
Terrestrial Circle:

Death of Obsidian Butterflies:

Cost: 15m

Target: The area in front of her

Affects an area 30 yards wide, 100 yards long, and 10 yards high. Roll Perc + Occult to determine hits, and add Essence as auto successes. The damage is 8L plus extra successes. Xiao actually doesn't like casting this spell, due to the harm it tends to cause people, and typically whistles for Noctis to return to her when she begins shaping it.

Invulnerable Skin of Bronze:

Cost: 20m

Target: Caster

The caster's skin hardens into shining bronze, and while she's not hinderred, it's not a good idea to stand in mud or near water. Adds +6L/+12B soak, and 6L/12B Hardness

Demon of the First Circle:

Cost: 20m+

Target: One Summoned Demon

The Caster calls a foot soldier of the Yozis from Malfeas. Shaping this takes a dramatic action, which starts at sunset and ends at midnight. At the end of the casting, the demon (which may either be named or called by function or species) is forced to materialize in front of the caster. The caster and demon enter a contested Willpower + Essence roll, with the demon at a -1 penalty for every 5 motes past 20 that the Exalt pays in casting the spell, and the first to accumulate three more successes then the other wins. If the demon wins, it's free in Creation, and may be banished by a reflexive Wits + Occult roll at difficulty 3. If that fails, it's truly free. If the Exalt wins, the demon is bound to her will.

Celestial Circle:

Travel Without Distance

Cost: 25m

Target: Caster

The Exalt can travel to any point familiar to her within 10 miles per point of Permanent Essence. When cast by Xiao, she disappears in a puff of pink smoke, and appears in the same fashion. She has never been able to replicate her original casting of this spell, which took her from the Blessed Islands to an unknown location in the Scavenger Lands, and suspects that the overflow of essence from her Exaltation had something to do with it.