Sariel/LedaalAndante

Andry was originally created for a Dragon-Blooded game run by IsawaBrian; he's the first Exalted character I ever actually played. He . . . also requires some fine-tuning if I ever attempt to play him again; this was before I learned how to twink properly in Exalted, so my dice pools were wimpy compared to everyone else's, except in Sorcery which I didn't use very much before the game ended. Still, for posterity's sake . . .

In summary: Andante is a good little Conviction-heavy Air-blooded Dynast who was indoctrinated by his Sidereal mentor at the Heptagram and his Nightmares Flaw into pathological terror of Anathema. He's also best friends with V'neef's grandson (one of the other PCs, with Legendary Breeding), and happily political when not plotting ways to annihilate anything resembling Anathema before it can break the Realm. Somewhere along the way, he had a blackout in which his hand vanished. Now he has a blue jade hand of scary Death of Obsidian Butterflies doom. Yay!

Notes =

• This is a rewrite of Andry from scratch; it is also Not Yet Finished, as I still need to pick another artifact and another Hearthstone, and generally fine-tune (and add in expanded notes on stuff). Recommendations welcome, particularly with respect to his Charms and spells.
• For some reason, he's being inclined toward martial arts in this round of chargen. [bemused] I'm not sure it's worth trying to make him actually combat-capable or if I should leave it as flavor, though; on the one hand, sorcery is frankly not that useful in most kinds of combat, and I hate playing a combat-useless character, but on the other hand, it's that many fewer points and Charm slots I can put toward sorcery or social skills. Hm. How effective is the "generic" DB martial art? Because if I could get him an Immaculate style I'd do it in a heartbeat -- it's utterly Andry -- but I'm not so sure about the generic version.
  • (And yes, I have justification for it: he was and is too physically weak to be very good at Brawl or Melee or any Archery beyond, like, fowling, but the formality and meditative aspects of Martial Arts appealed, and he's got Immaculate connections which might've been honed via martial arts training.)

Character Sheet

Name:    Ledaal Andante
Caste:   Air
Nature:  Martyr
Anima:   A dragon of crackling lightning.
Concept: Obsessive noble sorcerer.

Attributes

Strength       ☻oooo     Charisma     ☻☻☻oo   Perception   ☻☻ooo

Dexterity      ☻☻☻☻☻     Manipulation ☻☻☻☻o   Intelligence ☻☻☻☻o

Stamina        ☻oooo     Appearance   ☻☻☻oo   Wits         ☻☻☻☻o

Abilities

Archery:       ☻oooo

Awareness:     ☻☻☻oo

Bureaucracy:   ☻☻ooo

Dodge:         ☻☻☻oo

Endurance:     ☻☻ooo

Investigation: ☻☻☻oo

Linguistics:   ☻☻☻☻o

Lore:          ☻☻☻☻o

Martial Arts:  ☻☻☻oo

Melee:         ☻oooo

Occult:        ☻☻☻☻☻

Performance:   ☻☻☻oo

Presence:      ☻☻ooo

Ride:          ☻☻☻oo

Socialize:     ☻☻☻oo

Stealth:       ooooo

Thrown:        ooooo

Specialties

Lore: Immaculate Philosophy 1

Occult: Sorcery 3

Languages

High Realm (native), Old Realm, three others

Backgrounds

Allies      ☻oooo (twin sister, Wood-Exalt)

Artifact    ☻☻☻oo (Armor, Hand, ?)

Backing     ☻oooo (Immaculate Order)

Breeding    ☻☻☻oo (+3 pers/+5 peri)

Connections ☻oooo (Immaculate Order)

Manse       ☻☻☻oo (Key, ?, Jewel)

Resources   ☻☻☻oo

Merits

• none

Flaws

• Amnesia 1 (does not remember how he lost his hand)
• Enemies 1 (fellow military-academy students)
• Enemies 1 (fellow Heptagram students)
• Nightmares 3 (mostly about Anathema destroying the Realm)
• Secret 2 (the Sidereal mentor)
• Superstition 2 (utterly fanatic re Anathema hatred, will kill or risk his own death to try destroying one)

Virtues

Compassion ☻☻ooo    Conviction ☻☻☻☻o

Temperance ☻☻ooo    Valor      ☻☻ooo

Charms

• Endurance
  • Ox-Body Technique x1 (+3 health levels)
• Lore
  • Elemental Bolt Attack
• Occult
  • Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
    • Death of Obsidian Butterflies
    • Emerald Countermagic
    • Invulnerable Skin of Bronze
• Performance
  • Memorable Performance Technique

Combos

• none
  • none

Equipment

• Artifacts
  • Blue Jade Hand (Artifact ☻☻ooo): 2e to attune.
  • Silken Armor (Artifact ☻☻☻oo): +5L/+3B Soak, 6e to attune.
  •  ? (Artifact ☻oooo)
• Hearthstones
  • Key of Mastery (Air ☻☻☻oo): attuned to DoOB
  • Jewel of the Flying Heart (Air ☻oooo): +(1/2) Conviction to Dodge
  •  ? (Manse ☻☻ooo)

Willpower: 6/6
Essence: 3

Personal: 15/15

Peripheral: 26/34

Committed: 2e (hand), 6e (armor).

Limit Break: Conviction-Air: "So fixated on dreams of the future that, like a blizzard, he becomes deaf to the cries of the present, enabling him to reach great heights of cruelty in pursuit of his schemes."

Limit: 0/10

Health: [O] [O] [O] [O] [O] [O] [O] [O] [O]
        [0] [1] [1] [1] [2] [2] [2] [4] [I]

Combat

Init mod: Wits (4) + Dex (5) == 9

Soak (armored): 4B/5L/0A, 0 Hardness

Dodge: Dex (5) + Dodge (3) + Essence (3) + half-Conviction (2) == 13 (base dodge pool)

Attacks:

none as yet

Charms

To be added later.

Backgrounds

To be added later.

XP

To be added later.

Ledaal Andante

Personality, background, etc. To be added later.

Attached NPCs

To be added later.