Arcanoi/UnyieldingEffigyPath
Unyielding Effigy Path
The Underworld in it’s entirety is populated by those unwilling to surrender to the pull of Lethe and end their existence. Yet for some, even this defiance is not enough. They cling not simply to the cold existence of undeath, but desperately to life itself.
Phantom-Flame Engulfment
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Compassion: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Perquisite Charms: None
Life has a shade and a color all it’s own. Enflamed with their passions, mortals throb with the glory of their existence. Recalling this sensation, the undead spirit builds a pyre bellow his ghostly flesh. His outwards guise changes visibly in the eyes of unliving creatures. His skin flushes with warmth and life, his eyes ignited from within in the sort of honest emotion no dead man should be able to feel. For the duration of this Charm, the ghost gains a number of dice equal to his essence to any attempts to pass himself off as a living mortal.
Shroud Incinerating Incantation
Cost: 6 motes
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Compassion: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Perquisite Charms: Phantom-Flame Engulfment
Wrapped not only in the moment of their death, but the necrotic essence of the Underworld, the dead are enshrouded by the cold stigma of their origins. There is danger in tearing this veil away, for the threads which bind them to their existence are inexorably linked to it. Yet for the brave, or desperate, burning away as much of this weighty miasma as possible is the only true path. For the remainder of the scene, the Ghost is no longer considered a Creature of Darkness. This effect ends the moment he expends motes for Arcanoi or to empower artifacts of the dead. If the ghost is slain while under the effects of this Charm, he does not manifest back into the Underworld but is thrown instantly into Lethe.
Respiring Flame Radiance
Cost: 1 Willpower
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Compassion: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Perquisite Charms: Shroud Incinerating Incantation
The dead choke upon the air of Creation. Sharp and burning within their lungs, trying to respire within the lands of the living often brings only pain and few ghosts choose to stay longer than they can old their breath. When employing this Arcanoi however, the ghost creates a small bonfire of ghost-flame within his throat. In the dark of night, the mortal eye can only see flickering when his mouth and behind his eyes. By expending a point of Willpower, for a number of hours equal to his Compassion each day, the ghost may actually breath in Creations air and suckle at the ambient essence within it. Tainted with the touch of death as they pass through his pale inferno, he recovers motes as if he were in the Underworld.
