BogModAlternateSidereals/Survival
Survival is the Constellation of the Ship's Wheel.
Well-Travelled Body
Cost: -; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
They key to travel is experience. Once you have been somewhere new there is a sharp learning curve but soon you adapt. The learning curves for the Viziers are often sharper but their adaptions more lasting. When in terrain with a survival difficulty of 2 or more the start counting out how long the Sidereal is there for. If they can last a week minus the a number of days equal to the survival difficulty for the area the survival roll difficulty for that area drops to 0. A Sidereal with this charm automatically is assumed to pass any Survival difficulty roll for surviving in an area with a difficulty of 1 or less. Surviving in a Difficulty 5 zone means the character is safe from all forms of that area. In general use the Lunar directional guidelines for this. This charm provides no defense against intentional environmental effects used against her.
Border Walking Scout Technique
Cost: 7m; Mins: Survival 4, Essence 3; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Well-Travelled Body
Once they have walked the safer paths through the world the Vizier find themselves having to chart more dangerous ones. While this charm is active the character the character is immune to more extreme versions of the environmental hazards. Having survived well in the south the Vizier can find herself safe from flames and so on. Continue to use the Lunar (Directional) Mastery Technique charms for a guideline. All environmental effects should fall into one of those 5 categories. This charm provides no defense against intentional environmental effects used against her.
Mercury's Blessed Boots
Cost: -; Mins: Survival 5, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Any Survival Excellency, Border Walking Scout Technique
Mercury walks amongst the raging fires of the far south where jealous elementals throw flames at her, only for her to laugh and move on. In the north she might dance with the fair folk, only to smile and wink as they send chill winds to try to freeze her in place. She walks on. Like her the Vizier's find themselves safe no matter where they walk. This charm enhances Border Walking Scout and removes and Well-Travelled Body to remove the clause regarding others intentions.
Wild Walking Safety Technique
Cost: 4m; Mins: Survival 4, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Well-Travelled Body
The destiny of the Vizier's is greater then that of the beasts of the land and so they make way for the Sidereals. Natural animals will not attack the Sidereal and will not show fear at her presence. Should the Sidereal be attacking or otherwise provoking the creatures or some other force compells them to attack her they still suffer a penalty to their attack rolls equal to the Sidereal's Survival trait. When faced with unnatural animals, animal form gods or demons, beastmen or even lunars in animal form or their Warform the Sidereal can spend an additional willpower to extend this effect even to them. This effect is automatic but can be resisted by spending 2 willpower for non-natural animals. As a final benifit this charm allows for communication with animals though does not enhance their comprehension.
Blind Love Runner
Cost: 4m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 2; House of Journeys 2; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: College, Combo-OK
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Any Survival Excellency
Blind to anything but the journey the Vizier ignores all distractions. This charm lets her add her Compassion to her MDV against any social attacks that would weaken or make her against a positive intimacy she possesses. During any scene she has this charm active she can replace her Integrity with Survival for purposes of calculating her MDDV though she must still use her Integrity Excellency to boost that value.
Local Guide Paths Journey
Cost: 8m; Mins: Survival 3, Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: None
The most well tended highway or the densest jungle is the same to the Viziers. The Sidereal counts Difficulty and Extreme terrain as if it were open. She must still have the means to travel that terrain if it would normally be impossible such as the ocean or a river of fire. She can lead a group of people with a Magnitude no greater then her Essence while using this charm.
Creationborn Protection Technique
Cost: 3m/magnitude; Mins: Survival 5, Essence 3; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Well-Travelled Body
With the Viziers as your guide even the strangest of realms is as Creation. The Sidereal infuses the land around her with the essence of Creation. For every 3 motes she commits she can fit another magnitude of people into the growing area around her. Those under her auspice treat the difficulty of surviving in an area around the Sidereal at 1.
Final Frontiers Journey
Cost: 15m, 1wp; Mins: Survival 5, Essence 4; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Creationborn Protection Technique
With the blessing of Mercury the Vizier's may lead anyone to anyplace safely. Wether it be to the deadly flames of the Pole of Fire, though the murderous curse of the Walker's shadowland or endure the poisonous nature of Malfeas with a Chosen of Journey's leading you can keep you safe. The Sidereal using this charm protects a group of people of Magnitude up to their Essence in size safe from the environmental hazards of any place they go into. They take damage, Poison, Crippling or Sickness effects only when directly inflicted upon them by another. Furthermore the difficulty of survival rolls for the group is whatever it would be for the Sidereal in that area. So a Sidereal who, thanks to Well-Travelled Body, finds the middle of desert difficulty 0 so does the group she is with find their difficulty rolls reduced to that level.
Creation Mending Technique
Cost: 10m, 2wp; Mins: Survival 5, Essence 4; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-Basic, Obvious
Duration: One week
Prerequisite Charms: Creationborn Protection Technique, Any Two Survival Excellencies
When there are gaps in Creation, places where walking can send you into another realm or the rules of the land have been twisted the Chosen of the Mercury go to help correct the problems. This charm reduces the level of wyld in the area by one or reduces the size of a shadowland after spending time walking through the affected areas. Several journeyes back and forth are required so the size that can be reduced is limited by how quickly the Sidereal can walk. The Sidereal must walk it as well using nothing but her own bare feet unaided by charms. For this reason this charm has been used to close some Shadowlands since the Great Contagion but many are too large to just walk slowly around to close for the Sidereals who are so pressed for time.
Many-Blessed Keys Technique
Cost: 15m, 1wp; Mins: Survival 5, Essence 3; Type: Simple
Keywords: Obvious
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Any Survival Excellency, Local Guide Paths Journey
The doors to Heaven open to the touch of the Sidereals. This charm opens up any Sanctum doorway or Yu-Shan Gate that the Sidereal touches. At Essence 5 the Sidereal can spend an additional point of Willpower to try to summon the Calibration Gate. If someone has used the Celestial Circle Spell Summon the Heavenly Portal this charm permits a contested effect roll off to bring the Gate to the Sidereal.
Thousand Paths Movements
Cost: -; Mins: Survival 2, Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Merged
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: None
One thing that the Viziers know is that there is a thousand different ways to reach wherever they wish to go. Solars may refuse to change their path and push on but Sidereals will take another path always with their final goal in mind. The difficulty of any Blockade Movement action against the Sidereal is increased by 2. This works regardless of the form of transport the Sidereal is on. Walking, riding a steed or on a ship it doesn't matter. This charm exists in Ride and Sail.
