GracefulCharmMethodology/SolarBrawl

Charm Tree

Passion

Fists of Iron Technique

• Cost: 1m
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Brawl 1, Essence 1

Add the strength of an applicable Intimacy (Tie or Principle) to the base damage of this Brawl attack.

Heaven Thunder Hammer

• Cost: 3m
• Type: Reflexive
• Keywords: Decisive
• Mins: Brawl 3, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Fists of Iron Technique

Used when succeeding at a decisive Brawl attack, this knocks down the target. Every three successes on the damage roll throws the target one range band, taking falling damage as though they had fallen that distance, and causing appropriate damage to scenery. This does not affect very large opponents.

Sledgehammer Fist Punch

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 4, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Heaven Thunder Hammer

This enhances Heaven Thunder Hammer, allowing it to affect very large opponents.

Burning Fist Burial

• Cost: 1m, 1i per die
• Type: Reflexive
• Mins: Brawl 4, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Burning Fist Burial

Used when hitting with a Brawl attack, this allows the Solar to add to the base damage of the attack at the cost of one mote and one Initiative each, up to double the base damage.

Adamantine Fists of Battle

• Cost: 5m
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Burning Fist Burial

Add the Solar’s Strength to the Overwhelming value of this Brawl attack (usually 1). If the attack hits, the Solar may spend 1 temporary Willpower to extend this Charm’s duration to one scene.

Orichalcum Fists of Battle

• Cost: 8m, 3a, 1wp
• Type: Simple
• Duration: One scene
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Adamantine Fists of Battle

All damage rolls from Brawl attacks the Solar makes are rolled as radiant cascades. The Solar’s fists and caste mark glow fiercely.

Supremacy

Iron Battle Focus

• Cost: 2m
• Type: Reflexive
• Mins: Brawl 2, Essence 1

Remove any onslaught penalties the Solar currently has.

Reckless Fury Discard

• Cost: 4m
• Type: Reflexive
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Fists of Iron Technique, Iron Battle Focus

Add the strength of an applicable Intimacy to the Solar’s Parry or Evasion score.

Dancing With Strife Technique

• Type: Reflexive
• Keywords: Once/scene
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Reckless Fury Discard

Used when the Solar successfully defends against an attack with at least 5 successes, the Solar gains a point of temporary Willpower.

Force-Rending Strike

• Cost: 4m, 1wp
• Type: Reflexive
• Keywords: Clash, Decisive
• Mins: Brawl 4, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Iron Battle Focus

The Solar makes a reflexive Clash against an incoming decisive attack.

Intercepting Fury Smite

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Force-Rending Strike

If the Solar is using an improvised weapon, they may ignore the Willpower cost to use Force-Rending Strike. If so, their improvised weapon is destroyed in the process.

Fire-Eating Fist

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Force-Rending Strike

If a Clash against an energy attack is successful, the Essence of the opponent making the attack is added to the base damage of the Solar’s unarmed attacks. This effect stacks indefinitely, but ends when the Solar lands a successful attack or the end of the scene, whichever comes first.

Apocalypse Flare Attack

• Cost: 3m, 3a
• Type: Simple
• Keywords: Decisive
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Fire-Eating Fist

The Solar makes a decisive attack against a target they can perceive at any range. Add the bonus damage provided by Fire-Eating Fist, multiplied by three, to the damage of the attack.

Concussion

Ferocious Jab

• Cost: 1m
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Brawl 3, Essence 1

Add the target’s onslaught penalty to the base damage of this attack.

Wind And Stones Defence

• Cost: 3m
• Type: Reflexive
• Mins: Brawl 4, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Ferocious Jab

If the Solar has more Initiative than their attacker, add the attacker’s onslaught penalty to the Solar’s Parry or Evasion score.

Falling Hammer Strike

• Cost: 1m, 1wp
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Brawl 3, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Ferocious Jab

If this attack causes damage, it prevents the target’s onslaught penalty from refreshing automatically on their next action.

Ox-Stunning Blow

• Cost: 3m
• Type: Supplemental
• Keywords: Withering
• Mins: Brawl 3, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Falling Hammer Strike

Any successes from this withering attack are not added to the Solar’s Initiative: instead, they are added to the target’s onslaught penalty.

Bull-Felling Attitude

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 3, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Ox-Stunning Blow

When the Solar uses Ox-Stunning Blow, successes from the attack are added to both the Solar’s initiative and the target’s onslaught penalty.

Knockout Blow

• Cost: 2m, 1wp
• Type: Supplemental
• Keywords: Withering, Once/Scene
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Ox-Stunning Blow

If this withering attack crashes its target, the target is immediately knocked unconscious.

Cancel The Apocalypse

• Cost: 5m
• Type: Reflexive
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Ox-Stunning Blow

Used when crashing someone, the Solar immediately discovers all Brawl, Martial Arts, Melee, Strength and Stamina Charms that the target has active (permanent Charms are not ‘active’). They may choose one to immediately deactivate.

Control

Vicious Lunge

• Cost: 3m
• Type: Supplemental
• Mins: Brawl 3, Essence 1

Extra successes on the Initiative roll for this grapple gambit are applied to the control roll.

Devil-Strangling Attitude

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 4, Essence 1
• Prereqs: Vicious Lunge

The Solar may make grapple gambits with Strength+Brawl.

Dragon Coil Technique

• Cost: 4m
• Type: Reflexive
• Mins: Brawl 4, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Vicious Lunge

Add the extra successes from a grapple attack roll to the control roll.

Wicked Dissolve Dust

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Vicious Lunge, Force-Rending Strike

When they successfully use Force-Rending Strike to Clash while in control of a clinch, the Solar can choose to redirect the incoming attack to the person clinched, rather than applying damage to the attacker.

Unbreakable Grasp

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Dragon Coil Technique

When the Solar successfully defends against a grapple check, they may choose to gain control of the grapple rather than escaping. The duration of their control is no longer reduced by incoming attacks that do not cause damage.

Titan-Straightening Method

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Dragon Coil Technique

The Solar may grapple opponents of any size without penalty.

Crashing Wave Throw

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Vicious Lunge

When the Solar abort their control early to perform a throw, each round of control forfeited adds four dice to the damage roll, and hurls their opponent up to one range band (Solar's choice).

Shockwave Technique

• Cost: 6m, 3a, 1wp
• Type: Reflexive
• Keywords: Withering
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Crashing Wave Throw

When the Solar aborts their control early to perform a throw, they may activate this to hit everyone within short range of their opponent’s landing point with a withering attack. Apply the same attack roll and raw damage from the throw against the defences of each of these targets, but the Solar only gains Initiative from the original.

Savagery

Thunderclap Rush Attack

• Cost: 3m
• Type: Reflexive
• Mins: Brawl 3, Essence 1

The Solar immediately moves up to one range band and makes a Brawl attack, regardless of their position in the Initiative order – this uses their action for the round. The Brawl attack cannot be defended against with Clashes, unless these are provided by Charms.

Hammer On Iron Technique

• Cost: 4m, 1wp
• Type: Simple
• Keywords: Decisive
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Thunderclap Rush Attack

The Solar makes (Essence) decisive attacks, dividing their Initiative as evenly as possible between them. Each attack adds dice to its base damage equal to the health levels inflicted by the last attack in the sequence.

Fivefold Fury Onslaught

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: Hammer On Iron Technique

When using Hammer On Iron Technique, the Solar instead makes (Essence+1) attacks, and each attack adds dice to its base damage equal to the total number of health levels inflicted so far in the sequence.

Rampage Berserker Attack

• Cost: 7m, 3i, 1wp
• Type: Simple
• Keywords: Withering, Once/Scene
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Fivefold Fury Onslaught

The extra successes on this withering attack do not add to damage: instead, an attack lands and base damage is repeated for each additional success.

One With Violence

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 2
• Prereqs: Thunderclap Rush Attack

When the Solar crashes an opponent, they gain (Essence) Initiative.

Striving Aftershock Method

• Type: Permanent
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 3
• Prereqs: One With Violence

When the Solar knocks an opponent down, they gain 2 bonus Initiative.

Supremacy of War Meditation

• Type: Permanent
• Keywords: Once/Scene
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 4
• Prereqs: Striving Aftershock Method

The Solar may spend 3a to receive a free full Brawl Excellency.

Ascendant Battle Visage

• Cost: 15m, 3a, 1wp
• Type: Simple
• Duration: One scene
• Mins: Brawl 5, Essence 5
• Prereqs: Supremacy of War Meditation

The Solar may activate any Brawl Charms with an anima level cost without spending motes or anima levels. They receive no Initiative damage unless it is done from close range. Whenever the Solar successfully Clashes an attack, they may immediately teleport to within close range of the attacker.