SilverMasks/GraceGuard
Guard
Den Mother Method
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Wits: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Ascendant Wits
Using his superhuman reflexes and their incredible rapport to all they pride as part of their society, be it pack or herd or hive or stranger still, a Lunar is able to move with speed faster than the eye, and stop any attempt to harm those he is responsible for! This charm allows the Lunar to parry any attack he is aware for any ally within his normal movement rating in yards. It grants a parry at the Lunar's full pool, and even if it does not fully deflect the attack, its successes aid the ally's own defense against the attack. With a ranged weapon, the Lunar can stop ranged attacks against others as well as he would stop them against himself.
Eclipse Shield Stance
Cost: 4 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Wits: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Den Mother Method
Created to protect and guard as much as to fight, this is one of the Lunars' primary functions - and they are the best at it. They can protect another, their charge, against any and all threats... against the dangers of an angry Creation itself. The Lunar may protect an ally within her normal movement rating in yards against any harm, changing the target of a single attack(or a sequence of multiple attacks from the same foe) from the ally to himself. This is a Perfect Defense, and may redirect any and all manners of attacks, allowing the Lunar to take all the damage or other adverse effects even from attacks that would strike against an area. If the Lunar uses any dice action while standing in the place of the ally, he may add his Compassion rating converted into automatic successes to all actions taken, be they defenses or counterattacks.
Feline Guard Technique
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Wits: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
Like a cat, the Lunar is always wary, always ready to respond to attack. By means of Feline Guard Technique the Lunar receives a Full Parry pool for the turn - just as if he had aborted his action to parry. This Full Parry action works independently from his normal action, including the use of the Lunar weapon's rate(which limits the number of attacks the Lunar may parry with his Full Parry pool, but does not interfere with the use of the Lunar's weapon rate in any other action during the turn). This Charm can only be used once per turn, and so, the Lunar cannot 'refresh' this pool, but he can reflexively buy extra rate, for defensive purposes only, at a cost of 1 mote per rate added. This may be done at any point on the turn this charm was activated With a ranged weapon, the Lunar can use his ranged ability, be it Archery or Thrown or even Martial Arts, to stop a projectile(but not a close combat attack) with one of his own. For this and all Charms that have Feline Guard Technique as a prerequisite, the Lunar may exchange his Dexterity for his Wits in his Parry attempts.
Crane and Snake Method
Cost: None
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Wits: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Feline Guard Technique, Den Mother Method
Like the crane defending its nest against a snake, the Lunar's limbs move like the wings, always ready to stop any strike on those they protect! This Charm enhances Feline Guard Technique. The Lunar may use use his defenses to aid any ally within a number of yards equal to his Permanent Essence at no extra cost.
Silver Crane Instinct
Cost: 8 motes, 1 willpower
Duration: One Scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Wits: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Feline Guard Technique
The Lunar takes the stance of a praying mantis, in reverence for the world they protect and ready to swiftly stop the movements of any who dare step any close to his perfect stance, pushing any threat away with a swath of its claws! For the remainder of the scene, the Lunar converts a number of dice equal to his Wits into automatic successes in any parry attempt.
White Tiger Block
Cost: 8 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Wits: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Feline Guard Technique
Surrounded by a corona of moonlight, the Lunar's limb moves swiftly to interpose itself in the path of any and all attacks, changing its length and density, twisting in impossible ways, able to move in the way of a knife and a falling boulder all the same. The Lunar may perfectly parry a single attack against herself, any being upon her Permanent Essence in yards, or all at once, against area attacks.
