Ambisinister/GeomanticGreaves
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Geomantic Greaves
Artifact Level ~ 2
Commitment ~ 4 motes
The Geomantic Greaves are part of a series of artifacts designed by the Lunar artisan Cloud Piercing Gaze. Gaze believed that artifacts should be versatile and capable of at least some degree of adaptation. With this in mind, he designed a number of devices which drew their power from the dragon lines of creation, and by changing which lines were tapped, different effects could be produced.
All Geomantic Greaves take the form of unadorned plate greaves that resize themselves to fit their attuned owner. There is a hearthstone setting in the right Greave. In their default state, Geomantic Greaves add 2 dice to all attempts to maintain stable footing and balance. Their true power is revealed when a hearthstone is inset. When this happens both Greaves gain a filigree or inlay of the magical material associated with the stone’s tenor, and the left Greave generates some sort of iconic design unique to the inset stone. The Greaves have an additional benefit based on the stone:
- Earth- Add ½ the hearthstone’s rating to all attempts to resist knockback or knockdown. Should the character be knocked back, reduce the distant by the hearthstone’s rating.
- Air- Add the hearthstone’s rating to the character’s jumping distances
- Water- Add the hearthstone’s rating to the character’s swimming movement, and half that value to swimming related athletics rolls.
- Fire- Add the hearthstone’s rating to the character’s movement
- Wood- Add the hearthstone’s rating to the character’s climbing movement and add half that value to climbing related athletics rolls
- Sidereal- Reduce the TN of balance and footing related rolls by 1
- Lunar- Add the hearthstone’s rating to fatigue rolls made while traveling
- Solar- Add half the hearthstone’s rating to all of the character’s movement rates (i.e. move, climb, swim, leap, etc)
- Abyssal- Identical to Solar. While in the underworld, use the hearthstone’s full rating.
While inset into Geomantic Greaves, the hearthstone does not provide its special effect and allows its user to only respire its rating in motes an hour as opposed to twice that value.
While the specific magical material of the Greaves does not provide additional effects to the wearer, should the material match the hearthstone’s tenor, treat the hearthstone’s rating as if it were one higher.
It is rumored that a level 3 version exists which would allow the bearer to continue to receive his hearthstone’s effects but which reduces the hearthstone’s respiration rate to half its rating.
