Balthasar/OzmathonCahlash

Ozmathon Cahlash
Full Moon Lunar Exalted

Attributes
Phy - Str/3, Dex/4, Sta/3
Soc - Cha/4, Man/3, App/3
Men - Per/4, Int/4, Wit/4

Abilities
Favored - Martial Arts/2, Melee/4, Presence/3
          Stealth/3, Survival/4
Unfavored - Archery/1, Brawl/1, Endurance/1, Performance/1
            Lore/2, Athletics/1, Awareness/1, Dodge/4,
            Bureaucracy/2, Ride/1, Socialize/2

Specialties
Favored - Survival.Tracking +1
          Presence.Awe +1
          Stealth.Distractions +1
          Melee.Sword Defense +1

Backgrounds
Manse/2 - An untamed demesne where eight waterfalls intersect
Familiar/3 - A black panther, Vhoulhedan (Size ***, Int *, Power * [Hide])
Contacts/2 - City and military contacts from Cahlash's command
Mentor/1 - The far-off No Moon that pattern-locked Ozmathon

Virtues
Compassion/1, Conviction/3, Temperance/2, Valor/5

Willpower - 8/8
Essence - 2 (Personal 18/18, Peripheral 44/44)
 Personal:  (Ess + (Willpower x 2))
 Peripheral:  ((Ess x 4) + (Willpower x 2) + (Virtue x 4))

Charms
Finding the Spirit's Shape (1m, Assume totem shape)
Deadly Beastman Transformation (5m, Assume hybrid shape) [x2]
Many-Faced Moon Transformation (3m, Assume either gender)
Unspeaking Aura of Dread (3m/+1 social, max. Cha)
Empathic Communication Method (1m, intuitively understand beasts)
Beast Calming Method (3m, pacify beasts)
Pack-Forming Presence (5m & 1wp, bind and command beasts)
Beast Calling Howl (5m, summon beasts)
Sensing the Deadly Flow (1m/+1 melee, max. Dex)
Tiger Claw Swat (3m/+1 damage & +3 parry diff, max. Str)
Bowing Reed Technique (4m, full dodge against all attacks)
Bending Before the Storm (1m/+1 dodge success, max. Dex)
Shaping the Ideal Form (1m, adjust appearance at will)

Combos (12 points)
Whipping Silhouette
 + 1wp
 + 4m for max. dice in all dodges during full dodge
 + 1-7m for +1-7 auto-successes in dodges per dodge
 Maximum cost:  4m + 7m per dodge + 1wp
 Charms
  Bowing Reed Technique (2)
  Bending Before the Storm (3)
Inner Wrath
 + 1wp
 + 5m to assume Hybrid
 + 1-7m for +1-7 extra Dex dice
 + 3-21m for +3-7 parry diff for foe, and +1-7 damage die
 Maximum cost:  5m + 28m per attack + 1wp
 Charms
  Deadly Beastman Transformation (2)
  Sensing the Deadly Flow (2)
  Tiger Claw Swat (3)

Hybrid Adjustments
 Physical Changes
  +4 Strength
  +2 Dexterity
  +2 Stamina
 Gifts
  Horrifying Might
  Resilience of Nature
  Wound-Knitting Power

Merits
 Virtue Speciality (2pt merit)
  Cahlash has a Compassion of 2, when it comes to the actions of children.

Flaws
 Enemy (2pt flaw)
  The Abyssal Exalted that stole Ozmathon's daughter.

Combat           Plain       DBT
 Initiative:     +8          +10
 Armor:          3B/1L       5B/2L
 Dodge:          +10         +12
 Sword, Chopping
  Acc:           +9          +11      Formula:  Dex+Melee +1
  Def:           +9          +11      Formula:  Dex+Melee +1
  Dmg:           +7L         +11L     Formula:  Str+4L
  Spd:           +0

Bonus Point Record
 +2 Valor          = 6bp
 +5 F. Abilities   = 5bp
 +2 Dexterity      = 6bp
 +2 Backgrounds    = 2bp
 +4 F. Specialties = 2bp
                     21 total bp

Experience Point Record
 Unfavored Charms         = 65xp
  Shaping the Ideal Form
  Deadly Beastman Transformation
  Many-Faced Moon Transformation
  Empathic Communication Method
  Beast Calling Howl
 Favored Abilities        = 12xp
  Dodge (1 to 4)
 Combo Pool               = 12xp
 Unspent                  =  5xp
                            94 total xp

Present Effects
 Full Moon anima effect = Double movement (5m)

Tweaks
 10/7/03
   Tweaked Abilities after discussion with Brandon
   Swapped 2 Ability points from Investigation to Martial Arts
   Swapped a favored Ability slot from Investigation for Martial Arts

Over his life, Ozmathon Cahlash has amounted to many things. Starting with a simple farmer's upbringing, he was one of many of his childhood friends to be drafted for war, yet the only one to come home alive. Then dissatisfied with his former farming lifestyle, he roamed as a public speaker and sought his own education, resorting to selling his sword as a mercenary when times came low. He had defended and managed the defense of countless scrupulous and unscrupulous persons, before eventually coming to discover the love of a beautiful noblewoman. She accepted him as her captain initially, and his talent for military command brought him prestige enough to eventually marry her. He sired what became a respected line of gentlemanly war masterminds, and lent his council to all. After a rough struggle of a life, Ozmathon settled down at 53, finally retired from the field, to enjoy life with his wife and his youngest child, and only daughter. It was not to be. His handsomeness and his wife's beauty had trickled down into their children, but their daughter most of all. The dark supernatural forces of Creation conspired on her beauty, and a pall settled over the family estates. His wife took ill. His sons met fatal battles. His grandchildren were taken into safe seclusion. And, finally, as darkness fell one night, Cahlash discovered his daughter missing. He rode out of the estates that night, sixteen troops at his mount's heels.

Over the course of seven years, and an even larger quantity of distractions and adventures, Cahlash slowly pursued his quarry. It was a dark prince of the icy north, seemingly out of fable itself - fables of ghosts and the risen dead - that had taken his daughter. His men died, or departed, one by one, losing heart in the journey, until the dark prince was pursued by only Cahlash. He was haggard and diminished in his former handsomeness, but transformed by the endless wilds he had crossed. Now his resolve was exceeded only by his dauntless fervor to recover his little girl. He was hard as an elder stone and just as weathered. When he finally closed the gap, seven years had passed. Fifty-five when she was abducted, his daughter beheld him again at 62, shortly before Cahlash and the black prince came to blows.

Ozmathon's sword arced again and again, until he had broken it on the plates of the prince. Vicious wounds were opened in his frail chest, and he recognized he had no chance of honorable victory. So then, fevered and desperate, Cahlash flung himself bodily and violently began chewing and clawing at the prince, ripping at his gently pale incandescent face and raking at his frail seeming, but iron-hard neck. Eventually, Cahlash left the body bloody and still, and staggered back to where his daughter ought to be - only to find her gone. The strain was too much. Clutching at his wounds, trembling and with a horrible pain in his left side, Ozmathon began to suffer from a heart attack as the sun set.

In the coming of dusk, Luna's light brightly shone down on Cahlash, and she strode down a moonbeam to stand before him. He could not speak, just mumble and drool as he died.

"You who have ever been swept by the winds of war, now your wind is mine to direct," she said, smiling.

Cahlash shut his eyes and rest, then. It was all he could do. When he woke, it was day and she had gone - as had the body of his daughter's abductor. He rose to his feet slowly, and trudged through the wilds in search of tracks.