Craft

This tree uses the Unified Project Methodology rules.

Creation

Tireless Workhorse Method

Cost: 2m per dot, 1wp
Type: Simple
Duration: One project
Mins: Craft 1, Essence 1

The Solar may start a Craft project in excess of their normal limit. They cannot start a project with a higher rating than their Essence.

Supreme Celestial Focus

Type: Permanent
Mins: Craft 4, Essence 1
Prereqs: Tireless Workhorse Method

If the Solar may always choose to make a Craft project roll at the end of the session, even if they were not able to devote any of their time to progressing it.

Efficient Craftsman Technique

Cost: 3m, 1wp
Type: Simple
Duration: One project
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 1
Prereqs: Tireless Workhorse Method

A Craft project has its time increment reduced by one.

Thousand-Forge Hands

Cost: 2m, 1wp
Type: Simple
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 2
Prereqs: Efficient Craftsman Technique

Used to undertake a zero-dot Craft project, this Charm accelerates the project's duration to 'one action'.

Dragon Soul Emergence

Cost: 8m, 1wp per roll
Type: Simple
Keywords: Once/session
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 2
Prereqs: Efficient Craftsman Technique

The Solar dedicates a night to burning through a project. They may buy as many additional project rolls on a Craft project as they can afford, but may spend no more than one night this way each session.

Vice-Miracle Technique

Type: Permanent
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 3
Prereqs: Dragon Soul Emergence

Once per story, the Solar instantly completes a Craft project that they could attempt. The Solar chooses the nature of the project, and then realises that they had created the item in their sleep, or when otherwise distracted.

Ingenuity

Craftsman Needs No Tools

Cost: 2m
Type: Supplemental
Mins: Craft 3, Essence 1

The Solar ignores all penalties to one Craft project roll.

Arete-Shifting Prana

Cost: 4m
Type: Simple
Duration: One project or task
Mins: Craft 4, Essence 1
Prereqs: Craftsman Needs No Tools

One of the Solar’s Crafts is converted into another Craft, of their choice.

Words-As-Workshop Method

Cost: 2m/dot
Type: Simple
Duration: One project or task
Mins: Craft 4, Essence 2
Prereqs: Craftsman Needs No Tools

The Solar can start a Craft project without having a starting merit of one level lower. They may not start a project with a rating higher than their Essence in this way.

Unwinding Gyre Meditation

Cost: 10m, 3wp
Type: Reflexive
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 3
Prereqs: Words-As-Workshop Method

The Solar may immediately replace the end product of one of their Craft projects in progress with another of the same merit type. All progress is retained.

God-Forge Within

Type: Permanent
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 3
Prereqs: Words-As-Workshop Method

When using Words-As-Workshop Method, the Solar may choose to work on the project entirely within their mind. Doing so makes progress impossible to interfere with but, when the project is completed, a single additional project time increment is needed to actually bring it to life.

Reforging

Shattering Grasp

Cost: 3wp
Type: Supplemental
Mins: Craft 3, Essence 1

The Solar may substitute their Intelligence+Craft for Strength+Athletics in a feat of strength to break or destroy an object.

Sunfire Furnace Grip

Cost: 2m, 1wp
Type: Simple
Mins: Craft 3, Essence 2
Prereqs: Shattering Grasp

The Solar may spend a round to completely disassemble an unattuned item they carry, to the extent that it is unrecognisable and irreparable without the use of dedicated magic. Artifacts disassembled this way are replaced by a Relic rating one dot lower than the Artifact was.

Crack-Mending Technique

Cost: 6m, 1wp
Type: Supplemental
Duration: One task/project
Mins: Craft 4, Essence 2
Prereqs: Shattering Grasp

The Solar may restore any item that has been damaged to any extent, as long as some of the original remains. They will produce a perfect replica of the item before the damage has been done.

Realising The Form Supernal

Type: Permanent
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 3
Prereqs: Crack-Mending Technique

When engaging in a Craft project to repair a First Age Mechanism, the basic Difficulty of all project rolls is 1.

Object-Strengthening Touch

Type: Permanent
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 2
Prereqs: Shattering Grasp

Any item the Solar has created will never weather or age, and the difficulty of any attempts to damage it are increased by the Solar’s Essence.

Chaos Resistance Preparation

Type: Permanent
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 2
Prereqs: Object-Strengthening Touch

Items the Solar has created are also invulnerable to mutation from the Wyld.

The Art Of Permanence

Type: Permanent
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 3
Prereqs: Object-Strengthening Touch

Items the Solar has created are are impossible to damage while they are held by a Solar. They are immediately recognisable as being the Solar’s handiwork to anyone familiar with them, even across incarnations.

Design Beyond Limit

Cost: 10m, 1wp, 3xp
Type: Simple
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 2
Prereqs: Object-Strengthening Touch

Given a day to work on an Artifact with all of its Evocations unlocked, this allows the Solar to add one inactive Emerald, Sapphire and Adamant Evocation to the Artifact. The Artifact’s owner may pay the xp cost of this Charm.

Celestial Reforging Technique

Type: Permanent
Mins: Craft 5, Essence 3
Prereqs: Design Beyond Limit

The Solar may use Design Beyond Limit to instead replace the active Evocations in an Artifact with new active ones of the Solar’s choosing. This can only be done to an Artifact once per story.

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