PassengerPigeon/SolarCharms
Sidereal Martial Arts Initiations
Story at the Heart of the Lotus
- Cost: 10m 1wp 1xp
- Duration: One day
- Type: Simple
- Min. M.A.: 5
- Min. Ess.: 5
- Prerequisites: one complete Celestial Martial Art, being a Solar
A martial art is a tale told with the fist. Like any tale, it has a moral, and knowing the moral allows you to appreciate the tale in a new way. Sidereals call these morals sutras, and have a peculiar mastery over their symbolic cadences. However, no mastery is beyond the servants of the Sun.
Using this charm, a Solar adept may spend one day in meditation to permanently learn to transcribe and use one of the sutras associated with a Martial Art. This requires a successful Perception + Martial Arts roll at a difficulty of the Essence requirement of the charm acting as a prerequisite for the sutra, and the expenditure of 1 xp. A sutra written by a Solar cannot be used by a Sidereal, nor vice versa.
This charm is a Sidereal Martial Arts initiation. It is considered SMA for all purposes. A Solar who learns two SMA initiation charms need no longer pay the normal surcharge to learn SMA charms.
Blossoms Unfolding in Glory
- Cost: 5m 1wp
- Duration: Indefinite
- Type: Simple
- Min. M.A.: 5
- Min. Ess.: 5
- Prerequisites: one complete Celestial Martial Art, being a Solar
Using this charm requires one hour of meditation. Once this charm is activated, the Solar is permeated with glory. At any time, he may reflexively make a single Martial Arts action he is about to perform a perfect effect. He may only do this once for each activation. A character may only have a single iteration of Blossoms Unfolding in Glory active at any one time. Perfect attacks do not fail as a result of having no successes after defenses. Perfect defenses cause attacks to which they are applicable, including perfect attacks, to automatically fail.
This charm is a Sidereal Martial Arts initiation. It is considered SMA for all purposes. A Solar who learns two SMA initiation charms need no longer pay the normal surcharge to learn SMA charms.
Comments
I gotta say, I really like these. More than I thought I would - a sign of an excellent charm, imho. -- GregLink
