SolarDodge/FluffySquirrel

Heart of the Martyr</b>

<b>Cost: ??? motes
Duration: Instant 
Type:  Permanent
Min. Dodge: 5
Min. Essence: 4 (5?)
Prereqs: Shadow in the Noonday Sun

A solar quickly learns how to read incoming blows and shift themselves aside, following the paths of essence to safety, to many it comes instinctively when they exalt. However only in true mastery of the art of dodging can the exalt throw all that to the wind and go against the screaming urge of his body to preserve itself, throwing himself willingly into the paths of weapons and attacks to save the life of another. When an exalt learns this charm, he forever sets aside the limit of self preservation, and from then on can automatically throw himself in front of any attack on an ally he can see. No matter the distance, no matter the obstacles, a caring solar is the perfect martyr and will be there to stop the blow with his own body.

This charm, which is permanent once learnt, allows the exalt to reflexively spend ??? motes to perfeclty block an attack on any ally he can see, with his own body. He temporarily appears in front of whomever he protects, the attack instead being redirected to him. The attack will strike him with the successes it gathered normally, and the exalt can defend himself by whatever means normally available to him except for one major clause, the attack will always hit him no matter what. The most any defence available to him can do is to lower the attack to 0 successes, hitting at base damage. Any charms or other special effects attached to the original attack will also act as normal.

Comments

Hey Dar, curious what you think about this one which I knocked up last night.. not sure how to cost it.. and not really sure whether it should be permanent either.. otherwise option I thought of was make it reflexive and freely comboable with other dodge charms. Other options also included just make it a perfect block for the other and take a set amount of health damage.. but I dunno.. depending on the attack that could be weaker or stronger.. so hmm FluffySquirrel

Could well be essence 5 as written... motecost wouldn't be huge, 2 or 3m at the most I'd say. It fits okay as an ability-expansion style of permanant, I personally am okay with those. Some are not.
-- Darloth