TheKaishar/StrengthArts
Strength Arts
Gentle Grave Caress Cost: 1 blood feast per success Duration: Instant Type: Supplemental Minimum Strength: 1 Minimum Essence: 1 Prerequisite Arts: None
With this Art, the Kaishar solidifies his muscles with the unclean blood Essence already stored in his atrophied tissues. This Art adds one automatic success to any roll involving the character’s Strength Attribute per point of blood feast spent. The Kaishar may not add more successes to a Strength roll than he has total Strength Arts.
Splintering Touch Method Cost: 1 blood feast Duration: Instant Type: Supplemental Minimum Strength: 2 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Arts: Gentle Grave Caress
With a simple, soft touch, and a throbbing pulse of blood, the Kaishar may inflict bashing damage on a subject as if he had instead punched them. Roll Dexterity + Brawl to attack as normal, and the target may dodge or block if aware. This Art adds the Kaishar’s total Strength Arts in automatic damage successes for the purposes of damaging inanimate objects.
Unquenchable Might Suffusion Cost: 1 blood feast per die Duration: One scene Type: Suffusion Minimum Strength: 1 Minimum Essence: 1 Prerequisite Arts: None
The Kaishar focuses the blood Essence pooled inside him, reshaping his muscles with it. Dead tendons and bones crackle in increased tension, adding one to the Kaishar’s Strength dice pool for every point of blood feast spent on this Art. The Kaishar may not add more dice to Strength than he has total Strength Arts. Suffusion Arts may be used in the same turn as other Suffusion Arts. No more than the Kaishar’s permanent Essence in Suffusion Arts may be activated per turn.
Burden of the Colossus Cost: 2 blood feast Duration: One turn Type: Simple Minimum Strength: 3 Minimum Essence: 1 Prerequisite Arts: Unquenchable Might Suffusion
Empowered by the unholy nature of the blood, the Kaishar finds his hands – forever locked in their dead shapes – measure much more greatly into formerly impossible to move burdens. This Art doubles the Kaishar’s Strength rating, and adds his total Strength Arts on top of that, for the purposes of accomplishing Feats of Strength.
Pardoning the Unwelcome Visitor Cost: 1 blood feast per 2 dice Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Minimum Strength: 3 Minimum Essence: 2 Prerequisite Arts: Burden of the Colossus
With a short, snapping movement, the Kaishar bursts towards an assailant or otherwise burdensome being, and wraps his chill, dead hands firmly around them. Following through viciously, the Kaishar pivots and tosses the offending party an amazing distance. Activating this Art requires one point of blood feast per two dice to be used in the clinch attempt. This pool may be no larger than the Kaishar’s total Strength Arts. If the clinch is successful, the subject is thrown two yards for every Strength Art the Kaishar knows. This Art may be used to interrupt an attack, though if unsuccessful, the attack occurs normally. Storytellers may also rule that the attack is not evaded through use of this Art, should the case make sense.
Unrelenting Stronghold Meditation Cost: 3 blood feast Duration: Instant Type: Reflexive Minimum Strength: 5 Minimum Essence: 3 Prerequisite Arts: Pardoning the Unwelcome Visitor, Gentle Grave Caress
Spreading his feet to prepare himself, the Kaishar evenly distributes blood Essence throughout his limbs, uniting himself spiritually with the firmament of Creation, the world of which he is ever perversely anchored to. This Art prevents the Kaishar from being unwillingly moved – this is a perfect stagnancy, and may be activated in order to resist being thrown aside, knocked down, picked up or battered back. There is no contest – the Kaishar simply does not move in response to that particular assault.
