TheHoverpope/FollowerWithExperience

Caste: Full Moon.
Physical: 4*/5*(in deadly Beastman, +3)/4*
Social: 2/3/3
Mental: 4*/2/3

Abilities:
Athletics 3, awareness 3, dodge 1, integrity 2, resistance 1, linguistics 1, performance 1, presence 2, ride 1, socialize 1, stealth 1, investigation 1, lore 1, occult 1, *Martial Arts: 5 (2 bp), *survival 2.

Backgrounds:
Artifact 3 (Iaido enhancing daiklaive, http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/wiki.pl?TheHoverpope/TheDisgracedWarriorsPride), Heart's Blood 2, Manse 2 (Stone of humble glory and Memorial Iron), Resources 1, Manse 4 (Stone of Adamant Skin)

Virtues: Compassion 2, Conviction 3, Temperance 5, Valor 2
Essence 4, Willpower: 8, Personal essence: 18/18, Peripheral essence: 44/44

Knacks:
Humble Mouse Style, Deadly Beastman Transformation (with Terrifying Beastman, 12 mutation points: Armoured Hide, talons, gazelle's pace, wings), Emerald Grasshopper Form, Towering Beast Form, Green Sun Child, Life of the Humming Bird, Hybrid Body Rearrengement (Wolf's Pace, Night Vision, Inexhaustible, Small, Tiny, Chameleon, Changing Plumage Mastery, Quicksilver Second Face, Lightning Change Style, Terrifying Beastman Alteration.

Charms:
Dexterity: First Dexterity Excellency, Flawless Dexterity Focus (In deadly beastman form, +3), Golden Tiger Stance, Wary Swallow Method, Wind Dancing Method, Flowing Body Evasion, Instinct Driven Beast Movement, Secure Cat Stepping
Stamina: First Stamina Excellency, Relentless Lunar Fury, Might Bolstering Blow, Bruise Relief Method, Ox Body Technique (4x-2 health levels)
Manipulation: First manipulation excellency, Cat Face Presentation, Labyrinth of the beast Perception: First perception excellency, Eye of the Cat

Martial Arts charms:
Sifu's Hand Style, http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/wiki.pl?TheHoverpope/SifuHandStyle
Student's Understanding, Moving the Spirit Evasion, One Hundred and Eight Points Strike, Sifu's Hand Form, Spirit Crippling Strike, Talent Swallowing Admonition, Cunning Lithe Counterstrike, Exploding Heart Technique

Combos:
Quivering Reed Stands Still: Mantis holds his place, and every attack that strikes at him is batted aside, every attacker left reeling and unbalanced, so that his counterblow is ever more lethal. (cost: 1wp. Moving the spirit evasion, Cunning Lithe Counterstrike, first dexterity excellency, wary swallow method, flowing body evasion. All of the charms in the combo are reflexive; effectively, the martial artist can add dice, increase the dv penalty of attacks against him, defend against unexpected attacks or perfectly defend if need be, and counterattack.)

The Honourable Ending: Mantis strikes, and his opponent has no choice but to die. (4m, 1wp, First dexterity excellency, Exploding Heart Technique, Flowing Body Evasion)

Experience point expenditure (400):
9 knacks x 11xp = 99 experience.
Essence 3, 18 xp. Essence 4, 27 xp. = 45 xp.
8 martial arts charms x 10 = 80 experience
Manipulation 3 x 4 xp = 8 experience.
Manse 4x3xp = 12 experience
9 Caste/favoured charms: 90 experience
3 non-favoured charms: 36 experience
Quivering Reed Stands Still combo: 17 experience
The Honourable Ending combo: 11 experience

Tactics:
Working off a player interested in honourable combat, this character is, I think, best in a duel setting. This build is designed to be very difficult to kill, but is quite beastman focused due to the choice of knacks. Beastman will raise most combat pools by 4, as well as giving movement and soak. High DVs and comboed defensive charms make it tricky to punch through to score a hit; and any hit that does land is converted to bashing damage by the stone of adamant skin, which is healed at a level per round by Bruise Relief when in Beastman mode. Ideally, the character uses their extremely quick speed (3 with their sword when the form charm is active) and essence regaining charms to press an offensive; fury uses Might Bolstering Blow to regain motes with Secure Cat and Golden Tiger to keep DVs high when attacking.
The Quivering Reed combo makes the character nearly untouchable while cutting away at the DVs of anyone who attacks you; once the target's DVs are lowered use the Honourable Ending to drop damage and penalties on your enemies on the next action.

Notes: Personally, I would cut out a few knacks; Emerald Grasshopper and Changing Plumage, most likely. I would instead buy Instinctive Attribute Unity, and probably a Wits excellency, and then the top charm of the martial arts tree. With more experience, I would recommend strength charms. I've also not included any plot-heavy backgrounds like allies that I would normally deploy, not knowing the plot.