None without an Excellency. 4 dice with 1s reducing sux are not reliable.
In fairness, we do have that -2 diff on awareness from demonic guide. It's not a replacement for excellency or the ability to ignore 1s, but it does mean we do better with it than pure dots would otherwise indicate.
@Goldfish if you were to change your plan that way I think that awareness would be the way to go for that reason.
*checks again*
No it wouldn't. Read the text of the Charm again; the passive effect is viewing Dragons Nests, and the active effect is paying 1WP to see across the Gauntlet into the NeverNever, or to view the chimerical aspect of reality.
The Will did not have the metaphysical mass to affect Dragons Nests passively, so it wouldn't have pinged on EDS.
If they had successfully fucked with the leylines, that should have been noticeable, but just their existing in the general areawas demonstrably not enough to distort the flows of power.
Furthermore, EDS has a range of Essence* miles; at Essence 2, that's 2 miles.
If we were never within 2 miles of its location, EDS would never have never noticed, even if it was massive enough to distort Dragons Nests.
If the naagloshii stays away from Dragons Nests, EDS is unlikely to ping its presence
Given its metaphysical mass, it will probably see it though.
I am actually getting ahead of myself here; we've had charms get effects more in like with their description than their system text, and seeing dragon nests is really lame for a 3 dot charm that is supposed to show you the true nature of reality. We don't have a ruling though, so any supposition of more on my part is empty.
That said, dragon nests are ley line convergences and the jade ritual was a persistent change to the leylines in their area. I think there's good odds that viewing the emanations of dragon nests would be the same thing as seeing the ley lines, and therefore being able to detect when someone has been screwing with them.
So in that specific case I don't think it's a leap.
Detecting wards and similar seems like it should fall here, but that isn't actually explicitly laid out in the charm.
Calling Hellscry Chakra a mood ring is explicitly doing it a disservice, because that's in no way what it is.
It would be like calling Essence-Dissecting Stare a compass.
Furthermore, even the emotional aspect of the charm is the sort of thing that has significant applications in both social and combat situations, when you can see what a person actually feels even if they have the most pokerface of pokerfaced that ever pokerfaced.
Not to mention that there are multiple entities in this AU here who use emotion as a vector for feeding, for influencing others, or just as a direct mental attack.
Being able to see that happening allows for early warning.
Fair enough, though I still doubt it's general utility with the limits it currently operates under.
I provided citations from Mr Butcher that the Sight is explicitly not infallible.
And the QM confirms that Nemesis is designed to evade the Sight.
Worth noting that nemesis is a wild exception to the rules. Everyone else from Angel down we see in the series had to stop a wizard from looking by interrupting their attempt to draw on the sight. To all evidence they can't ward against it even if the truth seen by wizards isn't the same as getting a full list of objective fact.
The Dresden Files does have some places where it stacks up with the other settings in this crossover, it's annoying when they get disregarded because there aren't a half dozen splats detailing how it works mechanically.
Flaring your anima banner is about the same as Mab dropping the temperature when she shows up; a passive manifestation of Power use, but nothing more than that. IIRC, she did this at the Museum.
Showing a gun? Would be manifesting our demonsword, or going into shintai as a flex.
Perhaps that metaphor went too far, but I meant it more in the sense of showing it in a holster than pulling it out to wave around.
Anima is a passive, but it's also very flashy. Almost everyone on the supernatural side has a high visibility power use mode, and they tend to try avoiding using it at this sort of thing.
Mab's cold aura is more like DPE in that it's noticeable, but not obviously a sign of exertion itself.
If we've got to do it to avoid a loss then we have to do it, but there is a statement being made if we show up at what appears to be maximum burn mode against someone who isn't.
4 essence. We can spend 4 essence before flaring our anima. IPM with willpower, ATB also with willpower, and then excellencies. If we have budget for it, NWS just as Mab is leaving.
Anima control doesn't let us spend 4 motes without flaring, it causes us to flare on the 4th mote spent in a scene instead of the 3rd.
Anima Control
The Exalt's anima is restrained until they have spent 4 Essence in a scene
