Green Flame Rising (Exalted vs Dresden Files)

By feeding raw infernal Essence into any endeavor, the Demon Prince may perform feats far beyond mortal limits.

System: Select any single Ability when purchasing this Charm. At any time, the player may reflexively spend 1 Essence to add (the Attribute being rolled + the Ability in question) dice to all rolls using this Ability for (Essence rating + 1) turns in combat, or minutes outside of combat.
This Charm can be repurchased to unlock additional Abilities, but Essence must be spent to add dice to each Ability separately. The very first purchase of Key to the Kingdom unlocks all of the character's Key Abilities, but subsequent purchases only unlock one
Ability at a time.

The Infernal shapes her heart, soul, and Essence into the shape of a realm of her devising, featuring whatever oddities of geography or natural law suit her nature.
System: The Infernal crafts a new Hell-realm within her own Exaltation. By meditating in specific circumstances selected while learning this Charm (such as in perfect darkness, while covered in blood, or to the sound of screams) and making a Wits + Occult roll against a difficulty of her own Willpower (which acts as the effective Gauntlet rating for this internal realm), she may disappear into her Kingdom for up to five days, making it impossible to find her. She can linger no longer, however, and must spend at least that much time in reality before visiting again. Spending five full days within the Kingdom resets the difficulty and cost of her Shintai transformation.
By paying 2 Essence while crossing over into her inner landscape, the Infernal may also bring up to a score of willing, restrained, or unconscious individuals along with her. Visitors to the Kingdom may stay for as long as they wish (indeed, they may even become
permanent residents), and are free to depart whenever they desire – so long as they are able to walk to the border of the realm. While the Kingdom must be composed of geography which makes this possible, nothing stops the Infernal from importing soldiers to man guard posts, or adorning the realm with prisons, natural hazards, and the like.
While within her personal Hell, the duration of the Infernal's Shintai form becomes indefinite rather than scene-length: she may wear it until she chooses to dismiss it, or until it is destroyed.
Upon learning the King and the Kingdom, any Charm the Infernal knows which consigns a being to a particular Hell may instead be used to entrap them in the Infernal's Kingdom.
The Infernal must have an Essence rating of at least 3 to purchase this Charm.
Signature Effect: When the Infernal dons her Shintai form, and while that form persists, the world around her within (Essence x 500) yards warps and twists, gaining many of the features of her Kingdom. Any time the Infernal uses a stunt incorporating the features of her Kingdom, she reduces the difficulty of that action by one.

Pushing beyond her limits, the Infernal shatters the boundaries of her flesh, her soul, and the chains of fate to assume the ruling form of the Demon Emperor-to-come.

System: After having already donned her Shintai form, the Infernal may trigger a second, more radical transformation. This requires the expenditure of 1 Essence, 1 Willpower, and a successful Essence roll against difficulty 8. This is reduced to difficulty 7 if the Infernal has any dots in the Cult background, or difficulty 6 if she has Cult 5.

Her second-stage transformation builds upon her first, adding an additional +3 bonus to Strength, Dexterity, and Stamina, two more Bruised health levels, and three more Aspects, which must be chosen at the time of this Charm's purchase. Finally, select a second Signature Charm, which applies to both the second-stage transformation and the Infernal's base Shintai.
Donning the second stage Shintai form once again grants the Infernal a new, undamaged Health track. If she is destroyed in her Unbound Eschaton form, she is knocked back into her normal form and suffers five automatic levels of unsoakable lethal damage.
The Infernal must have an Essence rating of at least 4 to purchase this Charm. Succeed or fail, she may attempt her second-stage Shintai transformation only once per story.

Though the Infernal may be battered and broken, she will not fall, nor give her foes the satisfaction of experiencing pain.

System: The Infernal reduces all wound penalties by one, her movement penalties do not degrade any further when Crippled or Incapacitated, and she does not fall unconscious when her Incapacitated health box is filled with bashing damage. This Charm's effects are permanent.

The Infernal seeds her attacks with the fire that began the world and which may very well end it: the poisonous radiance of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the legend-destroying power which erupted above the floodplain of Bangladesh, and which is now the dream secretly nurtured at the heart of Lanka. A target struck with this Charm dies from the inside-out as her flesh erupts into geysers of sinister emerald flames.

System: After successfully striking a target and inflicting damage with an attack, the player may reflexively spend 1 Essence to inflict (highest of Strength, Charisma, or Intelligence) levels of automatic aggravated damage.

The Infernal refuses, with utter and immovable implacability, to permit any force in the cosmos to gainsay her will.

System: Any attempt to cause or force the Infernal to betray, undermine, or abandon her Intimacies automatically fails. Furthermore, she may reflexively spend 1 Essence or 1 Willpower to become immune to all thought and emotion-altering magic for the rest of the scene.

The Infernal's resentment and anger manifests itself within her flesh, granting her demonic features.

System: Select one Aspect from the list of Demonic Aspects (with the exception of Hardened Devil Body, which cannot be chosen). The Infernal can manifest this feature for a scene by taking an action to concentrate and rolling her Essence rating against difficulty 7, or by reflexively spending 1 Essence. Her Demonic Aspects automatically manifest while her anima flares.

This Charm can be purchased a number of times equal to the character's Essence rating. If the Infernal has multiple Demonic Aspects, she can manifest as many as she wishes with a successful roll or Essence expenditure. If she wishes to suppress some or all of her Aspects when her anima flares, she must succeed at a Willpower roll against difficulty 7 to do so. These do not have to be the same as her Shintai Aspects.

Transcendent Anathema
Any attacks the Infernal possesses which would inflict lethal damage, inflict aggravated damage instead.

Flight
The Shintai is capable of flight at its normal movement speed, whether this is accomplished through wings or levitation.

Extra Limbs
The Shintai possesses more than the normal complement of arms and legs, or perhaps sports a prehensile tail or trunk, or perhaps can manipulate its immediate surroundings with telekinesis. When the Infernal takes multiple actions, each subsequent action raises its difficulty as normal but doesn't suffer a penalty to its dice pool.

The Infernal's flesh is fortified with the power to survive the very tortures of Hell.

System: The character permanently gains two Wounded (–2), one Mauled (–2), and one Crippled (–5) health levels.
This Charm can be purchased a number of times equal to the character's Essence rating. It only enhances the Infernal's regular health track, not her Shintai form.

The Infernal scribes a litany of the pain and hardships she has endured upon her heart and her very bones, fortifying her flesh against harm.

System: The Infernal permanently lowers the difficulty of all soak rolls by one.

The Infernal calls forth the shattered masonry and brazen decorations of Lanka and forges them into armor which adorns her flesh like a second skin. Ancient demonic script glows faintly upon this shell, incoherently attempting to speak of the glories of the Demon City.

System: Reflexively spend 1 Essence to activate this Charm. The Infernal adds the highest of her Strength, Stamina, or Charisma to her soak rolls for the rest of the scene, but raises the difficulty of all Stealth attempts by +1 due to the glowing script that adorns her armor.

Every drop of blood spilled in rage or hatred is a tiny prayer uttered to the Infernal, and she draws nourishment from such gifts.

System: The first time in the scene that the Infernal witnesses an act of violence – a serious one, one where someone gets hurt, bleeds, weeps – she regains 1 Essence on the spot. The Infernal cannot be the one to have instigated the violence, either by her own hand or through the direct actions of those following her orders. It must be a gift offered up to her by the world.

There is no oubliette so deep or dark, no Hell so vast and benighted, that it can hold the Infernal back from seeking her freedom.

System: The Infernal permanently reduces the difficulty of all attempts to escape from physical restraint or confinement by three. This Charm applies to physical actions (such as attempts to break out of a clinch or pick a lock), social actions (such as to seduce a guard), and mental actions (such as to come up with an escape plan, or determine the weak point in a wall).

The chill of the Night Realm forever abides within the Infernal's heart, leaving her inured to all lesser chills and discomforts. Indeed, they become a source of strength to her.

System: The Infernal is completely immune to environmental hazards based on freezing cold, from arctic nights to raging hailstorms. When she has to soak direct attacks based on ice or supernatural cold, she lowers the difficulty of her soak roll by two. Finally, the Infernal adds two dice to all rolls while subjected to cold-based environmental hazards from which she is protected by this Charm.

The Infernal's stare flays away all dissimulation. Shorn of pretense, she beholds her target at his very worst, plucking forth the knowledge of his greatest sin.

System: The Infernal spends a turn examining her target, and then her player spends 1 Essence and rolls Perception + Empathy against a difficulty of the target's (Wits + Subterfuge). Success tells her what deed in all of his history the target is most ashamed of. With three or more successes, the Infernal also learns some specific details of the sin (names, dates, things she might have seen had she been present to witness the act). With five or more successes she may even learn details the target himself doesn't know, such as longterm consequences of his sin which would further compound his guilt.

The Infernal breathes upon the black mirror of her heart, and becomes someone else.
System: The Infernal spends 1 Essence, spends a moment concentrating, and dons a perfect illusion which causes her to appear to be someone else. This can be either a real person, or a fictitious individual of the Infernal's devising. This illusion fools all five senses. Deduction may reveal the Infernal for an impostor, but imperfections in the disguise itself never will. The illusion persists until the Infernal reflexively dismisses it, or until her anima flares.

With a dismissive gesture, the Infernal befouls her target's efforts with the darkness and soul-biting chill of Kakuri.
System: Concentrating fully upon her target, the Infernal's player makes a Willpower roll against difficulty 7. If in combat, this is her action for the current turn. For each success she rolls, her target loses one die from whatever action they're currently attempting.

Monsters lurk in every heart. Empowering a person's inner darkness, the Infernal makes that monster real. She must approach a mortal and breathe into their mouth to use this Charm. Her victim's shadow twists and distorts, becoming a demon of Kakuri before climbing into the target's flesh and inflicting a brief, agonizing transformation.
System: Spend 3 Essence while within kissing distance of the target. Over the course of a few minutes of indescribably painful transformation, the Charm's victim becomes a bakemono – a sort of monster that shapeshifters know as fomori. The Infernal may reclaim her gift of inner darkness, making the bakemono human again, but this inflicts a number of levels of aggravated damage equal to (7 - the Essence the Exalt opts to spend undoing her curse).

The Infernal offers reprieve from the torments of existence. This is a trap, but one her foes may willingly step into.

System: The Infernal needs merely extend a hand for her target to understand that she offers relief from some ongoing source of misery. The Infernal may deliberately choose the sort of relief she offers, or may simply offer relief from whatever most torments the target. Examples of valid torments include the pain (and associated wound penalties) of injuries or chronic health conditions; a vampire's Clan weakness; a super natural being's susceptibility to frenzy; a derangement of the mind; the drawbacks of a demon's Torment; an ongoing curse laid by a magician; or anything else the Storyteller feels is in line with the above examples.

If the target accepts the Infernal's offer, she may sanctify the pact by spending 1 Essence. The target immediately ceases to suffer from the relevant torment. This reprieve lasts until for a number of weeks equal to the Infernal's Essence rating, or until the target refuses to do anything the Infernal tells him to do, whichever comes first. In no case does this Charm actually fix the problem – the target is still wounded, cursed, or deranged – it merely alleviates the symptoms for a while.

The Infernal shapes whatever tools she finds herself in need of from the invisible wellspring of her own Essence, then allows them to dissipate back into nothingness when their presence no longer serves her.
System: The Infernal can work five times faster than normal when creating, modifying, or repairing something, or ten times faster than normal if it's something complicated and mechanical like a car or computer. Generally this Charm enhances Crafts or Technology actions, but might also apply to coding a program with Computer, creating explosives with Science, or preparing a meal. By spending 1 Essence or 1 Willpower, shecan manifest whatever tools she needs for as long

Pouring her Essence into a "smart" device, the Infernal usurps whatever is made in false imitation of a mind and makes it into her servant.
System: The Infernal spends a moment focusing on a computerized device within her line of sight, such as a networked computer or a car with onboard GPS, then spends 1 Essence and rolls Charisma + (higher of Computer or Technology) against difficulty 7. Success summons one of the numberless spirits of the Wicked City makes it into the Infernal's slave. While this Charm remains in effect, the targeted technology is
essentially "alive" and obedient to the Infernal's commands. Hollow Mind Possession's duration lasts as outlined on the following chart:

The Infernal combines conviction and Essence to bend the world around her to her implacable will. A faint shimmer in the air marks the use of this power as she lifts and moves objects telekinetically.
System: After a moment spent in concentration, the Infernal spends 1 Essence and rolls her Intelligence + Occult against difficulty 6. This Charm remains active for the rest of the scene, and allows her to telekinetically lift and move objects within her line of sight. If she tries to wrest an object away from another character, or perform fine manipulations, her successes form her dice pool to do so. Otherwise, her successes on the activation roll determine her strength in lifting and moving objects:


With 3+ successes, the Infernal can "fly" by moving herself around telekinetically. She may also grapple or strike her opponents using telekinesis, using a dice pool of Intelligence + (lower of Occult and Brawl or Melee). These attacks inflict bashing damage, and the Infernal's Temporary Willpower acts as her effective Strength value.

Whenever the universe dares to mar the Infernal's immaculate and ideal self, she may exert her will to reset herself to her default state of perfection.
System: Whenever the character is the subject of any supernatural power that seeks to transform, infect, taint, transport, or control her body or spirit, she may reflexively spend 1 Essence or 1 Willpower and roll Willpower against difficulty 7. Success undoes the hostile magic before it can finish affecting the Infernal, protecting her completely, and immunizes her against repeated attempts to exert the same sort of influence for the rest of the scene. Alternately, the Infernal can spend 1 Essence to radically accelerate her healing for 24 hours. So long as she takes no strenuous activity, the Infernal heals all bashing damage or one level of lethal damage per 15 minutes of rest. An hour of rest mends one level of aggravated damage.

The Infernal visits a deep place between nightmare and inspiration, and there she glimpses the dim shape of a horror with which to shake the pillars of Heaven. She casts her vision into the teeth of impossibility and shatters them with her Essence, laying bare a path to make the impossible real. Everything past that is just putting in the work.
System: The Infernal may Craft Splendors, Devices, Prodigies and Prodigies

The Infernal connects herself to the underlying structure which precedes all communication, and then networks those around her into that understanding as well.
System: The Infernal's player rolls Willpower against difficulty 7. Success allows her to speak the language at the heart of all languages for a scene. Anyone who hears her words comprehends them, and finds that any attempt they make to speak in her presence
comes out in the same ancient tongue. This enforced comprehension ravages the mind and body, and who hear the Infernal and respond to her suffer one level of bashing damage in the form of bleeding eyes and terrible headaches. The Infernal may spend 1 Essence to spare those she converses with this harm and the associated pain, should she feel magnanimous.

The Infernal's strength surges as though she were at the spiritual center of the cosmos so long as she rests within befouled or deadly liquid.
System: So long as the Infernal remains fully submerged in tainted or deadly liquid, she replenishes her Essence as though she were resting in a Dragon Nest and heals all bashing damage or one level of lethal damage every fifteen minutes. Examples of valid liquids might include raw sewage, the waters around the runoff pipes of Pentex chemical refineries, or a bathtub filled with bleach.

The Infernal is a sea monster, and the depths hold no terrors for her of any sort.
System: This Charm conveys the following benefits:
• All rolls made while the Infernal is wet (whether that means she's standing in the rain, submerged in water, has just stepped out of the shower, or has just upended a bottle of water over her head) are made at –1 difficulty.
• The Infernal can swim at three times her landlocked movement speed, and can breathe underwater.
• The Infernal can stand or move across the surface of any liquid as though it were solid ground, as she desires.
• The Infernal can survive unharmed in any sort of hostile aquatic environment, from the crushing depths of the deepest trenches to the boiling sea of fat and grease that is the Hell of Boiling Oil.
• The Infernal suffers no penalties or difficulties while attempting to perceive her surroundings while submerged. She can hear and see clearly around herself out to at least 200 yards despite impediments such as churning silt or being in the absolute darkness of the sub-light layers of the ocean.

The Exalt's habitual distrust makes her senses supernaturally keen and her sense for danger keener still.
System: Reflexively spend 1 Essence or 1 Willpower. For the rest of the scene, the difficulty of all Perception rolls drops by three, to a minimum of difficulty 3, and the Infernal adds her Perception to her base Initiative rating (in other words, Perception + Dexterity + Wits).

The Infernal may hide herself away within any body of liquid, no matter how small or shallow, vanishing even into a puddle or cup if need be.

System: The Infernal spends a moment in concentration, and then vanishes into her liquid hiding place at the end of the turn. She may see and hear anything that occurs nearby, as though through a pane of thin glass. While hiding, she cannot be detected by any mundane means, even by diving in after her. Nor does she enjoy freedom of movement herself: she is effectively dispersed into her hiding-place at the point of immersion. If her hiding place is disrupted or dispersed (such as by dashing out the contents of a cup of coffee, or someone drinking it), or else evaporates or otherwise vanishes, the Infernal is forcibly ejected.

The Infernal garbs herself in hellish authority; all lesser wicked things are like writhing worms or mere grains of sand cast before her, and instinctively recognize this imbalance.

System: Whenever the Infernal deals with a lesser creature of darkness than herself, she permanently reduces the difficulty of all social actions (including the activation roll of powers to suborn the will of such creatures) by two. "Lesser" creatures of darkness include all beings that qualify for that moniker which are of lesser power than ancient vampires, Maeljin Incarnae, Yama Kings, Malfeans, the greatest of Black Spiral Dancer heroes, other Exalted, and the like. Jaggling or Gaffling-level Banes and all fomori are always lesser beings.

Wheresoever there is neither hope nor respite, there the Infernal marks herself at home.
System: The Infernal needs never make a Survival roll to remain safe, comfortable, and fed in hostile, barren environments such as deserts, tundra, or areas of urban blight. The difficulty to feed and protect others in such environments is reduced by three (minimum of 3). By
spending 1 Essence, she becomes completely immune to environmental damage for the rest of the scene.

Opening her inner eye and attuning it to spiritual desolation, the Infernal gains the ability to detect potential servants or rivals, and to weigh the souls of those she meets.
System: Reflexively spend 1 Essence. For the rest of the scene, the Infernal becomes aware when she stands in the presence of any creature of darkness, though she doesn't inherently know what sort of supernatural being any given individual may be. Furthermore, by concentrating on a specific individual for a few moments and making a successful Perception + Occult roll against difficulty 6, she can behold the subtleties of their anima and learn their current emotional state, as well as some clues about their nature. If you wish to embellish this with aura colors and the like, a chart can be found on page 136 of V20.

The suffering of Hell is eternal, and as such, the Infernal preserves her flawed and decaying servants, that they might further serve her will.
System: Whenever a bakemono – a sort of cursed mutant that werewolves know as fomori – acts to carry out the Infernal's will, the various torments of its mutant state are held in abeyance. If its acidic powers normally rot its body from the inside-out, they cease to do so while it slaves on her behalf. If the spiritual corruption festering in its flesh is killing it with a variety of aggressive cancers, they go into remission. If the use of one of its powers normally causes it great damage and pain, it no longer does so. Even derangements of the mind inflicted by the creature's fallen state are temporarily set aside while it does the Infernal's bidding.

The Infernal moves with the ferocious speed of the killing winds of Hell.

System: The Infernal's movement speed is permanently tripled, and she doubles the result of all Initiative rolls. By reflexively spending 1 Essence, she can instead increase her movement tenfold for her Essence rating in turns. Outside of combat, her movement speed increases by one factor for every full minute she continues to run (so after a minute of running flat-out, her movement speed is quadrupled; after another minute, it is quintupled) until it caps out at a tenfold increase.

The Infernal's nature is that of the killing wind. Murder nourishes her, as it does the Hell from which she draws her power.

System: Whenever the Infernal murders a sentient being, the act nourishes her as though she had justeaten a four-course meal. If she slays a ghost or spirit, then she can reflexively roll Dexterity + Occult against a difficulty of its Willpower. Success conjures a vortex
of crimson flaying winds which slice its dissipating substance into stray motes of Essence. The Infernal regains 2 Essence, and the ghost or spirit is destroyed. Condemning a jaggling-level or greater spirit that is not a creature of darkness
in this fashion "rolls back" the number of times the Infernal is considered to have attempted to don her Shintai form during the current story by one, reducing its cost or difficulty accordingly (to a minimum of Essence 2, Willpower 2, and no roll requirement).

The Infernal wraps herself in a mantle of Essence which devours the attention of the weak-willed, making it feel like an impossible burden to notice the Exalt or interfere in her affairs.
System: Spend 1 Essence and roll Charisma + Etiquette against difficulty 4. Anyone whose Willpower rating is equal to or lower than the resulting successes cannot notice or acknowledge the Infernal unless she directly interacts or interferes with them. If she's taking some indirect action that would distress a character were he to acknowledge it (such as reading his diary or murdering his spouse), and that character has Willpower 5+, they can spend a point of Willpower and make a Willpower roll against difficulty 7 to attempt to acknowledge and confront the Infernal. This Charm lasts for one scene.

The first of all acts was to name. Each titan tearing themselves from the roiling chaos and defining themselves against it. A fact that no debasement could ever wholly take from them.

Echoing that act their heirs turn their hands on their own souls; naming each part according to their own design, thereby becoming in small part like those spoke themselves into being.

System: The infernal spends 5 essence and meditates for at least one scene, turning inwards to look at their own soul. Once there, she must make a willpower roll to search her own memories for something that defines her.

It can be nearly anything; important memories, strong beliefs, trauma, what matters is that it's true and personal to the exalt. This can be very unpleasant, and lower successes should result in facing less comfortable things.

Whatever she finds, the infernal then names and begins the process of shaping into a new facet of her soul. She may have no more than her essence rating of these. If one is destroyed its body dissolves into iron wind, and the element of her soul it embodies is numbed in whatever manner is appropriate until she repeats this ritual at +1 DC to find and reform it.

If the infernal dies instead her essence manifests as screaming wind and flees to the nearest clone, killing it in her place. This wounds the infernal's spirit, dropping her one essence level that may not be regained by any means before she reforms the facet she replaced.

Once named facets may be embodied or dispelled with a thought, supposing they aren't currently destroyed and are in the infernal's presence, but she must pay 1 mote to copy over any memories directly.

As they are subordinate faces of the infernal's soul she may not use her charms through them to directly affect the world. However, as they are still part of her they may still affect themselves.

In general this means abilities that solely impact the infernal and do not rely on active interaction. The infernal may not use excellency through a clone any more than she may fire a shotgun with her nose, but can defend any part of her 'face' with equal strength. When doing so they share the infernal's essence pool.

By default the clones form as an approximation of the infernal as a mortal, perfectly loyal to its creator, fully aware of what it is, and in possession of her memories. They each have Essence X 10 points to spend on merits and gifts at 1 point per dot.

The Infernal's burning sight perceives the Essence patterns forming the structures of Creation. Recording those patterns, she erases the difference between the image and the object.
System: The Infernal touches a mundane object, spends 1 mote of essence, and rolls Intelligence+Awareness at DC6. Success allows her to deconstruct the object into a record of its essence pattern, and store this record in any digital storage device she has on her, at the rate 1 kilobyte per gram of matter in a form of a read-only file that cannot be copied or altered by any means (this is a perfect effect), but can be transferred as normal between devices. The objects stored in such a way can be rematerialized as long as the Infernal is touching the device storing them. Doing so erases the file from her memory or the storage device. The Infernal is instinctively aware of all objects she has stored in such a way on all digital storage devices in her possession.
Once the Infernal reaches essence 4, this charm can be repurchased in order to allow storage of magical objects. For magical items, the transfer rate is 5* dot rating of the object being stored kilobytes per gram, and the cost is 1+dot rating of the object being stored.

The Empress calls. Her subjects answer.
System: The Infernal spends 1 mote of essence and rolls Charisma + Leadership against the difficulty of local Gauntlet while concentrating on memories of those who serve her, or died in her her name. Upon success, up to the (successes) phantom copies of those she was thinking about rise from her shadow. They are only images and cannot affect the material world, such as opening doors or smiting someone with magic, but otherwise retain all memories and abilities, and can fully think, and communicate, and distract enemies in combat. The only person they can physically interact with is the Infernal, and the only objects they are other conjurations of the Infernal's anima, such as Tool Transcending Constructs. The summoned servants persist for a scene and then dissolve back into shadows they are. The originals might gain some vague dreamlike memories of their service - mechanically they receive half the experience their shadows got.
Upon reaching essence 4, the infernal gains an option to harden the light the servants are woven from to grant them material bodies by paying 1 additional essence per hardlight summon. If they are able to manipulate some internal energy reserve, such as chi, they are formed with an empty reserve of it.

The infernal finds her footing on the five pillars of her soul, dancing among them under the life giving light of the will that encircles them all.
System:
By leaning into the essence of one of the five pillar-cities of her soul the infernal may enter a shift centered on its themes. So long as she acts in tune with that nature success builds on itself; each overall check she passes using the relevant skills will add +1 dice to the pool for all of them up to +3.
She may only adopt one shift at a time, and actively using abilities in the domain of another city immediately resets the bonus and pushes her to that city's shift.
Rolls that use skills other than those outlined below do not end a shift, but only benefit from the bonus if clearly in line with the one currently in use.
The Red City: Law, Leadership, Craft, Melee, Alertness, firearms
The Emerald City: Academics, Occult, Science, Technology, Finance, Computer
The Sapphire City: Expression, Politics, Performance, Subterfuge, Athletics, Larceny
The Amethyst City: Medicine, Investigation, Empathy, Intimidation, Etiquette, Stealth
The Golden City: Survival, Brawl, Awareness, Streetwise, Animal Ken, Drive

The servants of the Empress and the extensions of her will. The Infernal makes this saying a reality.
System: The infernal spends 1 essence and rolls charisma+leadership. She then selects up to that number of willing allies within the scene to effect for the remainder of it. Whenever they make a roll, the Infernal may choose to act instead, substituting their appropriate dice pools for her own, and rolling at the same difficulty as they would have had. Multiple actions performed through this Charm suffer a climbing dice pool penalty similar to normal multiple actions rule.
The Infernal and her proxies get the ability to communicate telepathically, and the Infernal may roll Perception+Awareness at difficulty 8 to access the senses of her proxies.

Sweating a sheen of unholy brass wrought from the fires of their Essence the Infernal transmutes her form to more than human resilience, able to shake off even more punishment.
System: Spend 1 Essence and roll Willpower against DC 8; each success increases your Stamina by one up to a maximum of 8 for one scene

•••• The alchemist can now raise attributes above the normal human maximum of five, adding a total of two dots across attributes for up to a scene, though these often require exotic components that cannot simply be purchased. Other formulas are more potent as well, and made much more easily: second rank creations can be made with a travel kit now.

Formulas known

Tier 1 Formulas

• Factory Fog and or Alchemical Aerosol Mist
• Unbreakable Mirror: a mirror that cannot be smashed, chipped or otherwise broken by normal force.
• An incredibly strong super glue, more potent than even the strongest commercial epoxies.

Tier 2 formulas

• Malcoffee: A vial of liquid that allows the drinker to go a week with only a single hour of sleep per night without penalties.
• Healing: In addition to the effects of Speed-Healing, this potion heals up to two bashing or lethal levels immediately.
• Speed: Though it shares a name with a common drug, Speed is not chemically related to it. It is much safer, and just allows the user to run twice as fast for the duration of one scene. However, this is still exhausting, and after the scene, the user makes a Stamina check (difficulty 6) or else suffer -2 on all physical die rolls due to exhaustion for the next hour.

Tier 3 formulas

• Astarte Venerian: A Series of nacreous Potions and Lotions that move the user closer to the perfected ideas of beauty in all aspects charm, wit and attraction. Similar to the library background for abilities and Spheres, this decreases the Xp cost of Social attributes, lowering the XP cost by one per day to a minimum of 1XP. In the case of Appearance it can automatically increase after Current rating weeks.
• Nabu Mercury: Strange seemingly liquid silver pills that sharpen the senses and mind in all facets, taken 3 times daily At the rising, crowning and drowning of the sun. Similar to the library background for abilities and Spheres, this decreases the Xp cost of Mental attributes, lowering the XP cost by one per day to a minimum of 1XP.
• Prima Metallum: A metal that is stronger than titanium but as workable as aluminum, that retains an edge perfectly almost forever. Armor made from it gains an extra soak die against basing and lethal without additional restriction, melee weapons gain +1 damage and -1 difficulty to hit

Tier 4 formulas

• Aelgean Marble: An oddly warm Stone formed from a viscous yellow bright concoction taking the form visually similar to Sunburst marble allowing the possessor of the stone to resist passive forms of harm that detract from health such as Poison. This lowers the difficulty to resist Poison by one and adds a dice to the resistance roll on successful creation for every two successes after another dice is added.
• Magic Cleaner: A clear liquid that when poured over an enchanted object removes the magic from it. This functions similarly to unweaving with the number of dice used identical to the number of successes during the potion's making. If drunk by or injected into a magic user, the potion instead acts as a difficulty adder, with each two successes beyond the first one adding one level of difficulty to any magic using roll by said person. The effect is identical to getting drunk, and lasts as long as it takes the potion to metabolize (same time frame as strong alcohol)
• Bodybuilding: For Stamina+3 hours, the user has two dots added to their Physical Attributes. During this time, the Attributes may be above 5, and the user will be extremely hungry as their metabolism tries to keep up.

Counterspells are the simpler form of countermagic. Here, the sorcerer just attempts to blunt the incoming effect, sapping its strength and possibly even causing it to fail. A Wits + Occult roll at difficulty 8 cancels successes one-for-one. If the sorcerer scores enough
successes that their opponents effect fails, all costs paid for it are still paid. The sorcerer can spend a Willpower point to aid countermagic, but they must achieve one natural success for it to work at all: simple force of will cannot work unless channeled through a ritual.

Acquired Counterspells:

• Human: This covers mortal magic, that is magic that is drawn and shaped by mortal intent, be it the internal powers of the psychic or the channeling of a sorcerer or wizard
• Vampires: ????

The sorcerer adorns a chamber with ritual implements reflecting the five elements, the sun, the moon, the stars, and the grave, then slowly focuses her Essence into a purifying mandala of absolute reality which splits apart any unnatural joining of matter and spirit.

System: The character enacts an hour-long ritual, then spends 5 Essence and makes an Intelligence + Occult roll against difficulty 8. Success ends any form of possession afflicting the ritual's subject, ejecting the possessing spirit or shade. Because of the ritual's length, its subject must usually be restrained in some way if they don't consent to the exorcism. This spell terminates possession by spirits and ghosts, mind and
spirit-riding with powers and so on.
It immediately evicts demons from their hosts (whether that be mortal flesh or a graven idol), and can even separate spirits bound to the souls of their victims– although host suffers 10 dice of lethal damage as the Bane rips its way free of their flesh, rolled at a rate of one die per minute over the course of 10 agonizing minutes.


The sorcerer offers her Essence to the four points of the compass, then strikes the ground. When she straightens, an ancient, crumbling archway stands before her, granting passage into the otherworlds.

System: Spend 4 Essence and make an extended Intelligence + Occult roll (difficulty 7). Upon accumulating five successes, the Exalt summons a gateway which allows anyone who walks through it to pass into the Spirit World or even should they be so bold into the howling madness of Outside. The Calibration Gate remains present for a number of minutes equal to the sorcerer's Essence, at which point it vanishes as suddenly as it appeared.

This hour-long ritual awakens the spiritual Essence of a Dragon Nest and grants its blessing to the Exalt and her companions for one full cycle of the moon.

System: Spend 5 Essence to begin the ritual, and roll Wits + Occult (difficulty 7) to contest with the spirit of the Dragon Nest. It is otherwise identical to the Rite of the Opened Caern (see Werewolf 20th Anniversary edition, p. 206).

Name: Lydia
Age: 15
Gender: W
Willpower: ●●●●●●●●●●
Essence: 4
Mote Pool: 11/8
Soak: 2
Health Levels: 0/0/0/0/0/-1/-1//-2/-2//-5/-5/5/-5//5/Inc

Attributes
(Divine Attributes are Bolded)
Abilities



Anima Power
Ankou's Eyes:
By spending 1 Essence the Ankou's Daughter can force any ghost withing her line of sight to manifest in the material world and become vulnerable to mundane weapons. After (Essence) rounds in combat or minutes outside of combat the ghost may attempt to become immaterial again, by rolling his Pathos until he gains a number of successes equal to 2x the Exingent's Essence score.
Further, while her Anima flares all ghosts in its light become clearly visible.

Backrounds:
Ressources 4
Familiar 1 (Raven)

Mentor 1 (Arawn)
(To note, this does not mean he is a bad or weak mentor, but he seemed very much the type to let Lydia figure out her answers by herself. She could propably increase this backround, representing convincing her dad to help her more)

Merits/Flaws:

Vanilla (1 pt. Flaw) Oh my gods, you're such an innocent! In a world filled with sex magick and power plays, you're the little lamb who's strayed far away from home. Jokes get past you, clues escape you, and references to anything rawer than a Disney flick go straight over your head. Maybe you grew up in a secluded place with overprotective parents; or you could be in denial about the things you see all around you because life can't possibly be that twisted… can it? Regardless, hold firm to your innocence. Once it's gone, it ain't never coming back again!

Prestigious Mentor (1 pt. Merit) Your Mentor (as in the Background Trait of that name) has a reputation that benefits you as well. When you're making social rolls to invoke your influential teacher, reduce the difficulty by -2. Of course, some folks will be somewhat less than impressed; for rolls that involve rivals or enemies of your mentor, add +2 to the difficulty unless that mentor scares the shit out of them… in which case, you had damned well better be able to live up to the fear his name invokes!

Natural Linguist (2 pt. Merit) You're especially good at understanding how people communicate. Every purchase of the Language Merit (see above, and Mage 20, Appendix II) secures two languages for you, not just one. You also get three bonus dice when making rolls based upon clear communications, typically ones employing Art, Expression, Etiquette, Leadership, and other Traits that involve "speaking their language" to impress someone else.

Acute Senses (1 pt Merit): You see with unusual, though not necessarily unnatural acuity -2 to all DCs involving sight

Self-Confident (5 pt Merit)
Those of divine blood are naturally confident, you are counted exceptionally so even among their ranks. When spending Willpower to gain an automatic success, you don't even need to lose that point of Willpower unless: The Willpower-gained success is the only success you
get for that action or… the difficulty for that action is 5 or less. This Merit kicks in only in challenging circumstances, and tasks with a difficulty of 5 or lower are just too easy to demand help from your character's self-confidence.

Regal Bearing (1 pt Merit)
Aristocratic charisma is your birthright. Although you might not actually hail from a noble family, your presence radiates dignity. Posture, features, tone of voice, aura of dominion – you're got them all. People defer to you as a reflex; subtract -2 from the difficulty of your Social-Trait rolls whenever you're trying to make an impression, and while certain folks will want to take you down a few pegs on general principle, most people are inclined to respect you even if they don't necessarily like you.

Investments:
Supernatural Awareness: Always with an ear to the currents of power you are rarely caught off guard and often the first to sense danger and opportunity. Roll Perception+Awareness (Difficulty 7) to notice the spiritual feeling of a place and to notice nearby magical effects, demonic power etc.
Marble Flesh: With a thought you can harden your flesh to living stone, potentially shrugging off even the more grievous of wounds. Make a willpower roll (Difficulty 6). If you succeed you gain +4 Soak against all damage for a scene

Charms:
Excellence of the Tireless Psychopomp (•)
The Exingent can draw on their divine Essence to fullfill its eternal duties with skill and power beyond any mortal.
System: The first time the character purchases this Charm, it may be applied to any of her Divine Attributes. At any time, the player may reflexively spend 1 Essence to add (Current Willpower) dice to all rolls using a relevant Attribute for (Essence rating + 1) turns in combat, or minutes outside of combat. This Charm can be repurchased to unlock additional Attributes, but Essence must be spent to add dice to each Attribute separately

Speaker to Crow and Hound (•)
The Exigent has a natural connection to certain animals, particularly those associated with Death. This includes Hounds, Corvidae and some cats.
System: The Exigent can always be understood by the animals and they are usually inclined to fullfill her requests within the limits of their own comprehension.
By spending 1 Essence the Exigent can build an obviously supernatural connection to a single present animal, allowing her to share its memories and thoughts and to give it much more complex instructions for one scene.

Open the Way (••)
The Exigent has an affinity for the opening of otherworldly paths.
System: Spend 1 Essence and roll Perception+Occult (Difficulty local Gaunlet-rating) to open a Way. This can stay open for the rest of the Scene and be passed by entities from both sides.

Rest-Granting Strike (••)
The Exigent can send a creature to permanent rest.
System: When the Exigent slays any being, the player can opt to roll Wits + Occult (difficulty 6). Doing so prevents spirits (below Incarna-level) and ghosts from ever returning or reforming, prevents any ensouled being from becoming a wraith. The Exigent gains 3 Essence on the spot if the annihilated being was in any sense immortal, such as a spirit, ghost or vampire. Furthermore, the Abyssal can reflexively spend 1 Essence to gain the ability to strike and damage intangible beings for the rest of the scene, so long as she can perceive them

Chariot of the Earth (•••)
With a gesture of her hand the Exigent raises the earth to carry her on to her target.
System: Spend 1 Essence to conjure a wave of earth that can carry the Exalted and (Essence +1) passengers at up to 60mph. The earthwave leaves no traces and is in no way limited by its own size, allowing it to be ridden through narrow corridors.
When the Exigent wishes she can use the earthwave as a weapon, striking with Dexterity + Athletics at a target and dealing 5+Essence Dice of Bashing Damage on hit.

Thoughts of Oak Defense (••)
The Exigent solidifies her desire and duty, pushing away any externally-imposed thoughts or feelings.
System: Reflexively spend 1 Essence to utterly reject all thought and emotion-altering magic from a specific character or source for the rest of the scene.

4x Oxen Body (•)
One who draws power from the Grave is not so easily cast into it
System: Add 1 Bruised and 1 Crippled Health level to your Healthtrack.

Hunter's Bolt (••)
The Exigent concentrates her Essence into killing projectile of some kind: perhaps a blast of pale flames, perhaps otherworldly lightning, perhaps a ghostly arrow. System:
Roll Dexterity + Athletics (difficulty 5) to aim the attack. The bolt has a damage rating of 5 (lethal) and a range of 40; reflexively spending 1 Essence makes this attack damage aggravated for the next (Essence rating) turns.

Authority of the Psychopomp (•)
The Exigent is clad in the mantle of Authority over the dead, they respect and fear her instincivly.
System: Whenever the Exigent deals with a restless dead (both ghosts and physical dead such as Black Court Vampires), she permanently reduces the difficulty of all social actions (including the activation roll of powers to suborn the will of such creatures) by two.

Command the Dead (•)
Exerting the combined pressure of Essence and will, the Exigent may order the bodies of the fallen to stand and do her bidding.
System: The player spends 1 Essence and rolls Charisma + Leadership. If attempting to usurp control of a zombie or similar mindless corpse-servant from another necromancer, the difficulty is the controlling character's Willpower. If attempting to exhort a corpse to stand up and serve her, the difficulty is 6. A zombie created or commandeered with this Charm will obey the Exigent's commands to the best of its very limited abilities. Zombies animated by Command the Dead lose their animation after one cycle of the moon unless stationed within a Dragon Nest, whose power may sustain them indefinitely.

Flawless Hunter's Eye (•)
While Exigents Anima allows her to see the immaterial clearly, there are still times when unveiling her full power would be unwise, so she merely sharpens her own eyes.
System: Spend 1 Essence, for the rest of the Scene all Perception rolls are taken at -2 Difficulty and she only needs 1 Success on an Awareness roll to notice the exact location of an immaterial presence, allowing her to use her Anima-power on it.

Righteous Lion Defense (•)
The Exigent feels the call of duty and family in her Essence and will not be swayed from her path.
System: Any attempt to cause or force the Exigent to betray, undermine, or abandon her Intimacies automatically fails

Impervious Skin of Stone Meditation (••)
The Exigent draws the solidity of stone up into her flesh. She must be in contact with stone or soil to use this Charm. Traditionally this is accomplished by standing upon the bare Earth or a stone floor, but the Exigent carry a small rock in their pocket, or wear a precious stone on a ring in order to use this Charm at any time.
System: Reflexively spend 1 Essence to activate this Charm. The Exigent rolls (Stamina x 2) dice to soak damage for the rest of the scene.

Carriage of the Ankou (•)
The Exigent has a marked vehicle that appears at her call. Traditionally this was a black coach, but today it may well be a car or motercycle.
System: Spend 2 Essence marking a vehicle or mount that you own. Afterwards a whistle is enough to call it to your side, where it will appear in three turn's time. The appearance is not very noticable to those not expecting to see supernatural effects, a car might simply be in a parking spot that was previously empty while nobody looked there.
You can only change the marked vehicle once per story.

Companions of the Hunter (••••)
The Exigent may lay her blessing on an Animal she associated with, permanently empowering it as a part of her hunting party.
System: Choose a friendly Animal that falls either under Speaker to Crows and Hounds or that is a horse and spend 5 Essence while spending at least 2 hours paining its fur or feathers with magical symbols in woad.
The Animal gains 30 XP that it can freely spend on attributes and skills (including on greater Intelligence) and (5+Essence) points it can spend on Special Advantages (From Gods and Monsters).
A creature can only benefit from this effect once and the Exigent can only have (Essence*2) Animals blessed like this at the same time.

Warding of Divine Ancestry (•••••)
The Exalted solidifies her Essence to resist hostile magic and the powers of chaos.
System: Whenever the character is the subject of any hostile supernatural power that seeks to transform, infect, taint, transport, or control her body or spirit, the difficulty to do so is raised by 1. If affected anyway, she may spend 2 Essence and roll Stamina + Occult against difficulty 8. Success shatters the magic, protecting the Exigent completely. Since this expenditure isn't reflexive, the Exigent may spend a few moments fluctuating in mid-transformation or teleportation, as her Essence battles with the magic seeking to suborn her.

Akashic Root Methodology (••)
The Exigent walks in the footsteps of dead giants, and the memories of the mortal dead shorten her path to enlightenment.
System: In the presence of appropriate resources, research and scholarly rolls progress ten times faster than normal, and benefit from a -1 DC reduction in difficulty, minimum DC3. Alternatively, spend 1 Essence to roll Intelligence + Academics at DC5; success locates pertinent information instantly.
Requires access to a library, archives or collection of cooperating experts, whether mortal or not, with plausible access to the relevant information. Computers and networked devices also count, as long as the information is not hidden/encrypted/passworded.

The Qiao of the Mo Kung

Sorcery

Essence Regain:
3 +Essence each Midnight
Regain 2 Essence once per scene when bringing a restless dead to final rest, slaying a Necromancer or giving a dying person the last comfort.

Inventory
Jade Talisman ●●●

Name: Tiffany 'Lash' MacNeil
Age: Aeons/1982/3
Gender: W
Willpower: ●●●●●●●●○○
Faith: 3 (3/3)
Permanent Torment: 3
Temporary Torment: 2/10
Soak: 3
Health Levels: 0//-1//-1//-2//-2//-5//Inc
Attributes

Abilities

Demonic Powers
Immunity to Mind Control and Possession
Resistance to Illusion: Demons can always roll Perception+Awareness (Dif 7) if in the presence of any illusions or supernatural concealment. If the roll is successful they see through the artifice.
Resistance to Lethal Damage: The demon can soak lethal damage while in the Apocalyptical Form
Healing: Spend one Faith point to heal either one level of Lethal Damage or all Bashing Damage, this takes a turn of full concentration without other actions
Supernatural Awareness: The demon can always roll Perception+Awareness (Dif 7) to notice the spritual feeling of a place and to notice nearby magical effects, demonic power etc. Weaker than the Sight, but constant
Lores:





Apocalyptic Form:

Imposibily tall out of all human proportion even as the eyes tell one she has not grown the hem of her robes is smoke and shadow, her flesh is stone carved without flaw, her hair of gold like a crown on marble brow hallowed in that same white light that pierced the eye and demanded the eye take keep. As they move her wings clink like crystal set against the darkness behind her for the light illuminated her and only her.

• Enhanced Social Traits: Lash's grace, poise and beauty is now more than merely human. +2 Charisma, +1 Manipulation, +2 Appearance
• Marble Flesh: Lash gains 4 soak-dice against any type of damage
• Wings: Lash's Wings allow her to fly at up to three times her land-speed
• Improved Dexterity: +2 Dexterity

High-Torment-Shape:
If Lash's Torment every grows beyond half her permanent willpower, she will take on a high-torment form. In this shape her marble flesh is cut through with black veins, her wings turn to purple mist and her her face gains a sharpness to its beauty that serves to intimidate rather than inspire. The purple mist can cover her form, hiding her from hostile eyes and weapons.
She can choose to add any of the following features to her Apocalyptic Form upon transforming into it, at the price of one temporary Torment, alternativly for each point of Torment above 6 one feature is automatically added to the Form:

• Claws: Deal Str +2 Aggravated damage
• Mist-Wreathed: +2 Difficulty on ranged attacks against Lash, +1 on melee attacks
• Relentless: Lash is unaffected by fatigue or hunger in this form and can move forward inexhaustibly
• Enhanced Perception: +2 Perception

Backgrounds:
Enemy (Denarians) ●●●●
Pact ●●
Paragon (Lore of Flesh) ●●●
Ally ●●● (Gentleman Johnny Marcone)

Merits
Angelic Aura: Reduce the difficulty of all Charisma and Appearance Rolls for social interactions by 1
Angelic Gaze: Reduce the difficulty of all Leadership, Empathy and Indimidation Rolls by 1

Equipment:
N/A

Faith Regeneration: 2/Day (Pact ●●)
Sorcery

Name: Olivia Deol
Age: 19
Gender: W
Willpower: ●●●●●●●●●●
Demon Chi: 3 (4/3)
Mana: 5
Soak: 2
Health Levels: 0//-1//-1//-2//-2//-5//Inc

Attributes

Abilities

Demon Arts



Paths:

Backgrounds:

Merits and Flaws

Inventory:
Demon Jade Talisman ●