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A Vision in Bronze; A Sidereal quest

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[X] Emerald Gyre of Aeons Style

Emerald Gyre is an absurdly cool style, which has a bunch of fun effects in it. Very distinctive too! And I like Grace taking on a mentor sort of role.
 
[X] Prismatic Arrangement of Creation Style

Its sort of the generic, default Sidereal style, but I actually love it because of that rather than in spite of it. It's a well-rounded art that does many things. You can't really go wrong with Prismatic Arrangement, and it works well with any martial arts build that can use unarmed.
 
[X] Prismatic Arrangement of Creation Style

PAoC is THE utility style, it can be used for a variety of situations. Exalt Ways alone is perfect for our disguises.
 
Gazetteer said:
An exclusively-unarmed style focusing on strategic pushes and indirect strikes to disrupt and redirect. It is a meditation on the flow of Essence through all Creation, an ancient and foundational Sidereal Martial Art and a common first choice when a Sidereal selects one to study. Students of the style learn to emulate and manipulate the Essence of artifice, geomancy, other Exalted, and fate itself. Masters learn to heighten and combine these practices into techniques of immense power.

Prismatic Arrangement of Creation is a highly versatile style with a host of techniques that have utility both in and out of combat. In particular for Grace's purposes as a Sidereal commonly working in the Realm, it is an exceptionally good style for Sidereals who wish to disguise themselves as other kinds of Exalted, perfectly emulating the volatile elemental anima banner of a Dragon-Blood in a way no other technique can. Her training would lead her to studying the Essence of many kinds of supernatural beings and supernatural locales.
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[X] Prismatic Arrangement of Creation Style

Ignoring the usefulness of being capable of faking a dragonbloods anima banner, you had me at the thought of Gazetteer describing extra supernatural creatures and locations than we would otherwise get. A vote for Prismatic Arrangement of Creation Style is a vote for Gazetteer writes more captivating descriptions.
 
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[X] Prismatic Arrangement of Creation Style

For me it's about the story I want to see Singular become.

A beautiful graceful assassin of heaven?

A wise sage and teacher?

Or someone who brings the energies of creation into harmony.

For me it is the third I want to see.

Creation has enough killers. I would like to see someone work to bring harmony.
 
Hunh…
Chepok means well, but I suspect it's the kind of thing where Grace cannot let go so easily because defending the people is core to why she defends the Realm…
Which makes it sound like her attachment to the Bronze is more tenuous then he would like, due to how the Realm can end up using the blood of innocents to oil it's gears.
 
[x] Emerald Gyre of Aeons Style

Though there are compelling arguments for Prismatic, and Charcoal could lead to the vaunted duck punch
 
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Zaealix said:
Hunh…
Chepok means well, but I suspect it's the kind of thing where Grace cannot let go so easily because defending the people is core to why she defends the Realm…
Which makes it sound like her attachment to the Bronze is more tenuous then he would like, due to how the Realm can end up using the blood of innocents to oil it's gears.
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Grace has aligned herself with the Bronze faction more do to a belief that the fall of the realm would be little more than a particularly bloody and chaotic prelude to the rise of similar unequal, greedy, atrocity prone empires. She not particularly attached to the realm itself. Instead, she's rather antithetical to the idea that the ends justify the means. A problem when embracing that concept is a key aspect of both of the Bureaucracy of Heaven's foremost factions.

As the Bronze faction leader he has to worry whether graces ideals will ultimately prove an obstacle to her assignments and cause an otherwise avoidable disaster because he put his trust in her. As her teacher, faced with the uncertainty of the realms survival and Grace's path and how she will seek to uphold her ideals should it fall, it's prudent for him to encourage Grace to confront this reality.
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[x] Emerald Gyre of Aeons Style

Grace isn't really one for pretending to be a Dragon-Blood, as useful a cover it often is for Siderials.
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I think grace is one for pretending to be whatever she has too in the name of stopping untold slaughter, and cares little whether her guise is that of an exalted dynast or a low born clerk. Given a part of her business is occasionally associated with the organization of wyld hunts in the name of stopping this solar or that Lunar, being able to mask the manifestation of her own essence under a dragon bloods anima is distinctly useful, particularly against a pesky Lunar wary of Sidereal interference.

Further more there is simply the matter that Prismatic Arrangement of Creation Style has more utility than the others, being not purely combat focused, and is easily mixed with more common, none Sidereal unarmed combat styles. It's a commitment to being adaptable in the face of potential unforseen difficulties, like the duel with Flotsam for instance, or the presence of a previously unknown Lunar.
 
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Gazetteer said:
Emerald Gyre of Aeons Style
A style that uses characteristic spiraling movements for power and evasion, as well as to emulate the neverending flow of time, in which there is no end and no beginning. Students of the style are capable of bursts of foresight, as well as slowing and even reversing the flow of time in limited ways. Masters can entrap their enemies in endlessly repeating cycles, borrow power from their future selves, and even claim scores of lives in a single instant.

For all its challenges, esoteric mysteries, and lethal potential, as Grace has already experienced, Emerald Gyre is an extremely powerful teaching tool for advanced practitioners. Its methods are harsh, but exceptionally fast and effective. This can serve as a continuation of the mentoring techniques that she has learned in Throne Shadow Style. It will require Grace to hone herself through abstract thought and mind-altering substances.
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Grace taking drugs for cosmic insight is something that I am really interested in. I want Gazeteer to write more drug fueled visions. Plus, Grace definitly needs something that will let herrelax and blow of steam. And Stinging Nettle would approve.
[X] Emerald Gyre of Aeons Style
 
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