It is not.
Actually, the upper arm, the collarbone and the knee. So I have no idea what you mean either.
That makes a lot of sense. I do want to point out, though, that the 5 dot version is explicitly a super experienced and old Solar who mastered practically everything. Although, if you allow Solar Hero Style, and you are playing a Fiend, I would think that Solar Charms would also be allowed, like some kind of temporary learning effect lasting the length of possesion. Although, maybe the reason only Fiends can learn the Solar charms, but no other Caste can is to give Fiends a unfair advantage over every other Caste, because Ebon Dragon.
That part just confuses me.
I know. But if it was a true possession, though...
GAPING DRAGON STYLE
Your elbow is a joint made up of the ulna, radius and the humerus. Super deadly.
The way I assumed it worked is that since the die-bonus from the Background represents you invoking the Past Life's knowledge and experience, the FAS gets that bonus on all their Ability-related rolls while they have control, since the Background itself is just giving you limited access to their skills. Hence a 5-dot Past Life, which is indicated to mean that this was one of the eldes of the Deliberative, is going to be appropriately terrifying and powerful if they take the helm.
I am aware of all of this. The master named his style Death With Every Bone, not Death With Every Joint. He knew what he meant and, upon being challenged, refused to beat the spirit of his boast to death with its letters. He killed hecklers with, among other things, his upper arm and collarbone. He refused to kill one challenger with his kneecap, because they were an idiot.
I thought you were making a joke about how those bones are actually really easy to kill with
Take a Solar who could learn, say, Dipping Swallow Defense but has not actually learned it. Then, with powerful mental charms, put them under the illusion that they have learned the charm. They might believe that they have learned the charm, but they have not actually learned it.
They have access to these insignificant things called "Yozi charms". I think they'll manage.
Now we will never get to know how he intended to kill peoples with the bones of the middle ear....
I wanted to read them and comment, but you posted them in a moment i had no time to do so. Then i forgot to do it.
Given I haven't actually read either of them yet.....
I understand where he is coming from. When I first asked about it, I was thinking of a fresh out of chargen Exalt that has no idea what they are doing and gets taken over.
Now I feel dumb.
Sorry, mea culpa. I derped my reading comprehension and thought that @Broken25's post meant that if your Past Life takes over, it's locked out of using any Charms; most of my work with the Past Life background has been with a quest with multiple Solars that have dots in it.
... Like getting +5 dice on their rolls? In a shared specialization, that can get up to 18 dice before putting actual effort into it.
No. It's because they're the Eclipse corollary, so they were given the Eclipse anima powers (made ED-ish).
Except Abyssals have a charm that let's them learn Solar charms, Solars have a charms to learn both Abyssal charms and Infernal charms, but there is no charm for Infernals to learn Solar Charms.
Why would a butterfly wish to imitate a caterpillar?
Solars have a LOT of charns that don't have an Infernal equivalent.
