- Location
- Denmark
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I believe this should say "soul-reaping sword".
The Artifact is awesome, and I love it.
General Exalted Thread
I believe this should say "soul-reaping sword".
The Artifact is awesome, and I love it.
- Location
- Brittany, France
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Heh, White Reaper has Halos, Steel Devil has Off-Hand Charge, Black Wind has blood blades... I'm not particulary concerned by the practicality of the record-keeping so much as how it's probably not very balanced as it stands.
- Pronouns
- They/Them
A sword-reaping soul would actually be sorta cool? Like, something about your soul/self makes it so that blades shatter or don't work against you? Not anything *besides* swords, but coming at you with a sword is asking for the sword to become useless.
Force people to use a less common fantasy-hero weapon.
Bursting Eagerness Soul
Threadwalking Rating Machine
- Location
- Wisconsin
A will of steel can parry like a blade.A sword-reaping soul would actually be sorta cool? Like, something about your soul/self makes it so that blades shatter or don't work against you? Not anything *besides* swords, but coming at you with a sword is asking for the sword to become useless.
Force people to use a less common fantasy-hero weapon.
Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
HE FUCKING DID IT AGAIN
I am very not happy with ES right now. Even if this is my own damn fault. You all remember this from back in Part 56? And how I intentionally referenced Haneyl being Keris's drive for self-improvement and Rathan her sense of style and showmanship?
Urgh. That was back at the start of April, we hadn't even begun Rise of a Pirate Queen yet, he's been holding onto this for almost two months, guys.
I don't even have any comments, I'm so rrrgh.
Kerisgame 62; In Which ES is an Asshole Who Sucks.
Bonus stuff. Rrrgh.
I am very not happy with ES right now. Even if this is my own damn fault. You all remember this from back in Part 56? And how I intentionally referenced Haneyl being Keris's drive for self-improvement and Rathan her sense of style and showmanship?
WELL IT FUCKING BACKFIRED ON ME.
Urgh. That was back at the start of April, we hadn't even begun Rise of a Pirate Queen yet, he's been holding onto this for almost two months, guys.
I don't even have any comments, I'm so rrrgh.
Kerisgame 62; In Which ES is an Asshole Who Sucks.
Bonus stuff. Rrrgh.
Delayed gratification is a marvellous thing.
Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
- Location
- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
- Pronouns
- She/Her
*glares*
Well, that was prior to her raising her Compassion. And she actually botched that Compassion roll, which is why she did that. But more than that... hmm... Keris is notable in that she doesn't consider death quite as weightily as we do. It's another way that she - and inhabitants of Creation in general - are different to the ethical and moral standards held in our world. Creation is a largely Bronze-Age setting. Death happens. People die of violence, of illness or disease, of exposure or starvation or parasites, and they go into Lethe and are reborn. It's just a fact of life. Most people in Creation outside advanced, privileged areas like the Dynastic Realm will have known quite a few people who died at what to us are tragically young ages, and you either get used to it or you break.
It's notable that in the 2e description of Compassion, it doesn't actually say anywhere that it stops you killing. It triggers for killing an enemy who's already beaten or who's surrendered, for ignoring the pleas of the oppressed or impoverished or for passing by as the powerful abuse the helpless. But the act of killing itself just isn't considered morally wrong in Creation the way it is in our world. Death is a far more present and accepted reality to everyone who lives there. Keris in particular kills incredibly cleanly and quickly - most people who die by her hand do so instantly, often without even knowing they're dead. She very rarely causes extended pain, almost never hurts the injured (simply because she doesn't leave anyone she needs to come back and finish off), and her victims don't suffer.
So yeah, she can find extended suffering horrifying while being relatively fine with killing en masse herself, especially if there's some sort of justification or cause behind it (like how her pirate raids are in pursuit of ousting the Realm from An Teng).
Let it never be said that Keris is unduly bound by consistency in her moral convictions.
Aaron Peori
Rest in Peace
"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes."
notanautomaton
I've got 99 quests, I've finished one
I've started an Exalted CK2 alike, set immediately after the Balorian Crusade. Feel free to join in.
- Location
- Virginia
This is... honestly creepier than just the regular version of kidnapping people and then surgically altering them into art.
Dynamesmouse
Bzzzzzz
Metagaos desires literally everything. If he possessed all of existence, it still wouldn't be enough for him. However, he is lazy, content to spread spores instead of conquering it himself. Malfeas is literally incapable of half-assing anything. He is the most powerful, cruelest of the Yozis. It's a terrifying combination.
Aaron Peori
Rest in Peace
Clad in Fearful Armor
Cost: - (Varies) Mins: Essence 4 Type: Permanent
Keywords: Heretical, Emotion
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Viridian Legend Exoskeleton (both purchases), Death Dealing Journey
For should not the champions of hell be clad in regalia befitting their legend? This Charm permanently upgrades both its prerequisites. The Infernal selects a single suit of armor which becomes synonymous with his personal legend. He must attune this armor as if it was an artifact for five hours at which point the attunement cost of the armor becomes permanently committed and may not be uncommitted in any way (if the armor has no commitment costs the cost is 1m). This armor becomes scorched green with the burnished light of Ligier and becomes as indestrucible as the Exalt himself, so long as the Exalt lives even effects which would permanently destroy the armor fail and the armor regrows at a rate of one soak point at the same rate as -0 health levels and may not be separated from him. If he is not currently wearing the armor he always knows the relative distance and direction to it. If an obstacle prevents him from reaching the armor (such as a locked door or a maze) he gains an intuitive sense of what direction he must travel in to bypass the obstacle (towards the nearest key to the door, or a person who can unlock it, or a way around an impassable chasm and so on). So long as he is moving towards his armor by the fastest possible route the Infernal always benefits from both Death Dealing Journey and Viridian Legend Exoskeleton, ignoring the usual limits of the Velocity keyword. He may don his armor as a single Speed 5, DV -0 Miscellaneous action if it is at hand.
While wearing his armor the Infernal radiates an aura of rage and destruction that causes even the most stouthearted to quail. Any opponent whose Valor is less than the Infernal's Essence (to a maximum of 5) suffers a -3 internal penalty to their first attack in a scene against the Infernal as a fear-based Emotion effect. This penalty is reduced by 1 for each subsequent attack made to a minimum of 0 and may be ignored for a day by spending 1wp. In non combat situations the Infernal's presence causes others to be disturbed and fearful, suffering a similar penalty on any social conflict rolls targeting the Infernal.
Harvest of Infernal Majesty
Cost: 2m+ Mins: Essence 4 Type: Simple (Speed 6)
Keywords: Heretical
Duration: One Week
Prerequisite Charms: Clad In Fearful Armor
The champion of hell shall never fear his iconic arms should become obsolete. Via this Charm the Infernal may improve the potency of his armor by swallowing the energy of his masters, or stealing the baubles of their enemies. The Infernal uses this Charm by firmly gripping a Hearthstone in one hand and then crushing it, causing the energy to briefly surge through his body as an Obvious effect which fades after a minute. The cost of this Charm is 2m per dot of the Hearthstone and the Hearthstone must not be in an attuned artifact at the time (the Infernal must have uncontested possession of the stone).
Once crushed the Infernal may choose on of these benefits for each dot of Hearthstone he has crushed. The same option may be selected more than once, up to a maximum of five times each.
* The Infernal gains an additional -4 Health Level. This health level is always marked last before he becomes Incapacitated and healed first.
* The Infernal gains +1B/+1L soak and +1/+1 Hardness.
* The Infernal gains +1 to his Strength for the purposes of calculating damage, lifting capacity/encumbrance and leaping distance.
* The Infernal gains +1 to his Stamina for the purposes of withstanding hardship, poisons, knockback, knockdown and disease.
No more than (Essence x 2) total number of benefits may be activated at once, though this Charm may be used on a fresh Hearthstone to renew the duration of certain benefits.
All Things Arsenal Meditation
Cost: - Mins: Essence 4 Type: Permanent
Keywords: Heretical
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Kissed By Hellish Noon, Dread Panoply of the Silent Wind
No matter how they flee or where they stand, the champion of hell shall strike them down. This Charm permanently improves the prerequisites. First it allows the Exalt to store ranged weapons using Dread Panoply of the Silent Wind in addition to close weapon, as well as storing an amount of ammunition for each weapon banished in that way to make up to (Strength x10) attacks with that weapon. So if a Strength 3 Infernal stored a bow in his anima he could also reflexively store up to 30 arrows at the same time (additional bonus dots of Strength from Harvest of Infernal Majesty add to this total).
Further, whenever he makes an attack supplemented with Green Sun Nimbus Flare he may summon one of his stored weapons for that attack at no mote cost. If the Infernal is making an attack with a ranged weapon and he supplements it with Green Sun Nimbus Flare he may perform the attack even if he has no available ammunition for this attack, though this only produces basic ammunition with a resources cost no higher than one dot.
Is This End Not Glorious?
Cost: 3m+ Mins: Essence 4 Type: Reflexive (Step 10)
Keywords: Heretical
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Immolating Terror Technique, Murder Is Meat
Let those who stand before you be food to fuel your passion. This Charm may be activated whenever the Infernal kills a thinking creature with a close combat attack. This Charm allows the Infernal to murder the creature in a grotesque display of primal rage that strikes fear into anyone watching. The Infernal then swallows this fear to fuel his rampage.
Upon activating this Charm the Infernal may spend 3m to restore one Valor or Conviction channel. This Charm may be repurchased at Essence 5 to allow the Infernal to regain 1wp at a cost of 5m. It may be repurchased a third (and final) time at Essence 5 to allow the Infernal to instead regain one bashing health level (for 5m, 1wp) or one lethal health level (for 10m, 1wp).
If the Infernal knows Clad In Fearful Armor activating this Charm resets the Fear-based Emotion effect of that Charm as if it were the beginning of combat again, resetting the penalty to -3 or forcing anyone effected to spend another 1wp to resist it. If an opponent spends 2wp in the same scene he is immune to the effects of this reactivation effect.
Your Words Mean Nothing
Cost: - Mins: Essence 4 Type: Permanent
Keywords: Heretical
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Impervious Primacy Mantle, Broken Silence Laughter Defense
The champion of hell can not be dissuaded from his path by mere words. Whenever the Infernal is subject to a social roll whose effects are fundamentally hostile to either his Motivation or his Urge he instantly senses this and may reject that influence as if it was an Unacceptable Order. This protection ceases the moment the Infernal speaks to the person attempting to influence him for the rest of that scene.
However, should he be subject to a social influence roll that is in line with either his Motivation or his Urge he must pay full attention to it, not interrupting the speaker until they are finished unless he spends 1wp.
Cost: - (Varies) Mins: Essence 4 Type: Permanent
Keywords: Heretical, Emotion
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Viridian Legend Exoskeleton (both purchases), Death Dealing Journey
For should not the champions of hell be clad in regalia befitting their legend? This Charm permanently upgrades both its prerequisites. The Infernal selects a single suit of armor which becomes synonymous with his personal legend. He must attune this armor as if it was an artifact for five hours at which point the attunement cost of the armor becomes permanently committed and may not be uncommitted in any way (if the armor has no commitment costs the cost is 1m). This armor becomes scorched green with the burnished light of Ligier and becomes as indestrucible as the Exalt himself, so long as the Exalt lives even effects which would permanently destroy the armor fail and the armor regrows at a rate of one soak point at the same rate as -0 health levels and may not be separated from him. If he is not currently wearing the armor he always knows the relative distance and direction to it. If an obstacle prevents him from reaching the armor (such as a locked door or a maze) he gains an intuitive sense of what direction he must travel in to bypass the obstacle (towards the nearest key to the door, or a person who can unlock it, or a way around an impassable chasm and so on). So long as he is moving towards his armor by the fastest possible route the Infernal always benefits from both Death Dealing Journey and Viridian Legend Exoskeleton, ignoring the usual limits of the Velocity keyword. He may don his armor as a single Speed 5, DV -0 Miscellaneous action if it is at hand.
While wearing his armor the Infernal radiates an aura of rage and destruction that causes even the most stouthearted to quail. Any opponent whose Valor is less than the Infernal's Essence (to a maximum of 5) suffers a -3 internal penalty to their first attack in a scene against the Infernal as a fear-based Emotion effect. This penalty is reduced by 1 for each subsequent attack made to a minimum of 0 and may be ignored for a day by spending 1wp. In non combat situations the Infernal's presence causes others to be disturbed and fearful, suffering a similar penalty on any social conflict rolls targeting the Infernal.
Harvest of Infernal Majesty
Cost: 2m+ Mins: Essence 4 Type: Simple (Speed 6)
Keywords: Heretical
Duration: One Week
Prerequisite Charms: Clad In Fearful Armor
The champion of hell shall never fear his iconic arms should become obsolete. Via this Charm the Infernal may improve the potency of his armor by swallowing the energy of his masters, or stealing the baubles of their enemies. The Infernal uses this Charm by firmly gripping a Hearthstone in one hand and then crushing it, causing the energy to briefly surge through his body as an Obvious effect which fades after a minute. The cost of this Charm is 2m per dot of the Hearthstone and the Hearthstone must not be in an attuned artifact at the time (the Infernal must have uncontested possession of the stone).
Once crushed the Infernal may choose on of these benefits for each dot of Hearthstone he has crushed. The same option may be selected more than once, up to a maximum of five times each.
* The Infernal gains an additional -4 Health Level. This health level is always marked last before he becomes Incapacitated and healed first.
* The Infernal gains +1B/+1L soak and +1/+1 Hardness.
* The Infernal gains +1 to his Strength for the purposes of calculating damage, lifting capacity/encumbrance and leaping distance.
* The Infernal gains +1 to his Stamina for the purposes of withstanding hardship, poisons, knockback, knockdown and disease.
No more than (Essence x 2) total number of benefits may be activated at once, though this Charm may be used on a fresh Hearthstone to renew the duration of certain benefits.
All Things Arsenal Meditation
Cost: - Mins: Essence 4 Type: Permanent
Keywords: Heretical
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Kissed By Hellish Noon, Dread Panoply of the Silent Wind
No matter how they flee or where they stand, the champion of hell shall strike them down. This Charm permanently improves the prerequisites. First it allows the Exalt to store ranged weapons using Dread Panoply of the Silent Wind in addition to close weapon, as well as storing an amount of ammunition for each weapon banished in that way to make up to (Strength x10) attacks with that weapon. So if a Strength 3 Infernal stored a bow in his anima he could also reflexively store up to 30 arrows at the same time (additional bonus dots of Strength from Harvest of Infernal Majesty add to this total).
Further, whenever he makes an attack supplemented with Green Sun Nimbus Flare he may summon one of his stored weapons for that attack at no mote cost. If the Infernal is making an attack with a ranged weapon and he supplements it with Green Sun Nimbus Flare he may perform the attack even if he has no available ammunition for this attack, though this only produces basic ammunition with a resources cost no higher than one dot.
Is This End Not Glorious?
Cost: 3m+ Mins: Essence 4 Type: Reflexive (Step 10)
Keywords: Heretical
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Immolating Terror Technique, Murder Is Meat
Let those who stand before you be food to fuel your passion. This Charm may be activated whenever the Infernal kills a thinking creature with a close combat attack. This Charm allows the Infernal to murder the creature in a grotesque display of primal rage that strikes fear into anyone watching. The Infernal then swallows this fear to fuel his rampage.
Upon activating this Charm the Infernal may spend 3m to restore one Valor or Conviction channel. This Charm may be repurchased at Essence 5 to allow the Infernal to regain 1wp at a cost of 5m. It may be repurchased a third (and final) time at Essence 5 to allow the Infernal to instead regain one bashing health level (for 5m, 1wp) or one lethal health level (for 10m, 1wp).
If the Infernal knows Clad In Fearful Armor activating this Charm resets the Fear-based Emotion effect of that Charm as if it were the beginning of combat again, resetting the penalty to -3 or forcing anyone effected to spend another 1wp to resist it. If an opponent spends 2wp in the same scene he is immune to the effects of this reactivation effect.
Your Words Mean Nothing
Cost: - Mins: Essence 4 Type: Permanent
Keywords: Heretical
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Impervious Primacy Mantle, Broken Silence Laughter Defense
The champion of hell can not be dissuaded from his path by mere words. Whenever the Infernal is subject to a social roll whose effects are fundamentally hostile to either his Motivation or his Urge he instantly senses this and may reject that influence as if it was an Unacceptable Order. This protection ceases the moment the Infernal speaks to the person attempting to influence him for the rest of that scene.
However, should he be subject to a social influence roll that is in line with either his Motivation or his Urge he must pay full attention to it, not interrupting the speaker until they are finished unless he spends 1wp.
Interesting, but I think it misses the point of Heresy; you mix the energies of two or more titans to get something nobody ever expected. This is 'just' upgrades to previous charms, or compiling the effects of both charms together in one. They're cool effects, but it seems like buying 1.5 charms for the price of 2, if you get my meaning.
Compare that to a canon heresy charm, Emerald Angel Unfurling: it's prereqs are a pain-reducer and a lie-detector, but the charm itself is a shaping defense. It doesn't follow directly from the charms, but there's thematic links; a charm to protect the body from pain plus a charm to protect the mind from lies equals a charm to protect the character from change.
- Location
- Spain
She also sacrified a random priest to a demon.
- Location
- Ekaterinburg, Russia
On an entirely unrelated note, here's a question on broken charm combination: Will it work as intended, or will it kill the character?
Exalted 2.5:
DragonBlooded, Essence 7, Occult 6, War 7, Breeding 5.
Relevant charms:
Mantle of Elemental Fusion (Dreams of the First Age - Lords of Creation)(E6, Occult 6) - allows a dragon-blood to capture an elemental and use their charms freely.
Can be substituted by a Yasal Crystal.
As in the Beginning (Dreams of the First Age - Lords of Creation)(E7, War 7, Breeding 5) - a Martyr charm, allows to drop a tac-nuke on the target after an hour of waiting (or 10 seconds if Martyr use activated)
Can be substituted by another Martyr charm, I'm not picky.
Host of Spirits (The Books Of Sorcery, Vol. 4: The Roll Of Glorious Divinity I -- Page 155)(E2) - a Spirit charm, which is accessed through a Yasal Crystal, or Mantle of Elemental Fusion. Allows the character to create a number of copies of himself, that can be invested with motes, temporary Willpower, or charms that will use the aforementioned motes and willpower. The character loses the use of charms until the copy dies.
Ahem. And I already need to make a correction. The copies need to fit the prerequisites, and they also have Essence score 3 less than the Dragon-Blood. So the Dragon-Blood needs to have Essence 8 minimum for the less powerful Martyr charms, and Essence 10 for As in the Beginning to transfer it.
So, anyway my question. The Dragon-Blood creates a copy of himself with Host of Spirits, infuses it with a Martyr charm (and only the Martyr charm), and promptly tells the copy to Martyr-activate it.
Does the charm activate?
Does the Dragon-Blood survive the act of his copy Martyr-activating the charm?
Does the charm have the desired Martyr effect?
I'm asking because... Essence 10 Dragon-Blood acting as a nuke-on-demand... Suitable for E10, but OP.
On a somewhat related note, Host of Spirits may or may not be a quick and dirty way to create several near-invincible troops, depending on availability of persistent defenses and improvements, like (Ability) Essence Flow for Melee, Martial Arts, Archery, Thrown, Dodge and Resistance (or Stealth) to create four hard-to-kill combatants.
Exalted 2.5:
DragonBlooded, Essence 7, Occult 6, War 7, Breeding 5.
Relevant charms:
Mantle of Elemental Fusion (Dreams of the First Age - Lords of Creation)(E6, Occult 6) - allows a dragon-blood to capture an elemental and use their charms freely.
Can be substituted by a Yasal Crystal.
As in the Beginning (Dreams of the First Age - Lords of Creation)(E7, War 7, Breeding 5) - a Martyr charm, allows to drop a tac-nuke on the target after an hour of waiting (or 10 seconds if Martyr use activated)
Can be substituted by another Martyr charm, I'm not picky.
Host of Spirits (The Books Of Sorcery, Vol. 4: The Roll Of Glorious Divinity I -- Page 155)(E2) - a Spirit charm, which is accessed through a Yasal Crystal, or Mantle of Elemental Fusion. Allows the character to create a number of copies of himself, that can be invested with motes, temporary Willpower, or charms that will use the aforementioned motes and willpower. The character loses the use of charms until the copy dies.
Cost: 3 motes per copy
Minimums: Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Shaping
Duration: One scene or indefinite
The spirit animates a piece of itself into its full shape. Weak spirits create doppelgangers to fool or outnumber foes; powerful ones also create units of followers or avatars to send out into the world.
(Conviction) copies can be formed per action, to a maximum of (Essence x Conviction) at any one time, and each costs the spirit three committed motes. These doppelgangers possess all of the spirit's traits and other qualities, but two fewer dots of each Attribute save Appearance (Minimum 0), only the illusion of equipment, no Charms, motes of Essence or temporary Willpower, and only a single -0 health level. Each member of the Host has an Essence three less than the spirit's (minimum 1). Such copies last until the end of the scene under the perfect mental command of the spirit.
With a touch, copies can be invested with motes or temporary Willpower by the true spirit, but never recover them once they're spent or lost. If a copy meets the prerequisites, it can also be imbued with the spirit's Charms, but the original will lose access to those Charms as long as the doppelganger persists. Charms return to the spirit upon a copy's destruction, but not motes or Willpower.
Essence 3+ spirits may spend one Willpower to allow another character to don one of the spirit's copy bodies. Any basically humanoid creature smaller than the spirit may enter into a Host copy, riding it until she chooses to leave or the spirit releases the three committed motes. While inside, the inner creature sees as the copy would see, with the spirit's senses. The inner creature may not, however, use any of her own Charms without disrupting the power, and all of her Physical Attributes and Abilities are considered those of the doppelganger, as well as its Essence score.
Wearing a copy constitutes a perfect disguise, per the Charm Flawless Mirror; if the character suffers any damage while wearing a Host copy, however, she's exposed.
The spirit need not invoke a Host that looks exactly like it, but it will need other Charms such as Shapechange if the spirit wishes to alter forms more than a little. If the spirit decides its doppelgangers are exact, then onlookers seeking the original must succeed at a (Perception + [Awareness or Occult]) check with an external penalty of (spirit's Conviction) to do so.
Minimums: Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Shaping
Duration: One scene or indefinite
The spirit animates a piece of itself into its full shape. Weak spirits create doppelgangers to fool or outnumber foes; powerful ones also create units of followers or avatars to send out into the world.
(Conviction) copies can be formed per action, to a maximum of (Essence x Conviction) at any one time, and each costs the spirit three committed motes. These doppelgangers possess all of the spirit's traits and other qualities, but two fewer dots of each Attribute save Appearance (Minimum 0), only the illusion of equipment, no Charms, motes of Essence or temporary Willpower, and only a single -0 health level. Each member of the Host has an Essence three less than the spirit's (minimum 1). Such copies last until the end of the scene under the perfect mental command of the spirit.
With a touch, copies can be invested with motes or temporary Willpower by the true spirit, but never recover them once they're spent or lost. If a copy meets the prerequisites, it can also be imbued with the spirit's Charms, but the original will lose access to those Charms as long as the doppelganger persists. Charms return to the spirit upon a copy's destruction, but not motes or Willpower.
Essence 3+ spirits may spend one Willpower to allow another character to don one of the spirit's copy bodies. Any basically humanoid creature smaller than the spirit may enter into a Host copy, riding it until she chooses to leave or the spirit releases the three committed motes. While inside, the inner creature sees as the copy would see, with the spirit's senses. The inner creature may not, however, use any of her own Charms without disrupting the power, and all of her Physical Attributes and Abilities are considered those of the doppelganger, as well as its Essence score.
Wearing a copy constitutes a perfect disguise, per the Charm Flawless Mirror; if the character suffers any damage while wearing a Host copy, however, she's exposed.
The spirit need not invoke a Host that looks exactly like it, but it will need other Charms such as Shapechange if the spirit wishes to alter forms more than a little. If the spirit decides its doppelgangers are exact, then onlookers seeking the original must succeed at a (Perception + [Awareness or Occult]) check with an external penalty of (spirit's Conviction) to do so.
Ahem. And I already need to make a correction. The copies need to fit the prerequisites, and they also have Essence score 3 less than the Dragon-Blood. So the Dragon-Blood needs to have Essence 8 minimum for the less powerful Martyr charms, and Essence 10 for As in the Beginning to transfer it.
Martyr: A Charm with this keyword has a greater effect if the Exalt voluntarily forfeits his life when activating it. The mystical suicide joins the Terrestrial's soul and Essence directly to the Elemental Dragon associated with his aspect, subsuming the totality of his name and being into the Dragon like a drop of water returned to the ocean. Only the empty shell of the Terrestrial's body remains, unless it is consumed by the Charm's effect. When using the Martyr keyword, death substitutes for the usual cost of the Charm, and it may be expressly activated as a reflexive action regardless of its normal type, allowing Terrestrial elders to fight to the last mote and still unleash one final act of greatness. Characters may activate one Martyr effect with their death, plus one different additional one for every dot of Essence above 6. (An Essence 10 paragon—if such a being existed—could die the death of five dragons.)
So, anyway my question. The Dragon-Blood creates a copy of himself with Host of Spirits, infuses it with a Martyr charm (and only the Martyr charm), and promptly tells the copy to Martyr-activate it.
Does the charm activate?
Does the Dragon-Blood survive the act of his copy Martyr-activating the charm?
Does the charm have the desired Martyr effect?
I'm asking because... Essence 10 Dragon-Blood acting as a nuke-on-demand... Suitable for E10, but OP.
On a somewhat related note, Host of Spirits may or may not be a quick and dirty way to create several near-invincible troops, depending on availability of persistent defenses and improvements, like (Ability) Essence Flow for Melee, Martial Arts, Archery, Thrown, Dodge and Resistance (or Stealth) to create four hard-to-kill combatants.
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Aaron Peori
Rest in Peace
...and here I thought I was being too blatant with my reference.
- Location
- Ekaterinburg, Russia
Should I be worried?
EDIT: On second thought, yes, I should.
If not for my well-being (which is still up in the air), then definitely for yours.
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- Location
- Denmark
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Why would you use DotFA!?
Why would you use Elder Exalts!?
Why would you even bother with Charms over Essence 5!?
lol, yasal crystals
Roll of Glorious Divinity is either shit or acceptable depending on who you ask.
- Location
- Ekaterinburg, Russia
Ahem, those are all complaints and mockings, not answers. Also:
BWONG! You need to go deeper.
The hypothetical situation is that I am building (not for actual gameplay) a grandson to her Redness, born in RY 160, who (as a 5-dot Merit) has knowledge of the Exalted 2E splats, including RotSE. And doesn't want to die.
Incidentally, by age 50 he's gained technical immortality by building a 3-dot artifact (think Bracelet of Shared Life, with Divinity Requisition Badge used to make the Least God of said Bracelet to attune to said Bracelet, so it works for anyone who dons it - and as said Least God is supposed to exist for as long as the Bracelet does, and the bracelet is made of Green Jade and therefore does not expire with age, immortality). So he can both expect to live to see the events of RotSE, and actually grow into the Elder Charms in process - if nobody offs him by then.
Naturally, he would cheat most outrageously - it's a necessity in the world where everyone else cheats, and many thousands cheat harder.