One more shintai for Cythrea.
Verdant Emerald Garden Shintai
Cost: 20m;
Mins: Essence 5;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-Basic, Form-Type, Shaping, Blasphemy
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Garden of Souls, Life-Giver Restoration
Cythrea is ever a benevolent mother, and is ever regretting the marring of Creation brought by rebellion of gods.
Upon activation of this Charm, Infernal anima flare to full iconic level and beyond, shattering material form of Internal into droplets of radiant white essence. Droplets of essence spreads enriching reality and realizing in small scale Cythrea initial design of Creation. Trees and other plants are brought to existence as saplings, that quickly spread, grow and develop into their full form. In seconds, area in radius of 50 meters / essence becomes a primordial garden.
Verdant Emerald Garden is
fragment of primordial creation. It cannot be overstated. Shintai carves area from Creation, Wyld or Malfeas and literaly recreates design that was marred and twisted with uprising of Gods and defeat of Primordials. Plants that can be found within are alien to Creation as it is now, strange, and living by different rules. Animals that comes from between trees are even stranger.
The most curious element of reality of the Garden is it's effect on conceptual level. Garden is literaly reality from the dawn of time. Clear and pristine. During primordial war She Who Lives in Her Name used three of her spheres to destroy great areas of Creation. This calamity targeted not only the physical, but also very ideas, concepts. The few text remaining from Primordial age are full of odd turns of phrase. Very ideas they refer to were destroyed, and are not possible to conceptualize now. Everywhere
except the verdant emerald garden.
Appearance of Garden is a thing of breathtaking beauty. Creation as it should be, unmarred, pristine and perfect. Beings permitted inside of Garden doubles speed of essence regeneration and heals that much faster.
Infernal remains conscious under the Shintai - though is incapable to be bored, nor able to feel passage of time. She can communicate with beings inside of the Garden in form of indistinct immaterial shape wrought with soft white radiance. Garden being area under design of Cythrea, remains under control of Infernal. There are several rules she can set for the Garden:
- Barr entrance (though not exit) to the garden (including immaterial beings)
- Expulse chosen being from the Garden (it
somehow wanders outside)
- Prevent any and all damage to the Garden or beings within (up to level of damage able to dispel shintai itself). Prevention includes social damage.
- Allow of restrict essence respiration to beings within the Garden
Under Shintai, Infenral regenerates mote of essence per minute - excluding 20 motes commited to Shintai itself.
Verdant Emerald Garden Shintai cannot be dispelled by sorcery. Only way to destroy it is by using overwhelming area attack able to damage every plant and animal inside. Once shintai is dispelled, either voluntarily or not, Infernal reappears turn later, including all equipment. Plants and animals die and dissolves soon after dissolution of the Garden. Their death is not property of the charm itself, but simple incompatibility with current reality in Creation and Malfeas.
Just make it like all the other mote-pool expanders and add a flat 10 motes. There's no need for fancy mechanics that unbalance the character.
I disagree there. Every Yozi have it's own speciality. Malfeal gives unprecendented physical resilence and capabilities. Oramus and TED are unmatched in twisting of reality and truth respectively. SHLiHN is perfect for crafting and sorcery. Cythrea could be exceedingly good in essence boosters.
In general, I think that Cythrea rocks. Most human-friendly Yozi, and only one that (propably) will not turn Creation inside out if freed. I like her and I very much like her charms. Not much combat capabilities, but plenty of very useful traits.
