Noble
Soulsteel Scream
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum
Compassion: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite
Charms: None
The ghost with this Arcanos
needs only for her player to successfully roll Perception + Craft to gain
insight about the origins of a piece of soulsteel or
a soulsteel artifact. For every success, the ghost
can ask one simple, straightforward question about the physical details of
previous handlers of an item or events for which the object was present or used.
These events can predate the item’s destruction in Creation, if the object is
in fact an echo of Creation.
Soulsteel Shaper
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: One day
Type: Simple
Minimum
Conviction: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite
Charms: Soulsteel
Scream
Soulsteel Shaper allows a ghostly artisan to aid in
the creation of soulsteel items. With Soulsteel Shaper, a ghost can serve as a “trained thaumaturge” for the purposes of assisting an Exalt or
other master craftsman in creating a soulsteel
artifact, even if he lacks the necessary levels of Craft, Lore and Occult.
Activation of this Arcanos simply allows the ghost to
serve in this role during its duration on soulsteel
projects. It does not enable him to assist with artifacts crafted from other
substances.
Grave Goods Shaping
Technique
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: One day
Type: Simple
Minimum
Conviction: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite
Charms: Soulsteel
Shaper
As the ghost artisan approaches master
status, he gains the ability to modify relics that echo into the deadlands from the living world as part of a character’s
Grave Goods Background. With this Arcanos, a ghost
artisan can (slowly) transform a grave good into another form without changing its
nature or magical Traits. The artisan cannot remove more than about 10 percent
of the grave good’s mass if he wants it to retain any magical properties, nor
can he add more than about 10 percent in new materials. For example, the
artisan might transform a relic sword into a shield or a group of steel mugs.
The transformed item remains composed of the same materials — a transformed
sword remains mostly steel, a transformed chair mostly wood. If the relic is
transformed into a group of items, those items only retain any magical
properties when they are together. It takes seven days per dot of the Grave
Goods Background to modify a relic in this fashion, which means that a ghost who
wishes to change any potent grave good must be prepared to spend a great deal
of Essence to do so.
Soulsteel Rebuilding Technique
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: One day
Type: Simple
Minimum
Conviction: 3
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite
Charms: Soulsteel
Shaper
As the ghost artisan approaches master
status, he gains the ability to modify soulsteel
artifacts. With this Arcanos, a ghost artisan can
(slowly) transform an artifact made mostly or entirely of soulsteel
into another form without changing its nature or magical Traits. The artisan
cannot remove more than about 10 percent of the artifact’s mass if he wants it
to retain its magical properties, nor can he add more than about 10 percent in
new materials. The artisan might transform a soulsteel
suit of armor into a different sort of armor, for example, or a mated pair of
swords.
Essentially, any purely physical
transformation can be made that does not alter the item’s various artifact subratings, such as Usefulness, Game Impact or Script Immunity.
It is possible that the Storyteller will allow changes to the item’s Usefulness
or Game Impact through this Charm, but changes to the item’s Power, Script
Immunity and Essence Drawback are explicitly forbidden. If a single artifact is
transformed into a group of items, those items only retain their magical
properties when they are together.
It takes seven days per dot of the
Artifact Background to modify a soulsteel artifact in
this fashion, which means that a ghost who wishes to change any potent artifact
must be prepared to spend a great deal of Essence to do so.
Soulsteel Forging
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One day
Type: Simple
Minimum
Conviction: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Soulsteel
Rebuilding Technique
Given a quantity of raw soulsteel, a ghost-artisan with this Charm may help to
forge it into a new artifact. Such an artifact lacks magical Traits beyond the
standard abilities conveyed by soulsteel as a Magical
Material (in the hands of an Abyssal Exalt, a soulsteel
melee weapon gets +1 accuracy and drains Essence from the target when damage is
done, while soulsteel armor gets +2 soak when attuned
by an Abyssal, and so on. Creation of the soulsteel
item takes as long as it would take to craft an item out of ordinary steel in
Creation, but this Arcanos must be activated every
day in order to do so.
Soulsteel Miner’s Sense
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One hour per success
Type: Simple
Minimum
Conviction: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite
Charms: Soulsteel
Rebuilding Technique
While active, this Charm gives a ghost the
same sense that a spectre has within the Labyrinth —
the ability to more easily detect soulsteel veins
within the stone of the Labyrinth itself. The player of the ghost using this Arcanos rolls Perception + Craft, and for every success,
the ghost can aid in the search for soulsteel for one
hour. This aid comes in the form of a -1 difficulty on any roll to find or mine
soulsteel.