All-Consuming
God-Monster Style
Wyld Communion
Cost: 5 motes, 0
gossamer
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Ring: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None
The raksha
meditates on the Wyld, dredging forth and harmonizing
with the strange Essence of the principles that gave the Wyld
birth. This Charm improves all her stunts by one die. (For example, a one-die
stunt would add two dice to her pool.) This functions only in the Wyld.
Spirit-Flaying Meditation
Cost: 1 Willpower,
1 gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Ring: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
P r e r e q u i
s i t e
Charms: Wyld
Communion
Striving for harmony with a greater
principle, the raksha cuts a Charm or Trait out of
her own soul. This Charm removes one of the raksha’s
Charms from the character sheet or lowers one of her own Traits by one. Raksha who lose a Charm also lose any permanent mutations
gained through purchase of that Charm. The raksha
receives no other compensation for the loss.
Being-Nonbeing Approach
Cost: 1 mote, 2
gossamer
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Ring: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Flaying Meditation
The raksha
elides herself from the shaped world, becoming
undirected immanent power inherent in the nature of existence. The raksha’s player rolls Intelligence + Martial Arts. On a
success, this Charm increases the difficulty of targeting her with shaping
actions by one. The Creation-born can still make out her shadowy form in some
specific location within the world, but successful use of this Charm also adds
her highest feeding Virtue in dice to normal Stealth dice actions unless those
attempting to see her have All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight or some other form
of Essence sense.
All-Consuming God-Monster
Stance
Cost: 10 motes, 1 Willpower,
0 gossamer
Duration: One story
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Ring: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Spirit-Flaying
Meditation
The raksha
strives for transcendence. She makes herself a channel for the deepest madness
of the Wyld. She fills her mind and spirit with the
mad purity of the firmament of existence. She hammers herself into a shape defined
by imperatives and laws that predate reason and existence, touching that stark
Essence of the Wyld that is chaos beyond even the
minds of the raksha.
There is a law before the laws of
shaping. There is a way before the way of the courts of the Wyld.
The Primordials know it, but they do not speak of it.
The shinma know it, but they do not speak at all.
This Charm is but the first step of a long path of initiation, but for a time,
the raksha becomes an unholy god.
This Charm transforms the raksha’s Essence, giving her what the Fair Folk call a “God-Monster
Body.”
The first time the character purchases
this Charm, she receives three gifts, which must be
chosen immediately after the character purchases this Charm. Subsequent purchases
of this Charm provide two gifts per purchase. These gifts exist only when this
Charm is in force. Raksha can only purchase this
Charm once, but unshaped can buy it a number of times equal to half their
Essence.
Gifts represent the special powers of
the God-Monster Body. Many gifts have prerequisite gifts, and a character cannot
take a gift without first taking all of its prerequisites. Raksha
cannot purchase a given gift more than once.
This Charm is specifically incompatible
with Assumption-type Charms. If the raksha wishes to
use both simultaneously, she must take the gift Calling Upon
the Dragon’s Ire.
This is a Stance-type Charm. Characters
cannot use more than one Stance-type Charm at a time.
Nature-Eliminating
Knife
Cost: 1 Willpower,
1 gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Ring: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: All-Consuming
God-Monster Stance
This Charm utterly destroys one of its
user’s own Graces, no matter in whose hands it dwells. Invoking this Charm
permanently adds the “Graces of the Wyld” gift to the
raksha’s God-Monster Body or, if the raksha’s God-Monster Body already has this gift, adds any
other gift of the raksha’s choice.
Chimera Exultation
Cost: 1 Willpower,
1 gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Ring: 5
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Being-Nonbeing
Approach, Nature-Eliminating Knife
Assuming a God-Monster Body, the raksha destroys her Heart Grace and vanishes in a flare of pearlescent
light.
This Charm utterly destroys the raksha who uses it, driving the radiance of the raksha’s will and desire into the substrata of the Wyld. This Charm is a plot device, having such limited or
limitless effects as the Storyteller desires.