Body-Strengthening Charms

 

Knife-Hand Dream

Cost: 1 mote, 1 gossamer

Duration: One story

Type: Reflexive

Minimum Ring: 1

Minimum Essence: 1

Prerequisite Charms: None

The raksha reinforces her body with elemental Essence. This Charm allows her to do lethal damage barehanded. She can also parry lethal blows barehanded as if wielding a weapon.

 

Opalescent Gossamer Raiment

Cost: 1 mote, 1 gossamer

Duration: One story

Type: Reflexive

Minimum Ring: 1

Minimum Essence: 1

Prerequisite Charms: Knife-Hand Dream

The raksha strengthens the dream of his flesh against the weapons of Creation. In firelight, his skin glimmers with the faintest opalescent sheen, and a difficulty 3 Perception + Occult roll identifies this as a mark of the raksha. This Charm adds one to his natural bashing soak and one to his natural lethal soak.

 

Blade-Turning Skin

Cost: 1 mote, 2 gossamer

Duration: One story

Type: Reflexive

Minimum Ring: 2

Minimum Essence: 1

Prerequisite Charms: Opalescent Gossamer Raiment

The raksha’s soft and delicate skin casts off the blades of her enemies. In firelight or moonlight, its peculiar and beautiful highlights reveal her as a raksha to those characters whose players make a successful difficulty 5 Perception + Occult roll. This Charm adds two to her natural bashing soak and two to her natural lethal soak. The raksha can benefit from this Charm and its prerequisites simultaneously.

 

Inviolable Presence

Cost: 1 mote, 4 gossamer

Duration: One story

Type: Reflexive

Minimum Ring: 3

Minimum Essence: 1

Prerequisite Charms: Blade-Turning Skin

The thinnest layer of dream, like ice or clear adamant, protects the raksha from others’ touch. Any who see the character can recognize him as a raksha. This Charm adds four to his natural bashing soak and four to his natural lethal soak. The raksha can benefit from this Charm and its prerequisites simultaneously.

 

Ox-Body Technique

Cost: Special

Duration: One story

Type: Reflexive

Minimum Ring: 1

Minimum Essence: 1

Prerequisite Charms: None

Raksha can shape themselves for additional resilience, purchasing additional health levels as if they were a Charm. Each Ox-Body Technique Charm can provide one of the following, at the player’s option, chosen at the time of purchase:

• One -0 health level. This costs 1 gossamer per story to activate.

• One -1 and -2 health level. These cost 1 gossamer per story to activate.

• One -2 health level. This is permanent and has no gossamer or mutation cost.

Players can purchase this Charm up to once per dot of the raksha’s Ring. Additional health levels for use in shaping combat are available through Wyld Prince Resilience.