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.