Feeding Charms
Ravishing The Created Form
Cost: 1 Willpower,
0 gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Cup: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
Fair Folk in Creation devour the
Willpower and Virtues
of mortals to live. To use this Charm, a raksha touches a consenting Creation-born target, and her
player rolls a feeding Grace as a Cup-shaping attack. Instead of the normal
damage, this Charm reduces the target’s permanent Willpower or the target’s
relevant Virtue. The raksha chooses which to reduce.
The raksha can reduce the target’s Trait by up to one
dot per success, to a minimum of 0. Fair Folk devour the Willpower and Virtues
so stolen. This does not increase the raksha’s
Traits, but this Charm lets the raksha recover 10
motes of temporary Essence for each Trait point the target loses.
This Charm is a work of glamour. It
cannot feed from creatures whose Willpower + Essence exceeds the raksha’s Willpower. Raksha cannot
drain Exalted Virtues below the minimums imposed by the Great Curse.
Soul-Carving Artifice
Cost: 3 motes, 1
Willpower, 0 gossamer
Duration: One story
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Cup: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Ravishing the
Created Form
The raksha can
ravish others in Creation as in the Wyld.
Soul-Carving Artifice lets them shape the Virtues of mortals to their needs and
allows them to contest with one another in the thin and dreamless air of the Primordials’ world. This Charm creates a daydream or vision
shared by the raksha and a consenting target. This
vision fills the mind’s eye of both raksha and
target, imposing a one-die distraction penalty on normal dice actions.
The raksha and
the target can use shaping actions to change the vision as if it were a 10-waypoint
space of the Middlemarches of the Wyld.
Anything created in this daydream — such as new possessions or gossamer — fades
entirely when the Charm’s effects end.
This Charm is a work of glamour and does
not affect characters with Wits + Essence greater than the raksha’s
Performance.
Devouring Wings
Of The Wyld
Cost: 5 motes, 2
gossamer
Duration: One story
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Cup: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Soul-Carving
Artifice
The shifting patterns of the raksha’s wings draw in the soul of those who look upon
them. The Charm gives the raksha access to the
following ability. This ability affects normal actions rather than shaping
actions.
Hypnotic
Wings: The raksha must have wings to use this ability. When the raksha spreads her wings, every character who can see the
wings suffers a +1 difficulty on all normal dice actions. If a Creation-born
character’s player botches a Virtue roll while his character is interacting with
a raksha with hypnotic wings spread, the raksha can permanently and reflexively devour one dot of
that target’s Virtue, gaining 10 motes of Essence.
Raksha can purchase functional wings with Gossamer
Wing Flight or an artifact. Nonfunctional wings are available for any raksha who wishes them. This Charm is a work of glamour, but
it affects the raksha rather than the witnesses, so
seeing through it has no effect.
Heart-Stealing Kiss
Cost: 3 motes, 1
Willpower, 1 gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Cup: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Ravishing the
Created Form
The raksha
ravishes one of the Creation-born by touch. The raksha
can only use this Charm after touching the target with a normal dice action.
This often requires a Dexterity + Brawl or Dexterity + Martial Arts roll. The raksha then feeds from the target. This Charm functions as Ravishing the Created Form, save that the raksha gains 2 motes per drained Virtue or Willpower point
and that the drained Virtues or Willpower heal at one dot per day.
This Charm is a work of glamour. It
cannot be used to feed from creatures whose relevant Virtue + Essence exceeds
the raksha’s permanent Willpower. Raksha
cannot drain Exalted Virtues below the minimums imposed by the Great Curse.
Extruded Stomach
Feeding
Cost: 1 Willpower,
0 gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Cup: 1
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Ravishing the
Created Form
The raksha
inverts her Essence pattern and uses a Minor Grace to drink from her target.
The raksha typically remains elegant to mortal eyes,
but spirits, raksha and characters using effects such
as All-Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight can see the raksha’s
spiritual “stomach” pour out her mouth and fix its fanged maw to the target’s
soul.
This Charm functions exactly as Ravishing the Created Form, save that the raksha can feed using any Grace.
Soul-Consuming Hunger
Cost: 1 Willpower,
1 health level, 0 gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Cup: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Soul-Carving
Artifice, Extruded Stomach Feeding
Gaping wide the four mouths of her
Graces, the raksha swallows a consenting target’s
soul. The raksha’s player rolls her character’s Cup
Grace (and Cup Grace only) as a Cup-shaping attack against a difficulty of the target’s
Essence. On a success, instead of normal damage, this Charm utterly annihilates
the target. The raksha recovers 10 motes of Essence
for each Virtue point or Willpower point the target possessed, to the limits of
her normal Essence pool.
This Charm is a work of glamour. It
cannot be used to feed from creatures whose Willpower + Essence exceeds the raksha’s permanent Willpower.
Banquet Of Crumbs
Cost: 0 gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Cup: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Soul-Carving
Artifice, Extruded Stomach Feeding
The raksha can
sup on the ambient Virtue of Creation, though they find no satiety in it. After
exposure to strong, appropriate emotions, the raksha
can invoke this Charm and roll a feeding Grace as a Cup-shaping action. This
Charm recovers 1 mote of the raksha’s Essence per
success.
Oneiromantic Conjuration
Cost: 10 motes, 0
gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Cup: 1
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Banquet of Crumbs
The raksha can
use a mortal’s dream as a crucible, transforming motes into gossamer. The raksha must have access to a dreaming mortal to use Oneiromantic Conjuration. This Charm creates 1 gossamer.
Demesne-Farming
Art
Cost: 10 motes, 0
gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Cup: 1
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Oneiromantic
Conjuration
The raksha
prunes the wild power of an uncapped Demesne, creating gossamer from the
clippings. The raksha must visit an uncapped Demesne
to use this technique. This Charm creates gossamer equal to the Demesne’s
rating. A given Demesne only offers gossamer once per story.