Ring Combat
Charms
Flesh-Carved World
Cost: 1 mote per die
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Ring: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
The character unwraps
her spirit and imposes its order on the world. The law of the self becomes the
law of the cosmos. This Charm adds one die to a Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping
attack for each mote spent.
Shuddering Wyld Inference
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Ring: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Flesh-Carved World
The self and the world are one, and
patterns of motion in the Wyld are reflected in waves
of change rippling and scraping against the raksha’s
Essence. This Charm lets the raksha make a blind
ranged Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping attack without penalty. This Charm is very
important for attacking individuals on distant waypoints.
Waypoint Knife
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Ring: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Shuddering Wyld Inference
The raksha
forms a knife of Essence and dream and, with it, cuts a waypoint out of the Wyld. The raksha spends the motes
for this Charm and targets an unoccupied waypoint within the maximum range of
his shaping weapon, and his player rolls Intelligence + Craft (Glamour) as a Ring-shaping
attack. On a success, he swallows that waypoint in the substance of the Wyld. The fabric of space compresses. For the rest of the
story, everyone who enters that waypoint can and must immediately move on to another
without spending movement.
Mind’s Grip Rigor
Cost: 4 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Ring: 5
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Shuddering Wyld Inference
The raksha forces principle on the Wyld,
her mind locking the bucking, wrestling tides of chaos in an iron grip of will. She can take a Ring-shaping or
Staff-shaping action with complete certainty of success. This Charm gives two
bonus successes on noncombat Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping
actions. It adds six bonus successes to an attack, but halves extra successes
for the purposes of computing damage.
Creator’s Fugue
Cost: 3 motes per extra attack
Duration: Instant
Type: Extra Action
Minimum Ring: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Flesh-Carved World
In a mad fugue of creation, the raksha dreams principle upon principle into the shifting
void. On his initiative, before taking an attack action, the raksha invokes this Charm and declares the desired number
of extra attacks. This Charm gives one extra Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping attack
for each 3 motes spent, up to a maximum number of extra attacks equal to the raksha’s permanent Essence.
Impinging Web Of Dream
Cost: 4 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Extra Action
Minimum Ring: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Creator’s Fugue
Weaving the world in an Essence and
gossamer-fueled trance, the raksha binds her target
in a seething web of shape. The soft and yielding substance of the Wyld becomes a rigid net. This Charm gives the raksha a number of extra Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping
attacks equal to her Essence. She must make all of her attacks against the same
target.
Crippling Destiny
Burden
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Ring: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Flesh-Carved World
To resist the raw physical power of the
martial raksha, Workers and Diplomats often write
destinies for the Warriors into the fabric of their created worlds. The burden
of such a destiny and its expectations weighs on the target’s spirit,
distracting him from the victory conditions of the shaping contest. The
character makes a Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping attack, from a maximum distance
of one waypoint, his player rolling damage normally. For each level of damage
this attack inflicts, this Charm inflicts a -1 environmental penalty on all the
target’s Sword-shaping actions until the end of the story.
Wyld-Curdling Attack
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Ring: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: None
The raksha’s
shaping congeals the Wyld, stiffening it into a
horrid trap of form. This Charm adds dice equal to the raksha’s
Essence to the damage of a successful Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping attack.
Endless Yawning
Void
Cost: 1 mote per 2 health levels damage
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Ring: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Wyld-Curdling
Attack
Fair Folk who use this Charm surround
their Essence in a coruscating aura of time. Every raksha
within 20 waypoints is instantly aware of this Charm’s use as the cold touch of
causality and rigor rasps against their Hearts. The target finds himself wrapped in layers of dream and the inevitable
progression of events, the march of time escorting him inevitably toward his
doom or trapping him in an eternity of repetition. This Charm adds two dice to
the shaping dice pool for a Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping action. In addition,
if that action is a shaping attack, this Charm adds two dice to the damage for
each mote spent, and the raksha can spend up to his permanent
Essence in motes.
This Charm has a minimum cost of 1 mote.
Luminous Exhalation
Cost: 1 mote per attack
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Ring: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Wyld-Curdling
Attack
The weakness of ranged Ring-shaping
attacks is their dependence on ammunition. This Charm lets the raksha exhale a fine mist of Essence that Ring-shaping weapons
can use as gossamer. Each use allows a single Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping
attack without the need for gossamer ammunition.
Twisting Serpent
Shape
Cost: 4 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Ring: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Wyld-Curdling
Attack
The raksha
curls the local weave of fate in on itself, building a twisting world of
circular reasoning and self-justifying propositions that, with the raw writhing
vitality of a living thing, shapes itself to ensure its continued existence.
The Essence of the raksha’s shaping weapon and the
Essence of the world are mirrors of one another.
This Charm allows the raksha to make a single Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping
attack without gossamer ammunition. This attack uses the accuracy of his
readied shaping weapon, which must have a nonzero waypoint range. The base
damage of the attack is the raksha’s Perception + 10,
and the range of the attack is 10 waypoints’ distance.
Gaping Wound Lens
Cost: 5 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Ring: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Wyld-Curdling
Attack
The raksha
rips open his Essence pattern, using the bleeding hollow this forms as a lens.
This lens has accuracy and rate equal to the raksha’s
permanent Essence and a range of 10 waypoints.
The raksha can
use his gaping wound lens to make either Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping attacks.
These have a base damage of Perception + Essence or Charisma + Essence,
respectively. This lens has no Perception or Charisma maximum.
Pounding Dream Harmony
Cost: 1 mote per soak reduction
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Ring: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Wyld-Curdling
Attack
The raksha
speaks the law of the world not in words, but in chorus. She sets forth not
one, but many principles in subtle harmony and arrangement. The raksha spends the motes for this Charm and makes a
Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping attack. If this attack succeeds, this Charm lets
her ignore up to one point of the enemy’s soak for each mote spent.
Sorrowful Firmament
Resonance
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Ring: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Waypoint Knife,
Pounding Dream Harmony
Singing the sonorous lament of Nirvishesha’s Sayujya aspect, the
raksha sinks her will into the substrata of the Wyld. She makes a Ring-shaping or Staff-shaping attack against
a target no more than three waypoints away. There is no escape from this attack
— parrying is possible with stunts and Charms, but dodging is impossible. Every
local waypoint and every raksha’s spirit, within a 10
waypoints’ distance, shivers with her song.
Undetectable Lie
Cost: 5 motes, 1
Willpower, 3 gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Staff: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Sorrowful Firmament
Resonance
The raksha
defines the law of the world in such compelling terms that not even the
Creation-born can refuse belief. Her player rolls Manipulation + Socialize as a
Staff-shaping attack. She converts the post-soak damage dice into automatic
successes.
Used against creatures with no Staff
Grace, this Charm functions as a work of glamour. The target accepts any one statement
of the raksha’s as absolute truth. It takes one scene
before the target is receptive to contradictory evidence, and even then, most
targets remember it as a distortion in the world rather than their senses — “that
time the faerie mutated the world so that the Unconquered Sun had turned his
back on me” rather than “that time he made me believe myself a mortal again.”
This power does not work on targets whose Wits + Essence is greater than the raksha’s Manipulation.
This is a Staff-shaping Charm.
These Dreams Are
Clay
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Ring: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Luminous Exhalation
The craft of the Workers brings forth
gossamer from the Wyld. Massaging the unformed
shapeless world with his hands, a raksha in the Middlemarches or deeper regions of the Wyld
can create 1 gossamer from Essence. Gossamer created
by this Charm is unstable and fades at the end of the next scene.