Sword Combat
Charms
God-Humbling Victory
Sword
Cost: 1 mote per die
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Sword: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
The raksha
calls Nishkriya into the aspect of her Sword and
fills the world with portents of her victory. This Charm adds one or more dice
to a single Sword-shaping or Staff-shaping attack.
Scourging Wind Raid
Cost: 3 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Sword: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: God-Humbling
Victory Sword
In a lightning raid, the raksha steals the wealth of her foe. The raksha spends the motes for this Charm, names one of the
target’s possessions and makes a Sword-shaping or Staff-shaping attack at +2 difficulty. If successful, this Charm co-opts the ownership
of that possession, in addition to inflicting normal damage. The Charm cannot
steal Graces, artifacts or Hearthstones, but it can steal shaping weapons,
including readied weapons.
Dream Sacrificing
Method
Cost: 3 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Scourging Wind Raid
Even the living deities of battle must
choose their sacrifices. The raksha invokes this
Charm after an enemy rolls damage for a Sword-shaping
attack. The raksha can negate this damage by
sacrificing gossamer equal to the damage successes. This Charm negates the
damage but transfers the gossamer into the attacker’s hands.
Unparalleled Terror
Technique
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Sword: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: God-Humbling
Victory Sword
The raksha’s
Sword hungers for the fear of her foe. Her shaping englamours an ordinary blow with the touch of nightmare.
This Charm augments a single Sword-shaping or Staff-shaping attack. If the
attack succeeds, the raksha counts extra successes
twice for purposes of dealing damage.
Pincer Of Transcendent Time And Fate
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Extra Action
Minimum Sword: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: God-Humbling
Victory Sword
The raksha’s
Sword takes on the aspect of Kala and Dharma, the
paired weapons of Nishkriya that strike as one. This
Charm uses the raksha’s shaping action to launch two
Sword-shaping or two Staff-shaping attacks at her full dice pool.
Endless Armies Of The Storm
Cost: 3 motes per attack, 1 Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Extra Action
Minimum Sword: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Pincer of
Transcendent Time and Fate
The raksha
opens her spirit with Nishkriya, the Sword, and calls
an endless host. Driven forth by the sound of flute and drum,
the limitless armies of the Wyld march. In addition
to the raksha’s normal shaping action, this Charm lets
the raksha make one Sword-shaping or Staff-shaping attack
for each 3 motes of Essence spent, up to a limit of his permanent Essence.
Host-Summoning Glory
Of Command
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
The raksha
wears the mantle of greatness, visibly displaying her terrible aptitude for
war. She can draw her armies, monsters and champions into an ongoing story without
further explanation of their presence. This Charm instantly readies a
Sword-shaping or Staff-shaping weapon. The raksha can
use this Charm before her initiative.
Sundering The Gates Of Death
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Host-Summoning
Glory of Command
The raksha
command death, and it is not their master. If a raksha’s army is slain or scattered, he can call it back. If
his behemoth is slain or driven away, he can restore it.
Even should an enemy shatter the raksha’s bones and leave him bloody and broken on the field
of battle, he can restore himself and continue the fight. This Charm instantly readies
a Sword-shaping or Staff-shaping weapon, even if that weapon has been slain or
otherwise driven from the battle. The raksha can use
this Charm before his initiative. This Charm cannot restore the permanently
slain.
Transient Work Of Flesh And Bone
Cost: 6 motes, 1
gossamer
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Sword: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Host-Summoning
Glory of Command
The raksha
shapes a behemoth or a host of warriors from gossamer.
This Charm forms a shaping weapon of the
Sword. The player divides twice the raksha’s Sword
Grace between the weapon’s speed, accuracy, damage and defense. Perfectly tuned
to the raksha’s intentions, its rate equals the raksha’s permanent Willpower.
The weapon formed by this Charm is a
monster or a small army. Monsters are fey beasts. Armies are units of 500
extras using the elite troop Traits. In either case, the result is a work of
glamour. It cannot attack, defend or soak against residents of Creation whose
Wits + Essence exceeds the raksha’s Valor.
Scattering The Foe
Cost: 1 mote per 2 dice
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
The raksha’s
sword takes on the aspect of Shikhari, the hammer
that scatters armies. An enemy attack shatters against the raksha’s
battle prowess. This Charm allows the raksha to buy dice
for blocking Sword or Staff attacks. She can improve a normal shaping parry or
build a shaping dice pool from nothing. She must be aware of the attack.
Radiance Of The Invincible Warrior
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Scattering the Foe
The raksha’s
Sword Grace binds back fear and death, so that they come only grudgingly to his
assembled forces. This Charm lets the raksha parry
any one Sword or Staff attack with his full dice pool. He must be aware of the
attack.
Waypoint-Sealing
Technique
Cost: 3 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Radiance of the
Invincible Warrior
Taking up the powerful defensive
position typified by the Raghava aspect of the Sword,
the raksha seals an opponent out of a waypoint. The raksha uses this Charm as an opponent enters a waypoint he
occupies or controls, and his player rolls Dexterity + Melee as an undodgeable Sword-shaping attack. If he achieves even one
success, the opponent cannot enter the waypoint this scene and loses that
portion of her movement.
Unconquerable Truth
Cost: 3 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Radiance of the
Invincible Warrior
There are some warriors who cannot be
defeated. There are some generals whom no mind can outmaneuver. There are
truths of the raksha that no paltry weaving of fate
and story can master. This Charm lets the raksha parry
any one Sword- or Staff-shaping attack with his full dice pool, adding six
bonus successes, even if that attack is normally unblockable.
Rarefied Air Of Inevitable Victory
Cost: 5 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Sword: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Sundering the Gates
of Death, Radiance of the Invincible Warrior
The raksha
masters the destiny of war. Cast itself at him though
it might, the enemy cannot keep his forces down — they endure the most horrific
assaults, they regroup after the most terrible of blows, and not all the greatest
nightmares of the Wyld can keep the raksha from his appointed goal.
This Charm allows the raksha to reflexively parry any Sword or Staff attack
against him with his full dice pool. He need not be aware of the attack. This
paramount skill lasts until the end of the story.
Defining The Parameters Of
Cost: 5 motes, 1
Willpower, 1 gossamer
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Sword: 5
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Unconquerable
Truth, Rarefied Air of Inevitable Victory
The raksha
writes her own invincibility into the pattern of the
world. While this glamour endures, no Sword shaping can defy the essential
truths of her nature. While this Charm is in force, the raksha
can spend 1 gossamer to parry any one Sword- or
Staff-shaping attack with her full dice pool, adding six bonus successes, even
if that attack is normally unblockable.
In addition, this Charm allows the
character to spend 1 gossamer to parry any mortal
attack with her full Dexterity + Melee pool, adding six bonus successes, even
if the attack is normally unblockable. This defense
is a work of glamour and does not function against mortals with Wits + Essence
greater than the raksha’s Stamina.
All-Inclusive Nightmare
Defense
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Scattering the Foe
The raksha
unleashes fear and doubt upon her enemies. She disperses and drives back the
weapons of the Sword. To use this Charm, she must successfully parry a Sword
attack and receive extra successes equal to or exceeding the attacker’s
permanent Essence. This Charm removes the enemy’s Sword-shaping or
Staff-shaping weapon from readiness, normally by routing or killing the enemy’s
forces.
Tension-Building
Warrior’s Advance
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Sword: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: All-Inclusive
Nightmare Defense
The footsteps of the raksha
ring loudly in the air. He takes on the aspect of the supreme divine emissary
of death. As nothing can stand against him, nothing will. This Charm
supplements a Sword or Staff attack, adding the raksha’s
Essence to the difficulty of all shaping parries. If the attack succeeds, the
Charm also removes the enemy’s shaping weapon from readiness. This Charm cannot
be used for surprise attacks.
Fearsome Mien
Cost: 5 motes, 1
Willpower, 2 gossamer
Duration: One scene
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Tension-Building
Warrior’s Advance
The raksha can
weave a glamour that terrifies creatures of Creation. This requires a
successful Sword attack. This Charm imposes a two-die penalty to the dice pools
of all Creation-born enemies interacting with the character.
This is a work of glamour, and it has no
effect on creatures with Valor + Essence greater than the raksha’s
highest Sword Ability (Archery, Athletics, Brawl, Melee or Presence).