World-Devouring
Warlord Style
Aegis Of A Martial Destiny
Cost: 1 mote
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
Early in the story, the raksha establishes her motivation for battle. She cannot
use this Charm if she has taken an aggressive shaping action this story. The raksha uses this Charm to augment a shaping Dodge action.
This Charm adds her Sword in automatic successes to her Dodge roll.
Antagonist-Naming
Technique
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Sword: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Aegis of a Martial
Destiny
The raksha
defines herself and an antagonist of her choice as the principal characters of
the story. The antagonist must exist. This Charm prevents the use of shaping actions
that remove the raksha or her named antagonist as active
characters in the story. For example, no one can use a shaping action to kill
the raksha without also in some fashion bringing her
back to life.
Thematic Stunting
Methodology
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Sword: 2
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Aegis of a Martial
Destiny
The raksha
defines desirable premises of the story and genre. This adds five extra dice to
her stunt pool.
World-Devouring
Warlord Stance
Cost: 6 motes
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Sword: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Antagonist-Naming
Technique, Thematic Stunting Methodology
The raksha
pours Essence into her Sword Grace. Flush with the power of the Sword, she
becomes a devotee of battle and assumes the stance of an all-devouring warlord.
This Charm adds the raksha’s permanent Essence to her
initiative, her Sword attack pools, her Sword defense pools and the raw
(pre-soak) damage of Sword attacks.
This is a Stance-type Charm. Characters
cannot use more than one Stance-type Charm at a time.
Gathering The Crows
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Sword: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Transient Work of
Flesh and Bone, World-Devouring Warlord Stance
The raksha
summons servants and minions. Each invocation of this Charm calls forth a
greater host to support her in war. Most of the troops are literal extras — they
don’t ever interact with enemies directly, but they swell the raksha’s army ominously. This Charm increases the defense
quality of her chosen shaping weapon by one, and multiple invocations of this
Charm are cumulative.
Army-Supporting
Behemoth Invocation
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Sword: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: World-Devouring
Warlord Stance
The raksha
summons monsters, horrors and war machines to serve with his army. Each use of
this Charm supports his forces with another great monster or a handful of
smaller beasts. This Charm increases the damage of her chosen shaping weapon by
one, and multiple invocations of this Charm are cumulative.
Avatar Of War
Cost: 3 motes, 1
Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Reflexive
Minimum Sword: 4
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Gathering the
Crows, Army-Supporting Behemoth Invocation
Closing her ears to screams and
blandishments alike, the raksha marches to war. This
Charm lets her immediately execute a Sword attack at her full dice pool against
any character attacking her with a shaping action. This counterattack is
resolved after the original attack is rolled but before its damage is determined.
Harmony Of Fortune And Hate
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One story
Type: Simple
Minimum Sword: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: World-Devouring
Warlord Stance
The pattern of events develops
inexorably in the raksha’s favor. Hostile weather,
strokes of ill fortune and unpleasant terrain eat away at the enemy’s will and
power to fight. Each use of this Charm increases the difficulty of defense
against the raksha’s Sword attacks by one. Multiple invocations
of this Charm stack, up to a maximum increased difficulty of the raksha’s Essence.
Preemptive Declaration
Of Victory
Cost: 5 motes, 1
gossamer
Duration: Instant
Type: Supplemental
Minimum Sword: 5
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Avatar of War,
Harmony of Fortune and Hate
Crushing her enemy underfoot, the raksha declares victory. The raksha
makes a Sword attack. If she succeeds, this Charm converts the damage dice
directly into successes.
The damage of this attack can affect the
creatures of Creation. If the Sword attack succeeds, then all shaped creatures
directly or indirectly in combat with the character realize themselves
defeated. Their players must succeed at a Valor roll, or the characters lay
down their arms in resigned surrender. For the rest of the scene, the defeated suffer
a five-die penalty on all combat actions.
This Charm 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).