Occult, The Sorcerer
Once, there was a maiden…
…and before her came all the peoples of
Creation, and knelt.
They set aside their petty squabbles in
her name.
They acclaimed her with many shots.
They prayed for her safety, and her
weal.
Not one of them struck free her chains.
“To know the world…”
“…is to own it,” she said.
Mark Of Exaltation
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: One scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Occult: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
The character’s Caste Mark
shimmers, casting forth an appropriately colored light only visible to spirits
and the
Tell-Tale Symphony
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Occult: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Mark of
Exaltation
To help the character better
untangle the threads of fate, impelled by the earliest laws of Creation, the
patterns of Essence around the character sing. Charms, sorcery and other
effects give rise to strange but fitting melodies. Spirits ― manifested
or otherwise ― emit a soft and inadvertent noise, like the ringing of
bells. Only Sidereal Exalted can hear this music.
Both the character and other
Sidereals within earshot can detect the presence of enchantments and
unmanifested spirits automatically. An Intelligence + Occult roll against
difficulty 3 allows Sidereal Exalted with this Charm to identify the details of
an enchantment, the approximate rank and job description for a given spirit or
the minutiae of the local geomantic environment.
Incite Decorum
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: Indefinite
Type: Simple
Minimum Occult: 1
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: None
Invoking the blessing of his
Maiden, the character facilitates polite dealings with the spirit world.
Spirits and elementals with the Sidereal’s Essence or lower must spend 2
temporary Willpower to initiate hostile action against the character. In
addition, each Charm they use in a conflict they initiate costs 1 additional
Willpower. (This includes Charms that do not normally cost Willpower.) Learning
this Charm requires the appropriate Maiden’s approval.
Innocuous Maneuver
Cost: 2 motes
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Occult: 3
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Mark of
Exaltation, Incite Decorum
Wrapped in the terrible grandeur
of the Maiden that sponsors her, the Sidereal can present a compelling case for
her intentions. If her player succeeds at a Charisma + Occult roll against a
difficulty equal to the target’s Essence, the Sidereal acquires a god’s support
in some political matter. The god must not be intractably opposed to the
Sidereal, and the Sidereal can attempt this Charm at most once per year against
a given target. When used by the losing side in a celestial audit, each use of
this Charm counts as an independent Severity 3 offense. When used by the
winning side, there is no penalty. (Helping others agree with the truth, as the
censor’s final opinion defines it, is no crime.) Sidereal Exalted may always
use their with this Charm. Learning this Charm requires the appropriate Maiden’s
approval.
Unweaving Method
Cost: 5 motes, 1 Willpower, 1
health level
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Occult: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Innocuous
Maneuver
Sidereals with a deep
understanding of the ways of the Wyld and the dead can apply it to their
manipulation of fate. With a deft touch on the weave, the character corrupts
the pattern of a person’s existence with the essence of chaos and endings. She
inflicts her Essence in dice of unsoakable aggravated damage on any creature or
object she can see. This damage cannot be blocked or dodged. The Unweaving
Method cannot harm the dead and has no effect on characters or items shielded
from the influence of the Wyld.
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Cost: 1 Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Occult: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: None
For the Sidereal Exalted,
steeped in the lore of the First Age, Terrestrial Circle Sorcery comes easily.
Note that invoking this Charm only enables the character to cast a single
Celestial Circle Sorcery
Cost: 2 Willpower
Duration: Instant
Type: Simple
Minimum Occult: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Terrestrial
Circle Sorcery, one prayer strip Charm
Those Sidereal Exalted who
attain the pinnacle of one constellation’s Charm, learning to understand and
use one of the scriptures found upon the Maidens’ Loom, unlock a path in their
minds through which they may learn Celestial Circle Sorcery. The first time
they cast a