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EIKICHI SHO
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* Twilight Caste Solar

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ATTRIBUTES
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MENTAL (prim)            PHYSICAL (tert)          SOCIAL (sec)
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Intelligence       5     Strength           1     Charisma           3
Wits               5     Dexterity          5     Manipulation       1
Perception         5     Stamina            1     Appearance         5

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ABILITIES
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[ ] Archery        -     [C] Linguistics    3     [F] Socialize      5
[ ] Athletics      -     [C] Lore           5     [ ] Stealth        -
[F] Awareness      5     [C] Medicine       5     [ ] Survival       -
[ ] Bureaucracy    -     [F] Melee          5     [ ] Thrown         -
[ ] Brawl          -     [C] Occult         5     [ ] War            -
[C] Craft          *     [ ] Performance    3
[ ] Dodge          -     [F] Presence       5     [C] Craft          5
[ ] Integrity      1     [ ] Resistance     -         (Architecture)
[F] Investigation  5     [ ] Ride           -     [C] Craft          1
[ ] Larceny        -     [ ] Sail           -         (Geomancy)


SPECIALTIES
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* Lore: Realm History
* Medicine: Field Surgery
* Melee: Staves
* Occult: Sorcery

* Free Lore Specialties: Behemoths, Magical Pacts, Mountain Folk, Realm Defense Matrix,
                         The Lover Clad in a Raiment of Tears, Research, The Haslanti League

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INTIMACIES
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* Defining Principle: Take chances! Make mistakes! *Get messy.*
* Defining Tie: The Solar Exalted (instinctive, sincere kinship)

* Major Principle: I hate it when my minions surprise me. [demonic]

* Major Principle: Forbidden knowledge is the knowledge most worth knowing.
* Major Principle: I'm bored.
* Major Principle: Nobody tells me to shut up.
* Major Tie: Excessively Righteous Blossom (building crush)
* Major Tie: Frightening Women (distracting attraction)
* Major Tie: Tatsuya, the Golden Hand (conflicted admiration)
* Major Tie: The Imperial City (mournful homesickness)

* Minor Principle: Anything worth doing is worth doing yourself.
* Minor Principle: I want to learn to cook.
* Minor Principle: Lying is beneath me.
* Minor Principle: Nobody gets what they deserve.
* Minor Principle: Why read a book when you can experience something firsthand?
* Minor Tie: Demons (imperious disgust)
* Minor Tie: Ir (admiration)
* Minor Tie: Lover Clad in a Raiment of Tears (crush)
* Minor Tie: Non-Solar Sorcerers (pity)
* Minor Tie: The River Province (distaste)
* Minor Tie: The Velvet Room (appreciation)

* Limit Trigger: The Solar's emotions lead him into a course of action that he regrets.

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MERITS
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***** Artifact (Spite's Linchpin, Vitriolic Adamant Wrackstaff)
**    Backing (The Velvet Room)
***   Familiar (Zagadka, Clockwork Sphinx)
***   Language (High Realm, Old Realm, Skytongue)

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CHARMS
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* Watchman's Infallible Eye: Inv 1/Ess 1, Reflexive/Instant
  - ST must say whenever a case scene or profile character action should be used, and vaguely why
* Strange Tongue Understanding: Lin 3/Ess 1, Reflexive/Instant, 1m
  - understand 3 or 4 simple sentences or 1 long complex sentence in an unknown language
* Essence-Lending Method: Lor 1/Ess 1, Simple/Instant, 3m
  - move up to [Essx3] motes to target from own mote pool; 1/scene roll [Wits+Lore]; target gains [Successes] additional motes
* Harmonious Academic Methodology: Lor 3/Ess 1, Permanent/Permanent
  - add [Ess] automatic non-Charm successes to any Lore roll involving a Specialty. Gain 1 Lore Specialty every story for free.
  - when succeeding at a moderate or extreme fact introduction/challenge, may add a relevant Lore Specialty
* Wound-Mending Care Technique: Med 3/Ess 1, Simple/Instant, 5m/1wp
  - [Int+Medicine], double 9s, after surgery or other treatment; [Successes] bashing/lethal damage restored after a day's bedrest
* Dipping Swallow Defense: Mel 1/Ess 1, Reflexive/Instant, 2m
  - ignore penalties to Parry; successful parry when active grants 1i
* Excellent Strike: Mel 2/Ess 1, Supplemental/Instant, Uniform, 3m
  - add 1 automatic success to an attack roll, and reroll 1s until 1s fail to appear
* One Weapon, Two Blows: Mel 2/Ess 1, Reflexive/Instant, 3m
  - make a second attack against an opponent brought from higher init than own to lower init than own by a withering attack
  - second attack may be withering or decisive
* Peony Blossom Technique: Mel 3/Ess 1, Reflexive/Instant, 1m/1wp/3a
  - when at bonfire, make an additional attack which resets anima to dim
* Hail-Shattering Practice: Mel 3/Ess 2, Reflexive/Instant, 1m per success
  - may pay 1m per 1 or 2 on an attacker's dice result to remove up to [Essence] successes from it
* Spirit Detecting Glance: Occ 1/Ess 1, Reflexive/One scene, 3m
  - can see but not touch immaterial spirits
* Uncanny Perception Technique: Occ 2/Ess 1, Reflexive/Instant
  - sensory trigger to spirit or raksha presence, even when immaterial; adds 3 successes to Awareness actions to notice them
* Spirit-Cutting Attack: Occ 2/Ess 1, Supplemental/Instant, Uniform, 2m
  - make a single attack against an immaterial entity; at -3 if presently invisible
* Ancient Tongue Understanding: Occ 3/Ess 1, Reflexive/One scene, 6m
  - knows Old Realm and other ancient/esoteric languages, but no others; get [Ess/2, rounded down, min 1] successes to all Occult rolls and shaping actions
* Supernal Control Method: Occ 5/Ess 1, Reflexive/Instant
  - free full Occult Excellency 1/scene; reset by raising anima to Iconic and the shedding it back down to Dim
* Terrestrial Circle Sorcery: Occ 3/Ess 1, Permanent/Permanent
  - may buy Terrestrial Circle spells; gain 1 shaping ritual and 1 free Terrestrial Control Spell
* All-Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight: Occ 5/Ess 2, Reflexive/Instant, 4m
  - see immaterial spirits, working of spirit energies, shaping actions/Evocations, sorcerous workings, wyld/shadowland borders, entrances to spirit sanctums
  - can make Int+Occult rolls to identify effects at a difficulty of [Effect's Essence Minimum]
* Listener-Swaying Argument: Pres 3/Ess 1, Supplmental/Instant, 3m
  - add one automatic success and one non-charm bonus die for every two points the target's Resolve is boosted by any means, up to 3 dice
* Impassioned Discourse Technique: Pres 4/Ess 2, Supplemental/Instant, 3m
  - add one automatic success to a persuade action
  - add 2/3/4 dice when arguing from a held Principle, based on intimacy intensity
* Mastery of Small Manners: Soc 3/Ess 1, Reflexive/One scene, 5m
  - adapt to host culture, preventing social faux pas and eliminating cultural unfamiliarity penalties
  - anyone with a positive intimacy towards host culture gains minor tie of respect or admiration for the solar
  - anyone with a negative intimacy towards foreigners or outsiders has it temporarily reduced by one level

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SPELLS
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Terrestrial Circle
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* Demon of the First Circle: Ritual, Instant, 2wp
  - cast at sundown and completed at midnight; [Int+Occult] vs demon's Resolve, binds for year and a day or duration of one task
  - gives inalienable Defining Tie of loyalty and sets Resolve to 0 for further influence; failed binding demands [Wits+Occult] vs Willpower banishing roll
* Flight of the Brilliant Raptor: Instant, Decisive-Only, 15sm/1wp
  - [Perception+Occult] decisive attack at up to long range; base damage [Init+WP]; at least 3 damage starts a bonfire
* Infallible Messenger: Until message is delivered, 5sm/1wp
  - deliver a message up to 5min long to a single target, the only person who can see the messenger
* Stormwind Rider: One hour, 15sm/1wp
  - summon flying mount, use [Wits+Occult] in place of combat movement rolls
  - see other powers in book (p.475)
* The Eye and the Mouth: Ritual, 10 minutes, 2wp/5m [TERRESTRIAL CONTROL SPELL]
  - summon disembodied golden eye and mouth that can read and recite any language for wp cost
  - may subsequently pay 5m to bring eye and mouth back for one hour; repeatable for rest of day

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POWERS
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ANIMA
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For 1m, can manifest caste mark or know exact time of day.

* Sorcerer's Mantle: Reflexive, 5m
  - gain 5 Hardness for 1 turn. free and automatic at bonfire. doesn't stack, but can be used in Crash
* Discorporate: Simple, One round, 10m/1wp
  - disappear, to reappear at a place of power within 10 miles at next sunset
* Master of Monsters: Simple, 10m
  - touch an Ess 1-3 elemental or first circle demon, bind it as familiar; may have [Ess] such familiars
  - spend 3m to summon familiar to your side reflexively; banish it reflexively for free

SORCERY
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Five Days to Freedom (Initiation + Terrestrial Shaping Ritual)
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* "Chain the Lesser Souls" 1sm per success on an [Int+Occult] demon binding roll.
                           Motes last until next successful summoning or first order that defies demon's nature.

DEMONS
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* "Usagi", Heranhal
* Two Unnamed Blood Apes [Anima Familiars]

FAMILIAR
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* "Zagadka", Clockwork Sphinx

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TRAITS
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* Essence:         2
  Personal Pool:   13/16
  Peripheral Pool: 0/35(40) (5m committed to Spite's Linchpin)

* Health:          [ ] -0
                   [ ] [ ] -1
                   [ ] [ ] -2
                   [ ] -4
                   [ ] Incapacitated

* Limit:           4/10
* Virtue Flaws:

* Willpower:       10/10
* Base Initiative: 3
* Natural Soak:    1

DERIVED VALUES
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Join Battle:             10 Dice + 3 Successes

Withering Attack:        14 Dice (Spite's Linchpin)
Withering Base Damage:   13 Dice (Spite's Linchpin)
Withering Min Damage:    3
Decisive Attack:         11 Dice (Staves)

Combat Movement:         5 Dice
Disengage:               5 Dice
Resist Poison/Disease:   1 Die

Parry:                   7 (Spite's Linchpin)
Evasion:                 3
Total Soak:              4 Dice
Case Scene:              10 Dice
Profile:                 10 Dice
Read Intentions:         10 Dice

Guile:                   3
Resolve:                 3

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INVENTORY
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* Spite's Linchpin (Vitriolic Adamant Wrackstaff)
   Medium Artifact Weapon (A+3/D+12/P+1/O 3) (Bashing, Melee, Reaching, Shield)
* Buff Jacket
   Light Armor (S+3/H+0)

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EXPENDITURES (UNSPENT: 0)
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Chargen
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Awareness     3->5 2bp
Craft: Geoman 0->1 1bp
Investigation 3->5 2bp
Lore          3->5 2bp
Medicine      3->5 2bp
Melee         3->5 2bp
Occult        3->5 2bp
Presence      3->4 1bp
Socialize     3->4 1bp
                  15bp spent chargen

Post-Chargen
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Willpower   5->10 10bp
Perception   1->5 16bp
Presence     4->5  1bp
Socialize    4->5  1bp
Excellent Strike   4bp
One W. Two Bl.     4bp
Peony Bloss. Tech. 4bp
----ESSENCE 2 ----
List. Sway. Argum. 4bp
Mast. of Sm. Mann. 4bp
All-E. Sorc. Sight 4bp
Hail Shattering P. 4bp
Imp. Disc. Tech.   4bp
Craft: Arch 1->5   4bp
Integrity 0->1     1bp
Performance 0->3   3bp
                  68bp spent post-chargen