<br><b>Heavenly Dragon Pillar (Artifact &bull;)</b>

	A Heavenly Dragon Pillar is a delicately sculpted phallus of green jade, between six and ten inches long. Some are lifelike, while others are shaped like dragons, mushrooms, braids of vines, stylized praying figures, or abstract designs. Even those modelled after actual penises tend toward the artistic, with prominent veins and exaggerated curves. All share two features: a hole or indendation at one end, and a circular spread of thin projections at the other.

	When a character places the Heavenly Dragon Pillar against her skin and spends 2 motes of Essence, the projections slip bloodlessly into her body, fusing the Pillar to her skin. The process is painless, but results in a brief tensing of the muscles. Alternatively, the Pillar may be used on another with her consent, though this increases the mote investment to 4. As long as the motes remain committed, the phallus possesses the full range of tactile sensation and its surface becomes warm, soft, and pliant, though it retains the near-indestructability of all artifacts. With a thought, the wearer can cause the pillar to squirt a sticky amber sap from its tip. The sap is faintly sweet and normally has no special properties, but by spending a point of Willpower when extruding the sap, one can be sure to impregnate any woman who intakes it vaginally. Even sterile or barren characters may infallibly impregnate people this way, but in this case the cost becomes one <i>permanent</i> Willpower. Such pregnancies carry the usual risk of complications, and children born from them are no more likely to become God-Blooded or Dragon-Blooded than they would otherwise.

	The Heavenly Dragon Pillar can be placed anywhere on the body, and a character can wear as many as he is able to attune at the same time. Theoretically, it could even be attached to the hand and used to parry lethal damage (imposing a -2 penalty, as with a knife), though this would be unpleasant for the wielder. If it is pulled or torn from the body with enough force to rip off a limb, it will do a significant amount of damage, though the wearer may, of course, reflexively deattune herself from it if she anticipates such an attack.

	Though the Pillars' most obvious use is sexual play, they are especially sought after by sterile Dragon-Blooded of the Realm, who have few other ways to sire children.

Variations on the Heavenly Dragon Pillar exist, though all are much less common:

<b>Shuddering Lava Spout:</b> (Red Jade, Artifact &bull;&bull;)
	The Lava Spout is a shaft of red jade, often shaped as a firedust cannon or a dragon with an open maw. The hole at its terminating end is usually very wide, easily able to accomodate a large man's finger. When attuned, the Spout is almost uncomfortably warm and wisps of smoke occasionally rise from its mouth. Rather than sap, it discharges a clear, watery liquid that is spicy on the tongue, makes the eyes water and causes pain if placed on a sensitive part of the body (-1 penalty to all actions, not cumulative with wound penalties or other pain penalties).
	Additionally, the wearer (and only the wearer) may spend 4 motes as a dice action to make the Spout emit a gout of flames to a distance of two yards. If the fire is released after penetration, there is no roll: the victim cannot dodge or parry it without Charms, resists with only his natural soak, and is guaranteed to take at least one level of damage unless the effect is completely negated by soak (which normally requires magic). If used as an attack, the penis fire uses Brawl, Martial Arts or Archery and has an accuracy of 2, a speed of 3, a rate of 1, and a damage of 7L. Neither the user's Strength nor his extra successes increase this damage. The flames may be used in a clinch in lieu of inflicting clinch damage and with no roll to hit, but in this case their effect is applied to the user as well.
	The Shuddering Lava Spout may be used to impregnate people as per the effects of the Heavenly Jade Pillar, though obviously this is a painful process.

<b>Glistening Silver Lash:</b> (Moonsilver, Artifact &bull;&bull;&bull;)
	In its ordinary form, a Glistening Silver Lash is a perfectly smooth cylinder with rounded ends. When attuned, the person who committed the Essence can will it to change form. It must remain cylindrical and longer than it is thick, but it can flail like a tentacle, shift to any size, manifest ridges, bumps or spikes, and narrow to a wicked point at the end. Instead of sap, it discharges a liquid similar to mercury, but harmless. At the end of the scene, this liquid evaporates, leaving a silvery film behind. Its taste is different for each wearer, and reflects the wearer's personality in some way.
	Unlike other artifact phalluses, the Glistening Silver Lash is useful as a weapon when wielded by an Essence-user. For any given attack or parry it can use the statistics of either a fighting chain or a knife, save that in Power Combat its Rate is equal to the user's Wits. If the Lash is used to attack someone it has penetrated, it uses the knife statistics, cannot be dodged or parried without the use of Charms, and deals its base damage even if the attack rolls no successes.
	The Glistening Silver Lash costs 5 motes to attune to one's self and 6 motes to attune to another. It may be used to impregnate people as per the effects of the Heavenly Jade Pillar.

<b>Cenotaph of the Aborted Child:</b> (Soulsteel, Artifact &bull;&bull;)
	This slate-grey phallus may be shaped like a tower, a headstone, a coffin, or some similarly grim object. Some are edged with barbs, razors, or other cruel implements. Rather than sap, a Cenotaph of the Aborted Child spits runny pus that has a sickeningly oversweet taste, like fruit gone bad, and may cause mild flu-like symptoms if swallowed.
	The Cenotaph may not be used to sire ordinary children. but it has three special powers. The wearer may use the pus to infallibly sire children at no cost, but these children are either stillborn or miscarried. By spending one Willpower and 5 motes of Essence, the wearer (and only the wearer) can sire a grotesque monstrosity. At first, the pregnancy seems normal, but it progresses with unusual speed, and if allowed to run its course will produce a sad and horrific child within three months (see <i>Cenotaph Child</i>, below). Mortal women rarely survive the birth, and even Essence-users take two automatic unsoakable levels of lethal damage during the labor. Finally, for an expenditure of 5 motes, the pus the artifact spits becomes a deadly poison: when taken in through any orifice, it has the effects of a courtly poison, save that the person who spent the motes is immune to its effects. The pus is too thin to spread on a weapon, and imparts its characteristic flavour to food and drink. After a scene, it becomes harmless.
	The Cenotaph requires 3 motes to attune to one's self and 5 motes to attune to another.

<b>Cenotaph Child</b>
	The creature born of the Cenotaph of the Aborted Child would be pitiful if it were less grotesque. Shaped like an emaciated baby, it is completely hairless and has thick black skin, ribbed and veined and dry as parched earth. Along folds, its skin is split, exposing pale grey flesh when it bends or stretches. Each hand and foot is malformed and useless for gripping or walking, but tipped with a large hooked claw. It is these claws that usually kill the creature's mother. The child's eyes are deep-set and have bright blue irises, it is born with a mouth full of sharp yellow teeth, its tongue and innards are grey and slimy, and it drags its torn umbilicus behind it as it crawls.
	Few of these monstrosities are allowed to come to term, and most of those are killed by horrified villagers as soon as they tear their way from the womb, but every so often, one escapes, lurking in dark places or vanishing into the wilderness. Predators (and other animals) will not come near these stragglers, so they can survive for decades. A Cenotaph Child is alive, and, most distressingly, it has a true human soul, but it will never age or become intelligent. Its needs are basic: it kills and eats any small animals or insects that it can catch, and occasionally emerges from the shadows to accost humans travelling alone. It wants to be loved and will not fight a human except in self-defense, but even those who can stand to be around it may be injured accidentally by its lethal claws and teeth.
	Some Abyssal Exalted keep Cenotaph Children as pets, and a rare few even lavish attention on them as though they were ordinary babies, but since they are useless and horrifying, most are swiftly destroyed.

Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 1, Stamina 4, Charisma 0, Manipulation 0, Appearance 0, Intelligence 1, Perception 2, Wits 2
Abilities: Brawl 1, Endurance 5, Resistance 5, Survival 3, Athletics 1 (Climb+2), Awareness 1, Stealth 3
4B/0L Soak, 2 dice parry, 2 dice dodge
Essence 1, Willpower 4
Compassion 3, Conviction 1, Temperance 1, Valor 1
Claw: 1 Init (3 Init in PC), 2 Acc, 3L Dmg, 1 Def (Rate 1 in PC)
Bite: -2 Init (0 Init in PC), 1 Acc, 3L Dmg, 0 Def (Rate 2 in PC)
Notes: Cenotaph Children inflict lethal damage in clinches. Because of their malformed limbs, they can only crawl, moving one yard per turn or twice that when sprinting. They can jump a foot vertically or two yards horizontally. They resist and recover from disease and infection as one of the Exalted, but heal at the mortal rate. They are almost always extras.