[Exalted 3E]Grand Forge of the Tyrant

Grand Forge of the Tyrant (Orichalcum Artifact Pendant ***):
Attunement: 4m
Prerequisites:
	Martial Arts/Archery/Melee/Thrown 5
	A Definitive Intimacy towards upholding ideals of Justice and Heroism.

In it's inactive state, the Grand Forge of the Tyrant exists as a simple orichalcum pendant with a single, inlaid socket for a hearthstone. On attuning with the pendant, the Solar makes an unbreakable pact with the Tyrant of the Sands. The Elder Dragon bestows upon the Solar a fragment of his eternal fire in exchange for the Solar's service as the Will of the Tyrant's Ideals. The pendant and the hearthstone melt into a river of essence, flowing into the Solar's and becoming a mystic code of draconic runes etched onto the Solar's own skin.

His mystic code is the bridge between his essence and the Grand Forge of the Tyrant. A mythical workshop of the a Solar from the first age, he shaped the Forge from the Wyld itself, until it was a reflection of his soul. To this day, the Forge exists far away in the Wylds, lost and distant, protected by dragon fire that incinerates all those who would enter its boundary. Five towers, arranged in a pentagram, each powered by three greater hearthstones: one Solar, one of Fire, and one of Earth, hold the Grand Forge stable against the ravaging chaos.

Essence pours from the towers, flowing in streams of golden motes that saturate the atmosphere, wavering in the heat of the flames. The sound of countless heavy hammers falling on anvils fills the air, the sound deafening as the give birth to new arms. The Grand Forge smiths the raw essence in the atmosphere into new weapons, each crafted to fit the soul of its chosen hero of justice, imbued with the inferno of the Tyrant's Fire, unable to wielded by any other and costing no motes for him to attune to. The weapons it forges are stored Elsewhere: sharpened, polished, and loaded, waiting for their master to will them from their storage to his hands. In addition, the Forge holds extra slots for the Solar, letting him store weapons of his choosing in Elsewhere as well, where the Grand Forge will protect and even repair them.

The Forge is able to create infinite copies artifact weapons, each without a soul and lacking any evocations, but he may only retrieve up to one set at a time from Elsewhere, and retrieving a new set of weapons from the forge causes the previous set to fade into essence, disappearing in a golden cloud of motes.

Only upon becoming the Will of the Tyrant may the Solar attune with the pendant and unlock it's evocations. Furthermore, as long as he remains the Will of the Tyrant, the Solar retains all the effects granted by his Hearthstone, and regenerates an additional mote of essence outside of combat.

Evocations of the Grand Forge of the Tyrant:
Passive:
While attuned with the Grand Forge, whenever the Solar draws weapon brought forth from it's flames, he may treat it as if he had the Quickdraw (****) merit for any ability.
When he first attunes with the Grand Forge, the Solar learns Blinding Arms of the Mountain Wind God for free.

Brilliant Arms of the Mountain Wind God
Cost: –
Type: Reflexive
Duration: Instant
The Grand Forge of the Desert Tyrant instinctively stocks in the vast emptiness of Elsewhere countless weapons it has produced.
The Solar may reflexively draw any mundane weapon of his choice, retrieving the weapon from Elsewhere as it shimmers into reality in a stream of golden motes. The stress of being forged so rapidly and sent through Elsewhere takes a heavy toll on the weapons drawn, causing: Melee weapons to break on parry, Thrown weapons to shatter after each throw, Flame weapons to break after every shot, and Archery weapons may only be used with Phantom Arrow.

This Evocation may be repurchased at Essence 2, enabling to Solar to instead pay 1m to reflexively draw any generic artifact weapon of his choice from the Grand Forge. These weapons are attuned with the Grand Forge itself and thus have no evocations or attunement bonuses and waive the attunement cost required to wield them. The generic artifact weapons drawn from the Grand Forge still break and shatter like their mundane counterparts.

This Evocation, if repurchased, at Essence 4, waiving the 1m cost to retrieve generic artifact weapons.