[Exalted 3E] [Homebrew] Decree of Iona

「Decree of Iona」 (Artifact Circlet:****)

Attunement: 2m

A small and elegant circlet crafted of orachalcum, glowing with a soft aura of warmth and safety. From the brooch, hangs a vial, slotted for a single gem. The circlet's wards and magic stem from the love the wearer has towards another, and strengthened if her love is returned.
When attuned, the wearer is as if her blade was carrying Iona's Will. The power of the Heavens guide her sword, ensuring it will reach its mark.
Attuning to and using the Evocations of 「Decree of Iona」require a hearthstone (Steady or Linked) to be slotted in the circlet.
The wearer cannot be attuned to both 「Decree of Iona」 and it's sister, 「Angelheart Vial」at the same time.

Soulbond: If the wearer and the target each have a major or greater intimacy of love (Agape, Phileo,Stroge, or Eros), towards the other, upon performing a ritual, the wearer may declare the target to be her Soulbond. The wearer may not be soulbonded with more than one person. If the wearer's intimacy towards her Soulbound is *defining*, her Soulbound is aware of the wearer's every intimacy.

Passive effect:
While attuned with 「Decree of Iona」, the wearer is granted -1 to the opponent's defense when making a *decisive* attack.

Evocations of 「The Decree of Iona」:

「Seraph's Ethereal Shield」 (Cost: 2m, 2i, Type: Reflexive; Duration: Instant):
The wearer's protection surrounds her Soulbond in a protective halo, reducing the onslaught penalty suffered by the Soulbond by (Intimacy Towards Soulbond/2), rounded down.
If the Soulbond is a Celestial Exalt, this protection is extended until the Soulbond's next turn.

「Celestine Rush on Seraphic Wings」 (cost: 3m, 1wp; Type: Supplemental; Duration: Instant):
Prerequisite: 「Seraph's Ethereal Shield」
In a flurry of essence and wings, the Soulbond wills his body to reach her. His anima flares for a brief moment, the image of angelic wings behind him, as he rushes at high speed to reach his partner. If the Soulbond is flurrying a defend other action with a misc. or move action to protect the wearer, the flurry penalty he takes is reduced by 1.

「Grand Blade of the Seraph」 (Cost:–; Type: Permanent; Duration:Permanent):
Prerequiste:「Celestine Rush on Seraphic Wings」, Essence 2
「The Decree of Iona」 increases the Heavenly power it grants to the wearer to defeat the foes that would threaten her Soulbond.
The passive of 「The Decree of Iona」 is enhanced, channeling the essence of the Soulbond through itself and entwining it with the wearer's blade as well.
While together and nearby in combat and her intimacy towards her Soulbond is defining, his spirit is bound tightly with her own. Together, the Soulbond strikes with the wearer, reducing the target's hardness by his (Essence)/2, minimum 1.
In addition, the wearers intimacy towards her Soulbond may never be lowered by any external influence.

「In The Dusk, Two Souls Entwined」 (Cost: 7m; Type: Simple; Duration: Indefinite)
Prerequiste: 「Grand Blade of the Seraph」, Essence 2
While the wearer keeps her commitment to this evocation and her Soulbond has motes committed to 「In The Dawn, Two Souls Entwined」, the cost of 「Seraph's Ethereal Shield」 & 「Celestine Rush on Seraphic Wings」 is reduced by 2m.
In addition, the wearer receives the defensive passive of 「Angelheart Vial」.
If either of the pair ceases their commitment to either evocation, the other's commitment to their respective evocation is revoked as well.

「The Heaven's Defied」 (Cost: 7m; Type: Reflexive; Duration: Instant)
If the wearer has a defining intimacy of love towards her Soulbond, and she would have last Health Level filled, the wearer may expend the energy of the Hearthstone held within the pendant to perform a single miracle to save her life.
The circlet channels the energy within the Hearthstone, consuming all of it in a single moment, and turns the essence into a lifeline, reviving the wearer in a cloud of white, angelic motes of essence.
In its last moments, the pendant returns to the wearer all of the motes she has committed to the evocations granted by the pendant, but it's forever shattered, having exhausted all of its magical power.
Any non-zero health levels are healed from the wearer's health track and their essence pool is restored to 50%.
「Decree of Iona」's passives and 「Grand Blade of the Seraph」's protection immediately cease their protection.