Homework-Combos

Every Combo has a specific appearance - someone who has fought you before should be able to tell what Combo you're using if they've seen you use it before. It's like the Limit Break attacks in Final Fantasy - they all have the same "cinematic" as you use them.

A lot of times, these combos have a visual, auditory or other sensory effect that is appropriate to the "themes" of the Exalt's caste. A Dawn or Night Caste might leave a slight covering of dew on things, a Zenith might leave those affected feeling slightly sunburnt or dehydrated, and an Eclipse might cause someone to have spots before their eyes.

Another idea is to use your iconic anima for effect. This is a good way to have your iconic anima "do" things - a lion leaping forward to attack, the mandala shifting and sigils appearing that declare the target of the attack has been judged under Heaven, a victorious angel-goddess leaps forward with sword-blade wings to strike down the foe.

Some examples are below:

God-Eating Cyclone
Charms: Archery Overwhelming, Trance of Unhesitating Speed, Ghost-Eating Technique
Description: Six brilliant white lights appear around Cerin's castemark, before they fly out into a wide ring. He plucks them one at a time, drawing them across his bow as arrows of light. They fly onwards, striking straight and true.

Terrible Iron Bear Stance
Charms: Martial Arts Overwhelming, Fists of Iron, Iron Skin Concentration
Description: Midday Snow kiais, and his anima flares, the massive snow-white, golden-eyed bear surrounded by a blizzard manifesting to roar along with him. He strikes, and for the split-second before the blow lands, everything becomes silent. As the strike lands, there is the sound of iron-on-iron. When he blocks, he slams his arms into oncoming attacks, causing the sound of iron-on-iron and showers of cold, white frost-sparks.

Hands Guided by the Sun Technique
Charms: Medicine Overwhelming, Wound-Mending Care Technique, Instant Treatment Methodology
Description: Alder's anima bathes her patient in the cool colors of dusk, and her castemark burns white hot. The light from her castemark reflects off of the most eggregious pains there, the blood turning reflective and golden in her anima, and with a few deft touches of first needle, then bandages, the wounds are bound. Then, her anima flares totemic as the blood shifts from gold to the reflective quality of diamonds and then disappears, taking the wounds with it.

Your homework, then, is to do this kind of descriptive work with your own combos.

Aapo

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Charms: X
Description: X

Alabaster Mountain

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Charms: X
Description: X

Crimson Slate

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Charms: X
Description: X

Sapphire Veil

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Charms: X
Description: X

Tobias

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Charms: X
Description: X

Whispering Bear

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Charms: X
Description: X