Flawless Opal

Flawless Opal

Concept: Madame Occultist, Caste: Eclipse Motivation: To Build a Solar Kingdom Experience: Total: 0 XP • Unspent: 0 XP

Attributes

Physical: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2 Social: Charisma 3, Manipulation 4, Appearance 2 Mental: Perception 2, Intelligence 5, Wits 4

Abilities

Dawn: Archery 3, Martial Arts 1 Zenith: Integrity 3, Presence 4, Resistance 2 Twilight: Investigation 2, Lore 2, Medicine 4 (Disease 1, Injuries 1), Occult 4 (Elemental Summoning 1) Night: Awareness 2, Dodge 3, Stealth 2 Eclipse: Bureaucracy 3, Linguistics 3, Sail 2, Socialize 3 (Discern Motivations 2)

Backgrounds

Contacts 2, Followers 2, Influence 1, Mentor 1, Resources 4 Languages: Riverspeak (native); Old Realm, Tribal Tongues

Willpower

Virtues

Compassion: 2 • Conviction: 3 • Temperance: 3 • Valor: 1 Virtue Flaw: Ascetic Drive (Temperance): Confronted with inadequacies or human weakness. (One full day)

Intimacies

Badger (2): Though she sometimes frustrates me to no end, I do love my sister dearly. (Love) River Sapphires (3): I am bereft and lost without my mother, and do not know if I can live up to her legacy. (Grief) The House of Sapphires (3): I cannot allow my mother's life's work to fail. (Duty) Her Mysterious Father (3): Mother instilled in me the fear of the day when he came looking for us. (Fear) The Riverside Riots (1): These took my mother from me, and shattered any chance of living my own life. (Anger) The Lord Protector & his Government (3): He killed people and destroyed the city I loved. (Hatred) Rabble Rousing (1): This weapon cannot be aimed, and so the ills it inflicts are as bad as what it is being used to replace. (Loathing)

Essence

Personal Pool: 17 • Peripheral Pool: 38 Committed Essence: None

Anima

Manifestation: An opal carved into a mandala appears behind her, turning slowly and casting opalescent patterns of light onto everything around her. Anima Abilities: xxx

Combat

Join Battle: 6 (Wits + Awr) • Dodge DV: 4 (Dex + Ddg + Ess/2) • Parry DV: 4 (peacock fan) • Shield: – Soak: 4b/6l • Stunning Threshold: 2 (Sta) • Knockdown Threshold: 4 (Sta + Res)

Health Levels: -0 • -1 • -1 • -1 • -2 • -2 • -2 • -2 • -4 • Inc

Attacks

Flame Pieces (2): Spd 5, Acc +1, Dam 8L, Rate 1/2, Range 8, F/S War Fan: Spd 5, Acc +2, Dam +1L, Def +2, Rate 3 Orichalcum Seven-Jeweled Peacock Fan: Spd 5, Acc +5, Dam +5B/+1L, Defense +4, Rate 4, Attune 4, D/M

Social Combat

Join Debate: 6 (Wits + Awr) • Mental Dodge DV: 7 (WP + Int + Ess /2) • Read Motivation: Lies 4 (Per + Inv), Mood/Intimacy 7 (Per + Soc/Inv) • Hide Motivation: Mood/Lies 3 (Man + Soc/2), Intimacy 7 (Man + Soc)

Social Attacks

Presence: Spd 4, Honest 4, Deceitful 5, Rate 2, Honest Defense 2, Deceitful Defense 2 Performance: Spd 6, Honest 3, Deceitful 4, Rate 1, Honest Defense 1, Deceitful Defense 2 Investigation: Spd 5, Honest 5, Deceitful 6, Rate 2, Honest Defense 2, Deceitful Defense 3

Charms

Excellencies: Archery Overwhelming, Dodge Overwhelming, Medicine Overwhelming, Occult Overwhelming, Presence Overwhelming Archery: Essence Arrow Attack Linguistics: Sagacious Reading of Intent Medicine: Wound-Mending Care Technique Occult: Spirit-Detecting Glance, Terrestrial Circle Sorcery Resistance: Ox-Body Technique Socialize: Mastery of Small Manners, Taboo Inflicting Diatribe Terrestrial Circle Spells: Floral Ferry, Infallible Messenger, Summon Elemental

Character Notes

Backgrounds

• Contacts (2):
  • Lady Akiele: A wealthy noblewoman who was part of the original king's household, and who now works to manage the Lord Protector's household staff. She tends to always know what is going on in the Verdant Throne, information she is willing to pass on to my mother and I.
  • Voice of Fire: A musician much in demand around Mistwatch. They know all the other entertainers around town, and always have the best gossip available.
• Followers (2): The staff of the House of Sapphires (max 20).
• Influence (1): Flawless Opal is known as River Sapphire's factor.
• Mentor (1): Auntie Rimbrisa. A Riverlin matriarch sorceress who trained Flawless Opal in occultism. She was the one who helped River Sapphires escape from Great Forks.
• Resources (4): The House of Sapphires is exceedingly prosperous.

Charms

• Essence Overwhelming: 1m/die; Reflexive; Combo-OK; Instant. Add one die per mote spent to a dice pool using the Excellency's Ability. May not increase a dice pool by more than the (Attribute + Ability) of the original pool. May also buy dice and roll to increase static values (including DV), increasing value by +1 per success generated in roll.
  • Abilities: Archery, Dodge, Medicine, Occult, Presence

Archery

• Essence Arrow Attack: 2m; Supplemental; Combo-OK, Obvious; Instant. Add Essence in damage to an Archery attack. Also gain this benefit:
  • Righteous Judgment Arrow (1m): Add +4 dice to damage of attack, with effect based on anima.
  • Dazzling Flare: Arrow glows with holy fire. Archery attack becomes Holy keyword, an inflicts aggravated damage against creatures of darkness. Arrow shines brightly enough to be seen for (Solar Essence x 10 miles) if fired upward or in an unobstructed area.

Linguistics

• Sagacious Reading of Intent: 3m; Reflexive (Step 2); Combo-OK, Social; Instant. Gain insight into the motivation behind a given statement. May use in defense against a social attack; if attacker's purpose is fundamentally hostile to Exalt or Exalt's Motivation, Charm negates the attack perfectly.

Medicine

• Wound-Mending Care Technique: 10m; Supplemental; Combo-OK, Touch; Until day ends. Use a dramatic action to treat, monitor, and tend a patient for at least one hour. Roll Intelligence + Medicine; patient recovers a number of bashing or lethal wounds equal to successes by the end of the day. If the target spends the day resting, they regain additional lethal and bashing wounds equal to the Solar's permanent Essence. No patient can benefit from this Charm more than once per day.

Occult

• Spirit-Detecting Glance: 3m; Reflexive; Scene. Character can see, hear, smell, and feel (but not touch) dematerialized creatures. All dematerialized creatures are valid targets for normal Awareness actions.
• Terrestrial Circle Sorcery: – ; Permanent; Instant. May take Terrestrial Circle Sorcery actions.

Resistance

• Ox-Body Technique: – ; Permanent; Stackable; Permanent. May purchase once per dot of Resistance. Each purchase provides one of the following: one -0 health level • two -1 health levels • one -1 and two -2 health levels.
  • Purchases (1): -1 + -2 + -2

Socialize

• Mastery of Small Manners: 1m; Reflexive (Step 1 for attacker, Step 2 for defender); Combo-OK, Social; Until next action. Treat all enemy social groups as one Magnitude lower in rating. Increases effective Appearance by +1. Other characters are more apt to do small favors and provide hospitality. Ensures character understands the basic motivations of everyone present in the scene, as though Solar had rolled three successes on a mundane Investigation roll to estimate each person's motives.
• Taboo Inflicting Diatribe: 3m, 1wp; Simple (6 long ticks); Combo-OK, Compulsion; Instant. Condemns or supports some behavior, encouraging an entire society to accept or reject it. Socialize-based social attack to compel a social group with Magnitude 1+. Must have spent several hours in previous month encouraging attitude. Roll Cha/Man + Socialize, subtract an external penalty equal to the leader's MDV plus half Magnitude from rolled successes. If succeeds, group adopts a taboo or fad of the character's choice. Taboo or fad remains part of the group's Policy until leader spends 10 Loyalty, at most one per week, to remove it. Charm has no effect on individuals, save that breaking the new rules of their society can make them outcasts.

Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

• Floral Ferry: 15m. Cause a nearby plant to grow and change into a seaworthy vessel. Boat sails toward stated desired location in as straight a line as possible, maneuvering around obstacles too small to be carried over. Passengers and cargo stay safe even in the most tempestuous weather. Once the boat reaches its destination, it lingers for 10 minutes and then vanishes completely.
  • Floral Ferry: Speed: 15/20mph • Maneuverability: 2S • Endurance: (caster's Essence x100) miles • Crew: 1/1 • Cargo: 1 ton or 10 passengers • Armor: 6L/6B • Health Levels: Ux10/Mx10/Cx10/I/D • Weapons: None
• Infallible Messenger: 10m. Summons a cherub spirit from Essence and whispers a message of up to five minutes in length. May be a Social attack with a Speed no greater than 5 ticks. Then name and describe a target; the cherub travels from one point in Creation or Yu-Shan nearly instantly, traversing hundreds of miles in an hour and the world in less than a day. Cherub can find the target unless their location is mystically concealed. Message can be enhanced with appropriate social Charms.
• Peacock Shadow Eyes: 10m. Eyes glow with an iridescent flame that holds the gaze of a target up to 10 yards away, compelling them to silence. Roll Wits + Occult.
  • If the result exceeds the target's Dodge MDV, hypnotized target believes anything the sorcerer says in the next five minutes and remembers the suggestions as his own memory–an unnatural mental influence.
  • When the five minutes are up, an auxiliary Illusion effect convinces the target he had a normal conversation with the sorcerer, while continuing to believe what the sorcerer told him.
  • Someone presenting evidence contrary to what the target believes may unravel this spell. This calls for Investigation-based social attacks on the target, as though reducing an Intimacy. Breaking the unnatural mental influence requires a number of successful attempts equal to the sorcerer’s permanent Essence.
• Summon Elemental: 10+m. Shaping action takes four hours, during which the spell's cost is committed until the Cast Sorcery action is taken.
  • Choose an elemental, either by name or by type. It appears, and the sorcerer and elemental engage in a contest of wills, rolling (Essence + Willpower); first to gain three more cumulative successes than their opponent wins. (Sorcerer may spend motes beyond base cost of spell; each 5 motes inflicts a -1 cumulative penalty to the spirit during this opposed test.)
  • If the sorcerer wins, the spirit is bound into servitude, exerting unnatural mental influence, with the spirit becoming loyal and serving for a lunar month. May also choose to instead name a single task that the spirit must perform until it is complete or until a year and a day passes.
  • If the spirit wins, the sorcerer may immediately make a reflexive Wits + Occult (Dif 1) test to banish the spirit. If it fails, the spirit is free in that spot to do as it pleases.
  • The spell uses ritual implements and protective sigils. If dispensed with, subtract one success from first roll to bind spirit and two successes from any roll to banish it.
  • Elemental Obscurity (Occult + Elemental Summoning spec): Obscurity •••••

Elementals

• Fogspinner: Huraka • The Warden. A huraka summoned originally to defend the House of Sapphires. Plays bodyguard for Flawless Opal.
• Antimony: Mercury Ant • The Functionary. A mercury ant summoned to assist with the strange lodge outside Mistwatch, including digging tunnels.
• Jaws-Snapping-from-the-Silt: Sobeksis • The xxx. A sobeksis we encountered along the Yellow River, who demanded tribute. Flawless Opal established a personal Cselenine Pact with him for an annual Resources ••• purchase.

Oaths Sanctified

• The Spider of Nexus: Will notify Flawless Opal before he reveals the circle's identities. (Essence 3)
• Hierarch Gavin Bast: xxx (Essence 3)

Artifacts Wishlist

Core Rulebook

• Collar of Dawn's Cleansing Light (•)

Oadenols' Codex

• Rating •: Privacy Veil, Solar Seal
• Rating ••: Bracers of the Hawk
• Rating •••: Everyman Armor, Land Ship, Sorcery Capturing Cord
• Rating ••••: Cloak of Vanishing Escape, Folding Ship, Panacea Pipe
• Rating •••••: Crown of Thunders, Crucible of Tarim, Ring of Being

Wonders of the Lost Age

• Golden Barque: Swift Midday Brilliance-class Light Warship (••••), Whirligig-class Courier (••••), Manta-class Transport (•••••), Traveling Pagoda (•••••)
  • Personal: Transcendent Phoenix Pinions (•••)
• Cerulean Lute: Hearthstone Compass (•), Rod of Cleansing the Body (••), Pectoral of Resplendent Speeches (•••), Wound Mending Needles (•••), Resplendent Satchel of Healing (••••)
• Crimson Panoply: Fiery Solar Cannon (•••••), Discreet Essence Armor (••)
• Forbidding Manse: Symnelra (••), Ever Vigilant Guardian (•••), Quickstilver Aegis Talisman (•••••)

Experience

Earned: 89

Investments

Attributes

current rating x4

• Stamina (3): 0/8
• Manipulation (5): 0/16

Abilities

3 • current rating x2, -1 for Favored/Caste

• Archery (4): 0/5
• Bureaucracy (4): 0/5
• Dodge (4): 0/5
• Linguistics (4): 0/5
• Lore (3): 0/6
• Occult (5): 0/7
• Presence (5): 0/9
• Sail (3): 0/3
• Socialize (4): 0/5 > Socialize (5): 0/7
• Stealth (3): 0/4

Specialties

3

• Archery: Firewands 0/3
• Occult: Elemental Summoning 0/3

Virtues

rating x3

• Temperance (4): 0/9

Willpower

rating x2

• Willpower (9): 0/16

Charms

10, 8 for Caste/Favored; 16 for non-Solar

• Spirit: Dematerialize 1/16
• Archery: Solar Flare Methodology: 4/8
  • > There Is No Wind > Trance of Unhesitating Speed
• Occult: All-Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight 0/8
  • > > Unfolding Thaumaturgical Enlightenment
• Presence: Irresistible Salesman Spirit 0/8
  • >Listener-Swaying Argument > Hypnotic Tongue Technique
• Medicine: Flawless Diagnosis Technique: 0/8
  • > Instant Treatment Methodology > Wholeness Restoring Meditation
• Sail: Overwhelming: 0/8
  • > Ship Claiming Stance > Hull-Preserving Technique
• Socialize: Overwhelming: 0/8
  • > Heartfelt Honorific Opportunity > Wise-Eyed Courtier Method

Spells

8 for Caste/Favored

• Mentor-Taught
  • Invocation of the Living Ship: 0/8
  • Ritual of Elemental Empowerment: 0/8
• In the Black & White Treatise
  • Death of Obsidian Butterflies: 0/8
  • Demon of the First Circle: 0/8
  • Emerald Countermagic: 0/8
  • Invulnerable Skin of Bronze: 0/8
  • Stormwind Rider: 0/8
• Taught by Balak
  • Virtuous Guardian of the Flame: 0/8
  • Private Plaza of Downcast Eyes: 0/8

Essence

current rating x8

• Essence (4): 19/24

Purchased

• Bureaucracy (2): 1
• Sail (2): 1
• Essence Arrow Attack: Dazzling Flare 1
• Linguistics (3): 3
• Dodge (3): 3
• Bureaucracy (3): 3
• Presence (2): 2
• Taboo Inflicting Diatribe: 8
• Occult: Elementals 3
• Floral Ferry (spell): 8
• Presence (3): 3
• Presence (4): 5
• Presence Overwhelming: 8
• Peacock Shadow Eyes: 8
• Spirit Detecting Glance 8