Editing User:Dakkareth/Custom Charms (section)

==Stealth==
*Sidebar '''Perception''': All perception can be divided into three types: Immediate perception, mediated perception and natural consequence. Stealth Charms (and Hidden Sun Prana in particular) work against both immediate and mediated perception for their duration; they negate natural consequence according to the logic of the correspondence in question. Stepping Between Sunbeams Approach is unique in that it prevents only mediated perception, not immediate perception from sentient beings nor natural consequence.
**Immediate perception encompasses the different ways in which sentient beings observe their surroundings through their natural and unnatural senses. It requires an appropriate sense and an uninterrupted line-of-sense (line-of-sight or the path taken by sounds/scents or ...) and can be augmented by Charms enhancing this sense or artifacts such as a telescope that maintains a line-of-sight.<br>
**Mediated perception means that information is captured by some sort of non-sentient mechanism (a Charm, a Spell such as Coin of Distant Vision, a ward, an artifact such as a flying drone, or any other mechanism) and transmitted by it to the perceiving being, which itself does not have a line-of-sense to the event observed.
**Natural consequence is not a mode of perception for actual living or sentient entities, it means the direct correspondence between cause and effect such as the mechanical pull of a tripped tripwire. The Loom of Fate works by natural consequence because every thread in the tapestry in a very real sense actually IS the object or being represented.

'''Hidden Sun Prana'''<br>
'''Cost:''' --(1wp); '''Mins:''' Stealth 5, Ess 3; '''Type:''' Permanent<br>
'''Keywords:''' --<br>
'''Duration:''' Permanent<br>
'''Prerequisites:''' Invisible Statue Spirit, Mental Invisibility Technique<br>
As Sol hides his face during the night so are the Lawgivers never seen by the wicked. This Charm permanently improves Invisible Statue Spirit in the following way: If the Lawgiver spends an additional point of Willpower activating Invisible Statue Spirit he may take Move, Miscellaneous and Guard (but not Dash, Jump or Attack) actions and use his Dodge DV without ending his imperceptibility. This functions as Perfect Stealth. Against Charms contesting this effect he gains his Essence in automatic successes.<br>
Once engaged in battle the Lawgiver needs to reestablish surprise by other means before he can activate this Charm again.

'''Stepping Between Sunbeams Approach'''<br>
'''Cost:''' 6m; '''Mins:''' Stealth 5, Ess 3; '''Type:''' Reflexive<br>
'''Keywords:''' Combo-OK<br>
'''Duration:''' Instant<br>
'''Prerequisites:''' Invisible Statue Spirit, Mental Invisibility Technique<br>
None have the authority to spy on the Lawgivers. The character can activate this Charm against any effect of mediated perception that he is aware of. Thereby he forces an opposed roll between his Wits+Stealth and his opponent's relevant attribute plus ability. He gains his Essence in automatic successes on this roll.<br>
If the Lawgiver succeeds the perception effect breaks. If he employs SBSA in the exact moment such an effect is created then it fails just as it would if the Lawgiver didn't exist at all. In the case of a tie the effect still fails, but the Exalt's opponent knows that his attempt was actively resisted. In both cases the perception effect cannot be used against the Exalt for one day. If his opponent wins, the perception effect works normally but the Lawgiver may invoke SBSA again for another attempt.

'''Unseen Army Method'''<br>
'''Cost:''' --(3m,1wp); '''Mins:''' Stealth 5, Ess 3; '''Type:''' Permanent<br>
'''Keywords:''' --<br>
'''Duration:''' Permanent<br>
'''Prerequisites:''' Hidden Sun Prana<br>
Under the command of the Sun's Chosen even whole armies can move unseen. By spending an additional 3m and one point of Willpower the Exalt can extend the effect of any Stealth Charm he possesses to a unit with a Magnitude no larger than his (Essence-1) under his command. Those affected gain an instinctive sense of how to move according to the Lawgiver's instructions and recognize any action that would cause their concealment to be undone (such as attacking, using Jump or Dash actions, Anima Flare).<br>
For Charms that have a duration longer than one day the WP cost for both the base Charm and Unseen Army Method has to be reflexively paid again for every new day that begins.

'''Concealing Mind Shadow'''<br>
'''Cost:''' 4m,(1wp); '''Mins:''' Stealth 5, Ess 3; '''Type:''' Simple<br>
'''Keywords:''' Combo-OK, Mirror (Unseen Wisp Method)<br>
'''Duration:''' One Scene<br>
'''Prerequisites:''' Mental Invisibility Technique<br>
What the Night Caste Anima can provide by instinct a skilled Exalt can learn and even surpass by training, blinding the world to their presence. This Charm imposes the Lawgiver's (Essence) as an external penalty on any attempts to notice, recognize or otherwise perceive him. In an opposed roll this adds (Essence) successes to his own roll instead of adding to the difficulty of his opponent's roll. By spending a point of Willpower the Lawgiver can extend this penalty to all attacks made against him. Ranged attacks against him become impossible (he is not a valid target) without the aid of magic or a stunt.<br>

'''Memory Prism Method'''<br>
'''Cost:''' --; '''Mins:''' Stealth 5, Ess 3; '''Type:''' Permanent<br>
'''Keywords:''' None<br>
'''Duration:''' Permanent<br>
'''Prerequisites:''' Vanishing from Mind's Eye Technique<br>
It is the Lawgivers prerogative to decide who has the right to remember them and who has not as well as to delineate what constitutes classified knowledge what may remain accessible. This Charm permanently enhances its prerequisite in the following way: As a Miscellaneous Action and by spending 2m the character can exclude or re-include any person he can identify by name or unambiguous description from the effects of Vanishing from Mind's Eye Technique or any possible subset thereof. He might allow a person to remember a conversation they had but nothing else of their interaction or obscure only a single meeting from their remembrance. He can spread shadows over the memory of his appearance but leave the sound of his voice clear in the recollection of someone he has met.

'''Avatar of the Night'''<br>
'''Cost:''' --; '''Mins:''' Stealth 5, Ess 4; '''Type:''' Permanent<br>
'''Keywords:''' --<br>
'''Duration:''' Permanent<br>
'''Prerequisites:''' Concealing Mind Shadow<br>
As there is no end to the night unless Sol Invictus wills it so it is with the concealing powers of his Chosen. This Charm permanently enhances all Stealth Charms with a Duration of one scene or more in the following ways: First, their Duration becomes Indefinite. Second, the Exalt can suppress their effect without ending the Charms themselves and later allow them to reassert themselves, both as a reflexive non-charm action. Only explicit ending conditions (such as executing an attack in the case of Hidden Sun Prana, or Anima Flare at the 8-10m level) break the Stealth Charms such affected. 

'''Transcendent Realization of Existence in Nonexistence'''<br>
'''Cost:''' --; '''Mins:''' Stealth 5, Ess 5; '''Type:''' Permanent<br>
'''Keywords:''' --<br>
'''Duration:''' Permanent<br>
'''Prerequisites:''' Hidden Sun Prana, Stepping Between Sunbeams Approach<br>
Not even the all-penetrating eyes of the Demon Princes or the Neverborn can perceive the Lawgiver when he bodily overcomes the fundamental contradiction between existence and nonexistence. He takes on the aspect of Nirguna, the Heart, nonexistent yet defining the world around them through their actions. This Charm permanently enhances Hidden Sun Prana in the following way: No sense, natural or unnatural is capable of detecting the Exalt (HSP's vulnerability to touch is explicitly negated) and his non-presence leaves no traces behind (he opposes Tracking rolls with Stealth, including Stealth Charms) except where he wills it. His passage disturbs no air, no grass, no water, not even the most subtle flows of Essence. Against perfect Awareness contesting this effect the Lawgiver doubles his Stealth successes after all other modifications.<br>
At Essence 6 the Exalt surrenders Namadiksha, the gift of names, and becomes nameless and unnameable.<br>
At Essence 7 the Exalt takes on the final aspect of Nirguna and becomes non-existant in truth. He is no more than a floating cloud of thought and awareness, utterly immune to any attack or damaging effect except those of Social Attacks.