Editing Once more with feeling/Custom Martial Arts (section)

==House of the Violet Bier of Sorrows==
*Just as the other kinds of Exalted, the Sidereal Exalted possess their own distinctive style of supernatural martial arts. Actually, they possess their own distinctive styles of martial arts, there are five such styles - one style for each caste of Sidereal. The Maiden of Endings, in her supernal excellence at understanding the destiny of martial arts, worked with each of her sisters to craft a style for each of their chosen and with her understanding of all things martial art created an art for her own chosen. Each set of chosen can learn their Maiden's style with no instruction, purely on understanding of their own Essence, and the Chosen of Endings, as those chosen to have a destiny fully tied to martial arts, can learn any of these five styles without instructions.
*Of course, the Seers do not speak of any of these as a "Sidereal Hero Style" of supernatural martial arts. Instead, they call the Martial Arts Charms they received from each of their Maidens as the Style of her Astrological House, giving them the Golden Barque of Heavens Style, the Cerulean Lute of Harmony Style, the Crimson Panoply of Victory Style, the Forbidding Manse of Ivy Style, and the Violet Bier of Sorrows Style. The Sidereal believe these were the first of all supernatural martial arts, but often engage in lively debate about which may have been created first. The Chosen of Endings are often torn between claiming that theirs was created first as the Maiden of Endings is the supreme martial artist and claiming that theirs was created last in the most advanced form from the understanding granted by creating the prior.
*The five styles of the Houses Sidereal are Celestial martial arts. Sidereal sifus could teach any of them to anyone who could learn such martial arts - most notably, other Celestial Exalted or Dragon-Blooded trained as Immaculate martial artists - but long ago the Five-Score Fellowship made moves to keep their secrets safe from spreading far from their rightful place with the Maidens' Chosen. The Violet Bier of Sorrows Style of the Astrological Houses is dedicated to honing the instincts of its practitioners, that they may know the proper instance of their opponents death and their own graceful parting. Its students are known to be relentless and remorseless, yet also for their compassion and dedication to preserving that which is not yet meant to end. This version of the Violet Bier of Sorrows style is meant to replace the version seen in ''Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals'' to better fit with the other martial arts of the Astrological Houses.
*This Style is one of the five Styles of the Houses Sidereal
*The Charms of this Style are considered native for the Chosen of Saturn, the Maiden of Endings.
===Secrets of Future Strife===
*'''Cost:''' ––; '''Mins:''' Martial Arts 1, Essence 1; '''Type:''' Reflexive (Step 1)
*'''Keywords:''' None
*'''Duration:''' Permanent
*'''Prerequisite Charms:''' None
*The character is ready for combat at the slightest indications of fate.
*'''Source: Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals, p. 180.'''
===Flight of Mercury===
*'''Cost:''' 1 mote per action; '''Mins:''' Martial Arts 2, Essence 1; '''Type:''' Reflexive
*'''Keywords:''' Combo-OK
*'''Duration:''' Up to (Martial Arts) actions
*'''Prerequisite Charms:''' Secrets of Future Strife
*The martial artist can move as swiftly as an ending already completed.
*'''Source: Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals, p. 181.'''
===Joy in Adversity Stance===
*'''Cost:''' 5 motes; '''Mins:''' Martial Arts 2, Essence 1; '''Type:''' Reflexive
*'''Keywords:''' Combo-OK
*'''Duration:''' One scene
*'''Prerequisite Charms:''' Secrets of Future Strife
*The martial artist becomes an engine of essence in the face of her opponents defeat.
*'''Source: Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals, p. 182.'''
===Blade of the Battle Maiden (Alternative)===
*'''Cost:''' 2+ motes, 1 willpower; '''Mins:''' Martial Arts 3, Essence 2; '''Type:''' Reflexive
*'''Keywords:''' Obvious
*'''Duration:''' One scene
*'''Prerequisite Charms:''' Secrets of Future Strife
*Scarlet essence flares around the martial artist, giving her the fate of an armed and armored warrior. For the rest of the scene, the character's Martial Arts attacks (including clinches) inflict lethal damage. The character can also parry lethal damage from physical attacks (including ranged attacks) without using a weapon or stunt. What's more, every two motes spent on this charm adds one die to the damage roll of every unarmed Martial Arts attack the character makes and adds one level to the character's soak (both lethal and bashing), adding a maximum of the character's Essence to both. This soak bonus acts like armor in all respects, except that it does not interfere with the use of Martial Arts Charms. Attacks that ignore armor ignore this soak, although aggravated damage does not. These bonuses only apply to unarmed Martial Arts attacks and only if the character does not wear armor (even if the character uses Martial Arts Charms from a style that permits armor, such as the Earth Dragon Style described in ''Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded'', though so long as that character is not in armor they would receive both the armor bonus and would receive the damage bonus with both fists and grand goremauls as those both count as unarmed for Earth Dragon Style).
===Violet Bier of Sorrows Form===
*'''Cost:''' 6 motes; '''Mins:''' Martial Arts 4, Essence 2; '''Type:''' Simple (Speed 6, DV -1)
*'''Keywords:''' Form-type
*'''Duration:''' One scene
*'''Prerequisite Charms:''' Flight of Mercury, Joy in Adversity Stance, Blade of the Battle Maiden
*The martial artist takes on the very persona of Endings herself.
*'''Source: Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals, p. 182.'''
===Death-Parrying Stroke===
*'''Cost:''' 2 motes per health level; '''Mins:''' Martial Arts 4, Essence 2; '''Type:''' Reflexive
*'''Keywords:''' Combo-OK, Obvious
*'''Duration:''' Instant
*'''Prerequisite Charms:''' Violet Bier of Sorrows Form
*The martial artist finds the fate of surviving a blow as easy to grasp as the fate of swinging one.
*'''Source: Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals, p. 182.'''
===Metal Storm (Alternative)===
*'''Cost:''' 3 motes per attack; '''Mins:''' Martial Arts 5, Essence 3; '''Type:''' Extra Action
*'''Keywords:''' Combo-OK
*'''Duration:''' Instant
*'''Prerequisite Charms:''' Violet Bier of Sorrows Form
*The martial artist brings their foe to a fate of Ending in but a mere moment of fury.
**Other than the above changes, this charm is as written in ''Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals''.
*'''Source: Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals, p. 183.'''
===Life-Severing Blow (Alternative)===
*'''Cost:''' 2 motes per health level; '''Mins:''' Martial Arts 5, Essence 3; '''Type:''' Reflexive
*'''Keywords:''' Combo-OK
*'''Duration:''' Instant
*'''Prerequisite Charms:''' Violet Bier of Sorrows Form
*The martial artist can make a blow as deadly as her preference in bringing a foe to a proper Ending.
**Other than the above changes, this charm is as written in ''Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals''.
*'''Source: Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals, p. 183.'''
===Conclusion-Pursuing Approach (Alternative)===
*'''Cost:''' 10 motes, 1 willpower, 1 lethal health level; '''Mins:''' Martial Arts 5, Essence 4; '''Type:''' Simple (Speed 6, DV -2)
*'''Keywords:''' Combo-OK, Fate, Obvious, Prayer Strip
*'''Duration:''' One scene
*'''Prerequisite Charms:''' Death-Parrying Stroke, Metal Storm (Alternative), Life-Severing Blow (Alternative)
*The martial artist not only takes on an aspect of Endings but the entirety of its inevitability.
**Other than the above changes, this charm is as written in ''Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals''.
'''Source: Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals, p. 184.'''
===The Scripture of the Expectant Maiden===
*This scripture is as printed on page 184 of ''Manual of Exalted Power: Sidereals''.