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Supernatural Martial Arts

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==General Requirements==

To use any form of Supernatural Martial Arts, you must have an Awakened Essence. This is represented by having an Essence Affinity Ability and an Essence Pool track. Anyone with any of the "basic packages" can thus learn some form of supernatural Martial Art. Minimum Power TL is 2. Each tier has it's own Power TL minimum to be able to access those Powers.


==Advantages==

Advantages are the prime means by which a character builds a Supernatural Martial Arts style. While certain Speciality Aspects will also be appropriate and useful, the specifics and differentiation are provided by your choice of Expert, Heroic and Power Advantages.


===Expert and Heroic Advantages===

There are a number of Expert and Heroic Advantages which can be used to simulate particular aspects of the supernatural Martial Arts. 

Expert Advantages:
* Acrobatic
* Deadly Grace
* Grappler
* Hard Style
* Quick Step
* Soft Style
* Weapon Specialist
* Wrestler


Heroic Advantages:
* Assassin Strike
* Counter Attack
* Crippling Blow
* Dazing Blow
* Dervish
* Ground and Pound
* Slippery Combatant
* Weapon Expertise


These can already be used to represent mundane (ie non-supernatural) martial arts, but nothing stops them also being used to add nuance to the supernatural styles.


===Enlightened Advantages===

Those with Awakened Essences can use that connection to fuel their martial arts abilities. Whenever you are called upon to spend a Fate Point to activate a martial arts-related Advantage, you may instead choose to activate it with your Essence Affinity Ability. Take a simple action and roll your Essence against difficulty 4, applying any Stress to your Essence Stress track.

The purpose of this is to give the Enlightened martial artist an alternative to using Fate Points, but at the risk of Essence Stress. Note that while the Exalted and other natural Essence-wielders can do this for free, Enlightened Mortals must purchase [[SoF_Exalted/New_Advantages#Root_Initiation_Form |Root Initiation Form]]


==Restrictions==

Supernatural Martial Arts are treated in the same way as other Powers. There is a cap on the maximum Weapon Rating (WR), Armour Rating (AR) or Explosive Rating (ExR) achieved with any Power equal to the character's Power Tech Level x2. Only Sorcery is exempt from this restriction. 

Many supernatural Martial Arts styles come with Limitations on them, such as elemental aspects which restrict how they can be used. Elemental-aspecting means taking Limitations on each one, which reduce their cost. As always, a Limitation cannot bring the cost of a Power under 1AP.

 See page 199 of the SoF rulebook for more details.


=Terrestrial Martial Arts=

Also known as the Root of the Perfected Lotus, Terrestrial Martial Arts (often abbreviated to TMA) are those Styles which are closest to mundane fighting arts. A practicioner will hit stuff, throw stuff, grapple people, but their Style will magically enhance such activities. Terrestrial Martial Arts root the Perfected Lotus, but are also its entrance. They help the martial artist start controlling his Essence with discipline, much like mundane Martial Arts will help him discipline his body. The themes explored through TMA are usually very specific, and the techniques a practitioner will learn are usually only useful in precise circumstances. 

Terrestrial Martial Arts are the only form of supernatural martial arts that mortals and most other non-Exalts can learn. They are the lowest tier of supernatural martial arts, but also the most commonly learned.


==Requirements==

To use Terrestrial Martial Arts, you must have an Awakened Essence and a minimum Power TL of 2.


==Powers==

Terrestrial Martial Arts are Powers, but are quite restricted in terms of both scale and scope. On scale, your CamPL limits on AP expenditure on any single Advantage apply even after chargen. None may be taken to the superheroic level, that's the preserve of other Powers and Celestial Martial Arts. For scope, only ever from the list below:

* Absorption 
* Armour 
* Augmented Movement 
* Body Weaponry 
* [[SoF_Exalted/New_Advantages#Enhanced_Endurance |Enhanced Endurance]]
* Enhanced Speed 
* [[SoF_Exalted/New_Advantages#Enhanced_Strength |Enhanced Strength]]
* Enhanced Reflexes 
* Imbue Armour or Shield 
* Imbue Weapon 
* Poison 
* Power Attack - Melee 
* Resistance 
* Weapon Mastery


==Restrictions==

Terrestrial Martial Arts are generally elemental-aspected, and thus have restrictions relating to those elements. For example many Air-aspected styles cannot be performed in armour. The Five Dragon Style uses only swords and spears aside from martial arts weapons. Generally, though, these sorts of restrictions are for flavour and grant no AP discount to the cost of Powers.


=Celestial Martial Arts=

Celestial Martial Arts are known as the Bulb of the Perfected Lotus, and as the plant's stem extends outside the mud, so CMA Styles, as they are often abbreviated, distance themselves from the mundane and ordinary. Usually, the first half of the Style resembles Terrestrial Martial Arts, while the second half reaches into the extraordinary power usually associated with Celestial Exalted. The refinement witnessed when Celestial Martial Arts are practiced is usually beyond precise and earthly concepts, and will usually be about slightly broader concepts. As the practicioner deepens his connection to his own Essence, so will his mastery grow. 


==Requirements==

To use Celestial Martial Arts, you must have an Awakened Essence and a minimum Power TL of 4. Dragon-Blooded characters may only learn Celestial Martial Arts with an Immaculate Order-trained sifu, and by purchasing [[SoF_Exalted/New_Advantages#Pasiap.27s_Humility_and_the_Moment_of_Daana.27d | Pasiap's Humility and the Moment of Daana'd]]. Even then they are restricted to Metro-Class Super Powers. Only Celestials may purchase World-Class Super Powers with Celestial Martial Arts.


==Powers==

Celestial Martial Arts are also Powers which are strictly defined. However, they come from a broader list, and start at Metro-Class in the case of Super Powers.

The list of Powers appropriate for Celestial Martial Arts is as follows:

* Absorption 
* Affliction
* Armour (Metro-Class or World-Class)
* Augmented Movement 
* Binding
* Body Weaponry 
* Enhanced Hearing/Senses/Sight/Smell
* Enhanced Speed (Metro-Class or World-Class)
* Environmental Protection
* Flight
* Heal
* Imbue Armour or Shield 
* Imbue Weapon 
* Insubstantial
* Leach
* Poison 
* Power Attack - Melee (Metro-Class or World-Class)
* Power Attack - Pulse (Metro-Class or World-Class)
* Power Attack - Ranged (Metro-Class or World-Class)
* Resistance 
* Super Agility (Metro-Class or World-Class)
* Super Endurance (Metro-Class or World-Class)
* Super Strength (Metro-Class or World-Class)
* Telekinesis (Metro-Class or World-Class)
* Wall Walker
* Weapon Mastery
 


==Restrictions==


=Sidereal Martial Arts=

The Sidereal Martial Arts are prized secret techniques, and the wise call them the Blossom of the Perfected Lotus, because as opposed to the root and bulb of the lotus, the blossom transcends the mud from which it came. SMA, as they are called, transcend the Creation-tied themes of lesser Martial Arts, and the techniques they are made of are usually more like divine interventions and less like fighting techniques. In fact, fighting is what has permitted the practitioner to understand the abstract principles of the universe deeply enough to be able to bend them to his will. 


==Requirements==

To use Sidereal Martial Arts, you must have an Awakened Essence and a minimum Power TL of 6 or be a Sidereal. No one else can learn Sidereal Martial Arts.


==Powers==

''Done with Control instead of a discrete list of Powers.''


==Restrictions==





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