Character: Cerise Rose Thorn

Game: Once more, with feeling!.

Cerise of the Rose's Thorn
Caste: No Moon Caste, Lunar Exalted
Concept: Eater of Souls, Ghost Walker

Motivation

• To acquire and master Solar Circle Sorcery, as she has already done with all the circles of Necromancy.

Intimacies

Natural Intimacies

Negative

• Abyssal Exalted (-)
• The Deathlords (-)

Positive

• Grave Hounds (+)
• Roses (+)

Supernatural Intimacies

• Solar Bond: Surely-Refulgent Anshu (Eternal Vow) (True Love) (+)

Lunar Tell

• A blooming rose visible within the eyes of any shape she takes.

Anima

• An opening rose, with bloodied thorns at the base, surrounding her in her power with a pair of grave hounds on each side; illuminated in the moonlit silver of the newest moon, from the anima itself. from within her, from within her hounds.

Attributes

Physical

• Strength 3
• (F) Dexterity 7 (Martial Arts, +3)
• (F) Stamina 6

Social

• Charisma 5
• Manipulation 5
• Appearance 5

Mental

• (C) Perception 7
• (C) Intelligence 7
• (C) Wits 7

Abilities

War Abilities

• Archery
• Athletics 5
• Awareness 6
• Dodge 6
• Integrity 6
• (F) Martial Arts 6
• Melee 5
• Resistance 4
• Thrown
• War

Life Abilities

• Craft
• Larceny
• Linguistics 4
  • River Speak (Native), Forest Tongue, Guild Cant, Claw Speak, Various Tribal Tongues
• Performance 5
• Presence 5
• Ride
• Sail
• Socialize 6
• Stealth 6
• (C) Survival 3

Wisdom Abilities

• Bureaucracy 2
• Investigation 2
• Lore 6
• (F) Occult 6 (Sorcery, +3) (Necromancy, +3)
  • The Art of Alchemy, +3; The Art of the Dead, +3; The Art of Enchantment, +3; The Art of Astrology, +3; The Art of Biothaumaturgy, +3; The Art of Geomancy, +3; The Art of Husbandry, +3; The Art of Warding and Exorcism, +3
• Medicine 6

Backgrounds

Allies

Ally 1: Surely-Refulgent Anshu

• Solar Bond (5), Eternal Vow, True Love
• Zenith Caste, Solar Exalted

Ally 3: Grave Hound Herself

• Animal Totem Spirit: Grave Hound Herself

Artifacts

Artifact 1: Gravity-Defying Bra (Moonsilver)

• Non-tattoo variant of Gravity-Defying Bust Tattoos that can be taken off and de-attuned.

Artifact 1: Intimate Resonance Rings (Green Jade)

• Worn by Surely-Refulgent Anshu

Artifact 2: Skin Mounted Amulet

• Hearthstone: Freedom Stone (Water, 3)

Artifact 2: Skin Mounted Amulet

• Hearthstone: Fire Eating Rock (Fire, 5)

Artifact 2: Skin Mounted Amulet

• Hearthstone: Third Hand Orb (Air, 5)

Artifact 3: Cloak of the Silvered Hunter

• Soak: 8 Bashing, 8 Lethal, 8 Aggravated; Hardness: 5 Bashing, 5 Lethal, 5 Aggravated; Mobility -0, Fatigue 0; Jade, Moonsilver, Starmetal
• Charm Emulation: Frenzied Bear Fortification (Always On)
• Attunement: 8 motes

Artifact 3: Silvered Gauntlets of Shattered Steel

• (Attack) Speed 4, Accuracy +5, Damage +10B, Defense +4, Rate 3, (Disarming) (Martial Arts) (Piercing); Jade, Moonsilver, Starmetal
• (Clinch) Speed 4, Accuracy +5, Damage +10B, Rate 3, (Clinch Enhancer) (Martial Arts) (Piercing); Jade, Moonsilver, Starmetal
• Charm Emulation: Clay Wetting Practice
• Attunement: 8 motes
• Activation: 5 motes

Artifact 3: Silvered Boots of the Pack and Flock

• Speed 4, Accuracy +5, Damage +10B, Defense +4, Rate 3, (Martial Arts) (Piercing); Jade, Moonsilver, Starmetal
• Charm Emulation: Furious Hound Pursuit, or, Flight of the Sparrow
• Attunement: 8 motes
• Activation: 5 motes

Artifact 5: Prayers of the Defeated

• A necklace of small, finely detailed, moonsilver prayer beads strung along a length of god-hide leather.
• Charm Emulation: Defeated Technique Mastery (Defeat Condition: Successful God Body Dissection).
• Charm Expansion: Enables God-Body Dissection to work on any essence user.
• Attunement: 10 motes
• Activation: 8 motes

Backing

Backing 3: The Silver Pact

• The Seneschals of the Sun Kings

Contacts

Contacts 5: The Eastern Direction

• Academics
• The Guild
• High Society
• Merchants
• Outlaws

Contacts 4: The Eastern Underworld

• Academics
• High Society
• Merchants
• Outlaws

Cult 3

• The Eastern Direction; The Eastern Underworld

Influence 3

• The Eastern Direction; The Eastern Underworld

Manses

Manse 5: Magic Made Manifest ∂

• Air Aspect
• A twisting changing square cube made of shimmering walls of magic. The Manse is such a puzzle that not even the entrance is obvious. The inside is as much a mystery as the outside the walls changing and twisting with will a of their own. The only stable place in the entire building is the Control Room where one can alter the features to aid in the casting of whatever the user wishes. The manse is also rumored to have a darker reflection which has not been witnessed since the Usurpation.
• Claimed By: Cerise
• Hearthstone: Third Hand Orb
• Attuned Characters:
• Fragility 3
• Maintainance: 2
• Features:
  • Network Node
    • Geomantic Relay
  • Control Room (2pts)
  • Dynamic Architecture (3pts)
    • Build 1:
      • Rainbow Tabernacle (4pts)
      • Puzzle Manse (3pts)
      • Iron Circle Feedback (3pts)
    • Build 2:
      • Black Tabernacle (4pts)
      • Puzzle Manse (3pts)
      • Emerald Circle Feedback (3pts)

Manse 5: Torrent of Flames ∂

• Fire Manse
• This manse was a powerful way of accessing the Pole of Fire for raw materials the Artisan's of the Empty City required during its life. The Manse travels between several locations where many of the materials demanded by the city can be acquired. The manse itself appears a building covered in rolling waves of volcanic magma. A bridge swings forward and through two of the streams which part to allow enterance. Within the manse is comfortable furnished and not overtly warm at all providing comfort for those it transports from place to place.
• Claimed By: Cerise
• Hearthstone: Fire Eating Rock
• Attuned Characters:
• Features
  • Comfort Zone x2 (2pts)
  • Fire Dragon's Nest (3pts)
  • Alternate Locations: Pole of Fire (5pts)

Manse 3: Watchers of the Depths ∂

• A Square full of many shaped pools which can be glanced in or queries by the city network for the data they store. Many of the cities Patents are stored within, as well as images of famous forgetten art work lost to the ages.
• Claimed By: Cerise
• Hearthstone: The Freedom Stone
• Attuned Characters:
• Features:
  • Network Node
    • Geomantic Relay
  • Archive x3

Manse 3 (Gem of Desire)

This transparent yellow hearthstone is shaped like a faceted heart. Once per day, the bearer can inflame someone with desire for some specific object or person. Such desires can range from a sudden thirst for any strong alcohol to a passion for a specific person.

To inflict this desire on someone, the bearer’s player must succeed in a reflexive, resisted (Willpower + Essence) roll while the character is no more than 10 yards from the target. If the target succeeds, she is unaffected by this desire. If he fails, she feels this until the sun next rises. If he botches this roll, she feels this desire for the next week. For this duration, the target must make a Willpower roll with a difficulty equal to half the bearer’s Essence (round up) to avoid any opportunity to satisfy her desire.

This manse is called The Fragrant Myrrh Retreat.

Resources 5

• Cached throughout the Eastern Direction
• Wealth 3 equivalent

Backgrounds: The Lunars

Reputation 3

• Her deeds are such that many of the elders have heard her name as both a sorceress and a necromancer.

Knacks

Form Acquisition: Animal

• Humble Mouse Shape
• Towering Beast Form

Form Acquisition: Human

• Prey's Skin Disguise
• Honing the Stolen Form
• Intimate Training Recollection
• Flickering Star Infusion
• Taste of Like Minds

Form Acquisition: Supernatural

• Essential Mirror Form: Lost Pet Phantasm
• Essential Mirror Form: Stygian Mask
• Lost Pet Phantasm
• Stygian Mask

Form Acquisition: Miscellaneous

• Life of the Hummingbird
• Taste of Luna's Champions

Shapeshifting Refinement

• Changing Plumage Mastery
• Internal Form Mastery
• Subtle Silver Declaration

Shapeshifting Speed

• Quicksilver Second Face
• Lightning Change Style

Charms

Dexterity: Defensive

• Golden Tiger Stance
• Wary Swallow Method
• Wind Dancing Spirit
• Flowing Body Evasion
• Flowing Body Ascension

Stamina: Essence Regaining

• Silver Lunar Resolution [6]

Stamina: Healing Charms

• Bruise Relief Method
• Halting the Scarlet Flow

• Purging the Tarnished Silver

• Lunar Perseverance Infusion
• Lightning Starfish Concentration

Charisma: Interaction

• Hard Nosed Denial Style [2] (UMI Applicable)

Manipulation: Defense and Dissembling

• Mask of White Jade
• Cat Fae Presentation
• Labyrinth of the Beast
• Commanded to Fly [2] (Counter Attack is automatically successful.)

Perception: Essence

• Eye of the Cat
• Devil Restraining Grip
• Got Cutting Essence
• Spirit Maiming Essence
• Instinctive Essence Prediction
• All Encompassing Sorcerer’s Sight
• God Body Dissection

Perception: Wyld Perception

• Wyld Sensing Instincts
• Resisting the Lure of Madness
• Wyld Migration Formation
• Eagle Fish Transition Prophecy
• Slippery Reality Escape
• Waxing Steward Lunacy Conquest

Intelligence: Crafting

• Form Fixing Method
• Harmony with Reality Technique
• Ritual of Lunar Stability
• Devouring the Fat Belly of Madness [2] (Combo-OK)

Intelligence: Sorcery

• Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
• Celestial Circle Sorcery

• Million Eye and Hand Virtue
• Silver Soul Transition

Intelligence: Sorcery: Terrestrial Circle Sorcery

• Burning Eyes of the Offender
• Commanding Presence of Fire
• Commanding the Beasts
• Corrupted Words
• Curse of Slavish Humility
• Curtain of Quartz
• Death of Ice Butterflies
• Demon of the First Circle
• Droning Suggestion
• Emerald Circle Banishment
• Emerald Counter Magic
• Impenetrable Frost Barrier
• Impervious Sphere of Water
• Incantation of Effective Restoration
• Infallible Messenger
• Mists of Eventide
• Open the Spirit Door
• Private Plaza of Downcast Eyes
• River of Blood
• Sting of the Ice Hornet
• Storm Wind Rider
• Summon Elemental
• The Titan's Icy Breath
• Unstoppable Fountains of the Depths
• The Violent Opening of Closed Portals
• Viridian Mantle for Underwater Journeys
• Virtuous Guardian of Water

Intelligence: Sorcery: Celestial Circle Sorcery

• Demon of the Second Circle
• Cantata of Empty Voices
• Dolorous Reflection
• Eternal Crystalline Encasement
• Gentle Call of Lethe
• Raise the Puissant Sanctum
• Rolling Earth Carpet
• Sapphire Circle Banishment
• Sapphire Counter Magic
• Summon the Heavenly Portal
• Threefold Binding of the Heart
• Torrential Cascade
• Travel Without Distance
• Whirlwind of Fate

Intelligence: Thaumaturgy

• Silvered Protector Procedures
  • The Art of Alchemy
  • The Art of Enchantment
  • The Art of Astrology
  • The Art of Biothaumaturgy
  • The Art of Geomancy
  • The Art of Husbandry
  • The Art of Warding and Exorcism

Intelligence: Wyld

• Still Pond Infliction
• Burgeoning Wyld Infliction
• Form Fixing Meditation
• Breathe Deep the World
• Form Restoring Memory Invocation
• Eternal Wyld Gift

Abyssals: Daybreak Caste: Investigation

• Corpse Questioning Technique

Abyssals: Daybreak Caste: Occult

• Shadowlands Circle Necromancy
• Labyrinth Circle Necromancy
• Void Circle Necromancy
• Grave Affinities (+3)

Abyssals: Daybreak Caste: Occult: Shadowlands Circle Necromancy

• Banish Ghost
• Black Candle Visage
• Bless the Rapine Soul
• Blessed Dead Fools
• Blood Mirror Speech
• Bone Puppet Dance
• Bonfire Visions
• Death Inversion Loop
• Door of the Dead
• Dusk Eyes
• Easing the Forsaken Memory
• Faces of the Dead
• Five Gifts
• Gathering a Ghost's Strings
• Gentle Call of Lethe
• Iron Counter Magic
• Master Puppeteer's Knife
• Midnight Shadow Sun
• Piercing the Shroud
• Rune of Sweet Passing
• Shade Prison Amulet
• Shattering Void Mirror
• Silent Master's Pollen
• Soothing the Crease-Worn Mind
• Summon Ghost
• Without Pity, Without Scorn

Abyssals: Daybreak Caste: Occult: Labyrinth Circle Necromancy

• Bauble of the Captive Soul
• Brick-by-Brick Solitude
• Folding Midnight
• Golden Shadows Cast in Frieze
• Infinite Footsteps
• Onyx Counter Magic
• Puzzle Box of Love
• Reaping the Fallen
• Rebirth Into Darkness

Abyssals: Daybreak Caste: Occult: Void Circle Necromancy

• Abyssal Aegis
• The Barless Gate
• Blood from the Slaughter
• Obsidian Counter Magic
• Sins of the Father
• Summon Hekatonkhire
• (Unique) Naming the Opening of the Fall
  • As per total annihilation, solar circle sorcery, re-envisioned as a pulsing sphere of oblivion, with the modification that it hits the target's positive intimacies as well as the initial target. (115 motes)

Essence

• Permanent Essence: 6
  • Personal Motes: 26 of Twenty-Six.
  • Peripheral Motes: 26 (38) of Sixty-Four.
  • Peripheral Motes: Silver Lunar Resolution: 60 of Sixty.
  • Peripheral Motes: Skin Mounted Amulets: 26 of Twenty-Six.

Committed Essence

• 10 motes, Peripheral -- Prayers of the Defeated
• 8 motes, Peripheral -- Silvered Gauntlets of Shattered Steel
• 8 motes, Peripheral -- Silvered Boots of Fallen Leaves
• 8 motes, Peripheral -- Cloak of the Silvered Hunter
• 2 motes, Peripheral -- Gravity-Defying Bust Chain
• 2 motes, Peripheral -- Intimate Resonance Rings

Willpower

• 10 of Ten.

Virtues

• Compassion: 4
• Conviction: 5
• Temperance: 5
• Valor: 5

Limit Break

Temperance Flaw

"The Curse of the Drunken Monkey"

• 0 of 5.

Combat Values

Defense Values

• Parry DV: 10 (Dexterity 7 + Martial Arts 6 + Specialty 3 + Defense 4)
• Dodge DV: 11 (Dexterity 7 + Dodge 6 + Specialty 3 + Essence 6)

Social Defense Values

• Parry MDV: 5 (Charisma, Manipulation, Performance, Presence)
• Dodge MDV: 11 (Willpower 10 + Integrity 6 + Essence 6)
  • +2 MDV vs Abyssals, Deathlords, Ghosts, Lunars, Demons, Gods, Elementals

Soak Values

• Soak
  • Natural: 6 Bashing, 3 Lethal, 0 Aggravated
  • Armored: 14 Bashing, 11 Lethal, 8 Aggravated
• Hardness
  • Natural: 0 Bashing, 0 Lethal, 0 Aggravated
  • Armored: 5 Bashing, 5 Lethal, 5 Aggravated

Health Levels

• -0 []
• -1 [], -1 []
• -2 [], -2 []
• -4 []
• Incapacitated []

Merits

Physical Merits

• (1) Ambidextrous
• (1) Omnidexterity
• (1) Selective Conception

Mental Merits

• (3) Eidetic Memory
• (5) Prodigy: Occult

Background Merits

• (5) Cache
• (+) Favors

Combat Merits

• (5) Danger Sense

Supernatural Merits

• (0) Priest of Luna
• (5) Past Lives

Flaws

Social Flaws

• (+) Enemies

Mental Flaws

• (3) Amnesia: Before Exaltation

Supernatural Flaws

• (5) Greater Curse (Permanent Limit)

Background Flaws

• (+) Wanted