Campaign:EA-Exalted/Eleri Dunesong

Basics

• Campaign: Campaign: EA-Exalted
• Name: Eleri Dunesong, Silken Wrath, "The White Demon"
• Concept: Cast Out Messiah of the Dunes
• Exalt Type: Solar
• Caste: Dawn
• Motivation: Free her people from the shackles they are still born into.
• Positive intimacies: People of the Dunes (Protective) ●●●●●, Devotion to Luna (Faith) ●●●●●, Her Grand Daiklave (Ownership) ●●●●●, Jackal [Building](Respect) ●●●, Her Sanxian [Building](Ownership) ●●●●, Lightened Gait [Building](Friendship) ●●, Silver Tears For The Lesser And Low [Building](Respect) ●, Pass Judgment over the Solar Exalted of the Second Age [Building](Duty) ●●●
• Negative intimacies: The Institution of Slavery (Hatred) ●●●●●, Lemezugi [Building](Ignorant Entitlement) ●●●, Wang [Building](Naive Presumption) ●, DESTROY ALL ABYSSALS [Building](Hatred) ●●●●
• Anima Totem: A giant monochrome representation of herself from the waist up tears its way out of her back then towers above her, glowing a literal white-hot (as does all the light she sheds, the harsh white sunlight of the most inhospitable desert rather than the typical warm golden glow of other Solars), completely lacking in physical features or distinctions within its 'borders' as if it were a 'blank' reverse shadow puppet. Has the additional disturbing tendency, if they are affected by her Anima power, of seeming to 'look' directly at anyone viewing it, a line of pure darkness forming into a too-wide predatory grin, too-sharp teeth sillhouetted against that void.
• Experience: 121/135

Background

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EYES ONLY
ACCESS: MEMBERS OF THE FIVE-SCORE FELLOWSHIP, BUREAU HEADS

Appearance

Eleri Dunesong is a breathtakingly beautiful young girl that is obviously one of the Dune People, looking to be between the ages of 10 and 11 and standing roughly 4'7", with a slim build revealing the beginnings of curves. Her eyes, red as the arterial blood of those arrayed against her. Her hair a white shining as lustrously as the face of Luna in the night sky. Her skin as pure as the most perfectly refined White Jade. And though she would generally sooner die than reveal it to others, a Cynis mon is tattooed in purple ink on the sole of her left foot.

She typically wears a seemingly simple outfit comprised of a long red coat with a hemline extending down to her knees, sealed together from her neck to just above her abdomen and open the rest of its length, atop a suit of black form-fitting clothing in the form of an identical long-sleeved black shirt, pants, and a pair of shoes bordering on slippers. Her clothing is un-ornamented with design or embroidery, simple yet flattering in cut and shape. It is also a shape-shifting artifact created by the Mountain Folk, capable of transforming into any articles of clothing its wearer can imagine with but a moment of concentration and a brief infusion of essence, and hardening when struck to protect its owner. The 'wardrobe' she has set into its memory, however, is a meager one, at least thus far.

Attributes

Strength  ●        Charisma     ●●●●●    Perception   ●●●
Dexterity ●●●●●    Manipulation ●        Intelligence ●●●
Stamina   ●        Appearance   ●●●●●    Wits         ●●●

Abilities

Archery      x     Integrity   ●●●●●     Craft         x    Athletics ●●●●● Bureaucracy x
Martial Arts x     Performance ●●●●●     Investigation x    Awareness ●●●●● Linguistics ●
Melee        ●●●●● Presence    ●●●●●     Lore          x    Dodge     ●     Ride        x
Thrown       x     Resistance  ●●●●●     Medicine      x    Larceny   x     Sail        x
War          x     Survival    ●●        Occult        ●    Stealth   ●     Socialize   ●

Crafts: None.

Languages: Old Realm (Dune People dialect, 'Common' dialect), High Realm.

Specialties

Athletics: Feats Of Strength ●●●

Integrity: A Heart Locked Away From Humans ●●●

Linguistics: 'Common' Old Realm Dialect ●

Lore: People Of The Dunes ●

Melee: Blades ●●●

Performance: Sexual ●●●

Presence: Terrifying ●●●

Resistance: Facing The Sun ●●●

Backgrounds

Artifact: ●●● (Black Jade Grand Daiklave)
Artifact: ●● (Transformative Armor)
Artifact: ●● (Fivefold Harmonic Adapter: Orichalcum, on Black Jade Grand Daiklave, Eternal)

Charms

First Melee Excellency
Cost: 1m per die; Mins: Melee 1, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 1 for attacker, Step 2 for defender)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
This charm allows her to increase Melee rolls by up to (Attribute + Melee).

Infinite Melee Mastery
Cost: 2m+, 1wp; Mins: Melee 4, Essence 3; Type: Simple (Speed 6, DV -1)
Keywords: None
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Any Melee Excellency
Each two motes committed to this Charm reduces the mote cost for the first three Melee Excellencies by one, to a minimum of zero. She may spend as many motes on this Charm as she wishes.

Hungry Tiger Technique
Cost: 1m; Mins: Melee 2, Essence 1; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Melee Excellency
By spending one mote before making a Melee-based attack, this Charm causes extra successes on the attack roll to be counted twice for the purposes of determining raw damage.

One Weapon, Two Blows
Cost: 1m; Mins: Melee 2, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 1)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: One Action
Prerequisite Charms: Any Melee Excellency
This Charm adds one to the Rate and one to the Accuracy of her weapon until her next action.

Peony Blossom Attack
Cost: 2m per attack; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 2; Type: Extra Action
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: One Weapon, Two Blows
This Charm is a magical flurry of two or more Melee-based attacks. Each attack costs two motes, including the first, and she may buy up to 5 attacks. This Charm lets her make these attacks regardless of the weapon's Rate, without multiple action penalties, and with a DV penalty equal to only the highest penalty for any one attack.

Dipping Swallow Defense
Cost: 2m; Mins: Melee 2, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Melee Excellency
This Charm is used in response to an attack. It allows her to ignore all penalties that apply to her Parry DV when resolving that attack. Her Parry DV is still 0 if it's inapplicable, but it takes no further penalties.

Bulwark Stance
Cost: 5m; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-Basic
Duration: Until next action
Prerequisite Charms: Dipping Swallow Defense
This Charm allows her to ignore penalties that apply to her Parry DV until her next action. This includes penalties invoked by her own attacks. Note that the effects of inapplicability are not a "penalty" on DV.

Fivefold Bulwark Stance
Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Melee 5, Essence 2; Type: Simple (Speed 6, DV -1)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Bulwark Stance
For the remainder of the scene, this Charm removes the onslaught penalty other characters' attacks impose on her parry DV. It also reduces the defense penalty imposed by each action the Exalt takes by one, to a minimum of zero.

Heavenly Guardian Defense (Conviction Flaw of Invulnerability)
Cost: 4m; Mins: Melee 4, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Bulwark Stance
This Charm is a parry that allows a character to perfectly defend against any attack, even if it is unblockable, so long as she has a weapon in hand and the attack is not unexpected. Mundane weapons can break when defending with them when used with this charm, should the attack she is using it to parry against inflict 25L raw damage before soak, though it will still successfully parry the attack.

Warrior's Imperishable Grip
Cost: -; Mins: Melee 4, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Heavenly Guardian Defense
When wielded with the preternatural skill of the Solar in combat, any object may be transformed into a deadly weapon as infallible as those forged of the Magical Materials. This Charm permanently upgrades any non-artifact weapon the Solar makes use of, including improvised weapons, with the indestructibility of an artifact weapon.
It will not be damaged or destroyed by being used in combat, save by effects that are specifically capable of damaging or destroying artifact weaponry. This includes the use of Heavenly Guardian Defense against attacks doing 25L or more damage. This effect does not function in situations where the Solar is not engaged in combat against real threats, including attacking inanimate objects.
This effect may be rescinded when the Solar's character deems it dramatically appropriate for a weapon to be damaged or destroyed in the performance of an attack.

Call The Blade
Cost: 1m; Mins: Melee 2, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
She may hold out her hand and call to the Essence of one of her weapons. If the desired weapon is within (Essence x 10) yards, and a flight path exists between the weapon and her hand, this Charm draws the weapon into her grasp. She must own the weapon she calls. This Charm can be used to draw and ready a sheathed weapon reflexively.

Summoning The Loyal Steel
Cost: 1m; Mins: Melee 3, Essence 2; Type: Simple (Speed 3, DV -1)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Call the Blade
She may banish a drawn hand-to-hand weapon that she owns to Elsewhere with the commitment of a single mote of Essence. She can then draw the weapon directly from Elsewhere later, using a miscellaneous action. The Charm ends when she does so. If she cancels the Essence committed to this Charm while the weapon is Elsewhere, it falls to the ground at her side. She is explicitly permitted to draw her stored weapons from Elsewhere using Charms such as Call the Blade.

Second Integrity Excellency
Cost: 2m per success; Mins: Integrity 1, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
This charm allows her to spend up to her (Willpower + Integrity) in motes, with every two motes spent adding one success to the roll (in the case of DVs, each success adds one to the DV in question).

First Performance Excellency
Cost: 1m per die; Mins: Performance 1, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
This charm allows her to increase Performance rolls by up to (Attribute + Performance).

First Presence Excellency
Cost: 1m per die; Mins: Presence 1, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
This charm allows her to increase Presence rolls by up to (Attribute + Presence).

Graceful Crane Stance
Cost: 3m; Mins: Athletics 1, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm allows her to automatically succeed on any valid Athletics action to keep her balance. Moreover, this Charm allows her to keep her footing on any surface at least as strong and wide as a human hair. She treats it as a three-foot-wide ledge capable of supporting a thousand pounds of weight when determining what movement and Athletics actions she can take and what penalties to them might apply.

Increasing Strength Exercise
Cost: 3m per point; Mins: Athletics 3, Essence 2; Type: Simple (Speed 6, DV -1)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Stackable
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm suffuses her with Solar Essence, temporarily increasing her Strength. It adds one dot to her Strength for each three motes spent. No combination of Charms that includes Increasing Strength Exercise can increase her Strength by more than her Essence, and this bonus is treated as a dice bonus from Charms.

Surprise Anticipation Method
Cost: 1m; Mins: Awareness 5, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm guarantees success on any valid Awareness roll to notice immediate mortal danger. This Charm works whether she is in or out of battle, awake, or asleep. If she has a chance to notice a surprise attack during a prolonged struggle, a dart blown at her in the jungle, an invisible opponent or a cleverly concealed pit, she does so.
If she must make such a roll and has a chance of failing it, and if she can invoke this Charm, this Charm invokes itself automatically. At that time, if she has a combo containing this Charm, she may declare the use of that Combo instead of just the Surprise Anticipation Method Charm.
Surprise Anticipation Method does not invoke itself if Eleri has already used her Charm for the action, if she does not have any motes of Essence, if she is Inactive and cannot become active, if she is already certain to succeed on the Awareness roll or if she cannot normally attempt an Awareness roll.

Combos

The Sun Cannot Be Evaded: First Melee Excellency + Hungry Tiger Technique + Heavenly Guardian Defense + Surprise Anticipation Method. (1m per die*/1m/4m*/1m* + 1wp)
To Strike At The Wind Is Futile: Fivefold Bulwark Stance + Heavenly Guardian Defense. (5m+1wp/4m* + 1wp)
Potential As Endless As The Desert's Sand: Increasing Strength Exercise + Graceful Crane Stance + Heavenly Guardian Defense. (3m per dot/3m*/4m* + 1wp)

(* - Denotes a reflexive Charm.)

Anima Powers

By spending 10 motes of Essence, Eleri can appear huge and terrifying for the remainder of the scene (or until she chooses to let the effect dissipate). She appears taller and fiercer, with a terrible visage, burning eyes, and a deadly rending grasp. This effect comes into play automatically once she spends 11-15 motes of Peripheral Essence.
Unless a creature has a Valor greater than the Ascending Sun's Essence, he is unable to look directly at Eleri or strongly oppose her. She gains +2 to her DV against affected characters. Players of mortals must also make Valor rolls for their characters when they are facing one of the Bronze Tigers. Mortals (and normal animals) that fail flee in terror of the wrathful apparition that confronts them. Golems, automata, the walking dead, and other creatures that do not know fear cannot be affected by this Anima power.

Merits and Flaws

Merits
None.

Flaws
Sun-Seared: Like all of the Dune People, Eleri is supernaturally vulnerable to the sun. Exposure to direct sunlight inflicts a damage of 1B/minute with a Trauma rating of 3, and she suffers a three-die penalty on all rolls while so exposed. Heavy clothing doubles the time interval for this form of environmental damage.
Sterile: Permanently Infertile due to an overdose of Maiden Tea.
Intolerance (Humanity: Minor [Common, Difficulty 3 Compassion roll or WP 1 to ignore for a scene, -3 to social actions other than intimidation])
Intolerance (Dynasts: Major [Uncommon, Difficulty 5 Compassion roll or WP 3 to ignore for a scene, -5 to social actions other than intimidation])
Intolerance (Solar Exalted: Major [Uncommon, Difficulty 5 Compassion roll or WP 3 to ignore for a scene, -5 to social actions other than intimidation])

Essence

Essence: ●●●●
Regeneration: 0 when active, 4/hour when relaxed, 8/hour when sleeping or meditating.
Personal Essence Pool: 20/22 (-)
Peripheral Essence Pool: 21/50 (First Melee Excellency 10, Hungry Tiger Technique 1, First Melee Excellency 5, First Melee Excellency 5, Hungry Tiger Technique 1, Hungry Tiger Technique 1)
Committed Essence: 16 (Black Jade Daiklave 8, Transformative Armor 4, Summoning the Loyal Steel 1, Graceful Crane Stance 3)
Anima Level: 15

Willpower

Willpower: ●●●●●●●●●●
Temporary: 10/10

Virtues

Virtues:

Compassion ●
Conviction ●●●●● (Three Channels Used)
Temperance ●
Valor      ●●●●● (Three Channels Used)

Virtue flaw: Deliberate Cruelty

Eleri wholly embraces cruelty. Her conscience vanishes, and she uses terror and cruelly to accomplish her goals, with only contempt for any perceived or exhibited weakness. She casually tortures and mutilates prisoners to sow terror and inspire obedience. This cruelty causes a minimum two-die penalty on all Social interactions not involving fear or intimidation.

Partial control: Eleri can moderate her cruelty when necessary. She casually intimidates and tortures wherever effective and is incapable of kindness. However, she can show restraint and indifference when cruelty would be less effective. She still suffers from a one-die penalty to other Social interactions.

Limit: xxxxx xxxx□

Duration: One full day.

Limit Break Condition: Whenever she is subjected to severe stress or backed against the wall.

Inventory

Black Jade Grand Daiklave (Orichalcum Fivefold Harmonic Adapter attached), Transformative Armor, Sanxian (with wooden case and orange protective cloth).

Artifacts

Black Jade Grand Daiklave: ●●● (The entire surface of the blade is a perfectly unvarying black, a darkness so absolute that nothing can escape it; no source of light may force it to gleam, and not even the Wyld itself can force the reflections of that which surrounds it to manifest upon its surface. The blade itself was shaped into a minimalistic and stark design, with absolutely straight edges on either side tapering very gradually over roughly seven feet of its length until it suddenly comes to a triangular shape over the last foot, the two sides that meet to form its point identical in every measurement. No adornment graces the blade, save for the three hearthstone sockets lined up perpendicular to the minimalistic, nearly nonexistent, cross guard, each of which are nothing more than featureless depressions within the blade itself, lacking any decoration or delineation from the rest of the blade itself. The hilt stretches precisely two feet long, the subtle grooves carved into the grip accentuating the nature of the black jade it is formed from to provide a comfortable and slightly adhesive texture for the hands wielding the massive weapon, just enough so that even being drenched in blood will not cause it to slip, but not so much as to prevent even the most complex and intricate manipulations performed upon the battlefield. The pommel is the daiklave's only nod to adornment, a haiku written in Old Realm carved into the smooth ovoid only slightly wider than the grip.)
Alone amidst foes
Rivers flow, a mighty flood
Depths filled with blood

Transformative Armor: ●● (This artifact was created in the depths of Meru by the hands of the Mountain Folk, then given to the house of Cynis during a diplomatic meeting. This clothing is made from an Essence-sensitive fabric including threads of spun jade and moonsilver. In its basic form, it resembles a finely made tunic of synthetic silk. When the wearer spends one mote, however, she can cause the fabric to shape itself to her will, expanding and contracting the weave, altering its color, texture, and shape to fit her precise specifications. It can become everything from a single glove or hat to an elaborate and multi-layered suit of elaborate courtly garb. The wearer can also spend one mote to cause the garment to almost instantly clean itself and repair any damage. This transformation is exceptionally rapid, requiring only a miscellaneous action (Speed 5, DV -1). To either duplicate a garment she has seen before or design one of her own, the wearer must make a (Wits + Craft (Wood)) roll, with a failure indicating that the garment looks significantly different from the desired result. This artifact can duplicate any appearance it has ever held without requiring a roll, however. Not only a suit of clothing but a suit of armor as well, it will always provide protection from heat and cold, as well as a soak rating of +6L/+4B and a hardness of 2L/2B, no matter what form it takes, without ever causing a Mobility penalty or Fatigue.)

Fivefold Harmonic Adapter: ●● (Appearing as thumbnail-sized disks crafted from a single piece of orichalcum engraved with mystical glyphs and surrounded in a ring of adamant, these devices automatically adhere to any artifact constructed of a different magical material (in this case, her Jade Grand Daiklave). While so adhered, it allows her to attune to her weapon for the same cost, while receiving the benefits of Black Jade, as if it were made of orichalcum. While the host artifact remains attuned, the adapter cannot be pried off until she allows attunement to her weapon to lapse. This particular fivefold harmonic adapter was constructed to be as imperishable as the weapon it is adhered to, and therefore has no Repair rating or upkeep requirements.)

Manses and Hearthstones

None.

Combat

Join Battle: 8 dice.
Dodge DV: 5
Dodge MDV: 9/11
Soak: 6L/5B (Transformative Armor, +6L/4B, Hardness 2L/2B)

Attacks

Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 6, Damage 1B-5B, Parry DV 4, Rate 3, Tags: N.
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 5, Damage 4B-8B, Parry DV 1, Rate 2, Tags: N.
Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 5, Damage 1B-5B, Parry DV n/a, Rate 1, Tags: C/N/P.
Black Jade Grand Daiklave: Speed 6-5, Accuracy 13-15, Damage 14L-18L/4, Parry DV 7-8, Rate 2, Tags: 2/R/P/O.

Health

□ -0
□ -1
□ -1
□ -2
□ -2
□ -4
□ Incapacitated
□ Dying

Advancement

BP
Merits (0)
None

Flaws (16)
Sun-Seared (6)
Sterile (1)
Intolerance: Humanity (3)
Intolerance: Dynasts (3)
Intolerance: Solar Exalted (3)

Other BP Expenditures (31)
Conviction ●●●●● (3)
Valor ●●●●● (6)
Athletics ●●●●● (2)
Integrity ●●●●● (2)
Melee ●●●●● (2)
Performance ●●●●● (2)
Presence ●●●●● (2)
Resistance ●●●●● (2)
Specialty: Melee (Blades) ●●● + Athletics (Feats of Strength) ● (2)
Specialty: Athletics (Feats of Strength) ●● (1)
Specialty: Presence (Terrifying) ●●● + Performance (Sexual) ● (2)
Specialty: Performance (Sexual) ●● (1)
Specialty: Integrity (A Heart Locked Away From Humans) ●●● + Resistance (Facing the Sun) ● (2)
Specialty: Resistance (Facing the Sun) ●● (1)
Specialty: Lore (People of the Dunes) ● (1)

XP (121)
Essence ●●● (16)
Charm: Infinite Melee Mastery (8)
Essence ●●●● (24)
Awareness ●●●● (6)
Specialty: Linguistics ('Common' Old Realm Dialect) ● (3)
Awareness ●●●●● (8)
Charm: First Performance Excellency (8)
Charm: Surprise Anticipation Method (8)
Charm: One Weapon, Two Blows (8)
Charm: Peony Blossom Attack (8)
Charm: Second Integrity Excellency (8)
Charm: First Presence Excellency (8)
Charm: Warrior's Imperishable Grip (8)