[Exalted 2e Lunar Charms] Boneshaping

[Lix Lorn]

There was a first edition charm that did this... so I thought i'd try to redo them. Probably completely unbalanced, and I have no idea which attribute to base them off. But hey. Learn by doing.

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From Pain, Progress
Cost: (2m + 1lhl) per dot of resources, Mins: Stamina 2, Essence 2, Type: Simple
Keywords: Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None

The Lunar reaches for her shoulder, shrugging her robes just off of it, and the skin writhes. Something white projects, a handle. And then a blade, sharp as glass.

The Lunar whips the bone blade from her shoulder, a spray of blood flicking from it, and points it at her target.

A Lunar with this charm can grow their bones into items and weapons, at cost of essence and health. Although they are nowhere near as badly injured as they appear, it is highly painful and even fatal, if they try to create something they cannot.
This charm costs two motes and deals one lethal level of damage for each dot of resources created, with a minimum cost of one lethal level of damage. Living creatures cannot be created, and neither can liquids. You cannot create any item larger than your own body.
At essence Five, you can ignore the size limitation.

For example, if this charm is used to create one item worth two dots of resources, and three items of one dot, it will cost them ten motes and deal them five levels of damage.
They may not create more dots of resources then their essence with a single use of this charm.

In addition, any Exalted with both this charm and a charm that allows them to store items elsewhere may remove any item made of his bones that he stored elsewhere as if only just creating it. This has no in-game effect, but could be used as part of a stunt to intimidate.
(It also means that you can create items in advance, and dramatically form them from your bones when needed without suffering damage in combat.)

From Agony, Artifice
Cost: (4m, 2ahl) per dot of artifact, 1wp Mins: Stamina 4, Essence 4, Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Prerequisite Charms: From Pain, Progress

”A lunar without moonsilver is like a hunt without prey.” sneered the elder Lunar. The younger merely reached for his shoulder, and the bone he formed from out of it glittered like that most famous of materials.

This charm permanently enhances its prerequisite. The Lunar may now use From Pain, Progress to create artifacts. However, doing so costs four motes and two aggravated health levels of damage for each dot of artifact background the artefact would be worth. In addition, a point of willpower must be paid. This point is invested, and cannot be regained for as long as the artifact exists. The artifact can be destroyed by the user holding it and concentrating on reabsorbing it.

Only artifacts with an artifact rating of half the user’s essence can be created, and they can only be made of moonsilver. Artifacts that do not normally exist made purely of moonsilver cannot be made this way.
These items are actually bone infused with lunar essence, but function exactly as moonsilver.

These items last as long as the user desires, but only if used by their creator. If anyone else attunes to an artifact created in this way, it lasts only a number of hours equal to their essence.

All artifacts created by a single Lunar must have a total artifact rating of equal to or less than that Lunar's essence. To create more after this limit, they must reabsorb one of the other artifacts.

With the aid of other Exalts, this charm may be used to create other magical materials. Any exalted can contribute a four mote surcharge to this charm by touching the user, and then this charm may create the appropriate magical material for their exalt type.

(Note that creating artifacts in this way artificially increases your backgrounds, and your Storyteller may charge you experience for doing so.)

From Essence, Endurance
Cost: -, Mins: Stamina 5, Essence 4, Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Prerequisite Charms: From Pain, Progress, From Agony, Artifice

As the Lunar forges weapons from her own body, her wounds close, as if she had never had them.

This charm permanently enhances its prerequisites. The user may reduce the lethal health levels of damage dealt to him by From Pain, Progress to bashing health levels.
With a second purchase of this charm which requires essence five, they also reduce the aggravated damage from From Agony, Artifice to lethal damage.