No one with a Compassion of more than two is capable of learning this style as the are unable to perform the vilest acts of pitiless cruelty that this style requires.
Obedient ________ Torment
What greater mastery of the art of pain is there than inflicting the most excruciating agony on your opponent and having them beg for more.
The master of this art has no mercy. Any act of compassion is just a pretence to make their victim's subsequent torment all the more heartless. The Forsaken Widow often enjoys pretending be compassionate and motherly perhaps revelling in the sheer strangeness of the emotions she's imitating. Some of her followers seem to enjoy being tormented.
An unfortunate target of this Charm wants to be hurt. They'll fawn and scape on the floor for their mistress' attention even though they receive only the lowest form of it.
Graceless Chattel Abasement
Those far gone in Widow's service will perform any act on themselves or others no matter how grotesque at her command to receive their punishment.
The wretched subjects of this Charm can be made to perform acts that contradict their Virtues.
The Widow may chrge one of her subjects affected by Obedient ________ Torment with a task. Make a social attack. If they succeed the subject may not use their affected Virtue to prevent them performing their task.
During that time they cannot exercise that virtue in any way to resist the Widow or use any of it's channels.
Adjuration of the Impure Psyche
The Widow may command one of her subjects to perform a task. If successful (the social attack) the subject's Motivation becomes 'do what the mistress commands' and will perform any acts no matter how abhorrent at her request.
Of course the real torment of this Charm is of the one who'd Virtues they are forced to betray. The Denied and Forsaken Widow enjoys forcing those around her to perform acts they find abhorrent but cannot stop themselves.
Psyche Evicerating Dominatrix
By torturing her unfortunate supplicant in ways she feels particularly significant (or enjoyable) from outright physical abuse to forcing a man watching his loved ones being tortured to a barrage of well-worded insults and malicious teasing in public, she condenses a whole day of denying someone Willpower recovery into a single scene. If someone's will is broken through this Charm she replaces their Motivation with a Servitude effect to obey her. This Servitude effect remains as long as they do not recover their Willpower back to it's full rating.
A mistress' dignity is expressed through her aloofness to those she torments. She embodies something that they desperately desire and are unable to take.
Whenever the Widow offers the target something that appeals to one of their Intimacies, dominant Virtues or their Motivation but she can deny them without the use of direct physical force she savours their torment. Direct physical force doesn't rule out using physical means. She could writhe and dance erotically in fine night attire in front of a captive tied to her bed, especially if his restraints draw blood, or make suggestive comments on desires close to the heart of a courtier that they cannot respond to honestly without drawing approbium from the whole court.
The later Charms are more what I have in mind for this style. The earlier ones seem more similar to Laughing Wounds Style. The purpose of this martial art is not to make people enjoy pain in any sense. It's a very social martial art, even more so than Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style. It focuses on social interaction rather than only drawing on it as a basis for Charms used in combat. Actual physical violence is something used as part of the style rather than something the style is used for. The character herself is very socially based. I originally thought of her as a Midnight Caste but then the Shadow (Day) Caste might offer her more room to use her powers. I'm not sure about how their anima banner affects obvious Charms though.
