Some artefacts dating from the Primordial Age were created by the Incarnae when they walked Creation. Some more recent ones were stolen from, or smuggled out of Heaven. What of the artefacts made by the Primordials themselves like the Eye of Autochthon? Other artefacts dare back to Exalted heroes from the Primordial War.
Some believe that Dark Messiah Style is the key to destroying Creation and releasing the Primordials from their torment into Oblivion. Only the Abssals can learn this style, it's Charms elude even the ghostly Deathlords. Some believe the very Exalted who slew them are destined to become masters of this style.
Their power to alter what they are the deeper they go into the Wyld means the deeper in the Wyld they are the stronger their transformative power are.
In the Deep Wyld they can use a Knack which allows them to become unshaped like one of the Fair Folk. The ability given to them by their Lunar Essence to make their forms inconstant allows them to travel the Wyld without being permanently mutated and venture into it's dimentionless depths without going mad.
Their moonsilver 'tattoos' are gifts from Lunar, marks of their god in Old Realm that appear on their bodies when they learn a new Knack. Learning a Knack involves meditation on Luna and a popular belief is that only those who gain her favour learn a Knack. Luna's powers like the Wyld have infinite potential. She knows every Knack and shared her knowledge with those who commune with her. Learning a new Knack is for a Lunar like learning a spell is for a Solar, learning a new way to exert their will on Creation. Solars have the power of will. Lunars have the power of transformation, power over their identity. Sidereals have the power of Destiny. Why isn't destiny an element of Sidereal Martial Arts?
Showing posts with label moonsilver tattoos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label moonsilver tattoos. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Knacks
What if Knacks were the Lunars' natural powers designed to supplement their inherent shapeshifting ability. When the Silver Pact created moonsilver tattoos to protect themselves against the degenerate effects of the Great Curse they started using Charms outside of Martial Arts and Sorcery to emulate these effects. Many believe that this is when Luna turned her sight from her Children for refusing the gifts she gave them. Those who refuse tattooing believe this fervently, believing their rejection of their transformation into animal form was a clear rejection of Luna's nature of her Chosen.
When the Primordials levelled the Great Curse on the Lunars they condemned them to be the animals they'd become. As they grew older their bodies became an amalgamation of their human form and their spirit shape until it was recognisable as neither. This was the Lunar's new and only True Form. They were the first Beastmen.
Expand Lunar Knacks across Attributes so they are a full family of powers. Charms may be prefereable since they were invented rather than discovered but they are not the true powers of the Lunars.
All Knack are shapeshifting effects; they might change their skin into another colour or a different type of tissue altogether in Hundred Skins Hunter or become as lithe and sensuous as a stalking cat in Silent Jaguar Steps. These powers aren't just magic effects like Charms, they actually change an aspect of the Lunar's physical form. A character using Silent Jaguar Steps doesn't just use Essence to surpress the sound of his footfalls as a Night Caste might, he walks with such stealth and gracefulness that his movements make no noise.
Even at night in the darkest forest he makes no sound.
But the price exacted was terrible, a Lunar with tattoos was incapable of shapeshifting.
The Lunars feared such a condemnation of their animal nature and what consequences it might provoke from Luna. They also darkly warned about the consequences of using moonsilver for something against it's natural purpose. Craftsmen speculate that it was this perversion that caused Luna to withdraw her favour from them.
Understanding of their new family of powers highlighted the difference between them: Charms imitate, Knacks alter. A Solar would use Charms to see and interract with dematerialised spirits. A Lunar would assume the form of something that could do that. This is the great versitility of Knacks. Lunars who use Knacks can also learn Charms, they appear to suffer no approbrium for doing so, it's unlikely Luna even knows they do, but find them unnecessary compared to Knacks. Knacks can't make a Luanr do everything a Solar can, but they're not supposed to. A Solar can't turn themselves into a Behemoth at a moment's notice.
Physical Knacks often work obviously, changing a visible aspect of their nature. Other work by inward focus.
When the Primordials levelled the Great Curse on the Lunars they condemned them to be the animals they'd become. As they grew older their bodies became an amalgamation of their human form and their spirit shape until it was recognisable as neither. This was the Lunar's new and only True Form. They were the first Beastmen.
Expand Lunar Knacks across Attributes so they are a full family of powers. Charms may be prefereable since they were invented rather than discovered but they are not the true powers of the Lunars.
All Knack are shapeshifting effects; they might change their skin into another colour or a different type of tissue altogether in Hundred Skins Hunter or become as lithe and sensuous as a stalking cat in Silent Jaguar Steps. These powers aren't just magic effects like Charms, they actually change an aspect of the Lunar's physical form. A character using Silent Jaguar Steps doesn't just use Essence to surpress the sound of his footfalls as a Night Caste might, he walks with such stealth and gracefulness that his movements make no noise.
Even at night in the darkest forest he makes no sound.
But the price exacted was terrible, a Lunar with tattoos was incapable of shapeshifting.
The Lunars feared such a condemnation of their animal nature and what consequences it might provoke from Luna. They also darkly warned about the consequences of using moonsilver for something against it's natural purpose. Craftsmen speculate that it was this perversion that caused Luna to withdraw her favour from them.
Understanding of their new family of powers highlighted the difference between them: Charms imitate, Knacks alter. A Solar would use Charms to see and interract with dematerialised spirits. A Lunar would assume the form of something that could do that. This is the great versitility of Knacks. Lunars who use Knacks can also learn Charms, they appear to suffer no approbrium for doing so, it's unlikely Luna even knows they do, but find them unnecessary compared to Knacks. Knacks can't make a Luanr do everything a Solar can, but they're not supposed to. A Solar can't turn themselves into a Behemoth at a moment's notice.
Physical Knacks often work obviously, changing a visible aspect of their nature. Other work by inward focus.
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Lunars
Lunars' shapeshifting power- they believe their bodies to be changing shape and as a result of the Wyld taint in their Essence they do so. Maybe moonsilver tattoos increase this ability.
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