Book of Bone and Ebony

MANIFEST THE DARK STEED
Cost: 3 motes
Duration: One scene
Type: Simple
Minimum Conviction: 2
Minimum Essence: 2
Prerequisite Charms: Embody
This Arcanos allows a ghost to bring a single ghost
animal into a manifest form when he manifests. He must
be touching the animal to do so. The animal retains all of
its Attributes, Abilities, soak and health levels. Other
animals of its species will recognize it to be strange and shy
away from it. The ghost animal returns to incorporeal
ghost form at the end of the scene — or sooner than that,
if the ghost using this Arcanos ends his manifestation
before the end of the scene.
BIRTH THE WARRIOR FORM
Cost: 20 motes, 1 Willpower
Duration: Five minutes per success
Type: Simple
Minimum Valor: 4
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Embody
Birth the Warrior Form allows the ghost to use his
Essence and Willpower to create a body that is prepared for
combat — the ghost also creates temporary armor and
weapons that manifest in the living world. The player
should roll Valor + Occult to create the body, and for each
success, the Warrior Form lasts for five minutes. This body
takes the ghost’s likeness and has his full Attributes. The
Warrior Form also has the ghost’s full health levels. Additionally,
the ghost may fabricate any single nonmagical
weapon and single nonmagical set of armor, each of whose
Resources cost is less than or equal to his Essence. For
instance, if the ghost’s Essence is 3, he may create a great
sword and a chain hauberk, but not plate-and-chain. The
ghost may dissolve the Warrior Form at any time before the
end of the Charm’s rolled duration, in which case, the
Warrior Form is considered to have ended. When the
Charm ends, the armor and weapon created by it dissolve
along with the Warrior Form.
BIRTH THE PERFECTED MASTER
Cost: 20 motes, 1 Willpower
Duration: Five minutes per success
Type: Simple
Minimum Valor: 2
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Embody
Ghosts exist outside of the formal strictures of Creation.
The body that a ghost creates for himself does not
have to match the characteristics of his dead flesh, if he
knows Birth the Perfected Master. Birth the Perfected
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CHAPTER TWO • THE ARTS OF THE DEAD
Master creates a meat-body like Embody, except that it has
the ghost’s full Ability scores. The flesh that Birth the
Perfected Master creates reflects the ghost’s idealized selfimage.
The ghost may split six dots among the following
Attributes: Strength, Dexterity, Stamina and Appearance.
This body is created stark naked, and it lasts for five
minutes for each success that the player achieves on a
Valor + Occult roll.
UNENDING REBIRTH
Cost: 8 motes, 1 Willpower
Duration: One turn per success
Type: Simple
Minimum Valor: 4
Minimum Essence: 4
Prerequisite Charms: Birth the Warrior Form, Birth
the Perfected Master
The ghost experiences his first birth in Creation, and
his second birth comes when he enters the Underworld as
one of the Restless Dead. This Arcanos allows the ghost to
flicker back and forth between living and ghostly forms.
Use of this Charm does not permit a ghost to take on a flesh
form — in order to do that, he must use Materialize,
Weighted With the Anchor of Flesh (see Exalted: The
Abyssals) or one of the other Arcanoi in this tree. However,
once manifest in a physical form, Unending Rebirth
allows him to switch from immaterial to physical and back.
The ghost can only activate this Charm once he is manifested,
and it requires a Wits + Occult roll. If that roll
succeeds, he may change back and forth from manifest to
immaterial as he wishes until the duration of Unending
Rebirth (or his manifestation Charm) expires. Each switch
from flesh to ghost or back requires 1 mote of Essence and
is a simple action. A “switch” of this nature does not
terminate a manifestation Arcanos.
For Example: The long-dead Master Cotep, manifest
to visit his namesake in a village in the South, finds himself
surrounded by angry villagers. He is already manifest in
Creation. Cotep spends 8 motes and 1 Willpower (and his
player rolls Wits + Occult) to activate Unending Rebirth,
and he becomes immaterial. He runs through the wall of
his namesake’s hut and past his foes. The next turn, he
spends another mote to rematerialize and fight on his own
terms. A few turns later, things are going badly, so he
spends another mote to dematerialize and run for safety.
CONJURE THE DEFEATED VESSEL
Cost: 5 motes
Duration: One hour per success
Type: Simple
Minimum Conviction: 3
Minimum Essence: 3
Prerequisite Charms: Pole the Black Depths, Tinker’s
Body