Frost on the Heart
From Secondchance
Name: Frost on the Heart (Shinzo Koori)
Caste: Night
Motivation: Eliminate an evil that threatens Creation without alerting a soul.
Anima: A quiet blue aura dancing with snowflakes, peaceful and tranquil that builds up to a raging night blizzard.
Combat Stats
JB: 6
DV: 6
PDV: 9
"Quiet Aurora": 16 to hit, 9L damage
Str: 4
Dex: 5
Sta: 2
Cha: 3
Man: 3
App: 3
Per: 2
Int: 2
Wit: 3
- Martial Arts: 5 (Winter's Biting Edge Style: 2)
Melee: 2
Survival: 2
- Awareness: 3
- Investigation: 2
Lore: 1
- Occult: 2
- Athletics: 3
- Dodge: 4
- Larceny: 4
- Stealth: 5
- Socialize: 2
Backgrounds
Artifact: 3 (Quiet Aurora)
Manse: 2 (House of Hides-His-Heart)
Backing: 2 (Icy Hand Sect)
Advantages
Essence: 3
Personal: 14
Peripheral: 32
Committed: 3
Will: 5
Compassion: 2
Conviction: 3
Valor: 2
Temperance: 2
Charms
Winter's Biting Edge Style
Skating the Frozen Pond: 2m (The character's movements become flowing and graceful, and carry her with more speed than seems appropriate for the effort imparted. The character doubles her movement rate when making a single Move or Dash action. This charm has no effect on movement taken through other means, such as Jumping.) (Reflexive)
Silence of Falling Snow: 6m (The character moves with the silence of gently falling snow. For the rest of the scene the character adds her Martial Arts to any stealth rolls. The effect of this charm ends immediately if the character speaks louder than a whisper.) (Simple)
Essence Freezing Touch: 3m (The Exalt's touch sucks the heat out anything it touches, freezing the very essence that infuses living things. The Exalt makes an attack as normal against the target. If the attack does damage the target gets a -1 External Penalty to all rolls involving Strength or Dexterity. This penalty lasts until the target's DV has refreshed a number of times equal to the attacker's Martial Arts. This charm is NOT stackable, and multiple uses of this charm only reset the duration for which the effect lasts rather than applying cumulatively.) (Supplemental)
Footprints in Snow Meditation: 4m (Like an animal walking through snow leaves evidence of its passage, so to do all beings leave impressions of their very existence in the flows of essence. These imprints fade quickly, but the Martial Artist using this charm is able to use these impressions to trace the passage of any being with an essence of 1 or higher. The effect of this charm is to give a bonus to all rolls to track a subject equal to the Martial Arts score of the martial artist. Additionally, the charm can be used to sense the locations of immaterial beings, allowing the martial artist to know their location. This charm does not bestow the ability to interact which such beings, and the martial artist cannot actually see the being itself, only the traces of its movement in the flows of essence. The lack of detail given by this charm imposes a -1 External Penalty to any action that interacts physically with the immaterial being.) (Simple)
Winter's Biting Edge Form: 5m (The Exalt using this charm adopts the frenzied and unpredictable ferocity of a raging blizzard, increasing the difficulty to strike her and to place blows in vital areas, and her attacks become frosty, essence-infused strikes. The character's Parry Defense Value is increased by her Essence score, and she can hit dematerialized spirits as though they were materialized. The Exalt can also choose to have her attacks do either bashing or lethal damage. This charm does not bestow the ability to perceive dematerialized spirits, only to strike them.) (Form)
Bone-Chilling Strike: 4m+1w (The Exalt strikes with the biting chill of deepest winter, which penetrates through even the thickest armor to freeze the flesh of the target. The attack made with this charm ignores the target's soak from armor, allowing them to soak only with natural soak from stamina or charms such as Iron Skin Concentration.) (Supplemental)
First Larceny Excellency: 1m/1 die
Third Stealth Excellency: 4m
Flawlessly Impenetrable Disguise: 7m
Easily Overlooked Presence Method: 3m
Inventory
Short Daiklave ("Quiet Aurora")
Spd 4, Acc 4, Dam 5L, Def +5, Rate 3, Attune 3
Quiet Aurora is a Short Daiklave that was forged to be the assassin's perfect companion. Not only is it more wicked and sharp than a normal short daiklave, it also moves with preternatural speed to block enemy attacks. It's primary blessing, however, is it's silence. Whether scraping against metal or stone, blocking even the heaviest attacks or plunging into an enemy's chest, Quiet Aurora makes no sound at all. When deep discretion is needed, the wielder can spend 4 motes and, for a scene, cause Quiet Aurora to radiate an aura of total silence about 2 meters in diameter. On top of that, whenever a foe is wounded by the blade in this state, they are unable to make any noise at all for a full minute.
w/Jewel of the Lawgiver's Authority. (Reduces difficulty of convincing others by 2 to a minimum of 1.)(Restores 4 Essence per hour.)
