Tranquil Peak

Basics

Name: Tranquil Peak, or Ledaal Huaga
Concept: A swordsman with the heart of a scientist.
Caste/Aspect: Earth
Motivation: Uncover the secrets of lost Magitech, and master them.
Intimacies: Obscure first-age knowledge, self-identified scholars.
Anima Banner/Totem: The sensation of dust settling on observer's bodies, a great mountain surrounded by endless peaks.
Anima Effect/Tell: Durability of the earth
Experience: 0/40

Background

Born to two well-bred, influential, air-aspect parents, Huaga was a recipient of all the finer things in life. He was to be the culmination of centuries of selective breeding, the ideal air-caste, as it were, from two flitty socialites.

One small issue: He exalted as an earth-aspect, washing half a millennium of arranged marriages down the drain.

After finishing primary school, Huaga was sent to the Cloister, for lack of a better option. He excelled in the martial arts though all his years there, but was largely indifferent to the propect of fighting, or becoming a monk.

A fresh graduate from 'Cloister community college', Huaga took up the name "Tranquil Peak", and went to train in the Even Blade dojo of Master Deep Stone, a former student of Master Azure Crane. The dojo's proximity to the manse of a favored uncle (Ledaal Fuso, also known as Playful Branch) was just a coincidence; That uncle's prodigious library, a joyous one. These were likely the happiest days of Huaga's life.

Huaga is somewhat reserved, and more than a bit regretful of his early years, now seeing the years of Martial Arts as a waste, despite their utility on the wyld hunt. A passing observation would say that Peak doesn't care about people at all, and that his rough relationship with his parents has made him bitter; It would be more correct to say that he cares about minds, not people, and those who get by on talent and birthright, rather than knowledge and training, aggravate him to no end.

Appearance

- Tall (6'1"), with wide shoulders.
- Slate-gray skin, offset by dark, almost black hair that's pulled into a loose ponytail in the midst of his neck.
- Clean-shaven face.
- A tendency to wear glasses, despite the sharp senses of the Exalted.
- Casual wear typically involves a simple dull-green buff coat, tied with a white sash, over a well-fit brown top, and loose brown pants.
- Formal wear varies, but typically involves a white-over-brown color scheme, usually with a snow-capped mountain motif.
- His Perfected Kata Bracers are usually hidden by the sleeves of his buff coat.
- His sword, in scabbard, is tucked into his sash. A small cord symbolically holds it shut.

Attributes

Strength  ●●●         Charisma     ●        Perception   ●●●
Dexterity ●●●●        Manipulation ●●●      Intelligence ●●●
Stamina   ●●●         Appearance   ●●●      Wits         ●●●

Abilities

Linguistics ●●     Awareness  ●●     Athletics ●      Bureaucracy           Archery     ●
Lore        ●●●    Craft      ●●●    Dodge            Investigation         Medicine    ●●●
Occult      ●      Integrity  ●●     Melee     ●●     Larceny               Performance ●
Stealth            Resistance ●●●    Presence  ●      Martial Arts  ●●●●●   Ride        ●●
Thrown             War        ●      Socialize ●●     Sail                  Survival    

Crafts

Air and fire, both ●●●

Linguistics

High, Low, and Old Realm

Specialties

Martial arts: Sword ●

Backgrounds

Artifact: ●●●●●
Resources: ●●●
Manse: ●●●
Breeding: ●●●

Charms

Martial arts

• Death between heartbeats: 2m, reflexive (1), Instant. When the character performs a non-flurry attack action, on the same tick as another character: You act first. Use the post-action DV of the target, if it's lower. Use the pre-action DV of you, if it's higher.

• Breath and Essence control: 3m, supplemental, Instant. Instead of rolling to join battle, get automatic successes equal to Martial Arts. Weapon must be sheathed. If using weapon, can be readied as a reflexive action.

• Close your eyes and look: 4m, reflexive (1), Instant. Can be used to abort Aim action. Doubles target's current DV penalties. Can ask ST one question about target's essence effects.

• Even Blade form: 5m, simple, One Scene. Cannot be distracted from battle. DV recovers one tick sooner.

• Flashing Zephyr Speed Stance: 4m, supplemental, One action. If all martial arts flurry: speed -1, rate +1, each attack's acc+1.

Resistance

• Ox body HURDEBLURF

• 1st Resistance Excellency: 1m per 2 die, reflexive, instant. Hurf blurf up to 3 dice added to any roll. Can increase DV's for successes on 1 die per mote, max 3 die.

• Strength of Stone: 2m per person, simple, One scene. +1 to str and sta. Can affect others that HOLD YUR HANDS.

Medicine

• 1st Medicine Excellency: (1 per 2 die)+1m, reflexive, instant. Hurf blurf up to 3 dice added to any roll. Can increase DV's for successes on 1 die per mote, max 3 die.

Combos

The Swift Blade cuts the Contemplative: 6m + 1wp

• Death between heartbeats: 2m, reflexive (1), Instant. When the character performs a non-flurry attack action, on the same tick as another character: You act first. Use the post-action DV of the target, if it's lower. Use the pre-action DV of you, if it's higher.

• Close your eyes and look: 4m, reflexive (1), Instant. Can be used to abort Aim action. Doubles target's current DV penalties. Can ask ST one question about target's essence effects.

Essence

Essence: ●●●
Regeneration: 16 m/h (18 with both amulets attuned), +4 resting
Personal Essence Pool: 1/13
Peripheral Essence Pool: 31/31
Committed Essence: 12

Willpower

Willpower: ●●●●● ●●
Temporary: □□□□□ □□
("cross out" □ boxes by substituting them with Xs)

Virtues

• Compassion ●●
  
• Conviction ●●●
  
• Temperance ●●●●
  
• Valor ●
  

Flawed Virtue: Temperance
Limit: □□□□□ □□□□□

Inventory

Jade Perfected Kata Bracers [Artifact ●●●●] [Attune: 8]

• When in Martial arts form: +Ess to acc, dam, and def. Unarmed deals bashing or lethal. Parry Lethal unarmed.
• Dragonblooded get +ess to soak, and +2 rate.

Rumbling Soul of the Imperial Mountain [Artifact ●●●] [Attune: 6]

• Speed 4-1, Acc +4, Dam +5L+1, Def +1, Rate 3.
• 2m: On a successful melee attack, tremor below opponent. (Dex + Ath, diff 4, to not fall)

2 Jade Hearthstone amulets [Artifact ●, ●] [Attune: 1 each, neither attuned]

Silver brush [Artifact ●] [Attune: 1, not attuned]

• Requires no ink.

Reinforced Buff Jacket [Resources]

• +7L/10B, Mobility -2, Fatigue 2.

Clothes lol. [Buhhhhh]

Manses and Heartstones

●●● Windhands Gemstone (Rumbling Soul)

• Apply DV without penalties to ranged attacks.
• Begrudgingly handed over by Huaga's parents after they admitted they had no need for such a thing in their lives. Its source, Thundering Shelf, is an expansive open-walled multi-tiered series of 'shelves' stuck into the side of a mountain. 6 of it's 8 shelves are dedicated entirely to entertaining.

●● Savant's Icy Eye (Amulet)

• Know numbers from looking. +5 dice to estimates and calculations
• The lower practice arena of Deep Stone's dojo, named Attending Pond for the body of water it's constructed around, is actually an extremely efficient manse. This secret was revealed by the schoolmaster shortly before Huaga left to hunt the Anathema, and its hearthstone was entrusted to him.

● Stone of Healing (Amulet)

• +3 dice to medicine
• Given to him by his uncle Branch, after Peak was called to the Wyld hunt. The manse it stems from, Little Tree, is not terribly powerful, but is beautifully furnished and well-stocked with scholarly materials, including a few rare books dating from before the contagion.

Combat

Dodge DV: 4(4+0+3)/2 round up
Dodge MDV: 6(7+2+3)/2 round down
Soak: 10A/11L/16B; with 4m and feet on ground, 10A/16L/19B *If not in form, subtract 3*
Pierced: 6A/7L/11B; with 4m and feet on ground, 6A/12L/14B *If not in form, subtract 3*
Hardness: 0A/0L/0B

Attacks

In form: Rumbling Soul (Speed 3, Accuracy 17, Damage 12L, Parry DV 7, Rate 5, Tremor effect)
Unarmed Kick {punch} (Speed 5, Accuracy 12{13}, Damage 9L/B{6L/B}, Parry DV 5{7}, Rate 4{5})

Out of form: Rumbling Soul (Speed 3, Accuracy 14, Damage 9L, Parry DV 6, Rate 3, Tremor effect)
Unarmed Kick {punch} (Speed 5, Accuracy 9{10}, Damage 6B{3B}, Parry DV 5{7}, Rate 2{3})

Health

□ -0
□□□ -1
□□□ -2
□ -4
□ Incapacitated

Advancement

Bonus Points

Martial arts: 1
Artifact: 4
Essence: 10

Experience Points

Martial arts Specialization: 3
Craft (Air): 3
Temperance: 9
Charms: 20
Combo: 5