Artful Maiming Onslaught

Cost: 3m (+1wp); Mins: Melee 3, Essence 1; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Crippling, Mirror Fire and Stones Strike
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Savage Shade Style

Pain is an art for Abyssal weapon-masters, who wield this Charm to deftly maul and disable specific limbs and organs of their enemies. Enhancing a Melee attack with this Charm imposes an additional external penalty on the attack equal to the target's Essence rating. If the attack inflicts two or more levels of damage, though, the Exalt may reflexively pay an additional +1wp to pull and focus the blow. Doing so inflicts one amputation disability on the victim.

Unless the deathknight has a higher Essence rating than the victim, the worst she can do is crush joints, break bones and sever nerves or tendons—enough to impose all the penalties of amputation without literally lopping off limbs. Exalted victims with higher Essence can heal the Crippling effect by spending a full day resting (during which they cannot heal any other wounds). Abyssals with higher Essence ratings than their victims may carve with impunity, fully amputating and thus requiring more drastic healing magic to repair.