Elegy for the Fallen

Cost: 3m; Mins: Performance 4, Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Compulsion, Social
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Performance Excellency

Abyssal Exalted who preach the holiness of death and the veneration of the dead may lead by example, invoking ghosts with their prayers. Less scrupulous deathknights terrorize the restless dead with threatening prayers or call upon spectres from the deepest Labyrinth. This Charm enhances a standard prayer action directed toward a ghost whose Essence does not exceed the Abyssal's, adding 10 successes to the roll. This bonus stacks with Excellencies without limits, though this Charm alone ensures automatic success in most cases. If the Abyssal does not know the ghost's name, she may use a descriptive stunt to make the target clear. The target not only hears a successful prayer from anywhere in existence, the Abyssal may command her to appear. Resisting this unnatural Compulsion costs one Willpower. If the ghost fails to resist, the Abyssal can spend an additional 17 motes to summon the target to her side through a vortex of moaning shadows.

An Abyssal can also use this Charm with prayers to the Deathlords or the Neverborn, but only to ensure that the target receives the deathknight's message. How the target responds is beyond the Abyssal's control.