Perfected Kata Bracers

Perfected Kata Bracers (Artifact ••••)

Perfected kata bracers are prayer strips crafted of a single magical material and curled into bracers. The strips' sutras are starmetal engravings, except in starmetal bracers—they use orichalcum. Attunement costs eight motes. When the character activates a Form-type Charm, the sutras inscribed on the bracers glow and lift from the artifact to engulf the character in light for a brief moment. For the rest of the scene, she gains several benefits.

She adds her Essence to the accuracy, damage and defense of her unarmed attacks and of attacks made with the active Form-type Charm's particular weapons. She may choose to inflict bashing or lethal damage at will and she may parry lethal attacks unarmed. In addition:

Orichalcum bracers let Solars inflict aggravated damage on creatures of darkness.

Moonsilver bracers provide Lunars additional flexibility, so they ignore cover and shields.

Jade bracers add Essence to Dragon-Blooded's soak and 2 to the Rate of their attacks.

Starmetal eases the flow of martial Essence for Sidereals, reducing the cost of activating Charms of the same style by two motes (minimum 1).

Soulsteel makes an Abyssal's attack fatal if it inflicts more levels of damage than a mortal victim's Stamina.

Perfected kata bracers provide very significant effects. A skilled martial artist wielding them in battle has a significant advantage over her opponents, especially when wielding artifact martial-arts weapons. They suffer the small drawback of being incredibly obvious. If their benefits weren't limited to the battlefield, the bracers might be Artifact •••••.