(Element) Protection Form
Cost: 3m; Mins: Resistance 3, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 7)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Elemental, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Impervious Skin of Stone Meditation
Latest Errata: Elemental Essence surges across the Dragon-Blood's skin, hardening his flesh into living jade. (Element) Protection Form is actually a cluster of Charms, one per element. A Dragon-Blood must learn the version appropriate to his aspect before learning others. Activating any version of this Charm adds (Essence + Resistance + Breeding) to the Dragon-Blood's bashing and lethal soak against a single attack. Against attacks and environmental hazards that resonate with the chosen element, it also subtracts one die from their post-soak damage, to a minimum of one die.
Air: Air Protection Form protects against ranged attacks, or any attack or hazard that uses wind, cold, or electricity.
Earth: Earth Protection Form protects against attacks made with metal or stone weapons (including jade, but not any of the other magical materials), or any attack or hazard that uses stone or dirt, such as a landslide.
Fire: Fire Protection Form protects against attacks and haz¬ards that use fire or extremes of heat, such as an inferno or firewand.
Water: Water Protection Form protects against any attack made against the Dragon-Blood while he is submerged in water, or against any attack or hazard that uses water.
Wood: Wood Protection Form protects against any attack made with a wooden weapon or natural attack, or against any attack or hazard that uses plant or animal life, such as a magically conjured swarm of bees.
Unlike many elemental Charms, a Dragon-Blood can purchase more than one version of this Charm, and he is not required to purchase the version for the element to which he is aligned first. Indeed, most Dragon-Blooded do not, since they already gain some of these benefits through their elemental animas. Regardless of the specific elemental version learned, each Charm is always considered to be an Earth-aspected Charm for purposes of determining whether the one-mote surcharge for out-of-aspect Charms applies.