Letter-Within-a-Letter Technique

Cost: 6m; Mins: Linguistics 4, Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Linguistics Excellency

Though the glorious Solar Exalted of the First Age are dead, many left secret messages for their heirs. This Charm allows the character to hide a message within another written work. Only the intended targets for the message can perceive it. The concealed message can include natural or unnatural mental influence. If so, the influence is an attempted surprise attack. Add the author's Linguistics in automatic successes to the Socialize roll to take the target by surprise.

Insidious Undertone Trick

Same Charm for Abyssal Exalted. Adds Mirror keyword.
Prerequisite Charms: Screaming in Silence

A deathknight with this Charm can hide one statement inside another so subtly that bystanders don't realize what was actually said... just like the Whispers of the Neverborn permeate the Underworld, unheard. Unlike its Solar Mirror, this Charm modifies speech rather than writing, so the Abyssal may make any single Manipulation-based social attack using any Ability as part of activating the Charm. Doing so adds the Social keyword and changes the Charm's type to Simple (Speed 6 in long ticks), though.