Spirit-Maintaining Maneuver

Cost: 5m per 1 wp; Mins: Integrity 4, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK, Social
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Any Integrity Excellency

The Solar Exalted draw on their unwavering desire and intention to survive sustained mental assault. This Charm allows the Exalt to refuse unnatural mind control effects and Virtue compulsion at a reduced Willpower cost. This Charm reduces the Willpower cost by one point for each five motes spent. If the Exalt pays the entire cost in Essence, she does not accumulate Limit. For example, if rejecting a supernaturally persuasive offer would normally require two Willpower, the Exalt can spend two Willpower; five motes, one Willpower; or 10 motes. If the character would normally break free of the mental influence after spending a certain amount of Willpower, treat the character as having paid the full Willpower price even if it is paid in motes.

Blood Before Surrender

The same as an Abyssal Exalted charm. Adds Mirror keyword.
Prerequisite Charms: Any Integrity Excellency

Unlike the cowardly Yozis, the Primordials who became the Neverborn chose death before submission. Emulating such nihilistic heroism, an Abyssal with this Charm may pay levels of lethal damage as if they were Willpower to resist mental influence or Virtue compulsions. For effects requiring more than one Willpower point to resist, the Abyssal may mix-and-match between health levels and actual Willpower when paying the cost. The deathknight gains no Resonance for resisting unnatural mental influence solely with health rather than actual Willpower. Damage from this Charm can manifest as proud and obvious wounds or the ravages of disease, but the injuries take the form of imperceptible weakness by default.