Protection of Celestial Bliss

Template:Cost —(4m, 1wp); Mins: Melee 5, Essence 5
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Decisive-only
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Heavenly Guardian Defense

When the Solar successfully parries decisive damage using Heavenly Guardian Defense, she gathers an amount of bonus Initiative equal to the 1s and 2s on the damage roll. This Initiative is not transferred to her current Initiative value, but is instead recorded and set aside until she must use it. She may gather up to (Essence) Initiative in this manner, and may use it only to enhance Heavenly Guardian Defense. The Exalt may choose to expend any or all gathered Initiative into paying the cost of Heavenly Guardian Defense, but doing so expends the bonus Initiative. In addition, the Solar may pay four motes, one Willpower to double the bonus Initiative she has already gathered for one tick, allowing her to further enhance the prerequisite. This Charm explicitly allows the Solar to use Heavenly Guardian Defense in crash, up to a limit of her gathered (or double gathered) bonus Initiative.

This bonus Initiative may not be used to amplify the instance of Heavenly Guardian Defense from which it was gathered, nor can it be targeted by withering attacks; the Initiative is gone until the moment in which the Solar chooses to summon it.