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Meghan Fitzgerald, Susann Hessen, James Huggins, Eric Minton, Neall Raemonn Price, Lauren Roy, Monica Speca, Robert Vance ARMS of the CHOSEN Sample file Meghan Fitzgerald, Susann Hessen, James Huggins, Eric Minton, Neall Raemonn Price, Lauren Roy, Monica Speca, Robert Vance ARMS OF THE CHOSEN Credits Playtesters Authors: Meghan Fitzgerald, Susann Hessen, James The Dauntless Bureau of the Flame Duck: Rand Huggins, Eric Minton, Neall Raemonn Price, Lauren “Icaria Varus” Brittain, Elliott “Camena Dezla” Freeman, Roy, Monica Speca, Robert Vance Jenna “Dessa Svetlana” Moran, Vivian “Serestala Barut” Paul, Vera “Zanara” Vartanian Developers: Eric Minton, Robert Vance The Helpful Staff of Odd Ends and Wonderments: Additional Development: John Mørke, Holden Lee Adam Carbone, Caroline Davis Carbone, Michael Gilson, Shearer Patrick Prince Editor: Stephen Lea Sheppard Ronin: Richard “Kukla” Hughes Artists: Gunship Revolution Studios Art Director: Mike Chaney Creative Director: Richard Thomas Layout: Josh Kubat Special Thanks Neall Raemonn Price and Stephen Lea Sheppard, for their unflagging support. Rose Bailey, for doing the communication thing. Manda Collis and Meghan Fitzgerald, for jumping into the line of fire. © 2017 White Wolf Publishing AB. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of White Wolf Publishing AB. Reproduction prohibitions do not apply to the character sheets contained in this book when reproduced for personal use. White Wolf, Vampire and Chronicles of Darkness are registered trademarks of White Wolf Publishing AB. All rights reserved. Vampire the Requiem, Werewolf the Forsaken, Mage the Awakening, and Storytelling System are trademarks of White Wolf Publishing AB. All rights reserved. All characters, names, places and text herein are copyrighted by White Wolf Publishing AB. The mention of or reference to any company or product in these pages is not a challenge to the trademark or copyright concerned. This book uses the supernatural for settings, characters and themes. All mystical and supernatural elements are fiction and intended for Sampleentertainment purposes only. This book contains mature content. Reader discretion is advised. file Check out White Wolf online at http://www.white-wolf.com Check out the Onyx Path at http://www.theonyxpath.com 2 EX3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 6 Magical Materials and the Exalted 16 This Book at a Glance 6 Designing Artifacts and Evocations 18 Custom Evocations 18 Suggested Resources 7 Craft (Errata) 19 Chapter One: The Forging of Miracles 10 Chapter Two: Weapons of the Chosen 22 The Dawn Time 10 Courante and Galliard 22 The First Age 10 The Distaff 25 The Age of Sorrows 11 Scarred Lands 11 Fist of Titans 28 The Magical Materials 12 Frost-Thorn Knuckles 30 Orichalcum 13 The Hawk Star’s Jess 32 Moonsilver 13 Heartsong 33 Starmetal 14 Heaven and Earth Gauntlets 35 SampleSoulsteel 14 file Jade 14 Irenio’s Bell 37 3 EX3 ARMS OF THE CHOSEN Rainwalker 39 Chapter Four: Wonders of the Lost Age 114 Razor Dancer and Wise Steel 41 Summer Thunder 42 Natural Magics 114 Sun’s Brush 44 Miscellaneous Artifacts 115 Audient Brush 115 Tusk of Galaech-Ma 46 Clockwork Bird 116 Asphodel 48 Lorestone 117 Burning Branch 50 Lotus-Blossom Cup 117 Solar Seal 117 Flying Silver Dream 53 Stoneheart Coffer 117 Gnomon 55 Ultimately Useful Tube 117 Mistweaver 57 Winterbreath Jar 118 Nightmare Shard 60 Arete 118 Sekhem 62 Carnelian Phoenix 119 Shipbreaker 65 Dragon Tear Tiara 120 Sirrush 67 The Golden Hounds 120 Strife’s Crucible 69 Illusion-Shattering Mirror 121 Sunflash 71 Jade Steed 122 Talion 74 Resplendent Satchel of Healing 122 Vainglory 77 Second-Shadow Drum 122 Zelator 78 Brass Legionnaire 123 The Forgotten Blade 81 Collar of Dutiful Submission 125 Gorgon 83 Shadow-Casting Jewel 125 Soulfarer 86 Sorcery-Capturing Cord 125 Stormcaller 88 Wings of the Raptor 126 Chapter Three: Armor of the Chosen 94 The Golden Viper 126 Baldaquin 94 The Veil That Holds Back Time 127 Heartsbalm 95 Siege Weapons 127 Lightning Ballista 129 Kaijin 97 Implosion Bow 130 Midnight Thorn 99 Vehicles 131 Five Edicts Dominion 100 Horizon Endeavor 131 The Quincunx 103 Chariot of Aerial Conquest 131 Sozen, the Cataphract of Keys 105 Hearthstones 132 Mela’s Coil 107 Chapter Five: Warstriders 140 SampleUnison 110 Warstrider Evocations file140 4 EX3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Piloting a Warstrider 140 All-Conquering Colossus 144 Warstrider Strength 141 Cathedral of Sublime Annihilation 147 Soak, Hardness, and Damage 141 Crusading Spear of the Depths 152 Weaponry and Combat 141 Mobility 142 Emerald Chevalier 157 Legendary Size 142 Godspeed Vanguard 160 Limitations of Scale 142 Ascendant Nova Phoenix 163 Maintenance and Repairs 142 Karvara, the Walking Devil Tower 168 Fighting Warstriders: Special Gambits 143 Sample file 5 EX3 Introduction “This is your novitiate, your apprenticeship. You don’t become Swordbearer simply by taking up the blade. You and Daubendiek are like bride and groom. You have to get to know one another. You have to meld into a single unconquerable engine of destruction. That takes time and practice.” — Glen Cook, The Swordbearer Magical relics are staples of myth and fiction. Gods Wong Bongerok; or how the Prince of the Wounded City and heroes ranged afar with flying carpets and sev- offered Ten Thousand Fathoms to the sea-goddess Siakal en-league boots, donned feathered garments to take to petition her aid against his enemies. For each artifact is on falcon or swan shape, and turned invisible with aid a legendary tool that passes through many hands, with each from enchanted rings, cloaks, or helms. Jamshid scried hero leaving her own mark on its myth and its power. in his seven-ringed cup to espy the ends of the earth; Empress Jingū employed the Tide Jewels to drown the enemy army and conquer Korea; Ilmarinen forged the This Book at a Glance wealth-making Sampo to win the Maiden of Pohjola’s Chapter One: The Forging of Miracles begins with a hand; the Baba Yaga sojourned upon her flying mortar history of Exalted craft, then describes the five magical and within her walking chicken-legged hut. materials and their importance in unlocking Evocations, and provides guidelines for Evocation design. Weapons may be the most numerous and memorable such items. We recall King Arthur’s blade Excalibur Chapter Two: Weapons of the Chosen offers a range of and its wound-stopping scabbard; Circe’s staff, a blow legendary armaments, each granting access to an array from which changed men into beasts; Cú Chulainn’s of deadly Evocations. gruesome spear, the Gáe Bolg, which split into many barbs upon entering an enemy’s body, so that it need- ed to be cut free from the victim’s flesh; and Sun DROWNING IN EONS Wukong’s gold-banded cudgel, which could become tall as the firmament or tiny enough to hide in his ear. Every artifact has a story. All of them are true. (Not to mention Illyana Rasputin’s spell-shattering Whether they actually happened is another matter. soulsword, Inuyasha’s demon-slaying Tessaiga, and countless others.) The First Age is lost, buried beneath an avalanche of time and apocalypse. All that remains are frag- Creation’s artifacts are equally renowned. When ments, pieced together by modern savants into his- Southerners tell of Indaba the Traveler’s nine legendary tories — artful mosaics assembled from their own preconceptions and ideals. Even immortals only of- journeys into the West, they speak of her triple-masted fer narrow, faded recollections, like peering through ship Horizon Endeavor, with its fiery dragon cannons keyholes into the treasure-house of the past. From and its marvelous sails of cloth-of-jade; of her black diaries, propaganda, novels, fables, poems, scrip- jade bow Piercing Rain, with whose arrows of water she tures, and myths, scholars construct overlapping drowned the hybroc of Zela Island in midair; and of her braids of timelines and eras: a Gossamer Dawn of behemoth-shell armor Ten Thousand Fathoms, which glorious exploration, a Falling Stars Interregnum let her breathe beneath the sea as she sought the True between the reigns of two mighty Deliberatives, an Pearl and wrestled the Pale Leviathan. inscrutable Era of Limitless Light where magics be- yond modern ken reshaped Creation. But they know And when such tales are done, storytellers go on to recount nothing with certainty. how centuries later, Laughing Mirror captained Horizon Even these relics show us only splinters of the truth. Endeavor at the Battle of Five Suns; or how the warrior-queen SampleBut each splinter shines with thefile radiance of legend. Emeroda wielded Piercing Rain to subdue the fire-dragon 6 EX3 INTRODUCTION Chapter Three: Armor of the Chosen details several Movies puissant defensive panoplies and their own guardian Doctor Strange, directed by Scott Derrickson: Evocations. Stephen Strange’s growing mastery of the Eye of Agamotto reflects unlocking an artifact’s Evocation suite. Chapter Four: Wonders of the Lost Age catalogues Meanwhile, his relationship with the Cloak of Levitation all manner of miscellaneous magics, from occult herbs showcases how artifacts bond with their owners, and to hearthstones to Essence-powered siege engines and how they’re rich with personality even without speech. vehicles. Comic Books Chapter Five: Warstriders reveals the secret powers Witchblade, published by Top Cow Productions: indwelling in these towering god-armors of the First Age. NYPD cop Sara Pezzini struggles to master her sentient artifact, the Witchblade, a gauntlet that becomes su- Suggested Resources perpowered armor and deadly weapon in battle. After getting past the initial stereotypical ’90s fare, the story Classics turns to how the Witchblade’s legacy forces Sara to con- Ramayana: Divine Loophole, by Sanjay Patel: This front the burden such power brings. stylistic version of a Hindu legend depicts the battle of Vishnu’s avatar Rama with the ten-headed demon Manga Ravana.
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