Adamant
Crane
Dawn
Caste Solar Exalted
Temple
Guardian of Palanquin
ATTRIBUTES
Strength 3
Dexterity 5
Stamina 3
Charisma 4
Manipulation 2
Appearance 3
Perception 2
Intelligence 2
Wits 4
ABILITIES
Archery 0
Athletics 1
Awareness 5
Brawl 1
Bureaucracy 1
Craft 0
Dodge 3
Integrity 3
Investigation 1
Larceny 0
Linguistics 1
Lore 1
Integrity 3
Investigation 1
Larceny 0
Linguistics 1
Lore 1
Martial Arts 3 (Crane Style)
Medicine 0
Medicine 0
Melee 4
Occult 3
Performance 2
Presence 3
Resistance 3
Ride 0
Sail 0
Socialize 1
Stealth 0
Ride 0
Sail 0
Socialize 1
Stealth 0
Survival 0
Thrown 0
Thrown 0
War 2
SPECIALTIES
Awareness (Join Battle)
Awareness (Ambushes)
Melee (Defend Other)
Occult (Exorcism)
Performance (Prayer)
War (Frontline Commands)
MERITS
Backing (Heavenly Gate Temple) ••
Influence (Palanquin) •
Language (Old Realm) •
Martial Artist ••••
Resources •
INTIMACIES
Defining Principle: “I shall battle the heartless at the price of my hopes and dreams.””
Major Tie: Heavenly Gate Temple (Protective)
Major Tie: Palanquin (Love)
Major Tie: Ysyr (Resentment)
Major Principle: “Fallen blossoms do not return to branches; a broken mirror does not again reflect”
Minor Tie: Unconquered Sun (Gratitude)
Minor Tie: The Gods (Reverence)
Minor Tie: Heaven's Gate Guardians (Fellowship)
Minor Tie: Heaven (Awe)
Minor Tie: Faith (Important)
Minor Tie: Demons (Hate)
Minor Tie: Ghosts (Distrust)
Minor Tie: Remi Siama
Minor Tie: Meysan (Protective)
Minor Tie: Serene Finnay (Fascination)
Minor Tie: Geb (Respect)
CHARMS
Surprise Anticipation Method
Sensory Acuity Prana
Keen Sight
Keen Hearing and Touch Technique
Awakening Eye
Dipping Swallow Defense
Bulwark Stance
War Lion Stance
Spirit Detecting Glance
Spirit Cutting Attack
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Durability of Oak Mediation
Spirit Strengthens Skin
Ox-Body Technique
War God Ascendant
OTHER ATTRIBUTES
Willpower 5
Essence 1
Parry 5
Evasion 4
Join Battle 10
Resolve 4
Guile 2
Disengage 8
Rush 6
Soak/Hardness: 3/0
SORCERY
Initiation: The Talisman of A Thousand Eyes
Ritual: 1 wp during Awareness Join Battle or Investigate Threat roll, gain 1 sm per two success.
Control Spell: Summon Elemental
GEAR
War Fan
Hook Sword
Straight Sword
Temple Guardian Robes
Incense
Calligraphy Kit
Jar of Salt
Scroll of Crane Style Techniques
BACKGROUND
Adamant Crane was born to the Kyo Noble Family of Palanquin. Shortly after his birth, his family was discovered to be leaders of a Resistance against the occupation of Ysyr. When the Sorcerer-Princes forces came for his family, his grandmother, a retired temple-priestess of the local cloud goddess Soft Gale, fled with him in the dead of night to the Temple of the Heavenly Gate. As she had so many connections among the various temples, and many truly did not suspect an old woman of covert activity, she was able to elude her pursuers easily. She gave him over into the care of the warrior-monks who residing in the temple, she left a generous donation to the temple in gratitude and fled into exile.
Adamant Crane spent the rest of his childhood and adolescence living among in the vast Temple complex surrounding the heavenly gate. He trained in the way of battle, tactics, and occult arts under the watchful eye of temple priests. Crane believed it was all for the expressed purpose of devoting his himself to protecting the Heavenly Gate. That was partial true. Agents from his now hiding extended family would occasionally visit him at the temple, aiding in his tutelage in secret. Shaping him to one day be the military leader the noble families of Palanquin would need to throw off the yoke of a hundred years of Ysyr oppression.
On his 16th name day, Adamant Crane officially joined the ranks of the Heavenly Gate Temple Guardians. No longer a Ward of the temple, Adamant Crane began to gain the respect of his fellow citizens for his piety, humility, and fighting prowess. Five years pasted as he continued his sacred duties guarding the Heaven's Gate and growing and improving at the Art of the sword, the sacred Crane style, and his arcane studies. In secret, he learned from his family and from his fellow citizens the full history of the Ysyr conquest and occupation. He then grew to resent the hegemony of the Sorcerer-Princes.
It was this resentment that drove him to draw sword against the arrogant Sorcerer-Prince Etuko Na, whom was attempting to perform magical experiments upon The Heavenly Gate. He rallied his fellow temple guards in a no holds battle against the Sorcerer and his demonic servitors. During the fight the Second Breath came upon him, the Unconquered Sun choosing him as a sword of heaven. In the bonfire of golden light he cut his way through the demonic hordes, banishing them back to hell with the slice of his blade. He struck down the villainous Etuko and fulfilled his sacred duty to protect The Heavenly Gate. He claimed Etuko's talisman, as memories of his solar incarnation that filled his mind drove him to realize it was a relic of great sorcerous power.
In the coming days the Heaven's Gate Priests of the Temple would aid the young exalted in a daring escape from the Ysyr authorities: Creating a cover story about the wrath of the gate itself smiting Etuko, distracting the Ysyr Inquisitors, and buying Adamant Crane enough time to escape upon ship until such time that his name was a distant memory.
Crane, now far from home, with his skills at swordsmanship and the occult, and a modest Temple-Guardian stipend he collects from the Guild banks once a moon phase, wanders alone to understand his new Exalted nature. He seeks to rights the wrongs of world, and continues to gain the strength and power to one day liberate his people from the enslavement of the Sorcerer-Princes of Ysyr.
SPECIALTIES
Awareness (Join Battle)
Awareness (Ambushes)
Melee (Defend Other)
Occult (Exorcism)
Performance (Prayer)
War (Frontline Commands)
MERITS
Backing (Heavenly Gate Temple) ••
Influence (Palanquin) •
Language (Old Realm) •
Martial Artist ••••
Resources •
INTIMACIES
Defining Principle: “I shall battle the heartless at the price of my hopes and dreams.””
Major Tie: Heavenly Gate Temple (Protective)
Major Tie: Palanquin (Love)
Major Tie: Ysyr (Resentment)
Major Principle: “Fallen blossoms do not return to branches; a broken mirror does not again reflect”
Minor Tie: Unconquered Sun (Gratitude)
Minor Tie: The Gods (Reverence)
Minor Tie: Heaven's Gate Guardians (Fellowship)
Minor Tie: Heaven (Awe)
Minor Tie: Faith (Important)
Minor Tie: Demons (Hate)
Minor Tie: Ghosts (Distrust)
Minor Tie: Remi Siama
Minor Tie: Meysan (Protective)
Minor Tie: Serene Finnay (Fascination)
Minor Tie: Geb (Respect)
CHARMS
Surprise Anticipation Method
Sensory Acuity Prana
Keen Sight
Keen Hearing and Touch Technique
Awakening Eye
Dipping Swallow Defense
Bulwark Stance
War Lion Stance
Spirit Detecting Glance
Spirit Cutting Attack
Terrestrial Circle Sorcery
Durability of Oak Mediation
Spirit Strengthens Skin
Ox-Body Technique
War God Ascendant
OTHER ATTRIBUTES
Willpower 5
Essence 1
Parry 5
Evasion 4
Join Battle 10
Resolve 4
Guile 2
Disengage 8
Rush 6
Soak/Hardness: 3/0
SORCERY
Initiation: The Talisman of A Thousand Eyes
Ritual: 1 wp during Awareness Join Battle or Investigate Threat roll, gain 1 sm per two success.
Control Spell: Summon Elemental
GEAR
War Fan
Hook Sword
Straight Sword
Temple Guardian Robes
Incense
Calligraphy Kit
Jar of Salt
Scroll of Crane Style Techniques
BACKGROUND
Adamant Crane was born to the Kyo Noble Family of Palanquin. Shortly after his birth, his family was discovered to be leaders of a Resistance against the occupation of Ysyr. When the Sorcerer-Princes forces came for his family, his grandmother, a retired temple-priestess of the local cloud goddess Soft Gale, fled with him in the dead of night to the Temple of the Heavenly Gate. As she had so many connections among the various temples, and many truly did not suspect an old woman of covert activity, she was able to elude her pursuers easily. She gave him over into the care of the warrior-monks who residing in the temple, she left a generous donation to the temple in gratitude and fled into exile.
Adamant Crane spent the rest of his childhood and adolescence living among in the vast Temple complex surrounding the heavenly gate. He trained in the way of battle, tactics, and occult arts under the watchful eye of temple priests. Crane believed it was all for the expressed purpose of devoting his himself to protecting the Heavenly Gate. That was partial true. Agents from his now hiding extended family would occasionally visit him at the temple, aiding in his tutelage in secret. Shaping him to one day be the military leader the noble families of Palanquin would need to throw off the yoke of a hundred years of Ysyr oppression.
On his 16th name day, Adamant Crane officially joined the ranks of the Heavenly Gate Temple Guardians. No longer a Ward of the temple, Adamant Crane began to gain the respect of his fellow citizens for his piety, humility, and fighting prowess. Five years pasted as he continued his sacred duties guarding the Heaven's Gate and growing and improving at the Art of the sword, the sacred Crane style, and his arcane studies. In secret, he learned from his family and from his fellow citizens the full history of the Ysyr conquest and occupation. He then grew to resent the hegemony of the Sorcerer-Princes.
It was this resentment that drove him to draw sword against the arrogant Sorcerer-Prince Etuko Na, whom was attempting to perform magical experiments upon The Heavenly Gate. He rallied his fellow temple guards in a no holds battle against the Sorcerer and his demonic servitors. During the fight the Second Breath came upon him, the Unconquered Sun choosing him as a sword of heaven. In the bonfire of golden light he cut his way through the demonic hordes, banishing them back to hell with the slice of his blade. He struck down the villainous Etuko and fulfilled his sacred duty to protect The Heavenly Gate. He claimed Etuko's talisman, as memories of his solar incarnation that filled his mind drove him to realize it was a relic of great sorcerous power.
In the coming days the Heaven's Gate Priests of the Temple would aid the young exalted in a daring escape from the Ysyr authorities: Creating a cover story about the wrath of the gate itself smiting Etuko, distracting the Ysyr Inquisitors, and buying Adamant Crane enough time to escape upon ship until such time that his name was a distant memory.
Crane, now far from home, with his skills at swordsmanship and the occult, and a modest Temple-Guardian stipend he collects from the Guild banks once a moon phase, wanders alone to understand his new Exalted nature. He seeks to rights the wrongs of world, and continues to gain the strength and power to one day liberate his people from the enslavement of the Sorcerer-Princes of Ysyr.
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