===== Manifest Particulars and Miscellany =====
==== Armed by the Gods ====

A caster is never unarmed.  The channeler can manifest his nimbus as a stylized, unconcealable melee weapon of a form totemic to the user. The weapon has a Durability equal to the character's Eminence.

When first created, the character picks an Arcanum to affiliate with the weapon.  The weapon, by default, does 2 Bashing damage.  Each dot of the Arcanum being manifested gives the character a point to spend on the weapon.  The costs are as follows:

^ Bonus            ^ Cost    ^
| +Lethal          | 1 point  |
| +1 damage        | 1 point  |
| +1 defense       | 1 point  |
| 9 again          | 1 point  |
| 8 again          | 2 points ((you have to purchase 9 against first, jerk)) |

The nimbus weapon cannot exceed the maximum +5 equipment bonus to attack.  Example: a manifest with an Arcanum of 5 can have a 9-again +5L sword (2 Bashing default, 1pt for Lethal, 3pts for +3 Damage, 1pt for 9-again).

Note that the inclusion of the "[[farne:rules:system_modifications#combat_tweaks|My Sword is My Defense]]" rule modification automatically increases your Defense rating by half of the weapon's Damage bonus (rounded down).  So an Arcanum 2 character with a +4B quarterstaff would have an extra "free" +2 Defense.  Alternately that character could have a +2B quarterstaff would have an extra "free" +1 Defense and allocate 2 Arcanum points for another +2 Defense, bringing the total to +3 Defense on a +2B weapon.

The form of the weapon is decided the first time it is manifested.  A point of mana must be spent to manifest the nimbus as a weapon for each point used to supplement the weapon (a weapon with 4 points in bonuses requires 4 mana to be spent). The weapon is powered by this mana until it is dismissed.  This mana expenditure can exceed the maximum mana per turn limit for a manifest of a given eminence. A lesser weapon can be created if desired.

Manifesting the weapon is an instant action.  Under no circumstances can a weapon be created and dismissed in the same turn. It does not incur a die penalty if the user doesn't have the appropriate weapon skill.  

Flavor examples: A weapon of Space may appear purple and bend space like a black hole, where a death weapon may appear as a blade of chaotic entropic energy.

=== Cleave ===

When in combat with a mix of extras, a manifest with a nimbus weapon may do a cleave attack.  If an attack has more successes than necessary to kill/incap an enemy, and another extra is attackable from the same position (read: no movement) with the same defense/armor score, then the damage rolls onto the second target without an attack roll.   Cleave only rolls over once, and only against extras.  Cleave must be performed with a manifest weapon (read: mundane weapons cannot do this).

==== Healing ====

We're going to use the following healing times for manifests (not extras or mundanes):

^ Damage Level ^ Rest Time   ^
| Bashing      | 15 minutes  |
| Lethal       | 4 hours     |
| Aggravated   | 1 day       |
| Grievous     | 1 week      |

The rest time is required to downgrade a wound from one type of another.   A single point of grievous damage would take 8 days, 4 hours and 15 minutes to completely heal.  A character with 5 aggravated and 2 lethal must first downgrade the 5 aggravated to lethal (taking 5 * 1 day = 5 days), then downgrade the 7 lethal to bashing (taking 7 * 4 hours = 28 hours), then 7 bashing to fully healed (taking 7 * 15 minutes = just under 2 hours), for a total healing time of 6 days, 5 hours and 45 minutes.