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Physical Merits

Selective Conception

  • Cost: 1
  • Availability: Anyone
  • Your character controls his own fertility. A female character with this Merit can have sex as often as the opportunity is available, with no possibility of pregnancy unless she chooses to allow it. Said female character can also, at the cost of one Willpower point, ensure pregnancy after copulation with any male who is not sterile. A male character with this Merit cannot ensure pregnancy, but he can prevent undesired pregnancies. A male who does not actively exercise that option may or may not sire offspring during a sexual encounter and will not know whether a pregnancy occurs.
  • This Merit is prized among Dynastic Dragon-Blooded due to the social stigma of siring lost eggs.
  • Scroll of Heroes, p51

Social Merits

Carouser

  • Cost: 2
  • Availability: Anyone
  • Book: Scroll of Heroes p?
  • The character gains a two-die bonus to all social rolls made to influence, charm or seduce others in the context of any party less sophisticated than a formal cotillion - whether in a raucous Northern bar, a Nexus orgy or the drunken initiation party for a newly Exalted Dragon-Blood. The character also gains a two-die bonus to all (Stamina + Resistance) rolls made for him to resist the effects of consuming too much alcohol or other recreational drugs at the party. At the Storyteller’s discretion, this two-die bonus may also apply to any rolls relevant to sexual performance in the context of the party.

Born to Rule

  • Cost: 2 (1 for Dragon-Blooded characters and un-Exalted scions of Dynastic families)
  • Availability: Anyone
  • Some characters wear authority as easily as a comfortable, well-worn jacket. A character possessing this Merit is accustomed to giving commands and expecting them to be obeyed without question. Whether your character has worked hard for the authority she asserts or was to the manor born, the result is the same. The character gains a one-die bonus to all social rolls made against an acknowledged inferior (such as a subordinate within an organization or merely a social inferior). While the Storyteller is the final authority on when this Merit applies, mortals of the Blessed Isle are almost always considered the social inferiors of even the most recently Exalted Dragon-Blooded, while outcastes are usually considered inferior to Dynasts.
  • Scroll of Heroes, p51

Mental Merits

Spiritual Merits

Background Merits

Legendary Breeding

  • Cost: 3
  • Availability: Breeding 5
  • Unheard of in the First Age and extremely rare in the modern era, the blood of the Dragons runs so purely through your character’s veins that even other Dragon-Blooded are impressed… and occasionally frightened. The character effectively has Breeding 6, which confers the following benefits.
  • +6 motes to Personal Essence
  • +11 motes to Peripheral Essence
  • Reduce the cost of activing the character's anima banner by three
  • Add three to the roll to determine whether the character’s children Exalt
  • Add a one-die bonus on all social rolls against other Dragon-Blooded and against mortals taught to respect and fear the Dragon-Blooded.
  • In addition to these benefits, the character suffers one drawback: It is so patently obvious that she is a Dragon-Blood that the difficulty of any attempts to pass as a mortal increases by two.
  • Scroll of Heroes, p60

Combat Merits

Supernatural Merits

Stunt Merits

empress/merits.txt · Last modified: 2013/01/18 03:05 by tara