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WINTER

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Despite a long absence from the Dreaming, changelings remain bound to the seasons. Each of the four cycles creates powerful magic for the Kithain, but none so unyielding and frightening as winter. Winter harnesses the fae’s connection to frozen lakes, endless nights, and bitter winds. The cantrips of Winter deal with cold, ice, fear, and the loss of desire. Many view Winter as an Unseelie Art, but any changeling can learn winter magics.

 

• WINTER ART ATTRIBUTE: INTELLIGENCE

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• WINTER  BUNKS

Bunks for Winter cantrips often involve discarding possessions, casting during moon phases or tides, and unflinchingly facing danger. Example bunks: Walk straight up to your enemy and kiss him on the cheek without hesitating, skinny dip in freezing waters under a blood moon, hold your hand in ice water, scorn someone you love, or drink an entire frozen beverage at once while a crowd cheers you on.

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SPEND: APPROPIRATE GLAMOUR COST (See Casting page) 

ROLL: GLAMOUR RANK + RELEVANT REALM + WINTER  RANK + INTELLIGENCE

DIFFICULTY: AREA BANALITY +5 

OR

VS : OPPONENTS RELEVENT DEFENCE TYPE (See Casting Page)  

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◉ CHILL

The first and most benign application of Winter magics allows the changeling to lower the temperature of the target significantly over a short period of time. Chill does not cause injury or damage when cast on a living creature, but plants and objects may wither or break, respectively. Provided the Kithain can see the focus of the cantrip, she can usher in a deep and unpleasant cold. A boggan barkeep keeps the drinks cool and refreshing when
the icemaker breaks down. Jealous and vindictive, a scorned sidhe kills all of the plants in her ex-lover’s garden. Obsessed with becoming a vigilante, the sluagh chills her next criminal target before striking.

SYSTEM:
The cantrip’s Realm determines the target(s), and the changeling possesses enough control over the Glamour to pleasantly cool a drink or cause someone to shiver and move as they futilely try to escape the cold.

When used on something inanimate or non-sentient the effects vary , flowers die, metal becomes dangerous to touch, rain turns to hail.

When cast on a warm-blooded animal or creature, the target suffers  -1 a penalty to all rolls bias to the distraction and discomfort.

SUCCCESS
The number of successes determines the number of turns the cold persists.

TYPE: WYRD

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◉◉ HARDENED HEART
Winter does not grieve for the lost traveler, freezing in the snow. Winter does not protect the prey tracked by wolves or caught in the hunter’s trap. Tapping into the heart of the cold, adepts of Winter mute emotion and insulate the focus of their cantrip from manipulation and influence. The target becomes unable to muster her own passion and will, a significant price for resistance to even the most powerful manipulations Facing a vicious baron in his court, the troll remains standing as every other subject is ordered to kneel. A boggan makes the duke’s favorite pet indifferent to its master’s commands. Ordered by the king to execute her own son, the sidhe knight freezes out any emotion to bring down the axe without hesitation.

SYSTEM:

The cantrip’s Realm dictates the target, which then becomes unfeeling and resistant to mundane manipulations as well as supernatural mind or emotion control. A player may use Hardened Heart to prevent an object or other inanimate target from obeying a command such as from Dictum, but normally changelings use this cantrip on Kithain, mortals, prodigals, or chimera. 

Targets add the number of successes to their resistance rolls for social feats and against supernatural influence of mind or emotion.

NOTE: This is defensive only and cannot aid in -using- social skills or supernatural influence.

SUCCESSES:

The number of successes also determines the duration of the cantrip:

1 success One scene
2 successes One minute
3 successes One hour
4 successes One scene
5 successes One day

​TYPE: CHIMERICAL

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◉◉◉ TERROR OF THE LONG NIGHT 
True winter dims light and swallows heat. Alone and cold, even the bravest feel a deep, existential fear when faced with an unending, frigid darkness. The sluagh knight causes his enemy to back down in front of the whole court. A pooka’s cantrip makes her mortal accomplices flee, leaving the fruits of their larceny solely for her. Slinking through backyards to escape a Dauntain, a nocker sends the resident German Shepherds cowering into their doghouses.

SYSTEM:
The Realm determines the target of the intense and overwhelming fear. The -target- causes terror , and is not -subjected- to it.

SUCCESS:

Observers of the target  must roll Composure + Resolve difficulty is 12+ and observer must equal the success rolled for the cantrip.

If observers fail to succeed they can perform no offensive action against the target unless target attacks them. The observer may flee if they so wish.

DURATION: One Scene
TYPE: CHIMERICAL

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◉◉◉◉ SCULPT
Moving past basic invocations of cold, the changeling conjures ice with her Glamour and sculpts it for whatever her purpose. The creation cannot be mistaken for anything other than ice, and feels bitterly cold to anyone else’s touch, but the sculpture does not melt unless exposed to magical heat or flame. Confronting the man who killed her brother, the sluagh forms ice in his mouth, suffocating him in minutes. A sidhe knight, surprised and under attack, forms armor and a sword to aid him in battle. Needing something beautiful to trade to the chimera for information, a boggan crafts an ornate ice sculpture of their city. Queen Elsa can't hold back and let it go.

SYSTEM:
The Realm determines what the changeling sculpts with the cantrip. Sculpting the face of the motley’s enemy requires Actor.

While sculpting a house would use Prop and Scene.

Using Nature, a character could create a frozen garden filled with ice flowers.

Once complete, the finished product is extremely durable. The size and scale of the cantrip may require several minutes or even hours to form, but the changeling can create and form the ice anywhere within her line of sight.

Once the character casts the cantrip, the ice begins to form and take shape.

Each turn, approximately one cubic meter of ice will appear and take shape.

The character does not need to focus on the magic beyond the turn she cast the cantrip.

Combat applications of this cantrip tend to be crude but effective (a sharpened icicle as a weapon, or misshapen boots of ice rooting a target to the floor)

COMBAT: WEAPONS & ARMOR

Combat applications of this cantrip tend to be crude but effective used with "PROP" the character can create rudimentary melee weapons or armor. (+1 to attack or defence per success of cantrip. Weapons only have attack bonuses , Armor only has Brace defence bonuses) 

COMBAT: ICE GRAPPLE

Or it can be used with Actor or Fae realm to create an "Ice Grapple"

Victims of an Ice Grapple are frozen to the ground with an Ice boot or similar effect.

The changeling no longer controls the grapple after releasing it so characters wishing to escape it roll against a difficulty.

Every turn a victim may spend their action to either "Break Out " or "Slip Out"

• Breaking from Ice Grapple.

ROLL:  ATTACK (Brawling/Melee/ Firearms ) DIFFICULTY: 12+

Can be performed as an extended action until as many success as the cantrip scored are accumulated.

• Slip out from Ice Grapple:

 ROLL  : DEXTERITY + ATHLETICS DIFFICULTY: 12+ and score as many successes as scored on the cantrip, cannot be an extended action.

NOTES:

Given time and space, a changeling can create scenes of breath taking beauty.

The product of Sculpt can never move or simulate life. An ice sculpture of a person does not animate or become a golem.

Objects and items created with Sculpt function like their mundane counterparts provided they have no moving parts (ice armor provides protection, but an ice car cannot be driven).
SUCCESSES:

The number of successes determines how long the product of the cantrip lasts before melting:

1 success One turn

2 successes One minute

3 successes One hour

4 successes One scene

5 successes One day

TYPE: WYRD

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◉◉◉◉◉ STASIS
The final cantrip taught to masters of Winter allows a changeling to trap a target in magical frost for extended periods of time, keeping it exactly as it is but immobile and (if applicable) unconscious. Anything or anyone placed into stasis does not age, decay, break, or change. For the duration of the cantrip the target remains suspended in time. Breaking through the frost requires powerful magic, such as from a master of Pyretics or Spring. A lonely redcap collects frozen mortals to keep in his home as a family. The duchess encases her poisoned daughter in mystic frost until she can find the antidote. A nocker places a complex chimerical device into stasis so he can bring it back to his workshop and get to work on reverse engineering.

SYSTEM:
The cantrip’s Realm determines the target(s).
The subject placed into stasis cannot act, does not suffer damage, and becomes completely inert. All damage over time effects are frozen for the subject, but will resume as soon as the subject is thawed.
Supernatural powers or magic can thaw the magical frost coating the subject, but mundane heat or force does not break the barrier.

Anyone attempting to undo the Stasis must perform an extended action using an appropriate supernatural power or ability.

Attempting to undo the ultimate Winter cantrip requires five times the successes of the original cantrip roll.

NOTE: Targets trapped in stasis cannot -free themselves- Freezing a target for a duration longer than a single scene will require OOC negotiation.

It should be noted that the character is able to be -moved- from the spot they are frozen in. Carried or teleported, the subject maybe frozen in time but they are not frozen in space.

SUCCESSES

The number of successes determines the length of the stasis, although the changeling who cast the cantrip can end it at any time.
1 success One scene
2 successes One day
3 successes One week
4 successes One month
5 successes One year
TYPE: CHIMERICAL 

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