Elloge Charm

“Had
I been born not knowing that one word follows another I might have been who knows, perhaps anything. As it
is, finding sequences everywhere, I cannot bear the pressure of solitude. When I cannot see words curling like rings
of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing. I only come into existence when the plumber, or the
horsedealer, or whoever it may be, says something which sets me alight.” –Bernard, the Waves

This set of Charms for the Yozi Elloge is intended to work alongside the Charm sets for other Yozis, found in
Manual of Exalted Power: Infernals and other sources. I also recommend my Isidoros
and
Metagaos Charm sets, as
well as a rewritten
She Who Lives in Her Name (and Infernal WyldShaping Technique). This document contains
the core of Elloge’s Charm set, but feel free to develop your own Charms for this Yozi.
–Revlid

ELLOGE, THE SPHERE OF SPEECH
Ellogiac Urge (The Urge to Confound)
Communication is the art and abode of the Sphere of Speech – what better way to punish her enemies than take it
from them? Characters with an Urge authored by Elloge use words and deeds to distort truths otherwise held to be
selfevident, undermining trust and spreading halftruths for the sake of dramatic irony. Barriers of language and
culture are the tools of such warlocks, used like lochs and weirs to direct the bloody river of understanding in the
exact path they choose, until their enemies gag on their own words.
Compassion offers Elloge a sense of warped empathy, allowing her to adore and obsess over the relationships and
stories of others. Conviction enforces the strength of her creative vision, driving her into furious frustration when
faced with those who refuse to understand. Temperance is the echoing emptiness at the heart of her hollow creations,
reminding her to hide behind symbols and surrogates. Elloge once understood Valor as creative vision and daring,
but now she lurks at the edge of events, dreading exposure and innovation.
Examples include:
• Convince the TriKhan that the Lap seeks to make war on Chiaroscuro.
• Lead two hateful enemies to fall in love with each other.
• Create a spy capable of feeding false information to the Bureau of Destiny.
• Distort the doctrine of the Immaculate Order in favour of the Yozis.
• Hide all the crimes of a great tyrant and recast him as a beloved hero.
The Torment of Elloge: When an Infernal with an Ellogiac Urge accumulates 10 points of Limit, she suffers the
Torment of Elloge. For the next day, her motives are laid bare by slips of the tongue, obvious tells and compulsive
outbursts. She irresistibly purges herself of the secrets that batter against the inside of her ribcage, seeking to write
themselves on her face. Any attempt to read her motives – even casually – automatically succeeds, and she will
respond to any questions – even implied ones – with the truth as she knows it.
FATAL FLAW SOLILOQUY (Act of Villainy, credit Robert Vance)
As much as Elloge might wish to conceal the fear and shame she feels after her mutilation at the hands of the
Exalted, she cannot; they are quite literally written upon her face, proclaiming her weakness for all her foes to see.
Whenever the Infernal willingly reveals a weakness or vulnerability to one of her enemies, roll her Compassion.
Each successes removes one point of accrued Limit. Any knowledge that would make it easier for that enemy to
harm the Infernal qualifies for this act of villainy, including harm to her possessions or friends.

GENERAL CHARMS

FIRST ELLOGE EXCELLENCY – ESSENCE OVERWHELMING
Cost: 1m/die; Mins: Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 1 for attacker; Step 2 for defender)
Keywords: ComboOK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Sphere of Speech weeps and bleeds a ceaseless tide of symbols patterns
and , crippled so that she
cannot truly
invent . Instead, she willfully interprets recalls
and what already exists, stealing ideas and distorting existing
sentiment into her stories . She has insight into relationships
of all kinds, but avoids direct interaction lest her
wounds expose her as a hollow fraud . Instead, she lurks at the edge of perception, an envious audience in
selfimposed isolation . The Minstrel Echo sees hidden meaning e verywhere, injecting emotional drama into the
most mundane situations in order to fuel confusion and validate her suspicions.
Her favourite narratives are
romances, but she lives vicariously through all stories, hiding
inside her obsessive fantasies
.

Elloge constantly reinvents herself , donning proxy personas or the trappings of roles. She is desperate to obscure
her own weakness, jealous and infatuated with those whose sincerity and strength of will can make dreams real .
Such heroes become perfect dolls who act out her plots
, unable to betray her. Exalts can use this Charm to conceal
their presence, motives or capabilities, as well as any attempt to understand something, but it comes with a major
restriction – it cannot aid open, personal interaction with another character. A warlock could strangle from hiding or
romance while disguised, but not duel before a crowd or directly profess their love.

ELLOGE MYTHOS EXULTANT
Cost : —; Mins : Essence 3; Type : Permanent
Keywords : None
Duration : Permanent
Prerequisite Charms : First Elloge Excellency
Whenever the Infernal receives a stunt reward, a number of characters equal to her stunt rating suffer an Illusion
effect binding them to the intended narrative of her stunt. She can engender any belief appropriate to the context of
her stunt, sudden conclusions leaping unbidden into the brains of onlookers; a desperate dodge might convince them
that her attacker is a furious drunk, or that she ducked purely by chance. This unnatural mental influence costs one
Willpower to resist, and only applies to characters who can perceive the Infernal’s stunt.

SORCEROUS ENLIGHTENMENT OF ELLOGE
Cost : —; Mins : Essence 3; Type : Permanent
Keywords : None
The mystic elocutions of the Sphere of Speech echo effortlessly across time and space, reducing the cost of any spell
primarily intended to facilitate, frustrate or enhance communication by ten motes and a single point of Willpower
(minimum cost five motes and one Willpower). Examples include Infallible Messenger, the Faithful Ally,
Commanding the Beasts, Insidious Tendrils of Hate, and Voices of Distant Regard. Spells purely for summoning or
travel do not benefit, even if the caster only wishes to speak with the entity he calls up or journeys to. Elloge is a
creature of the psychic rather than the physical, so the sorcerer halves the benefits of any spells that enhance a bodily
form, such as Wood Dragon’s Claw, Incomparable Body Arsenal, or Invoking the Eyeless Face.

ASCENDANCY MANTLE OF ELLOGE
Cost
: —;
Mins : Essence 5; Type: Permanent
Keywords : None
Duration: Permanent
The Minstrel Echo absorbs and obsesses over all symbols, even those with an intent counter to her own. The Infernal
doubles any Limit she gains from resisting mental influence.

New Keyword!
Ichor: Elloge is a creature of wounds, curled around her own crippled heart into a Sphere of Speech. Charms that
involve exposing part of the Exalt’s raw and sticky ego often feature the Ichor keyword. As part of the cost of such
Charms, the Exalt suffers a single level of unsoakable bashing damage and begins to bleed (Exalted, pp. 151) as
blood wells up in her mouth, or trickles from one tear duct, or buds dewlike from prickling scars. Such wounds
close as normal, and can be easily concealed or passed off as mundane scrapes. Many Ichor Charms involve
smearing this blood on something; unless otherwise mentioned, it immediately soaks beneath the physical structure
of the target, becoming invisible except to sorcerous senses.

MEANS TO MEANING
Cost: 3m; Mins : Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords : ComboOK, Social
Duration : Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms : None
A symbol is a lie that leads to the truth. Elloge understands such things. She lives in them. The Infernal’s senses
creep at the edges with mutant glyphs and variated whispers – she may activate this Charm to condense them into an
actual language she knows, providing a perfect, instant translation for any text she reads or speech she hears. Even
colloquialisms receive appropriate translation – though her ability to understand their original nuances depends on
her Linguistics rating. This Charm gives the Infernal no ability to speak foreign languages, or understand
unintelligent “languages” such as body language or birdsong.

FLICKERING PAGES KENSHO
Cost: – (1m+); Mins : Essence 2;
Type : Permanent
Keywords : None
Prerequisite Charms : Means to Meaning
The Hermit Within Herself sees words as the beautiful ornaments they are, and can look bypass them to see the
meaning that flows beneath. This Charm accelerates the rate at which the Exalt absorbs recorded information by a
factor of (Essence x 10) while its prerequisite is active. If she is in physical contact with the vessel for this
information, she may instantly absorb it all by spending a number of motes equal to the hours it would normally take
for her to read it (minimum one), causing lettering to creep up her skin and soak into her veins.

JEWELLEDTONGUE TRANSLATION
Cost: – (1m); Mins: Essence 2;
Type
: Permanent
Keywords : Obvious
When Elloge speaks, pure meaning bleeds from her lips. She bandages these wounds in symbols, lest she be too
perfectly understood. While Means to Meaning is active, the Exalt’s words are accompanied by the same ethereal
calligraphy and halfheard whispers that she hears, echoing and etching through the air. These allow other characters
to understand her no matter what language she speaks, receiving a fluent translation into their native language. Even
characters who speak no actual language receive a basic understanding, as though she’d made herself understood
through charades or pictograms.

This Charm also applies to the Infernal’s writing, and even allows those who cannot actually read to “hear” the
words translated into whispers when viewing them. However, she must commit a single mote to the text – ending
the commitment only leaves the original writing intact, with weird scrawlings populating the margins.

New Errata!
The functions of Excellent Emissary’s Tongue are now included in the general capabilities offered by a Linguistics
rating. All characters are considered capable of making the described roll to decipher the basics of another
language, using experience in similar tongues or linguistic patterns. The text of the Charm is replaced, as described
below – in addition, Poetic Expression Style changes its prerequisite to “Any Linguistics Excellency”:
EXCELLENT EMISSARY’S TONGUE
Cost: 3m; Mins : Linguistics 3, Essence 2;
Type: Reflexive
Keywords : ComboOK
Prerequisite Charms : Poetic Expression Style
The Solar can activate this Charm after hearing a language spoken (or reading it) for at least an hour, allowing her
to develop a basic understanding of the tongue. She can speak, write, understand and otherwise communicate in that
language. She is obviously not a native to its nuances, but she can be understood with few problems. The language
fades when she allows her mental model to lapse, ending the Charm – alternatively, she can instantly acquire it as a
Linguistics specialty, as a Training effect.

At Linguistics 5+, the Solar only needs brief contact with a language to decipher it with this Charm.

ETHERSCROLL INSCRIPTION
Cost : – (2m); Mins : Essence 2; Type
: Permanent
Keywords : Obvious, Sorcerous
Prerequisite Charms : Jewelled Tongue Translation
The world is a tapestry upon which Elloge composes a body others may look upon. While this Charm’s prerequisite
is active, the Exalt can cause her words to fix themselves into the air, written as Sorcerous whispers. She dictates the
style of this writing, and may choose to have it burn like a lightly flaring anima. It lasts for a day or until she wills it
away, upon which it fades like words wiped from a chalkboard. Alternatively, she can write her words directly onto
any surface within (Essence) yards – such text is permanent, and appears to have been etched, daubed, etc, by
mundane means.

The warlock can create these words silently if she wishes, but they appear at her usual writing speed, and
pictographic traceries of Essence link them directly to her. She can accelerate the process by spending motes –
spending two motes allows her to produce up to (Linguistics) hours worth of writing as a miscellaneous action,
calligraphy seared into reality.

POETRY IN MOTION
Cost : – (3m); Mins : Essence 2; Type
: Permanent
Keywords : None
A body is a crude hieroglyph for a person. This Charm’s prerequisite transliterates the world even further, colours
and shapes bleeding into text and whispers. The Exalt increases the effective Appearance value of any character she
meets by one for each of their intimacies she is aware of, captivated by their rich depth. However, she can now
translate “body language”, adding (Linguistics) successes when reading motives, and can reflexively spend three
motes to identify the motives behind (and potentially reject) any statement she reads or hears in the manner of the
Solar Charm Sagacious Reading of Intent (Exalted, pp. 231), as captions and expansions swirl synonymously within
every sentence.

A second purchase allows the Exalt to convince herself that any statement she analyzes in this way hides an
uncurrent of hatred, disgust, or threat. This creates an intimacy of paranoid suspicion as a selfdirected Illusion,
allowing her to reject the social attack regardless of its true intent. While the intimacy exists, the Exalt removes the
unexpected tag from any attack launched by that character..

LIFEDEFINING DIWANI DIVINATION
Cost : – ;
Mins : Essence 3;
Type : Permanent
Keywords : None
Prerequisite Charms : Poetry in Motion
Facts float across the surface of Elloge’s world, only barely associated with their physical anchors, a film of oil atop
a cold and crimson lake. This Charm further enhances Means to Meaning. If the Exalt knows a character’s name, she
may use a roll to notice sensory details about them to instead acquire information that would normally need an
actual investigation into their circumstances. Her successes are split between these as evenly as possible, with the
latter limited to facts core to the character’s purpose in this scene or to their broader “character concept”, conveyed
to the player as trait ratings. A sensory roll to notice details about a young man could reveal that he is a prince
(Influence 3), that he is bankrupt (Resources 0), or that he is a skilled seducer (Charisma 4).

BETWEEN THE LINES
Cost : – (+3m, 1wp); Mins: Essence 2; Type
: Permanent
Keywords : None
The Sphere of Speech wears a semiotic mask, scabbing over her wounds with words. Others are not so fortunate. In
her voyeurism, she denies them the comforts of understatement and deflection. This Charm upgrades the
motiveexamining aspect of its prerequisite, allowing the Infernal to spend three additional motes and a point of
Willpower to reveal all the sentiment and meaning within that piece of communication.

She comprehends everything that the speaker or writer meant to convey (or did not mean to, but did anyway), the
true essence behind their words spooling out into her senses. A personal account of a great battle directly relays an
actual memory, while a passionate love letter lets her experience every fantasised caress. It still takes time for the
Infernal to actually read a text, and though copied texts and relayed messages reveal the original sentiment behind
them, alterations will noticeably “pollute” the text.

Ciphered and damaged communication are equally affected – a halfburnt letter can be “read” in its entirety, while a
coded conversation reveals all its secrets. This Charm removes the unexpected tag from affected mental influence,
and can oppose the concealing effects of LetterWithinaLetter Technique and similar Charms.

WITTY SOUL SATORI
Cost : 2m; Mins : Essence 2;
Type : Supplemental
Keywords : ComboOK, Ichor
Duration : Instant
Words are tightlywound bandages, between which truth and beauty ooze like pus. The warlock infuses a single
piece of communication with depths of coldblood meaning, allowing it convey up to (Essence x 10) times more
information than it would usually allow. A single whispered word can relay multiple sentences worth of warning,
while a page of hasty scribbles bleeds with enough information to fill a book, conveyed in the same way as the
synaesthetic scriptsight of Between the Lines. She may also perfectly convey things alien to the current medium
relaying sound through text, or smell through speech.

With Essence 3+, the Infernal can freely exclude certain characters or groups from understanding her full meaning.

BLEEDING INKWELL HEART
Cost : – ;
Mins : Essence 3;
Type : Permanent
Keywords : None
As idioms would have it, the heart pumps passion as much as plasma. The Infernal’s veins swell with thickened
blood, varicoloured glyphs shimmering atop its surface like oil on water. This grants her a special track of
(Compassion) 0 health levels, which are bypassed by damage from characters she is familiar with (i.e. knows at
least one of their intimacies). These health levels vanish while her Compassion is suppressed, effectively filling with
aggravated damage and provoking an awful pang of heartpain. Conversely, every time she channels her
Compassion, she should roll it separately and heal a number of these health levels equal to her successes.

However, the Infernal no longer relates to characters whose intimacies she is totally unaware of through
Compassion. She cannot naturally channel it to assist them, and need not suppress it to harm them. Such folk seem
flat and pathetic, their hearts as empty as her own.

VESSEL OF DESIRE
Cost : 3m (1m); Mins: Essence 3; Type
: Reflexive
Keywords : ComboOK, Illusion
Duration : Instant (Indefinite)
Love and hate link the world like semiotic chains, fundamental forces of attraction and repulsion more pertinent to
Elloge than gravity or magnetism. The Exalt immediately deciphers the emotional nature of the relationship between
any two characters she can perceive. If she wishes, she can reinterpret this relationship, perceiving its “true” tenor
beneath the protests of the participants. She may decide that a hateful rivalry conceals romantic tensions, or dismiss
a deep friendship as mere politeness this is a selfdirected, irresistible Illusion.

The Exalt can commit one mote to nominate herself the curator of this exquisite interrelation. This allows her to
freely and perfectly parry any mental influence which would obstruct the relationship, by giving an explanation
(however curt) of the perfection at stake. Additionally, she can spend a point of Willpower whenever she witnesses
an act that affirms her belief in that relationship, regaining a single Compassion channel in exchange.

The Exalt can curate up to (Essence) relationships at once, none of which may involve herself. If she ends this
commitment before the relationship reaches a natural climax, she must roll her Compassion every success inflicts a
point of Limit. This Charm’s initial cost is waived if its prerequisite is active.

With Essence 4+, the Exalt can decipher the relationship between a character and a single group, provided she can
perceive several representatives of the latter.

CALL THE MAD MUSE
Cost : – (20m); Mins: Essence 4; Type
: Permanent
Keywords : None
Prerequisite Charms : Vessel of Desire
Elloge would sooner tear apart the world than her beloved unions. How fortunate that the holes worn by her worry
are the right size for the passage of cupids. The Infernal may spend twenty motes when in the presence of the
characters she is curating, laying a Sorcerous blessing on their relationship to ensure that they will always have help
close at hand. The next time that relationship (as understood by the Infernal) is placed in jeopardy, a First Circle
Demon emerges into Creation somewhere nearby, bound by the urge to resolve the immediate challenge to the
relationship.

Any kind of demon can be called forth, according to the Storyteller’s judgement. Whatever its species, the demon is
blessed with two additional Charms: Melodious Diagnostic Report, allowing it to detect and devise a resolution to
the relationship's current challenge, and Shapeshift, allowing it to take forms that blend in or facilitate its plan.

The Infernal is vaguely aware of any demon conjured in this manner, but can only command them within the
boundaries of their urge to assist the relationship. Once the problem that called them forth has been resolved, the
demon remains in Creation, unbound (though not permitted to attack the relationship it aided).

SEDUCTIVE SONNET SERENADE
Type : Simple or Simple (Dramatic Action)
Keywords : ComboOK, Emotion
Duration : Instant
Prerequisite Charms : Vessel of Desire
Elloge’s heart bleeds, a great gaping wound that leaves it open to infatuation. The titan is in love with love, and
finds her passion unrequited. This Charm functions in the same way as the Solar Charm Flawless Brush Discipline
(Exalted, pp. 232). However, it cannot induce love for the Infernal herself. In exchange, she can invest another
character with the inspiration of romance by using this Charm as a dramatic action in which they spend a few
minutes directly advising their target, or an hour dropping subtler hints. The target’s player may then apply this
Charm’s effects on their next sincere attempt to seduce or woo another character, written or otherwise.

READ INTO THINGS
Type : Reflexive (Step 1)
Keywords : ComboOK, Shaping, Sorcerous, Touch
Duration : One scene
The world dissolves within the Sphere of Speech. Her perception of things is inseparable from their true bodies, and
so architecture becomes alphabet, rivers run with runes, and legions march into logos. The Infernal touches any
object, dissolving it into an incorporeal structure of alphabet and intonation, indistinct from the world in her mind.
As normal, objectsized sections of greater structures are valid targets, and a group of small linked items may be
classed as a single object at the Storyteller’s discretion (Exalted, pp. 213). The Exalt may end this Charm whenever
she wishes, and cannot use it in response to an attack.

Attempts to examine the object receive one automatic success and ignore penalties from physical obstructions, its
inner workings laid bare for all to read. The Infernal may choose to interact with this object as though it were
material, and receives the same benefits when doing so. These interactions function by directly “editing” the target’s
physicalsymbolic structure, and ignore soak. Destroyed objects leave no debris save an echo.

ANIMAADJECTIVE AFFECTATION
Cost : – ;
Mins : Essence 3;
Type : Permanent
Keywords : None
Prerequisite Charms : Read into Things
Nothing that needs a name was ever more than a notion. This Charm enhances its prerequisite, allowing the Exalt to
affect living characters as well. This version of the Charm lasts only one tick, and affects all of the target’s worn or
held possessions, but otherwise functions as normal. Characters who die under this effect permanently dissolve into
raw semiotics, whispers dispersing into the echoing corners of existence. Spirits killed in this fashion cannot
reincarnate, though Exaltations defy complete description and so continue to produce sequels.

WISTFUL WOUNDS REINTERPRETATION
Cost : 8m;
Mins : Essence 3; Type : Reflexive (Step 7)
Keywords : ComboOK, Obvious
Duration : Instant
The Exalt deconstructs an offensive, diverting aggressive intent into tides of text and disintegrating arrows into
errant whispers. This Charm provides a perfect soak against a single physical attack or similar effect, reducing the
final damage to zero as blows strike with all the force of a metaphor. This Charm suffers from the Imperfection of
the Sphere of Speech.

A second purchase at Essence 4+ allows the Exalt to spend two extra motes to select a single descriptor applying to
the attack, no broader than a single specialty – it descriptor should focus on the nature of the attack itself (such as
“knives”, “orichalcum weapons” or “White Reaper Style”) rather than the attacker or environment. For the rest of
the tick, the Infernal perfectly soaks all attacks suited to that descriptor.

At Essence 5+, the Exalt can extend this duration even further, to a full action, as an Ichor effect.

IMPERFECTION OF THE SPHERE OF SPEECH
Elloge’s heart is a wounded and broken thing, the last symptom of the creative energies that were hacked away from
her. So she hides it, terrified of the empty and meritless hollow within. Charms with this Imperfection suffer a
onemote surcharge for every one of the Infernal’s intimacies that the attacker is aware of. While her player is aware
of this surcharge, it does not serve to alert the warlock to characters that know her better than she thinks.

LIVING DOCUMENT ABSORPTION
Cost : 5m;
Mins : Essence 3; Type : Simple
Keywords : ComboOK, Shaping, Sorcerous, Touch
Words are living things, pinned like butterflies to the page. This Charm can target something the Exalt has rendered
immaterial through its prerequisite, condensing its semiotic structure into a Sorcerous glyph which she marks onto
another surface. The target disappears, becoming a tattoo on the Infernal’s skin, a pictogram on an empty scroll, or a
sigil on the stone floor. This frozen rune can be deciphered with an (Intelligence + Linguistics) roll at difficulty 3,
which conveys the nature of the thing within. Characters targeted in this way must be willing or incapacitated, but
cannot escape on their own; they simply dream the story of their own life. In effect, they are Elsewhere.

The Infernal can release the seal with a touch, causing the target to recoalesce in a material state. Others must either
destroy the glyph (which may not be possible, depending on the medium used), or apply countermagic based on the
Exalt’s Essence at the time of sealing. Destroying the rune inflicts the same amount of damage on the released
target; burning a sealing scroll would inflict one interval of bonfire damage, for instance (Exalted, pp. 131).

STICKS AND STONES ELOCUTION
Cost: 210m; Mins: Essence 2;
Type : Simple
Keywords : ComboOK, Obvious, Shaping, Sorcerous
Duration : One scene
Prerequisite Charms : Read Into Things
Elloge does not recognize the line between description and reality. Words can wound, and metaphors can mend. The
Infernal describes a mundane object she is familiar with, spending motes equal to twice its Resources value as she
shapes raw Essence into a structure of adjectives, causing it to appear in her possession. It is obviously an unreal
construct, formed from universal glyphs and whispers rather than wood or metal, but it functions normally.

The Exalt may instead scribe these glyphs onto an existing object – doing so requires the ability to actually write on
the object, but alters its capabilities to perfectly match the described object as a Shaping effect. If someone else
owns this object, it requires a (Charisma + Linguistics) roll at a difficulty of the owner’s Essence.

MIND’S EYE EVOCATION
Cost: – ;
Mins : Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords : Illusion
Prerequisite Charms : Sticks and Stones Elocution
Such is Elloge’s deft illustration that observers willingly fill in any blanks. This Charm enhances its prerequisite,
allowing the Infernal to forge realistic copies of existing objects by smudging her glyphs into an Illusion. This can
only be rejected by spending two points of Willpower. Sorcerous senses pierce the forgery automatically, seeing
only raw description. The Exalt can recreate magical objects with this Charm, though their actual abilities are
limited to their closest mundane counterpart. Disguising an existing object requires that they share the same basic
structure, and allows the Exalt to retain the original’s traits, applying only the Illusion.

In addition, the Infernal may use Sticks and Stones Elocution without the Sorcerous keyword or mote cost if some
written or drawn description of the object she is trying to create already exists within (Essence) yards, causing it to
peel away into her hands.

UNSEEN AUTHOR ASSUMPTION
Type : Simple
Keywords : ComboOK
Prerequisite Charms : None
How bright and hot the lights, how curious and dreadful the crowd! Those who expose themselves are fools. Better
by far to stay backstage, to control unseen through direction and script. This Charm is identical to the Solar Charm
EasilyOverlooked Presence Method (Exalted, pp. 230). As with the original Charm, superhuman senses do not
provide situational modifiers – the Exalt slides beneath attention unless it is drawn to her, so improved perception
does little to defeat the Charm.

BEHIND THE ROLE
Type : Simple
Keywords : ComboOK, Ichor, Illusion
Prerequisite Charms : Unseen Author Assumption
The great and good are to be admired from a distance – Elloge prefers an unobserved vantage. The Exalt chokes out
a bleeding word, a shameful and insignificant part of herself which she smears onto an object in her possession.
While she openly bears this prop, she is considered to be playing a specific, appropriate role – whether a servant, a
soldier, or a sage. This works like Unseen Author Assumption, except that instead of ignoring her, others perceive
her as an unremarkable example of her role. They can notice physical details, but dismiss her as part of the crowd.
Specific context – such as a soldier’s nation – can be chosen on activation, or left up to interpretation.

The only situational modifiers that apply to this Charm are actions that would be judged unusual behaviour for the
role. An emperor, therefore, would be an impossible role except in a situation that rendered rulers unremarkable,
while joining battle would not disrupt a military role unless the Infernal fought with impressive skill.

A second purchase allows the Infernal to create props for other characters. The Illusion applies regardless of whether
they are aware of the prop’s significance, but it dissolves once they discard it, ending the Charm.

LONELY LOVER HESYCHASM
Cost : —;
Mins : Essence 3;
Type : Permanent
Keywords : None
Prerequisite Charms : Behind the Role
Elloge's soul stirs at the caress of worlds she cannot visit, but nonetheless knows intimately. This Charm grants the
Infernal an additional peripheral pool capable of holding ten motes. She can only respire motes into this pool while
she in the company of another character she is familiar with (i.e. she knows at least one of their intimacies).
However, she cannot access this pool while being observed. No Infernal can possess more than (Essence) additional
mote pools granted by Charms such as this.

TEARS AND ROSES
Cost : 4m or 2m; Mins: Essence 3; Type
: Reflexive (Step 10)
Duration : Instant
He Who Bleeds the Unknown Word tasted death at the hands of the Exalted Host. Elloge flinches from so absolute a
fate. The Exalt activates this Charm after being struck by an attack, leaving an illusory corpse in her wake as she
reappears (Manipulation + Essence + Temperance) yards away. Her double chokes out a bloody gasp (and perhaps a
few dramatic last words) before expiring. Spending two points of Willpower allows observers to see it for the
hollow, glasseyed creature it is, but otherwise the Infernal may roll to reestablish stealth. This Charm receives a
twomote discount if its prerequisite is active, although the prop is left behind, masking the corpse.

CASTING COVETED CROWNS
Cost : 8m;
Mins : Essence 3;
Type : Simple
Keywords : ComboOK, Ichor, Illusion
Duration : Instant
An author works invisibly, and lives and loves through the deeds of those more complete than she could ever be.
The Infernal targets a character within (Essence) yards with at least one intimacy she is aware of, constructing a
heroic role inspired by that intimacy – love for Nellens Siviri might translate into a role of “Nellens Siviri’s
starcrossed lover” or “peerless paramour”, regardless of its actual context. She immediately acquires an intimacy
toward seeing her target fulfill that role.

The warlock then makes an unblockable and unnatural social attack with a pool of (Manipulation + Lore + Essence).
No actual communication needs to take place – she spools out an invisible vein of unspent idyll, infusing the target
with her bloody expectations. If this influence overcomes their Dodge MDV, the target must spend three points of
Willpower to reject it – thus becoming immune for a day – or else find their little ideas poisoned by heroic humour,
warping their intimacy to match the chosen role.

While the warlock observes her target (or they are both present in the same immediate scene) these intimacies are
enchanted. They are inviolate, and modify stunts and MDVs as though they were the character’s Motivation.

PUPPETS ON HEARTSTRINGS
Cost : – ;
Mins : Essence 3;
Type : Permanent
Keywords : Training
Prerequisite Charms : Casting Coveted Crowns
Heroes stride virtuously into the depths of adventure, blind to the tales that spin around them like a spider’s web.
The target’s role now overpowers their Virtues – they do not need to suppress them when acting in line with their
role, their perception of events warped by the selfjustification of a true protagonist. A warlock with an enchanted
intimacy may always channel Compassion to assist the target in pursuing their role, regardless of the task at hand.

However, social attacks which play off the target’s enchanted intimacy are now considered unnatural mental
influence, and intimacies which directly conflict with the target’s enchanted intimacy require only a single scene’s
worth of interaction to remove or appropriately alter. The Infernal’s mental influence scrubs even harder at the walls
of the target’s psyche, halving the target’s MDV when exploiting the enchanted intimacy.

STICK TO THE SCRIPT
Cost : – ;
Mins : Essence 3;
Type : Permanent
Keywords : Servitude, Training
Warm depths peel into visibility beneath the skin of the greats, and the cardboard crowd applauds. The target’s
enchanted intimacy provides them with (Infernal’s Essence) free temporary specialty dots, appropriate to their role.
The Infernal may reassign these dots at the start of any scene, but they are subject to the usual limits on applying
specialty dice, and only available while the intimacy is enchanted. In addition, the target treats time spent with an
enchanted intimacy as time spent receiving tutelage in any trait suitable to their role.

The chosen hero’s newfound expertise stems from instincts distilled from their heart’s blood, exaggerating and
jogging even the slightest suitable memory. Other characters with an MDV lower than their (Appearance + Presence
+ Infernal’s Essence) feel subconsciously driven to treat them appropriately to their role. Spending one point of
Willpower allows a character to ignore all examples of this unnatural Servitude effect for one day.

HERO’S TREASURE SHINTAI
Type : Simple
Keywords : ComboOK, Formtype, Ichor, Sorcerous, Touch
The Infernal’s flesh creeps with secret glyphs that describe the great, imaginary treasure she wishes her soul could
be, sentences that bind tight to contort and compact her body. This disturbing transformation takes but a moment,
banishing all her possessions to Elsewhere as she becomes a hellforged wonder (Manual of Exalted Power:
Infernals, pp 196) – a demon mask, a golden ring, an impossible gemstone – with an armoured soak of 30B/L.

The details of her relicbody vary with every activation, but it always bears a hellish aspect that can be deduced with
a difficulty 3 (Intelligence + Occult) roll – if the observer is familiar with the Exalt’s anima, they may also link it
directly to her. The Infernal’s hellforged form is an ornament for true heroes, and so cannot include any facility for
independent operation – she cannot become an animate statue, for example. Normally, this will prevent her from
moving without assistance or dramatic coincidence. She retains access to all her motes and Charms, and may use the
former to help pay for her “artifact powers” – though this Charm instantly ends if her anima flares.

The artifact has no conventional powers – instead, it has an effective Sapience rating of (Essence), which offers
access to an appropriate number of the Exalt’s nonExcellency Yozi Charms, chosen upon activation. These may
include permanent Charms, though their effects must clearly stem from the artifact itself, and they cannot provide
new mote pools. The Exalt can give their artifactbody the traits of a “generic” artifact weapon or suit of armour,
though this does not offer magical material bonuses and costs a number of Charm slots equal to the tool’s rating.

This hellforged wonder can only be owned by a character targeted with Casting Coveted Crowns, who can attune it
instantly and with no mote cost. Its Urge is identical to the role devised by the Infernal, who may replace any
botches with an unexpected social attack of her design, with double the usual Willpower cost for resistance.

FIGMENTS FOR FRIENDS
Type : Simple
Keywords : ComboOK, Ichor, Obvious, Sorcerous
Duration : One day
Elloge imagines great populations swirling within herself, and they step from her thoughts into an overcomplicated
reality. The Infernal infuses a word into a droplet of blood, which sketches itself into an approximately human
character from her imagination. This figment is assigned a prop (which may qualify as basic equipment) and role as
described in this Charm’s prerequisite, and constantly benefit from its effects. The Infernal can imbue these figments
with individual histories if she wishes, but they are untroubled by existential crises (and clad in appropriate but
nondescript clothing). Attempting to create a figment that mimics a real character will always produce an obviously
flawed resemblance; Elloge’s imagination is a distorting lens.

Figments are mortal extras with no actual traits – just a dice pool of (Infernal’s Linguistics) for any action
appropriate to their role. They are creatures of darkness and natives of Malfeas with no free will or real personality,
which obey the Infernal’s orders like bound demons, but otherwise just act out their role. They cannot really
understand concepts unrelated to their role, and attempts to turn them directly against it are unacceptable orders.

Separating it from its prop causes it to instantly die, dissolving into a thin, coloured ichor. The same happens if they
are targeted with countermagic or a banishing spell. Emerald Countermagic can eliminate up to (caster’s Essence)
Figments at a time, while Sapphire Countermagic can target a Magnitude of (caster’s Essence ÷ 2), and Adamant
Countermagic dispels twice that many.

COMPOSING THE CAST
Cost : – ;
Mins : Essence 3;
Type : Permanent
Keywords : None
Prerequisite Charms : Figments for Friends
What a lurid array of characters dance in the mind of the Minstrel Echo! How hollow they are, behind the blank
mask and catchphrase. Learning this Charm provides the Infernal with two of the following enhancements – further
enhancements can be acquired at 4xp each.
● Backstory Burgeons : Vaguelyimagined personal histories allow figments to apply half their usual dice
pool on tasks outside of their normal role, rounded down. Actions totally inappropriate to their role are still
unacceptable.
● Copious Crowds : The Infernal may conjure multiple figments in a single activation, by spending an
additional mote for each figment. A group of figments gathered in the same place at Magnitude 4 or greater
acts as a consistent Blasphemy with a rating of (Magnitude 1).
● Enduring Epic : Each figment now lasts for up to (Essence) days, though the Exalt may freely dismiss
them.
● Invented Imposters : Figments may mimic an existing character more closely, though only equivalent to a
disguise roll with (Manipulation ÷ 2) successes, rounded down.
● Minor Monsters : Figments can bear up to (Essence) dots of mutations. If this would be sufficient to model
an inhuman form, the Exalt can create nonhuman figments with an appropriate role, e.g. Claws, Fur, and
Four Legs for a dogfigment.
● Pithy Persona : Figments may possess a single Virtue with an effective rating of two. They freely and
automatically channel this Virtue on any roll which supports it, but cannot act against it.
● Simpering Sidekicks : The Infernal may create a figment that itself acts as a prop for the purposes of
Behind the Role – a noble is a suitable “prop” for a butler, while a horse works as a “prop” for a knight.

UNSPOKEN TENOR TRANSFUSION
Cost : 3m; Mins : Essence 2; Type : Reflexive
Keywords : ComboOK, Actiononly, Ichor, Illusion, Social
Duration : Instant
Words are the skin beneath which true meaning pulses and flows. The Infernal activates this Charm in response to
witnessing some form of social interaction, drowning the original intent in the coldblood of her own ichor. She
immediately rolls a silent Manipulationbased social attack applied against one of the participants. If it overcomes
their MDV, they consider the Infernal’s social attack to be the real intent behind the speaker’s words, bleeding out
from beneath their phrasing. This allows them to perfectly dodge any other social attack that might have been
communicated.

If the target rejects the social attack, they may spend a further three points of Willpower to overcome this unnatural
Illusion. This cost lowers by one if the false influence is totally unrelated to the original social context. The warlock
may use Performance to make her social attack, in which case other witnesses are also affected by the Illusion (but
not the hidden social attack). This also lowers the Willpower cost to resist the Illusion by one.

UNTHINKING WORLD’S WHISPER
Cost : – (+2m); Mins: Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords : None
Prerequisite Charms : Unspoken Tenor Transfusion
We do not see the world around us – only our own interpretations. Elloge clots the hidden truths that flow beneath
our perception, bringing them inevitably to the fore. The Infernal can use Unspoken Tenor Transfusion even when
no social interaction is taking place. This applies a twomote surcharge, and conveys the social attack through the
ambience of the world. Perhaps the character overhears a conversation relevant to their own thoughts, or witnesses a
coincidental but suggestive sequence of events. The incidental nature of this influence reduces the Willpower cost to
see through the Illusion by one.

UNWRITTEN INK’S INTENT
Type: Simple
Keywords : ComboOK, Ichor
Duration : Instant
Words are symbols, used to keep true meaning at a safe distance. This Charm functions identically to the Solar
Charm LetterWithinaLetter Technique (Exalted, pp. 232), except that the warlock can target writing other than her
own. She wipes a complete text with a hand that suddenly, painfully weeps cooled blood, soaking her own message
deep into the page and impregnating the echoing, empty spaces between lines.

UNFIRED SURROGATE SHOT
Cost: 3m (+1wp); Mins: Essence 4;
Type: Simple
Keywords : ComboOK, Ichor, Shaping
Duration : Instant
The worlds within the Minstrel Echo contain all the detail they need. Why waste breath on a firewand placed above
a mantle, if it is never to be fired? The Exalt lets her blood drip, Shaping an attack into existence by enthralling a
world that seldom plays by her rules. This attack uses a dice pool of (Manipulation + Presence), and manifests
through dangerous happenstance in the scenery; a runaway horse, a poorlysealed barrel of firepowder, a drunken
extra, and so on. The specifics are determined by the attacker’s stunt, which also governs whether the attack’s base
damage is (Charisma)L or (Charisma x 2)B.

This attack has a range of (Willpower + Essence) yards, though the Exalt can spend one Willpower to measure from
the bearer of an enchanted intimacy created by Casting Coveted Crowns. Sorcerous senses can detect the attack’s
unnatural nature, and even trace it back to the Infernal if she is within line of sight, but otherwise the attack seems
purely coincidental (reasonable suspicion aside).

As a result, the attack can always be made as though from stealth, giving the target only a (Wits + Awareness) roll to
avoid the unexpected tag. This roll is difficulty 3, though it increases (maximum 5) if the Storyteller deems the
attack’s stunt to have made good use of existing dangerous elements in the scene, and decreases if it was absurd or
out of place the hairs on the back of the victim’s neck stand up in response to such blatant Shaping.

ENDLESS ECHOES
Type: Reflexive
Keywords : ComboOK
Duration : One action
When reality becomes too much, Elloge retreats into havens of memory. The Infernal’s eyes glaze over as she enters
a sleeplike trance for an action (she may remain standing) and relives a full scene’s worth of memories in the form
of synaesthetic selfnarration and illustrative adjectives. This perfect recollection allows her to make rolls to notice
details she had missed, develop skills through training, and rolloff against memoryaltering magic. However, it is
also subtly emphasises certain aspects of the memory, reinforcing the Exalt’s relevant intimacies. If no such
intimacies exist, this counts as a scene spent building one appropriate to that memory.

While in this trance, the warlock is subconsciously aware of anything that would normally wake her from sleep, and
may end the Charm early, letting the entire recollection slip away. This Charm can be used while inactive.

With Essence 3+, the Exalt can rewrite her memories, spending a point of Willpower to edit the scene she
"recollects" in any way she pleases as a selfdirected Illusion. She gains a point of Limit if this altered scene casts
her or one of her beliefs in a poor light (even if it originally did so). She herself forgets she made this change, and
facing contrary evidence does not shake her own beliefs, simply irritate her.

SELFSYNONYM FUTILITY
Cost : 5m;
Mins : Essence 2;
Type: Simple (dramatic action)
Duration : One day
Prerequisite Charms : Endless Echoes
At times, Elloge dreams herself perfect. A shame that it is a lie. The Exalt exposes a wet and dripping truth just long
enough to let it scab over into a falsehood. Over the course of approximately a minute, the Exalt constructs a false
persona with a Motivation derived from one of her intimacies. This false persona has its own personality, intimacies
and memories, leaving the Exalt only distantly aware of her true self. Her other traits (including Virtues) do not
change, but she can suppress (or only unconsciously make use of) skills and powers that do not suit her new identity.
The Exalt counts as a separate character for the purposes of Elloge Charms.

The Exalt’s true values can only be detected by specialized magic, which requires a rolloff to which she adds
(Essence) automatic successes. However, if her persona is recognized as false it immediately gains the Ichor
keyword, costing her a level of bashing damage and causing her to bleed (Exalted, pp. 151), an affliction that cannot
be stemmed until she deactivates the Charm.

NAMES LIKE MASKS
Cost : —;
Mins : Essence 3;
Type: Permanent
Keywords : None
Prerequisite Charms : SelfSynonym Futility
In a world of danger and bloody scars, who would not wish to be invincible? The Exalt develops an index of
(Temperance) different personas that she can reflexively adopt. She adds (Temperance) automatic successes to any
rolloff that would reveal her true identity or values, regardless of whether she has adopted a false persona or not,
and applies the committed cost of SelfSynonym Futility as a discount against any disguise Charms used to maintain
it. She may abandon a persona and create a new one by emptying her Willpower pool after a day’s meditation and
inspiration.

However, the Exalt must now roll Temperance in order to directly, personally interact with another character in her
“true” persona, as though it conflicted with that Virtue. Lunar mates do not count for this purpose.

LIVING LIBRARY MEDITATION
Cost : —;
Mins : Essence 2;
Type: Permanent
Keywords : None
Dreams are too much like life – impossible to control, eager to surprise. Elloge shelters herself from such phantasms
within welltrodden miseries. The Infernal constructs a world in the echoing hollows of her heart, an imaginary
archive of abstracted description equivalent in size to a sanctum with a rating of (Essence). She no longer dreams,
but instead mentally visits this archive when unconscious or meditating, allowing her to freely revisit her memories
as though using this Charm’s prerequisite, wandering down sentencecorridors, entering vast vaulted chapters, or
watching biographical works played out by puppets of poetry. The Infernal may alter the pace of time within this
mindspace by a factor of up to (Lore), allowing time to dwell and linger like an eye on a page.

As she no longer dreams, the Infernal cannot regain Willpower from sleeping. She is, however, immune to magic
that would interfere with her “sleep” – dreamvisions and visitors are translated into forms appropriate to her
mindmanse, and may be freely identified and rejected.

ATHENAEUM OF INNER ISOLATION
Cost: – (5m); Mins: Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Living Library Meditation
The Hermit Within Herself withdraws into inner worlds of fantasy, meditating on selfindulgent truths. The Exalt’s
archive is sculpted into Elsewhere as a real place, within which no distinction is made between immaterial and
material. Its various features are represented as manse powers, purchased as though it were an Ellogeaspected
manse worth (Essence) dots, ignoring normal construction requirements, which automatically and immediately
restores any damage or expended resources. However, characters cannot derive real nutrition from transcribed food,
and objects taken from the archive denature into raw description once outside it. The Infernal can redesign this
manse by meditating for a full day, rephrasing her internal world. For the purposes of Elloge Charms, everything
within the archive is also considered a written depiction of itself.

The Exalt can interact with her archive while perusing it through Living Library Meditation. She can also spend five
motes and one minute to construct a gateway of Sorcerous glyphs, which she can pass through to enter the archive in
body as well as mind. She temporarily dissolves into a form of raw information while inside, allowing her to make a
Temperance roll at the end of every hour she spends alone there; success grants her one Willpower.

The Exalt can only establish a single Sorcerous gateway at a time, which is visible like a sanctum entrance. Other
characters can pass through the gateway with sanctumbreaching magic or the Exalt’s permission, but dispelling it
(or killing the Infernal) ejects all characters into the physical world with only one action’s warning. The Exalt can
transfer small objects (i.e. those she can carry in one normal hand) that belong to her into the archive without
entering it herself, converting them into data and metaphor. This is a miscellaneous action costing five motes.

SIDEBAR: SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY
Manses aspected toward Elloge favour the same features as all Primordials – Living Manse, Sentient, Ability
Enlightenment, Sorcerous Feedback of all Circles, and Wyld Revocation that evokes the worldbody of that titan.
Specifically, her manses also favour Password Activations, Archive, Mela’s Sweet Whisper, and the Greater Veil of
Shadows. Inscriptions, symbols and glyphs are required to properly channel her power through a manse, carved into
its walls, stitched into tapestry, or built into the very blueprints. Among other quirks, the same designs that lend
themselves to acoustics are also useful for harmonising Ellogiac essence with a physical structure.

NARRATOR’S LOVING EYE
Cost: 6m; Mins : Essence 2; Type : Simple
Keywords : ComboOK, Sorcerous, Touch
What are words, if not a means of enjoying another’s point of view? The Minstrel Echo greedily devours such
voyeuristic opportunities. The Exalt touches another character, rearranging the empty margins of her mind into a
sympathetic link with their perspective. While this Sorcerous entanglement exists the Infernal may use Endless
Echoes to monitor her subject, falling into a trance that allows her to continuously observe their current situation.
This uses their vantage point, but her own senses as such, she may "look" in different directions than they are, or
enhance her observation with Charms. Magic that blocks scrying provokes a rolloff, with failure suppressing this
Charm for the scene.

With Essence 3+, the Infernal can "rewind" to observe events she missed, rifling through the subject's memories as
though they were her own. She cannot observe events that took place before she activated this Charm.

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