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Cost: 1m per die; Mins: Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 1 for attacker; Step 2 for defender)
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
The Black Boar That Twists the Sky is narcissistic, shameless and proud of everything he is and does. He impulsively indulges in his every primal urge, seeking immediate gratification regardless of how inappropriate it might be. Lust and gluttony are his foremost concerns, fuelled by his boundless vitality, for he knows that forbidden fruit tastes sweetest, and is able to smash through anything between him and his appetite. The Antarch Stampede rejects all authority, stubborn and unstoppable in his denial of attempts to curtail his boisterous behaviour. He is wilful in his contrariness, an anarchist who even scorns the laws of nature and probability, but is at least honest in his violent disrespect for the proclamations of others. Only competition and challenges can rouse him from his lazy hedonism, for he finds joy in trampling imitators and parades his awesome might. Isidoros is unbothered by the senseless destruction he causes in such displays, for he gives little thought to anything but the now, a myopic carelessness that is at times mistaken for largesse.

Characters can always use this Charm to help satisfy their base desires, whether by foraging for food or propositioning sexual partners. It cannot be used to enhance actions taken at the behest of anyone else, though individuals can still bribe or beseech the Infernal, and he can enthusiastically perform deeds he would have undertaken regardless of any presumptuous orders. Isidoros can generally aid Infernals who are engaged in opposed or exceedingly difficult actions, provided they trumpet their victory to all and sundry.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Native
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: First Isidoros Excellency
The Black Boar That Twists the Sky relies on raw might to see him through, increasing his dice cap for a given action by that action's stunt rating.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: First Isidoros Excellency
Isidoros is a creature for himself, first and foremost, and expresses his majesty through his own form. Spells which enhance the caster’s physical capabilities cost no Willpower when cast through this initiation – examples include Becoming the Wood Friend, Blood Lash, Commanding Presence of Fire, Incomparable Body Arsenal, God-Forged Champion of War, and Invoking the Eyeless Face. However, Isidoros’ rejection of authority increases the cost of all spells that seek to override another character’s free will or beliefs by one point of temporary Willpower. It is natural for lesser beings to be drawn to the Infernal’s majesty, so spells that summon and bind entities are unaffected.

Cost: —; Mins: Essence 5; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Native
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: First Isidoros Excellency
The ego of the Black Boar outgrows his body and Essence alike. An Infernal who suppresses his Valor loses the extra dot of Essence permitted by this Charm for the rest of the scene. This Charm has no effect for characters with a Valor lower than three.

Cost: — (1wp); Mins: Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Indomitable Hedonism Drive
The Black Boar is ruled by nothing, not even his passions. He rejects any attempt to sway him from path, but freely changes his own direction as he pleases, focusing just as fiercely on his new goal and seeing no contradiction. The Infernal may always channel his Conviction to enhance actions in aid of his desires, and need not channel Conviction to prioritize them over his Motivation (or each other). He must, however, roll Conviction to abandon the pursuit of a desire, just as though they were his Motivation. In addition, he may spend a single point of Willpower whenever his attention is drawn to a physical subject, immediately changing the subject of one of his desirous intimacies toward it. The warlock may not alter a desire in this fashion if he has been directly prevented from indulging in it by another character earlier in this scene.

Cost: — ; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: Overdrive
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Rebel Without a Cause, Raw Whimsy Diligence
Exploding into violent action, Isidoros smashes everything out of sheer joyous habit. This Charm grants the Infernal an empty Overdrive pool with a capacity of five motes. Whenever he channels Valor or Conviction, he gains offensive motes equal to his rating in that Virtue.

Cost: 2m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Raw Whimsy Diligence
There is no sense in planning, not when there are worlds to be won! Isidoros ploughs through the problems his haste induces. This Charm enhances any Leadership Action the Infernal takes that resonates with one of his desires or his Motivation, allowing him to skip the planning phase entirely. However, his every roll on that project suffers from an internal penalty equal to the number of rolls made so far (including the current one), as his haste snowballs into unexpected (and outright bizarre) problems further down the line.

Cost: 2m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Raw Whimsy Diligence
Others place their long-term goals above their appetites, and live stark lives of self-denial. Others indulge when action is called for, and live pointless lives of no consequence. Isidoros is greedy, and sees no reason to choose one when both are within his reach. The warlock specifies a single short-term goal and chooses one of his desires. The subject of that desire is immediately removed, leaving only the context – it affects his behaviour as a general inclination toward that sort of indulgence, with no specific target. While this Charm is active, the warlock is made subconsciously aware whether or not any existing physical thing (characters, objects, structures or ongoing events) he can perceive would further his short-term goal. If it would, and he chooses to act upon that strange instinct, this Charm ends and the relevant physical thing becomes the new subject of that desire.

Example: Korba Songsam activates this Charm, choosing to seek the hidden passageways of the Fool Dragon Crypt and targeting an desirous intimacy of lust. She wallows in ambiguous arousal until she comes across a ghostly maid with access to useful information (through rumour, personal experience, etc). Deciding on a subconscious whim to interrogate the maid, the warlock’s lust is immediately directed toward her as the Charm ends.

Cost: 10m, 2wp; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Simple (Dramatic Action)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Sorcerous
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Raw Whimsy Diligence
It is rare for one of such might to be impeded in the slightest, but at times even Isidoros must endure the tedium of continued labour to achieve his goals. At such times, he is wont to shift his attentions elsewhere, assigning the work to the only one he can truly trust. Through a dramatic ritual taking one hour, Infernal chooses one of his desires and immediately suppresses it – while this Charm is active, it still counts toward the maximum number of intimacies he may possess, but cannot be targeted with mental influence, has no bearing on his behaviour or MDV, and cannot be used to enhance his stunts. Black waters of expression pool in this dent in his psyche, before being spat out from one of his orifices to form a sorcerous spirit focused on bringing this suppressed desire to fruition. This spirit, called a whim, is a creature of darkness and native of Malfeas, and appears as a combination of shadow, fingerprint-flesh and rippling air in the shape of whatever parts of the Infernal would be necessary to fulfil the suppressed desire.

The whim has traits identical to the Infernal’s, except that it lacks any Backgrounds or Yozi Charms. Instead, it possesses the Materialize Charm and up to (Essence) Excellencies that would be useful for accomplishing the desire in question, for which it uses the Infernal dice cap. It also possesses the Divine Prerogative Charm, rendering any mental influence that would lead it to abandon, postpone, or alter the desire it embodies an unacceptable order. It has no Intimacies save for the desire it embodies, and lacks a Motivation. Instead, it has an Urge toward fulfilling the desire in question. It will not take actions other than to fulfil this desire and fend off anyone trying to prevent it from doing so.

Once this whim has fulfilled the desire from which it was spawned, it immediately dissipates, ending this Charm and providing the Infernal with all the memories of the desire’s fulfilment. The Infernal learns nothing of the path his whim took to reach that point, gaining only the immediate gratification of its climax, and so gains a single point of Willpower. Any intimacies the whim created toward itself in the course of its existence change their subject to the Infernal himself – no need for the gawpers and romantics of this world to love but a shadow. If the whim is killed or dispelled with countermagic before it can complete the desire, the Infernal instead loses a point of Willpower and Limit as frustration hammers into the back of his skull seemingly from nowhere, ending the Charm. The Infernal can only have one whim in existence at a time.

A second purchase of this Charm at Essence 4+ allows the Infernal to use it to create up to (Essence ÷ 2) whims. In addition, the countermagic necessary to destroy a whim is now based on its Permanent Essence rating, not the minimum Essence of the Charm. Finally, the Infernal may suppress (and create a spirit embodying) an intimacy that is not a desire, as he offloads unpleasant duties onto some more reliable piece of his soul. In this case, he receives none of the whim’s memories when its work is completed, and therefore gains no Willpower (though he still suffers as normal if the whim is destroyed).

Cost: — ; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Raw Whimsy Diligence
The Antarch Stampede quenches himself in gore and rutting and travel and slumber alike. It is not what he does that matters, simply that he is doing it. This Charm provides the Infernal with an additional Peripheral pool capable of holding ten motes, to which he adds one mote for every hour he spends fulfilling one of his desires. Time spent merely working toward the fulfilment of a desire is not counted – an Infernal with an intimacy of lust towards Nellens Malakai would not gain motes while courting him, only during the actual sexual romp. Note that no Infernal can possess more than (Essence) additional mote pools granted by Charms such as this.

Cost: — ; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Indomitable Hedonism Drive
No mere bacchanalia may lay Isidoros low! The warlock automatically succeeds on any roll to avoid nausea for any reason. Further, every poison the warlock is exposed to is considered to have a Tolerance trait (Exalted, pp. 131) of (Essence/day). If they already have a Tolerance trait, it is simply increased by (Essence) and uses the lower of the two intervals. If the Exalt actively ingested the poison as a result of pursuing one of his desires, its Tolerance trait is increased by a further (Stamina).

Finally, the Infernal reduces the Untreated Morbidity of any disease he is infected with by two, to a minimum of one. If he actively exposed himself to the disease for the sake of one of his desires (such as by copulating with an infectee or consuming diseased meat), this decrease is instead (Essence). This has no effect on its Treated Morbidity, and only helps defend against actual poisons and diseases - it does nothing against effects that are merely keyworded as Sickness or Poison.

Cost: 2m; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Quaffing the Green Ocean
The myriad scents of the Brass City rise to fill the nostrils of the Black Boar, and his drool drowns demon fiefdoms. This Charm’s effects are identical to the Solar Charm Keen Smell and Taste Technique (Exalted, pp. 225-226), except that any (Perception + Awareness) rolls based on scent or taste the Exalt makes while it is active are Obvious to anyone who can perceive him, as his anticipation or pleasure palpably emanates from him.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Emotion, Obvious, Sorcerous, Touch
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Quaffing the Green Ocean
The Black Boar leaves buildings and demons warped by his sheer presence, but at times a mote of his own animal magnetism can be found lurking in their twisted meat, sold in the markets of the Demon City as a glimpse into the mind of a world entire. This Charm targets any object or character the Infernal is touching, his anima curdling around it for a moment as he imbues its material flesh with a Sorcerous flavour. The target becomes the vessel of a single social attack, rolled for by the Infernal upon activation. He may enhance this social attack with Charms as normal – at the Storyteller’s discretion, he may imbue the object or character with mental influence stemming from a Charm that is not strictly speaking a social attack. Any character who consumes at least one mouthful of the target (or part of their produce, such as fruit from a tree or milk from a cow) is immediately affected by that social attack, just as though it had been directed at them normally. A character can only be affected by the flavoursome mental influence of a given target once per scene. Other magic attached to this social attack steadily erodes as though it were an electronic written attack (Shards of the Exalted Dream, pp. 131).

Cost: 1lhl; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Desecration, Obvious, Touch
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Quaffing the Green Ocean
Black and thorned are the plants that grow in Isidoros’ wake, thickset and spined the beasts who sup from his dripping sweat. This Charm allows the Infernal to feed his blood to another living organism, opening a wrist to their lips or drooling blood into a kiss. That organism acquires up to five points of permanent positive mutations, to a minimum of one, which manifest at a rate of one every minute after this Charm’s application. Mutations applied in this way are chosen by their player, and must be enhanced or exaggerated versions of those features natural to the creature’s form – a dog with fangs might have them grow into great razor-tusks, while a turtle might have its shell become a spiked, armoured tank of bone. The Large mutation is always considered valid for application – essentially, any mutations that will make a creature into a bigger, tougher, meaner version of itself are permissible. Alternatively, these points can be used to remove negative mutations of any kind, whether those applied externally or those inherent to the creature’s natural form – deformed children become strong, and serpents grow rudimentary arms.

Note that plants can benefit from this Charm just as easily as actual characters. Further, any of the warlock’s offspring are treated as benefiting from a single application of this Charm in the womb – if the warlock is actually bearing the child, she may freely apply its effects to her unborn baby up to once a month in this way.

Cost: 15m, 1lhl; Mins: Essence 4; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Desecration, Obvious, Sorcerous
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Glorious Appetite Influence, Suckled at Gore’s Teat, Arousing Indelicate Passions
Mad forests sprout from Isidoros’ vast back, where oversized demons and weird parasites live between bristles that dwarf redwoods. At times, he will shake himself, and whole settlements are sent flying into the Brass City, where the survivors merrily wreak havoc until they are put down. Spreading one lethal health level of her blood onto the ground, the warlock taints an area up to (Essence x 50) yards in radius, embedding it with her own potent Essence. The region becomes unnaturally virile – the yearly population growth of native creatures is multiplied by (Infernal’s Essence), while plants grow and spread (Infernal’s Essence) times as quickly, producing a madzone of dense and competitive growth.

This madzone mutates living organisms as though it were an uncapped demesne aspected toward Isidoros, except that it does so at a rate of months, not years. It can apply a maximum of (Infernal’s Essence) dots of positive and negative mutations to a single target in this fashion, before their muscle ceases its boiling and their bones settle into their current shape. All living organisms born in the madzone automatically benefit as though Suckled at Gore’s Teat had been applied to them – these mutations do not count toward the limit imposed by the rest of this Charm.

In addition, the warlock chooses a single Emotion effect that could be applied by Arousing Indelicate Passions and infuses his blood with it, causing the whole madzone to erupt with his passion. All characters within the madzone with a Dodge MDV lower than (hours spent in the region + Infernal’s Essence) are filled with this Emotion, unnatural mental influence that can be resisted for a day by spending a single point of Willpower. Creatures born in the madzone carry its influence in their meat and milk, as though they had been targeted by Glorious Appetite Influence.

This madzone is only vulnerable to countermagic at its very center, where the Infernal’s blood still steams in a small pool or has congealed into a totem of dark red amber. Targeted in this fashion, its mutative and mental effects end, as does its unnatural virility, though any mutated organisms remain so, and still carry its mental influence in their flesh. The Infernal can ignore the lethal health level cost of this Charm if he has inflicted twice as many health levels of damage to a spirit with Essence 4+ or an Exalt on the spot he is targeting in the past hour, and deliberately spread the blood around.

Cost: — ; Mins: Essence 4; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dark Forest of Lunacy
The seeds of madness are watered by indulgence, though this metaphor stretches somewhat thinner when one considers the lusty behemoth-trees shooting up through the floor. This Charm permanently enhances its prerequisite, reducing the interval for mutation to days, not months, and changing the cost of resisting the passions it inspires to one point of Willpower for an hour. In addition, the madzone is watered by the madness of those within it. At the end of any day in which the majority of creatures within one mile of the madzone’s borders (not including those that actually live within it) have spent at least five hours engaging in actions that resonate with its Emotion effect, its radius expands by a number of yards equal to the Magnitude of those creatures that acted in accordance with the madzone’s passions, multiplied by ten. Once a madzone reaches a radius of five miles, it becomes a persistent Blasphemy.

Cost: 15m, 4lhl; Mins: Essence 5; Type: Simple (Dramatic Action)
Keywords: Blasphemy, Obvious, Sorcerous, Shaping
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Tangled Black Growth
The dances of Isidoros send entire Malfean plates aquiver, reducing areas greater than the surface of Creation to dust in a mere hour. That the geomancy of such desolated places is altered in fascinating ways is scarce consolation to those crushed by his fever. This Charm is a dramatic action lasting one hour and targeting the centre of one of the Infernal’s Blasphemous madzones. The Infernal must have spent at least five hours a day for the past week within the madzone’s borders, engaged in activities that resonate with the Emotion that it spreads – if he has done so, he sums up his antics in one final, wild dance, spraying blood from his mouth, nostrils, and old wounds with every mad flail. At the end of this ritual his anima flares totemic and the madzone ceases to mutate and incite passion, as though it had been dispelled. The blood-soaked region at its centre becomes a level-one demesne aspected to Isidoros. An Isidoros manse built on this demesne favours the Mutagenic and Emotional Focus manse powers, in addition to the others it normally favours. This Charm’s health level cost can be mitigated in the same way as Dark Forest of Lunacy.

Cost: — ; Mins: Essence 5; Type: Simple (Dramatic Action)
Keywords: Blasphemy
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Dark Forest of Lunacy, Brushing Off Spiders
Isidoros opposed the invention of Fate, preferring to embrace the unpredictability of a world unmanaged. This Charm permanently alters the madzone produced by Dark Forest of Lunacy, allowing the Infernal to render it outside Fate upon activating that Charm. Madzones that are outside Fate are always persistent Blasphemies, regardless of how large they are – they are also not considered part of Creation, with all the normal effects that entails. Note that characters outside Creation are not (barring magic tying them to the Loom) considered to be within Fate.

Cost: 4m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Simple (Speed 5)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: None
All the Yozis are creatures of music and dance. It is there alone that they can lose themselves to momentarily forget their imprisonment, acting wild and free as their nature demands. Isidoros is no exception. This Charm is a feat of strength to break an object, using Performance in place of Athletics and made against any number of objects the Infernal wishes within (Essence + 2) yards in the form of a mighty roar or bellow of song (it can be applied to object-sized segments of a structure). The Infernal can benefit from a limited teamwork bonus from any characters who augment his performance – generally, this will consist of singing or shouting or chanting alongside him, but appropriate ritual dances or the playing of instruments can also help. He increases the range of this Charm by one yard for every character helping him in this fashion, but doing so also increases its Speed by one for every three yards added, as their violent noise weaves together into a coherent song of harmonious destruction. If the Charm’s Speed becomes too great, it is treated as a dramatic action.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Combo-OK
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Impeded By Nothing
The entire world revolves around Isidoros and his movements. At times, the myriad denizens of the Demon Realm walk along a cobbled ceiling, or fly through an infinite abyss lit from far below by a Green Sun. This eccentricity has little impact on the travels of the Black Boar. The Infernal alters his personal definition of “down” to another direction, causing him to fall in that direction and allowing him to move across appropriate surfaces as though they were the ground – to one who plummets upward, the ceiling is the floor. This Charm automatically deactivates if he moves more than (Essence x 2) yards from the nearest surface he would “fall” toward. Though falls are considered to happen “instantly” in Exalted for the sake of simplicity, this Charm does not provide a dodge – it cannot be activated in response to an attack.

At Essence 3+, this Charm gains the Touch keyword, allowing the warlock to Sorcerously apply it to any character or object in contact with him. This version of the Charm automatically deactivates if the target moves too far from the nearest appropriate surface, or from the warlock himself.

Cost: — (0m or 1m); Mins: Essence 2; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Impeded By Nothing
Walls splinter and worlds crumble before the warlock’s tread. Whenever he comes into contact with an inanimate object (including objects that are part of a structure) as part of a Move, Dash or Jump action, he may make an immediate reflexive attack against that object. He may make one such attack per tick per object, to a maximum of (Essence) attacks per tick. The first such attack he makes on each tick is free, with every subsequent one costing a single mote. Objects currently on another character’s person cannot be targeted in this fashion.

This reflexive attack does not slow the warlock’s passage in the slightest, manifesting as a casual sideswipe or simply the natural result of the object being in his way - if he has any move distance remaining, he may use it to move past or through a destroyed object, while jumps are unimpeded by objects destroyed mid-leap.

Cost: 3m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Leader
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Impeded By Nothing
At times, Isidoros will be lost to the Brass City, a titan vanished, and Hell becomes a little quieter for a time. Then he will re-emerge in some improbable location, having apparently been busily sating his wanderlust in the cold outer reaches of Malfeas, and the rampage begins anew. While this Charm is active, the Infernal is rendered untrackable over dramatic travel distances. Any attempt to trace his movements, follow his path or determine his intended location over a period of travel no less than an hour automatically fails, as eyewitness reports arrive from all Directions of Creation, his physical tracks seem contradictory and backward, and the Pattern Spiders scurry and mutter. This Charm’s effects also apply to any characters deliberately following in his wake, to a maximum Magnitude of (Essence) – the Infernal’s player chooses which characters have priority in benefiting from this effect, but cannot outright withhold it.

Cost: 5m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Simple (Dramatic Action)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Stackable
Duration: One Journey
Prerequisite Charms: Feckless Giant Wanderings
The passage of the Black Boar is ineffable to those who concern themselves with logic, continuity and responsibility, for his weight distorts the universe, moving it around him until he reaches his destination and briefly sates himself. Activating this Charm, the Infernal chooses a single destination. This must be a place that is not outright impossible to reach through walking, swimming or flying – Malfeas, Yu-Shan, or Whitewall would all qualify, though Autochthonia or the unsteppes of Nirguna would not. It must also be an actual, fixed location, not the position of given object or character - 55 Plume Road would qualify, while “Lady Ursola’s home” would not.

He then sets off in any fashion or direction he pleases, beginning an extended navigation roll with a pool of (Wits + Survival) and an interval of one full day of solid travel. This travel benefits from the full effects of Feckless Giant Wanderings, and at its end he reaches a random location chosen by the Storyteller. This location must be one the Infernal could have reached through walking, swimming or flying, will never be outright lethal (i.e. the bottom of the Western Ocean for an Infernal unable to breathe water, though the definition of "lethal" narrows as the Infernal becomes more able to survive in hostile climes) and up until the fifth interval it must be in the same realm of existence as his starting location. His method of travel has no impact on this location – he can reach the middle of the Eastern jungles by taking a ship from Feixu, or end up in a subterranean cavern after acquiring passage on a skyship. He remembers little of his journey – it is shrouded by a haze not unlike intoxication, with a few flashes of memory that match up to any eyewitness reports he cares to track down.

The warlock can spend as long as he likes in this general area (usually around [Essence] miles in radius), but if he leaves it normally this Charm ends. Otherwise, he must set off in another interval of random daylong travel. This continues until he reaches 50 accumulated successes, at which point he arrives at his chosen destination.

This Charm does not allow the Infernal to bypass anything but the most mundane mortal security – an Infernal sauntering through Yu-Shan could not find himself within the Jade Pleasure Dome, though he might end up at its sealed doors, and one who enters Malfeas must still spend five days crossing Cecelyne. The Infernal gains a point of Limit if this Charm ends early.

A second purchase of this Charm at Essence 4+ allows it to lead the Infernal to the position of an object or character that is the subject of one of his desires. This forces the warlock to use the lower of his Survival and Investigation, and the Charm leads the warlock to its location at the time of activation, regardless of how much time passes while he is travelling. If the target is protected from scrying or supernaturally-enhanced tracking by magic, this Charm fails (inflicting Limit as normal) at the end of the first interval. Further, the warlock may bring along other willing travellers, increasing the cost of this Charm by two motes per dot of Magnitude, to a maximum Magnitude of (Essence).

Cost: 2m; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 1 or 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Weight-Exaggerating Ego Density
What Isidoros wants, he gets. Why should he need to haul himself after it in the process? The Infernal opens a hand, his will visibly folding space to drag an inanimate object of his choice into his grasp. If the desired object is within (Essence) yards and a flight path exists between it and his hand, this Charm draws it into his grasp. The object must be one he could lift, and must belong to him. He can reflexively ready a weapon (improvised or otherwise) called to him in this fashion. This Charm can be used to target objects that are part of a structure, inflicting (Essence) dice of bashing damage on the surrounding sections – if this is enough to get past their Hardness and damage them, the object is ripped free and flies into the warlock’s grip as normal.

A second purchase of this Charm increases its range to (Essence x 2) yards. It also allows the warlock to use it to target objects he does not own, so long as they are not currently in use by (or on the person of) another character. Used to target objects he owns (or that are owned by no-one in particular) its cost is reduced by one mote.

A third purchase at Essence 3+ increases its range further, to (Essence x 5) yards, and reduces its mote cost by one when used to target objects within (Essence) yards. At this level, he can use it to target objects currently in use by (or on the person of) another character, forcing that character to make a reflexive (Dexterity, Strength or Wits + Larceny or Athletics) roll at a difficulty of (Infernal’s Strength + Larceny] – number of yards away from the Infernal) to keep hold of it. He cannot attempt to steal the same object more than once a tick.

Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Simple (Speed 5, DV -0)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Remote Satisfaction Demand
Isidoros is inescapable, his all-consuming gravity claiming that which he desires with ultimate force. This Charm functions in the exact same way as its prerequisite (including the effects of any additional purchases the Infernal may have acquired), except that its range (and the damage it deals to the components of structures) is doubled. Further, he may use it to target characters (the usual restrictions on weight apply), as an attack with a dice pool of (Strength + Lift + Essence). This attack is normally unblockable, though characters can “parry” it by gripping an object rooted to the ground, as though it was a parrying weapon with a Defense trait of +(Lift). Prone characters consider this “attack” undodgeable.

If the attack hits, it does no damage. Instead, the character is dragged toward the Infernal a number of yards equal to his attack successes (prior to applying DV). The Infernal may spend an additional three motes to make a reflexive clinch attack against his target if this Charm would bring them within range.

Cost: — ; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Boar’s Inescapable Gravity
Demons and debris orbit the Black Boar, tossed into twisted skies by the sheer force of his tread and drawn back to him by his brutal gravity. This Charm enhances its prerequisite, allowing the Infernal to activate it reflexively whenever he successfully applies a Knockback effect, provided he targets only the object or character thrown by that effect. If the Knockback effect would throw a target beyond the range of Boar’s Inescapable Gravity, he may activate it “early”, aborting their flight to drag them toward him from the farthest point possible.

Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Compulsion, Sorcerous
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Boar’s Inescapable Gravity
The Devil’s Begging Bowl lies South of Linowa, a valley where blasphemous temples spring up like corn despite the vigilance of the gods and local Immaculate priests. The birth-marked pilgrims who gather there have a haunted look in their eyes, following some urge they cannot fully explain. Stomping his foot into the ground so hard it leaves a sorcerous mark, the Infernal chooses a single descriptor that could be applied to more than one character – “demons” would be valid, as would “red-haired mortal youths with tattoos”. All such characters within (Essence at time of activation) miles are immediately affected by an unnatural Compulsion to gather at that spot and linger there, a wanderlust that dangles in the back of their skull.

This Compulsion costs one point of Willpower to resist for a week, but does not fade until the mark is removed through countermagic or at least (Essence at time of activation) Magnitude of targeted characters are gathered at that general area at the same time. As the number of targeted characters gathered in that area increases, so does the frequency of supernatural expressions of density. Clouds pull together against the wind, solitary animals flock together, leaves and stones gather in piles seemingly of their own volition, all omens that can be noted with a (Perception + lower of Occult and Survival) roll at difficulty (6 – Magnitude of gathered characters).

A second purchase of this Charm at Essence 5+ increases the countermagic necessary to remove the sorcerous mark to Sapphire, multiplies its range by ten, increases the maximum Magnitude that can be gathered by two, and allows the warlock to decide what Magnitude will trigger the end of the Charm, rather than it defaulting to the maximum.

Cost: 3m; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: One Defend Other action
Prerequisite Charms: Remote Satisfaction Demand
The attention of others is inevitably drawn to Isidoros’ antics. What could be more important? This Charm can target any character or object within the range of its prerequisite, allowing the Infernal to make a reflexive Defend Other action to protect them. The Infernal himself does not move – rather, the attack is dragged toward him by his own irresistible gravity. A successful defense indicates that the attacker has been tugged entirely off-course (or their projectile sent swerving mid-flight to land at the warlock’s feet). An attacker who overcomes the warlock’s DV may not decide to resolve their attack against him unless he is actually within their range – otherwise, attempting to do so means futile flailing at a distant figure.

Cost: 1m; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Simple (Speed 3, DV -0)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Touch
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Remote Satisfaction Demand
Within Isidoros’ form is an entire universe, compressed to bone-crushing density, a place where time and motion slow to a glacial pace and treasures devoured in Time Not spin complacently. This Charm targets any one object that the Exalt owns, is touching, and could lift, drawing it into his body as a swirl of darkening vapour. That object is now stored in Elsewhere, where it remains for the Charm’s duration. Deactivating this Charm causes the warlock to eject a swirl of churning black matter that hovers around him for at least five ticks, after which it condenses into the object the next time the Infernal’s DV refreshes. He may then grab it with a miscellaneous action or let it fall to the ground. This Charm is only Obvious at the moment of activation.

There is no limit on the number of objects the Infernal can store at once in this fashion. Should he die, any objects he had stored in Elsewhere through this Charm are immediately destroyed, their debris flung from his body in a spray of churned matter that can be used as an exotic ingredient. Artifacts are not outright destroyed, but are buckled and broken, and require extensive repair.

Cost: — ; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Midnight Belly Stockpile
It is not an uncommon sight to see demons picking through the debris left in the Black Boar’s wake. These carrion-pickers take what once belonged to those now dead or crippled (including their flesh), but will sometimes come across an item that does not belong, an exotic relic of some distant place or time. This Charm permanently its prerequisite, allowing the warlock to activate it reflexively. In addition, he may use it to target objects he does not own, provided no other living character owns them. If he does so, they immediately become his.

Finally, he may render any activation of the Charm Sorcerous, a small dark scar appearing somewhere on his form to mark the spot where it has been anchored inside him. As an exception to the normal rules for Sorcerous Charms, he may still end the Charm whenever he pleases – this simply means he does not have to commit its mote cost and the object is vulnerable to being forced from his body by countermagic. If one application of this Charm is dispelled, so are (caster’s Essence - 1) other ones, chosen at random by the Storyteller.

Cost: 3m, 1wp (+3m); Mins: Essence 4; Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Shaping, Sorcerous
Duration: One action
Prerequisite Charms: Midnight Belly Stockpile, Boar’s Inescapable Gravity
Isidoros is locked up in Malfeas, fenced in by Cecelyne, condemned by the Exalted Host, and this frustrates him beyond description. He is plainly the centre of existence, but surely he should also be its outer limits, such that nothing can contain him? In this way, at last, his belly might be filled. This Charm enhances any close range attack made by the Infernal, plunging he and his target into a grinding otherworld of pitch darkness as a Sorcerous Shaping effect in Step 1. Stagnant, warm liquid covers the ground, while distant, hyperdense veins gurgle in the distant sky of this realm, which is effectively infinite and totally darkened (inflicting a -2 external penalty to sight-based rolls, which the Infernal ignores). It also contains all the objects (and characters) the Infernal has stored in Elsewhere through Midnight Belly Stockpile, randomly scattered by the Storyteller, but is otherwise featureless. A sense of crushing pressure pervades the air, barely held off by the aura of reality that surrounds each character.

As far as others can tell, the two have been enveloped in an impenetrable cloud of steam and shadows, but they have in fact completely vanished from existence, and cannot be targeted by any effect (save appropriate countermagic, which ends the Charm prematurely) – those who touch them simply move straight through, their flesh parting and reforming like air.

The Infernal and his target are the only characters in this otherworld, and may move, attack and otherwise act normally within it. When the Infernal’s DV next refreshes, he may reflexively commit three motes to this Charm to extend its duration by another action (there is no limit on the number of motes he may commit in this fashion). Otherwise, the Charm ends, unceremoniously dumping both characters back where they left (along with any objects or characters they may have picked up along the way).

If either of the characters is dead upon returning to reality, their corpse is churned into an unidentifiable mist in the manner of an object held by Midnight Belly Stockpile upon the Infernal’s death - spirits killed in this manner are permanently destroyed. Alternatively, if the Infernal survived, he may store his target’s corpse with a reflexive application of Midnight Belly Stockpile.

If the Infernal’s target is simply incapacitated, he may commit three motes of this Charm’s cost to keep them Sorcerously locked in his midnight belly. They are stored in Elsewhere, just as though they were objects targeted by Midnight Belly Stockpile. Their state does not change while they are locked away – indeed, no time appears to pass for them at all unless the Infernal re-enters the otherworld with another character, in which case they can be found along with the other objects he has locked away in Elsewhere.

Cost: 1m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious, Stackable
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Midnight Belly Stockpile
Isidoros needs no tools – he is perfect in his own body, and what he requires he simply takes as himself. This Charm grants the Infernal a new natural attack with the traits of a mundane weapon he has stored in Elsewhere through Midnight Belly Stockpile. The general nature of the weapon used is Obvious, but it manifests as a natural, exaggerated extension of the Infernal’s body – using a sledgehammer might result in his fist growing to absurd proportions, while a sword might manifest as a sudden tusk-growth somewhere on his body, and a throwing knife might result in him throwing a razor-sharp bristle plucked from his arm. Weapons the size of a knife or smaller are not Obvious. This Charm provides no ammunition, though if the Infernal has ammunition stored in Elsewhere (or access to other magic capable of shaping ammunition from Essence) he can use that, and spit arrows with a stored crossbow.

A second purchase of this Charm allows the Infernal to use it with mundane armour and tools he has stored in Elsewhere. In the case of tools, the Infernal does not gain a new natural attack, but instead becomes able to use the tool with any part of his body, navigating with a tattoo-map or aching-joint of a compass, examining the details of a map with bulging eyes derived from a magnifying glass, or working stone with blunt chisel-fingers. In the case of armour, the Charm is not stackable, and the Infernal gains appropriate natural soak as his skin becomes tough leather and his bones thicken – despite being natural soak, this is treated as normal armour for the purposes of being compatible with other armour.

Cost: 30m, 2wp; Mins: Essence 5; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-Basic, Blasphemy, Form-type, Obvious, Shaping
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Behemoth Shock Pound, Compressed Universe Consumption, Black Vitality Rubble-Rousing, Bloody Back-and-Forth Caprice, Obnoxious Wrath Magnet, Warthog’s Star-Swallowing Maw

The warlock stomps a foot as his anima flares to its highest level, producing a burning totemic image that can be witnessed from a mile away. This soulfire then calcifies around him, forming a solid, opaque statue of pure jade. As darkness falls across his sight, the warlock’s senses are overtaken by a singular sound; the steady, pounding heartbeat of an ancient god. Within this celebratory sarcophagus, time slows to a halt, crippled by the warlock’s sheer presence. As such, it does not matter how long it takes him to realize that the heart is his own, along with the universe and everything in it, but once he does so the mantle of the Unstoppable One becomes his, and the jade encasing him begins to run through with cracks. The giant statue finally crumbles inward with a peal of thunder, consumed by the empty awesomeness at its heart as the Exalt steps forth, a jet-black silhouette who stands naked and featureless before sweeping out his anima once more as a shimmering cloak of destruction. This form confers the following features:

• The Infernal becomes a wavering, oversized silhouette, his features replaced by a window into an endless black void edged with a corona of shimmering bent light. He becomes immune to all environmental hazards, and cannot starve, suffocate or sleep. Further, he benefits from the effects of Weight-Exaggerating Ego Density (cancelling any existing activation), with any weight-gain from that Charm doubled, and increases his weight by a further 10lbs for every object he has stored in Elsewhere.

• The immense forces that emanate from his insatiable singularity-body inflict an unsoakable environmental hazard on every character and object within (Essence) yards of himself, with the following traits: Evade N/A, Trauma (Essence)L, Damage 1B/tick. Obviously, he is immune. Ranged attacks are especially broken and diffused by this aura of crushing gravity, and suffer from a -2 external penalty when targeting the Infernal.

• His movements are traced by shuddering shadow-afterimages as reality rushes to fill the gap left by his destructive presence with a noise like a constantly-crashing wave. All of the warlock’s close range attacks impact an area, exactly as though they were being made through Behemoth Shock Pound. These attacks are automatically enhanced by Foe-Hurling Gore Strike at no additional mote cost (this does not include any additional cost imposed by upgrades to that Charm).

• The least gods that manage the air currents begin to scream with exhausted terror as a strong wind picks up, noticeably drawing all things toward the warlock. This becomes a full-scale storm Boar’s Inescapable Gravity drags in every valid target within its range (or a smaller radius chosen by the Infernal upon activation), rather than just a single one. The Infernal may use it to make any form of reflexive attack rather than just a reflexive clinch, may make up to (Essence) reflexive attacks per activation, and the cost to do so is reduced to two motes per attack. The base mote cost of Obnoxious Wrath Magnet when used to defend against ranged attacks is waived.

• Midnight Belly Stockpile loses the Touch keyword, gaining a range of (Essence) yards, and becomes free if made Sorcerous. If used to reflexively target an object on the same tick the Infernal destroys it, that object is stored in Elsewhere undamaged, its component motes swirling together to be consumed entirely. If he stores multiple object-scale components of a structure in this fashion, they link up and join together in Elsewhere, forming a full structure that can be ejected whole and intact.

• The Willpower cost of Warthog’s Star-Swallowing Maw is waived, and the Infernal may end that Charm early despite its Sorcerous nature. The environmental hazard created by this Charm not only continues in reality while he is that midnight otherworld, centred on the dark cloud of folded space created by his departure, but actually expands to a radius of (Essence x 2) yards. Any attempt to end the Charm early through countermagic is Obvious to him, and he may spend ten motes and a point of Willpower to negate it.