A weapon of enormous size with similarly enormous devastating power, the 6 foot haft is braided with hairs finer than any silk, ephemeral and dark red, before the blade adds an additional foot to the total height of the grimcleaver. The golden axe-head is carved with the legend of Immortal Reft, the Grimcleaver of the First Age Lawgiver, Quan Who-Is-Equity-and-Hurricanes.
Before the Divine Revolution could take place, the Exalted who would fight built up armies, trained their skills, and forged themselves weapons of immeasurable strength. Immortal Reft, before it took the lives of the most ancient enemies of the gods, it took the lives of other immortals.
Quan exalted amidst a crisis in his village, where tornadoes tore down houses and shredded skin with burning sands. The warrior boy rose through the clouds, not a Dawn, but an Eclipse, demanding audience with the storm-forging Huraka. The bear of titanic size he met was one on his way to becoming an elemental dragon, but Quan did not fret. With his axe, he reared the mighty sky-king from his throne, taking with him a handful of the beasts hair.
While he did not take that axe to slay Creation’s rulers, a fragment of it’s blade sits in the middle of the Orichalcum and the hair of the slain Huraka binds down the haft. But the enemies of the gods were mighty, and his Orichalcum axe still betrayed him. Quan rose up once more to meet with the Huraka sky-lord who claimed he had been taken advantage of. Now with his Grimcleaver in hand, the elemental was slain and his very essence was poured into the Grimcleaver. Bound in oaths and sealed in sacred metal, all the powers of the Huraka became Immortal Reft, the axe that beheaded She With Epiphanies Without Falsehood.
Attunement: 5m
Type: Heavy (+1 ACC, +14L, OVW 5, +0 Def)
Tag: Lethal, Melee, Chopping, Reaching, Two-handed
Hearthstone Slots: 3
Era: War of the Gods
Evocations of Immortal Reft
Immortal Reft has killed more immortals than most weapons have taken mortal lives. It can always hit immaterial spirits and permanently slays gods, elementals, and demons that are killed by it unless they have an Essence rating higher than 5.
The first victim of Immortal Reft, Red Devil Dust, the most powerful of southern Huraka, has its essence forever bound in the Grimcleaver. Whenever the wielder joins battle, the wind swirls around him, roaring with a terrifying ferocity. For each 10 in his Join Battle roll, enemies lose a point of initiative. Trivial enemies flee automatically, while trivial battlegroups must make a Rout check at difficulty (Number of 10s in the Join Battle roll).
Inhaling Hungry Demigod Approach
Cost: 2m, 2i; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Withering-Only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: None
Like an inhaling demigod, the winds obey the Exalted wielder of Immortal Reft. This evocation supplements a Close range withering attack made with the grimcleaver causing it to knock-back an opponent one range band unless they succeed a Dexterity+Athletics roll against a difficulty equal to the number of 9s and 10s in the damage roll. Alternatively, this evocation allows the wielder to attack out to Short Range. If the attack is successful, the opponent is pulled to the Exalt unless they succeed the same roll.
A character crashed by this attack cannot roll to resist the push or pull.
Resonant: A character resonant with Orichalcum instead counts all successes as the difficulty of the Athletics roll to resist being pulled.
Spinning Twister Onslaught
Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 2
Type: Simple
Keywords: Decisive-Only, Resonant
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Inhaling Hungry Demigod Approach
The fury of the Huraka spirit bound in immortal reft surrounds the wielder in winds as they spin with devastating force. This evocation allows the Exalt to attack all enemies currently in Close range. If he suffers an onslaught penalty to his defense, he gains that penalty as bonus dice on the attack roll. The Exalt must split his initiative as evenly as possible between all targets. For each enemy hit by this attack, add a single die of damage to the base damage of all attacks.
Resonant: The Exalt may reflexively activate this charm after using the prerequisite if at least 3 enemies are in close range of him.
Special Activation Rules: The first time the Exalt crashes an enemy using this charms prerequisite, he may learn this evocation at no experience cost.
Raging Storm Upheaval
Cost: (+4m, 1wp); Mins: Essence 3
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Withering-Only, Resonant
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite: Inhaling Hungry Demigod Approach
When Immortal Reft strikes, the winds of the world carry enemies like leaves blown from trees. When the Exalt activates this charms prerequisite to attack an enemy in Close range, she may pay an additional 4m and 1wp in order to throw enemies straight upwards if they fail their Athletics check, causing them to fall and suffer as if they had fallen from Short height.
The Exalt and Immortal Reft are the wind, the storm, the earth-shaking fury of Heaven and all should beware their might. The Exalt rolls a threaten action against all enemies in Medium range with their Charisma + Presence with (Essence) automatic successes. Enemies whose Resolve is overcome are immediately overcome with supernatural fear, losing a number of initiative equal to the number of 10s in the roll. Demons, Gods, Elementals, lose (Essence+10s) instead. Trivial opponents (including battlegroups) flee automatically if they remain in the fight. This initiative is lost and is not gained by the Exalt.
Dissonant: Enemies affected by the roar, including spirits, only lose a single point of initiative.
When a Solar grips onto Immortal Reft, they see lies and illusions as easily as they see spirits. She may activate this evocation to swallow an illusion or Psyche effect controlling or possessing another character by purifying it with the illusion clearing breaths of a Huraka. If the origin is a being with an Essence score lower than her own, this is automatic. Otherwise, she rolls with Charisma + Integrity with (target’s current temporary Willpower / 2) automatic successes with a difficulty of (Essence score of the source) or an appropriate roll if actively opposed. Charms or magical effects swallowed with this evocation must be reactivated, even if they would normally last an extended duration.
Special Activation Rules: If the Solar has Spirit Detecting Glance active while she is the one under a Psyche effect, she may inflict 1 lethal health level of damage on herself to attempt to consume her own delusions.
As Red Devil Dust once grew fat on the Essence of the wind, the Solar may become fat and powerful on the essence of those struck down by Immortal Reft. After the Solar uses Carnal Spirit Rending, rather than gaining the Normal Benefits, she may add that spirit’s (Essence) to her base initiative when she resets, devouring the power instantly rather than storing it.
Immortal Cleaving God-Form
Cost: -; Mins: Essence 4
Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Sky Ruler’s Roar, Terrifying Apparition of Glory
How can mortals and spirits look upon a Solar and not know fear. The enemies of the gods are notches in her belt and those below such things cannot imaginably be a threat to her. This charm permanently enhances Terrifying Apparition of Glory. Whenever the Solar crashes an opponent while the charm is active, she may intimidate him again, even if he has already paid the Willpower and initiative to resist such an effect that scene.
Titan Slaying Devil Storm
Cost: 10m, 1wp; Mins: Essence 4
Type: Reflexive
Keywords: Decisive-Only
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite: Immortal Cleaving God-Form, Gluttonous Spirit King Technique
All winds spin with the blade of Immortal Reft, as red as the dust devils of the South, not with sand but with blood and essence of slain gods and titans. Whenever the Solar successfully makes a decisive attack against a demon, god, elemental, or other spirit, the huraka king inside of her axe strikes as well. This creates a second decisive attack (rolling Dexterity + Melee) in the form of an instant and destructive tornado against all enemies in a line out to Long range of the Solar. All enemies in close range of her are hit automatically, including her previous target. The damage of this attack is (Essence + number of successes on the decisive damage roll that triggered this attack) and ignores up to (Essence) hardness. Dematerialized spirits are still affected by this attack.
This evocation almost always causes catastrophic destruction to the environment and can only be used once per day. It cannot be reset by the Dawn caste anima power.
Heaven Consuming Vortex
Cost: 15m, 5i, 1wp; Mins: Essence 5
Type: Simple
Keywords: Perilous
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite: Titan Slaying Devil Storm
The world darkens as winds blow dust around the Solar and her enemies, cutting off everyone and everything from the carnage about to occur. All characters currently tracking initiative out to Long range become surrounded by winds so powerful that nothing can penetrate the storm surrounding them. Neither a mayfly searching for nectar nor a spear hurled by the Unconquered Sun himself may interfere with the fight, nor may a god dematerialize and flee or a demon seek a portal into Malfeas’ recesses. Anyone not participating in the battle is immediately pushed away by the winds escaping the Solar’s body. Only the Solar’s victory or death can allow escape or entry.
Each Spirit currently inside the captured area loses 1 initiative, which is immediately gained by the Solar. In addition, Titan Slaying Devil Storm is reset after each use, allowing the Solar to follow up nearly any attack with a devastating twister.
Even after this evocation ends, the area becomes plagued by wind storms of terrifying intensity intermittent with periods of deceptive peace without rhyme or reason. Nearly all life cycles collapse as dust storms regularly destroy plant life, kill animals, and displace water. Only freeing Red Devil Dust by destroying or permanently altering the artifact can end these environment devastating aftereffects.
Special Activation Rules: This evocation can only be used once per story and cannot be purchased with experience points. Instead this evocation awakens automatically if the Solar finds himself in a feud with a spirit that even he or his circle may not triumph over such as Octavian the Living Tower or Ligier the Green Sun. This evocation can only be reset by consuming a spirit of Essence greater than the Solar with Carnal Spirit Rending and forgoing the normal benefits. Until this evocation resets, the Solar becomes unable to use Titan Slaying Devil Storm either.
