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The Circle of Adamant

Solar Charging Ritual

 Cost: 75 motes
 Target: The Sorcerer

Every time this spell is cast, it provides the Solar with 15 "hanging" motes that he can only use to cast Sorcery spells. This is an Obvious effect, that literally makes the Exalt glow from within in a vivid golden patina. In effect, his anima is hanging at the 8-11 mote level until he uses all of this hanging essence. You can cast this spell a number of consecutive times equal to your Essence rating, each time gaining an additional 15 hanging motes. This Essence can only be spent on Sorcery, and all of this hanging essence is spent on the first spell that the Sorcerer casts that isn't Solar Charging Ritual. Any unused essence is wasted. If the Solar holding this Essence is killed prior to releasing it, a random and uncontrolled Adamant Circle effect is unleashed as a dying act. This effect is considered to have effective mote cost equal to five times the hanging reserve that the Solar had at the time of death plus any motes in the Solar's pool at the time of death. It is thus much more powerful than any spell that the Sorcerer could cast in life.

There is a Void Circle "mirror" of this spell, known to the Deathlords and some of their most potent Abyssal Servants. It functions identically, save that it can only benefit Necromancy spells and its Obvious nature follows an Abyssal theme rather than a Solar one.

Adamant Circle Errata

• Gaia's Rebuke (the White Treatise, page 91) is, on the turn when the spell is cast, a undodgeable attack against which a block is an invalid defense. You can perfectly Dodge a tuft of earth lifting you hundreds of yards into the sky in an instant, but there's simply nothing to block. In only a few seconds, the character finds himself a mile up in the air. If the character fails to defend, he can try to jump off the pillar of earth before it reaches its high point by making a Dextrity + Dodge roll with a difficulty of 10. Each success on this roll lowers the height at which you then fall by 150 yards, to a minimum of 260 yards. The Sorcerer may aim the column of Earth on its descent with a reflexive Wits + Occult roll with his Essence in automatic successes. This is an unblockable attack if aimed at a character, but can be dodged normally. Anyone still on the column of Earth when it impacts cannot avoid the 150L damage it inflicts to both him and whomever or whatever the Sorcerer targeted, he can only soak it. It's possible to cast this spell without an initial target.