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By The Demented One
Submitted on 17 May 2009 at 12:06:37 PM EDTLast updated on 17 May 2009 at 12:06:37 PM EDT
Category: Sidereal Martial Arts
Default Trait: Martial Arts
In the Chaos before the world, there was no time. Past, present, and future were meaningless concepts–there was only inchoate shapelessness, without any temporal order. But then arose the Primordials, who wrought order out of chaos, and imposed time upon reality. By their decree, what has happened is the past, what is happening is the present, and what will happen is the future. The Loom of Fate they created enforces and maintains this dictum, the Pattern Spiders on it ceaselessly scurrying to ensure the orderly flow of causality.
But while the ordained course of time is inevitable, it is not absolute. In the First Age, Sidereals developed a reality-warping martial art called the Amber Concatenation of Aeons Style. With it, they could bend or break time itself, warping it to their will. Its masters were capable of feats unmatched by any other Exalt–the high, forbidden art of changing the past. The only thing they could not do was to traverse time itself, the sole stricture on their power.
There are none left who remember the art. Every Sidereal of the First Age who knew it has died in the years since, either slain by vengeful Solars in the Usurpation, or finally succumbing to the Paradox Venoms of frustrated Pattern Spiders. Chejop Kejak is said to have studied the basic principles of the style, but he never learned any of its Charms, dreading any power that could meddle in the past, and perhaps avert the Usurpation before it began. Records of the style remain within Heaven’s archives, though they are kept in so dusty a sub-archive that none, not even Chejop, know of their existence. They wait silently for a Sidereal who can find them and master the techniques within, returning the Amber Concatenation of Aeons to the present.
Weapons and Armor: The Amber Concatenation of Aeons style makes use of swords and staves, weapons with which the hourglass-patterns of the style’s attacks can be traced. Charms of this style treat attacks made with swords and staffs as unarmed attacks, as well as attacks made with artifact versions of those weapons. Characters cannot use Charms of this style while wearing armor.
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- Bodhisattva Stands Beyond the Hours (updated about 1 year ago)
- Coils of Inescapable Regression (updated about 1 year ago)
- Drowning in Moments (updated about 1 year ago)
- Existence-Denying Revision of History (updated about 1 year ago)
- Flickering Transience Reminder (updated about 1 year ago)
- Recognition of Infinite Possibilities (updated about 1 year ago)
- Shattered Years Cascade (updated about 1 year ago)
- Slip Between the Falling Sands (updated about 1 year ago)
- Solipsistic Rejection of Hierarchy (updated about 1 year ago)
- Vatic Sublimation of Future Fates (updated about 1 year ago)
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