| The Final Blow
(• • • • Entropy, • • • Life, • • • • • Mind, • • • Prime) Tradition Book: Akashic Brotherhood, Revised Ed. 68 |
| This famous Do rote allows a warrior to hold on to life long enough to
fight for a few seconds more. The rote is brief, requiring only that
the Brother steady her breathing and focus on the task at hand with every
iota of her concentration, so that she literally doesn't realize that her
life has ended until the battle is done. System: Entropy holds back physical and metaphysical decay, Life allows the body to keep operating, Mind allows the Brother's consciousness to thrive in a dead brain and Prime provides the energy to maintain the Brother without the natural supply of Quintessence that permeates a living thing. Each success adds an extra health level called "Dead," which when used in conjunction with a Willpower point, allows the Brother to fight on after physical death. Additional successes must be spent on duration. If the magic ends, and the character is wounded down to "Dead," she perishes. Any magic used to heal "Dead" health levels must be vulgar Life/Matter effects. |