Unholy Essence Empowerment

I'll put the prereqs up later ;)

Unholy Essence Empowerment

Cost: (Essence)lhl; Mins: Bureaucracy 5, Essence 5; Type: Simple(Dramatic Action)

Keywords: None

Duration: Until Completed

Prerequisite Charms: Selective Self Severance

Abyssals are born from death and have found ways to continue to cheat it.  The Winds of the Abyss begin a dramatic action by fashioning (Essence) jars, her Essence in this case, and for the cost of using this Charm, includes her current Essence as well as all those she has sequestered in other jars even if she is cut off from them.  Setting a piece of herself into each (or trinkets, books, jewelry, etc per Severed Heart Investment) she empowers each jar with a piece of this Charm, and her life.

After this 10 minute ritual, she proceeds in cutting the Essence that ties them to her.  This ritual takes one hour, as in Selective Self Severance, regardless of the number of jars she prepares.  Upon completion, the Abyssal looks down on the finished offerings, and knows her fate is sealed.  If she is interrupted at any point during this ritual the Charm ends, the jars shatter, and this Charm is reabsorbed as though she lost the connection.  After resting she must start the ritual from the beginning if she wishes to complete it.

So long as she successfully completes the ritual, she has sealed away a piece of her soul such that she will not drift off to Oblivion, nor rise as a ghost if she is killed.  Instead she is reborn at the end of the scene at one of the jars she just created.  As she dies she intuits the location of each jar and may choose which, at that point, she wishes to act as home to her resurrection.  If, at any point, one of the jars is broken she instinctively knows that her plan has been foiled and that this Charm offers her no protection.  In order to reset her safeguard she must find at least one of the remaining jars, spend 1 willpower for each jar she is missing, and shatter it.  This causes the Charm to forcibly return to her as all remaining jars are likewise destroyed.  At that point she may begin the ritual anew as she desires.

While this Charm will save her from any form of death, even effects that permanently kill spirits, it does have a flaws.  If any of the jars are destroyed before her resurrection, she is lost.  Additionally, for each of these jars within (Essence) miles of another, the delay of her resurrection increases by one interval (One scene, hour, day, week, month, season, year, to a maximum of one decade).  For example, if she creates 5 jars upon learning this Charm, and stores them in two locations, 3 at one and 2 at the other, upon her death she would resurrect after one week at the location she chose while dying.  If any of the jars are broken within that week, her soul drifts to Oblivion and her Exaltation returns to its Monstrance or searches for a new host as applicable.

Upon her resurrection, the jar she chose shatters and she is reborn.  All ties to other jars are cut, she has Essence 1 without a mote pool and cannot access any Charms.  Any possessions that were on her person are absent - left at the place of her death, she has no Intimacies and her Motivation becomes, "Reclaim my former self."  The first jar from this Charm which she reclaims enlightens her Essence once more, allowing her a mote pool appropriate to her current stats and access to any Charms with a minimum Essence requirement of 1.  From that point on each jar from this Charm she reclaims raises her permanent Essence by 1 and gives her access to applicable Charms.  Once she reclaims all of the jars created by use of this Charm she is complete, one Essence point lower than she was prior to her death and cut off from Charms that require her previous Essence level until she repurchases it.

Additionally, while on her quest to reclaim her former glory, any of her jars unrelated to this Charm that she finds she may reconnect to, gaining their power regardless of her current Essence so long as they don't require a minimum Permanent Essence greater than she will have upon completion of her restoration.  If any of the jars created by this Charm are destroyed after her resurrection but before she has a chance to reabsorb them, they merge with her per Severed Heart Investment.