Cost: -(1wp or 1lhl); Mins: Integrity 5, Essence 3; Type: Permanent
Keywords: None
Duration: Permanent
Prerequisite Charms: Blood Before Surrender
Blood Before Surrender allows an Abyssal to offer blood sacrifice and in exchange the Neverborn bulwarks her mind against attack. However, repeated use of this Charm results in a corpse, and a dead champion is no champion at all. Upgrading its prerequisite, this Charm grants the Abyssal a single reflexive attack against anyone in range of a currently readied weapon at the cost of 1 willpower or one lethal health level when resisting mental influence. This strike uses her normal attack pool and may be supplemented by appropriate Charms as normal. Lethal or Aggravated levels of damage inflicted by this attack are considered willpower paid to resist the associated mental influence.
If her attack is insufficient to cover the entire willpower cost of resistance she may pay the remaining amount through willpower or her own health levels. Deathknights suffer no resonance if the willpower cost is paid in its entirety through damage from this Charm or combination of this Charm and its prerequisite. However, if her attack deals no damage she gains a point of resonance in punishment for a null offering. This resonance gain is in addition to any suffered through resisting unnatural mental influence.
This power keys off the the inherent harmful nature of the mental influence and as such this charm may not be invoked in response to "attacks" from allies or bound servants.
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