Legacy: Perfected Adepts

# Perfected Adept

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Description

## Origins

**Parentage:** Obrimos, Adamantine Arrow

## Doctrine

**Prerequisites:** Life 2

## Magic

**Ruling Arcanum:** Life

Description of attainment philosophy

*Cleanse the Body (Reach: Casting Time):*

In seeking perfection of the form the Monks must first learn to perceive the flaws that might stand in their way. With a moment's concentration the Perfected Adept may get a feel for the physical details of a target they can see, including injuries, illnesses, and irregularities.

*Optional Arcanum: Forces 1*

*Kinetic Efficiency (Reach: Advanced Duration):*

The devotion Perfected Adepts have for physical training and exertion give them an almost instinctive understanding of how best to apply their strength. Provided they take time to perform their calisthenics periodically, they gain a +1 bonus to all rolls to resist fatigue and add their dots in Forces to jump distance, swimming and running speed, and to climbing rolls.

### Second: Sweeping the Stones

Prerequisites: Life 2

*Purge Illness (Reach: Casting Time):*

When illness threatens to damage the temple, Monks are quick to force the weakness from their bodies, surging their chi in order to burn out any such impurities.

*Optional Arcanum: Forces 2*

*Kinetic Blow (Reach: Advanced Duration):*

By adding visualization techniques designed to strengthen the flow of chi through their extremities to their routines, Perfected Adepts can make their fists strike like sledgehammers. While benefiting from this attainment their unarmed attacks gain a weapon bonus of 2 for a duration based on their Forces dots using the Advanced chart.

### Third: Climbing the Steps

Prerequisites: Life 3

*Body Control (Reach: Advanced Duration, Armor):*

Through deep meditation and devoted practice of their physical arts, Perfected Adepts may achieve a supernatural degree of control over their bodies processes. Provided they have taken time to meditate, exercise, and otherwise tend to themselves, Monks benefit from all of the base effects of Body Control at level 2, and gain armor 1/0. This benefit persists for a duration based on their Life dots using the Advanced chart.

*Optional Arcanum: Forces 3*

*Turn Momentum (Reach: Reflexive Casting):*

When faced with more archaic forms of assault a trained Monk has defensive options most could never contemplate. By sending out a blast of chi to divert incoming projectiles, the Perfected Adept may turn them aside and remain unscathed. As a reflexive action the Monk may knock away a number of objects equal to their forces dots provided they could apply their defense against them.

### Fourth: Finding the Door

Prerequisites: Life 4

*Honing the Form (Reach: Advanced Duration, Split Effect):*

By optimizing and strengthening the flow of chi within their body, the Monks can perfect their body in subtle ways, bolstering the points where they are weakest or pushing their strength toward the limits of human ability. During their meditations, the Perfect Adept may boost their physical attributes, splitting 2 dots amongst them as they see fit. This increase may not raise any attribute beyond 5.

*Optional Arcanum: Forces 4*

*Telekinesis (Reach: Casting Speed, Sensory Range):*

As their mastery of their chi grows, Perfected Adepts begin to extend it outside themselves, pushing objects with the strength of their minds. The Monk may employ telekinetic force to manipulate objects remotely at Strength 3 for a number of turns based on their Forces dots.

### Fifth: Taking the Throne

Prerequisites: Life 5

*Mend (Reach: Casting Time, Expanded Effect):*

With a moment's exertion a master of the Perfected Adepts can restore their temple to pristine condition. The Monk may heal two levels of lethal damage for each dot they possess in Life, or remove one tilt or condition arising from physical harm.

*Optional Arcanum: Forces 5*

*Thunderbolt (Reach: Casting Speed, Expanded Effect):*

By channeling their chi out and concentrating it into a concussive blast, Monks can send opponents flying without having to touch them. By succeeding with an aimed spell attack the Perfected Adept may deal lethal damage equal to their Forces dots + 2 and apply the Knocked Down tilt to their target.