Shaping the Silver Skin

Exalted Type: Lunar
Cost: Special
Duration: Permanent
Type: Special
Minimum Manipulation: 3
Minimum Essence: 1
Prerequisite Charms: Masking the Brilliant Form

Moonsilver armor normally changes shape to match the form of a lunar (Lunars, pg 96). This charm allows the lunar to take this one step further and actually incorporate attuned moonsilver armor into any of her non-human forms. This provides the Lunar with the benefit of the armor in both beast and beastman forms, but without any visible sign of the armor's presence. In addition, because the armor is incorporated into the skin of the form, it may be used with charms that do not normally allow the use of armor. This armor may still be bypassed, however, by charms that explicitly penetrate or ignore armor (e.g. Armor-Penetrating Fang Strike).

Once learned, this charm permanently extends the Lunar's abilities, allowing this effect to be used with any shapeshifting charm. However, using this ability increases the cost of the shapeshifting charm by one mote for each dot of the armor's artifact rating. The Lunar may choose to avoid using this effect when shapechanging.

Lunars may not use this effect on armor with an artifact rating higher than their permanent Essence. This effect cannot be used with the Lunar's standard human form (which is considered the Lunar's "original" form and thus cannot be so altered), but may be used with human forms reached through Prey's Skin Disguise. This effect may only be used on armor attuned to the Lunar.