Soul+Porter

// "And the moment before she died, she lifted up her lovely head and cried..." - Cole Porter, "Miss Otis Regrets" // toc
 * Soul Porter, Resurrectionists/Ten Thunders Totem (Yan Lo)**

=__Overview__= The Soul Porter is Yan Lo's personal totem. He exists to help take care of the ancestors and their relics.

=__Mobility__= The Soul Porter has average walk and charge values, but it has link as a 0 action which allows it to cast its spells while keeping up with the rest of the crew. He is also a spirit, so terrain is not a problem for him.

His main function is to speed up ancestors, which he mostly does through his 1 spell Empower Ancestor. This spell requires an average card to go off and allows a friendly ancestor to push up to its walk. As expected, this greatly increases the mobility of ancestors, letting an ancestor quickly shift from one flank to another or to retreat from an unwanted area. Do keep in mind that if you are linked to the model you are targetting that the Soul Porter will not be pushed next to it since link only triggers when the model the Soul Porter is linked to moves via a movement, and not a placement, action.

He can also do some relocation of an ancestor through his other 0 action, Soul Cages. This lets the Soul Porter immediately kill an ancestor that is within 6" of him while also giving the relic to Yan Lo. This can be used to save an ancestor that may be too far from Yan Lo or simply because you want to quickly redeploy an ancestor where Yan Lo is since after getting its relic, Yan Lo can summon it into play again.

=__Offense__= == He has a good range with his weapon but a mediocre Cb, so it is only used in desperate situations.

=__Resilience__= It has a slightly below average defense, average Wp and low wounds, but its a spirit, so that should help it take a non-magical hit or two.

=__Magical Extension__= Through magical extension he can cast Yan Lo's signature damage spell Weight of the Ages and, since he only has 2 less cast than Yan Lo, he can cast it with a certain reliability. He can join a companion chain between ancestors, Yan Lo and himself and try to maximize the damage potential of Weight of the Ages.

The other spell of Yan Lo he can cast initially is Repair Corpus which requires a below average crow and heals an ancestor for 2 damage. Useful to keep an ancestor going or to add more life to a recently summoned one.

If Yan Lo gets Chi and adds it to the path of Ash, he can get a couple of more spells that the Soul Porter can cast. At level 3 of the path, the Soul Porter can cast Rigor Mortis, a high dificulty spell that causes the target to be paralyzed. It demands a high card and chances are that it will also require a stone to make sure it goes off, but a well placed paralysis is a game changer.

The other spell he can cast is Terracota Curse, which Yan Lo learns at level 4 of Ash. Since it is a pulse, it can be applied in an aggressive manner if you don't mind the soul porter possibly dying to get its effect on the table. It is a spell that causes all those who fail to resist it to take 2 damage each time they move during their activation. This can put a very big dent on an opponents plan if it required him to move about the table. The spell does require a high tome to be cast though.

=__Tips and Tricks__= You can use the Soul Porter to "cycle" an ancestor, such as Izamu. First have the ancestor activate, then activate the Soul Porter and Soul Cage the Ancestor, then activate Yan Lo (or companion him to the totem for simultaneous activation) and re-summon the ancestor, finally, the ancestor can then take another set of actions - though it will be slow.

=__Playing Against the Soul Porter__= Threat level, how to kill/neutralize it, what to watch out for etc.

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