Adjustments needed aside, it fits Oramus.
Even the writers admitted later on that they went overboard with those SMA...
Something that requires a few motes and a willpower, something something roll twice and keep the better roll? Not sure which tags and limitations to use, but Simple/Combo-Basic, I guess?
Uhm...Combo-Basic instead of Combo-OK so you cannot use it for everything, and what it adds to static values is the Essence. Furthermore, the action you're rolling for must be resolved within (essence) ticks, to a max of seven. Possible updates extends this time to minutes, hours, that kinda things.
I have no idea, but since Oramus is Oramus, I don't think it goes against the theme.
Too hard to balance, stuff that effects dice rolls will always be iffy; another idea for a gateway charm would be one that gives you an air of strangeness or you cause a feeling of disquiet t that puts other people at ill-ease, it gets worse as you grow in Essence, and it can be fairly crippling for your social situation. But perhaps it makes you fascinating so that while it makes it harder for people to like or befirend you, save perhaps those with derangement, it does mean that you're harder to ignore.
Manual of Exalted Power: Infernals said:
Probably, yeah, since he is impossibility made manifest. Maybe more on the Emotion influencing aspects, though. Never played a Necromancy focused character in Exalted, so dun ask me.
EarthScorpion has a similar idea, where Oramus' Excellency could not be used for easy actions.
Like this one?
How many? 1 WP per 2 Essence, rounded down?
No, just 1wp...but your idea isn't bad. Uhm...
Essence 5+ and some other unspecified charms will allow you to "predict" seven minutes to the future, then seven hours, and seven days at its highest. Unless you feel like becoming Oramus 2.0, which will allow you to go seven weeks, months and years?
Maybe something that fool the Shaping effect? Or something like you can't shape what is impossible or something?
Not sure about this, but probably a decent idea.
I mean giving it a distinctive twist. I will like canon examples:
Oramus turns it against them?
Indeed, EarthScorpion suggested something similar: [There's probably various Defences in there with work by "lol I don't even notice your Shaping"]. So, maybe an automatic effect that turns the Shaping against the aggressor, maybe twisted with Oramus' theme or make it a derangement, in exchange for refounding the aggressor of the price of the Shaping while a Compulsion effect make the Infernal ignore the attempt, as he doesn't become aware??
How about something in between?
That is Kimbery's stick, to craft by giving birth. For Oramus I suggest another approach.How about something in between?
The latter I can understand, but the former...do you mean Shaping effects? And speaking of madness...what do you think of a charm that forces a person using something like All Encompassing Sorcerer's Sight or other magical means to observe an Oramus Infernal to roll an Integrity check or face SAN loss?
No, I mean mutations that aren't physical, like Amnesia or Hallucinations. That Charm is a good idea.
So something that allows the Infernal to do an Awareness check to see whether someone is kooky, and how severe his/her/its/??? kookiness is? Am I reading it correct?
Maybe something that allows the Oramus Infernal to gain a bonus to Social attacks against said kooky person?
Yes. Okay, let's re-cap:
Master of Madness
Well, the charm is specific about Derangements, and the Great Curse isn't technically a Derangement. So it might even be an interesting plot point for an Infernal to examine a Solar who is clearly insane, but he reads as perfectly normal.
Name and fluff aren't quite correct. It needs to be more about "madness is just a greater truth lowly people cannot understand".