Same. The animist nature of exalted is one of my favorite parrs.
Expanded detail, and particularly fan discussion on the implications of published work, about the criteria for Exaltation has helped me hugely in coming up with character concepts, yeah. Basically every Exalt I've made has benefited, more and more as I got to grips with it, from understanding the narrative constraints implicit in how the various Exaltations happen - I think it was @Aleph who said long ago that limitations enhance creativity, and I've found that to be very true. "Exaltation comes when you do something Significant/Awesome" is... much, much less helpful and likely to inspire a concept in me than the specific statement that Solars Exalt from the ambition, the attempt, to do something heroic. That a Solar is, implicitly, somebody whose reach exceeds their grasp.
Elaborate. Conceptually speaking, they're sourced from a Chinese view on the soul. In setting, they are... I don't remember exactly. They either get formed within a body during gestation and then pair with the Hun soul drawn in with the First Breath after birth, or they are formed and paired with a Hun soul in the Well of Souls or whatever and are drawn in as a bonded pair with the First Breath.
I care about an in-setting answer. Specifically, I want to know if they are formed with the body or if they come from somewhere else.
I most enjoyed least gods for when they aren't there. Infernal artifacts need to have a sacrificial demon poured into them because the nature of Primordial world-bodies means that things built from them don't naturally have a least god. That's a cool and interesting use of least gods and lets Infernals have some pretty unique item creation rules. Their presence actually shapes the game rather then them being worked in backwards as justifications for how some stuff works.
Keeps the Caste
Solaroids do, Sidereals do, but Lunars are fully capable of changing Caste between incarnations.
Well, obviously: (Lunar) Caste is merely a social construct.
Neat. I was asking because it would be fun to have a party who are the new incarnations of Deathlords third souls going up against them. Something, something the First and Foresaken Lion is secretly Merela's ghost, Desus is probably a Deathlord because he's literally the worst, are you bad enough dudes to exploit their ghostly attachments to their past lives?
IIRC yeah, the Silver Prince.
As far as I can tell, Po souls are not recycled, so think of them as the native spirit of the meatbag, containing the instincts and whatnot needed to function and feel(where the Hun soul is the higher spirit which does the thinking).
Nothing major actually written, IIRC, but there's a few lesser ones scattered around? It's been awhile. Ysyr isn't in the Scavenger Lands, but it's a whole city of Sorcerers, and likely to have stuff. Generally, there's not many centers of education in the world, let alone for magic. If you want a true Hogwarts experience, I'd say Heptagram or Ysyr.
No. Sorcery is not Medicine Charms.
