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Don't the Haltans feed people to the Raksha? Wouldn't that make a Solar more inclined to stomp them down?
 
Honestly, the only reason I don't reflexively cut Linowan and Halta from the setting is that they are proof that you can, in fact, have religion-driven (or at least religion-sparked) conflict in Creation.
 
ichypa said:
Honestly, the only reason I don't reflexively cut Linowan and Halta from the setting is that they are proof that you can, in fact, have religion-driven (or at least religion-sparked) conflict in Creation.
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Their religious war is actually another one of the things that make me want to rip them both apart and put them back together in a a way that isn't crap.


The idea of two tribes in a 5 century long blood feud over whether evergreens or deciduous trees are better sounds really dumb when put in context, especially when the aggressors are trying to burn down a fire ecology, and think that the charismatic party god they worship is a hardcore war-god because they first met him while he was on drugs and nobody ever managed to figure out the deception for multiple centuries.
 
Kaiya said:
*coughs*ImmaculateOrder*coughs*
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Not really, imo. The Immaculate Order is a tool of control and ideological justification, and other far more accurate terms I'm sure would come to mind if my break wasn't ending; it has never to my knowledge been used as the reason the Realm went to war with someone, not in the way that Linowan and Halta's conflict is rooted in the conflict between their patron deities.

Xyzarach said:
The idea of two tribes in a 5 century long blood feud over whether evergreens or deciduous trees are better sounds really dumb when put in context
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That's true for a lot of actual wars, religious or otherwise. The War of the Oaken Bucket was a thing that actually happened in real life.
 
Great Verres Snout
Cost: 4m; Mins: Essence 2; Type: Simple
Keywords: Combo-OK, Emotion
Duration: Indefinite
Prerequisite Charms: Stubborn-Boar Indulgence
The Boar That Breaks the Sky can track a Neomah whore or a glass of fine wine or a midden of fouled meat four layers away with but a single sniff of the air. While this Charm is active, the Exalt gains all the benefits of Keen Scenct Technique and Unsurpassed Scent Discipline (Exalted, pp. 225-226). Additionally, at the storyteller's discretion, the Infernal may gain a desirous intimacy towards another vice that he detects that is similar to one he already holds as an emotion effect costing (essence) willpower to resist E.g. If an Infernal has a intimacy towards Cynis-Wine and detects the scent of cheap grog, then he gains a desirous intimacy towards that.

Note, that this charm does not stack with other charms with the same effect, one or the other must apply.

Thought process; Infernals lack a smell enhancer, save a half one in Revlid's Metagaos. Pigs are known for their noses. Isidoros is a giant black-hole shaped like a boar.

Solution found.
 
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ichypa said:
Not really, imo. The Immaculate Order is a tool of control and ideological justification, and other far more accurate terms I'm sure would come to mind if my break wasn't ending; it has never to my knowledge been used as the reason the Realm went to war with someone, not in the way that Linowan and Halta's conflict is rooted in the conflict between their patron deities.
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Pretty much, yeah. The Immaculate Order has generally been portrayed more as a casus belli for the Realm to go to war with Anathema in order to preserve the hegemony of their empire and keep the Solars from gaining power counter to Sidereal designs, not as a driving force in its own right. It's something Exalted is actually not very good at, treating religion as a powerful force except when it's a skin for pragmatic concerns. While the game's examination of worship and prayer as a form of protection racket is fascinating, it too often forgets that there's more at work than that.
 
The Dragon-Blooded Kickstarter has previewed several excerpts from The Realm, first on the Satrapy of Fajad and now The Immaculate Order. (direct link)

The Realm: Heretical Worship said:
The outer Threshold teems with cults that defy every Immaculate tenet of right worship, and secret cults spring up even on the Blessed Isle. Immaculates refer to these cults collectively as the Hundred Gods Heresy, and hold a sacred duty to anticipate, uncover, and destroy such heretical worship. This is difficult, particularly in satrapies with rich religious histories and divine mythologies. Many cults go underground, while others syncretize Immaculate concepts. The Immaculate Order has centuries of experience stamping out illicit worship. Monks in the Realm ban and destroy iconography that could lead mortals to false worship, use public duels to settle questions of doctrine, and stage raids on heretical assemblies with expert coordination and intelligence.
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ichypa said:
Not really, imo. The Immaculate Order is a tool of control and ideological justification, and other far more accurate terms I'm sure would come to mind if my break wasn't ending; it has never to my knowledge been used as the reason the Realm went to war with someone, not in the way that Linowan and Halta's conflict is rooted in the conflict between their patron deities.


That's true for a lot of actual wars, religious or otherwise. The War of the Oaken Bucket was a thing that actually happened in real life.
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The Immaculate Orders ideology centers on justifying rule of Dragonbloods over mortals as a divine mandate and thus provides the justification for conquering any mortal lead nation and basically all the imperialistic things the realm does. Not to mention the wyld hunts. Mortal authority isn't considered legitimate once dragonbloods get involved allowing basically anything to be morally justified once they get outside of the realm itself.
 
If you kill an unenlightened Dragon King, is it weird to use them as food? Is it weirder than using a regular dinosaur, or other animal as food? Is it somewhere between eating a human and eating livestock?
 
Unbanshee said:
If you kill an unenlightened Dragon King, is it weird to use them as food? Is it weirder than using a regular dinosaur, or other animal as food? Is it somewhere between eating a human and eating livestock?
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I'd say it would be like killing and eating a feral child. Except not necessarily a child, but feral adult and feral human don't roll of the tongue as well, you know?

Also, what the fuck?
 
Accelerator said:
That's like eating a child. Don't do it.
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What if I'm really hungry though?

ichypa said:
I'd say it would be like killing and eating a feral child. Except not necessarily a child, but feral adult and feral human don't roll of the tongue as well, you know?

Also, what the fuck?
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More seriously, I'm trying to figure out what a realm-raised fellow would think of them. Would they think of them as weird animals? One of the other solars wants to get one as a pet and see if he can enlighten them. Another one wants to fix one who's soul is broken. They say that they have the potential to be people... but IC idk if that would seem plausible for someone raised in the realm. These things can't even talk.
 
Unbanshee said:
If you kill an unenlightened Dragon King, is it weird to use them as food? Is it weirder than using a regular dinosaur, or other animal as food? Is it somewhere between eating a human and eating livestock?
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At best it's like eating monkey or dolphin, at worst it's basically eating babies. It's kind of fucked up and weird to me at best.
 
If you're not the kind of person to eat another human, you probably aren't the kind of person to eat even an unenlightened Dragon King, provided you knew it had the potential to be sentient.
 
Azrael said:
If you're not the kind of person to eat another human, you probably aren't the kind of person to eat even an unenlightened Dragon King, provided you knew it had the potential to be sentient.
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And really if you're going for flavor fresh Dragonblooded are more succulent and tender.
 
The character in question isn't going to be getting the Metagaos charms he had ripped out of him replaced, so actual literal cannibalism isn't on the table. I think if something can talk he'd burn the body because it might become a ghost, while if it can't talk that means it's just another kind of animal.
 
Does Revild's SWLiHN have a spirit killer? I grabbed a copy a while back and I can't find one, but it might have been updated since.
 
I don't recall one. There's GETs in Malfeas and TED not to mention various other hombrew yozis, so SWLIHN probably doesn't need one of her own.
 
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