Dynamesmouse
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General Exalted Thread
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Matsci
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This is for Third Edition, not second.
The 5 Great Elemental Dragons are no longer connected to Gaia at all, and instead, Gaia contributed power to the creation of the Lunar Exalted, which is why there are 500 Lunars now, rather than 300.
Salty
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...what?
Do you have a citation for this? Because this is contrary to what I've heard, and doesn't appear to be mentioned in the core book.
notanautomaton
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Pretty much this.
I have no citations at the moment, but...
The Dragons are Gaia's children, without any clarification about what that means, as per First Edition. They MIGHT be souls, or they might be behemoths as I presume Adjoran's four Wind Daughters are. The Dragon-Blooded are Exalted of the Dragons, not of Gaia, so I would tend to believe that they are behemoths born from Gaia interacting with the five elemental aspects that the Primordials found and used to make Creation.
Incidentally, the corebook tells us that Gaia bade all five Dragons to sleep in their respective Poles, as their wakefulness would cause cataclysms.
As for the Lunar Exalted, things are subject to change, but the developers once said that the Lunar connection to animals is because of Gaia.
The Dragons are Gaia's children, without any clarification about what that means, as per First Edition. They MIGHT be souls, or they might be behemoths as I presume Adjoran's four Wind Daughters are. The Dragon-Blooded are Exalted of the Dragons, not of Gaia, so I would tend to believe that they are behemoths born from Gaia interacting with the five elemental aspects that the Primordials found and used to make Creation.
Incidentally, the corebook tells us that Gaia bade all five Dragons to sleep in their respective Poles, as their wakefulness would cause cataclysms.
As for the Lunar Exalted, things are subject to change, but the developers once said that the Lunar connection to animals is because of Gaia.
Yeah, this is what I read. Which isn't "The 5 Great Elemental Dragons are no longer connected to Gaia at all."
And again, this isn't a definitive "Gaia contributed her power to the Lunars."
When was this ever a thing?
Can you please stop using humorous slang for a second and clarify:
Are you saying that in the past Lunars were the offspring of Luna and now they aren't?
Thank you (though I'll have to investigate, as iirc Authocthon played a part). The phrase children was introducing ambiguity that didn't seem make sense.
It's hard to treat someone as a reliable source when they use derogatory slang. I couldn't tell if you were being serious or (not knowing your stance on 3E) using this topic as a chance to take a jibe as its "terribleness".
It's also way too soon to be complaining that Lunar Exaltation draws anything from Gaia directly, when for all we know, Luna was solely responsible for everything about them, and merely chose to make animals important to her Chosen because Gaia likes animals.
Besides which, if Lunar Exaltations really are hybrid products with some contribution from Gaia... does that really hurt ANYTHING?
Besides which, if Lunar Exaltations really are hybrid products with some contribution from Gaia... does that really hurt ANYTHING?
Ridiculously Average Guy
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It makes things messier since it means there aren't any more terrestrials.
Roadie
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I'm sad that Infernals will be Ability-based in 3e. For all that the charm trees could be a hassle, I love having permanent effect stuff like "you no longer have to sleep and trying to do so causes nightmares" and "you can fall in love with anyone at will" and whatever scattered around, and those being pigeonholed into Ability ratings seems like it will make it feel a lot less organic and greatly reduce the potential for weird stuff that doesn't fit the Ability paradigm (without just dumping it all into Integrity, I guess).
That little robot is creepy, but it's pretty hilarious that it has to flip over the USB plug when hacking the computer because it won't go in the first time.
That little robot is creepy, but it's pretty hilarious that it has to flip over the USB plug when hacking the computer because it won't go in the first time.
The Dragon-Blooded aren't going away, so I have no idea what you're trying to say there.
Sucal
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Dragon-blooded have been confirmed to not be actual exalted anymore, so the Terrestial tier doesn't exist. For evidence, see the Fiction Anthology When the Moon is Dark where one exalts!
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Carrnage
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So what are dragon blooded then, they cant be an artifical species as only humans can exalt.
Sucal
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Godblooded with excellent PR!
He's being facetious.
Some people don't know the Fiction Anthology is extremely non-canon. Please don't misinform them.
Sucal
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Your joking right?
That Anthology has given me literally years of fodder for jokes, pranks, vs debates and GM trolling!
I love it!
But it's going to take so much effort to correct, and then people who only know of Exalted through vs debates are going to believe you anyway and post grammar-less spelling error ridden arguments using it as if it were canon.
/whines
Carrnage
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Wasnt it published by whitewolf? Cant get much more canon than that.
It was published by Onyx Path and officially labeled non-canon by Richard Thomas. Some writers were given an elevator pitch of Exalted ("Bronze Age world where heroes are empowered and turned into demigods. The most powerful are called Solars.") and told to write whatever they wanted. A bunch of them promptly ignored what little guidance they had been given, pushed out some generic fantasy fiction and then sent it of to the Onyx Path. The Anthology was then published before being proof-read by anyone associated with Exalted.
@Sucal
See what you've done?
Carrnage
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And onyx path runs white wolf not the other way around iirc, wouldnt they have the final say on what's canon? hell the splatbooks should probably be disregarded when they contradict the anthology.
