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Another awesome demon write up it's to be expected of a writer of your caliber.
Unrelated, since the most awesome @Shyft has just introduced a rakasha invasion in the fantastic Evangelion/Exalted story Cast in Gold". I'm curious what are the thoughts of this board concerning a rakasha's perspective on a modern world, technology cultures etc. what concepts/innovations do you think would attract/offend them the most and why ?
what might Rakasha invading say the dystopian world of George Orwell's 1984 focus on ?
Chloe Sullivan
Subdefective
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- 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale CA
The Demon Species that gets out the most? This is a relatively common condition.
Wait, these sound familiar......
Oh.
God, it's been years since I thought of this show.
Can't say I recognise it, care to fill in the blanks.
I believe they're from InuYasha - they were little spirits or demons that collected energy from humans to keep Kikyo alive
Aaron Peori
Rest in Peace
"What a magnificent and interesting place! What happens when I break it?"
"What a magnificent and interesting place! What happens when I break it?"
Raksha are hard to put into a single box in terms of motivations. About the only thing you can say that is universal about them is that, eventually, they will grow tired of their diversions and... do something to spice up what is happening.
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
I wonder what it would be like having one as an unwoven co-adjutator
Dynamesmouse
Bzzzzzz
I want in this too!
Csaba, the Hive Fruit Wasps
Demon of the First Circle
Progeny of the Quicksilver Avalance
Few of the oldest first circle demons are especialy curious creatures. If they were, they would not be so old. A beautiful and almost certainly delicious fruit lies on the floor, and it's never undisturbed for long. Many would bite into it, expecting a delicious meal. Few would expect the fruit to explode and start biting them.
The Csaba is a hive mind. One mind, many bodies. Their body is the shape and size of a wasp, except they have no eyes and claws where the wings should be. They build nests out of the bodies of their victims that thought to disturb their nest, burrowing inside it, disguising its flesh as a plump and juicy fruit. They wait until their hive is broken into and then they explode out of the fruit, biting and stinging and grabbing whatever prey is nearby. They overwhelm their prey from the inside and the outside. Once it is dead, the Csaba crawl inside to build their new nest and make new bodies. A new Csaba is born whenever a large swarm takes over a large body and makes two fruit out of it.
A Csaba can wait a day before they start rolling the fruit, looking for a new place to for unwitting prey. The Csaba have no eyes, but their hearing is average, and a particularly smart Csaba can pick up a few words of Old Realm.
A Csaba can be brought into Creation whenever a child eats a large poisonous fruit and throws it up. If she cries for food edible food, a Csaba may just show up to answer her prayer.
Summoning (Obscurity 4/4): Csaba are not very well known, but a clever (read: MEAN) sorcerer may well make them infamous if he finds out how to use a Csaba like a grenade.
Csaba, the Hive Fruit Wasps
Demon of the First Circle
Progeny of the Quicksilver Avalance
Few of the oldest first circle demons are especialy curious creatures. If they were, they would not be so old. A beautiful and almost certainly delicious fruit lies on the floor, and it's never undisturbed for long. Many would bite into it, expecting a delicious meal. Few would expect the fruit to explode and start biting them.
The Csaba is a hive mind. One mind, many bodies. Their body is the shape and size of a wasp, except they have no eyes and claws where the wings should be. They build nests out of the bodies of their victims that thought to disturb their nest, burrowing inside it, disguising its flesh as a plump and juicy fruit. They wait until their hive is broken into and then they explode out of the fruit, biting and stinging and grabbing whatever prey is nearby. They overwhelm their prey from the inside and the outside. Once it is dead, the Csaba crawl inside to build their new nest and make new bodies. A new Csaba is born whenever a large swarm takes over a large body and makes two fruit out of it.
A Csaba can wait a day before they start rolling the fruit, looking for a new place to for unwitting prey. The Csaba have no eyes, but their hearing is average, and a particularly smart Csaba can pick up a few words of Old Realm.
A Csaba can be brought into Creation whenever a child eats a large poisonous fruit and throws it up. If she cries for food edible food, a Csaba may just show up to answer her prayer.
Summoning (Obscurity 4/4): Csaba are not very well known, but a clever (read: MEAN) sorcerer may well make them infamous if he finds out how to use a Csaba like a grenade.
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Wow every ones doing demon parasites now. We have enough of those in real life, thank you very much. No seriously nice write up.
Thanks for responding and yeah that line sums up Raksha perfectly. now to eagerly wait to see how @Shyft handles Raksha running wild in Tokyo 3.
On the topic of the Fey Folk, inspired by @Aleph and @EarthScorpion 's discussions of how Sauron could work as a third circle demon and how the Deathlords could be redone here is my discussion on a source that I think can contribute to writing the Fair Folk .
I admit my perception/depiction of the Raksha is pretty heavily influenced by a read-online story called :
Dystopic Return of Magic
Its seriously a fantastic work about a world where the Fae invaded Earth in 1898 and started a world war with Humanity. Its dark with a capital D but awesome and well researched. While I admit the Fae in story are closer to a magical version of Firefly Reavers (with a bit of WarHammer 40k's Dark Eldar mixed in) than the story driven Raksha, a lot of the cosmetic, abilities and tactics they use overlaps pretty well with the Raksha.
So whenever I've homebrewed the Raksha I tend to borrow a lot of stuff from the Dystopic Fae. Stuff like them having Inhuman beauty, Appeal and Coordination (They look perfect to humans every line of there faces like the work of the greatest of sculpture, their voices have a musical quality which is enthralling, they move like dancers etc. ) the creepy/traumatising bit comes out when soldiers fight and kill the Fae because the beauty/grace thing is less of a physical feature and more of a magical quality which remains no matter what, even as you graphically beat ones face in with a rifle butt there smashed in faces come across as beautiful and there screams have the quality/tamper of your favourite music's.
In Dystopic you see a lot of soldiers incapacitated not just by magic wounds that don't heal, but soldiers who had the cognitive dissonance that fighting and killing Fae generates build up to the point it drives them nuts or leaves them with something like acute PTSD.
And that doesn't even get started on the ways that fighting the Fair Folk is bad, bad business. For example here's an look at the Fair folk idea of biowarfare-
Zalgo Jenkins said:
So If yeah if I ever get round to posting some of the Exalted ideas in my head online expect to see the Raksha as capital A creepy with a rather Dystopic flavour to them.
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Aleph
Princess of Stabbity
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- The sixth circle of Hell (second on weekends)
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Eh. It has to be an incredibly vivid dream, so not super-common, and First Circle release conditions are often pretty easy - amphelisiae get called whenever someone is poisoned for betraying a secret, and anhules can get out whenever a shrine or temple or holy place is neglected.
Your image appears to be broken. But if it's of Kikyo's shinidamachū... yeah, they basically are. Just with "souls of dead people" swapped for "dreams".
Okay Strange idea,
Game of Thrones/Exalted
During Season 2, five Solar Exaltations land in Westroes and five people make different choices that result in them getting power of a very different nature than anything seen in living memory.
Possible candidates/Points of Divergence:
Gendry: The Dawn:
Point of Divergence: Gendry's choice rather like Gendry himself was not a matter of Kings or statecraft, it was a simple choice and no less powerful for it: to stand his ground in front of an enemy the scared him and to protect his friends. After the blaze of light Gendry's life took a turn into strangeness, it started with a man who claimed to be one of the Legendary Faceless Men bowing him and the next thing he knew he was on a Quest in the Free cities of all places with only his not quite friends for company, but who or what is this "Mother of Dragons" spoken of in Prochecy and why is it so Important that she not become a Bride of the Dragon. Well whatever the reason, A new Dawn has risen over the world and his light is both great and terrible.
Theon Greyjoy: The Zenith:
Point of Divergence: Due to a minor illness Theon doesn't feel up to flirting and finds out that the friendly girl helping him is his sister Yara, before he makes an ass of himself. Yara and Theon converse and Theon tries to sell Yara on the tactical value of allying with the Starks. When they reach Balon things go differently Balon is still dismissive of Theon but Yara's tacit approval mitigates it. Theon tries with greater success to convince Balon to side with the Starks and manages to convince him. As Theon leaves for his Quarters he Exalts as a Zenith. What is dead may never die but rise again Hard and Strong.
Sansa Stark: The Twilight:
Point of Divergence. Sansa works up the nerve to seriously try to kill Joffrey. Its a surprisingly smart plan, a kind word here, a feigned moment of weakness there, all the pieces of her plan come together and in a moment of sudden insight, bright as a ray of sunlight, she sees just what she needs to do to make it all work. and when the plan comes to fruition and joffrey lies dead on the ground its surprisingly easy to convince everyone that she couldn't have been involved. Sansa is still a prisoner in King's Landing but Joffrey's death changes things and Sansa newly chosen Twilight of the Unconquered Sun is just getting started.
Bron: The Night (To be added)
Mance Rander: The Eclipse (to be added)
So, thoughts?
Game of Thrones/Exalted
During Season 2, five Solar Exaltations land in Westroes and five people make different choices that result in them getting power of a very different nature than anything seen in living memory.
Possible candidates/Points of Divergence:
Gendry: The Dawn:
Point of Divergence: Gendry's choice rather like Gendry himself was not a matter of Kings or statecraft, it was a simple choice and no less powerful for it: to stand his ground in front of an enemy the scared him and to protect his friends. After the blaze of light Gendry's life took a turn into strangeness, it started with a man who claimed to be one of the Legendary Faceless Men bowing him and the next thing he knew he was on a Quest in the Free cities of all places with only his not quite friends for company, but who or what is this "Mother of Dragons" spoken of in Prochecy and why is it so Important that she not become a Bride of the Dragon. Well whatever the reason, A new Dawn has risen over the world and his light is both great and terrible.
Theon Greyjoy: The Zenith:
Point of Divergence: Due to a minor illness Theon doesn't feel up to flirting and finds out that the friendly girl helping him is his sister Yara, before he makes an ass of himself. Yara and Theon converse and Theon tries to sell Yara on the tactical value of allying with the Starks. When they reach Balon things go differently Balon is still dismissive of Theon but Yara's tacit approval mitigates it. Theon tries with greater success to convince Balon to side with the Starks and manages to convince him. As Theon leaves for his Quarters he Exalts as a Zenith. What is dead may never die but rise again Hard and Strong.
Sansa Stark: The Twilight:
Point of Divergence. Sansa works up the nerve to seriously try to kill Joffrey. Its a surprisingly smart plan, a kind word here, a feigned moment of weakness there, all the pieces of her plan come together and in a moment of sudden insight, bright as a ray of sunlight, she sees just what she needs to do to make it all work. and when the plan comes to fruition and joffrey lies dead on the ground its surprisingly easy to convince everyone that she couldn't have been involved. Sansa is still a prisoner in King's Landing but Joffrey's death changes things and Sansa newly chosen Twilight of the Unconquered Sun is just getting started.
Bron: The Night (To be added)
Mance Rander: The Eclipse (to be added)
So, thoughts?
Do you have a link to these?
azoicennead
Overly-Affectionate Zombie Squad
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Or an Eclipse, depending on how she did it. I don't see how it fits a Twilight at all.
I can see where your coming from, Sansa becoming a Twilight was meant to relate to her figuring all the components to needed to kill Joffrey out intellectually, but your right thematically Night/Eclipse works better.
Any suggestions as to a replacement Twilight?
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azoicennead
Overly-Affectionate Zombie Squad
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Well, looking at the caste abilities, Twilights are master craftsmen, legendary doctors, and peerless scholars. Who in Westeros fits one of those labels?
EDIT: Oh, they're also great detectives/investigators. I always forget Investigation is in the Twilight caste.
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I figure that a Maester is the most likely to fit the requirements for a Twilight Caste.
Also, you generally want to look towards thematics rather than just skills when it comes to figuring out who fits better where. You've got Favored Abilities to expand your high power skill set so you can move beyond the basic stereotypes.
Also, you generally want to look towards thematics rather than just skills when it comes to figuring out who fits better where. You've got Favored Abilities to expand your high power skill set so you can move beyond the basic stereotypes.
Chloe Sullivan
Subdefective
- Location
- 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale CA
I love the idea of Mance as an Eclipse. Would read for that alone. I also like your blurbs on Theon and Sansa - their exalt conditions are clever and interesting. Gendry's is boring. I don't really see him as Dawn-like either. Maybe Gendry-Twilight, Sansa-Night, Bron-Dawn instead? Gendry is a blacksmith, and a pretty clever/creative guy. Also, if you use 3e, Nights have socialize, which is totally Sansa's focus.
I was actually plotting something like this myself. I had a mixed circle though.
Dawn: Ygritte
Malefactor: [Redacted, Dornish character]
Twilight: actual creation-born, only survivor of circle after sorcerous disaster. Looking for her new 'siblings'
Scourge: ???
Moonshadow: Tysha
I originally wanted a Midnight and a Fiend, but Tysha was going to be the abyssal either way and the plot I developed for her worked better with the Oath power... *sigh* stupid Malefactor anima power, why are you so useless...
FaeGlade Plural
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- Plural/They
Game of Thrones already has "The Magic is coming back" as a story element. I'd make it less of a setting crossover with Exalted, and just make the Exaltations elements inherent to the GoT-setting.
In another twist, I'd integrate them with the "Lord of Light" religion that is currently spreading. Turns out that's just a very changed cult of Solars, who were the Lords of Light worshiped by that religion.
The Targaryens would obviously be Dragonbloods, just with weakened bloodlines. Daenerys just happens to carry sufficiently strong blood, and exalts at the end of season one when she gets her dragons.
The religion of the Greyjoys serves as a perfect entry for Yozi-related elements - whether demons, Lintha or full Infernal Exaltation.
You could also integrate Lunars and Sidereals if you really wanted to, but I'd avoid copying everything from Exalted over. It just gets too crowded otherwise.
Of course, most of the major actors of GoT don't have any supernatural elements on their side. The exceptions are Daenerys and the magic of Melisandre/The Lord of the Light that works with Stannis. Giving them supernatural powers would be a pretty big deal.
As for my personal cast of Solar Exalts:
Dawn: Brienne would work well, she has plenty of martial skill and motivation and is not tightly tied to any of the houses.
Zenith: No ideas yet TBH.
Twilight: Gendry is a smith. Sure he isn't interested in knowledge in general, but that's because he didn't have access to higher education. Other than that, Tyrion obviously works very well, given that he is a bookworm.
Night: Aria. Otherwise, Varys works very well as a spymaster.
Eclipse: Mance hands down. Uniting the Wildling clans was an epic feat of diplomacy.
The nice part of that is that it'd keep all the Solars out of positions of power (other than Mance, but he is far north). They'd have to work for it, and be opposed by the Lords with all their followers and money and influence.
Of course, I always imagined Aria exalting towards the end of Season 1. Specifically, she sneaks through the crowd at her fathers execution, onto the stage and manages to stab a guard without being seen. She's desperately managing to rescue her father - and because Solar Exaltations come to you when you are performing a heroic deed (instead of afterwards when you already accomplished it), her Night-Caste Exaltation gives her the perfect boost she needs to pull it off.
That would of course throw off everything else, with Ned Stark being alive and free the civil war would still happen - but in a very different way. The North for one wouldn't be an independent actor, they'd gather under Neds banner and probably work for Stannis Baratheon. Who'd now possess the necessary forces to pull off a major campaign right away, rather than having to take away forces from his brother. Melisandre might just recognize a Solar as an emmissary from the Lord of the Light and would thus still work for him. Renly might not even oppose his brother under these circumstances. The Lannisters get crushed, Stannis becomes king - yeah, that's actually a pretty good outcome overall.
In another twist, I'd integrate them with the "Lord of Light" religion that is currently spreading. Turns out that's just a very changed cult of Solars, who were the Lords of Light worshiped by that religion.
The Targaryens would obviously be Dragonbloods, just with weakened bloodlines. Daenerys just happens to carry sufficiently strong blood, and exalts at the end of season one when she gets her dragons.
The religion of the Greyjoys serves as a perfect entry for Yozi-related elements - whether demons, Lintha or full Infernal Exaltation.
You could also integrate Lunars and Sidereals if you really wanted to, but I'd avoid copying everything from Exalted over. It just gets too crowded otherwise.
Of course, most of the major actors of GoT don't have any supernatural elements on their side. The exceptions are Daenerys and the magic of Melisandre/The Lord of the Light that works with Stannis. Giving them supernatural powers would be a pretty big deal.
As for my personal cast of Solar Exalts:
Dawn: Brienne would work well, she has plenty of martial skill and motivation and is not tightly tied to any of the houses.
Zenith: No ideas yet TBH.
Twilight: Gendry is a smith. Sure he isn't interested in knowledge in general, but that's because he didn't have access to higher education. Other than that, Tyrion obviously works very well, given that he is a bookworm.
Night: Aria. Otherwise, Varys works very well as a spymaster.
Eclipse: Mance hands down. Uniting the Wildling clans was an epic feat of diplomacy.
The nice part of that is that it'd keep all the Solars out of positions of power (other than Mance, but he is far north). They'd have to work for it, and be opposed by the Lords with all their followers and money and influence.
Of course, I always imagined Aria exalting towards the end of Season 1. Specifically, she sneaks through the crowd at her fathers execution, onto the stage and manages to stab a guard without being seen. She's desperately managing to rescue her father - and because Solar Exaltations come to you when you are performing a heroic deed (instead of afterwards when you already accomplished it), her Night-Caste Exaltation gives her the perfect boost she needs to pull it off.
That would of course throw off everything else, with Ned Stark being alive and free the civil war would still happen - but in a very different way. The North for one wouldn't be an independent actor, they'd gather under Neds banner and probably work for Stannis Baratheon. Who'd now possess the necessary forces to pull off a major campaign right away, rather than having to take away forces from his brother. Melisandre might just recognize a Solar as an emmissary from the Lord of the Light and would thus still work for him. Renly might not even oppose his brother under these circumstances. The Lannisters get crushed, Stannis becomes king - yeah, that's actually a pretty good outcome overall.