exalted

Green Flame Rising There was only darkness all about that guttered the light, there had been pain and there had been suffering and before the mind's eye a thousand terrors danced and cavorted, the monster under the bed, the emptiness in the stomach of a child left too long in a strange place...

You stand before the gates of the city that you once called home, eyes hard. Forced to flee by conspirators and traitors, you've spent the last twelve years in restless exile, dreaming of nothing but your triumphant return. You thought to do so at the head of an army, perhaps, or in the company...

Before you went to sleep that fateful night, things had been going so well. The so-called "Grieve Miracle", an economic resurgence centered on the city of Grieve, was showing no signs of slowing down. Ships from Uluiru, Icehome, Chanos, and even further afield would arrive and depart daily...

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun, Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good. -W. H. Auden, Funeral Blues You were so close. The end of the Work was at hand. Even now, a memory of it lingers in...

My current stint as an historian is not one I enter for my own pleasure, but out of spite. I was content to live anonymously in my humble cabin in the Viridiana Hills and sup upon the joy of living in such beautiful environs when, to my misfortune, a peddler of books came through town while I...

Chapter 1 - Brave New World Enlightenment is a cyclical phenomenon. I learned this fairly quickly, because right about the third time that my mind expanded and became one with the universe, timeless and wondrous, open to new experience and possessing new and greater insight far beyond anything...

Content Warning: This quest will or could possible address themes of body horror, violence, drug abuse, human trafficking, self-harm and suicidal ideation, claustrophobia, detailed descriptions of insects/arachnids, and sexuality. Thank you for engaging with this content responsibly. From the...

Await the Dawn 1.1 Even in the age of parahumans and mass surveillance, there were hidden places. Buried deep beneath the earth, or beneath the guise of a long-lived family. They clung to the last wells of power, the final echoes of a long-forgotten age. Each generation slipped further into...

A voice in the darkness beguiles me: “Truth is a mystery, unraveled by the candles’ flames.” From The Journal of a Man who Wandered Into Another World. *** She awoke, if that was what you could call it. As always, her consciousness started from nothingness and gradually began to take shape...

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow - T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men You are nothing and nowhere. Your world is blessedly silent. There is nobody to ponder regrets or crave an altered state. There is only darkness, and nothing horrible to see within...

O Keinginan-i-Gehan, thou jewel of the West, what miserable destitution you have fallen into. Once, you reigned gracefully over all the gleaming blue and adorned yourself with your honours and victories like ornaments and jewelry, and the Shoguns resided within your halls both graceful and...

The Inland Sea North of the Blessed Isle's Shadowed Coast Descending Fire, Realm Year 758 Five years, four months before the disappearance of the Scarlet Empress. The fog encloses your small ship like the jaws of a hungry beast. It presses in from all sides as though summoned by malignant...

[San Francisco, June 7th, 2002] The sound of a bird chirping outside of my room stirr me awake. With a bit of an effort, I get up from my bed and stretch my limb. Taking a look at my clock, I immediately go to the dresser, and start changing out my clothes with another. Just a new day...

The books open upon the table are an eclectic group. At least five languages, one of them dead. Some bound with gold, some simple leather, some with covers that belong in an art museum with their beauty. All of them are open, spread out on the simple table, borrowed from the library shared...

"There, there. A shame your host had to go the way he did, but he did so gloriously." A hand made of light given form frees the shard from the clamp, holding it up. A flick of a finger brings forth a tool of his office, and memories begin to evaporate like water from the shard. "As was his...

The Realm bleeds from a thousand wounds from it’s enemies, and a thousand more from the greed and pride more from the ambitions of the Great Houses. The Bull of the North’s near total destruction of House Tepet not only that One Great House could fall, but how broken the The Realm is with the...

Prince of Dragons An Exalted Quest You never knew your mother. You knew who she was, of course. You heard all the stories, all the whispered tales and half-real parables, saw how she stamped her name on every mile of Creation and every soul within its borders, but the same could be said of...

YSYR MUST FALL From shore to gleaming shore, the Dreaming Sea teems with wealth and danger in equal measure. To the south west, Prasad looms, an empire on the rise with hungry eyes and sharp teeth. To the north and the west, the endless beastfolk legions of the old monsters that lurk in the...

It is the end of the Second Age. The Scarlet Dynasty teeters at the brink of destruction--the woman who forged it having left no considerations for what would come beyond her. With its collapse, goes the last vestiges of the hegemony of the Ten Thousand Dragons. From times long gone, the...

Lit by the relentless flame of the Elemental Pole of Fire, the South of Creation has been intimately and inexorably altered to match the patterns found within that conflagration: its land marked by scorching heat and its people by burning passion. More so than any other, the South is a study of...

I've seen the same structure in a handful of quests and fics here and in other sites- A canon character will suddenly and mysteriously undergo an Exaltation, and following that, their increased drive and power changes the outcome of the rest of the story. Sometimes there'll be more elements of...

This quest is an exploration of one of the themes of the Exalted RPG: briefly stated, that there is no Wisdom stat. Exalts in general and Solars in particular have puissant Charms to seize power and to enforce one's will, to grease the wheels of bureaucracy and to acquire devout loyalty, Charms...

You feel the gentle rocking beneath you. The steady creaking of the wood, the air upon your face. You drift back into wakefulness, though the memories of what came before are hazy. Something happening. Something...momentous. You don't remember what, or how you got here, but the throbbing in...

“Will you stand and watch as the tides swallow him, or will you – ” Yusei took off his jacket and jumped, right as a wave overturned the boat. Rally fell underwater. Yusei dived. It was only his physical fitness that allowed him to reach the boy in time. Holding him by the rope, he brought him...

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