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A Vision in Bronze; A Sidereal quest

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[x] The rickety walkway, with any misstep threatening to send either of you plunging into the water below


Gazetteer said:
If you actually used it on a real PC, the player would be within their rights to beat you to death with the corebook, but this is the price we must pay, sometimes.
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But what if it's a pdf? Is there a sidereal charm that allows you to beat some fool with the weight of knowledge?
 
Kymme said:
There's a lot that I want to say about this sequence, but I think what might be getting lost in the awesome action are Grace's Ambraea flashbacks. Man... reading those got me misty-eyed.
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Same. I'm really glad it won. From the schoolgirl crush and hug to threatening to take the arm of a servant for striking grace, they were all emotionally charged and interesting moments, and I'm glad we got to see them. Also...
Gazetteer said:
You know of several ways to dislocate someone's arm from this position. You usually aren't tempted to actually use them.
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Gazetteer said:
One of your hands takes her by the shoulder, the other by the spear arm. Then you wrench her arm back and to the side using just enough force to very nearly pop the arm out of joint.
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I guess Grace was a little too tempted afterall.
 
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Randino Treviani said:
Same. I'm really glad it won. From the schoolgirl crush and hug to threatening to take the arm of a servant for striking grace, they were all emotionally charged and interesting moments, and I'm glad we got to see them. Also...
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This! Iam really glad we got to see more of Ambrea from Grace's perspective. And it seems that she blames Ambreas Earth Exaltation for her later emotionnal repression.
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You remember Lady Ambraea, an awkward, red-haired ten-year-old, throwing herself down onto her bed in despair. Not yet rendered strangely stoic and serious by her Earth Aspect Exaltation
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But Sola the Air- Asprect was just as badly repressed. Both her and Ambrea were performig the role of "ideal Dynast exalted woman" to sometimes their own detriment.
So maybe Grace is wrong here.
 
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    • Batatos said:
    This! Iam really glad we got to see more of Ambrea from Grace's perspective. And it seems that she blames Ambreas Earth Exaltation for her later emotionnal repression.
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    Not entirely. Dynastic social norms were always going to dictate how they acted in public to a large degree as they got older.

    However, one of the quirks about Dragon-Blooded Exaltation is that your Aspect isn't selected based on your pre-existing personality or values or talents, it actively changes and shapes who you are. It alters the trajectory of your life and the person you become as part of the puberty/coming of age metaphor it has baked into it. Your Aspect is determined entirely by your parentage and a degree of random chance. If Ambraea had become a Fire Aspect like her mother, she would probably still be recognisably the same person, but she would have grown up to be pretty different. I would have written her as pretty different, if that had won the first vote.

    This is in contrast to Celestial Exaltation. They all work differently from one another, but you get chosen by the Incarnae in a way that reflects who you are. Becoming a Sidereal has changed Grace in certain ways, between Essence fever and the strange lives they lead, but she became a Joybringer because of specific qualities she always had that made her predisposed towards it, destined to Exalt from birth.
     
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    Edit: I know what about ism is the lowest for of moral though but I can't help but be curious...

    As morally outrageous as what the circle is? Was? Planning here was.

    I can't help but wonder what Singular Grace makes of her own factions acts of city destruction. Or the Realms.
     
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    Wait, the Empress is a Fire Aspect in 3e? I mean, it makes more sense than 2e making her an Earth Aspect, what with the name, but it's still interesting to learn.
     
    Ganurath said:
    Wait, the Empress is a Fire Aspect in 3e? I mean, it makes more sense than 2e making her an Earth Aspect, what with the name, but it's still interesting to learn.
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    Yes. A 2e writer made her Earth out of stupid contrarianism - I am completely serious that's all it was - but she was always Fire in 1e and has always been Fire in 3e.
     
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