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[Exalted, ?] Most High
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On that note, I've actually always wanted to finally, finally see a Dragonblooded Ulyssian quest. The second time was the only time we actually had a straight-up chance to choose between Exaltation types at the start -- including even Sidereal or Dragonblooded.
I just... wanted to see a game where Ulyssian didn't just pop straight out of the academy and go on to do much bigger things far, far away. A game where we could actually hang out with our fellow dragonblooded bros, rather than one where we just outstrip them like that...
A Dynast game, basically.
It could've been pretty cool!
Alas... I fear we might never see anything like that. One reboot was more than I expected: two was even more than I expected. Yet a third one... how long would we have to wait for something like that to happen? And even if rather than a reboot we just got a whole new Exalted game... eh, who knows how long and if we'd ever even get to pick something other than a maximum-powered Exalt.
I thought it was only possible to become a ghost after the Underworld existed. Which was created by a Primordial dying.
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[X] The Obliterator
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[X] The Obliterator
Ultimately, I think the builder of empires would be one of the few bright lights of the world of the First Age.
Great Curse aside, hundreds of unstoppable champions with nothing to do is a great plague upon the land.
What is the monster slayer when there are no more monster? What is the leader of men?
To become the monster, taken down by heroes to jubilation, or the leader of men, the general to the teacher, that all monsters can fall, even to the weak.
Great Curse aside, hundreds of unstoppable champions with nothing to do is a great plague upon the land.
What is the monster slayer when there are no more monster? What is the leader of men?
To become the monster, taken down by heroes to jubilation, or the leader of men, the general to the teacher, that all monsters can fall, even to the weak.
Yes, we are rather fortunate to have another chance at finishing this story, aren't we?
I'm not opposed to dynastic intrigue; the Dragon-Blooded society and Ulyssian's struggle to matter despite it were what drew me in, but a Terrestrial Exaltation does somewhat limit the scope the stories that can be told, placing an upper cap on how far Ulyssian can go, barring drastic paradigm shifts. We can (and hopefully will) have the opportunities for intrigue as a Solar as well, it's just that it comes with the added threat of discovery hanging over us like the proverbial Sword of Damocles.
Don't worry about the vote-counter; if worst comes to worst, I'll just do it manually.
If we chose the Obliterator, could we use our Craft-Sorcery prowess to forge our aforementioned deadly blade from the fetich of joutun of a Primordial we slayed?
Rihaku
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I've heard the Craft system is extremely bloated, so it's probably not wise to contaminate your build with it. The ingredients could certainly be used by a Craft specialist to forge a blade, though.
You might misunderstand what I meant -- I don't see it as a limit or an upper cap. It wasn't about things like limits. And it's not about intrigue as a Solar or intrigue in general; it was about wanting a Dragonblooded and a Dragonblooded story.
There was a type of story that I wanted to finally get the chance to see, that's it.
Fair enough. You're right, I'm not sure SB or SV would opt in favor of that kind of tale if Celestial Exaltations were on the table; my point was that we can at least try to have a Solar story that features Dragon-Blooded elements.
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Somewhat unlikely to have Craft Lore and Occult, with the extremely charm intensive way to make artifacts even semi reliably(craft is one of the skills where you actually do have to take most of the charms to be any use at it), especially if we have Athletics and Stealth.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
I imagine that in the event of a Dragon Blooded Exaltation, that Ulyssian would have some kind of beast mode power like some of the other pinnacle bloodlines shown up.
Like Moon and her "Hey, I'm basically a Celestial Tier Dragon Blood at the cost of not being ale to reproduce at the same rate a typical one is", and Flame's "I can do /Anything/ as long as I'm willing to pay for it in lifespan" trait.
Like Moon and her "Hey, I'm basically a Celestial Tier Dragon Blood at the cost of not being ale to reproduce at the same rate a typical one is", and Flame's "I can do /Anything/ as long as I'm willing to pay for it in lifespan" trait.
Personally, I kind of assumed as soon as Flame's bloodline was revealed that Uly would have gotten something very similar to combat all the "There is no way we can grow quickly enough to become even remotely relevant" complaints when our path was chosen.
Yeah, the only issue is that someone who Exalts as late as Ulyssian would've probably has rather thin blood. I don't doubt he'd find a way to leverage what he gained, though.
On a semi-related note, wow, Moon really is ludicrously powerful for a Dragon-Blood of her age.
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Guile
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With a Dawn Solar? I'm not seeing it.
Would be much, much easier as a Night, but we do favor stealth, so who knows? We'll have to see how the chips fall; perhaps LSD has given me a false impression of how easy it is to avoid Realm scrutiny.
[X] The Obliterator
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The colones of soldiers had stretched on the horizon, their sinuous march through the desert announced from afar by the clouds of sand blown by the thumping of their ten thousand feets. When they had emerged from it alike metallic centipedes, bristling with weapons and encased in armors, the people of the settlement had finally felt the full weight of the disaster to come.
The faceless dread news of the army's march had conjured up among them took shape, and its mien was too terrible for words. None had fled for they knew this to be a futile gesture, such attempts had always ended in death. And so they waited, silents as always, for mortal men were not born with a voice worthy to be heard in this world.
Still, something had changed. And the Daevas felt it, for the silence that welcomed their arrival was of a different kind: it was not the resigned silence of the hopeless nor the determined silence of the braves. It was rather like the world was holding its breath, expectant. Its release was akin to a hurricane.
A single lightning-bolt pierced the air, its impact blowing away those it didn't incinerate or melt on the spot, leaving in its wake an incandescent figure. The form of an armored man, a naked blade in hand, was briefly revealed for all to see, only to fades again, blurring forward to crash against the raised shields and lances of the few unscathed soldiers. The hastily repaired formations disintegrated on contact and swathe of Daevas were cut down like grass under the scythe.
Still, the Daevas were peerless warriors, creatures of exquisite strength and they rallied, surrounding the man and hurling their numbers upon him. And It seemed for a time that the sacrifice of those throwing themselves against the reaper was not in vain when a cage of coruscating light fell upon him, its constricting bands of energy closing under the conjugated effort of sorcerers who had profited of the time gained to gather themselves.
Then the figure crumbling under the magical assault simply vanished, and the swordsman stepped out of the shadows of the sorcerers now revealed. When he turned from their falling form, uncaring of the heads rolling at his feets, it was to swing his sword, once, twice, as if to rid it of blood.
Instead of carmine droplets, blazing arcs of violet fire followed, cooking on their feets those unfortunate enough to stand in their ways.
A step saw him disappear again, but this time his blurring course did not stop till he was the only soul left alive on the field.
The furious sound of battle finally faded to leave place to the clamor that had rose in the settlement at his arrival.
Odyssial, Odyssial, Odyssial !
ps: sorry for the low quality, long time since I wrote anything and am sleepy. night.
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The colones of soldiers had stretched on the horizon, their sinuous march through the desert announced from afar by the clouds of sand blown by the thumping of their ten thousand feets. When they had emerged from it alike metallic centipedes, bristling with weapons and encased in armors, the people of the settlement had finally felt the full weight of the disaster to come.
The faceless dread news of the army's march had conjured up among them took shape, and its mien was too terrible for words. None had fled for they knew this to be a futile gesture, such attempts had always ended in death. And so they waited, silents as always, for mortal men were not born with a voice worthy to be heard in this world.
Still, something had changed. And the Daevas felt it, for the silence that welcomed their arrival was of a different kind: it was not the resigned silence of the hopeless nor the determined silence of the braves. It was rather like the world was holding its breath, expectant. Its release was akin to a hurricane.
A single lightning-bolt pierced the air, its impact blowing away those it didn't incinerate or melt on the spot, leaving in its wake an incandescent figure. The form of an armored man, a naked blade in hand, was briefly revealed for all to see, only to fades again, blurring forward to crash against the raised shields and lances of the few unscathed soldiers. The hastily repaired formations disintegrated on contact and swathe of Daevas were cut down like grass under the scythe.
Still, the Daevas were peerless warriors, creatures of exquisite strength and they rallied, surrounding the man and hurling their numbers upon him. And It seemed for a time that the sacrifice of those throwing themselves against the reaper was not in vain when a cage of coruscating light fell upon him, its constricting bands of energy closing under the conjugated effort of sorcerers who had profited of the time gained to gather themselves.
Then the figure crumbling under the magical assault simply vanished, and the swordsman stepped out of the shadows of the sorcerers now revealed. When he turned from their falling form, uncaring of the heads rolling at his feets, it was to swing his sword, once, twice, as if to rid it of blood.
Instead of carmine droplets, blazing arcs of violet fire followed, cooking on their feets those unfortunate enough to stand in their ways.
A step saw him disappear again, but this time his blurring course did not stop till he was the only soul left alive on the field.
The furious sound of battle finally faded to leave place to the clamor that had rose in the settlement at his arrival.
Odyssial, Odyssial, Odyssial !
ps: sorry for the low quality, long time since I wrote anything and am sleepy. night.
Alectai
Speaks Words of Wisdom... On occasion
Not necessarily, it could be a kind of bloodline that would only "Activate" if you were already ludicrously talented--a "Skill based" one to "Prove you were worthy of it".
No worries, it's nice to see you posting again; contributions of any sort are always appreciated.
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Yeah, that could work. Dragon-Blooded bloodline specific powers are supposed to be a thing in 3E, but without the splatbook, there's an awful lot of room for creative interpretations and innovation.
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Flame's bullshit bloodline was probably something that only existed in the Hand of Destiny choice.
Those are the kind of
A Dawn Solar who favors both Larceny and Stealth can be very sneaky. The only thing they lose that a Night has is the innate Anima muting capabilities. This can to a degree be mitigated by using Larceny charms to disguise the nature of one's anima.
Another possibility might have been Fate/Destiny-related stuff; i.e. while maybe Fate can't actually make somebody Exalt maybe it could affect the conditions around which an Exaltation happens?
In short: maybe there would have been a reason for why Ulyssian (a potential-Terrestrial-Exaltation based reason, I mean) would have had so much Fate and Resplendencies placed on him, up until a hypothetical Dragonblooded Exaltation.
... Heck, maybe it's a weird bloodline that is best and strongest when around a lot of other Dragonblooded, or otherwise gains power from having confronted Dragonblooded? The Sharingan (or Highlander?) of the Dragonblooded, if you will.
Hence why you'd really want a mortal to get placed in a school for Dragonblooded; and why you'd want him around people like Zao, Moon, and Flame, with overpowered Bloodlines or combinations of Bloodlines. (And whatever Mountain Hero's bloodline was; it apparently was a pretty good one! At least for fighting, IIRC.)
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