[Exalted, ?] Most High

It can be interpreted as making our Attribute distribution look like:

Could we go with an aesthetic related to "The Sun as a force of nature, as opposed to a metaphor for human excellence,"? I don't know how that that would include, except maybe venting Solar Essence or brilliant light. Or are we limited to Goth-y things?

It has to be related to soulsteel, moonsilver, wyrms, or Autocthon.
 
Rihaku, a question about the Odyssial Horse spell, is it able to go wherever unaided into other realms of existence like Yushan or Hell by making its own entrance? I suppose places like Autocthonia cannot be breached without some extreme sourcerous workings.

[X] Remain Uninjured

[X] Procure the Funds
 
I'm surprised Remain Uninjured is so popular. I'm literally handing you guys one of the most mechanically broken powers in 3E and you're turning it down because of aesthetic effects that you're even allowed to customize! You are sorely going to regret this come Syn, or even come Flame.
You sir, remain a trolling troll! Seriously, you even said that doing it will screw with Ulyssian's attunement to Solar Excellence. The only other time in canon we're aware of something like this it ended in tentacles and a signal loss of power on the part of the Solar who did it. It's possible I'm reading too much into it, but the similarities between cases seem dire to me.
 
wyrms, or Autocthon.
Well, these seem to be my two favourites, from the list. Could you clarify what wyrm means in the context of Exalted? I don't think I've seen it before. Would we be incorporating the "violating boundaries" theme, or just Autocthonian elements?

Guys, remember how at the end of the Lily fight we collapsed mote-tapped? With Brink then even mote-tapped we'd be significantly beyond peak human in all fields.
 
You sir, remain a trolling troll! Seriously, you even said that doing it will screw with Ulyssian's attunement to Solar Excellence. The only other time in canon we're aware of something like this it ended in tentacles and a signal loss of power on the part of the Solar who did it. It's possible I'm reading too much into it, but the similarities between cases seem dire to me.

If you stay a slave to Solar excellence, you'll forever be at risk of being mote-tapped. That's how they work. Solar excellence is effortful excellence. Effort, by its nature, is exhaustible. Odyssial created Ambition to surpass Solar excellence, because he couldn't accept the lack of long-duration dice-adders. He was not satisfied within its confines.

Wont we get the benefits in battle once we get injured anyway?

Not if you get one-shotted because you ran out of motes.
 
It does, however, mean that if anything can do any damage without actually attacking us, that we literally risk death on the spot.
 
[X] Wounded Edge
Sheer power is incredibly useful. This makes us a bit of a glass cannon, but the raw combat power increase it gives us makes it easily worth it. It also means that we can't just be insta-gibbed by something unexpected, which going to -4 would risk.
[X] Procure the Funds
 
You can't take Health Level damage as long as you have 4 motes for Heavenly Guardian Defense and enough Initiative to use it.
 
[X] Brink of Death - Use the Scales' Health Level boost to gain a few -4 Health Levels. You will remain at the -4 wound level at all times, granting you a persistent +4 bonus to actions and +4 to all your Defenses - a tremendous bonus; you will be an unholy juggernaut in virtually any field you choose to pursue. However, you can't take many hits, assuming anyone manages to actually hit you. Not as risky as it looks, due to the nature of the Exalted combat system.

[X] Procure the Funds - You will have to write-in an option to procure the necessary funds, be it by taking a loan or stealing from some sufficiently wealthy entity (only powerful Great Houses and the very richest Threshold Nations would qualify - well, and the Realm Treasury, of course). Since you have access to powerful transportation and teleportation magics, we will simply abstract this as a Difficulty 20 Larceny roll - risky, but with only a small chance of failure if you stunt well. The Knight of Jade is by far the most powerful administrator you could acquire, given its focused specialization on the subject of Luseng, total lack of non-you commitments, and 3CD-level strength. However, if you only barely pass the Larceny roll, do not expect to escape all the consequences of your staggering heist (enough money to raise 2 fully manned and equipped Legions).
 
No, you'll still have 5 x -4 Health Levels to go, it's just much less than having 15+.
Hmm. Maybe just getting the Wounded Edge is still wiser than Brink of Death. It will give us a persistent bonus and still leave us with quite many health levels to go through. And if we later on get some Ox-Body Technique Charm purchases, those up to -2 health level purchases will still be relevant. Not only that, but the inhuman aspects will also be less likely too much overtly manifest, I believe?

That, or we could just skip the edgy power outside combat.
 
Could we make the changes induced by the armor in the votes that go for constant injuries look like dragonblood traits? You know how high breeding dragonbloods tend to look somewhat non-human. Could we make our mutations be similar enough to that so that we come off as just very elemental rather than alien.
 
Could we make the changes induced by the armor in the votes that go for constant injuries look like dragonblood traits? You know how high breeding dragonbloods tend to look somewhat non-human. Could we make our mutations be similar enough to that so that we come off as just very elemental rather than alien.

Mm, anyone familiar with DB lore would know that there's definitely something off.
 
Mm, anyone familiar with DB lore would know that there's definitely something off.
Of course we look a little off we have a bloodline so powerful it lets us take down entire shikari as a teenager while still learning enough about running a country to make it flurish under a 87% tax rate. Of course the dragons blessing shows itself in our body in a notable manner. :)
 
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