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Rook said:
I'm reminded a lot of Steven Universe of all things there, @EarthScorpion - your Mountain Folk sound rather similar to the Homeworld Gems.
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So what you're saying is that the Mountain Folk are an agender race of gemstones that spin motes around themselves to gain physical form, and are only truly killed when their stones are destroyed. They live in a strictly hierarchical society where the surviving People of Adamant serve as a ruling class to both a caste of workers and warriors called the People of Quartz and a caste of diverse specialists, servants, and artisans who manage the remnants of an empire shattered by the Exalted and a rebellion led by disaffected worker-warriors?
 
Eukie said:
So what you're saying is that the Mountain Folk are an agender race of gemstones that spin motes around themselves to gain physical form, and are only truly killed when their stones are destroyed. They live in a strictly hierarchical society where the surviving People of Adamant serve as a ruling class to both a caste of workers and warriors called the People of Quartz and a caste of diverse specialists, servants, and artisans who manage the remnants of an empire shattered by the Exalted and a rebellion led by disaffected worker-warriors?
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Kind of? Basically, the main parallel I'm seeing here is the misshapen mutants birthed from the Beta Kindergarten; essentially, the Exalted Gems are currently near-extinct, with the aforementioned mutants comprising a vast majority of the population.
 
Who can occasionally have strange Godblooded children with particular mortals, which most people try to avoid thinking about the mechanics or immediate implications thereof.
 
So, how hard would it be for a Solar or other Celestial to help them out by making another Adamant-born for them, assuming tge Jadeborb provide the materials?
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Elero said:
So, how hard would it be for a Solar or other Celestial to help them out by making another Adamant-born for them, assuming tge Jadeborb provide the materials?
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You'd need to rediscover the forms of the adamant-born. Exceedingly challenging, but there might be sketches and notes buried in Heaven that might allow you to at least get a starting point.

You'd need to master working with Adamant to a level that took the High First Age a very long time to reach. Again, most of this knowledge is lost, but it's doable.

You'd need to actually find a giant lump of adamant to carve. That's a problem because the High First Age strip-mined much of the Adamant from Creation and used it for things. So you'll either need to make a lump of adamant that big to start with, or you'll need to get very lucky and find one of the remaining nodes.

Oh, and you'd need to spend about a century on the actual work, complete with constant prayers to Autochthon and intensive purification rituals and the slightest flaw would mean you'd need to start all over again. Which is why they started working in jade in the first place - because it let you make a new soldier in less time with less tight purity standards and you didn't have to start all over again just because some asshole Primordial cast an ACS spell 50 miles away and the local geomancy went awry.

It's possible for a non-Mountain Folk to make a new body. It's just that their reproduction is a work of faith and art, and immortal golems don't think on human timescales so "putting a hundred years into making my new child" was just how they reproduced. That's the grand barrier that allowed People of Adamant to exist in the low-Celestial-tier without being Exalts; they make Alchemicals look cheap, quick, reliable and easy to make.
 
Um, would it be possible for someone to help me find a part of Creation where bogs can be found, but also where frogs can be found?

I'm currently possessed by an idea for an SI without exaltation focussed on the day-to-day of life in Creation when the first thinking being that ever encounters you is a little god of frogs that decides it wants worship like the big boys and thinks this completely unattached mortal that just appears in the middle of it's home is a perfect priest/worshipper. The first divine 'act' this minisicule creature bestows upon it's unwitting devotee? To establish dominance by breaking his nose with a kick.

So yeah, a completely mortal SI wandering across a small part of Creation with a tsundere/yandere frog god in tow. My muse takes me weird places sometimes, but at least in this particular instance I've managed to get the opening to work.
 
The Pole of Wood is in the East, though.

That said, I'm pretty sure a bog could turn up basically anywhere along the... not equatorial, but east-west line, with a fair degree of longditude variation as well. It's a reasonably common or at least easily made terrain type.
 
Would someone be able to explain what Thaumaturgy is? The rulebook I'm reading at the moment is frustratingly vague on what it can and can't do.
 
Gamerlord said:
Would someone be able to explain what Thaumaturgy is? The rulebook I'm reading at the moment is frustratingly vague on what it can and can't do.
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Basic everyday magics that you see all the time in fiction. Astrology, fertility and health blessings, alchemy, good luck charms, blacksmithing would technically count given how Creation runs on magic based physics. Those sorts of things.
 
Dif said:
Who can occasionally have strange Godblooded children with particular mortals, which most people try to avoid thinking about the mechanics or immediate implications thereof.
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Is godblooded the right term?

At least in Steven's case Rose sort of...turned into him? Fusing with Gregs...donation of DNA.

If anything, it's sort of like an Exigent, except if the god gave all of their power instead of just some of it.
 
Honestly, if one was porting Steven Universe into exalted you'd probably make it into one of those similar to Exaltation things from Earthscorpion's stuff. Requiring an experienced Jadeborn to essentially kill themselves while implanting their "essence" into an infant is complex enough that the result would be fine at the Terrestrial level, especially since they still need to age and grow into their power.
 
horngeek said:
True- in this case, she's mostly the last one, forget of hell spawned wonders- and with a side of Malfean punching things with radiation and wrathfire. :V

One question regarding the Coadjutor rules- would it be safe to assume 'mindless' demons, under this system, can't ever carry an Exaltation?
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Given that to qualify as a coadjutor, a demon needs to be a proto-sublimati, that means that they've always undergone notable evolution and development from their base form. So yeah, I'd say that every coadjutor needs to be intelligent. However, that doesn't stop you from using a demon species that is, by default, mindless. It just means this specific specimen has learned and developed.

Hence, if you want a firmin coadjutor, feel free! It's a more powerful firmin that's developed a certain cunning and a grasp of language.
 
Chloe Sullivan said:
in 3e, thaumaturgy is a bunch of lame merits that are supposed to be i dunno, flavorful or something.

They're just about the one thing everyone agrees 3e dun frakked up at.


Steal the thaumaturgy rules from an earlier edition and lump in any 3e thaum that you want as just another merit.
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1E and 2E's thaumaturgy effects have already been rolled into the lowest level of Terrestrial Circle Sorcerous Workings.
 
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Thaumaturgy in 3rd covers the small weird little tricks and miracles that random mortals born to the talent can perform.

I think the biggest mistake people make is by comparing it with previous editions of Thaumturgy, because it doesn't work the same way at all and doesn't resemble it. It's essential a new thing, because the Thaumaturgy of 2nd Edition is completely gone and the miracles that it may have discussed at some point are the province of Sorcerous Workings.
 
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