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I find a considerable amount of misinformation about how Exalted operates tends to result from people stumbling in with fully-formed metaphysics and internal-philosophy opinions, hesitating only briefly before whispering under their breath, "it's a game?"
 
Starting a Solar 3e pbp, to get more of a feel for the system before I start modding like mad. Might end up being ground zero for my homebrew. Come sign up. You know, if you're into that sort of thing.
 
Do remember though, that 1st circle demons are SPECIES. There are certainly 1st circle demons that are cunning or driven enough to squire Citizenship in Malfeas. While they can't rule a territory in Malfeas by sheer force, the same can't be said for Creation.

Also Like you could go for some of ES's Kerubi verients who work as good administrators, or organisers.
 
The demjen have skills necessary to command their chalcothetes, including Bureaucracy and War. It would be relatively easy to find one that's generalized that.
 
Sanceline, the Iterative Choir
Demon of The Third Circle
Second Soul of She Who Lives In Her Name

If one does venture into the cosmos-body of the Pyre In Which Thoughts Are Burned, one would find 99,997 perfect spheres of pyrian crystal, immaculately polished and tended to by millions of Serfs, enthralled by the music of Her name. Some of these spheres extend to the size of nations or even larger than the sun itself, some would humble Ligier with their size and some could fit in the palm of a hand. Yet those one must truly fear are the ones who sing, for they are vessels of the Iterative Choir, and all who hear them are made into better versions of themselves.

Sanceline takes the form of a disembodied choir of voices, perfectly singing in unison with each other, covering all mortal tones and nuances of song to perfection. The song they sing, is a million chants and choirs in the tongue of the Old Realm, and they sing of perfection and improvement. When Sanceline deigns to take a visible form, they use the metal and glass and tools in vicinity to reflect the pure, white light of their soul into a single form, vaguely feminine and masculine at once, composed of individual fragments of hardened light. This figure possesses no joints, and it's limbs instead float freely, still connected by invisible bones in a field of soothing white.

All who hear the song of Sanceline are driven to improve themselves and their immediate area. Beggars are driven to become wealthy merchants who spend their wealth to improve the land, kings unite countries and establish elaborate infrastructure, the Exalted master great magics and use them to aid their fellows. As this desire strengthens, mortals and serfs will seek out great repositories of crystal, preferably pyrian crystal or Adamant, which they will carve beautiful prosthetic limbs from. Then they will seek to replace their own limbs with these, for the magic of Sanceline's choir will not only make them fully functional, but better than any mortal limb. As they cut away their flesh and bone, they likewise cut away their emotion and desire. They carve more limbs, and those of strong will who yet fall under her sway, may eventually drive themselves to cut out their heart and brain, and replace them with the fires of She Who Lives In Her Name, woven with the songs the Iterative Choir. Eventually, these luminous bodhisattvas will create more limbs, and add them to their bodies instead of simply replacing existing limbs, and some of them go so far as to have up to six limbs, and beautiful halos of pyrian crystal that float in the air behind them. They will shine with an inner light, and their movements will hum with Purpose.

They do not lose their wills, for unlike their greater self, Sanceline finds use in the wills of mortals. She knows that a creature with the capacity for self-determination will be able to act independently of orders and hierarchies, in which a tremendous power is found. Yet she believes that the power of the free will must be tempered with the wisdom of the twin virtues of Purpose and Order. Thus, she asks that her bodhisattvas wander the realms of both Malfeas, Creation and even a few in the hallowed halls of heaven, for the Sidereals are fond of the philosophy of self-improvement and sacrifice for the greater good of Creation. Where they walk, they bring Sanceline's songs of Purpose and Order with them, as the hum in their bones of imperishable crystal, which compels both mortals and lesser gods to improve what they possess. Blacksmiths will disregard their current requests and create better tools that they may use to create even better tools, painters will work greater and greater works of their art and scholars will make headway deeper and deeper into more and more esoteric research.
As such, Sanceline was often summoned during the First Age of Man, almost as often as the Manse of Echoes Ascending, and those two were often summoned together. Therefore they will never go to war with each other, and all summonings of the Iterative Choir will bring with it, a shrine to the Manse of Echoes Ascending just as all manses designed by Amalion will possess a hidden shrine to Sanceline.

The Iterative Choir fears the souls of Oramus and fears especially the Seven-Tailed Comet, for the prospect of all their great works and improvements being for naught and falling apart is one that terrifies her truly and deeply. As such she seeks for a way to prove the predictions of Sima wrong, and when they argue and debate and Sima makes superior arguments, the song of Sanceline will briefly become a cacophony of disharmony in chronophobic panic.

Notes and Abilities: Sorcerers most often call to Sanceline in an effort to perfect their servants or to learn their songs, of which they have ten for every sphere of their greater self. For the songs and tones of Sanceline can perform many feats of supernal power, such as shatter stone or bind the minds of men, and it is said that She Who Surmounted the Omphalos performs the songs of the Iterative Choir through their dances, though neither of them has spoken of this.
Others summon Sanceline in order to learn how to call their luminous bodhisattvas, for they are not demons and cannot be bound by the workings of the Surrender Oaths. Sanceline is not a leader however, for they do not direct their servants to work change on the world, they command them to wander and act, but she does not know the ways of a leader, better than any mortal king or queen. Some call them to gain the wondrous tools that those who hear fragments of their song are compelled to make, and these are many in their blessings, such as a hammer that can work in sound or a brush that can paint intentions. Sometimes, when a masterful teacher or leader abandons his charges to die, due to disappointment in their skills, Sanceline may appear in their dreams and start them on the way to iterative self-improvement through Purpose and Order.

Sanceline and the All-Thing: Sanceline will want for the spreading of their philsophy and the teachings of Purpose and Order. They will desire for mortals to hear their songs and become luminous bodhisattvas themselves. They will demand actions against the Dead, for they consider them unnatural and twisted and demands they be put into the ground where they belong. Unlike many of their peers, they do not despise the Exalted, but instead seeks subversion of them, and believes that teaching them of Purpose and Order will help. Lastly, they will want large parts of Creation to be replaced with crystals, and they hold great love for the Far Northern reaches of Creation, for they find ice beautiful.
 
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Cool.

Hmmm. I wonder if SWLIHN has a demon for the shame of her own imperfection (That is, a a demon born from the breaking if the three spheres).
 
ManusDomine said:
If one does venture into the cosmos-body of the Pyre In Which Thoughts Are Burned, one would find 99.997 perfect spheres of pyrian crystal,
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Proofreading: Don't use '.' as a thousands separator in English-language text, since all native speakers except South Africans will read "99.997" as "three thousandths less than a hundred", not "three less than one hundred thousand".
 
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Proofreading: Don't use '.' as a thousands separator in English-language text, since all native speakers except South Africans will read "99.997" as "three thousandths less than a hundred", not "three less than one hundred thousand".
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Thanks, I corrected it but I would honestly prefer criticism (or discussion) pertaining to the Demon itself. :smile:
 
Thanks to @Aleph for the help with making this demon not-offensive and stupid:

Peraspera, The Philosopher Utopian
Demon of The Second Circle
Warden Soul of The Iterative Choir

At the end of Calibration, mortal men and women all over Creation swear that they will better themselves and improve their ways. They do not know that they do this in honor of Peraspera, the Warden Soul of Sanceline. Peraspera takes the form of a slender and thin woman with ear-rings of crystal and a great ballgown of quartz and glass. She wears her hair in dreadlocks, of which there are ninety-nine, which have their ends bound with rings of glass and chiming bells. She wears countless flutes and wind-chimes on her extravagant gown which make beautiful sounds as she passes through the world in great strides that cut the space she walks in half, before unfolding again. When Peraspera first stepped from the landscape form of her Greater Self, she wore a male guise, and her self-appointed task was to build a grand collection of paired items; two of every complex creation she could conceive of. To this end, she gathered great armies and plundered the lands she conquered, filling her treasury with stolen goods. And in this way she was content.

In time, though, she came to feel that some insidious and terrible malady surrounded and hung over her. In her effects to determine this nameless premonition, she she first drew divinations from the dying stars of Hell, far from the eyes of Orabilis, but saw no curse or doom that had been laid upon her. Her foreboding grew, and she sent for the greatest healers of the Demon City that would come at her bidding to study the patterns of her flesh, but they found no sickness or wound within her. More uneasy than ever, she finally sat for seventy screams of the tomescu and meditated on her actions and her ideals, but though the feeling of wrongness surged and roared she could find no logical flaw or failing in the way she lived her life.

Troubled, she walked through the Demon City, where she happened to see a neomah plying its trade. And the answer came to her, and she laughed. "The eyes of my progenitor were mistaken when she saw me in her dreams", she said, "for I feel myself to be what I am not, and am not what she feels I should be." In saying so, she rejected her great quest and set out to make herself anew; vanishing from the annals of the Demon City for fourscore years and two before returning at the end of Calibration. She was not at first recognised, for she bore a female form and came robed as a scholar instead of armoured as a conquerer; her swords and pillaging traded for knowledge and learning. Instead of seizing the items she still wishes to own, she learns how they are made and memorises their every last detail - and then; the shape of her prize held safe within her, departs.

Sorcerers call upon Peraspera to advise them in matters of artifice and manufacture, for she knows thousands of designs both mundane and esoteric. She may be summoned in order to repair or replace machinery and even complex workings of magical artifice, and understands even the complex creations of the First Age. She may also be called upon in order to be an advisor on matters of military strategy as well as the plundering of cities and the slaughter of enemies, though this brings back painful memories and she will gain a point of Limit the first time in a scene, she is forced to recall such material. When a vital part of some great work of craft is broken and no replacement can be found or improvised, Peraspera can sometimes escape from Hell to make the repairs herself. Sometimes she leaves the restored piece for those who depend on it - more often, it accompanies her back to Hell. Many ancient and irreplaceable wonders of the High First Age found their way to the markets of Malfeas through her hands as the Shogunate approached its end.
 
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