Honestly, while I've never used sorcery so far in Exalted (which I hope to quickly rectify in my current game), Cirrus Skiff seems the most fun simply for it's iconic imagery and being able to pull off this look:
Raising the Earth's Bones. It is very fun to cast and having weird sorcerous walls sprout out of nowhere is very useful.
Yes, I can confirm it is awesome. It's the control (and only) spell my Solar knows and it models Goku flying on his cloud very well. I'm almost sad it'll get sidelined once I reach Ess 3 and take
Though arguably the result of Exalted's Crafting/Repair rules being three editions worth of dogshit, Incantation of Effective Restoration is bar-none among the most useful spell in the game for the simple purpose of being a 15 mote multitool. If you have a spare minute of time and more than half the pieces, you can restore anything small enough to lift by one person to perfect, pristine working condition. Flat-out. The quality of the pieces does not matter, the amount of dice in your pool does not matter, the external circumstances for casting the spell, the composition or working shelf-life of the object in question, all of these are secondary details when IoER exists to say "here is the thing back now." It even works on magical items and the magical materials, only having qualm if its not a single-piece affair and requires being disassembled first, in which case you can still simply use it on each broken/worn-out part individually and have them reassembled normally.
Would you mind elaborating on This? My understanding was that the intimacy was it's personality and the statement it's charms/aesthetics. I'd like to understand where the disconnect was.
It is, but Goku was a riff of Sun Wukong anyway. HE had a cloud that was closely based off that, and so the spell works in a similar manner to emulate him.
Look, you need to stop asking open-ended questions, especially ones that have no one true answer. You might as well ask "if there was an expensive bath, what would it be like?" It depends entirely on the context - on who's making it, on why, on what conditions it's intended to operate. You could write a hundred different variations on the concept. Instead of mining the thread for this sort of thing on an infinite loop of questions that contribute nothing of their own to the thread; come up with your own answer.
A demon dog that pees on sick people
Protip: Do not enter Adorjan's magical realm.
I'm bookmarking this so that I can quote it next time Accelerator asks a question of this sort.
I made a demon crocodile for a game descended from Metagaos that eats things it finds beautiful to keep them safe that demons use as vaults and sorcerers summon to carry their luggage around. No reason you couldn't make it swallow and then cough up butter on demand, though it prefers clockwork devices.
Does it have a lot of legs?
Death of Obsidian Butterflies has always been dear to my heart because of how much it says about the role of the sorcerer on the geopolitical and military theater; that sorcerers are artillery onto themselves and can break an army with a single spell, but also that sorcerers do not do conventional combat, and act on a grand and epic scale rather than slinging magic missiles or doing combat teleportation.
