greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
So, for the first time ever, Exalted has a good Artifact book.
Someone check, can you hear the sound of seven trumpets?
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General Exalted Thread
Someone check, can you hear the sound of seven trumpets?
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And it's nice to every Exalt! Lunars get several mentions of their doings and deeds! Vast amounts of artifacts are from the Shogunate or made by Dragon-Blooded! Even old figures like Facet Raven or Devon are mentioned and we see the return of such wonders as The Forgotten Blade (in a truly terrifying form, even).
But most importantly of all, and watch out when I say this because it's crazy; we get the Ultimately Useful Tube.
Hell. Yeah.
But most importantly of all, and watch out when I say this because it's crazy; we get the Ultimately Useful Tube.
Hell. Yeah.
Any modern stuff, or is it all historical?
And a lot of this seems to include to tag "Lost to history" so your PC can randomly turn up with the thing.
You're really confusing twee "Specialness" with "has a defined role in the backstory," and I think you honestly have a bigger axe to grind with that latter part of unwanted focus than really making him conform to what everyone assumes the primordial condition entails. Besides, I never said that only the Yozis have the tiered soul-structure, just that Games of Divinity called-out it for them exclusively in the context of "the organization of the Demon Realm," and no indications have been given in any direction but the briefly-noted state of Autochthon that this was or can be meaningfully changed.
The rest of your post is honestly just griping that everything defined about Autochthonia, even in nutshell format, doesn't hew hard enough into your established model for "how things should work." Look, I understand you've had a lot of success with this Infernals stuff, but it's not the only possible game in town. One Primordial, out of two-dozen odd Yozis fitting your qualifiers for "distinctive," a handful of unspecified dead ones and one wildcard, showing that unbroken primordials do not have to be so aggressively defined by a specific soul layout to the exclusion of all other factors and characterization, is not an inherently bad concept, no matter how much you insist that this is the sole-interesting aspect to be found. Hell, claiming "their minions have minions!" is the only meaningful distinction to make for Exalted's primordials compared to literally everyother mythological or fantasy titan out there is the most reductionist shit I've read in a long while.
The setting is a kitchen sink, its concepts can exist outside of the box you personally built to contain it.
Demon-summoning and the Surrender Oaths, as I mentioned. The three tiers of demons exist in GoD because the spells were written in the Corebook, and the relevance tied to the Yozis came after. So this means one of two things in-setting: either the bindings of the oaths arbitrarily split all denizens of the Demon Realm into three neat classifications, or that soul-structure is a notable element of the Yozis themselves, mentioned nowhere else except as an allusion to co-location tricks. Even Gaia, the only other free primordial, has never had any of her sub-souls mentioned beyond the Five Elemental Dragons, and even that is a crap-shoot definition depending on which books you take at face-value.
The Yozis are repeatedly referred to as primordials, but not every primordial need to fit the ironclad definitions cast onto the Yozis by everything that places them in the context of "being in hell." Personally I think that's better for everyone, since it allows Malfeas to sit on its niche of codified demon-summoning relevance, without demanding everything else try to ape it with none of the established backdrop for why that shit even exists in the first place.
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Salty
Shadow Cabal Assumptor Supreme
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- Sun, Moon, Talia
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- I/Me
Writing with an eye towards plot hooks isn't a bad thing in a game as homebrew-heavy as Exalted can be.
greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
Agreed, the thing I liked about the series is that one game could easily have my PC fighting against say Gem to free their slave, to the next game having them being the decedant Bride of The Despot whose every whim is attended to by the most beautiful slaves of he can purchase for her.
The toolbox approach has always been to the benefit of the series, and like how railroading a plot-line in kind of fell flat. Looking at you, Return of the Scarlet Empress.
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- Denmark
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- She/Her
Lots of modern stuff! Razor Dancer and Wise Steel are a pair of Soulsteel short daiklaves forged right here in the Time of Tumult by a terrible witch-queen from the souls of two heroes, and one who wields the weapons finds themselves mimicking the martial art practiced by the souls within; the Burning Branch is the spear of the hero Shirazi Ako who died heroically against a Moon-Demon and his weapon was brought back to the Blessed Isle where his daughter Atena placed it by his memorial and as the weapon was watered in the tear of his descendants, so did mortal wood become the core of a great, unbreakable branch of Green Jade which they uprooted and turned into a weapon against the Anathema, now lost on some Wyld Hunt. Meanwhile, Midnight Thorn is a Green Jade chain shirt, treated with the mystical inks of foreign tribes of the east, originally worn during the disastrous Iselsi rebellion, now lost in the jungles of the Caul.
There are oceans of stuff!
greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
Good, Exalted always had a bit of a problem with making its artifacts intresting. For all their talk of a Daiklave being special, everyone bloody-well had one!
So what are the armor artifacts like? Anything stand out from the rest?
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- She/Her
Sozen, the Cataphract of Keys is a set of armour forged before the fall of the first Solar Deliberative which draws into the legend of a demon lord that does not exist, has never existed. The wearer becomes Sozen, their anima tainted with the vitriol of the Demon City, their legend as the greatest thief Hell will ever know.
greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
Huh. Now that is a weird one.
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- They/Them
And also one of the most ruthless Fire Lords the Fire Nation ever saw.
(Sozen, Sozin, same difference.)
Walker of the Yellow Path
Ho There!
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- The Land of Memes
What are you're opinions on Dissonance? It feels to me like Sidereals really got screwed over in regards to a lot of the artifacts, but it haven't finished reading everything.
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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- The Destination of Fate
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- She/Her
It's implied that said witch is the Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears, too.
greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
So a Death-Lord doing more than just mooching about doing something vaugly ominous, always a good thing.
Well, it was mentioned that Sids are pretty bad at Evocations. Considering their other infrastruvture advantages, I don't think it's too bad. And you need to have some splats bad at Evocation or "being good at Evocations" stops feeling special.
Parabola
Divided Loyalties Librarian
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- The Destination of Fate
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- She/Her
I agree with this. Liminals in particular are noted as being only neutral with soulsteel, and dissonant with all other magical materials - this makes them even worse than Sidereals at Evocations. It also means that currently, only Solars and Abyssals are resonant with soulsteel.
I'm guessing that depending on what limbs Liminals have at any moment, they may be able to be better with Evocations, like an artifact's former wielder - that seems to be implied a bit in the Ask the Devs thread in Onyx Path.
This is all Discord's fault. And it is doubly @Revlid's fault.
But really it's @Omicron's fault, and we know it.
Lady Noone, Marchioness of the Scar
Greater Dead
Baptised in the River of Fear
Shadows gather, moving like living things. Flames die. Moths and other night-insects gather, filling the air with the flapping of their wings. There is the masked face of a woman in the darkness, as pale as the moon overhead. She does not speak, but gently removes her mask. The fear grips onlookers and they see their nightmares taking form, creeping in through the walls and ceiling. Terror seizes them. The woman puts her mask back on - and now the darkness is only shadows again.
The ghost who goes by the name Lady Noone is one of the lesser nobility serving the Daimyo of Withering Years in the South. She dresses in a tattered black cloak which hides her power from onlookers, making her seem like one of the Lesser Dead. In the service of her master she holds a march in the sands of the east of his domain, riding a spider-like creature of the Rivers that she tamed. The Daimyo and the First and Forsaken Lion are great foes, and she watches the border for movements from Dead Gem. Sometimes she sneaks into the land of the living on moonless nights, taking her pleasures in that decadent city.
Like many of the Baptised, Lady Noone has lost much of who she once; recollections washed away by the screams of the terror-wind. She believes she was one of the Contagion Dead, from the lost cities of the once fertile plains of the Far South. The scars on her face and hands suggest she died of some such disease - and her presence spreads hysteria and panic like a sickness. The mask she customarily wears contains her presence, but even then blood runs cold when she passes unseen.
A reclusive spectre by nature, Lady Noone is always scrupulously polite and even kind, unleashing the horrors upon those who catch her ire by hurting the weak or vulnerable. For all that, there is a sick fascination in her that she tries to dampen and cannot; the cold nightmare creature she became in the River. She tries to direct her nature at those she believes deserve her darker side. When she lets go of her restraint, her full bulk unfolds from under her cloak. The fear in the air becomes thick enough that men drown on dry land, screaming as their nightmares eat at their minds.
Necromancers summon Lady Noone as a spy and a thief. She is a flitting ghost who can move between shadows in the blink of an eye, and patient enough to sit and watch a building for days. Though she is weak by the standards of the Greater Dead, she is more amenable to negotiations than many. Because she hides that side of her, none of the tomes that mention her associate her true form with her more common face, instead believing them to be different ghosts. Some of the exorcists of Gem know of her, though they believe her to be a benevolent Lesser Dead.
But really it's @Omicron's fault, and we know it.
Lady Noone, Marchioness of the Scar
Greater Dead
Baptised in the River of Fear
Shadows gather, moving like living things. Flames die. Moths and other night-insects gather, filling the air with the flapping of their wings. There is the masked face of a woman in the darkness, as pale as the moon overhead. She does not speak, but gently removes her mask. The fear grips onlookers and they see their nightmares taking form, creeping in through the walls and ceiling. Terror seizes them. The woman puts her mask back on - and now the darkness is only shadows again.
The ghost who goes by the name Lady Noone is one of the lesser nobility serving the Daimyo of Withering Years in the South. She dresses in a tattered black cloak which hides her power from onlookers, making her seem like one of the Lesser Dead. In the service of her master she holds a march in the sands of the east of his domain, riding a spider-like creature of the Rivers that she tamed. The Daimyo and the First and Forsaken Lion are great foes, and she watches the border for movements from Dead Gem. Sometimes she sneaks into the land of the living on moonless nights, taking her pleasures in that decadent city.
Like many of the Baptised, Lady Noone has lost much of who she once; recollections washed away by the screams of the terror-wind. She believes she was one of the Contagion Dead, from the lost cities of the once fertile plains of the Far South. The scars on her face and hands suggest she died of some such disease - and her presence spreads hysteria and panic like a sickness. The mask she customarily wears contains her presence, but even then blood runs cold when she passes unseen.
A reclusive spectre by nature, Lady Noone is always scrupulously polite and even kind, unleashing the horrors upon those who catch her ire by hurting the weak or vulnerable. For all that, there is a sick fascination in her that she tries to dampen and cannot; the cold nightmare creature she became in the River. She tries to direct her nature at those she believes deserve her darker side. When she lets go of her restraint, her full bulk unfolds from under her cloak. The fear in the air becomes thick enough that men drown on dry land, screaming as their nightmares eat at their minds.
Necromancers summon Lady Noone as a spy and a thief. She is a flitting ghost who can move between shadows in the blink of an eye, and patient enough to sit and watch a building for days. Though she is weak by the standards of the Greater Dead, she is more amenable to negotiations than many. Because she hides that side of her, none of the tomes that mention her associate her true form with her more common face, instead believing them to be different ghosts. Some of the exorcists of Gem know of her, though they believe her to be a benevolent Lesser Dead.
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- Brittany, France
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- He/Him
I won't apologize. Also, this is great.
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- Singapore
For arms of the chosen, are there a lot of good "tool" artifacts?
Not the modern day analogues in lost age. Artifacts that serve a modern day purpose, but in an interesting way
Not the modern day analogues in lost age. Artifacts that serve a modern day purpose, but in an interesting way
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- New York City
I've heard this as well. Take a Dragon's hands and his Daiklave and wield it like your own!
I really like Arms. There's a lot of material both mechanical and in terms of fluff that's really striking and can serve as inspiration for a lot of things.
I can't wait to hear all the inevitable Karvara stories.
Due to the limitations of First Age power sources, it requires either an external connection to a Manse or it has a maximum active duration of 300 seconds under pilot control.
greensun
You shall all burn beneath my light!!!
Booo!!!
Though seriously, even the picture is one of the most blatant examples of EVA Expy since basically any anime with a quiet blue-haired girl.
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It was Vance's reward for writing the rest of the Warstriders, he got to write his EVA + Numidium homage which actually turned out pretty sick.
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- my house
MORE CECELYNE LAW CHARMS!
Natural Law
Cost: (+3m)
Mins:Essence 3
Type:
Keywords:Obvious
Duration: 1 Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Counter-Pronouncement Of Enthymemic Law
The laws of Cecelyne are not guaranteed by the will of the people. Rather they are woven into the very fabric of creation. To go against them is no mere heresy, it is impossible. Whenever the Infernal uses this charm's prerequisite, they may pay an extra 4ms to activate this charm.
Natural Law adds an external penalty to all prescribed actions equal to the Infernal's (Essence + Lore). Should a charm be used which removes extrernal penalties this creats a roll off.
(Will add this to my earlier post tonight so it doesn't need to be threadmarked)
Based on @greensun 's armor of law charm and @MJ12 Commando 's talk about how he would do cecelyne law charms a few weeks back
Natural Law
Cost: (+3m)
Mins:Essence 3
Type:
Keywords:Obvious
Duration: 1 Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Counter-Pronouncement Of Enthymemic Law
The laws of Cecelyne are not guaranteed by the will of the people. Rather they are woven into the very fabric of creation. To go against them is no mere heresy, it is impossible. Whenever the Infernal uses this charm's prerequisite, they may pay an extra 4ms to activate this charm.
Natural Law adds an external penalty to all prescribed actions equal to the Infernal's (Essence + Lore). Should a charm be used which removes extrernal penalties this creats a roll off.
(Will add this to my earlier post tonight so it doesn't need to be threadmarked)
Based on @greensun 's armor of law charm and @MJ12 Commando 's talk about how he would do cecelyne law charms a few weeks back
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