In the Book Of Bone And Ebony (fan supplement) there's the Centimane Exalted, which fill the role of 'Underworld Exalted' pretty well, there's also the Dragonbane Anathema, which are also pretty damn awesome. Both can substitute the roles Abyssals usually take if your PCs are lower powered or you're just not feeling the Abyssals.
Planescape. Any Miyazaki movie.
I had forgotten Disney Atlantis. Ah, my childhood memories~
Laputa: Castle in the Sky? Yeah, that's Exalted as fuck. Complete with it being a nightmarish superweapon that breaks down shortly after use (I know they destroyed it intentionally, but in Exalted it would be a oneshot thing where all the growth is from getting too close to the Pole of Wood and it collapses from accumulated wear and lack of maintenance after you fire it - but that one shot is an Adamant-Sorcery-tier citykiller, and you can probably salvage a lot of the robots and treasure from inside).
Looks good, though An Teng has a lot of jungle so that one would likely be in the Shore Lands. Cities in Exalted are a lot smaller than cities in real life.
No, the Naruto film. Although your points on Laputa are excellent. I mean, Laputa is, to all intents and purposes, a Titan battlestation, no?
Good to hear. I was just thinking that the FA had a higher population relative to the Time of Tumult.
Oh The God-Warrior is most certainly a Hellstrider, or something like the Devil-Tower from the Arms of the Chosen - a behemoth from before time bound in Moonsilver Armor.
I think I prefer it as a Hellstrider or a constructed Behemoth. It's not really piloted so much as it is directed - what little we see of it being around before it collapses would seem to indicate such at least.
If you read the manga, the Kyoshinhei bonds like a child to Nausicaa, and treats her like a mother. Really, she is pretty much a social Exalt straight.
I've never had the chance to read the manga, unfortunately.
I'd actually make Ashitaka a more experienced Lunar myself. Many of his feats are based more on great power than great skill.
That is a point. However, his behaviour and the way he tends to solve problems make me think of him more as an Eclipse than anything else - he tries to be diplomatic, he's clearly an excellent shot (the cursed arm just adds power) and he has a wonderful rapport with Yakul rather reminiscent of Master Horseman's Techniques. Also, he doesn't have the rage of a Lunar. In my opinion, he can be a Solar and the arm can be just a very nasty death-curse from a corrupted god.
I think Nago(Boar God #1) should be a normal god, but Lady Eboshi would be a great minion or patsy for a deathknight. The way the bullet is treated makes me think it cursed Nago with some kind of Abbysal fuckery.
Making her a minion ruins the themes though. Just make her someone who delved into necrotic magic in order to arm her people instead of having them build guns.
That's an excellent point. Perhaps a Dusk or once-Twilight Deathlord with a 'bad industry' sort of theme? Which would be an excellent original source for Ashitaka's curse - spreading corruption to the nth degree is a very Neverborn-ey sort of thing to do. Give Eboshi the weapons to drive off the god, but make it so that they drive the god mad and corrupt him with hate and twisting Essence, mutating his flesh and poisoning his mind until he passes on such corruption himself.
I don't think she has to be a minion to serve the purposes of a Deathlord or Deathknight. After all, she served Jigo's purposes in exchange for the guards and guns to set up Irontown in the first place. She certainly wasn't his minion, but she did serve his purposes, just as he served hers. And let's face it, Deathlords and Deathknights can be very good at being dark puppeteers if they want to be.
Only if you're only using the movie version. In the manga, I'm pretty sure that they were designed to be arbitrators and judges as much, if not more so, than they were weapon. I'd say they'd be more like N/A rated automatons of some kind than war/hellstriders.
Eh, the fact that the forest is purifying the world of its toxins and what not, along with the giant insects being in a pseudo-hivemind, says Gaia to me more that Metagaos.
As I said, I've only watched the movie. I might see if I can scare up a copy of the manga, though. It sounds interesting.
True, but I was only talking about the forest as it first appears - I did say that. Plus Metagaos does have some hivemindey themes - devouring identity to make all one in him. In @Revlid 's charmset, that's the tree that builds off of Self-Seed Infestation.
Actually, having her be a Craft focused Deathknight works fairly well with the end scene where she decides to start anew, constructively.
Ain't that rather difficult with her death-focused charmset?
Plus Resonance. Don't forget that Resonance. Although working despite all that is an essential part of the Abyssal redemption arc.
I mean, she is literally named after her hat, a more obvious pseudonym is hard to find.Plus Resonance. Don't forget that Resonance. Although working despite all that is an essential part of the Abyssal redemption arc.
All of these issues are trumped, however, by the fact that she doesn't have nearly a fancy-enough name to be an Abyssal. How's Mistress of Smoking Stygian Industry sound?
I am open to other suggestions.
