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horngeek said:
Keeping in mind that this is a mental exercise as much as anything else (I don't actually expect to get to play her before 3e Infernals are out, by which time she'll be done radically differently)...e.
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I dunno about that. I suspect that we'll be getting 3e Infernals sometime about 2125 at the current rate of production!
 
I didn't think that those artifacts without a mote commitment were attuned just really rare and hard to make in the current age. Since magical materials are reasonably common that pointed to them not being made from magical materials because there was no benefit just a downside of the mote commitment. Unless they changed it items made from magical materials tend to be very heavy and unwieldy unless attuned so having an unattuned item made from a magical material didn't make sense to me.
 
Trying to decide if the Bleak Warden is a Dresden Files reference or just a common thing.
 
Jen said:
Weapon and armor that don't receive MM bonus usually say so in their write-up.
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Some magictech was of composite construction, and as thus, got no MM bonus. WotLA usually specifies, since it has so much composte magitech, but doesn't with Flame weapons. My impressions was that flame weapons were composites, but when I rechecked, I found it didn't say. The prayer piece is equally unhelpful.
 
@horngeek: If you want to go Devil-Tiger at normal Essence, without a stupidly expensive Charm tree and in an evocative and interesting way that fits into normal play; go the same route I'm going in Kerisgame and ask @EarthScorpion or me (or both) about Pantheon Charms.
 
Revlid, if you're around.
I seem to recall you wrote a Kanagroo Style. Do you by any chance still have it?
 
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Infernal Pantheon Charms
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    @horngeek: If you want to go Devil-Tiger at normal Essence, without a stupidly expensive Charm tree and in an evocative and interesting way that fits into normal play; go the same route I'm going in Kerisgame and ask @EarthScorpion or me (or both) about Pantheon Charms.
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    Just checked with ES, and I'm fine to post these. So:
    New Keyword: Pantheon
    Primordials are not merely singular beings, in the manner of lesser creatures. Even lessened as they are, the Yozis are nations, civilisations, worlds in their own right. They are legion. And from the moment of their Exaltation, the Infernal Exalted have taken their first steps onto a similar path. All other Exalted have three souls - the hun, the po, and the keter soul of the Exaltation. The Green Sun Princes have in addition the fourth soul of their coadjutor, the once-demon fused into a synthetic soul hierarchy. Within them, however, they have the potential to expand beyond that.

    Charms with this keyword develop an additional nascent soul within the Infernal. Other Charms can synergise with and play off this, and certain heretical Charms may ask for them as prerequisites (for example, Fourth-Soul Devil Domain requires that the Infernal has learned a Pantheon-keyworded Charm before they can build a small world within their soul).

    The following Charms have the Pantheon Charm retroactively applied to them; Sun-Heart Furnace Soul, Counter-Pronouncement of Enthymemic Law, Crystal Facet Thoughts, Silence in Her Wake, Darkling Grace Complete, Carmine Mantled Emissary, Self-Seed Infestation, Toil By Proxy, Empyreal Invincibility Declaration. Pantheon-keyworded Charms should in general be Essence 3 or higher, and three to four Charms deep in a tree.
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    New Keyword: Pantheon-Anchored
    As their souls bud and multiply like nascent Primordials, an Infernal may delve into Heresy and develop Charm trees associated with the lesser parts of themselves. Charms with this Keyword are Heretical, and tied to a soul in the Infernal's Pantheon. They are costed as Unfavoured Charms, and should the soul they are tied to die, they collapse and are converted back into xp.
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    Titanic Spawn Uncountable
    Cost:     -; Mins: Essence 3; Type: Permanent
    Keywords: None
    Duration: Permanent
    Prerequisites: Any (Yozi) Mythos Exultant

    The demonic races of Malfeas are beyond number, and throng the streets of the city. From their internalised mythos, the warlock takes such fecundity for themselves. The character gains the capacity to spawn weak deva by performing a thematically appropriate birthing ritual, which may take no fewer than four hours. The player and the GM should design the new species based on the birthing ritual, the Infernal's intent, and her personality, and it should be balanced based on the examples of extant First Circle Demons. The Infernal gains one free species with this charm, and may spend 1xp per additional breeding ritual to create further new species.

    The newborn deva is mechanically a First Circle Demon who descends from the Infernal and may not be bound by any other sorcerer without her express permission. It is created with an empty motepool. If the warlock possesses an appropriate realm which resonates with her essence, such as the inner worlds created by Spirit of the Living World or Fourth-Soul Devil Domain, the deva returns there if banished. Otherwise, it is destroyed as if it was an Emerald Circle spell dispelled by Emerald Circle Countermagic.

    The scars of the Surrender Oaths are burned into the Mythoi of the Yozis, and certain of these restrictions bind the warlock. When within Creation, the Infernal may make use of this charm no more than once per day, and may not summon a demon on a day she uses it and vice versa.
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    Titanic Heart Overweening
    Cost:     -; Mins: Essence 4; Type: Permanent
    Keywords: None
    Duration: Permanent
    Prerequisites: Titanic Spawn Uncountable

    The thoughts of the Primordials are not those of mortal men. They are mighty spirits in their own rights, overflowing from the hearts of titans to form pantheons and landscapes. This Charm permanently enhances the Infernal's capacities. On the night of the new moon, when Luna turns her face from Creation, the feelings in the form of an Intimacy of the character may slip from his heart and take on independent form as a puissant spirit. This occurs when the Infernal would regain willpower from sleep - or another activity which substitutes for it - and may only occur once per new moon.

    The newborn spirit is mechanically treated as a deva of the Second Circle who descends from the Infernal, and who may not be bound by any other sorcerer. They should be given statistics as if they were a newly created Demon of the Second Circle whose Motivation is derived from the Intimacy they formed from, and whose themes derive from the Intimacy filtered through all the First (Yozi) Excellencies that the character knows. The Motivation of the deva and the Intimacy of the Infernal are irrevocably linked; should the Intimacy change - such as from admiration to love - then so will the Motivation, and likewise should the Motivation of the deva shift so will the Intimacy. Should the Infernal lose her Intimacy, the deva dies as if slain by a spirit-killing Charm.

    If the deva is banished, they return to the mind of their creator, and may escape again at the next new moon. The Infernal may also choose to willingly "banish" the deva by Touching them, and absorbing them back into her psyche. If they are slain, they may not escape again until a year and a day has passed. However, if they are slain with a spirit-killing Charm, they die permanently and Infernal loses the Intimacy. If he regains it - for example, by falling back in love with his wife - the spirit born from the regained Intimacy shares no continuity with the deceased deva.

    The character retains an unconscious veto over whether a given Intimacy is permitted to take independent form; some hearts are so jealous as to cling so closely to certain feelings that they cannot escape. The Infernal may maintain no more than (Willpower + Compassion) extant Intimacies as deva at this level of development. Due to the sympathetic resonance of the bonds of titanic power, on any day where such a deva has formed any spell the Infernal casts to summon a deva who descends from another titan fails, and vice versa.
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    There is rumour of an E5 Charm called Titanic Soul Invincible which would elevate an Infernal's souls to the level of the Unquestionable themselves; no doubt sparking furious debates among the souls of the Yozis and a tribunal in the court of Cecelyne or at the Infernal Althing to determine the status of such devas among the peers of Hell. As of yet, however, no Infernal has delved this far into Pantheonic Heresy.

    (Keris currently has two Pantheon Souls; one Adorjani and one Kimberian. As of yet, she has not awakened them to sapience, nor started crafting her own devas. It is, however, only a matter of time...)
     
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    • Aleph said:
    @horngeek: If you want to go Devil-Tiger at normal Essence, without a stupidly expensive Charm tree and in an evocative and interesting way that fits into normal play; go the same route I'm going in Kerisgame and ask @EarthScorpion or me (or both) about Pantheon Charms.
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    Do you have a link to the game you mentioned? I'd actually like to read through a decent game of exalted. I'm working on Waves of Winter, and it's quite interesting, but it's also currently very short.
     
    As an example of how they play; Keris also has Fourth Soul Devil Domain, so her souls (all four of them besides her self and her Exaltation) have somewhere to live when she's not invoking them.

    Echo is the elder; an adorable little wind-waif about the size of an eight-year old girl, formed from red wind and afterimages in the air; only clearly visible when she's moving. She's a manifestation of Adorjan's killing winds, and Keris can use Silence In Her Wake to let her out to murder people (mechanically, she can make a single attack that hits everything in range as she's dashing - represented by Echo darting around and copying her in her wake). As a result, she tends to hurt everything she touches, like sandpaper. She started out about as intelligent as a cat, but has since learned tea ceremonies (though her hands and hair destroy the cups if she holds them for too long), how to write her name (with rather bad spelling and calligraphy), and also how to play tag, though admittedly her version of tag generally ends with her jumping on the mindless Devil-Domain drone and killing it and then running off giggling soundlessly.

    Rathan is rather younger, and is a Kimberian foetus the size of an ox, made out of equal parts rock and flesh and ice and pearl, who lives in the red heart-shaped moon (no, the other kind of heart - the kind you rip out of someone's chest) made of crimson ice that's in the sky of Keris's Domain. His light surrounds Keris whenever she uses Carmine Mantled Emissary to look innocent and vulnerable and impossible to think badly of. He tends to make it rain whenever he's upset, and has a very bad habit of hypnotising all of the serfs in the Domain with beautiful mandala-displays whenever he wants attention. Which is often, because he's a curious inquisitive baby who isn't as smart or independent as Echo yet.

    Keris has bemoaned this on several occasions, but for some reason her rhetorical questions about what she did to deserve souls that are such brats have only been met with well-hidden amusement from her coadjutor. Very strange, that. A mystery.
    horngeek said:
    Pantheon Charms?

    *is interested*

    Edit: Aaaand ninja'd. :p
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    Ask and thee shall find that thou have already received. :V
    beowolf said:
    Do you have a link to the game you mentioned? I'd actually like to read through a decent game of exalted. I'm working on Waves of Winter, and it's quite interesting, but it's also currently very short.
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    Ehh. I'm iffy on giving people access to Kerisgame logs. Especially the early ones, before we switched over to third-person descriptions. They're a bit of a mess.
     
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    Aleph said:
    Keris has bemoaned this on several occasions, but for some reason her rhetorical questions about what she did to deserve souls that are such brats have only been met with well-hidden amusement from her coadjutor. Very strange, that. A mystery.
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    But Aleph! You're neglecting her other souls, and one of them might get angry if you do that.

    You wouldn't like it when it gets angry. It still misses the plate.
     
    And apparently the leak is in fact the final text.

    *Goes back to getting annoyed at how there are a few new features that prevent me from transferring Void over because I wants the shiny*
     
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    But Aleph! You're neglecting her other souls, and one of them might get angry if you do that.

    You wouldn't like it when it gets angry. It still misses the plate.
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    Oh come on, didn't I replace that in downtime?

    so unfair
    stupid pissy snake
    stealing mah stuff
    throwing tantrums
    beating me up
    so mean
     
    Sucal said:
    Apparently they were too complicated for a book thats already 940+ pages before they add art and such. Maybe they'll return later?.
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    They'll probably get their own book, like the Monks scroll or some such. Martial Arts were... A mixed bag to put it lightly, but they were popular, which from a companies standpoint makes them golden.
     
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