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It does mention sheathing your blade quite often, but always in situations where you need a moment to focus and are typically not in an ongoing melee anyway.

In the styles description, which doesn't say anything about doing it repeatedly
Students learn to draw their blade as though it were an extension of their own body, transitioning effortlessly from the draw to a strike or parry.
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In the form charm. Note the whole "customary" thing,
While in this form, it is customary to sheathe one's sword after each strike, and draw it anew for each new one—not merely as a show of this style's formidable speed, but to contain and dissipate the overwhelming buildup of Essence that might erupt beyond the stylist's control without such restraint.
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In Void-Slicing Wind, where it's done as a simple action attack where you rush towards the enemy and attack him.
As one heartbeat begins, the stylist draws her sword from its scabbard.
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Horizon-Swallowed Star Flash is a reflexive clash attack, where you sheathe the sword after slicing your enemy.
Moving without the least sign of effort, the swordsman repels the blows of her attackers in a flash of steel before sheathing her sword, as if to seal away the wasted force of their strikes.
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Six-Demon Scabard Binding is the only one where I'd actually argue that sheathing the sword is actually necessary for the charms effect, since it's about capturing a shaping effect with your blade and dissipating it in the scabbard.
Sweeping her blade through the motions of an intricate Essence-channeling pattern, the stylist forces hostile magic to condense itself into form, taking on shape as a howling devil which she swiftly dispatches and seals away as she sheathes her sword.
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So yes there are heavy iaijutsu-elements in this style, but they are about what iaijutsu is actually about - focus on the sword, unity with it and extremely rapid strikes. Not some silly "sheat your sword after every strike" thing except in the Style-charms fluff where it is outright stated to be customary and thus probably a thing for duelists (unless you are arguing that a custom should always be obeyed in battle?).

And Steel-Devil Style is also about high speed. It's first charm is even about rapid draws!
Okay it is described as a constant whirling of two blades while Single Point is about single instant strikes - but that just means that a master of both performs her whirling blade-dance with small pauses - from which she then strikes with blinding speed, creates openings and continues her dance of death. Or something to that effect.
 
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New Kerisgame update!

For those who enjoy the character drama and soul shenanigans; Keris is worst mother, very neglect, much inattentive, many guilt, wow. But she has figured out the key to Sasi's heart - pretty things are all very well and good, but unique things are even better, especially if she's the first one to ever see them.

For those who like the mysterious plot threads and CONSPIRACY, it appears that we have found a thing that catalyses red sunrises. A catalyst is defined as a thing that allows a reaction to take place or increases the rate at which it does so, without itself undergoing any permanent change. In other words, a reusable trigger for a "red sunrise", whatever that is. Debate what it could be at your leisure, but tell no-one of our plans for it!

And for those who like humour, there's quite a bit of that, too. Among other things, Keris once again loses to her souls. Two of them, in fact, taking a literal black eye from the second. Isn't it sad, Keris? Your souls are beating you at stuff. And they're not even sapient.

(Also, we have decided that An Teng has mostly South-Asian fauna, so there are a variety of animals which might show up, from mangrove river dragons to giant porcupines to tigers to pangolins to forest elephants. We're less sure about where all the lemurs came from, but they probably escaped from a Shogunate zoo and carved out an ecological niche for themselves after the Twin Cataclysms.)
 
NonSequtur said:
Red sky at night, shepherd's delight. Red sky at morning, shepherd take warning.

Some sort of storm caller? Presumably more hurricane than spring shower, given the warnings.
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Given that it's at the bottom of an 800 metre deep flooded mineshaft that was plugged with a superconcrete seal tens of metres thick and then a second one closer to the surface, we're probably looking at Adamant Sorcery tier stuff. A superstorm is a possibility, I suppose. It's not something like a nuke, or the word "catalyst" probably wouldn't have been used... hmm.

Well, it'll be a while before we can break in and find out. We shall see.
 
Aleph said:
Given that it's at the bottom of an 800 metre deep flooded mineshaft that was plugged with a superconcrete seal tens of metres thick and then a second one closer to the surface, we're probably looking at Adamant Sorcery tier stuff. A superstorm is a possibility, I suppose. It's not something like a nuke, or the word "catalyst" probably wouldn't have been used... hmm.

Well, it'll be a while before we can break in and find out. We shall see.
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I take it you're not familiar with your World of Darkness lore?

Hint: Do not take this whatever-it-is anywhere close to Ligier or Malfeas.
 
The 'Red Sun' was also referred in Glories to the Most High, were it's the theoretical excercise used by the Sidereals to train for handling the death of the Unconquered Sun. Because should that happen the Daystar is going to grow red and a lot more prominent in the sky as it approaches Creation in a bid to remind all Creation of why, exactly, they had an Unconquered Sun in the first place.
 
What exactly does it mean for an Infernal to go Devil-Tiger? Does that refer to them turning into a Primordial, like I've heard they can do?
 
Strunkriindiisk said:
What exactly does it mean for an Infernal to go Devil-Tiger? Does that refer to them turning into a Primordial, like I've heard they can do?
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It basically means they've become better than a Primordial. As they advance among the path of the Devil-Tiger, they get the immortality, the souls too great to contain in a single piece, the Charm trees...

But unlike the Primordials, they can think outside their 'theme', so to speak.
 
horngeek said:
It basically means they've become better than a Primordial. As they advance among the path of the Devil-Tiger, they get the immortality, the souls too great to contain in a single piece, the Charm trees...

But unlike the Primordials, they can think outside their 'theme', so to speak.
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Neat.

Now I want to get into Exalted even more.
 
Strunkriindiisk said:
Neat.

Now I want to get into Exalted even more.
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Unfortunately for that particular want, the concepts involving Devil-Tigerhood are going away in 3e if the devs stick to their current vision for Infernals, since they aren't pulling Charms directly from the Yozi anymore.

(Honestly, the Devil-Tiger tree as it stands has problems anyway, since it starts at Essence 6)
 
horngeek said:
Unfortunately for that particular want, the concepts involving Devil-Tigerhood are going away in 3e if the devs stick to their current vision for Infernals, since they aren't pulling Charms directly from the Yozi anymore.

(Honestly, the Devil-Tiger tree as it stands has problems anyway, since it starts at Essence 6)
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Well, it also has the problem in that it completely destroys the entire setting and the entire past of the setting in one stupid idea.

The problem with all the neat ideas about Infernals is that Infernals can not be more powerful than Solars. This is a truism of the setting. Solars are the most powerful of the Exalted, definitionally. So if an Infernal can do it, a Solar can do it.

Then understand that Infernals can become as powerful as an unrestrained Primordial.

Which means every individual Solar has the potential to equal an unrestrained Primordial.

Which means that stuff like getting the entire Solar deliberative together to do stuff like, say, the Salinian Working is ridiculous, because now we know that every single Solar in existence is at least as powerful as She Who Lives In Her Name and Adrian, who were capable of doing shit like destroying significant chunks of all existence retroactively (ie atemporal attacks) and fighting off the entire exalted host single-handedly.

Not only does this entirely break the Primordial War, it also breaks the Usurpation over its back. Because if the Solars, at the height of their power, could be taken down by the Dragonblooded and Sidereals the Solars are now superflous to the setting since you could have won the Primordial war with the same force. Either that, or they aren't as powerful as we thought.

Not to mention stuff like the soul heirarchy stuff meaning that every Infernal came with an army of potent magical supergods of their own, so Solars suddenly have to have equivalent tech so a Solar can one on one duel with a Primordial and his entire soul hierarchy at the same time which leads to all sorts of ridiculously broken bullshit.

Plus all sorts of other stuff, like the fact that it was made clear that Primordials could fix the Great Curse, so if Infernal are as powerful as Primordial they can fix the Great Curse which means that Solars can, singlehandedly, fix the Great Curse. You know, with just the right Charm.

This also lead to a Race To Essence 10 mentality, since once you set the high end of PC power at "Primordial" everything else just becomes meaningless. The Elder Problem became magnified a billion times because in order to compete with the suddenly effectively omnipotent Essence 10 Solar Lunars and Sidereals had to be "one step short of Primordial" level power (otherwise, again, how could they possibly have killed them back during the Usurpation) and on and on.

Plus, the Charm trees made absolutely no fucking sense as Primordial Charms. Why would a Primordial need a Charm that say "I don't need to sleep" or "I don't need to eat"? These are Charm extremely useful to humans, who eat and sleep as required, but a Primordial is not a human and never had human foibles or weaknesses, so why would they need to sleep. "Needing to sleep" is not a universal weakness inherent to the cosmos.
 
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Eh, Infernal is corrupted Solar. And isn't the whole point of Infernal Charms is you are emulating Primordial?

Yeah, these charms seems strange for Primordial, but I view it like, well, we human have 'Air-Breathing Prana' or something like that - for us, it is not charm. It just is. But since Infernals are human, and they try to emulate Primordial, they need to understand what makes them tick - and all the charms is essentially that. Understanding.

If I remember correctly, Solar can get Primordial-Emulating Principle, right? Wouldn't be surprised if it gets extended so you become Devil-Tiger-like.
 
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