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Well I'm looking for a few Co-Manager for it, although I don't mind them to play if they want.

Its a OC centered you see, with a new faction to boot.
 
What would someone from Carthage look like? I'm working on a game set with influences from that time period, but google's proving to useless.
 
Most likely someone* from Carthage would have Semitic features, as it was a Phoenician city-state which originated in today's Lebanon.
That said they were also a sea-faring culture so there would be general Mediterranean features also mixed in, depending on how long their city/empire was present during the time period you are playing in, and how much "new blood" they get from their homeland as opposed to closer countries.

From Wikipedia:
The Punics are also known as Carthaginians because of their capital Carthage, a Phoenician city on the coast of North Africa. The Carthaginians were not related to the Berbers that lived in that region. After the fall of Phoenicia proper, their homeland in Lebanon, the Carthaginians were on their own. DNA tests show that the Phoenicians were most closely related to the Greeks and Romans. Berbers were only hired as mercenaries when Carthage went into war.
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So basically slightly brownish skin and generally black hair. Perhaps looking up Lebanese people on Google and mixing some Greek and Italian features would do.

*As in an actual citizen, slaves could be from pretty much anywhere realistically reachable, so (most likely very rarely)Celtic or actually native African(very dark skin, etc.) features would be possible for those.
 
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Kuciwalker said:
@Irked already did a pretty good job of this over on the official forums: Irked Reads Ex3 - Onyx Path Forums
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Hmm. That seems kinda cool actually. Not exactly the same thing as Shyft's essays, but gives lots of quick overviews about what Exalts, their themes and the book in general are like, without needing to read through hundreds of pages (admittedly, the review is still quite long, and, playing 2½e, I don't have the spare willpower to read each and every line).
 
Are solar exalted a bunch of people that have multiple life from through out time? Can there be born a new solar exalted? or any exalted for that matter but like first generation, that doesnt know what they are
 
Duburu said:
Are solar exalted a bunch of people that have multiple life from through out time? Can there be born a new solar exalted? or any exalted for that matter but like first generation, that doesnt know what they are
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The Solar Exaltation is an artificial component that latches on to a mortal's soul. A Solar Exalted is a human that recieved an Exaltation. Once a Solar dies, his own soul goes on to reincarnate in a new mortal, and his Exaltation moves on to find a new mortal host. Some of the Solar's own memories and personality can be recorded in the Exaltation, especialy if he lived for a long time, and a new host can thus "remember" memories of the previous host's life. With the right background/merit, its also possible for a previous host's recorded personality to "take over" a current host for brief periods of time.

The new host of an Exaltation almost certainly has no idea what a Solar Exaltation is. They are not born, they are chosen by an Exaltation at a fitting moment of heroism (as defined by the Exaltation's parameters).
 
Duburu said:
Are solar exalted a bunch of people that have multiple life from through out time? Can there be born a new solar exalted? or any exalted for that matter but like first generation, that doesnt know what they are
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A Simplification of the Reincarnation Process for a Solar:

When a Solar dies, the bit of his Soul that made him a Solar breaks off, and inserts itself into the Soul of another sufficiently heroic person.

That person then does Solar stuff, eventually dies, and it repeats.

Their is no continuity of thought between a Solar. Occasionally, a Solar will have flashes of the life of his past holder of his Solar Exaltation, but they are not the same people.

A 'New' Solar, being one whose Exaltation hasn't been in any other hosts, is theoretically possible, but you'd need to convince the Sun and Autocthon that you need more Solars.

And it may just be that the Sun can no longer create new Solars. That's really up to the Storyteller.

EDIT: Ninja'd
 
Duburu said:
or any exalted for that matter but like first generation, that doesnt know what they are
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Well, that's not likely to happen with the Dragonblooded, because all but the most isolated villages have at least an idea what a Dragonblooded is. People who exalt as Sidereals probably don't know what happened, but that won't last long as the Bureau of Destiny is going to send out a team to bring the new Sidereal to heaven to get put through Sidereal boot camp and handed a mission and some gear.

A lot of people have some idea about Solars and Lunars, because those are mentioned in the Immaculate Texts, but the Texts are mostly propaganda. The Abyssals and Infernals get a quick blurb and then have to freely and of their own will accept that power.

So no, someone in Creation is likely to have some idea of what they are.

linkhyrule5 said:
Honestly I'd reject the idea just out of sheer inelegance.
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I forget which book, but I think it's heavily implied there are two hundred "blank" celestial exaltations still in secure storage.
 
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Walker of the Yellow Path said:
Their is no continuity of thought between a Solar. Occasionally, a Solar will have flashes of the life of his past holder of his Solar Exaltation, but they are not the same people.
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It's worth noting that a lot of Solars don't share that view; they do consider themselves to have continuity of identity with the past recipients of their Exaltation. It's theoretically possible for a Solar to have a more modern outlook of "I just have someone else's memories but it's got nothing on me," but it's not a point of view presented in any of the books. Some Solars react with confusion or indifference without settling either way, but most accept at face value the notion that they were the people whose memories they experience.

It's something I like to use to spark debates about the definition of personhood and identity with nerds who feel strongly about it :V
 
Omicron said:
It's worth noting that a lot of Solars don't share that view; they do consider themselves to have continuity of identity with the past recipients of their Exaltation. It's theoretically possible for a Solar to have a more modern outlook of "I just have someone else's memories but it's got nothing on me," but it's not a point of view presented in any of the books. Some Solars react with confusion or indifference without settling either way, but most accept at face value the notion that they were the people whose memories they experience.

It's something I like to use to spark debates about the definition of personhood and identity with nerds who feel strongly about it :V
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Hmm. Come to think of it, this is the sort of setting where continuity of identity can be not only a diverging branching tree-like, but also diverging-and-converging. Sure, the odds of the sam Hun Soul 'meeting' the same Exaltation Soul in the same body are near-zero, but strictly hypothetically.
 
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