For extra points, how would it go if an Infernal was the reincarnated soul of a Solar just before the last one who died during the Usurpation, and his Exaltation now carried the last holder.
Just the Sun, really, though that doesn't make your task any easier. Even if he were willing and able, there's simply no need.
So how do you feel about the ~400 3e Lunars?Honestly I'd reject the idea just out of sheer inelegance. Three hundred and one Exaltations hurts me in the OCD.
I was joking, but Demons, (not the Yozi themselves, they're stellar phenomenon and the like with Malfeas being a Dyson Sphere and Isidoros being an actual black-hole) are living programs, data made manifest through essence that have grown beyond what they were supposed to be.
Literally none of this matches the Heaven's Reach I read.
The one from shards, yeah, where everything is hyper-tech and the exaltions and the like are all sufficently advanced science. Not the Gunstar Autochaton shard, where thte exalted host lost and are now on the run through the still intact Creation while the vengeful titans pursue them and everything is still magic with a bit of technology thrown in.
Why would you assume that they're the same as spirit-programs in the shard, when demons and gods have always had fundamental differences? Especially since that would be a huge departure from canon demons, as they would lack the same components-of-the-greater-whole element that defines 2CDs and 3CDs.
Because I was making a joke, and you being the prick you are, are taking far, far too seriously?
I'm having trouble seeing how it was somehow wrong of me to infer that "we can guess they're the same as the other data-spirits" was in support of your prior statements in which you say they're just like data-spirits.
No, you're a prick for taking a joke post seriously and I'm a fool for making a half-serious reply to you instead of saying it was just joke. God, this is why probably over half of the posts in this thread are bitching about lore, economics and infrasturcutre or 3E.
Incredible amounts of hate.So how do you feel about the ~400 3e Lunars?
Though it's worth noting that Green Sun Princes can be lied to and manipulated as long as they still willingly agree (so if they don't know the demon offering it is actually a demon they may have completely the wrong perception of the situation), and that while Abyssal Exaltation involves an supernatural and at least some degree explicit oath of service to the forces of Oblivion, it comes under hella duress since the only other option is "finish becoming dead".
Does the memories of the past screw with the present?
Depends on what you mean by "screw with." In general, they're just occasional flashes of memory. If you have the Past Lives merit, you get stronger ones; those could feasibly be distracting. If you have uh, whatever the extra disadvantage on that one (Throwback, I think?), then your past self can take control of you occasionally; same with Infernals with enough dots in their equivalent Background.
Its less "take control" and more "personality meld", as it adds the previous host's Motivation and Intimacies to your own, but does not overwrite anything.
Indeed, they can be lied to, but the being offering the exaltation is only allowed to use natural mental influence. No mindwhammies or anything, but people will often take that power anyway. They don't want to die, or they want to fix that mistake, or they never want to be powerless again, understandable motivations for accepting.
They can, depending on what version of Past Lives you took, and how much you took. Stepping into the ruins of Meru and seeing flashes of the city as it was during the First Age is a bit of flavor but doesn't really screw with you.
On the other hand, you get a ship.
And when you get a private message saying "you are now the previous incarnation, and no longer respond to the current incarnation's name at all" it's a pain in the ass*.
It would make the Immaculate Doctrine largely unworkable, as people would realize that reincarnation is a fundamentally random process. Given that the Doctrine is predicated upon reincarnation as a reward to motive 'moral' behavior (that is broadly speaking 'behavior benefitial to the Realm and the Sidereals,' although that's simplistic), the consequences on the setting would be broad and far-reaching.
