Well, i could blame my headache but i actually forgot about the Immaculate Doctrine.
I'm going back to this, because it made me think of something I'm not sure has ever been covered in Canon. Do we know which group of Solaroids the Deathlords' Exaltations went to? Because I think one of them meeting themselves in an Infernal under the control of their Past Life would be quite interesting.
This seems like a major theme of the current story I'm in. Specifically, we've already met Liminal!Salina and little-girl!Salina[1]. I'm fully expected Solar-with-Salina's-memories to turn up any time now (assuming they haven't already).
IIRC it is heavily implied that the Silver Prince used to be Desus, and thus his Exaltation went to the iconic Eclipse, Swan. We dont know about any of the others.
One point of clarification on our mystery little girl.
Well, it depends on what exactly are the mechanics of the whole retaining memories.
Or you write reincarnation such that the new person isn't the old person, regardless of any memories that may have carried over.
Sounds like a doombot. Or an attempt to create an Exaltation. Or both.
Exigent Exalt, IMO,since you seem to be playing 3E.
Is this charm basically implying that an Alchemical can flare, say, a Fire Dragonblood's anima flux and burninate his surroundings as an offensive effect?
This seems to be saying that if you're using Trans-Chosen Emulator + Integrated Artifact Transmogrifier to look, say, like a Dragonblood or a Solar, that going totemic anima doesn't drop your disguise.
While not impossible, this is extremely unlikely given the way Exigents work. You aren't going to get something even vaguely Solarish. All beings have an anima, it's just a matter of exciting it with essence. Normally pointless, unless you are trying to make a sorcerous creation that looks like an Exalt.
That's easy: she is "a supernatural being of a singular nature and considerable power."
Could just be a side effect, too; the anima is just the result of incomplete control over your Essence, rather than something unique to Exalts. Any "flawed" creature could have one and I wouldn't bat an eye.
Is this some new thing with 3E?
No, though I should have been more clear. All living things have an invisible anima. It's just that in Exalts using essence can sometimes make it visible.
They're variable, but you don't get to choose the result, so it's unlikely she'd have such eerie similarities.
If she's gone years, let alone decades, without making a mess large enough that Sidreals had to clean up the smoking crater then things didn't really go all that badly.
I am pretty sure there was an Anima banner mutation/merit/flaw(Cannot really remember which, and i cannot currently check), but i am almost sure it was in Scroll of Heores.
To clarify from Anasurimbor (which, tbh, I'm not sure is canon, but definitely makes metaphysical sense and I'd be somewhat surprised if it wasn't true): the anima banner is described in core as waste energy - it's what happens when the Exaltation's imperfect control of the peripheral pool leaks into the environment. It's attached to the Exaltation and also you, which is why it's so personalized (and also why I think Sidereals should totally have totemic anima, "stars are too distant to make out details" thematics or no).
Remember that poisons only do 1 damage die per interval, which is rarely as short as a tick - action or hour are more common. That means that even with a non-lethal drug, they're going to be walking around, conscious and capable of screaming and yelling for some time after you dose them. If you're going for stealth with drugs, I'd recommend dosing them surreptitiously in a way they won't notice instead of relying on knocking them out in combat time or by laced weapons - spiking the water supply would probably be better than trying to drug the various guards.
