Mab thought she knew stuff. That's not the same as knowing things about our exaltations. I'd like to point out that even Uriel flat out didn't know the nature of our exaltation - the kingdom caught him by surprise.
These were Mab's exact words when we met:
"That task belongs to another, a mortal. I am the Queen of Winter and need no other title as you need none but the Green Sun-That-Was-Before-The-Sun upon your brow. Offer thine counsel and I shall promise to take it in the spirit it was given. The cup has now been drunk almost to the dregs, the sword not red with blood but black for how many times it has been spilled and only the staff is left to hold in place the Wheel."
She doesnt know everything, but she knows enough to recognize Ligier. That makes her very wised up.
She's Fae; she isnt going to knowingly lie to us.
EDIT
This doesnt mean she knows everything. Mab CAN be mistaken
But she is reasonably confident in the accuracy of what she does know. Which makes sense, with the Walker we fought recognizing us and greeting us as a Prince of the Earth.
Not true at all, all of reality is created by mages. Consensus isn't a funny word for the mage canon it us true. Like creating space is literally space 5.
Requiring an artifact just means he wasn't strong enough to do it on his own. As seen by how it boosts his sphere dots.
No, thats not true.
The Avatar Storm would not have wrecked everyone's shit if any of these claims were true. Nor would the Void Engineers have been reliant on the Cop.
The rules of Consensus Reality in Mage are established and managed by mortal expectations not by mages. Mortals obviously did not create reality, but they do modify how it works. Mages can try to move things into Consensus, but they have only limited influence. Mortal expectations are what make the Tellurian inhospitable to a lot of Archmages and people with high Dox.
When an Entropy 7, Arete 9 Archmage cannot make something but has to first seduce a hell-queen so he can vore her, and then use her authority to actually claim this divine artifact?
Then maybe you might consider that it may be a mite beyond them. Just a little.
The Avatar Storm would not have wrecked everyone's shit if your assertions of mage supremacy were real.
Yes primordials fall far short. Like look at their world, its tiny even before it was destroyed. Hell they didn't even create the concept of existence. Fair folk existed before the primoridals as well.
Exalted Creation is whats left after three apocalypses.
First the damage of the Primordial War happened. Then The Principle of Hierarchy blew up 90% of the universe, from land to concepts. Then the Balorean Crusade wiped out 90% of what was left.
You arent really grokking what Primordials are.
Being a badass does help with qualifying for a Dawn Exaltation, I believe, or at least with surviving long enough for you to be Exalted.
Nah.
It actually raises the threshold of what counts as heroic for a person. An untrained mortal attacking a vampire barehanded and winning is much more impressive, and likely to Exalt, than a trained soldier in full combat rig doing so.
Its just that some lines of work are sufficiently risky that Exaltation-worthy challenges are more likely to come your way.
