Apart from, say, the person who built an artifact that uploaded the wearer's personality into a Celestial Exaltation when they die and so it would then bodyjack the next person to earn the Exaltation?
Cite please?
I do not recall this in Exalted 2E. There is, I think, something of the sort for Terrestrial Exaltations associated with some sort of lake, but not for Celestial Exaltations.
Or the living Primordials who learned how to change the targeting mechanism and attach them to a demon who could act as a guidance and gatekeeping system, or the Neverborn who could make Abyssals with a similar gate.
They still dont get to decide for the Exaltation.
They managed to tweak a couple variables on the selection criteria, It does out and it makes its own decisions, and both the Neverborn and Yozi are stuck with who the Exaltation chooses.
Do you not think it they had as much control as you say, that they would pick Yozi cultists, or death cultists, instead of randos?
They don't. That's not how it works at all. There was some fluff for Black Wind which erroneously implied it did, but it was clarified in the Companion book. Demon Chi regenerates once a day, rolling the P'o rating against a base difficulty of 6 and recovering a number of points equal to successes.
That's the only way a Dhampyr can recover Demon Chi. A rogue not!akuma who has somehow managed to get P'o 3 and so Black Wind 3 can take four actions in a turn and then will be out of Demon Chi until that evening, and it probably takes a couple of days to refill the tank until they can do it again.
1)Can I please get a citation?
Because I have KOTE Core, and thats what it says.
2) Not dhampyr, more not!akuma.
Thats what happens when a not!Hell Queen sticks a shard of its power inside you and uses it to awaken your Po.
No, wrong.
All mortals are mages, they just don't know how to do magic as an active thing.
No, thats not true.
Sleepers, by definition, are not Mages. They can be if they Awaken, but they are not.
Just needed entropy 9 like the artifact made it.
He is Arete 9, not Entropy 9, and the
Pasupatta Astra did not make him Entropy 9
He tricked and vored the Yama Queen Tou Mu, and used her stolen divinity to claim the weapon-focus, which allegedly belonged to Shiva. As far as I know he didnt gain any Spheres or Arete from doing so.
I can make baseless assertions too. The primordials war wouldn't have wrecked everyone's shit if your assertion of primordials supremacy was true.
It doesn't make both our statements true.
The Primordials surrendered. They didnt fight to the death.
And the war required the active help of two Primordials and millions of troops, in addition to the hundreds of respawning Celestial Exaltations who got reaped like wheat. There's a reason no Exalt who saw the war start saw its end.
By comparison? There were entire Horizon Realms that got wrecked by the Avatar Storm. Horizon Realms with multiple archmages gone. Void Adaptation happened to the people cut off, and they became nonhuman; none of the archmages had the power to prevent it. The Technocracy lost vast chunks of their infrastructure, and havent been able to recover it ever since.
These arent comparable scenarios sir.
That area is still less than the size of solar system.
I think you aren't gorking how complex and big actual universes are in comparison to a limited to creation.
Artemis addresses this so I dont have to.
