"I'm good at divination and I was right."
Boom. Plausible explanation. Not like Mab and Titania weren't already scratching their heads as to how Molly knew more about their Courts being infiltrated than they did. Nobody presses their allies on how exactly they saved their ass if they don't want to share.
Wizards, remember? Nosiness is like a foundational characteristic
And they actually know how Divination works, in detail.
We didnt tell Titania, we told Ivy. Ivy told Titania, so she had no reason
Mab didnt ask, but Mab had Usum in Arctis Tor for centuries. There's a good chance she already knows.
Furthermore, this was shortly after Proven Guilty; Mab knew Nemesis had infiltrated Winter by then, and already had Lea in treatment. Molly fingering Maeve just confirmed other data she had.
... You jumping right to "he can steamroll us" based on DPE not applying? You tend to be overcautious, but this is getting ridiculous. We are at E4, in the presence of good allies, and if this was canon ExvsWoD would be starting to plan how to kill Cain now. At some point "we can take him" stops being a boast and becomes a statement of fact.
1) No, thats not true.
Go read the relevant ExWoD section again; Caine is nowhere on the list for ExWoD Exalts.
2)Let me quote it for you:
DPoE said:
The Infernal garbs herself in hellish authority; all lesser wicked things are like writhing worms or mere grains of sand cast before her, and instinctively recognize this imbalance.
System: Whenever the Infernal deals with a lesser creature of darkness than herself, she permanently reduces the difficulty of all social actions (including the activation roll of powers to suborn the will of such creatures) by two. "Lesser" creatures of darkness include all beings that qualify for that moniker which are of lesser power than ancient vampires, Maeljin Incarnae, Yama Kings, Malfeans, the greatest of Black Spiral Dancer heroes, other Exalted, and the like. Jaggling or Gaffling-level Banes and all fomori are always lesser beings.
Thats about where this demon rates to be a Creature of Darkness spirit that ignores Demonic Primacy.
This is the kind of entity that you engage as part of a careful plan with a full Circle of picked allies, full Essence and Willpower reserves, preferably some Holy relics, a Knight or two and as stacked a deck as you can manage, as well as clear lines of retreat in case shit goes bad.
Not when taken by surprise with 10/18 Essence and 7/9 Willpower, and as the only Exalt on the scene.
Make no mistake, even if we'd prepared, this fucker could kill us.
No cap.
We have bumped into loads of CoD which DPE does not apply to that we could crush in a fight.
The benchmark is different for different species.
There are CoD spirits that would mop the floor with vampire elders, and yet DPoE would ignore the vampire and hit the spirit.
A Nexus Crawler would probably paint Lara Raith all across the walls, but she ignores DPoE while the Crawler wont.
