in fairness in many ways the darkhallow is as good if not better then normal exalted in a lot of ways at least in sheer power. Depending on how much you kill sure you'll be more limited and lack some of the things exalted have. Its still in pure power better than we're likely to ever get in quest. we might be essence 5 if we reach 2 million words which will take a long time since less updates then song without a hilt. I doubt we'll have gone past that even then.
That's a really difficult claim to back up. All we know is that it makes you strong enough that Mab would prefer not to fight you. Which is a big deal, but Mab tries to solve her problems without needing to personally punch them out whenever she can anyway, so it's not the end all be all power threshold.
My bet is that it'd result in a lot of power, but it'd be shallow. Their effects would be good and have a lot of energy to work with, but perfect effects would be thin on the ground and difficult to spam the way exalts can.
I'd also expect that they'd have different issues with different types of exalted. I could see a Dawn struggling in that situation, but a twilight caste with time to plan being a huge problem for them.
An essence 5 infernal with a sufficiently powerful world-soul to draw on would be a problem as well. Death god or not a hostile extradimensional realm of monsters is no joke.
So it's all about context, who knows what, when they know it, and who maneuvers better.
Or at least that's how I see it.
Quotes from E2 Autochtonia book:
Kemmler was good. Very good. He didn't run Darkhallow on himself, and he didn't have access to many gods to catalyze exigents. He didn't have opportunities, I feel.
Basically, what I am saying is that it wouldn't surprise me if the knowledge he passed onto Arawn was something from the first age, or at least related. We'll see, I guess - it's not like we are done with Thule Society.
That's interesting, but I still have doubts. If he could craft god weapons then he wouldn't have gone down like he did. Reverse engineering is harder than TV makes it look for mundane subjects. Reverse engineering the work of a primordial forge god using the post apocalyptic scraps of his second hand work should be way harder.
Going from reverse engineering scraps of a physical process into making a spiritual one like the other exalts that can be made with available materials by any decently competent necromancer should be harder than that again.
It's the supernatural equivalent of figuring out modern ICBMs and their nuclear payloads from the remains of a silo that fired its nuke and was hit with at least one retaliatory strike.
The abyssal and solar exaltations should have ripped their way out of the vault to duel for the right to bond with him.
Not everything needs to be exalted bullshit.
Same, basically.
I believe it was mentioned that he literally never fails a shot, so that would propably be either a Charm or a specific bonus from Legendary Attribute (Dexterity).
The rest is just possible superhuman skill, some longevity and good healing, like any Dragontouched or Mage can take as an
I think that rep shouldn't be taken literally.
I wouldn't give him a perfect effect but I'd build him with maxed out legendary dexterity, 5 dots in firearms, and an attribute only excellency that applies to dex.
So he'd roll something like 17 dice at full blast even if he's using the shittiest pistol on the planet.
I'd also give him 5 perception because he should be a really gun heavy build with time to flesh it out. Not too many other maxed skills because of that, but a hefty number of 3s on things related to modern weapons systems and technology.
So sniping with a scope and time to aim would put him at 22 dice, assuming he has no other fancy equipment to help.
Technically he can miss, but with a pool like that he might as well be infallible with a gun as far as most observers are concerned.
He also has a history of using special ammo when he can; so for added fun he's probably doing material based agg damage to vampires, fey, and the undead if he has time to prepare for them.
