Green Sun, Black Shadows (CG/Exalted)

Huh, I guess Malfeas hates her less than everything else.

Well, I don't think Malfeas hates everything, just a lot of things. He certainly likes dancing and music, and he likes obedient servants, and Maiko dances at a level that is extremely pleasing and doesn't even have to be yelled at to know he wants her to dance. So yeah, he's rather pleased with her.
 

He's a Primordial. Their minds are alien. Malfeas himself literally has to have a psychic fracture in order to conceive of someone else's opinion mattering. The Ebon Dragon can't understand heroism at all except in opposition to it.

Anyways, if Malfeas can love, he can only do so within the contexts of his themes. He might love someone who was a supreme dancer and musician who was absolutely and completely obedient while also being awed and terrified of him. The relationship would not be a healthy one. You'd probably need to create another Primordial who specifically exists to be his wife and has themes to be happy being in a relationship with an abusive super-tyrant.
 
another Primordial who specifically exists to be his wife and has themes to be happy being in a relationship with an abusive super-tyrant.
*SWLiHN quickly pulls the curtains around her shrine to her king*

Her Urge seems odd for Malfeas; I wouldn't think he'd care about mortal culture. Maybe something like "destroy Brittania's popular culture and replace it with that of Hell." ?
 
*SWLiHN quickly pulls the curtains around her shrine to her king*

I think her desire to take away his free will probably freaks him out a bit. Sure, she'll still do what he says, but that's beside the point. :p

Her Urge seems odd for Malfeas; I wouldn't think he'd care about mortal culture. Maybe something like "destroy Brittania's popular culture and replace it with that of Hell." ?

Malfeas likes dance and music, and while he generally likes destruction and collateral damage I think those are the two things he might have a soft spot for. Going into his own streets and cavorting in dance actually lets him forget his imprisonment and the insults against him, even if for a brief time and to the apparent embarrassment of Ligier. So as long as it's good music and dance, I can't really see him outright wanting to destroy it. But he may want to destroy the process by which Britannia is smothering good song and dance of non-Britannian cultures, though wouldn't be inclined to destroy any good Britannian music and dance.
 
He's a Primordial. Their minds are alien. Malfeas himself literally has to have a psychic fracture in order to conceive of someone else's opinion mattering. The Ebon Dragon can't understand heroism at all except in opposition to it.
Well, I mean, Gaia certainly seems to make the relationship with Luna work.

Anyways, if Malfeas can love, he can only do so within the contexts of his themes. He might love someone who was a supreme dancer and musician who was absolutely and completely obedient while also being awed and terrified of him. The relationship would not be a healthy one. You'd probably need to create another Primordial who specifically exists to be his wife and has themes to be happy being in a relationship with an abusive super-tyrant.
I always figured SWLIHN was married to the king.
Or at the very least married to Theion, might no longer be the case.
 
Well, I mean, Gaia certainly seems to make the relationship with Luna work.
Well, a primordial certainly COULD pursue a romantic relationship. Adorjan had lovers AND children as well, Ebon Dragon has a Thing for waifus, SWLIHN had been fixated upon Theion, Gaia's in bed with Luna, etc.

It would have contexts and qualifiers beyond that of mortal romances, because they aren't mortal, but declaring that they're incapable of love for a mortal is a step too far. Of course, whether the mortal can survive being the object of their romance, reciprocate or enjoy it is another matter.
 
Well, I mean, Gaia certainly seems to make the relationship with Luna work.


I always figured SWLIHN was married to the king.
Or at the very least married to Theion, might no longer be the case.
Gaia was also not cast from power, turne inside out and used as prison, constantly in pain, and hating all of creation so much that it would see it destroyed even though that would completely defeat it's purpose of wanting/needing to rule it, and hate ing itself even more.

Also dam it phone behave you.
 
Not only that but Luna was made to be Gaia's ideal waifu to keep her attention focused on Creation. And when you ideal waifu is Luna, that really says it all.

Also, considering Lelouch is already developing his soul pantheon, does that mean Rakshata and Akito have are developed there's much further by virtue of having been an Infernal much longer. Or is there reasons they haven't? Or are they there and we will just never see them in the quest so they don't matter?
 
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Also, considering Lelouch is already developing his soul pantheon, does that mean Rakshata and Akito have are developed there's much further by virtue of having been an Infernal much longer. Or is there reasons they haven't? Or are they there and we will just never see them in the quest so they don't matter?
Given Rakshata is due to arrive in a week or so, in game, I think the last point is probably t not true. To answer your others: They could have simply not bought the charms as they are in different parts of the tree. If you want to know which, you could go to there sheets and check if they have any of the charms needed.
 
Also, considering Lelouch is already developing his soul pantheon, does that mean Rakshata and Akito have are developed there's much further by virtue of having been an Infernal much longer. Or is there reasons they haven't? Or are they there and we will just never see them in the quest so they don't matter?

Based on their sheets they haven't taken any Pantheon Charms yet, so they haven't. That might have changed if they have since their sheets were updated, though.
 
I'm not sure they even would. Lelouch has us running in the background trying to make him as hax as possible, but the others are just doing their own thing without players directing their growth.
 
If you think about it, thanks to us, Lelouch is gaining XP at a rather fast rate, at least that's how I see it.

I can't help but wonder how everyone else sees this rapid growth of our hero. Will they think that this might be the reason why The Ebon Dragon wanted to make Lelouch a Green Sun Prince?

Or perhaps the QM has an inquest reason to why Lelouch is gaining XP fairly quickly.
 
In universe people probably suspect it's Oramus doing something impossible.

a question for @forginblade about the infernal you made, why is her motivation to get the Hannya to stop eating the raksha if she hates them? wouldn't something like driving the raksha from creation make more sense?
 
In universe people probably suspect it's Oramus doing something impossible.

Ebon Dragon: "Ok, what the fuck. Why is Lelouch gaining so much potential? His growth rate is insane, even for a Solaroid."
Oramus: "I installed an Omake Engine into his Exaltation."
Ebon Dragon: "A what?"
Oramus: "An Omake Engine. It lets the beings outside of reality write stories about Lelouch and other Infernals, and they give Lelouch extra experience by doing so."
Ebon Dragon: "Can you make more of them? That would be a great advantage to the Reclamation!"
Oramus: "I could."
Ebon Dragon: "...you aren't going to though, are you?"
Oramus: *trollface* "Nope! It's a unique, one time invention, and I'm not gonna tell you how it works!"
 
why is her motivation to get the Hannya to stop eating the raksha if she hates them?
Oh, Morrigan hates raksha alright, in fact she loathes them. The only use they have for her is that they could be 'persuaded' (read she punches them for long enough) to show her the good Gossamer deposits, and that is more of a side benefit. For the record, Mor's motivation has absolutely nothing to do with helping the (shaped) raksha in any capacity, even if she didn't consider them to be the equivalent of maggots crawling in her otherwise delicious steak.

She doesn't want to undo the most dramatic of repercussions of the Balorian Crusade out of any empathy for raksha (she has Compassion 1 for a reason). As far as the other Infernals, other exalted or mortals (and spirits) in general are concerned she could be the most pleasant, if emotionally distant, woman in all of Creation, to those who call the Wyld home she is that little kid that sprinkles salt over slugs, rips the wings of flies and leaves them near a praying mantis or in a spider's web. You know, the one you should keep an eye out for to make sure she doesn't graduate from insects to pets and later other human beings.

She wants the Hannya to leave the shaped raksha alone because she wants that role for herself, she wants to be threat that will leave an entire court shivering from pure fright and have those that so much as suspect that she is in the (relative) neighborhood flee in fear, in the vain (and complete false) hope that they will somehow survive to think up a new story.

And hey, there are so many Hannya out there, like Mor would seriously not try to break their new narrative. It is, after all, the first step in finding better toys to play with, and inevitably break. And if they flee all the way to the Pure Chaos to avoid her capricious, murderous tendencies? Maybe then she will let it go, but most likely she will go on expeditions all the way to where the raksha may think they're safe, just to torment them even more.

EDIT: Come to think of it, why didn't I make her motivation 'Replace the Hannya'? Bit of a goof-up there
EDIT 2: I've changed her motivation to 'Be considered the apex predator to both shaped and unshaped raksha by all the denizens of the Wyld'
 
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oh, I thought he ment that was her attitude before that happened. Granted genocidal hatred isn't exactly a wrong response to finding out what raksha tend to get up to.
 
Ebon Dragon: "Ok, what the fuck. Why is Lelouch gaining so much potential? His growth rate is insane, even for a Solaroid."
Oramus: "I installed an Omake Engine into his Exaltation."
Ebon Dragon: "A what?"
Oramus: "An Omake Engine. It lets the beings outside of reality write stories about Lelouch and other Infernals, and they give Lelouch extra experience by doing so."
Ebon Dragon: "Can you make more of them? That would be a great advantage to the Reclamation!"
Oramus: "I could."
Ebon Dragon: "...you aren't going to though, are you?"
Oramus: *trollface* "Nope! It's a unique, one time invention, and I'm not gonna tell you how it works!"

Thanks to my recent exposure to The Legacy of Kain series, I hear Tony Jay voicing Oramus in my head as I read this.

EDIT: Though, what happens when we hit the XP ceiling/plateau, if there is one?
 
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