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Mass Effect: Glorious Shotgun Princess (ME/Exalted)

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Maybe it has to do with the age-cap. Exalted can't go above E5 until they hit 101+ years old. Nobody ever bothered to see if humans had a similar limit, because humans don't tend to live much past 100. Even with anagathics available in the First Age the average lifespan is 85 years, with Enlightened mortals reaching about 170 or so. Given that the late First Age when those treatments were common was kind of repressive of anyone not Solar I doubt much experimentation in exceeding the cap occured.

Though, realistically, a thousands of year old Krogan has plenty of time to achieve incredible power just with Essence 3. Dozens if not hundred of martial arts styles, which while inefficient in themselves in aggragate give you access to basically any effect you want, plus all the thaumaturgy you could ever want and Terrestrial Circle Sorcery to cover those things that martial arts can not. Sure, an Enlightened Krogan with two thousand years of XP may not be a match pound for pound to a Solar on the scale of Javik. But he's going to be quite the force to be reckoned with all on his own.

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Maes said:
Two interesting things come up.

1. The Krogan Sage has a rather different physionomy from Wrex. Also, HAIR.

2. Said Sage identifies Wrex as a Berserker and seems actually surprised he still has his mind. This would seem to indicate that all current tuchankan Krogans are Berserkers and there used to be other castes/kinds/breeds.
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A comparison could be drawn to the Dragon Kings - insofar as they assuredly had physiologically different strains (look at the Anklok, then at the Pterok, then back, and realize they're technically the same species) - and were big on the enlightenment thing. A Path master could well enough qualify as a sage of [quality].

Except the Krogan are way, way 'arder, ork-style.
 
Aaron Peori said:
Maybe it has to do with the age-cap. Exalted can't go above E5 until they hit 101+ years old. Nobody ever bothered to see if humans had a similar limit, because humans don't tend to live much past 100. Even with anagathics available in the First Age the average lifespan is 85 years, with Enlightened mortals reaching about 170 or so. Given that the late First Age when those treatments were common was kind of repressive of anyone not Solar I doubt much experimentation in exceeding the cap occured.

Though, realistically, a thousands of year old Krogan has plenty of time to achieve incredible power just with Essence 3. Dozens if not hundred of martial arts styles, which while inefficient in themselves in aggragate give you access to basically any effect you want, plus all the thaumaturgy you could ever want and Terrestrial Circle Sorcery to cover those things that martial arts can not. Sure, an Enlightened Krogan with two thousand years of XP may not be a match pound for pound to a Solar on the scale of Javik. But he's going to be quite the force to be reckoned with all on his own.

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Especially since, given that they appear to have themes (like "betterment"), that suggests it might be possible that they have, by some method (this being krogans, possibly by chasing down things and killing them) found a way to acquire a small themed powerset which is probably best represented with spirit-charms. Almost like "self-made god-blooded".
 
Maes said:
Two interesting things come up.

1. The Krogan Sage has a rather different physionomy from Wrex. Also, HAIR.

2. Said Sage identifies Wrex as a Berserker and seems actually surprised he still has his mind. This would seem to indicate that all current tuchankan Krogans are Berserkers and there used to be other castes/kinds/breeds.
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This....kind of points how old Golah is. Older than the nuclear winter. So at least thousands of years old.
 
GreggHL said:
This....kind of points how old Golah is. Older than the nuclear winter. So at least thousands of years old.
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I wonder if his longevity stems from being a Krogan or Enlightenment. Because given the way Krogan regeneration seems to work, they should be immortal barring violent death (which is, after all, all but assured for them).
 
Cornuthaum said:
I wonder if his longevity stems from being a Krogan or Enlightenment. Because given the way Krogan regeneration seems to work, they should be immortal barring violent death (which is, after all, all but assured for them).
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Mutations? Isn't there mutations that allow the mutant to effective have Exalted healing and Agelessness? Or some such?
 
Cornuthaum said:
I wonder if his longevity stems from being a Krogan or Enlightenment. Because given the way Krogan regeneration seems to work, they should be immortal barring violent death (which is, after all, all but assured for them).
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It's a sort of happy intersection. On Tuchanka, even before the nukings, Enlightenment allowed you to survive for ages.
 
Very, Very old? Anyhow. Enlightment=You don't have that bad odds for living onwards and therefore get to smack Wrex on the head with a walking stick.
 
GreggHL said:
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"I am Golah." Eyes flash. Essence flows around. "Great Sage Equal of Heaven and Master of the Mantra of Betterment. And you, child, should come with me."
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Oi. It seems Wrex is about to be social-charmed into obedience and he won't like it one bit when he learns of it later.

Also. Great updates.
 
Maes said:
Two interesting things come up.

1. The Krogan Sage has a rather different physionomy from Wrex. Also, HAIR.

2. Said Sage identifies Wrex as a Berserker and seems actually surprised he still has his mind. This would seem to indicate that all current tuchankan Krogans are Berserkers and there used to be other castes/kinds/breeds.
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To the Ancient Krogan, having the blood rage was considered a mental illness, and was treated as such.

However, once the Nuclear War happened evolution took hold, and for some reason, Maybe the sheer brutality that came with it helped them to survive a now nuclear Tuchunka, The Krogan that were predisposed to Blood rage were the ones who breed and passed on the gene to other generations, making it a fact that all Krogan have to deal with.
 
Kyman201 said:
So... We have Sun Wukrogan (Best nickname ever), and... Maybe it's the whacking Wrex with a walking stick, but I'm getting a distinctive vibe for ANOTHER primate mentor figure.


... I'd be okay with this.
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This is remarkably accurate towards what Golah is actually like. Not baring the hollowed out chthonic horror Golah uses as a house.
 
Wragnaroq said:
Try as I might, I can't help but picture a krogan with a fu manchu and big, bushy eyebrows.
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You! what have you done?! the sunset, omg the sunset! I'm having mental images of a Krogan Sage wearing green latex and doing a good guy pose.
 
Aaron Peori said:
Maybe it has to do with the age-cap. Exalted can't go above E5 until they hit 101+ years old. Nobody ever bothered to see if humans had a similar limit, because humans don't tend to live much past 100. Even with anagathics available in the First Age the average lifespan is 85 years, with Enlightened mortals reaching about 170 or so. Given that the late First Age when those treatments were common was kind of repressive of anyone not Solar I doubt much experimentation in exceeding the cap occured.

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I'm pretty certain that mortals just can't get past essence 4 without help and if they do get it they turn into essence 5 gods instead of essence 5 mortals.
 
cyberswordsmen said:
I'm pretty certain that mortals just can't get past essence 4 without help and if they do get it they turn into essence 5 gods instead of essence 5 mortals.
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I think GreggHL said something along the lines that Auto-kun made some changes in the metaphysical make-up of the ME Galaxy in contrast to Creation.
 
Synapse said:
He adapted the ME Galaxy to his Design and soul system. Nothing on the human essence cap should pop without further evidence, as if anything auto's restriction may have enforced the old limit.
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No. I am talking not about the Fate-thing. I am talking that GreggHL said something along the lines of Auto-kun alone designing and implementing the Essence architecture for the Galaxy, without the input of other Primordials, as it was during Creation-making.
 
cyberswordsmen said:
I'm pretty certain that mortals just can't get past essence 4 without help and if they do get it they turn into essence 5 gods instead of essence 5 mortals.
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It's lower than that. Mortals can't break past Essence 3 without turning into gods in the source material.
 
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