The book Shards of the Exalted Dream details possible alternate settings instead of Creation to play games of Exalted in. Theion, and the 26 Charms they wrote for him separate from his imports from the Malfeas Charmset, are detailed in Gunstar Autochthonia. And also
here.
Ah, right. See? I'm even mixing the names up. Never paid much attention to Theion though so the post still applies... but i was thinking of the inverse-Malfeas rather than the unbroken Malfeas. The one where they killed Liger and not the other Fetich Soul, there was a discussion about it on the old forums. Got my brain really interested, but nothing came of it. Someone asked what would have happened if the Solars killed Ligier instead of Revullia; One of the devs replied something to the effect of "Ligier represents Theion's pride as a king, while Revullia represented his grace as a king. Killing Revullia caused him to become a ugly tyrant, if they had killed Ligier (s)he(?) would have become a infinitely cavorting madman without ambition or shame, dancing through the void with the other Primordials trapped in his orbit, rather than the Malfeas we know'
Or something like that, its been a really long time. There was alot of interest in developing Charms and stuff for that alternate-Malfeas, but i didnt think anything actually came of it.
disagree, "step between moments" is thematically fine for Lunars and solars. solar as a "just that fast. so fast i break plank time." Lunars as "I go outside. outside boundaries, outside reality, outside the notmal progression of time."
Possibly, but thats a
extremely oblique way of looking at it. In terms of general themes, Solar charms are about doing something insanely skillfully. Case in point, the normal solar dodge
Seven Shadow Evasion is just the solar being so mindboggingly good at
DODGE!!! that you just flat out cannot hit them, even if your attack was some kind of magical-impossible-to-avoid attack, because they are just
that good at dodging. Stepping between moments or asserting authority on the world are much more esoteric effects and not really how Solar charms
usually work. If she was using a Solar dodge she would have simply stepped aside and been all; "blondie
plz"
Lunar charms can get more weird, but they are almost always based in the Lunar's physical form, either through superlative attributes (simply being so
fast that you cannot hit them, as opposed to being good at dodging) or due to using their mercurial nature to effect a defence. In the case of exalted canon, the Lunar dodge is
Flowing Body Evasion, where its flat out impossible to hit them because their flesh
flows around a would-be attack, allowing it to pass through them without actually hitting anything. Which might sound similar in
effect to what happened, remember we are seeing this from Blake's POV and from the way shes describing it, it doesnt seem to be the method she used.
Conversely flash-porting type dodges 'between moments' are very much how a Sid Dodge charm might work from a thematic standpoint. So its possible that is what she did, though A) we know Ruby is a Siddie already, and B) the canon Sid Dodge
Avoidance Kata would have been WAY more useful in her situation than what she did, so im inclined to think that if she was infact a Sidereal she would have tossed the whole encounter and stayed at home. For the uninitiated; Avoidance Kata basically allows a Sid to go:
*looks around*
*looks at watch*
You know what? Fuck all y'all and this whole situation. The last few minutes? I was never here.
I never argued with yang, i didnt even jump the cliff.
Byyyyeee!
*R̸̶é̶͜c͟or̸d̡ ̸͞S̶c̢r̀a͢t͡ch͡!̡͡*
*blake looked up at her happyspot on the cliff, then sighed and turned around and when home.*
Yang can wait up there all damn night if she wants to! *typical cat grumbles*
(Behold, a small taste of the bullshit that is Sidereals
)
So yea, if she could do that, I'm inclined to think she would have.
Finally, Infernals are a total mixed bag since each Yozi has its own internally consistent theme, rather than Infernals having one as a whole. What she did however is almost word for word
Who Strikes The Wind? the Adorjani dodge charm. She even satisfies the Imperfection Of the Silent Wind to use it (if you look back, she actually pushes off the tree, moving forward, before activating the ability. Adorjan's Imperfection means that you have to
move to use Perfect Defences). Finally, as someone pointed out over on SB; Blake is running from her problems, and that is Adorjani as you can get.
I mean, I could be wrong, I was wrong about Yang being a DB clearly. But this is my best guess and i think its the best one i can make until the Author gives us more glorious details.
