![]() ![]() the Adamant Caste of the Alchemicals is interesting: "Adamant Caste is a teacher, artist or muse" that what they do is spiritual refinement and performances. What I find most interesting about the section are things like these: most of its stuff Exalted fans already know, and would serve as good introduction for everyone else. a lot of it is providing traits that simplify and convey the themes that each Exalted type and caste are supposed to have. This chapter focuses on character creation of the Exalted. like you could get a lot of mileage out of "leftover contingency Alchemical". Now I imagine playing an Alchemical who is super simple archetypical normal hero in nature, whose entire reason for Autochthon Exalting them was just to do an obstacle course and slay a few dangerous animals to convince Sol.then they were ordered by their god to go to sleep until they were needed and ended up waking up thousands of years later, Autochthon having never called them to fight with everyone else against the Primordials and is now angry that she was nothing but "some first blade made and discarded as if by an apprentice blacksmith" and sets out to prove she can be hero even if she is horribly out of date.Įither that or an alchemical who was made in some secret underground bunker as contingency plan against something he calculated would happen in Creation and the Alchemical would there to counteract it.but it either never occurs or its something like the Fair Folk invasion or the Great Contagion and the machinery to detect those broke down before they happened, leaving them unable to help and they wake up after the problem has already been solved, and so now must figure out a new purpose for themselves. Ebon dragon is dead, long live the Ebon Dragon, who is doomed and loving it.Īpparently some Alchemicals were left behind by Autochthon, in cryo/stasis because they were the proof of concept that Autochthon used to convince the Unconquered Sun to go ahead with the whole Exalted thing in the first place. The devs finally killed snidely whiplash ebon dragon like they've always wanted. The Ebon Dragon is explicitly back in his doom incarnation from 1e. So its good to have these inspirations so that I can reference and look up what they were like myself so that people other than anthropologists and historians can know what they're talking about when discussing these locations in Exalted.Īnother good thing is that each direction and such provides a character concept section and archetypes to give you an idea of what kind of concepts would be here, what form they take so as to give you a direction of concept to pick and such, really streamlines the whole thing and provides a framework separate from the Solars to consider the archetypes of Exalted: Warrior, Priest, Savant, Criminal and Broker. This is exactly what was needed, because I could never have guessed or thought to look up any of these locations in a million years, many of these are not well known historical places, at least to my biased american education which doesn't focus on any of them. What I really like, is that many of the locations detailed here, while not anything new now have their inspirations listed right next to them, their real life times and locations these are all based on. If anything I'm more surprise by how little has changed than anything else. ![]() For the most part its basic and nothing that flashy for a long time Exalted fan, all the lore is stuff that is known and normal, but its presented in a clear, concise manner to introduce new players to Exalted without much of the florid prose and flourishes Exalted usually does. The first manuscript is basically an introduction to the world of the Exalted.
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