Adorjan, the Silent Wind of Malfeas. Once, in the Time Before she was Adrian, the River of All Torments, whose fury drove back all the might of the Exalted until a single Exalt found her fetich soul and slew it. In response to the death of his heart, Adrian dried up and became Adorjan. Adorjan, …
Mass Effect’s Reapers Meet A Yozi
Harbinger: We are the ultimate pinnacle of evolution. She Who Lives In Her Name: EVOLUTION IS AN IMPERFECT PROCESS, A RANDOM COLLECTION OF ENDLESS MISTAKES AND FAILURES CULMINATING FINALLY IN IMPERFECT BEINGS WHOSE ONLY VIRTUE IS THAT THEY FAILED LESS EFFICIENTLY THAN THEIR COUSINS. I BRING THE SOLUTION TO THE FAILURE OF EVOLUTION. I BRING HIERARCHY.
On Lytek and Past Lives as a Background
It is also notable that Lytek, being an Exalted-style god, has his own political agenda. In game he was ousted from the position of head of the Bureau of Humanity when the Solars were ganked. Thus he kind of hates the Sidereals and Dragonblooded a bit and wants them to fall and the Solars to …
On Which Exalts are “Transhuman-friendly”
Define “transhuman”. Nothing prevents a Solar from replacing an arm with a Prosthetic of Clockwork Elegance or injecting themselves with a Chaomorphic Symbiote or undergoing a few treatments with Science of Mutation. In that respect, all Exalts are “transhuman friendly” in that they can certainly have transhuman upgrades just like normal humans. However, Solars are …
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Conviction versus the other Virtues
Conviction (capital C) in Exalted is a stat, one of the four Virtues upon which Creation is metaphysically based (there is a fifth, Willpower, but it is more of a meta-Virtue and closer to what we mean colloquially by conviction in our world). In any effect, Conviction is a stat that can be applied to …
On Limit Breaks
The general intent of Limit Break is that it’s something that won’t actually impact you much if you do exactly what a Solar Exalt shouldn’t. That is, the more you set yourself up with responsibility and power and prestige, the more and more Limit Break is going to screw you over. It’s actually an elegant …
On Loving Adorjan
Loving Adorjan is fine. It’s when she loves you back that things go horribly, horribly wrong.
On the Sacrifice to Learn Sorcery
Only the current one (unless you kill them, of course). Technically, the “sacrifice” is not some magical effect that removes your love for the person (or whatever feeling you have, you need Shun The Smiling Lady or Freedom Let’s Go for that). It’s the prerequisite to getting Sorcery, so you have to give up the …
Fixing the Eclipse Anima
I find that the major problems with the Eclipse power go away when you blanket rule that all permanent Charms can not be learned (and thus ruling out any Charms that use it as a prerequisite). It neatly cuts the knees out of all the Eclipse-based rules raping that I can think of.
On Ebon Dragon Characterisation
Meh, I prefer the Ebon Dragon as he was in the Games of Divinity rather than the Michael Goodwin!Ebon Dragon. The Games of Divinity version was an asshole, but he was an asshole with purpose. He was a shadow of everything, a creature of darkness fascinated with death and who loved all those who were …