(in response to someone saying demon summoning was never safe or easy in Exalted) Actually yes it was, both from a Doylist and a Watsonian perspective. Demon summoning was supposed to be safe and easy because the game designers wanted to encourage players to have hordes of alien gribblies at their commands so they could …
The Primordials are Bigger Than You, but Not Beyond You
Any alteration to the basics of Primordialhood that makes the tale of Marus impossible is not one I’m going to embrace, because if that’s impossible then… I don’t care to include Primordials at all. Part of the point of the Yozis was that no matter how huge and all-powerful and vastly beyond your reach they appear to …
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Not All Yozis Should Have Charmsets
Honestly? Oramus shouldn’t have a Charmset. Neither should Cytherea or Sachaverell. Sometimes some ideas that make cool setting fluff are not things PCs should have access to, not just because they lack mechanical balance but because the very idea of mechanizing them would lessen them. Oramus is the dragon beyond the world. He is the part of the …
Why Ligier Won’t Just Kill Your PC If You Exalt In Front of Him
Ligier has no incentive to murder an Exalt who Exalts in front of him. I mean, what does that accomplish? The Exaltation literally will Exalt somebody else – most likely somebody out of his reach and influence – basically immediately. The best he gets out of it is a momentary and passing satisfaction, but even …
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On What it Means to Have “(Yozi)-aspect Essence”
Well, this goes into what demesnes are, doesn’t it? Basically, a demesne is an area where Essence accumulates in the world above the normal background radiation. Creation is saturated in Essence, to the point where it is far more common to worry about too much than too little. This energy is moved around via dragon lines, basically …
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On the Yozi Surrender Oaths
One of the things to keep in mind about the Surrender Oaths is that they are only binding on the Yozi themselves. Nothing prevents Ligier from leaving Malfeas except the spite of Malfeas and Cecelyne. The escape clauses most demons get is not a flaw in the Oaths, it’s a flaw in the Yozi that allows their souls …
The Scale of Primordials
Primordials are not so much a person or a place as they are an entire Mythos. Each Primordial is a self-contained culture, a cosmos in and of itself that does not rely on outside context. For example, if you took the works of H.P. Lovecraft, then Cthulu would not be a Primordial. Neither would Nylarothep …
Third Circle Demons Are Final Bosses
Note that fighting a Third Circle is still on the level of fighting an overwhelmingly powerful god-being who can fuck up your shit unless you have perfect defenses. Remember that Ligier alone can be summoned and pull out his sword and throw it into the air and the sword alone will fight off entire armies and any challenges and …
Exalted Combat Charms versus Primordials
The ultimate goal of the Exalted combat Charms should be to force all combat to occur on the scale of human combat; i.e., resolvable by individual heroic human action and the movements of armies. It should basically no sell anything above that. The Exalted Host wasn’t stronger than the Primordials by any objective measure of …
Redesigning the Infernal Charmsets
If you absolutely had to assign the five Yozi to the Castes (you did not, but let’s assume you did) it would be better as this: Adorjan – Dawn – because murderMalfeas – Zenith – because kingShe Who Lives In Her Name – Twilight – One out of five was rightEbon Dragon – Night – because he is …