Games! (cont.)

[Zaleramancer]

I got distracted again.

But- at least this time it wasn't a game.

It was a rulebook for Exalted.



For the Fair Folk.

It's interesting to read about what amounts to a sapient bit of chaos that acts out archetypical roles and legends.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 I can certainly see cause for distraction. The art is awesome.

 I, myself, seem to need a minor distraction. Found myself checking to see who was on, every five minutes, yesterday. So, I'm working on my Superhuman Phenomena Word Document  at the same time as I'm on here.

[Zaleramancer]

It is. 

Of course, the main thing I like about the fair folk is how they think. Every one of them is the star of their own show, the protagonist of their own epic, the heroine of their own tragedy.

They wear motivations and roles like normal people wear hats.

It's rather entertaining.

[Zaleramancer]

Example:





They'd consider this to be terribly romantic. Oh, the plot twists~ <3 The DRAMA!

Imagine a few thousand or so of those, with countless minions.


Oh, and they can eat your soul.

:D

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 It's the way of the Fay/Sidhe to be dramatic, everybody knows that.

In fact, I thought you added something about it in Warriors of Myth wiki

[Zaleramancer]

I like some of the mechanics for it.

For example, certain Charms (Read: Spells) allow them to control the elements or other things to give themselves bonuses on actions if they can explain how the element in question helped.


Such as using Water to aid yourself in swimming, or Air in making sure that arrow hit.

There's all sorts of wonderful, wonderful* things they can do to you.


*From their point of view.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Well, yeah, sure, everything is awesome when you have the cheat codes to reality.

[Zaleramancer]

Scary thing is that the Raksha (Fair Folk) are closer to the bottom of the power totem than the top.

Solar Exalted/ Abyssal Exalted /Infernal Exalted
Lunar Exalted /Sidereal Exalted
Alchemical Exalted
Dragonblooded
Dragon King/Spirits/Fair Folk
God-Blooded
Essence-using Mortal
Non Essence-using Mortal

So they're mostly threatening to mortals and normal people.

For most, they're basically low and mid level threats. Along with Dragon Kings and Gods.

Speedbumps.

Exalted has some high power levels.

[Zaleramancer]

Solars can learn charms that let them leap over mountains.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Meh, can't be too accurate, that scale.

They put gods below exalted folks.

[Zaleramancer]

I'm not exaggerating, either.

It will literally let you jump over a mountain, moving several miles in a single bound.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Very cool. Gotta love magic.

[Zaleramancer]

Yes, exactly.

The setting is animistic. Everything has a god. Most things smaller than a house don't have sapient ones, but still.

An Exalted could probably smush your average river god or forest god.

In a single blow.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 So...are the exalted counted as gods, too?

[Zaleramancer]

Oh, no, that's not exactly magic.

That would be Sorcery (Or mortal Thaumaturgy, but Sorcery smushes it like a bug). That's an entirely different thing.

They lowest circle of Sorcery (Terrestrial) allows you to do such things as: Summon a horde of obsidian butterflies to slice everything not behind several inches of stone or metal to little bits, give themselves invulnerable bronze skin or summon a soul-devouring demon.

For the highest level.. well, let's just say that there's a spell called Rain of Doom.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

 Um, okay...I'll...I'll just take your word for it.

[Zaleramancer]

No.

There are a few gods that have the level of power you would expect them to.

The Unconquered Sun, or Luna. Or the Five Maidens (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn).

These created the Solar, Lunar and Sidreal Exalted (Respectively).

All the various Exalted are semi-immortal, possessing great longevity and a form of reincarnation.

There are also the Elemental Dragons, who created the Terrestrial Exalted. (Weaker than the Celestial mentioned above, but more numerous).

Abyssal Exalted are basically the death-aligned versions of Solars, made by Neverborn (Undead Primordial Gods).

Infernal Exalted are the demonic versions.

God-Blooded are the various hybrid offspring of Exalted, Gods, Elementals, Fair Folk, ect...

[Zaleramancer]

Though some powerful Exalted have cults. They do reap certain benefits from people worshiping them.

[Celadon's Penultimate]

Ah. So, the gods aren't actual gods. Just powerful spirits. And, on top of that, not as powerful as more...primordial beings.

[Zaleramancer]

Here are some interesting explanations!

You play an incandescent demigod busting out cosmic kung-fu on soul-sucking elves from beyond the edge of a flat world while the vengeful ghosts of your predecessors gnaw at the underpinnings of reality, an empire of elementally-empowered supersoldiers are gunning for your hide while backstabbing each other, and critters that make C'thulhu look like Hello Kitty try to break back into the world so they can torture it.

— Arbane on Exalted