Their high-power abilities are normal human abilities turned up to OVER NINE THOUSAAAAND!!! And so on. Unless, of course, their player took a look at the way that the Abyssals' development paths basically boil down to either 'devoted slave of the biggest dicks in existence' (which not everyone really wants to be) or 'the Abyssal whose one goal in life is to stop being an Abyssal' (which kind of misses the point) and said, "Fuck that noise, I'm going to be the biggest baddest ass in the underworld and the most horrifying thing in existence, no-one's going to tell me what to do, and it's going to be freaking AWESOME and metal and shit!" If you liked Tron, then the Alchemicals have access to a martial art that is basically disc combat, but made for chainsaw discs you throw around for deadly and very messy effect. In the beginning During the savage early days ofCreation, the Dragon Kings were the only intelligent life. When the Black Nadir Concordat intruded into their tomb-cities and stole the secrets of Necromancy, they were roused to wakefulness and incredibly angry. “Work for us,” they said, “and we'll give you incredible power, like what you had when you were alive!”. Though iirc, Dragon Kings can remember as long as they hit old enough to get past base instincts so also just keeping them civil for a few years would do wonders. And so things went for over 750 years, until fairly recently, when the Scarlet Empress just up and disappeared. “I'll do that thing with my tongue,” Luna promised. How does it work? 01-03-2009: Character sheets for Dragon Kings are finished and ready for your use. Most of them died trying to get past the defenses, but eventually, two Dragon-Blooded finally made it to the control panel. Naturally, that means that DMs are divided into armed, angry camps over the "right" way to play/run an Infernal campaign, and if he wants to use them one way, then let him use them that way. (Void-tainted Alchemicals are called Apostates, but they're only really comparable to Decepticons if all Decepticons, ever, eventually go into gleeful rampages of slaughter) As Alchemicals get more powerful, they get more and more like giant, inhuman robots until they turn into living cities. There are loads of other styles, such Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style which is best fought in ball-gowns as a pretty princess, or Laughing wound style which best practiced by first slashing your wrists and conjuring whips of blood from the cuts. Unless you're a Sidereal with the charm that lets you essentially put them into the Witness Protection Program for services rendered, tread lightly. “Just about everyone in there's dead now. Dragon Kings didn’t even consider population growth desirable until they realized the scale of the galaxy. “This sucks,” said the gods, after moving the Elemental Pole of Fire back into place for 700th time after one of the Primordials went on a drinking binge and knocked it loose, causing untold thousands of deaths and nearly causing Creation to fall back into the Wyld. Corrected calculation of peripher essence for Dragon-Blooded. Think Dragon Ball Z style fighting (without energy beams) and you'll only be wrong on the parts where it doesn't matter. ), “You guys suck,” said the dead Primordials (now called Neverborn) to the Exalted. Stunts also have rewards besides dice, namely motes and Willpower; a stunt is worth twice its die value in motes, or you can take a point of Willpower for a two- or three-die stunt. Luna doesn't have a true form but her most common forms include but are not limited to a bow wielding huntress, a male traveler dressed entirely in white, a pregnant woman, a pregnant man, a sorceress with a tiara that keeps the Terrifying Secrets Gods Were Not Meant To Know from destroying her mind, and a knife wielding, half naked, wild woman that is apparently the greatest predator in creation. II GEOGRAPHY 2.1 THE BLESSED ISLE The Center of the world of exalted, this is the place where the dragon blooded are the strongest. “What's the catch?” asked the ex-Solar ghosts. . The Primordials are impossibly vast alien beings with multiple souls. Thus three things have happened: The Lunars have taken to ritually tattooing themselves with moonsilver, the normal 5 caste system has been simplified into the Full Moon, No Moon, and Changing Moon castes, and almost all of them have acquired bestial traits either through their devotion to Luna or the Wyld mutations. Before hand they tended to act as bodyguards for Celestial Gods and young Celestial Exalted (and a few bounded as Chosen with Dragon Kings which is why any are here) We need to use these few to raise new Celestial Lions, deputized to investigate crime and violence among the gods of Teteocan. Imagine undead Cthulhu's zombie kidneys, as a roaming monster. They are divided into three castes, the Artisans, the Workers, and the Warriors. Still, some said, “You were just a lieutenant who got lucky and stumbled across some doomsday weapons. This was removed before 1st edition was released, though the references still are there. Yeah, the only reason it only killed most of all life in Creation was because two other Deathlords, The Eye and Seven Despairs and The First and Forsaken Lion, went out and invited the fair folk to invade Creation, which ended up uniting all of Creation against a common cause, and gave the world the strength and focus to endure the plague, plus it screwed enough with creation's reality that the plague stopped working right. Once upon a time, in the formless twisting chaos of the Wyld, there appeared the Primordials. So while the Dragon-Blooded were doing a fairly good (although not nearly as impressive as the Solars) job of running Creation, the Deathlords were building a doomsday plague. Then back in Heaven Akuma, Green Sun Princes, and their Abyssal allies kill the Unconquered Sun (also possibly Luna and the Five Maidens.) This brought lots more people over to her side, and thus was born the Realm, which is the major power in the world today. Also, his battle form is covered in dicks, absolutely no explanation is given (might be a commentary on sex abuse in the clergy, but he's always been characterized as too crazy to really take an interest in procreation or understand human biology). Eventually they evolved into a caste system with some of the workers and warriors having an exalted like tendency called enlightenment. Once that happens though, they each get a custom Charmset, for a personal style of kicking ass. Unlike the magical martial arts, then normie martial art skills are represented via dots in Brawl or Martial Arts abilities, depending on what edition you're playing in. The lower souls of the Yozis are called Demons now. said Yozis in Malfeas. Your ex-wife dropped by; she's a two thousand year old shapechanging man-eating monster, interested in maybe going on a date next Thursday for dinner, followed by breeding a new race capable of rewriting the biosphere. The Dragon Kings are not Exalted; they are supernatural creatures offered as a player character type. "Oh man! Circle of the Solar Queen ... She quickly rised through the ranks of the newly exalted Solars in a polarizing storm. DragonKings. Let's get cracking!” And so the Deathlords were created, super-powerful ghosts who want the world to die. One of the latest addictions in 3rd edition, Evocation are substantially like the Noble Phantasm from Fate : abilities similar to Charms/Sorcery/ Martial arts that derivate from an artifact( which possess usually a big set of them, mechas included) , making the latter even more important. Not surprisingly, Sidereals are notorious for being lying, cheating, backstabbing Magnificent Bastards by the people who can manage to remember them. Being born from a place of fluid reality that resembles a Loony Tunes skit as much as it does creation, fair folk have difficulty functioning like "real" people. Generally an Abyssal has two choices in life, be the grand villain or attempt to redeem themselves. Abyssal Exalted. It's a kickass system all told, that helps to bridge between the role playing and the crunch, with a real benefit for staying in character while you splat things. Secretaries, too. He has the ability to shapeshift into human form and lives in an underwater crystal palace. The Yozis feel nothing but anger for their betrayal and diminution at the hands of the Exalted and the Gods, and plot to return the favour. ", https://1d4chan.org/index.php?title=Exalted&oldid=727799, Geoffrey C. Grabowski, John Mørke, Holden Shearer, Robert Vance, Eric Minton. (Malfeas got turned inside-out and sewn into his own butt. This page was last edited on 8 September 2015, at 20:53. The Dragon Kings’ civilization flourishes briefly before burning out, partly due to the Primordials’ interference and partly due to the self-destructive practices of the Dragon Kings themselves. Earlier editions suffered tremendously from problems of Linear Build Quadratic EXP, and the character-creation system was often mockingly regarded as a Byzantine "mini-game" in and of itself. Described in Ruins of Rathess and the Players' Guide, pp. They are, however, the products of a nightmarish culture created, ruled by, and located inside of a number of beings that are almost as unnecessarily assholish as they are bugfuck nuts. Dragon Kings are sworn in allegiance to their creator, the Unconquered Sun, and can remember their past lives with great clarity. You can become Armageddon, destroyer of all, Genesis, creator of worlds, or Über Gaia, mother/father/progenitor of everything. Abyssal Exalted charms are largely mirrors of Solar Charms with a darker aspect. A silly group can turn this into a Dragon Ball/Gurren Lagann crossover, a serious group can turn this into the Ramayana: Romance of the Three Kingdoms edition. The Great Contagion and the Balorian Crusade, Primordials (Who aren't dead or imprisoned), a measure of power by a Yozi, but essentially becomes a puppet of that Primordial, devoid of free will, "We have a policy not to give people bad rules just because they think they want them. the Yozi promised, planning to reap the benefits if the plan succeeded and covering their asses if it didn't. The Bodhisattva is legit terrified of her and chose his current location in part to be as far as possible from her. 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