The Solar that accompanied the Haltan Army to join the Kaneko in his campaign against Linowan.
Young Girl about 16 years old. Exalted about 3 years ago.
Solar, Dawn Caste Essence #33
Has 3 Sa-Animal Familiars. The most famous being a Leopard. She has the animal training equivalent of the Tiger Warrior Training Charm.
Daughter of an War Auroch of Ahlat and blessed with divinity at birth. It was no surprise that Mudiwa joined the Brides of Ahlat and raised through the ranks to become Chief Bride. After her retirement she did not start a family. Instead she continued her service to her god as one of his High-Priestess.
Mudiwa’s life is devoted to Ahlat and she never took another lover. Even after retiring from Brides of Ahlat Mudiwa still consider herself married.
Mudiwa is chosen by Enu Kofi, High Priest of Ahlat to be Ahlat’s Governor of Chiaroscuro.
Cost: 30m, 3 wp
Min: Lore 5, Essence 4
Type: Simple (Dramatic Action) Enlightening, Obvious, Holy, Touch
Duration: Special
Prerequisites: Power-Awarding Prana, Soul-Enlightening Beneficence
[This is a brand new charm]
Carried within the each Lawgiver is the distilled perfection of heroism. This innate spark calls and resonates with those who are worthy. This charm allows the Lawgiver to share this innate purity of spirit with those whose souls are capable of receiving such gifts.
Extras and Mortals do not have sufficient destinies to be compatible with this extended ritual. Only those who are considered heroic mortals already have the proper balance of mortality and potential to receive the benefit of a Lawgiver’s endowment. The Charm is an extended action. During which the Mortal must constantly meditate, taking only occasional breaks to satisfy their physical needs and to sleep. The Exalted’s job is not any easier however, for he must channel enormous amount of his Essence through the mortal’s body acting as a catalyst for a profound physical and spiritual evolution. The 30 motes of Essence and 3 points of Willpower are committed for the duration of the ritual and the Solar is assumed to be constantly using this Charm (for the purpose of determining if he can use another Charm). Should the commitment end at any time before its completion, then the ritual automatically fails and all successes gained are lost. The ritual cannot be attempted again till after Calibration. The ritual also automatically fails should Calibration occur before its completion.
Each roll is an extended period of 1 day. The Heroic Mortal rolls a Willpower Roll at difficulty 2 and total number of success the ritual require is 20. These rolls cannot be botched. Should the Heroic Mortal be enlightened by solar essence already he then adds his Essence-1 in automatic success to the roll. Once the ritual is completed the newly created Solar Half-Caste’s anima awakens to full glory and remains iconic for 20 hours.
From “Compass of Celestial Direction Vol 3 – Yu Shan,” pg. 154
Wun Ja is god of the Shining Metropolis and Director of the Bureau of Humanity. She was once one of the most powerful gods of Yu-Shan in the First Age, but the destruction of the greatest cities of that era was a massive blow to both her spiritual and political power, and in the chaos following the Usurpation many of the gods of the Bureau were co-opted by the Bureau of Heaven. Despite her slide into the Fourth Rank of gods, she is still one of the most powerful gods in Heaven due to tithing by her subordinates, but she is incapable of appreciating that fact and sees it merely as a stopgap measure that has slowed her descent, not stopped it. As such, she is desperate to increase the power of her domain and the bureau’s influence and will break any of the laws of Heaven to do so.
Wun Ja has made overtures to both the Gold Faction and the city fathers and mothers of Creation. She is the lead proponent of the Bureau of Humanity providing aid to the Gold Faction and works tirelessly for its success. She funnels resources to the Gold Faction in exchange for promises that the cities of the Threshold will not be destroyed as the Solar Exalted regain their power, while working closely with the Sidereals of that alliance to cut the Realm off from the Threshold.
At the same time she pushes the gods of various cities to seize control of them. This is not just to boost her political power but her own personal resources, for the gods of the various cities all tithe prayers to her, and so growth in their worship means an attendant increase in her own. Motivation: Wun Ja is desperately afraid that her Bureau will be diminished, and she will be politically destroyed. To avoid this fate, she will do nearly anything. Description: Wun Ja appears as a tall, slender woman made entirely of glass and metal, but she can take more humanoid shapes when the occasion requires it, especially when she walks Creation. She is a god of the Fourth Rank, although she believes she teeters on the edge of the third. Other Notes: Wun Ja has made a concrete alliance with the Gold Faction and may call on its Sidereals and the Solars who study under them when the need requires it, although she would be surreptitious about seeking such help, as the Bronze Faction still dominates heavenly affairs.
Virtues: Compassion 2, Conviction 2, Temperance 3, Valor 4
Essence: 7
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Player Characters
| Balan | Aata | Nejimaru | |
| Total | 161 | 161 | 149 |
| 28 | 27 | 22 | |
| 58 | 59 | 52 | |
| 62 | 62 | 62 | |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | |
| 6 | 6 | 6 |
Balan
Aata
Nejimaru
Mea-Chan
Balan
Aata
Nejimaru
Mea-Chan
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Player Characters
| Balan | Aata | Nejimaru | |
| Total | 148 | 148 | 136 |
| 28 | 27 | 22 | |
| 58 | 59 | 52 | |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | |
| 6 | 6 | 6 | |
| 7 | 7 | 7 |
Other NPCs
Gladrien Vanja
Session 05 (11), Session 06 (6), Session 07 (9), Session 08 (12), Session 09 (7), Session 10 (5), Session 11 (7), Session 12 (6)
Balan
Saving Exp for charm purchase
Aata
Nejimaru
Becoming ever more confident and sure of his purpose Nejimaru has become more and more at peace with his chosen path.
Mea-Chan
Purchased the next Charm in the Lunar Soak Tree
Gladrien Vanja
Gladrien Vanja after her exposure to the real world and soul searching with Hanstha-seth and Panther has matured as a person and became more in control of her overflowing emotions.
Balan
Saving Exp
Aata
Nejimaru
Nejimaru is saving his Exp to further increase his Willpower.
Mea-Chan
Mea-chan is saving her Exp to raise her Dexterity in the future.
Balan
Aata
Nejimaru
Continuing to raise his Willpower
Mea-Chan
Having enough Experience points, Mea-chan started to raise her Dexterity
Balan
Saving Exp
Aata
Saving his Exp
Nejimaru
Continues to save his Exp for Willpower
Mea-Chan
Mea-chan continues to save her Exp to raise her stats
Balan
Saving Exp
Aata
Nejimaru
Continues to save his Exp
Mea-Chan
Having enough Experience points, Mea-chan started to raise her Dexterity
Balan
Aata
Saving his Exp
Nejimaru
Mea-Chan
Balan
Aata
Nejimaru
Mea-Chan
Balan
Aata
Nejimaru
Mea-Chan
Balan
Aata
Nejimaru
Mea-Chan
Saving Exp for 5th Lunar Excellency for Dexterity, 6/10 Currently
Balan
Aata
Nejimaru
Mea-Chan
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| Balan | Aata | Nejimaru | |
| Total | 86 | 86 | 74 |
| 28 | 27 | 22 | |
| 11 | 12 | 11 | |
| 5 | 5 | 2 | |
| 9 | 9 | 9 | |
| 13 | 13 | 11 | |
| 7 | 7 | 7 | |
| 6 | 5 | 5 | |
| 7 | 8 | 7 |
Other NPCs
Gladrien Vanja
Session 05 (11), Session 06 (6), Session 07 (9), Session 08 (12), Session 09 (7), Session 10 (5), Session 11 (7), Session 12 (6)
Nejimaru
Trying to maximize the use of the Vortex and to make up for the short coming of Aata, he has figured out a way to channel essence to another being. Learning the Essence Lending Method Charm under Lore taking 8 Days of Research
Gladrien Vanja
Feeling she is not yet spiritually enlightened, Gladrien is continuing her Spiritual Quest to be closer to the Unconquered Sun (saving Exp to improve her Essence stat, 14/40)
Since Nejimaru did not participate in most of the actions of the session he has reduced Exp award.
Both Nejimaru and Gladrien is banking the exp
Gladrien will offer to teach Everyone, specifically Aata, dodge both Charms she has and improvement of the skill. However to learn Perfect Dodge you need to get Shadow Over Water first (Dodge 3 required) and Seven Shadow Evasion is (Dodge 4)
Nejimaru is using the Exp to raise his Perception to 4, it will take 3 months
Mea-Chan and Gladrien are both saving their Exp.
Nejimaru face with his own weakness of will against the infulences of others spent his time in quiet solitude of meditation and self-exploration. Raising Integrity from 1 to 3 (4 exp 4 days). In this time of self-examination and meditation into the meaning of existence he has a Eureka moment and created the Charm that would permanently open a Mortal’s sensitivity to the very life blood of creation – Essence. Learning Lore: Soul-Enlightening Beneficence (8 Experience points, 12 days)
Mea-Chan raised Essence from 5 to 6 under the supervision of Nejimaru. (45 Experience Points, 5 month training time)
Gladrien Vanja raised Essence from 4 to 5 by spending her time conversing with Hanstha-seth and long periods of meditative trances both to discover the secrets of creation and her affinity to her father the Unconquered Sun. (40 Experience Points, 5 Months)
Nejimaru continues on his path to strengthening his resistance to outside influences, raising Integrity from 3 to 4 (5 Experience Points, 3 days). He also raised his War due to the fact he realize to properly help the group he has to actually refine some of his innate talents in the area, raising War from 1 to 2 (1 Experience Points, 1 day).
Mea-chan bought the first step of the Soak Series Charms for Lunars after seeing the utterly destructive power of the First Age. To better protect the heart of her hearts, she (being favored ability) started to focus her newly acquired skill towards refining her body to become a better shield (10 Experience Points, 3 Days).
Gladrien Vanja is saving her Exp, being still mentally stunted at her heinous crime of using a evil blade believing it was holy. The incident shocks her psyche still. Her recent timidity and indecisiveness is also a result of her shaken confidence.
Nejimaru
Nejimaru double checked the Manse plans the Dragon-Kings have laid out for their Mistress God and gleamed some valuable insight into the principles of Stonework and Construction. In fact Nejimaru has gained enough knowledge to be able to Design level 1-3 manses.
The majority of his effort however is devoted to the assistance of the Adaptus Astartes. He hides from the rest of the Solars by sequestering himself within the Central Hearth. During these times he works with Great Schema Mickey on methods to overcome the limited Essence of Enlightened Mortals. Pouring over the libraries of Auspicious Plum they eventually figured out a minor way to enhance their Essence Pools.
The solution is an modification of the Skin Mounted Amulet and the Essence Power Crystal the Astartes use when they are in Rathess to power their equipment. Similar in principle to the common artifacts during the first age that allow Mortals to activate Essence devices by having artifact that stores Essence. This however is more profound and instead of being a separate Essence pool, it augments the bearer’s innate pool. Adding only 4 motes and allow them to recover 2 extra motes of Essence per hour as long as they are in Rathess’ (specifically) Essence Grid.
Mea-Chan
Mea-Chan is saving her Exp to progress down the Lunar Soak Charm Tree
Gladrien Vanja
Finding no answers to her absolution from the Unconquered Sun, she continues on her soul searching. The months of constant prayer and her recently active role in as an religious icon has made her focus on her ability to influence others.
I assume Aata and Balan will be getting their Perfect Defenses?
Balan
Balan continued his training regiment under Gladrien Vanja and finally mastered the perfect dodge charm – Seven Shadow Evasion
His subsequent skin regeneration as response of being baked by his own Holy Armor as result of his temporary status as Creature of Darkness has caused his facial scares to be regenerated as part of the healing and is no longer so hidious as to warrent a –1 to Appearance.
Aata
Aata after his confrontation with Golden Tyrant redoubled his effort to master the Heavenly Guardian Defense Charm and in just a week achieved mastery of this Perfect Defense.
Nejimaru
Nejimaru is banking his Experience Points so he can raise Willpower Later.
Mea-Chan
Purchased the next Charm in the Lunar Soak Tree
Gladrien Vanja
Gladrien Vanja finally achieved the plateau of Melee 5 after her her ineffective confrontation with the Irreproachable and Flawless Golden Tyrant. With her expected duty of administer of Rathess she studied under Head Huntress Dharacya to learn the skills of statecraft.
| Balan | Aata | Nejimaru | |
| Total | 28 | 27 | 22 |
| 5 | 5 | - | |
| 8 | 7 | 7 | |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | |
| 7 | 7 | 7 |
Other NPCs
Gladrien Vanja
Session 05 (11), Session 06 (6), Session 07 (9), Session 08 (12), Session 09 (7), Session 10 (5), Session 11 (7), Session 12 (6)
From Exalted Core Rule Book, pg. 123 under “Stunts”
“A powerful Solar might not gain a stunt bonus for confronting back-alley muggers he could dispatch with both eyes closed and his hands tied behind his back, but his commitment to righteousness might net him a superior bonus when he gives a speech adjuring a deathknight to abandon her liege and the side of darkness to join his righteous quest to restore Creation.”
Thus Stunt bonuses are not applicable when a Perfect Charm is involved, since it innately has less risk than any action taken confronting a quadriplegic thug in the back allies of Nexus while blindfolded with both hands and feet tied behind his back.
All Lunars have 2 forms, with some having a 3rd called the War Form. The first is their human form. The Second is their Spirit Shape (often called True Form). The Third optional form is the War Form, granted by “Deadly Beast Transformation.”
A Lunar character at the time of creation will be granted half their character creation charm as “native charms.” It is highly suggested the focus of these native charms be Knacks.
The other half will be considered “discovery charms.” They represent Charms that the character mastered as part of accustoming themselves to their new nature.
A Lunar can chose a totem shape from any shape his native charms allow him to take. This means a Lunar can theoretically be a species of ancient primordial monster as his True Form – but keep in mind Animal True Form is totemic to the character. It speaks volumes about a Lunar when his/her True Form is an alien monster beyond the realms of mortal men.
When a Lunar takes upon his normal 2 forms he gains the physical attribute of the form he takes. With Humans Form being his normal attributes and his Animal Form having the stats of that animal. When he raises his Human Form’s attribute beyond 5, his animal form’s physical attribute is similarly increased. E.g. when Mea-chan raised her Strength to 6 her Simhata animal form’s strength also raised by 1 to 8.
War Form, however, is a synergy of the 2 previous forms. Being as such it takes on the property of both. Normally it will use the higher physical attribute of the 2. This will be the baseline of the form’s attribute and then add in any modification via mutations and the +1/+2 dot from the War Form Knack.
This modification however does not override logic and reasonability. If the War Form of a Tyrant Lizard Lunar has is the size of a human child then he is not going to gain all 14 dots of his Animal Form’s Strength. By the same logic, if the War Form of the aforementioned Lunar is as large as a Tyrant Lizard then his Dexterity might suffer a 1-3 dot penalty.
Other qualities such as the ability to see at night, breath in water, armored skin, etc. are reflected via Mutations. They are not automatically gained. Kali’s War Form for example, cannot breath in water, even though her animal form is a Siaka.
Finally managed to find the Missive Font. So Updated the Word Template and the Fonts Rar file.
Both can be found in the Live Work Space. Under “RPG - Exalted Past” then “Templates” folder.
Just updated Dicer to 1.9.3.4
Hopefully this catches the exception that crashes the program if the character file pointed to in the Registry is not present.
As usual it is uploaded to the Workspace.
All the senses granted by the bonds of a circle are vague impressions. They are not clear and defined data; instead they are more intuitive feelings than measurable facts.
Keep in mind the Sworn Brotherhood of the Dragon-Blooded gain these bonuses plus the normal bonuses gained as part of their Sorcerous Bond.
I am changing the way Charm Costs work.
When you activate a Charm the first time you pay the full amount. To activate the same charm against or as a part of a Flurry has significant discount after the initial activation.
Any subsequent activation of the exact same Charm, with all optional costs and bonuses being the same, only cost 1 mote for each additional activation, or the full activation cost – whichever is cheaper.
Should the subsequent activation be in anyway different it is considered the new initial activation and cost resets.
This effect I call Patterning. It makes flurries more common and feasible. Instead of paying 5x5 = 25 motes, you actually pay only 5+1+1+1+1 = 9.
Example: Balan activates his Death Blossom Combo which includes Excellency and Magic Flurry. So he chooses to spent 10 motes for 5 attacks as the Magic Flurry Charm. On his 1st attack he chose to spent 5 motes for 5 added dice, he missed. On his 2nd attack he chose to repeat the attack so he pays only 1 mote for +5 dice on his 2nd attack. He missed so he decide for his 3rd he needs higher dice pool, so he adds 7 dice, since he change the bonus of the charm he has to pay the full price of 7 motes for the 3rd attack, he hit. The opponent is near death. So for his 4th attack he thought he would hit normally since the opponent is at -4, so he chooses to add no bonus dice, costing 0, and he missed. For his last attack he thought he minds well finish it. So he adds 5 more dice. However since he changed his bonus on the 4th attack yet again (from +7 to +0) he lost the pattern, so he would have to pay 5 motes full price again.
This made his Death Blossom Combo a total of 28 instead of the normal 32, for a grand total saving of 4 motes. If he choose wisely and added 7 motes in the beginning, it would have only cost him 21 motes.
This rule favors total commitment for better or for worse. To accommodate this, the Essence regain for Stunts has also been lowered to half. See the “Stunts: Essence Gain” rule change.
Keep in mind this rule only accounts for actions or defense within a Flurry.
So attacked by 4 different person will cost the character 4 full cost for dodge charms. Then pattern cost of 1 mote each dodge activation if the attackers are using flurry. Should the player choose to not dodge any attack of that specific flurry sequence he losses the patterning and must start over.
With the changes to Charm cost activation within the same Tick the Essence gain from Stunts are halved.
So 1 die stunt only gives 1 mote, 2 die stunt grants 2motes, and 3 die stunts adds 3 motes.
The rules regarding Willpower, Experience points, and Virtue Channeling remain unchanged.
The game rule states you cannot start training before you pay the full amount of the Exp Costs, I say that is bad rule.
As long as you train towards something, it counts. It would simply prove fruitless if you do not eventually pay the exp for it.
However, these types of training investment can only be held for 6 month. So people can’t say, well I trained 400 hours in Melee 2495 Years ago, but now I have the exp to spent on it.
All other rules regarding training time and experience points expenditure remain unchanged.
As it stands right now the game superimposes extreme values on Motivation. All commands that go against motivation are Unacceptable Orders.
This means a person will sacrifice their intimacies unconditionally in the face of their motivation. E.g. the power hungry abyssal will always destroy the love of his life when faced with the alternative of abandoning his quest for power however temporary and brief.
The rule as it stands right now does not take into account severity. The slightest bend to Motivation is worth infinitely more than the most atrocious betrayal of Intimacies.
So I am changing it.
If the character is under social influence and Intimacies conflict with Motivations, he can choose to follow either as appropriate to the severity of the choices. He is not automatically required to refuse any action that goes against his motivation.
Keep in mind this will severely weaken your character’s resolve in the face of social attacks, but I think it’s a bit more realistic than what the game has right now.
· A Child = 1 Str – 1 effective for being Child (so 0 for dmg purposes)
· With a Dull Knife +1L, minimum damage value of 1 (that is default, huge weapons like a Grimcleaver has min dmg of 4)
· The Child attacks a Knight wearing Super Heavy Plate: 12L/12B Soak
· The Knight actually is just a rich brat who bought his rank, thus has DV value of 1 [(2 Dex + 1 Dodge) /2 round down)]
Let say the Child rolled 2 Successes so he hit with 0 Threshold: 2 – 1 min success for successful attack and – 1 for the Knight’s DV.
From this point, regardless of the Soak Value of the Armor, the child will at least do 1 dice worth of damage
Exalted Core Rules Page 252: “Armor lets minimum damage through. Players of attackers who hit you, no matter how heavy your armor, still roll their minimum damage – normally one die, two dice or their Essence in dice [In other section this is explained as capped at the weapon potential]”
So the child with Strength of 1 and a dull knife would essentially ignore 12 levels of soak to do his normal 1 dice of damage, because the knight wasn’t able to parry the attack. A defensive act that has nothing to do with what armor he is wearing.
The Knight would suffer the exact same damage if he were wearing ANY other (non-magical) armor, from a leather jacket to super-heavy plate – since the weakest armor has a soak of 3 and only magical armor have Hardness rating.
I find that highly unrealistic. There for I am changing it.
Hardness values are now this. Any attack where the Damage Potential (as defined by Strength + Weapon Damage) is lower than the Hardness is ignored. The amount of attack successes does not factor into the equation. So no matter how successfully you overcame an opponent’s parry/dodge, as long as his Armor’s Soak value is in effect, you cannot hurt him unless your Raw Damage Potential is capable of puncturing through the Hardness of the Armor.
So now Hardness’s function is no longer to stop minimum damage from occurring. It is now the ability to make the person wearing the armor invulnerable to low damage potential attacks. This effectively makes things like Warstriders, with their hardness of 8 to 15, nigh-invincible except against those with weapons designed for penetrating armor and/or superheavy and/or used by Strong Characters, which makes more sense.
Hardness is considered Armor Soak, so it is halved by Piercing Effects.
Note: appropriately spectacular Stuns can actually ignore Hardness value, like in “Ninja Scroll” where Jubei using his unexpected surprise to shoot the Stone Demon Guy in the Eye. In normal combat situations he wouldn’t have hit.
As long as the attack overcomes Soak, i.e. the Post-Soak Damage is higher than 0, you get the highest of the following as Minimum dice rolled
Essence Stat: which is still capped at the Damage Potential (Dmg + Str). Since Essence stat cannot give you damage that you are incapable of inflicting.
Minimum Damage of the Weapon: which is 1 unless weapon has the “Overwhelming” attribute and In the latter case use the appropriate value.
