>The time before history began when the Primordials formed Creation in the midst of the Wyld, and ended with the Primordial War. How long it lasted is unknown, but is likely to have been centuries if not millennia.
>The First Age of Man (timeline of events) began with the departure of Autochthon, the works of Gaia being given to the celestial and Terrestrial Exalted to administer, and the other surviving Primordials being confined in Malfeas. It ended with the Usurpation, a little over three thousand years later. The time between was relatively, but not entirely, uneventful.
>The Shogunate Era lasted about six hundred years, beginning in the aftermath of the Usurpation and persisting until the twin blows of the Great Contagion and the Fair Folk invasion brought it down. The calendar developed by the Shogunate is still used in Lookshy. Savants debate whether the Shogunate era properly belongs to the First or Second Age.
>The Second Age of Man (timeline of events, also called the Age of Sorrows, is the era at whose (apparent) ending the events of most Exalted chronicles take place. The earliest year that is unquestionably part of it is The Realm Year 1, when the Scarlet Empress crowned herself after destroying the Fair Folk armies and defeating the Seven Tigers. (By the Shogunate calendar, it was the year of the Quicksilver Siaka, in the Fourth (or possibly Fifth) Epoch. In Autochthonia, it was DA 4111.)
>???
Are they even still working on this game?
2001 (1st edition)
March 13, 2006 (2nd edition)
April 20, 2016 (3rd Edition)
Onyx Path under Rich the Leech was a mistake.
they just released a lunars companion book. there'll probably be 1-2 more books this year. the general is largely up to date, though many newer books aren't final release versions
This book was in development for years.
yep. this is unfortunately the best case scenario as far as i can tell, because paradox, the IP holders, are blind flailing morons who treat their rpg properties like video game franchises they can just shop around or kill off at their leisure
It was already approved by Paradox, in fact, they only refuse nwod books.
The biggest bottlenecks is the art direction.
Why does Paradox refuse to publish for the IP they own? Isn't that shooting themselves in the foot?
NWoD is seen as a competition for 5WoD
Okay, so their entire marketing department and/or executive team is moronic. Got it.
I don't even remember this existed, and I'm glad. Vampire Diaries, Interview with the Vampire and Twilight probably did more to promote the game unintentionally than wahtever this is.
it's unfortunately a common video game industry tactic to buy something to kill it
>NWoD is seen as a competition for 5WoD
WoD 20th as well. They veto'd OPP from making Hunter20 and Demon20 (despite not giving a shit about making a D5)
>they're making a tv series of this and Scion
>the website has basic lore errors
https://www.exalted-tv.com/
>it's Live Action
Shame that none of the people doing webcomics of Exalted are actually good at making interesting stories. I'd honestly just license Exalted out to some fricking manga publisher at this rate.
I want to slap whoever thought a TV show was a good idea. And yeah the correct way to promote Exalted would be to find someone like that guy who did Afro Samurai and Batman Ninja, and publish the most high octane schlock imaginable.
>I want to slap whoever thought a TV show was a good idea
It worked for VtM ;^)
The Purge Age. The Solars get into power, and they proceed to kill all Lunars, Terrestrials, Sidereals, Abyssals, and Infernals permanently. All beastfolk are put to death. 99% of the mortal population is executed. The remaining mortals are breeding stock to create god-blooded children who will only ever know the rule of the Solars.
I'm really glad that Sidereals in every edition can kick the ever loving shit out of the Solars. Even in 2e were their charmset was non functional except for 3 charms, the SMA book ensured that Solar keks got absolutely shit stomped. Let's not forget Deathlords who can juggle the entire Solar host.
>The Purge Age. The Solars get into power, and they proceed to kill all Lunars, Terrestrials, Sidereals, Abyssals, and Infernals permanently
You have no idea how Celestial Exaltations work.
How many metaphysical constraints does a Solar need to challenge in single combat and murder in order to mold them to their will?
They really fricked themselves in the foot when they introduced that shinma stuff.
they didn't tho. it was only in 2e when there were solar charms that directly invoked the shinma. this problem didn't exist in 1e.
It is possible to destroy a Celestial Exaltation.
If it was, the Sidereals would've destroyed the Solar Exalted back at the tail end of the First Age. Or the Primordials during the War.
I recommend renaming "the Purge Age" to "The Age of Whack-a-Mole." because that's what you'll be doing.
Just because they didn't do it doesn't mean it wasn't possible. Nothing is impossible in Exalted.
The Setting as it is, cannot exist if Exaltations are not indestructible.
3 rules on the setting
>no time travel
>no resurrections
>no perfect immortality
now shut the frick up.
So the Sidereals took all the time and effort to Contain these apparently destructible Solar Exaltations because?
And the Primordials did not destroy the Exaltations of ALL other Exalted because?
>So the Sidereals took all the time and effort to Contain these apparently destructible Solar Exaltations because?
They didn't have Solar Circle sorcery or enough Craft charms to do that, so they went with the next best alternative. That's also why they didn't stuff Lunars into a box too. Allocation of resources
>And the Primordials did not destroy the Exaltations of ALL other Exalted because?
In 2e they actually did destroy some Exaltations, there's a line about how some of the Exalted host are forever lost. Also, they lost. That's why they couldn't do it to the other one's dingus.
You may now reply to me with your headcanon.
>They didn't have Solar Circle sorcery or enough Craft charms to do that, so they went with the next best alternative.
Despite it being the first age and having at least the remnants of the Exalted logistics train that allowed them to build the great wonders that defined it.
Which in the Second Age, this Mighty Solar Supremacist will be lacking, because it's all rotted away. And to rebuild it you'd have (charitably), half of the Solars they had and none of the support from the other Exalted even before word gets out that you're planning to murder every single other Exalted.
>In 2e they actually did destroy some Exaltations, there's a line about how some of the Exalted host are forever lost
Yeah but that line isn't referring to the Exaltations we're talking about, Solars and Lunars went into the war with 300 each and came out with it. That suggests a degree of invincibility. Don't try to claim Sidereals took those hits, their numbers being 100 was decided on by the Maidens, not casualties from the war. That leaves you 0 for 3 as far canon Celestial Exalted are concerned.
>Despite it being the first age and having at least the remnants of the Exalted logistics train that allowed them to build the great wonders that defined it.
...and most of those devices required a Solar to use effectively, as 2e demonstrated.
>Yeah but that line isn't referring to the Exaltations we're talking about
Exaltations aren't indestructible and none of the Primordial enemies got their hands on a Solar/Sidereal/Lunar Exaltation - otherwise they'd have corrupted them, like they've shown to do later with Infernals.
Thanks for your sharing your headcanon. I wouldn't mind if you shared some more.
Say now, the Goalpost was at "Permanent Destruction of Celestial Exaltations" not " containment and/or arguably reversible alteration of the same."
>you can't destroy celestial exaltations
>except those times that they did
>what i meant was, sidereal and solar and lunar! believe me bros!
Hey man, if you want to headcanon those unnamed, not elaborated upon exaltations as celestial that's one thing, it's not germane to a discussion of canon material, however.
Reminder that two of those are game limits the PLAYERS aren't supposed to be capable of, as opposed to certain powerful CHARACTERS in the setting
>It's casually dropped in Glories: Maidens that the Maidens exist across all of time at once and can interact with all of it at will (their ability to exploit this being confined by their samsara autism).
>Yozis can resurrect anyone who died within 5 days upon them and declare events to have not happened within the same time period, it is explicit the only reason they cannot say-unmake the events of the Primordial War is because of the Surrender Oaths
>The Arch of Undreamt Eternities from Lands of Creation explicitly sends you into the future, it's just that the timeline only exists for five days
>The Righteous Dead are explicitly no longer Creatures of Death upon earning their status. What they experience is resurrection in every meaningful term, with some rules lawyering to make them "technically" sun-blessed ghosts that just happen to no longer have any meaningful ghostly traits apart from being spiritual beings
Perfect immortality is a no-no mainly because as mentioned, people do the impossible in Exalted. Even then 3e gives the example of Karvara, an otherworldly monster that is the incarnation of a principle from Zen-Mu, that even the First Age Exalted at the height of their power couldn't find a way to kill. If there was a way to kill it, it was apparently harder than simply turning it into a giant robot.
I mean canonically isn't the world doomed? So creation goes breasts up with the yozis breaking out, the abyssals megadeathkilling everything into oblivion, the fair folk eating everyone tc.
Holder’s Exalted vs World of Darkness