Well, you got to see the designs yesterday, so here is a hug

(As always I also post art on insta and bluesky)

Investigation Tree

Destructive Analytic Tooling

Cost: 5m, 1WP

Mins: Investigation 3, Essence 2

Type: Simple

Keywords: None

Duration: Indefinite

Prerequisite Charms: None

The Infernal’s regard is a terrible thing, her gaze scouring flesh from bone as she dissects your very essence.

While active, this infernal is capable of firing destructive beams of scouring light. This beam has the same statistics as a Powerbow. It uses (Perception + Occult) for the attack roll. Creatures and materials damaged by this beam provide the Infernal with information equivalent to a medical examination; details such as sex, age, material properties and whether the target is currently suffering from any diseases are all revealed to the infernal.

The infernal may buy evocations for this attack as if it were an artifact weapon. A sample evocation is listed below.

Essence Flaying Investigation (Evocation)

Cost: 6m

Mins: Investigation 3, Essence 2

Type: Simple

Keywords: Reflexive

Duration: Instant

Prerequisite Charms: Destructive Analytic Tooling

This charm can be activated when the Infernal kills a supernatural creature with Destructive Analytic Tooling. This permanently destroys the target and grants Craft points as if the Infernal had just completed a Crafting Project. Essence 1 or 2 targets grant craft points as if the Infernal had just completed a Basic project, Essence 3 or 4 targets grant craft points as if they Infernal had just completed a Major project, and Essence 5 targets grant craft points as if she had just completed a Superior project.

Keys

Detailed Vivisection Analysis (Investigation 5): If the infernal drags out the destruction of a helpless foe over an entire scene, she doubles the rewards granted by this charm.

Unwilling Muse Sacrifice (Glory Forging Sacrifice or Demon Smelting Furnace): When enhancing a Craft project Glory Forging Sacrifice and/or Demon Smelting Furnace she may treat a creature slain by this charm as the sacrifice required to activate those charms. Creatures slain by this charm cannot be “reused” for multiple craft projects; the Infernal must ever seek further inspiration.

Memory Devouring Interrogation

Cost: 5m, 1WP

Mins: Investigation 3, Essence 2

Type: Simple, Psyche

Keywords: None

Duration: Indefinite

Prerequisite Charms: None

Certain thoughts and memories are antithetical to the Infernal's designs, better she prune them then allow them fest.

The Infernal supplements an Instill roll, allowing the Infernal to reduce or remove a target's intimacy without citing a supporting intimacy. If successful, the memories supporting the intimacy are excised along with it.

Keys

Technique Devouring Meditation (10m, 1wp): If the infernal spends a day meditating over a stolen intimacy, she may spend XP to instantly gain up to (Essence) dots of abilities relevant to the intimacy. She gains an intimacy identical to the one stolen, at a minor intensity. Subsequent uses of this charm increase the intimacy by one step. If the Infernal loses this intimacy, she loses these abilities and is refunded their XP cost.

---

Analytic Modeling Intuition (Errata)

Analytic Modeling Intuition cannot be used to identify a target's ties, or understand their emotional state. The magic of SWLIHN deals in facts, not feelings.

Glory Forging Sacrifice (Errata)

Keys

Unwilling Teacher Inspiration: When the Infernal activates Glory Forging Sacrifice, she may choose to learn up to (Essence) Eclipse Charms. She must pay for these charms with XP as normal.

Solipsism Tree

Crystallized Heart Doctrine

Cost: -

Mins: Integrity 5, Essence 2

Type: Permanent

Keywords: None

Duration: Permanent

Prerequisite Charms: Cosmic Transcendence of Virtue

The Magic of She Who Lives in Her Name hardens the Infernal's heart into Pyrian Crystal. No more shall emotion sway her from her purpose.

Upon purchasing this charm, the Infernal selects a single Defining Principle. Subsequently, the Infernal treats any influence which would cause the Infernal to act against the principle or weaken it in any way as Unacceptable Influence. If she rolls dice for acting against this principle, those dice are considered automatic successes.

Ubiquity of Correct Beliefs

Cost: -

Mins: Integrity 5, Essence 2

Type: Permanent

Keywords: None

Duration: Permanent

Prerequisite Charms: Crystallized Heart Doctrine

The self-evident rightness of the Infernal's believes infects all who hear her. When attempting a social influence she can leverage the Defining Intimacy she selected when purchasing Crystallized Heart Doctrine as if it were a minor intimacy.

The 10,000 Correct Actions

Cost: 8m

Mins: Integrity 5, Essence 2

Type: Supplemental

Keywords: None

Duration: Instant

Prerequisite Charms: Ubiquity of Correct Beliefs

The words of the Whispering Pyre crackle in the thoughts of those who bear her principles. 10,000 Correct Thoughts leading to 10,000 Correct Actions.

This charm supplements a Persuade attempt bolstered by an intimacy that the Infernal and her target share. The charm doubles 9s when the target's intimacy is rated minor, 8s when the intimacy is rated Major, and 7s when the Intimacy is rated Defining.

Unneeded Values Rejection

Cost: 6m

Mins: Integrity 5, Essence 2

Type: Supplemental

Keywords: None

Duration: Instant

Prerequisite Charms: The 10,000 Correct Values

The flames of the Whispering Pyre burn away the dross of unneeded thoughts.

This charm supplements an Instill action aimed at removing a Principle she and the target do not share, one based on emotion, or a Tie, doubling 9s. '

Clarity of Correct Thoughts

Cost: 3m

Mins: Integrity 5, Essence 2

Type: Supplemental

Keywords: None

Duration: Instant

Prerequisite Charms: The 10,000 Correct Values

This charm supplements an Inspire aimed at calming someone, removing emotion, or persuading them to think rationally. The Infernal doubles 8s on this roll.

Correct Thought, Correct Action

Cost: 15m, 1 WP

Mins: Integrity 5, Essence 2

Type: Supplemental

Keywords: None

Duration: Instant

Prerequisite Charms: The 10,000 Correct Values

The Flame of the Whispering Pyre kindles in the thoughts of all who hear her, whispering thoughts which stir the mind and quicken the hands.

This charm supplements a Persuade action aimed at a target who shares a Defining Intimacy with the Infernal. As long as the two are in the same realm of existence, this Persuade action can be made regardless of distance, the shard of the Whispering Pyre which lives in the intimacy whispering suggestions into their ear. This charm can only be used once per story.

Reset: the Infernal Instills one of their Defining Intimacies in a target.

Ok so for this one, I took the time to design the first Incarnation of my Auroral. Technically, she did not see the First Age, as she was sealed in an artifact by the end of the primordial War.

Inaya (First Age Incarnation) was a deeply pacifist diplomat, doctor, and Cerulean Lute of Harmony stylist. She embodied love toward all things. When Aurora died and she started turning into a hearteater, it absolutely broke her, and she basically committed suicide.

Yaretzi (Age of Sorrows Incarnation) ressemble her a lot. He loved to love, and was the kind of kid that was afraid to walk in the grass in fear of killing the insects that might live here. But his mother and Black Claw master utterly destroyed his personality and values, and he is now convinced love is a lie.

The exaltation chose him as his core is aligned with Inaya's beliefs, but he has been broken too. They will either be able to restore themselves, or go further down in corruption.

(I've yet to chose their exalt name but there are too many words and I can't choose) They share the title Agape of the Firmament !!!

(As always I also post art on insta and bluesky)

Astronomers discover first ever green star.

So we've finally started our new campaign. I'm playing an Abyssal, and for the most part, I think I have a firm grasp on everything, but I only pretty much now realized that I don't really understand what a charm I have does, because I took it basically just because it's a requirement.

The charm is Writhing Torment Chains; it's an expansion to Chain-and-Armor Mortification, which animates your armor's chains to be very funky grappling tools. It's a permanent charm, and its text reads:

"While using Chain-and-Armor Mortification, the Abyssal doesn’t suffer any of the usual penalties for grappling and can grapple using the chains’ full range. A successful grapple drags an enemy into close range."

The problem is that reading this just now I realized... I don't know what "usual penalties for grappling" even are? And the section of the core book doesn't really elucidate. I don't really understand what this applies to, is it talking about grappling large enemies or multiple targets? Because that's the only thing that's even mentioned in the "final notes" section. Or is it talking about taking a penalty to Defense and being unable to move, is that the "usual penalties"?

Design by u/angelasasser

With our Auroral Campaign starting soon and everything, I had to draw him for todays theme. I did not find many physical descriptions of him, so I kinda went with the flow.

(As always I also post art on insta and bluesky)

I had this realization recently and wanted to share, because I think conceptualizing it like this could help the GMs and newer players understand what the Abyssals, Deathlords and the Neverborn are about, and to be able to argue their case. Which goes a long way in explaining why someone like the Bishop of Chalcedony Thurible, Lover Clad in Rainment in Tears, or Walker in Darkness are able to amass legions of devoted sycophants despite their ideology preaching an unambiguous, universal genocide, because Elden Ring is a very, very popular game, so it's a useful point of comparison.

The Flame of Frenzy is a universal force of destruction. Despite being referred to as Chaos, it's chaos in a classical sense: entropy of the universe. Maximum chaos is not what you'd imagine, a swirling mess of everything, but is, in actuality, complete nothingness. Void.

Its adherents are all people brought to the edges of madness through pain and suffering. They'd seen the absolute worst of the worst depravities of humanity and the world, saw that the Greater Will (Exalted even has an analog for this in the form of Unconquered Sun) is either unwilling or too weak to fix the world, and thus concluded that non-existence is preferable to existence.

That's exactly the ethos that drives the Neverborn and the Deathlords (even if some question it, their very existence is still dedicated to it). From that perspective, they may even appear sympathetic to an extent; after all, Creation is indeed a very, very bad place for 99% of its inhabitants, and it's frankly so bad because it's so good to its 1%, and unlike the real world, that state of things is written into the cosmology of the universe itself. The very beings who now beg for all of it to end designed it this way.

I think it's good, if you want to lean into the Deathlords like Lover, Bishop, and Walker being these charismatic and convincing individuals, to highlight that these are really, REALLY hurt people, and they do offer a kind of mercy. At the very least, they themselves see it as mercy, and the people following them see it that way too, they don't all follow because of brainwashing.

Or should I let you keep guessing the names, even when it's that obvious ?

I love this spell. I find it very funny that the Necromencer I play is very sweet, and by far one of the most good aligned character I ever played, but can turn terrifying in a matter of seconds if he wants to (probably when he gets tired of having to interact with people)

(As always I also post art on insta and bluesky)

The mythologies and religious traditions that inspire Exalted's setting are full of heroes who's exploits begin very early in their life, such as Heracles as a baby strangling the serpents that entered his crib (the thing that brought this question to mind), or Cu Cuchulainn as a 6 year old killing a large hound in self defence.

However, with Exalted's setting logic in mind, how young do you think a person could be before it stretches believability and/or becomes out-of-theme for an Exaltation to occur?

got to introduce a new character in the sidereal game i'm in and unfortunately i've become a little obsessed with her.

-former sijanese tomb guard-in-training

-took advantage of exalting to transition hard

-works for the convention on rogue assets

-wishes her job was more killing less paperwork

-allergic to fun

-paired up with a bubbly fast-talking agent she can't stand

-huge crush on the green lady she refuses to let anyone know about

-sword is also named red utopia

-6'5" without the heels

The Lunar Charm from Many-Faced Strangers is clear enough about its power to display memories in visible illusory forms. My question deals with its interactions with Secire Den Technique. What exactly IS a dream Realm, and what are its qualities? Is it a real retreat inside your dreams? Its left me puzzled how exactly to handle it.

I am back home after hinking for 10 days straight ! Not sure I will be able to catch up, but I will overflow on November if I need to, to complete the challenge.

So, for Dragonblooded House I had to go for house Mnemon, with our DB campaign that has been ongoing for a year and half trying to put Mnemon on the throne (and make sure creation does not fall to evil anathemas)

The 6 people here are our hearth. From left to right :

- Nostra Vneef Mnemon (PC, wood aspect merchant, married into the family)

- Hisaly Mnemon (PC, wood aspect crafter, direct child of Mnemon)

- Valoris Ledaal Mnemon (PC, air aspect archeologist, married to Yue)

- Kamui Mnemon Yato (PC, fire aspect martial artist, direct child of Mnemon, but choose to also keep his father's surname too)

- Yban Mnemon (NPC, water aspect war general and martial artist. His grand mother was adopted by Mnemon)

- Yue Mnemon (NPC, sideral maskerading as an air aspect, direct child of Mnemon and married to Valoris)

Its kinda funny that there are no earth aspect in our very Mnemon hearth

(As always I also post art on insta and bluesky)

• Fanart
• Gifs
• Videos
• Screencaps

Aloha, all!

Pure mechanics: the Counter Conceptual Interposition Key for this charm it allows you to Clash with it, but doesn't specify whether it becomes reflexive. It seems like charms that use your Combat action when clashing or counterattacking specify they do.

So to clarify: Regardless of what you do on your turn, you can spend 9 motes to reflexively clash an attack with this, dealing no more than Essence damage if successful.

As I prepare to play an infernal in my group's current campaign, Principle Invoking Onslaught is probably my go to decisive attack, here are a few ideas I've had for it. Let me know if they exceed the limit of this absurd attack Charm.

I turn people into paintings of themselves.

I turn people into pigs that explode into fully butchered and barbecued, ready to eat portions.

I create a door that opens in the path a target attempting to kill me or someone else and they disappear into it.
--When I next activate Counter Conceptual Imposition, the door reappears, opens, and the previous target emerges mid attack to damage the attacker and die by absorbing the clashed attack for me.

The target's feet explode into roots that dig into the earth and the rest of them contorts into a tree covered in leaves that immediately take flight as butterflies.

The target becomes ensconced in a SWLIHN style crystal sphere and flies into the sky, never to be seen again.

The target becomes a baby.

The target becomes a harmless mundane beast of some kind.

After offering last rites to a dying person and hearing them pray for their family to have wealth and good fortune after their passing, I blast them into a pile of Resources 4 jade dust.

So I'm not an expert in Lunars, I know about the Full moon caste and all that. But I don't know how well does their double leap distance synergizes with the rest of the lunar charmset.

Meanwhile the No Moon gets a -1 external penalty on attackers who can't see through Darkness. Wouldn't this synergize better with all builds ?

So Nara-O knows the secrets not told to anyone. If I were to tell all my secrets to someone, then kill them and obliterate their souls so no necromancer could force them to talk, would this count so Nara-O doesn't discover my big evil plans ?

So I'm clear, an Infernal with the Soul Pantheon tree will create a maximum of 8 souls/demons?

The coadjutor becomes a Fetich, then they make 7 second circle souls for it, then externalize the fetich.

Is that the limit, or do they then create another 7 second circles to produce another 3rd?

As a first time GM my players started at essence 2 and have made it to the point they can move to essence 3.

I don’t wanna fuck it up, we have a Dawn caste, sidereal, and Zenith caste.

Any advice?

Sequel to this post (and it's repost)