Swan Dragon's got a lot of power and popularity and Wong is hated by the southern court. Thing is Wong is unlikely to go down without a fight. The question will be how Wong goes about trying to get rid of Swan Dragon.
Cold Fire Desolation Brand is one such charm. However it doesn't infect with Final Viridescence until the Infernal has Essence 5+. From Infernals Pg 116:
"Infernals with Essence 4+ inflict a disease with penalties
that start at full strength rather than building over the course
of hours...
Alternately one of the Deathlord might recognize your mad First Age Solar and have a serious beef with offering the party assistance in ordr to settle an old score. If you want the Deathlord as an antagonist perhaps he was an old ally of the Solar's and together they're kicking off their old...
The closest you can get to a pyramid of Yu-Shan's hierarchy is the Incarna and the heads of the Bureau of Destiny. Beyond that things quickly dissolve into a tangled ball of yarn.
The charm really seems to be there to mitigate the fact that despite them being around Solar level, their version of Ox-Body doesn't give them any extra -0 and -1 health levels. Instead they get two -2s and a -4. The -2s are decent but by the time you hit the -4s you're in pretty bad shape...
I think you're are misunderstanding my post. I am not complaining about either edition. I was merely pointing out that 2nd Edition has made major changes to the setting and mechanics. If we can think of 1st Edition as Grabowski's "vision" since he was heading the creation of Exalted at the...
The simple fact is that the setting has changed drastically in 2nd Edition. Lunars are no longer all "Me smash Creation, RAAARRRGH!" and Sidereals are no longer portrayed as just the Exalted equivalent of maniupulative politicians and bureaucrats.
Remember too that things twisted and changed...
I'd put in for the the Young Wizards books by Diane Duane. It's very good inspiration for Sorcery particularly long, ritual Sorcery. Among other things it has:
A form of magical speech that not only describes but defines parts of the universe.
A book describing everything in the universe...
They'll have to do it at some point anyway otherwise the Abyssals will just keep reincarnating. That said I'm pretty sure the Yozis could reverse engineer the Monstrances if they could get a hold of one.
Assuming that the Reclamation succeeds and the Yozis are free however I don't think even the Kukla will win. Big, nasty earth dragon versus a bunch of beings greater than the gods I'm going to put my bet on the Yozis. Besides it's made clear that the Yozis have a massive amount of information...
I'm going to have to disagree with the OP. Infernals definitely gets my creative juices flowing. I have a lot of ideas for Infernals both as heroes and villians in Creation. One of the things I definitely like is that the Infernals unlike the Abyssals aren't shackled to the stagnated attitude...
Given that Malfeas controls the east I would expect that direction to be seriously messed up. Malfeas out of all the Yozis is the most hell bent on visiting destruction upon Creation. Expect major population centers to be prime targets so Lookshy and Nexus probably get decimated.
Mask of...
I'm surprised some of these haven't been mentioned yet.
Saint Seiya: Powers and artifacts abound, the different types of saints have established power levels (bronze, silver, and gold), and you have gods and goddesses vying for control of the world. Very inspirational and definitely very...
My two favorites are Solars and Abyssals. Â I tend to divide the Exalted types like this:
Ones I like
Solars: Â Pretty much for the reasons other people have stated. Â They're easily accessible and encompass a wide range of concepts. Â You also have frightening power that can be put to use...