The name "Queen Merela" actually dates back to the description of the Crown of Thunders in the first edition supplement The Book of 3 Circles, published in 2001.
That's how "Merela" is written in the in-character materials in DotFA, of course -- she was basically a God-Queen, and First Age Solars had a Charm that let them know anytime spoke or wrote their name, so I think Carl was evoking the practice of spelling "God" as "G-d" as a mark of respect, with...
My suggestion, Jukashi, is to use your new character.
You've put together a highly unorthodox group of Exalts -- a pacifist Solar, a non-combat Lunar, an incompetent Abyssal, and a "Dragon-Blooded" who resolutely stays out of most conflicts. Of course they get beat up all the time: every...
I wasn't objecting to the idea that orichalcum can be alloyed with bronze -- I was objecting to the idea that an artifact made of 5MM-alloy is any less indestructible than an artifact made of pure 5MM. All 5MM artifacts save for the most powerful are alloys, yet daiklaves are no less...
All but the most powerful artifacts are made of 5MM-derived alloys. Daiklaves, f'rex, are made of 5MM-steel alloy. The amount of actual orichalcum in a full-sized orichalcum daiklave is a nugget roughly the size of a chicken egg. (Jade-steel alloy is made by mixing jade powder with molten steel...
I used to post these to the old Exalted Compendium; I see the format has changed somewhat. Sorry if this is the wrong forum.
Anyway, the map's updated again.
http://exalted.hd42.de/
Now with Exalted: The Autochthonians, Cult of the Illuminated, and Bastions of the North.
If you see...