I think Jukashi's probably right, given the time scale. Habits are hard to break, so I don't imagine any 'new' exalts are running around using Glorious Solar [noogies] during a debate...but after a few hundred years I bet those first twenty to fourty start fading away, habit-wise.
Hopefully...
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Nah - the timeline wouldn't work. Secret mentions that this is after the Scarlet Empress disappeared, but the Great Contagion was before the Empress rose to power. If I interpret the core book correctly, anyway. Seems kinda similar, though.
Really, this kind of plague is a pretty...