Jukashi
Four Thousand Club
On page 218 of the core book, mortals are described as "someone who cannot spend motes of essence to achieve effects". Now, I've always assumed that to not be mortal, for a human, means you need to either be Exalted or have some non-human power in you (such as god-blooded, beastmen, etc.); that is, you needed to have enhanced resilience- resistance to bleeding, half stamina lethal soak and so on - like Exalted do. But in some places it suggests otherwise; in CoCD: The Wyld, for example, on page 111, it says in the sidebar on the Glittering Desert that mortals lose Perception permanently from exposure but that "Essence-users heal the lost Perception as lethal damage".
An enlightened mortal is an essence user and a mortal, so which applies? Exactly how much benefit does an enlightened mortal get beyond simply having a mote pool?
An enlightened mortal is an essence user and a mortal, so which applies? Exactly how much benefit does an enlightened mortal get beyond simply having a mote pool?