Behold, the Titan.

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Cthulhu_Wakes

Black Sun in a White World
From RPG.net:

Titan Class Aerial Citadel
Built to replace the directional mobile platforms (Luthe)


5 mile wide flying cities


Can expand into seige mode 8 miles across


Eye of Judgment Superweapon (100L agg holy hits dematerial, obliterates spirit, undodgable/blockable, 5 mile blast radius)


Made with magitech and genisis from organs spliced and cloned from behemoths


500 essence cannons


50 thousand forged dragons


hangars for 100's of skyships


Shaping resistand hulls can fly into the wyld


They occasionaly let the Kukla & third circle demons out to engage in wargames against them


Full factory cathedral inside with blueprints for every worthwhile artifact


If they are destroyed there is a 500 mile diameter explosion


Other cool stuff that im not gonna spoil
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Mother of God.
 
You read it right. And this little fluff tidbit about Meru immediately caught my eye:

The Fallen Star Memorial. A memorial to gods (plural) who fell during primordial war, and their exalted that went and killed each other in a mad frenzy when it happened. This seems like quite a large setting detail to spring on the readers and then seemingly get no other mention other than that one paragraph. Now I had always assumed that their were other exalted types during the war, but I had also assumed (as that was the only explanation I could think of that made sense) was that they were part of what was wiped out by SWLIHN, and thus unknowable. As of this paragraph, there were multiple slain gods and multiple exalted types that were wiped out, and NO ONE knows who or what they were (other than Autochthon). This is quite different that what SWLIHN wiped out which is states as being so wiped out that people dont even realize its gone.
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THIS will get many a fan's brain pumping.
 
That's the kind of thing that I would expect in the First Age. :)


For the Exalted, it looks to me as if DotFA is full of hooks to expand it to whatever high-power legend you want to expand it :)


Perfect! :)
 
So if you kill the master vampire all his little vampires die...?


So, just out of curiosity, if you knock off Luna, and Creation somehow survives, what happens to the Lunars?  The bred Beastman tribes?  How much of Exaltation is the mortal, and how much is the shard?
 
It was left pretty clear that the shards are completely independent from the gods. I believe that as long as Lytek does his job, the whole Incarna could die and nothing would happen (well, a lot would happen. I mean to their Exalted).
 
Wargames with the Kukla... yeah why not, after all, the siddies had to have a  reason to destroy and imprison the solars... this type of decadent game could be one of them.


Corruption + the prophecy only could not be the only factors at the origin of the Usurpation.


Pretty exciting stuff :)
 
DugCoffin said:
So if you kill the master vampire all his little vampires die...?
So, just out of curiosity, if you knock off Luna, and Creation somehow survives, what happens to the Lunars?  The bred Beastman tribes?  How much of Exaltation is the mortal, and how much is the shard?
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Most surmise that something else occurred to send these other Exalts batshit crazy when their gods were laid low. Also, RPG.net has the Character generation for Primordial War surviving Solars...it's fucking sick.
 
I've been reading the previews as well.


To be honest, based on what I've heard of the setting material I can't imagine not running my games during the First Age. I'm not massively stoked about the mechanics (although I wont say they wont be nice to have, even if only as a reference), I've been looking for a substitute system recently as it is, but the setting details just sound kickass.
 
Yeah, it kicks the Second Age in the head, and just makes me think of horrid things to throw into the Second Age if not running in the First.
 
Yeah' date=' it kicks the Second Age in the head, and just makes me think of horrid things to throw into the Second Age if not running in the First.[/quote']
That's gonna be a problem alright...


"Oh, it's just one little artifact. It's not even the most powerful one in the book. It's not like it'll hurt. It only has one factory cathedral. They could get that with a manse. 50 TFDs? Lookshy and the Realm have that many between them. They could totally take it if they wanted to. Yeah. This is a good idea. Titan ho!"
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I like how it describes the order in which a Titan's systems break down when maintenance is skipped: the AI goes last, essentially turning the Titan into an inert mountain that can only remain floating if there's a significant geomantic source to draw energy from.


This makes me want to retcon Mount Metagalapa as the Eastern Titan, long since shut down, floating above some potent demense, just waiting for a Solar Circle to reclaim it.
 
Wish I had my DotFA already so I would be able to read stuff firsthand, but Amazon swears it is gonna come. I really like that Metagalpa hook.
 
Bystanderman said:
I like how it describes the order in which a Titan's systems break down when maintenance is skipped: the AI goes last, essentially turning the Titan into an inert mountain that can only remain floating if there's a significant geomantic source to draw energy from.
This makes me want to retcon Mount Metagalapa as the Eastern Titan, long since shut down, floating above some potent demense, just waiting for a Solar Circle to reclaim it.
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That's aces. Consider it stolen.
 
Actually, there's a heated debate going on in the RPG.net forum that Nephipal WROTE that exact idea in the new Eastern book. Stephenls is kinda eh over it.
 
I thought this sounded too good to be true.  Something that incredibly and staggeringly overpowered is usually fan-made.


I'm happy to say that... holy shit, it's canon.
 
Don't they say anything about the Sword of Creation? I'd imagine it'd have similar mechanisms as the Titan Weapon System.
 
Arthur said:
Don't they say anything about the Sword of Creation? I'd imagine it'd have similar mechanisms as the Titan Weapon System.
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This reminds me of a question I was having for quite some time now.


How is the stance on Autochton created artifacts... how many did he actually do? I remember in the beginning a lot of stuff was tributed to big A but in later supplements (west for example) his importance was downplayed quite a bit. Any info on that?


While we are at it... is sperinim described? Hollow? The crazy city up north with thy flying stability engine?


How consistent are the descriptions with stuff we have already seen about the first age (caste book flashbacks)?
 
Arthur said:
Don't they say anything about the Sword of Creation? I'd imagine it'd have similar mechanisms as the Titan Weapon System.
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They talk about it in the Lands book.  They give flavor, not hard numbers.  For instance: It was "discovered and tamed" by Autochthon and was a major weapon in the war against the Primordials.  Very few people know that the manse shrine called the Sword of Creation is only the focussing point, and it's keyed to very few Solars (probably the Faultless Panoply and Queen Merala).   It can also cause the sea to swallow whole fleets or islands, pull down frigid air from the north to freeze cities solid, (and I quote:) "wipe the sky from horizon to horizon with fire", cause earthquakes, make forests move, call searing sunlight "or any other destructive horror dreamt of in the mind of a Dawn Caste general".


It is the ultimate weapon, a couple of steps beyond even Rating N/A.
 
Rhapsody said:
Arthur said:
Don't they say anything about the Sword of Creation? I'd imagine it'd have similar mechanisms as the Titan Weapon System.
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They talk about it in the Lands book.  They give flavor, not hard numbers.  For instance: It was "discovered and tamed" by Autochthon and was a major weapon in the war against the Primordials.  Very few people know that the manse shrine called the Sword of Creation is only the focussing point, and it's keyed to very few Solars (probably the Faultless Panoply and Queen Merala).   It can also cause the sea to swallow whole fleets or islands, pull down frigid air from the north to freeze cities solid, (and I quote:) "wipe the sky from horizon to horizon with fire", cause earthquakes, make forests move, call searing sunlight "or any other destructive horror dreamt of in the mind of a Dawn Caste general".


It is the ultimate weapon, a couple of steps beyond even Rating N/A.
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What I love about that statement is the fact that Autobot found it. What the hell was it beforehand during the reign of the Primordials? That's my question.
 
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