Raksha Questions

[The Name Without Meaning]

So I just ran my PC's on a thrilling Wyld Jaunt and finally got to use some of the madness from the Fair Folk book, but there were a couple of things I couldn't find or just made up that I'd like to hear people's opinions or page refs on -


Assuming they've been damaged by the creation-born, how do raksha heal? Like Exalts? Mortals? How are they healing anyhow? Their bodies are fake, and in the wyld they can just go without them. Are they processing the energies of the wyld somehow?


Do the majority of raksha go around rakshastan with assumption charms up, even though they don't have to? This seems implied, but I don't remember reading it. Certainly none of the chapter fiction or court descriptions describe disemodied essence swirling around graces sitting on a throne.


Do raksha never, occasionally, or usually wear their graces? because besides defining them they are clothes/ weapons /armor/ tools. Or do they just keep them safely elsewhere if they're lucky enough to own them.


How cool are the graces? A first age dawn (sadly, killed by a first age chosen of endings) from my game had a sword grace that he'd demanded as the terms of surrender after an attack by the fair folk thousands of years ago. He yanked it out of his chest and it was a massive shining daiklave that he wacked Mask of Winters with. (then the siddie killed him) His grace, I figured, was super-duper crack, but what about more run of the mill graces? Hell, can someone enchant them so that they become artifacts? and what would that do to the Raksha they belong to?


Fae on Fae violence = essentially pretend


Creation born on Fae = very real


What about Fae with a creation made steel dagger on Fae?


That's all I can think of right now, and I'd much appreciate any thoughts.

 

[The Name Without Meaning]

I honestly don't know why no one's chimed in on this - even to say "I dunno." I was just curious, but now a player wants to make a Raksha PC for my game so these questions are slightly more significant to me.


Seriously, am I being shunned?

 

[Solfi]

I'd answer, but the Fair Folk isn't my forté. I found the hardback very interesting, but realized very quickly that I wouldn't be using it that much in my games, except as an idea forge. So I have really just skimmed the rules part...

 

[Forn Clakes]

Sorry dude, I'm going with Solfi on this one.  Got some interesting story ideas but the mechanics are still beyond me.


~FC

 

[The Mad hatter]

I would say Fae heal as exalts within the Wyld and as mortals in creation, though its safe to assume any fae in creation with have other means of healing themselfs,


Fae do walk around with Assumtion type charms up most the time, not using them leaves them enfleshed in the local area, witch while a intristing feel is poor form for their endless games.


Fae who own others graces will most assuradly wear them around as its a sign of their power over another, with their own graces, would depend on personal taste since they cant be stolen or broken except though shaping combat and thatll mess em up no matter were they are


Graces are basicly Exceptional Items, duplicating any of the 5MM i would say is out, though it may be possable with a powerful exalt and fae, being items even with their unsual propertys they should be able to be enchanted, though they would count as a artfact 1 or 2 higher then it really is due to its special nature, as for the owner of the grace some discomfert may ensure or possably messing with their limit or banality but outside that ~shrug~


Using a Creation born item on another fae (except cold iron since a fae cant use that) will inflict real death on the other fae, though also a Fae can kill another one without using such items, as they can forgo just shaping combat on their target and insted use their mutations or other tricks to kill off one another, there are reffrences to this in the fae book under the Oaths

 

[Vanman]

Haven't even read the Fair Folk book yet. I don't know what a Raksha is, so it's kind of hard to comment.


:-)

 

[Flagg]

Raksha = Fair Folk. For reasons that I don't feel are particularly valid, they felt the need to apply a new label to them.


-S

 

[Forn Clakes]

As Still said, the Raksha are/were the name given to the Fair Folk in the hardback book.  Apparently, to the writers anyway, Raksha has a more appropriate theme than Faerie.  I think they're wrong and still call them Fae in my games.


~FC.

 

[The Mad hatter]

Raksha is a distinctive term used for the Fae that take shape and engage in the politics of the courts, Fae itself is more of the Unshaped and those Fae who dwell in the deep wyld all the time, the Raksha are tainted by creation and couldnt live in the purly chatoic world of the deep wyld, at least thats what they seemed to use for the distinction

 

[Forn Clakes]

As I understood it, the word 'Fae' or 'Faerie' isn't used at all in the Fair Folk book because it brought up the wrong imagery and feel the authors were going for.


~FC.

 

[The Mad hatter]

well they do make reffrences to the word fae in the book a few times, i just figured that since Raksha were too bound by creation unlike their fellows the term fae was more for the true wild childs of the race

 

[Forn Clakes]

I'll have to take a closer look when my brain don't hurt.


~FC.

 

[The Mad hatter]

do it while the brain hurts, i love the book and play the game regulary and i still get a headache from it..


x=y except when y=b or when y=x sorta syndrom with the mechanics

 

[The Name Without Meaning]

I was getting paranoid there, for a while...


To everyone who proved I'm not being shunned a big thanks, and to Hatter, who answered my questions pretty well, thanks again.

 

[The Mad hatter]

i may not be right on all of it but its worked so far for me, like ive said, love the game...


now to make a deranged pooka that turns into a rashaka.... confuse the hell out of my players for the rare WoD games we run... <,< >,>