Silver Pact Solar?

Jukashi said:
In Exalted, and especially in regards to Lunars, scars are generally the sexy kind instead of the ugly kind.
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agreed. on that thought. do the tattoos protect a solar from the effects of the Wyld?


that would be reason enough to try.


i would say make the tattoos a 1 point flaws.
 
If the tattoos confer the same Wyld protection and immunity to shapeshifting benefits to Solars, forget about flaw points, and start coughing up bonus points to pay for that Merit...
 
No shit O.o
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agreed.


i wonder if a solar can learn the tattooing rites?


i was thinking once that if charms can be invented then why can't solars\lunars\DBs learn charms that essentially have the same effects through different methods? the way that most abyssal charms are solar charms with a twist of death could a solar learn certain lunar charms with a solar twist.


i know mechanically they would be different but if the lunars invented the tattooing charms why couldn't a solar invent similiar charms using the lunar ones as a basis to start with. it could be a branch off of the various wyld controling charms in lore.
 
A few charms can be reverse-engineered, but not nearly all. Giving tattoos is, I would say, more a matter of body-shaping, or rather the prevention of body-shaping by the Wyld. It's the sort of thing Lunars, as masters of form, can do. I don't think it's in-theme for Solars to be able to do it.
 
Jukashi said:
A few charms can be reverse-engineered, but not nearly all. Giving tattoos is, I would say, more a matter of body-shaping, or rather the prevention of body-shaping by the Wyld. It's the sort of thing Lunars, as masters of form, can do. I don't think it's in-theme for Solars to be able to do it.
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Granting stuff to subordinates is solar in theme, immunity to stuff is in the solar purview. I can't see tatoos being all solar but I'd say a solar charm would do the same without the need to tatoo someone.
 
Mmm, perhaps. I think it's more likely that Solars, the Exalted who are about learned skill and spiritual strength, could grant immunity to the mental effects of the Wyld, as befits their station as beacons of hope, righteousness and reason. Their protection would be more about staving off madness and fear and so on.


And access to a Charm like that would mean that Lunars and Solars could double up for total Wyld defense. Oooh yeeeaaahh.
 
Jukashi said:
Mmm, perhaps. I think it's more likely that Solars, the Exalted who are about learned skill and spiritual strength, could grant immunity to the mental effects of the Wyld, as befits their station as beacons of hope, righteousness and reason. Their protection would be more about staving off madness and fear and so on.
And access to a Charm like that would mean that Lunars and Solars could double up for total Wyld defense. Oooh yeeeaaahh.
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Solar charms already do more than just mental defense against the wyld.
 
Yes, but those Charms are contingent on them forcing their will on the Wyld, which is thematically appropriate. When they're present, they can make the Wyld not bother them or their friends. But it's not appropriate for them to make the Wyld bend to someone else's will when they're not present.
 
In case anyone was wondering about the fulll story behind my Solar and Lunar twins, there's a summary of it, along with some design and creation notes, under this illustration I did of them.
 
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