The Elemental Poles

[fox-die]

Does anyone have a page reverence/number of where i can find some in depth information on the elemental poles :?:


Thx in advance

 

[Sherwood]

The only thing that I remember about the poles talks about as you travel closer to each one, Creation becomes more and more focused.  Heading south, you will come to a plain of endless fire.  North is a frozen expanse.


I seem to recall from the Kingdom of Halta book reading rumors that as you journey east, the forest extends forever and each tree is a powerful manse.  It also stated that this was probably just tall tales told to entertain.


The fifth pole, the one of Earth, is discussed in the Fair Folk book along with the info on the Mountain Folk.  They are the only Fair Folk stuck permenantly in Creation, and they are in service to the Empire.  The Machine God freed them from the prison that was made around them by the creation of the world.  He then set them to work making many of the wonders that were later given to the Exalted in their battle with the Primordials.  After the war, the Solars made Autochron place a geas on them to prevent them from ever permenantly leaving their mountan home.  That was one of the things that led him to abandon Creation to the outer Void with his followers that he could take with him.

 

[Thorn Darkblade]

core rulebook, page 19, is the only thing I could really find

 

[Cthulhu_Wakes]

There are varying references to the Poles all over the line, but 19 is the best bet. What exactly are you curious about?

 

[fox-die]

There are varying references to the Poles all over the line, but 19 is the best bet. What exactly are you curious about?

Well ive heard read a few things along the line... but i guess i just want to know, Whats There :?:


Ive heard that there is a DB martial artist defending each pole of his/her corrispoding element.


And also in the caste book of night i think it sadi that your blood would litaraly freeze the closer you got to the northern pole, you would be burned to ash at the center of the fire pole and just stuff like that... any truth

 

[wordman]

I find these references for First Edition:

• Defined - Exalted, pg 14; Exalted 2, pg 16
  
• "uninhabitable purity" - Exalted, pg 16
  
• Wyld exists "between" poles - Exalted, pg 16
  
• description - Exalted, pg 19
  
• Imperial Mountain as Earth Pole, brings peace of mind - Exalted, pg 37-38
  
• Wood Pole - Exalted, pg 54
  
• Fire Pole - Exalted, pg 63
  
• Water Pole - Exalted, pg 67
  
• Air Pole - Exalted, pg 69
  
• To hostile for some survival charms - Exalted, pg 181
  
• ...but not others - Exalted, pg 182
  
• Fish to make sweet cordial found only near Water Pole - Exalted, pg 336
  
• Sidereal convention for each of the poles - Sidereals, pg 71-72
  
• Fire Pole can taint water as far north as Harborhead - Houses of the Bull God, pg 16
  
• Savants consider placement of poles as evidence elements repel each other - Autochthonians, pg 201
  
• Opal Spire "effectively synonymous with" Air Pole - Bastions of the North, pg 41
  
• Danger of Air Pole - Lunars, pg 17
  
• Poles to much for Lunar Stamina charms - Lunar, pg 169
  
• Wyld near Wood Pole - Lunars, pg 201
  
• Example of how a pole changes people - Lunars, pg 235
  
• Different degrees of wyld in relation to poles - Fair Folk, pg 17-18
  
• Proximity to Air Pole limits range of Wind Yacht - Fair Folk, pg 52
  
• Jadeborn feel location of Earth Pole - Fair Folk, pg 237
  
• Poles altered raksha's form over time - Fair Folk, pg 300
  
• Horses less useful near Air and Fire Poles - Manacle & Coin, pg 31
  
• Terrestrials know exact location relative to aspect Pole - Dragon Blooded, pg 148
  
• Terrestrial Athletics charm guards against hazards of Pole - Dragon Blooded, pg 204
  
• Navigation using Earth Pole - Savage Seas, pg 21, 23, 116. This section is a bit stupid, IMO, so I've invented the polar compass that uses the poles better for navigation. More commentary on the nature of the poles and how it impacts the compass here.
  
• Artifact components from Poles - Savant & Sorcerer, pg 32
  
• Demesne aspect more likely to match pole the closer it is - Savant & Sorcerer, pg 47
  
• Demesnes common near Poles - Savant & Sorcerer, pg 49
  
• One spell effect depends on proximity to Pole - Savant & Sorcerer, pg 108
  
• Travel spell protects from Poles - Savant & Sorcerer, pg 140
  
• Rathess located midway between Fire and Wood pole - Ruins of Rathess, pg 11
  
• First Age solars moved "their seat of power to Meru, on the slopes of the Elemental Pole of Earth" - Ruins of Rathess, pg 11
  
• Elemental courts requiring presence of powerful elementals more likely to be held near the Pole - Games of Divinity, pg 55

There seems to be a shift in perspective in Second Edition regarding the location of the Wyld in relation to the poles. In First Edition, most references treat the poles as an ultimate barrier, to which the Wyld leads. In Second Edition, there are many references to things "beyond" the poles, including the Wyld. These are references from Second Edition:

• Defined - Exalted 2, pg 16
  
• Fair Folk dwell "beyond" poles - Exalted 2, pg 16
  
• Poles "mark the boundary of Creation" - Exalted 2, pg 18
  
• Wyld exists "beyond" poles - Exalted 2, pg 18, 24
  
• Descriptions - Exalted 2, pg 26
  
• Generate the weather - Exalted 2, pg 26
  
• Pilgrims can "touch the summit" of the Earth Pole - Exalted 2, pg 43
  
• Fertility surrounds Earth Pole - Exalted 2, pg 44
  
• Air Pole - Exalted 2, pg 49
  
• Water Pole - Exalted 2, pg 52
  
• Fire Pole - Exalted 2, pg 55
  
• Wood Pole - Exalted 2, pg 57
  
• Brigid traveled to the poles to find sorcery's secrets - Exalted 2, pg 251
  
• Plot suggestion of a Deathlord attempting to destroy a pole - Exalted 2, pg 270
  
• Earth Pole keeps the Wyld at bay - Exalted 2, pg 283
  
• Sweet cordial ingredient near Water Pole - Exalted 2, pg 378
  
• Artifact uses Earth Pole for navigation - Wonders of the Lost Age, pg 58
  
• Ingredients for Genesis from Wood Pole - Wonders of the Lost Age, pg 116
  
• Rocks from Fire Pole needed to forge orichalcum - Wonders of the Lost Age, pg 144
  
• Terrestrial survival charms protect against one of the Poles - MoEP: Dragon-Blooded, pg 185

 

[fox-die]

:shock:  :shock:  :shock:  :shock:


OMG, thats alot of information.... Thx Wordman


*goes off to read*


:!:  :idea:  :?:  :idea:  :arrow:  WHOOT