I think the greatest thing about Exalted's design is that, by the endgame, there's usually a point of "no, John, you are the demons."
You can wipe out a city. You could probably do that from Essence 4 or so. That's just the beginning. You could wipe out city, slaughter the women and children, raise a monument to your virtue, impose martial law, and metaphysically destroy the concept of love, and then make the survivors love you for it. Mortals are insignificant to us - we probably all know crowd control charms that could let us wipe out, win over, or elsewise negate mortal and low-Essence existence, until one day you look around from the ruins the Curse has wrought and realize you've become exactly what the Immaculate Order accused you of being.
This pretty much goes with how Primordials are characterized. Consider Autochthon, slaving away at 700 Celestial Exaltations. He didn't stop to think about the consequences of releasing them onto flawed human meatsacks. He just sat there and he made the very awesomest soul-enhancer he could, because that's what Autochthon embodies. He lacked the perspective to see how this could backfire. And when it did backfire -- both from the Great Curse and human failings -- he ditched. Leaving us where we are today.
So I would say yes, the Bronze Faction did have a point. However, I don't know if they've done that much a better job than the Celestials might have done, given the chance. In the end, they have their own curse to fight with.
You can wipe out a city. You could probably do that from Essence 4 or so. That's just the beginning. You could wipe out city, slaughter the women and children, raise a monument to your virtue, impose martial law, and metaphysically destroy the concept of love, and then make the survivors love you for it. Mortals are insignificant to us - we probably all know crowd control charms that could let us wipe out, win over, or elsewise negate mortal and low-Essence existence, until one day you look around from the ruins the Curse has wrought and realize you've become exactly what the Immaculate Order accused you of being.
This pretty much goes with how Primordials are characterized. Consider Autochthon, slaving away at 700 Celestial Exaltations. He didn't stop to think about the consequences of releasing them onto flawed human meatsacks. He just sat there and he made the very awesomest soul-enhancer he could, because that's what Autochthon embodies. He lacked the perspective to see how this could backfire. And when it did backfire -- both from the Great Curse and human failings -- he ditched. Leaving us where we are today.
So I would say yes, the Bronze Faction did have a point. However, I don't know if they've done that much a better job than the Celestials might have done, given the chance. In the end, they have their own curse to fight with.
Wish Established gave me colleges though
