Also... core + 5 manuals of exalted power (DB' date=' Lunar, Sideral, Abyssal, and now Alchemicals)... the theme of 5 seems to hold true.[/quote']
The MoEPs are for the DBs, the Lunars, the Sidereals, the Abyssals, the Infernals and then the Alchemicals. With just the Infernals, it would have been 5... which is why I always suspected that the Alchemicals would be out of series like the Graceful Wicked Masques. The Alchemicals aren't fully Exalted in the sense the other Exalts are, so. :|
Chambers actually used the term 'MoEP: Alchemicals' in the LiveJournal entry. Hmm...wonder if the authors can come up with another four Exalt types not originally derived from Creation (Abyssals and Infernals get grandfathered in due to former Solar affiliation)? 8) Fair Folk can be retconned, Heroic Exalted via Auto-kun, some kind of native Underworld and Malfean exaltations, akin to Terrestrials? Overkill, I know, but still.
