You're so cuuute... ARGH MY FACE

[Toloran]

Posted on the WW blog thingy.

So what is the official story on non-human Exalts?

 

[Thanqol]

I think that's one of the Unconquered Sun's mice-dude heralds (I heard this on a board somewhere, so accuracy isn't a feature).


Basically Sol Invictus has two white mice who are both superpowered and his personal judges. If the mice decide a society is corrupt, then the Sun smites it with his ultimate personal deathplague. So basically, don't screw with those guys.


Edit: Addenum - aren't non-human Exalts Lunars?

 

[Flagg]

Yes, that is a Mouse of the Sun, not a Solar. These were in 1E Creatures of the Wyld (though they're not, in fact, creatures of the Wyld).

 

[Persell]

Mice of the Sun are scary, scary things.

 

[Smeggedoff]

awesome, and cos it's past due *cough*


GO FOR THE EYES BOO!

 

[Toloran]

Edit: Addenum - aren't non-human Exalts Lunars?

I was mostly thinking of animals, beastmen, Dragon Lords, etc exalting as (for example) A Solar.

 

[Arthur]

Is that probably from Scroll of the Exalts?

 

[Toloran]

Is that probably from Scroll of the Exalts?

The picture I posted? No, It's from "Compass of Terrestrial Directions - The North" I believe.

 

[Smeggedoff]

wait...are they fighting on a blimp?

 

[Thanqol]

Edit: Addenum - aren't non-human Exalts Lunars?

I was mostly thinking of animals, beastmen, Dragon Lords, etc exalting as (for example) A Solar.

In my interpretation of Exalted, Dragon Kings and Beastmen can be Exalted into any flavor. Just happens less often because there are less of them. The Exaltation subsumes natural abilities, though, so a Solar Exalted DK is a Solar, not a Solar+DK. Racial abilities they can represent with mutations and so forth. The shards are equal-opportunity Exalters.


Your mileage may differ.

 

[Quchu]

Dragon Kings can't be Exalted due to how their souls work. At least, they are too different from the human stock to be considered, I think. Beastmen and other such humanoids can be Exalted with a slight penalty, however.

 

[Thanqol]

I did tag that as a houserule, but that's a topic for another thread.

 

[Brickwall]

Beastmen who don't have certain mutations (like Creature of Darkness-type ones, etc) can Exalt. However, innately magical beings such as Dragon Kings were never human, and it's explicitly stated that Exaltation was a gift to humanity, which helped them break out of the service of their Dragon King overlords.

 

[Ker'ion]

*poke*


He did say:

I did tag that as a houserule, but that's a topic for another thread.

He may be going against canon on this, but it is a house rule.


Hell, I allow Tough, Sturdy and Resilient (bigger and better than Sturdy) to be used as Mutations in my games and they were taken out of 2E.

 

[Thanqol]

Pretty much. It's a houserule - and because of the vastly lesser numbers of DK's to humans, there's maybe 1d6 active Exalted DK at best at a time. Basically the option is there, but it's not a big change to the setting.


There are interesting side effects when a human Solar starts getting flashbacks from a First Age Dragon King.

 

[Forest Eyes]

Beastman can Exalt, as has been said, I believe that one was mentioned in one of the entries in the 1E Castebook: Night.