Leliel
2010-03-24, 06:00 PM
Hello, some of you may know me from the White Wolf boards. You may not know, however, that I like to repost things on different boards to get a wider opinion. This is one of them.
Well, my prospective campaign BBEG (well, he was originally an Eberron BBEG, but I fell in love with Exalted and so I've been created an Age of Sorrows version of him), Rikath Arathale, is of the "everyone deserves a chance to be special, so I'm going to force Creation to give them one" persuasion (and no, he isn't a Lunar, in case you were wondering).
The method by which he does so is a bit more of gradual then the typical "commence long and complex ritual, end world as we know it, gloat" routine. Rather, he plans to do something both terrifying and miraculous:
Turn his minions into his own custom strain of Exalt.
Now, I'm sure you're asking the obvious question: "How, exactly, is he going to create a work that rivals that of the Great Maker? Is he some kind of god?" Well, mostly yes-he comes from an alternate Creation, known as Nyx-the one the Primordial that did the smart thing in the War and fled created with her Wyld-born buddies (I use the "evolved Unshaped" explanation for Primordial birth) when they decided to see if they could make something that wouldn't attempt to kill them. In it, his people, the Ruestli, effectively achieved a Technological Singularity based on Genesis (or "life-shaping" as they preferred to call it) and became nigh-divine posthumans with powers verging on that of the Titans themselves. Of course, as is the case in Exalted, all this power went to their heads and they ended up creating an actual Primordial as a weapon of war.
That went well.
Anyway, they managed to banish him into the Wyld before he could take over Nyx and set his sights on other Creations, but their home was rendered uninhabitable to them as a result. The survivors were forced to leave their home behind, and seek out other worlds on Wyld-ships to colonize. One the more ill-fated ships landed on our good old Creation. For your sake, I hope you can guess who the sole survivor was.
The trouble is that while I certainly have a good idea why he's able to create Exalted (after the rampaging Titan, a symbiotic soul is small fry) I have no idea how, and I'm not confident enough with the rules to try an entirely new class of character (albeit a mostly NPC one...but then again, so are Abyssals, and that doesn't stop people from playing them). So...
Could I have a few suggestions as to what kind of Exalted a transhuman alien with a populist philosophy might make? And just perhaps, a few Charm suggestions?
Well, my prospective campaign BBEG (well, he was originally an Eberron BBEG, but I fell in love with Exalted and so I've been created an Age of Sorrows version of him), Rikath Arathale, is of the "everyone deserves a chance to be special, so I'm going to force Creation to give them one" persuasion (and no, he isn't a Lunar, in case you were wondering).
The method by which he does so is a bit more of gradual then the typical "commence long and complex ritual, end world as we know it, gloat" routine. Rather, he plans to do something both terrifying and miraculous:
Turn his minions into his own custom strain of Exalt.
Now, I'm sure you're asking the obvious question: "How, exactly, is he going to create a work that rivals that of the Great Maker? Is he some kind of god?" Well, mostly yes-he comes from an alternate Creation, known as Nyx-the one the Primordial that did the smart thing in the War and fled created with her Wyld-born buddies (I use the "evolved Unshaped" explanation for Primordial birth) when they decided to see if they could make something that wouldn't attempt to kill them. In it, his people, the Ruestli, effectively achieved a Technological Singularity based on Genesis (or "life-shaping" as they preferred to call it) and became nigh-divine posthumans with powers verging on that of the Titans themselves. Of course, as is the case in Exalted, all this power went to their heads and they ended up creating an actual Primordial as a weapon of war.
That went well.
Anyway, they managed to banish him into the Wyld before he could take over Nyx and set his sights on other Creations, but their home was rendered uninhabitable to them as a result. The survivors were forced to leave their home behind, and seek out other worlds on Wyld-ships to colonize. One the more ill-fated ships landed on our good old Creation. For your sake, I hope you can guess who the sole survivor was.
The trouble is that while I certainly have a good idea why he's able to create Exalted (after the rampaging Titan, a symbiotic soul is small fry) I have no idea how, and I'm not confident enough with the rules to try an entirely new class of character (albeit a mostly NPC one...but then again, so are Abyssals, and that doesn't stop people from playing them). So...
Could I have a few suggestions as to what kind of Exalted a transhuman alien with a populist philosophy might make? And just perhaps, a few Charm suggestions?