Quote Originally Posted by GrayDeath View Post
There is a lot of fluff that says Dragonblooded who have more than one child die much earlier that otherwise, but nothing I ever read about that costing them essence (given ho ... rare truly powerful Dragonblooded already are, that would otherwise have killed off the Empire long before the return of the other Exalted^^).

So my suggestion would be: be careful not to need more than say 150 years for your family/Empire plans if you intend to have " a lot" of children ^^
Thanks for the answer :)
Quote Originally Posted by Justyn View Post
There is no rule as to this effect. It just doesn't happen. Exalted do not lose dots of Permanent Essence when they have children.

It could be a misunderstanding of something that is canonical: that Terrestrial Exalted women age much faster if they have children too quickly. More than one child every five years will cause them to shorten their lifetime down to that of a mortal, but I don't recall any hard numbers ever being given. Also, all Exalted have a term of a full 15-month long year rather than 9 months like mortals.



The stuff I quoted might be in MoEP: Dragon-Blooded, but I think some of it was actually from Dreams of the First Age. It's been years since I've specifically looked. The character idea looks really cool. Legendary Breeding is going to make both characters Very Big Deals in the Realm. The only other canonical Terrestrial with Legendary Breeding at the current time period is, if I remember correctly, the Scarlet Empress herself.
Thank you too for the answer.

I am sure that V'neef herself also have legendary breeding as she is an experiment of the Empress on blood purity.

And yea, we are a big deal in the realm.
Spoiler: The story (a small part of it as we play 5 times a week)
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We start before the disappearance of the Scarlet Empress and my character grandmother (The Scarlet Empress) actually supported the marriage and fall as she rolled a botch on her performance to give her blessing to her granddaughter and the lost egg from the house of the rebels(and everyone was to scared to notice her falling).

I also was able to accidentally learn the earth dragon style in a time skip in the earth pole(the mountain of Pasiap) with rolls that should not be possible (all dice showed max value) and got the first age medicine charm(gaian unity, that one that give you an extra element) as a wedding gift/curse from Ebon Dragon.
So the Empress was pleased.


Right now Ebon curse is starting to take effect (8 months of pregnancy for my cute wood/earth DragonBlood) and the Scarlet Empress just disappeared.