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The first section is basically my take on Exalted. Right now I'm just copying up my notes so everything's very raw while I put down my ideas. I'll work on editing everything and making it more coherent later. As a result things will contradict the in game canon and even be self contradictory especially since not all my notes are copied in chronological order. They've been typed up without editing to remain as close as possible to my original vision.

Sunday, 13 March 2011

Lunar Exaltation

    The power to be what they really are. Lunars shape their own reality just as the Solars shape the reality of the world around them.
    Lunars Exaltation comes to those who are determined to be themselves and from a quest like the Fickle Lady to realise what they really are.

    11th March The power of Solar Exaltation is to make the world anything they want it to be (best expressed through their unique mastery of sorcery.) The power of Lunar Exaltation is to make themselves anything they want to be like Luna herself.

    12th March The background of Lunar Exaltation is bad story writing with one contradiction after another. On the one hand they are individualists (good point) but they are defined by the need to protect something (which sounds more on the Sidereals wavelength and is a bit wet when written about the Lunars.) In addition to this deep seated requirement to protect something (which sounds more like something belonging to the Chosen of Gaia rather than the Chosen of Luna) they specifically have to sacrifice it according to the practices of the Crossroads Society to be initiated into sorcery.

    13th March Lunars can exist in the Wyld because of the Essence within them, their physical form doesn't have the same permanence as other physical beings' forms do, allowing them to change themselves with thoughts to cause shapeshifting and their manifestation as an expression of identity helps protect them against the warping effect of the Wyld. 'It's a bit like the Fair Folk forms in reverse. The Fair Folk must create a fixed physical form to enter Creation in order to exist within it because that's the nature of the physical world. Dreams and consciousness cannot exist within it on their own without the Fair Folk's own powers. In a similar way the Lunars have powers like those belonging to the Fair Folk, they have a close association with the Wyld since Luna was created to protect Creation against it. In a way that can't be imitated by other Exalted they can shape their bodies through belief. Like in the Wyld where the Fair Folk can be anything by thinking it the Lunars can do the same, in Creation as well. Moonsilver tattoos extend this ability making the Lunar's form ever more protean and capable of internalising new forms. The critical difference between the Primordials and the Fair Folk is that the Primordials' thoughts shape the physical world whereas the Fair Folk and the World they inhabit are dreams.'
They are what they believe they are. Whereas other beings have a permanent physical shape which can be changed equally permanently by the warping effects of the Wyld. Moonsilver tattoos are specifically designed, placed at certain points on their body to amplify this effect to change their form based on belief. Firstly they have to understand another creature and believe they are it in order to become it. They have to take the creature's nature into themselves.