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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.

Monday, 11 April 2011

    Celestial Martial Arts styles aren't simply ways of fighting, they are methods of understanding, paths of meditating on the subject of the style. Whereas Terrestrial martial arts replicate specific effects Celestial martial arts styles are more figurative and involve progressive understanding of what inspires the style. Once having mastered a Celestial martial art a martial artist can embody the aspect of the style as much as what bears it's name. Many in the martial arts society believe Celestial styles, particularly the ones based on animals were created by Lunars as they repliate the Lunars' practice of embodying and transforming themselves into another being.
   The difference between Celestial Styles ad Sidereal Styles is that where Celestial Styles use the martial art to understand the subject of the art, Sidereal styles use the subject to understand the martial art.
   If Sidereal Martial Arts integrate Creation as a facet of the style, what are the other facets of it?

   9/4 Celestial styles are ways of understanding the subject. Sidereal styles use understanding of the subject to learn the martial art. Or perhaps in a Celestial martial art they transform themselves by learning what the style represents but in Sidereal martial arts they transform themselves by making what the subject represents part of them.