26th February

    The problem is they're trying to create a game that's baseless, that's solely the product of their imagination. There's nothing wrong with having influences.

   The trees the Haltans dwell in are so vast that they use branches as roads, walking along them as comfortably as ants walking along the branches of a normal tree. Haltan society should take place more in the treetops. The Essence of Wood is extremely strong in this region creating increadible fecundity and allowing living things to grow to vast sizes. After the Contagion, Linowan war and occupation by the Fair Folk they ceded control of the ground. But considering how vast the forests are- trees tower miles into the air like wooden mountains- and the aid of their Lunar allies, this did not prove to be a disadvantage. In environmental scale as with so many other things the designers needed to take the brakes off and go absolutely wild. The scale of things like the Haltan forests and their cities need to be much bigger, which is very appropriate for a game of the type of Exalted.
   Living in such an extraordinary forest has imprinted itself on every aspect of Haltan culture. Many people live among forests- but none can claim to live in them as the Haltans do. A word on large animals- the East isn't the only place where mega fauna and flora exists, giant sea creatures live in the West, but because of the life giving energies of the Pole of Wood and the increadible bounty of the forests they can live here in greater density than anwhere else. They erect vast gatehouses on nodes where twigs branch out forming natural junctions. Holes in the bark where dead branches have fallen can become the site of a whole town. Each branch provides food in the fruit that grows on it's twigs. Haltans live a form of nomadic lifestyle travelling from tree to tree. The food collectors get around anyway.
   Each tree is like a city with it's branches forming it's districts. Use giant snakes and apes as pack animals. Some Haltans learn to ride between trees on the backs of flying squirrels. The natural world is the very environment. Haltans live together in cities spanning many linked treetops.

23rd April

    The Haltans live in the treetops and sleep under the stars. So far to the east the trees grow far higher and more densely than they do elsewhere. The canopy is thick and blots almost all the light from the forest floor making it almost impossible to tell whether it's day or night. In this perpetual twilight lights of the Fair Folk glow in an unearthly wilderness unseen outside the Wyld.
 
   Lunars' spirit shapes don't have to be ordinary, conventional animals. One of them assumed the shape of a giant, twelve legged cat. Some of them aren't even animals that exist in Creation. Such are the expressions of the Chosen of Luna. Knacks are expressions of the Lunar given form by their protean nature.

    Black Magitech- communication device, skulls that talk. Two people have them and when one of them says something their skull can hear the other skull says it.


   Life in Yu-Shan- Spirited Away


   Some Lunars gain names from their spirit shape. Like the wingless Flying Wolfdragon.


   If the thing a god has domain over is lost they lose their power and influence and end up in the slums begging for Essence.
   All the gods naturally live in Yu-Shan and sometimes visit Creation to spend time in their domain. Elementals live in Creation and carry out the wishes of the gods who can instruct them immediately from Heaven.

    In a rainforest all the branches are at the top so if the trees in the Haltans' forests were the same that's where they would live. They could also live on the vines that wrap around their trunks and use them to connect trees together.

Halta

    After the Contagion (or possibly earlier if there were earlier Fair Folk incursions) the Haltans made a pact to defend them from the depredations of the marauding Fair Folk. According to the pact the Fair Folk were allowed to prey on anyone they found on the forest floor which they agreed to thinking it would put anyone in the domain at their mercy. But when the pact was signed they found that the Haltans had resettled in the trees making themselves immune (directly) to attack since the Fair Folk cannot break a promise. They adapted their culture to a new totally arboreal environment using organic materials in place of minerals such as ironwood.