Meta Existence

    How can anything be greater than perfection? Be more expansive than limitlessness? The Primordials were such things. Their transcendental Essence allowed them to be so. But they could also not be less. As mighty as the Incarnae were, the Exalted were made to do things they could not. The Warstriders, especially Royal Warstriders, may be something more than as simple and almost vulgar as a means to might, but a way of entering Yu-Shan, confronting the Primordials and striking them down. Creation was too confined for beings that werre greater than existence itself. No mortal mind, not even a god's, could fathom the Essence of the Primordials. The Unconquered Sun was the apogee of existence but even he was limited by the constraints of reality. He was made to be master of the world but could not understand the things that lay beyond it. The Primordials desired a place where they could exist outside the Wyld and in Yu-Shan they created it. Protected by the planes of Creation, beings of such power they exceeded the concept of size could exist in safety. Yu-Shan, like it's creators, is a realm greater than any mortal mind's ability to fathom. As such it is maddening as the mind constantly warps in an attempt to understand it's surroundings. Only the sleeping mind of Luna could understand such a place for she sees nothing except in her dreams.

   Note: The idea of Luna never being awake is not very good. The Unconquered Sun rules Creation during the day. When Luna sleeps and night falls that powers becomes hers.

Wyld, Waypoints, Fair Folk, Lunars, Luna, Shaping Attacks, Moonsilver Artefacts, Creation of Moonsilver, Wonders

    A waypoint marks the extent a Fair Folk affects an area. That's what defines it's boundaries

   When a Lunar receives Exaltation they become something very strange, a coherent form of Wyld energy (to be able to live in their environment and combat the Fair Folk Luna was the same.) Unlike shaped Fair Folk they are self sustaining and do not need to feed on dreams or Virtues in order to maintain their presence in Creation, needing only the sustenance an ordinary mortal does. Likewise they enter the deep Wyld freely existing as a self conscious idea the way other Fair Folk do. Because they are effectively in the depths of the Wyld even when in Creation they can change their form at will.

   Lunars make moonsilver artefacts out of Fair Folk Graces (as a questor would make a Wyld artefact) or the Essences of lesser Fair Folk. They can create a moonsilver Wonder out of the Essence of a powerful unshaped Fair Folk. The Fair Folk or it's Grace as an entity is destroyed but it is still dream and is gossamer (such is the fate of the Fair Folk that are vanquished by the Lunars) which is then transformed into moonsilver and formed into the artefact the Lunar wishes to create. Only the most _____ gods of dreams whose power is as terrible as it is legendary, can be formed into the greatest of moonsilver Wonders such as Royal Warstriders.
   When vanquished by a Lunar their identity is destroyed and they become nothing but gossamer. The Lunar may then convert this into moonsilver to make their desired artefact. The Fair Folk fear this fate above all others and hate the Lunars for trying to inflict it on them and will fight the Lunars bitterly because they know their very survival is at stake, and consequently they will show no mercy if they win.
   By destroying all five of a Fair Folk's Graces they render them, their Essence into gossamer.
   One obvious roleplaying idea that comes to mind is playing emanations of an unshaped played by the storyteller.
   The Fair Folk take assaults by the Lunars very personally. Since their identity is what they are, it's the difference between them and an inchoate quantity of gossamer, they take any attempt to destroy it very seriously. Other Fair Folk challenge it and try to control it through never ending shaping combat, predators exist who try to consume other Fair Folk and make them their own, but actually trying to undo a Fair Folk so it won't exist even as part of another being is a horror more sinister to them than anything they could otherwise imagine. Luna used to hunt Fair Folk having to overcome raksha who's Essence was as great as her's through guile and trickery and was infamous among the raksha for it. Having ascended to Yu-Shan after the Primordial War, this task she handed down to her champions.

   As a person travels further into the Wyld it's power becomes more and more real. In Creation the power of the Fair Folk that does not affect matter is mere illusion, no more real than the onlooker's dreams. In the Wyld however, people are whittled down to their core Essence. Since all is Essence in the Wyld shaping attacks are real and people's Essences are completely exposed to the Fair Folk's magic.

    Every night the moon takes on a different form. Some believe this to be random, others believe the face of the moon brings portents of things to come. The moon isn't limited to one phase regularly waxing and waning but appears each night as Luna wishes, sometimes with one phase, sometimes with two. It can appear as a corona of silver, two phases on opposite sides, identical or mismatching and at changing angles. Unlike the path of the sun the path of the moon is not constant either. travelling during the day and during the night along any path Luna choses, in which direction and how high in the sky are up to her.

    Luna could see the Unconquered Sun was making Chosen who would one day rule all of Creation. She wanted to make something that would like herself be beyond the Unconquered Sun's control, beyond even the control of Fate. Luna's fundamental relationship is to Gaia not the Unconquered Sun. Why would she make her Chosen differently?

    As the Solars were the masters of Creation, Luna made her Exalted to be, like the Wyld they were spawned from, beyond it and beyond their control.