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The most scuffed inca and akkadian names I ever spliced in my life during a 30 seconds "give me the vaguest meanings to play into a name here please" vibe of trying to write this while the boss is pinging me asking for a new unit test....

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As far as its basic approach and disposition this makes a fine behemoth. It's a creature with single-minded intent, dangerous out of this strange drive, and big enough to make good on it. I can see this as a mahicara-scale problem, but I definitely would lose it longer on the wyld and the edges of creation, keep it a bit more myth than findable.

Is this creature of primordial origin? Or maybe before? Or maybe this was a wyld-spawn that did essentially the opposite until <insert first age or pre first age superpowers here> turned it on itself?

And for the name......

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Hi! Tonight I can release the Presence remake for solars!
This one changed very little conceptually. I mostly modernized the charms and added a smattering of effects that made sense for it. As always, any and all feedback is welcome. I hope you enjoy!

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Orichalcum is meaningfully tied to Solars.
Solars are currently the only exalts that can draw from orichalcum to its maximum, and Orichalcum "feels" more solar than any other material, just like how the other materials "feel" similar to their respective favorite exalts....

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This "orphans" the other materials just as much. Griping over this is just about perspective....

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No magical material gives an intrinsic advantage to any exalt other than resonance. Solars are resonant with orichalcum.I feel it's counterproductive to restrict artifact creation when you already have the stimulus of resonance to make artifacts you want to use in the first place. I'd rather not dwell on that idea.
Orichalcum has a certain "in your faceness" pressure that the other materials can only pretend to have. You want to leash demons, beat people with the power of friendship and revert a river's course? Orichalcum lets you....

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This is a discussion older than Awakening, way back in Ascension people were trying to use Forces to control thoughts or cause heart attacks because the players are trying to pull a scientificist approach that neither game supports in the spheres and arcana.

You want to stick to the walls with a glitch in electric forces? Congratulations, it's still going to be Weaving Forces if you don't want to use Matter to make the wall sticky.

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WoD tried it, Exalted flirted with it. Both cases sucked, in no small part because, inherently, metaplots determine the course of the story. Overall an open playground just runs better.