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I don't seem to be able to get the form to work. It won't let me fill in any of the text boxes.

EDIT: Nevermind, I was clicking on the wrong place to activate the text box....

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Didn't see a thread for this or in the stickies, so . . .

p.52, box. Cut-n-paste says "The Devoted Wardens of the Empress’ Wilderness", which makes sense, but it looks like "The Devoted Wardens of the Empressí Wilderness" (both in SumatraPDF under Windows on my main machine and in Chrome rendering the PDF on my Chromebook).

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Look, you ever try to make a Klein bottle in three dimensions from non-demons?...

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Without a massively-detailed system of mathematically-rigorous magical "physics" for Creation, far beyond not only the scope of the game but beyond the ability of the writers to actually create, it is literally impossible to say definitively what level of working "should" be able to accomplish what level of transformation. All people can do is argue by analogy, and argue which analogies are more relevant, and it's pointless because there's no underlying reality to point at to test the "should".

With no available underlying reality, what magic can do...

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Well, I was just spitballing, but there are several possible alternatives that I can see:

1) Player's choice, as The MG suggested.

2) Violet Bier of Sorrows, since that was the Sidereal native MA tree then Hero style in 1st/2nd.

3) Some new MA specifically made for the purpose of being the universal You-Exalted-As-A-Sidereal-Here's-Your-Free-Style MA.

4) One of Tiger, Dragon, Snake, Crane, or Leopard, as mystically appropriate to their Caste (or perhaps character).

5) The Golden Barque of Heaven Style for Journeys, the Cerulean Lute...

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Of course, Sidereals could just automatically get one free dot in a martial art as part of Exalting. Then not only would it fail to matter if Martial Arts was technically an "Auspicious" or "Favored" ability, but literally all Sidereals would be martial artists, no exceptions.

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You're going to throw a physical tantrum if they don't errata the Mastery keyword from how it was printed in the core rules three years ago? What an incredibly mature and persuasive approach....

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Infernals are rarer, and IIRC so are all the new types of Exalt.


Nope, existed in 2nd. Dreams of the First Age, Lands of Creation, p.36 -- "Sidereals live from 3,000 to 5,000 years and can’t extend their lives by any artificial means."

3rd edition's "Life-extending magic which benefits the other Exalted seems curiously ineffective on the Maidens’ Chosen." is rather milder than that.


Unless you've actually seen 3rd edition Astrology rules, this seems impossible to assert.


Where did you get this completely...