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Pretty much. Dirty bomb was more or less always a working term. It was never expected to end up as canonical....

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We currently don't have Great Curse mechanics for the Apocryphal Exalts save teh intensity of an Umbral's Shadow Intimacy becoming stornger with more of their Limit-based trait. This is something that will be covered in the final version of Out of the Ashes.

The Great Curse affects all Exalts in 3e, just differently. The Curse effects Exaltation itself, not the actual Exalted. This is mostly to make it so that there's not an out like 2e did with Abyssals, and also makes it so there isn't an attmept to make a different Bad Bar for every Exalt that's basically the Great Curse but not...

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The Tarpan I actually do as kind of a mix of canon and what you ahve. Where it was origianlly semi-arid but the Workings terraformed it. And now that they're fading, the Wastes are actually becoming desolute becuase the geomancy got so effed that now it's become more desert than it ever was to begin with.

I actually did similar with the Incarna on animals, with eagles for Mars and owls for Jupiter. Tad cliche, but the other three Maidens do have bird constellations and those are ones I feel distinct enough from the other species used by them. And in Luna's cae, I actulaly had rabbits...

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Something noted as missing in the current Appendix is actually the Great Curse of the different Apocryphals. I think that some more on the ways that the Curse manifests for them, notably for Dream-Souled and Hearteaters, I think can do a good job of solidfiying a bit of why they are at least perecieved how they are in setting.

I think a thing to also note is a Lunar can opt-out of the face-taking. They can even find other ways to get shapes that aren't violent. Or use Charms that don't focus on shapeshifting much. But as a person on one of the Discord servers said, Hearteaters are...

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I kind of find the irony to that actually part of the appeal. The Hearteater struggle is being a monster. The Umbral struggle has a notable bit where your Shaodw like, sin't suicidal or anything. It just hates you. So the conflict is quite different. But that the more monsterous of the two are the ones with the beautiful light themes is pretty neat, IMHO.

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Kinda. Nebiru was also like, the god of darkness back in the day too. I think regardless of his betrayal or not, his nature kind of just by definition makes Umbrals so. Neptune was banished more for neutrality not hostilty to my gathering. So the Voice of the Trench and its Chosen are kind of not subject to that since well, they were enemies fo the Chosen, not Heaven or the light.

Kind of by all of this, this is probably while Heartaeaters aren't creatures of darkness. Aurora was dead and their Essences corrupted, but i'm pretty sure whatever makes osmething a creature of darkenss...

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My guess is an illustrator fucked-up and didn't investigate what the symbols were which they were supposed to use. It's the kind of thing sometimes that happens a few times I have found, sadly....

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The entire manuscript was given during the Kickstarter, as noted in another thread. This included the Appendix.


They're Essence-based for simplicity sake. They are not listed with Castes or Aspects since they're meant to be more design seeds. If someone would wish to expand on them, that's kind of for them and said as much in the text.

Umbrals and Heart-Eaters can use up to Celestial Circle Sorcery and are "netural' with Martial Arts (no Mastery, no Terrestrilal, don't learn SMA). Dream-Souled can learn Terrestrial CIrcle Sorcery and deal with the Terrestrial...

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To be honest, it's one of those things that will be easier to just read the text than anything. Without context, the Constellations and the Scriptures don't mean a lot. While they inform the themes of the Charms of that Ability, short of reposting nearly a thousand words of text from each Scripture, it starts to kind of bog things down and is not something that's going to be answered easily. Like, I started and foudn that by the time i was done with just Journeys I was not realy into continuing.

If you don't or have access to the list as it was before, then the changes are kind of...

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I'm not seeing what you mean on that. Top-left is from behind, middle is an alchemical, dn the top-right I don't see any Castemark.

The character in top-left of page 13 doesn't have a recognizable one, so I woudl chalk them up to just being some sort of Exigent.

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On scriptures (which is what the Ablities used, not sutras which were for SMA), they are mostly as in 1e, with the following changes:

Resistance is the Mast (merged with Endurance in Journeys) and still the Scripture of the Eternal Maiden.

Presence is the Shield (due to War taking the Banner in 3e and Resistance moving ot Journeys) and is the Scripture One-Handed Maiden.

War is the Banner (which is taken-up from Presence) and the Scripture of the Maiden at War.

Integrity is the Sword and the Maiden in Waiting. It's interpretted this edition as...

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Somewhere when The Realm came out I think it was brought-up, but yes, this is a different indivdual from him that is the canonical Central God of War instead. It's not going to likely ever be said explicilty in-text....

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One of the things OPP has done since the initial Ex3 Kickstarter is that they give-out the "At that point in development" manuscript text to backers. Usually over the course of the crowdfunding period weekly, with the compiled version for backers after it is finished. This has been the case for Dragon-Blooded, Lunars, Exigents, Sidereals, and Essence.

And what we got a couple weeks ago is the illustrated and layed-out PDF. it is complete save indexing, Page XX refereces, and things that need tweaked due to errata but is text-complete. You can run things out of the PDF when...

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Kind of notable, Exalted 3e is fine with some spirits just not fitting in the main four category of god, elemental, demon, ghost. It appears in this case, pattern spiders are just kind of a unique spirit that doesn't really fit in the broader taxonomy.

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Probably just kind of a setting change. A big thing to remember is that editions are soft reboots, so the cast might change here and there. And Wanjung kind of just fits better than something that sounds like a nickname for a grade-schooler....

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I think the general plan is to just not bring him up or show him in art. If folks want him to be there and deal with the issues he brings-up that's more for their table. But I don't think 3e is going to bring him up nor is it going to go out of its way to explicilty de-canon him.

On why someone like Havesh, the Sun picks people he htinks he'd like. Whether folks follow through in ways the Sun likes is another matter. Seeing the entire point of the late First Age's Sun turning his back on his Chosen, I think that he can regret some of his picks is perfectly fine. Or that he makes picks...

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I sort of blanked on that. It's not a spell like in previous editions and more actively disruption though. Which I think probalby mostly isn't there for same reason as Distorition in any case....

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Countermagic isn't in 3e either. There's spell distortion after the fact, but that's not something that is in the complexity depth Essence is going for.

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If you back the Backerkit draft, you get the PDF of the now-layed-out and illustrated PDF, and a discount for a POD at elast. During hte KSes though, youc an also back $5, and if you don't like the preview, you can pull out. This is something OPP even encoruages, as they do the previews specifically to see if it is for you.


I guess the main thing is just ask questions. General "What's in there?" are going to be too broad for us to do much with.

[QUOTE=Erinys;n1504778]... Or just, what are the bullet points version of how Infernals differ from the 2e version?...

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