Creation Et All/Exalted Books/Exalted Storyteller's Companion 2nd Edition

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Contents of the Book

This section is copied from the book's introduction, a section titled How To Use This Book and was copied here for the purpose of review.

Chapter One: The Dragon-Blooded

This chapter presents the Terrestrial Exalted to be played as enemies or occasionally friends of the returned Solars. The Terrestrials’ Charms are presented in abbreviated form, and a number of character templates are provided so that standard character types may be generated quickly and with little effort by Storytellers. In addition, the Immaculate Order is expounded upon, and the Immaculate martial arts are detailed.

Chapter Two: The Lunar Exalted

This chapter presents the Lunar Exalted in all their savage glory. Their Charms are presented in abbreviated form, and a number of character templates are provided so that standard character types may be generated quickly and with little effort by Storytellers. The secrets of shapechanging and the goals of the Silver Pact, a loose organization made up of all Lunars (well, except for the insane chimera), are also explained.

Chapter Three: The Sidereal Exalted

This section presents the Sidereal Exalted as well as explains their duties both in Creation and in Heaven. Their Charms are presented in abbreviated form, and a number of character templates are provided so that standard character types may be generated quickly and with little effort by Storytellers. In addition, the secrets of Sidereal astrology are revealed — everything from resplendent destinies to pattern bite.

Chapter Four: The Abyssal Exalted

This chapter outlines the Abyssal Exalted and their dark masters, the Deathlords. The deathknights’ Charms are presented in abbreviated form, and a number of character templates are provided so that standard character types may be generated quickly and with little effort by Storytellers. In addition, the identities of a number of the 13 Deathlords are revealed, as well as their goals, resources and general powers.

Chapter Five: The Solar Exalted

Finally, this last chapter presents a number of character templates so that standard character types may be generated quickly and with little effort by Storytellers using this and the Exalted corebook. Also, the chapter presents a number of Solar artifacts of varying power dating to the First Age of man that Solars of this time may seek to reacquire.

Appendix: The Mandate of Heaven

The rules of the Mandate of Heaven allow for Storytellers and players alike to run political units of varying power and size, referred to as dominions, as characters in the larger political structure of Creation. Dominions may gain or lose power or even absorb other dominions in an abstraction representing the fl uid nature of politics and warfare in the world of Exalted.