Creation Et All/Exalted Books/Wonders of the Lost Age
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The Books of Sorcery, Volume 1 - Wonders of the Lost Age
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.
Introduction
The introduction explains the book, its aims and its uses.
Chapter One: A History of Wonders
This chapter details the rise and fall of magitechnology from its heights in the First Age to its near absence in the Age of Sorrows.
Chapter Two: The Purview of the Golden Barque
This section presents various forms of First Age transport, from personal skycraft to armed and armored troop carriers. In a world of chariots and oar-propelled ships, such vehicles allow for security and speeds of transport orders of magnitude beyond what the Second Age has to offer.
Chapter Three: The Purview of the Cerulean Lute
This chapter presents artifacts that were common fixtures in the daily lives of the people of the First Age, designed to make those lives better. In the present, these devices serve as everything from status symbols to weapons.
Chapter Four: The Purview of the Crimson Panoply
This section provides personal arms and armor commonly used in combat during the First Age. In the current Age, these weapons can make a talon of soldiers the equal of an army.
Chapter Five: The Purview of the Forbidding Manse
This chapter details the golems, automata, constructed consciousnesses and artifi cial life that represented the pinnacle of the Twilights’ art in the High First Age. Following the Usurpation, most of these devices were destroyed by Dragon-Blooded fearful that these beings’ creators had embedded failsafe retaliatory subroutines in their programming. Surviving examples are rare in the Second Age.
Chapter Six: The Purview of the Violet Bier
This chapter outlines a number of First Age weapons of mass destruction. Though most were spent during the internecine conflicts of the Shogunate or against the invading Host of the Fair Folk after the Great Contagion, a number still survive in the armories of the Realm and Lookshy.
Appendix: Warstriders
This section provides players and Storytellers with rules for constructing and fielding these titans of the First Age battlefield. From the common warstrider to the mighty AI-enhanced royal warstriders, these colossi rule the fields of honor just as much now as they did in the previous Age.
