>>98664464
Oh, you know, the classics. Blood Apes for muscle, Neomah for social stuff, Heranhal for help with crafting, Agatae for transportation.

>>98664464
damn it anon, you forgot the subject and you got the wrong previous thread
and you just copy-pasted the OP so there's loose embeds laying around
Correct previous thread:
>>98621055

>>98664464
since when does sol have a third eye?

Also
1st circle: Sesselja inside me
2nd circle: they walk the fine line between being too weak to treat well and too resource-intensive to be disposable, but Mara is a nice twofer.
3rd circle: Ipithymia (permanently kneeling in front of me with my dick in her mouth)

Don't worry OP, one of these days I'll try making a thread and fuck it up as well.
>>98664567
How would one avoid that happening for the future?

Don’t worry guys! The subject is just suffering from Arcane Fate.

>>98665080
>How would one avoid that happening for the future?
If you have 4ChanX or something similar then you can click the drop-down menu next to the post number and click "Copy Text" which copies everything but leaves out the "embeds"
If you don't have 4ChanX then you can just Copy+Paste freely because the "embeds" don't show up
With the previous threads and subjects, it's just a matter of not forgetting

Obsession is proof to me that having a demon waifu would actually be the best thing ever.

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Oh compasses do point to the Pole of Earth, neat

Are there any lore examples of a soul getting exalted, dying, reincarnating, and then by random chance getting exalted again?

>>98665414
The Sidereal's Rising Butterfly Prayer makes somewhat clear that it can/has happened, but that ultimately Exaltation comes down to the directions of Heaven and work of Lytek, and not random chance.

>>98665398
I wonder if you could make a compass with five needles, each pointing to a different Elemental Pole. That should allow for quite accurate determination of your position, I believe.

>>98665646
Well, the reason the compass works is supposed to be because of the properties of white jade specifically, so I wouldn't expect you to be able to do that without making an artifact. White jade is attracted to white jade is the particular property I'm talking about but it's not the same for e.g. red to red or black to black. You'd have better luck making a white jade needle that points towards sources of other kinds of jade, since it's the mix of 'resonates with earth' and 'jade works well together' that does it iirc.

>>98664464
Any ETA for Agents of Heaven yet?

>>98665672
>Well, the reason the compass works is supposed to be because of the properties of white jade specifically, so I wouldn't expect you to be able to do that without making an artifact.
In addition to the other compasses needing to be artifacts, or possibly needing weird materials to function, the Wyld shifting the borders, and moving the Poles, thanks to Wyldstorms in the Age of Sorrows would make them ever so slightly inaccurate whenever that happens. Though on that thought, I don't know if distance can really be calculated all that well when dealing with things "in" the Wyld. Hell that might be a good explanation for other Direction compasses don't work well, the Wyld constantly screws with the distance

>>98665646
You just need 5 dragon blooded

>>98667684
Yes?

>>98667761
I'm just posting stuff I find neat

>>98665414
That sounds like an Exigent or a Liminal. Exalted dies, gets revived and another Exaltation stuffed into the now empty body.

>>98665633
Doesn't RBP make it so they have a peaceful and pleasant life? Being an Exalted is usually anything but peaceful. And doesn't Lytek not actually control who Exalts? Unless they changed it in 3E.

>>98665414
One of the first Alchemicals did. When the Alchemical that became the Patropolis of Estasia Exalted, he regained memories of serving as a Solar in the Primordial War. The reason Estasia is so militaristic and warlike is because he believed that BECAUSE he was the only (confirmed) Twice-Exalted in all of Autochthonia, he should be first amongst equals and lead the entirety of the peoples of Autochthonia.

Are any of the Exalted able to fully heal derangements? Solars and Abyssals only seem to be able to reduce it to minor intensity.

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>>98665414
I used this in my ExWoD game, and before that the same concept in my Mage game. Basically the way I did it was that if the soul was new the past life would not resemble the original directly resulting in Avatar the Last Air Bender style reincarnation. If the same soul ended up with the same Exaltation/Avatar (something that happened pretty often due to Destiny/the soul leaning towards the same heroism as before) they'd look exactly the same like in Inuyasha or Zelda or Yugioh where the new one looks almost just like the old one and its practically the same person in different context. I mostly focused on the rebirths of my Exalts immediately prior, who were all...I guess lets call it 'true reincarnation', where both the mortal soul and immortal exaltation are present both times.

>>98670047
Soul Projection Method in Occult for some reason can cure a Derangement
Why you can't just do it with Medicine is a question for the ages

>>98670482
Probably because the devs didn't want you to be able to straight up cure PTSD, schizophrenia, or autism do it it being poor rep for the disabled or some such rot.

>>98670491
This.

You were able to do it in old editions straight out, but they're uncomfortable with people healing derangements completely.

Just revert back to the 2e versions if this annoys you. I did.

>>98670491
It says you can cure congenital debilitation, so stuff like Downs, dwarfism and conjoined twins are all fair game
Something like autism/adhd seems like it would be better represented by having Attribute/Ability dots properly assigned to be low/high as appropriate
>>98670521
Was it because it counted as an illness/sickness?

>>98670533
Nether. Derangements were their own special thing in Ex2.X. Given how they had an abyssal in a god damn wheelchair for Essence art my theory is that they see people with disabilities being who they are because of those disabilities. I also feel like they're worried it cuts both ways, since derangements are so poorly defined and what could count as neurotypical.

>>98670546
>Given how they had an abyssal in a god damn wheelchair for Essence art
Ah the trend of magic D&D wheelchairs continues

Twilight with Martial Arts and Occult Charms so I can literally punch spirits to death.

>>98669173
>Doesn't RBP make it so they have a peaceful and pleasant life?
No.

>doesn't Lytek not actually control who Exalts?
Prayers to him are at the very minimum efficacious at putting people into bodies destined for Dragonblooded Exaltation. And yes, Heaven (Abstract Matters specifically) does explicitly choose who Exalts as DB. Yes, this is 1e/2e. Yes, it was changed to no longer explicitly confirm this in 3e, where it is numinous.

>>98670832
A god being in charge of who can exalt is against 1e/2e canon. Pretty sure it's vague there. Although 2e had a bunch of one off and poorly thought out things in it so who really knows.

In all editions that I'm aware of the whole "Solar exaltations go into Lyteks closest and can be stolen from there" is canon but I haven't heard of deebs being the same way.

>>98670931
Well, I told you exactly where to look, so if you haven't heard of it then that's only because you're not reading the books.

>>98670832
>Yes, it was changed to no longer explicitly confirm this in 3e, where it is numinous.
Good.

>>98670959
Sounds like one of those late 2e editions that explicitly breaks the canon it already set up. The edition was big with that.

Imagine the gods being in charge of who exalts, what a stupid change for no reason.

>>98670993
Except I've already told you it was in 1e.

>>98671000
>2e changes 1e lore to be more numinous.
>Later exalted turns it back.
>Later exalted turns it back again.
>baseline 1e it's probably gods not having a thing to do with exalting either.

Retcons are core to the game experience. You should see Scroll of the Monk or the stuff Infernals get up to when it comes to the canon.

>>98671012
Anon. You're making shit up on this issue. Gods controlling who gets Dragonblooded Exaltation is from 1e. It's actually more explicit in 1e than it is in 2e, but it's explicit in 2e too. It's not inconsistent with the setting at large either, it's a whole thing that the Immaculate Order is much more right than wrong, and in this case that their take on reincarnation and people who act properly for their station and who are more respectable being more likely to reincarnate as Dragonblood is entirely correct even if the mechanisms behind it aren't described accurately. It ties into destiny stuff too.

The only thing that's being retconned here is your feefees. Your vibes-based understanding of the setting.

>>98671105
No, it's just some silliness that I can bet you oldfags have been arguing about forever. The game is pretty clear plenty of times that exaltations are divorced from gods and free flying, it's by design.

To be clear, 1e and 2e contradicting themselves based on the author writing the book is how that game line worked so none of this is surprising. Just look at the canon infernal comic to see how off base things could get for previous editions. I'd also suggest reading up on older conversations because I'm pretty sure you'll see people talking about this very same topic. It feels rehashed. Try around 2013, maybe earlier.

>>98671119
>i dont know what im talking about so im going to assume youre retarded
ok anon

>my edition is good and problem is fixed
You haven't established that it is a problem in the first place.

>contradictions
You haven't found a contradiction within the editions, you've just found a lore factoid you don't like and are fucking around trying to find reasons to disregard it.

>>98671105
Gods controlling who Exaltations go to is as dumb as gods being able to decide to stop Exaltations altogether, and largely for the sane reason. Gods being able to decide which souls reincarnate as people with good Breeding and a good chance of Exaltation, with there still being an element of chance to it as not every equally well-bred youth Exalts, is completely fine, though.

>>98671247
Oh, yeah, I'm saying 'who' as in which soul, not as in which child being born is destined.

Although, having said that I'm now going to argue for just a little more: I'm pretty sure Sidereal Astrology can nudge the diceroll on Terrestrial Exaltation, can't it? Mechanically it's all based on the target number of a diceroll adjusted by a number of factors like the parent's Breeding or being in a manse designed for it, and I would expect fate to be able to give it +1/-1 tn the same as if one of the parents had a slightly higher or lower Breeding. I think a Destiny (the fate-based artifact kind) like 'become the Dragonblood who will take over House Ragara' would be plausible too, but that's less mechanically solid since it operates on automatic successes and you'd need to have the destiny on the child before they're even born since iirc that's when the DB Exaltation die gets rolled.