Legacy of the Vermilion Serpent

Six Solars, all fleeing the trauma and fear of their Exaltations.

Six Solars, brought to the King of Serpents to learn from his wisdom.

Six Solars, inheritors to a legacy they never asked for, never wanted, never sought.

Nontheless, it will seek them out, and they can but pray to be prepared for it. In the small village of Mahanaga, they learn to wield their blazing white-hot Essence, mastering the most potent power in all of Creation.

Will they use this power to uplift Creation to the glories of ages past?

Or will their hands be the hands that finally cast Creation into the darkness forever?

Only they can decide.

Player Characters

• Aapo, played by Chillos.
• Crimson Slate, played by A.J..
• Sapphire Veil, played by Wil.
• Lin, played by Link.

Former Player Characters

• Tobias, played by Dave.
• Whispering Bear, played by Eric.
• Alabaster Mountain, played by Mattison.

What's New

• Aapo's House, in the city of Nexus
• The River Sparrow
• City Lore for Nexus in Nexus
• Dreams of the First Age: The Brilliant Citadel, a dream for Crimson Slate and Sapphire Veil.
• City Lore for Great Forks in Great Forks
• Ebon Midwife of Wormwood Dirges in Abyssal Exalted Storyteller Characters

Chronicle Resources

• Chronicle Timeline: Maintained by Chillos
• Chronicle Storyteller Characters: Maintained by Mattison
• Chronicle Wonders Maintained by A.J.
• Chronicle Soundtrack Maintained by Wil
• Chronicle Experience Point Totals: Maintained by Joe
• Combat Example: An example of how combat works in Exalted, Second Edition. [1]

Dreams of the First Age

Prelude

• Chapter Two: Sweet Surrender, a dream for Sapphire Veil.
• Chapter Three: Eternal Vengeance, a dream for Crimson Slate.

Book One

• Chapter One: The Cliffs, a dream for Alabaster Mountain.
• Chapter Two: The Wanton Slaughterer, a dream for Aapo.
• Chapter Three: Before the Deliberative, a dream for Lin.
• Chapter Four: The Brilliant Citadel, a dream for Crimson Slate and Sapphire Veil.

Setting

Places maintained by Link

Scavenger Lands

Also called the River Lands, the Scavenger Lands is Creation's melting pot, a confluence of all the strange cultures and peoples in the world. The breadbasket of Creation, the Scavenger Lands is known for its Scavenger Lords, adventurer-archaeologists who specialize in raiding the ruins of the First Age and recovering the rare relics and artifacts of that fabled Age, making themselves obscenely wealthy in the process.

• Mahanaga, once the Village of Serpents built at the base of the Monastery of the Serpent King, Mahanaga was destroyed in RY 768, in the month of Descending Air by strange men clad in black. It has since become a shadowlands, and the trade route it occupied between the Giarian Protectorate and the Keldin Cliff Cities abandoned for fear of the things that await within its tragedy-haunted borders.
  • The Sunspire The Tomb of a circle of Solars from the first age, ever so slightly west of Still Sky
  • Still Sky Far west of Mahanaga, Still Sky is a small village just outside of a bamboo forest with some eccentric individuals.
• Nexus, the great trading city and headquarters of the Guild. Sapphire Veil's original home.
• Great Forks, the City of Temples, known for its party atmosphere and the large number of small gods that dwell there. Aapo's original home.
• The Keldin Cliff-Cities, home of the Ivory Star Dynasty of the Mountain Kings. Alabaster Mountain's original home.
• The Marukani Alliance, a tribe of horsemen who occupy the lands south of Lookshy. Crimson Slate grew up among the Marukani, and considers herself one of them.

House Rules

• Exalted Downtime Rules, a set of suggestions for handling swathes of downtime in Exalted.
• Four Flaws of Invulnerability, an alteration to the Flaws that apply to the Perfect Defenses of the Exalted.
• Silver and Jade, a rule set to reflect the fluctuation of Resources, and the system of investments meant to increase such, in Exalted.

Spirits

• New Elementals
• Elemental Obscurity, a guideline to determining what elementals an occultist knows about for the purposes of summoning them. These ratings are based on either the character's Occult + Elemental Summoning specialty, or Occult + Backing in an organization that possesses such information (whichever is greater).
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Specialties

• You may have an unlimited number of specialties, though none can be higher than 3. No single roll may benefit from more than three dice worth of specialties, either.

Thaumaturgy

• Occult Basics, the Thaumaturgy that anyone with at least one dot in Occult can perform.
• Gaining Thaumaturgy Specialties costs the normal cost for Specialties.
• Procedures must be purchased individually, using points derived from the Thaumaturge Background.
• Art of Spirit Beckoning: Additional Procedures for the Art of Spirit Beckoning.

War of Ages

A rule set intended to replace the Second Edition Mail & Steel system.

• War Unit Traits, the traits used in War of Ages.
• Order of Events, the order in which War of Ages conflicts are resolved.
• War Actions, the kind of actions which can be performed in a War of Ages conflict.
• Battlefield Ranges & Distance, the battlefield abstraction for ranges and distances.
• Solar War Charms, an adjustment to the Solar War Charm set for use with War of Ages.
• Sample Units, a selection of sample units using War of Ages rules.

Homework

• Prelude, Chapter One: Homework-Combos
• Prelude, Chapter Two: Homework-NPCs