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| − | == Broad Strokes ==
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| − | Themes, moods, motifs, and other words I don't understand:
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| − | *The Past, memory.
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| − | *Anger
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| − | *Love, the personal as opposed to the abstract.
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| − | Minor Words:
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| − | **Vengenance
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| − | **Control
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| − | **Memory
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| − | **Animals and Nature
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| − | Things to Include:
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| − | *Creepy, overly personal moments.
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| − | *Dark Ages stuff. European Dark Ages. Dirt.
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| − | == A Brief Run Through ==
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| − | The Lunars/Setting: These will probably be combined. Greater than usual focus on history here. The Lunars are about the past, so this will be an occasion to explore the history of Exalted a bit more. Each of these paragraphs should have the following:
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| − | **A little bit about the main events of the period.
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| − | **What was it like to be there?
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| − | **What were the Lunars doing?
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| − | **I'm hesitant to discuss tech levels. On the one hand, it seems better to let people use their imagination. On the other hand, it'd be pretty fucking cool.
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| − | **Try to keep the focus on the little people. This is going to be big and sweeping. If it talks about how the big people were doing big and sweeping things, its going to seem wanky.
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| − | **It doens't have to be as fractured as our previous visions of the First Age. But there's some reason this description is incomplete and leaves a lot to the imagination.
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| − | **Try to give a little bit for people to run games with.
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| − | **Overall, show the sweep of history and big changes.
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| − | *The Creation and Training of the Exalted
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| − | **This bit focuses on the Exalted abit more.
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| − | *The nature of the world in the "0th age".
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| − | *The Primoridial War
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| − | **Again, the main focus is Creation, not the bad ass warstriders. You sure can go into those, but they're priority b.
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| − | *Building the Age
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| − | **The First Age didn't happen in a day. This is a chance to show the world when everything was honest to God working, so it had better be fucking idyllic. Still, show hard work and struggle, because....
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| − | *The First Age
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| − | **Perhaps the Lunars are still struggling to some degree, not quite realizing that they don't have to. And struggle without need can be bad, bad, bad. (Imagine rich people grasping for more.) I don't know if t his will work, but its an idea.
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| − | **Stuff here about the edge of the world and the Lunar led Kubla Khan cities that ran there.
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| − | *The Usurpation
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| − | **Make it ugly.
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| − | *The Shogunate
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| − | **This might be a good time to revisit the Kubla Khan cities, possibly with an old west character.
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| − | **Possibly introduce relations with Sidereals and DB.
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| − | **I'm grasping here, arn't I?
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| − | *The Present
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| − | == Comments ==
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| − | These are comments on an earlier draft:
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| − | Hi! Love what you're doing here. I just wanted to respond to something you said up above: you "don't want to run them as mad villains," and I understand where you're coming from, but in defense of the current Lunars... what if they're right? I mean, as has been pointed out, they're much, MUCH smarter than we are. Are they necessarily villains if their solution involves the deaths of X number of <nowiki>people/towns/civilizations</nowiki>? Solars are basically heroes, and their hands are almost ALL bloody. Hell, if you want to make a change and you're not willing to break a few eggs, so to speak, you're probably even crazier than the violent revolutionaries! (And yes, I realize defending the default-setting Lunars is silly, because HumbleLunars are a whole new, fresh start - but I just had to pipe up for those lovable anarchist furries.) - DigitalSentience
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| − | :Eh, its a Dij! Dij Dij Dij! Um. Anyway, yeah. The question is, what kind of story does it make for? The "we want to destroy" Creation thing was probably meant to get some Genghis Khan action in, but it does make them look like "Oh, it will be so beautiful without all the ugly cities, the mutants shall rule over men as cattle. Waiter, bring me another virgin. To eat." I think the idea was to gete some Genghis Khan action going, but it makes it hard to pull of righteous wrath with a straight face. And righteous wrath is fucking key for Lunars. I mean, Genghis Khan is cool, but he wasn't an idealist.
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| − | :But yeah, I dunno if I like the whole "Curse of Inaction" thing for Lunars. Its cool for someone, but I dunno if it works for Lunars.
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