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Much as the mighty Terrestrial Exalted of creation are empowered by the fundamental elements of Creation, the sinister Vitriolic Exalted are empowered with the toxic elemental fury of Malfeas. While Hell has only one "true" element, Vitriol, the hate-fluid that pervades Malfeas is itself an amalgamation of the Yozis' collective impotent fury. Should one isolate the uniting solvent that composes the shared hate of the Yozis, one is left many "contaminants" and impurities that are in fact, the individual nuances of the Yozis' hate for Creation, the ones that, like Malfeas' own urge to conquer all, or Adorjan's utter hatred of all noise, are unique to one yozi alone. The Vitriolic Exalted, as a reflection of this, come in as many varieties as there are Yozi.

Origin

The Vitriolic Exalted are the result of almost four centuries of effort on the part of Peleps Auriga, a notable Akuma of Kimberry, one of those rare mortals who merit the attention of a Yozi. Once a promising member of her house, her failure to exalt would have relegated her to a minor position in the house hierarchy. Desperately attempting to hold onto her influence, she sought aid from Kimberry on the advice of a friend, herself a closeted Yozi Cultist. Her wish for exaltation granted in a roundabout manner, Auriga, without the distorting aspect of a prior exaltation, possessed an anima of black, depthless water that obscured. Taking note of how indistinguishable her Anima was from a true water aspect dragon-blooded to the casual eye, Auriga communed with her infernal patron and, showing surprising independence and agency for an Akuma, offered Kimberry alternative troops to the dwindling Lintha. The Terrestrial Exalted were created by a primordial, and are not the Yozis primordials through a different lens? Better yet, such "Infernal Terrestrial" Exalted could seamlessly infiltrate the Realm posing as Princes of Earth, and act from within to tighten the stranglehold of The Sea That Marched Against The Flame. This idea intrigued the great mother, and she redirected Auriga's efforts towards examining the nature of the Terrestrial Exaltation, however she made little progress prior to the arrival of the Green Sun Princes. At first hesitant to join the reclamation, when Kimberry learnt of The Ebon Dragon's capture of several Dragon-blooded of potent breeding, she arranged an exchange. Kimberry would join in and support the reclamation, in return for one sixth of any further captured exaltations bearing her nature. In addition, Auriga would be permitted to examine The Ebon Dragon's captives and any research progress would be shared among the Yozis of the Reclamation.

With access to Dragon-blooded of unparalleled breeding for an extended period, and the cooperation of fellow Akuma Maheka Damaj, Auriga made leaps and bounds in her research and soon presented a method in which the mortals of Creation might be twisted into warped reflections of Terrestrial Exalts. Whenever an Endowment Charm would grant 5 dots in the Demonic Inheritance background to a non-celestial Exalt or mortal, the user of the charm may instead choose to grant dots in the Infernal Breeding background based on their permanent essence, per the table below. If they have not already, the recipient immediately exalts, with essence pools, dice pool caps, etc. identical to that of a Dragon-blooded exalt. The Infernal Breeding Background functions exactly like the traditional, Dragon-blooded Breeding background, but is distinct and separate. If a Terrestrial Exalt would gain any number of dots in the Infernal Breeding Background, they instead subtract their current Breeding rating from that number and gain that many dots instead. Gaia's Blood breeds true and runs thick with power - if the recipient has more dots in Breeding than can be granted of Infernal Breeding, the effect fails, producing an explosion of mixed Infernal and Gaian elemental wrath due to the feedback.

• Roll a die, on a success, use the higher value.

Aspect

Unlike the Terrestrials of Creation, the many aspects of the Vitriolic Exalted are not in harmonious accord with each other - the Yozi are as alien to one another as they are to the inhabitants of Creation. As a consequence, they cannot learn charms outside of their aspect without storyteller permission, which should be provided only when a charm easily meshes with their patron Yozi. For example, a Vitriolic Exalted of Cecelyne might be permitted to learn the charms of another desert-themed or sand-based Yozi. Even if this other Yozi also has an elemental theme of flame, charms based around that aspect could not be learned under any circumstances. The Yozi however, are wary of the mixing of their selves, and any cross-aspect charms learnt are regarded similarly to Heresy Charms wielded by Green Sun Princes. Vitriol, the common the hatred of the imprisoned primordials, is the sole exception - by its very nature, as a raw substance composed of common fury and hate, Vitriolic Charms may be learnt by any Vitriolic Exalted.

Malfean

The charms of the Malfean Vitriolics, more commonly know as Brass-Born, have a strong association with the Malfean elements of Brass and Fire. Charms should be based around damage, both dealing an absorbing, with out-of-combat charms relating to the physical reality of the Demon city rather than his nature as tyrant. Anima banner takes the form of burning green blame laced with trails of molten brass. At the 16+ mote level, the anima flux of a Brass-Born inflicts aggravated damage.

Aspect Abilities:

• Performance
• Melee
• Resistance
• Presence
• War

Cecelynian

The Charms of the Cecelynian Vitriolics, sometimes called Sand-winders, should be sand themed, with a focus on area-control effects and movement denial charms. Anima banner takes the form of a whirlwind of silver sand, with the shells of dead, iridescent beetles. At the 16+ mote level, the anima flux of a Sand-winder adds [Essence]/2, rounded down, to their Dodge DV.

Aspect Abilities:

• Survival
• Socialize
• Bureaucracy
• Medicine
• Linguistics

Pyrian

The Charms of the Pyrian Vitriolics, or the Caged Flames, impose order on the battlefield, punishing foes for moving against the exalt and enhancing allies efforts. Anima banner takes the shape of 9,997 shards of irregular glass dancing in perfect harmony. At the 16+ mote level, the anima flux of a Caged Flame drains one mote from creatures of the wyld every tick. In addition, they may choose wether or not a given object or creature is affected by their anima at all levels of flux.

Aspect Abilities:

• Lore
• Integrity
• Awareness
• Investigation
• Craft

Adorjani

The Charms of the Adorjani Vitriolics, also known as the Wind-Wrought, are capable of spreading the love of Adorjan with remarkable efficiency, with echoing screams and flensing winds featuring prominently. Their Anima banner is an almost invisible aura of tumbling air, that makes absolutely no sound, but nonetheless appears to evoke screaming and cacophony in the ears of those that gaze upon it. At the 16+ mote level, the anima flux of a Wind-Wrought expands to deal damage within [Essence x 2] yards.

Aspect Abilities:

• Athletics
• Stealth
• Dodge
• Martial Arts
• Melee

Ophidian

The Ophidian Vitriolics, the Shadow-Scaled, have charms that deceive and beguile, distracting opponents and turning them against one another, leveraging social combat into the field of battle and the reverse with equal ease. Their Anima banner takes the shape of shapeless darkness that dampens all light, and refuses to be constrained into one form. At the 16+ mote level, the anima flux of a Shadow-Scaled reduces the damage of all holy effects by two.

Aspect Abilities:

• Larceny
• Occult
• Archery
• Thrown
• Socialize

Kimberian

The Kimberian Vitriolics, or the Children of the Shores, have charms that extract the maximum of pain and torture from their targets, extinguishing the flame within, with motifs of dark water and beasts within the deep. Their Anima banner is the waters of their Mother’s ocean-body, and is so dark as to almost reject all light. At the 16+ mote level, the anima flux of a Shore-Child adds a one mote surcharge to all non-infernal Obvious charms for anyone damaged by it for the remainder of the scene, and an additional 1wp surcharge to flame-related charms, regardless of origin.

Aspect Abilities:

• Ride
• Sail
• Integrity
• Bureaucracy
• Awareness

Charms

The charms of the Vitriolic exalted should resemble the terrestrial exalted in power, though like the charms of Green sun princes, the only minimums tend to be Essence, as a rule. Vitriolic Exalted should not have access to "perfects", except in very limited fashion, like terrestrials these charms should be "effective perfects" by virtue of dicepools and other factors rather than the explicitly perfect attacks, parries, dodges and soaks of the celestial exalted - the physical reality of the Yozis is that their "perfection" is flawed, regardless of their opinions on the matter.

• Vitriolic Charms
• Malfean Charms
• Cecelynian Charms
• Pyrian Charms
• Adorjani Charms
• Ophidian Charms
• Kimberian Charms