Arafelis/FairFolk

Staff and Ring ought to be reversed (staff and ring). Temperance and Valor are male virtues, Conviction and Compassion female.

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I have to wonder what relevancy the whole male/female virtue thing actually has. Could you explain a bit further? -FrozenHermit

Actually, [Thus_Spake_Zaraborgstrom/GracesPwnJ00] explains how she was able to justify a requisite of the outline. One could just as easily have said that Staff = Temperance by talking about a monk's staff or Yggdrasil (or any other pillar between the worlds).

The Staff and the Sword are both male-associated, for hopefully obvious reasons. Temperance and Valor are both about honor- a sort of heiarchical status organization, male society. The Cup and the Ring are both female-associated (indeed, RSB says that the Fountainhead, Ring Grace of a freehold, requires feminine or passive symbolism). Virtues occur in two sets in Exalted, Conviction/Compassion and Temperance/Valor. It's subtly misleading- not in a way most people would even think about, but still irksome to me- to simply place Male and Female at the two ends of each. It would be more appropriate to give each it's own spectrum, and then to work from there. - Arafelis

...We don't have the same understanding of Temperance at all.
That's fine. YKIOK, IJNMK. But it also means I probably have nothing useful to say here, and so I'm deleting my previous comment. --MF