StarJaunter/ExaltedRewrite

Exalted: Transcendent Edition

Exalted: Transcendent Edition, or ETE, is an attempt to create a complete unified rules that
meet what I want in my Exalted game and pull together various attempts I and many other, better
writers have done before. Heavy draws for influence come from One Roll Exalted by Martin Nerurkar
and A Fallen Age by Bazzalisk. I have received no permission from either of them to use their ideas
let alone Exalted or the ORE system. So this isn't really meant to be read but to be for my personal
use only, so if you found it CONGRATULATIONS!, please stop to tell me what you think.

Setting

A word on setting, while the normal Exalted setting would work fine with any such Exalted rules,
I find myself drawn to tweak the setting when I am so vastly changing the rules. The new setting
is basically adapted the Earthdawn Setting to match Exalted.

One Thousand Years ago, during what is now called the First Age, or even High First Age, Exalted,
Heroes Chosen by the gods of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, ruled powerful city-states in a time of
high essence. A prophecy arose that in 500 years the height of Essence would be reached and it would
release a horde of evil, tainted beings, which would forever more be known generally as Horrors.
The Chosen despaired, for while they may be able to best individual Horrors, the rare Exalted would
be overrun by the Multitude of monsters that were coming. In order to save their peoples the Chosen
agreed to lock them with magically protected Kaers and Fortress Cities. However capable the Exalts
were though building and enchanted enough Kaers to protect their entire civilization in time would
be outside their reach. As the Exalts struggled for a solution, and they might have even found it,
they were chosen after all, a group of the hated Dragonblood race came before them. Dragonbloods were
a non-human, magical race. They lacked the power of the Chosen, but had some power and could breed
true. They were hated due to practiced of slavery and experiments on those they considered lesser,
normal humans. The Exalted had kept their numbers trimmed back to appease their populace. Now the
Dragonblooded proposed a solution. Let us breed an increase our numbers, with a few centuries of
population growth their would be hundreds of thousands of Essence Wielders, compared to the less than
a thousand Exalted there were. The Exalted accepted and over the next few centuries the Dragonblooded
grew into a vast Slave Empire. Always they slavery was well justified as helping to build a Kaer or to
free a Dragonblood for important enchanting work, but slavery it was. Just as the monstrosity they had
allowed reached its height and the Exalted would be forced to act, the time limit was reached, all had
to enter their Kaers and Fortress Cities for 500 years.