Thus Spake Zaraborgstrom/ExaltWays
Lost Castes
rebeccaborgstrom - 11/30/2003 15:30:59
The Charm doesn't make it possible for lost-caste animas to exist.
If the castes/animas still "exist" in the metaphysics of your world, then the Charm would allow access to them. I'd say you need to know the caste pretty well---like, a First Age Lunar, or a Solar with strong memories of the relevant-caste First Age Lunar mate---and also know one other Exalt Ways.
Rebecca
Abyssal and Alchemical Ways
rebeccaborgstrom - 11/30/2003 17:02:30
You can learn Abyssal and Alchemical Exalt Ways because the core insight of the Charm is generic. It's a theoretical picture of Essence flows for Exalted animas. Once you learn something about the structure of Exaltation from that, elders can make new Exalt Ways (if they understand the relevant Exalted and caste, anyway) and students can move on to Games of Divinity Form.
Rebecca
New Anima Powers
rebeccaborgstrom - 12/01/2003 16:18:53
> fourwillows > One thing that strikes me about this Charm is that, if you interpret it the way Rebecca says, then you should, with deep enough study, be able to postulate new anima powers, given your insight into the power source and the way that Exalted sparks unfold out of them.
Hm!
That's not really canon, because I don't think you can just look up from the table and say, "Hey, Storyteller, I'm buying a Chosen of Oramus Ways." However, I agree that if you make it cool for your ST, putting the effort and focus into it, you should be able to find valid but nonexistent animas.
NEW TERMINOLOGY!
Such ideas are 'stunt canonical' or 'deuterocanonical'.
Rebecca
I've always wondered what was meant by "The character also adds his essence in automatic successes to one of the relevent castes favored attributes or abilities while this charm opperates." Does this mean the stat is raised by essence or that any roll with the stat adds essence automatic successes (or something completely different)? - Myrlan
I always understood it to mean the character adds their essence in automatic successes to any dice action involving the ability (or attribute if emulating a Lunar Anima). - Kraken
