Rynel/ExaltedInSpaceSetting

This page is collection of notes and writings on the setting differences. -Darzoni

The Sixth Maiden

There are the five rather famous and well known maidens, and their less known but equally as important sixth sister. She is only known as the Maiden of Infinity, and is not known to the savants of Creation. There are no constellations in her panoply, but she still presides over the Endless Well of Night. There are no Chosen of Infinity, and yet all Sidereal serve her in some fashion not known to them. The Maiden of Infinity is inherently unknowable, unfathomable, and yet something known and understood at the same time. She has never been seen, yet every god knows she exists. These paradoxes define the Maiden of Infinity, for the Maiden of Infinity is the living embodiment of the paradox that is the Void. The Void encompasses all things, yet is nothing itself. That is where she exists.

The Great Eastern Stream

The first thing you see in this particular stretch of the void is a... galaxy? No. It's too localized and self-consistant to be a galaxy, but it is a ribbon cutting through the void nontheless. It coruscates colors, containing hundreds of currents going back and forth, ferrying fantastic voidships to and fro through the Void. Even the tributary streams are dwarfed by the massive size of the Great Eastern Stream

And there is life, life beyond imagination. The Great Eastern Stream is its own ecosystem that stretches for thousands of lightyears through the void. The beacon dolphins, glowing like small stars, squeal and play besides the ships wending their way through the stream. Pods of the spaceborne mechaniform Leviathans of Autochthon drift lazily like small moons, singing their haunting version of resonant whalesong as they simply enjoy existance. Predatory fish-like creatures dart and hide among the floating debris and solid balls of elements, feeding upon the schools of smaller fish-things. Clans of color-shifting crustaceans cling to bits of rock and essence crystal, tending the strange plant life growing upon them. Void coral colonies anchor themselves to the places between the currents, collecting essence and merely growing, clouds of minute lifeforms clustering about the islands.

The Great Eastern Stream is one of the greatest legacies left by the Solars of the First Age, a feat of geomantic prowess that only the Primordials could match. It was built early in the First Age as the means by which the entire heartland of Creation could transport and trade goods, bringing a harmonious flow of essence to the planets and systems so that they could be bountiful beyond the dreams of mortal men. It was the work of all six hundred Copper Spiders and generations of Dragon-blooded geomancers, shaped over thousands of years into the permanant feature of Creation it is today. It stretched from the Galaxy of Earth at the center of Creation all the way to the Elemental Pole of Wood on the far side of the now lost Unified Republic of the Seven Eastern Galaxies.

Exalted Numbers

There were 3,000 Solar Exalted in the First Age, and an equal number of Lunar Exalted. In the Age of Sorrows, the Solars number 1,500.

There are 1,000 Sidereal Exalted. They are known as the Thousandfold Fellowship at times. There is far too much Creation and far too few Sidereals to police it.

There are 1,000 Abyssal Exalted, the Deathlords having paid a tithe of 500 Solar shards to the Yozi in order to learn the secret of their creation.

Of the Dragon-blooded, they are thought to be without number, for the seed of the Dragons has spread far and wide among the Galaxy of Earth and Attendant Clusters. It is believed that the Blessed System alone has a Dragon-blooded population of ten billion. Lookshy and the Seventh Legion are believed to have far more Terrestrials at their disposal due to their breeding programs aiming for numbers rather than power, but their numbers are considered a state secret by the Seventh Legion.

Autochthonia

Autochthon is an object so vast that it defies comprehension. The Machine God's body occupies a spherical space that is approximately two-hundred billion light-years across, a whole and self-contained universe unto Himself. When the Autochthonians look up from their planet-habitats, they see the vast mechanical organs of their god instead of stars and nebulae.