Abyssals

This is a page devoted solely to Abyssals. Champions of the DeathLords, the Abyssals are perverted Solar shards. They spread death and destruction in an unholy crusade, and are fully described in Exalted: The Abyssals.

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Abyssals by Deathlord

• The Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible
  • The Celebrant of Blood: (Canon) Daybreak Caste, female. Devoted follower of the Bishop. E:Ab, p. 93.

• The Bodhisattva Anointed by Dark Water
  • Ebon Siaka : (Canon) Dusk Caste, female. Admiral of the Skullstone fleet. E:Ab, p. 95.
  • Knight of Ghosts and Shadows : (Canon) Male. Former servant of the Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears. E:Ab, p. 95.
  • Fallen Wolf of the Cutting Sea : (Canon) Fallen Solar, male. E:Ab, pp. 79-80, MoEP:Ab, p. 43.

• • Broken Soul Mask : Day Caste, female. The faceless agent of the Realm of Skullstone, wearing a mask of consumed souls.

• The Dowager of the Irreverent Vulgate in Unrent Veils
  • Shoat of the Mire: (Canon) Dusk Caste, female, 10-year-old child. E:Ab, p. 102.

• Eye and Seven Despairs
  • Blood Scavenger: (Canon) Caste unknown, male. Possibly deceased (so to speak).E:Ab, pp. 97-100.
  • Chorus at Midnight : (Canon) Day Caste, female. Manipulative. E:Ab, pp. 97-100.
  • Scar of Uproar : (Canon) Dusk Caste, male. Somewhat irrational. E:Ab, pp. 97-100.
  • Star of Dirt and Doubt : (Canon) A ghost. Presumably deceased (as it were). E:Ab, pp. 97-98.

• The First and Forsaken Lion
  • Meticulous Owl: (Canon) Day Caste, male. Spymaster and agent in Creation.
  • Walking on Laughter: (Canon) Dusk Caste, male. Commander of First and Forsaken Lion's armies. E:Ab, p. 88.

• The Lover Clad in the Raiment of Tears
  • The Bloodflower Princess: (Canon) Caste unknown, presumably female. Teacher of Prince of Shadows. Exalted, p. 275.
  • The Melkin Fool In Red: (Canon) Day Caste, female. Ringmaster of the Circus Moribund. E:Ab, pp. 96-97.
  • The Prince of Shadows: (Canon) Flavor text character. Exalted, p. 275, E:Ab, pp. 2-5. Pictured on Exalted, p. 274.
  • Martyr to the Last Rest : (Canon) Midnight Caste, male. The first Abyssal created. E:Ab, p. 79.

• • The Perceptor of tears : Dusk Caste, male. The lover's hound.
  • Maven of Pages and Ink : Daybreak Caste, female. An obsessed scholar and demonologist of Sijan.
  • Grandfather of Stormcrows : Day Caste, male. A relentless hunter of ghosts & men.

• Princess Magnificent with Lips of Coral and Robes of Black Feathers
  • Son of Crows : (Canon) Moonshadow Caste, male. Unofficially Exalted and slowly going insane.

• The Mask of Winters
  • The Apostate in Tatters : (Canon) Midnight Caste, male. Mad prophet and dark miracleworker.
  • The Abbot of Hunger and Dust : (Canon) Mentioned in Scavenger Sons, p. 67.
  • The Prince Resplendent in the Ruin of Ages : (Canon) Mentioned in Scavenger Sons, p. 67.
  • Seven Seasons Widow : (Canon) Mentioned in Scavenger Sons, p. 67.
  • Typhon, the Wink of the Storm's Eye : (Canon) Day Caste, male. Sample character in the Exalted core book. Exalted, pp. 314-315, MoEP:Ab, p. 42.
  • The Disciple of the Seven Forbidden Wisdoms : (Canon) Day Caste, male. E:Ab, p. 129, 231. Pictured on E:Ab, pp. 128, 143, 230. Appears in A Day Dark as Night.

• • The Warlord's Armor : Dusk Caste, male. A rotten horselord, concealed within a shell of black soulsteel.
  • The Immaculate Talon : Midnight Caste, male. An Immaculate of the dead gods, preaching an absolute inversion of the Immaculate philosophy.
  • The Smiling Host : Moonshadow Caste, male. The treacherous diplomat of the Scavenger Lands.
  • The First Light of Grief : Day Caste, male.
  • The Fist of the Storm : Dusk Caste, male. A raider roaming the Scavenger Lands with a band of nemissaries.
  • The Graceful Student of Sorrow : Daybreak Caste, male.
  • The Merchant of Bones : Moonshadow Caste, female. Commander of the Floating Dead.
  • The Perfect Rose of Thorns : Moonshadow Caste, female. Ambassador of Thorns to the Scavenger Lands.
  • The Ten-Leaved Scholar: Daybreak Caste, female. Sorcerer, necromancer, and bloodthirsty raider. (Accompanies Fist of Winter in his travels.)

• Walker in Darkness
  • Shards of Basalt / Shards of Basalt to Her Army: Appears in CB:D, p.61 as a female of unknown Caste by the name of "Shards of Basalt." Presumably due to a misreading of the original text in which she was addressing her army, appears in E:Ab, p.105 as a male Dusk Caste named "Shards of Basalt to Her Army." One of Walker's military commanders.

• • The Iron Heart Killer : Dusk Caste, male. A brooding duelist, murderer and highwayman who sought to rob a Deathlord.
  • The Sickly Whore : Daybreak Caste, female. A temple prostitute of Great Forks, who carries the revelation of plague & disease.
  • The Minister of Unleavened Mercy : Day Caste, male. Walker's spymaster in Nexus.
  • The Ambassador to the Unfortunate : Moonshadow Caste, female. A young Abyssal tasked with breaking apart the alliances of the Scavenger Lands.

• Deathlord Unknown
  • Falling Tears Poet : (Canon) Moonshadow Caste, male. Also known as Wisdom's Cracked Vase, and the Sorrowful Calligrapher. E:Ab, p. 120. Pictured on E:Ab, pp. 119, 145.
  • The Lady of Darkness in Bloodstained Robes : (Canon) Midnight Caste, female. E:Ab, p. 9. Pictured on E:Ab, pp. 8, 139.
  • The Maiden of the Mirthless Smile : (Canon) Dusk Caste, female. E:Ab, p. 75. Pictured on E:Ab, p. 74, on the cover of Exalted: The Abyssals, and on page 146 of the Book of Bone and Ebony.
  • The Seven Degreed Surgeon : (Canon) Daybreak Caste, male. E:Ab, p. 155. Pictured on E:Ab, p. 141, 154
  • Weeping Raiton Cast Aside : (Canon) Moonshadow Caste, female. MoEP:Ab, p. 44

Castes

Abyssal Exalted are divided into five castes, mockery and perversion of the five Solar castes.

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