Alchemicals/Elemental Rebels

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When Autochthon fled creation he took with him a wide cross-section of humanity. It was inevitable that amongst those he took would be some who bore the bloodlines of the Terrestrial Exalted. In the alien environment of Autochthonia, removed from the Elemental essence that the Dragonblooded naturally channel (as well as from the Poles and the Dragons themselves) there was no risk of these individuals ever Exalting... or at least there shouldn't have been. In the great cities of Autochthonia no elemental Exaltation would ever occure, but not all of humanity was bound to the Metropoli & Patropoli of the Eight Nations. Exiles and Tunnel-Dwellers spread further and further into Reaches, and there they were exposed purer and purer elemental essence...

The laws of Autochthonia are those of artifice, but humanity is alien to Autochthonia. They are creatures of adaptation. Humans bearing the Terrestrial Bloodlines eventually opened themselves to the elemental essence of the Reaches and a whole new breed of Exalted was born. They are not champions of the Great Maker or Autochthonian Civilization. They are incarnations of the will of humanity to adapt and survive. They are the heroes of the Exiled and the Tunnel-Born. Viral anarchists, and abominations in the eyes of the Alchemicals, they stand in defiance of the Great Maker's will. And their numbers are growing. -- Glamourweaver