IsawaBrian/WhyTheLords

Basically, the Lords serve a variety of functions. First and foremost, they serve to give direction and focus to their Exalt types. Second, each has various uses-- the Terrestrial Lord is there to provide pre-Celestial Immaculate styles and to be a sort of superman/focus for the Terrestrials in general. The Solar Lord is really the reason this exists-- he was part of the work going on in my head that lead to IsawaBrian/VirtuePaths (Zau, and the rest of that timeline were added on waaaaay after the original meanderings). Once they'd been created, I got to thinking about rewards for ethical and moral behavior, and superhero tropes, and the Exalted Modern world sort of grew out of it. He's a regulator, both to make the world more starkly contrasted on an ethical/moral line, and to provide a substitution for the missing 'first age' artifacts that the Underworld still has access to. The Abyssal Lady is the Terrestrial Lord's nemesis, and fit both my idea of "Necromancer Queen" and "Supervillain par Excellance". Yeah, I've got a bias towards scholarly Exalts. :P The Lunar Lady is intended to apply some moral greyness back after the Solar Lord's starkness, and to make a sort of alternative to a monolithic side vs. side fight. Finally, the Sidereal Lady is... undefined. In my Exalted Modern, Yu Shan and the Sidereals are really, really subtle-- much more so than even in base Creation. As a result, she really hasn't had much effect yet. The default template in my head is that she's the third part of the 'Good' trio (Solar, Sidereal, Terrestrial) as opposed to the 'Evil' (Deathlord, Abyssal, Unshaped), with the Lunar as being sort of in the middle, and the demons having no Third Circle leader-- yet.