Heaven's Mandate
Welcome to the wiki for Heaven's Mandate, an epic tabletop role playing game of heroic conflict inspired by Chinese literature and wu xia cinema, played with White Wolf Game Studios' Exalted game. This wiki is designed to serve as a "series bible" and resource for the players and GM, to help keep better track of everything that appears in game. Anyone is free to edit the wiki and add to our game.
Cast of Characters
Bold and Righteous Heroes
- An Oathsworn Circle: The main cast of Heaven's Mandate, a perfect circle of Solar Exalted; the player characters
Traitors Against Heaven
- Sky-Spanning Devils: Those beings, both vile and virtuous, who've come into conflict with our heroes on their journey.
The Brotherhood of Lakes and Rivers
- Spirits of Talent and Virtue: The panoply of characters who've impacted on our heroes' tale. Some are allies and some are neutral; all are colorful.
An Empire Long Divided
The Middle Kingdom
- The Court of the Lawgivers: The regions that, by rulership or treaty, fall under the circle's influence.
The Warring States
- Lookshy: A city-state built around military strength and preparedness; all that remains of the Seventh Legion of the Dragon-Blooded Shogunate.
- The Mourning Field: A shadowland south of Lookshy, site of an explosion of First Age weaponry.
- The Realm: The empire astride Creation.
- Sijan: The city of the dead; a grand necropolis where people from all over Creation send their dead to receive the best interment possible.
- Thorns: A former Realm tributary that fought the River Province a decade past, now the heart of a Shadowland ruled by the Deathlord Mask of Winters.
- Juggernaut The Mask of Winters' lumbering fortress-behemoth.
Records of the Grand Historian
- The Basic Annals of a Heaven-Graced Earth
- The Calendar of the Realm
- Maps of Creation
- A Web Spun From Water: Distance measurements in the area of the Marukan
- Recollections of Tea and Karma
- A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted
- Things that Never Happened
- Crossroads of Tea and Karma
- Interlude: The Reprimand
- Interlude: An Unexpected Theology Lesson for the Marukan First Legion
- Conclusion: The Bureaucrat and the Deity
- Appendix: The Litany of Inferior Marukan Regional Teas
- Year 0 in the Eye of Hiparkes
- A School For All
- The First Generation: The First of the Amalgams.
- Spring Market
- The Trials of Righteous Judgement
- Chronicles of the Daybringers: Stories from the 5 brave amalgams sent into the east.
- Chapter 1: We are the Daybringers!
- Chapter 2: Wing's Three Gifts.
- Chapter 3: There is only one Yao Ye.
- Gaiden 3.5: Shai Mei's roots run deep.
- Chapter 4: Showmanship and Selara.
- Chapter 5: Sagacious Shu Zhuang.
- Gaiden 5.5: Lu Fei, Seraph of the Burning Bastion.
- Gaiden 5.6: Marta's many tools
- Chapter 6: Where has the sun gone?
- Gaiden 6.5: Unlikely Sifu, Unlikely Student
- Appendix 1: The Southern Expedition: Excerpts from the lives and journals of those who work in the most dangerous direction.
- Appendix 2: Reckoning of Heroes Unsung: List and locations of three remaining directional teams.
- The Soft Breath of the Seasons: Fleeting moments, frozen in words
- Ssu-Ma Fa, the Methods of the Minister of War
- Seven Tomes From the Cloudy Shelf
- On Demon Summoning
- The Price You Pay
- Solar Circle Sorcery: The journey of Rivers and Leaf as they travel creation, unlocking the final gate.
- Unity of Dreams
- Nameless Ravine's nightmare: The Torrent of Woe
The Book and the Sword
Eggs From a Fertile Earth
- Hearthstones: The focused power of Manse-Essence that the circle claims as their own
The Panoply of the Sun
- Solar-Forged Glories: The wonders that Rivers, or other Solars and their servants, have made in their time.
The Vaults of Lesser Reknown
- Common Artifacts: Those artifacts, maybe no less grand, that have been made nonetheless by lesser hands.
Resources
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