Dawn of the Third Age

An Exalted PbIM game in the Third Age of Creation, 10 years after the events of Once More With Feeling.

Setting

It is Realm Year 778. Ten years ago, the chaos of the Time of Tumult peaked: a mysterious force in Yu-Shan slew numerous gods and nearly the entire Five Score Fellowship before vanishing; the Mask of Winters moved boldly against the Scavenger Lands, plunging Nexus into a shadowland and devastating Great Forks, Greyfalls, and Lookshy; and a second Balorian Crusade swept over Creation from every direction. In that moment of crisis, a group of Solar and Lunar Exalted, having already reclaimed the city of Denandsor, penetrated to the heart of the Sword of Creation and threw back the invading fae, and halted the offensive of the Deathlords. From there, they brought the Realm to heel and turned their efforts to unifying and preparing Creation for the next assault.

Despite the growing acceptance of the Celestial Exalted, the Time of Tumult continues. The Deathlords have suffered a setback, but they are readying their next strike. The raksha invasion has been defeated, but the new Celestial Deliberative has only just begun to push back the boundaries of the Wyld, and the agents of the Reclamation have begun carving realms of Yozi-worshippers out of the chaos, coming as saviors and protectors wherever the Celestial Deliberative's power does not yet reach.

There are enemies from within, as well. The Immaculate Order has splintered over the doctrinal reforms imposed by the Realm's new Celestial masters, and even among the Dragon-Blooded who have accepted - or had beaten into them - the truth that Celestial Exalted are not Anathema, many resent to at least some degree the subordinate position they have been forced into. And, of course, the Great Houses and their rivalries still remain - with new rivalries, now that the surviving members of the Lookshy's Seventh Legion are trying to integrate into the new political dispensation.

One bright spot - although it is a secret so far restricted to the Deliberative - is that peaceful contact has been made with the nations of Autochthonia, after a patropolis broke through the Seal of Eight Divinities in the wilderness near Denandsor. Limited amounts of trade and joint magitech research are taking place.

A map of Creation as it exists at the time of the game - the white circle indicates the rough position where Creation becomes Bordermarches.
The Factions of the Celestial Deliberative
The Grand Circle of Denandsor, founders of the Celestial Deliberative

House Rules

Character Generation
Anima Powers
Other House Rules

Player Characters

The Solars

• Dakkareth as Nomoe Hideaki, martial arts diplomat (Eclipse Caste)

The Lunars

• Faustus 21 as Wandering, Wanderer & Medicine pedlar (Full Moon)
• Lost_Arts as Bright Snow, Traveller, Wanderer & Courier (Changing Moon Caste)

The Infernals

• Cowboy Energy as Brazen Sand, maverick ruler of Gem

Inactive

• Raksi as Lady Daethia, The recent incarnation of the legendary Ai (Dawn Caste) MIA Player
• Hattori as Noldarr, General of the Deliberative (Dawn Caste) bowed out
• Myllinnia as Shadow Phoenix Ruby, Eyes, Ears, and Sword of the Divine Ministers (Adamant Caste)
• Rand Brittain as Viridian Inkwell, virtuous Ambassador to the Exiles
• Danakir as Imperative Harmony of Order, Senior Magistrate sorceress (Zenith Caste)
• Blinks as Blood Soaked Rain, Compasionate Knightly Protector (Dawn Caste)

Logs

IC

• Session 01
• Session 02
• Session 03
• Session 04
• Session 05
• Session 06
• Session 07
• Session 08
• Session 09
• Session 10
• Session 11
• Session 12
• Session 13
• Session 14
• Session 15
• Session 16
• Session 17
• Session 18
  • Session 18.5
• Session 19
  • Session 19.5
• Session 20
• Session 21
• Session 22

OOC

• Session 01
• Session 02
• Session 03
• Session 04
• Session 05
• Session 06
• Session 07
• Session 08
• Session 09
• Session 10
• Session 11
• Session 12
• Session 13
• Session 14
• Session 16
• Session 17
• Session 18
  • Session 18.5
• Session 19
  • Session 19.5
• Session 20
• Session 21
• Session 22

Small group logs

While investigating The Lap

• Nomoe Hideaki and Brazen Sand argue
• Nomoe Hideaki and Viridian Inkwell discuss the latter's split allegiances
• Shadow Phoenix Ruby and Nomoe Hideaki chat on the flight back to the Blessed Isle

At the Denandsor Reclamation Festival

• Nomoe Hideaki and Bright Snow meet for the first time
• Nomoe Hideaki and Bright Snow discuss names, secrets and the future
• Brazen Sand and Nomoe Hideaki speak in the aftermath of the fight against the Sidereal Akuma
• Nomoe Hideaki and Iselsi Saraban Veata discuss the price of her information about the Empress

At the Chiaroscuro Beach

• Brazen Sand vs. the Defiler

Somewhere

• Brazen Sand and the Unconquered Sun

Near Gem

• Brazen Sand and Wanderer Meet
• Brazen Sand Goes to Yu-Shan

In An-Teng

• Bright Snow and Brazen Sand Talk

Miscellaneous

Custom Resources

• Custom Charms
• Taurus II's Charms
• Once More With Feeling Custom Resources - see ST for approval on a per-item basis; some things may have been added without ST approval
  • OMWF Custom Charms
  • OMWF Custom Spells
  • OMWF Custom Martial Arts
  • OMWF Custom Artifacts (Some NSFW)
  • OMWF Custom Hearthstones
• Plague of Hats' Hundredfold Facets of Enlightenment
• Charms by The Demented One
  • Hegra Charms
  • Isidoros Charms
  • Abyssal Mate Charms for Lunars

Intel

Intel

XP Awarded

• 200 (8 per session, +10 per story)
  • (3-die stunts)
    • +3 to Noldarr
    • +6 to Nomoe
    • +1 to Brazen
    • +1 to Ruby
    • +5 to Bright Snow
    • +1 to Harmony