Heaven's Mandate

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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

• Great Forks: The city of prayer, home of expatriate gods, ruled by three powerful spirits.
• The Gray River
  • Flying Pearl Lake: A broken manse that spans the Gray north of the jungles.
  • The Infinite City: A mobile city and citadel, hidden beneath the river and protected by sorcerous wards.
    • The Halls of Venus: The civilian ward of the infinite city.
  • Varsi: A weakened fortress-city, living in fear.
• 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 Marukan Alliance: A loose confederation of semi-nomadic horse tribes.
  • Celeren: The fire-aspected fortress-manse held by the leading clan of the Alliance.
  • Deren's Ford: ?
  • Eye of Hiparkes: The network of roads Rivers Between Us had built in the Marukan hills.
    • Estate of the Nameless Ravine: An obscure tea-growing plantation high in the Marukan Alliance, site of family tragedies, slumbering gods, and momentous oaths.
    • God Crossing: The town, soon city, that sits at the center of the Eye.
    • Flame-bond Forge: The fire aspected forge-manse Rivers built and shares with Serrakeen.
    • Pagoda of Infinite Strategy: The Solar manse Rivers created to house Storm of Amber's war college.
    • Plum Blossom Retreat: The wood-aspected manse Rivers created as a fortress and school.
  • The Well of Roots: The secluded meditation chamber of Leaf Shakes the Wind.
• Nexus: Crossroads of the River Province, the city where everything is for sale.
  • The Tomb of Keening Spirits: Grave of the Herald of the East, opened by the circle.
• 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 Calendar of the Realm
• Recollections of Tea and Karma
• Battle of the Glass Canyon
• Battle of Breaking Iron
• The Dawning of a New Age in the Eye of Hiparkes
  • A School For All
  • The First Generation: 3 imbued amalgams.
  • Spring Market

The Book and the Sword

• A Promise to Come:
• Automata [age varies]: Devices constructed by Rivers Between Us for a variety of purposes.
  • The Gardener: The first automata constructed by the copper spider, his sole purpose is to serve and protect Marta, his sister. Automaton
• Hiparkes' Mirror: An Orichalcum Thunderbolt Shield
• Scales of the Dragon: Stolen white jade superheavy plate.
• Serpent Swords: Two hook swords made for and by Rivers.
• Sohei Reinforcement Armor: Armor designed for First Age relays and warrior-monks.
• Third-Arm Glaive: A First Age spear, built to rally men in war.
• The Promise: An Orichalcum Grand Daiklave.

Resources

• What else can I Wiki? Wikipedia
• What is a RPG? RPG Wiki
• What is a GM? Game Master

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