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: An ancient fortress-city, famed for its annual Martial Arts tournament.
    • Fenghuang Temple: A monastery hidden in the hills near Puyo, with a terrible secret deep inside.
    • Puyo: Varsi's one tributary city, rotting from within.
• 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.
  • Western Marukan
    • Celeren: The fire-aspected fortress-manse held by the leading clan of the Alliance.
    • Deren's Ford: Part of the living history of Marukan and, possibly, a Demesne.
    • Storm's Eye Hill: A spirit-ruled Demesne, mid-way between the Eye of Hiparkes and Celeren.
  • 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.
    • Gatehouse of the Five Winds: Aerie and refuge in East Marukan.
    • 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.
  • House of Verdant Mysteries Revealed: The Manse of Sapphire River at Midnight, in a forest just across the Grey River from Nexus.
  • 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 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.
  • Chapter 4: Showmanship and Selara.
  • Appendix: The Southern Expedition: Excerpts from the lives and journals of those who work in the most dangerous direction.
• The Soft Breath of the Seasons: Fleeting moments, frozen in words
• Ssu-Ma Fa, the Methods of the Minister of War
  • Battle of the Glass Canyon
  • Battle of Breaking Iron
  • Special Training for the Marukan First Legion
  • War Games
• Seven Tomes From the Cloudy Shelf
  • On Demon Summoning
  • Solar Circle Sorcery: The journey of Rivers and Leaf as they travel creation, unlocking the final gate.

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
• A Lesson In Humility: Jade common warstrider.
• 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.
• The Bandit King: Jade common warstrider.
• Third-Arm Glaive: A First Age spear, forged to rally men in war.
• The Promise: An Orichalcum Grand Daiklave.

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