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==An Empire Long Divided==
 
==An Empire Long Divided==
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* [http://hd42.de/rpg_exalted_maps.html Maps of Creation]
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===The Middle Kingdom===
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** [[The Classic of Mountains and Seas]]: Distance measurements in the area of the Marukan
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* [[The Court of the Lawgivers]]: The regions that, by rulership or treaty, fall under the circle's influence.
  
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===The Warring States===
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* [[Great Forks]]: The city of prayer, home of expatriate gods, ruled by three powerful spirits.
 
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* The Gray River
 
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** [[Flying Pearl Lake]]: A broken manse that spans the Gray north of  the jungles.
 
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** [[The Infinite City]]: A mobile city and citadel, hidden beneath the river and protected by sorcerous wards.
 
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*** [[The Halls of Venus]]: The civilian ward of the infinite city.
 
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** [[Varsi]]: An ancient fortress-city, famed for its annual Martial Arts tournament.
 
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*** [[Fenghuang Temple]]: A monastery hidden in the hills near Puyo, with a terrible secret deep inside.
 
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*** [[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.
 
* [[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 Mourning Field]]: A shadowland south of Lookshy, site of an explosion of First Age weaponry.
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* [[The Marukan Alliance]]: A loose confederation of semi-nomadic horse tribes.
 
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** Western Marukan
 
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*** [[Celeren]]: The fire-aspected fortress-manse held by the leading clan of the Alliance.
 
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*** [[Deren's Ford]]: Part of the living history of Marukan and, possibly, a Demesne.
 
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*** [[Storm's Eye Hill]]: A spirit-ruled Demesne, mid-way between the Eye of Hiparkes and Celeren.
 
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** [[Eye of Hiparkes]]: The network of roads [[Rivers Between Us]] had built in the Marukan hills.
 
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*** [[Estate of the Nameless Ravine]]: An obscure tea-growing plantation high in the Marukan Alliance, site of family tragedies, slumbering gods, and momentous oaths.
 
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*** [[God Crossing]]: The town, soon city, that sits at the center of the Eye.
 
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*** [[Flame-bond Forge]]:  The fire aspected forge-manse [[Rivers Between Us|Rivers]] built and shares with [[Serrakeen]]. 
 
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*** [[Pagoda of Infinite Strategy]]: The Solar manse [[Rivers Between Us|Rivers]] created to house [[Storm of Amber|Storm of Amber's]] war college.
 
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*** [[Plum Blossom Retreat]]: The wood-aspected manse [[Rivers Between Us|Rivers]] created as a fortress and school.
 
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** [[The Well of Roots]]: The secluded meditation chamber of [[Leaf Shakes the Wind]].
 
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* [[Nexus]]: Crossroads of the River Province, the city where everything is for sale.
 
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** [[House of Verdant Mysteries Revealed]]: The Manse of [[Sapphire River at Midnight]], in a forest just across the Grey River from Nexus.
 
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** [[The Tomb of Keening Spirits]]: Grave of the [[Herald of the East]], opened by [[An Oathsworn Circle|the circle]].
 
 
* [[The Realm]]: The empire astride Creation.
 
* [[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.
 
* [[Sijan]]: The city of the dead; a grand necropolis where people from all over Creation send their dead to receive the best interment possible.
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==Records of the Grand Historian==
 
==Records of the Grand Historian==
 
* [http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/wiki.pl?StarHawk/LittleCalendar The Calendar of the Realm]
 
* [http://exalted.xi.co.nz/wiki/wiki.pl?StarHawk/LittleCalendar The Calendar of the Realm]
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* [http://hd42.de/rpg_exalted_maps.html Maps of Creation]
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** [[A Web Spun From Water]]: Distance measurements in the area of the Marukan
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===Annals of a Heaven-Graced Earth===
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* [[The Soft Breath of Seasons]]: A history of events in the Scavenger Lands since the arrival of the Solars.
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* [[The Book of Broken Horses]]: A history of events in the Scavenger Lands after the Solars' circle was broken.
  
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===Seven Tomes From a Cloudy Shelf===
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* [[Chronicle of the Cycles of Time]]: Knowledge of a mystic nature or scenes from beyond the bounds of Creation.
  
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* [[Recollections of Tea and Karma]]
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===Infinite Vaults of the Bureaucracy===
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** [[A Tea Ceremony, Interrupted]]
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* [[The Fivefold Chronology]]: A comprehensive index of narrative entries arranged in relative order.
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** [[Things that Never Happened]]
 
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** [[Crossroads of Tea and Karma]]
 
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** Interlude: [[The Reprimand]]
 
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** Interlude: An [[Unexpected Theology Lesson]] for the Marukan First Legion
 
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** Conclusion: [[The Bureaucrat and the Deity]]
 
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** Appendix: The Litany of Inferior [[Marukan Regional Teas]]
 
  
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* Year 0 in the Eye of Hiparkes
 
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** [[A School For All]]
 
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** [[The First Generation]]: The First of the Amalgams.
 
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** [[Spring Market]]
 
  
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* [[Chronicles of the Daybringers]]: Stories from the 5 brave amalgams sent into the east.
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==The Book and the Sword==
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** [[Chapter 1]]: We are the Daybringers!
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===Eggs From a Fertile Earth===
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** [[Chapter 2]]: Wing's Three Gifts.
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* [[Hearthstones]]: The focused power of Manse-Essence that the circle claims as their own
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** [[Chapter 3]]: There is only one Yao Ye.
 
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** Appendix: [[The Southern Expedition]]: Excerpts from the lives and journals of those who work in the most dangerous direction.
 
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* The Soft Breath of the Seasons: Fleeting moments, frozen in words
 
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* Ssu-Ma Fa, the Methods of the Minister of War
 
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** [[Battle of the Glass Canyon]]
 
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** [[Battle of Breaking Iron]]
 
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** [[Special Training for the Marukan First Legion]]
 
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** [[War Games]]
 
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* Seven Tomes From the Cloudy Shelf
 
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** [[On Demon Summoning]]
 
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** [[Solar Circle Sorcery]]: The journey of Rivers and Leaf as they travel creation, unlocking the final gate.
 
  
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===The Panoply of the Sun===
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* [[Solar-Forged Glories]]: The wonders that Rivers, or other Solars and their servants, have made in their time.
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* [[Applications of Enlightenment]]: Custom charms developed by the Solars and their servants.
  
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==The Book and the Sword==
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===The Vaults of Lesser Reknown===
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* [[A Promise to Come]]:
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* [[Common Artifacts]]: Those artifacts, maybe no less grand, that have been made nonetheless by lesser hands.
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* Automata [age varies]: Devices constructed by [[Rivers Between Us]] for a variety of purposes.
 
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** [[The Gardener]]: The first automata constructed by the copper spider, his sole purpose is to serve and protect [[Marta]], his sister.  '''Automaton'''
 
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* [[Hiparkes' Mirror]]: An Orichalcum Thunderbolt Shield
 
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* [[A Lesson In Humility]]: Jade common warstrider.
 
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* [[Scales of the Dragon]]: Stolen white jade superheavy plate.
 
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* [[Serpent Swords]]: Two hook swords made for and by Rivers.
 
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* [[Sohei Reinforcement Armor]]: Armor designed for First Age relays and warrior-monks.
 
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* [[The Bandit King]]: Jade common warstrider.
 
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* [[Third-Arm Glaive]]: A First Age spear, forged to rally men in war.
 
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* [[The Promise]]: An Orichalcum Grand Daiklave.
 
  
  

Latest revision as of 09:42, 16 September 2007

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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[edit]

Bold and Righteous Heroes[edit]

  • An Oathsworn Circle: The main cast of Heaven's Mandate, a perfect circle of Solar Exalted; the player characters

Traitors Against Heaven[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

The Middle Kingdom[edit]

The Warring States[edit]

  • 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[edit]

Annals of a Heaven-Graced Earth[edit]

Seven Tomes From a Cloudy Shelf[edit]

Infinite Vaults of the Bureaucracy[edit]


The Book and the Sword[edit]

Eggs From a Fertile Earth[edit]

  • Hearthstones: The focused power of Manse-Essence that the circle claims as their own

The Panoply of the Sun[edit]

The Vaults of Lesser Reknown[edit]

  • Common Artifacts: Those artifacts, maybe no less grand, that have been made nonetheless by lesser hands.


Resources[edit]


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