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I'll be here for a while, or if not, Jimmy will prolly get to your questions sooner than me. I figure I'll be here for a couple hours at least though.

Oh yeah... Hello people ^_^

I'm Yoko. Nice to meet you all.

Okay, so I'm going to explaian this bit by bit, from the point of view or each of the major "races" that are playable, it gets confusing otherwise. I went through and highlighted the names of them in the paragraph their feathred in, so if you only want to read about the ones who sound cooler, you can just skip over the others.

There is a world, it is called Creation. The world has gods, the gods have exalts. Exalts are best described as blessed people, something akin to Hercules, or Jesus, but not with the blood of the god, just the blessing and the power.

The "king" of the gods, pretty much the god of the sun, is called The Unconquered Son. He has the Solar Exalted. Solar Exalted are ritious, and generally good (although it can be their own version of good). In creation they are the ones to were to keep things peaceable, but that's kind of been screwed by some people.

The Solars, in many cases, are "married" to the Lunar Exalted. The Lunar Exalted are almost were-creatures, they can turn into any animal they wish as long as they eat the heart of said animal. The goddess Luna has blessed them with these abilities. They are powerhouses of Exalted, and aren't as sophisticated as the Solars, often considered more wild and barbaric.

Now we talk about the Dragon-Blooded. There are five elemental dragons in creation (earth, water, air, fire, wood), each of them, being as powerful as gods, has spawned their own version of the Terrestrial, or the Dragon-Blooded Exalted. They are the only type of Exalt that has the ability to breed up their numbers. It is this reason, and some careful planning by their leaders, that they have come into power in Creation and nearly wiped out all of the Lunars and the Solars in their seizure of the seat of power. They have formed a dynasty since, and have special organizations bent of killing other types of exalted for fear of them coming into power again.

The Sidereal Exalted are blessed by the stars; they are known for being able to see what the future brings, and have many times in the past interfered with the fate of Creation to come out as the best possible outcome. They helped the Dragon-Blooded form their dynasty, and fight their war against the other Exalts.

Back in the day of Creation, there were allot of gods, but they had a war, and wars usually have to have losers. We call the losers The Dead Gods, with an underworld created specifically for their use of being dead. These gods have created The Abyssal Exalted, paragons of evil and hatred for life. They've done allot against Creation, including an unstoppable plague (9/10ths of everyone dead), released horrible chaotic evil creatures into the world, and much, much more.

The Alchemical Exalted are blessed by the greatest of the gods, Autocathon. Autocathon is a huge planet sized god, who left Creation many many centuries ago to go sleep in peace, without being bothered by the petty wars of the gods. The people who are living inside him have realized recently that he is dyeing, and they quickly find a way into creation so that they can find a way to power him (being a giant mechanical guy, and all). His exalted are some of the most powerful ones on in Creation, as well his people have the ability to harness mechanics to help them fight their wars.

The most horrible, vile and evil creatures to exist, are the Yozee (I know that's not spelt correctly...), demons of wanton destruction and chaos. Just freaking' guess what the Infernal Exalted do, it's pretty obvious after hearing that.

While not really Exalted, the Fair Folk are some pretty powerful contenders, being the literal embodiment of chaos. They come out of a place called The Wild, which is basically any place that is outside creation. They can look like just about anything they wish, and do just about anything they wish.

A few corrections. This is mostly just cosmetic stuff or adding a bit more depth to what Jimmy has told you already, so that those of you who actually go to try and find out more will have a bit of an easier time.

The head God is The Unconquered Sun.

Before they were all killed, the Solars were almost entirely married to the Lunars. This is not necessarily the case in the current setting. In fact, it's gonna be pretty rare. This part will actually require a lot more space to fully explain, so if your really interested, I'll elaborate on request.

It should be noted that the Dragon Blooded are the weakest among the exalts. That said, they do have some rather extreme numerical superiority. While they did overthrow and kill almost all the solars, as a whole, they are not intrinsically evil people to be irrationally hated far and wide.

The Sidereals are a secretieve bunch charged with the care of Fate. Most people have forgotten that they ever existed. It is their job to ensure that the world endures as a whole. If this means an act of Genocide, they may not be happy about it, but they will do it.

The Dead Gods Jimmy mentions aren't actually gods. They were much more powerful beings called Primordials. They created the gods to be their servants. When the Exalts killed them for the Gods the underworld wasn't made as a cage for them, it formed around them as a side effect of their passing, so great was their power, even after they died.

Also, while the Abbysal exalts are empowered by death and these evil gods, they were fashioned directly from Solars, and are intrinsically loyal to their actions. WHile from our point of view, their actions are terrible and evil, most simply truly believe that they are doing the right and good thing by bringing the peace of Death to Creation.

Autochthon is not a god, but a primordial. He sided with the Gods in that war against his brothers, and the Exalts won that war as a direct result of his aid. Again, it would take to long to say why, but after a time, Autochthon took his mortal followers with him and went Elsewhere to sleep away some millenia. It should also be noted that his exalts are blatantly machine-like. If it helps, think of them as robots almost.

The Yozi's were the servants of the Primordials who stayed loyal during the war, but were captured or surrendered instead of killed. Whatever their temperments were before, they were all banished to world underneath a terrible, madness inducing green sun that never sets, and have been stuck here for millenia. They have become Demons, or similar creatures of hate and pain. While Abbysals do many terrible things, they do it because they feel they are right. Yozi's, Demons, and Infernal exalted do it because they feel like. They are truely evil.

Other notes would be

The world is flat. You can't start walking and eventually end up back where you were. If you go far enough north, you can litterally fall off the edge of the world.

There are a lot of different cultures and beliefs in the world. In some places, people live side by side with sentient humanoid dinosaurs and worship them as gods. In others, women are little more than Property. Most of the world allows slavery. There are economic empires based on the sale of opium. Creation is a big place. Just about any idea on culture exists somewhere, and if money can be made from the idea, it probably exists in a lot of places.

I'm interested but my attention span fails today and I can't seem to read all the info you've posted. I've never heard of Exalted before but if that wouldn't stop me I'd do it.

I read through everything and I think it's really cool. 3nodding I'd like to join, but what standard of RP would this be?

I do have a few questions.

Basically the power tree is Primodial > God > Exalt? If that is so, how come the Exalts can kill the Primordials?

What are the relationships between the groups of Exalts?

Is there any other sentient life in Creation besides primordials, gods and Exalts?

I've actually never played D&D (Oh, the embarrassment), so I don't really get that post. sweatdrop Could you please explain that bit?

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There really isn't a power tree, think greek myth and deas ex machina. It's the stuff of legend even in the Exalted universe. It's actually very deep seeded into the greek myth. I digress.

The Solars and Lunars as a whole get along pretty well.

The Sidereals (I could be wrong) seem to get along with everybody the need to to get the job done, although I'm pretty sure that they don't like people like the Fair Folk, and the Abyssals, who have the power to hide from their all seeing fate power.

The real problem is with the Dragon-Blooded, they have trained everyone in their empire to see the other types of Exalts as demons. They only occasionally trust the Sidereals from what I understand, as they helped the Dragon-blooded come to power.

The Alchemical exalts will trust anyone who helps them meet their goals, even the abyssals. Just as well they will crush anyone who gets in they're way.

The Abbysals will work with anyone they can to get themselves ahead also. As Yoko said though, Abbysal Exalts are made from Solars, so they have a chance to be rogue, and disobey their Deathlord.

Yes, as Yoko noted in one post, there are many different kinds of sentient people living in creation. It's not quite a regular fantasy worl of dwarves, and elves, but there are some farily intresting things that you have the option to be if you don't want to be an exalted. We may allow players to control more then one charactor, so knowing what your options are beside exalt is going to be impreitive However we won't get into it until we ave some people who are dedicated to learning.

And to your D&D question, I'm guessing you mean about balance nd everything. D&D is a very balanced game, that's waht it;s all about, always knowing what level of power you're at. Exalted is not, you're Super Jesus basically, you can crush the heads of mortals in your bare hands.

Should we mabye give an explaination of what we want to do with the story? Or at least our own charactor explainations, might draw a few believers in.