Wondrous Atlas of Creation's Destiny: An Exalted Podcast

Raelz and Aramithius discuss the kind of games you can run with the Immaculate Order, and as befits a Creation-spanning ogranisation, we go... lots of places and themes, with some vain attempts to keep us on track injected at appropriate points. We cover how to reflect the Immaculate Order permeating Realm society, the kinds of things to do with a party of Immaculate monks, and wrap up concocting an audacious "missionary" scenario into Great Forks, which feels like it's Breaking Bad: Immaculate Edition.

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The Wondrous Atlas crew look into the Immaculate Order, outlining its precepts, structure and origins, as well as its crusading sister organisation and practice, the Wyld Hunt. There is, of course, the requisite amount of conspiracy theories, which are actually directly relevant this time!

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As part of that, we had a chat about Exalted and superhero fantasy on the Me & Steve Talk RPGs podcast. You can listen to that here: https://meandsteverpg.podbean.com/e/123-exalted-w-aramithius-raelz/

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Bibliography

Third Edition

• Exalted Third Edition Core Rulebook - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/162759/Exalted-3rd-Edition?affiliate_id=3704311
• Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/261732/DragonBlooded-What-Fire-Has-Wrought?affiliate_id=3704311
• The Realm - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/276067/The-Realm?affiliate_id=3704311

Second Edition

• Exalted Second Edition Core Rulebook - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3671/Exalted-Second-Edition?affiliate_id=3704311
• Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/12406/Manual-of-Exalted-Power-DragonBlooded?affiliate_id=3704311
• Compass of Celestial Directions I: The Blessed Isle - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/15925/The-Compass-of-Celestial-Directions-Vol-I--The-Blessed-Isle?affiliate_id=3704311

First Edition

• Exalted Core Rules - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/698/Exalted?affiliate_id=3704311
• The Book of 3 Circles - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1319/The-Book-of-3-Circles?affiliate_id=3704311
• Games of Divinity - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/976/Games-of-Divinity?affiliate_id=3704311
• Cult of the Illuminated - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/2365/Cult-of-the-Illuminated?affiliate_id=3704311

Aramithius and Raelz talk over the themes of House V'neef, and what kind of games you can run with them. Essentially, anything you want to make of them, as we realise that they're the "make them your own" Great House, while at the same time allowing PCs to play with Big Name NPCs with impunity. We finish with not one but two storylines being plotted out!

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The Wondrous Atlas crew talk over the newest Great House, the motley bunch of outcastes that comprise them, and the daughter of the Empress that leads them. On the way, we cover their character (or lack of it), get embroiled in their plan (or lack of it) for the Scarlet Throne, and have both of us burst into song at one point. Not for long, we promise! Also, new video podcast features are on show, with map zooming!

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Bibliography

Third Edition

• Exalted Third Edition Core Rulebook - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/162759/Exalted-3rd-Edition?affiliate_id=3704311
• Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/261732/DragonBlooded-What-Fire-Has-Wrought?affiliate_id=3704311
• Heirs to the Shogunate - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/358947/Heirs-to-the-Shogunate? affiliate_id=3704311
• The Realm - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/276067/The-Realm?affiliate_id=3704311

Second Edition

• Exalted Second Edition Core Rulebook - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3671/Exalted-Second-Edition?affiliate_id=3704311
• Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/12406/Manual-of-Exalted-Power-DragonBlooded?affiliate_id=3704311
• Compass of Celestial Directions I: The Blessed Isle - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/15925/The-Compass-of-Celestial-Directions-Vol-I--The-Blessed-Isle?affiliate_id=3704311 Compass of Terrestrial Directions II: The West - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/28799/The-Compass-of-Terrestrial-Directions-Vol-II--The-West?affiliate_id=3704311
• Compass of Terrestrial Directions III: The East - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/57873/The-Compass-of-Terrestrial-Directions-Vol-III--The-East?affiliate_id=3704311
• Compass of Terrestrial Directions IV: The South - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/59982/The-Compass-of-Terrestrial-Directions-Vol-IV--The-South?affiliate_id=3704311
• Compass of Terrestrial Directions V: The North - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/65698/The-Compass-of-Terrestrial-Directions-Vol-V--The-North?affiliate_id=3704311

First Edition

• Exalted Rulebook - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/698/Exalted?affiliate_id=3704311
• Exalted: The Dragon-Blooded - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1304/Exalted-The-DragonBlooded?affiliate_id=3704311
• Aspect Book: Wood - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/2412/Aspect-Book-Wood?affiliate_id=3704311
• Houses of the Bull God - https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1365/Houses-of-the-Bull-God?affiliate_id=3704311

The Wondrous Atlas discuss all of the various schemes and plots and hooks that can come out of House Sesus, from how to think about Great House espionage in general to the school of hard knocks in the Palace of the Tamed Storm, there can be quite an unfortunate series of events going on. Lots of suggestions for how Sesus can be used as antagonists in non-Sesus games as well. It's almost like they were designed that way. We wrap up with an outline for a game trying to contain a jailbreak from the Ice-Above-Water Prison.

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Aramithius and Raelz discuss the Great House Sesus, who aren't really so great when you get down to it. There are criminals, blaggards and stooges a-plenty in this House, which is everything from a no-holds-barred military house to some of the most competent spies in the Realm.

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Bibliography

Third Edition

• Exalted Third Edition Core Rulebook: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/162759/Exalted-3rd-Edition?affiliate_id=3704311
• Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/261732/DragonBlooded-What-Fire-Has-Wrought?affiliate_id=3704311
• The Realm: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/276067/The-Realm?affiliate_id=3704311

Second Edition

• Exalted Second Edition Core Rulebook: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3671/Exalted-Second-Edition?affiliate_id=3704311
• Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/12406/Manual-of-Exalted-Power-DragonBlooded?affiliate_id=3704311

First Edition

• Exalted Rulebook: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/698/Exalted?affiliate_id=3704311
• Exalted: The Dragon-Blooded: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1304/Exalted-The-DragonBlooded?affiliate_id=3704311

Aramithius and Raelz discuss the various story hooks, plots and characters that House Ragara supports. There's lots of talk about crime, collecting debts and dealing with demons, and a dawning realisation that House Ragara might be a really interesting choice of questgiver in a particular type of Celestial Exalts game. We finish with a (possibly vain) attempt to envision what a morally good House Ragara character would look like.

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The Wondrous Atlas opens on Great House Ragara, an unusually patriarchal clan of bankers who really don't want to be brought into the light, alongside their home prefecture of Corin. Along the way we discuss heresy, nefarious finacial schemes, incest and attempts to use demons, Anathema and worse to get their way in Creation. We did try to find some redeeming features in there, but there were none to be found.

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Bibliography

Third Edition

• Exalted Third Edition Core Rulebook: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/162759/Exalted-3rd-Edition?affiliate_id=3704311
• Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/261732/DragonBlooded-What-Fire-Has-Wrought?affiliate_id=3704311
• The Realm: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/276067/The-Realm?affiliate_id=3704311

Second Edition

• Exalted Second Edition Core Rulebook: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/3671/Exalted-Second-Edition?affiliate_id=3704311
• Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/12406/Manual-of-Exalted-Power-DragonBlooded?affiliate_id=3704311
• Manual of Exalted Power: Infernals
• Compass of Celestial Directions, Volume I: The Blessed Isle: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/15925/The-Compass-of-Celestial-Directions-Vol-I--The-Blessed-Isle?affiliate_id=3704311
• Compass of Terrestrial Directions IV: The South: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/59982/The-Compass-of-Terrestrial-Directions-Vol-IV--The-South?affiliate_id=3704311

First Edition

• Exalted Rulebook: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/698/Exalted?affiliate_id=3704311
• Exalted: The Dragon-Blooded: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/1304/Exalted-The-DragonBlooded?affiliate_id=3704311

We discuss that, as a Storyteller, there is nothing half so much worth doing as messing about with House Peleps. We do some naval gazing, discuss how to stage the War in the West as well as using Peleps in some landed games, for a bit of variety. The episode finishes with an outline of a monster hunt game gone horribly wrong, and how to mix naval, social and Malfean games…

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We discuss the kinds of stories that you can come up with for House Mnemon and how to use them in your games as both PCs and NPCs. With some particular thoughts about Mnemon-Darjilis and how to include Mnemon herself in your games. We wrap up with a description of a secluded manse in the South, which is just a little too much of a stickler for the rules...

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Aramithius and Raelz dig into House Mnemon, that great place of architects and Immaculacy (see, we found the proper word!), which we decide is possibly most Realm-est of Houses. We find that they're mostly good people, but get VERY opinionated about the House founder, who is one of the best sorcerers, most brilliant politicians, and possibly the creepiest grandma you could ever have. For many, many reasons.

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Aramithius and Raelz discuss the story possibilities that come out of House Ledaal, from investigating things that go bump in the night to what shenanigans you can get up to with Ledaal characters in High School games. We finish with what themes work best with games in Ledaal territories, and give a story outline that will see players face off against the consequences of oracle gone bad (or maybe that was never good) in the cliffs of the Arjulf Dominion.

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This episode we look into the loyal guard dogs of the Realm, the air-aspected House Ledaal, in all their bookish, ghostbustery, supernatural consultancy glory. We discuss the House's Shadow Crusade against the Anathema, and how they're likely to be utterly screwed in any Realm civil war unless they can bring themselves to talk nicely to someone else.

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Bibliography:

Third Edition

• Ex3 Core Book
• Dragon-Blooded: What Fire Has Wrought
• The Realm

Second Edition

• Exalted 2e rulebook
• Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded

First Edition

• Exalted 1e rulebook
• Blood & Salt
• Cult of the Illuminated

We discuss the story themes most appropriate for House Iselsi, from spy games to exploring the various implications of the Iselsi theshold states. We also discus how to run Iselsi as both PCs and NPCs, and finish up with a rough presentation of how to run a game based around Iselsi assassinations.

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Aramithius and Raelz discuss the house that is not a House, and examine House Iselsi and their vendetta against the other Great Houses that so eagerly picked them apart. We discuss their history  and holdings, and why they could be the last hope for the Realm. Maybe. Or maybe they're just a bunch of trained killers without a leader any more.

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Bibliography:

Third edition

• Exalted Third Edition core rulebook
• Dragon-Blooded: What Fire has Wrought
• The Realm
• Heirs to the Shogunate

Second Edition

• Exalted Second Edition core rulebook
• Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded

First Edition

• Exalted First Edition core rulebook
• Dragon-Blooded

We discuss how to best make games around House Cynis, from social conspiracies to exploration into the deep East in search of poisons. We also realise quite how different House Cynis and House Sesus espionage games should be, and come up with a story on the fly for you, the epic matchmaking cometragedy of Ro-Myo and Jaio-Liet.

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Bibliography:

Third edition

• Exalted Third Edition core rulebook
• Dragon-Blooded: What Fire has Wrought
• The Realm
• Heirs to the Shogunate

Second Edition

• Exalted Second Edition core rulebook
• Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded
• Compass of Terrestrial Directions

First Edition

• Exalted First Edition core rulebook
• Dragon-Blooded

Aramithius and Raelz look into the shadowy soirees and puissant poisons of House Cynis, the Realm's go-to partygoers and slave traders, guardians of the Golden Road to the East. We discuss what the ultimate goals of the House are, uncover some of the most over-the-top NPCs ever written for Exalted, and realise that there is a set of marriages that would be great and terrifying to behold, if the House could ever get itself in order enough to pull them off.

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Bibliography:

Third edition

• Exalted Third Edition core rulebook
• Dragon-Blooded: What Fire has Wrought
• The Realm
• Heirs to the Shogunate

Second Edition

• Exalted Second Edition core rulebook
• Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded
• Compass of Terrestrial Directions

First Edition

• Exalted First Edition core rulebook
• Dragon-Blooded

House Cathak has a fantastic moral compass that can lead to some interesting takes on Dragon-Blooded politics. We discuss that, re-tread some ground on how to run a military game, and explore what possible games you can run in House Cathak's holdings, with a focus on Myion as well as exploring what special things can be done in Myion City, the Fifteen Leagues Redoubt, Glass, and Mavinyos.

The episode finishes up with an outline of two House Cathak characters we've made that exemplify some of the themes of the House, a rather direct ex-military diplomat who treats everything like a game Gateway, and a garrison commander from Fajad.

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Aramithius and Raelz go over the prototypical Realm military house, House Cathak. Along the way we also discuss their House founder, current matriarch, other famous people, and their prefecture of Myion as well as briefly touching on a few key satrapies outside of that. On the way, we discover that nearly everywhere, there is religious tension that threatens to boil over into violent conflict.

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Bibliography:

Third edition

• Exalted Third Edition core rulebook
• The Realm
• Heirs to the Shogunate

Second Edition

• Exalted Second Edition core rulebook
• Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded
• Compass of Terrestrial Directions

First Edition

• Exalted First Edition core rulebook
• Dragon-Blooded

Aramithius and Raelz discuss the imperial behemoth of Creation, the Realm, and how it works. We cover the Great Houses, the ministries, the satrapy system and more as we dissect Creation's largest empire, from its origins to how it's in the process of falling apart at the current time in the setting.

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Bibliography Third edition

• Exalted Third Edition core rulebook
• The Realm
• Heirs to the Shogunate

Second Edition

• Exalted Second Edition core rulebook
• Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded
• Compass of Terrestrial Directions

First Edition

• Exalted First Edition core rulebook
• Dragon-Blooded

This episode discusses the kind of stories you can tell in the Realm, from high school games will newly hatched Dragon-Blooded to ministry games and political intrigue, to some initial thoughts on how to use the impending Realm Civil War in your game, and what it means for Realm Dragon-Blooded characters. We finish by presenting two templates for games, a Great Houses murder mystery and a magistrates game of intrigue and double-dealing in Lathe.

See the outline for the Great Houses murder mystery game here: https://wondrousatlas.wordpress.com/2022/08/05/the-curious-affair-of-the-gala-at-hanfeijo/

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Wondrous Atlas discusses the lore behind the Dragon-blooded, the least powerful yet most prolific, most flexible and possibly the most heroic Exalted in Creation. Along the way we realise quite how weird some of the types of Dragon-blooded have been over the years... Listen in to find out about these versatile Exalted.

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Aramithius and Raelz talk over all of the stories you can tell with the Dragon-blooded, and the things to bear in mind with play. They don't just have to be Realm quislings! Then our expanded story outlines take a somewhat dark turn as we both produce sinister mysteries for our adventure outlines, with one for the Forest Witches and one to find out what's happening in Gloam...

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Our scatterbrained hosts discuss what plots and schemes are best suited to the Lunar Exalted, with a focus on character, how to get players to like your NPCs, and why having a Lunar impersonate the Scarlet Empress is a bad idea. The episode rounds off with a discussion of some fleshed out story hooks on the situation in Medo, and a scenario to determine the fate of the Linowan and Halta around the Silver River.

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Raelz and Aramithius discuss the nature, origins and history of the Lunar Exalted, Chosen of the Moon. Along the way we outline a few notable Lunar characters, how Creation works and... a whole bunch of other stuff. This episode was as changeable as the Lunars themselves. You have been warned!

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Wondrous Atlas explores the kinds of stories that are archetypally Solar, from conquering kingdoms to raiding tombs, and how best to implement them. The episode finishes by outlining two Solar adventures, an archeological dig raid and an undead hunt in the West.

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Aramithius and Raelz go over the ostensible "protagonists" of Exalted, the Solars. We discuss what they are, where they come from, and come to realise that pretty much every concept out there can be an Eclipse Caste.

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