Ah, Exalted.
Exalted is a White Wolf production, of Vampire: The Gothening fame, and my does it show. There’s actually a great deal of interesting meat to their books, it’s just they aren’t very good at the actual game part.
Category: 1. Chosen of the Sun
Chosen of the Sun, Ch1
Chosen of the Sun, Ch2
The Most Learned and Venerable Hai Sholosh took his duties very seriously, which is why Tanak Milam didn’t take him seriously at all. Had Sholosh known this, he probably would have disciplined his acolyte severely, but since he was fundamentally absorbed in his work, it worked out for the best for all concerned
When this is your opening, you know it’s not going to be a good chapter. This is commits the greatest sin of being overly wordy and smug about it.
Chosen of the Sun, Ch3
Last time on D&Dxalted, a lot of things happened that don’t actually work under Exalted’s magic system, and so there’s a prophesy of something bad happening sometime soon, oh no!
Chosen of the Sun, Ch4
Last time on Chosen of the Dungeon Master, the undead servants of the void reenacted the three stooges and then Ratcatcher was sent to go find Wren alone.
Chosen of the Sun, Ch5
Last time on you’re here to read about mortals right? Wren walked along, singlehandedly beat up various armed bandits, and exposited about his best bud, Chejop Kejak.
Guess who this chapter’s about!
That seems to be the guiding principal for POV shifts so far. Character A thinks about Character B, then suddenly we’re Character B.
Chosen of the Sun, Ch6
Last time on I don’t even know exactly, Sidereals were stupid, but in the boring way instead of the interesting disaster type.
Chosen of the Sun, Ch7
Last time on padding and horses, Ratcatcher found a tunnel.
Chosen of the Sun, Ch8
Last time on basically Earth, the rotation of the planets means yet another person finds out the same damn thing.
Chosen of the Sun, Ch9
Last time on mortal mortal mortal ABYSSAL, another mortal runs into Ratcatcher, but this one doesn’t die.
Chosen of the Sun, Ch10-11
Last time on finally some exalting, Yushuv exalts. The Prince of Shadows is the next chapter’s viewpoint character! This book has never seen a viewpoint switch it didn’t love.
It’s an incredibly pointless chapter, but contains no lack of things not making sense. He wakes up in his bed and decides that he just knows something’s up, so he gets up and he’s naked because ??? and then goes for a walk without bothering with clothes.
In the hallway he finds a dying rat with a cut on its belly and somehow knows this means Ratcatcher, despite the fact it doesn’t make sense that Ratcatcher would be represented by a rat. I think you can fanwank an explanation for the symbolic part happening at all, though – when the Unconquered Sun fucked with the loom to produce the illusion/dream for Yuyu, he, like his Solars, did it by brute force instead of properly, causing there to be echos of the same situation happening in other areas of reality.
…and that’s the chapter.
In Ch11, we jump back to Yuyu, suggesting that the previous chapter was there just because the author wants to always switch viewpoints between a chapter.
Chosen of the Sun, Ch12-13
Last time on Chosen of the Sun, the sun’s chosen sure are dicks. May your lunar mate eat your socipathic ass, Yushuv.
Now back to Ratcatcher.
Chosen of the Sun, Ch14
Last time on filler filler, Ratcatcher dreamed and Wren introspected.
Chosen of the Sun Ch15
Last time on LOLSTATS, we talked about Ratcatcher’s abilities.
Ch15 brings us back to Yushuv. Let’s see if he redeems himself, sinks further into proving the Sids right, or just wanders being boring.
Chosen of the Sun Ch16
Last time on Solars, Yushuv wanders around on the road, gaining super archery skills and not understanding how fire works.
Now, back to the semibyssal.