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Tendaji has a rough relationship with her first-age predecessor. It isn’t helpful that they had a grudge against the rest of the party’s first-age guys. Glitchy false memories are so fun for mental health.

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Tendaji had a wonderful time teleporting xerself through time. Sure there was a bit where xe relieved a moment of xer First Age incarnation negotiating fucked up war crimes. But that totally hasn’t messed with xer mental state — not at all. Nope. In no way is this blending xer memories together like a brain puree. Tennie is so Normal about this.

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I’ve mentioned before that in Exalted that the Solars/Lunars all have past lives in a forgotten age, so I wanted to doodle our party’s first age sona’s and their associated counterparts.

Okashi, Eater of Heroes (the shark lady) is first-age Bite, an ancient megalodon-shape Lunar who rejected society to live as a rad sea monster. Lightning-Graced Albatross (the little guy with the spear) is first-age Rahu, a bounty hunter who was tasked with slaying Okashi, but instead they fell in love and their romance remains one of the most enduring of first-age myths

Koshei Final-Heart (the thin lady with the gun) is first-age Vigor, an Eclipse-caste solar who was wed to Honesty of the Cinders (the big lady with the scary eye), who was first-age Candor. The pair were members of a radical mercenary group that wanted to destroy Creation and rebuild from the ashes. Scary stuff! It’s probably related to why both Candor and Vigor are Abyssals now.

Lammasu Bleeding Honey (the big fanged woman) was first-age Mokshi, the captain of the defense forces in the great city of Deheleshen. She was the spouse of Ten Minutes to Sunset (the short queen) who is first-age Tendaji. Sunset was the chief architect of Deheleshen and was also responsible for their array of giant siege-defense cannons. From the outside they were the perfect power couple, but in reality neither of them truly understood the other.

It’s been fun building all this narrative with my fellow players, and we’re planning on interweaving all their stories together with the fall of the first-age. Super dramatic and exciting!

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In Exalted lore, there was once a golden age long long ago where the Solar Exalts reigned supreme before going completely mad with power. The Solars and Lunars in game therefore had past incarnations that wielded their signature demigod powers.

Ten Minutes to Sunset (xe/xer or she/her) was the First Age bearer of Tendaji’s spark of exaltation. Xe wasn’t a very nice person if that wasn’t obvious from xer menacing vibes. Sunnie was a genius architect who went down a spiral of obsession and corruption over a network of giant siege cannons xe had created.

While for all accounts Sunnie should be dead and gone, something haunts Tendaji’s solar spark like a ghost in the machine. A lingering set of emotions and ambitions that cause her no shortage of grief. And that phantom glitch would really like it if Tendaji took up the mantle of her past-incarnation at the expense of her own humanity and identity. Y’know, totally normal stuff.