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mrudat wrote on Thu, 26 January 2012 03:37

I suspect that, in the Whateley Universe, an exalted would be (from what little I understand of the system from third hand information), a Paladin of whichever power exalted them. Without bothering to go check, I believe a Paladin is more-or-less an Avatar playing host to a subset of a entity too powerful for them (or any single Avatar) to hold. I suspect that there is probably some upper limit to how much power can be infused into any particular avatar, and I'd imagine that an Exalted would exceed the limits of even the most powerful of avatars, thus, limiting the shiny new character's powers to merely game-breaking, rather than world-ending. =)

Not quite the same deal but a similar idea, it might even work along those lines if an Avatar Exalted or otherwise got ahold of an exaltation.

Except our intrepid heroine is neither a mutant nor from a world where they even exist, so while she probably will end up classed as a Pseudo-Avatar/Paladin (if only so they have a box they can tick on any relevant paperwork) she's still, technically speaking, more baseline than a baseline as it were (coming from a genepool entirely lacking the metagene). And while she does have the potential to become a real game-breaker it won't be any time soon. The real limiting here factor is going to be time. Solar Exalted have natural lifespans of 2000-3000 years and can live for 5000-7000 years with the right charm. It's gonna take decades of experience and training for her to come into the majority of her power.

A freshly exalted Solar, especially one who's charmset isn't combat focused is powerful, but hardly game breaking. And of course there's always the golden rule of storytelling: the more powerful your protagonist is the more powerful the forces arrayed against them need to be to make an interesting story.

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