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Ah, I was pleasantly surprised to come home yesterday to see that my copy of Scroll of Exalts had arrived from Amazon. I've paged through the book and its been a good read so far (obviously, I poured through the infernal and abyssal entries first).
I think I might have heard this before and just forgot or wasn't sure about the veracity of the claim, but I guess I didn't know the abyssal signature characters were a circle working for Mask of Winters. Some of their backgrounds weren't a big surprise- Lady of Darkness in Bloodstained Robes, as of course, a slutty whore (literally) before she exalted. And the Seven Degreed Physician of Black Maladies was a doctor of ill repute (shady experiments, organ trafficking and the like). I wasn't sure what to think of Falling Tears Poet, because he's got the full cloak and mask and carries the huge goremaul, but he indeed was a poet in his former life. (And one of those pretentious ones, too)
I expected the Disciple of the Seven Forbidden Wisdoms to be strictly Mr stealthy assassin with his attributes and skills set up toward those, but he was apparently quite the lothario in his living life, seducing his way to various rich women (and men!)'s bed chambers and robbing them afterward. Maiden of the Mirthless Smile is another interesting surprise. Apparently, she was a rich girl who had Whispers as a mortal, which of course turned her into a total sociopath and serial killer at an early age. Unlike the others, who had their situations, and something bad happened, and were offered the dark exaltation, she actually made her way to Thorns with the intent of becoming a Death Knight. Also surprising, though you have trouble telling from the art, she's apparently prettier than Lady of Darkness (App 4 to LoD's App 3), which pisses the latter off to no end.
They also covered a few other Deathknights, further fleshing out Typhon, Fallen Wolf, and Weeping Raiton from the main Abyssal book. There's also Meticulous Owl. First and Forsaken Lion's spymaster, who's identity is just as crazy as the Green Lady. He's a Moonshadow caste, but since FaFL hates moonshadows, Lion insists he's a Day caste. He's just too proud to admit Meticulous Owl, a moonshadow, is useful, so for his pride, he's deluded himself into "believing" that Meticulous Owl is Day. And he's the FaFL, who the hell is going to argue with him!? Meticulous Owl certainly isn't. "Oh, I'm a Day caste because you hate Moonshadows? Yes sir!" Anyways, even weirder is he has the Yozi Ebon Dragon as a mentor, so he knows quite a few infernal charms, and he has Rakshasa princes as allies. So its hard to know which evil side he's on, since he has connections to the big 3 threats (Neverborn, Yozis, and Fair Folk)
Oh, I almost forgot about Prince of Shadows, the bishi looking Abyssal working for the Lover. He's quite classy and stylish!
They only cover the five signature infernals, there's no new infernals they come up with, so that's disappointing. But they're all pretty decent, and Manosque Cyan gets huge props for infiltrating so deeply in the Imperial Court. But it seemed like she was already in a good position before her exaltation, so the hard part was already done.
But the book also has nameless gunslinger solar, and the cool "ninja" looking sidereals, Crimson Banner Executioner and Black Ice Shadow. Black Ice Shadow is particularly cool because his look and demeanor are very deathknight-ish, so he can pass as an Abyssal to people who don't really know what an Abyssal is. And he's a practitioner of Fire Dragon style, but given his deathishness, the fire of the style manifests as a cool evil-looking green rather than normal red-orange.
There are a lot of Solars, Sidereals, and Dragonbloods in the book that I haven't gotten to and I was unfamiliar with, but I guess I'll have time to pour through it more this weekend.
I think I might have heard this before and just forgot or wasn't sure about the veracity of the claim, but I guess I didn't know the abyssal signature characters were a circle working for Mask of Winters. Some of their backgrounds weren't a big surprise- Lady of Darkness in Bloodstained Robes, as of course, a slutty whore (literally) before she exalted. And the Seven Degreed Physician of Black Maladies was a doctor of ill repute (shady experiments, organ trafficking and the like). I wasn't sure what to think of Falling Tears Poet, because he's got the full cloak and mask and carries the huge goremaul, but he indeed was a poet in his former life. (And one of those pretentious ones, too)
I expected the Disciple of the Seven Forbidden Wisdoms to be strictly Mr stealthy assassin with his attributes and skills set up toward those, but he was apparently quite the lothario in his living life, seducing his way to various rich women (and men!)'s bed chambers and robbing them afterward. Maiden of the Mirthless Smile is another interesting surprise. Apparently, she was a rich girl who had Whispers as a mortal, which of course turned her into a total sociopath and serial killer at an early age. Unlike the others, who had their situations, and something bad happened, and were offered the dark exaltation, she actually made her way to Thorns with the intent of becoming a Death Knight. Also surprising, though you have trouble telling from the art, she's apparently prettier than Lady of Darkness (App 4 to LoD's App 3), which pisses the latter off to no end.
They also covered a few other Deathknights, further fleshing out Typhon, Fallen Wolf, and Weeping Raiton from the main Abyssal book. There's also Meticulous Owl. First and Forsaken Lion's spymaster, who's identity is just as crazy as the Green Lady. He's a Moonshadow caste, but since FaFL hates moonshadows, Lion insists he's a Day caste. He's just too proud to admit Meticulous Owl, a moonshadow, is useful, so for his pride, he's deluded himself into "believing" that Meticulous Owl is Day. And he's the FaFL, who the hell is going to argue with him!? Meticulous Owl certainly isn't. "Oh, I'm a Day caste because you hate Moonshadows? Yes sir!" Anyways, even weirder is he has the Yozi Ebon Dragon as a mentor, so he knows quite a few infernal charms, and he has Rakshasa princes as allies. So its hard to know which evil side he's on, since he has connections to the big 3 threats (Neverborn, Yozis, and Fair Folk)
Oh, I almost forgot about Prince of Shadows, the bishi looking Abyssal working for the Lover. He's quite classy and stylish!
They only cover the five signature infernals, there's no new infernals they come up with, so that's disappointing. But they're all pretty decent, and Manosque Cyan gets huge props for infiltrating so deeply in the Imperial Court. But it seemed like she was already in a good position before her exaltation, so the hard part was already done.
But the book also has nameless gunslinger solar, and the cool "ninja" looking sidereals, Crimson Banner Executioner and Black Ice Shadow. Black Ice Shadow is particularly cool because his look and demeanor are very deathknight-ish, so he can pass as an Abyssal to people who don't really know what an Abyssal is. And he's a practitioner of Fire Dragon style, but given his deathishness, the fire of the style manifests as a cool evil-looking green rather than normal red-orange.
There are a lot of Solars, Sidereals, and Dragonbloods in the book that I haven't gotten to and I was unfamiliar with, but I guess I'll have time to pour through it more this weekend.