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Dude they get to have daily, weekly, hourly, battles against Bannery Bu when she goes all nutz and tries to take over the Daystar. Bannery's issue is with Nysela coopting the Daystar, not with the Ignis Divine. Now the real question is Bannery one of Autobot's souls? And just what had Autobot been building?



I also love how the time of cascading years was not bored Solars utterly destroying Creation, but rather another Primordial breaking it...

PDFs and so on.

This wouldn't work. Not only because they are things that should be beyond summoning because they beat any transportation spell you have but because the deathlords would have already done it if it was possible.

Woot! Hollows! Or maybe Arrancars.



I find this very interesting in the light of the fact that those existed long before the Exalted were created.



What does Rahu looks like?

Does that mean that a righteous dead from the Time of Glory can still chose to become a Lumen even now? Or just that people that die now can do it? Is there a time limit before deciding to dedicate oneself to the Sun?

But... what if the po has already been destroyed? Is it impossible to become a lumina, then?



I like how a powerful Lumen can have several statues in the Daystar so that he can quickly emerge in various parts should he be needed. And even better than that:
So that you can have a Lumen interact with the players even if they never even come close to the Daystar! Yeah!

Not be a deathlord for starters. Deathlords are explicitly excluded from getting to play with the Midnight Express. Doesn't mean an Abyssal necromancer couldn't do it. We don't know they explicitly beat any transportation spell, either.



I'm mostly imagining it as like just giving you a train ticket to take you on a single trip to somewhere you've been before either in Creation or the Underworld respectively, barring any quirks in their design that would prevent them from going somewhere or if they're doing something else. I wouldn't make it force them to come to you, just let them know that an important passenger would like a ride. I was mostly just inspired by the Harry Potter 'hold out your wand and the wizard bus will pick you up' thing.



And, of course, you have to deal with anyone else aboard the train at the time. Which could prove interesting.

The one thing I want to know about the midnight train is if it feels the need to slaughter things at random.

Well it doesn't seem to be interested in riddles, so I think we're okay.

Honestly, great stuff.  The trains were awesome.

Honestly, I was kind of hoping for it to have some crazy stats, too. I get that it's really made for things beyond just hitting stuff with it, but I was hoping it'd make the wielder a force to be reckoned with himself along with summoning and commanding armies.

I wonder how Merela felt not wielding Aidenweiss during the Aftershock War.  I mean she was probably more or less fine not wielding during the Primordial War as it was likely granted before she proved herself, beat a Primordial to death with her bare hands, bedded the Unconquered Sun, & was granted the Crown of Thunders; but as the Unconquered Sun's named "Queen of Creation" (as far as she was concerned that's what happened anyway) you'd think she'd see herself as the rightful recipiant of the sword & commander of the Deliberative forces during the Aftershock War.

Well, I think it'd suck if it was JUST a high-statted daiklave, too. Moreso than it does the other way around. But this is Exalted, and it's Artifact N/A. Couldn't it be both?



Also, I wasn't just thinking 'higher stats'. I was thinking unique powers that affect its personal combat capability BEYOND high stats.

Aidenweiss was interesting before we had any stats for it whatsoever. Big numbers wouldn't change that.

I think the Ink Monkeys are more than capable of avoiding that sort of pitfall.



But I guess having it this way prevents people from wanting it just for the stats and trying to steal it just because they want an awesome sword and think they can take Gardullis.

I'm am glad it's advantages aren't focuses on direct combat, but rather actually represent its purpose.  That said, a few extra things might be thematically appropriate, like it doing aggravated damage against Creatures of Darkness, since it does perpetuate the principle of Holy & all...

So about that third wielder of the Aidenweiss... did (s)he steal the sword?  I ask because no reason is mentioned for him/her to have been granted it before (s)he went on his/her mad quest to release Malfeas.

LOLcontext!

Lumina kinda confuse me it says they do it because they can never achieve their dreams and aspirations otherwise but they will never get to achieve them anyway because all they get to do is sit on their bum and meditate in the daystar that sounds extremely lame. Staying as ghosts they would be less powerfull but with more potential to go out and do things than just hang around in the daystar boy that must be fun. Gilded Cage eh?



Also supposedly there is an entire host of them and they get to be more powerfull than terrestrial exalted ? Whats up with that no shards no awesome and yet ucs gets a private army thats fanaticallly loyal to  him. Plan B? Im starting to get a feeling that ucs was massively insecure , first celestial lions then this etc.

Hence the comment by the peanut gallery that their existence wasn't a happy shiny Exalted heaven. Though, really, it's more that they give up what they want in exchange for a greater purpose. Which is to become Gods of the Sun.

My sentiments exactly. I love how Exalted has no "sword of Infinity+1", and that raising the artifact level of a weapon rarely change its stats, and even when it does it's never significant. High level artifacts are not "swords but better!" they have reality shaking powers (like getting the Gardulis to run after you, that's funny).



You don't need to work to get your Daiklave+5 (with Axiomatic and Forstburst powers) to be correctly armed, a regular 2~3 dot artifact is about as good as it gets for raw combat stats.

Demons of the 2nd/3rd Circle, and high class celestial gods have always been stronger than a single Dragon-Blooded, that's not new.



Speaking of "not new", the Lumina existed looong before the Exalted were created.



A Greater Elemental Dragon of Fire



who is contained inside the Sun

For the record, I had a daiklave that was a Manse in my game long ago.