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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 2025595" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>You missed out the first part of the history. In the beginning, as much as there can be said to be a beginning, the Primordials created Creation out of the Wyld. Then, they decided that they had better things to do than actually manage the thing they had wrought, so they created the gods of various levels in order to deal with the day-to-day operations, while they kicked back and played the Games of Divinity. After a while, the gods became tired of doing all the drudgework, and wanted some of that Games action for themselves.</p><p></p><p>However, the primordials weren't totally stupid. When they had created the gods, they had also made them unable to act directly against the primordials. Instead, the top gods (Unconquered Sun, Luna, the five Maidens, and the five Elemental Dragons), with the help of a renegade Primordial, created the Exalted in order to bring down the Primordials. The neat thing about the Exalted, other than being pretty darn powerful, was that when they died, the shard of divine power that was put into them instead sought out another "host" - so when the Primordials and their forces killed one, another would take its place.</p><p></p><p>Eventually, the armies of the Gods managed to kill or exile all the Primordials. As the remaining Primordials were driven into exile, they (secretly) tried to curse the gods for their treachery. However, the gods weren't totally stupid either - they had taken precautions to shield themselves against such things. Instead, the curse bounced off them and hit the Exalted instead. This means that the Exalted are fundamentally flawed. In Solars, this expresses itself as a predilection for extreme passions - in Greek mythology, Hercules was magically driven into a rage where he killed his wife and children. Had it been Exalted, that could have been the result of the Great Curse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 2025595, member: 907"] You missed out the first part of the history. In the beginning, as much as there can be said to be a beginning, the Primordials created Creation out of the Wyld. Then, they decided that they had better things to do than actually manage the thing they had wrought, so they created the gods of various levels in order to deal with the day-to-day operations, while they kicked back and played the Games of Divinity. After a while, the gods became tired of doing all the drudgework, and wanted some of that Games action for themselves. However, the primordials weren't totally stupid. When they had created the gods, they had also made them unable to act directly against the primordials. Instead, the top gods (Unconquered Sun, Luna, the five Maidens, and the five Elemental Dragons), with the help of a renegade Primordial, created the Exalted in order to bring down the Primordials. The neat thing about the Exalted, other than being pretty darn powerful, was that when they died, the shard of divine power that was put into them instead sought out another "host" - so when the Primordials and their forces killed one, another would take its place. Eventually, the armies of the Gods managed to kill or exile all the Primordials. As the remaining Primordials were driven into exile, they (secretly) tried to curse the gods for their treachery. However, the gods weren't totally stupid either - they had taken precautions to shield themselves against such things. Instead, the curse bounced off them and hit the Exalted instead. This means that the Exalted are fundamentally flawed. In Solars, this expresses itself as a predilection for extreme passions - in Greek mythology, Hercules was magically driven into a rage where he killed his wife and children. Had it been Exalted, that could have been the result of the Great Curse. [/QUOTE]
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