==== Goals ====
  * **High Adventure**: You are nearly a demi-god.  The peons around you shackle you to mediocrity.  Your destiny is great things.  You must embrace it!
  * **Fast Paced**:  Don't overplan things.  Pick a direction and charge with gusto.  If you try and things don't work out perfectly, you'll have an interesting story, if it does, well, thats great!
  * **Character Driven**:  You are exalted above your peers.  Act like it.  You can theoretically accomplish anything if you try hard enough.  Impose your will on the world and make it your own.
  * **Action Packed**: I'm aiming for one or more combats or other action scenes per session.

==== Driving Concepts ====
  * **Rule of Things that Look Dangerous**: If in doubt, do something.  If an opponent is sufficiently dangerous to give pause, he/she/it should make it obvious by the way I describe it.  
  * **Rule of You Shall Know Me By My Name**: Exalted names contain meaning.  If a name sounds scary, it probably is.  If it sounds sneaky, it probably is.
  * **Rule of Expectation**: If you adhere to the preceding rules, you are expected to win (assuming you meet the combat guidelines). Act like it.
  * **Rule of This **: [[:empress:trapmaster.jpg|This]] and [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0271.html|This]]

==== Protagonists ====
  * [[empress:protagonists:isha:index|Born of Basalt]] (Nellens Trona Isha)
  * [[empress:protagonists:rathimund:index|Searing Light of Reason]] (Nellens Irrathelle Rathimund)
  * [[empress:protagonists:grantaire:index|Nellens Palaven Grantaire]]
  * [[empress:protagonists:voltaris:index|Voltaris]] (previously [[empress:protagonists:azralon:index|Nellens Kazeden Azralon]])
==== Setting and NPCs ====
  * [[empress:npcs|Non-player actors]]
  * [[exalted:locations:index|World Maps]]
  * [[empress:locations|Locations]]
==== Rules ====
  * Training times/Advancement
    * Essence is only raised via story event, and cannot be trained
    * All Skill and Attribute Training times are ignored (that is, immediate)
    * Charm Training Times for favored abilities are immediate
    * Charm Training Times for non-favored abilities are 1 day and require a teacher
    * Spells require 1 day to learn, and need a teacher/grimoire
  * [[exalted:cheat_sheet|Cheat Sheet]]
  * [[http://www.brilliantdisaster.net/dif/ExaltedCheatsheet.html|External Cheat Sheet]]
  * [[empress:chargen|Character generation rules]]
  * [[http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=Answers12|Dragon-Blooded Errata]]
==== Resources ====
  * [[Issues|Issues]] -- Resolved and Otherwise
  * Internal Reference Database (for purposes of linking details off character sheets)
    * [[Charms - Dragonblooded]]
    * [[Charms - Solar]]
    * [[Charms - Martial Arts]]
    * [[Spells]]
    * [[Artifacts]]
    * [[Hearthstones]]
    * [[Backgrounds]]
    * [[Manse Powers]]
    * [[Merits]]
    * [[Flaws]]
    * [[Definitions]]
    * [[Other]]
  * [[http://anathema.github.com/|Anathema - Exalted Character Builder]]
  * [[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0001.html|Keychain of Creation, an Exalted Comic]]