History Exalted / TropesIToP

* LightFireJuxtaposition: the light-wielding solar exalted are contrasted by the green hell princes, which use (green) fire.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Silver Voiced Nightingale is an entire Martial Art based around this.

** Both books dedicated to TheFairFolk are notorious for being [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible a little difficult to understand]].

* PteroSoarer: Downplayed by sky titans. Their artwork shows them as fairly realistic azhdarchid pterosaurs, but their otherwise share the trope's propensity for preying on human-sized, land-bound victims that they divebomb like meteors and pull into the heavens to toy with before swallowing whole.

* OldShame: 2nd Edition's ''Scroll of the Monk'' and the much-reviled ''Void Avatar Prana'' for Ink Monkey Dean Shomshak.

* LeftJustifiedFantasyMap: The Elemental Pole of Water, and thus Creation's single major ocean (and boy, is it a doozy of one), is in the West. This is somewhat justified [[IncrediblyLamePun (ha)]], as Creation has not stabilized at the borders of the map and runs off into the Wyld. They even state that the waters in the far western pole have no floor and simply flow on eternally. These regions also state that they are adjacent to the encroaching Wyld.

** In 3rd Edition the Jade Prison was hidden in the stars, and so far there isn't information on how it got broken. However, their choice of location did end up hurting them as it broke their constellation, cursing them with Arcane Fate and thus preventing them from *directly* taking a leadership role in recovering efforts in Creation.

** In 3rd Edition the Jade Prison was hidden in the stars, and so far there isn't information on how it got broken. However, their choice of location, did end up hurting them, as it broke their constellation, cursing them with Arcane Fate, thus preventing them from *directly* taking a leadership role in recovering efforts in Creation.

** In 3rd Edition the Jade Prison was hidden in the stars, and so far there isn't information on how it got broken.

* MinorlyMentionedMythsAndMonsters: Furiae are [[{{Expy}} Creation's version]] of Myth/GreekMythology's Furies, vengeance and merciless justice given form by the Wyld, with hawklike bodies and near-human faces with sharp teeth.

* MadeOfMagic: '''''[[UpToEleven Everything]]'''''. Most notably (and literally) the Essence equipment created by Charms such as ''Glorious Solar Saber'' or ''Immaculate Golden Bow''.

** Leviathan is a Lunar from the First Age who has spent the past few millennia stuck in his spirit shape as an orca, and has a custom shapeshifting Knack that makes him gigantic and allows him to be counted as his own military force in mass combat.

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* IncestIsRelative: There are some... interesting rumors about what House Cynis gets up to in their private time. How much this turns out to be the case is up to the ST and players in any given game.

** The progressive stages of the setting's martial arts are referred to in-universe through lotus imagery. The system of martial arts is collectively referred to as the Perfected Lotus of Understanding, with each tier of arts representing a part of the plant. Mundane martial arts are the mud in which the lotus grows; they are not part of it, but it would not exist without them. Terrestrial martial arts form the root of the lotus, transcending the mud of their origin but still connected to it and more mundane than what follows. The more obviously supernatural Celestial martial arts are the bulb and stem, leaving mortality behind and reaching towards the heavens. Sidereal martial arts the bloom, abstracted and beautified beyond all their preceding steps. All stages of this system, in this mode of thought, depend upon one another like the parts of the plant do. Without the mud and roots, the perfected higher parts wouldn't exist; without the bloom, the lower parts would never lead to any more worthwhile state.

* NamesTheSame: Just to be clear: the Void that afflicts Autochthon isn't the same Void as Oblivion. Autochthon's Void is a manifestation of his [[FanNickname robo-cancer]].

* ALoadOfBull:
** One of the signature Lunar Exalted in 2nd Edition is Strength of Many. Since his Spirit Totem is a bull, his war form greatly resembles a minotaur. His [[GlamourFailure Tell]] is having the hooves of a bull for feet.
** One of the setting's most commonly featured secondary gods is Ahlat, the southern god of war and cattle and patron of the kingdom of Harborhead. His favored form is that of a towering, dark-skinned human with the head and legs of an aurochs.
** Arctic demitaurs are creatures with taurine heads, humanoid bodies and horses' hooves. They're highly territorial, and any intrusion into a herd's territory will send it on a maddened rampage until it finds a new suitable home.

* OneHitKO: In 2nd Edition ''Soul Mastery'' lets you permanently sever a soul from its host. This is so horrifying to gods and spirits (who are essentially physical souls) that ''they automatically know if you have this charm'' and instantly fear you. ''Order Affirming Blow'' does this to [[FairFolk Fae]] and their [[AlienGeometries Wyld creations]]

* PowerSource: Every sorcerer has access to some Shaping Rituals, which allow them to gather additional sorcerous motes either when casting a spell or to hold onto for some amount of time. The rituals you have access to are determined by how you learned sorcery; for example, if you were taught by an Ifrit Lord, you could draw motes from nearby fires at the cost of weakening those fires, meaning that if you're fighting inside a burning building or somewhere else with a lot of flame, you have essentially unlimited magic.

** Flame gryphons are a variant found in the Southern Wyld, and possess golden claws and wings made out of flame. They can live fine in creation, but can only reproduce in the Wyld. They're also fiercely independent, to the point of tearing themselves apart rather than submit to magical compulsion.