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18th May '13 6:47:16 AM Austin

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* ShoutOut: Lots. 1st Edition especially has a lot to the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' games, and there are shout-outs to pop culture and mythology all over.
** For example, the first place Desus was mentioned by name was in a myth where he [[http://historylink102.com/greece2/odysseus.htm treacherously blinded a one-eyed Behemoth]].
** The chapter 7 comic in the 2nd Edition Core book features an Abyssal talking to a skull who he calls [[WaitingForGodot Estragon. Subsequentally, he meets someone called Pozzo with his pet 'Lucky'.]]
** Each of the original five Exalted types is conceptually related to one ''Old World of Darkness'' game: Solars to ''TabletopGame/HunterTheReckoning'', Terrestrials to ''TabletopGame/KindredOfTheEast'', Lunars to ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', Sidereals to ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', and Abyssals to ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade''.
** Even outside the above five correspondences, there are many game terms borrowed from the ''Old World of Darkness'' games. For example, the Green Sun Prince Castes share the names of the [[TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen Demon Houses]], save for the Devils and Devourers.
** [[KeychainOfCreation Elegant Nova Of Progression]] is an example of an Alchemical name in the new Alchemicals book. [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Bender Bending Rodriguez]] gets mentioned in the index.
** Another Alchemical shout-out is in the name of one of the nations. "[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour We have always been at war with Estasia]]."
** The index to ''Graceful Wicked Masques'' holds a number of sneaky references. For instance, "Bear-killer" (an actual title) is followed by "Pedobear-killer" (and instead of a page number, it says "4chan").
** The introductory comic for "Graceful Wicked Masques" features a Fair Folk cataphract named "Lan-Shoki Hana" with a mortal squire named "San-Xiao." If that doesn't ring any bells, Don Quixote's real name is "Alonso Quijano" and his squire is, of course, "Sancho."
** Gorol is one letter away from being the BigBad in the WraithTheOblivion endgame book (Gorool).
** Sacheverell is a Yozi that they keep asleep so as not to bind fate to his visions; the Red King is kept asleep in ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' to keep the world from falling apart. Oh, and his previous incarnation was The Lidless Eye That Sees. Imagine a [[Film/LordOfTheRings Visine commercial from Hell]].
** The First Age developer of Primordial Principle Emulation made it to tap into Kimbery's (a giant poisonous acid ocean) charmset because she couldn't learn/make new charms for her new body: a "cephalopod horror," Glories of the Most High tells us. The name of that Solar Queen? [[CthulhuMythos K'tula]].
** The Ebon Dragon's driving Urge, as revealed in ''Return of the Scarlet Empress'', is to turn the world into one where [[SamuraiJack his evil is law]].
** The section from ''Return of the Scarlet Empress'' about confronting the Ebon Dragon in direct combat is entitled [[DeadAleWives Attacking the Darkness]].
** After destroying the Omphalos in ''Return of the Scarlet Empress'', The Ebon Dragon has to create an N/A artifact to keep Creation from falling apart into the Wyld. The artifact in question is called [[TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse The Black Spiral.]]
** Many other scenarios are grouped with thematic names; the Metagalpa section has its acts titled after WWII films, and several scenarios find themselves named after JamesBond films.
** One of the possible campaign styles in Infernals was titled "[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto Grand Theft Yeddim]]."
** The Martial Arts supplement ''Scroll of the Monk'' contains a [[VideoGame/GodOfWar chain daiklave]], and the spread-the-water knife's illustration is not even trying to pretend it isn't a [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration bat'leth]].
** In one of the adventure supplements you have a mayor named Carriker Thurfas. Thurfas is the name of a place in the ScarredLands (another White Wolf product), which was developed by Joe Carriker.
** In that same adventure there's a subtle nod to the Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
** ''[[AlternateUniverse Shards of the Exalted Dream]]'' goes on to describe a [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} green sun with the mass of two universes]].

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* {{Transsexual}}: Two notable examples of this. 
** In the West of Creation, because of the prevalence of evil spirits called "Storm Mothers" who jealously attack any ship carrying female crew, a society of trans-men called the Tya has sprung up as a way to give women the opportunity to become sailors. These individuals tattoo their foreheads and cheeks with jagged bolts, symbolic of scars, ingest an extract of shellfish that will temporarily or permanently sterilize them, and give up all feminine protections and blessings to instead be allowed to sail ships and be treated by men. It's not, however, said that they make any other changes to their femininity in a physical sense; they are men from a symbolic sense and that's enough for most individuals; many still sleep with men, if they can find men who are willing to do so out of more than perverse curiosity, or even with water spirits and little gods (pregnancies can occur and are usually accepted, albeit with awkward silences), though just as many instead turn to other Tya for sexual pleasure and comfort or even marry women (mostly for business arrangements).
** In the South of Creation, the Delzahn people of Chiaroscuro have a recognized subculture known as the Dereth; identifying themselves with a distinctive gray sash, these individuals are legally and culturally recognized as being the opposite of their physical gender. This is because, while the Delzahn have strictly defined gender roles, these roles aren't tied to physical sex -- being a "man" or "woman" is more based on your role in society than your reproductive organs.
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