History Exalted / TropesAToH

* CardCarryingVillain: In 2nd Edition the Yozi reward the Infernal Exalted for playing the role of villains, such as monologuing about their evil schemes, leaving their heroic foes in cunning deathtraps, or other cliched acts of villainy. One can be rewarded for going through said cliches...[[KickTheSonOfABitch against people worse than they are]]... [[PokeThePoodle with deliberate flaws]]... the Green Sun Princes can become {{Noble Demon}}s if they want.

* DeathInAllDirections: Extra action charms.

* EveryoneIsBi / NoBisexuals:

* FieldOfBlades: A Solar charm.

** Overdrives in [[AlternateUniverse Burn Legend]].

* HalfHumanHybrid: TONS. Beastmen, God-Blooded, Fae-Blooded, Demon-Blooded, Half-Castes (Exalt-blooded, basically), Lintha, Ghost-Blooded...

* CannotComprehendGood: The Ebon Dragon cannot comprehend heroism save by its absence.

* HandCannon: The long-awaited [[IncrediblyLamePun canon artifact gun]] in 2nd Edition, the Shellcaster, is a massive automatic pistol (the smallest is larger than a Desert Eagle, the largest is the size of a man's thigh). (The artifact equivalents of assault rifles, Grand Shellcasters, are [[{{BFG}} decidedly outsized]] as well.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: All the Exalted can qualify to an extent: even when they have laws and mandates declaring their power, it ultimately comes down to their having had the brute force to overthrow the Yozis.

* HornyDevils: Neomah, though they don't take life -- just a scrap of flesh so that [[BizarreAlienReproduction they can combine it with other pieces of flesh to create new, unique beings]]. Usually demons, most of which die: they aren't exactly {{Mad Scientist}}s, and have no concept of ''raising'' the children.

* {{BFS}}: Daiklaives, giant swords that only the Exalted can effectively wield. There are also enlarged and en-badassed artifact versions of other non-sword weapons, too. [[BladeOnAStick Direlances and daikalbars]], [[DropTheHammer goremauls]], grimcleavers, [[SinisterScythe grimscythes]], powerbows... there's generally a powered-up version of whatever WeaponOfChoice you could want. And you can stick [[EnergyWeapon Beam-]] on the start of most of those -- Beamklaves, Beamlances, Beamcleavers, [[RefugeInAudacity Beamfists]]...

* {{BFS}}: Daiklaives, giant swords that only the Exalted can effectively wield. There are also enlarged and en-badassed artifact versions of other non-sword weapons, too. [[BladeOnAStick Direlances and daikalbars]], [[DropTheHammer goremauls]], [[AnAxeToGrind grimcleavers]], [[SinisterScythe grimscythes]], powerbows... there's generally a powered-up version of whatever WeaponOfChoice you could want. And you can stick [[EnergyWeapon Beam-]] on the start of most of those -- Beamklaves, Beamlances, Beamcleavers, [[RefugeInAudacity Beamfists]]...

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs:
** In addition to the Dragon Kings mentioned above, there are more traditional dinosaur-like animals; specifically the Tyrannosaurus-like Tyrant Lizards and the [[CallARabbitASmeerp dromaeosaurid (y'know, Raptors?) Claw Striders.]]
** Beasts Of Resplendent Liquid in 2nd Edition. Created in the First Age to browse on plants and mix pharmaceuticals in their kidneys, the few survivors are owned by the Guild who feed them on opium. In short, dinosaurs that piss heroin.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: The Ebon Dragon cannot comprehend heroism save by its absence.

* AfterifeOfService: If someone is sacrificed in the name of a deceased person, their spirit will be forced to serve them as a slave in the Underworld. The Varajtul cannibals of the North also have a rite by which they can bind their victims' souls to themselves by consuming their brains, forcing their victims' souls to serve them once their devourer goes to the Underworld.

* AntiVillain: In a world where everyone is a bad guy to someone, everyone's an AntiVillain... Except the Ebon Dragon, who in 2nd Edition ''is'' the concept of treachery and dickery. The Ebon Dragon [[UpToEleven even betrays himself by not betraying people occasionally]], and just as often betrays himself by betraying his allies (or his own component souls, or gets betrayed by them...) when it would be better for him to honor his end of the deal.

** In the 2nd Edition module ''[[LooseCanon Return of the Scarlet Empress]]'' things go [[UpToEleven from worse to terrible]], to the point of ending the Second Age and starting the Third Age, as the Scarlet Empress returns [[spoiler: from Malfeas where the Ebon Dragon has spent the last five years [[MindRape Mind Raping]] her]] and rebuilds the Realm, then declares war on the rest of creation, slowly corrupting the Realm with her Infernal powers and allies as the war wages on, and ends up summoning the Ebon Dragon up into Creation, who proceeds to kill the Elemental Dragon of Earth and the Unconquered Sun, and attempts to infuse all of Creation with his essence.

** The Dirigible Engine ''Daystar'' is a battleship powerful and awesome and pimped-out beyond all comparison. It's also the sun.

* FeatheredFiebd:

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The 3rd edition rules for resonance or dissonance with magical materials were not written until ''Arms of the Chosen''. Consequently, no evocations prior to that book's publication use the resonant or dissonant keywords.

* FeatheredFied:

*** The Guild basically buys what it wants, and this includes their fleet, which contains 51 First Age warships, incredibly rare artifacts that are almost impossible to build in the modern setting, and the Guild spent a Fiction500 amount for each one of their First Age warships.

* AwesomeMcCoolname / NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Universal. From the ''First and Forsaken Lion'' to ''Excessively Righteous Blossom'' to ''Perfected Principle of Consumption'' to ''The Bodhisattva Anointed by Dark Waters'', cool names are an absolute must in this setting.
** ''The Sea That Marched Against The Flame'', ''The Shadow Of All Things'', ''Abhorrence of Life'', and, of course, ''The Unconquered Sun''...
** ''The Engine of Extinction'' is not the name of a... person you'd want to meet in a dark alley. [[GeniusLoci Or a dark alley you'd want to walk down]].
** '''She Who Lives In Her Name''' ''is'' an AwesomeMcCoolname, by virtue of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

* ActuallyADoombot: ''Dual Magnus Prana'' is a charm deep into the [[UltimateBlacksmith Crafting tree]] in 3rd Edition, which lets the Solar '''retroactively''' declare that they were a doombot after being killed.

* ContemptibleCover: The 1st Edition supplement ''Savant and Sorcerer'', often referred to as the "Camel Toe Book" or "Sex and the Sorceress."

* AlternateUniverse: ''Shards of the Exalted Dream'' for 2nd Edition presents four of these: Modern, [[Literature/{{Uplift}} Heaven's Reach]] (Space Opera), Burn Legend (Martial Arts/Wuxia/Fighting Games), and Gunstar Autochthonia (Exalted + Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}).
** Heaven's Reach has also had an expanded fan conversion done for 3rd Edition, the [[https://www.mediafire.com/file/b572tcf24j4kxjv/Heaven%2527s_Reach_Guidebook.pdf/file Heaven's Reach Guidebook]].

** In 2e:
*** The Dirigible Engine ''Daystar'' is a battleship powerful and awesome and pimped-out beyond all comparison. It's also the sun.
*** In ''[[AlternateUniverse Shards of the Exalted Dream]]'', you have the Gunstar Autochthonia, a world-ship built out of the body of a Primordial, big enough to host entire nations inside it, who upgrades by eating worlds, and is so huge it has never been entirely explored in the four-thousand-year-old exile of the Exalted host. Oh, and it's defended by squadrons of Voidfighters and transforming mechas, since it's still being improved upon, waiting for the time it can go back to turn the tables on the Primordials AND the Daystar at once. Yeah.

* CrisisCrossover: The original 3rd Edition dev team revealed in an exclusive video for Kickstarter backers that they'd like to finally make it official: ''Exalted vs. [[TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness The World of Darkness]].'' On the other hand, this has barely if ever been mentioned since.
** [[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Exalted_Versus_World_of_Darkness And then it was written by one of the former 3rd Edition developers.]]

* DarkFantasy: Creation has pretty much been on a declining spiral since it was created, with one or two temporary exceptions. The gods are corrupt, lazy, and/or addicted to games which are worse than crack, heroin, nicotine, and bacon combined. The world is threatened by no less than three sets of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, any of which would be happy to corrupt, unravel, or utterly destroy existence. The greatest beings with the capability to fend off these enemies are humans stuffed with way more power than humanity was built to handle, suffering from a curse that causes them periodic psychotic breaks. The average mortal can expect either a long life of drudgery and toil or a short life of terror and pain. Oh, and those beings? Two of the three sets of Abominations have their own versions working for them. Pretty much the only thing keeping the setting from being a CosmicHorrorStory is that the PC Exalted are fully able, if they act with wisdom, to actually confront and, potentially, solve the problems that face Creation.
** Thankfully 3rd Edition dials down the ''Imminent Danger'' dial, with the Yozi not being able to break free of their prisons and the Deathlords being much more grounded instead of being pure [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]].

** The primary forms of most of the Yozi are entire environments; Malfeas is a literal demon city with the others trapped inside himself, while Cecelyne is an endless desert around him; others include an ocean of acid and a silver forest. They can make smaller human-form avatar bodies, though. The Unshaped Raksha beyond the edge of Creation generally follow this trope too.
** Autochthon, as a relatively intact Primordial (for given values of 'relatively') also has an environment-form; in his case, it's the machine-world of Autochthonia.

** Gaia has a world-body of her own, which is off exploring the Wyld. Creation isn't one of her bodies: she's linked to it, notably through the Five Elemental Dragons, but it's not her.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Well, more [[GameplayAndStorySegregation Gameplay And Flavour Text Segregation]]. There are Charms that describe allowing the user to make their point in "moments" -- and still use a Social attack with a Speed of several Long Ticks. That's in the region of five minutes, for the uninitiated.

* EnthrallingSiren: Tree-singers are monkey-like animals from the jungles of the East that produce song so beautiful and melodious that creatures that hear a group of tree-singers singing can only stand there in amazement. When their audience is so stupefied, the singers lower themselves from the branches, strangle them with their prehensile tails, and eat.

--->[[https://web.archive.org/web/20170616230654/http://rathess.xi.co.nz:80/exalted/index.php/Things_one_is_not_allowed_to_do_in_Exalted Things One Is Not Allowed to Do in Exalted]]. Sidereals, #35: Generalized Ammunition Technique is not a valid reason to carry about a quiver full of porcupines.
---->Sidereals, #35.1: [[{{Squick}} Or sex toys.]]

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The influence of the Wyld and the Elemental Poles can often lead people to develop unusual skin colors; green is especially common in the forests of the East, while Western islanders sometimes sport blue-tinged skin. There are also the Djala, a HumanSubspecies marked by bone-white skin with large black spots, and Alchemicals who largely have grayish skin, with perhaps splotches of the colour of the Magical Material used in their construction -- the five colours of Jade - white, black, green, red, and blue - the gold of Orichalcum, black of Soulsteel, silver of Moonsilver, rainbow-hued steel of Starmetal, and the crystalline Adamant.

* BasiliskAndCockatrice: Desert basiliscs -- that being the official spelling -- are Wyld-twisted creatures found in the deep deserts of the South. They resemble serpents with the heads, wings and legs of peacocks (although the official art gives them the legs and wings of insects instead) and produce coronas of flame from a gem set in their foreheads. They hate all other creatures and try to kill anything they meet; this including other basiliscs, and these creatures always fight to the death when they meet -- how they breed is something of a mystery.

* FeatheredFiend: Death moas are towering, flightless birds native to the Western islands. Their primary weapon is an axelike beak capable of shattering bone, which they regularly employ in their crude but effective hunting tactic -- gore and maul whatever's in front of them until it's carrion fit to eat.

* HellHound: Helgrifnir, the Fen-Hound, is a massive immortal hound with a gaping mouth filled with three rows of teeth and a hide covered in peat and moss, who stalks the shadowland of the Black Chase. It used to be the pet of a Solar, who granted it its intelligence, size and immortality, but was left on its own after the Solars were overthrown slaughtered. Its loneliness and the corrupting influence of the Shadowland have turned it into a monstrous, vicious beast, who stalks and hunts anything that passes through his territory. Millennia of life have turned him into an extremely skilled and cunning hunter, and even the mightiest undead fear to pass through Helgrifnir's hunting grounds.

** Claw striders -- giant raptor dinosaurs, basically -- can be domesticated thanks to their social nature, and are used by some southern tribes as mounts. They make deadly mounts in battle, but have foul tempers.