History Funny / Exalted

** There's a massive tonal difference between the first and second parts of the book. Of course, everyone prefered the latter half, so any chance for the moody, loyal, and irredeemable Infernals went down the drain, to the joy of everyone else.
* The adult ''Book of Swallowed Darkness'' has a hilarious story of a maddened Solar who fell in love with a mountain and created a moonsilver device that allowed him to have sex with it. The mountain enjoyed it so much [[DestructoNookie it erupted]], destroying everything in its surroundings, including the Solar and a nearby village.

-->(She has not asked the [[TheMessiah Unconquered Sun]] if he actually wants unwilling victims murdered in his name.)

* In one comic from ''The Blessed Isle'' a senator tries to persuade Regent Fokuf to cease his... [[ADateWithRosiePalms private habits]] with the state religion's holy texts. That's funny enough already but it's made all the better by Fokuf repeatedly ComicallyMissingThePoint of the conversation (complete with a quick LampshadeHanging of his status as a tool for the senate) to the point where one starts to wonder if he's [[ObfuscatingStupidity smarter than he looks]] and is [[TheGadfly having fun with the senator]]. [[https://christopherstevens.deviantart.com/art/Exalted-2nd-Ed-Govern-Page-46851049 The look]] the senator gives at the end is the perfect cherry on top.

* ''Scroll of the Monk'' has a chapter comic in which Swan's master tells him that ''his'' master wants Swan to go to Nexus ''now''. To which Swan responds like a sulking child. Even better, the strange mercenary Swan has to meet, who he is convinced he will hate, is implied to be his future [[TrueCompanion friend]] Dace.

* The 3e corebook contains a sidebar warning demonologists against summoning the wrong demon for a given job. This is cut down from the playtest, which had a lengthy example of what would happen if you tried to safely send a young boy to a neighboring city by binding a trio of ''[[ImAHumanitarian blood apes]]'' to the task. Don't worry, they won't eat him. In fact, they'll offer him the choicest cuts of whoever they come across on the road.

* The Scroll of Heroes opens with Panther - a Lawgiver, one of the most powerful humans in Creation - being ChainedToABed by his {{Yandere}} fan.

* Oadenol's Codex, on the table describing the event of ExplosiveOverclocking a demesne, squeezes this gem into the margins of the [[OffTheScale N/A]] [[FantasticNuke entry]]:

* Oadenol's Codex, on the table describing the event of ExplosiveOverclocking a demesne, squeezes this gem into the margins of the [[OffTheScale N/A]] entry:

** The Maidens are rather quirky in general. Each year Mercury challenges Sun to a race, and each time Saturn trips her just when it seems she might win. Jupiter knows it's out of spite, while the Loom insists that Sun is unbeatable. Venus often proposes all of them as a harem to Sol Invictus. Sun is generous and doesn't mind, but Saturn always breaks engagement. When asked about themselves, they recognize this information as a secret, and thus relate the asker to Jupiter, who's stubbornly silent.

** The Maidens are rather quirky in general. Each year Mercury challenges Sun to a race, and each time Saturn trips her just when it seems she might win, seemingly out of spite, while the Loom insists that Sun wins each time. Sol Invictus, in turn, often tries to woo Venus, but she refuses his advances unless he takes all five as a harem. Sun is generous and doesn't mind, but Saturn always refuses, and he gracefully drops request until next time. When asked about themselves, they recognize this information as a secret, and thus relate the asker to Jupiter, who's stubbornly silent about everything unless compelled by a dire situation (not this case) or higher-ups (Sun doesn't care).

** The Maidens are rather quirky. Each year Mercury challenges Sun to a race, and each time Saturn trips her just when it seems she might win, while the Loom explicitly states that Sun wins each time. When asked about themselves, they recognize this information as a secret, and thus relate the asker to Jupiter, who's stubbornly silent about everything unless compelled by a dire situation (not this case) or higher-ups (Sun doesn't care).

* ''Compass of Terrestrial Directions: The North'' has a reference to the anti-creatures-of-darkness shell surrounding the city of Whitewall, and what happens if you were to hurl a nemissary-possessed corpse over it from a catapult:

* Oadenol's Codex, on the table describing the event of ExplosiveOverclocking a demense, squeezes this gem into the margins of the [[OffTheScale N/A]] entry:

* The ''Roll of Glorious Divinity'' opens the [[PersonOfMassDestruction Kukla's]] statblock with this:
-->'''Summoning:''' Are you nuts? You’re nuts, aren’t you?

* The laws of Creation demand that the Unconquered Sun must [[TheAce overcome and triumph over all things.]] The laws of Creation ''also'' demand that all living things must one day submit to [[DontFearTheReaper Saturn.]] These two facts tend to concern educated people, since they imply that Creation might suffer the metaphysical equivalent of a LogicBomb eventually. To make it worse, it's been noted that every Calibration feast, the Unconquered Sun and Saturn engage in some sort of trivial contest, and the Unconquered Sun always wins, after which Saturn says, "perhaps next year." The Unconquered Sun always answers, "perhaps." No one is sure what that's all about, but it's making a lot of people nervous.

* ''Terrestrial Directions: North'' has a section on slavery in Gethamane and the restrictions on it - for example, slaves are owned by the city, and contracted out with the understanding that public property is not to be damaged. When the Guild brings slaves into the city, however, they own the slaves - so when the guard see Guild slaves being beaten or abused, they arrest the offender for "damaging someone else's property," until they can prove that they actually own the slave. The illustration takes the cake, however: a muscled-up guard, smashing clear through a wall and interrupting what is clearly an S&M session.

* In one comic from ''The Blessed Isle'' a senator tries to persuade Regent Fokuf to cease his... [[ADateWithRosiePalms private habits]] with the state religion's holy texts. That's funny enough already but it's made all the better by Fokuf repeatedly ComicallyMissingThePoint of the conversation (complete with a quick LampshadeHanging of his status as a tool for the senate) to the point where one starts to wonder if he's [[ObfuscatingStupidity smarter than he looks]] and is [[TheGadfly having fun with the senator]]. [[https://christopherstevens.deviantart.com/art/Exalted-2nd-Ed-Govern-Page-46851049 The look]] the senator gives at the end is the perfect cherry on top.

-->(She has not asked the [[TheMessiah Unconquered Sun]] if he actually wants unwilling victims murdered in his name.)

--> On 7 Ascending Water, 764, Lytek sent the following message directly to Chejop Kejak, with copies delivered to every divisional head in Yu-Shan: “It is my very great pleasure to inform you that the Solar Exalted have returned.”

* ''Aspect Book - Fire'' has a section written from Cynis Denovah Avaku's point of view, about how, in the legions, they came across a village where earlier they had fought off the FairFolk, and he witnessed the collateral damage for the first time. The Sergeant of the mortals under his command told him that they had done a good job, and things would be better for the village by the next year, ultimately teaching him to appreciate the good the Realm does as well as the bad. Later in the book, [[http://i.imgur.com/3yk0vIy.png we hear from said sergeant...]]

* After storming over to Lytek's offices and finding him guarded by eight celestial lions and two lesser elemental dragons who only allowed him in after an invasive search of his person, he learned that the Solar Exaltations had started reincarnating earlier that year. Lytek smugly informed him that he'd simply wanted the Exaltations polished up before informing anyone. Not to mention the measures taken to make sure nothing like the Usurpation could happen again:

* ''Terrestrial Directions: North'' has a section on slavery in Gethamane and the restrictions on it - for example, slaves are owned by the city, and contracted out with the understanding that public property is not to be damaged. When the Guild brings slaves into the city, however, they own the slaves - so when the guard see Guild slaves being beaten or abused, they arrest the offender for "damaging someone else's property," until they can prove that they actually own the slave. The illustration takes the cake, however: a muscled-up guard, smashing clear through a wall and interrupting what is clearly an S&M session.

* The indexes of some ''Manuals of Exalted Power - Alchemicals'' mentions [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} Bender Bending Rodriguez]] (several times), and the index for the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Abyssals]] book has the following little gem:

* [[CrossingTheLineTwice Malfeas's plans]] [[BloodyHilarious for the East]] in the 2e Infernals manual. Apparently, he wants to see the Greyfalls Dragon-Bloods splattered dead and its waterfalls run red with blood for a year; the same thing for Lookshy without the waterfalls; Ma-Ha-Suchi worries him so he wants to see the Lunar raped to death; Mt Metagalapa hurled at Nexus like the world's largest spear..."One gets the idea."

* Abyssals 3E preview: The Chalcedony Bishop's notes are ''hilarious.'' They start off dramatic and spine-chilling, evocative of the cruelty and self-hatred this Deathlord has been driven to...and then you get this.

After storming over to Lytek's offices and finding him guarded by eight celestial lions and two lesser elemental dragons who only allowed him in after an invasive search of his person, he learned that the Solar Exaltations had started reincarnating earlier that year. Lytek smugly informed him that he'd simply wanted the Exaltations polished up before informing anyone. Not to mention the measures taken to make sure nothing like the Usurpation could happen again: