Exalted follows a newly Exalted Eclipse caste named Kidale who finds himself adopted into an all-Solar Circle working out of Chiaroscuro. Trying to find out the source of a recent rise in Hungry Dead, the Circle investigates the ruins of a nearby Solar Tomb and struggles to avoid the attention of the Dragon-Blooded.
Its characters can be found in the Character Sheet for the Tabletop Game.
This work features examples of the following tropes:
- Anyone Can Die: Kidale.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Peleps Taguro.
- The Atoner: Demetheus is implied to become this.
- Blood Knight: Cathak Drogath is one of these. He just sucks at it.
- The Cameo: Harmonious Jade (an Exalted Signature Character) makes two short appearances and gets talked about.
- Clingy Jealous Boy: Taguro comes off like this to Aruna.
- Dark Magical Girl: Aruna.
- Green-Eyed Monster: A subtle example but Taguro's hatred of Drogath is probably so extreme at least in part because he's jealous of his relationship to Aruna.
- Left Hanging: All of the characters fates after the comic ended except Kidale. We got a little feedback later.
- Magic Skirt: Faka Kun's rather skimpy clothes seem glued to her body, despite the leaping and acrobatics she does, not to mention being thrown around by a Wyld Hunter during the final battle.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Faka Kun attracts the attention of the Wyld Hunt by assaulting a Dragonblooded in the first issue. She also does worse, according to her friends, by failing to kill him.
- Demetheus feels this when he's tricked into killing Kidale.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Both the Dragonblooded and Solars leave their battle feeling like they've lost.
- Smug Snake: Deconstructed with Drogath as his attitude is to cover up he's considered a major embarrassment by everyone.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Aruna is the Dragon-Blooded version of this. She has a chariot pulled by SWANS.
