Sample file TM Sample file BY G ENEVIEVE C OGMAN, IAN E LLER AND M ICHAEL K ESSLER EXALTED • BLOOD AND SALT CREDITS Authors: Genevieve Cogman, Ian Eller, Michael Kessler Additional Material By: Scott Taylor Storyteller Game System Design: Mark Rein•Hagen Developer: Geoffrey C. Grabowski Editor: John Chambers Art Direction: Brian Glass Artists: Ed Bourelle, Ross Campbell, Sherard Jackson and UDON with Noi Sackda, Eric Vedder and Jim Zubkavich Cover Art: Melissa Uran Cover Design: Brian Glass Layout and Typesetting: Brian Glass Sample© 2004 White file Wolf Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Repro- duction without the written permission of the publisher is expressly forbidden, except for the purposes of reviews, and for blank character sheets, which may be reproduced for personal use only. White Wolf, Vampire, Vampire the Masquerade, Mage the Ascension, World of Darkness, Aberrant and Exalted are registered trademarks of White Wolf Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Werewolf the Apocalypse, Dark Ages Vampire, Wraith the Oblivion, Changeling the Dream- ing, Werewolf the Wild West, Mage the Sorcerers Crusade, Wraith the Great War, Orpheus, Trinity, the Age of Sorrows, the Second Age of Man, Exalted the Dragon-Blooded, Exalted the Lunars, Exalted the Abyssals, Exalted the Sidereals, Blood and Salt, Games of Divinity, Exalted the Outcaste, Creatures of the Wyld, Exalted Storyteller’s Companion, the Book of Three Circles, Scavenger Sons and Time of Tumult are trademarks of White Wolf Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. All characters, names, places and text herein are copyrighted by White Wolf Publishing, Inc. The mention of or reference to any company or product in these pages is not a challenge to the trademark or copyright concerned. This book uses the supernatural for settings, characters and themes. All mystical and supernatural elements are fiction and intended for entertainment purposes only. This book contains mature content. Reader discretion is advised. For a free White Wolf catalog call 1-800-454-WOLF. Check out White Wolf online at http://www.white-wolf.com; alt.games.whitewolf and rec.games.frp.storyteller PRINTED IN CANADA 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS TM TABLE OF C ONTENTS INTRODUCTION 4 CHAPTER O NE: AN-TENG Sample file 8 CHAPTER T WO: THE L INTHA F AMILY 38 CHAPTER T HREE: GODS AND M ONSTERS 72 3 EXALTED • BLOOD AND SALT Sample file 4 INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION Hey, hey golden roses around a rajah’s mouth. Hey, hey all the dead children buried standing A Flying Dutchman, smoking gun and spice wind. —DavidSample Bowie, Amlapura file To the average citizen of the Blessed Isle, the tale world, a helter-skelter mixture of chaos and rest of the world is a strange and dangerous place, horror restrained only by the influence of the Im- full of god-slaves and terrible monsters. Of course, maculate Order. this is imperial propaganda, not terribly different The Dragon-Blooded know better, of course. Such from the outlandish tales about wild tigers, wolves stories are for the lower orders, to keep them happy and claw striders the All-Seeing Eye spreads to keep with their lot and safe in their villages. The Terrestri- peasants close to their villages and away from the als and even the patricians know that beyond the Blessed Isle’s vast tracts of private wilderness. To shores of the Blessed Isle lies a vast world, full of both these peasants, Creation is a vast and terrible fairy- wonder and terror. 5.