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Exalted were once the trusted advisors to the Old Realm’s Solar masters. Believing the Curse-maddened Lawgivers’ irredeemable and unshakably convinced in their moral duty, the Maidens’ Chosen persuaded the Dragon-Blooded to rise up and slaughter their masters in order to end the Solars’ depredations. Since then, the Sidereals have infl uenced events behind the scenes in order to safeguard Creation from its myriad of enemies. But with the return of the Solars, the advent of the deathknights, the Dragon-Blooded Realm nearing civil war, the tribes of the Lunars threatening war and the raksha massing for another assault on the shaped world, will the Fivefold Fellowship win the day or will its many sacrifi ces have been for naught?

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 12

CHAPTER ONE: THE SILVER PACT 17

CHAPTER TWO: A BETTER WORLD 57

CHAPTER THREE: CHARACTER CREATION 93

CHAPTER FOUR: TRAITS 104

CHAPTER FIVE: CHARMS AND SHAPESHIFTING 124

CHAPTER SIX: THE CASTELESS AND THE CHIMERA 197

CHAPTER SEVEN: STORYTELLING 214

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INTRODUCTION

For centuries, they have prowled at the edge of the world. Civilized folk fear them: shapeshifters, war-beasts, the Anath-ema of the Moon. Sometimes, they walk in human or animal shape and mortals know them not, until they erupt in bestial, murderous rage. Sometimes, they invade the Threshold at the head of rampaging barbarian armies, until Dragon-Blooded heroes drive them back into the Wyld. Warlords, tricksters and destroyers—the enemies of civilization!

That’s the story most people in Creation tell if you ask them about Luna’s Chosen. Fifteen centuries of propaganda have worked pretty well. The Lunar Exalted themselves, however, tell a very different story.

For centuries, they have prowled at the edge of the world. The creatures of darkness fear them: the border-guards of Creation. Sometimes, they walk among mortals, hidden by animal shapes or illusions, to pursue their foes—then strike, with all the righteous fury at their command. The people beyond the Threshold know them as heroes, honor their leadership—and when their friends make war on civilized folk, why, the Lunar Exalted side with their own. The Realm and its lickspittle vassals are sick: the Lunars take their land to build healthy, new cultures as bulwarks against the Wyld. They are the Stewards, charged by Luna to care for Creation, its people and all life upon it—whether they know it or not. Sometimes, whether they want it or not.

The Dragon-Blooded and their Wyld Hunt have kept the Moonchildren in exile since the great betrayal of the Solar

Exalted. The Lunar Exalted, partners and consorts of the Solars, escaped the massacre. First, the Lunar Exalted sought merely to survive. Then, they hoped for revenge. Rage against the usurping Terrestrial Exalted and their Sidereal puppet-masters still burns strong in many Lunar hearts; after all, the Usurpation happened just half a Lunar lifetime ago.

Over the centuries, however, Luna’s Chosen have gained other interests, too. They continue to fi ght horrors out of Chaos, in battles the pampered folk of Creation’s heartland never imagine. The Lunar Exalted have built a complex society of their own, spread around Creation’s rim. They have even fostered a ring of new cultures outside the Realm’s control, from isolated tribes to nascent empires. For every Lunar who yearns for revenge against the Dragon-Blooded, another views the Realm with contempt, as a decaying relic, propped up by the Empress and overdue to fall—and a third Lunar fears that fall. What shall the Outer Horrors do when they realize the Empress no longer can throw them back to the Chaos that spawned them? The Lunar Exalted have prepared for centuries to fi ght the next great war to save Creation.

As the Deathlords emerge from the Underworld and the Fair Folk muster in the Wyld, the Chosen of Luna know the hour of testing has come. Their former mates, the Solar lords of Creation, live again—but the heroes of the Moon will not depend on them to save the world. In the Time of Tumult, the Lunar Exalted trust only their own strength and cunning, magic and skill to win the future of Creation.

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