Talk:History of Creation

There is a lot going on here, even if it’s only a brief overview, but there is some need for attribution: a great deal of material here, in terms of era divisions and events, comes from numerous Exalted publications, particularly the timeline from the 2e book Dreams of the First Age, which itself codified (sometimes implied) material from earlier Exalted works and combined it as well as adding a heap of new history. Some of that material was pretty great. Some of it was less so. Occasionally there were bits that someone might have thought of as neat, but which were written without much regard for the Exalted setting and the effect they’d have on its structures and institutions.

In addition to this sort of material, filtered through my own arrogant opinions on how Exalted all comes together, I drew a lot from unofficial sources. Particularly from the Lexicon on the unofficial Exalted wiki, which is really fantastic for having given a swathe of creative people the chance to look at the history of Creation and start to throw their own ideas out into it, playing off each other. It really is great stuff.

And there is a lot of material added and amended from my own opinions on the matter, and discussion with my friends and fellow wiki contributors on how history unfolded, how things needed to occur to reach the setting we all play in today.

One thing that can be concluded is that a lot of people love a Dragon Break*: overlapping realities, mutable time, all smashing together at the end. But that’s tough to implement, particularly in Exalted where one must contend with shinma and eternal beings and Looms of Fate and a core tenet prohibiting time travel.

I too love a Dragon Break.

(*Bethesda’s ‘All Endings are Canon’ approach to Elder Scrolls II (Daggerfall)’s concluding choice, which is a pretty iconic example of this sort of thing, and despite sounding like it could never work was somehow implemented in a way that pulled it off).