#Chejop Kejak

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Week 3: NPC - Chejop Kejak

Get in the warstrider, Shinji.

Made as part of theuncrucified's Exalted Art Challenge

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what kind of music best fits exalted

While I think the orchestral works well for it. I think Exalted is really good with more like Jpop or Anime intro style music.

Preferably for me though I like it with experimental or like older electronic/psychedelic.

The setting is so massive I think you could get away with anything.

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Sidereal Exaltation Story

i can make any nonsense joke on here about whatever niche bullshit i want and you’re powerless to stop me

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While generally, I think the Scroll of Errata enhances the experience of playing Exalted 2e (with the notable exception of Overdrive charms), having to refer to and share another resource during character creation and play is a pain in the ass.

I'm compiling all of the Terrestrial charms and their errata into one file now, which is also a pain but it'll definitely save us time in the long run.

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Name/Title                          Malati, the Resplendent Orchid

Exaltation                           Sidereal

Caste                                  Chosen of Secrets

Weapon(s)                          Delicate scrollwork Starmetal bracers 

Language(s)                       Low Realm, Celestial, Rivertongue, Old Realm

Goal(s)                                Figure out the truth of the Anathema… and what the real most pressing issue is in Creation right now

Fear(s)                                 Being wrong about her sisters and discovering that they’re actually monsters after all… and that her Sifu was right all along. 

Likes                                   Order and discipline, Perfect Noodle, Meditation, martial arts, snooping for a bit of juicy information, hearing Anjali talk about what mom and dad were like, fancy clothes and toiletries, 

Dislikes                               Chaos she doesn’t control, Abyssals, Sifu’s disapproval, strong drinks, very spicy food, anything poor quality

Defining feature(s)             Deep purple wavy hair, mother of pearl orchid clip in her hair

Theme Song                       “Stars Align”, by Lindsey Stirling

Interesting Extras                Malati is friends with several half-snake god/dess siblings (there are 53 of them– she doesn’t know them all), who are the one-night-stand kids of one of Anjali’s old circlemates, Reinhardt. 

Quick Biography

Orphaned when she was just 5 years old, alongside her older sister Kaveri, Malati was originally intended to return to Lookshy with Kaveri and their aunt and uncle once the girls’ parents and older sister, Anjali, failed to return from an expedition in the deep east. The small family even made it as far as Nexus before tragedy struck: while moving through a dense crowd, Malati got lost and separated from the rest of her family. In spite of looking for days, Aunt, Uncle, and sister Kaveri never found Malati, and eventually, to their deep heartbreak, were forced to move on. 

Rather than being lost to the seedy underbelly of Nexus, however, Malati had been rescued– or abducted, depending on how you look at it– and taken to Yu Shan by a Sidereal, as the little girl was fated to Exalt under the auspices of the Maiden of Secrets… but she’d never live long enough if she wasn’t rescued from Nexus. 

Therefore, Malati grew up in Yu Shan, raised by an assortment of gods and Sidereals, and trained in bureaucracy, martial arts, and plenty of subterfuge. Everyone’s favorite daughter, Malati became accustomed to little luxuries, and looked forward to the day she Exalted, and could really put her training to use. She told no one, except her close half-snake friend Rania, however, that what she was looking forward to most was being able to read the Loom of Fate, and figure out what had happened to her parents and sisters… whom she only vaguely remembered. 

Eventually, when she did Exalt, near her 18th birthday, her martial arts sifu told her that she had a new teacher now– one who could make her into a far more formidable weapon than he ever could. And with that, Malati entered the tutelage of none other than Chejop Kejak. Their relationship was a mixed one– he was a strict instructor who expected nothing short of excellence from her, but it was clear in glimpses that she was among his favorite pupils… a fact which was confirmed when he ‘graduated’ her from his training, proclaiming her ‘ready’, and ‘one of the finest students he ever taught’. 

With all of his martial arts teachings, however, Malati had been thoroughly indoctrinated with Kejak’s Bronze faction ideology– the notion that the Solar and Lunar Exalted were not to be trusted, and could not be relied on to rule the world as they had in the past. And she believed him wholeheartedly…

…until the day she went to read the Loom for herself, and saw what had become of her two sisters. One was a Lunar Exalt. The other a Solar. And for the first time, Malati doubted. Because she didn’t remember much about her sisters, but what little she did know couldn’t believe that they were monsters. 

And so, under the guise of intending to hamstring the designs of the Anathema, Malati took it upon herself to figure out who her sisters were, what they were doing to Creation, and who she really believed. 

  Relationship to

Chejop Kejak

Mentor, teacher, sifu, and in some ways a sort of stern father-figure to her, Malati has deep and mixed feelings about Chejop Kejak. She believes him about necessity of the Usurpation, and the necessity to keep the chosen of the Sun and Moon from power, but she’s also convinced there is more than meets the eye, and desperately wants to know. But she’s also very afraid of disappointing him, or losing his trust. 

Anjali

Malati remembers very little about Anjali from when she was a small child, but what she does remember is positive. She recalls Anjali reading to her, and teaching her Old Realm words for things… most of which Malati did not retain. Now that Malati has encountered her again, now that all of the sisters are Exalted, Malati recognizes the sparkling intellect, and gentle, teaching personality she remembers of Anjali… but she worries about her eldest sister’s newfound animal side… and how deep it runs.  

Kaveri

While Anjali was much older than Malati (19 to Malati’s 5), Kaveri was much closer to her in age (10 to Malati’s 5). Malati has slightly more memories of playing with Kaveri– climbing trees, playing hide and seek, pretending to be princesses or warriors or whatever the thing of the day was. Having found Kaveri again, Malati isn’t surprised that her middle sister took to the fighter lifestyle of Lookshy, and remains an agile, active person. But the words of her mentor echo in her head, and she wonders whether her sister can really be trusted with the awesome and terrible power of Sol Invictus… or whether her tendency toward stealth and combat will make her a dangerous liability in the future.

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Confession: it’s been twenty years and I still have no idea how to pronounce “Chejop Kejak”.

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Chejop Kejak is:

made a quiz where you describe your oc and it’ll determine if theyre a tumblr sexyman or not

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sidereals have arcane fate to avoid doing their taxes

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Exaltober, Days 2, 3, and 4: Light of the Unconquered, Shapechangers of Silver, Weavers of Starmetal

The Skalishaya Sisters

Born into a family of scavengers whose fortunes were made or broken by raiding tombs and uncovering artifacts, the three sisters Anjali, Kaveri, and Malati were scattered across Creation when the untimely (?) deaths of their parents Kirandir and Nakanadi caused them to lose track of each other until adulthood. 

Anjali Skalishaya, No Moon Lunar

Anjali, the eldest, was 19 and old enough to accompany her parents on that fateful trip to a long-forgotten manse in the deep East. Three mortals entered the manse. One Exalt left. Anjali, newly bereft and terrified of what her remaining family would think of what she’d become, wandered in the East for a time before encountering a circle of Solars, whom she worked with for many years, reclaiming the lost university of Sperimin/Mahalanka from Raksi, thwarting the schemes of a circle of Abyssals, and eventually encountering her Celestial mate, Rachna... (but that’s a whole other story!). 

Kaveri Shendo, Night Caste Solar

Too young to accompany their parents on the Eastern manse job, Kaveri, who was 10 years old at the time, and Malati, who was only 6, stayed behind with their Aunt Jindei and Uncle Ursho Shendo in Farhold while their parents and older sister Anjali ventured into the deep East. When months passed and no one returned from the expedition, it became clear that... no one ever would. 

Ursho was a Lookshyan soldier on leave, and had to return to Lookshy, so, rightly assuming the two girls were now orphans, he packed Kaveri and Malati up, and he and Jindei headed back to Lookshy with the two girls. While Malati was misplaced along the way, Kaveri grew up in Lookshy, receiving military training as an excellent archer. 

But when she accidentally uncovered a plot involving the highly dangerous Mourning Field just outside Lookshy’s southern gates, her efforts to investigate landed her whole family in trouble with the law. Her aunt and uncle were thrown in prison, and Kaveri was on the lam. Determined to stop whatever was going on, Kaveri did something bold and desperate: she broke into the bedroom of the Chumyo of Lookshy, forged a letter of pardon using the signet ring on the sleeping man’s finger, and then smuggled herself into the Nightwatch Citadel prison on the underside of a supply cart, intending to present the letter of pardon to the warden. She was moments from the warden’s door when she Exalted. 

Malati, the Resplendent Orchid, Chosen of Secrets

On the way back to Lookshy, the small family of aunt, uncle, and two young girls passed through Nexus. While making their way through a crowded market, Malati got separated from the rest of the family, and in spite of days of looking, was never found. Devastated but on a timetable, eventually, Ursho and Jindei had to stop looking and continue on to Lookshy with Kaveri. 

In truth, they never would have found Malati, because minutes after she’d been misplaced in the bustling market, she was snatched up by a Sidereal and taken to Yu Shan, where it was foretold that when she reached 18, she herself would Exalt as one of the favored of the Maidens, and her Fate looked bright indeed. 

Malati grew up in Yu Shan, and retained hazy memories of her parents and sisters. When she was a teenager, she entered into the training of an old and powerful master: Chejop Kejak himself. She was a brilliant martial artist even before she Exalted, and Kejak treated her like a favored pupil, but whenever she asked him about her family, he would say very little, other than that she should let them go-- as a Seneschal of the Maidens, she would have greater responsibilities than looking for a handful of mortals who wouldn’t remember her anyway. 

So of course, she she did finally Exalt, Malati read the Loom for herself to see if she could find out what had happened to her family. She found, of course, that her mother and father’s threads had snapped long ago, when she was a little girl. But the threads of her two sisters, Anjali and Kaveri.... burned a brilliant, shining gold and silver. They were Celestial Exalts. 

With Kejak’s Bronze Faction teachings feeling very heavy on her shoulders, Malati had a choice to make. Follow the philosophy of the man who had trained her and counseled her for a large portion of her young life... or find her sisters, her only living family, and see for herself if the Celestial Exalted really were that bad... 

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In the backer list for Sidereals, do I put the name of my favorite (sad, pathetic) Secrets, some variation of "Also Chejop Kejak" or "The Green Lady"?

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The most disappointing thing is that even though she HAS the mug now, she didn't have it when she met with Chejop Kejak. :\

My exigent (an employee of the bureau of destiny) is owed a small favor by a family of heaven's dragons (she saved an unexalted scion) and she's gonna cash it in for a teacup that has, elaborately rendered on the side, "This meeting could have been an Infallible Messenger."

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Chejop Kejak always gives off these specific vibes to me and i don’t know how to describe it other than “van wizard”

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shiftingpath replied to your post: the emotive, wild confusion i feel while watching...

“i thought i understood how the world worked but i was wrong. how… how did that happen, where are we, why would anyone do what they just did, what is going on”

there was a part that happened when Phoenix was still Vulture where our partys benefactors and the secret Big Bads both slew 1. Chejop Kejak and 2. gathered all but one of the Ebon Dragon’s component souls in one place and destroyed them all at once, causing the Ebon Dragon, who had been sitting on the throne of heaven as a pretend Sol-Invictus, to go berserk and start shriveling into a horrid thing, and we burst into heaven in time to see this all, and I am like 100 percent certain in retrospect that nobody told Vulch anything about what was going on.

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Creating—and Playing—Great NPCs

NPCs—never just sentient quest boards. Today we're talking about how best to use your NPCs, how to make them believable and interesting, and how to give them all different voices even if you're not a professional voice actor running a critically-acclaimed Actual Play. We're also talking about how to pronounce Chejop Kejak, how to avoid doing accents, and paying clumsy homage to Sweet Brown.

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Chejop Kejak is the Eggman of Exalted

Black Iced Shadow is the Sonic of Exalted

Crimson Exicutioner is the Shadow of Exalted

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viridiansunlight replied to your post “whenever someone looks at a fictional or historical empress or other...”

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@ exalted writers give us this humanizing portrait of chejop kejak