#This turned out to be me info dumping about Delphi's NPC collection...

[gryffonweald]

Reference Journal for Exalted Secret Santa!

I’m going to be referencing a character “Delphi” a  lot in here! She is my PC, No-Moon Lunar with a Pegasus spirit shape. I didn’t include her here because I draw her a lot though, and I wanted to give some airtime to some of her and my favorite NPC’s: 

Melon 

— Air-Aspected Dragon-Blooded warrior. Skilled with the spear and innuendo.

Melon specializes in languages and cyphers: she can create encoded messages that recipients find intuitive to decode, or learn new languages very quickly (albeit temporarily). She's a close-quarters fighter, specialized in team-fighting. She's also a trained Warstrider pilot. Melon is a Sorceress. She can send Infallible Messengers, and summon Stalwart Servitors (which are strong, dumb servants) Her anima manifests as pulses of electromagnetic energy around her. She does not know about or understand magnetism, and so she simply calls it "Melon Lightning".

Melon is known for having bouts of silliness that will cheer anyone up, but she is a serious fighter, and she has been spending a lot of time training our new recruits! (She even trained Delphi, my Lunar PC)

Her hair is bright orange (It’s how she got her name) and tends to “misbehave”. 

Radulfr

-- Full Moon Lunar, his totem animal/spirit shape is a Snipe

Very androgynous looking (Often mistaken for a girl): thin, pale, long brown hair. Bears a great Moonsilver Daiklave with three cats'-eye hearthstones on it. Captain of the Tzalti Air Boat "Killer Whale". He is impossibly strong, Impossibly fast, and skilled at war! 

I have described Radulfr as the serious figure to balance out Delphi’s wild energy. He is practical, punctual, and skilled as a commander.  But hes still a little soft on the inside, and he keeps falling in love with people. Delphi is the only one that has stuck so far!

“ He has a -really- girlish face Smooth, thin eyebrows, long eyelashes. Just very feminine proportions all over. His skin is pale and smooth, which is unusual for his people. His hair is -super- long (like, longer than waist-long) and he mostly wears it loose. It's smooth but thin and wispy so the wind blows it around easily. He usually wears a headband to keep it from going onto his face. “

“ Radulfr's eyes are really light brown, almost yellow “

(This second picture is my rendition, but I think he’s technically a little too masculine in it.)

Walks In Circles

--No Moon Lunar, Totem/Spirit-shape is a River Dragon

Master of shapeshifting, Circles can adopt an amazing variety of shapes, ranging from tiny insects to enormous elephant-sized monstrosities. She takes special pride in her ability to carry groups of people at high speed across long distances. This competence tends to be overshadowed by travel Sorcery. Circles is tasked by the Silver Pact to locate, rescue, tattoo and train young Lunar Exalts.  

By profession, Circles is a Spirit Guide- she negotiates agreements between men and gods, and gives advice to humans on how to handle supernatural powers. Circles is a skilled crafter and physician, but she is often overshadowed by Solar Exalted who specialize in the same fields. As a combatant, Circles has had many years of specialized martial arts training, but she tends to panic in dangerous situation and revert to instinctive attempts to overpower her opposition with great size and muscle mass. Circles is a Sorceress. She can summon and bind elementals, but has not demonstrated knowledge of other spells. Her anima is a River Dragon- a rhinoceros-sized lizard with great claws and jaws and a great dorsal fin. Her Tell is said fin from the back of her neck to the base of her spine.

She is Delphi’s Lunar Mentor. She taught her how to improve her shape-shifting and gives her advice on general Lunar Matters. Shes known for showing that she needs affection by pulling shape-shifting pranks. Most famously: Camel in the Closet. Circles is also known for rarely being in her true shape. She attends meetings in animal shapes, and she even has other human and dragonborn shapes that she takes on missions.

Something that is hard to provide reference for is that she is short. She also doesn’t have an official outfit really, but she tends to wear loose and comfortable dresses and the like. 

(I will try to add more references of her as I get them! This is the one I have for now!)

The Shoat of the Mire

-- Abyssal Midnight Caste

Small, Cute, and Tragic! Shoat has long white hair, and always dresses like she is attending a funeral. She wears all black and white with plenty of lace, ruffles, and ribbons. Shoat is a social exalt with a skill for getting people (especially ghosts) to like and listen to her on account of her being so cute. She has been described as “More Round and Cute and Elegant. Her hair is kind of fluffy, and her dresses look like she might float like princess peach.” Her style is rather Gothic-Lolita, but with more white than you would expect. Delphi recently made an Ivory Butterfly Artifact, which is a white butterfly streaked with black abyssal energy. Delphi often puts it on Shoat like a hair-clip. 

She speaks Forest-tongue primarily which gives her a bit of a speech impediment. Her anima appears to manifest as an evil pig, but it mostly follows her as a shadow. This shadow reacts negatively to her forming bonds, and will lash out at those she cares about if she doesn't devote time to appeasing it. It also passively spawns Zombies. Her primary weapon is Brother which is either a scythe or a rifle that transforms into a convenient if heavy box backpack.

She’s Delphi’s best friend, and they entered the campaign together shortly after the first met. They hardly leave each others side, and there has been suspicion that they might be Mates. Shoat likes being comfortable, and can often be found lounging with a Delphi-Dog, Delphi-Fox, or another Delphi-Animal cuddled up with her. 

(I have been struggling for so long to get her Cute Enough. I struggle ;-;) 

Reference Art by our lovely ST @gaussrik (twitter) and yours truly.