Exalted

Exalted "True power is held within the self."						Faction: Ascendant						Access Rune: Ascendant						Faction Boss: Sad King Briareus						Difficulty: Very Hard

The exalted is the defacto leader of all lantern bearers, gear hearts, and psions within the safe zone. Along with the speaker, your direct your magical underlings in providing various means of support, ranging from magic items, enchantments, to magical healing.

Stat Requirement

• Cognition: 30
• Spirit: 10
• Biology: 10
• Mechanical: 10

Purpose

The exalted has two primary purposes, managing the mages of the safe zone and making use of the weaving machine. At your side your have your speaker, who acts as both a secretary and your body guard. Managing your underlings is often a simple and straight forward process, as most of your mages will be talented enough to perform their jobs with little over sight or need from you. However, this does not mean you cannot aid them where possible. Your rune masters will always need materials for their rune forge, your seekers can always use weapons and medical supplies for dungeon dives, and your rosaria can always benefit from a helping hand in the garden.

Your rune masters grind down magical and mundane items to generate flux within their forge, this flux can then be spent to unlock more complex forms of magical and sometimes mundane items. Since rune masters primarily need materials to create and then break down items to generate flux or be given magical items obtained elsewhere, it can be beneficial for you to keep an eye out for anything worthwhile for them. Keep in mind, you do not have access to the rune forge, so if you want anything produced at it you must request it.

Your rosaria are capable healers, having access to both the alchemy stations and the general medical machines. Keep in mind what type of rosaria you have under your command, a traditional rune lantern rosaria is an expert at healing multiple types of damage in a radius across multiple people while a vitalist is much better at healing lots of damage but only on a per person basis. Most rosaria will supplement their healing through the use of alchemy, generating potions and pills to use when they run out of mana or power points. Preparing alchemical healing takes time and often requires growing specific plants to make the greatest medicines. Additionally your vitalists rely much more heavily on slower to restore essence and thus benefit the most from being given cerebrix inhalants to restore their supernatural spells. While you do not have access to the alchemy station of medical machines, you can help out in the garden and stock the important produce to be later ground down for alchemical mixing.

Finally, your seekers are your dungeon diving dare devils and the most likely people to come back in body bags. Seekers rely heavily on spells and teamwork, they are frail and will likely die quickly when they run out of spells or bodies to put between them and an angry monster. Your seekers will vary heavily, from gear hearts to psions to rune lantern users and will have a wide variety of spells and fighting styles. It does not hurt to help arrange getting them supplied with items from the rune masters or rosaria or even having an extra rosaria tag along with them for good healing on the go. Further more, you can also encourage them to seek out help from breakers and agents to cover for their short comings. Your seekers are one of the few people trained to break through magical traps and magical seals, making them valuable to any team beyond their innate spells.

On your own end of work, you and your speaker are the only ones who can operate the weaving machine, special magical machines that allow you to enchant a person directly. The weaving machine is a complicated device, requiring life force and essence from various creatures that need to be tinkered with to create a new enchantment. Enchantments can be spliced together to make new and more interesting variants, but experimentation is key for proper creation. Though a difficult task, you have your speaker to help you.

Tips

• You cannot perform most of the jobs your underlings can, but you can help them by giving them materials or doing menial work. Helping is not beneath you.
• You are not much more powerful than your seekers, in fact you could be considered weaker. However, your speaker is given special enchantments and can be considered above and beyond even your best seekers, use that.
• Refined materials and rune plates are a rune masters best friend, obtain them for your men.
• Your rosaria can focus on doing alchemy if you provide work at the garden or, better yet, instruct your rune master to create a helper golem that can do the work for you.

Unique Equipment

• None, unless you count the numerous unique enchantment items you can make.

Advanced Tips

• Some enchantments can be situally very powerful, like making yourself friendly to one enemy type, increasing your size and strength, etc. etc. Make sure people know what you can offer.
• Your weaving machine requires bodies and meat, remind your seekers to butcher bodies and bring the remains back to you. Failing that, contact the beast master.
• Your speaker is your second in command, he might be your servant but the best exalteds treat their speakers like friends.