<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=111187.msg4842431#msg4842431">Quote from: meikle on 26-06-2011, 10:23:44</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">And continuing from where I left off ...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Madder, Exaltation &amp; Post-Exaltation</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>The moment Madder agreed to accept the gift the cloaked figure offered, it attacked her -- in a way of speaking, taking hold of her and drawing her into itself, until it enfolded her entirely.  Carrying the freedom fighter within itself, it clambered to the corner of the room, and there it settled finally, forming an perfect cocoon of dimly glowing blue flesh to house the inchoate Green Sun Prince that Madder would become.<br/><br/>Inside of the cocoon, perfectly protected and hidden from the world, Madder slept fitfully for five days and nights.  Her thoughts were nightmares and dreams, woefully symmetrical in their nature, and over the course of five days, they changed her.  The girl who emerged was not the same as the frightened idealist that she had been when she was swallowed whole.  Instead, she brimmed with confidence and a frightening understanding of the order of all things.  <br/><br/>She wanted more, and she willed the disembodied demon that resided then in her head to show her the Demon Realm, where she knew she would find the perfect order that seemed to resound in her mind.<br/><br/>She was sorely disappointed.<br/><br/>Hell proved a welcoming place for Madder; as one of the Green Sun Princes, she was recognized as a superior citizen, with authority over nearly all of the demon realm, save the few immediate emanations of the Yozis themselves.  Whatever she wanted for, she was granted; as in her mortal life, she learned and consumed, vulturous, with only bitterness and stirring detestation for those who taught her, who doted on her, who wanted her as a weapon.<br/><br/>It was during her time in Hell that she learned the Sorcery of the Yozi -- not the sorcery of mortals and gods at all, but a dread emanation of the hands that forged Creation, a natural thing that Madder learned to wield innately, an extension of her will.  It is also where she took her first lover and, in a fit of discontent, saw that same lover rendered down into so much bubbling ink and etched onto her body.  It was suiting, she decided in the aftermath, and she felt no remorse: "No love without pain," the demon had told her.  The tattoo was her remembrance of the joys they shared.<br/><br/>It was also in Hell that Madder learned swordplay, and further extended her studies into the occult and the history of the world -- particularly the history of the Delzhan and Chiaroscuro.  The weapon she carries to this day was the favored tool of her mentor; she murdered him at the height of her training, when he stood quietly in awe of the pupil and how quickly she had learned.  The Demon City has laws, she reminded herself.  "No silence without death."  His weapon was her keepsake for the time they spent together.<br/><br/>And, eventually, Madder left.  She took freely from the Demon City all that it could give her, and when she felt it could give her no more without asking its take in return, she left.  There was nothing more to it; the Demon City was a loud, disorderly place, ruled by hypocrites without regard for their own laws beyond the ways that they broke them.  It disgusted and offended her, and when she left, she reminded herself that she was still playing by their rules.  "No power without ambition."  Her Exaltation is her remembrance of the things she took from those who empowered her.  She laughed as she went, and she returned to Chiaroscuro.<br/><br/>She returned to make it a better place, a place that made sense, a place where the laws were just, followed and enforced, where those who led deserved to lead and those who suffered deserved to suffer.  Anything less was unacceptable.</div></div><br/>I imagine that Madder's actions immediately following her return to Creation was to wander into Chiaroscuro and plop down a Chirality Prohibition Index (http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=Charms:Chirality_Prohibition_Index) centered in the undercity beneath Chiaroscuro; this would allow it to pervade the city proper, while still remaining neatly out of sight.  It's a heavily populated area, so I imagine it would expand fairly quickly.<br/><br/>There are probably beings around who would resist such a thing but ... well, Exalted's all about challenges, right?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Since Chirality Prohibition Index has a number of effects, would you mind defining them for your instance of it sometime soon?  I think it'll say a lot about your character, too.`