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This namespace contains the used rules for the Meruvian Dream campaign.

Character Creation

XP based character creation (see XP Based Character Creation for Solar/Lunar Guidelines)
- XP pool: 450xp
- No artifacts unless you have a very good reason

You start with free dots (these dots count as actual bought dots for all intents and purposes, but are completely free):
- Lore 2
- Linguistics 1
- Medicine 1

Please draft a short background story containing at least the following elements:

Early life (parents, education, optional training or jobs, etc.)
Exaltation (when, where, how, why, etc.)
Family/Relations ( married/partner/boy-/girlfriend, children, parents, siblings, etc.)
Contacts (work related, social contacts, etc.)
Preferences with regard to Solar/Lunar mate
[if you were not born with Meruvian nationality] How you got your citizenship

Note that "don't know" and "don't care" are both valid states for most parts of character story.

We use Exalted Second Edition with 2.5 errata
The Shards of the Exalted Dream, p130 and further, as base for rules changes to switch to a modern setting

Old Realm: Extremely obscure, actively suppressed by the Immaculate Church
High Realm: The language of Meruvia, and lingua franca of the civilized world (compare American English)
Tengese: The language of An-Teng, and the second lingua france of the civilized world (compare Mandarin)
Low Realm: dead language, sometimes used as slang and on the street (compare Latin thought for the plebs)
Directional languages are still practiced, though Meruvia speaks High Realm exclusively
Guild Cant is dead and unpracticed
Riverspeak is still used by some groups, mostly nomads