Exalted

### Abilities

Supernatural Physique, Supernatural Cognitive Abilities, Infinite Threshold for Growth (requiring commensurate training, effort and hard work)

### Powers

Varies; Exalted generally have one or two cardinal abilities that emerge around puberty, but require an intense emotional episode to manifest, the ability usually reflecting what the individual needs to survive (or protect someone they hold dear) in the moment.

### Banes

Unknown; Moonborne derive most of their power by absorbing the Moon's rays, Sunborne derive most of their power by absorbing the Sun's rays, but this isn't known outside of the Exalted themselves, so whether or not this holds the key to their greatest weakness(es) is unknown.

## *Overview*

The Exalted are a race of vastly evolved, highly advanced ultimordial *humans* who make up one part of Maximillion VonMitternacht's heritage, but who otherwise do not exist in this Universe. They are the final stage of human evolution *hundreds of thousands* of years past what we know on Earth-Prime (we authors' native Earth) due to everything the human race has been exposed to and has survived in the times to come. Although they're regarded as "standard humans" at their specific time of origin, the weakest and most frail of them would be unfathomably powerful compared to modern humans on Earth-Prime.

## *History and Politics*

No information exists about the Exalted in the modern world, nor do they call themselves 'Exalted'. This is a term used to make reference to this species for the sake of reference for readers.

### **History**

The first *ultima hominis* or "Exalted", calling herself Dawnstar, appeared somewhere in the Middle Ages of Tyran (Earth-2003) and, due to her great power and ambition, effortlessly positioned herself as a Goddess over the other races. It's speculated that even she doesn't know how she ended up there. During her time there, she raised various mortals into positions of great influence and power, and even had a biological child.

She had created, in her time on Tyran, a strange arcane device that worked as a mainframe for the world's leylines and geographical data - which became the way she asserted herself as a Goddess - but she met her end when this device was found by her first two adoptive children and they used it to usurp her position and forcibly subdue her into an eternal sleep.

### **Politics**

Dawnstar's progeny, to include Maximillion's grandfather Exodus Soulcry, ruled in roles *surpassing* government by way of Religion, and placed their most devout followers in positions of Priesthood who acted as intermediaries between 'The Gods' and 'Mortals', and even the lowliest Priests or Messengers for one of the 'Gods' was revered as Holy and therefore on-par (where mortals were concerned) with the Gods themselves. There was contention between the Nobility and the Pantheon of alleged 'Gods', but they kept their peace due to the sheer destructive power *frequently* demonstrated by each generation of Exalted who came after.

## *Physiology*

Exalted are highly evolved, reflecting hundreds of *thousands* of years of human evolution.

### **Brain**

Exalted have brains that are far more evolved than humans of today, immune to virtually every disease and mental illness known to man currently and even most illnesses and diseases to be discovered in the future. *Exalted* possess eidetic (or outright photographic) memories, extrasensory perception, uncanny mental acuity, and a degree of mental flexibility that makes the intellectuals among them stand out in a positive way.

While not innately *immune* to manipulation and/or tampering, the mind of an *Exalted* is capable of knowing when it is behaving "out of the norm" and can enact countermeasures against whatever (or whomever) is trying to invade it, even if the *Exalted* themselves are not consciously aware of the invasive element(s).

There is also an infinite reservoir for knowledge, by the *Exalted*'s innate ability to compartmentalize all of the knowledge stored, and immediately (barring distractions) recall the necessary information at an instant's notice.

### **Hybridization**

    Though not largely known, not even by the *Exalted* who disclose information between one another, *Exalted* are not limited to merely their standard form of asexual reproduction (exact process unknown), but they can actually reproduce heterosexually with a member of the opposite sex. Exalted are compatible with any race that's compatible with a human being (and then some), and an unknown (by them or others) fact is that their offspring will be a much more advanced/evolved variation of the non-*Exalted* parent's race, possessing greater physical prowess, mental prowess and more that *by far* exceeds the standards of the other parent's race.

## *People*

### **Earth-3487 (Fort Elder Drake)**

Maximillion VonMitternacht (**Exalted**/Dhampir Hybrid)

## *Science and technology*

    Exalted vary in their individual attitudes towards science and technology, but those who