The only group I trust to play Exalted with me is made up entirely of people too exhausted to play, which is a shame because I really wanna inflict my new changing moon gull lunar pirate on Creation.
Their name is Banquet's Bane and they have strong opinions on who your fancy V'neef wines belong to. (Answer: they belong to Banquet's Bane.)
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Malati, the youngest Skalishaya sister, was mentored by Chejop Kejak himself, and is a terrifyingly good martial artist. Rachna, who has extensive memories from the First Age, has his own opinions about Malati’s sifu.
Characters in this comic:
Malati, the Resplendent Orchid (Chosen of Secrets Sidereal, dark purple hair)
Kaveri Shendo (Night Caste Solar, dark red hair)
Anjali Skalishaya (No Moon Lunar, purple/blonde hair)
Rachna, Anjali’s mate (Scourge Caste Infernal, face tattoo)
In mine and many other east Asian cultures, the dragon traditionally symbolises things like power, wealth and strength (imperial symbol and all)
I think we often forget that in the story of the Great Race, the dragon came in fifth because it'd stopped to give people rain. Then it'd stopped again to push a rabbit adrift on a log across the wide river so it reached the shore safely (that's why the Rabbit year comes before the Dragon).
Dragons aren't meant to just be powerful - they are meant to do good with such power, and to help those in need.
So in this lunar new year, I hope you gain more power, so that you might be able to help others. I pray you have abundant resources so you may give to yourself and those around you. I wish you courage, endurance, kindness and generosity, for yourself and your people.
I hope you, and I, will be rain givers, life preservers, joy bringers.
I hope we will be dragons.
Extremely belated postscript that should have been here far earlier:
I love the idea of kintsugi so here's a porcelain dragon that highlights the broken seams with gold. Despite all the pains of hardships in life, we are beautiful.
A wonderful Pokemon chinese animated short film directed by DaiWei (All Saints Street) and produced by MTJJ / HMCH studio (Legend of Hei) for Chinese New Year.