Editing Exalted Versus World of Darkness (section)

==The Fork in the Road==

Shearer takes the old-and-discarded hook given in [[Hunter: The Reckoning]] that the World of Darkness is the same as Creation from [[Exalted]], just aged really really badly and was ground down by the Wheel of Ages.  Some sort of epochal apocalypse had occured thousand of years before, which caused the Celestial, Infernal, and Abyssal Exaltations to be sealed.  Since then, the [[Dragon-Blooded|Terrestrials]] have kept their heads low, tried to shepherd their bloodlines, and keep out of the way of [[Vampire: The Masquerade|all]] [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse|the]] [[Mage: The Ascension|other]] [[Kindred of the East|supernaturals]] [[Changeling: The Dreaming|when]] [[Mummy: The Resurrection|they]] [[Wraith: The Oblivion|can]] [[Orpheus|help it]].

Then sometime in 1999 [[Week of Nightmares|magical nukes get dropped on Bangladesh]], and the Dragon-Blooded families suddenly had a ''lot'' to discuss.

In the main metaplot, one of the major consequences of this massive supernatural clusterfuck involving an [[Antediluvian]], a trio of [[Kindred of the East|hungry dead Bodhisattva]], a few [[Werewolf: The Apocalypse|Garou war packs]], and [[Mage: The Ascension|the Technocracy]] was the creation of the [[Hunter: The Reckoning|the Imbued]], essentially the [[Primordials|Ebon Dragon]] and [[Scarlet Empress]] using watered down Exaltations in an effort to stem the dark tide of supernatural nastiness threatening to drown the Mortal realm.

Here?  What happens instead is the heads of five families have a marathon nine-month conference in Tibet, and finally realizing they were now staring the End of Days in the face, decide to break open the '''Black Vault''' (aka Jade Prison 2.0), which held within it the legacies of the Age of Legends, both good and ill.

With the Vault's seals removed, the long-held Celestial exaltations burst forth, seeking worthy bearers of the powers they represented... And yet along with them, the Abyssal exaltations sought their own hosts in this new and darker age.  Far below the Ten Thousand Hells, sensing the return of their ancient enemies, the Infernal exaltations burst forth from their forgotten prison (alarming the Yama Kings when this happens, as they had no idea the prison was underneath their demesnes this whole time).  Out in the Deep Universe, the defense mechanisms of the barely-awake Autochthon detect the power of the Celestial exaltations return, and set into motion the re-awakening of its own champions...

And finally, with the return of these reborn heroes, the Dragon-Blooded clans still remaining have to now contend with a world where they '''cannot''' simply stand by and do nothing.