Editing Exalted Versus World of Darkness (section)

==Equivalency: Exalted Power Levels and other Supernaturals==

The fanbook assumes one unavoidable fact: that the World of Darkness is so worn by the march of time and of the ages that there's simply not a lot of Essence to go around anymore, barring the Essence that the Exalted renew within themselves every day.  Mechanically, this caps all Exalted at Essence Rank 5, but even then depending on how a group plays it this may be more than enough for some cunning groups to punch some of the bigger names of the [[World of Darkness]].

Celestials (Solars, Lunars, Sidereals), Abyssals, and Infernals have a higher power level compared to their fellows. For example, a newly-minted Essence 1 Solar is comparable to an 8th-generation Kindred, a Rank 2 Garou, an Arete 2 Mage, and a Dharma 2 Wan Kuei; an Essence 5 Solar will be able to go [[Awesome|toe-to-toe and wreck the face of]] Kindred [[Methuselah]], Rank 6 Garou, Arete 10 Mages, and Dharma 10 Hungry Dead [[Bodhisattva]]. 

Terrestrials and Alchemicals are much more restrained by comparison, and start out at right around the same level as all the other Supernaturals out there; an Essence Rank 1 Dragon-Blooded or Alchemical will be roughly equal to an 11th-generation Kindred, a Rank 1 Garou, an Arete 2 Mage, and a Dharma 1 Hungry Dead.  An Essence 5 Dragon-Blooded or Alchemical on the otherhand will be able to match a 7th-generation Kindred, a Rank 5 Garou, an Arete 6 Mage, and a [[Jina|Dharma 5 Wan Kuei]].