Editing Exalted Versus World of Darkness (section)

===The Chosen and [[Vampire: The Masquerade|the Kindred]]===

As one of the more widespread and actively predatory supernatural that can be found in the World of Darkness, vampires are often the first denizens of the night that the Exalted encounter.  Indeed, about a ''third'' of Celestial Exaltations came about as a direct or indirect result of a vampire attack.

A few details before one gets into the glorious chaos throwing a Solar at a Kindred would normally create:

* Exalted '''cannot''' be Embraced. The moment an Exalted goes Kindred, the Exaltation leaves to seek its next incarnation.  Dragon-Blooded are slightly different, as they retain what Essence they had left when they died; the moment they use up those for their Charms, they act as if they're regular Kindred. The Charms themselves also vanish at a rate of one per night, starting from their highest-ranked Charm.

* Ghouls may Exalt! This burns away any kind of advantages that partaking in Vampire blood may give them, so no more access to Disciplines barring the initial dot in Potence. An Exalt may still ''choose'' to continue, but there's no real advantage to doing so beyond feeding an addiction.  As for Abyssals, well, they can't become Ghouls, and if they try to drain a Vampire back, they will find that Kindred blood is bland and they can't regain Essence from it either.

* While the initial process of Exaltation burns away any ''existing'' Blood Bond, a Chosen may still get placed under one afterward, though some Charms or Intimacies give some way in struggling against it. By and large though, it's not something any Exalted would want to be under.

* Solar blood burns like liquid sunlight, so any Kindred trying to drain a Solar deserves all the pain that they will get. A Kindred takes 1 level of aggravated damage for every blood point they try to drain from a Solar. It counts as sunlight for Fortitude rolls or Setite clan weaknesses.

* Otherwise Exalted blood is ''extremely'' nourishing, and gain three blood points for every health level of lethal damage they do.  Any Kindred who kills a Terrestrial Exalted through blood drain also have their Generation temporarily lowered by 1 for a number of nights equal to their Essence rating.

Due to the low numbers of the Exalted, they haven't quite registered as a threat to the Kindred, but as some of the Chosen slowly grow in power (particularly the Solars), and start to directly attack them on their own turf, they're going to have to pay attention.  And unless one happened to be an Abyssal (where one can ''easily'' find themselves neck-deep in Kindred politics before they realize it), Celestials get along with Kindred as well as oil and water.

Solars have simple reactions to the Kindred, influenced by how often their Exaltations comes about in the wake of Vampire attacks: [[Rip and Tear|it's gotta die, right now]].  For their part, any Kindred will be distinctly uncomfortable when any Solar has their anima flaring anyway, as the aura counts as bright light, and they immediately have to check for ''Rotschreck'' with a +2 difficulty.  

Lunars are a slightly different matter by comparison.  Some Lunars started out as Ghouls, and as the Exaltation burned away their blond bonds, they made it very clear that the abusive relationship was at an end. Permanently.  And given how it's ''very'' easy to mistake a Lunar for a Garou, Vampires will steer clear of Lunars regardless unless an overwhelmingly powerful assault can be done. That said... Lunars are normally loners to begin with, and Kindred can be ''very'' friendly if they think one can be useful. So it's really a messy, case-by-case thing.

Sidereals find that the Kindred are serious problem that needs aggressive "managing", as eventually any kind of prognostication or farseeing they try will involve the Get of Caine in one way or another. Unlike Solars however, Sidereals usually have a good grasp of just how ''outnumbered'' they are, before they stir up a hornet's nest of bloodsuckers.

Terrestrials on the other hand have learned through painful experience that, if the Kindred have to be dealt with, one has to do it through subtlety if possible, ''especially'' around the blood wizards of Clan [[Tremere]].  Blood bonds are doubly an issue, especially among the easily-infuenced younger Exalts, so the vampire who's responsible is usually dealt with quietly and expediently.

Abyssals find themselves in a very odd place indeed, no thanks to their connections to both the Underworld and the Neverborn slumbering there.  On one hand, the ghosts that hang around them can't stand vampires, and as many an Abyssal experienced Exaltation in the wake of a vampire attack, they won't exactly be positively pre-disposed to Kindred. On the other hand, due to how similar some of the Abyssal's abilities are to Kindred, it's easy for some Abyssals fall in and be influenced by the local covens, only to quickly find themselves literally neck-deep in Kindred politics.  Suffice to say, given enough time an Abyssal ''will'' rise to the top as Prince of a city, and woe to any Kindred who gets in their way.