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====Ghosts====
Ever since the Neverborn's death broke the cycle of reincarnation, those who die with their business unfinished turn up as Ghosts in the Underworld. Ghosts have access to what they were buried/burned with (their grave goods) and are able to channel essence and learn ghost charms, called Arcanoi. Ghosts who settle their business can pass into Lethe as they should have and reincarnate. Those who give into the Whispers of Oblivion (usually by wandering the Labyrinth) turn into crazed Spectres intent on spreading the word of Oblivion by force. Their third option is to toss themselves into the Mouth of Oblivion and utterly cease to exist.

=====Deathlords=====
Ghosts of 13 First Age Solars who died during the Usurpation, they took the Neverborn's offer of real, ultimate power in exchange for promising to drop all of Creation into Oblivion. They are rather bitter and psychologically maladjusted from the Usurpation. Each one is pretty unique in their psychosis and plots. Some are making more headway than others. The Dowager's Great Contagion managed to kill 90% of all life in Creation, while the Mask of Winters has captured Thorns. Others have suffered rather embarrassing setbacks, and are dealt with harshly by their Neverborn masters.

As may be expected, they like to fight and argue with each other a lot, which makes even some of their greatest successes a comedy of errors. The Great Contagion, as previously mentioned? Yeah, the only reason it only killed most of all life in Creation was because two other Deathlords (Eye and Seven Despairs and The First and Forsaken Lion), went out and invited the fair folk to invade Creation, which ended up uniting all of Creation against a common cause, and gave the world the strength and focus to endure the plague, plus it screwed enough with creation's reality that the plague stopped working right. 

The other thing that seems to get in the way them succeeding are, ironically, the Neverborn themselves. As the Neverborn hate the state they are in, they hate it when the Deathlords don't preform to total perfection and brutally punish them for it. The First and Forsaken Lion, for example, is actually waiting to come up with a plan because he wants to be sure the plan will work out of fear it might not and getting punished like when he displeased the Neverborn in the past.

* '''Bishop of the Chalcedony Thurible:''' possibly the craziest Deathlord (though the Dowager and Eye and Seven Despairs are giving him a run for his money), convinced that he can convince Creation to murder itself through pure rhetoric. Currently running a rather large suicide cult based in Creation's equivalent of the Gobi Desert. Might actually be onto something, because going on genocidal killing sprees generally just causes souls to reincarnate rather than become ghosts or fall into Oblivion. Also, his battle form is covered in dicks, absolutely no explanation is given (might be a commentary on sex abuse in the clergy, but he's always been characterized as too crazy to really take an interest in procreation or understand human biology).

* '''Bodhisattva Anointed by Dark Waters/The Silver Prince:''' undead ruler of Skullstone, an island nation known for its use of GHOST PIRATES! In all seriousness though, he's built a seemingly utopian island society based on ancestor worship and necromancy, but GASP he's really just built a dystopian soul farm that tricks its inhabitants into doing his bidding while harvesting 9/10ths of souls for smelting into soulsteel(because he's a Deathlord, therefore EVIL). He's building a giant fuck-you Creation fleet of sci-fi ships out of ghosts.

* '''Dowager of the Irreverent Vulgate in Unrent Veils:''' the Deathlord responsible for the Great Contagion(which she pulled out of a portal to an alternate universe, Exalted is weird like that). Currently running an "orphanage" populated by children she herself has orphaned, with the building's furniture being made out of the soulforged ghosts of the orphans' parents. When they reach a certain age, she either lets them go free to have kids (that she then orphans to start the cycle anew) or she kills all but the most traumatized one, smelts their souls into soulsteel, Exalts the survivor, and gives her weapons made out of her friends because she's crazy evil like that. Essentially Granny Goodness: Exalted Edition.

* '''Eye and Seven Despairs:''' Youngest and weakest of his Circle, he was horribly abused by other Solars in life. He’s currently using the Abyssal exaltations of those same Solars in a game of navel gazey torture revenge porn rather than doing his job (which he used to be rather good at). That's about the beginning and end of his canon characterization; good Storytellers usually give him other motivations, like the whole revenge porn thing being a ploy to obfuscate his true plans, or a method to terrify his Abyssals into subservience.

* '''The First and Forsaken Lion (FaFL):''' Generic Sauron-esque big bad for your campaigns. Was bolted permanently to his own armor by Who Holds in Thrall for his fuckups involving the Fair Folk Invasion. Currently camping out in the southern underworld building a fuckass huge ghost army and trying to figure out a plan that doesn't cause his bosses to torture him again. Also may or may not have been brainwashed by his masters into being Tsundere for The Princess Magnificent.

* '''Lover Clad in Raiment of Tears:''' On the surfaces she's a generic "Evil is Sexy" hedonist. Deep down she's a full on nihilist who hopes to [[Slaanesh|expose people to so much extreme pleasure that it leaves them emotionally burnt out]] and unable to enjoy *any* form of pleasure other than waiting for the sweet release of oblivion. The Bodhisattva is legit terrified of her and chose his current location in part to be as far as possible from her.

* '''Mask of Winters:''' another Generic Sauron Expy, though more active than FaFL. Main Deathlord in the games. Conquered the city of Thorns using a fortress made out of an undead giant, the Realm and the rest of Creation collectively shat a brick in reaction and are currently panicking thinking of an appropriate response. Most likely to be your Abyssal PC's shitty boss.

* '''The Princess Magnificent with Lips of Coral and Robes of Feathers:''' third biggest fuckup amongst the Deathlords after FaFL and Eye, was chased out of her own fortress by nothing more than a story about how she would be defeated (granted, it was a magic story told by gods, but it was still a hail mary shot in the dark). Was punished by being made subordinate to FaFL (who, as mentioned before, is creepy Tsundere for her). Usually called the Princess Magnificent due to her stupidly long name.

* '''Walker in Darkness:''' has no memory of his life as a Solar (Mask of Winters killed him using a weapon that destroyed memories back when they were still made of meat), meaning he has no grasp beyond the basic of how his own Abyssals work. Still hates Mask of Winters, but has no idea why.

* Four other Deathlords for the storyteller to create in the event the above aren't good enough.

=====Hekatonkhires=====
These are ghosts of Behemoths or the Neverborn's Third Circle Souls. Occasionally the Neverborn's thoughts birth a new one. Hekatonkhires are unique and very powerful beings. Imagine undead Cthulhu's zombie kidneys, as a roaming monster.