Glorious Saber

This is the “end” of the original arc that start with #1. Basically, I had a lot of fun with it and the characters are beginning to really show some depth (well, except for Glorious). If you are curious, Glorious is a Twilight (that’s the yellow glow with the circle missing) and Saber is a Dawn caste (the star burst). Twilights are the “mages” of Exalted, normally wise and intelligent. Dawns are the fighters and warriors and generals.

This is a very stylistic comic. The white on black just looked cool to me and seemed appropriate to running away in the middle of the night. Don’t worry, I’m planning on this going on for a while now. The next arc is already planned out.

EDIT: Jukashi mentioned that I got the caste mark for Saber wrong. I had the Zenith one, not the Dawn caste. Thanks!

I love limit breaks. Yeah, they aren’t the Final Fantasy “I squish you all!” type of breaks, but they have such wonderful role-playing possibilities. It is an excuse to just let it go. Now, many players I have seen treat limit breaks as a flaw, something to avoid at all costs and will argue with me to make sure they don’t have to roll. But, most of my group actually gets into them, asking me if they can roll. When they do break, like the first time when all but one player broke at the same time, it creates some of the more memorable adventures we’ve had.

Sadly, on this strip, I had to write it about five or six times and even now, I’m not entirely sure it works. But, I had fun doing it plus I get to finally move the plot out of the throne room (red on red is hard to draw).