Act 3 Episode 16: An Eclipse Over El Dorado

With the Wyld Hunt visible in their future, the Circle now learns about their past: it's time for Aura's First Age ghost to reveal the truth about El Dorado. An Artifact rated, on the scale of 1 to 5...rank N/A. Now, the horrors of late antiquity, as well as the bloodbath that was the Usurpation, claw their way to terrifying modern relevance. But, maybe, just maybe, the gang can find a solution to the mechanism's millennia of torment to free those trapped within...   (CWs for existential horror, apeirophobia/fear of infinity, paralyphobia/fear of paralysis, and discussions of imperialism and colonialization)   Gavel finally realizes why people were so angry with her prior incarnations, and drives some hard bargains with an old frenemy to gird against the Wyld Hunt! Lythander learns he's not the only one with time twisting magic in the neighborhood and has to cope with inadequacies of not being cool enough to hang at the table with other Celestial Exalts! Aura...well, in addition to all of the above with her First Age self, makes plans for a seaside vacation! Strawmaiden Janest rolls a horrifying amount of successes! Also, Seven Obsidian Leopard's messing with Lythander's demense becomes a big problem!   This is an Actual Play of Exalted Essence, the classic high-fantasy high-powered TTRPG, using the new Essence ruleset! If you're interested, you can buy it now, right off the Drivethrurpg site! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/427275/Exalted-Essence --- Here are links to our Twitch and Youtube if you want to see more of our content (mainly video game variety streams and the video archives thereof):   Social Handles: Gamerex: @Gamerex27 Corrack: @Corrack Chills: @DiogoMontesso) Alatos: @Alatos_Diogenes   We also have a Patreon now! If you want more of our RPG content, and can financially afford to spare a bit of money, you can support us here! https://patreon.com/ActionEconomyPodcasts --- Musical Attributions: Opening Theme: Traveler by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4770-traveler License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Closing Theme: The Final Show by Luca Fraula Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4704-the-final-show License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Additional Tracks:   Music: Ghost Story by Kevin MacLeod Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3805-ghost-story Licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Lucid Nightmare by Tim Kulig Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/8492-lucid-nightmare License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license