Anima Banner

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An "Anima Banner" is a term relevant to the fictional world of Exalted. Exalted is a fantasy role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing.

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A normally invisible aura that surrounds all living things. When an Exalt uses Essence, that Essence often spills into his Anima, making it visible. Therefore, Exalted who expend a great deal of Essence are often surrounded by a brilliant display of power that can be visible miles distant. Anima can grant Exalts supernatural powers according to what kind of Exalt and what specific Caste or Aspect the Exalt belongs to.

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When an Exalt's Anima becomes visible, it can display totemic or other images when on high power levels. This display is called an Anima Banner. Each Exalt's anima banner is unique and represents his personality. However there are some general guidelines:

Solar Exalted 

Solar Anima Banners tend to depict powerful creatures such as giants or animals emblematic of strength and endurance. Some banners are more abstract, such as a column of flame or an intricate mandala of glowing wires. Solar anima banners are always impressive.

Lunar Exalted 

Lunar Anima Banners tend to almost always depict an animal, usually the true shape of the Lunar. This display can be either realistically or in an abstract form.

Sidereal_Exalted 

Sidereal Anima Banners are generally not very impressive, by Exalted standards. They take the form of a glowing aura or halo, usually imperceptible beyond a few hundred yards. Of all Exalted, the Sidereals' banners are the least varied.

Terrestrial Exalted 

Terrestrial Anima Banners are based on their appropriate element (Air, Earth, Fire, Water, or Wood). They typically depict their element in power, such as swirling clouds, raging flames, or tangled thorns. A small number of powerful Terrestrial Exalted have anima banners that impressively depict their Elemental Dragon. The Terrestrial Exalted, unlike most Exalted, have sound and smell attached to their animas. While the animas of other Exalted may be more impressive, none are so evocative as these.

Abyssal Exalted 

Abyssal Anima Banners tend to be a corrupted version of the Solars' banners. They show twisted, hideous animals; zombie-like, decaying giants; sickly, poisonous-looking green flames; or anything else perverted and unclean.

Alchemical Exalted 

Alchemical Anima Banners depict industrial might, with churning gears, thudding pistons, arcing electricity, and so forth. Like the Dragon-Blooded, the Alchemical Exalted have animas that include sound and smell.

Infernal Exalted 

Infernal Anima Banners have not been canonically defined. Possibilities include plumes of verdigris chaos, immense unnatural features of land, visions of demonic retribution against a wayward Creation - all things that are alien to Creation and symbols of Demonic heroism.

Exalted
Types of Exalts and other Magical Beings	Solar Exalted | Abyssal Exalted | Infernal Exalted | Lunar Exalted | Sidereal Exalted | Alchemical Exalted | Terrestrial Exalted (The Dragon-Blooded) | Raksha (The Fair Folk) | Dragon Kings | God-Blooded
Major Magical Beings	The Primordials | The Yozis | The Neverborn | Gaia | Autochthon | The Unconquered Sun | Luna | The Five Celestial Maidens | The Five Elemental Dragons | The Deathlords
Five Magical Materials	Orichalcum | Moonsilver | Jade | Starmetal | Soulsteel
Signature Characters	Solar Exalted: Dace | Yurgen Kaneko, the Bull of the North | Panther | Samea | Arianna | Harmonious Jade | Swan Abyssal Exalted: Maiden of the Mirthless Smile | Lady of Darkness in Bloodstained Robes | Seven Degreed Physician of Black Maladies | Disciple of the Seven Forbidden Wisdoms | Prince of Shadows | Falling Tears Poet Lunar Exalted: Lilith, the Owl Woman | Strength of Many | Magnificent Jaguar | Anja Silverclaws Sidereal Exalted: Shepherd of the North Star | Iron Siaka | Crimson Banner Executioner | May Blossom | Chejop Kejak | Black Ice Shadow | Sad Ivory Terrestrial Exalted: Tepet Arada | Mnemon | Cynis Denovah Avaku | Sesus Rafara | Peleps Deled | Sesus Nagezzer, the Slug | Tepet Ejava, the Roseblack Alchemical Exalted: Stern Whip of Industry | Fair-Spoken Rishi | Excessively Righteous Blossom | Unhesitatingly Loyal Weapon (?) | Lissome Avid Engineer Infernal Exalted: Lintha Ng Hut Dukantha The Raksha: Lord Kazour | Neshi of the Double Whips | Subarto | Dilari of the Sea Foam | Nlassa of the Lion's Mane | Laughing Boy | Shikuzi the Weaver | Judge Nehemeth The Mountain Folk: Kravah
Exalted Universe	Anima Banner | The Blessed Isle | Celestial Gateways | Creation | The Cult of the Illuminated | Denandsor | Elemental Poles | Essence | The Great Contagion | The Great Curse | The Heptagram | The House of Bells | The Immaculate Order | The Imperial City | The Imperial Mountain | The Lap | Lookshy | Malfeas, the Demon Realm | Nexus | Rakshastan | The Scarlet Empress | The Scavenger Lands | Shadowlands | The Skullstone Archipelago | Thorns | The Threshold | The Underworld | Whitewall | The Wyld Hunt | Yu-Shan, the Heavenly City
Source Materials	Sourcebooks | Novels | Comics