Mnemon (Exalted)

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Terrestrial Exalted

The Manual of Exalted Power: Dragon-Blooded front cover, featuring the images of (clockwise from the top) Peleps Deled, Cynis Denovah Avaku, Tepet Arada, Tepet Ejava, the Roseblack and Mnemon.
Designer(s) John Chambers (Developer), cover art by UDON.
Publisher(s) White Wolf Publishing
Publication date July 26, 2006
Genre(s) High fantasy
System Storyteller

Exalted is a role-playing game published by White Wolf Publishing. The game is classified as high fantasy. It is strongly influenced by Japanese anime and manga, the cultures of China and Rome, and a number of literary sources such as the writings of Michael Moorcock. Mnemon is one of the signature characters of Exalted, a representative of the Terrestrial Exalted Earth Aspect.

Pronunciation: ni-MÄN

Contents

[edit] Biography

[edit] Pre-Exaltation

One of the children of the Scarlet Empress, Mnemon's earliest memories are of her mother and being summoned upon occasion to watch her rule. Her brother, with whom she shared a father as well (Rawar), Ragara, was already over two centuries old when she was born, and was building his family and his legions as she was playing in unobtrusive corners of the Palace. Ragara was the image of everything she wanted to be as a child, tall, powerful: a paragon of might. However, Ragara was afraid of her. The Scarlet Empress herself took time to teach Mnemon herself when time allowed, her Sidereal advisors having informed her that Mnemon had great potential for sorcery and would certainly Exalt. During her early years, she was also tutored by a trio of Immaculate Monks, Laughing Butterfly, Kiran and Stone.

[edit] Exaltation

Stone was her teacher in the ways of martial arts. Mnemon never heard him speak and his face was completely covered by a black hood with no holes for his eyes, nose or mouth. One day when he was teaching Mnemon how to disarm a knife attack and she was getting bored and sloppy, Stone forced her to the ground and held a knife to her throat. She felt something release that had been caged in her soul forever, ready to burst forth. Stone pressed the knife into her throat, but it did not cut her, and Stone stumbled back as Mnemon's anima flared for the first time.

The long knife that Stone had held against her a moment before clattering to the floor. Stone moved to go after it and Mnemon dashed between him and the knife. He held up his hand in motion for her to stop, but all of what he had been teaching her to fight welled up inside of her and she launched herself at him, kicking and punching. She attacked with a speed that surprised her and when he doubled over, the breath puffing his mask outward, she brought her elbow across his face and contacted with a cheekbone. He lunged for her and she ducked, hitting him open-handed across the ribcage and feeling his lung collapse under broken ribs. Then she was done and her anima was all gone. She felt fear return as he faced her, clutching his side with one hand and leveled her with one punch from the other. He turned to leave and Mnemon, who had landed next to his knife, grabbed it and threw it at him, the knife burying itself in his shoulder, causing him to cry out. Then she saw his anima flare, discordant and fractured, a green halo surrounding him. At the time, she had never seen anything like it, and since then, she has come to understand he must certainly have been one of the Sidereals. Stone disappeared through the use of a Charm and moments later, as Mnemon sat confused and afraid, the Empress appearaed in the doorway, smiling her enigmatic smile.

"Well done," she said.

[edit] Since her Exaltation

On the day of Mnemon's Exaltation, her older brother, Ragara, tried to have her killed. He had a special suit of armor crafted for her that had tiny barbs on the inside of the breastplate that were coated with poison. Mnemon knew of the treachery at a touch of the armor and had servants clean the armor, inside and out before donning it. Two servants died that night and the Empress was doubly proud of her that day. The Empress was not impressed with Ragara's attempt on Mnemon's life and offered him the same choice that surrounded Sesus' life - if Mnemon died, so would Ragara.

After her Exaltation, the Empress sent her to the Versino, the Heptagram of Mnemon's day. She was three years into her training when the school fell. She was trying to summon and bind a First Circle demon while supervised by her tutor, Janalar, who had the Emerald Thurible hanging from his belt. It was then that she was to join the elite ranks of the upper class students who possessed demon slaves. She had heard that her tutor was going to test the power of the Emerald Thurible and summon a demon of the Second Circle. He and his attending monks were prepared for the ceremony, and nothing should have gone wrong. She took a big chance and used a Charm to allow her to see through the eyes of one of the monks, the demon she had just summoned being commanded to protect her. The demon that Janalar summoned was too powerful for him and killed him and the monks attending him. Mnemon protected herself by casting Invulnerable Skin of Bronze and she cowered from within the protection of her summoned demon. After the Second Circle demon had passed, she commanded her own demon to release her and she chased after the other demon, which was engaged in fighting with the demons summoned to protect the school and the last remaining monk, who had the Thurible. She commanded her demon to take the monk just as he banished the Second Circle demon and has possessed the Emerald Thurible ever since. The school was razed to the ground after she left, and the Empress attempted to deal with the political backlash, building another school on the far side of the island where the Versino used to be.

Afterward, Mnemon took a lover in a senior sorcerer; they eventually had a child and Mnemon began to build her own House and her legacy. She also worked against the formation of House Nellens and eventually went back to the ruins of the Versino, to summon Janalar and learn everything she could about the Emerald Thurible. She has also been known to ride with the Wyld Hunt from time to time. She also knows of the Sidereals and their role in the Usurpation and the formation of the Shogunate and the Scarlet Dynasty, having met with Chejop Kejak. She is currently one of the primary candidates for the Scarlet Throne in the absence of the Empress. Her greatest rival at the moment for the throne is Tepet Ejava, the Roseblack.

[edit] Stories involving Mnemon

None at present.

[edit] Other notes on Mnemon

  • She is a dynastic power-broker and an architect by nature.
  • She owns a white jade daiklave, Weeping Sword of Sorrows, jade and steel articulated plate with a Gem of Perfection set in the breastplate and a Gem of Harvest set in the helmet.
  • She also owns the Emerald Thurible, an artifact for summoning and binding demons.
  • She is a powerful sorceress.
  • She is the founder of a Great House in the Realm.
  • She is 399 years old, older than most Terrestrial Exalts live by almost a hundred years.

[edit] References

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
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