Tepet Arada

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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. Tepet Arada is one of the signature characters of Exalted, a representative of the Terrestrial Exalted Air Aspect.

Pronunciation: TEP-et ə-ROD-uh

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Pre-Exaltation

Tepet Arada was mostly left to his own devices in his youth, having grown up in the military town of Chanos with parents who were fairly inattentive. He spent his early years learning the best ways to become a hooligan. He even got an old sailor to give him and his friends tattoos on their shoulders that said 'Hellion Legion". He even remembers getting the cane quite a bit for his antics, but recalls his childhood as pretty normal.

[edit] Exaltation

After having killed another kid that used to get into fights with him, Tepet Arada was sent to the Palace of the Tamed Storm in the Imperial City, a school that was more than used to dealing with troublemakers. He didn't remember how he had killed the other boy, but he knew it was when he Exalted, and he had spent some time locked up in a room after it happened. They told him that he was crazy for a long time after and that anyone who came near him, he started choking and beating on.

[edit] Since his Exaltation

After his time at the Palace of the Tamed Storm, he was sent to the House of Bells. He took to the military structure well, after having endured the beatings at the Palace of the Tamed Storm and quickly became the captain of his own cadet squad. The House of Bells taught him that words and such can be just as brutal or effective as a fist for a lot of obstacles. Words could even be better in some ways. Another important lesson he learned from the House of Bells was that you have to deserve power. After leaving the House of Bells, he moved into his older brother's home, but was rarely there, being out traveling to various places where the Realm had a regular military presence. He did eventually end up in the field with the Legions and had a preference for doing more visceral sorts of operations, long-range recon and fast-attack jobs.

He did the minimum that he had to do in order to be supportive and fulfill the family roles, but preferred his time out away with the Legions to time at home with the family. After a while, he became disgusted with his family and spent several years in the North, trading furs and such with some of the Icewalkers and meditating. A few years after he returned, he went off to a big campaign against Jochim the Anathema. It was a long, drawn-out campaign, but in the end, Tepet Arada took a force of his best men and razed Jochim's fort in the hills to the ground. They named him the Wind Dancer for that and was promoted to general. It was then that he was given command of the Tepet Legions and gained the sword of his grandfather, the Daiklave of Tepet.

[edit] Other notes on Tepet Arada

  • He is a bitter ex-general and a rebel by nature.
  • He owns a blue jade daiklave, Relentless Wind, the sword of Tepet himself. He wears it in a bundle strapped to his back.
  • He also possesses jade Hearthstone bracers and a jade blood seed.
  • He was sent by a crumbling Realm to fight against Yurgen Kaneko, the Bull of the North and even made him blink when he spoke to the Bull of the North in his own language. He did not, however, win and the Tepet Legions were crushed. He resigned his commission shortly thereafter to live the life of an Immaculate Monk.
  • He is one of the most decorated officers in the history of the Realm.

[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
Source Materials Sourcebooks | Novels | Comics
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