Man mods I'm sorry for this specific and possibly complicated question, and I'm sorry for Exalted being like this.
I've been thinking of apping from the Exalted tabletop setting again; specifically I'm thinking of apping a character from a specific era in the setting's history, the First Age. In the latest edition the sourcebooks give a rough overview of the era and what the social positions of the PC character types were like at the time (which were vastly different from the present-day setting), as well as outline key historic events for the setting.
Otherwise it's very sparse on specific details and is mostly described in broad strokes. It's deliberately left vague how exactly it was a golden age beyond sorcery and miraculous wonders being more common, or how life was like during the First Age besides it overall sucking less before things went wrong, etc. This is so that GMs can tailor aspects of the era and specific past events for their table and their players' present-day characters if they want to play with those things.
Which I mean to say if it's okay for me app a character from that era when I'd have to do a fair bit of headcanon/worldbuilding of my own? Specifically I'm apping one of the PC character types (a Solar) whose most major accomplishment was his involvement in the founding of an island city-state in the middle of the ocean frontier, so a lot of his stuff sort of exists outside the glorious First Age empire that Solars were stated to have had and hopefully won't cause continuity issues if someone else also wants to app from Exalted. The setting's a huge place.
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I've been thinking of apping from the Exalted tabletop setting again; specifically I'm thinking of apping a character from a specific era in the setting's history, the First Age. In the latest edition the sourcebooks give a rough overview of the era and what the social positions of the PC character types were like at the time (which were vastly different from the present-day setting), as well as outline key historic events for the setting.
Otherwise it's very sparse on specific details and is mostly described in broad strokes. It's deliberately left vague how exactly it was a golden age beyond sorcery and miraculous wonders being more common, or how life was like during the First Age besides it overall sucking less before things went wrong, etc. This is so that GMs can tailor aspects of the era and specific past events for their table and their players' present-day characters if they want to play with those things.
Which I mean to say if it's okay for me app a character from that era when I'd have to do a fair bit of headcanon/worldbuilding of my own? Specifically I'm apping one of the PC character types (a Solar) whose most major accomplishment was his involvement in the founding of an island city-state in the middle of the ocean frontier, so a lot of his stuff sort of exists outside the glorious First Age empire that Solars were stated to have had and hopefully won't cause continuity issues if someone else also wants to app from Exalted. The setting's a huge place.