Hello Essential Entities,

Technically, the New Moon started a few days ago, but I'm old so feel fairly comfortable with '80s pop references. Feel free to translate as needed.

We're just about to start our fifth day in this 28 day compaign and have a lot of ground to cover, many chapters still to share, and lots of information to reveal as we move forward. Wondering about some specific Charms? Wondering about how certain bits have been translated into Exalted: Essence? Wondering what's been expanded in this book? We'll need some patience as we work through the next three weeks. We'll have answers to most of your questions as we go!

Today is a good day if you've been wondering about Lunars! I loved the Dragon-Blooded chapter and how it put the spotlight on the champions of the five elemental dragons. Now, the spotlight shifts to the chosen of Luna.

Additional Lunar milestones? check!
Exploration of Caste concepts? check!
Expanded Shapeshifting rules! CHECK!

And, of course, lots of Charms!!

Over the course of these 4 weeks, backers will receive the entire current draft manuscript for Exalted: Essence Player's Guide, but it's not going to come to you all in one go. The previews will come out in Exalt-based sections throughout the campaign. This helps me seem interesting over the the 28 day campaign, but it's more about guiding the conversation and helping steer feedback for the developers.

Because they want your feedback! These manuscript previews are of the current draft manuscript – the document in its latest, approved form. This may not be the final form after editing and any additional development, but you can consider it about 95% finished, so keep that in mind.

In fact, you can help guide the team through the next stages of development by providing feedback on these manuscript previews! The Onyx Path team has set up a special Feedback Form just for campaign backers for this very purpose: https://forms.gle/sqmxdW6u87pT3Mhg8

You can use this Feedback Form to share your thoughts directly with the Exalted: Essence creative team to help guide them through the next rounds of development and editing.

Remember, thanks to BackerKit magic, these download links are visible to Backers only - you must be logged in and reading this on the website to have access to the manuscript preview links. So, if you're reading this via e-mail, click that "Learn More" link on the bottom and I'll see you below the Exalted emblem.