I highly recommend this book to anyone thinking of running Exalted. While a lot of these sorta of things should have been in the corebook, what is here is of high quality. It finally adds actual mechanics for the Project system, as well as offering good advice on safety tools, which are highly important for a game like Exalted, which delves heavily into complex and often traumatic topics like slavery or colonialism.

For general storytelling advice, the book's good, focusing on three different styles of campaigns, which is a good way to help groups new to Exalted get on board and have fun, and are useful to think about even for veterans. The three styles the game talks about are: Creation as stage, which is all about celebrating the player characters and giving the players plenty of opportunities to relish in the awesome powers of the Exalted and their intense passions and ambitions clashing with other heroes and villains. Creation as threat, which focuses on how dangerous Creation is even for the Exalted, stressing creative uses of their powers to save those they care about and stressing the importance of their roles in society. Then there is Creation as cost, which stresses the importance of consequences and how even the mightiest Exalted can't avoid them forever, the price of victory and how the Exalted may have powers that make them smarter and stronger, but no power to make them wise. The book covers both the storytelling and mechanical aspects of each style and how the styles can easily feed into each other for more fun. In the later chapters it also covers specific advice for each splat, and how they interact with each of the styles

It also finally adds a system for non increasing xp costs, a thankful upgrade from the overly complicated and minmax heavy Bonus Points vs multiplicative XP cost system in the corebook. It also adds a separate streamlined version of character creation and advancement for those who want such a thing.

The project system is also as mentioned good, it finally adds mechanics for the Bureaucracy skill and merits like Influence, something to actually do. It's engaging and comes alongside good advice on how to use it, such as advice on handling things that could ruin a project all together.

The simplified craft system is for the most part good, the new updated version of the book offers advice for how to transfer Charms, and is definetly way more simple then the corebook version. The only critique is the severe limit on how many points you can get on a crafting roll. You see for major Crafting projects, like building a palace or an Artifact, you need to get a set number of points over multiple rolls, each roll gives crafting points equal to one plus extra successes you get on the roll. You are restricted to only getting five points per roll, unless you use magic. However the system explicitly notes that no magic can increase this cap for crafting Artifacts, and the game recommends having the crafting point price for Artifacts(the primary thing people will be trying to craft) at 50. While again only being able to make at most, five crafting points per roll. It's not the end of the world, and it can be safely ignored. but its still very annoying.

All in all, it has been a blast to read, and I can't wait for further products in Exalted 3e.

The Knacks, Relics, Guides, and antagonists are good and are welcome additions to Scion. However the lore and Creatures are overall bad. The Creatures are not built in any way like how the rules for building one is described in Hero, the lore in general with the exceptions of the Kami, Orisha, and Deva are often poorly written, nonsensical and often arbitarly ignore mythology for conflict that is often more boring or lesser then the conflict already present in the source mytholog. The biggest example being Nidhogg who for some unfathomable reason has himself but spelled properly(Nidhoggr) as his rival when he already had a clear cut rival in the mythology: the eagle at the top Yggdrasil, a rivalry forged on constant insults they send to each other. Which is replaced by a riverly with his properly spelled self over who's the real Nidhoggr? Worst of all Nidhogg's write up contradicts the devaloper's assurance that Scion Dragon would not be treated as canon by the rest of the gameline, except Nidhoggr is a full Dragon in the Scion Dragon sense. In general the lore feels like the worst parts of 1e's lore, nonsensical changes that add nothing at best and at worst are activly worse then the conflict already present in the source material which is the worst kind of change

If you are playing a game featuring the Nemetondevos, you should absolutly get this. I can't empthize how much I prefer this to the official version, it's so much more accurate and fun, with a PSP that doesn't have an innate power that's partly useless or a motif that can be mechanicaly removed. The rewrites for the gods are so much more intresting, I love Ceronnus's write up empthathizing he's a god of commerce and trade not the wilderness just to name one. I also like how much the writer tries to inform about the cultures that the pantheon comes from, about how it lived and how it functioned, which is definatly helpful for running a game that focuses on the Nemetondevos. All in all this is a must have no question

This is probobly the best Scion 2e book so far. The Loa and Yazata are fantastic, and the new Purview rules are amazing and I can't wait to use them. The crafting expansion is also real great, I especially love the amplification rules. The only issue is the Nemetondevos, they are super inaccurate and seem to be based solely on appealing to pop culture steriotypes rather then the actual history, and they suffer heavily for it in my opinion. But everything else makes up for that and more. I've been playing as a Yazata Scion of Atar and it's been awesome. Heavily recemend this, just keep in mind what i said about the Nemetondevos.

the setting is great, especialy the Numirians. "crafting is a form of worship" is an awesome idea that more games should use.

The idea of a non-divine mortal gaining Legend feels rather redundant considering the Wolf Warriors exist and fulfill that same role and also the same role of being ardent followers of a worthy cause.

I love the setting, especically since Scion now actually has a setting for once. I love that the devalopers have actually done their research and have hired a more diverse team of writers who can help give a more accurate description of each religon. I love how much freedom the game system gives you in creating what you want, like how I was able to easily make a talking eagle as a PC thanks to the condition rule, I love the air of mystery of Origin tier(even if I do personally prefer the more epic and magical feel of Hero tier). The editing could definitely be better, there was some important stuff here and there I missed initely due to the text not giving it much attention or was vague. Still a must buy though for lovers of urban fantasy, mythology and more systems that encourage you to make your own ideas!