It's a basic step that could have been solved by a single line. They omitted it to make attack resolution look more streamlined on paper, relying on players filling in the missing step on their own.
Could you please cite a canon source for this?
Take note that what I use are not things outright stated in various splatbooks, just conclusions I developed from studying the lore and following logical steps of thought.
The entire reason, or at least the single largest reason, for the Surrender Agreement was because killing Primordials damages the concepts that they represent and if many more died it was possible that Creation would completely destabilize back into Wyld. That's why they went to all the trouble of creating such a complicated set of laws and binding the Primordials to obey them. It would have been much easier, and so far as they knew then safer, to just kill them all.
I thought it was because Gaia asked for them to be spared.
Yes Gunstar Autochthonia' version of Creation is massive because its a completely different setting. Its not just an alternate universe where the Exalted lost but and alternate universe where they lost that took place in a completely different setting. I'm pretty sure canon's version of Creation wasn't originally made up of multiple galaxies. There's also the fact the the setting is based on Battlestar Galatica so of course its version of Creation is going to be massive and take place in space.
Alternatively, Gunstar has no more to do with canon Creation than Burn Legend does. I don't think the devs ever expressly nailed down the Spiral as definitive canon apart from Theion definitely being representative of Malfeas-That-Was.
Sorry to tell you this, but this is just fanon, and one that does lessen the setting by making it even more dependent on the Primordials.
Or it's a shard - an alternate setting inspired with, but not identical to, Creation and its history.
Nope, Gaia asked for them to be spared because the Exalts sure were ready to annihilate them, and besides, killing them or their Third Circle fetichs apparently created massive shadowlands that would resist almost any effort to cleanse. In the end, these elements stayed the blades of the Exalted Host, not any concern for 'conceptual damage'.
Gaia did not have that kind of pull. No one did. Even with the surrender agreements if Ebon Dragon got out of Malfeas somehow and walked into Yushan then none of the gods would be able to fight it. That kind of security risk is insane. They only agreed to it because there was no other choice.
Not "unfinished" so much as "in need of constant, passive maintenance".
Active maintenance too, see calibration
Fanon typically implies it being completely unbacked. While his arguments are backed by referring to
That's what Gods are for.
It was meant to be self-sustaining because the Primordials went 'create and forget' so that they could toy with it and take turns playing the Games of Divinity.
Irrelevant to the canon fact that it was primarily Gaia's intercession that stayed their blades, not concepts disappearing from Creation.
Irrelevant, she sacrificed a bunch of spheres in a hypocritical spite strike that burned away large swathes of Creation, and the memories associated with it. Maybe it was an active conceptual attack (on the scale of an instant sorcerous working), but it doesn't mean that slaying her here and there would have done anything to the nature of hierarchy.
Yeah, that too. Doesn't mean the Primordials are tied to concepts so closely that hurting them harms the concepts themselves.
It is irrelevant to the enforced thematics of the cycle of violence and usurpation which are intrinsic to the setting and did not require the breaking of the three spheres, and it does not in any way prove that Primordials are so tied to the concepts they embody that killing them damages the concepts.
Wild extrapolation and arguments that do not follow from quoted canon elements remains fanon.
And the Sidereals debugging the Loom of Fate, etc. Nothing requires the Primordials, no more than killing a deadbeat, absent father magically removes limbs from the child.
Read Infernals splat where it's written about what SWHiLN did when she broke three of her 10,000 spheres.
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Or you just don't realise "Hey MAYBE the Primordials expanded the original flat Creation after the war?" is the most likely explanation.
FTFY
That raises a good point. Design by committee tends to have such contradiction. I can think of many many contradicting author viewpoints sprinkled throughout other TTRPG games I played. Ultimately the choice rests on the DM on which one to use
There is no contradiction there. Solars are immensely powerful and can kill primordials and create miracles.
He was explicitly NOT talking about fixing wear and tear but explicitly talking about making additions, improvements, and expansions.
You are mixing up maintenance and tinkering. Tinkering is the adding of new features or making design changes, not mere maintenance. Also, creation literally needs to have major portions of it shut down for maintenance for a few days every year. Think of how many items in your house do that?
Not guaranteed few days every year. Especially if you are not constantly tinkering with it. There are servers that have been running for many years without having to go offline. Creation is more equivalent to a Windows 95 running computer rather than a modern one.
