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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. Harmonious Jade is one of the signature characters of Exalted, a representative of the Solar Exalted Night Caste.

Pre-Exaltation

Harmonious Jade was born in the southern city-state of Gem and was sold to the slave-markets by her mother's midwife, her mother having died giving birth to her. Her earliest memories are of the Salmalin, a group of Yozi-worshippers, training her in the art of assassination and of stealth. During her tenure with the Salmalin, she was often sent to kill someone in Gem, Chiaroscuro or The Lap, sometimes killing for the cause of the Salmalin, other times for the money.

Exaltation

During a failed mission to kill a magistrate in Paragon and being chased by the roused guards, soldiers and citizens of the city, Harmonious Jade was chosen by the Unconquered Sun; "My child, for too long you have lived in the shadows, hidden away in the darkness. The shadows will still be your friend, but now, they will be the shadows cast by my light. You have a greater purpose than you have yet been told, and such as these cannot keep you from it." Returning from her mission in Paragon, Harmonious Jade told her Salmalin masters of what had happened. They realized that she had become their greatest enemy - one of the servants of the gods who had imprisoned the Yozis, and ordered her execution. In her flight from the Salmalin, she killed her former tutor, Sahan and now roams the world looking for her purpose as a child of the Unconquered Sun.

Since her Exaltation

Harmonious Jade finds work as a freelance mercenary and assassin. During one of her jobs, she came into contact with a Twilight Caste Exalt by the name of Zeroun who began to tell her what it meant to be Exalted. He told her of the greatness of the First Age and of the treachery of the Dragon-Blooded. He was also the one who told her of the tomb of the body she had once worn in another age - the tomb where she would find her orichalcum powerbow.

Harmonious Jade has also had several adventures with her companion, Dace, noteably an encounter with an Earth-Aspected Terrestrial sorcerer and the three man-scorpion tinsiana demons that he had summoned. She has also formed a circle with Arianna, Swan, Panther and Dace. After finding out that just because her companions had Exalted, they were not predisposed toward any kind of unified ideas on what to do with their powers, she left her Circle for a time but now seeks to rejoin with them sensing that they are all bound together by something stronger than mere companionship.

Stories involving Harmonious Jade

Harmonious Jade is a major character in the novel A Day Dark as Night. During the story, there are flashbacks to her time in the First Age of Creation; errenously, her ancestor is female. In both editions of the core book, Harmonious Jade's First Age self was a man.

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Other notes on Harmonious Jade

She is a wandering killer and a survivor by nature.
She owns a short orichalcum powerbow called Eagle's Rain.
She owns a small Demesne in a small cavern in the hills south of Chiaroscuro.
Her virtue flaw is the Heart of Flint.
Her favored attack Charm appears to be the Fiery Arrow Attack.

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