Hello Essence Players,

I'm going to post our regular update stuff, but I've got two quick notes before we dig in.

First up, I've been listing our two Stretch Goal novellas as For the March Lords, and Even the Heavens Will Burn, which are pretty cool titles. My tracking has them both in final draft status. That's info I pulled from Onyx Path's February summary, with Even the Heavens Will Burn moving into final drafts earlier in March.

But I've also come across the title "Murder on the Divine Carriage" which appears to be through final drafts and now in Development. I'm guessing that one of the earlier titles has changed (For the March Lords, possibly?) and moved forward, but I'm not 100% sure, so I'll get that clarified for our next monthly update.

The only other thing to note is Onyx Path's progress on a manuscript for the Exalted: Essence Storyteller's Guide. So, that's not part of this project, but certainly of interest to most Exalted: Essence players. I've probably mentioned it before, but it seems to be bubbling up in Onyx Path's weekly updates, so I expect to hear more about it before too long. I'll keep you posted.

With all my rambling out of the way, let's dig in to our regular update!

Again, there's a chance that one of those novellas had a name change and has moved to development; we'll know for sure in April's update. Art Notes are being worked on between the developers and Art Director for our main reward, figuring out all of the moving pieces before artists are assigned.

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