Originally Posted by
This be Richard
I'm actually pretty comfortable with this level of awfulness from first age solars. I guess, when I talk about what's "cartoonishly evil," I'm referring to things that seem silly even within the context of Exalted... which, I suppose, doesn't encompass very much. Evil for evil's sake and not much else. I should probably throw that qualifier out.
But I like the idea of it not coming out of malice so much as an increasing disregard for others. What I'd really prefer to do is have a gradual slide, where some heinous acts are perpetrated early on for important reasons, but less and less cause is required to justify horrible things over time until, finally, clothing made out of sundered souls (which I really like, by the by) becomes perfectly acceptable so long as it's more attention-grabbing at the next party than the gossamer dress that whatsherface got from the fair folk in exchange for a small city of innocent mortals under her domain.
Call me unimaginative, though, but I have a hard time coming up with much in the way of crimes that outstrip what is possible in the real world. Which I don't think is a problem unique to me, given how little the writers of the Infernals book could come up with to make evil things evil beyond making them super rapey.