Exalted: Scroll of Sorcery Vol 2 The Black and White Treatises

Exalted: Scroll of Sorcery Vol 2 The Black and White Treatises provides the real firepower for any sorcerer or necromancer in Exalted.  This book is actually two books with one on either side (so while reading White Treatise to get to Black Treatise you flip the book over).  It's quirky but allows for obvious separation of the two similar but different topics.

White Treatise goes over the origins of sorcery, the process the for learning it, where to learn it and what schools those places follow, and just who knows what sorcery and how deep that knowledge is.  This gives a much deeper understanding and background to the system and allows for many more interesting stories while a character tries to learn sorcery.  Of course the main meat of this book are spells and there are a lot of them.  Unsurprisingly most of these spells are for the Emerald (1st) circle but Sapphire (2nd) and Adamant (3rd) circles get their fair share as well.  A decent amount of the spells just do direct damage to some degree but there are also many spells that creatively solve other problems or can be used in interesting ways to the sorcerer and her circle's advantage.

The Black Treatise is almost an exact mirror of the White Treatise except that it covers the art of necromancy.  It does make good on the point that necromancy is not just "evil" or "dark" sorcery but a separate power source that is designed to do a little bit different things then sorcery (although the two obviously overlap a bit).  There are a wide array of necromancy spells available allowing for many different themes of necromancer.  It should be noted that in 2nd Edition this book is the only one that contains necromancy spells so it's a must if your character wants to use it.  Abyssals only has the 3 requisite charms.

Overall this was a highly quality book with a diverse range of spells and interesting history and geography and artifacts relating to sorcery and necromancy useful to Storyteller and players alike.  If spellcasting is going to be used this book is almost essential unless someone wants to do a lot of legwork in creating their own spells.  A solid Exalted supplement.  This gets a 9 out of 10.

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