Exalted: The Horned Man

Who is the Horned Man?
During their adventures the Solar Circle have come across testimony of some unknown entity at various points throughout the Wreckers' Coast. Descriptions agree upon a few factors


 * A large, imposing man with a sinister voice
 * Wearing Heavy Armour
 * Has curved horns similar to those of an Aurochs

One thing that accounts so far have also revealed is that, for whatever reason, those who have encountered this individual struggle to remember even these scant details. Furthermore, there seems to be no continuity or reason behind this individual's actions. Time may tell, perhaps, assuming someone can piece together the memories.

The Three Sisters Dam
The Circle first heard about the Horned Man during their first investigations into the Three Sisters Dam, where the Spider Administrator told them that "a long time ago" he had seen the Horned Man stick the Blade of Five Midnights into part of the Dam, thus disrupting the flow of essence along the leyline it was built upon. The Administrator struggled to remember more than scant details about the Horned Man, though it is debatable whether or not this was due in part to his preoccupation with his duties.

The Mirrored Hall
Many questers in the history of The Mirrored Hall have failed and fallen to the challenges of the Fair Folk therein, but there are a few who are known to have succeeded. When the Circle themselves quested in the Mirrored Hall, one of the elders of Miraculous Union Village mentioned that one of the past winners had been a man with horns like an Aurochs, and that he had left with "some sort of scroll", though who he was, what he had won and anything more about his appearance he seemed strangely unable to recall...

Guimen and Hontari
After their battle with the Clockwork Caliphate, the Circle explored the deserted villages of Guimen and Hontari looking for traces of the other nearby Rakshasa army, The Song of Flesh and Blood. During Reeds and Daxi's exploration of the village of Guimen they found a Stele carved by the villagers' ancestors of a boatman claiming a child they had been preparing to abandon in the nearby shadowland. A child... with horns. This confused Reeds greatly. There was no way this horned child could be the horned man - the events he was known to have been part of took place centuries ago, and yet the villagers claimed it was only a couple of generations (less than a century) since the events depicted took place. Had they not been ingested by The Song of Flesh and Blood some villagers might even have met him! Alas, Reeds had no time to speculate further, and moved on.