...if it wasn't for the dark tag, I'd be all over this. (Sorry, just isn't my thing. I don't like dark ponyfics.) Nonetheless, kudos for making an Exalted crossover. I hope it gets all the love it deserves. I'm a big fan of Exalted myself. In fact I'm going to be playing my weekly session with some friends later today! X3

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Finally someone at least have begun writing fanfic on THIS ccrossover! Yay!
Mm...I wonder if Shadow Of All Things will be...uh...spotlighted here?

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I'm sorry to hear that. I can tell you that it is only 'dark' in the context of being a fantasy story with some amounts of bloody violence and undead nasties and whatnot.

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No problem. I'm halfway into the third chapter now. And who knows? I plan to cover most of creation and beyond in these stories

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From your comment on chapter 2 I figured I might as well toss in my 2 cents worth of constructive critique. Bit late, but the story's not over yet!
Anyway what I wanted to say is that I feel the Solar exaltation process is somewhat underplayed here going by my understanding of it. Solars are by their nature expressions of perfection of action. "Do the thing so well it brings tears to the eyes of mortals" type of deal.
The actual process was described to me as "You are the best a mortal can be at something. You undertake a task/situation/whatever of extreme difficulty and perform to your utmost, but it is just not enough and you are going to fail. But then! Sunny Boy himself appears to you in a vision and you exalt, giving you the boost to succeed."
From that perspective the event here is kinda underwhelming. Sort of a "Oh no danger, it's going to get you, phbt exalted now." It's not really much of a big deal for Heart Speaker, he was using his knowledge to try to avoid violence and all that, but for Cash Charmer it's much for jarring. He didn't really do much to display his worth for exaltation there. Something to play up the difference between the two and their methods would have been nice.
Apart from that I like what you've got here, so you've got a new reader in me.

It might be wishful thinking – but in a better world, everypony would have nice things, so no pony would have to fight over them.

At the same moment, Cash Charmer was equally wishing that things were a little more civil. Although from his point of view the problem was more that backwaters, like this place, did not have the right economic dependencies and ties: Business partners shouldn't kill each other or steal from each other; that would be bad for business. Working together and setting up mutually beneficial trade routes was good business, and good business would make Cash rich – and being rich and living the good life was all he wanted, especially if it also meant that he didn’t have to trouble himself with bandits or idiot nobles since such a system should ideally run perfectly on its own.

But this world is broken. Fix it.

It was then that two things happened at the same time, two things that would ultimately spark a long series of events that would change the course of all of creation – for it was then that Heart Speaker and Cash Charmer both exploded in golden light, for they had exalted as Solars of the god of virtue and perfection: Celestia, the Unconquered Sun.

Dawn and Twilight caste, if i'm not mistaken.

Speaker drew a heavy breath. It was strange being able to keep up a gallop like this with his old bones – but they didn’t feel old anymore! His joints didn’t ache and he felt as nimble as when he’d just finished his medical training.

Since some Exalted can live for 800 years or more, unsurprising.

Yes, i've played that a few times.

Nodding, Speaker concurred with Cash’s conclusion and added: “Come to think of it, the immaculate faith sounds really dodgy now. I mean, think about it: A religion that glorifies dragon-blooded unicorns as the most spiritually enlightened ponies and most favored by the gods, while saying that anything that looks like a shiny golden solar is a demon? Sounds like the dragon-blooded had fun justifying their actions after the usurpation. The realm of Equestria is probably all that’s left of what they once took over, with people over here east in the hundred kingdoms and river provinces seceding at some point”

As they say: History is written by the victors.

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If you'll give them a couple of chapters or twenty, then they'll get right on that :)

thanks for all the comments - love 'em!