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>2e/2.5e
Lunars are rounded characters now, and mechanically Sidereals being a botched copy of 1e takes them down a notch, but Sidereal Bullshit is still a powerful meme, and Lunars still get swept by SMA when it comes to combat or anything in the elder essence region outside of pre-nerf Octopus-and-Spider Barrage with forty limbs (and in lore, Sidereals are doing much worse in general but against Lunars specifically they're pretty much the same; them not taking down the Lunar Exalted is basically chalked up to them not being bothered), and resplendent destinies are still as good as or better than Lunar shapeshifting. Lunars do come out ahead when it comes to leadership and most mental feats (except craft, where it's more like they have different focusses (the Sidereals are much better at making the top-end stuff, which is to say they can actually do it, but they don't have as much free time or space or manpower to exploit which lets Lunars do better at crapping out low tier items), and especially in and around the Wyld they can do enough stuff that a non-specialised Sidereal probably wouldn't be able to handle them head-on, and that's basically the same in the lore where the Lunar Exalted are much more settled as Wyld-touched monsters with a heart of gold working to build up the fringes of the world as part of their long-term strategy against the Sidereal-backed Realm. Overall the Sidereals are still ahead lore-wise, but the Lunar Exalted aren't blown out of the water anymore.