Editing Exalted Versus World of Darkness (section)

==Home, Sweet Home: The Dragon Nests==

Many of the Dragon-blooded clans have situated themselves over nexuses of natural power where the welspring of Creation still manages to seep through. The Garou call these places Caerns, while Mages name these Nodes, but for the Terrestrials these will always be the Dragon Nests, a term that is shared by the ''shen'' of Asia.  

Any Dragon-blooded family worth their name will have at least one or two Dragon Nests among their holdings. Normally located in isolated and forlorn locales, these are nonetheless also some of the most obfuscated and protected of Dragon-Blooded strongholds, and the families spare no expense to make sure that they remain ignored by the world at large, mundane or otherwise.  

The most common rivals for Dragon Nests are, not surprisingly, Werewolf packs.  Unlike so many other ''shen'', who could at least be asked to look the other way for a concession or another, Werewolves will normally resort to violence first, and the Dragon-blooded families are ready and willing to reply in kind, especially if the location is the only Dragon Nest that the family owns.

The reason why Dragon-blooded families fight to hold on to Dragon Nests is very simple: while the Terrestrial Exalation is hereditary, to have even the remotest ''chance'' of an Exaltation happening the family member must have spent the majority of their lives in the Dragon Nest. Without these places of power, there would be no new Exaltations, and the Dragon-blooded would soon become extinct.