What Could Have Been: The original Hunter corebook has an epilogue where Violin99 digs up an ancient scroll depicting glyphic writing that describes an age of golden heroes who fought against the evils of the world. On the very next page? An ad for Exalted. They never went through with the connection, as Exalted was eventually distanced from the Old World of Darkness, but still.
Word of Saint Paul: Former Exalted and World of Darkness writer Holden Shearer released an unofficial supplement, Exalted vs. the World of Darkness, in which he openly confirmed what many fans had long suspected — the Imbued are meant to be a version of the Solar Exalted returned in greatly diminished form, with the Solar Sparks of Exaltation having been "shattered" so each individual only gets a tiny piece of one to keep the Imbued from ever becoming as powerful as the Solar Exalted were. (There were only about 200 total Solar Exalted in Exalted itself, and the wan xian in Kindred of the East, who are implied to be a distorted legend of the Solar Exalted, numbered 10,000, while in the modern World of Darkness there are tens of millions of Hunters in existence at any given time.)
, in which he openly confirmed what many fans had long suspected — the Imbued are meant to be a version of the Solar Exalted returned in greatly diminished form, with the Solar Sparks of Exaltation having been "shattered" so each individual only gets a tiny piece of one to keep the Imbued from ever becoming as powerful as the Solar Exalted were. (There were only about 200 total Solar Exalted in Exalted itself, and the wan xian in Kindred of the East, who are implied to be a distorted legend of the Solar Exalted, numbered 10,000, while in the modern World of Darkness there are tens of millions of Hunters in existence at any given time.)