[Some More Exalted] Friggin' Abilities, and Stuff

I'm playing or, well, running 1st Edition Exalted which is about 8 years old now. That's not really too long for a game to be out, but it's out of print and 2nd Edition has been up and running for a while. 1st Ed. really kind of stopped at the end of its conceptual growth, but from the printing of its core book to the printing of the non-canonical* Alchemicals book (a text about a hypothetical, but awesome, group of Exalted from a different dimension who were essentially sentiant, high-powered communist golems) there was a large amount of setting drift. The core book talked about the Solars, which you played, and had a little bit of information about the different factions, and had a fairly large list of abilities to choose from. Nobody had as many options as the Solars until the Abyssals came out in sheer ability selection.
( Cut for size. )