UrsaTempest
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That loses out on a critical part of the experience of being a DT though. Exigents presumably cannot say "Fuck you God X, I wanna be the Exalted of Y." It isn't just the Infernals gaining custom charms which is cool, it's them reforging the very themes of their Exaltation in a manner which was explicitly not intended to be possible, and doing so while fucking over the yozis, shattering the chains on their Exaltations, and becoming baby primordials to replace their predecessors. It's stamping your goddamn name on your cosmic power source and leaving your charmset behind as a monument to yourself for future Infernals.
Notice that it is specifically for starting as DT. The 'custom-race, custom-charms, custom-everything', I mean.
Yes, that one is awesome... but it required, what, less than five years, assuming Ascendancy Mantle? And if you want to have custom caste, with custom charm, and stamping your Exaltation with that, you'll need 100+ years since going above Essence 5 required you to be 100+ years old, and Ascendancy Mantle only bring you to Essence 6, if you are less than 100+ years old.
So, to reiterate, if you want starting as Infernal with Custom Charms/Caste, you'll need to push the vanilla timeline by 100+ years, minimum - and frankly, that's too much work as ST. For Exigent, you don't have to do anything - the setting already support that, so just plop your Exigent.