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===Patent Scientist===
As the Weird West was won, and the world settled down, the manitou responsible for whispering to scientists changed up their game plan. As governments strengthened their positions, big business became more lucrative - and strengthened their position by snapping up as many mad scientists as they could to gain exclusive possession of their gizmos.

With science now controlled by corporations, most of the manitou gave up haunting individual inventors. Instead, they swarmed think-tanks and focused their attention there. But, not all of them moved with the times.

The Patent Scientist is the Noir-age descendant of the Mad Scientists of the Weird West. With only one or two muses to whisper in their dreams, their powers of invention are far weaker - on the other hand, their minds are far more stable, and though all are quirky, they don't have to worry about going as bat-shit bonkers as their predecessors did.