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1d4chan>Newerfag: /* Alchemists */

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Alchemists

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	Alchemists who don't go doing this tend to be far less hostile to Prometheans, because, you know, they're not hopped up on pure liquefied madness and know enough about Prometheans to conclude that it is unwise to provoke them. That said, Prometheans try to avoid the sane ones too: all it takes is a little Disquiet for them to realize they have a free source of Vitriol sitting right in front of them.		Alchemists who don't go doing this tend to be far less hostile to Prometheans, because, you know, they're not hopped up on pure liquefied madness and know enough about Prometheans to conclude that it is unwise to provoke them. That said, Prometheans try to avoid the sane ones too: all it takes is a little Disquiet for them to realize they have a free source of Vitriol sitting right in front of them.

	Closely related to these are the "Rathbens". Named after the rogue Cheiron Group scientist that first perfected the procedure of cloning, these scientists are single-mindedly fixated on creating clones, and the effects of the clones themselves inevitably push them right off the deep end if they weren't already insane to start with.		Closely related to these are the "Rathbens". Named after the rogue Cheiron Group scientist that first perfected the procedure of cloning (a man so insane that even ''the Cheiron Group'' thought he was going too far), these scientists are single-mindedly fixated on creating clones, and the effects of the clones themselves inevitably push them right off the deep end if they weren't already insane to start with.

	===Petrificati===		===Petrificati===

1d4chan>Newerfag: /* Frankensteins, the Wretched */

2022-11-02T01:47:44Z

Frankensteins, the Wretched

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	The most important lesson the Frankensteins need to learn on the Pilgrimage is how to pick their battles. As good as they are at testing boundaries and asking questions nobody else thinks of asking, it's equally important to know when to accept defeat, when to let things go, and when to take things at face value. In time, they may choose to fight nevertheless but they will no longer be compelled to do so for its own sake.		The most important lesson the Frankensteins need to learn on the Pilgrimage is how to pick their battles. As good as they are at testing boundaries and asking questions nobody else thinks of asking, it's equally important to know when to accept defeat, when to let things go, and when to take things at face value. In time, they may choose to fight nevertheless but they will no longer be compelled to do so for its own sake.

	Also like Frankenstein's Monster, a Frankenstein's Torment is simple, violent, rage- they may believe they're seeking ~~injustice~~ for some perceived slight, but far more frequently it's just the vengeful desire to make someone else feel the pain they feel, even if that someone is one of their loved ones. This very frequently ends up creating a vicious cycle in which the Frankenstein's Torment drives him to go too far in the name of revenge, only for the consequences to come back and bite him in the ass and push him further into Torment. At the same time, their constituent body parts grow uncooperative as fragments of their original owners' personalities manifest through them- a hand taken from a peaceful man might refuse to pull the trigger of a gun, for example. Their Disquiet makes people irritable and quick to anger, and eventually people come to view the Frankenstein as the source of all their problems. Finally, their Wasteland triggers violent thunderstorms, spontaneous combustion in random objects, and unexplained aggression in both people and animals.		Also like Frankenstein's Monster, a Frankenstein's Torment is simple, violent, rage- they may believe they're seeking justice for some perceived slight, but far more frequently it's just the vengeful desire to make someone else feel the pain they feel, even if that someone is one of their loved ones. This very frequently ends up creating a vicious cycle in which the Frankenstein's Torment drives him to go too far in the name of revenge, only for the consequences to come back and bite him in the ass and push him further into Torment. At the same time, their constituent body parts grow uncooperative as fragments of their original owners' personalities manifest through them- a hand taken from a peaceful man might refuse to pull the trigger of a gun, for example. Their Disquiet makes people irritable and quick to anger, and eventually people come to view the Frankenstein as the source of all their problems. Finally, their Wasteland triggers violent thunderstorms, spontaneous combustion in random objects, and unexplained aggression in both people and animals.

	===Galateids, the Muses===		===Galateids, the Muses===

1d4chan>Newerfag: /* Frankensteins, the Wretched */

2022-11-02T01:46:57Z

Frankensteins, the Wretched

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	The most important lesson the Frankensteins need to learn on the Pilgrimage is how to pick their battles. As good as they are at testing boundaries and asking questions nobody else thinks of asking, it's equally important to know when to accept defeat, when to let things go, and when to take things at face value. In time, they may choose to fight nevertheless but they will no longer be compelled to do so for its own sake.		The most important lesson the Frankensteins need to learn on the Pilgrimage is how to pick their battles. As good as they are at testing boundaries and asking questions nobody else thinks of asking, it's equally important to know when to accept defeat, when to let things go, and when to take things at face value. In time, they may choose to fight nevertheless but they will no longer be compelled to do so for its own sake.

	Also like Frankenstein's Monster, a Frankenstein's Torment is simple, violent, rage- they may believe they're seeking injustice for some perceived slight, but far more frequently it's just the vengeful desire to make someone else feel the pain they feel- even if that someone is one of their loved ones. This very frequently ends up creating a vicious cycle in which the Frankenstein's Torment drives him to go too far in the name of revenge, only for the consequences to come back and bite him in the ass and push him further into Torment. At the same time, their constituent body parts grow uncooperative as fragments of their original owners' personalities manifest through them- a hand taken from a peaceful man might refuse to pull the trigger of a gun, for example. Their Disquiet makes people irritable and quick to anger, and eventually people come to view the Frankenstein as the source of all their problems. Finally, their Wasteland triggers violent thunderstorms, spontaneous combustion in random objects, and unexplained aggression in both people and animals.		Also like Frankenstein's Monster, a Frankenstein's Torment is simple, violent, rage- they may believe they're seeking injustice for some perceived slight, but far more frequently it's just the vengeful desire to make someone else feel the pain they feel, even if that someone is one of their loved ones. This very frequently ends up creating a vicious cycle in which the Frankenstein's Torment drives him to go too far in the name of revenge, only for the consequences to come back and bite him in the ass and push him further into Torment. At the same time, their constituent body parts grow uncooperative as fragments of their original owners' personalities manifest through them- a hand taken from a peaceful man might refuse to pull the trigger of a gun, for example. Their Disquiet makes people irritable and quick to anger, and eventually people come to view the Frankenstein as the source of all their problems. Finally, their Wasteland triggers violent thunderstorms, spontaneous combustion in random objects, and unexplained aggression in both people and animals.

	===Galateids, the Muses===		===Galateids, the Muses===

1d4chan>Newerfag: /* Faceless, the Tortured Ones */

2022-10-18T14:38:06Z

Faceless, the Tortured Ones

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	::'''Humour''': Chlorine		::'''Humour''': Chlorine
	::'''Element''': Poison Gas		::'''Element''': Poison Gas
	On a nameless battlefield in France, lightning struck a pile of corpses in the mud, men who had once been soldiers but succumbed to chlorine gas. When word of the vaguely human figures rising from the ground spread to the commanders of the Allies and the Central Powers, they were dismissed as fear-induced hallucinations, but alchemists working for both sides saw potential in these Extempores and wished to use them as soldiers, going so far as to deliberately slow the distribution of gas masks in the hopes of producing more potential Faceless. They were so successful that for a time they were the most common Lineage in the world.		On a nameless battlefield in France during World War I, lightning struck a pile of corpses in the mud, men who had once been soldiers but succumbed to chlorine gas. When word of the vaguely human figures rising from the ground spread to the commanders of the Allies and the Central Powers, they were dismissed as fear-induced hallucinations, but alchemists working for both sides saw potential in these Extempores and wished to use them as soldiers, going so far as to deliberately slow the distribution of gas masks in the hopes of producing more potential Faceless. They were so successful that for a time they were the most common Lineage in the world.

	These Prometheans resemble hulking, mud-caked figures whose faces consist only of two eye-holes that they have to bore out themselves and a barely-mobile mouth slit, which they typically cover with gas masks; contained within their dirt-encrusted bodies is a tangled mass of limbs belonging to their constituent corpses, all immersed in an endless flow of toxic chemicals that leaves them in constant pain. Their calm and stoic demeanor belies the agony they suffer from their humour, which drives them to pursue the Pilgrimage with incredible determination and can spur on great feats of self-sacrifice (which is likely why they ceased to exist after the end of the war). After all, death is certainly the fastest way to stop the pain. It is rare for them to join throngs; they prefer to observe humans from afar and learn from their suffering, in the hopes that it might give them insight into their own agony.		These Prometheans resemble hulking, mud-caked figures whose faces consist only of two eye-holes that they have to bore out themselves and a barely-mobile mouth slit, which they typically cover with gas masks; contained within their dirt-encrusted bodies is a tangled mass of limbs belonging to their constituent corpses, all immersed in an endless flow of toxic chemicals that leaves them in constant pain. Their calm and stoic demeanor belies the agony they suffer from their humour, which drives them to pursue the Pilgrimage with incredible determination and can spur on great feats of self-sacrifice (which is likely why they ceased to exist after the end of the war). After all, death is certainly the fastest way to stop the pain. It is rare for them to join throngs; they prefer to observe humans from afar and learn from their suffering, in the hopes that it might give them insight into their own agony.

1d4chan>Newerfag: /* The Hollow, Skeletons, Beggars */

2022-10-18T14:37:15Z

The Hollow, Skeletons, Beggars

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	They were introduced in 1e, in the Magnum Opus sourcebook, but got updated to the corebook of 2e. Their creation rules in 1e were fairly handwaved, but they received much more detail in 2e.		They were introduced in 1e, in the Magnum Opus sourcebook, but got updated to the corebook of 2e. Their creation rules in 1e were fairly handwaved, but they received much more detail in 2e.

	====~~The Hollow~~, Skeletons~~, Beggars~~====		====Hollows, the Skeletons====
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	::Extempore Sub-Lineage		::Extempore Sub-Lineage

1d4chan>Newerfag at 14:24, 18 October 2022

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	See, the Pyros within Prometheans produces an effect they call Disquiet, which causes mortals and other supernatural beings to feel uncomfortable around you at the best of times and slowly drives them to despise you. Though the Divine Fire hides the monstrous appearance of a Promethean most of the time, it can't completely conceal their true nature, so Disquiet becomes an inevitability with all but the briefest of interactions with others. Even worse, at its most advanced stages Disquiet becomes contagious, turning entire communities against a Promethean they might have never even seen. In fact, even hanging around in one place for too long slowly corrupts the very land you walk on - a phenomenon dubbed the Wasteland that amplifies Disquiet and eventually builds up to a Pyros-fueled "natural" disaster called a Firestorm.		See, the Pyros within Prometheans produces an effect they call Disquiet, which causes mortals and other supernatural beings to feel uncomfortable around you at the best of times and slowly drives them to despise you. Though the Divine Fire hides the monstrous appearance of a Promethean most of the time, it can't completely conceal their true nature, so Disquiet becomes an inevitability with all but the briefest of interactions with others. Even worse, at its most advanced stages Disquiet becomes contagious, turning entire communities against a Promethean they might have never even seen. In fact, even hanging around in one place for too long slowly corrupts the very land you walk on - a phenomenon dubbed the Wasteland that amplifies Disquiet and eventually builds up to a Pyros-fueled "natural" disaster called a Firestorm.

	Your goal, then, is to master the understanding of humanity. Through this, you can use spiritual alchemy to hone your Azoth (the power of the Divine Fire honed into a form suited for creation), and eventually transmute it into a human soul, giving up all your mystical powers to become just an ordinary human... but to the Prometheans, anything is better than an existence characterized by alienation, xenophobia, and hatred from literally everything that isn't another Promethean.		Your goal, then, is to master the understanding of humanity, a process that Prometheans call the Pilgrimage. Through this, you can use spiritual alchemy to hone your Azoth (the power of the Divine Fire honed into a form suited for creation), and eventually transmute it into a human soul, giving up all your mystical powers to become just an ordinary human... but to the Prometheans, anything is better than an existence characterized by alienation, xenophobia, and hatred from literally everything that isn't another Promethean.

	Promethean has the dubious honor of being the NWoD's equivalent to [[Wraith: The Oblivion]] or if you're generous, [[Mage: The Ascension]], in that it's the game people ''read'' but don't '''play'''. The setting is incredibly bleak, even if the tone the game is trying to go for ''is'' optimistic (since it is canon that you can achieve the New Dawn and become human... but the rules are complex, it requires a hell of a good Storyteller to be run successfully what with the whole "the world itself despises you" thing, and frankly not a lot of people actually want to play a game where your goal is to go from a super powerful monster to a squishy human. Especially when that squishy human then has to live in the ''World of Darkness'').		Promethean has the dubious honor of being the NWoD's equivalent to [[Wraith: The Oblivion]] or if you're generous, [[Mage: The Ascension]], in that it's the game people ''read'' but don't '''play'''. The setting is incredibly bleak, even if the tone the game is trying to go for ''is'' optimistic (since it is canon that you can achieve the New Dawn and become human... but the rules are complex, it requires a hell of a good Storyteller to be run successfully what with the whole "the world itself despises you" thing, and frankly not a lot of people actually want to play a game where your goal is to go from a super powerful monster to a squishy human. Especially when that squishy human then has to live in the ''World of Darkness'').

1d4chan>Newerfag at 14:20, 18 October 2022

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	The [[World of Darkness#New_World_of_Darkness_.28nWoD.29\|New World of Darkness]]' first attempt to do something different from its predecessor, in the form of "Frankenstein's Monster: The Roleplaying Game". You are a Promethean, an incredibly rare unliving creature (not undead; Frankenstein's monster wasn't a zombie) stumbling through the [[World of Darkness]]. In lieu of a soul, you have Azoth: a storehouse of purified Pyros, the Divine Fire from which all life springs, but which isn't meant to exist in such a concentrated form. As a result, its radiance burns all around it, causing reality itself to hate you - and that's not hyperbole.		The [[World of Darkness#New_World_of_Darkness_.28nWoD.29\|New World of Darkness]]' first attempt to do something different from its predecessor, in the form of "Frankenstein's Monster: The Roleplaying Game". You are a Promethean, an incredibly rare (by the core book's estimate, there are maybe 100 Prometheans in the world at any given time) unliving creature (not undead; Frankenstein's monster wasn't a zombie) stumbling through the [[World of Darkness]]. In lieu of a soul, you have Azoth: a storehouse of purified Pyros, the Divine Fire from which all life springs, but which isn't meant to exist in such a concentrated form. As a result, its radiance burns all around it, causing reality itself to hate you - and that's not hyperbole.

	See, the Pyros within Prometheans produces an effect they call Disquiet, which causes mortals and other supernatural beings to feel uncomfortable around you at the best of times and slowly drives them to despise you. Though the Divine Fire hides the monstrous appearance of a Promethean most of the time, it can't completely conceal their true nature, so Disquiet becomes an inevitability with all but the briefest of interactions with others. Even worse, at its most advanced stages Disquiet becomes contagious, turning entire communities against a Promethean they might have never even seen. In fact, even hanging around in one place for too long slowly corrupts the very land you walk on - a phenomenon dubbed the Wasteland that amplifies Disquiet and eventually builds up to a Pyros-fueled "natural" disaster called a Firestorm.		See, the Pyros within Prometheans produces an effect they call Disquiet, which causes mortals and other supernatural beings to feel uncomfortable around you at the best of times and slowly drives them to despise you. Though the Divine Fire hides the monstrous appearance of a Promethean most of the time, it can't completely conceal their true nature, so Disquiet becomes an inevitability with all but the briefest of interactions with others. Even worse, at its most advanced stages Disquiet becomes contagious, turning entire communities against a Promethean they might have never even seen. In fact, even hanging around in one place for too long slowly corrupts the very land you walk on - a phenomenon dubbed the Wasteland that amplifies Disquiet and eventually builds up to a Pyros-fueled "natural" disaster called a Firestorm.

1d4chan>Newerfag: /* Aurum, Refinement of Gold */

2022-10-15T22:26:31Z

Aurum, Refinement of Gold

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	The thing about Prometheans that you need to remember is that they don't come into the world with an instruction manual. When they wake up, they don't know anything. Humanity in particular baffles and confuses them; they know they have to become human to accomplish the Pilgrimage, but they don't have the advantage of decades of conscious and subconscious social tutelage to fall back on to teach them about what that means. So, followers of Aurum, known as Mimics, focus on trying to better understand humans and blend in. As the New Dawn is the ultimate goal of Prometheans, it's a natural fit, but it doesn't hold ''all'' of the answers. Their Roles are:		The thing about Prometheans that you need to remember is that they don't come into the world with an instruction manual. When they wake up, they don't know anything. Humanity in particular baffles and confuses them; they know they have to become human to accomplish the Pilgrimage, but they don't have the advantage of decades of conscious and subconscious social tutelage to fall back on to teach them about what that means. So, followers of Aurum, known as Mimics, focus on trying to better understand humans and blend in. As the New Dawn is the ultimate goal of Prometheans, it's a natural fit, but it doesn't hold ''all'' of the answers. Their Roles are:

	* Companion: By living as an equal amongst humans (friends, lovers) the Promethean wants to learn intimacy and human interaction. ~~Preferably without~~ Disquiet ~~ruining it all~~.		* Companion: By living as an equal amongst humans (friends, lovers) the Promethean wants to learn intimacy and human interaction. It may be on an individual basis or as part of a group, but the threats of Disquiet and Torment are always present.
	* Follower: Through trust and deference, the Promethean wants to learn how to trust people. Some take it too far and become almost totally subservient to that one person.		* Follower: Through trust and deference, the Promethean wants to learn how to trust people- a difficult lesson for a being that is persecuted simply for existing. Some take it too far and become almost totally subservient to that one person.
	* Leader: By taking charge themselves, they learn how to care for people, whether this is actual care or more in a mentor-like way.		* Leader: By taking charge themselves, they learn how to care for people, whether this is actual care or more in a mentor-like way.