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1* BrokenBase: In the 2e rewrite, there was a ''very'' vehement debate about the author's plans for revising the Marduk Society, which reached the point where, amidst the accusations of CreatorsPet and AuthorTract, ''the author of TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful'' (which can be quite succinctly described as "The game of playing a genuine White Hat in the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness") spoke out against the Marduk Society, claiming that they sounded ''too White Hat for the setting''. Fortunately, when the 2e Marduk Society writeup was made public, it turned out that many of the fears and accusations were unfounded (see PaperTiger for one example). There's still some debate about the proper "theme" of the Society, [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap but it's not the hugely divisive matter it was earlier in the project.]]
2* MoralEventHorizon: Marduk's disciples, the Sky Wizards, crossed it in the backstory when they murdered their master to prevent him from becoming a HopeBringer, because they realized [[BadPowersBadPeople it would weaken their despair-fueled powers]]. Furthermore, they started hunting Leviathans no longer to simply protect the world, [[ImmortalitySeeker but to harvest their flesh and eat it so they could be immortal]], using the genuinely-heroic Marduk Society as pawns for ''centuries'' before they were finally discovered and overthrown in a crippling civil war.
3* WoobieSpecies: You exude a MindRape effect despite yourself, you are forced into emotionally abusing your cultists, it is quite possible you are utterly without guidance in the world due to low numbers of Leviathans, and the oldest organization of Monster Hunters in the world want you dead for perfectly valid reasons. It's official-this game has not only made ''[[EldritchAbomination Cthulhu's cousins]]'' sympathetic creatures, it has shown them in need of a shoulder to cry on (indeed, that's why they get [[StalkerWithACrush possessive]] of [[PowerNullifier Atolls]]-they're the only people in the world who can talk to a Leviathan like an ''actual person'' without being driven insane by the Wake).

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