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*** Despite not being the First of the Primordials, Theion made himself king because he had [[HotBlooded the guts]] [[TheDeterminator to be one]]. His glorious passion inspired and guided his fellow Primordials, when their mutually incomparable power would have made AsskickingEqualsAuthority futile. Upon his defeat, the cosmic passion that gave him power and meaning turned toxic. Now, it enslaves Malfeas and randomly subjects him to [[UnstoppableRage holocaustic Mania]] and [[DespairEventHorizon abyssal Depression]]. In between these peaks (or torn and stretched out on both peaks at once), his infinite furor is guided by perfect self-hatred, causing him to ''ceaselessly destroy himself''. Bipolar Disorder, among clinically recognized mental disorders, is most likely to end with suicide.

*** Other Yozis are pathetic beings in the sense that their current condition inspires sympathy. Kimbery, who once [[LoveMartyr gave herself as life-water and life-blood]] for Creation, is so terrified of rejection that she destroys whoever approaches her -- Borderline Personality. Oramus, the First Primordial, bravely began to fight Pure Chaos and now he, through no fault of his own, is stuck inside his own wings, utterly unable to comprehend the world outside -- Schizophrenia. Isidoros, the strongest thing ''in the universe and all time'', lost faith in his own power and withers in perfect, [[BombThrowingAnarchist destructive]] [[NietzscheWannabe nihilism]] -- Paranoid Personality. Sacheverell was once a visionary who foresaw the ideal future for Creation; now he does nothing but sleep, refusing to feel anything -- Dissociative Disorder. The ''[[OnlySaneMan most comprehensible]]'' Yozi, Szoreny, has lost control of his ability to mold his personality based on who's talking to him into the ideal {{Foil}}, leading to his inability to think straight beyond the short term -- Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder. The fact that ''every'' Yozi was struck with a diagnosable mental disorder, turned up to [[TurnedUpToEleven a divine degree]], sort of justifies their desire to make everything literal Hell.

** 2nd Edition removes some of Centimani's DarkIsNotEvil aspects-it's now explicitly the refinement of ''giving up'' on the New Dawn, to the point where a Centimanus can't progress on the Pilgrimage until they turn away from Flux. That also means the Woobie Destroyer Of Worlds aspects are [[UpToEleven on steroids]], with ''both'' of the statted Centimani being extremely tragic characters; the [[BeastMan Huntsman]] was a Galateid driven insane by constant rejection, so when he saw a boy playing with his dog, he became convinced Centimani was the only path to that simple bond with Pandorans; he's noted to even [[NightmareFetishist treat them like beloved house pets]], actually viewing other Freaks as rivals because they might take his bond away. The [[EvilMentor Scholar]] failed the New Dawn ''repeatedly'', hurling past the DespairEventHorizon and deciding that, against all evidence, it wasn't possible. It's gotten to the point where she actively ''destroys'' sources of hope, because she can't bear to be reminded of how far she's fallen.

** Fulgrim was one of the most loyal sons of the Emperor, and the only reason he turned to Chaos is that when he purged Laer, the alien world with the race that served Slaanesh, he took Daemon blade, not knowing what it was, and the daemon gradually corrupted him to the point that he killed Ferrus Manus, his most beloved brother. When Fulgrim understood what he has done, he tried to commit suicide, but daemon tricked into giving it control over Fulgrim's body. Though Fulgrim later overwhelmed daemon and banished it from his body, this action finished his fall to Chaos.

*** Despite not being the First of the Primordials, the Primordial that was to be Malfeas made himself king because he had [[HotBlooded the guts]] [[TheDeterminator to be one]]. His glorious passion inspired and guided his fellow Primordials, when their mutually incomparable power would have made AsskickingEqualsAuthority futile. Upon his defeat, the cosmic passion that gave him power and meaning turned toxic. Now, it enslaves Malfeas and randomly subjects him to [[UnstoppableRage holocaustic Mania]] and [[DespairEventHorizon abyssal Depression]]. In between these peaks (or torn and stretched out on both peaks at once), his infinite furor is guided by perfect self-hatred, causing him to ''ceaselessly destroy himself''. Bipolar Disorder, among clinically recognized mental disorders, is most likely to end with suicide.

*** Cecelyne's grandeur is [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex driven by her inadequacy]]. To fulfill that barren emptiness, she puts on an air of [[AGodAmI cosmic pomp and importance]] and cares for her subjects [[SocialDarwinist mercilessly and ruthlessly]]. Her overcompensation (a common pattern seen in those with pathologically Narcissistic Personality) ultimately makes her an empty shell--an infinitely hollow desert, who feels that her value only comes from dominating and being wanted by others. Her powers center around fulfilling others' desires and demanding obedience, but they cannot actually help their user.

** From the sample adventure in ''Magnum Opus'', Los Tempestrad. He came to himself in a Hispanic gang's lair, and ended up being a hitman for them for years, and was systematically abused - after all, he was nothing but a puppet, a cheap weapon to be used as Ocho, the gang's leader (and his self-proclaimed creator), saw fit. Then one day, for the first time, he met another Promethean, who took him away from the gang and explained that humans can't create their kind. Unfortunately for him, said Promethean was the manipulative [[PathOfInspiration Botherud]] member Ice Blue, who promptly indoctrinated him in her order's teachings and used him ''exactly the same way the gang did''. His reaction to hearing about Lighthouse, a Promethean messiah supposedly made by a human, is understandable - confused fury, because he loses either way. (If Lighthouse ''wasn't'' made by a human, then every other Promethean in Boston is being tricked exactly the way Los Tempestrad was; if a human ''did'' make Lighthouse, then Ice Blue has lied to him since they met.) Los Tempestrad is a violent sociopath, but he never had a chance from the day he got off the slab.

* ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful'':
** {{Subverted}} with the Cataphractoi, which can be created when someone dies after crossing the DespairEventHorizon (most often through committing suicide, but sometimes people will simply lie down and die for no visible reason). The subversion is that the Cataphractoi are ''not'' the people whose death created them, but [[MadeOfEvil incarnate spirits of Darkness]], using a twisted version of their creator's personality to give themselves form. This dichotomy is nicely illustrated by one of the sample Cataphractoi from the book, Dr. Goldstein. In life, Ishmael Goldstein was a psychiatrist and marriage counsellor, one who had himself been battling depression his whole life. After his own wife began to cheat on him, that and other issues pushed him into a depressive spiral that ended with him taking his own life. Now, the Cataphract calling itself Goldstein abducts couples which it spots having even a small argument into the Dark World and tries to "help them work through their differences", killing those who don't keep their heads well enough to play into its narrative. However, the ''actual'' Dr. Goldstein is still around as a ghost, working to try and stop the monster wearing his body.
** PlayedStraight for the Dethroned, Princesses whose [[KarmaMeter Belief]] has been eroded away until they lost their last spark of hope and called the Darkness into themselves. Left to their own devices, they endlessly wander their Laments within the Dark World, reliving their fall from hope into despair. However, if disturbed by another Princess or by fellow creatures of Darkness, they will often lash out, seeking to instead quench their pain through fury at everything that they once were and can no longer be.

* The ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' sourcebook ''Night Terrors: The Unbidden'' has Alecto, an ananke (a magical construct designed to fulfill a specific purpose) who believes her purpose is to usher people on to their destinies. However, something or someone maimed her in the distant past; she manifests with a broken wing and bleeding, empty eye sockets. And ''she doesn't realize she's broken''; she can't actually remember her real purpose, she just infers it from her powers. She might see an arguing couple, one that would make up in due time, and believe that their destiny is to separate. Her grasp of Fate magic is near-perfect, but it's being filtered through the mind of a severely-damaged being that can't grasp how damaged it is. She drives people to despair and suicide, never realizing she's making mistakes, and in fact incapable of realizing it.
* Nualia Tobyn, the BigBad of the very first ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' adventure, is revealed to be one of these in the adventure details. Nualia is a former orphan from the town of Sandpoint who never knew her parents, and was instead brought up by the local priest. However, because she was an Aasimar[[note]]a human with blood ancestry to angels and other celestial beings[[/note]], the superstitious people of Sandpoint constantly accosted her, because [[SoBeautifulItsACurse they believed her grace and divinity would "rub off" on them]], forever asking her for favors, trying to take various tokens from her like buttons, cast off clothes, locks of hair, and begged her for blessings despite the fact she kept trying to explain that she couldn't do that. Throughout all this, her adoptive father let it happen -- indeed, subtly encouraged it -- because he was caught up in visions of the renown he would receive after she went on to be a nun in an order dedicated to his god, and thusly he was incredibly strict with her. When she thought she found a boy who loved her, she gave her virginity to him and became pregnant, only for him to abandon her. Her father became furious and treated her like an outcast when he discovered she was pregnant, and then, when she gave birth, her baby was stillborn and horrifically deformed, because her former swain had unknowingly seduced her in what was actually an old shrine to Lamashtu, goddess of monsters, miscarriages and deformities. Is it really any wonder that all of the above, combined with the [[MindRape psychic emanations from an evil artifact buried under the town]], caused her to go insane, murder her adoptive father, burn down his chapel and run away to become a worshipper of Lamashtu, eventually returning to Sandpoint with the intent of murdering its inhabitants to fuel her transformation from an aasimar into a demon?
* In some ways, the Wyrm from ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' is this. Originally the cosmic principle of Destruction, bringing things to a blessed end, he was imprisoned in the webs of reality by his sister, the Weaver, when she went mad and wanted to stop him from breaking all her toys. Because the webs were too tight, this effectively turned him gangrenous and mad, shifting his purpose from blessed destruction to rot without end. The Wyrm is essentially a broken, poisoned thing trying to rot the world away so that its pain will stop.