History Characters / PrometheanTheCreated

* ImplacableMan: Not only do the Created need less rest than humans do, they ignore wound penalties and cannot be knocked unconcious; a Promethean whose Health bar is filled with bashing or lethal damages will just keep going until it's filled with aggravated damages, killing him.

* ImplacableMan: Not only do the Created need less rest than humans do, they ignore wound penalties and cannot be knocked unconcious; a Promethean whose Health bar is filled with bashing or later damages will just keep going until it's filled with aggravated damages, killing him.

* UncannyValley: The horror of their Disfigurements comes from hitting this angle, much in the way a creepy doll or statue might.

* GlamourFailure: Using their powers cause Prometheans to temporarly melt away their human disguise, revealing them for a few seconds as the grotesque-looking creatures they are.

* BodyHorror: All Prometheans have some form of grotesque disfigurement betraying their nature. Their Azoth allows them to conceal it and assume a more or less normal appearance, but the use of their supernatural powers will momentarily reveal what they actually look like.

* FeedItWithFire: Or more accurately, Feed it with [[LightningCanDoAnything Lightning]]. Prometheans can use electricity to heal themselves faster.

* FeedItWithFire: Or more accurately, Feed it with [[LightningCanDoAnything Lightning]]. Promethean can use electricity to heal themselves faster.

* ResurrectiveImmortality: Downplayed; a Promethean who gets killed for the first time since his creation can resurrect within 24 hours of his death, at the cost all his dots in Azoth but one. However, unless he possesses the Revivification Betstowment, this ability [[ItOnlyWorksOnce can only be used once]].

[[folder:Wretched in general]]

* BlessedWithSuck: Taken UpToEleven in an universe where this trope practically applies everywhere. For all their impressive powers, the Wretched are instinctively hated by everything around them, including nature itself; no matter what they do, people will eventually hate them, and the land they stay on will die. Really, it's no wonder their main purpose is to become human.

* FrankensteinsMonster: The Wretched in general are based on this archetype.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Many insatiate alchemists are so brain-addled by their own reckless craft it's amazing they can keep a functional life-and they got that brain-addling by giving themselves mutant superpowers.

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Played with and partially subverted. They're pretty evil ''without'' Disquiet, but it's made clear what makes them evil is ''hatred of their own humanity''-less misanthropic alchemists are noted to exist, be nice, and may even help Prometheans, it's just that a combination of Disquiet and the simple fact that they are quite happily [[NonActionGuy weaker]] than their crazier counterparts makes them unviable for frequent encounters with.

* TheydCutYouUp: They need the Created for their Pyros and Vitriol, and they never cared about things like "sanctity of life" to begin with, so...

* UnstoppableRage / EmptyShell: Their Torment is the first quickly followed by the second.

->Associated Humour: Any

They get upgraded to a full Lineage in second edition, absorbing much of the Constructs' concept-space to cover most Prometheans created from inanimate matter.

Pyros is a living thing, found within everything in the world. As a result, when great disasters strike, sometimes, it results in a spontaneous outburst of Pyros, creating enough pure Azoth to spontaneously kindle a disaster victim's corpse to life. These unique Prometheans are collectively known as the Extempore.

** It's even worse in 2E, given spoilers; Extempores don't have access to Azothic memories, a sort of GeneticMemory of how to complete the Great Work that all other Prometheans have. What they ''do'' have is a Bestowment that allows them to help direct others in following theirs-meaning that not only are they unsure if they can complete the New Dawn, ''they know for a fact that others can, and many of them were their friends.'' Yes, the world hates Prometheans.

* EmpathicHealing: The Hunger Bestowment can be used to heal others as well as to absorb

* LastOfHisKind: Any Hollow that you find in a modern day scenario is probably this, thanks to the aforementioned limitation on reproducing.

* BadPowersBadPeople: Zeky tend to be monsters even by the standards of other Prometheans, and this is highlighted by the fact that their natural affinity isn't for Stannum (Refinement of Vengeance), but for Centimanus (Refinement of Flux), which most Prometheans see as, effectively, the path of pure evil.

* NuclearNasty: What better way to describe a walking corpse fueled by radiation who turns the land around them into a post-nuclear wasteland straight out of a 50s comic book?

* UnstoppableRage: When overwhelmed by Torment, the Zeky fly into a homicidal fury, consumed by the irresistible need to kill and destroy everything around them.

** On top of everything else that goes with the Promethean condition, as Extempores, the Hollow are intimately tied up with the conditions of the Dust Bowl. Once the drought finally ends in the winter of 1939, their generative ritual ''stops working'' -- and thanks to having had a hard lesson in their former agricultural foolishness, America will never make the mistakes that lead to the Dust Bowl's creation again. So any Hollow who haven't created progeny before the rains are ''trapped as Prometheans'', '''forever'''. Those few who survive ultimately leave America entirely, hoping that they can still perform the generative right in other drought & famine-afflicted countries like Africa, with their ultimate fate being unknown.

->Disfigurements: Earthen. All Tammuz when revealed are covered in a thick layer of clay or mud, sometimes with deep, bloodless cracks in it that gives the impression that they're made of soil. They smell of wet clay or freshly turned earth, their is hair slick and matted, and their eyes look like black pebbles. Some even sport sigils on their foreheads; Babylonian, Hebrew or Enochian words for some significant term ("life", "freedom", "hope", "truth", etc) illuminated by elemental lightning.

Tammuz have perhaps the simplest generative rite of their kind. They simply find a patch of deep, bare earth, rite an instinctively-known word of power on a small slip of paper, put this in a corpse's mouth, symbolically prepare the corpse for slavery (shaving its head, tattooing it, fitting it with an iron earring, whatever they chose), bury it in the ground and leave it. When the new Tammuz is ready, it digs itself out.

* {{Golem}: All Prometheans technically are golems, of the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons "flesh golem" style, but the Tammuz have the strongest connotations with the traditional form.

->Disfigurements: Sundered. Of the five primary Lineages, the Riven may be the most disturbing to look on, their bodies covered in deep, bloodless rents that spill an eerie, unearthly blackness into the world around them

* EyeColors: Many Ulgans have their eyes change color after they animate for the first time. The most common colors are a creepy pale blue, green or jet black.

* BadPowersBadPeople: Zeky tend to be monsters even by the standards of other Prometheans, and this is highlit by the fact that their natural affinity isn't for Stannum (Refinement of Vengeance), but for Centimanus (Refinement of Flux), which most Prometheans see as, effectively, the path of pure evil.

* BodyHorror: Not only are Zeky amongst the most hideous-looking Prometheans when their true forms are revealed, even their mask of humanity can't conceal their deformities, and they always sport some notable physical defect. This can range from anything like a covering of melanomas or skin grafts to body-obscuring scars to complete hairlessness or sunburn.

* LovecraftianSuperPower: The powers unique to the Zeky all stem from the twisted, mutagenic powers of the radiation running through their bodies; creating zombies and becoming a living blast shadow are their Bestowments, whilst they have unparalleled affinity for the Irradiation Transmutation, which gives them powers like creating blasts of radiation, generating mind-controlling brain tumors, summoning swarms of flesh-eating cockroaches and turning bugs into irradiated giants that serve their needs.

In contrast to other Prometheans, the Unfleshed are not so much a Lineage as a collection of different Lineages sharing a common base route. Born of scientific advancements, the Unfleshed build upon the nature of Constructs -- Prometheans born from inanimate matter rather than corpse-flesh -- by being creatures of living metal, technological imitations of the human form that seek to attain the New Dawn. It doesn't matter if they are clockwork imitations of human forms, intelligent robots or sapient clouds of nanobots; to other Prometheans, they are all the Unfleshed.

* ElementNumberFive: Zigzagged. Unlike Ulgans, the Unfleshed have no unique defining Humour to control themselves, and technically their elemental affinity is based on one of the other Lineages, reflected by their variable Bestowments, Disquiets and Torments, although they reshape their Disquiets and Torments to more closely align with the Unfleshed's "unique niche". However, they do have a strong enough affinity to a specific element to create unique Wastelands, in the form of reducing a land to an inorganic wasteland rich with electrical energy (1e) or slowly converting everything around them to dead metal (2e).
* {{Foil}}: To the Extempores. Like them, they are not so much a single linage as a collective of minor lineages. However, all Unfleshed are created by demiurges, whilst Extempores are spontaneous creations of Pyros.

Pyros is a living thing, found in all aspects of the world around them. As a result, when great disasters strike, sometimes, it results in a spontaneous outburst of Pyros, creating enough pure Azoth to spontaneously kindle a disaster victim's corpse to life. These unique Prometheans are collectively known as the Extempore.

* BlessedWithSuck: Because of the fact that the first of any Extempore Lineage was spawned from a natural disaster, figuring out the ritual for procreation is extremely difficult. Many Extempores remain once-off freaks as a result, which means they can never attain the New Dawn. Even if they do devise a procreative ritual, it's inherently more restricted than those of many other Lineages, and may even only be possible during a very specific period of time.

* {{Foil}}: To the Unfleshed. Both are not so much a Lineage as a catch-all for a specific variety of Prometheans, but Extempores are always born spontaneously, whereas Unfleshed cannot exist without human demiurges to create them.
* PromotionToPlayable: Extempores were mentioned in the 1e sourcebook ''Magnum Opus'', but actually devising them was given only minimal attention. The 2e corebook promotes them to a full-fledged player option alongside the Unfleshed and the other six Lineages.

A Lineage of Extempores that sprang up in the American Midwest between 1933 and 1939; the years of the great Dust Bowl, when drought ravaged the land and famine gnawed on the nation's soul. A Hollow is born from the corpse of a human who died of deprivation, physically or metaphorically -- someone who simply gave up and died due to despair is valid for the ritual. To pass on its curse, the generative Promethean ceremonially "hollows" the corpse, reducing its weight by salting it, carefully drying it out in the sun, or just surgically excising a few organs, and then anoints its brow, chest and hands with a handful of dust. Finally, the generator imbues Pyros into a drop of water and places it on the Hollow's lips, seeing it rise to begin its new life

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** On top of everything else that goes with the Promethean condition, as Extempores, the Hollow are intimately tied up with the conditions of the Dust Bowl. Once the drought finally ends in the winter of 1939, their generative ritual ''stops working'' -- and thanks to having had a hard lesson in their former agricultural foolishness, America will never make the mistakes that lead to the Dust Bowl's creation again. So any Hollow who haven't created progeny before the rains are ''trapped as prometheans'', '''forever'''. Those few who survive ultimately leave America entirely, hoping that they can still perform the generative right in other drought & famime-afflicted countries like Africa, with their ultimate fate being unknown.