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* LiteraryWorkOfMagic: One sourcebook hints that the poem "Kubla Khan" was inspired by a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent qashmallim]] for purposes unknown. The visitor who interrupted Coleridge and ruined his vision was a Promethean who feared dire results if the poem was finished.

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* LiteraryWorkOfMagic: One sourcebook hints that the poem "Kubla Khan" "Literature/KublaKhan" was inspired by a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent qashmallim]] for purposes unknown. The visitor who interrupted Coleridge and ruined his vision was a Promethean who feared dire results if the poem was finished.
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* LiteraryWorkOfMagic: One sourcebook hints that the poem "Kubla Khan" was inspired by a [[OurAngelsAreDifferent qashmallim]] for purposes unknown. The visitor who interrupted Coleridge and ruined his vision was a Promethean who feared dire results if the poem was finished.
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* SerialKiller: 1e has a ''Promethean'' serial killer (as in a serial killer who is a Promethean). Aeolipilus is one of the few Unfleshed who has successfully created progeny, a second Unfleshed he named Vitruvian. Unfortunately, Vitruvian completely misunderstood how the Pilgrimage works, and believes that he can become human by killing humans and replacing his internal workings with their organs. Aeolipilus woke up one morning to find Vitruvian gone, a DisposableSexWorker in Vitruvian's bed with her heart missing, and some of Vitruvian's parts next to the body, and the body count has only risen since.
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* LordBritishPostulate: Stats in the conventional sense don't exist for Arch-''Qashmallim''. Put simply, nothing that exists in this plane of reality can actually harm one. However, it ''is'' possible to defeat one - each Arch-''Qashmal'' was created to fulfill a specific purpose, and if that purpose is rendered impossible, it will return to the Principle. Fighting one is thus a matter of uncovering its purpose and countering it instead of a straight-up battle.
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: of the "understandable magic or something else" variety. Are the Quashmallim just a strange kind of etheral being, like the spirits and ghosts that are well known in the Chronicles Of Darkness? Or are they actual angels working for an actual God? The books never come down on a clear answer either way (or rather, they do, but they contradict each other repeatedly).

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*** To add to how much things suck for the Extempore... even if a Promethean is abandoned by their Progenitor, they still have Azothic memory, the collective knowledge of all Prometheans who have ever been animated by the Divine Fire. Extempores don't, and the only way they can access it is to become part of a Branded throng, where it may still feel like reading over someone else's shoulder.



* BornAsAnAdult: One of the prequisites for a body to be suitable for a Promethean is that it has undergone puberty. It's not ''impossible'' to use a child's body for the Generative Rites, but it's significantly more likely to go wrong, and even if it works, most Prometheans consider the idea horrific.

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* BornAsAnAdult: One of the prequisites prerequisites for a body to be suitable for a Promethean is that it has undergone puberty. It's not ''impossible'' to use a child's body for the Generative Rites, but it's significantly more likely to go wrong, and even if it works, most Prometheans consider the idea horrific.

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%%* EpiphanicPrison: The Prometheans' 'Pilgrimage' has shades of this.

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%%* * EpiphanicPrison: The Prometheans' 'Pilgrimage' Pilgrimage has shades elements of this.this. The goal is easy to say - become a human - but nearly impossible to do. First you must answer the question, "What ''is'' a human?" - a question that humans themselves don't have a ready answer for.



%%* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: The problem with pursuing the Centimani path.

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%%* * EvilMakesYouMonstrous: The problem with pursuing the Centimani path.path. As you travel down it, you are ''encouraged'' to shed every element that makes you even tangentially human-like, both mentally and physically. Lifelong Centimani tend to both look and act horrific.



%%* LovecraftianSuperpower: Pandoran Transmutations. '''[[FrankensteinsMonster Mr. Verney]]''': It seems like a good idea until you grow a second set of genitals.

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%%* * LovecraftianSuperpower: Pandoran Transmutations. '''[[FrankensteinsMonster Transmutations follow this theme. Many involve growing new body parts, either externally (limbs) or organs. It doesn't take too many before you start to look like something Lovecraft would have come up with on an opium binge.
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Mr. Verney]]''': It seems like a good idea until you grow a second set of genitals.



%%* {{Mana}}: Pyros.

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%%* * {{Mana}}: Pyros.Prometheans fuel their powers with Pyros, a distillation of the Divine Fire. Unlike some forms of Mana in the Chronicles of Darkness, Pyros does not exist in nature (at least, no one's ever found it), but is instead created by the Promethean's own Azoth.



%%* UndeathAlwaysEnds: Thankfully.
%%* UnstoppableRage: Torment, particularly for Frankensteins and Tammuz.

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%%* * UndeathAlwaysEnds: Thankfully.
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Whether or not a Promethean is undead is up for debate, despite them being made of corpses, but either way, completing the Pilgrimage turns them into a mortal, living human - which is something the majority of them want ''very badly''.
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UnstoppableRage: While this could be said to be ''every'' version of Torment, particularly for the most explicit examples are Frankenstein and Tammuz Torments. The Frankensteins and Tammuz.seek vengeance on anyone who's wronged them, even for the smallest slights, while the Tammuz blindly destroy anything in their path.



%%**If a Promethean stays in one spot for more than twenty-four hours, that spot ''becomes'' one.

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%%**If ** Every Promethean has the potential to become one of these. Should a Promethean stay in one spot for 24 hours, they create a Wasteland, a stretch of land where some aspect of nature begins to break down. This worsens steadily over time, so long as the Promethean stays in one spot for more than twenty-four hours, that spot ''becomes'' one.there, and also continually expands. At its highest level, those who enter its epicenter can be infected with [[HatePlague Disquiet]] towards the Promethean responsible ''without ever seeing them''.



%%* WhoWantsToLiveForever:...when living is like '''this?'''

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%%* * WhoWantsToLiveForever:...when living is like '''this?''''''this?''' If the rest of the page hasn't made it clear enough, Promethean existence, even the milder version in the second edition, is a never-ending trial that can only be alleviated, not escaped, unless and until the Promethean reaches their New Dawn.



%%* {{Yandere}}: A Galateid suffering Torment.

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%%* * {{Yandere}}: A This is a capsule description of Galateid suffering Torment.Torment. When their humour overwhelms them, they immediately and unavoidably act on their desires, regardless of who they have to hurt in the process. The example given in the book is a Galateid breaking into the house of the man she loves, putting a knife to his girlfriend's throat, and demanding he choose between them.

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* HereWeGoAgain: A depressing example. The majority of Prometheans wish to complete the Pilgrimage, shedding the horrors of their state and becoming a true human. But in order to do so, they must first pass the Divine Fire along... and the only way to do that is to ''create another Promethean''. Many Prometheans view the fact they must subject ''another'' to the pain of their existence in order to ''escape'' it with a bitter irony.



%%* MonsterLord: Sublimati, Pandorans with a high degree of intelligence. One actually created a UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} ChurchOfHappyology.

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%%* * MonsterLord: Sublimati, While most Pandorans are mindless monsters, and even the intelligent among them are typically more like cunning animals, ''Sublimati'' are fully sapient and capable of complex thought. Many gather lesser Pandorans to themselves with a high degree the Transmutation "Mantle of intelligence. One actually created Lordship", acting as the alpha of a UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} ChurchOfHappyology.hunting pack. At least one has started a ''cult'' among humans.



%%* PlayingWithFire: Some Vulcanus transmutations.

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%%* * PlayingWithFire: Some While Vulcanus transmutations.mostly focuses on controlling Pyros, some of its Transmutations allow the Promethean to control mundane fire. This is extremely dangerous, but used properly it can make a Promethean a nightmare to others of their kind.



%%* TheStoic: Osirans tend to be this way, particularly when in Torment.

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%%* * TheStoic: Osirans tend often embrace a mechanical, removed view of the world, combined with their Humour (phlegm) encouraging a rational and unemotional view. The end result is that many are very restrained in their emotional expressions. This is warped if they fall into Torment, as that remove drives them to be this way, particularly when in Torment.passionlessly take apart (emotionally and/or physically) anyone who wrongs them.

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