History TabletopGame / PrometheanTheCreated

** Not an intended theme of the game, but given their immortality and durability, revenge can develop into an issue for Prometheans. Especially amongst older Prometheans where it can become a bigger priority then becoming human as they execute BestServedCold schemes against those who have wronged them, or their descendants.

* HumansAreBastards: But damn it, Prometheans still want to be one!

* {{Revenge}}: Not an intended theme of the game, but given their immortality and durability, revenge can develop into an issue for Prometheans. Especially amongst older Prometheans where it can become a bigger priority then becoming human as they execute BestServedCold schemes against those who have wronged them, or their descendants.

* [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You Divinely Reanimated Soulless Corpse Parent]]: Rare, but not an unheard of problem.

** They can also be Embraced, or Awaken has Mages, or die and come back has a Sin Eater...Or possibly even undergo the First Change if they (Or possibly one of the corpses that provided them with the original body) had Wolf Blood

* KarmaHoudini: Inverted and Subverted; trying to pull this is just making an already hard game unnecessarily harder. Played Straight if the person in question is has a passive-aggressive OmnicidalManiac streak.

* MonstersAnonymous: What friendly contact between prometheans basically boils down to.

** One Osiran character's Demiurge deliberately avoided the ''Classic Choice'' when creating him for obvious reasons; [[spoiler: She was his wife and a one-time Osiran herself.]]

** [[ItGotWorse It gets worse]]--you know all those ''other'' monsters in this setting? ''Disquiet affects them as well.'' As a small consolation, vampires and werewolves alone among supernaturals don't actually instinctively hate Prometheans. Instead, they find them so deeply ''unnerving'' that it becomes harder for them to resist their UnstoppableRage.

* {{Expy}}: Qashmallim Ruby and Mr. Gold are expies for SapphireAndSteel.

* KarmaHoudini: Inverted and Subverted; trying to pull this is just making an already hard game unnecessarily harder. Played Straight if the person in question is a CompleteMonster with a passive-aggressive OmnicidalManiac streak.

* '''Unfleshed:''' Not so much a Lineage as a collection of unrelated Lineages, the Unfleshed are Prometheans made out of machinery or electronics – computers with self-intelligent AI, androids, and the like. Each Unfleshed is unique. They might manifest the Torment, Wasteland, and Disquiet effects of any of the other Lineages.

There are five Refinements that are common among the Created
* '''Aurum:''' The Refinement of Gold (Mortality). Prometheans who follow this Refinement believe that by studying and interacting with mortals, they can learn how best to ''be'' mortal – and thus, to complete their Pilgrimage.

* '''Cobalus:''' The Refinement of Cobalt (Impurity). Cobalus is the study of impurity and imperfection. Those who follow this Refinement study what happens during their failures – times of Torment, massive Wastelands and outbreaks of Disquiet – to learn what may be done to resolve these imperfections.

There is one final Refinement, one that is often seen as a path of denial or failure.

* AlchemyIsMagic: Prometheans are alchemical creations powered by the Divine Fire that moves the Universe. Their Lineages are based on [[FourTemperamentEnsemble the classical elements]], they pursue Refinements based on the seven alchemical metals (as well as bronze and cobalt), and they can create [[PrestigeClass Athanors]] to further refine themselves.

** Flux as a cosmic force is not necessarily evil, either, even if it does kind of go against the entire purpose of the Pilgrimage. ''Pandora's Book'' features an anecdote of a ''qashmallim'' of Flux showing up at an elite party where depraved magnates did absolutely hideous things to captive youths, and ended up executing some karmic justice by infecting the magnates with something ''very'' nasty and inevitably fatal.

* DownerEnding: Not exactly a definite thing, but if a Promethean reaches New Dawn and is reborn as human, they can be killed by a random car accident as soon as they cross the street. A more TearJerker of a case is that once made human, they can still be reborn as Prometheans if they die.

* EpiphanicPrison: The Prometheans' 'Pilgrimage' has shades of this.
* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: The problem with pursuing the Centimani path.

* {{Expy}}: Qashmallim Ruby and Mr. Gold are expies for {{Sapphire and Steel}}.

* ExtremeOmnivore: Prometheans can eat virtually anything organic. Kind of a survival mechanism [[WalkingTheEarth considering their lifestyle]].

* {{Foil}}: While the Promethean condition is in itself a foil to mortality, among the Created are the Ulgan and the Frankenstein. Frankenstein's Monster was created out of a desire to transcend humanity through science, where the first Ulgan was created with the same intent, but through spiritual means. Frankenstein work to exist and thrive within the world of humans, while the Ulgan tend to embrace lonely, hermetic lives of spiritual reflection, not unlike a monk. The Wretched know they are monsters and try desperately emulate humans; The Riven look for the evil in humanity while trying to ignore the intrusive spirits within their body. The Wretched become emotional vengeance-driven brutes when they're frustrated, whereas the Riven begin to sulk and lose their human nature, adapting a more animal-like mindset.

* LovecraftianSuperpower: Pandoran Transmutations.

* OrderVersusChaos: Elpis is the force for order and development, Flux for chaos and entropy. Both have their own versions of qashmallim. There isn't a "conflict" per se, as both are aspects of the Divine Fire, but since Flux is destructive and body-warping, most Prometheans want nothing to do with it or actively attempt to stymie it.

** And then there's the HiveMind of nanotech that walks like a man. It even calls itself [[IAmLegion Legion]].

* ShoutOut: The "Re-Animator" Bestowment for Zeka is actually a subtle one to ''NightOfTheLivingDead'', and a number of other zombie movies where it is radiation that brings the dead to life. It's also named after [[HPLovecraft Herbert West]].

** [[ItGotWorse It gets worse]]--you know all those ''other'' monsters in this setting? ''Disquiet affects them as well.'' So that angry mob chasing you could just as easily be frenzying vampires or Death-Raging werewolves...

* '''Zeky:''' A recently developed Lineage associated with tainted, radioactive expressions of the other elements and humours. A Zeka might be able to raise radioactive zombies from the bodies of the dead. Others can become scorched shadows on walls, like the silhouettes of the victims of atomic bombs, or mystically sense and home in on radiation, using it to regain Pyros. A Zeka’s Torment is manifested as an intense burst of hatred and the need to destroy. Their Wasteland turns the surrounding area into a radioactive barren, much like fallout, and their Disquiet causes intense and irrational paranoia.

* IAmNotShazam: Frankenstein's monster has no name; call him Mr. Verney, though.

* ShoutOut: The "Re-Animator" Bestowment for Zeka is actually a subtle one to ''NightOfTheLivingDead'', and a number of other zombie movies where it is radiation that brings the dead to life.

The fourth game in the [[NewWorldOfDarkness new setting]] of ''TheWorldOfDarkness'', and the first of its 'limited cycle' games, which have a set number of sourcebooks. ''Promethean'' has the core book and four {{Sourcebook}} follow-ups: ''Pandora's Book'', ''Strange Alchemies'', ''Magnum Opus'' and ''Saturnine Night''.

* BlessedWithSuck: Quite possibly the worst in the [[TheWorldOfDarkness WoD]].

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Most lineages have no problem obtaining corpses to use in the generative act. Even the Ulgan, who require supernaturally-touched bodies, live in the '''WorldOfDarkness''', after all. But Galateids, who require relatively young, unmarred corpses? Well, there are only so many ways young people can die without a mark on them, and it's ''so'' easy to just take a lover and smother or poison 'em or something...

The fourth game in the [[NewWorldOfDarkness new setting]] of ''TheWorldOfDarkness'', and the first of the ''NewWorldOfDarkness's'' 'limited cycle' games, which have a set number of sourcebooks. ''Promethean'' has the core book and four {{Sourcebook}} follow-ups: ''Pandora's Book'', ''Strange Alchemies'', ''Magnum Opus'' and ''Saturnine Night''.

* [=~Don't Look At Me~=]: Considering that a Promethean's Disquiet is harder to resist when their disfigurements are visible, this phrase might get a bit of a workout when the Pyros starts to fly.

** To give an example, one of the sample adventures in the sourcebooks punishes the party with a nuclear explosion if they screw up; if the players still have their free resurrection they can just wake up and move on. If a player power-builds a Tammuz to abosrb damage, they have a (very slim) chance of being able to survive the explosion.

* ProphecyTwist: [[spoiler: In the core book, Mr. Verney tells a psychologist a prophecy the Qashmallim gave him: that if he continued to hunt down Pandorans in what is implied to be Centralia, 'one of [his] own would return to [him] with precious knowledge'. During the interview, Verney recognizes the psychologist as one who sided with his Bride so long ago, and decides to force his Bride's whereabouts out of her. Unfortunately, he accidentally kills her instead, thinking she was still a Promethean. For Mr. Verney, who had abandoned his Pilgrimage, his quest to become human, who believed that it was impossible, the doctor's death indeed gives him precious knowledge - that the Pilgrimage is ''possible''.]]

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Promethean.jpeg
[[caption-width:350:Death took them 'part. They were reassembled.]]

-> No one wants the company of monsters for long.

-> Not even other monsters.

The fourth game in the [[NewWorldOfDarkness new setting]] of TheWorldOfDarkness, and the first of the [=nWOD=]'s 'limited cycle' games, which have a set number of sourcebooks. ''Promethean'' has the core book and four {{Sourcebook}} follow-ups: ''Pandora's Book'', ''Strange Alchemies'', ''Magnum Opus'' and ''Saturnine Night''.

* ThePowerOfFriendship: Prometheans gain advantages for [[{{Nakama}} sticking together]]. Primarily by helping to reduce the effects on the environment around them and to provide some form of companionship in such a bleak existence.

* ProphecyTwist: [[spoiler: In the first book, Mr. Verney told a story that the Qashmallims told him that if he continued to hunt down Pandorans in what is implied to be Centralia, they would 'send one of his kind with an important knowledge'. During the interview with the aforementioned psychologist, Verney recognized her as one who sided with his Bride so long ago, and decided to force his Bride's whereabouts out of the psychologist. Unfortunately, he killed her accidentally instead, thinking she was a Promethean. For Mr. Verney who have abandoned his Pilgrimage, his quest to become human, who believed that they are impossible, the doctor's death indeed gave him an important knowledge - that the Pilgrimage is ''indeed possible''.]]

*** Then they realize they're in a form of enslavement, queue the next trope;