History NightmareFuel / BeastThePrimordial

** There is also another thing to consider: Heroes have a HealingFactor that allows them to survive against impossible odd and recover from any injuries. [[ImplacableMan They are incredibly hard to kill]], [[TheDeterminator won't give up or listen to reason]], and are [[AxeCrazy obsessed with killing Beasts, with no regard for anything that gets in their way]]. They essentially are a slightly different kind of ''[[TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil Slashers]]'' who just happen to target Beasts. No wonder Hunters don't like that.

** The Beast Incarnate, perhaps the scariest of the six, has the Beast subvert its Legend to become [[LivingLegend a true Myth]], turning into an even more powerful version of itself. It can now [[OneWingedAngel switch at will between its human and monster forms]] without bothering to open a Primordial Pathway, travel to the Primordial Dream no matter where it is, and perhaps the scariest of all "[[BroughtDownToNormal shut down]]" Heroes. This is the ''good end'' Inheritance, as while the Beast is not human anymore in any way, their conscience survives the transition and merges with their Legend to become a Myth -- their brand new role and position as a monster-god. But the worst part is ''how'' you ascend: at best, aside from having at least Lair 8, you can do it by [[CurbStompBattle defeating a Hero in such a one-sided way that he is made completely and utterly ''irrelevant'' in your Myth]], or become the leader of a Hive... or you can spread your Myth by feeding in a particularly spectacular and brutal way (such as killing a lot of people) in order to mark everyone.

* Let's start with the fact that a Beast is literally a nightmare come to life. Remember some of the nightmares you had? Well, a Beast's soul is literally formed from their essence.
** There is also the implications of being a Beast to begin with. You feel compelled to harm, dominate, scare, or steal from people around you, while still retaining a human conscience to tell you this is wrong. And should you ''try'' to resist these urges and let yourself starve for it, the mythological monster you have as a soul will go on a rampage in people's dreams to feed itself. But perhaps worst of all is that ''anyone'' human around you, including your loved ones, can suddenly turn into a super-powered psychopath obsessed with killing you. [[ParanoiaFuel It doesn't matter how good your relationship with them were, how much they used to love you: the moment they turn, they will immediately feel compelled to attack and murder you]].

* Each Inheritance a Beast can have is its own kind of scary:

** The Beast Incarnate, perhaps the scariest of the three, has the Beast subvert its Legend to become [[LivingLegend a true Myth]], turning into an even more powerful version of itself. It can now [[OneWingedAngel switch at will between its human and monster forms]] without bothering to open a Primordial Pathway, travel to the Primordial Dream no matter where it is, and perhaps the scariest of all "[[BroughtDownToNormal shut down]]" Heroes. This is the ''good end'' Inheritance, as while the Beast is not human anymore in any way, their conscience survives the transition and merges with their Legend to become a Myth -- their brand new role and position as a monster-god. But the worst part is ''how'' you ascend: at best, aside from having at least Lair 8, you can do it by [[CurbStompBattle defeating a Hero in such a one-sided way that he is made irrelevant in your Myth]], or become the leader of a Hive... or you can spread your Myth by feeding in a particularly spectacular and brutal way (such as killing a lot of people) in order to mark everyone.

* The only thing worse than the Beasts are the Heroes who fight them. At least in the Beast's case, they don't mean to hurt people (sometimes) and usually ‘’try’’ to limit collateral damage; but Heroes are more than willing to kill people if it means getting to the Beast, and are firmly convinced that they are the main characters of a story that operates on ProtagonistCenteredMorality. Even Hunters think these guys are insane.

** It's worth noting that not ''all'' Heroes are deluded, narcissistic, egomaniacal quasi-Slashers. Marlena Sarcosa, from ''Conquering Heroes,'' hates Beasts, but has a very understandable reason for it considering that one killed her wife, and only really hunts down Beasts that prey on her community and does her best to protect the people who live there. ''Beast Player's Guide'' has Merivan, who ''helped'' her Beast daughter put down the monstrous Rampant and become an Incarnate who's Myth was healing and protecting the innocent. And the corebook ''does'' explicitly say that not all Heroes hunt down the Begotten - it's just that those are the kinds that you have to worry about. Like Beasts, being a Hero is what one makes of it. In other words, the kind of loathsome behavior Heroes are notorious for have no more excuse than a Beast who uses what they are as an excuse to terrorize and bully humans.

*** While ''Conquering Heroes'' goes out of its way to portray sympathetic Heroes, it has a real piece of work in the form of [[EgomaniacHunter Dwight Whittaker]], [[TrapMaster the Web Weaver]]. A [[TheSociopath borderline sociopathic]] bomb disposal operator who deserted the army when they put him in a desk job away from his beloved bombs (because they suspected he was going to [[MadBomber set them off to see what would happen]]), he killed his superior officer and took a job as a mercenary in the Amazon, quietly using his time there to learn all there was about poisons. The one person he liked (who explicitly regarded him as a {{Yandere}} in the making) was a Namtaru anthropologist who he nearly burned to death when the Beast was sating his hunger, [[{{Irony}} and then thought that said Namtaru had eaten his crush]]. That wouldn't be so bad, except Dwight's [[MotiveDecay not in it for revenge]]; rather, what he really hates is the fact that Beasts come off as [[TheResenter better than he does]]; the instant he realized his first real prey had a family, [[IHaveYourWife he started on a campaign of kidnapping and murder]], ending when his target tried to negotiate for an antidote to a long-acting poison Dwight applied to his family...[[ShootTheShaggyDog provoking the voice-trigger fuse bomb he put in that phone]]. He's become TheDreaded for any Begotten who see his [[CallingCard distinct silver spiderweb]]; not because he's the strongest Hero, not because he's the smartest, but because he's the most cruel. Even ''SerialKiller'' [[PsychoPsychologist Michael Bellinger]] comes off better than he does (as Michael at least restricts his palate to monsters, and part of what makes it fun for him is [[GoodFeelsGood removing the people who are hurting his patients]]).

** It's worth noting that not ''all'' Heroes are deluded, narcissistic, egomaniacal quasi-Slashers. Marlena Sarcosa, from ''Conquering Heroes,'' hates Beasts, but has a very understandable reason for it considering that one killed her wife, and only really hunts down Beasts that prey on her community and does her best to protect the people who live there. ''Beast Player's Guide'' has Merivan, who ''helped'' her Beast daughter put down the monstrous Rampant and become an Incarnate who's Myth was healing and protecting the innocent. And the corebook ''does'' explicitly say that not all Heroes hunt down the Begotten - it's just that those are the kinds that you have to worry about. Like Beasts, being a Hero is what one makes of it. In other words, the kind of loathsome behavior Heroes are notorious for has no more excuse than a Beast who uses what they are as an excuse to terrorize and bully humans.