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Leviathan: the Tempest LEVIATHAN: THE TEMPEST Table of Contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 5 1.1 Theme.............................................................................................................................................. 5 1.2 Mood ............................................................................................................................................... 5 2 Leviathan: the Tempest Lexicon ............................................................................................................ 6 Chapter 1 : The World That Is (and Was) ................................................................................................. 9 Bereshit - The Tribe .............................................................................................................................. 9 Before .............................................................................................................................................. 10 Marduk ............................................................................................................................................ 10 Noach - The Fall ................................................................................................................................. 11 Speciation ........................................................................................................................................ 12 Primordial Icons .............................................................................................................................. 12 Legends of the Tribe ....................................................................................................................... 14 The Rift ........................................................................................................................................... 15 Lech Lecha - Getting By ..................................................................................................................... 16 Emergence ....................................................................................................................................... 16 Schools ............................................................................................................................................ 17 Sidebar: Other Schools? .................................................................................................................. 19 Humanity ......................................................................................................................................... 19 Cults ................................................................................................................................................ 20 Family ............................................................................................................................................. 21 Cohort.............................................................................................................................................. 23 Sidebar: Tiers and Leviathan .......................................................................................................... 24 "Culture" ......................................................................................................................................... 24 Fitting In .......................................................................................................................................... 24 LeviathanTempest:ChapterTwo .............................................................................................................. 26 Chapter 2 : Character Creation ................................................................................................................ 28 Experience Point Costs ....................................................................................................................... 37 The Strains .......................................................................................................................................... 38 Bahamutans ..................................................................................................................................... 38 Dagonites ........................................................................................................................................ 40 Lahamin .......................................................................................................................................... 43 Nu .................................................................................................................................................... 46 Oceanids .......................................................................................................................................... 48 Tanninim ......................................................................................................................................... 50 Thalassans ....................................................................................................................................... 53 The Schools ......................................................................................................................................... 56 The School of the Abyss ................................................................................................................. 56 The School of the Sun ..................................................................................................................... 58 The School of Clay ......................................................................................................................... 61 The School of the Reef.................................................................................................................... 64 The School of Fog ........................................................................................................................... 67 The Prelude ......................................................................................................................................... 69 Storytelling the Prelude ................................................................................................................... 70 Developing – Early Life .................................................................................................................. 70 Example of Character Creation ....................................................................................................... 73 LeviathanTempest:ChapterThree ............................................................................................................ 77 Chapter 3 : Systems and Advantages ...................................................................................................... 78 New Advantage: Sheol........................................................................................................................ 78 Benefits of Sheol ............................................................................................................................. 78 Drawbacks of Sheol ........................................................................................................................ 79 New Advantage: Ichor ........................................................................................................................ 79 Spending Ichor ................................................................................................................................ 79 Regaining Ichor ............................................................................................................................... 80 Modified Advantage: Tranquility (Morality) ...................................................................................... 81 Benefits of Tranquility .................................................................................................................... 82 Drawbacks of Tranquility ............................................................................................................... 82 Transformation .................................................................................................................................... 83 Stages of Transformation ................................................................................................................ 83 Mechanics of Transformation ......................................................................................................... 84 Willing Transformation................................................................................................................... 85 Outbursts ......................................................................................................................................... 85 Detecting Transformation ............................................................................................................... 86 Social Effects of Transformation .................................................................................................... 86 The Wake ............................................................................................................................................ 87 Sidebar: The Best Idea Someone Else Gave You ........................................................................... 88 Mechanics of the Wake ..................................................................................................................
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