Editing LeviathanTempest:ArchivedSocialLife (section)

==== Reconciliation and Summary (With some added ideas) ==== 
When the blood of the Tribe, or of its cousins, interacts with mortal blood, there are a couple possible outcomes. The most likely is a mere mortal - one who carries the blood but who does not express any of the Primordial bloodline. The other is the rarest, a full-fledged Leviathan, manifesting the full range of the progenitor's traits. Yet there are those that are neither human nor Leviathan; their blood marks and twists their bodies but does little to change their basic nature. These hybrids are defined by mutation, expressing some of the traits of the Leviathan form but having no ability to change shape. For most hybrids, the trauma of this half-life severs them from a normal human life and drives them mad. Experiencing many of the ancient instincts and simmering discomforts of the Tribe, hybrids seek to find fulfillment in their monstrous roles. Some hunt and devour humans, others seek to propagate their twisted species, raising vast broods of hybrids and leading them in isolated cults, attempting to replicate half-instinctual shapes of the Tribe's ancient roles. 

Hybrids with limited or concealable deformities might participate in human society. Their children, however, will continue to manifest greater and greater mutations, eventually becoming incapable of passing for human. Some remain close to the families that produce them, sheltered but also secluded, as dark "family secrets" or isolated "strange cousins." Unsurprisingly, a line that produces Hybrids is very likely to also produce a member of the Tribe, and occasionally a Leviathan comes to discover that her seemingly-normal family is host to a number of hybrids, a long-concealed secret, already prepared to venerate their new "messiah" - or to devour her, seeking to claim from her flesh the secret of physical normalcy. 

A Leviathan with the time and the right knowledge can deliberately ensure the birth of a hybrid. The child does not have to be the Leviathan's own, but the process is much easier if it is. These "planned hybrids" are called Lahmasu. Each Strain of the Tribe produces a distinct sub-line of Lahmasu, and these cultivated bloodlines of Hybrids are naturally inclined to serve Leviathans, and will, if abandoned (Lahmasu breed true with one another and might outlive their Leviathan progenitor) often eagerly seek out a member of the Tribe to venerate. 


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