Editing LeviathanTempest:AppendThree (section)

===The Core ===

In the Core all space is compressed into one single point. An explorer can perceive absolutely everything in the core, and she can perceive it from every viewpoint: Every angle, every layer of skin, every bone and organ is laid bare. For a Leviathan this is, if not comfortable, at least comprehensible. To a mind outside the tribe, well it wouldn't be pretty. 

Spacial anomalies aside, the core isn't empty. Far from it. The core is the seabed to the Rift's ocean. It is enormous trenches and caverns carved in illegible alphabets, the real truths and history of the tribe lost to Leviathans, who could spend a lifetime trying in vain to read and reclaim them. 

It is a vast and featureless sandy seabed with broken only by slight inclines that hint at continent sized fossils burred beneath the surface. The true form of Tiamat and the nature of the tribe will be revealed to any Levithan that can dig through a thin layer of mud, silt and sand that is infinitely deep.

It is the inside of the Leviathan's own body: Where the tempest beats to the rhythm of an eleven chambered heart. Veins and arteries carry the divine Ichor, life itself turned cancerous, across impossible angles and through obscene geometries while never moving at all. Nerves reach across to strange outer places and return carrying forbidden lore and secrets best forgotten. The lost history of the tribe is written illegibly on the very neurons that hold memory. 

It is the home of the greatest and most terrible creatures that dwell within the Rift, and the home of the Deep Ones. Leviathans who were consumed by their divine nature, becoming primordial gods driven by the madness of the tempest. 

And it is so much more. An infinite number of infinite realms, teaming with life both majestic and terrible, unkowable secrets, and incomprehensible danger. There is nowhere the tribe has a better hope of learning their own nature than The Core, and there is nowhere more dangerous to the tribe than the very heart of their own watery realm. A Leviathan could become lost within The Core, until they came to believe that all the infinite universe is just part of their own divine body and all the people within are just their own thoughts. To be moulded or extinguished with an act of will. There are things living at the bottom of the rift that rank above gods themselves in the food chain, a Leviathan could be devoured alive by strange primordial monsters that may be his own thoughts turning upon him in a realm where the distinction between body and identity is fluid. 

Perhaps one day a Leviathan will master the core, live and grow for lifetimes at the heart of the rift until she returns to the Tribe bearing the truths of their natures. Such a Leviathan would have to be as mighty as the Progenitors themselves were fabled to be, the Tribe will have to wait a while longer. 

===== Sidebar: Navigating The Core =====

Despite the core's unique geometry navigation works the same as in the previous layers, with one noticeable difference. The dicepool is Wits + Composure. Navigating The Core is not about swimming, but changing one's perceptions. Focusing on one of the core's infinite aspects enough to see and sense it. Bonuses may apply when trying to "navigate" to something visually striking (or striking to any other sense) Trying to "navigate" to something that is intentionally attracting your attention always gives a +3 bonus. If it is attacking you that bonus increases to +5. 

No Leviathan can stay within The Core forever, at most they can remain for one chapter per success on a Sheol roll (minimum of one chapter). This is not the nature of The Core itself, rather in an infinite plain it is inevitable that sooner or later the Leviathan will encounter something so terrible that there is no possibility of escape or defence. What qualifies as impossibly dangerous to a Sheol one fledgling may be beneath the notice of a Sheol ten ancient, but even that titan has things it cannot hope to overcome.