Editing LeviathanTempest:ChapterFive (section)

===== Depth =====

All Mutations affect a Hybrids appearance. To represent this Hybrids have Depth, Hybrids use the same scale as Leviathans but suffer slightly smaller social penalties: Treat everyone as Atolls. Unlike with Leviathans a Hybrid's Depth does not govern the extent of their powers or provide a free increase in size. Some Mutations are given a minimum Depth, this is not because a Hybrid with at a shallower Depth isn't "powerful" enough, but because that Mutation cannot pass as any more human than the Mutation's listed Depth.  

A Hybrid's Depth is defined by the number of dots they have in Mutations and is ranked from one to five: No Hybrid ever has human form or Apotheosis. Depth in turn sets a limit on a Hybrid's Intelligence and the likelihood of it being non-sapient. The stability of a Lemashu's genetics over a Hybrid provides a measure of protection. For the purposes of Intelligence and sapience assume a Lemashu has a Depth one step closer to human. 

<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0">
  <tr style="background-color: #DFDFDF;">
    <th>DEPTH</th>
    <th>MUTATION DOTS</th>
    <th>INTELLIGENCE MAXIMUM</th>
    <th>SAPIENCE</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="center">1</td>
    <td align="center">1 to 10</td>
    <td align="center">5</td>
    <td align="center">Always</td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td align="center">2</td>
    <td align="center">11 to 15</td>
    <td align="center">4</td>
    <td align="center">Always</td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td align="center">3</td>
    <td align="center">16 to 20</td>
    <td align="center">3</td>
    <td align="center">Mostly</td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td align="center">4</td>
    <td align="center">21 to 25</td>
    <td align="center">2</td>
    <td align="center">Rarely</td>
  </tr>
<tr>
    <td align="center">5</td>
    <td align="center">26 to 30</td>
    <td align="center">1</td>
    <td align="center">Never</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Hybrids can and often do reach lower Depths over the course of their life but a Hybrid never loses their mental faculties, those are defined at birth. A Hybrid with Intelligence 4 simply will not gain an 16th dot of Mutations and similarly a Sapient Hybrid cannot reach Depth 5.