Editing LeviathanTempest:ArchivedConflicts (section)

=== Transformation ===
You're something that isn't finished, not yet. This element of Leviathan hinges on the conception of them "coming into" their blood, and reaching a stage in which their physical body is no longer familiar or comfortable. The ability to change shape - perhaps the inability to avoid changing shape - adds a degree of body horror to the characters, who no longer can claim to have even semi-reliable self-knowledge. The distortion of the body to a new and grotesque configuration further distances a Leviathan from mankind.

Transformation forms the physical aspect of the Transition theme - elements of forced or inevitable transformation mean that a character is repeatedly confronted with their monstrous nature in raw physical terms. Transformation should be inevitable - the Leviathan is eventually going to become something - and horrifying - he or she has no idea what.

Leviathans are changing; they are becoming something (what?) else.