Editing LeviathanTempest:ArchivedOrigins (section)

== Omegatron's Response ==
"I'd say that it is not as unified an experience as the First Change or Embrace, but not as diverse as Awakening or Escape (for lost). But also different from a Promethean's Animation.

As in there are several ways for it to happen, in several different orders, but anything other than that is very rare (but possible)-- BUT that it is not mandatory for each Splat to Spawn/Morph in the same way, though tendencies could help add flavor and tradition and cohesion to the splats (born or choice)...
* A Voyage- Willing or Not - to the Deep.
* Submersion Water (river, lake, sea, pond, canal, pool, ice, snow, mud) or Storm.
* Another Leviathan forces you to change. Through the stalking, violence, seduction, unclear occulted teachings, misdirection, etc. A "Hazing? Initiation?"
* A Long, Slow, Physical, Emotional, and Mental Transition - Evil Puberty, like we all agree should be a focus of the game.
* You may be a Lahmasu first, and part of a Cult's Ceremony. Your parents could just tell you.
* Your Atoll shows up and changes you, or you change from your interaction with them. You may or may not even know them, they may not know you or your/his natures, may not even be your actual Atoll but the Atoll of another!
* Weird, reptillian or fishy cravings? You break things (more Ichor!). Bask, Swim, Hiss, Shed Skin, Lose/Regrow Teeth, Sleep with Eyes Open, etc.
* A Scorpion Armiger Initiates you into the Secret History of the World as part of an ancient oath.
* You stumble upon an Antedilluvian Ruin, Blasphemous Artifacts, or Ultraterrestrial Lore - Classic Lovecraftian Crazy Train that ends in the Spawning/Morphing.
* You attract Cryptids, Marduk Operatives, Degenerated, and something happens.

But it should always take a while.

I like "Spawning" or (perhaps to differentiate it from procreation), "Morphing" for the name the prolonged Transition.

And it SHOULD be PROLONGED. That's an easy way to distance it from Werewolf's month of spirit shit and moonlit night of madness. This is body horror, discovery, revelation... Growing Up (and Out) into something terrbile. It shouldn't be quick or easy or the same for everyone.

Mechanically, the same minor-template subsytem we use for Lahmasu should be easily adapted for Morphing Leviathans, so players can literally grow into their powers. After they fully become part of the Tempest, they gain the full benefits and weaknesses of the Leviathan Template. But once that happens, the "evil puberty" isn't over. In fact most characters will just find that their troubles have begun, even if they only just then know what the problems are.

F'rex, Just because you find an anatomy book, doesn't mean you're going to stop growing hair and, er, or something."

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