Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter One: The Cosmos (section)

===Breakthrough:===

Passionate scions of power and privilege, often already aware of the Inspired world before they catalyze, Hoffnungs often experience the least traumatizing catalysts of all geniuses. Few speak of their old personalities being "replaced"; upon their Breakthroughs, most still seem very much the person they were, with the same ambitions and the same vision, though that vision is often purified through their contact with the light of Inspiration.

Those mortals who are not first cultivated by another genius usually experience a gradual Breakthrough as their understanding of the world broadens. They see answers that were murky before, they see solutions that they never thought possible, and at last, they see how they can change the world, through machinery or political will, and so catalyze. These Hoffnungs, especially the non-scientific among them (many preachers and advocates) can quickly destabilize after their Breakthroughs when they realize that, due to the nature of Mania, they will be unable to effect their changes as easily as they had hoped.