Editing LeviathanTempest:ChapterTwo (section)

===='''Puberty'''====
It begins with distance. As master of the natural armours and Vitality of the tribe a Bahamatun's inheritance first manifests by a feelings of inner security. What once seemed like enormous problems seem small, easily solvable but also unimportant. In these early days the hardest and most important thing is for the Leviathan to maintain a sense of proportion. Some describe it as an almost dreamlike state where the world seems formed of mist, where force and reaction seem unrelated. What feels like a simple push topples trees, an attempt to rescue a drowning man churns the beach into muck. The first step taken by many Bahamatuans is to relearn their own strength.

Bahamatun families, even those unaware of their own heritage, have a moderate tendency to be surprisingly calm when a new Bahamatuan emerges. Sometimes this is stoicism, sometimes shock, but it always gives a little breathing room that gives the family time to get to grips, or succumb to the wake, before making any rash decisions. 

A curious fact is that Bahamatuans who emerged as a set, even if they had never met before, lack the territorial instincts that most Leviathans feel against each other. They may also include any other Bahamatuan who was a family figure in their upbringing in their instinctual trust though this is unreliable. A Cohort formed of related Bahamatuans can be among the most stable and thus the most successful in the Tribe, however instincts to cooperate can repress disagreement leading to stagnation. Even worse, repressed feelings can escape in other self destructive ways or build up until they explode in a fashion that can be called apocalyptic, both figuratively and sometimes literally.<!--As the guys who combine Vitality and Fecundity (Thalassans don't really count, they never favour both at once) Bahamatuns are the token family who are somewhat able to work together and not eat each other. This is also the self-censored version, there are logical implications here that while very appropriate for a lovecraft themed game I decided were much better of unwritten-->