Editing LeviathanTempest:ArchivedAntagonists (section)

=== Hunters - "Ahabs" ===

==== Ideas from the Thread ====
"Ahabs: Treat it like an odd antisocial form of Hunter Compact, but those whose lives get smashed out of shape by the ripples the Leviathan make sometimes develop a form of creative monomania for hunting down the thing what did it that pushes them outside the limits of peak human ability in one area (a lot like Slashers, actually...). Serial Ahabs usually do come into contact with the Hunter community." 

==== Summary (With some added ideas) ==== 
On occasion, when a mortal that is likely to become a Beloved is exposed to a Leviathan's true nature, some cord in them snaps. Perhaps instinctual terror and revulsion overcomes their awe, or perhaps madness turns love into hate, but regardless of the reason, the destruction of the Leviathan - and the whole Tribe - becomes the only thing that matters to them. Monomaniacs in their focus, these hunters - called "Ahabs" by the new generation of the Tribe - first seek to destroy the Leviathan whose Wake first called to them, and then scour the earth, looking for sigs of others. 

The singular drive that guides an Ahab resembles nothing so much as the religious fanaticism of the Beloved - they are two sides of the same coin. Their minds already warped by the Wake, the Ahabs are not easily cowed by other members of the Tribe, and instead latch onto the sensation, tracking it back to its source. While the average Ahab is an unwashed and obsessed psychopath, others pose an even greater threat - they retain their ingenuity and patience, and come at the Tribe from unexpected angles or with overwhelming force. Ahabs are defined by their drive and willpower, however - an Ahab abandons his old life when he takes up the cause. They'll never stop hunting until the Tribe is dead or they are.