Editing LeviathanTempest:NuClan (section)

===='''Puberty'''====
The Elements themselves react when a Nu begins to claim his birthright. Water may twist and flow in unnatural patterns as she walks by. As she steps into the shower every drop of water boils in a flash burning everything but herself. Most terrifying of all is when they lose the ability to tell themselves apart from the water; lying in the bath she feels not the water on her flesh but the porcelain touching the water. There are patterns in this, but they are patterns unrelated to the Nu herself and obscure enough to thwart any but the most dedicated meteorologist. 

While they possess the same Tribal instinctual as their cousins the Nu's instincts only appear after they have claimed their full birthright. The only force that pushes a Nu onwards is natural human curiosity: She cannot outrun herself and so sooner or later she must attempt to experiment. As she begins to master the elements she drains the mystical pressure that surrounds her. Though things can never return to normal she can now has enough control to seek some measure of stability. A Nu who never attempts to master her power may remain stuck in this transitional phase forever. For all the drawbacks of the Tribe's condition this is arguably worse worse, or at least more likely to lead to an early grave. She is spared none of the Tribe's curses, the Wake exists in full. In essence she has traded control over her abilities for nothing at all.<!--A lot of this was the answer to a question: How are Nu still roughly as common as other Leviathans (I think that all the major strains are equally common. However I put the birth/(“infant mortality”) rate in three tiers: 1) Dagonites, 2) Bahamatans, Lahamu and Thalassans, 3) Oceaneads, Nu and Tannanim.) when their genetics prevents the family lines from surviving. 

The idea that Nu blood is almost nomadic. The established bloodlines tend to die off or purge themselves of Tribe blood while the true heritage travels far to re-establish itself from scratch is a rather unusual one and I think it works well. I think I might have got the idea from strawberries.-->