Editing LeviathanTempest:TannanClan (section)

===='''Puberty'''====
One moment he's fine, the next he feels his skin begin to itch. Within moments he's on fire and he knows he needs water. The first time even a drink can restore him and for a few days normality returns. From this point the attacks become more frequent and the cures more demanding until nothing short of immersion in natural running water will do. With time or tutoring he will learn that to prevent these attacks with control, both over his surroundings and over himself. Some favour rigid rules and routines that they enforce on all around them, or at least try too; the Wake helps. Others choose to seek authority but refrain from using it and some find control in isolation. Regardless the young Tannanim eventually applies this doctrine to themselves, mastering their body through iron self discipline and beginning the quest for Tranquillity. 

The ascension of a Tannanim can be a disaster for his human family. No one likes to suddenly find another claiming dominion over them. Among families unaware of the tribe some accept, they play along simply because they see it as a medical necessity, in most other cases the sheer desperation the fledgeling can feel around preventing their painful episodes can escalate to violence. While the Strain is usually late to their physical powers nothing accelerates a Tannanim's development like combat, the family either has to call the police and hope their clawed son won't be shot on sight (plenty do make the call) or surrender to a more dangerous foe. When the family knows what's coming the usual response is the frenzied clean ups seen in organisations awaiting an important inspection, or for the entire family to run for the hills. <!-- I remember a short lived an actual play, I think they were Tannanim, where the two Leviathans were abandoned by their family shortly before gaining their powers. They went out and when they got back the entire family had run away. Whoever that Storyteller was, consider yourself to have inspired me :) -->