Editing LeviathanTempest:ArchivedCharacters (section)

=== CasperLions' Pitch 3: The Bloodening - The "Lineage" Model ===
* Oceanids
* Taninim
* Nu
* Dagonites
* Bahamutans

'''Notes:''' Paired with the "Devotion" model for chosen splats. Current model under discussion.

==== Casper's additions: Some concepts and inspirations ====
* '''Oceanids''': You catch a glimpse of something beautiful and human or glittering and golden and you dive in...only to be ensnared in the loving embrace of something too ancient to be malicious, something of a kind so old man has no instincts to flee it.
* '''Taninim''': Graceful, majestic, enigmatic. You might see it once, in the distance or the rolling fog, in your lifetime and never again, even if you live by it's waters all your life.
* '''Nu''': You'll never know where what you saw ended and where the water began, only a sense that in the wave something streamlined and vastly intelligent was looking back at you before the wave collapsed.
* '''Dagonites''': Scales (squamous), mud from the bottom of the sea...dear god, it was there all those weeks, it WAS that giant mound in the swamp and you never noticed. Then one day, it was gone.
* '''Bahamutans''': You washed up on the shore in chunks torn by gnashing teeth and fins. Someone, or something, had scrawled in the sand..."CHARLIE DON'T SURF!"

==== FiveEyes' additions: Some Suggested ideas ====

* '''Oceanids''' - Go with the water nymph, siren theme. Good at physical feats (Heroics, Greek-style), good at manipulating the Wake. Graceful, but not merciful. Their Lahmasu are called Sirens - pale and pretty in a very uncanny valley sort of way.
* '''Bahamutans''' - Riffing off of the tenuous bahamut-behemoth connection, they're the big, gentle-giant types. Very resilient, capable of growing to great size. They're the runners-up in the competititon for who has the most fecundicity-related power - they're the Cloverfield monster. Stereotypically mellow, but that's unreliable. Their Lahmasu should be parasite-like, maybe? Or your average Gillmen - the citizens of sunken cities.
* '''Dagonites''' - Cult-leader types, control the weather and have the most fertile blood. The Cthulhu reference, and Dagon's status as a harvest god, are too much to pass up. Obey and be blessed, disobey and be sacrificed to ensure the crops. Their Lahmasu are the Touched, Innsmouth types.
* '''Nu''' - Fluid bodies and a deeper connection to water than their fellows - the self-proclaimed rulers of the primordial waters. Adept at weather control and body manipulation - they can literally flow like water. Thier Lahmasu are frog-like and amphibian.
* '''Taninim''' - Leviathan, as the monster that swallows Job or the beast depicted in Hellmouth imagery. The Taninim are judges - the masters of the Leviathan's natural weaponry (gaping shark-jaws and the like) and with links to the power of perception. Their Lahmasu are Lagooners - territorial and dangerous.

The Lesser Lineages:

* Vasuki - Naga-like, masters of perception powers, lesser control of the Wake. Form colossal cults in remote villages. Their Lahmasu are pulp fiction snake people, naturally.
* Akkorokamui - Octopus-types, dangerous predators, aggressive set of natural inclinations/powers. Control small urban cults of influential people, devouring those that falter. Their Lahmasu are subtle - Pentex board member types.