Editing Vice and Steel (section)

==Vice==

Every Vice and Steel character has a Vice, a sin or weakness that threatens to ruin all their ambitions and goals even while it drives them beyond the constraints of normal men and towards greatness. A character's Vice is not just their wicked side, as everyone in Vice and Steel has more than enough of that; it is the wickedness the character cannot control, the sin that always draws them towards destruction and abandon. 

A Vice can be a simple phrase, a sentence or two that sums up what the character's weakness or flaw is. Examples could be "the Count is driven by revenge, and is willing to destroy what he once loved in order to avenge even a small slight" or "Valios is a lecher, unable to resist seducing maidens."
 
A Vice should not be something that the [[character]] can get rid of easily. No matter how hard they try it should dog them, their personal imp hounding them towards their fall. The Seven Deadly Sins make good starting points for a Vice, but a proper Vice should be more fleshed out – tied to the character’s history and his goals. After all, someone who has the Vice of greed probably has cheated in the past and has goals based around fulfilling their greed.
 
Note also that a Vice is the combination of a characters weaknesses and the mistakes those weaknesses have made for them in the past. Lechery, for example, not only means the character is likely to give into lusts of the flesh, but that he probably has a good number of enemies from the maidens he has ruined in the past. Similarly, someone who is vengeful or murderous not only is likely to kill in the future, but probably has done so in the past. 

Mechanically, the Vice works exactly like the Devil from Dust Devils.