I can't be the only one who's noticed how much these two templates have in common. I'm not just talking about how they're both ritually reanimated corpses, though that process is similar. Consider:
- Both splats passively warp the world around them with Sybaris or Disquiet. People can sense their unnatural nature and it makes them behave in bizarre, hostile ways. Their true forms even shine through under similar circumstances.
- Both splats lack a normal human soul, and can gain (or regain) one through a process of self-discovery and improvement. Both are relieved of their greatest weaknesses and stripped of their greatest strengths by doing so. Both still retain certain advantages that make them more than human, though.
- Both splats face similar enemies. Amkhata and Pandorans can be almost indistinguishable in their appearance, their instincts, and their abilities (particularly their tendency to hide in plain sight.) The Centimani and Shuankhsen both take on inhuman forms, stitch together their own minions from ritually prepared body parts, and literally tear life force from their victims' flesh. All of them are attracted to Azoth/Sekhem, and those two energies are described in ways that suggest a similar source and function.
All of that opens the door for speculation as to whether the two splats might share a common point of origin, and what that might mean. Could the Promethean lineages have been created from Iremite sources, or make use of their Artifacts and Vestiges? If the Arisen are cousin to Prometheans, could those alchemical processes alter their Descent or allow them to transcend it? Do the Qashmallim and Judges know of each other or interfere with the others' business?
Anyone else tried to cross over these lines?
- Both splats passively warp the world around them with Sybaris or Disquiet. People can sense their unnatural nature and it makes them behave in bizarre, hostile ways. Their true forms even shine through under similar circumstances.
- Both splats lack a normal human soul, and can gain (or regain) one through a process of self-discovery and improvement. Both are relieved of their greatest weaknesses and stripped of their greatest strengths by doing so. Both still retain certain advantages that make them more than human, though.
- Both splats face similar enemies. Amkhata and Pandorans can be almost indistinguishable in their appearance, their instincts, and their abilities (particularly their tendency to hide in plain sight.) The Centimani and Shuankhsen both take on inhuman forms, stitch together their own minions from ritually prepared body parts, and literally tear life force from their victims' flesh. All of them are attracted to Azoth/Sekhem, and those two energies are described in ways that suggest a similar source and function.
All of that opens the door for speculation as to whether the two splats might share a common point of origin, and what that might mean. Could the Promethean lineages have been created from Iremite sources, or make use of their Artifacts and Vestiges? If the Arisen are cousin to Prometheans, could those alchemical processes alter their Descent or allow them to transcend it? Do the Qashmallim and Judges know of each other or interfere with the others' business?
Anyone else tried to cross over these lines?
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