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[Acrozatarim]

Absolutely - it's not the sort of thing I'd recommend you do without talking the potential idea through with the player out-of-character and getting their buy-in, and it's likely a rare event regardless, rather than the Judges holding regular swap weekends.

But in-setting, the possibility for changing allegiance doesn't relieve the Arisen of their position as slaves; it often just reinforces it....

[Acrozatarim]

Or, indeed, just get told by your Judge that you're being traded to another one for services rendered. Arisen are resources to the Judges - slaves who are things, not people.

[Acrozatarim]

Note that while we say an Arisen can change their allegiance from one Judge to another, that's not to imply it's just something that happens regularly, or that it's easy, or that the Judges are even slightly forgiving of it.

It's the sort of thing that tends to happen because you get back to your tomb and findsomething that makes the underpinnings of reality buckle and twitch at its presence, waiting amid the spilled entrails and skinned corpses of your cult, and it makes you an offer you could refuse - and you're gonna need to think carefully and quickly because a Judge has gone

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[Acrozatarim]

I *think* that's worth some clarification of the text, as I believe the intent is not that any doctrine violation automatically causes a manifestation, but that it always gives the trigger needed if the Judge desires to use it.

It's the equivalent of giving your murderous boss a loaded handgun. Better hope he's in a good mood.

I'll query it and make sure I've got the right end of the stick :P...

[Acrozatarim]

Depending on what exactly you found lacking in sorcerers, you may find that the new benbenet can fill the role. They're pretty potent fellows....

[Acrozatarim]

Definitely. The stuff I wrote on spirits of the Void Beyond and the cannibal dance of the planets and stars in Shunned by the Moon partly comes out of my general fascination with the intersection between horror and space as a creative canvas.