Unnatural Phenomenon: Demigodwalker
All archetypes were once human. Before being stripped of the complication of earthly appetites and concerns they were the same stinking, thinking, walking, talking flesh as the rest of us. They had jobs, favourite foods, parents, friends, siblings, treasured memories. Children.
These offspring retroactively carry a shard of their parent’s ascension in the same way that symbolically appropriate artifacts can become imbued with their power. Hotly contested as limited archetypal proxies while surrounded by keen synchronicity, they live lives that may not be charmed but are never boring. Powerful and monied lineages exist predicated on the inherited power and gravitas from the legacy of an ascended ancestor. Any with an avatar identity the same as their parent’s operates at 30% higher as far as access to channels is concerned, this bonus also mitigates penalties but does not provide a positive shift. Any other avatar identity is at a -20% shift and opposed archetypes are inaccessible.
More interesting, that person stands out from the mass of humanity as far as that archetype is concerned. Unlike the clumsy myopia archetypes have when trying to distinguish people from one another, demigodwalkers appear as lighthouses in the fog of humanity. What this means varies depending on the archetype and their symbolic relationship with it. Ascension strips away many mortal concerns, like love for your offspring, but at the same time being able to see and influence a particular person clearly above all others makes them a potentially valuable asset or at least a toy that can be played with as others cannot. It also makes them a target for anyone with a grudge against the archetype, those willing to strip them of their organs as ritual ingredients and existing avatars looking to bump off the competition.
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