Editing Promethean: The Created (section)

===Centimanus, Refinement of Flux===
::'''Nickname''': Hundred-Handed, Freaks
::'''Concept''': Monstrosity
::'''Associated Transmutations''': Pandoran (1e) or Flux (2e)
The Refinement no Promethean likes to talk about, Centimanus is the complete opposite of all other Refinements in that it focuses on embracing the alien and evil aspects of Promethean nature. The Hundred-Handed have effectively given up on the New Dawn entirely; as far as they can see, if the world is going to keep treating them like monsters then they may as well become monsters in reality too. Centimani ''reject'' the New Dawn as either impossible or simply not worth it, instead focusing on becoming the greatest monsters that they can be. Between their mastery of Flux and their ability to command Pandorans, other Prometheans view them with pity at best and at worst feel they have to be destroyed for the good of the rest of their kind. In first edition, despite this association with negative aspects of Pyros, being a Centimanus could still serve as a bizarre and unconventional step on the Pilgrimage; potentially misleading, yes, but also a great way of understanding humanity by further becoming aware of the parts of human nature that lead humans to become other gamelines' monsters.

In 2e, however, Centimanus was changed into a true embodiment of stasis and degeneration; this Refinement has ''no'' Roles, and so a Promethean cannot progress on the Pilgrimage until they abandon it; due to the extent it takes them off the Pilgrimage, the only Refinement that a Centimanus can switch to is Stannum (the logic being that the belief "I am a person and do not deserve to be treated like this" presupposes that the one believing it is a ''person'' and that there ''is'' another way they can be treated, as opposed to just staying a monster and giving up on being anything else). Also, since they can no longer progress on the Pilgrimage, they can no longer make their own vitriol. Which means that they can only get it by draining it out of their almost-certainly-unwilling fellow Prometheans' bodies via the lacuna, like a Pandoran. This is exactly as rapey as it sounds and more (for all intents and purposes, it's literally stealing their character development), so there won't be much lost love or civil contact between the Centimani and other Prometheans.