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===Unfleshed, the Manufactured=== [[File:Lineage - Unfleshed.png|100px|right]] ::'''Humour''': Oil (2e) or Any (1e) ::'''Element''': Metal AKA motherfucking [[robot]]s. From manikins and statues to clockwork devices and cutting-edge androids, the Unfleshed are the vegetarian option of Promethean: they contain 0% meat. Because they are machines they are, of course, beings of extreme logic and literal of nature. They were built with a purpose in mind, and an Unfleshed that cannot fulfill this purpose will frantically search for a way to do so. However, they do not consider themselves tools despite them being built as such. Treat them as tools anyway and they are hit with a wave of emotion, which they are not used to controlling and will frequently end with the offender getting an arm ripped off. The most difficult part of their Pilgrimage is to learn how to stop being machines: how to be imperfect, how to work with their emotions rather than following cold logic alone, how to embrace subjectivity, and how to live without a clearly defined purpose. Eventually they must become truly free-willed and be a tool that they wield themselves. The Unfleshed's Torment can manifest in two ways, just like the Tammuz's: sometimes it comes in the form of embracing their mechanical nature, becoming unemotional, obedient, and fixated on performing their original functions. Other times it can make them dangerously violent in the same vein as a Frankenstein or compel them to lash out at anyone who tries to divert them from their original purpose. Their Disquiet makes others view them as ''things'' instead of sentient beings- at best, they're useful servants and at worst, they're slaves whose expression of free will is nothing more than a malfunction to be corrected. The Manufactured's Wasteland similarly divides nature between the dominant and the submissive, while pushing people to act as methodically and repetitively as any machine. ====Constructs==== ::'''Humour''': As parent Lineage ::'''Element''': As parent Lineage Introduced in the 1e sourcebook Magnum Opus, Constructs are essentially attempts to take Prometheans to the more "traditional" idea of golems being made out of inanimate matter rather than corpse flesh. If Constructs exist in your game, they essentially say that, yes, the myths of Galatea being living marble or the Golem of Prague being living clay are true. Being made of material has assorted benefits and drawbacks - stone or metal-based Constructs are armored but slower, for example - but the universal drawbacks are that they do '''not''' look human (their Pyros just can't hide their Disfigurements) and they induce Disquiet far faster. Other than this, though, they follow the "normal" rules for their parent lineage - Frankenstein, Galateid, Osiran, Tammuz or Ulgan. Although a Construct can be made out of any material, each Linage has a particular material that "resonates" with them, imposing the least penalty to attempts to create a Construct offspring: * Frankenstein - Copper * Galateid - Marble * Osiran - Limestone * Tammuz - Clay * Ulgan - Birch Wood In 2e, the writers realized that there wasn't really that much of a difference in terms of concept space between the Constructs and the Unfleshed, and so they were quietly folded together. The term is still used, but it's clarified that it's the general nature of the generative rite that defines the Lineage (e.g. a Promethean made from a marble statue that was intended to be a human companion would be a Galateid, as Unfleshed are merely made to be humanlike at most).
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