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Saintly Devil Dragons of Ethics 2 in
Bad mode receive one extra Aspect point
when they take a manifest action.
Ethics Ethics 1
1
There is little distance left to the
bottom. The Ethics 1 Dragon likely fuels
her furnace by killing and consuming at
random. She doesn’t care who catches her
with Aspects blazing, as she murders
without remorse. The only flicker of
conscience remaining is that of torture.
Though she may be a murderous monster,
she cannot bring herself to cause that kind of
suffering. Those in the vicinity of the Ethics
1 Dragon feel the chill of death dance down
their spine. Extended contact is not
recommended.
Saintly Devil Dragons of Ethics 1 in
Bad mode receive two extra Aspect points
when they take a manifest action.
Ethics Ethics 0
0
At this point, the Dragon can no
longer claim a Province. In fact, she can no
longer claim her Dragonhood, as she has
become a Hydra. A Rabid uncontrollable
monster feuding with its own heads, no
action is too depraved for this beast. While
a Hydra can still disband Aspects, she
usually has no reason to. If your Dragon
reaches this level of depravity, she becomes
a non-player character and can no longer be
used. More information on the Hydra can
be found in Chapter 4, page XX.
The The Journey Journey Up p and Down Principles
Principles
For an Embers Dragon, losing Ethics
is essentially identical to losing Morality, as
detailed in the World of Darkness
Rulebook page 91. Drifting below 7 may
lead to derangements, which are removed in
the reverse order as Ethics recovers.
Scholars of the Five Evils also recover from
derangements as their Ethics rises, but their
watermark is 6. Scholars may suffer
derangements if they exceed Ethics 6, just as
if they’d fallen beneath it.
Embers Dragons cannot simply
repent as a mortal does, for their position
should have taught them better. To increase
their Ethics rating, they must both reaffirm
their dedication to its teachings and spend
the experience to increase the rating.
Scholars of the Five Evils are sheltered from
this cost by their naiveté, and as such their
upward movements are free. If the Scholar
rededicates herself to sanity, she may spend
experience to move towards Ethics 6.
A A Dragon’s Dragon’s Death
Death
Just like mortals, when a Dragon is
riddled with lethal wounds she will begin to
bleed to death. But for the Oroboroi—well,
most of them anyway—death does not hold
the permanence it does for humanity. If her
physical form is destroyed, her mental and
spiritual self become anchored to her Heart
while her body undergoes repair.
Curiously enough, though, is the
matter of the corpse a dead Dragon leaves
behind. Which form is truth, and which is
the lie?
For Dragons that still possess their
Hearts in chest, the human form is a lie.
When these dragons die, their bodies are
thrust into True form where they quickly
decay into convincing reptile fossils.
Though technically authentic, the carbon
dating of these bones usually gets them
tossed aside as a hoax. Only someone
willing to study them could garner a snifter
of useful information, and very little at that.
Only one valuable remains in the wake of
this phenomenon, the Heart.
For Dragons who renounce their
Heart for immortality, the human form is
simply a vessel. It’s their soul’s presence
that makes it special, and at severing the
flesh becomes absolutely, untraceably
human. This does not absolve them of an
evidence trail, though, as people are bound
to notice that guy who looks remarkably like
the one that died.