Dragon: The Embers Core Book - MrGone's Character Sheets

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they are not forgotten, and yet they are left
to their own ends.
Concept: addict, nymphomaniac,
personal trainer, police officer, priest, artist,
politician, musician, unemployed vagrant.
Quote: Do you see the way she’s
soaring on pastel rainbows? God I miss
that. Beautiful streaks of saffron and
fuchsia… my brushes have been gathering
dust for so long. Maybe just one painting.
School School of of Sloth Sloth: Sloth :
Martyrs Martyrs to to Memory
Memory
The sun rises every morning in a
beautiful wave of purples, blues, and then
oranges. For some this is a soul-affirming
portion of their day. But what is the point?
If you’ve seen one sunrise, or even a sunset,
you’ve seen them all. There aren’t enough
distinguishing characteristics to warrant
wasting time.
Victims of Sloth cringe at the
thought of being lazy. Their ends should
come from their efforts, or at least that’s the
way they feel about it. Out of this concern
comes a call to arms that accelerates them
like a train towards… well, everything.
Sloth Dragons work themselves to
exhaustion, and once they reach that
exhaustion, well...
Sloth isn’t dangerous. In fact, it’s
the opposite. Nobody dies from just sitting
around. Nothing gets done while just sitting
around. The only thing that really happens
when somebody’s ‘slothing’ is flatulence.
Or bed rash. Sloth does damage by sitting
back and watching the world rust.
Whenever a victim of Sloth
witnesses an act of excessive laziness that
would grant a Sloth Vice’s recovery of
Willpower, they must roll Composure or
slide into their other mode.
Good Dragon Mode: When in
Good Dragon mode, victims of Sloth can
often be mistaken for Sweat Dragons. They
see sleep and relaxations as fallbacks to the
most wretched of sins, so they work until
they pass out. Be it writing a sonnet,
running a homeless shelter, running a
marathon, or building a shack, the work
serves a more important function that the
accomplishment. Of the Saintly Devils,
Sloth Dragons do the most good in Good
Mode.
Working into unconsciousness is not
at all healthy. The mental state that makes
Sloth Dragons do it is even worse. When
the body gives up from exhaustion, Sloth
Dragons are forced to sit still, and this is
usually enough to push them over the edge.
Bad Dragon Mode: Not so much a
fall as a slow drift, Sloth Dragons that
descend into Bad Dragon mode accept the
inactivity that accompanies their exhaustion,
and settle back for a nice relaxing… rest.
Any unfinished projects remain unfinished,
and no doubt decay from the loss of
attention. Bad Sloth Dragons suffer
medically as well, their overexertion
replaced by total inaction that softens their
toned muscles to mush.
Sloth Dragons don’t stay in Bad
mode for long. Provided there’s at least one
person who cares about the Dragon,
eventually she’ll be pulled from her seat and
brought back into the world. If, by some
slim chance, there’s nobody left who cares
about the Sloth Dragon, she’d better settle in
for a long stay on the couch.
Philosophy: The philosophy of
Sloth is about the convenience of memory
alteration. Even though it is convenient, it
isn’t directly lazy, so Sloth Dragons are
willing to utilize it in both modes, and often
are more driven to use it in Good Dragon
mode. The power to gloss over niggling
details, or replace them with more
convenient perceptions, makes it easy for a
Sloth Dragon to seem like she belongs while
she needs to belong, and to scrape away her
tracks when she’s done.