A Bestowment is a power bestowed by a Promethean's Lineage (or a Pandoran's Mockery). They are specific to each Lineage, but Bestowments can also be purchased as Transmutations for those outside the Lineage. As of Strange Alchemies and Second Edition, there are a minimum of two Bestowments for each Lineage that a Promethean can choose from at their creation. The other Bestowment must be purchased as if the Promethean was outside that Lineage. Bestowments do not cause a Promethean to gain that Lineage's disfigurement, but there will be subtle alterations in the physiology, most notably the balance of the humours within that Promethean.
List of Bestowments[]
Amirani[]
- Crucible of Anguish (Dark Eras) - If damaged with fire, the Prophet receives visions.
- Titan‘s Strength (Promethean: The Created Second Edition) - As the Frankenstein Refinement.
Faceless[]
- Chem Shell (Dark Eras 2) -
- Living Wall (Dark Eras 2) -
Frankenstein[]
- Spare Parts (Strange Alchemies) - A Wretched can use new body parts to remake or repair themselves fully, including channelling Azoth into the new limb or organ to make it fully part of themselves.
- Titan’s Strength (Promethean: The Created Second Edition) - A Wretched flexes the fibres of their muscles tighter than the human frame is made to, for maximum muscular efficiency.
- Unholy Strength (Promethean: The Created) - A Wretched can spend Pyros to improve their strength. It does not affect combat, only acts of brute strength, such as battering down doors, lifting something extremely heavy, etc.
Galatea[]
- Heart of Stone (Strange Alchemies) - A Muse can channel their Azoth to temporarily turn themselves into a statue or other inanimate figure.
- Mesmerizing Appearance (Promethean: The Created) - A Muse can use their Pyros to improve their social skills, such as seduction, gossip, or personal appeal.
- Unearthly Mein (Promethean: The Created Second Edition) - The Muse appears to be the platonic ideal of humanity, drawing people to them.
- Symbiotic Muse (Promethean: The Created Second Edition ) - The Muse sparks activity in anyone that has touched the Divine Fire nearby.
Hollow[]
- Bloody Feast (Night Horrors: The Tormented) - A Hollow can convert damage into Pyros.
- Hunger (Dark Eras) - A Hollow can open themself up, sucking in pain, death, and rage from those around them.
- Vice Eater (Night Horrors: The Tormented) - When the Hollow knows the subjects’ Vice, they can manipulate them easier.
Osiris[]
- Corpse Tongue (Strange Alchemies) - A Nepri can use their Azoth to ask a corpse three questions that can be answered "yes" or "no". This ability can only be used once per corpse.
- Revivification (Promethean: The Created) - A Nepri who is killed does not lose their accumulated Azoth; instead, they lose the Revivification ability and must repurchase it.
Tammuz[]
- Heart of Clay (Promethean: The Created Second Edition ) - The Golem hardens their resolve, seeming stoic and stalwart to the rest of the world.
- Inscription (Promethean: The Created Second Edition ) - Each Golem bears an inscription upon their forehead. Using this Bestowment, they can use this word to grant them greater abilities.
- Unbreakable Will (Strange Alchemies) - A Golem can channel their Azoth to increase their resolve against supernatural attacks from any being.
- Unholy Stamina (Promethean: The Created) - A Golem can raise their stamina to inhuman levels through purchase by experience points. Yes, even if it takes them over 5. Also gain a 9-again on Stamina rolls.
Ulgan[]
- Ephemeral Flesh (Promethean: The Created) - A Riven gains the abilities to see, communicate, and have physical contact with ghosts, spirits and other ephemeral creatures.
- Orphean Song (Strange Alchemies) - A Riven can use their Azoth and a song to lull ghosts and spirits into a slumbering state.
- Twilight Fluidity (Promethean: The Created Second Edition ) - The Riven acts without distraction or impairment, moving through the world like a ghost would the twilight.
Unfleshed[]
- Heart of Steel (Promethean: Second Edition) - An Unfleshed with this Bestowment can remain cold and callous, ignoring negativity and other such harsh words.
- The Soul is in the Software (Promethean: Second Edition) - The Unfleshed with this Bestowment has a body made of malleable, modular parts, and may remove them for various tasks.
Xibalban[]
- Blood Offering (Dark Eras 2) - Your character can shed her own blood to make up for her failure to die properly, sustaining miracles by its power.
Zeka[]
- Half-Life (Night Horrors: The Tormented) - The Azoth of the Zeky is irrevocably tied to how long it takes for the radioactive material within them to decay.
- Re-Animator (PTC: Saturnine Night (book)
) - A Zeka can create zombies from corpses that died from radiation exposure. - Radioactive Affinity (Saturnine Night) - A Zeka can sniff out sources of radiation and use them to regain Pyros while awake.
- Victim Shadow (Saturnine Night) - A Zeka can take the form of a shadow scorched into an object which allows them to limit the effects of their Disquiet and Wasteland.
Extempore Bestowments[]
Extempore Prometheans are not a proper lineage, but more a catchall term for for individual and strange Created. As such, their Bestowments are just as strange and varied as they are.
References[]
- PTC: Promethean: The Created Rulebook, p. 116-117
- PTC: Strange Alchemies, p. 23-24, 31-32, 39, 45, 52-53
- PTC: Saturnine Night, p. 85-87
- PTC: Lexicon from Web spoiler, June 14, 2006
- PTC: Promethean: The Created Second Edition, p. 110-111
- PTC: Night Horrors: The Tormented
