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Lineages even more than other Prometheans, the Tammuz are

Prometheans belong to one of five different Lineages; each relentless and difficult to kill. In the Tammuz Wasteland,
the very Earth rebels. Stone and clay crumble, sinkholes
traces back to the creator of the first for that particular line. open, and topsoil becomes inert and useless. Nicknames:
Subsequent Created then make more like themselves, perpetu- Golems, Mudmen, Swamp Things, Jasons.
ating that Lineage. They also have a distinct appearance, which
adds to a hunter’s confusion. A hunter group that lacks a way Ulgan: The Ulgan are perhaps the strangest of the
to identify a Promethean might not see two Created as similar Created. Their bodies are sacrificed to the spirits who
creatures at all. rip them to pieces. Then, their dismembered bodies are
Below are quick descriptions of the Lineages and what to reassembled and stuck back together with ectoplasm.
highlight when using them as antagonists in a Hunter game. The Ulgan enjoy a special relationship with ghosts and
Note, however, that hunters aren’t likely to use these terms, spirits. They can talk with these entities, and sometimes
since they very rarely understand what Prometheans are or have even command them. Ulgan Wastelands are rife with
any sense of their numbers. On the off chance that a group of such horrors; a cell pursuing an Ulgan better have some
hunters pieces together that the Created are part of a “fam- means of dealing with, or at least perceiving, spirits.
ily line,” we’ve included some potential nicknames that a cell, Nicknames: Manitou, Necros, Demons, Reanimated.
compact, or conspiracy might use.
Body Horror
Frankenstein: These beings, formed from the disparate
parts of many corpses, are angry, jealous, destructive, and A Promethean is an ambulatory being made from the body
stronger than humans. While Frankesteins are capable parts of the dead that someone stitched together. Let that notion
of mercy and compassion, when wronged they go to the sink in a moment.
ends of the Earth to exact revenge. Their Wastelands For a Promethean to be walking around, someone had to
are dotted with thunderstorms, dry, ozone-smelling air, assemble enough dead, human body parts to make a human be-
and a palpable tension. Nicknames: Patchwork Men, ing. If the Promethean is composed of just one body, torn apart
Reanimated, Stitchers, Zombies. and then sewn back together, that should be enough to frighten
any cell. But, the Created often carry the remains of multiple
Galateid: Like Frankensteins, Galateids are often made people; a hunter realizing this might believe the creature is evi-
from multiple bodies. Unlike those wretched creatures, dence of mass murder. Indeed, it may even be so.
though, the descendants of Pygmalion’s creation are
perfect and beautiful. Galateids inspire fascination and Even if the creator uses corpses to build its monster, that
love — which rapidly degenerates into obsession and still means he has to dig up or acquire a number of human
lust. Their Wastelands cause memory loss, problems corpses, hack them to pieces, arrange those bits into a new
with word-finding and language, and difficulty catching body, and then sew, staple, or glue them together in a morbid
breath. Nicknames: Sirens, Succubi, Mannequins, Dolls. fashion.
Storytellers can draw this horror out by highlighting the
Osiran: Haughty, arrogant, and possessed with delusions details of the various bodies and the method at which they’ve
of grandeur, these Prometheans believe their ancestry been fused together. Differing skin tones, tattoos, moles, wrin-
is divine for their creation follows Egyptian myth. Just kles, and age spots can bring the point home nicely.
like how the goddess Isis reassembled Horus after he
was torn apart, an Osiran Promethean is always cut into Obsession
13 pieces and stitched together minus one piece; that Obsession is a running theme in all things related to
missing piece varies from Promethean to Promethean. the Created. To make a Promethean, someone had to be so
Osirans are inquisitive and methodical, which means if focused, so driven, and so blindingly obsessed with making
a cell of hunters puts one down, it had better be very a person that everything else fell away. Victor Frankenstein
sure the job was done correctly. To make matters worse, wasn’t able to create his monster because the science be-
Osirans also return from death, too, which often bodes hind it was sound; a would-be protégé who lacks Victor’s
ill for everyone involved. Rain doesn’t fall in the Osiran focus couldn’t make it work. It was Victor’s mad obsession
Wasteland, and all water eventually becomes stagnant, with the notion of life that allowed him to raise Adam from
unpleasant, and gelatinous. Nicknames: Fishmen, his table.
Reanimated, Eunuchs, Mummies.
That kind of bloody-mindedness should scare the hell out
Tammuz: Built to serve, the Tammuz (known in some of experienced hunters, because it’ll feel familiar to them. As
occult circles as “golems”) appear to be made of mud in the Vigil progresses, it consumes hunters — their moral outlook
their natural form. They aren’t, but their unholy method changes to fit their new vocation. A cell of hunters investigat-
of creation requires the raw materials (dead flesh) to ing a creator of Promethean — a demiurge — is peering into a
be buried in the earth, which lends itself to their dirty skewed image of the world. To say the ends justify the means is
appearance. Golems are slow and often stupid, but an understatement; demiurges leave personal fortunes, family,

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