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A throng of ready-made player characters

for Promethean: The Created

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The Refuse throng came together piece by

piece, like garbage accumulating at a bend in

a river. All five of the Prometheans have been

left behind, abandoned, cast off or otherwise

discarded, but in each other, they have found a

kind of family.

The throng began when Gargoyle met up

with Denison 23rd. The Galateid was searching

for clues about her creation, and had already

uncovered some important information when

the urban shaman felt her Azoth and tracked

her down. Together, they learned that Denison

23rd had been created in a cosmetic surgery

clinic, one that occasionally rented the space

to doctors practicing without a license. After

Denison’s confrontation with her creator, she

felt that she had learned everything that the

world could teach her about creation and the

Divine Fire. She created her own child, Hel-

las, and attempted (unsuccessfully) to find the

New Dawn.

Gargoyle, attempting to keep Denison from de-

pression, steered the trio out of the area and kept

them on the move. They eventually heard tell

of a massive, constant electrical storm centered

over a landfill. Recognizing a Wasteland, they

made their way there and freed Worm from his

cruel imprisonment. Finally, venturing back into

an urban environment, they met Dove, who quite

literally stumbled out of nowhere. They realized

that she had died and come back from the River

of Death, but that she remembered very little of

her life before this event.

The Prometheans formed a branded throng

shortly thereafter. Their symbol, a circle of ar-

rows with one arrow broken off and pointing out,

represents their nature as beings that have been

thrown away rather than allowed to find their

potential. They have agreed to help one another

along on their Pilgrimages. That isn’t always a

pleasant or easy job — it involves coping with

Denison’s bitterness, holding Worm down when

he rages or extricating Hellas from his latest ro-

mantic entanglement.

The road takes them to various places, since none

of them want to risk creating a natural disaster

like Worm’s Wasteland. They usually travel on

foot, but have been known to take abandoned

vehicles and get them moving again, using a com-

bination of luck, Worm’s instinctive know-how

and the Jolt Transmutation. They scrape together

what money they can from panhandling, odd

jobs and even occasionally prostitution (Hellas,

in particular, finds he can always find someone

to pay him for his time), or steal what the need

from thrift stores.

The throng has been known to squat in aban-

doned buildings for longer periods of time, but

seldom more than a month or two. Their Waste-

lands mingle, and the results can be disastrous. Their

status as a branded throng means that it doesn’t

spread as fast as it otherwise would, but even so,

the Prometheans know the price of staying in one

place too long.

In order to decide where to go next, each mem-

ber of the throng puts forth his or her opinion and

reasons for a destination. If the group can come

to consensus, then they pick up their belongings

and go, meaning that the Prometheans often try

to choose locations that might have something

to offer the others. If some disagreement still

remains, they vote, with Gargoyle acting as tie-

breaker if necessary. Of late, these discussions

have become more heated. Dove’s Elpis visions

are growing more intense, and fire is becoming

a common theme. While Gargoyle and Worm

believe that her visions are showing her some

catastrophe to come, Hellas and Denison feel

that they might be urging her to find out more

about her past. Dove herself isn’t sure, she only

knows that the phrase “ Actioni contrariam semper

et æqualem esse reactionem ” (“For a force there is

always an equal and opposite reaction” – New-

ton’s third law) has become a recurrent theme

in her visions.

The throng continues to travel, each member

looking for his or her own personal milestones. An

unstated but constantly considered problem is this:

What happens when one member reaches the New

Dawn and forgets the rest? Will the throng have the

strength to let this member go when they become

cast off and discarded again?

Denison 23rd

Quotes: “It’s not your fault. It’s me.”

“I just don’t see what I missed.”

“You’d better stay away for a while.”

Virtue: Temperance. Denison is thorough and meticulous.

She thinks through her problems, and weighs decisions before

committing.

Vice: Envy. Denison was always somewhat on the bitter

side, and after her failure to achieve the New Dawn, she’s

become downright spiteful.

Background: Denison doesn’t remember her creator.

She “woke up” standing on the corner of Denison Av-

enue and 23rd Street, and for almost a day afterward,

“Denison 23rd” was all she could say. A local homeless

man started calling her that, and she kept the name.

Her creation might have remained a mystery for longer

than it did, but a passerby commented that she was

“one of those women who got all prettied up at the

clinic.” Investigating (with the help of Gargoyle),

she discovered that she had been stitched together

from a shapely corpse (stolen from the city morgue)

and beautified at a cosmetic surgery clinic before her creator had

breathed the Divine Fire into her. She confronted her creator,

learned why he had simply abandoned her on the street, and

came to realize that appreciation of the beauty of the human

form could not be the quest for perfection—human bodies

were always imperfect, and fell further from the ideal over

time. The only way to appreciate the beauty of the form was

with its imperfections.

Laden with Vitriol from these revelations, she created her

own child, Hellas. She stayed with him until she felt he was

ready for her to leave, said her goodbyes to him and Gargoyle,

and attempted to find the New Dawn. She failed.

She rejoined the throng, bitter, dejected and humiliated. She has

reluctantly begun her Pilgrimage again, but she has no idea what she

needs to learn. She has confronted and accepted the circumstances of her

own creation, and fashioned a new Promethean. What more remains?

Description: Denison appears to be in her mid-20s. She is perfectly proportioned and athletic in build,

with a heart-shaped face and soft brown eyes. Her hair hangs chin-length, and she keeps her nails immacu-

late. She stole several sets of scrubs from the clinic where she was “born,” and usually wears them when out

with her throng — she finds that they lend her an appearance of legitimacy.

When Denison’s disfigurements flare, her eyes, cheek bones, neck, breasts and arms all sag, as though

imperfectly attached. She emits a medicinal smell, and dotted lines (the sort that a plastic surgeon might

draw) appear on her flesh.

Roleplaying Hints: Denison’s two driving emotions are her bitterness over failing to find the New Dawn

and her love for Hellas. While she does sometimes feel that she might be better off dead, she also knows

that if she takes that route, she stands no chance of fixing her mistakes. Gradually, she is becoming curious

about the Pilgrimage again, rather than worn down by it, but she still has a great deal of progress to make.

She refuses to succumb to despair when Hellas is around, though. She is aware that she treats him like an

actual child sometimes, rather than what he is (a young Promethean), but she has a hard time recognizing

it in the moment.

Notes: Denison starts with a lowered Morality, in exchange for 10 experience points. Her original Refine-

ment was Mercurius, but she switched to Stannum after her failure.

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