As an Arcosian, your transformations exist to limit your power. The natural strength you were born with is so overwhelming that it damages not only your stamina just to keep it under control but it even gnaws at your sanity. Once you’ve been able to get that under control, however, you found that the power you held in such high regard has its limits. Those limits do not stop you, however. With fierce determination, you sought greater power and you found it: a new transformation, born from the very principle that once held your power back. By taking that concept to the opposite extreme, you’ve created an evolution that will not back down against any opponent. Your foes will fear your new might.
- Racial Requirement: Arcosian
- Transformation Type: Legendary Form
- Prerequisite(s): Mutation (Emperor Mutation Trait) or Earned Power
- Transformation Line: Greater Evolution
- Transformation Stage: 1
- Stress Test Requirement: 25
- Tier of Power Requirement: 4+
- Aspects: Enhanced Save (Corporeal/Impulsive), Growth (LV1), High Speed (LV3), Strainless, Dedicated, Power High (LV3)
| AG | FO | TE | SC | IN | MA | PE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +4(T) | +4(T) | +4(T) | – | +2(T) | +4(T) | – |
Apex Mutation: You’ve managed to create a Transformation that, unlike most mutants of your kind, increases your power rather than suppressing it.
-[Permanent, Passive]: Upon gaining access to this Transformation, select 4 Meta Traits (see — Metamorphosis). You gain access to those Meta Traits while in this Transformation.
-[Permanent, Passive]: Upon gaining access to this Transformation, select an effect from the Option effect of Keratinous Plating. Replace your choice for the Option effect of Keratinous Plating with that effect while in this Transformation.
-[Choice]: Gain one of the following effects depending on your choice for the Option effect of Divergent Evolution:
- Standard [Passive]: Double the amount of Cruelty stacks you gain through the first effect of Cruel Intentions.
- Mutant [Triggered/Start of Combat Round]: Gain 1 stack of Cruelty.
Unstoppable Plating: The thick armor formed around your body in this new form grants you an incredible ability to withstand injury.
-[Passive]: Increase your Soak Value by 1/4 (rounded up) of your Defense Value.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: If you take Damage from an Attacking Maneuver, you may spend any number of your Cruelty stacks to reduce the Wound Roll by 1(T) for each Cruelty stack spent.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: If you take no Damage from an Attacking Maneuver, you may use the Movement Maneuver as an Out-of-Sequence Maneuver to move in a straight line to the Character who used that Attacking Maneuver. If this would result in you entering their Melee Range, or if you were already in their Melee Range when this effect triggered, you may use the Basic Attack Maneuver as an Out-of-Sequence Maneuver.
-[1/Encounter]: As an Instant Maneuver, you may ignore the effects of all Combat Conditions (except Oblivious) and Health Threshold Penalties until the end of your next turn.
Ferocious Brutality: The cruel nature you’ve developed grows even more brutal as you become a violent monster on the battlefield.
-[Passive]: Increase your maximum number of Cruelty Stacks to 6.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: If you would gain a stack(s) of Cruelty, spend 2(T) Ki Points to gain an additional stack of Cruelty.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: If you would use the Energy Charge Maneuver, you may spend 2 stacks of Cruelty to use the Energy Charge Maneuver again immediately afterwards as an Out-of-Sequence Maneuver.
-[1/Round]: Spend 2 stacks of Cruelty to use the Basic Attack Maneuver or the Signature Technique Maneuver as an Instant Maneuver.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: If you maximize your number of Cruelty stacks, the next Attacking Maneuver you make this Combat Round treats your number of Cruelty stacks as if it was 6 for calculating the bonus to your Wound Rolls.
Mastery Trait
Superior Evolution: You have attained a control over your newfound power that makes it almost as natural to you as your base form.
-[Permanent]: Super Evolution loses the Power High and Strainless Aspects and gains the Natural Aspect.
-[Passive]: Double the bonus gained through the third effect of Keratinous Plating.
Legendary Trait
Domination: Your violent nature manifests most clearly in your strongest techniques, allowing you to destroy the opposition with brutal efficiency.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: If you maximize your number of Cruelty stacks, the next time you use the Signature Technique Maneuver this Combat Round, double the bonus to your Wound Rolls from your stacks of Cruelty.
Exceed Trait
Superior Evolution: Your intense cruelty awakens an even deeper strength within you.
-[Passive]: Halve the penalties from the effects of Diminishing Offense.
-[Passive]: While you have at least 1 stack of Power, this Transformation gains the Armored Aspect.
-[Passive]: While you have 4+ stacks of Cruelty, increase the Damage Category of your Attacking Maneuvers by 1 category.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: If you are hit by an Attacking Maneuver, reduce the Damage you would receive by your Might.
-[Triggered, 1/Round]: When making an Attacking Maneuver, you may use the Energy Charge Maneuver for that Attacking Maneuver as an Out-of-Sequence Maneuver.
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