Corruptions

The smooth flesh says it all, a suicidal soul on his way to unbirthing. A mask or a hat, even some mud in the face could save the ignorant soul. Treat your corruptions like a blessing, a sigil of approval, a mark of affiliation in the satanic society. – They save your life more often than you think.

Corruptions are horrible, beautiful and admirable in Fracture. All fallen entities in the Satanic Court, princes and kings look upon highly corrupted souls with spiteful joy. Souls so corrupted that they turn into monsters are even more celebrated and sometimes paraded and idolized, but always with a malicious intent. This false admiration from the Satanic Court has spread down to common souls, making corruptions both a blessing and a curse. Still, being corrupted is usually better than not, since it is often a “get out of jail free card” when dealing with the Satanic Court – even if you are paraded like the court jester, your head will probably be left on your neck.

The Masquerade

In order to avoid standing out, uncorrupted souls, or those with invisible corruptions, will wear masks or smear dirt or feces on their face to give the appearance of being corrupted. The first to be arrested and tortured for a lifetime in some baron’s basement are uncorrupted and clean rare bloods, who look all posh and fancy.

The only ones who dare to display their uncorrupted self are souls of power like greater rare bloods, or newcomers like the undying, who don’t know any better. You can see how heavily a soul is corrupted by how clean and pure they look. Pure souls look like normal Earth-like creatures or machines with no other bodily traits, while more adventurous souls display a multitude of bodily deformations and often look, sound, and move differently to a normal human.

Corruption Table

The corruption table is a collection of more or less horrific satanic bodily traits. While creating a character you get to choose your corruptions, but in most instances you roll 1D100 to determine a random one. If you don’t like the aesthetic of your roll, you may keep the bonus and change the corruption to something else that better fits the bonus or your character. Look at movies and bosses in games and find traits that you think look cool. The table is just to spark your imagination and set you in the right mood.

Use the words below the corruption as inspiration to expand upon it. Do you have “spiky” thorns, or are they more “meaty”, “dripping” or “pale white”? Let your imagination run wild!

Most corruption bonuses indicate dice instead of fixed values. Roll the dice, then add the result to the corresponding value. The bonuses are not necessarily related to the corruption itself, but you can learn some archetypal facts about the society of Fracture from them, for instance that pigs and cows are great entertainers and bird-like souls are often great arcane users.

Tip

If you have 16 in Stealth and you get a corruption that gives it a bonus of 2D6, roll that and add the result to its value – if you rolled 8, your Stealth value is now 24.

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