Okay, another mechanic update! Finally, after thinking about it confusedly for a long time, I decided to add another "column" to my already pretty well expanded mystery being chart, and also to give the "columns" a name: attitudes.
In light of this, it's time for another brief flashback.
This was my very first attempt to draw all the mystery beings on one page, back when I was still in the process of designing the first eight and just wanted them to look as distinct from each other as possible. At this time there were nothing but Directed and Undirected mystery beings.
From left to right, top to bottom, for the filled-in spaces:
Instigator, Seuwayote, Equivocator,
Nebuliser, Cloud leijonœrn, Adumbrator,
Synergiser,
Observer ("pet"), Carp Concurrent and Eternituga, Perpetuator and Eventuator,
Conductor, Shoushi,
Ostentator, Hlardraho,
Insulator, Veriasaurus, Carp Divergent and Transitor (I moved the Carp Divergent to Incongruity-Lost in the new chart),
Postulator, Ahalatl.
...And this was my second (plus the somewhat messy text table I made first), when I added what I now call "attitudes" as a mechanic. At this time, "Directed", "Gathered", "Hardened", and "Lost" existed, but I hadn't thought of the name "attitudes" yet or really quite figured out how they related to each other.
So, fast-forward to now.
Now, attitudes are very much a thing. What they are is ways a person or other being can express an attribute, ranging from Directed (extreme direction) to Scrambled (extreme indirection), with complete neutrality in the middle. That last part is what I just added, just so you know, and that one is Inception: a blank slate, and the attitude everybody without any reason to have a bias any other way starts out in. (In the beginning, I thought everybody would start out mildly Directed, or as I'd now call it, Gathered, but I think this makes more sense.) One of the main reasons I added this was because I wasn't sure where Hardened should go, as it was kind of between Directed and Undirected, but not exactly completely neutral either. Inception clears this issue up though by being a "more neutral neutral".
So. Here's a table of all the mystery beings I have either designed or concepted already. I'm probably going to be coming back and filling this in as I finish the rest, and after it's finished I'll put it in the guidebook with brief summaries of what I've already told you about each of the mystery beings. Then finally everything will be in one place! Edit: Instead I just copied it into the guidebook and started editing it there, so this one will probably pretty quickly be out of date.
(Starred ones have a concept but haven't been drawn yet. Question marks mean I haven't even made a concept yet.)
| Attribute | Inception | Attribute | ||||
| Machination | ??? | Duplicity | ||||
| Fantasy | ??? | Portent | ||||
| Synthesis | ??? | Incongruity | ||||
| Unity | ??? | Eternity | ||||
| Esteem | ??? | Ruin | ||||
| Will | ??? | Frustration | ||||
| Verity | ??? | Desolation | ||||
| Faith | ??? | Flight | ||||
| Totality | ??? | Nothing | ||||
| Attribute | Directed | Gathered | Hardened | Lost | Scrambled | Attribute |
| Machination | Instigator | Seuwayote | ??? | Equivocator | ??? | Duplicity |
| Fantasy | Nebuliser | Cloud leijonœrn | ??? | Adumbrator | Abyssals | Portent |
| Synthesis | Synergiser | ??? | ??? | Chaoswork chimaera | ??? | Incongruity |
| Unity | Observer | Eventuator | Eternituga | Evermore Albatross* | Crystalvox | Eternity |
| Esteem | Ostentator | Salvager | ??? | Hlardraho | ??? | Ruin |
| Will | Conductor | Shoǔshi | ??? | Vociferator | ??? | Frustration |
| Verity | Insulator | Veriasaurus | Blazondeer | Transitor | ??? | Desolation |
| Faith | Postulator | Ahalatl | ??? | Absenter? | ??? | Flight |
| Totality | Qualifier* | ??? | ??? | ??? | Evacuator* | Nothing |
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