Scion: Difference between revisions

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Out of the six sample "evil" Scions, only two - [[Big Bad|Kane Taoka]] and [[Complete Monster|Seth Farrow]] - are truly nasty. Sly's a pawn, Orlandu's a victim of [[Love Makes You Evil]], Marie's just egotistical (and pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]] in ''God''), and Victor's just following orders (he ''is'' a soldier).

** ''God'' also offers another group of antagonists, the "Keepers of The World", the group of gods who pissed at their pantheons and want to seperate the mortal world from other realms. None of them are truly evil, and considering their background story, their goal is rather justified.

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: Vidar is described in ''Hero'' as "obsessive" "paranoid" and "methodical".

* [[Awesome but Practical]]: Most first level boons fall under this category, granting resistance to the boons that come after. Now this may sound like a dull roadblock skill, keep in mind Sky's Grace (Sky 1) allows the user to fall from ''any'' height and survive with no injury, Fire Immunity negates flame damage and Water Breathing is...well...[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|water breathing]].y.

* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: Greater Titans are so unable to comprehend ''anything'' - least of all why their children, the Gods, are so interested in saving the World - that they had to create avatars to even start getting it. And the avatars ''still'' don't understand all of it.

* [[Evil Virtues]]: ''Almost'' literally named. Unlike the other gods and Scions, who have Virtues such as Honor, Expression, Duty, etc., titanspawn and the Titans have Dark Virtues - Ambition, Malice, Rapacity, and Zealotry.

* [[Five-Bad Band]]: The Shinsengumi, at first.

** [[Big Bad]]: [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Kane]] [[Yakuza|Taoka]], who is technically himself the Dragon to [[Dark Is Evil|Mikaboshi]].

* [[God Is Evil]]: The closest thing to the Abrahamic [[God]] to be found in the setting is Akhetaten, the Titan of Light, and it would appear that anything genuinely good to be found in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic religions stems from ''misinterpretation'' of his attempts to rule everything, although it can be implied that he is trying to fill this role as Angels are a recent development, created well after even Islam was.

* [[A God Is You]]: Once you reach Legend 9.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: The Aztláni are described this way in the introduction to their section in the core book:

{{quote| [Even] if the other Gods deplore [[Human Sacrifice|the Aztec Gods' methods]], they cannot deny that [[The Trains Run On Time|at least the calendar proceeds in its usual and expected way]].}}

* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: The Titans used to be. Of course, they still are if you happen to play during World War II.

* [[Separated At Birth]]: Orlanda Elliot and Blair Thomas.

** Title of a sidebar in the first game's included story: "What's in the Egg?" First line of the article: [[Se7en|"Gwyneth Paltrow's head!]] Just kidding."

** In the first included story, one task (assigned by Aphrodite) is to bring a strained couple to love...any sort. The default assumption is that they'll split up, but crafty players can rekindle their love for each other. The paragraph discussing this ends with ''[[The Simpsons|"In your face, space coyote!"]]''

*** And the Scion Companion adds Manannan mac Lir, Nezha, [[Journey to The West|Sun Wukong]], and Br'er Rabbit to the mix. In fact, it's heavily implied that Br'er Rabbit ''is'' Coyote, under an alias.

* [[True Companions]]: A Band can be these. The signature-character "protagonist" Band in the core trilogy seems to be -- in ''God's'' opening fiction, when they are settling into godhood in their pantheon's homelands, most of them genuinely miss each other.

** Hel is described that way in several Norse Eddas.

*** Most of the time. They were all agreeing upon that half her body was dead. Now, there was argument if the split was vertical, leaving her left side dead, or horizontal, leaving her dead from the waist down.