#beasts the primordial

[fipindustries]

the more i learn about this dude the more grotesque and cartoonish he seems. what do you mean you record petabytes of footage with three hundred cameras for one video??? what do you mean you build you own custom million dollar server room and hire a team of editors to comb through a total of 500 years worth of footage for one video??????

[dushpshpsh]

Something incomprehensible and rare, like albino unicorns Fanart on Beast: The Primordial

[ooeygooeyghoul]

Ｙｏｕ ｗｉｌｌ ｂｕｒｎ， ａｎｄ ｙｏｕ ｗｉｌｌ ｈｕｒｔ．

[toweringclam]

I am utterly convinced that The Magnus Archives was partially inspired by Beast: the Primordial, that black sheep among black sheep in the Chronicles of Darkness. Probably in an "I can do this better" sort of way, but the concepts are all right there. Track down a PDF and check out the splats if you don't believe me.

[6-ft-demon]

Art of my prehistoric animals from Path of Titans/Beasts of Bermuda I've done lately. I mainly play on Nat Hist now for Path, and Officials 5 for BoB if anyone's interested.

[spectrolitha]

So, a bit of disclaimer. This is a Beast the Primordial OC. He is based on a rewrite of original game. I love the idea of making characters out of something that scares me, I've done it since childhood and it has always felt therapeutic. It's a direction I'm going in with this guy, for example. And it really is a shame that a gameline that could have given me a game made for this was partially written by a messed up person. I do not support him, his actions, or his ideas, obviously. That's why, once again, I'll be using a rewrite.

Having said that, here is Eric vibing in his native reality, sort of custom-made dream (or, more precisely, nightmare) called Lair in game's term. I've also put a doodle with Eric's design under the cut.

Eric is based on fear of exposure, but in an indirect way: he is dedicated to the time, when I, thanks to the religious household I grew up in, was terrified that someone was hearing my thoughts, no matter how terrible and sinful or not. That's what Eric is all about.

His Lair, for example, has a trait where anything one thinks in there is automatically said out loud. Which does mean that Eric has heard some really weird, to put it lightly, things, and sometimes he gets psychic damage while trying to scare someone to feed from their fears. But actually this experience is slowly teaching Eric not to be scared of accidental thoughts, even weird or "sinful", and especially not to stigmatize people based on their intrusive thoughts, because words and actions speak louder and mean much more.

[manyworldsofdarkness]

Tumblr Communities anyone?

I forgot they existed in all honesty, but if you are a fan of World of Darkness, Chronicles of Darkness or any of the game between them, then please feel free to join and post to your heart’s content.

We also have a discord

[enddaysengine]

Chronicles of Darkness Index

Last update: Dec 11, 2022

Adaptations

Ghastly (Ghost)

Articles

Lancea et Sanctum and Theology

Let’s Read Parasite Rex - Introduction

Let’s Read Parasite Rex - Chapter 1

The Shadow and the Gauntlet (Cosmology)

The Wolf and the Raven (Dark Era)

Items

The Perfect Dress (Memento)

Night Horrors

Black Cat (GM Angel Familiar)

Burning Spiders (Spirit)

Claimed Echo

Damned Jack (Supernal)

Galvanism Cult

Ghost Bats (Animal Ghoul)

Grandfather Moros (Chthonian)

King of Silver (Spirit)

Lionel Hawk & Associates (Conspiracy)

The Master’s Hound (Animal Ghoul)

Melione (Chthonian)

The Monk in the Cathedral (Temple Guardian)

Old Man Mackenzie (Fey-Touched Hunter)

The Phantom (Temple Guardian)

Watchful Elves (Angel)

Winter Murder Floofs (Spirits and Claimed)

Yule Devil (Werewolf)

Zipperhead, Claimed (Claimed Vampire)

Plothooks

Beasts

Changelings

Ghouls (and apparently I talked about them twice, so here’s post #2)

Horrors

Hunters

Mages

Mummies

Prometheans

Shaunkhsen

Sin-Eaters

Spirits

Unchained Demons

Urged 

Vampires

Werewolves

[tesshoundi]

(I'm going back and doing the 2021 VTM vamptober prompts) Here's Jarred Feeding on nightmares

[altonascends]

can someone exsplain the whole thing with Beast: The Primordial. Cause I don’t know what happened but I liked it when I read it a billion years ago.

[rockclanhawkstar]

Happy Halloween from my brood of three troublesome monsters!

[awakenedsalamander]

I've seen you talk about many of the CWoD books, but what are your thoughts on Beast?

I really liked reading that book, and I especially enjoyed how it incorporated other supernatural races into the Beasts domain.

I'd love to hear what you think.

I mean, my thoughts on Beast are, of course, kind of twisted up in the facts of its real-world lead developer, and the grossness of all that. I don’t know that I want to recount that all here, but suffice it to say, it’s hard for me to enjoy the game in light of the abuses of the head writer.

That isn’t to say that you or others who enjoy it are doing anything wrong— I really want to stress that I don’t believe that, I think that if people enjoy Beast: The Primordial then they’re getting good out of it and that’s worth celebrating— but for me I just couldn’t get there.

That said, I do like the “mythic monsters” vibe of Beast, and how it adds elements of tragic storytelling to the story. There’s a kind of grandeur to the terrifying creatures of horror, to gargantuan serpents and ferocious dragons, something I feel provokes respect and awe as much as it provokes fear.

And there’s a sorrow to that, as well. As much as you find yourself impressed by monsters like that, they don’t fit in the world, or at least, it’s hard to imagine how something so horrible could find a place among our world. So they are hunted, and they are the villains, but that isn’t like, a happy fact. The monster doesn’t want to be a monster, and perhaps the Hero doesn’t want to be a Hero (or at least shouldn’t be). But so the cycle goes.

That’s what works about Beast for me, and I’d love like, a 2E that dives into those elements. They’re already there in the corebook, and that was the part that worked for me. To play a creature of legend, one that is doomed to a grim fate, and taking the world down with it… I could love that game quite a bit. I just think it as it is Beast gets stuck on trying to make the Begotten relatable and personally sympathetic, and regardless of the baggage there, I’m not sure that’s the right direction.

As for the family relation element of Beasts being kin with other monsters (except demons) I feel… mixed. I like the idea of a type of monster that is so ancient it sees family in all the others, but I feel that trying to connect every other supernatural to Beasts, especially retroactively, feels forced and kind of weird. Again, it’s the kind of thing I’d like tweaked a little, if Beast somehow got a second edition.

All that said, I hope I didn’t come across as too harsh on Beast, I really don’t want to discourage you from enjoying the game just cause it isn’t to my tastes. I know I’m normally very positive on WoD and CofD, but don’t take my more ambivalent feelings as anything other than one guy’s opinion. If it fits into your enjoyment of the setting, then it should stay there.

[azuremliam]

The final most important moment during Liam's journey as a human (sorta). Finally taking down the Lizard Beast that devoured the humans in their original home and their two friends (that they wear the carapace armor of).

Liam basically turns into a "tiny" Myriaxanthus to take it on. The beast tried to devour Jake and Finn but Scarab manages to get them out of the way in time.

[sharkrad08222222]

Listen I know Beasts are pretty bad, but I dont think they Deserve to become boner enhancers...

[menstits]

isnt elynas confirmed to be a dragon bc neuv is his reincarnation (i know they used other word but i really dont remember) like hes pretty much confirmed go be a sovereign right??

Elynas is not the same creature as the hydro sovereign, elynas is a creature made by Gold/Rhinedottir just like durin. In the quest where the traveler gets to talk to his consciousness he explains himself that he was some kind of formless being floating across the darkness (likely somewhere in the abyss) until "mother" found him and gave him a body and brought him to teyvat (and he mentions having multiple "brothers" as well as having some mild form of control over abyssal energy even after his body died and only his consciousness stuck around since he uses said control over abyssal energy to generate the breacher primus species at some point after the melusines' unintentional creation in order to have them protect the melusines as well as his carcass where they built their village). Also the properties of his blood get compared by in-game logs to those of the blood of durin too so we can guess he's yet another one of gold's fucked up alchemy experiments

[one-in-a-nillion]

Dolphin skulled freak (positive insult)