Inheritance (BTP)

The Inheritance of the Begotten is the ultimate fulfillment of their Legend, for good or ill. While some Beasts come to their Inheritance by accident, others actively pursue one of them.

The Unfettered Inheritance
A Beast may, by accident or design, undergo a process called the Retreat in which the human body dies but leaves the Horror free to roam the Primordial Dream. The Horror, unmoored from its human concerns, becomes an ephemeral being. It may or may not retain any of the intelligence of its human part.

The Retreat usually occurs when the Beast has feed up to 10 Satiety, putting the Horror to sleep. In this state, the Beast may then choose suicide to unfetter the Horror, or may simply run afoul of a Hero or other danger without the power of the Horror for protection.

The Rampant Inheritance
A Beast may also physically merge with their Horror, bringing its monstrous traits into the waking world. The Merger results from the collapse of the Beast's Lair, which may be deliberate or the result of enemy action. As the Horror squeezes into a human body, the Beast mutates and loses most, if not all, human intelligence. It becomes a dreadfully powerful monster that exists only to feed.

The Incarnate Inheritance
The most complex and powerful Inheritance cannot happen by accident; a Beast must choose to pursue it, and only a Beast with a large Lair can even try. There are three ways to go about Incarnation: None of these methods are without risk, but the Beast Incarnate gains tremendous power over both the Primordial Dream and the waking world. Her Legend becomes a Myth: Heroes cannot track her or place Anathemas, she can enter the Primordial Dream at will or shape-shift into the form of her Horror, and her Hunger is never out of control.
 * Subvert a Hero, by utterly destroying one before they have any chance to strike back.
 * Control the local Hive by becoming the Apex of the area and visiting your Hunger on other Beasts.
 * Spawn a legend through public, grandiose demonstrations of power.

Unlike the other two forms of Inheritance, Incarnation is also reversible: if the Beast Incarnate's Myth is destabilized, he may lose his Incarnate status and the additional powers it grants, reverting back to a normal (but very powerful) Beast.