Metis condition

A metis condition, variously referred to in the books as a metis disfigurement or metis deformity, is a term applied to the mutated inborn flaws that are characteristic to the Metis breed of the fera.

Examples

Canon examples of the metis condition are listed below:

• Albinism: Complete forms only. The character will stand out, burn easily in the sun, and have vision problems. (Aeschylus, Cormac Mac Eire, First Metis, H'ualorph, Grek Twice-Tongue)

• Allergy to light: (Amanda Withers-in-Sun)

• Anthropomorphic Battle Form: Your Crinos form isn't distinctly lupine. It's as huge and frightening as normal. It just doesn't look wolf-like.

• Barred Shape: You are unable to take at least one of the five forms.

• Big Head: Your head is twice its normal size.

• Blackened Eyes: Your eyes turn black in darkness or twilight, creating a menacing appearance and making vision difficult.(Screams-of-Nightmares)

• Bestial reflection: You reflect your Crinos form on all reflective surfaces. Some Theurges might see this as favorable, indicating an honest character. (Sings-for-the-Beast)

• Blindness

• Brittle teeth: (Cracked Teeth)

• Clawlessness (Heckles-the-Wyrm)

• Conjoined twin

• Crippled Nose: No sense of smell.

• Crustacean-like arm (Fellwar the Cursed)

• Deafness

• Deformed jaw: (F'foeg S'sap)

• Deformity (Li Kw'ei)

• Disfigurement

• Dogface: Lupine face in all forms.

• Extremely large birthmark (Bright Moon's Shadow)

• Feral Talons: Sharp claws that are always visible in all forms.

• Fragile Claws (Claws-of-Clay, Cracked Teeth, Ioba Fareye, Pustulent Claws)

• Harelip: (Terdak Lingba)

• Hemophilia, rendering the Metis unable to regenerate. (Grekko Goodheart)

• Hirsute

• Hooves (Darren Mate-of-the-Wyrm, Hoofpaw)

• Horn(s): A unicorn-like horn may be considered favorable among the Children of Gaia, as they revere Unicorn, whereas stag-like antlers may be seen as a favor from Stag by the Fianna. (Bonehead, Bookta Banjabo, Cernonous, Cries Havoc, Darren Mate-of-the-Wyrm)

• Human face in all forms: (Julio Achilli, Passer)

• Hyper senses: Your senses are extremely acute, to the point where you easily suffer disorientation and sensory overload.

• Severe Intellectual disability

• Intersex condition (Banana Split, Lore-speaker Gron, Voula Kostikidas) This may leave the character especially reviled by the Black Furies, as Voula Kostikidas is.

• Kyphosis (hunchback) (Gere, Leeds Quick-to-Anger, Sprints-to-the-Wind)

• Lameness (walking at significantly reduced speed due to leg problems) (Crookpaw, Rorgrath, Teiresias)

• Loose teeth

• Malformed jaw: (Barough, Kooasca-Ki,)

• Mental illness (Morgan the Unworthy, Sister Mary McMartin/Cavorts-in-Blood, Thunder’s Roar, Victoria Anne)

• Monstrously ugly in all forms (Truthseeker)

• Muteness

• Nervous Transformation: You transform into Crinos under stressful situations.

• No ears: (Luthul)

• No hands (Stumpy McGee)

• One arm

• One ear: (Lummox)

• One eye (Hot Eye, Kills-the-Weak, Danny O'Doul)

• Permanent foul odor (Hugin, Meat Pudding, Nepolos)

• Puny (small with severely underdeveloped muscles) (Billy Mabson, Fengy, Phreak)

• Seizures

• Serpent's Tongue

• Severe silver allergy, to the point of blistering when even near it

• Shrunken limb (Owl Eyes)

• Sparse hair/hairlessness (Aeschylus, Bright Moon's Shadow, Hacktalon, Jacques Lapointe, Iguana Moonrunner, Kooasca-Ki, Sparsefur)

• Tailessness (Johnny)

• Tender feet (feet too tender to walk on while barefoot) (Tenderfoot)

• Terrifying presence (Sonya The Iron Maiden)

• Third eye. This may be seen as a sign of wisdom by Stargazers. (Tara Spiritrunner, Willstrad)

• Transparent skin (Tina Clear-Skull)

• Tough, itchy, thick skin

• Two tails (Two Tails)

• Unnaturally Colored Hide

• Unusually long limbs: (Shag Gut)