Rakshasa

The demonic inhabitants and erstwhile rulers of Lanka, the rakshasa struggle. Not merely in contests for power, across a thousand different battlefields and inside countless palaces. Not merely in prestige and position, through martial contests and scholarly debates. The modern rakshasa struggle for definition. as a people they seek recognition and standing in the face of their traditional struggle with the Devá, while as individuals they must choose whether to embrace traditions of shape-changing, illusion, and sorcery or try to find meaning and purpose in modern life.

Rakshasa vary greatly in physical form. Larger on average than adult humans, their forms may be hairy, scaled, twisted with muscle, lean and predatory, hulking and ungainly, formed in a hundred different ways, but almost always sport impressive fangs. Many rakshasa who regularly interact with mortals cloak their appearances in illusions to better fit into the mundane World, but members of the rising rakshasa rights movement often wear their natural forms with pride.

Rakshasa can comfortably consume raw meat without issue and find drinking warm blood pleasant. Modern rakshasa thought firmly rejects consuming sentient creatures, and most rakshasa find the very idea abhorrent outside of a Legendary context, historical incidents remaining a touchy subject.

PERSISTENT CONDITION: FANGED HUNGER

You’re not quite an obligate carnivore, but you’re an obviously inhuman creature who naturally craves raw meat and warm blood. Going without them for more than a meal or two may make you irritable, frustrated, and prone to hasty action. Gain Momentum when hunger driven behavior causes you material disadvantage or when indulging in raw meat an inopportune time causes serious social issues.

HEROIC KNACKS

• Everyday Devil: Gain a Heroic Monster Knack.
• Everyday Illusion: You have cultivated an illusionary human form to navigate the world with. Your disguise is impervious to mundane scrutiny and detection by anyone with less Legend than you have; those with equal or more much succeed at Clash of Wills roll to successfully pierce it. While so concealed, you gain +2 Enhancement for any action to convince others that you are human, mundane, or harmless. You can turn your cultivated disguise on or off reflexively. If you wish to abandon your old disguise and assume a new one, you may after a session of cultivating the new form.
• Everyday Might: You can push your form past human limits. Spend Momentum to gain +1 Scale for size and force for a Scene.
  

IMMORTAL KNACKS

• Supreme Devil: Gain an Immortal Monster Knack
• Supreme Might: You cannot help but be mighty. You have +1 Scale for Size and force.