Mythos Homebrew Discussion III: Grievous Imbalance Is A Feature

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So, have an ridiculously unbalanced Exalted Kalthorros Shintai, meant only when the campaign goes FUBAR and you're for some reason up against enemies better suited for high Epic levels of play, as well as a slightly more balanced Dinyomi excellency that prevents you from having to derail the entire campaign just because some idiot under your command made fun of your orders.

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Spoiler: Exalted Mythos (Kalthorros)

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Final Unbroken Roar Shintai
Prerequisite: -, unless you count a game gone tits up as a prerequisite.

Upon taking this Mythos, you're immediately made aware of your Mythic nature, regardless of what you initially thought it was, as well as a certain ritual that you can undertake to unleash the full power of your Mythos, albeit at a great cost. To perform this ritual, you must meditate uninterrupted for eight hours; any interruption will force you to start all over again.

However, the boons of this ritual are massive. You multiply any numerical value (such as ability scores, attack bonuses, damage AC, and saving throws) that you have or are currently benefiting from by 10x, as you finally transcend from the boundaries of lesser men. You may opt to omit certain effects from this multiplier; if you're suffering from a Slow spell, you don't have to suffer a -10 penalty to rolls. You may spend Grit points up to your class level to add a cumulative 5x to the multiplier for one minute, although you do not modify the amount of hit points or the points in your Grit pool as a result of this temporary multiplier. In addition, you learn three Exalted or lower Mythos from any Mythos class list, as you grasp beyond your limits and into the boundaries of other Titans.

Finally, your sheer power makes it nigh impossible to actually comprehend it. You (or the weltering power inside of you) cannot be detected by any means short of the five base senses: scrying sensors immediately falter, a Reth Dekala’s Weakness-Browsing Arrogance Mythos always considers you as Worthless, regardless of how far above him you actually are, abilities specifically describe to detect your life-force or Mythic essence are ineffective in actually detecting you, and much, much more. This also prevents anybody from casting teleportation effects or teleporting in a (200ft/level) radius around you, as per the Dimensional Anchor spell.

However, this power comes at a major cost; your Mythic power will slowly ebb away from you, eventually disappating completely. After completeing the aforementioned ritual, you will lose all your Exalted Mythos (except for this Shintai) after three days, Legendary Mythos after a week, Fantastic Mythos after two weeks, and Exceptional Mythos after a month. Finally, after all your other Mythos are lost, this Shintai becomes sealed, meaning that, whilst you still have this Shintai, you don't reap any benefits whatsoever from it, nor can you initiate the ritual again. In effect, you become a glorified Warrior, although you may opt to take up another Mythos class (and are considered to take your first level in that Mythic class), so long as you don't use an ability to get access to the Unbroken Mythos, such as the Mythic Amalgam line of feats or Omnicapable Human-Spirit Ignition.

(You still retain any feat granted by your Mythos, but you do not apply any modifier to them caused by Mythos. For example, if you had the Masamune-Wielding Rigor advanced manifestation of Undeniable Impact Style, you will still retain the Monkey Grip feat granted to you; however, you will still suffer from the -2 penalty from using oversized weapons, as you don't have the ability that says that you don't suffer from that penalty anymore.)

Basic

Mythless Sky(Prerequisite: Boundary-Breaking Burst): As a standard action, you may unleash a massive, decisive attack. Treat this attack as a normal attack enhanced by Boundary-Breaking Burst, but multiply the amount of rolled die by x10 whilst using it, ignore the limitation that you may only spend up to your class level in Grit points to enhance the attack, you automatically hit with the attack, and you may also apply the attack to everything within a (100ft + 25ft per class level long, 20ft+5ft per class level wide) line. In addition, should you manage to reduce someone to -10 hit points, they die, regardless of any class features, spells, or GM fiat.

Finally, should you somehow fail to kill your target with this attack, you still manage to rob them of most of their defenses; if they have any kind of immunity or resistance to anything whatsoever, those immunities and resistances are dispelled for an amount of minutes equal to your Wisdom modifier, allowing someone else to sweep in and seal or kill your target.

However, this power causes you to lose your connection to your Mythic nature at an even faster rate. After using this attack, you lose all your Exalted Mythos (except for this Shintai, which again will be rendered inert after you lost all other Mythos) after a minute, Legendary Mythos after half a hour, Fantastic Mythos after four hours, and Exceptional Mythos after twenty-four hours.

Advanced

An Tale, Renewed and Reborn: This manifestation does not exist yet; however, a particularly traumatic event happening to a former Kalthorros can reignite the spark of the Unbroken Mythos, causing them to almost spontaneously regain their access to the Mythos they once sacrificed.

Upon taking this Manifestation, you immediately regain all the Mythos lost through the effects of this Shintai, with the exception of the three free Exalted Mythos that you gained after the ritual. In addition, you may also, instead of just restoring your Mythos, choose to rebuild your character from the ground up to represent a melding of your old, Struggle-derived power and new learning. For example, a former Kalthorros who has lost his Mythos through the use of this ability, which then took to studying the flow of elements, only to lose it again through Essence Fracture may opt to replace one of his feats with Broken Omphalos Amalgam and replace several of his Exceptional and Fantastic Mythos with Kathodos-derived ones, representing him embracing both his old abilities and his new ones.

However, after taking this manifestation, you still can never replicate the ritual granted to you by this Shintai- that will be forever out of your reach.

Spoiler: Dinyomi Excellency

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​Mass-Opinion Spurning Ephipany
Prerequisite: -

The Conqueror may be prideful beyond reproach, but, despite what many claimed, he wasn’t so fragile as to buckle and break under the hushed whispers of the lowly masses. After all, why would someone who’s risen above the level of the petty scum care about their gossip? Why would a lion care about the buzzing of the flies?

You are no longer Humbled by everyone who has seen you bested or denounced by someone who saw you as Glorious or subject to a compulsion or domination effect, only by the person who has done such an act in the first place; you’ve finally realized that the opinions of the crowd doesn’t matter so much as the fact that someone upstart thinks he's better than you.

In addition, you gain an additional condition to keep track of; Scornful, caused after you so thoroughly humiliated someone in response of you being made Humbled by them, that they can only see you in terms of fear. If you’re Scornful towards somebody, it means that you can no longer be Humbled by that person anymore; you’re forever considered Glorious to them.