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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
  
The Tower is a dangerous force. Pride and ambition comes before the fall, and the Tower is often dedicated to a shattering, cataclysmic change for something or someone. Other times, the Tower has already fallen, and is working to sort themselves through the detritus that remains. The Tower is not always destructive, but the changes they make can be radical... Though that change might be in their own lives. Unlike the erosion of the Hanged Man, the Tower's breakdown can often leave collateral damage. The Tower may be visionary or villainous, but it is up to the Tower how long they can sustain themselves before they collapse... and how much it might cost them when they do.
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Catastrophic change and freedom are the watchwords of the Tower. Unlike Death, the change that the Tower brings is sudden and merciless, bringing down what was false, unneeded or unstable. Perhaps this is a change yet to come, or perhaps it has already happened. Regardless, it is up to the Tower to take stock of what remains and move on once the collapse has occured, no matter if it occurs within their own lives or to the outside world. Usually, what must come down leaves what remains all the better for its destruction, but the fall is never pleasant, and it can never be certain how much collateral damage will be inflicted... both to the Tower and those in their lives.
  
== Persona Traits ==
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But sometimes what must come down doesn't. This is the Tower in its reversed state. What was built so unsteadily gains additions. In this state, there is no upheaval, there is no disaster, true enough... but things continue on as they always have, and thus stagnate. What change attempts to happen can even be outright blocked and prevented from occuring, so intent are people with maintaining the status quo.
 
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Tower Personae tend to be offensive, possessing a high number of physical abilities and statistics leaning toward dealing and enduring damage. However, as one might expect, they often have dangerous weaknesses that can be exploited despite their power.
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== Sample Personae ==
 
== Sample Personae ==
  
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* Mara, a demon lord who tempted Gautama Buddha
 
* Cu Chulainn, son of Lugh and Celtic folk hero
 
* Cu Chulainn, son of Lugh and Celtic folk hero
* Bishamonten, punisher of evildoers and guardian of the North
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* Bishamonten, one of the Four Heavenly Kings and the guardian of the North
* Chi You, sagacious king who fought the Yellow Emperor
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== Example Persona Wielders ==
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== Example Persona-Users/Shadow-Possessed ==
  
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* [[Anna Yoshizaka]]
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* [[Kenta Yokouchi]]
 
* [[Takahisa Kandori]]
 
* [[Takahisa Kandori]]
  
== Defining Traits ==
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== Upright Traits ==
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Chaos, Sudden change, Impact, Hard times, Crisis, Revelation, Disruption, Realizing the truth, Disillusion, Crash, Burst, Uncomfortable experience, Downfall, Ruin, Ego blow, Explosive transformation. The revolutionary who fights to his last breath to tear the falsely pleasant face off of and overthrow the corrupt government.
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== Reversed Traits ==
  
Chaos, Sudden change, Impact, Hard times, Crisis, Revelation, Disruption, Realizing the truth, Disillusion, Crash, Burst, Uncomfortable experience, Downfall, Ruin, Ego blow, Explosive transformation
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OPPOSITE: No destruction, No collapse, No change, Status quo remains in place, Truths remaining hidden, Unwilling to hear or face an unpleasant reality. The Emperor's wearing no clothes, but nobody says anything--everyone goes along with the lie that he is.<br>
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BLOCKED: Remaining in the dark, Remaining the same as before, Desire to change stifled, Search for truth prevented. The Emperor's wearing no clothes and someone tries to point it out, but everyone else shushes them to the point where no one hears.<br>
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UPSIDE-DOWN: Lies too powerful to be overthrown, Lies made into truth, Truth framed as lies, Getting away with deception, Power staying in the wrong hands. The Emperor's wearing no clothes, but not only does no one say anything, but the scammers get away scot-free and anyone who tries to reveal them is denounced as the liar.

Latest revision as of 15:58, 17 October 2012

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"In order to build anew, that which lingers must first be destroyed."


[edit] Description

Catastrophic change and freedom are the watchwords of the Tower. Unlike Death, the change that the Tower brings is sudden and merciless, bringing down what was false, unneeded or unstable. Perhaps this is a change yet to come, or perhaps it has already happened. Regardless, it is up to the Tower to take stock of what remains and move on once the collapse has occured, no matter if it occurs within their own lives or to the outside world. Usually, what must come down leaves what remains all the better for its destruction, but the fall is never pleasant, and it can never be certain how much collateral damage will be inflicted... both to the Tower and those in their lives.

But sometimes what must come down doesn't. This is the Tower in its reversed state. What was built so unsteadily gains additions. In this state, there is no upheaval, there is no disaster, true enough... but things continue on as they always have, and thus stagnate. What change attempts to happen can even be outright blocked and prevented from occuring, so intent are people with maintaining the status quo.

[edit] Sample Personae

  • Mara, a demon lord who tempted Gautama Buddha
  • Cu Chulainn, son of Lugh and Celtic folk hero
  • Bishamonten, one of the Four Heavenly Kings and the guardian of the North

[edit] Example Persona-Users/Shadow-Possessed

[edit] Upright Traits

Chaos, Sudden change, Impact, Hard times, Crisis, Revelation, Disruption, Realizing the truth, Disillusion, Crash, Burst, Uncomfortable experience, Downfall, Ruin, Ego blow, Explosive transformation. The revolutionary who fights to his last breath to tear the falsely pleasant face off of and overthrow the corrupt government.

[edit] Reversed Traits

OPPOSITE: No destruction, No collapse, No change, Status quo remains in place, Truths remaining hidden, Unwilling to hear or face an unpleasant reality. The Emperor's wearing no clothes, but nobody says anything--everyone goes along with the lie that he is.
BLOCKED: Remaining in the dark, Remaining the same as before, Desire to change stifled, Search for truth prevented. The Emperor's wearing no clothes and someone tries to point it out, but everyone else shushes them to the point where no one hears.
UPSIDE-DOWN: Lies too powerful to be overthrown, Lies made into truth, Truth framed as lies, Getting away with deception, Power staying in the wrong hands. The Emperor's wearing no clothes, but not only does no one say anything, but the scammers get away scot-free and anyone who tries to reveal them is denounced as the liar.

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