The Innsmouth Look (Celestial) (3/level)
Well, to begin with, don't ever use that name in
front of Lilith, or anyone who owes Lilith a favor, or anybody who'd like to be
owed a favor from Lilith... you get the idea.
The condition is unique to Lilim: it'd be normally
considered to be a less severe form of the Ugly Discord (-1 to reaction rolls
per level), except for two things.
First, it's a Celestial Discord, which means that it manifests on all
three planes and interferes with Essence gathering. Rumors that Lilim afflicted with this
Discord can circumvent the latter problem with somewhat disturbing activities
are, of course, frowned upon by the Game.
Bright Lilim never manifest this Discord, by the way: obviously,
neither has Lilith.
The second distinguishing factor is that this
Discord always manifests in the same way. Differently greenish (and later on, scaly) skin;
protuberant eyes; webbed and/or splayed extremities; a gradually accelerating
loss of hair... more disturbingly, there's a definite personality change as
well. Lilim with higher levels of The
Innsmouth Look tend to be distant, emotionless, absently ruthless and fond of
swimming. It's hard to say: once the Discord
reaches a certain level, Lilim suffering from it tend to fade from the public
eye, unless of course they happen to serve Lust (Andrealphus apparently is fond
of the look - or at least doesn't seem to care).
This particular Discord is not encountered much:
it's very rare and apparently untreatable except via Redemption. It's also not publicly talked about, either:
the Princess of Freedom has her little ways of demonstrating her disapproval of
certain conversational topics. For that
matter, so does the Archangel of Judgement: Dominic hasn't exactly forbidden
that the topic be ever brought up, but the Inquisition will take an
interest in anybody taking an interest.
Note to GMs: Springing this Discord on players really does depend on somebody in the party being familiar with the Cthulhu Mythos: if you're really lucky, said person is also playing a Lilim (which could be good for a bit of existential horror-fun). I suggest that you just casually describe the physical effects without emphasizing them or making them seem particularly noteworthy. Eventually somebody will put two and two together and come up with SAN loss...