What I have so far...
Bonus' total value 12
- Wealthy Beyond Imagining: The Altess are the creators of much of the technology the makes the Three Galaxies tick and they still hold the patents. At home in the Dynasty their wealth is near limitless but while out adventuring their access is much more limited. They begin with the rich and very rich edges.
- Extended life span: The Altess live far longer than normal humans. With access to the medical facilities on their homeworlds they are virtually immortal. Without them they still live to be around 250 years old. (Note this provides no game effect, it's just flair)
- Attractive: The forced evolution process administered to the Warrior Women includes genetically engineering them for beauty. Altara have the Attractive Edge.
- Genetic Engineering: Millenia of genetic engineering had made the Altess more than human, they begin with a starting Agility, Strength, and Vigor of d6. This increases their natural maximums in these attributes to d12+1.
Complications total value 10
- Ignorance from Arrogance: Most Altess spend their lives perusing recreation and their various hobbies, leaving much of lifes daily maintinence to servants and slaves. This leaves them woefully under-educated and naive about the world at large. They suffer a −2 to all Smarts rolls.
- Wanted (Minor): Any Altess adventurers are considered to be AWOL from the empire and are hunted with the intent of bringing them back home.
- Bad Reputation: The Altess are infamous having built their empire on slavery and the concept of racial superiority. Most other species find them intolerably arrogant and condescending. They suffer a -4 charisma penalty with nonhumans and those opposed to slavery.
- You Do It For Me: on a club on the initaitive make a spirit roll at -2 to summon the motivation to care about what is going on.
- Wanted Major: Every Altess is born with a fragment of the location of the cosmic forge imbedded in their minds. While too proud and disinterested in the Forge to work together and find it,sSeekers of the cosmic forge covet the knowledge and will often harass individuals and worse to gain it from them.
Original Altara…
Bonus'
- Attractive: The forcedevolution process administered to the Warrior Women includes genetically engineering them for beauty. Altara have the Attractive Edge.
- Genetic Engineering: Crafted through bio-wizardry to be perfect warriors, Altara begin with a starting Agility, Strength, and Vigor of d6. This increases their natural maximums in these attributes to d12+1.
- Superior Senses: Altara Warrior Women begin with the Alertness Edge, as all of their other senses are exceptional. Wanted (Minor): Any Minion of Splugorth, including most other Altara Warrior Women, attack to capture or kill a rogue Altara in an instant.
- Bad Reputation: The Altara Warrior Women are infamous as servants of Splugorth Slavers worldwide. The average person hates and fears Altara; they suffer a −4 Charisma penalty with most folks who discover who and what they are.
- Blind: Although created blind, this is only a minor drawback for the Altara, as they have a natural radar ability extending 1,200 feet (200") which compensates for the penalties. They cannot read, see colors, or otherwise detect purely visual information.
- Instilled Ignorance: Altara are taught only what they need to serve their masters, and extreme brainwashing is used to dampen their intellectual acumen. This leaves them woefully under-educated and naive about the world at large. They suffer a −2 to all Smarts rolls.
- Storm-Fouled Senses: In strong inclement weather, or conditions where the environment is greatly disturbed (sand storms, fires with lots of smoke), the Altara suffer a −2 penalty to Notice, Fighting, Shooting, and Throwing.
