Archetypes

Grab your chainsaw and line up the sacred cows! Whatever your companions regard as “orthodox” and proper is, to you, anathema. Perhaps you follow a confrontational approach to your culture’s institutions; or you undermine authorities that you consider to be corrupt. You could introduce a decidedly unconventional change to an established tradition (or Tradition), or revere a path or godhead that most folks consider to be “evil.” Linguistically, heretic combines implications of choice, belief, and the act of taking something valuable. Whether your heresy is religious, philosophical, political, or some mixture of them all, you refuse to accept the popular (and perhaps demanded) creed.

Integrity drives you. After all, if you did not possess im­ mense (often dangerous) degrees of integrity, you would simply go with the flow, not resist it the way you do.

And yet, that Iconoclasm could get you… and other people… killed. That is, after all, what often happens to heretics. Folks don’t like to have their cherished beliefs overturned, and so as you run through life’s market flipping over tables in the name of your belief, remember that one of those tables could very well land on top of you.

– Regain Willpower whenever you challenge a commonly held conviction and manage to change people’s minds about that belief.