Porcelain Princes

Steppeland not-quite-liches who seek immortality by spreading their vital cognitive essence among several bodies linked by real‑time glandular psyche-to-psyche links. They are unified by their cartelist monopoly on polybody magical techniques and centered around the Porcelain Citadel. Widely regarded as decadent and weak, though the criticist theoreticians of the New Orangery School argue that they are a strong influence on the Bureaucrat Corporativists of the Emerald City Incorporation. Their own name for themselves, if they even have one, is not common knowledge. Customarily each polybody entity uses the same porcelain masks for every one of its drones.

1. They are not more intelligent than before but the addition of new bodies keeps their minds from dying.
2. The continuity of personality is flawless and perfect.
3. The link between bodies has a limited range.
4. Princes do not like to send individual bodies too far by themselves in case they go rogue.
5. Rogue bodies have on occasion tried to take over the original parent sentience.
6. They always travel in groups of three or four to reduce the risk of personality collapse.
7. They are conservative to a fault.
8. They maintain their oldtech porcelain walkers religiously but lack the understanding to repair them if they fail.
9. Any change to the status quo is a problem to be crushed.
10. They are allergic to alcohol and it breaks up their psychic links.

Controlled Territories

• Porcelain Citadel

Related Species

• Para Humans