Dangers in the Wild

Mutation

• “Only extended inhabitation over (Stamina + Willpower) years or (mother’s Stamina + Willpower) months of prenatal exposure leads to the mutations [within the Poles other than Metal] . . Two members of these races can also breed true with one another, or cross-breed with other types to produce hybrids with some or all of both parents’ traits. . . . Polar mutations only alter flesh-and-blood life (i.e. humans, rats and cockroaches); Alchemicals aren’t affected.”
• “When a living being becomes a polar mutant, they immediately gain all of the drawbacks and advantages of their new state and cannot take these traits piecemeal. Similarly, it is not normally possible to buy off negative mutations associated with these templates by spending experience. The Storyteller can permit special exceptions to this rule on a case-by-case basis for heroic characters as concept-defining events, like a legendary Arcs-pawn martial artist whose grueling training regimen hardens her bones.
• Beings that are born (hatched, spawned, etc.) with a racial template rather than having it imposed on them outside the womb (egg, vat, etc.) consider their mutations innate traits. Effects that remove mutations cannot remove these traits, as they are part of the creature’s default state rather than a modification of it. For instance, a djala cannot be grown larger by excising mutations from it, while someone shrunk by Wyld exposure can. Ultimately, the Storyteller arbitrates what is an actual mutation rather than an intrinsic quality modeled with mutation rules.”

Fallen Ixut

• Detailed on p. 128, but eh.

Viator of Nullspace

• “Across the Eight Nations, laborers huddled around their workstations still whisper of the devastating god-machine they call the Bringer of Death, the Dread Gear, or the Minister of Wrath. Only in the archives of the Tripartite is the truth laid bare. 999 years ago, the Viator of Nullspace laid genocidal siege to Autochthonia, massacring its peoples. The massive engine of war stood twelve feet tall, armored in a spiked carapace of soulsteel, starmetal, and black jade, and the obsidian beamklave that extruded from its left hand cut down Alchemical Exalted and subgods alike. Cracked soulgems embedded in its torso glisten menacingly, ripped from the heads of slaughtered Champions.”
• “The origins of the Viator of Nullspace remain an unsolved mystery. It might be a forbidden Divine Minister, or a misbegotten artifact of destruction forged in Autochthon’s wrath. Perhaps it is a temporally splintered hekatonkire-soul of the Neverborn that the Great Maker might one day become, or a hideous amalgam of po souls ripped from Alchemical Exalted lost in the Far Reaches. Some thought it a Void Lord, but the manic zeal with which it destroyed Apostates and gremlins the last time it was free suggests this is not so. It claims to have been hand-crafted by Autochthon.
• Mechanically, the Viator is a spirit of extreme power, comparable to a Third Circle demon, with certain traits disturbingly suggestive of Alchemical origins. It is not affected by Axiomatic or Holy magic, although it is a creature of death.”
• Stats start on p. 129. In Gunstar, rendered a Creature of Darkness by the Tyrant Sun.
• Gunstar: The Viator has ransacked the Deliberative since their retreat, assaulting municipalities and escaping death and imprisonment continuously. Yet, he also relentlessly and effectively slaughters the Void too. He was last seen over a hundred years ago, when the Tyrant Sun inadvertently destroyed the Viator's prison, who quickly engaged in battle. Ultimately he fell, but the Sun was expunged from the Gunstar thanks to his efforts. Some believe he is not truly dead, but slowly rebuilding himself within the Gunstar. Something few would entertain is that he was able to escape into the Daystar, wherein he could encounter Bannery Bu and be reconstructed to destroy it from within.