Sleeper

DESCRIPTION

A Dölgöthros who was traded for the child of another Species at birth and forced to assume the form of that child. Sleepers grow up believing they are the individual and the Species that others around them assert them to be, though they may believe themselves to be slow or incompetent as they are unlikely to evince the same strengths and weaknesses as their target species.

As a result of their growth, Sleepers are completely ignorant of their true heritage, and even if faced with proof (deep wounds resulting in sticky, white blood, for instance) will stay in denial of the truth as long as they reasonably can. Sleepers cannot use their natural Shapeshifting abilities, and they have no access to any Gifts that their target species does not also possess.

JOINING

Sleepers, sadly, have no choice in their decision as to whether or not to join the Conspiracy. Once the truth of their heritage is revealed to them, they join and promise to do the will of the Conspiracy, or they die at the hands of their Wakener.

There are some stories, of course, of Sleepers who were Awakened and escaped the immediate response of the Conspiracy. For the most part, these are apocryphal, and some are even created by the Conspiracy to help weed out more intransigent personalities.