The Unseen

== Ordo Outcast: ==
"To be separate and different is to be hated." 
Outcasts are Adepts recruited from the losers, the nerds and failures among mankind. Through a life of harboring their own personal commitments against the will of the crowd, they are often highly self-aware individuals whose personal beliefs they take very seriously. And in their loneliness and isolation, The Lord shows them favor and reveals His face to them. 
The Lord is infinite and all powerful, to look upon His face is to know true reality, however such a thing is not possible for mere creatures.  To look upon The Lord's face is to know death, in the same way that to move close to a fire is to be consumed by its heat and flames.  Outcasts have been granted some reprieve from this, for while in their invisible or incorporeal state, they can often see an uncreated light that bleeds from everywhere... 
AKA: The Hated Ones.
Outcast Degrees
=== Facts: ===
-Tattoos are popular among the Outcast.
-Animosity = Outcasts often produce a supernatural aura of freakishness or horror which causes other non-Outcasts to feel a sense of disgust towards them. Stereotypicaly the Outcast are the weird friends or acquaintances which everyone knows but wants to avoid. 
This feature of the Order is probably their most characteristic, that wherever they go, the Outcast are not wanted. They are separated and spoken of as beneath everyone else. Even normally good and God-fearing people will often succumb to their unknown prejudices and dislike the Adepts of the Order of Outcasts. 
-Outcasts posses biological capabilities: they can reshape their bodies, make their skin grow diamond hard by forming organic crystals, they can extend their legs and leap great distances. They can hear whispers from great distances away and see in the darkest of night. They can form their teeth into sharpened points and distend their jaws like snakes for maximum biting power.
-Because of their core nature, Outcasts rarely hold high ranks within Squads, and usually the only Outcast Regents are those within all-Outcast Squads to begin with. 
-Outcasts have learned to form their own Order-wide network, trading information and resources among themselves. They've long realized that, if no one else wants them, at least they have God and each other.
-Tales of their strange biological abilities often makes people think that Outcasts all look ugly. While bodily alterations are popular among many, there are also many Outcasts who are surprisingly beautiful. 
-The Unseen move through the world as God's secret agents, ferreting out the forces of Darkness wherever they may be and delivering them into the light of day.  Equipped with powers of invisibility, the Unseen make for perfect scouts and wardens.
-Unseen have two twin powers: they can become fully Invisible, in which case light simply passes through them supernaturally but they are still physical and can often be detected through sound, smell or infrared scanners.  
The second power is to become Incorporeal, an ability that lets Unseen remain in this world but only as immaterial shades of themselves.  They temporarily lack physical substance, allowing them to pass through walls or other barriers without harm.  Younger Unseen cannot use both powers at the same time, but the older and more experienced ones can.
=== Social Affliction: ===
All Outcast suffer from an aura of freakishness that causes others to hate them, even if they don't realize it on a fully conscious level. Outcast, even when in disguise or under a supernatural cover such as an illusion, must still endure the disdain of all those around them. Even fellow Adepts are not immune to this Affliction. 
The Affliction does not lead directly to violence, although it does pave the way for confrontations. The Affliction is only strong enough to make people dislike Outcasts, and it can affect almost anyone or anything with true sentience. 
The only people who seem "immune" to the Affliction are those who, like the Outcast, possess a high level of self-awareness and make the conscious effort not to hate others based on appearance. 
=== Everyone Hates You: ===
What do you, how do you live when you think everyone around you hates your guts? How do you acquire and hold down a job, or make friends, or even go home every night to a cold and empty home? The plight of the Outcast is a hard one, to be sure, but it is not impossible to beat. 
Outcasts learn to hold down jobs through hard work, they also quickly catch on to the fact that friendships, surprisingly, are rarely made based on actually liking someone. Most people make friendships because they feel they should or have too. 
The biggest challenge for Outcasts, however, is learning to still show Christian charity in a cold world. 
=== Omega Wolf: ===
The image of the Omega Wolf is common to the Outcast who often must put up with those around them trying to put them down for their own selfish needs. Outcast quickly learn to see people for what they really are, to question whatever anyone says or appears to be. 
=== Steady Employment: ===
One of the hardest things about being an Outcast is steady employment. People who stick out in a community tend to have rumors and gossip gather up about them, these half-lies have a tendency to be taken as fact by others. Frequently Outcasts struggle to get a job interview, and even when they do they often suffer in the work place, being ignored and left out of the social hierarchy or even actively ostracized by supervisors and coworkers. 
Don't underestimate the stress and anxiety of such a situation for an Outcast. When you know that every job you take will be rocky and uncertain, how do you cope? How do you live with the uncertainty? 
According to established Outcast thinking, you manage your skills and work extra hard. Employers live by their bottom lines, so a hard worker is a hard worker. Even then, though, an Outcast understands that they can always be replaced somehow, so they develop 'universal skills' like languages, computer stuff, marketing, accounting, medical certifications, things which open up a lot of doors for them into businesses that are fluid but relatively stable. 
For an Outcast, a reputation is more important than a career. And marketable skills is the key to a secure job future, knowing that the minute things get too hot at your current job, you can just move on to another. Employers may want experience or good grades, but what they hire people for is what those people can do for them. Therefore, it is not knowledge but skills that gets you jobs, what you can actually do for someone. 
=== Hauntings: ===
The presence of the Outcast has a peculiar effect on buildings or locations of great historical significance. If a certain structure of natural formation has lasted for a long time, and several events have occurred there, than if an Outcast takes up residence, it will become haunted.
Not by ghosts, buy by the mysterious nature of the Unseen themselves. Spectral Phenomena will spike, people who enter will feel a crawling sensation on their skin and constantly keep catching things moving just out of the corner of their eyes. Outcasts don't seem to care, apparently something in their nature makes them used to it, but to others it can be a bit unsettling. 
=== Trapped: ===
Unseen who suffer emotionally or psychologically traumatic effect while in the unseen may find themselves trapped in invisibility. While it's fun to be invisible for a time, being stuck invisible is akin to prison: unable to properly interact with others. And other Adepts are wary of such Unseen because effectively they can so easily break the Discipline Arcani. An invisible man walking around the street? How long before that goes south?  
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