Forbidden Science

The old world did not entirely die. Some of its knowledge survived, but in broken hands, amidst broken morals. What remains is not enlightenment, but distortion: a body of secret arts, devices, procedures, and engines known as Forbidden Science.

It is feared. It is coveted. It has deformed the age.

The Nature Of Forbidden Science

Forbidden Science is neither conventional learning nor wizardry. It is the remnant of knowledge too powerful, too half-understood, and too corrupting to be safely used.

The Inheritance Of Ruin

Laboratories, vaults, archives, engines, and procedures survive from elder ages. Most cannot be replicated cleanly. Many are only partially understood. Some are alive in ways that no sane device should be.

The Scientists Of Granbretan

Granbretan has made the greatest use of Forbidden Science, though not the wisest. Its scientists are anatomists of cruelty, artificers of terror, and keepers of techniques that lesser powers scarcely dare name.

Masks, Engines, And Abominations

Forbidden Science creates and sustains:

beast masks
strange weapons
war engines
altered bodies
captive intelligences
relic devices of uncertain purpose

Forbidden Science In Play

In the game, Forbidden Science may appear as:

Weird Science
relics and devices
experimental procedures
lost laboratories
unstable weapons
terrible treasures best left buried

See also Setting Rules and Arms And Armor.

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