Aeon Trespass Awakening Spotlight
In Aeon Trespass, death is not the end, it’s an opportunity – to bounce back from the bottom, to rise from the ashes, to find some inner strength that will help you prevail. This is called an Awakening. The most common way you’ll Awaken is by drawing a Death Obol and then rolling a ‘10’ during your Awakening Roll, but there are more paths to power, ones you’ll have to find for yourself. As the Cycles and Seasons become harder and death is more common, so too will be the Awakenings.
This is because Awakenings are part of the Inverted Combat Paradigm, and are the many ways that will keep you in the fight. As you progress through the game, you’ll find many additional ways to raise your chances for an Awakening. One that becomes available in Cycle V (and Spring?) is Aether, a god particle that’s both a gas and a liquid at the same time. Aether is like a catalyst for Awakenings – but it is also highly toxic.
Awakenings are only temporary and can place you at risk, both from the Primordial at hand and other forces in the world who may finally notice you. Sometimes however, the only way to win is to transcend your limits. Awakenings may break any of the cardinal rules of the game: number and type of actions per turn, going higher than 9 on the Triskelion or even the Battle Round structure itself! Oh, you will also hit harder and gain unique abilities.
In Aeon Trespass: Odyssey, you can Awaken into Godforms.
Godforms
The Olympians are dead, killed during the first minutes of the Eschaton. Their worshippers scattered, their temples abandoned, their power waned and left the world. But not completely. When the darkest hour comes and all hope seems lost, you may find it inside yourself: a glimmering ember of the old gods. If you have the audacity to reach for it, if you have the tenacity to contain it, if you have the will to wield it, that ember becomes a spark and that spark becomes a pyre in which you will burn away the darkness!
Such is the power of the Godform transformations: transcend your limits and go beyond, for a brief moment achieve a form of one of the fallen Olympians.
Across Aeon Trespass: Odyssey Core Game and Aeon Trespass: Odyssey Expansions, you’ll gain access to 12 + 3 Godforms. Why 12 + 3? Read on…
That’s 12… so why...
Exalted Godforms
So, there were 12 original Olympians, but there’s many more Godforms, some yet unknown. And… have you ever wondered, if there’s a higher power to achieve? Can you… go beyond a Godform?
Yes. Yes, you can. And by the end of the of Aeon Trespass: Odyssey, you will.
Even the philosophers of the Last Academy and the former priests of the Forlorn Naos do not fully grasp how this second stage of an Awakening comes to be. As for the Balaneion sages, they know one thing: this stage interferes with the junction, and the Antikratos Protocols struggle to keep the Titan in check. The divine power literally burns through the helmet!
These Exalted Godforms can happen in one of two ways. The first way is instinctually understood, though extremely rare: you need to Awaken while Awakened. That’s like… one in a hundred! Though when it does happen, the board is yours, for an Exalted Godform is not simply a more powerful version of a Godform, not simply a stat boost. It allows you to do more. To bend the very rules of the game.
Still, very rare. So rare indeed that you may not have the luxury of waiting for it to happen! And thus, you may want to take a shortcut, straight to this second stage of Awakening. And you may. But it is extremely dangerous. For you, for your Argonaut, for your fellow Titans and for the fate of the Argo itself.
Will you dare to… trespass on this hallowed ground?
Let the blaze consume you... Apollo Exalted Godform
As it began, so shall it end. Zeus II Exalted Godform
To douse the Eternal Flame. Poseidon II Exalted Godform
Production Sample Sneak Peek
What you saw above were renders - but last month we've got our hands on production samples. We've posted them in the original ATO Updates, but thought you might want to take a look!
"Oh yes, we’ve got these too! And… I am actually speechless. These are so much better than I envisioned. The power, the grandeur, the concepts, it all comes together perfectly. I just cannot resist looking at them, they’re mesmerizing. And even among these, there’s a power curve, with the Exalted Godforms taking it to another level. If we do something like this for Sins, we’d better try to top it… hm…."
Eidolons
In Aeon Trespass, when your Titan is on the brink of death, they may find it in themselves to go on, to go beyond their limits and bounce back through an Awakening! In Odyssey, you did that by assuming the Godforms, embers of the dead Olympians.
In Sins of Herakles, you can use those Godforms too. However, through Gaia, the Herakleides have a special connection to the Greater Titans, alien, unscrupulous beings who once challenged the rule of Olympus.
Though the Greater Titans have been cut down or, in the case of a few especially egregious transgressors, condemned to an eternity of pain and punishment, a just reward for the blasphemous tyrants they all were, the equally outcast Herakleides can call on their visages, their Eidolons, in their most desperate hour of need.
Most of the time, Eidolon Awakenings happen the same way as Godforms, though not always. In game terms, they fill the same role, though their exact mechanics are not quite the same. You are still Trespassing, though you may exchange some of the raw Olympian power for the guile and cunning of special and additional actions of the Greater Titans.
Heros Mode
We’re not quite done yet! Eidolons are something you earn, just like you do with Godforms in Odyssey. But in Twelve Sins of Herakles, your characters can also Awaken in a different way, by channeling the spirit of one of the great heroes of legend. That’s called Heros Mode.
Heros Mode is the inverse of the other types of Awakenings, which see you go big: transform into larger, grander beings. In Heros Mode, your Herakleides reverts to their human form – but retains the mighty power of a Titan!
Heros Mode could be described as becoming a glass cannon: you don’t necessarily gain more durability, but you gain more offensive power, as well as additional action. Of course, the peculiarities of your Heros Mode depend on which Hero you channel.
It’s a large world out there
The world of Aeon Trespass is vast and uncharted. In death, many gods left their embers behind, to be reignited by those daring enough to dream. Many Eidolons remain hidden, their eternal punishment keeping them chained in Hellas, waiting for release. Before you, many other heroes walked this earth.
And, with enough will, one may even go beyond a Godform, to reach its Exalted form.
But there is probably one question on your mind: is there even a higher power to achieve?
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