Passion Eaters

Passion Eaters are Dreamless who have become addicted to the most intense passions. Their metabolism has moved completely away from ordinary sensations and passions. Food or drink are like dust to them. Minor pleasures or passions only tease and frustrate them. They now crave and thrive on brightest radiance and darkest midnight: passions like uncontrolled lust, blind greed, abject terror, and spoiled purity.

As Dreamless, Passion Eaters need a steady supply of passions to maintain their health and appearance. Their connection to passions is more intense than any other Passionate. Their personalities and demeanors are closely affected by the passions they've most recently consumed. Since their greatest appetite/addiction is for severe passions, some Passion Eaters have chaotic moods, veering from recklessly manic to wantonly sexual to deeply depressed. Other Passion Eaters develop a particular taste for a single passion or a few similar passions, and thus become the essence of carnal desire, destructive selfishness, terrifying rage, or similar extremes.

Passion Eaters are loathed and feared on most civilized shards. Their acute, insatiable tastes often push them to desperate and terrifying plans and pleasures. Passion Eaters aren't necessarily stupid or risk-takers. Some conceal their true natures and manipulate others into situations where severe passions can be harvested. There are rumors of islands and even shards in the Delirium, ruled by Passion Eaters.

Most civilized shards try to repulse the schemes and depredations of Passion Eaters. A Dreamless who is found to be a Passion Eater usually faces banishment. As yet, no Monarch has found a way to make Passion Eaters absolutely Vulgar, because most Passionate are at least a little bit Dreamless.