“Better is not just possible. Better is required.”
Overview: The Transneuroclasts are street prophets and body hackers, enchantment idealists, transmutation fanatics and the entrenched old money that controls them. They believe the Unraveling is not a curse to survive but a challenge to evolve beyond. Their faith is flesh and mind, mutable, perfectible, and never enough. On the surface, they’re the graffiti-scrawling Kinthread punks of Plates Four and Five, but behind their rebellion is the brilliant and terrifying mind of Boss Sin, the tabaxi transmuter-turned-crime-lord seeking to solve what Transneuroclasts call the Greatest Puzzle: how to live where life cannot.
Philosophy: the Unraveling is not the end. It is an invitation. The Transneuroclasts believe the laws of magic and mortality are obstacles meant to be rewritten. By perfecting both body and mind, a new form of life can emerge, one that can live outside the weave. They call this transcendence, and every transmutation graft and enchantment reroute brings them closer.
Figures: Though out of favor with the Senate, the Transneuroclasts still hold their seat through Head Researcher Sintetra, known on the street as Boss Sin. A former Plate One noble turned outlaw scientist, she rules much of Plate Four and Five like a laboratory and a fiefdom. Her inner circle of researchers are loyal, brilliant, and largely amoral.
Plate One’s still holds old money Transneuroclasts who resent Sintetra’s descent into geneius yet see the Senate as weakness. Such as glass-elf traditionalist Whin D. Paine, whose family is still responsible for the anchoring transmutation bindings that keep the Leylines in place and bound.
On Plate Five, Boss Sin’s whip is Al Lee, a self-improving earth genasi whose very body is transmuted slum, lumpy stone and pulsing cobblestone veins. He is the streets, literally. Keeps them clean and keeps a steady pipeline of new flesh pouring into Boss Sin’s labs.
Projects: Publicly, they offer self-enhancement rituals and street-level empowerment. Somewhat privately, they harvest experimental material and bodies for unsanctioned research. Their labs push further than most dare, in both enchantment and transmutation. They are not invited to speak at the Senate, but their results speak for themselves.
The streets of Plates 4 and 5 bear their mark: augmented youth, modified beasts, enchanted graffiti, and organ-replacement pop-ups. Underneath it all is the silent churn of Sin’s deeper experiments, locked behind wards.
Plate Relations: They own Plate Four in all but law and dominate much of Plate Five outside Paragon checkpoints. Plate One elites still include Transneuroclast families, though most of their income flows from Boss Sin’s illegal operations instead of sanctioned Senate funding.
The Senate ignores them, the Enforcers avoid them, and the Optimists pretend they’ve moved on. But the Gilded Gaze whispers about Sin’s work in hushed tones, and never invite her to parties.
Magic Affiliation Transmutation and Enchantment. They reshape flesh, hone will, and override defaults. Muscle grafts. Reflex rewriting. Memory architectures. Charisma implants. Illiteracy cures. Weaponized selfhood.
To the Transneuroclasts, magic is the scalpel of evolution.
Player Hooks
- You want to be stronger. Smarter. Better. You come from a broken place and someone offered you a version of yourself that doesn’t break.
- Maybe you came from the lower plates and the system abandoned you so you took it into your own hands.
- Maybe you’re an upper plater on the outside looking in, seeing the the flaws in the ruling senate for what they are; scared.
- More then just Enchanters and Transmuters, many of their order are strong frontliners looking to smash.
- At level one, you can choose between a feat that boosts your Gish build or one that fortifies your frontline presence.
Tone / Aesthetic
- Smells like: hot iron, ozone, and antiseptic
- Sounds like: synth-thrum, street chants, whispered mantras
- Feels like: adrenaline and purpose
- Symbols: broken chains reformed as circuits, twin faces merging, stylized neural glyphs
Secrets & Subtext
- Sintetra publicly defeated Matilda in a wizard duel but intentionally violated its laws to nullify it and prove her point.
- The Kinthread have modified themselves so heavily that some are no longer legally considered humanoid.
- Al Lee isn’t just a slumrat made of rock, his body is part of Plate Five. Some say he feels every bootstep.
- Plate One Transneuroclasts publicly denounce Sintetra’s methods. Privately, they bankroll them. Her most vocal critics fund her finest, most grotesque breakthroughs.
