The Tether

The Tether is a scale that determines whether you are CHAINED to the tenets of humanity or UNCHAINED, and fully free of your connections to the Unawakened. Those who act with kindness and empathy towards mankind lean towards being CHAINED, while those who shed off the affectations of mortality and human morality edge ever closer towards being UNCHAINED. It is said that those closer to one end of the Tether or the other can feel themselves becoming more or less human, although it is not oft talked about in polite company.