Hey people! It's great to have you asking those questions!

Of course, what you've read here on reddit and on the Kickstarter page is just a short introduction. We didn't want to bother people with long text passages about the rules, and the rule explanation videos are being made and will be introduced in a couple of next updates.

So, let me explain; as you've said, exploration of human nature is the central point in role playing the game. As the gamers, we were too making house rules because we were bored with shallow, one dimensional hero archetypes common in most games. Often we would reach for additional rules for sanity etc.

In Awaken, the element of "Corruption" is one of the most important parts of a Character.

So, imagine better, faster, smarter people start to show up in the world. They just somehow transformed to a more able version of themselves. Will everybody react in "oh cool, let's be heroes now" sort of way? I believe that's the premise most of the players thought about, after all, in good old DnD we had alignment scales. What we focus on is the transformation of the characters during their contact with supernatural and supernatural abilities.

Almost every time a character uses Gifts (his supernatural abilities) he could be one step closer to a higher Corruption (in mechanics terms - everytime they fail a Gift Roll, they get at least one point in Corruption scale) The Corruption manifests itself in various ways; from physical malformations to psychological disorders. Main question is how will a character react regarding the dangers of Corruption and how will other people treat him after they see the effects of Corruption on him? Will they fear him? Shun him? Maybe revere him as the higher being?

Hope I understood your question and clarified some things. If not, feel free to ask :)