Welcome to the Exalted 3e Homebrew Bestiary!

Welcome to the Exalted 3e Homebrew

Bestiary!

By:

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An idiot with too much time on his hands

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Sandact6

Hello everyone and welcome to the unfiltered madness of my mind when I am left

unchained and untethered to vomit forth words as I please. If you’re here and reading this, you

are no doubt left wanting some monsters for your game. If that is the case feel free to scroll

down and use them if you’re impatient.

This introduction section will be short and sweet. We’ll be going over two optional

components to this monster guide: Enemy Types and EX-Hard enemies.

I also decided that this project would happen upon my 666th post on the OPP forums.

So as you enjoy this document, settle in with those you truly care about while reading this

manual. Having knowledge and comfort in that as the sky turns red on Christmas, my horrible

form which cannot be described with any words shall make your death mercifully quick.

Enemy Design Philosophy

My goal for this monster manual, aside from just giving a wide array of baddies, is to

make enemy design even more interesting in combat. Each enemy I’ll try to give some reason

why you want *that* specific enemy dead the most in combat. Going beyond just mere filler

enemies to make encounters interesting, and trying to make each monster interesting in a

sense beyond that it's just a bag of numbers to overcome.

New Enemy Classification Types

People like to jump to conclusions with me, did you know this section is optional and that

you can totally ignore it and have this monster guide still work strictly RAW? Yes? Good.

One of the things I noticed about Exalted 3e is that it tends to simulate duels and

Dynasty Warrior’s-esque fights very well. However I feel that sometimes this led to an annoying

missing middle ground. Full single fights against people with activate initiative tracks, especially

if there are multiple of them in the scene, takes too long. Using a battle group either makes the

enemy trivially easy and blown past on the first turn by most people, but buffing them up with

larger Sizes comes with the problem that you’re trying to run Dynasty Warriors in a teahouse or

cramped area, which may not be possible given the size of the area.

To solve this I wish to expand upon the insignificant opponent rule mentioned in 3e,

giving Storytellers the option to turn Exalted from a dueling simulator into a beat-em-up/Devil

May Cry style action game. For this to function, enemies are split into three different types:

Weak, Strong, Special.

● Weak - These are the enemies that are so far below your skill level that they’re

practically irrelevant. An Essence 1 Twilight who has a 5 in Brawl with assorted charms

getting into a fight with a sailor with brawl 2 at most? Don’t even bother running this, let

the Twilight jam his thumbs in the guys head and watch it explode. In video game terms

these are the enemies which require one hit from nearly anything to kill, while in DnD 4e

rules these are basically lesser Minions. The danger of these opponents however is that

in larger numbers these are usually battle groups which can pose a danger to people.

● Strong - Strong in this sense is what is regarded as ‘Strong opponent for the players at

this particular stage.” They are meant to be threatening enough to be individuals, but at

the same time nothing a PC couldn’t reasonably beat in time as if they were Special

opponents (see below). Strong characters tend to include the highly trained swordsman

prodigy, First Circle Demons, and other things that are meant to be cut through quickly in

order to move onto something more interesting. In video game logic, these are the

enemies that require a few hits to take down but are not the main boss, or in 4e terms

standard opponents.

● Special - Special opponents are the badasses of the Exalted world. They kick ass, chew

bubblegum, then head to Red Light District with a pillow full of drugs. These are the

people with active initiative tracks, including things like Second Circle Demons, Stronger

gods, and any Exalted. In video game logic, these guys are bosses, or in DnD 4e terms

Elites/Solo enemies. Player characters are always Special characters.

What’s important here is that these distinctions are all relative. Some ST’s hate the idea

of Weak opponents and may not have such a thing in their games. Which is fine, but part of this

enemy classification is introducing a new opponent type that is both dangerous to careless

players but at the same time can be cut apart like wet tissue paper in order to make them look

and feel more badass.

Sidebar: What about Battle Groups?

Battle Groups are generally composed of either large numbers of insignificant opponents

or simply too many Strong opponents that one is capable of feasibly tracking in combat. Strong

characters are supposed to be the tough badasses that are still potent in their own right and can

easily beat an Insignificant opponent.

Mechanics of the Three Enemy Types

To keep things short and sweet, Insignificant opponents are the same as in Exalted 3e

and Special opponents are just people who have an active initiative track and fight like people

normally do. So let’s just get into the differences that Strong opponents have.

● Like a battle group, Strong opponents have inert initiative. They cannot gain any initiative

nor lose any initiative from their initiative tracks.

○ EX-Mode: Strong opponents have semi-active initiative tracks. They increases

depending on the amount of initiative/damage they take from their opponents and

lower it by 1 for each health level of damage they take. Only do this if you don’t

mind bookkeeping and want the extra challenge.

● Strong opponents take damage differently. A withering attack roll made against them

subtracts one health level per success on the roll and if the attacker is a Special

character, rewards one initiative per health level damage, you cannot gain more initiative

than a Strong opponent has health levels (Except the break bonus)

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. A decisive damage

roll made against a Strong character is just like that made against a Special character,

only after attack resolution a Special Character does not reset their initiative but rather

reduces it by an amount equal to the damage dealt to the Strong character, but no

initiative can be gained by damaging the Strong opponent this way (Except KO’ing

them). If a Special character KO’s a Strong character (By either withering or decisive)

than it counts as an initiative break, gaining +5 initiative and fueling charms that normally

use initiative break mechanics.

○ Charms that let the user make multiple attacks (EX: Trance of Unhesitating

Speed) or deal AoE effects (EX: Dancing Devil Trigger Finger) will reset initiative

as per Strong after they are completed.

○ EX-Mode: Downing a Strong opponent will not grant the +5 initiative related to a

break bonus, however any abilities or charm effects that rely off of initiative break

still function as normally.

● Damage inflicted by Strong opponents is like that of a battle group. They can only make

withering attacks and do not directly gain any of the initiative they steal and is rather

lost. Against an opponent in a crash this damage is directly applied to one’s health track.

Like Battle Groups, Strong characters do not double 10s on damage rolls.

● Strong opponents may perform gambits like Special characters, each gambit subtracting

initiative as per normal. If they use a gambit on a target in a crash, they add +5 dice to

the gambit roll and the gambit costs no initiative for them.

● Animals can easily be Strong opponents, but Familiars are NEVER Strong opponents.

Your PC paid for those, so let him get his investment back!

● EX-Mode: Commanders can issue orders to Strong characters like battle groups,

granting them an amount of bonus dice equal to the amount of successes the

commander has on the command roll.

Why on earth would you want to waste a decisive attack on this you say? Remember that decisive

attacks will straight up ignore the soak of Strong opponents, so if you want to finish them off quickly this’ll be

your best bet.

○ Be very careful with dice adders. Only use these if your group has shredded most

other encounters like paper up until now, and be VERY careful on using this if

your Strong character has some form of excellency.

EX-Mode

Many Exalted 3e opponents are not as extreme in skill as the 2e counterparts. This is

mainly done so that everyone has a chance shine against someone without demanding a

Attribute 5 Ability 5 character or not bothering to try in the first place. However there are times

that sometimes players need a little bit of kick to their enemies in order to not become bored.

This isn’t me trying to say that some groups are better than others, just that different people like

different things. So for this Guide I’m first statting up enemies as what I would consider to be a

‘normal’ difficulty, underneath all enemy powers there may be an EX-Mode.

EX-Mode enemies are harder than normal enemies. Not only can such enemies be more

accurate, hit harder, and take less damage; they also have alterations to their skills or brand

new skills! These enemies are for players who want extra difficulty and the Storytellers who

think they can handle it. If this is your first time running a game and if you have first time Exalted

players in your group, I highly suggest not using EX-Mode skills.

What’s the Difference Between Magical and Non-Magical Attacks?

Magical attacks are attacks that are either:

A) Made with an artifact weapon

B) Have some sort of damage adding ability to it (Such as Fire and Stones Strike or

Adamantine Fist of Battle)

C) Weapons or attacks created by Sorcery

Anything else is considered to be a non-magical attack. If you’re worried about me

fucking over Archery and Thrown with this, check the appendix.

Why are there Zerg and X-COM units?

Don’t ask why, ask why not.

Animals

Arctic Demitaur

Standing nearly eight feet tall with the head of a bull, jaws of a wolf, the hooves of a horse and

the hands and overdeveloped arms of an incredibly strong man, the Minotaur is widely regarded

as one of the most ferocious monsters of the North. Making up for a lack of cunning with a raw

brute strength that is capable of snapping steel in twain, one doesn’t need to make much of an

imagination to realize how easily this can apply to the bones of a man. Demitaur’s are extremely

skittish and aggressive, in where if any intruder happens upon their group’s law, all of them will

begin smashing and breaking everything in site until their nest is ruined, afterwards they head

out to find a new nest.

Many tribes of the North often have tests of redemption where one is expected to head into the

wild and return with the head of a Demitaur, many just cut their losses and accept the soft exile.

Difficulty: A slow but incredibly tough son of a bitch that’s capable of breaking you across its

knee with ease if you’re not capable. Flying into a rage will make the exponentially more lethal

as well.

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 1 Willpower: 6 Join Battle: 7 dice

Health Levels: -0x2/-1x4/-2x4/-4/Incap.

Actions:

Appearance 2 (Hideous), Resolve 3, Guile 1

Combat: Feats of Strength: 11 dice (May attempt Strength 7 Feats of Strength, See Incredible

Might); Intimidation: 10 dice; Resist Poison/Disease: 10 dice; Senses: 7 dice; Tracking: 7 dice

Gore: 10 dice, 17L/4 damage

Punch: 13 dice, 14B/3 damage, has the Smashing tag

Grapple: 9 dice (12 to control)

Combat Movement: 6 dice

Evasion: 2 Parry: 5

Soak/Hardness: 11/0 (Thick Hide + Fur: 4L soak)

Special Attacks

Brutal Stomp: Against a prone target the Demitaur may attempt to stomp on the enemy using

its hooves, adding +2 dice to the damage (post soak if withering, raw damage as decisive) and

doubles 9s on withering damage rolls and doubles 10s on decisive attacks.

Gut them like a Pig!: When using a ravage grapple option with its horns, it may strike at the

target with double 9s on withering damage and double 10s on decisive.

Rage: When the creature enters a new health level category or is provoked into rage (Such as

inspire attacks to make the enemy angry) than it immediately flies into potent rage which last

three turns or until the Demitaur is crashed or knocked prone. During this rage the Demitaur

ignores all penalties related to its wounds, adds +3 dice to speed and doubles 9s against the

target that caused it to rage, automatically gains an amount of initiative equal to (1 + new wound

penalty category), adds +2 damage to all withering attacks, and lastly adds +1 automatic

success to all attacks or grapple related actions. The duration of this rage is equal to (1 +

Wound Penalty category) if the health is reduced or three actions otherwise.

Rampage: Upon entering into a new wound penalty, the Demitaur is capable of lashing out at

its aggressor, making a free reflexive attack against anyone in range.

Weapon-Crushing Strength: The savage Strength of a Demitaur is enough to snap most

mortal weapons in twain. If a Demitaur strikes a target who attempted to parry and achieves

either 5+ or more damage on a withering attack roll or any decisive damage, the Demitaur

may make a reflexive roll to break the weapon completely reflexively, which is usually a difficulty

6 feat of strength. If the weapon is indestructible, than the Demitaur may attempt an immediate

disarm gambit against the target. If a mortal attempts to parry an attack unarmed against a

Demitaur, a contested roll is made pitting the victim’s Stamina+Resistance against the

Demitaur’s Feat of Strength pool, which if it rolls higher than it automatically breaks the victims

limbs. Magical creatures and the Exalted are more hardy, thus do not gain the crippling injury.

Dodging does not trigger this ability.

Merits

Adapted to Cold: Although it may not prefer it, a Demitaur is adapted to the Cold of the North.

It ignores all environmental damage related to mundane cold weather and gains +4 automatic

successes to resist effects based on supernaturally cold weather. Lastly, it ignores up to two

points of penalties related to cold or Northern weather.

Incredible Might: The Demitaur doubles 9s on all Feats of Strength.

Winter Menace: The Demitaur does not count waist high snow as difficult terrain, treating it as if

it were normal terrain.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the Accuracy of the unit’s attacks by +2, counting as a stunt bonus. This

does not apply when in a battlegroup.

Rage: Applies to an enemy the Demitaur can see for three turns but has not yet attacked, in

which case it may immediately fly into a rage and chase after them.

Deathclaw

After years of geomatic essence from a nearby demense these once docile creatures

have mutated into fierce, fast, flesh tearing beasts. Ever present in the warm southern deserts

and savannah plains, standing nearly seven to eight feet tall with claws sharp enough to cut

men wearing plate armour to pieces in seconds. Harborheadians have tried to tame some of

these beasts but such attempts always end in tragedy. Many a young dragonblooded have

thought to prove themselves by slaying one of these beasts, many don’t come back.

Suggested Type: Special

Difficulty: Run.

Really What’s the difficulty: Very Hard. Deathclaws are made to shatter slow tanky walls,

dishing out just as much as they take in. They are also incredibly hard to run away from if you’re

fighting a losing battle.

Essence: 1 Willpower: 7 Join Battle: 10 dice (Base initiative 5)

Health Levels: -0x3/-1x5/-2x5/-4x4/Incap. Fiercely territorial, Deathclaws will attack anyone

intruding on their territory and will not flee unless they take 13+ levels of damage or protecting

their nest.

Actions: Feats of Strength: 10 dice (may attempt Strength 7 feats); Hide in Plains/Desert: 8

dice; Intimidation: 10 dice; Resist Poison/Disease: 10 dice; Senses: 8 dice (see Relentless

Pursuit); Tracking: 8 dice (see Relentless Pursuit)

Combat:

Attack (Bite): 11 dice (Damage 14, minimum 5)

Attack (Claws): 13 dice (Damage 14, minimum 4) A Deathclaw’s claws can easily shred armour,

allowing for piercing attacks.

Grapple: 8 dice (10 to control)

Combat Movement: 9 dice

Evasion: 4 Parry: 6

Soak/Hardness: 12/4

Special Attacks

Advancing Charge: If the Deathclaw has taken a rush action and moves from short to close

range of an opponent, than any threshold dice on the Rush roll is counted as additional

post-soak damage on a withering attack. If the opponent’s last action was a

Disengage/Withdraw action or the Deathclaw made a surprise/ambush attack, these dice are

turned into automatic successes.

Armour Breaker: Against an opponent with lower initiative, the Deathclaw is able to use

piercing attacks without sacrificing a point of defense or initiative.

Bloodhunt: A Deathclaw adds his opponent’s current wound penalty to his damage on a 1:1

basis. Post soak if withering, additional damage if decisive.

Deathclaw’s Fury: Whenever the Deathclaw manages to crash a target, they are allowed to

make an immediate follow up attack that can either be withering or decisive at their leisure.

Once per battle, if the Deathclaw has knocked someone away with Vicious Pounce after using

Advancing Charge, than the Deathclaw may pay one willpower to trigger this ability, adding

either (5 + Threshold successes on rush) dice to a decisive attack or adding the same amount

of post soak dice as Advancing Charge did (With them counting as automatic successes)

Furious Rampage: Whenever the Deathclaw attacks or rushes an enemy who is in Initiative

Crash, it adds three automatic successes on the roll.

Vicious Pounce: If the Deathclaws has moved at least one range brand before attacking their

target and their attack does either 5+ withering damage or any decisive damage, the

Deathclaw may knock their opponent one brand away and prone. The Deathclaw can use this

melee combat without having moved first so long as he pays 1 willpower before doing so. This

forced movement a range brand away does trigger the rush action’s reflexive move.

Merits

Pain Tolerance: Deathclaws do not suffer any wound penalties to their defense until they reach

their -4 health levels, and even then they only suffer a -2 penalty instead.

Swift Hunter: The Deathclaw may double 9s on any test of speed to chase after its prey.

Relentless Pursuit: The Deathclaw applies the double 8s rule on any scent-based Awareness

roll or on any roll to track by scent so long as it's within the Deathclaw’s territory or double 9s

otherwise. It adds three automatic successes on any roll made to oppose an enemy’s (Dexterity

+ Stealth) roll using scent within its territory, or outside of its territory adding an amount of bonus

dice equal to the wound penalty of its quarry.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Deathclaws are automatically counted to complex something such as a level 1

stunt on all rolls, adding two dice to all rolls (Except damage). A battlegroup composed of

Deathclaws do not gain this benefit.

Advancing Charge: The Deathclaws suffers no penalties from attempting to flurry a rush and

attack roll in the same turn so long as he’s within short range of his target.

Berserk: If a Mother or Alpha Deathclaw is protecting their nest, they adds any wound penalties

they have to all rolls rather than subtract them.

Swift Hunter: Against a wounded opponent, the Deathclaw adds the opponent’s wound penalty

as bonus dice.

Emerald Monkey

These green skinned simiens are a common sight in the jungles of the East. These small

monkeys are not strong enough to be a direct threat, they can be trained to perform various

other small tasks, such as scouting an enemy base, serving as loud distractions, or stealing

some various small trinket. The last bit is something they’re extremely adept at, and travellers to

the East are warned to keep a sharp eye on their backpack or belongings at all times least an

Emerald Monkey steal it when they least expect it. Monkey’s can be trained to be smart as a

small child of about six years old, and can be expected to accomplish orders that a six year old

can understand.

Emerald Monkey’s typically start running anytime starts to wave something threatening at them

or a single level of damage is dealt.

The stats for any small monkey can also apply to the Emerald Monkey’s.

Difficulty: Almost none, but their main threat is pissing players off when their stuff is constantly

stolen or having various tricks done to them pre-battle such as unloading weapons.

Suggested Type: Insignificant, but when chasing after one to hunt down an item it could be

special whatever makes more sense for the narrative.

Essence: 1 Willpower: 4 Join Battle: 6 dice

Health Levels: -0/-1/-2/Incap.

Speed Bonus: You gotta be like REALLY tiny

Actions: Any Stealing Related Roll: 7 dice (See Yoink!); Climbing: 8 dice; Senses: 7 dice;

Stealth: 8 dice (see Camoflauge);

Appearance 2, Resolve 2, Guile 1

Combat:

Bite: 10 dice, 5L damage

Fling Poo: 8 dice, no damage but the target will be really grossed out with a -2 penalty from the

smell if they’re not used to monkeys.

Combat Movement: 8 dice

Evasion: 4 Parry: 2

Soak/Hardness: 2/0

Merits

Camouflage: The Green Monkey doubles all 9s on stealth rolls when in its native environment

of jungle Forest.

Climber: The Monkey is capable of scampering up trees just as fast as it can run on the ground.

A Green Monkey is capable of running directly up a green at one range brand per turn. They

never need to make climb checks unless the tree is violently shaking or covered in soap or

something slipper.

Distraction Master: If a Monkey successfully pulls off a distraction gambit, the gambit only

costs half the amount of initiative, rounded down.

Jungle Menace: Ignore up to three points of penalties that arise from jungle environments,

mainly related to movement but could also be things such as gathering food. This includes

moving while in in Stealth.

Yoink!: Green Monkey’s apply a -3 penalty when one attempts to sene them stealing by touch.

All other actions that involve stealing double 9s.

Gravehounds

Bred in Sijan as a form of enhanced war hound capable of dealing with the dead, Gravehounds

appear as large furless dogs with a sickly and sorrowful expression on their faces (even when

they are healthy). Gravehounds are useful to Sijanese or Abyssals as they do not fear dead nor

the Underworld. Whenever a Gravehound consumes the flesh of a recently deceased, it is

capable regaining all their memories for a number of days for a limited duration. Often

Gravehounds who do this may attempt to accomplish some last urgent task such as telling a

loved one or a lord the last report of a noble scout. More sadistic people use this to extract

information out of a dead man.

Gravehounds are very uncommon outside of the Scavenger Lands, though they are known to

exist in the Underworld as well.

Traits: As per the Wolf in Exalted 3e, except with the following abilities.

Special Attacks

Spectral Seal: Whenever a Gravehound has a spirit based target grappled, they are forbidden

to dematerialize so long as the Gravehound remains latched onto them.

Merits

Consume Memories: When a Gravehound consumes a recently deceased body, he is able to

absorb all the memories and intimacies of the recently deceased. For a number of days after the

fallen’s (Willpower), the Grave Hound uses the non-physical traits the recently deceased had

(Albeit it does not change its appearance).

Foot in Death’s Door: A Gravehound is capable of perceiving undead spirits who are

dematerialized normally with all of its senses. They are also able to physically touch, restrain,

and attack undead creatures who are dematerialized.

Ice Weasels

Speciality is jaw lock, if they can bite onto an opponent for three turns, their jaw becomes locked

around them and cannot be removed unless you break the jaw of the critter or cut off the arm.

EX-Mode they can tear off an arm while in crash.

Ice Weasel’s are predators of north, the three feet feet long creatures hunt alone through the icy

dunes. Despite their size and innocent appearance, they are known for being incredibly

dangerous creatures who can tear off the arm of a grown man with ease. Pelts of these

creatures are highly treasured valued across Creation, easily going for two dots of resources

(Resources three elsewhere). With their incredible sense of smell and speed, they are capable

of chasing their prey across the vast expanses of the north. Creatures of the north such as

Hushed Ones or Lunars have been known to train Ice Weasels to use them as powerful ambush

predators.

Difficulty: Similar to the Great Cat, but with a nasty little trick up its sleeve. Shouldn’t be overly

difficult for most people however.

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 1 Willpower: 5 Join Battle: 5 dice

Health Levels: -0/-1x4/-4/Incap.

Actions: Feats of Strength: 7 dice (may attempt Strength 5 feats); Senses: 7 dice (see Keen

Scent and Night Vision); Stealth: 8 dice (see Camouflage); Tracking: 6 dice (see Keen Scent)

Appearance 3, Resolve 3, Guile 1

Combat:

Bite: 11 dice, 12L damage

Grapple: 10 dice (9 to control)

Combat Movement: 10 dice

Evasion: 4 Parry: 5

Soak/Hardness: 6/0

Special Attacks

Ambush Hunter: The Ice Weasel adds three dice on all attack rolls made from stealth.

Clamp Down: An Ice Weasel that deals 3+ levels of damage to a victim with a decisive bite

attack may pay a point of Willpower to begin grappling them, making the opposed roll to

establish control over the clinch. A successful clinch adds +1 to the base Initiative it resets to for

every round of control it gains. Once per fight.

Leaping Pounce: If a Ice Weasel moves into close range with an enemy the size of a full grown

man or smaller and deals 5+ damage to it with a withering attack on the same turn, it may pay

a point of Willpower to reflexively make a grapple gambit against its prey.

Locked Jaw: The Ice Weasel is known for its jaw strength, and once it locks around someone’s

limb with a good enough grip it's capable of tearing the entire thing off. Once an Ice Weasel has

control of a grapple for three turns than control rounds become irrelevant. The Ice Weasel will

remain on the opponent until either its jaw is broken or the limb is torn clean off (Killing the Ice

Weasel won’t work, its jaw must be broken). If an Ice Weasel manages to launch a decisive

attack on a crashed opponent and do at least a single level of lethal damage, than it is capable

of tearing the limb directly off the target itself. Magical creatures such as the Exalted are more

hardy, and merely have the limb rendered useless for the scene.

Merits

Adapted to Cold: The Ice Weasel adds +2 dice and doubles 9s to any Resistance or Survival

check involving the temperature or other winter related hazards of the north.

Camouflage: The Ice Weasel doubles all 9s on stealth rolls when in its native environment of

icy tundra.

Keen Nose: The Ice Weasel double 9s on any perception roll involving their sense of smell.

Snow Predator (Latent): The white fur the Ice Weasel makes it hard to spot in the snow even

while moving. Ice Weasel’s ignore the -3 penalty to stealth for moving while cloaked so long as

the terrain is ice or snow or white.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the Accuracy of the unit’s attacks by +2, counting as a stunt bonus. This

does not apply when in a battlegroup.

Locked Jaw: For exalted users, the limb remains crippled until they receive proper medical

treatment or heal the damage.

Lockjaws

Many stories about how Lockjaws first appeared in the Western oceans are as numerous as the

fish are themselves. A tornado carried fresh water fish into the deep wyld where they mutated

into more deadly predators, a god jealous of Siakal’s power in the West made the fish in order

to compete with her, ancient super-predators of a primordial Creation have once again awoken

from their ancient slumber, either way the result is the same. An orange size fish about the size

of a man’s hand and a jaw that can open up to about the size of its body. These fish constantly

prowl the Western oceans looking for anything to eat; such as wood, meat, metal, meat, ships,

meat, exalts, and finally meat. Incredibly aggressive towards anything not another Lockjaw, the

fish are known to be large problems in the West. Siakal especially hates them with an undying

fury, and if any of her priests sacrifice blood to this creatures than she’ll demand the priest him

to be thrown into the jaws of her sons and daughters. Siakal may want blood split, but the only

blood she wants are from Lockjaws or those trying to kill them.

Difficulty: Lockjaws are a joke by themselves, but in a massive group they become nightmares

to everything floating in the water.

Suggested Type: Insignificant

Essence: 1 Willpower: 4 Join Battle: 5 dice

Health Levels: -0x1/-1x1/-2x1/Incap A single Lockjaw is something a single adult can easily do,

and when the situation arises a single successful attack roll to hit can kill one. However they

rarely appear alone...

Sample Intimacies:

● Defining: Food (Tie), Fish Food (Tie)

● Major: Food (Tie)

● Minor: Food (Tie)

Actions: Feats of Strength: 6 dice (May attempt Strength 3 Feats of Strength, see Iron Jaw);

Senses: 6 dice (see Blood Scent); Swim: 7 dice; Tracking: 3 dice (see Blood Scent)

Resolve 2, Guile 1

Combat:

Bite: 9 dice, 12L damage

Combat Movement: 7 dice

Evasion: 3 Parry: 1

Soak/Hardness: 3/0

Special Attacks

Blood Lust: Upon smelling blood in the water, Lockjaws abandon whatever reason they have

left in the sole minded purpose to consume prey. As soon as someone takes a single level of

lethal damage (Or even something cosmetic like a nosebleed) the Lockjaws go into a frenzy,

granting them Perfect Morale and an average drill.

Go for the Jugular!: Against a unit in initiative crash, Lockjaws add an amount of automatic

successes to attack rolls equal to the opponent’s current wound penalty. One roll is still made

against all targets within range of the battlegroup, but only those harmed get the bonus

successes compared to their defense.

Iron Jaw: Lockjaws are capable of eating virtually any matter they can virtually get their mouths

around. Swords, wood, people, all can be eaten and digested by the Lockjaws. For each point

of size the Lockjaws have they increase the dice pool for their feats of strength and their

effective strength by 1. Additionally Lockjaws add a number of automatic successes to such

rolls equal to (Size/2). Due to their size, a Lockjaw battle group can apply this to every ship

within its radius.

Merits

Blood Scent: The siaka adds three automatic successes on any Perception-based roll to sense

the presence of blood in the water, and can smell even a drop of blood from hundreds of miles

away. If it is specifically attempting to track or detect a character who is bleeding, it adds an

additional automatic success for each point of wound penalty that character is suffering.

Endless Swarm: The fast breeding Lockjaws are known to swim in massive schools time to

time. When used as part of a battle group, increase the magnitude size by an amount equal to

(Current Size/2, round up). This represents the sheer size in numbers.

Shark Sleep: Same as the Siaka. Siaka do not every truly sleep, remaining constantly active.

Instead, they may enter a resting phase, during which they remain conscious and can still move,

but cannot attack or take other involved physical actions without disrupting their rest. Eight

hours spent in this resting phase is equivalent to a night’s sleep for the siaka.

Flaws

Fish Food: Lockjaws go crazy for food designed to feed normal pet fish and no one knows why.

If a person has fish food, then they may attempt a gambit at a difficulty of (2 + [Current Size/2]).

If successful then for one action the size of the Lockjaw battle group will be reduced by 2 for all

effective stats, if the battle group is size 2 this could even force a withdraw! Of course, a brave

soul who is bleeding (one level of lethal damage) could attempt to lead the fish away.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the accuracy of this unit by +2, this is represented as a stunt bonus.

Endless Swarm +: The bonus to magnitude is increased to Size x2 instead of just Size.

Go for the Jugular!: The damage bonus related to size is turned into post soak against targets

in initiative crash.

Heavy Teeth: The incredibly sharp teeth of the Lockjaw are capable of shredding apart the

toughest of armour, granting them the piercing keyword.

Wyvern

Wyvern with Wyvern Rider

Wyverns are a rare sight in Creation, a high maintenance animal due to extremely finicky

way they set up their nest and their temperament often makes them more trouble than they’re

worth for most people. The people who are known to tame Wyverns are known as Wyvern

Riders and are regarded as some of the most elite shock troops in all of Creation. Wyverns are

most commonly seen in the South or Southeast, liking the warm climates and making their nests

in high locations which allow them to spot prey more easily and protect their young. In the

Scavenger Lands however there is a small Kingdom known as the Gardo Empire which is

known to make heavy use of Wyverns not only for attacking other nations, but also for thwarting

Mount Metagalapa’s Hawk Riders. Given the Wyvern’s tougher scales and vicious natural

weapon, they are more than a match for Hawk Riders.

Difficulty: Fighting Wyverns out in the open is an annoying prospect, with strong mobility and

flight to constantly harress others. However it is nothing players shouldn’t be able to handle, and

if you lure one into a cave or some such the mobility drastically decreases.

Suggested Type: Strong

Essence: 1 Willpower: 5 Join Battle: 6 dice

Health Levels: -0x3/-1x3/-2x3/-4x1/Incap . Wild Wyverns will generally flee after taking 6 levels

of damage, but if protecting their nest they will fight to the death.

Speed Bonus: +1 (+4 in air)

Actions: Feats of Strength: 8 dice (May attempt Strength 5 Feats of Strength); Resist

Poison/Disease: 7 dice (See Hard Gullet); Senses: 6 dice (See Airborne Hunter); Tracking: 6

dice

Combat:

Attack (Bite): 9 dice (Damage 15)

Attack (Claw): 11 dice (Damage 11)

Attack (Grapple): 8 dice (7 dice to control)

Combat Movement: 8 dice (See Tireless Wings)

Evasion: 4 Parry: 3

Soak/Hardness: 8/4

Special Attacks

Armour Crusher (Latent): If the Wyvern takes a movement toward an opponent and then

makes an attack, the next attack they make ignores 4 points of the opponent's armour.

Death Dive: As long as the Wyvern is able to soar up to long range from the ground, it may dive

down at an enemy with devastating force. The first time it moves down into close range with an

enemy while airborne and makes a decisive attack, it may add four dice to the attack roll and

apply the double 10s rule on the damage roll. Once it has used this special attack, it must regain

altitude, returning back to vertical long range before it can do so again.

Merits

Airborne Hunter: Being a predator of the air, the Wyvern’s eyes are keen on spotting things

from the air. Double all 9s on Sight based rolls while in the air.

Aerial Speed Demon: When competing against creatures on the ground while in the air, the

Wyvern my keep and reroll all 10s it gains on rushes against its opponent.

Darting Target: A Wyvern normally fights by constantly attempting to dart in and out of the

targets range. If a Wyvern flies into close range of the opponent, than until the end of their next

turn they turn one die on disengage rolls into an automatic success.

Hard Gullet: The Wyvern has adapted its stomach to food that would normally be toxic to other

creatures, as they’re not picky. Add +2 automatic successes to resist poison or disease from

food the Wyvern has ingested.

Tireless Wings: The Wyvern’s wings are very large and efficient, capable of carrying it across

vast distances with little physical effort. Flying for the Wyvern is no more difficult than walking. In

addition when it is flying it gains +3 dice on all combat movement rolls.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Wyverns are automatically counted to complex something such as a level 1 stunt

on all rolls, adding two dice to all rolls (Except damage).

Aerial Speed Demon: Against people attempting Withdraw actions, the Wyvern can rush from

medium range.

Ground Terror: The Wyvern turns one die on its attack roll into an automatic success whenever

it attacks a target incapable of flight from the air. Against characters who lack the Reaching tag

on their weapons, its defense increases by 1.

Automatons

Arete-Series Artificial Heroes (ASAH-001)

Familiar •••

The bodies of these advanced automatons are grown from obsidian in the stylized

likeness of perfect human physiques, devoid of distinguishing features and yet perfectly

proportioned blank-masked mannequins. When they move, their stone bends to its new position

as though sheared by volcanic force. At the heart of each burns a blessed effigy of the

Unconquered Sun so bright that it shines like a burning Solar anima through their nigh-opaque

exterior. A molten mantle of orichalcum flows like blood through their bodies. In battle, their

stone cracks and an eruption of superheated liquid alloy forms into the desired weapon until

reabsorbed. The synthetic warriors are largely silent combatants, designed to let the poetry and

brilliance of their prowess speak for them. They know only Old Realm. Although they failed to

provide a viable alternative to the Terrestrial Exalted as originally envisioned, they remain

among the most advanced models of battle automaton ever designed: fast, strong, fierce and

adaptive.

Aries has been a unique Arete as her creator has often told her that she was a twofold

Creation: Not only was she a lethal bodyguard but also had a personality installed within her as

well. Aries lives, thinks, and interacts with people just like any other person does. She has

wondered where her master went however after he left for dinner all those centuries ago,

leaving her all alone the Denandsor. Sure some interesting things happen, such as the Fey that

came in droves centuries ago, but whenever someone comes into the city they always leave

screaming before she can invite them to do anything. Until her master comes back or she hears

proof of her demise however, she is forced to remain in Denandsor, conflicting with her

Automaton core programming in which she wants to desperately explore the world and hear the

telling tale of heroes themselves.

Suggested Type: Special generally, but if the PC’s are really strong then Strong.

Difficulty: Certainly not an opponent for the lighthearted, Arete’s are often made to challenge

experienced Exalted themselves and even players who pick 5/5 in their primary combat stat.

Essence: 3 Willpower: 10 Join Battle: 12 dice

Personal Motes: 30/30

Health Levels: 10x -0/Incap

Actions: Feats of Strength: 12 dice (May attempt Strength 7 Feats of Strength), Craft: 9 dice

(Always a speciality with Arete’s and maintaining magical infrastructure, weapons, armour,

jewelery, buildings + manses, whatever else the ST needs), Social actions: 1 die, all other rolls:

12 dice (9 dice if intelligence is used)

Appearance 3, Resolve 6 (See Automaton), Guile 1

Combat:

Attack (Daiklave): 15 dice, 20/4L Damage, +1 Defense, see Masterwork Aureate Arsenal

Attack (Goremaul): 15 dice, 20/4L Damage, +1 Defense, see Masterwork Aureate Arsenal

Attack (Razor Claws): 17 dice, 18/3L Damage, +1 Defense, see Masterwork Aureate Arsenal

Attack (Grand Daiklave): 13 dice, 22/6L Damage, +0 Defense, see Masterwork Aureate Arsenal

Attack (Short Powerbow): 17 dice at short, 18/3L Damage, +1 Defense, see Masterwork

Aureate Arsenal

Combat Movement: 12 dice

Evasion: 6 Parry: 7 (6 with Grand Daiklave)

Soak/Hardness: 14/7 (+8/7 Obsidian Shell, no mobility or fatigue penalty)

Merits

Art in Motion: As a permanent enhancement of their capabilities, Arete automatons do not

accrue normal flurry penalties. Instead, Arete’s may flurry any two actions at no penalty but may

still only take one attack action per turn. Aretes have permanent enchantments duplicating the

effects of the following Solar Charms of Exalted: Graceful Crane Stance, Soaring Crane Leap,

Lightning Speed, Spider-Foot Style and Feather-Foot Style.

Automaton: Automatons are immune to poison and disease, and have no need to eat, drink,

breathe, or sleep. As a general rule, they treat all social influence as unacceptable, unless

following the orders of their master or faced with magic such as the Dawn Caste anima power.

Beauty-Appreciating Eye: The automatons benefit from permanent enchantments upgrading

their senses, duplicating the effects of the following Solar Charms: Unshakeable Bloodhound

Technique (enhances all tracking efforts, but with no Charm roll-off bonus), All-Encompassing

Sorcerer’s Sight (automatically identifies magic without Occult roll), Keen Sense Technique and

Unsurpassed Sense Discipline (Vision, Hearing/Touch).

Dynamic Crystal Design: The automatons can melt and internally re-forge damaged or

worn-out components, allowing them to heal two bashing or one lethal level each time their turn

begins (or every five seconds out of combat), which fails to work if they’re in initiative crash.

Aggravated damage heals one level per day. These systems also obviate the need for the

periodic maintenance common to less advanced models. Once “killed” with injury, one can be

hacked apart to stop regeneration. Amputated body parts fuse back into place the moment they

are reconnected and heal proportionally to their state (half intact means half health at max, plus

pertinent Crippling from remaining amputation). At least half the body must be restored for

severely damaged Aretes



to regain “consciousness” and begin gathering missing pieces. The

constructs know nothing of pain (immune to wound penalties and other pain-based Crippling

effects).

Masterwork Aureate Arsenal: The automatons can reflexively grow any basic orichalcum

weapon upon declaring an attack (or being declared the target of an attack), provided it has the

requisite free hands to wield it. Once made, the weapon can’t be changed out for another until

the unit’s DV refreshes. Grown weapons aren’t a valid target for non-amputating disarming

attempts, add an extra +2 damage from their superheated state and generate infinite mundane

ammunition as needed from the automaton’s own Essence-charged radiance.

Tactical Analysis Protocols: Aretes adapt to their attackers, applying onslaught as a DV

bonus rather than penalty. Arete



composed battle groups always have Perfect Morale, Elite

drill, and a Might of 2.

EX-Mode Abilities

Adaptive Learning Algorithms: Upon seeing a target’s actions at least once, the Arete is able

to adapt to their targets to alarming efficiency. Upon seeing a target defend against an Arete’s

attacks at least once the Arete may spend 1m 1i per automatic success it wishes to purchase

on an attack roll to a maximum of 3. Against a target who has disengaged/rushed the Arete, the

Arete may spend 1m 1i per automatic success on any such roll, to a maximum of 3.

Beauty-Appreciating Eye: In addition to its normal effects, the Arete Automaton may pay 1m

per 10 that appears in his join battle roll in order to cascade them, paying an additional mote for

each extra success.

Dynamic Crystal Design: In addition to its normal effects, Arete’s are capable of returning from

death even in incredibly harsh circumstances. Upon checking off the incapacitated level, the

Arete may return from combat three turns later as if it merely suffered initiative crash, checking

off the incapacitated box upon doing so and standing back up to fight once more. The only way

to stop this from happening is a special Coup de Grace



action in where your character

separates the Automaton apart in order to stop it from reactivating. This action is a simple

action and may be placed in a flurry.

Masterwork Aureate Arsenal: In addition to its normal effects, the Arete



may pay 1m per 10

that appears in the damage roll in order to cascade those die (paying additional motes per 10

that appears). On a decisive damage roll, the Arete



may pay 1m per 10 that appears in order

for that die to count as two successes.

Obsidian Shell Protection: The Arete



Automaton gains all the unique charms that the spell

Invulnerable Skin of Bronze



provides, which cannot be dispelled (In lieu of anima levels,

Invincible God Metal Flash may only be used once per scene instead with a reset condition of

taking three attacks which deal no damage). Additionally the Arete may spend 1m per 1 that

appears in the damage roll of the opponent, lowering the damage by 1 and netting the Arete 1i.

Hounds of Autochton

Originally constructed by Autochthon before his disappearance from Creation, these dogs were

originally made herd Furnace Rhinos. Standing nearly 10 feet tall at each shoulder while being

mostly made out of a single magical material, they silently roam the areas in the South

performing their duties even after thousands of years. Out of the Creations in the South

Autochton only made a handful of these creatures, and now only about half their numbers

remain.

It is also said that Hounds of Autochton, or their larger brothers the Alchemical Battle Beasts,

are said to roam important areas to Autochton within Creation or his domain within Yu-Shan.

Difficulty: The Hounds of Autochton are a far more durable and rarer version of the Dog

template,

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 5 Willpower: 7 Join Battle: 9 dice

Personal Motes: 50/50

Health Levels: -0x3/-1x4/-2x2/-4/Incap. The Hounds have no sense of fear, but unless

protecting something valuable to Autochton will retreat after taking seven levels of damage.

Speed Bonus: +3, but without Autochton ordering them they won’t allow anyone on their back.

Actions: Feats of Strength: 6 dice (may attempt Strength 3 Feats of Strength); Intimidate: 3

dice; Resisting Hardship: 6 dice; Senses: 8 dice (see Keen Nose); Stealth: 8 dice; Tracking: 8

dice

(see Keen Nose)

Appearance 3, Resolve 4, Guile 1

Combat:

Bite: 11 dice, 13L/3 damage

Grapple: 8 dice (7 to control)

Combat Movement: 8 dice

Evasion: 5 Parry: 3

Soak/Hardness: 10/5 (Magical Material Skin)

Template

Dog/Wolf: Unless mentioned otherwise, Hounds of Autochton have the exact same Special

attacks and merits as a wolf. All Latent and Magical options are also automatically unlocked for

the Hounds.

Merits

Automaton: Automatons are immune to poison and disease, and have no need to eat, drink,

breathe, or sleep. As a general rule, they treat all social influence as unacceptable, unless

following the orders of their master or faced with magic such as the Dawn Caste anima power.

Automaton battle groups have perfect morale. The Drill of such units is often considered

Average.

Inevitable Escape: Given time, Hounds of Autochthon can chew through any chain, dig out of

any pit or escape from any pen or trap. Even magical bindings or prisons fail in time, often with

no sign of how the hound got out. If it becomes relevant in play, roll the beast’s Willpower on

regular increments. The hound escapes after five successes. Roll daily for mundane means of

restraint (if the hound cannot simply break out with an ordinary feat of strength or attack);

weekly, for extraordinary fetters such as a jadesteel cage, or those employing simple Charms,

artifacts, thaumaturgy or Terrestrial Circle sorcery; and monthly for powerful artifacts or sorcery.

Even N/A artifacts, entities of comparable power or throwing a hound into Elsewhere merely

extend the time scale to years.

Keen Nose: When making perception rolls based on smell, the Hounds of Autochton double all

9s and add two automatic successes to any roll.

Loyal Guardian: The Hound of Autochton is able to flurry a defend other action with an attack

without the usual penalties if protecting another hound.

Magical Material Construction: Depending on their magical Material base, each hound of

Autochton will get a different upgrade:

● Sun Dogs: Appearing like a Mastiff with a lion like mane and glittering golden coat, the

howls of these creatures can be heard for miles. Sun Dogs are stronger than other dogs,

having +2 Strength (Meaning that they at least add +2 damage to attacks), can attempt

Strength 5 feats of Strength, double 9s on all Feats of Strength rolls, and their attacks

have the piercing tag.

● Moon Dogs: These lean creatures have smooth Silver Coats and whiplike tails. These

hounds are far quicker than most other Hounds, adding +2 to their combat movement

speed, doubling 9s on all combat movement rolls, and may take their next action three

ticks faster than what they normally could.

● Jadehound: These bulky stone like dogs are deceptively agile for their size, standing

only nine feet tall and still able shrug off blows far better than their other cousins. Increse

the soak and hardness of a Jadehound to 15/10 respectively, all wound penalties count

as one less, and lastly add two dice to resist hardship and double all 9s on such rolls.

● Starhounds: Starhounds have thick grey coats but are rarely seen, always appearing to

be in the area where others are not known to look. Starhounds add +2 dice to their

stealth pool, double all 9s on stealth rolls, are capable of adding all threshold damage to

post-soak on withering attacks or as extra damage on decisive attacks when made

from stealth, and lastly are still capable of making ambush attacks after a fight has

begun so long as they meet other criteria are met.

● Nighthounds: Appear as ebon black sun dogs with solid white eyes. The Silent Killers

are known to never bark and their very stare and bite is said to drain the soul out of a

target completely and that they will chase their quarry to the ends of the earth.

Nighthounds add +2 dice to all perception or tracking based rolls and double all 9s from

such things, double 9s (withering) or double 10s (decisive) on damage rolls against

spiritual OR mortal based targets, and every successful attack against an exalted target

must have the defender pay either three motes or one willpower lest they apply the

doubling rule on them as well.

Regeneration: The hounds recover one level of non-aggravated damage every 15 minutes.

Aggravated damage takes the same amount of time as the Exalted to heal.

Sense Intrusions: Hounds of Autochthon sometimes know when forces of the Wyld or (less

often) Malfeas or the Underworld launch assaults into Creation, or when ancient seals are about

to be broken. Even the wisest gods and savants don’t know how, but considering who made

them, they might receive warnings directly from the Loom of Fate.

Southern Adaptation: When resisting hazards or weather common in the south, the hounds

add +3 automatic successes to the roll and may soak southern environmental hazards with a

soak of 3.

Spectral Adaptation: A Hound of Autochton is capable of perceiving any spirit who are

dematerialized normally with all of its senses. They are also able to physically touch, restrain,

and attack such creatures who are dematerialized.

Wyld Resistance: The unnatural influence of the Wyld has no effect on these hounds. They

treat themselves as having Integrity Protecting Prana active at all times.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the Accuracy of the unit’s attacks by +2, counting as a stunt bonus.

Principle of Motion (10m, 1wp; Reflexive; Instant; Essence 2): The Hounds of Autochton move

with blinding speed, taking a flurry without the usual restrictions—it can flurry two of the same

action if desired, and it ignores the usual penalties to dice pools and Defense.

Regeneration: One level of damage once every three turns while in battle. In order to properly

KO a Hound of Autochton for good, the attack must perform a miscellaneous coup de grace

action which may not be flurried.

VTX-001 “Bartoll”

In the face of an ever growing amount of aggressive aliens, the United Earth Directorate

sent out contracts to various companies in order to make a next-generation fighting mechanoid

in order to replace the obsolete Gespenst and even Huckebein MKII. The VTX-001, otherwise

known as Bartoll, is the solution that Wong Heavy Industries produced. With everything going

into speed and power, the paper thin armour the Bartoll appears to leave much to be desired.

The Bartolls true power and potential however lies within the ODE System that is shared

amongst the network of Bartolls, allowing their combat prowess to grow in proportion to the

number currently within the immediate area in addition to their cognitive abilities. This allows

Bartolls to rarely be victims to attacks and tactics used twice in succession against them as they

adapt on the fly to counter their opponents. Concerns mount however over the risk of an

completely AI controlled army, as if what would happen if that army happened to fall into the

wrong hands...

As Automatons, Bartolls are fearless and conduct their orders to the letter. They are

armed with a variety of lethal and non-lethal weaponry. Their armour is paper thin on purpose

not only to increase speed, but the idea is that once the ODE System has had sufficient time to

analyze an opponent than that opponent will be fighting an uphill battle unless they are

particularly crafty. Often times command variants of Bartolls exist, often having different or

exotic weaponry to deal with specific threats that normal Bartolls have trouble with.

Suggested Type: Almost always Special, can be composed of Battle Groups.

Difficulty: Very hard. Bartolls are easy to take on as singular enemies, but in groups the ODE

System makes them a devastating force to be dealt with. In addition the longer a battle goes on

against them the harder it becomes, in both battle groups and singular opponents. The entire

premise is to overwhelm an opponent with superior numbers, and if Bartolls determine that they

cannot beat an opponent and have no other pressing issues, they will often retreat failing

battles.

Essence: 2 Willpower: 5 Join Battle: 9 dice

Health Levels: 1x -0/3x -1/3x -2/Incap

Actions: Any Awareness roll: 8 dice, Analyzing Opponents: 8 dice, Command: 8 dice (May only

be used to command other Bartolls), Feats of Strength: 12 dice (May attempt Strength 7 Feats

of Strength), Tactics: 7 dice, Tracking: 7 dice

Appearance 2, Resolve 5 (See Automaton), Guile 3

Combat:

Attack (Wrist Beam Sabers): 12 dice, 14/3L Damage, +1 Defense, see Beam Saber entry

Attack (Wrist Laser Blast): 12 dice at Short range, 11/2L Damage

Attack (Arm Missile Pod): 12 dice at Short, 15/1L Damage

Attack (Knockout Gas): 13 dice at Short, special, see Knockout Gas Entry

Combat Movement: 8 dice

Evasion: 4, Parry: 4

Soak/Hardness: 4/0

Special Attacks

Wrist Beam Saber: The wrist mounted Beam weapons of the Bartoll are very effective against

mundane arms and armour. For each successful decisive attack or withering attack that deals

five or more damage, the opponent's armour is reduced by one until it can be fixed or repaired.

This does not apply to artifact arms and armour. Additionally the Bartoll’s sabers are mounted

directly on its wrists, gaining the Natural tag and thus cannot be disarmed.

Knockout Gas: In order to take an assigned target captive, a Baroll may deploy knockout gas.

This is represented as a special gambit that attacks everyone within close range of the target

with a special gambit of difficulty 3 (Roll once for all opponents and for the gambit roll).

Everyone within the area must immediately check as if they took a dose of Arrow Frog Venom,

and if anyone affected by this poison crashes, than the poison penalty increases by an

additional -1 for each round. If this exceeds or meets the victim's stamina, then they are

immediately rendered unconscious.

Merits

Adaptive Learning Algorithms: Any attack or tactic used against them has much less effect in

the future. When using a charm or spell against a Bartoll, one of the actions of a nearby Bartoll

will be to immediately scan this new phenomena (In combat groups, this reduces their size by 1

for a turn unless a commander does this for them), after scanning this new action the Bartolls

will no longer take any sort of onslaught against similar attacks for the rest of the scene against

that opponent. In addition each time the attack is repeated the Bartoll may pay 2i per +1

defense, up to a maximum of +3. The ways to counter this are to use attacks the Bartolls have

not analyzed yet, such as a new weapon (Switching from Sword to a Spear), using a new charm

or spell, getting a level 2 or higher stunt, or attacking in a way that is largely unorthodox (EX:

Stunting your attack by throwing out a crystal vase, shooting the crystal vase, then letting the

shrapnel shred multiple Bartolls). Rushing/Disengage attempts are also analyzed in the same

way, and each attempt an opponent makes against a Bartoll (Win or lose) allows the Bartoll to

spend 2i per success it wishes to purchase in future rush/disengage attempts, to a maximum of

3 (Starts at 1, each additional attempt allows the Bartoll to purchase another). This isn’t shown

as the Bartoll suddenly becoming faster, but rather knowing how to cut their opponent off or

what moves they’ll take in order to make a safe retreat far more hazardous.

Automaton: Automatons are immune to poison and disease, and have no need to eat, drink,

breathe, or sleep. As a general rule, they treat all social influence as unacceptable, unless

following the orders of their master or faced with magic such as the Dawn Caste anima power.

Automaton battle groups have perfect morale. The Drill of such units is often considered

Average, but there are upgraded computer modules that improve processing power and could

give Bartolls access to Elite functionality (For the GM’s who really want to give players a

challenge)

Flight: The Bartoll is capable of flight due to its Tesla Drive. Outside of combat it can move as

fast as an airplane normally would, but this is rare as it is not normally designed for long

distance flights. Some storytellers may wish to limit this.

Networked Intelligence: The Bartoll’s shared networking allows them to share senses and data

in order to accomplish complex goals and ideals with surprising clarity despite being an AI. The

Bartoll gains a number of bonus die equal to the size of the combat group it would currently

have to all actions listed in the Action list, and if more than one Bartoll is in the area but not

enough for a battle group treat it as a +1 bonus. Additionally if they lack a commander to

oversee their combat group, the Bartolls are able to take a collective command action

themselves

ODE System: The Omni Dendro Encephalon System is the latest in Technology from Wong

Heavy Industries, allowing a networked group of automatons to function in near perfect

harmony. When fighting as singular units, all Bartolls in the area begin each turn with the

highest initiative amongst any single one of them, while for each turn a commander/single unit

Bartoll has higher initiative than his friendly combat group than the initiative of the battle group

increases by +2. If a Bartoll makes a decisive attack, than the remaining Bartolls with active

initiative tracks need each pay an amount of initiative in order to bring the initiative of the reset

Bartoll as equal to the rest of the group at the beginning of their next turn. Bartolls who are

crashed do not gain this bonus. In mass combat they are treated as having Might 1 the very

instant they are subject to an attack from an opponent on the enemy side, raising to Might 2 if

they manage to crash a single person.

Optical Enhancement: The Bartoll has access to the following Optical Enhancements at all

times:

● Ultraperipheral Awareness

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: The Bartoll has a 360 degree view of its surroundings at all

times.

● Recording Systems

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: Each Bartoll records up to the previous day of footage. This is

significant as the bonuses from the Adaptive Learning Algorithms trait will remain for the

day.

Pack Hunting: When the Bartoll attacks an enemy, it adds one automatic success to the

attack roll for each allied pack member in close range to that enemy for melee or short for

ranged weapons, to a maximum of three successes. On a decisive attack, it may also pay a

point of Willpower to add that many dice to the raw damage of the attack, representing its

packmates joining in the attack. In a Combat Group, Bartolls gain an additional +1 automatic

success on attacks against non-battlegroup opponents or battlegroups to which they have

superior numbers against at all times. This special attack can only be used with other Bartolls.

Flaws

Thin Armour: For all the advancements in the Bartoll, the armour and durability was the one

thing that was sacrificed in order to make efficient for mass production. Instead of making a

normal decisive attack against a Bartoll, one can just make a gambit roll with the successes on

the gambit roll being applied as health damage directly to the Bartoll and the attacker only losing

(Amount of successes on gambit roll +1, maximum of 7) initiative.

EX-Mode

Thin Armour: Bartolls lack this flaw.

Knowledge Checks

Difficulty 3: With a difficulty 3 check, the player is able know about any system the Bartoll has

before battle and how it works, such as the ODE System or Adaptive Learning Algorithms. Each

three threshold successes over the difficulty allows knowledge of one other system.

Dead

Doom

Archvile

Fucking Archviles

Archviles are something akin to the Bishop’s of the Neverborn, constantly wanting to spread

their word to the death of all things. Despite constantly being consumed alive by Pryeflame, a

unique fire only found in the Underworld and can consume nearly anything in its powerful

flames, even spirits, and rend them to ash. Despite outward appearances, the Archvile actually

views itself as a healer amongst the dead and is rather actually kind towards those who wish to

fulfill the wishes of the neverborn. To those who opponent them they’re blasted apart by

powerful necromancy and then made into a puppet for the Neverborn.

Difficulty: The ability to raise the dead once again and command battlegroups places them

firmly into the “KILL ME FIRST” category. Brutally powerful attacks capable of cleaving through

tough armour and making dodging all that much harder, combined with powerful sorcery and the

ability to bring back any enemy back from the dead is something that cannot be understated.

Flesh Wizards and Ice Viles are even worse.

You also may’ve noticed some stats are very close to the Nephwrack, let this be a lesson in how

simple making a new enemy entirely can be.

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 5 Willpower: 8 Join Battle: 11 dice

Personal Motes: 100/100

Health Levels: -0x3/-1x3/-2x4/-4x4/Incap.

Actions: Command: 10 dice; Healing the Undead: 9 dice; Read Motives: 8 dice; Prayer: 11

dice; Senses: 8 dice; Shape Sorcery/Necromancy: 13 dice; Social Influence: 9 dice; Stealth: 7

dice; Strategy: 8 dice; Underworld Lore: 10 dice

Appearance 5 (Hideous), Resolve 4, Guile 5

Combat:

Unarmed: 12 dice, 12L/3 damage

Pyreflame Blast: 16 dice, 18L/5 damage, Range Long

Combat Movement: 8 dice

Evasion: 5 Parry: 4

Soak/Hardness: 10/5 (Pyreflame seared Skin)

Merits

Pyreflame Master: The Archvile uses Pyreflame over normal fire, and thus affects that reduce

the damage of fire (Such as Guarda birds) have no effect against the flame based attacks.

Void-Eaten Soul: Like the Nephwracks, the Archvile have seen the void at the end of all things

and dreamt the dreams of dead gods. They are insane, almost always having one or more

Derangements, but their madness only makes them more dangerous. Any social influence

opposed by a Derangement or the archvile’s absolute enmity to life is unacceptable, as is any

Psyche effect, sorcerous control, or healing magic that would undo their madness.

Sorcery

As with the Nephwrack, the Archviles are known to be very proficient sorcerers, often knowing

Skin of Bronze (Which it will very often cast at the beginning of each day), Obsidian Butterflies,

and Mists of Eventide. Nephwracks will moreso focus on offensive sorcerous magic dedicated to

obliterating the opponent.

An Archvile may draw power from the consuming might of Pyreflame. It may consume a nearby

willing ally in Pyreflame gaining (3 or Essence, whichever is higher) motes from them. This

destroys lesser spirits with an essence rating of 1 to 4, but tougher targets are immediately

subject to a Pyreflame Blast that is undodgable and unblockable, is rolled as as a withering

attack against armour, but deals lethal damage and nets the Archvile the damage done as extra

motes. Against a battle group the Archvile gains (Size, Average Essence rating of members in

battlegroup, or 3, whichever is higher) additional motes in exchange for doing 10 dice of

damage to the battlegroup which cannot be soaked. This drawback is seen as pointless to the

Archvile who can bring back the Undead with incredible rapidity. In addition the Nephwrack

knows the Necromancy spell Bonespike Graveyard

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, which is shown in the appendix.

Offensive Charms

Hungry Flames (5m, Supplemental, Uniform): Pyreflame is known to consume any known

substance, and armour provides little effect against it. When the Archvile makes a withering

attack, then any threshold damage dice are added as post soak instead. If the target is crashed

than it applies to both raw damage and adds post soak damage. For Decisive attacks it doubles

10s, or doubles 9s if the opponent is crashed.

Pyreflame Burst (5m, Simple, Uniform, Aggravated, Instant): The Archvile raises its arms high

up in the air as it begins chanting a spell, ghostly flames beginning to rapidly form at the

opponent’s feet as the chant continues, then on the next turn the Archvile then turns this ghostly

flames into real ones, Pyreflame burning not only the physical body but actually exploding the

soul as well. This charm works by having the Archvile spend a turn activating the charm, during

which he cannot move and take no other actions. On the beginning of the next turn if the

opponent has not moved behind total cover or somehow disappeared from the Archvile’s sight,

the blast erupts beneath the targets feet. This spells is incredibly accurate and can be used at

the same accuracy regardless of the distance, and the fast moving flames applies a -2 penalty

to the opponent's dodge if they attempt to use it. If the target is in initiative crash, the damage it

does is applied as aggravated.

Social Charms

Undead Majesty (7m 1WP, Simple, Scene): Appearing as a high priest of the Neverborn itself,

the Archvile is capable of commanding lesser undead with ease. With this charm active, any

social roll against a creature of death is made with double 9s and costs an additional point of

willpower resist while command rolls are also made with double 9s. If the Archvile wishes, he

can either appear oddly beautiful so he can apply his appearance as normal or horrifying in

order to scare away others. Any undead or demons with a lower essence rating than the

Archvile must pay two points of willpower to actually strike him (This only needs to be paid once

per battle). Against living creatures his has a much greater effect, forcing people to spend 1 WP

to attack the Archvile (Unless they have some defining intimacy of bravery, Valor, or Hatred of

the Neverborn/Undead), doubling 9s only on inspire attempts to draw out fear, and paying an

extra willpower point to resist fear attempts.

Miscellaneous Charms

Raise Dead (10m, Simple, Instant): By spending 10 motes in sight of a dead body, the Archvile

can bring the dead back to life as a zombie corpse under its control. For the rest of the scene

the corpse itself will have the exact same traits as it did in life. What’s unique about the Archvile

however is that it can even do the same to recently slain spirits, demons, and dead! Those

spirits who have been force to dissipate in battle can be summoned back to life under the

Archvile’s control of the rest of the scene, even resulting in impossibilities such as undead

demons of Malfeas temporarily. Such creatures will always rise up at at least half their original

health. Raise mortals or Essence 1 targets back from life doesn’t require a roll, but to bring back

other essence wielding targets requires a sorcery roll using 13 dice at a difficulty of (Target’s

Essence). Archvile’s can only revive targets who have Essence ratings 1-4, any more is too

great for them. Destroying a target with Ghost Eating Technique prevents an Archvile from

using this ability on a corpse, as does burning them with the Zenith ability. Targets with

Legendary Size cannot be brought back to life.

Against a battle group this ability is even more extreme, allowing the Archvile to bring slain

soldiers back to life entirely! This allows a Rally for Numbers action to be used on a friendly

battlegroup, rolling 13 dice for it.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the Accuracy of the unit’s attacks by +2, counting as a stunt bonus. This

does not apply when in a battlegroup.

Pyreflame Burst: On withering attacks, all targets within close range of the original target are

compared to the original attack roll, and if it hit take 5 unsoakable damage (The Archvile does

not gain this initiative). If a decisive attack hits and does more than 5 levels of damage, on

bonfire hazard starts on the opponent.

EX-Mode Archviles can also be one of two variants: Flesh Wizards or Ice Viles. Unless

otherwise noted their abilities are largely the same.

Flesh Wizards

Flesh Wizards conjure images of horror and nightmares from the Labyrinth itself, moving with

unnatural ease through the Labyrinth and other dark places with rarely a sound, it then blasts

opponents with powerful mental and fear inducing attacks. The Flesh Wizard, to those that

actually see it, appears as a single faceless figure, floating just above the floor as a pillar of

flesh which mouthless moans constantly escape its mouth.

Flesh Wizards are rarely seen even by those in the Underworld, often remaining in the darkest

areas of the Labyrinth where seeing it directly would be even harder. If one is seen outside of it,

then someone has likely done something to really anger the Neverborn... or they wish to crown

a new potential champion.

As a point of clarification, unless otherwise noted all stats are the same as the Archvile base.

Difficulty: You thought the Archvile was bad? Welcome to a new level of hell. Unless players

track down and find this son of a bitch it's fairly capable of dragging on a battle to uncomfortable

or extreme lengths.

Actions: Social Influence: 9 dice (See He Who Lurks Within the Darkness); Stealth: 10 dice

(See He Who Lurks Within the Darkness)

Merits

He Who Lurks Within the Darkness: The Flesh Wizard doubles all 9s on stealth rolls when in

stealth. Against a target who has an emotion of fear or a major intimacy of fear towards the

undead, the Flesh Wizard doubles 8s instead. This also applies to any social rolls and

movement checks against the Flesh Wizard. Lastly any attempt to attack the Flesh Wizard with

similar fear based motivations are done at a -3 penalty.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: The Flesh Wizard does not have a mouth on it, rather it

communicates by blasting images directly into the opponent's mind. Such communications

attempts are unnerving to say the least, and any successful social influence check that isn’t fear

instills a minor intimacy of fear towards the Flesh Wizard. This can be resisted by resisting the

original social attack. Having no facial cues also confuses those who try to discern its alien

motivations, applying a -3 penalty on all read motivation checks against it.

Visions of a Waking Nightmare: The Flesh Wizard is able to conjure illusions to fool the

opponent. These illusions never last for more than a single turn and can fool two senses at most

out to a range of Long. The Flesh Wizard will often use such illusions to confuse and distract

those in combat. When used as part of a stunt with Horrors from Beyond the Void, he applies a

-2 penalty to the opponent’s defense as horrors in the real world assault him in tandem with

horrors of the mental world.

Sorcery

In addition to Terrestrial Circle spells, Flesh Wizards have the Impenetrable Veil of Night, and

will often immediately cast it to a precursor to any serious battle. If Undead Majesty is active

than any demons it commands in battle are immune to the negative effects of the darkness and

can see in it clearly.

Offensive Charms

Pyreflame Burst: The Flesh Wizard does not have this charm, he instead has Horrors from

Beyond the Void.

Horrors from Beyond the Void (5m, Simple, Uniform, Aggravated, Instant): The Flesh Wizard

reaches out to communicate with a soul, images and words from the Neverborn themselves

assaulting the targets mind. These images are so damaging to the mind and soul of the target

that their brain overloads trying to comprehend such blasphemous knowledge. Mechanically this

is modelled in the same fashion as Pyreflame Blast is only with a few differences. First is that

the Flesh Wizard can flurry a threaten or intimidation action free of charge when using this

charm. Second is that it bypasses traditional soak completely, using the opponent's Resolve as

as the soak and hardness values, which can be altered using relevant intimacies to help

defense against it (Doing so does not consume the intimacy for the scene). The damage from

this attack is a bit weaker compared to Pyreflame Blast, doing ‘only’ 15L/3 base damage.

Hungry Flames: This still works, I just can’t think up a good spooky sounding name. Just call it

Skeleton March or something.

It Knows What Scares You (5m, Supplemental, Uniform, Psyche): If the Flesh Wizard learns

an intimacy or feeling of fear the target has, than the Flesh Wizard is able to attack the target

using the lower of either their Guile or defense so long as he stunts it with Visions of a Waking

Nightmare. If this attack manages to crash or do any decisive damage to a target, that target

must enter an immediate decision point to resist either gaining a derangement of Madness or

Obsession (Avoiding the Flesh Wizard at all costs).

Miscellaneous Charms

Heal Dead (10m, Simple, Instant): The Neverborn uses the blessing of the Void against its

target, fulfilling its champion with unholy might so it may survive longer against the fools who

fight entropy. The Flesh Wizard selects a creature of death with a lower essence than itself and

rolls 13 dice. For every success that comes up, one level of lethal damage is turned into

bashing, and if no lethal levels exist than it's able to heal bashing. Against a Strong type

opponent it's able to heal one level of damage per success rolled.

Lost Souls

The Lost Souls of the Underworld are quite literally what their name implies, souls lost in the

Labyrinth down below and unable to pass into Lethe as the Neverborn wanted them to suffer as

much as they are. Taking the form of a flying skill that’s on fire, the Lost Soul’s sole purpose in

life is to cause as much pain and suffering as it can before it expires. What they lack up for in

strength however they more than make up for in numbers.

Difficulty: By themselves a Lost Soul is no threat, the real problem comes when there’s dozens

of the little bastards around. Their suicide attack is very painful and accurate to boot.

Suggested Type: Insignificant

Essence: 1 Willpower: 3 Join Battle: 6 dice

Personal Motes: 30/30

Health Levels: -0/-1/-2/Incap.

Actions: Senses: 4 dice; Shrieking: 5 dice

Combat:

Charge: 8 dice, 10L damage

Combat Movement: 7 dice (See Flaming Charge)

Evasion: 3 Parry: 0

Soak/Hardness: 2/0

Special Attacks

Exploding Charge: As an alternative to the default Flaming Charge, Lost Soul’s can be sent

screaming towards their opponents as living missiles. The accuracy of this attack is 12 dice with

a damage of 13L/3, which if the Lost Soul hits it automatically dies in the resulting explosion. If

used in a battlegroup, the resulting battlegroup loses magnitude equal to (Size, minimum 2)

from the multiple suicide chargers. This feature can only be used if the Lost Soul is at least short

or further away from the opponent in order to build up speed, but in a size 2 or larger

battlegroup it can use it regardless of these restrictions.

Flaming Charge: When a Lost Soul has focused on their target they begin to charge towards

them with frightening speed, moving two range brands a turn towards a target before colliding

with them. This charge adds one additional automatic success to the roll to hit and adds +2

additional damage. However the Lost Soul can only move in a straight line while doing this, and

moving a single range brand in distance makes the Lost Soul’s automatically miss.

Merits

Endless Swarm: The numbers of the Lost seem truly endless. When used as part of a battle

group, increase the magnitude size by an amount equal to (Current Size/2, round up). This

represents the sheer size in numbers.

Flight: The Lost Soul is capable of hovering with no ceiling whatsoever.

Flaws

Clinching: Despite being on fire, Lost Soul’s are quite safe to touch. In fact if one can

successfully land a grapple gambit on one, they are able to throw and use it as a missile!

Having the same traits as a medium thrown weapon which explodes on contact with its target.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the Accuracy of the unit’s attacks by +2, counting as a stunt bonus. This

CAN apply in a battle group but not on Exploding Charge.

Endless Swarm +: Magnitude is increased by (Size x2) instead.

Flaming Charge: Any Battle Group of size 2 or higher automatically gains the benefits of

Flaming Charge on all attacks, as the sheer number of Lost Souls flying around makes it.

Pain Elemental

Some scholars say a Pain Elemental is the living embodiment of pain and suffering within

Underworld, those who are not wise say they’re the ghost of vengeful rotten tomatoes, either

one may as well but true as the real answer for that they are has never really been explained in

depth. All that’s known is letting these things live around you will quickly drown an unfortunate

target in Lost Soul’s.

Appearing as a giant ball about six feet tall with light brown leathery skin, a massive maw, short

stubby arms, two large black curved horns, and a single red eye. Their main attack is spitting

out brand new lost souls, born screaming into the world as they hurl themselves towards an

unlucky target.

Difficulty: Flight combined with the ability to constantly spawn minions and reinforce a

battlegroup makes for a really terrifying opponent to those who use melee and are incapable of

flight. Archery users can quickly find themselves swamped with screaming flaming heads as

well, thrown users will thank you as Shrike Saving Direction annihilates the Lost Souls and the

Pain Elementals in one go.

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 3 Willpower: 5 Join Battle: 7 dice

Personal Motes: 70/70

Health Levels: -0x2/-1x3/-2x3/-4/Incap.

Actions: Commanding Lost Souls: 6 dice; Senses: 6 dice

Resolve 3, Guile 2

Combat:

Lost Soul Projectile: 11 dice at close, 14L/3 damage, Range Medium, See Lost Soul Projectile

Bite: 7 dice, 18L damage

Combat Movement: 6 dice

Evasion: 3 Parry: 0

Soak/Hardness: 8/0 (Leathery skin)

Special Attacks

Lost Soul Explosion: Killing a Pain Elemental is just as bad as letting one live. Upon its death

a Pain Elemental explodes into 3 Lost Souls. If a Lost Soul battlegroup is on the field, it instead

makes a reflexive roll to rally for numbers which is useful for Lost Soul Swarm.

Lost Soul Projectile: The Pain Elemental attacks by firing Lost Souls at people, sending the

flaming skulls screaming from its mouth and towards the unfortunate opponent. However these

are not phantom imagery attacks, they are actual Lost Souls that will remain around after the

attack has concluded. Pain Elementals never use this attack before battle to generate more Lost

Souls for some reason, and cannot be ordered to unless attacking an opponent with hostile

intent.

Merits

Flight: The Pain Elemental is capable of true flight without a ceiling.

Heartless: A Pain Elemental is incapable of feeling compassion, and any such social influence

attempt to appeal to such a thing automatically fails. They are however capable of being the

target of other social influence actions normally.

Lost Soul Swarm: If more than 5 Lost souls are on the field (Either starting or generating Lost

Souls via attacks) they’ll enter into a battle group. For every Lost Soul Projectile attack made

after this, this Pain Elemental reflexively rolls 6 dice and for every success on that roll increases

the magnitude of the Lost Soul battlegroup by an equal amount. If the magnitude of this battle

group increases to (See chart below to save the math), than the battle group loses the extra

magnitude and increases its size by 1. If in a battle group, then the volley of Lost Souls would

immediately create a size 1 battle group at least and adds the current size of the battle group to

the dice rolled for the reflexive command actions.

Magnitude increase chart:

Size Progression

Magnitude Needed at Old Size

Size 1 -> Size 2

Size 2 -> Size 3

Size 3 -> Size 4

Size 4 -> Size 5

Size 5 -> New Size 1

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the Accuracy of the unit’s attacks by +2, counting as a stunt bonus. This

does not apply when in a battlegroup.

Dual Mouthed Pain Elemental: Often called Pain Elemental 64 for how many it can seem to

spawn after one blinks their eyes. Command actions reroll a number of dice equal to the

successes in order to see how many Lost Souls are spawned for a Lost Soul Battlegroup. If

combined with Lost Soul Swarm+ this does not make an attack more accurate, just allows to

see how much bonus magnitude they can gain. If no battle group is on the field, each attack

from the Pain Elemental spawns 2 lost souls instead.

Lost Soul Explosion: Everyone within close range of the Pain Elemental as it dies is subjected

to an immediate withering attack that deals 5 dice of unsoakable damage.

Lost Soul Swarm+: The successes on the attack Lost Soul Projectile is used to reinforce the

battle group.

Jiang Shi

A terrifying ghost that is mostly seen in the Southeast of Creation but can be created anywhere

by deadly necromancers. By attaching a talisman to a fresh corpse’s head and performing a

ritual, such as making a pregnant cat leap over the coffin or resting place, a Jiang Shi is born.

Jiang Shi’s appear as living corpse’s that have wick long claws, each of them being nearly a foot

long in of themselves. Their very touch is infused with undead energy, ripping apart the natural

vitality's that sustain a person’s body and even shred apart any potent defensive magics they

may have! While being stronger than a hungry soldier, they have considerably more

weaknesses, some of which are rather odd. Their power however makes them a staple for any

necromancer and their undead army.

Difficulty: Jiang Shi’s were made to crush tanky characters that rely on natural and/or magical

soak, a group of them easily capable of beating a character down so anyone can damage the

weakened character. Otherwise they’re a beefier version of the War Ghost that also has far

more weaknesses to exploit.

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 2 Willpower: 5 Join Battle: 6 dice

Personal Motes: 60/60

Health Levels: -0x2/-1x3/-2x3/-4x2/Incap.

Actions: Ancient An-Teng Proverbs: 5 dice; Being Spooky: 6 dice; Senses: 6 dice; Threaten: 6

dice

Appearance 2 (Hideous), Resolve 2, Guile 2

Combat:

Jiang Shi Claw: 10 dice, 14L/3 damage

Combat Movement: 6 dice

Evasion: 2 Parry: 4

Soak/Hardness: 6/0 (Light armour)

Special Attacks

Merits

Infectious Claws: Any mortal who takes damage from a Jiang Shi’s claws will become a Jiang

Shi after their dead if they die within 25 hours of taking damage.

Material: Jiang Shi’s are made from physical bodies, thus cannot dematerialize.

Charms

Energy Draining Touch (3m, Instant; Supplemental): If a Jiang Shi hits their target and

successful does at least one point of withering damage, than the opponent’s natural soak is

reduced by 1 for the rest of the scene. When no more natural soak is left, then magical soak

(From charms such as Diamond Body Prana) are reduced by 1 per successful attack until no

magical soak remains. This benefit only applies on any soak charm with a duration greater than

instant.

Flaws

Phobia: Jiang Shi’s have immense fears of Roosters, and will flee the very instant they hear

their call. This is because the Rooster is seen as the herald as the morning, which are

anathema to Jiang Shi. Realizing this is a difficulty 2 Lore roll, difficulty 4 if no speciality is had.

Peach Tree Wood: Peaches are known to be a metaphor for life in An-Teng, and as a result

are anathema to Jiang Shi. Any damage done by a weapon made by wood from a peach tree

ignores 3 points of soak from a Jiang Shi and does aggravated damage. Realizing this is a

difficulty 2 Lore roll, difficulty 4 if no speciality is had.

Sunlight Weakness: Being exposed in sunlight will cause a Jiang Shi’s body to melt. For every

action a Jiang Shi’s body is exposed to sunlight, it counts as being inside of a bonfire.

Talismen: Placing a Talismen of any sort on a Jiang Shi’s forehead drastically slows it down.

Applying a -3 penalty to all combat movement and attack rolls. Attaching the Talismen to the

forehead of the Jiang Shi is a difficulty 2 gambit, and so long as he has it on his forehead he

cannot remove it (nor can other Jiang Shi’s). Realizing this is a difficulty 2 Lore roll, difficulty 4 if

no speciality is had.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the Accuracy of the unit’s attacks by +2, counting as a stunt bonus. This

does not apply when in a battlegroup.

Energy Draining Touch: If this charm successfully attacks and damages a target in initiative

crash, then that target must pay a single point of willpower or the cost of the charm again in

order to keep the charm active. If they don’t, then charm is terminated.

Infectious Claws: In addition to the base effect, anyone taking damage from the claws are

exposed to a version of Puppeteer’s plague which turns the target into a Jiang Shi, their soul

slowly corrupting itself and lashing out until the victim becomes a Jiang Shi. A Talismen on the

forehead on the victim grants +1 automatic success to all checks in order to resist this however.

Sunlight Weakness: Instead of a bonfire hazard, Jiang Shi’s only take a -3 penalty to all

actions when in sunlight. Such a feeling is still uncomfortable to them, and will make all due

haste to leave it as soon as possible.

Silent Spectre

Born from those who witnessed something so horrible before their death, they have warped into

something that shall never speak again. The Silent Spectre appears as a faceless

semi-transparent figure dressed in light blue robes, a thin wispy trail appearing where one’s legs

would be instead. Silent Spectre’s are ghosts that will attack the living on sight, but are smarter

than the other mindless ghosts. If they know other more combat oriented ghosts are within the

area, then they are content to hang back and let their silence aura do the work for them, which

mutes all sound around the spectre itself. Alternatively they may attempt to rip the voice from

them completely.

This unit is also somewhat of a template. If you wish to make a more combat or socially oriented

Silent Spectre, go right ahead!

Difficulty: Weak by itself, but it mainly exists to mess up other players when its on the field.

Suggested Type: Insignificant / Strong / Special

Essence: 2 Willpower: 4 Join Battle: 4 dice

Personal Motes: 70/70

Health Levels: -0/-1x2/-2x2/1x-4/Incap.

Actions: Being Spooky: 6 dice; Senses: 4 dice; Threaten: 4 dice

Appearance 3 (Hideous), Resolve 2, Guile 2

Combat:

Spectral Touch: 9 dice, 10B damage

Combat Movement: 3

Evasion: 4 Parry: 2

Soak/Hardness: 3/0

Merits

Aura of Silence: The spectre is surrounded by an aura of silence that spreads out to medium

range around it. Within this area the very concept of sound is dead, battlecries and impassioned

speeches alike muted out completely until the spectre is destroyed. This silence carries with it a

number of benefits:

● All enemies in the area are immediately prepped to combat readiness. The Silence

spread out by the Silent Spectre is far too unnatural to be normal, thus puts enemies on

guard.

● All Command action in war automatically fails if the commander is in the area and

attempts to use voice to relay his commands. Even if he stunts his way around it, all

command actions face a -3 penalty due to fear soldiers feel from such unnatural silence.

● Sorcery actions that rely on verbal components fail completely and utterly. Other means

to gather sorcerous motes, such as shaping rituals, have to be used instead.

● Any social influence action made by verbal components automatically fails until the

silence aura is dispelled.

Charms

Phase Body (5m; Reflexive; Instant; Uniform): The ghost turns its body immaterial the very

instant an opponent attempts to strike them, reducing the damage done by (Essence or 3,

whichever is higher) to a maximum of one half the damage done, meaning it subtracts

successes after they’ve been rolled. This charm fails if the opponent can strike immaterial

targets.

Voice Ripper (7m 1WP, Dual, Reflexive, if a Silent Spectre [Or one of its allies] manages to

crash an opponent within close range of the Silent Spectre, the Spectre can attempt to rip out

the voice of the target themselves. The Spectre rolls a special gambit against a difficulty of 5,

but this difficulty is lowered by the amount of wound penalty an opponent suffers. If successful

the target loses the ability to speak for the rest of the day. For mortals this is permanent.

Recovering from this is a medicine roll akin to healing from a crippling wound)

EX-Mode Abilities

Flight: The unit is capable of hovering flight.

Phase Body +: Unless a user can hit immaterial targets, all damage (withering or decisive) is

halved against the ghost.

Spectral Warrior

Spectral Warriors are nameless warriors of a crypt whose names are lost to time, even the

identity of the soldiers is no longer remembered by them, only their never ending duty to guard

the land they have been tasked to guard. They appear to be similar in appearance to the Silent

Spectre’s cloaked in semi-transparent green robes that shield their fast and only a wispy trail in

place of legs. Spectral Warriors however are always armed with arms and armour, carrying a

shield in one hand and a weapon in the other along with suitably heavy armour.

Difficulty: Spectral Warriors are a considerable step up from War Ghosts. The EX-Mode

versions of them are plain nasty to users who rely on armoured soak as they can nullify their

armour entirely and cause penalties to parry defense values, which armoured users will more

likely use.

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 3 Willpower: 5 Join Battle: 6 dice

Personal Motes: 60/60

Health Levels: -0/-1x2/-2x2/-4/Incap.

Actions: Being Spooky: 6 dice; Cryptic Warnings: 6 dice; Senses: 6 dice; Threaten: 6 dice

Appearance 1, Resolve 4, Guile 1

Combat:

Spectral Blade: 10 dice, 12L/2 damage

Combat Movement: 5

Evasion: 2 Parry: 4

Soak/Hardness: 8/0

Special Attacks

Spectral Blade: By taking a penalty to attack (-4 for light weapons, -2 for medium weapons, no

penalty for heavy weapons) a Spectral Warrior can attempt to bypass an opponent’s armour

completely. If the attack hits, the Spectral Warrior reduces any soak from mundane armour

down to zero. This has no effect on artifact armour. Additionally this ability applies a -2 penalty

to the opponent’s defense if they attempt to parry. Artifact weapons can parry normally.

Merits

Duty Unto Death: Any attempt to convince a Spectral Warrior to leave the area it has been

tasked to guard is considered an unacceptable order. Convincing it to enter Lethe is however

acceptable.

Charms

Chilling Touch (7m; Supplemental; Instant; Withering-only; Essence 1): The war-ghos

flickers ethereal for a moment, ignoring up to four points of natural or armored soak.

Phase Body (5m; Reflexive; Instant; Uniform): The ghost turns its body immaterial the very

instant an opponent attempts to strike them, reducing the damage done by (Essence or 3,

whichever is higher) to a maximum of one half the damage done, meaning it subtracts

successes after they’ve been rolled. This charm fails if the opponent can strike immaterial

targets.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the Accuracy of the unit’s attacks by +2, counting as a stunt bonus. This

does not apply when in a battlegroup.

Phase Body +: Unless a user can hit immaterial targets, all damage (withering or decisive) is

halved against the ghost.

Spectral Blade: Now applies to artifact armour in addition to mundane armour. Artifact

weapons also gain the penalty.

Vampires

I’d do the oWoD Vampires... but I don’t have the V20 book, so I’ll be going with what I got.

Vampires in Creation are humans cursed in Creation, cursed by the Unconquered Sun for a

crime so dire that he refuses to suffer their presence while cursed by the Neverborn to forever

consume the blood of the living in order to keep their eternal unlife. While weaker compared to

other Exalted, they possess the attractive ability in that anyone can become a Vampire. This

can cause their numbers to greatly increase and swell, but it comes with the problem that

converting too many humans lessens their potential pool of blood as well.

Below are some quick conversion steps for nWoD Vampires. They are not intended to be all

encompassing, but those who know Vampires can safely apply the same logic in the world of

Exalted as well.

Sidebar: WoD vs Exalted tone

The tone of WoD vs Exalted is quite different. WoD is usually dark gothic horror while Exalted is

epic heroism. In WoD it may be a big question if you can succeed, but in Exalted it's more of a

question of when most of the time. My goal for this is to see if I can keep the relative ‘feel’ of

nWoD vampires intact rather than engaging in power pissing matchups. Vampires may have

some shockingly powerful abilities compared to the Exalted, but usually I believe most Exalted

will pull ahead. Also since I’m literally writing these guys on Christmas Eve I haven’t tested them

at all.

Essence

All vampires have an Essence pool equal to 40 + (Essence x4) motes. Vampires beyond

Essence 5 gain motes at a FAR faster rate. I was going to do blood points and all, but this

makes it nicer for the system.

Vampire Powers and Weaknesses

All Vampires have the following powers and weaknesses.

● Attunement - Vampires can attune to Soulsteel weapons and armour. Attempting to

wield, let alone touch, an Orichalcum weapon inflicts one unsoakable level of aggravated

damage per turn.

● Blood Potency - Vampires can only spend an amount of motes per turn equal to (4 x

Essence). If a single ability costs more than the Vampire can spend in a single turn

(Such as an ability costing 10m 1WP and the Vampire is Essence 1), then they can still

activate the ability but no more can be spent until the beginning of his next turn.

○ EX-Mode: Vampires have no restrictions on mote use per turn.

● Disciplines - Vampires are able to practice many different types of magical powers

related to their curse called Disciplines. Each Vampire knows two out of three disciplines

related to their clan, then one other one which relates to them on a personal level. Unlike

the chosen who learn charms as an extension of natural abilities, Vampires are mainly

stuck in their disciplines. The only way they can learn others other than the three they

start with is to completely drain another vampire of blood who knows it (Which is

considered a grave sin amongst vampires) or by draining an Exalted character strongly

related to the ability (EX: Completely draining a Supernal Athletics Solar with speed

charms to gain the Celerity discipline)

○ As a note, disciplines do not stack, rather you only get the higher of the two. For

example, Dominate 2 and Majesty 2 does not give +4 total Charisma, but rather

only +2). This DOES however stack with Physical Intensity.

● Drink Blood - Vampires can drink the blood of a person they have grappled or seduced

and can drain their blood. The bite isn’t painful, in fact it is quite pleasurable for the

subject until too much blood is drained. Each turn the vampire does one lethal level of

damage as he drains the blood from a victim, regaining 4 motes of essence per health

level drained. Blood is also the only substance a vampire can eat, attempting to

consume anything else means the rest will be vomited rather violently. Lastly, unless

consent is given, vampires cannot drain blood from any creature with an active hardness

score.

○ As a note, vampires do not spread by simply biting others. New Vampires can

only be made by taking an intact body which has been deceased within the

scene, then the vampire cutting themselves and pouring at least one lethal health

level of blood into the would be vampire’s mouth, then lastly paying a single

willpower dot

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● Essence Regeneration - Vampires *do not* recover the 5 motes per hour people

normally do, forcing them to drink blood to do so. In fact without drinking blood, vampires

cannot respire Essence at all!

○ EX-Mode: In combat Vampires regenerate at the normal 5m per action.

● FIRE HOT! - Fire based hazards and attacks deal aggravated damage to vampires.

● Frenzy - Occasionally when overwhelmed, starving, stressed, or under severe mental

trauma the beast inside of the vampire may last out. This plays out as a unique form of

limit break that only ends when the vampire’s reason for entering a frenzy is resolved or

becomes impossible to resolve (EX: If hungry, it ends when feeding. If gone berserk over

the death of a lover, the vampire goes back to normal). In exchange the vampire adds

their Essence to Strength, Dexterity, and Stamina for the rest of the scene, those who

have Vigor/Celerity/Resilience still use either the higher of their frenzy bonus or their dot

total and do not add them together. Vampires can be snapped out of a frenzy with a

successful persuade roll, but the Vampire’s resolve is treated as being boosted by a

defining intimacy. Lastly the Vampire cannot make any social or mental actions during a

Frenzy, they’re too consumed by bloodlust!

○ Alternatively a vampire may do something called “Riding the Wave”, in where she

just barely brings the Beast to the surface by invoking its power but still retaining

(mostly) full control. To do this the Vampire rolls Wits + Integrity without doubling

10s as a simple action costing one willpower, and keeps rolling until five

successes are gained (Total across all rolls, not at once). The vampire must still

have a reason for Riding the Wave, but things such as “Killing that bastard” are

acceptable. If a Vampire botches any roll in this they immediately enter a normal

frenzy instead.

● Ghoulification - Vampire blood is addictive to mortals. Any mortal who drinks vampire

blood on a regular basis gains the derangement condition with an addiction to that

specific vampire’s blood.

● Immortality - Vampires are truly ageless, they cannot die of old age. In addition

Vampires can heal any bashing or lethal damage done to them by spending 4m as a

reflexive action, up to (Essence) rating levels healed per turn. Damage that is done by

fire, sunlight, or aggravated damage cannot be healed by this method and must heal

with time.

● Physical Intensity - Vampires are known for being far stronger, quicker, or more

durable than any mortal. By spending 4m vampires are capable of boosting Strength,

Dexterity, or Stamina by two until the beginning of their next turn.

● Predatory Aura - Unless Vampires take other measures to hide it, a Vampire only

needs a difficulty 1 Perception + Awareness roll to notice another vampire.

● Night Vision - Vampires see better in the dark than normal humans. Any penalties that

come from low light are reduced by 3 to a minimum of zero.

● Sunlight Burn - The Unconquered Sun scores the very presence of such creatures,

empowering his sunlight for forever sear such blasphemies. Standing in natural sunlight

is akin to standing in the middle of a bonfire that does aggravated damage, and each

Essence dot above the first adds one to the trauma roll to resist. Lastly no environmental

resistance ability, such as a Vampire learning Elemental Resisting Prana somehow, will

work. They will ALWAYS be damaged by sunlight until the Unconquered Sun relents.

“Sunlight” in the Underworld does not harm vampires, but feeding opportunities are far

more rare there.

● Torpor and Final Death - If the vampire checks off his final damage box with bashing or

lethal damage, he immediately goes unconscious into a special condition called Torpor,

whch is akin to a sleep which he cannot be awakened from, until his incapacitated box is

healed. Final Death only occurs when the final box is filled with aggravated damage or

when the heart is torn out, as it is said that the Unconquered Sun accepts this symbolic

gesture to permanently kill such creatures. Torpor usually lasts an entire week for

vampires under Essence 3 and those higher are usually two weeks. However this is cut

down to days if a vampire sincerely wishes to become mortal or do their best to shield

humanity.

● Undead Body - Vampires are not technically alive, and thus any lethal damage from

things likes bullets, arrows, or blades only do bashing damage instead of lethal. A

vampire can also spend 4m as a reflexive action to stimulate life for a scene, and unless

a deeper check is done will pass all mundane checks to see if he’s a living person. Lastly

each vampire starts with health levels equal to -0/-1/-2/-4/Torpor, but gain an additional

number of health levels depending on the dots of Stamina they have, taking -2 health

levels as a priority first.

Also if things like weapon damage or soaks seem to low, those are base. You can modify them

with armour.

Vampire Types

Daeva

Daeva’s are the ever devouring artists of the vampire world. Constantly seeking new

experiences to devour, new people to seduce, and new people to manipulate. New Daeva’s get

themselves drunk in the experiences their newfound powers and abilities can afford them, while

older more experienced Daeva’s are jaded husked who rarely find pleasures in such trivial

carinal pursuits anymore, but rather using them as means to an end.

Wiess Pepe was once a female whore living inside of Nexus, making a meager living in order to

just survive. However after accepting a deal from the Deathlord Mask of Winters, she has

gained great power in exchange for the task of keeping tabs and gossip in the higher echelons

of Nexus society, something that she has always dreamed about doing anyways. With a

powerful backer in her pocket and being allowed to do whatever she wants for a task she’s

curious about anyways was hardly a choice for her, plus she always liked the nightlife more

anyways.

Difficulty: Very powerful socialite character to throw at your players. While interesting to deal

with by itself, a Daeva is capable of turning a mortal run kingdom in on its head in short order if

one is not careful.

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 2 Willpower: 6 Join Battle: 8 dice (See Celerity)

Personal Motes: 48/48

Health Levels: -0/-1x2/-2x3/-4/Incap.

Actions: Feats of Strength: 7 dice (May attempt Strength 3 Feats of Strength); Investigation: 6

dice; Read Intentions: 6 dice; Senses: 5 dice; Stealth: 4 dice; Social Influence: 9 dice (-2 dice

when using manipulation)

Appearance 5, Resolve 3, Guile 4

Combat:

Punch: 12 dice, 11B damage, has the Smashing tag

Combat Movement: 8 dice

Evasion: 4 Parry: 5

Soak/Hardness: 2/0, but at this stage a vampire may wear enchanted clothing that appears to

be normal clothing that has a soak value of 3 with no mobility penalty.

Merits

Daeva’s are usually at the center of attention at everything they do and always happen to know

who’s who. Contacts and Influence are almost always found on such characters, quite possibly

some amount of Resources as well.

Celerity Charms

Celerity 2 (Permanent): As a permanent enhancement to their power, each Vampire adds their

Celerity score to their Dexterity rating for all intents and purposes.

Faster than Fast (4m; Reflexive; Instant): By spending 4m a vampire may double 9s on all

combat movement rolls.

Speed of the Beast (2m; Reflexive; One Turn): By spending 4m the Vampire may add his

Celerity rating to his initiative for purposes of turn order, allowing her to go (Celerity) ticks

sooner. If multiple people act on a tick, the vampire may activate this power again in order to

ensure that they go first on that tick.

Wolf Chases Fox (4m 1WP; Reflexive; Instant): Once per scene when a Vampire successfully

rushes a target, they may activate this charm to move reflexively twice instead of once.

Majesty Charms

Majesty 2: As a permanent enhancement to their power, each Vampire adds their Vigor score

to their Charisma and Appearance rating for all intents and purposes.

Awe (4m; Simple; One Scene): The vampire makes it so that he demands attention from

everyone and everything in the room. Upon activating this charm the vampire rolls (Charisma or

Appearance + Presence). If this exceeds the Resolve of those in the room then they are

compelled to look at the vampire, subtracting the Vampire’s Majesty score on any other

Awareness action to notice something other than the Vampire. Secondly anyone affected is

treated as having a minor intimacy of either love, lust, or at least interest in the vampire. Lastly

the vampire is able to add an amount of bonus dice to any social action equal to the amount

they exceeded the target’s resolve by for the rest of the scene. The Exalted can resist this by

paying a single willpower at any time, but mortals will need a major or higher intimacy in a

decision point in order to resist the vampire.

Confidant (5m 1WP; Simple; Instant): The Vampire beckons towards a target, making them

seem far more friendly and approachable. Soon after talking to them you want to do more for

them, wanting to please them more than anything. This discipline can only be used against a

target who is currently under the effects of Awe for free or anyone else who at least has a

positive intimacy of the vampire for 5m 1WP, rolling the Vampires Charisma/Apperance +

Presence vs the target’s resolve which may not be modified by any intimacies. If successful the

target becomes Charmed

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for a number of hours equal to the Vampire’s Majesty rating. So long

as the target is charmed they treat their intimacy for the vampire as one higher than what it

actually is, may add their Majesty score to Manipulation in order to lie against the target, and the

target themselves takes a penalty equal to the Vampire’s Majesty rank on any Invesitgation roll

to discover crimes the Vampire has committed or Socialize rolls to discover intimacies they may

not like. They don’t want to believe the vampire has any flaws that would cause them to dislike

the Vampire. Lastly if the Vampire succeeds with 3+ or more threshold successes over the

victims Resolve, the charmed status lasts for a number of days equal to their Majesty rank

rather than hours.

Enticing (3m; Reflexive; Instant): Against a target who is currently under the effects of Awe or

has a major or higher intimacy of love towards the vampire, then any seduction rolls gains

double 9s.

Kiss of the Succubus (Permanent): Merely kissing people inflicts addiction on par with sharing

blood. While it keeps people coming back, it makes it so that they never leave you alone. This is

done as an Instill action (Which may use the Seduction dice pools).

Vigor Charms

Vigor 2: As a permanent enhancement to their power, each Vampire adds their Vigor score to

their Strength rating for all intents and purposes.

Armour Like Paper (0m/4m; Supplemental; Instant): Metal armour breaks like paper against

the Vampire’s attacks. Mundane armour has their soak lowered by the (Vampire’s Vigor rating

+1). Soak that comes from artifact armour can be reduced by spending 4m before the attack.

Optionally the vampire may pay 4m before making a Feat of Strength roll to see if she can

destroy something, lowering the difficulty to do by her Vigor rating.

Kapow! (Permanent): The Vampire gains the smashing tag on all unarmed attacks.

Lover’s Embrace (4m; Reflexive; Until Released): If the vampire wishes to make a grapple

attempt in order to suck blood from the opponent, than all rolls involved in it (Attack, gambit roll,

AND the control roll) double 9s, but in exchange the vampire can do nothing but drain the blood

from her opponent.

Flaws

Overindulgence: All Daeva vampires have an a major intimacy toward indulging themselves in

some fashion, being it surrounding themselves with fawning fans, partying, or sex. Either way

this intimacy cannot be altered or eroded, but it can be increased in intensity. The cost of

resisting this intimacy when in a decision point is increased to 2 willpower.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the accuracy of all of the user’s attacks by 2. This is counted as a stunt

bonus.

Principle of Motion (10m 1WP; Simple; Instant): The vampire gains the Principle of Motion

charm.

Skill Up: Increase all of the vampire’s skills by two, represented by a stunt bonus.

Gangrel

WWWRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

The lone wolf of the Vampire world is called this not in a metaphor, but in truth. For Gangrel are

actually the closest to their bestial nature as a vampire as they make no delusions about what

they become. Indeed, many of them revel in it. This doesn’t mean they go out mindless

committing slaughters left right and center, just as animals rarely if ever make senseless kills.

They’ll continue to eek out their undead existence not mimicking humans, but being uniquely

vampire.

Or do something like play vampire Fry (Futurama) like my friend did, that is awesome.

Difficulty: More stealthy when out of combat, but if in combat and they manage to Ride the

Wave be prepared for ripping and tearing all the while as they’ll be quite potent.

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 2 Willpower: 6 Join Battle: 7 dice

Personal Motes: 48/48

Health Levels: -0/-1x2/-2x3/-4/Incap.

Actions: Feats of Strength: 6 dice (May attempt Strength 3 Feats of Strength); “Riding the

Wave”: 8 dice; Senses: 6 dice; Stealth: 6 dice; All other rolls: 3 dice

Appearance 4, Resolve 3, Guile 1

Combat:

Punch: 10 dice (10B damage)

Frenzy Punch: 12 dice (13L/2 damage)

Combat Movement: 6 dice (+2 when in Frenzy)

Evasion: 3 Parry: 4 (+1 to both when in Frenzy)

Soak/Hardness: 5/0 (9/0 when in Frenzy), usually Gangrel will wear light armour but nothing

more, as they’ll want maximum freedom of movement or gain more soak from Protean or Riding

the Wave anyways.

Merits

Gangrel are quite possibly one of the more varied bunch of vampires outside of Mekhet’s, so

any merits wouldn’t be out of place. Due to Protean and Resiliance however physical merits

wouldn’t be out of place.

Animalism Charms

Animalism 2: As a permanent enhancement to their power, each Vampire adds their Animalism

score to their Survival for all intents and purposes. Additionally they may add extra dice when

dealing with any roll involving animals, such as Animalism charms or training animals.

Feral Whispers (0m/4m; Reflexive; Instant): The vampire is capable of speaking to animals,

capable of casual conversation or even asking “Have you seen this man?” The animals are not

any smarter, but unless the Vampire has threatened them in some way many animals will

generally answer. By spending 4m and making a successful persuade roll against the animal,

the vampire is able to give it commons such as “spy on this man” or “attack that man”. Major

actions which endanger the animal’s life increases their Resolve by 3 while ones that do not

endanger the animal. The animal will follow the instructions for up to one hour. If the Vampire

gains three or more threshold successes over the creature’s Resolve, then it follows the

instructions for up to one day or night.

Raise the Familiar (4m 1lhl; Reflexive; Instant): By pouring some of the vampire’s blood into

the mouth of a recently deceased creature, the vampire is able to bring the creature into a

cursed unlife similar to itself. The animal functions as it did normally in life but the wounds it had

at the time of death remain. A Mammoth who was killed by a spear through the brain will have a

gaping hole in its head, but such injuries do not impede nor penalize the creature’s normal

functions in any way. Like the vampire, the animal itself takes bashing damage instead of lethal

from most sources and burns in sunlight. Each activation of this charm keeps the animal alive

and moving equal to (Animalism x Essence) days, after which the Vampire may use this charm

again on the familiar to keep it going for another number of days as if they just raised it or have

it collaspe to the ground dead for good. Feral Whispers can also be used to communicate to the

animal from any distance, but if beyond visual sight the vampire must pay 4m and make the

persuade roll as normal to see if the animal is able to interpret the message.

Protean Charms

Protean 2: As a permanent enhancement to their power, each Vampire adds their Protean

rating to the Wits + Integrity roll in order to see if they can “Ride the Wave”.

Unmarked Grave (0m/4m/8m; Reflexive; Instant): The vampire is able to sink into the Earth or

wall in order to rest inside of it, so long as enough physical space exists inside to accommodate

the vampire. The cost for this is 0m for Soil or Earth, Rock is 4m, Reinforced Concrete is 8m.

While inside the vampire is protected from the sun’s rays outside while all her senses continue

to function normally. She can even feed if there is someone to bleed over her resting place. The

vampire can be damaged inside of the structure however, as every threshold success on a

successful feat of strength to damage the structure causes one point of bashing damage to the

vampire, and upon entering Torpor is forced out of the structure. Vampires who take lethal or

aggravated damage cannot maintain cohesion and are ejected immediately.

Ravage (Permanent): The vampire’s connection to the beast is stronger than most. While

Riding the Wave or in Frenzy, increase the vampire’s withering damage by 2L and increase

minimum damage by 1. Lastly successful ravage actions that deal lethal damage restow up to

(damage dealt x4) motes up to a maximum of (Protean Rank).

Primal Strength (4m; Reflexive; Instant): The Vampire’s body explodes with newfound power

while in Frenzy. By spending 4m as a reflexive action while in Frenzy or Riding the Wave, the

vampire may do one the following:

● Double 9s on a withering damage roll

● Double 10s on a decisive damage roll

● Double the bonus strength she gains in Frenzy, both for meeting strength requirements

and bonus dice to make the attempt.

● Double 8s on all Feats of Strength (May stack with above)

● Activate Monkey Leap Technique for the rest of the scene.

Predatory Aspect (4m; Reflexive; One Scene): The vampire is able to manifest various aspects

of certain woodland creatures. Such as twisting their bodies to run like a wolf, have skin like a

sharp, or rather attacking people with their bare hands use BEAR HANDS!

Upon learning this discipline the vampire gains three traits listed down in the list below. She may

design new adaptations using the ones as guidelines below or swap out each adaption at a cost

of 4m per swap she wishes to make:

● Aquatic: Gaining flippers or webbed hands allows the Vampire to move underwater the

same speed she can on land.

● Claws: Wicked sharp claws manifest on the vampire’s hands, gaining +1 damage and

dealing lethal damage instead of bashing. She may optionally also take the four die merit

of the Claws mutation, treating their attacks as natural weapons.

● Extra Sense: The vampire gains tremorsense, echolocation, or some other exotic sixth

sense she can ‘see’ with in addition to the rest of her senses.

● Feral Senses: By taking a Hawk’s eyes of a Dog’s nose, the vampire is able to double

9s on a specific kind of sensory roll. Rolls to detect blood add +Essence additional dice

to the roll.

● Patagia: By making a pair of weak wings o-FUCK IT YOU GAIN THE WINGS FROM

GARGOYLES! You gain the Wings mutation, but you cannot fly, only Glide.

● Tail - Functions as the two dot tail merit

● Quadrupedal - The Vampire is able to double 9s on all movement rolls. Outside of battle

she’s able of running as fast as a horse.

● Wall Walking - Gain the Wall Walking merit.

Resilience Charms

Resilience 2: As a permanent enhancement to their power, each Vampire adds their Resilience

rating to their stamina for all intents and purposes. Also the first two points of aggravated

damage in the scene from any source

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is turned into lethal damage instead. Lastly each rank of

Resilience grants an additional -0 health level instead of the standard health levels normally

gained from stamina increases.

Hide of the Beast (Permanent): While in Frenzy or Riding the Wave, the vampire adds his

Resilience rating to their soak, effectively granting Resilience x2 additional soak while in a

Frenzy. This cannot be used while the vampire wears armour.

Flaws

Urging of the Beast: Any mental roll that involves careful thinking over instinctive and on the

spot action does not double 10s on the roll, additionally each 1 that appears on the roll counts

as one less success.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the accuracy of all of the user’s attacks by 2. This is counted as a stunt

bonus.

Skill Up: Increase all of the vampire’s skills by two, represented by a stunt bonus.

Mekhet

Mekhet vampires come from all walks of life, from the raving bum on the street to the

Philosopher professor in Nexus, but what they all have in common is their thirst for knowledge

and their drive for perfectionism. Capable of doing their works in the shadows, many do not

know how Mekhet’s are capable of knowing the things they know, other than that they’re glad

that such knowledgable little bastards are on their side.

Difficulty: Powerful stealth and information gathering abilities means skeletons can be *very*

quickly dug up. Secondly their ability to hide combat from others means careless groups could

have their members picked off one by one by the crafty predators.

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 2 Willpower: 6 Join Battle: 10 dice

Personal Motes: 48/48

Health Levels: -0/-1x2/-2x2/-4/Incap.

Actions: Any Lore or Occult roll: 7 dice; Investigation: 8 dice; Read Intentions: 8 dice; Senses: 9

dice; Social Influence: 4 dice Stealth: 9 dice; All other rolls: 3 dice

Appearance 3, Resolve 3, Guile 3

Combat:

Punch: 10 dice (9B damage)

Bow: 10 dice at short, (11L damage), Range Long

Combat Movement: 6 dice

Evasion: 5 Parry: 2

Soak/Hardness: 2/0

Merits

Mekhet’s can have virtually any sort of background, but knowledgeable Allies or Contacts are

something most of them have in common.

Auspex Charms

Auspex 2: As a permanent enhancement to their power, each Vampire adds their Asupex rating

to any Awareness or Perception based roll to find something. Against effects that apply Resolve

in order to forget something, the Vampire adds her Auspex rating to her Resolve to see if she is

effected.

Beast’s Hackle’s (4m; Reflexive; One Scene): The Beast is able to see things far beyond what

mortals can ever hope to perceive. The Vampire may activate this charm whenever he

encounters a disguise that requires some sort of supernatural sense to counter, allowing him to

use his senses in order to perceive them normally. Additionally the vampire can see

dematerialized spirits normally.

Wisdom of the Beast (0m/4m; Reflexive; Instant): By rolling Wits + Lore + Auspex (9 dice for

this character), the vampire is able to gleam knowledge that others would deem impossible to

know about. At this level of Auspex, the vampire can only gleam questions about immediate

danger or weakness, such as “Who here is the easiest to feed upon?”, “How do I troll that

Gangrel so he flips out into the beast?”, or “Which person in this room is the most dangerous?”

Difficulties range from one (simple answers) to five (In which the target actively tries to remain

hidden). The first use of this charm in a scene is 0m, but every use after the first is 4m. You

cannot use this charm against characters who are hidden in stealth

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, however the question of “Is

there a hidden hostile presence within this room?” is a valid yes/no question for the Storyteller. If

the vampire succeeds with three or more threshold successes, they may ask two questions

instead.

Uncanny Perception (Permanent): This charm upgrades Wisdom of the Beast. The Vampire

may roll Perception + Socialize + Auspex as a Read Intentions action against a character. If

successful, than in addition to the normal effect of a successful read intentions action the

vampire may ask a question about any weakness the target has or their personal nature. Such

as related intimacy to the one they just learned, what the target fears/desires the most, is that

person a cannibal, or what kind of supernatural creature (if any) the target is.

Vampiric Senses (4m; Reflexive; Instant): The vampire may double 9s on any Wits or

Perception roll.

Celerity Charms

Celerity 2 (Permanent): As a permanent enhancement to their power, each Vampire adds their

Celerity score to their Dexterity rating for all intents and purposes.

Faster than Fast (4m; Reflexive; Instant): By spending 4m a vampire may double 9s on all

combat movement rolls.

Speed of the Beast (2m; Reflexive; One Turn): By spending 4m the Vampire may add his

Celerity rating to his initiative for purposes of turn order, allowing her to go (Celerity) ticks

sooner. If multiple people act on a tick, the vampire may activate this power again in order to

ensure that they go first on that tick.

Wolf Chases Fox (4m 1WP; Reflexive; Instant): Once per scene when a Vampire successfully

rushes a target, they may activate this charm to move reflexively twice instead of once.

Obfuscate Charms

Obfuscate 2: As a permanent enhancement to their power, each Vampire adds their Obfuscate

ranking to their Stealth and Larceny ratings for all intents and purposes.

Stealth Predator (4m; Reflexive; Instant): The Vampire may add stack their Obfuscate rating

with their Celerity rating for a single stealth or Larceny roll.

Face in the Crowd (4m 1WP; Reflexive; Indefinite): The beast cows lesser creatures, making

the lessers feel as if the best possible choice would be to ignore it. This charm functions the

same as the Solar charm Mental Invisibility Technique only with a different cost and duration.

Rolling Join Battle does not end the charm, only attacking does, and unless the victim notices

the vampire then the first attack the vampire makes against them will be an ambush. In fact so

long as this charm is active during combat, other people in the scene need to roll in order to

notice there is a commotion going on at all, comparing their perception + Awareness against the

Vampire’s Dexterity + Stealth. So long as this charm is active, the Vampire’s Predatory Aura

vanishes, so other vampires can’t immediately notice him.

Touch of Shadow (4m; Reflexive; Instant): By touching a single object no bigger than a large

van, the vampire may cloud it from people’s minds as if being under the effects of Face in the

Crowd. People will subconsciously move around it, but won’t be able to pinpoint it out by

themselves if their resolve was overcome. This cannot be used on a living person, but it can be

used on an inanimate corpse. The effects of this charm last for a single scene, but if the

vampire’s result is three greater than the victims Resolve they are compelled to ignore it for any

entire night.

Flaws

By Fire and Light You Shall Burn: Attacks that deal fire damage inflict one additional level of

automatic damage while hazards based in Fire and Light increase their trauma to 5. Meaning

yes a Fire Aspected Dragonblooded can light you up like a matchstick if you’re not careful.

EX-Mode Abilities

Accuracy Up: Increase the accuracy of all of the user’s attacks by 2. This is counted as a stunt

bonus.

Principle of Motion (10m 1WP; Simple; Instant): The vampire gains the Principle of Motion

charm.

Skill Up: Increase all of the vampire’s skills by two, represented by a stunt bonus.

Nosferatu

Damn... You’re one ugly motherfu-

If Vampires are outcasts, than Nosferatu are outcasts of vampirekind as well. With their own

unique curse for being incredibly ugly and only able to pass for a human if one is under many

different substances. Still Nosferatu have their uses, functioning as the vampires most willingly

to do dirty jobs for their own price. Once you also get past their ghoulish appearance, many

Nosferatu are rather cultured and civilized. The kind of vampire that is more than willing to have

a spot of tea with you shortly before the battle that is about to take place.

Oh! You know what a celebrity turned into a Nosferatu is called? A Mon-Star. Haha! Get it!?

Difficulty: Want to fight against a monster who knows your greatest fears and is near

impossible to find? Didn’t think so.

Suggested Type: Strong / Special

Essence: 2 Willpower: 7 Join Battle: 6 dice

Personal Motes: 48/48

Health Levels: -0/-1x2/-2x3/-4/Incap.

Actions: Any Lore or Occult roll: 5 dice; Feats of Strength: 8 dice (May perform Strength 5

Feats of Strength); Investigation: 6 dice; Intimidation/Inspire Fear: 9 dice; Read Intentions: 7

dice; Senses: 6 dice; Stealth: 9 dice; All other rolls: 3 dice

Appearance 3 (Hideous), Resolve 3, Guile 2

Combat:

Punch: 10 dice (10B damage)

Combat Movement: 6 dice

Evasion: 3 Parry: 4

Soak/Hardness: 3/0

Merits

Nosferatu’s may find it difficult to have some social merits, nevertheless trusting Allies or

Contacts are not out of the question.

Nightmare Charms

Nightmare 2: The vampire adds two dice to any roll intended to scare or frighten someone or to

discover something that someone is frightened of. Secondly he makes it so that he’s only afraid

of real terror, adding his rank in Nightmare to his Resolve against any intimidate action and any

attempt to find the Vampire’s fears suffers a penalty equal to their Nightmare rank.

Dread Presence (4m 1WP; Reflexive; Indefinite): The vampire feels just plain... wrong. Even

when being nice and friendly to you something inside of you just screams at one to not get

involved with such a dangerous creature. This charm replicates the effect of Majestic Radiant

Presence from the Solar charm set with a modified cost and duration. Additionally the Vampire

is able to conduct intimidation or Inspire (Fear) actions using illusions based in at least two

senses, but otherwise modelled after Phantom Conjuring Performance. A plate of the finest food

can suddenly appear as maggots, the sounds of a bounty hunter banging against the door

which a person swears rattles, and other such things.

On the topic, that wasn’t turkey you ate at dinner.

Face the Beast (4m; Supplemental; Instant): With a mere glance the vampire can amplify a

victim’s fear of something to truly terrifying levels. If the Vampire knows what the target is truly

afraid of, she may prey on that intimacy by the vampire momentarily making it come to life in

front of them, doubling 9s on the intimidate roll and costing one additional willpower to resist. If

the Vampire doesn’t know what the target fears, he may still activate this charm as if preying

upon a minor intimacy for intimidation purposes. Nosferatu’s can actually use their curse to their

advantage with this charm, making it count as major instead.