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Teh Lesser Splats
Teh Lesser Splats
Extrordinary Mortals
Mortals with Skill Tricks, which are astounding applications of normal skills that
might surprise even supernatural types and each comes with a Plot Hook.
Covered in: World of Darkness: Mirrors p. 52-69
Immortal
There are multiple types (from blood-bathers to body-thieves to people who've
basically become spirits) and depending on how you want to treat them, they might
be major-template-able.
Covered in: Immortals
Possessed
A mortal who shares their mind and body with a demon.
Covered in: Inferno Chapter 3
Psychic
Psychic is kind of a catch-all, if we're honest. Almost every power could be
construed as psychic and anything listed as a psychic power could be Storytold as
having some other origin.
Covered in: Second Sight, Chronicles of Darkness as Supernatural Merits, Hurt
Locker(?)
Skinchanger
Mortals who steal the shapes of animals by wearing their skins.
Covered in: Skinchangers, but summarized and updated for 2nd edition on Dark Eras
p. 248-249.
Slasher
Technically intended as a strictly antagonist template, they are still mortal and
could theoretically be Embraced, undergo First Change, Awaken, etc. Keep in mind
that this template and its Merts are meant to keep a whole troupe busy, so they are
often purposefully unbalanced compared to individual characters.
Covered in: World of Darkness: Slasher (the most Hunter of non-Hunter books)
Thaumaturge
Mortals who have learned how to use Low Magic.
Covered in: introduced in Second Sight
Dhampir / Dampyr
Mortals descended from vampires.
Covered in: First mentioned in Night Horrors: The Wicked Dead (there as dampyr),
but recently fleshed out further in Half-Damned.
Werewolf: the Forsaken
Wolf-Blooded
Mortal relatives of werewolves. Blood of the Wolf provided expanded rules for wolf-
bloodedness.
Covered in: Werewolf: the Forsaken, Blood of the Wolf
Spirit-Ridden
Most mortals can't really access the powers of spirits that are urging them, but
some might so I'm counting them here.
Covered in: For probably the best example of mortals using spirits like this, see
the Rites Du Cheval from HtV:Spirit Slayers.
Illuminated
Mortals that have been educated and initiated by the Silver Ladder and now run the
order's Cryptopoly cells. While not necessarily magical themselves, they would
certainly have the connections and clout to request magic. Some Illuminated are
also Proximi.
Covered in: The Silver Ladder
Gifted
A Merit for Mortals who have access to specific Gutter Magic-like abilities.
Covered in: Witch Finders p. 139
Offspring
Children of demons, adopted or biological.
Covered in: Heirs to Hell
Fae-touched
First introduced as mortals who have been to Faerie but had not undergone the
complete transformation into changelings. As another answer noted, 2nd edition
draft rules allow them to also be mortals who had powerful promises to the
changeling and wandered into the Hedge looking for them.
Covered in: Equinox Road, Changeling: the Lost 2nd edition (not out yet)
Scion
Child of a Promethean. Seemingly immune to Disquiet.
Covered in: Magnum Opus
Sadikh
Half-alive, mystically-bound servants of mummies. They sleep when mummies "die" and
awaken when their masters return. I'm not sure if they're greater-template-able,
though.
Covered in: Mummy: the Cursed p. 188-192