2022/11/12

Upgraded the banefulness of jade to Dark creatures.

The Illuminated Condition's name was missing in the PDF.

2022/10/1
Changed all uses of the word "Regalia" to other phrases when iconic clothing was
the intended meaning.
The rate of early Blossoming has been speeded up: 1994 is when multiple Nobles
first appear in one city.
Changed how Nations learn and grant Practical Charms.
Added a National Merit: Unity of Purpose (•-•••••).
New Avatar Charms: Go With the Flow (Learn •••••, Legno ••••) and Set Your Heart
Ablaze (Restore •••••, Fuoco ••••).
Peaceable Kingdom has been rewritten, and is not an Avatar Charm.
I am Become Light is now a general Charm, not an Avatar Charm.
Replaced the Attention Grabbing upgrade to Life of the Party with Canceller
(Specchio ••).
New upgrade to Empty Hands: Distant.
New upgrade to Kensai: Distant.
New upgrade to Seed of Light: Charging.
Moved Hymn to Orpheus to Inspire, and Soothe the Savage Breast to Connect.
Hymn to Orpheus has dramatic failure and exceptional success results, and has been
slightly buffed.
Rewrote Publican, greatly increasing the total of Wisps it can extract, but
requiring the Noble to sign her work.
Light created without lamp fuel doesn't suppress shadow-beasts in Alhambra. The
"Power of the Atom" story seed has been edited to reflect this.
Added a short section on Darkened ephemeral entities.
Cataphractoi add Shadows to Willpower, and may spend 1 Willpower/Shadows each turn.
Replaced Cataphractoi's "transformation" with an ability to suppress and release
Umbrae.
Removed the Dark Palace Merit; it isn't compatible with Nightscapes. Use Safe Place
instead.
Removed automatic breaking points from the cost of Caligines, but breaking points
caused by their use have a minimum penalty.
New Caligines: Inhuman Form (•••, Umbra) and Trophy Hunt (••••).
Changed the Undying Heart Caligo: the possessor grows a new body from the heart
after being killed.
Renamed the Cruel Mercy Tilt to "Forbidden to Die".
THe effects of Dreamlands manifestations of the Light have been seriously upgraded.
Moved the section on Dreamlanders to Chapter 5.
Actor and star Dreamlanders are based on Dream Forms. This allows them to gain
Skills and Merits.
Dreamlanders can gain Manifestations (though most still don't.) Several Dreamlander
Manifestations and Numina have been added.
Added a story seed on previous, forgotten Releases to the Wardens.
Amanojaku now use Manifestations, not Charms, to take people over, and
transformation is a separate Manifestation that not all Amanojaku have.
The mechanics of Gates of Polished Horn have changed. Their effects are usually not
geographically limited.
Added Ephialts, a Dark creature out of the Dreamlands.
Beacons can raise an Echo.
Changed the Embassy to Death's Secretary Privileges: Clothing the Dead no longer
creates ectoplasm, and allows the Secretary to perform the Pass On Ceremony.

2022/4/25
Added an exception to Aria's ban for commands given to those who have agreed to be
commanded.
The number of tasks a Nation can manage in one project is limited by its Standing.
New Charms: Normalcy Bias (Appear •••, Lacrima ••), Blade Rhetoric (Fight ••).
The Charm All the World's a Stage turns its user into a smoke form, not a Twilight
form.
New upgrade to Twenty Faces: Famous (Specchio ••).
New upgrade to Unseen Traveller: Meddling Kids (Specchio ••).
New upgrade to Unlimited Object Works: Army Supplies (Tempesta ••).
New upgrades to Life of the Party: Conforming (Lacrima ••) and Attention Grabbing
(Specchio ••).
New upgrade to Illuminatus: Talebearing (Specchio ••).
New upgrade to The Naked City: Spreading (Acqua ••).
New upgrade to Open Heart: Calming (Legno ••).
New upgrades to Reflected Light: Mind Attuned (Acqua •), Spirit Attuned (Legno •),
Ghost Attuned (Lacrima •).
New upgrade to Light Over All: Deathly (Lacrima ••).
New upgrade to Carry On, My Wayward Son: Rehearsed (Specchio ••).
New upgrade to Data Wizard: Received.
New upgrade to Keen Observation: Eagle-eyed.
New upgrades to Liberal Artist: Historian (Terra ••) and Nostalgian (Lacrima ••).
New upgrades to Journey in Reverie: Ghostly (Lacrima •••) and The Heir’s Vessel
(Specchio •••).
New upgrades to Speed Racer: Antifreeze (Acqua ••), Ramp Jump (Aria •••), Battering
(Tempesta ••) and Hot Rod (Specchio ••).
New upgrade to Valiant Mind: Fantasizing (Specchio ••).
Combined the notes on other beings and the Dreamlands into one note.
Added a Numen, Dream Mask, to replace Mortal Mask for Wardens.
Added Virtues and Vices to the sample Dreamlanders and Warden.

2021/9/6
Reorganized the book, breaking up Chapter 4 into a chapter on places, a chapter on
antagonists, and an appendix on Light-touched.
Weakened Holy Shield somewhat - bashing damage is halved, not reduced to one box.
Sensitivity triggers only when encountering people directly injured by a Tainting.
The "groups of sufferers" modifiers have been clarified.
When a Charm calls for a transformation action, mundane characters with access to
it roll Integrity - Shadows.
New Charms: Method Acting (Appear •••), Light One Candle (Bless •, Fuoco •), Center
of the Universe (Bless ••••, Specchio •••), A Mile in My Shoes (Connect •••), Bring
Them Around (Learn ••, Specchio •), Featherweight (Perfect ••••, Aria •••),
Graveyard Airs (Shape ••••, Lacrima •••), The General’s Storm (Shape ••••, Tempesta
•••).
New upgrades to Open Heart: Loving (Fuoco ••) and Responsible (Terra ••).
Strength of the Tides, Dryad's Favor and Salamander are grouped as Elemental
Charms, with two new but similar Charms, Dancing Winds (Aria) and Rolling Stone
(Terra).
Increased the multiplier that Long applies to a Firearms Levinbolt.
Replaced Nova Strike with a general Charm, Blasting Shot (Fight ••••).
Resting Place now makes a permanent Anchor for a ghost.
The Earth Shall Bloom has a new base effect, and has dropped to Restore ••••, Legno
•••; the original effect is available as a Legno •••• upgrade.
Dropped Mist’s Protection to Shape ••, Aria •.
Increased the power of the Earthquake Charm - it now causes the Earthquake Tilt.
Changed the Revelation effect of the Hunting Beast Reprisal.
Added a bonus to Dark creatures' Sensitivity when the sufferer in a tainting is
Light-touched.
New Caligines: Cruel Mercy (•), Drag to Darkness (•• or ••••), Embrace Your Shadow
(•••••).
Dropped The Demon Within to 4 dots.
Added a section "Rabbit Hunting" on questing for real information in the
Dreamlands.
Rewrote Influence (Gales) again.
Dropped the second resolution to Gale-touched. Instead, the Condition expires if
the Gales lose all progress towards a Galemark.
Added a historical note to the Embassy to the Dreamlands.
The Hunter's Eyes Privilege of the Embassy to Fortune starts a Clash of Wills when
resisting supernatural powers.
The Feline Grace Privilege of the Embassy to Fortune now applies only when
transformed, except for the Striking Looks Merit dot; that dot now stacks with an
existing Merit.

2021/5/29
Added an option to free invocation of Legno.
New Charm: Lay of the Land (Learn ••, Terra ••).
New upgrade to She's So Fine: A Thousand Ships (Specchio •••).
The Deep upgrade to Open Heart grants a version of telepathy.
Combined Introductions into Questing Mind, and replaced Moving Finger with Full
Disclosure (Learn •••).
Read the Wind is now unrolled.
Expanded the Charm Ice Sculptures, allowing for multiple objects in one activation.
Reworked the Charm Through the Looking Glass.
Changed the dice pool for exploiting the Tax-Farmed Condition.
Tweaked the Gales' rules in the Dreamlands, and added a resolution to the Gale-
touched Condition.
Rewrote Influence (Gales), increasing the power of most effects.
New Umbra: Infectious Hate.
The Umbra Tainted Allure of Vice, and the Caligo Drink Pain Like Wine, now inflict
Tainted, and the Vice-Ridden Condition has been removed.
Dethroned may use Dark Doors in Nightscapes, but not leave Tainted areas on Earth.
Added an optional variant on the Tension rules, making the system represent the
Darkness' strength, not a risk of exposure.
Added an index of Umbrae and Caligines.

2020/11/8
Added a paragraph on Blessed objects.
New Merits: Blessed Relic, Tainted Relic.
Added a note on Shikigami retainers to the section on that Merit.
New upgrade to Light the Way: Corpse Light (Lacrima •).
New upgrade to Palladion: Reflecting (Specchio •).
Changed the costs of the upgrades to Dreaming Vision, and allowed switching between
Twilight types with transformation actions.
Added a note to Privy Counselor that Dreamlanders never automatically agree to
become Shikigami.
Reduced the cost of Accept Fealty to 1 Willpower point and 1 Wisp/roll.
Replaced the Heaving upgrade to Celestial Dance with Forceful.
Changed the effects of Feel the Burn, since the previous Charm was weaker than a
mundane Merit.
New Caligo: Mummia.
Accept Fealty is no longer required to create Sworn - a character just has to gain
audience with the Queen. (The Charm lets a Noble be her Queen's proxy, cutting the
time needed to swear someone in.)

2020/5/31
Defined how Charms with durations of "during transformation", and permanent Charms,
work when made Practical or as Bequests.
Defined the traits of Bequests as physical objects.
Minor Invoker dots may be applied, as if they were the linked Invocation, when
activating the Charm.
The Unison Merit (and Gift of Unison, for Shikigami) allow Wisp recovery for non-
Hopeful characters.
New Charms: Be Our Guest (Connect ••, Terra ••); Little Boxes (Inspire ••••,
Specchio ••••).
Dropped Ivory Gate to Connect ••.
Removed the Charm Offensive Charm and its related Conditions.
The Size limit on a Guarding Kensai has been removed.
An Instructive Living Image made for a permanent Charm now costs a Wisp to empower.
(A Bequest does not.)
Added an upgrade Expanded (Lacrima 1) to Bubble Shield, and made Adamant into an
option available with the basic Charm.
Changed the Shikigami rules: Shikigami may now exist indefinitely on Earth without
a bond, and need not be Sworn to learn Charms, but depend on bonds with Nobles for
Wisp recovery.
Jade weapons (and jade used as a weapon) add 1 to Damage when used on Dark
creatures.
Added the Protectorate of Black Tourmaline.

2019/11/11
Changed the definition of auras, because the old one didn't actually cover Hunter's
Aspect.
Only damaging a phylactery or Regalia with magic triggers a Clash of Wills - other
effects don't.
Corrected the Clash of Wills bonus for indefinite effects.
Sworn retainers may use free Bequest dots for Practical Charms.

2019/11/3
Changed the Swords Practical Magic.
Auras, the abilities that raising an Echo can resist, have been defined.
The Onceborn Merit now gives a bonus to compromise rolls that aren’t self-caused.
Simplified the rules for Nations' projects and tasks, and for violence between
Nations.
Nations recover from damage in narrative time.
Added a Nation Merit, Strategic Acumen.
Removed the remaining traces of the old Clash of Wills dice pool, and defined
bonuses for indefinite effects.
Added Size rules for the Kensai and Levinbolt weapons.
The added Strength from Best Defense doesn’t count as applying Tempesta (thus, it
can stack with applying an Invocation.)
Dropped the cost of Caligines to 1 Experience/dot.
All rolled Caligines now have a dice pool of Attribute + Skill + Shadows.
Diminutive Size, Grotesque Bulk, Loathsome Weapon and Zombie’s Flesh are now
reflexive.
Loathsome Weapon has a Damage equal to the Caligo dots, and Zombie’s Flesh gives
Armor equal to the Caligo dots.
Avoid All Eyes costs 1 Willpower.
Evil Influence is now unrolled.
Handful of Dust is now resisted.
World-Corroding Entropic Touch’s permanent version is an Umbra drawback.
Merits have been added to most of the sample Dark creatures.
In a Clash of Wills, a Dethroned rolls Inner Night + Resolve.
Gates to Lamentation makes a Tainted area’s Dark Door openable without spending
Willpower.
The rules for when characters have all Willpower dots Galemarked have been codified
into the Galeswept Condition.
An Amanojaku’s host may try to reclaim his body; if his Dream Form "dies", he must
attempt it.
A Beacon’s or Sworn’s Integrity affects his Sensitivity check as Belief does a
Noble’s.
Sworn may learn Practical Charms, using their Invocation as a substitute for Inner
Light.
To conform with recent Chronicles of Darkness games, fatigue penalties are now the
Fatigued Condition.

2019/6/30
Attacking Dark creatures no longer breaks Legno’s ban, except for the Darkened.
Luminous Experience may now be spent on transformed dots, Invocations and Charms.
Changed the Clash of Wills pool to Inner Light + an Invocation.
Added easy exceptional success conditions to the Tears and Storms Practical Magics,
and clarified Mirrors’.
Clarified the interaction of iconic clothing, Twenty Faces and Barrier Jacket.
Added Consecration as a keyword for Charms that can be tied to Consecrate.
New Charm: Thurifer (Govern ••••).
New upgrades: Sensitive and Evolved, to Animal Fair; Sustaining (Legno ••) to Miss
Poppins’ Bottomless Bag.
Raised Retorsion to Fight ••••.
Reworked Ofuda to protect an area, made it Consecration as a base effect, dropped
Lasting, and added Dissonant and Unmoored upgrades.
Changed the dice pools of Mirror Mirror and Moving Finger.
Renamed the Lasting upgrade of Now I’m a Believer to Couldn’t Leave Her.
Increased the power of Enduring Beauty gems, and added an option to embed them in
Bequests.
Rewrote the Vile Gobbets and Voidblast Caligines, increasing their lethality.
New Caligo: Autophage.
New Darkspawn type: Hundredhands.
Sample Darkspawn have been assigned Virtues and Vices.
Dropped the Coraline’s Choice Privilege from the Dreamlands Embassy, replacing it
with Christopher’s Lives; rewrote and expanded the Ambassador Privilege.

2019/5/12
Upgraded all the Radiant Queens’ Practical Magics.
Added a paragraph on Nobles’ magical clothing that isn’t Regalia.
The "lasting" duration is now marked by leaving the Duration line out.
New Charms: Notary Private (Connect ••), Retorsion (Fight •••, Legno •••).
Added an Upgrade, Sensitive, to Reflected Light.
Added a description of Dark creatures’ auras to Passion’s Light.
Added the Protectorate of Heliotrope.
The Protectorate of Novaculite’s Tools of Duty Privilege has been amended.

2019/3/13
New Noble Merit: Postregnum (•).
Capitation inflicts the Depression Condition on its target.
New Charm: Monument to Me (Govern •••, Specchio •••).
Virtue’s Ban changed to a contested action.
Warmed by Hate Alone rewritten to fit the new Tainted Areas system.
Added paragraph about Tainted objects.
Changed the rules for Dark Warping: Darkened either gain an Umbra, or remove a
breaking point.
New Caligo: Liar’s Heart.
Changed the threshold for Twisting the Bane.
The rules for Dream Form traits have been simplified.
Sharpened the Magicless Condition; it also closes off Charms and Practical Magic.

2018/12/10
New version of the Seeker’s Oaths.
Added notes on bashing damage to Nations.
Added a sidebar on Camaraderies and Principalities as Nations.
New Charm: Virtue’s Ban (Govern •••).
Updated the Strike False Charm, raising its power to match its dot level.
Updated the Charms Sheltered by Her Hand and Stain Removal to reflect the new rules
for Tainted places.
Added an upgrade, Mama Bear, to Cherish.
Changed the exceptional success effect for the Charm Nick of Time.
Capitation inflicts the Depressed Tilt on the target, not Tainted.
Added a sidebar on Taints created by Publican.
Replaced the Heavy upgrade to Queen’s Sorrow with Lasting, which inflicts a new
Condition, Depression.
Clarified the threshold needed for Painting Roses.
Added a section on closing Dark Doors to Tainted places, and changed the Consecrate
Charm and Burying the Crime Caligo to refer to it.
Added a section on statting Dark cults as organizations.
Removed the "Supernatural Beings in Alhambra" section.

2018/9/30
A major rework to the rules for Tainted and Blessed places, contributed by Jordy
Vanderstukken. The rework also changed the Entering Darkness power; the Caligines
Defiling Touch, Burying the Crime, Twisting the Bane and Profanation; the Dethroned
Chains Fortress of Regrets and Gates to Lamentation; the Charms Blessings Be Upon
This House and Purgation; and the Tax-Farmed Condition.
A major rework to the rules for Nations and mundane organizations, based on the
rules for krewes in Geist 2e. The rework also changed the Charms Illuminatus and
Unearth the Foundations, and the Privilege Following the Money of the Embassy to
the Economy.
Added a section to Chapter One, "Common Lives".
Expanded the explanation of Callings.
Changed the description of Graces.
Added a supernatural Merit, Firm Anchor.
New Charm: Charm Offensive (Connect ••, Terra ••).
Merged the Fight Charms Shield Wall and Your Guardian Angel into one Charm, Take
the Blow, and added an upgrade, Oakenshield (Legno •).
The Stolen upgrade to Charge can extract Wisps from Beacons and characters with dry
pools.
Reworked the Masqued Ball upgrade to Grey Masque.
A Princess at Belief 0 no longer needs help to become Dethroned.
New section on Radiant Nobles in Alhambra.
If a Bequest’s effect varies by Inner Light, Beacons and Sworn use it as if they
had Inner Light 1.

2018/6/1
Added an optional rule allowing Nobles to choose one of their three Charm family
affinities.
An exceptional success on a Call of Duty roll grants a Luminous Beat.
The Second Calling Merit now gives the Noble a second Vocation.
Wings of Air dropped to Perfect •••, Aria ••.
Added rules for Light-touched characters to escape the Dark World, if they end up
there.
Dark creatures explicitly can’t take people with them when Entering Darkness.

2018/5/4
New Noble Merit: Exemplary Regalia (•).
The Minor Invoker Merit can’t be used to learn an Avatar Charm.
The Second Calling Merit may only be taken at character creation.
Added a paragraph on upgrades to permanent Charms that allow one to spend Wisps for
an extra effect.
New Charms: You’re So Vain (Bless ••, Specchio ••), Minding Madoka (Connect •,
Lacrima •), Grey Masque (Govern ••), Journey in Reverie (Learn ••••).
Moved Beginner’s Luck to Bless, Life of the Party to Connect.
Twenty Faces has a more specific, and somewhat more lenient, description of its
effects.
Stop, Children, What’s That Sound is no longer resisted.
The Draining upgrade to Levinbolt can be resisted with a successful Resolve +
Composure roll.
Palladion’s shield may do either bashing or lethal damage.
An Acrid Palladion won’t damage a ranged weapon.
Dropped the cost of Hang By a Thread to 1 Wisp, and added the Tightrope upgrade.
Removed references to transforming Bequests.
The Willpower curse in Tainted areas inflicts the Broken Condition on characters
with 0 Willpower.
Both reaching a breaking point and sleeping in a Tainted area force a corruption
check.
The Extreme Taint Tilt does not kill those who succumb to it - it just forces them
into coma.
Added Dethroned Hexes: Decaying Mantle, Loathsome Weapons, Walpurgisnacht.
Updated how changelings and Beasts enter the Dreamlands to reflect recent Onyx Path
publications.
New sidebar "The Gales and Others" explains what the Gales do to canon
supernaturals.

2018/1/27
Added a sidebar for crossing Princess with WoD: Innocents, taken from Kings Raven’s
notes in the Dream version.
Added a note on purchasing a Shikigami as a set of shared Merits.
Removed rolling dice for the Circle Merit.
Exceptional success with White Rabbits gives the Informed Condition.
Clarified that having the White Rabbits Merit gives the ability to look for them
intentionally IC.
Added a Social Style Merit, Regal Bearing.
Lowered the cost of Belief dots, and the Onceborn Merit, to 2 Experiences.
Weakened the restrictions for gaining Willpower from Virtue to match the CofD core
book.
Extra successes added to a Call of Duty roll don’t convert to Wisps.
New Charms: Unlimited Object Works (Appear ••), Some Enchanted Evening (Inspire ••,
Terra •), Rally Round the Flag (Inspire •••, Terra ••), The Earth Shall Bloom
(Restore •••••, Legno ••••).
Added upgrades: Scaling to Twenty Faces, Enduring to Words on Water Writ,
Inexorable to Kensai, Entrancing and Terrifying to Valiant Mind, Legendary to
Skinchange, Humorous to Ministering Angel.
Words on Water Writ allows the user to conceal memories from anyone but a single
person.
Changed Drawn from Within the Mirror into an upgrade to Unlimited Object Works.
Moved All Together Now to Connect, and Animal Magnetism (renamed to Animal Fair) to
Inspire.
The Regalia bonus to Empty Hands, Kensai and Levinbolt may add either dice or extra
successes, but not both.
Removed the Durable upgrade to Kensai.
The Burning upgrade to Kensal acts as fire explicitly on characters vulnerable to
fire.
Danmaku Dance’s duration has been extended to 1 scene.
The Performative upgrade to Living Image can delay a Charm used on non-rational
targets.
Edited the Revealing upgrade to Passion’s Light.
The cords of Hang by a Thread stretch up to their long range - the Noble need not
extend them to full length.
Clarified that Bequests don’t have to be studied to work.
Restricted Bequests to Light-touched characters, saving the Embassy to Machines’
last Privilege.
Strengthened the Umbra Scuttling Spider’s Sense and the Caligo Avoid All Eyes.
Added a new Darkspawn, Filthcrawlers.
Darkened may be resolved by raising Integrity to 8 or more.
New Conditions: Assertive Past, Flashbacks, Manic, Truly Mundane.
The Ambassador drawback for the Embassy to the Ocean gives Broken in the hour of
ebb tide, and Manic in the hour of flood tide.

2017/12/13
Added a section on form-limited Conditions under Form-limited Merits.
Beacons can’t take the Royal Tongue Merit.
New Charms: Closed Space (Appear •••••), Hang By a Thread (Perfect ••), Adaptation
(Perfect •••, Legno ••), Little Deuce Coupe (Shape ••••).
Added upgrades: Shattering and Flirting to Empty Hands, Guarding and Cinematic to
Kensai, Surgical and Numbing to Ministering Angel, Enduring to My Home is My
Castle.
Changed the extreme results from Beast Speaker.
The Stunning upgrade to Kensai inflicts the Knocked Down Tilt.
Danmaku Dance can prevent being surprised.
I Am Become Light forces a Clash of Wills on supernatural powers.
Rewrote Soothe the Savage Breast; now it creates the Bonded Condition.
Jumping Jack Flash is an extended action.
Barrier Jacket’s Healing upgrade has been boosted.
Crawling the Walls has been folded into the Gripping upgrade of Celestial Dance.
Long Fast is now an upgrade (Fasting) to Woodland’s Bounty.
Skinchange defines what animals the Noble can change into.
Defined "organic" in the Oily upgrade to Wellspring.
Breath of Boreas creates the Extreme Cold Tilt by default, and can’t make an
extreme environment at all.
Ghosts in Alhambra don’t lose the power to speak coherently over time.
Added a story seed: bringing nuclear power to Alhambra.
Goalenu add their Rank to their dice pools to activate Reprisals; characters with
Goalenu Graft add dots in Tempesta.
Rewrote The Hunting Beast Reprisal to use the new chase mechanics.
Added an actor sample Dreamlander, the Trickster Kitsune.
Cowed is now a Condition, not a Tilt.
Extended the Size Changes table to Size 21, and made the Defense bonus/penalty
depend on relative Sizes.

2017/10/20
Tweaked Tension, allowing a Noble to resolve Indiscreet rather than risk a check.
Clarified a timing issue with Tendril of Nothing.

2017/10/17
Added a cover made by Kaya Oldaker (https://www.redbubble.com/people/Kayas-Kosmos
or https://kayas-kosmos.deviantart.com/) - thank you!
Added Hopeful stereotypes for mummies and Beasts.
Extended Sensitivity: a Princess can now recognize others’ pain by approaching
them, and such pain triggers Sensitivity.
Penetrating a Dual Identity, if done by PCs, uses CofD’s Investigation subsystem.
Rewrote the Tension system, distinguishing between public magic use and clues to
one’s secret ID, and allowing more Conditions than Nemesis as consequences.
Upgraded Echoes: raising an Echo creates the Inspired Condition, the quiet Echo
gives those affected 9-again on some actions.
Sworn get the quiet Echo, but can’t raise Echoes; Shikigami have both Echoes.
Added notes on Camaraderie Status and Alhambra Status.
Slightly downgraded Unseen Sense (Light).
Lowered the Commonalty penalties, so Commonalty Charms are practical on weakly
bound groups.
New Charms: Zephyr’s Track (Appear •, Aria •); Words on Water Writ (Appear •••,
Acqua ••); Mastermind (Bless •••, Acqua ••); The Nick of Time (Connect ••••);
Willow’s Wisdom (Fight •, Legno •); All Together Now (Inspire •); Fight Song
(Inspire ••, Fuoco •); Such a Lonely Word (Inspire •••, Acqua ••); She’s So Fine
(Inspire •••, Specchio ••); Penetrating Eye (Perfect •); Valiant Mind (Perfect ••);
Feel the Burn (Perfect •••, Fuoco ••); Barricade (Shape •••); Salamander (Shape
•••, Fuoco ••); Travel in Style (Shape ••••, Legno •••).
Added upgrades: [Queen]’s Commission to We Rely on You, Saving to Light’s Aegis;
Friendly to Fair Welcome; Teaching to Mercury’s Blessing; Replacing to You Might
Hurt Yourself; Skeleton Key to Quicker That the Eye; Crippling to Balm; Sparking to
Always Prepared.
The Masked upgrade to Twenty Faces can hide the Noble’s supernatural status.
Merged Dim and Cloaks of Mist into one Charm, renamed Wallflower.
Merged the descriptions of the Bless Charms Drawn by the Moon, Wind-Borne Grace,
Stoke the Furnace, Forest Sanctuary and Crown Jewels under the heading "Charms of
Enhancement", and dropped them to Bless •••, Invocation •••.
Dropped Tendril of Nothing to Bless •••, Lacrima •••.
Rewrote Avenger’s Might and dropped it to Bless •••, Tempesta •••.
Changed Laying Down the Line to a Sanctuary Charm, cast on an area.
Renamed My Prince Will Come to Introductions, and moved it to Learn •••.
Rewrote All the World’s a Stage.
To fix an exploit that penetrates Dual Identity, rewrote Reflected Light and
Magical Eyes.
Moved Beginner’s Luck to Connect •.
Rewrote Fire on the Mountain, dropping most of the upgrades and adding
Inspirational and Sentimental.
Added a new Intuitive upgrade to Keen Observation, and renamed the old one to
Close.
Renamed Watchful Mind to Questing Mind, extended its range of targets, rewrote the
Passionate upgrade, and added upgrades Guided and Watchful.
Removed the Penetrating upgrade from Second Glance Wrongness, and added upgrades
Meditative and Furious.
Dropped Spray of Embers to Shape ••, Fuoco ••.
Switched Darkness Unfolds to a Caligo with an Umbra option, so Mnemosyne can learn
it.
Gave Defiling Touch an Umbra option.
Added two sample Darkened characters: Invisibles and the Serial Killer.
Added a chorus Dreamlander NPC, the Tengu Pirate.
Added Conditions: Blackmailed, Broken Circle, Drama Queen, Indiscreet.
Removed Conditions: Hidden Witness, Incredulous, Tracked.

2017/9/3
Defined Unseen Sense (Light) and Unseen Sense (Darkness) under Modified Merits.
Dots in the Minor Invoker Merit now substitute for Invocation dots when using the
Charm it’s tied to.
Bequests of Avatar Charms now need the user to have 3 dots in the linked
Invocation.
Making Regalia Practical allows a Noble to summon it in both forms.
Added a Bequest’s Charm rating to the dice pool that Light-touched characters roll
to recognize it.
Ruled out using a Bequest to prepare a Living Image, including another Bequest.
Clarified when to apply Tempesta to gain the benefit of Best Defense.
Added Caligines: Shadow Cloak and So Many of Me.
The Encacogen Caligo explicitly creates a Shadow Gate Condition at two dots.
Reworked Enervating Hex and Shadowblade Caligines to use the 2e corebook’s system
for building equipment.
Shikigami can take transformed Attributes and Skills and form-limited Merits,
giving them a transformation.
Shikigami can take Gift of Unison with multiple partners.
The Enervating Hex and Shadow-Worked Conditions now end when the affected object
touches jade or is destroyed.
Added a second way to gain Beats from Legal Minor.
The Embassy to the Arcane’s Privileges now apply to magic that can be activated by
rituals.

2017/4/9
Moved the general rules sidebars to a separate appendix "Additional Rules".
Tweaked the detransformation rules: Nobles detransform if they have no Wisps at
scene end, not in mid-scene.
Changed Levinbolt’s interaction with autofire; short bursts are allowed with the
basic Charm, first Multiple upgrade unlocks medium bursts, second unlocks long
bursts and makes short bursts free.
Added Recording upgrade to Data Wizard.
Dethroned may take the Monstrous Size Hex multiple times.
Added Fortress Curses to the Witch of the Woods.
Organizations can apply the CofD rules for procuring and building equipment.
Replaced the Armed benefit for organizations with a new benefit, Prepared.
Added a sample character, Lady Maria, to the Protectorate of Blue Topaz.

2016/12/4
Added Arsène Lupin as an inspiration for the Queen of Spades.
Added rules for human-shikigami fusions as a supernatural Merit, Unison (or Gift of
Unison for shikigami PCs), inspired by _Miraculous_ and _MGLN_ Unison Devices.
Added Appear Charm, Reverse Ideology, and the Reflected Tilt it imposes.
Replaced the Boiling, Freezing and Quaking upgrades to Levinbolt with Freezing
(Acqua), Gusting (Aria) and Piercing (Terra).
Added Fight Charms, Certain Shot and Seven at a Blow.
Changed the curse of Health in Tainted areas.
Added the Caligines Encacogen and Blood Diamonds, and the Strip-mined Tilt the
latter imposes.
Added a Dark Cult, the Upas Covens.
Finding an organization’s Secret Conditions now uses CofD’s investigation system.
Added organization Benefit, Untouchable.
Added Innocous Merit for shikigami.
Weakened the prerequisites for entering an Embassy.
Changed the effects of ectoplasm (Embassy to Death) to match Mage 2e’s rules for
the stuff.
Replaced a Consul to Ephemera’s "Worth is Value" Privilege with "Spiritual
Harmonic".
Added two Protectorates: Blue Topaz and Malachite.
Adjusted the Beat rule for the False Memory Condition.
Converted the Fearful and Terrified Conditions to temporary.

2016/6/26
Changed all references to the _World of Darkness Core_ and the _God-Machine
Chronicle_ to the new _Chronicles of Darkness_ rule book.
Reorganized most of the book: character creation, Merits, Nations and all template
abilities except Charms form Chapter 2; Charms form Chapter 3; Blessed Places and
minor templates went to the end of Chapter 4.
Changed the Graces’ first Oath.
New Practical Magics for Tears and the Radiant Queens.
Princesses get nine dots of Charms in character creation, not five.
Added Practical Charms: a limited set of Charms a Princess may use while mundane.
Changed Sensitivity to a 2-stage scheme like breaking points.
Low Belief decreases the successes needed for a severe Haunting, instead of
stretching out the Haunted Condition.
Buying an Invocation dot gives 2 free Charm upgrades.
Reworked Holy Shield for better Wisp efficiency.
Changed the Destiny Merit to the version in Mage 2e.
Added a way to turn an existing organization into a Nation.
Commonalty penalties rise, not fall, as organizations rise in Rank.
Removed the requirement to buy low-level Charms before high-level ones.
Standardized Skill enhancer Charms into two types: Favor (Skill) and Regalia. "9-
again + Invocation in specialty" is gone.
Raised the power level of _scads_ of Charms (just read the whole chapter.)
Added Appear Charm, Flash of Brilliance.
Added Connect Charm, Love Conquers All.
Added Govern Charms, Dreaming Vision and Forced Vows are No Vows.
Moved Data Wizaard to Learn.
Added Learn Charm, Quid pro Quo.
Added the Umbra Darkness Enfolds.
Boosted the Caligines Loathsome Weapon, Vile Gobbets, Voidblast and Zombie’s Flesh.
Added the Caligines Skinmask and Hope’s Eclipse.
Simplified Dreamlands travel, Gale strengths, and Amanojaku possession.
Added a description of Princesses’ Dream Forms.
Added the Phylactery Condition Blatant Transformation.
Added the Extreme Taint Tilt, for the effect of traveling in the Dark World.

2016/3/22
Renamed vocational Camaraderies to Principalities.
Limited the Tomoyo’s Touch Merit to one use/turn.
Rewrote the Sweet Fragrance Charm, changing its Condition to a Tilt.
Added the Appear Charm Goosedown Lullaby, and associated Tilts (Lullaby, Earworm).
Turned phantom damage into a Tilt that Know My Pain inflicts.
Added the Appear Charms Only a Flesh Wound and Strike False.
Rewrote Garden of Bright Images; it’s now general, rated at 5 dots, and uses
Sanctuary.
Added the Learn Charm True Names.
Clarified that Best Defense may be turned on or off by transformation actions.
Added Expedient upgrade to My Home is My Castle.
Separated Nations from the organization system: Nation Officer is now a variant of
Mystery Cult Initiation, Nation Bond has been dropped, organization rules have
moved to the antagonist chapter.
Added durations to several Caligines that lacked them.
Renamed the Sodality of Ocypete to the Sodality of the Harpuiai.
Added Embassy to Night.
Added the phylactery Condition Heartfelt Vow, and limited Unstable Transformation
to involuntary triggers.
Weakened the Cowed Tilt.

2015/10/30
Rewrote and expanded Chapter 1, "Noblesse Oblige", including material on
Camaraderies.
Distinguished between "indefinite" and "lasting" Charm durations.
Added Palladion to Fight Charms.
Changed the effect of Befriending and added an upgrade, Slap Slap Kiss.
Merged Living Image, Bequeath and Catch a Falling Star into one Charm named Living
Image. As a result, also simplified the rules for using Bequests.
Magical Eyes explicitly works through remote scrying Charms.
Changed Capitation to inflict Tainted on the target, and moved Willpower draining
to an upgrade.
Removed Searching upgrade from Mirror Mirror.
Added Tsukumogami upgrade to Genius Loci.
Added Unearth the Foundations to Learn Charms.
Replaced Searching upgrade to Reflected Portents with Pastward.
Merged Fixed upgrade to Bubble Shield into the basic effect, and added Mobile and
Unbroken upgrades.
Dropped Earthquake to Shape 3, Terra 2.
Added Diamonds are Forever to Shape Charms.
Separated triggers for Sensitivity from acts that create Taint.
Rewrote the Tainted Condition.
Clarified how Integrity and the Darkened Condition interact.
Separated Dethroned powers into Chains (tied to Inner Night dots) and Hexes
(unrestricted).
Added paragraph on extended action Charms.
Raised the threshold for My Home is My Castle.

2015/9/14
Added Minor Invoker to Noble-only Merits.
Added Charms Fists of Jade (Bless 3, Terra 2); Load Cartridge (Fight 3).
Added section "Inviting Corruption" to Tainted Places, giving rules for
deliberately becoming Darkened.
Moved Darkened Condition to Conditions appendix.
Dropped Shadows requirements for Caligines and set their price to 2
Experiences/dot, matching Dread Powers in Hunter: the Vigil.
Extended Loathsome Weapon and Zombie’s Flesh to 1-5 dots.
The first dot of Zombie’s Flesh downgrades damage from mundane sources, except for
jade.
Added 2-dot Caligo, Scapegoat.
The Sodality of Ocypete now teaches Scapegoat as the 5-dot Cult benefit.

2015/6/20
The global cap on transformed dots limits Experiences, not dots.
Simplified the rules for penetrating Dual Identity.
Added a section "The Need for Discretion" on drawing attention from Dark beings;
the Palace and Veiling Merits link to the system there.
Added sidebar "Freaking the Mundanes?" to the Charms introduction, on Integrity
breaking points for seeing Noble magic.
Added Fluent and Literate upgrades to Mercury’s Blessing, and changed the Charm’s
exceptional success benefit.
Lowered the costs of the Plagued and Corrupted upgrades to Purify.
Added Caligo: One of Us.

2015/4/4
_Princess Tutu_ is a Troubadour inspiration.
Added optional rule for splitting Skill dots at character creation.
Nobles are able to gain one Willpower from minor acts of Virtue.
Inner Strength rolls have results for dramatic failures and exceptional successes.
Added Royal Chariot upgrade to Outrace the Sun.
Added Fairy Dust upgrade to Wings of Air.
Added Joy Buzzer, a Shape Charm.
Changed the rules for Tainted areas; corruption checks follow from breaking points,
instead of causing them.
Added a rule for the Dark World’s draining effect outside Tainted areas.
Creatures of Darkness are able to gain one Willpower from minor acts of Vice.
Rewrote Cataphract transformations, deleting the "free choice of Umbrae" rule.
Cataphractoi now always have Subsumed by Another Shadow.
Added the Pleasure Principle and Sodality of Ocypete as Dark cults.
Added Duskhounds as sample Darkspawn.
Added Maria the Cleaner as a sample Cataphract.
Added Umbra: Grip Onto Your Fear.
Added Caligines: Night Air, Defiling Touch, Burying the Crime, Dark Thoughts
Consume, Out of the Depths, Shadow Step.
Dropped Gathering Shadows to 1 dot.

2015/2/21
Added high-Belief boosts for Tears’ and Storms’ Practical Magics.
Converted Beacons, Sworn and Shikigami to minor templates, and deleted the
corresponding Merits.
Reworked the rules for creating Nations, with two different Merits (Nation Bond and
Nation Officer) related to them.
Made the resolution of the Destined Condition more restrictive.
Gave Princesses an innate ability to notice Tainted areas on entry.
Gave Dark creatures an innate ability to notice Blessed areas on entry, for
symmetry.
Reduced the font size in the PDF, cutting the page count.
Replaced chunks of missing text in the ePub file.

2015/1/3
Slightly relaxed the requirements for the Beacon Merit.
Reduced the cost of the Bequest Merit by 1 dot.
Added conditions to use of the Bequeath Charm.
Limited the use of Accept Fealty as a Bequest.
Tweaked the rules for raising Echoes, and shortened the Tilt’s duration.
Replaced the Dethroned Hex Spawn Familiar with Bind Familiar.

2014/12/4
Wisp pools grow on the "accelerated" schedule of newer supernatural templates (and
2ed vampires.)
Added passive, persistent Echo effects, and converted the effect of raising an Echo
to a Tilt.

2014/9/11
Added Tomoyo’s Touch Merit.
Added Undying Heart Caligo.
Added Sonic Rainbow upgrade to Wings of Air.
Changed Second Glance Wrongness.

2014/9/8
Added the Charms Better Together, The Right Word, and My Prince Will Come.
Rewrote and renamed You Didn’t Earn My Love to Now I’m a Believer.
Corrected inconsistent rules for Regalia, and put all Regalia rules in chapter 3.

2014/8/28
New set of Belief compromise questions.
Multiple changes to Nations:
* Formalized "send staff" and "send Assets" as ways for organizations to appear in
play.
* Replaced sacrificing Interest dots for Credit with sacrificing Assets for Credit.
* Added Recruiting action to create new Assets.
* Modified the Benefits Armed, Criminal, Legendary and Too Big to Fail.
* Added Fortified and Jetset Benefits.
* Combined Holy Ground, Dream Palace and Dream Message into a stacked Benefit.
* Deleted the "PCs vs. Organizations" sidebar.

2014/6/17
Rewrite of the Echoes rules.

2014/6/10
Added Invoking for Willpower rule to Invocations.
Changed the Arcana for a mage to reach Alhambra to Space/Death.

2014/5/11
Reworked Kensai, Levinbolt and Barrier Jacket to emphasize Damage/Armor over bonus
dice/Defense.
Celestial Dance’s upgrade Swift adds to Defense, Speed and Initiative.
Added Look Into the Future.
Increased the cost of Invocations to 2 (favored) or 3 (other) Experiences/dot,
largely because of the combat Charm rework.

2014/5/4
Damage from Fight Charm weapons is supernatural (so vampires don’t downgrade it.)
Towering Inferno dropped to Fight 4.
Added Danmaku Dance to the Fight Charms.
Tweaked Scuttling Spider’s Sense.

2014/4/30
Replaced the second tenet of Spades’ philosophy.
Added the Protectorate of Novaculite.
Renamed the Protectorate of Garnet to Pyrite.
Added the Umbra Corruption of Blood.
Rewrote the Caligo Venom of the Soul.

2014/4/5
Changed the choices for Grace and Mender free transformed dots: Presence or
Manipulation for Graces, Intelligence or Dexterity for Menders.
Added Umbral upgrade to Mirror Walk: teleports to/from Dark World image of a mirror
in a Tainted area.
Added Royal Stature Charm in Perfect, with a chart of bonuses and penalties for
Sizes 1-9.
Recast the organization rules in response to criticism.
Added blocking, merging and splitting as organization actions.
Added Obsolete Condition for organizations.
Diminutive Size and Grotesque Bulk refer to the chart in Royal Stature.
Changed Regenerate’s dice pool to Intelligence + Medicine, and removed the implicit
WP cost from Choke It Down.

2014/3/9
Added the Noble Merits Second Calling and Troupe Magic.
Moved Sweet Fragrance to Appear.
Simplified All the World’s a Stage.
Added Your Guardian Angel to the Fight Charms.
Added Stare Master (an Intimidation enhancer) to the Inspire Charms.
Added On With the Motley to the Inspire Charms.
Added Concealed upgrade to Barrier Jacket.
Added several organization Benefits, and changed Endowment to a mundane Benefit
(you could now write stats for a Hunter Conspiracy with this.)
Added Organization Conditions, Indicted and Outlawed, for organizations in trouble
with the legal authorities.

2014/2/23
Rewrote Mantle of Authority; now it allows a Princess to use mundane Status Merits
while transformed.
Weakened the Condition given by Sea-Foam’s Touch.
Added Protectorate of Fused Quartz.
Overhauled the organization rules, using ideas from the primacy rules in _Damnation
City_.

2014/2/1
In Connect, added Animal Magnetism, an Animal Ken skill enhancer Charm.
In Inspire, added Fighting Evil by Moonlight and For the First Time.
Added cross-upgrade between Capitation and Seed of Light.
Switched the names of Gold Abhors Ebon and Light Over All.
In Learn, added Spirit Sight.

2014/1/22
Added two invoked upgrades to Forgotten Lore, for researching spirits and ghosts.
Added Tracking upgrade (Aria) to Speed Racer.
Added Larceny skill enhancer charm, as Quicker Than the Eye.
Renamed Second Sight to Ghost Sight, and added the upgrade Ghost Touch.
Made _all_ the skill enhancers general Charms.
In Woodland’s Bounty, the Weatherproof upgrade is split in two: an Acqua upgrade
for extreme cold, and a Fuoco upgrade for extreme heat. Tracking is still Legno.
In The Naked City, the Listening upgrade is now Terra.
Removed the Wisp cost for touching spirits from the Embassy to Ephemera.
Changed the fonts - tables and sidebars are in sans-serif.

2014/1/13
Added the Taint Awareness Merit.
New rules for Echoes.
Split unseen sense from Forgotten Lore into the Reflected Light Charm.
Added Magical Eyes, a Govern 3 Charm.
Added Bubble Wrap, a Shape 1 Aria 1 Charm.
Replaced the Privileges for the Arcane Embassy.

2013/12/31
Added A Host of Furious Fancies and Lightning Charge.
Reduced the benefit from We Rely on You to 1 banked die/success.
Replaced Whirlwind Stance with Shield Wall.
Modified Refutation in Arms and Salted Wounds.
Added the Umbra Scuttling Spider’s Sense (giving it to Heartleeches.)
Added Anabel Heartsford as a sample character in the Ephemera Embassy.

2013/12/22
Added Shape Charms Crucible, Dryad’s Favor and Master Mason, and removed the Charms
they subsume.
Added Broken Ground Tilt, and Earthquake now refers to it.
Added Unstable Transformation as a Phylactery Condition.

2013/12/15
Added the ice Charms: Skating upgrade to Celestial Dance, Naiad’s Paths, Touch of
Frost, Ice Sculptures, and Breath of Boreas.

2013/12/8
Added rule for changing Queens - the version of "leaving your Queen is a
compromise".

2013/11/29
Game now available in both PDF and ePub.

2013/11/24
Clarified the Specchio drawback - the Condition is separate from the cost, and
never waived.

2013/11/17
Separated the "creature of Darkness" template from the Darkened Condition. The
Condition still exists, because Darkened and Hopeful using the Empty Heart Charm
are creatures of Darkness only temporarily, but the other creatures have the traits
without the Condition.
Added a paragraph to the Fuoco Invocation describing it in general, parallel to the
other Invocations.
Added lists of the Invocations and Charm families to the Character Creation
section, with links.
Dropped the Invocation reference section.
Added the Swarm Tilt (lifted from the Demon draft) and references to it in
appropriate Charms.
Moved the rules for Shikigami (apart from the Merit) to chapter 3.

2013/10/28
Added Populist Rhetoric, Scientific Rhetoric and Spritual Discipline Style Merits.
Added Unbalanced Condition as reworked Specchio drawback.

2013/10/7
Reworking of the Nation purchase rules into the Nation Officer Merit (a reskinned
Mystery Cult Initiation).
New Shape Charm, My Home is My Castle.

2013/9/28
First version using GMC rules update.