Chronicles of Darkness (CoD) is the setting created by White Wolf for their various relaunched horror lines.

The work on the setting has continued under a new company but with many of the same writers. The new company
is Onyx Path Publishing.

The basic idea is that the CoD is a dark mirror of our own. It’s a world in which all the monsters are real, the shadows are full of dark things and humanity is not safe. Yet the monsters have their own minds and concerns and
in most of the game lines you play as one of these monsters.

One thing to know about the way that this setting works is that it’s meant to be modular. So any setting information given in any of the books is up to the Storyteller (GM) and his group to decide if it applies to their version of
the setting.

Note: A second chart detailing the more recent splats starts on page 14 and the upcoming Deviant: The Renegades starts on Page 23.

Splat Vampire: The Requiem Werewolf: The Forsaken Mage: The Awakening Changeling: The Lost Hunter: The Vigil

Alternate Name The Kindred The Forsaken The Awakened The Lost N/A

Basic Game Concept Live the life of one of the Kindred,
the Vampires who live the
Requiem—undead life feeding on
the blood of mortals to live and
seeking in between to find ways to
make their life of eternal night
tolerable as they wrestle with what
they have become.
Hunt as one of the Uratha, the
shape-changing monsters that
inspired our legends of werewolves.
They live a life torn between the
world of the flesh and the spirit,
hunting prey in order to maintain the
balance between the worlds and
protect their boundary.
The first thing a mage learns
upon awakening is that the world
is Fallen and that most people are
bound to the fallen world by the
Lie that this is all there is.
Beneath the Lie are symbols that
control all reality as we know it,
and their knowledge of this
allows Mages to alter reality to
their will through magic.
The Lost were stolen from this
world by the True Fae. They
escaped their tormentors but
returned to the world warmed by
faery magic. Unable to return to
their old lives, they must forge a
new place for themselves in this
world and protect themselves from
their former masters.
Monsters live in the shadows, but
most people don’t know about it.
Hunters are different—they have
discovered the evil that lurks
around them and have decided to
hunt it. Yet there is always the
danger in hunting monsters that
they might become monsters.

What drives them? The need for blood and the desire The drive to hunt and the task given Chasing after arcane knowledge Regaining as much of a semblance Hunting the monsters that live
to maintain a reason for living in them by Mother Luna to maintain and perhaps ascending to the of a normal life as possible and among us—for reasons ranging
their undeath. the Gauntlet—the boundary between Supernal world. avoiding the True Fae. from personal gain to righteous
flesh and spirit. devotion to God.

Society Vampires call themselves the
Kindred, and they live in complex
societies that exist in nighttime
parallel to those of the mortal
world. Moreover, that society is
not just parallel, it influences the
mortal world and the mortal world
influences it.
The Uratha organize themselves into
packs. These packs take up a
territory which they are bound to
protect, hunting within it to maintain
the Gauntlet. The packs are bound
together around a Spirit Totem who
they have bound to their service and
their territories are usually focused
around weak spots in the Gauntlet
called Loci.
Mages are drawn together into
society with each other through
their obsession with uncovering
the arcane knowledge of the
Mysteries, something they can do
better together. Most mages
belong to one of three sects—the
Diamond Precept, who maintain
what they claim is an Atlantean
pedigree; the Council of Free
Assemblies, who seek to
modernize magic; and the Seers
Changelings gather together into Hunters gather together into Cells
groups called Motleys both to have to support each other against
society in isolation from ordinary monsters more powerful than they
mortals and to protect themselves are.
from the True Fae. On a larger
scale they are organized into
Courts of power as described be
low.

Their Struggle Humanity/The Beast - They live in
complex societies, yet within each
vampire lies the Beast, feral urges
that will take them over and drive
them mad with bloodlust if they
aren’t careful. However, it is also
from the Beast that vampires draw
their powers. This is the tension
they live in — hunting humanity to
sate their need for blood while
trying to maintain their own
humanity. They live in a highly
complex, often rigid, society while
fighting against a monstrous
bestial urge within.
Origin The Embrace - Mortals become
Vampires when another Vampire
chooses to Sire them by drinking
their blood and then making the
mortal in turn drink the Vampire’s
blood.
Why are they hidden? The Masquerade - Vampires are
bound to maintain the masquerade,
that is, to keep their existence and
the existence of their society a
secret from ordinary mortals. This
is about self-preservation, as
ordinary mortals far outnumber
them.
Harmony - Werewolves must
maintain the balance between their
human-flesh element and their wolf-
spirit element. A werewolf that goes
too far towards their human side
risks losing their ability to
shapeshift or travel across the
Gauntlet. One that loses too much
humanity can fade away and
become a bestial spirit. Rage also
plays an important role in this
balance. The hunter’s rage is an
essential part of the werewolf’s
existence, yet it also puts them in
danger of losing control.
The First Change - Werewolves are
born to a human parent and a parent
of the wolf’s blood. They live their
youth as humans, unaware of what
lies within them, but often outcasts
because of their inner ferocity. At
some point in their adolescent years
they go through their first
transformation in a moment of pure
rage and become a full werewolf.
Lunacy - Humans who witness
werewolves in their supernatural
forms are often driven at least
temporarily mad. This madness
upsets the spiritual world and
weakens the boundary of the
Gauntlet. Moreover, it typically
causes them to have blackouts as to
what they witnessed.
of the Throne, who serve the
Exarchs.
Wisdom – There are many
dangers to the use of magic, so a
mage must be wise in their use of
it. The mage who strives to be
wise gains control over their
magic, but the temptation is
always there to take the easy path
of Hubris and thereby lose
wisdom. Acts of Hubris include
such things as performing
obvious magic in the presence of
a Sleeper (an ordinary human)
risking a Paradox as described
below.
The Awakening – Something stirs
a Sleeper from their acceptance
of the Lie. They experience this
Awakening as a journey where
they are called to reach a
Watchtower, climb it, and mark it
(often with their true name).
Afterwards, they return to the
Fallen world with eyes opened to
behold (and manipulate) the
reality behind it.
Paradox and the Lie – Mages are
hidden for two reasons. The Lie
causes most people to be
unaware of the reality of Magic.
What is more, however, when
Sleepers witness magic it can
twist magic to terrible effect as
their acceptance of the Lie
influences the Mage’s altering of
the world. The Lie also causes
Sleepers to experience
Clarity – Changelings are altered
by their time in Fae, associated
with Faery magic, and Faery magic
is mad. Changelings that lose
clarity begin to have trouble
distinguishing between the real
world and Faery, potentially going
stark raving mad. Morality plays a
role in maintaining clarity, but so
does their interaction with the
world of Faery and their adherence
to contracts they have made.
Abduction and Escape – For one
reason or another, a True Fae
became interested in a mortal.
Perhaps they stole the mortal as a
child, perhaps they seduced them
to cross over. However it
happened, the mortal became
trapped in Arcadia. Eventually,
they escaped and found their way
to the real world, but their time in
Faery forever altered them.
The Mask - Changelings hide
themselves using the magic of
glamour in order to attempt to
regain their former lives and also
to hide from the True Fae.
Integrity – Like any other mortal
human, Hunters deal with
psychological integrity and the
various threats that their
experience of the supernatural
poses to that integrity. A loss of
integrity represents degradation of
sanity and morality that a life of
hunting and killing supernatural
horrors inflicts upon a person.
A Hunter’s reason for joining the
Vigil can be as varied as their
methods. One way or another they
discovered that monsters lie in the
darkness and prey on humanity.
They decided to fight back.
Hunters are normal humans, but
they often hide their activities
because they know the world in
general will not believe them about
monsters and that can get in the
way of their hunt. Others are part
of conspiracies seeking to use the
reality of the supernatural for
wealth or power, and so they do
not want the reality known.

Their Legends - While no one
knows for certain the origins of
these supernatural beings, many of
them have legends of their ancient
origin.
Magic
Power Stat - How is their magic
powered?
Other World
The Vampires lack any common
story of their far origins, but one
piece of legendary history does
mark them. They were once a
powerful force in the Roman
Empire in the form of the lost clan
of the Julii. It was in those days
that the Masquerade was instituted.
The Julii, however, were destroyed
by the Strix, a story that still
haunts the Kindred to this day.
Vampires have magic called
Disciplines which draws on their
vampiric store of blood (the vitae).
This can be everything from
turning into mist to hypnotically
mesmerizing someone.
Blood Potency -
N/A
In the primordial time before
history, Father Wolf and Mother
Luna had children together. These
beings were the first werewolves,
gifted with Father Wolf’s ferocity
and Mother Luna’s mercurial nature.
Father Wolf was the spirit who
guarded the boundary between the
world of Spirit and the world of
Flesh, but he grew weak and so his
children slew him. As punishment
for this, Mother Luna cursed them to
take up his responsibilities and to be
vulnerable to silver.
Werewolves are capable of casting
powerful spirit magic that draws on
their essence. They are also
shapeshifters who can move
between five forms: human (hishu),
near-human (dalu), half-man/half-
wolf war form (gauru),
near-wolf/dire wolf (Urshul), wolf
(Urhan)
Primal Urge -
The Shadow - An animistic spiritual The Supernal World – A platonic
world exists beyond the Gauntlet. Its world of symbols that define
Dissonance, which can cause
spells to unravel and Sleepers to
rationalize away magic.
In the time before the Fall there
was Atlantis, the Golden City.
The story of how it happened
varied, but the hubris of the
Mages of that time led to the
shattering of the world that split
the Fallen world from the
Supernal realms. Now it is said
that the split is maintained by
beings called Exarchs who used
to be mages and who maintain
the Lie in order to keep their hold
on reality.
The very nature of Mages is to do
magic. The Mage creates an
image in her mind of what she
wants to affect in the world. The
Mage’s magic is an imposition of
her will on the world in
contradiction to the Lie. This
power depends upon a Mage’s
gnosis.
Gnosis -
What unifies Changelings is not
some common myth, but their
common experience. They were
snatched away from their existence
by the True Fae, held captive, and
escaped through the hedge back to
the real world only to discover that
they could never truly go back.
Their magic is built on contracts –
ancient arrangements between the
natural world and their former
Faerie masters. These contracts are
activated by spending glamour or
by finding and exploiting
contractual loopholes. They can
also themselves bind Mortals and
changelings into magically
Wyrd -
Faerie/Arcadia – This is a twisted,
alien landscape. It is beautiful but
There is no general legend for
hunters. The only thing that unites
all hunters is that, for one reason or
another, they hunt monsters.
Tactics: Tactics are not magic, but
they allow a group of hunters to
coordinate to take down a more
powerful monster.
Endowments: Hunters do not have
native magic, as they are regular
human beings. However,
conspiracies can offer hunters
various means to supernatural
power. For example, the Cheiron
group will surgically graft
empowered monster parts onto its
members and the Malleus
Maleficarum draws on the
intervention of Saints.
N/A

For most of the splats, there are Clans - Each vampire is part of
five basic types that function one of five clans by virtue of the
roughly like races in something clan their sire was in
like D&D
1 Daeva – The Seducer. These are
the stereotypical modern sexy
vampires who use seductive magic
to lure in their prey. They are also
vulnerable to this reality, however.
If they drink more than once from
the same person they risk
becoming emotionally addicted to
that person.
2 Gangrel - The Survivor. These are
the primal, bestial vampires who
hunt their prey like wolves.
They’re the vampires who will
turn into wolves or mist and hunt
down their prey, soaking in bullets.
They revel in the Beast within, but
surface is a parallel to the material
world that also influences that
world. Yet there are also deep
realms of Shadow that do not reflect
the material world.
Auspice - When a werewolf goes
through its first transformation,
they are marked by the phase of
Mother Luna at the time of
transformation.
Cahalith (Gibbous Moon) – Those
marked by the gibbous moon are the
storytellers and lorekeepers of their
pack. They are also blessed with
prophetic dreams. They are
particularly skilled in Gifts
concerning Inspiration and
Knowledge.
Elodoth (Half-Moon) - The judges
and arbiters who stand most wholly
between the world of flesh and
spirit, called upon to judge within
werewolf society and to be envoys
to the spirit world. They are gifted
with being able to see the line
what the world is and upon
which Mages draw for power.
Also the realm of the mysterious
Exarchs who enforce the Lie. It is
encountered differently by
different mages. Between it and
the Fallen World lies the Abyss.
Paths – When a mage awakens
they find themselves on a
particular path to power based
on the manner of their
awakening.
Acanthus (The Witch) –
Enchanters who work with luck,
intuition and destiny. Their
awakening involved a journey
into the Supernal realm of
Arcadia, land of the Faeries.
They are epitomized by the
witches in MacBeth, showing up
at crucial times to manipulate
time and fate towards their ends.
However, this also means they
are weak in using magic that
controls fundamental forces like
Lighting and Fire—which instead
stand for them as the fixed points
around which time and fate are
weaved.
Mastigos - Warlocks who work
with perception and inner
demons. They awoke through a
journey into the Supernal realm
of Pandemonium, abode of
demons. Their magic
manipulates Mind and Space, but
also terrible. The laws that govern
faeries are not natural law or even
human magic, but a vast series of
contracts. Between the mundane
world and Faerie lies a barrier
called the Hedge.
Seemings - In Fae Changelings
served different roles. Upon their
return, their altered appearance
and psychology is shaped by that
role. These further breakdown
into specific versions of the
Seeming called Kiths. There are
six seemings
Beasts – Those Changelings used
or treated as beasts during their
captivity. They take on something
of an animal’s appearance,
sensation, and instinct. Kiths
include such types as broadback
(associated with stubborn animals
and possessed of great stamina)
and runnerswift (associated with
fleet footed animals and possessed
of supernatural speed)
Darkling - Changelings who were
taken away to dark twisted, alien
parts of Fae for transgressing
Faery boundaries. They embody
shadows, fear, and deception, and
while not transparent, they
somehow feel less substantial than
Tiers of Affiliation – Hunters
remain human (mostly anyway)
and so do not undergo basic
transformation. Instead they have
organizational affiliations. These
come in three tiers. Tier-One are
those hunters who never join an
organization larger than their
cell.
Tier-Two (Compacts) – Loosely
connected organizations that
provide some special resources.
The Long Night – Fundamentalist
Christian hunters trying to destroy
monsters to facilitate the second
coming of Christ.
Null Mysteriis – A group that seeks
to scientifically study the
paranormal.
Network Zero – A group trying to
expose the supernatural world to
the public via the use of media
sites.
 this is also their curse as they find
it much harder to resist its call
when they need to.
3 Mekhet - The Voyeur. These are
the vampires who hide in the
shadows, cloaking themselves in
magical darkness and sneaking up
on their prey. They are spies and
watchers, collecting information to
use against their enemies.
However, their closeness to the
shadows also makes them more
vulnerable to sunlight, fire, and the
call of endless sleeping torpor.
4 Nosferatu - The Nightmare. These
are the vampires that manifest fear.
The hideous, fearsome beasts who
fill people with abject terror. Many
between the darkness and the light,
the spirit and the flesh, clearly and
they can sometimes push another
werewolf into or out of a death rage.
They are skilled in Gifts concerned
with Insight and Warding.
Irraka (The New Moon) - The
scouts, spies, and trackers of the
werewolf world. Their connection to
the darkness of the New Moon
allows them to suddenly appear near
their prey for a quick strike.
Ithaeur (The Crescent Moon) -
These are the spirit-keepers and
occultists - the “shamans'' of the
werewolf world. They can let out a
they are weak when it comes to
Matter. They are exemplified by
the infernal Warlock who locks
horns with gods and demons.
Moros – Alchemists and
Necromancers who work with
death, mortality and material
things. Their awakening involved
a journey to the supernal realm of
Stygia, abode of Shades. They
are skilled in magic concerned
with Death and Matter, but weak
in magic dealing with Spirit.
Obrimos - Theurgists who work
with the divine energies infusing
the world. They awakened
through a journey into Aether,
the realm of the celestial spheres
other Changelings. Kiths include
such types as the antiquarian (who
hoards ancient tomes and
possesses arcane knowledge) and
the leechfinger (who can draw life
force from others to heal wounds).
Elementals - Changelings who
were used as inanimate objects or
forces of nature in Faerie. They
have power over their associated
elements and are extremely
durable, but they are also even
more removed from humanity than
other Changelings. Kiths include
airtouched (who are associated
with air, clouds, smoke, or sky and
thus possess magical alacrity) and
the manikin (who are associated
with human-made objects such as
mannequins or clockwork beings
and are skilled in artifice).
Fairest - Those Changelings who
were stolen because a Faery fell in
love with them. They were taken
to a world of sweet but hollow and
often treacherous delights and
The Union – Consists of regular
folks mostly trying to protect their
neighborhood from oppression of
any kind (humans or monsters).
The Ashwood Abbey – Thrill
seekers who want to experience
everything involving the
supernatural from the most benign
to the most psychotic (torture,
mutilation, and worse).
The Loyalists of Thule – Guilt-
driven knowledge seekers who use
what they learn to help the world
after their assistance in creating the
Nazi Party.
Keepers of the Source - A group of
protectors who safeguard places of
power and protect forbidden
knowledge
Illuminated Brotherhood -
Organization that focuses on the
use of drugs for understanding and
creating supernatural events.
The Hunt Club - A group of
wealthy socialites who partake in
hunting normal, non-supernatural
human beings for sport
Vampire Focused
The Barrett Commission - Groups
of business and politically minded
individuals in high positions of
 are ugly, twisted monstrosities.
Yet, because disgust and fear
oozes from them, they are unable
to connect with others and are
eternally lonely.
5 Ventrue - The Master.
Machiavellian masters of the night
whose powers lie in dominating
the wills of others or simply
manipulating them into attaining
their desired ends.
spiritual howl that causes lesser
spirits to flee in terror from them.
Rahu (Full Moon) - These are the
warriors of the Uratha, those most in
tune with their spiritual rage but also
capable of being keen tacticians. At
times, they can ignore any
hindrances in combat coming from
such things as injuries.
and the abode of Angels. They
are skilled in the magic of Force
and that of Prime (direct
manipulation of magical forces),
but weak in Death magic.
Thyrsus - Shamans who work
with all aspects of the natural
world. They awakened through a
journey in the Primal Wild,
Abode of Beasts. They are
skilled in manipulating the magic
of Life and Spirit, but weak in
the magic of Mind.
possess dangerous and enchanting
beauty. Their kiths include Bright
Ones (associated with elves, will-
o-the-wisps, etc and capable of
casting illumination at will) and
the draconic (associated with
dragons and capable of being
skilled in combat).
Ogres - Those who were given
great strength to serve as guards,
gladiators, and heavy laborers in
Faerie, and suffered great torture
and torment while there. They are
possessed of terrible strength.
Their kiths include Farwalkers
(resembling mysterious wandering
monsters like sasquatch and yeti
and gifted in stealth) and the
gargantuan (freakish in appearance
and capable of magically growing
to great stature).
Wizened - Those who were taken
to Faerie to work as smiths,
craftsmen and the like. They are
nimble and gifted in artifice, but
also spiteful and cruel. Their kiths
include the artist (tasked with
creating stunning works of art and
gifted in craftsmanship) and the
Chatelaine (tasked with serving as
manservants, butlers, etc and gifted
with perfect knowledge in matters
of etiquette).
power dedicated to fighting
vampiric influence in America,
primarily through politics and
economics
Maiden's Blood Sisterhood -
College sorority created to protect
colleges and universities from
preying vampires.
Night Watch - Organized vigilantes
who protect slums and other urban
areas from vampires.
Werewolf Focused
The Bear Lodge - American hunter
group who pursue werewolves and
other creatures for pure sport.
The Talbot Group - American
organization founded as a
counseling service that aims to
rehabilitate werewolves and other
supernatural beings to humanity.
Mage Focused
Division Six - Extra-governmental
group devoted to eliminating
mages and other magic users.
The Promethean Brotherhood -
Mage hunters who steal temporary
supernatural magical abilities.
God-Machine Demon Focused

For most splats their are five
affiliations that serve as the
rough equivalent of classes.
1 The Carthian Movement - The
2 The Circle of the Crone - Vampiric
Covenants - Though the vampires
receive their clan from their sire,
they get to choose which of five
covenants they will join.
Carthians are vampires fed up with
the static nature of vampire
society. They borrow
revolutionary ideologies from the
living and try to use these to shake
up the vampiric world. Most often
they go in for democracy.
“Concepts: Sexy campus recruiter,
firebrand ideologue, distant
intellectual, street ganger,
disenchanted war veteran, guilt-
ridden liberal arts teacher, well-
intentioned political extremist,
middle-class freedom fighter,
liberation theologian.”
neo-Pagans. Those in the Circle of
the Crone see the vampiric curse as
a blessing and revel in being
Tribes - Werewolves choose to be
part of tribes. The tribe transcends
their pack and gives them
connection to a more global
ideology. Importantly, each tribe is
connected to a kind of prey the
werewolf is most drawn to hunt.
Blood Talons - This is the tribe
dedicated to the life of a warrior’s
savagery in the hunt and loyalty in
the pack. Their primary prey are
other Werewolves who have
abandoned or failed their task of
protecting the Gauntlet. “Concepts:
War-leader, conflict resolution
specialist,
capable beta, motivational speaker,
angry young punk, alpha in over her
head.”
Bone Shadows - The keepers of
secret wisdom, openers of
doorways, and explorers of the
depths of the Shadow and other
Orders – Mage society organizes
itself into Orders dedicated to
certain paths of knowledge and
means of opposition to the
Exarchs.
The Adamantine Arrow - spiritual
warriors and masters of conflict,
who claim a heritage going back
to the First City's defenders.
Currently, the Order of the
Arrow could perhaps be
described as something akin to a
knightly sect, though bushido and
other warrior codes find a place
in The Arrow. These mages
conduct intensive physical and
mental training, honing the minds
and bodies of order members into
deadly weapons which magical
society may then wield against its
enemies
Guardians of the Veil - spies and
conspirators who claim their
descent from the intelligence
officers and enforcers of the First
Courts – Changeling society
organizes itself into courts. The
courts gain power from some
organizing concept and grant
their members power and
protection. In the West these are
based on the seasons, so there are
four of them. Each seasonal court
rules the local area during their
season.
Spring – The court of desire and
hope. They seek to forget their
torments and to create beauty in
the world. They are those who
seek to be the closest to humanity.
At the same time they are often
driven by their desires. Their
heraldry is bright colors of green
and blue. They gain contracts that
allow them to manipulate the
desires of others as well as bring
about growth and healing.
Summer – This court is dedicated
to defending changelings from
direct threats, especially those
coming from the Fae. They can be
Utopia Now - A business-driven
collective of utopians, libertarians,
and businessmen that hunt
demons, especially institutional
ones, for parts in order to build a
utopia free of their influence.
Tier-Three (Conspiracies) –
Global secret organizations
Task Force: VALKYRIE ("The
Men in Black") – Secret
organization using high-tech
weaponry to protect the public and
keep them from knowing things
they do not want to know.
The Lucifuge – Children of Satan,
who use their infernal powers to
hunt monsters.
The Cheiron Group – Group of
international corporations who
experiment on monsters in order to
find cures for modern diseases
 monsters. They dedicate
themselves to the service of a dark
pagan goddess. “Concepts: Riot
girl, working-class matriarch,
indigenous people’s rights
campaigner, reclusive wealthy
occultist, dissolute swinger,
technopagan clubber, body
modification enthusiast, voodoo
priest, strange-eyed street ganger,
witchy librarian, aging old-school
libertine; suspiciously friendly
laird of the manor.”
strange realms. Their primary prey
are wayward spirits and other
dangerous denizens of the Shadow.
Concepts: Shadow cartographer,
exorcist, occult fixer,Underworld
explorer, speaker for the dead,
demon fighter, antiquities procurer”
City's laws. Currently, they bear
a resemblance to a combination
of many occult conspiracies, such
as the Thule. Many obscure their
activities and identities even
from other mages, and act as a
check on humanity's dangerous
curiosity for "that which man was
not meant to know".
anything from warriors to such as cancer and HIV, and
politicians so long as they are attaching parts of monsters to their
focused on challenging threats. field agents.
They are driven by wrath. Their
heraldry is forest greens and dark
reds with symbols of weapons.
They are gifted with contracts that
allow them to manipulate the anger
of others and to control the sun and
its heat.

3 Invictus - These are the old power
vampires who sit at the center of
modern vampiric princedoms.
They are “the man” of the
vampires. “Concepts: Old-school
Eurotrash, Merc-driving capitalist
bloodsucker, intimidatingly silent
bodyguard, Man in Black,well-
bred dominatrix, boarding-school
teacher, privileged frat boy or
sorority girl, soulless bureaucrat,
Man of Wealth and Taste, military
officer, working-class
entrepreneur, business-like
mobster, jobsworth security
guard.”
Hunters in Darkness - The silent
hunters and the fierce defenders of
territory. They hunt anything that
endangers their territory, but bear
particular animosity towards the
Hosts for their inherent violation of
the Gauntlet. “Concepts: Stalker,
local historian, neighborhood watch
leader, security specialist, urban
explorer, exterminator.”
The Mysterium - dedicated to
pursuit of magical lore and the
acquisition, cataloging, and study
of mystical and occult knowledge
and artifacts. The "mystagogues"
(as they are called) continue the
ancient heritage of the scholarly
and intellectual of Atlantean
society. Their internal structure
often resembles the academic
structures of the part of the world
in which they reside. The
Mysterium gathers, catalogs and
maintains items of all types of
magical and historical
significance.
Autumn Court – This court is
focused on the magical power of
faerie and on using it to instill fear
in those who would threaten the
Changelings. Their heraldry is the
colors and symbols of autumn.
They have contracts that allow
them to manipulate the fear of
others and control the weather.
Aegis Kai Doru (Greek for "Shield
& Spear'') – Empowered by
ancient relics and bound by a vow
to destroy both werewolves and
mages for an ancient grudge.
Ascending Ones – Ancient
Egyptian cult turned Islamic
hunters, they are well known for
their use of drugs to help aid their
monster hunting.
4 The Lancea et Sanctum - This is Iron Masters - Those closest to The Silver Ladder - dedicated to Winter Court – This court is the Malleus Maleficarum – Secret
the established vampiric church. humanity and most interested in ruling, guiding and reshaping the court of mysteries, spying, and enforcers of the Catholic Church,
They understand themselves as adapting to changes in the world. world, the viziers, senators and subterfuge. They are marked based on the heretical book from
Yet dangerous humans are also their priests of the First City remain in particularly by sorrow. Their the Inquisition and specialize in
being like Satan in the book of Job
primary prey. “Concepts: Urban force. Politicians and heraldry is white and black and vampire hunting.
- the adversaries sent by God to legend come to life, hardheaded authoritarians, the théarchs includes symbols like arrows, ice,
test humanity. They work both to futurist, doomsday prepper, union believe in creating a perfect and holly. They are gifted with
defend the living Church from advocate, civil engineer/geomancer, hierarchy (with themselves at the contracts that allow them to
outside enemies while also striving serial killer hunter, supernatural top, of course) which will seize manipulate sorrow, ease grief, and
to test believers with trials. They diplomat.” control of reality, subjugating it control ice and the season’s cold.
feed on those they perceive as to the will of mankind; this
dream is not without its altruistic
sinners and try to use fear to
appeal. As a member of the
shepherd mortals towards virtue. Ladder might point out, control
They hold that their founder was over reality could bring an end to
Longinus, the centurion who human suffering in all its forms.
pierced Christ and was cursed for
it with vampirism. “Concepts:
Creepy nun, apocalyptic street
preacher, father confessor, earnest
student evangelist, delusional
derelict, church janitor, night Vanguard Serial Crimes Unit -
Department of the FBI that uses
manager at the orphanage,
psychics to track and capture serial
Pentecostal middle-class killers and slashers.
professional, nurse, old-school
BDSM enthusiast, uptight middle-
aged bachelor or spinster of the
parish, placard-wielder or leaflet-
giver, “reformed” serial killer,
librarian.”
5 The Ordo Dracul - Vampiric secret
society that gathers artifacts of
power and researches to try and
improve the vampiric condition to
something new and transcendent.
Like the Lancea et Sanctum, they
believe that God created vampires,
but in their eyes that makes God
the enemy and so they believe in
using their own powers to
overcome the limits of God’s
curse. “Concepts: Venturesome
archaeologist, charismatic occult
study group leader, underground
bare-knuckle boxer, cold-fish
doctor, quirky writer, failed
suicide.”
Prominent Enemies VII - VII are a covenant of
vampires who work as serial
killers hunting other vampires.
Someone or something has set
them up to do this as they all hunt
in a post-hypnotic trance, unaware
of what they are doing. There are
multiple ideas presented in the
rulebook ast to what VII might be
up to.
The Strix - The Strix are owl
spirits. They suck the life directly
from their prey and they embody
themselves in the world through
Storm Lords - Cold ruthless hunters
who seek to instill strength in all
Uratha through their example. Their
primary prey are those humans
possessed by spirits (the Ridden).
“Concepts: Extremophile, family
counselor, spiritual guru,
lone wolf, exorcist.”
The Pure - The Pure are werewolves
who believe that the Forsaken, with
their oath to Luna to protect the
gauntlet, are an abomination and so
they hunt the Forsaken with a
genocidal rage.
Spirits - Spirits are not all enemies fails.
of the forsaken. Yet spirits that
violate the territory of the Uratha or Exarchs – Rarely directly
cause the kind of chaos that weakens involved, the Exarchs are the
the Gauntlet must be hunted.
Hosts - There were ancient gods in
the Shadow that Father Wolf hunted
and killed, yet their shards remain.
They seek to reforge the ancient
The Free Council - Modernists
who wish to create new forms of
magic, a union of mages who
have discovered ways of using
magic that do not adhere to the
Atlantean methods, joining the
Pentacle during the Industrial
Revolution after their previous
form rejected an offer from the
Seers. The "Libertines", as they
are also called, possess a strong
belief in democratic process and
anti-authoritarianism.
The Abyss – Not an entity, the
Abyss is the chasm between the
Supernal Realms and the Fallen
World. Those subject to the Lie
are bound to the Abyss, and it is
from the Abyss that paradox
comes when a Mage’s magic
ascended mages who live in the
Supernal realms and maintain the
Lie.
Seers of the Throne –The Seers
of the Throne are mages who
Other Court Structures – In Asia
the Courts are based around the
cardinal directions, and in Slavic
countries there are often two courts
based on the night and the day.
The True Fae – Mad godlike
beings from Fae. They are
immensely powerful and utterly
alien in motivation. They are the
enemies of the Changelings
because they made them what they
are by abducting them from the
world. The Changelings always
fear they will take them back.
Fetches – Not enemies exactly, but
sources of much of the
Changelings suffering. The
Fetches are automata of faerie stuff
who replaced the Changelings in
their normal lives. Since they are
perfect replicas of the way the
Knights of St. George - A group of
so-called knights of England who
seek to keep mages and magic
users from attracting the attention
of beings greater than humanity.
Rumored to be responsible for the
Tunguska Incident.
Les Mysteres - Practitioners of
Haitian vodou and Louisiana
voodoo, the conspiracy hunts
werewolves under the belief that
they kill the spirits the group
communicates with.
Knights of St. Adrian - The
Knights began as a mercenary unit
headed by Casey Howard, who
was approached by an angel with a
mission from God to fight demons
in return for angelic scripts in the
form of their Ink tattoos.
Any sort of supernatural power in
the world can be an enemy to a
given hunter group.
corpses… corpses like vampires.
They hate all corporal life for what
it gets to experience. Some want to
destroy the corporeal. Some want
to take corporeal existence so they
can experience it for themselves in
modes of total debauchery. And
the Strix see vampiric bodies as the
very best hosts since they are full
of power. Vampires fear the Strix.
They are the predators that hunt
the predators and give them
something to fear.
gods. They inherently violate the
gauntlet and are capable of causing
it terrible damage. The most notable
Hosts:
● Azlu (the Spider-Hosts) -
They appear in the world as
ordinary spiders, but they
can crawl into humans and
puppet them. A human
infected by an Azlu soon
becomes a suit of skin filled
with spiders. Eventually, the
Azlu will become a horrific
half-spider/half-man hybrid.
The Azlu are driven to
weave webs that harden the
gauntlet, completely cutting
off the world of the spirit
from the world of flesh in a
parody of the Uratha’s task
of maintaining a balanced
gauntlet. Regions infected by
the Azlu become spiritually
lifeless, leaving humans and
animals listless and
apathetic.
● Beshilu (the Rat-Hosts) -
Children of the Plague King,
the Rat Hosts appear in the
world as rats and like the
Azlu infect the body of a
human till it first becomes a
suit of skin worn by a host of
Beshilu and then a hideous
human-rat hybrid. They
gnaw at the gauntlet to bring
the boundary of balance
between the flesh and spirit
crashing down. Here they
have infected the world,
spirits spill over frequently
or humans find their way
into the Shadow.
● Others - Srizaku (the Locust-
serve the Exarchs. There service Changeling was before they were
to the Supernal masters and their abducted and the Changelings have
willingness to use magic for their been altered, they make it very
own gain has made them difficult for the Changelings to
extremely wealthy and powerful recover their lives.
compared to the other Mage
societies, but they are also
plagued by internal strife.
The Banishers – The Banishers
are Mages who hate what they’ve
become and so hunt other Mages
to kill them, often believing that
in doing so they will find a way
to return to their normal lives
before their Awakening.
The Gulmoth – Beings who
inhabit the Abyss. They long to
enter our world in order to
destroy the cosmos and can do so
through paradoxes.
The Acamoth – Abyssal beings
who have become trapped in our
world and who make deals of
power with mages in exchange
for their souls.
The Scelesti – Mortal Mages who
have dedicated themselves to the
Abyss and so to the destruction
of the Cosmos.
Goetic Demons – Some mages
will give their vices physical
form in order to control or
destroy them. Sometimes they
escape or even possess the Mage
who summoned them.
 Hosts) who swarm and
consume, Halaku (the Crow-
Hosts) who haunt battlefields
and desecrate graves, and the
Razilu (the Snake-Hosts)
whose horrible motives are
unknown.

The Ridden - Not merely a human

possessed by a spirit, the Ridden are
a human and a spirit fused together
into a lethal combination of both.
Think, for example, of a death spirit
who feeds on death possessing a
human being to become a
methodical serial killer.

The Idigam - Lovecraftian

nightmares called the Formless.
Unlike other spirits who reflect
things in the physical world, the
idigam have no anchor. Long ago
they were banished to the moon, but
they have returned since humans
travelled there. Little is known about
these alien spirits, but their
mercurial presence has begun to
shatter what little balance the Uratha
had been able to maintain in the
world. One thing for certain - the
Idigam hate the Uratha and want to
utterly destroy them.

Potential Allies Ghouls - Ghouls are mortal
humans who are allowed to drink
Vampire blood without dying.
They gain a modicum of power
from the blood they drink but also
find themselves bound to the will
of the Vampire who feeds them.
They are important as daylight
servants for the Vampires.
Wolf-Blooded - Not all the children
of Werewolves and humans
themselves become Werewolves.
Some maintain their humanity but
still have a greater connection to the
spiritual world. These often become
allies for Werewolf packs.
Sleepwalkers – Not necessarily
allies, but Sleepwalkers are non-
Awakened mortals who
nevertheless aren’t bothered by
the Supernal like other Sleepers
and so they don’t increase
Paradox or experience
Dissonance.
Proximi – The Proximi are whole
family lines who often produce
mages and otherwise tend to find
Fae-Touched – The Fae-touched No particular allies beyond other
are humans who have had some Hunters in their cell, compact, or
brief encounter with the Hedge or conspiracy.
Arcadia that changed them, but not
as drastically as the Changelings.
They have limited access to
contracts and can see through a
Changelings Mask.
 themselves mysteriously drawn
into Mage affairs on a regular
basis. Some even have access to
limited magical ability.

Eras - For many of the splats
White Wolf/Onyx Path has
released era based settings.
Roman Empire (360 CE),
Elizabethan England (1587-1593
CE), The Black Death (1346-1353
CE), French Revolution (1789-
1799 CE), Islamic Golden Age
(750-1258 CE), New Wave
(1980s)
Neolithic Era (5500-5000 BCE),
Viking Era (700-1100 CE),
Gangland New York (1970s),
Roman Conquest of Germania (9-12
CE), The Great War: Western Front
(1914-1918), Necropolis of Hawara
(1604-1204 BCE), Science Fiction
Golden Age (1938-1946 CE)
Noir (1940s), Neolithic Era
(5500-5000 BCE), Post-
Alexandrian Hellenist Period
(330-320 BCE), Mutapa Empire
(1501-1568 CE), Inquisition in
Europe (1600s CE), Golden Age
of Piracy (1716-1726 CE), Wild
West (1865-1895 CE)
Victorian (1837-1904 CE),
Elizabethan England (1587-1593
CE), Three Kingdoms China (220-
280 BCE), Reign of the Sun King
(1600s CE - early 1700s CE),
Industrial England (1812-1820),
Seven Wonders of the Ancient
World (100-50 BCE), Wild West
(1865-1895 CE)
Edo period Japan (1640-1660 CE),
Colonial America (1690-1695 CE),
Rise of the Last Imperials - China
(1644-1911 CE), King Arthur’s
Britannia (400-500 CE), Empire of
Mali in West Africa (1360-1390
CE)

Splat Promethean: The Created Geist: The Sin-Eaters Demon: The Descent Mummy: The Curse Beast: The Primordial

Alternate Name The Created The Sin-Eaters, the Bound The Unchained The Arisen The Begotten, Beasts, the Children

Basic Game Concept
Born from a mingling of dead
flesh and divine fire, the Created
are brought into life by humans or
other Prometheans. Many myths of
man-made intelligent creatures,
from Frankenstein to Golem
legends, find their reality in the
Created.
This is a game about a second lease
on life. Sin Eaters were mortals who
died with unfinished business in a
powerful, dramatic way and then
contracted (Bound) with a spirit who
they work together with to act as
intercessionaries between the worlds
of the living and the dead. They
become Sin-Eaters by having a
strong desire to change the
circumstances of death for ghosts,
out of an ability they had in life to
see the injustice and unfairness of
the world.
Behind the world there is a force The game about playing A Horror entered your dreams and
called the God-Machine. It is mummies… sort of. The mummies devoured your soul. In turn, your
utterly alien and utterly cold, of this game, called the Arisen, soul was replaced by one of the
running the universe for some were granted immortality through great monsters of legend – a
mysterious purpose. People are a rite involving their dragon, gryphon, kraken, or other
mere cogs in its inscrutable mummification in an ancient Horror.
plans, and most never encounter forgotten empire. Their bodies can
it. Those that do usually do so by be killed, but they will always
running across some bit of reform.
infernal machinery “behind the
scenes” that nearly drives them
mad. It is not, however,
omnipotent, and may not even be
the creator, and as such mortals
can at times disrupt its plans in
small ways. Demons are not
traditional abrahamic demons,
but rather former agents of the
God-Machine who “fell” by
gaining free will.

What drives them? Prometheans live a tormented Each Sin-Eater died with an The Mummy seeks apotheosis. The Begotten are driven by the a
existence, despised by human “unfinished business” which drives When it achieves this, it attains to Hunger to feed on fear.
 beings and even creation itself.
Most therefore seek to escape this
existence by embarking on the
Great Work, or Pilgrimage to gain
a soul and so become human.
them incessantly to seek out true life again, but retains some
fulfillment for it with the help and power from its former cursed life.
goading of their geist.

Society Prometheans live a nomadic Sin-Eaters form small religions Brood

existence to escape the worst
effects of their wrongness. They
may travel in small groups, called
Throngs, but they have no larger
social organization.
known as Krewes, which work
together in geographical areas for
similar causes. The internet
community of Sin-Eaters is known
as the Twilight Network.

Their Struggle Humanity/Torment – The Created
strive to gain a soul. To do so they
must go on the Pilgrimage and part
of that quest is slowly learning to
act human. Those that fail in this
rarely succeed in becoming
human. The struggle to gain
humanity is a struggle against their
Torment, which can overwhelm a
Promethean, causing them to act at
the mercy of their primary
humour.
Synergy – The Sin Eater is a Cover Satiety -
combination of a living human and a
Geist (a former ghost who has
become an embodiment of an aspect
of death). The Geist has wishes of
its own, and synergy comes from
enacting these wishes, yet this can
also lead the Sin Eater down a dark
path they might not wish to tread.

Origin The Generative Act - A
Promethean comes into existence
when a human or (more often)
another Promethean brings them to
life with divine fire through one of
several rites.
The Bargain - Sin Eaters died and
upon dying were approached by
Geists. The Geists gave the Sin
Eaters the opportunity to return to
life, but to do so bound to the Geist.
Fall In an ancient nameless empire that
has been forgotten by history, a
rite of magic was created in an
attempt to gain immortality.
The Devouring - After a lifetime of
nightmares, an individual turns to
face their nightmare and instead
has his soul devoured by one of the
great monsters of legend and
becomes host to it.

Why are they hidden? Disquiet – Prometheans are wrong. Secrecy – Despite the disorganized The God-Machine
They are automata powered by the nature of Sin-Eater society, Sin- Cover
Divine Fire. When they spend too Eaters are bound to secrecy by
long amongst humans, those ancient tradition, largely for
humans begin to feel Disquiet— protection.
the sense that there is something
utterly wrong with the
Promethean. With time even the
landscape itself becomes tainted
with Disquiet, becoming a
Wasteland. This forces them to

Their Legends - While no one
knows for certain the origins of
these supernatural beings, many of
them have legends of their ancient
origin.
Magic
Power Stat - How is their magic
powered?
Other World
For most of the splats, there are
keep on the move and that, in
combination with their rarity,
keeps them hidden from most of
humanity.
Transmutations – Prometheans
draw upon the divine fire to
alchemically transform their
bodies and produce miraculous
effects.
Azoth -
N/A
Lineages – Prometheans fall into
Sin-Eaters have existed for as long The God-Machine While shrouded in myth, the
as humans have died, but it was only Begotten trace their origins back to
with World War 1 that global the Dark Mother who spawned
monstrous Horrors that dwell in
communications allowed for enough
humanity’s shared dream space,
contiguous contact to form a proper called the Primordial Dream.
society.
Plasm - Ectoplasm, essentially. It Embeds Atavisms-
can be found in ghosts, in the Exploits
Underworld, and in haunted objects, Nightmares -
and it is formed and spent by the
Sin-Eater in various ways to create
“Haunts.”
Synergy - How well you know and Primum - Sekhem Lair
work with your geist
Twilight - A layer of reality over the Lairs?
world of the living, where ghosts
exist so long as they are mourned
and remembered, tied there by their
Anchors. Ghosts can use a force
called Plasm to Manifest, if strong
enough, causing supernatural
“haunting” effects in the world of
the living.
The Underworld - Found through
Avernian Gates, it is a mass of
forgotten dead below the Twilight
that includes rivers, ghost
shantytowns, cursed dominions of
the Kerberoi, and the Ocean of
Fragments, a place where ghosts can
dissolve into a second death
Burdens - Sin-Eaters are classified Incarnations – The God- Decrees – A Decree is that aspect Families – All Beasts are children
five basic types that function
roughly like races in something
like D&D
lineages based on how they were
created.
by the reason that drove them to
make a bargain and return from
the dead.
Machine creates his angels for
four general purposes and their
form and abilities match these
purposes. These forms and
abilities persist even after the
Fall.
of a mummies five-fold soul that of the Dark Mother, but they are
was embraced when they faced organized around certain primal
judgment. It determines their fears.
strongest path to apotheosis.

1 Frankensteins - Their creation The Abiding - Abiding are driven to Destroyer – Destroyers were The Decree of Heart (Ab) - Anakim – Nightmares of
follows Mary Shelley's novel, with return to life because they died angels designed by the God- Passionate "Lion-Headed" helplessness and hopelessness.
a few distinguishing variations: without a legacy or a great work to Machine to destroy or erase mummies who live by emotion and
things that were in the way of its desire. Also called "Sphinxes,"
Frankenstein created his monster outlast them, or a significance to be
agenda. In their new life, they are usually the best at dealing
using a mixture of current remembered by. therefore, they have to come to with mortals being less cold and
scientific knowledge and terms with their drive to destroy. alien than Arisen of other decrees
Paracelsian alchemy, and the
monster survived the death of his
creator to create others like
himself. Frankensteins are created
by taking the best parts from
multiple corpses, assembling a
patchwork man from said parts,
then animating it through a
mixture of the Divine Fire and
electricity. Frankensteins are
aligned with the element of fire
and are imbalanced towards
choler, and are thus driven towards
vengeance and ambition.
Frankensteins are also known for
their massive strength.

2 Galateids - They are known for
their beauty and want of
companionship; unlike their
progenitor, they are not fashioned
from stone, but rather from the
unmarred corpse of a beautiful
youth. Less commonly, they are
built from two or more corpses
possessed of components (eyes,
hands, legs, etc.) considered
The Bereaved - These lost a loved
one to death, either at the same time
as their own death or earlier in life
that marked them forever. They now
search for that dead loved one
through the Underworld, hoping one
day to be reunited and feeling
forever incomplete until they do.
Guardian – Guardians were
angels tasked with protecting
some agenda of the God-
Machine. As Unchained, they
now seek to find things to be
devoted to, but this devotion can
become obsessive, even stalker-
like.
The Decree of Spirit (Ba) - The Eshmaki – Nightmares of
Charioteers know often that action darkness.
is required instead of words. They
are driven to do and achieve,
sometimes driving them to
recklessness.
 beautiful by the Promethean
Maker. They are walking
contradictions, attracting people
through their beauty while driving
them away with Disquiet.
Galateids are aligned with the
element of air and are imbalanced
towards blood, often making them
courageous and amorous.

3 Osirans - The Osirans draw from The Hungry - These left something Messenger – The Messengers The Decree of Essence (Ka) - Makara – Nightmares of the
their legacy as "children of a god" behind on Earth they couldn’t bear were angels tasked with These devoted and driven depths.
and often carry themselves with to be parted with - a house, a spreading the word of the God- mummies are ruled by relentless
Machine and gaining followers focus, giving them the nickname
regal bearing, expecting others to fortune, usually material
for its purposes, often by "Millstones." They follow their
follow them and bow to their wills. possessions. manipulating the flow of Judges' directives without
Another element they share with information behind the scenes. hesitation and are difficult to talk
their progenitor is an incomplete The fallen Messengers have the out of a task once committed.
body; as in the legend of the greatest ease interacting with
resurrection of Osiris, the creation humans.
of a Nepri involves the division of
the body into 13 parts, the "least"
of which (decided upon by the
creator and not limited to the piece
that Isis "could not find" in the
original legend, i.e. his penis) is
thrown away, and reassembly of
the remaining 12. Osirans are
aligned with the element of water
and are imbalanced towards
phlegm, giving them a tendency to
seem cold and uncaring to others.

4 Tammuz - Also known as
"Golems." Golems draw their
history from conflicting tales, one
Hebrew in origin, the other resting
in Babylonian myth. Nevertheless,
the stories share one common
element: rejection of the bonds of
The Kindly - Died with regrets so
powerful that they returned to make
amends however they can. Self-
loathing and guilty, but forces for
good.
Psychopomp – Psychopomps
were angels tasked with the
construction of the God-
Machine’s infernal infrastructure.
As Unchained, psychopomps are
therefore particularly adept at
building cover for themselves.
The Decree of Name (Ren) - While Namtura – Nightmares of
the "Bull-Headed" followers of revulsion.
Essence are driven by a single
purpose, the "Serpent-Headed"
followers of the Name fixate on
anything interesting they come
across. Insatiably curious, the
Whisperers are sponges of
 slavery. The Tammuz loathe information.
slavery in all its forms, and wish to
achieve mortality in order to break
away from the fierce restrictions
that Disquiet confers upon them.
Golems are not created directly
from clay, as in Jewish folklore;
rather, a body is imbued with the
Divine Fire and buried in the earth.
Once the Tammuz awakens, it is
his duty to claw his way out and
face his new life. Tammuz are
aligned with the element of earth
and are imbalanced towards
melancholy, making them both
introspective and prone to fierce
rage. They are also known for their
seemingly limitless stamina.

5 Ulgan - The Ulgan's origins lie in The Vengeful - Blame someone else Antinomian – Antinomian The Decree of Shadow (Sheut) - Ugallu – Nightmares of exposure.
shamanism, drawing from an for their death or for the suffering Unchained are those who choose Occult-minded to the point of
initiation rite in which the hopeful they experienced in life, the to entirely reject their original conspiratorial, the "Jackal-
purpose. For example, a Headed" Ferrymen are the masters
shaman's spiritual body is torn Vengeful are angry and are back for
destroyer who chooses to live of mystical concerns among the
apart by hungry spirits and revenge. their fallen existence as a Arisen, leading themselves and
reconstructed piece by piece. pacifist. others through Unlife.
Sometimes, the rite goes horribly
awry, and the young initiate's
physical body is torn to pieces as
well. The remains, when stitched
together and reanimated, produce a
Riven, who can perceive and
interact with the realm of ghosts
and spirits. The occurrence of the
rite in the life of the corpse is not
necessary, as long as it is
replicated in death by the Ulgan's
creator. Some Ulgans draw their
origins from the legend of
Orpheus, who they claim was
 brought back to life after being
torn apart by the Maenads. Ulgans
are aligned with the element of
spirit and are imbalanced towards
ectoplasm, driving them towards
intuitive and instinctual thought
and action.

More rare are two other kinds of

Prometheans, the Unfleshed, who
are Prometheans with mechanical
origins and thus essentially
sentient AIs; and the Zeki, who are
Prometheans powered by Nuclear
fire.

For most splats their are five
affiliations that serve as the
rough equivalent of classes.
Refinements -A Refinement is
equal parts philosophy and
alchemical regimen, framing the
Promethean's outlook on
humanity and their own
existence. This dictates their
journey towards mortality.
Krewes – A tiny religious group of
Sin-Eaters who work together with
a common philosophy. There are a
few main categories, with famous
examples of each.
Agendas – The fallen angels of
the God-Machine choose to
follow one of four agendas in
their new life.
Guilds – Ancient organizations Hungers – Beasts are driven to
that held power in the Nameless sate innate hungers that define
Empire. Versions of them their monstrous role.
continue today as half-
remembered adaptations of those
organizations.

1 Aurum - the Refinement of Gold,
or Mortality. The Refinement of
Aurum requires the study of
humanity: their cultures, their
beliefs, their emotions, and their
actions. Truly "understanding"
humanity may take many routes,
some as benign as attending
church services, others as horrific
as committing cold-blooded
murder in order to understand why
humans do the same
Furies - Sin-Eaters that form Inquisitors – Inquisitors gather Maa-Kep, the Engravers of Prey – A hunger to hunt prey.
tribunals to forward justice and and hoard information, fearing Amulets - The grand puppet- Those with this hunger are
eradicate sources of harm and that any lack of information will masters of the Arisen. Their Predators.
inequality. They hold courts to make them vulnerable to the favored vessels are amulets.
decide best outcomes in instances of God-Machine and its agents.
wrongdoing, Platonic dialogues, and
folktale parable tellings. Battle
becomes a ritual. They focus on
restorative justice and case by
situational ethics. Their Heresy is
taking joy in violence and becoming
vicious.

2 Cuprum - The Refinement of Mourners - Dedicated to reviving Integrators – Integrators desire to Mesen-Nebu, the First Alchemists Power – A hunger for power.
Copper, or Self. Practitioners of ideas and art and concepts that died return to the God-Machine, but and transformers - They create Those with this hunger are
Cuprum wish to gain total control with their originators. They find lost they want to do so on their own power from raw materials both Tyrants.
 of their bodies, their minds, and
hopefully their Torment, in order
to ease the control their humors
have over their bodies and the toll
their Disquiet takes on the land.
Many followers of the Refinement
take to isolation in nature, avoiding
the "threat" that humans affected
by Disquiet pose towards them.
3 Ferrum - the Refinement of Iron,
or Corpus. Those who practice
Ferrum follow the path of the
practiced warrior, believing that
they can earn the trust of humans
through martial prowess and the
necessity for defenders in times of
crisis. Practitioners of the
Refinement often learn as much
from martial arts and military
training as their Disquiet allows
them to do.
4 Mercurius - The Refinement of
Quicksilver, or Pyros. Followers of
Mercurius believe that for
Prometheans to understand what
makes a mortal a being with a soul,
they must first understand that
which serves as a replacement in
themselves: the Divine Fire. To
gain such an understanding, they
often demonstrate a moral,
intellectual and spiritual flexibility
unmatched by other Prometheans,
ghosts by contacting living families. terms. human and inanimate. They favor
They take pride in finding the most regia vessels.
obscure forgotten and lost lore.
Their goal is to make sure no ghost
is forgotten, and to record
everything. They want to map the
Underworld and are looking for the
most permanent form of record
keeping. Their Heresy is keeping
things from each other out of
snobbery or becoming artifact
thieves.
Necropolitans - They try to bring Saboteur – The Saboteurs work Sesha-Hebsu, the Inscribers of Punishment – A hunger to enact
joy and friendship to the dead via to actively subvert the plans of Texts - They remain the scholars punishment. Those with this
wild parties and mutual emotional the God-Machine. and loremasters of the Arisen as hunger are Nemeses.
support societies to keep them from well as the keepers of law and
despair and depression. Outgoing, custom. Unsurprisingly, they favor
charismatic, loud, want ghosts to be texts.
visible and no one to be alone.
Heresy is the “missing stair” abusive
community member that gets
forgiven too many times. Sometimes
they go bad and become just drug
dealers. The mortar that holds the
social ghost world together.
Pilgrims - Fascinated by the Tempters – Tempters focus on Su-Menent, the Shepherds of the Ruin – A hunger to cause ruin.
Underworld, against attachment, enjoying the worldly pleasures Shell - The priests of the dead, Those with this hunger are
Pilgrims want to fix the state of the now open to them and who serve as the spiritual leaders Ravagers.
Underworld by radical acceptance of manipulating others in order to of the Arisen and as the impartial
its alien terrors and freeing ghosts accumulate resources to protect and relentless servants of Fate.
from their Anchors and guiding that freedom from the God- They favor uter vessels.
them through the Underworld. Machine.
Buddhist-aligned. They need to
accept and understand the beauty in
scary places. Their Heresy is being
too strict and harming their students,
or getting so deeply into the mindset
of their enemies to understand them
that they become like them.
 pursuing whatever avenues they
believe might lead towards
enlightenment.
5 Stannum - The Refinement of Tin,
or Torment. Disciples of Stannum
have most likely witnessed first
hand the horrible effects that
Disquiet has on humans; often,
they have been the target of that
very rage. They believe that the
best course of action is to get even,
cultivating the flow of Disquiet
and gaining revenge on those who
have wronged them. Many
Prometheans likely practice
Stannum at some point in their
journeys, but many outside of the
Refinement view it as "youthful
rebellion" at best, and obsession at
worst.
Prominent Enemies Pandorans – The Promethean
must create another Promethean in
order to become human, but this
can go wrong. Pandorans are
misbegotten Prometheans. They
are driven to consume pyros and so
will hunt Prometheans as sources
of this power.
Centimani – These are
Prometheans who seek to
transcend their existence not by
become human but by embracing
more of a monster.
Undertakers - Try to get the living Uncalled - Unchained who strike Tef-Aabhi, the Builders of Effigies Hoard – A hunger to hoard. Those
to fear death less, so they don’t cling out on their own - Once the masons and engineers with this hunger are Collectors.
on as ghosts. They cover up fearful of ancient Irem and now the
ghost incidents in the world of the architects of much more. They
living and are responsible for favor effigies.
funeral rites all around the globe, to
psychologically ease passage into
death. Always cynically preparing
for the living to find out about
ghosts. Their goal is to make the
Underworld known and to have
mainstream human society accept
death as just another step. Their
Heresy is becoming too cynical to
help anyone, or manipulating the
living into doing dirty work.
Ghosts - The shade left behind by a Angels – The Angels of the God-
person, animal, or object that once Machine
existed. Not all ghosts are enemies,
but sometimes stuff happens.
Reapers - Ghosts who have put on a Stigmatics - Can also be allies
Deathmask and become servants of
the Cthonic Gods, sworn to bring Cryptids - Can also be allies
ghosts back to the Underworld
where they belong
Necromancers - Humans who,
through rituals or contact with
Mementos, seek to use the world of
ghosts for their own gain without
fully understanding it
Ghost-Eaters - Humans who have
figured out how to consume ghost
Plasm, which grants them special
 powers or even immortality

Kerberoi – Arbiters and masters of

the dominions of the Underworld.
They enforce the Old Laws of their
dominion and this can bring them
into conflict with Sin-Eaters when
the latter violate these laws.

Cthonians – Utterly alien denizens

of the Underworld that are neither
living nor dead. They are native to
the Underworld, whereas ghosts and
spirits were born elsewhere and
arrived there.

Allies Quashmallim – Angel-like Demon-Blooded

manifestations of divine fire who
act according to what they only
refer to as The Principle. They are
single minded in their pursuit of
their goal. Their motives are
mysterious and they can appear as
benefactors or enemies on the
Promethean’s pilgrimage.

Eras - For many of the splats
White Wolf/Onyx Path has
released era based settings.
Dustbowl (1933-1940 CE),
Germany/Switzerland (1816 CE),
The Black Death (1346-1353 CE),
30 Years War (1618-1648 CE) ,
The Great War: Western Front
(1914-1918 CE), Seven Wonders
of the Ancient World (100-50
BCE), Necropolis of Hawara
(1604-1204 BCE)
Washington, DC, USA (1968 CE);
Mobile, Alabama, USA, (1910 CE);
Edinburgh, Scotland (Modern);
Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil
(1654 CE); Winslow,
Massachusetts, USA (Modern);
Carcassonne, France, (1360 CE);
Bru na Boinne, Ireland (Modern);
Beijing, China (Modern); Calicut,
India (1526 CE)
Fall of Constantinople (1453-
1458 CE), Aztec Empire (1485-
1502 CE), Cold War Germany
(1961 CE), Russian Revolution
(1917 CE), French Revolution
(1789-1799 CE), Inquisition in
Europe (1600s CE), Empire of
Mali in West Africa (1360-1390
CE)
The Fall of the British and Reconstruction (1865-1877 CE),
Ottoman Empires (1893-1924 CE), Islamic Golden Age (150-1258
Cleopatra’s Reign (69-30 BCE) CE), Necropolis of Hawara (1604-
French Revolution (1789-1799 1204 BCE)
CE), Mutapa Empire (1501-1568
CE), Rise of the Last Imperials -
China (1644-1911 CE),
Scandinavian Witch Trials (1450-
1750 CE)

Splat Deviant: The Renegades

(forthcoming so not a ton of info
yet. Info updated 3/22/19 based on
this post)
Alternate Name The Remade

Basic Game Concept You play the Remade, humans

transformed into something else by
other humans, causing their soul to
crack.

What drives them?

Society Conspiracies

Their Struggle Conviction/Loyalty - Deviants feel

only a desperate, burning need to
act externally and define
themselves by loyalty or
opposition to others. Remade who
stagnate, refuse to follow their
drives and attempt to cut
themselves off from humanity
undergo Instability; a process
something like spiritual organ
rejection in which their changes
fester and the downsides of their
transformation worsen.

Origin Created by human progenitors

through everything from weird
science to magic.

Why are they hidden?

Their Legends - While no one

knows for certain the origins of
these supernatural beings, many of
them have legends of their ancient
origin.

Magic Variations - Strange supernatural

powers that come with terrible cost
(called scars). The more powerful
the power, the greater the scar and
the more dangerous your
adversaries.

Power Stat - How is their magic Their power derives directly from
powered? their variation.

Other World

For most of the splats, there are Origin

five basic types that function
roughly like races in something
like D&D

1 Autourgics - The Elect who

wholeheartedly chose to be
Remade.

2 Epimorphs - Volunteers who

become Remade due to threats and
promises.

3 Exomorphs - The Unwilling were

Remade intentionally by a
Progenitor against their will

4 Genotypal - The Born who became

Deviant because of their parents,
either due to circumstances of their
birth or some genetic legacy

5 Pathological - Deviants who are

Accidents, victims of pure
circumstance.

For most splats their are five Clades - The kind of creature
affiliations that serve as the you are.
rough equivalent of classes.

1 Invasive (Inanimate implants:

cybernetics, relics, machine
grafts/prosthetics

2 Cephalist (Psychic/Mental powers)

3 Chimerics (Animal/Human hybrid

- chimeras)
4 Coactives (bound to some
otherworldly power source or
concept or entity - the astral, the
fae, the spirit world, the
underworld, time itself, etc)

5 Mutant (also called Grotesques.

has a focus on body horror and/or
mutations. Bit of a catch-all).

Prominent Enemies Progenitors - the Creators of the

Remade. In gaming terms they are
built on a point system based on
how powerful the deviant is.

Devoted - Remade still loyal to

their Progenitors.

Allies

Eras - For many of the splats Inquisition in Europe (1600s CE),

White Wolf/Onyx Path has Golden Age of Science Fiction
released era based settings. (1938-1946 CE)

Beyond the basic splats, it should be noted, there are all kind of other supernatural beings in the nWoD with rules for playing them, from small time magicians to immortals who live by stealing bodies, there are plenty of
corners of this world to play in. Some of these include:
● Blood Bathers – Immortals who gain their eternal life through a ritual involving bathing in the blood of others.
● Body Thieves – Immortals who gain eternal life by swapping their souls into the bodies of others.
● Changing Breeds/Shape Shifters – Various other were-creatures besides Werewolves. These include Bull-Men, Sasquatch, and Werebears.
● Dampyr – Balkan half-vampires who possess some of the powers of Vampires and often work as vampire-hunters.
● Ghouls – The vampiric allies described in Vampire the Requiem
● Heroes – Think ancient Greek heroes blessed by the gods with great prowess not necessarily much regard for the “little people”
 ● Other Vampires – Various vampire-like monsters, from the Malanesian Penanggalan who live in the day as ordinary women (often midwives) and at night detach their heads and entrails from their bodies to fly around
hunting prey, to the Formosae, bloated fat creatures who feed on human misery and disappointment.
● Proximi – Mortal Sleepers who have an uncanny tendency to be drawn into mage affairs and sometimes even develop minor magical abilities.
● Psychics – Otherwise ordinary mortals with some psychic ability.
● Purified – Humans who obtained immortality by transforming themselves into part-spirit.
● Skinchangers – Various humans who have found ways to shapeshift, including stealing the skin of animals and magically enchanting them.
● Slashers – Serial killers with minor edges (such as the ability to seemingly always have their signature weapon).
● Thaumaturges – Minor magicians who can cast subtle magic by relying on rituals.
● Wolf-Blooded – The Werewolf allies described in Werewolf the Forsaken.

A fan attempt to map the realms (the creators have said that it really isn’t mappable):