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=== Cohorts ===
"Cohorts - ( These are your AA sponsors for Leviathanhood, your emergency contacts, those people who if you call will show up and go scoobie doo on a Riptide sighting with you or help you cover up the fact that you accidentally shattered a wall of solid stone) (Parties basically)"

The Cohort is an informal social grouping of Leviathans that share a regional connection or have some social link to one another - familial or otherwise. The Cohort model grew out of the desire to keep an eye on things in one's neighborhood, and its most restricted form is simply a sort of wary and predatory mutual observation. Each Leviathan knows the other's stomping grounds and steers clear of things that the others have marked as their own, unless he can produce the muscle to just do what he wants. Any Leviathan that goes rogue, or attacks another member of the Cohort, might be subject to a united front of the other members. 

Not all Cohorts are this standoffish, however, and some groups, especially those composed of fresher Tribe members, remain in touch more solidly. The Cohort offers a space of relaxation from the human world, and a pool of social peers that are not subject to the Wake. It also can serve as a source of resources and information in a pinch, or even material or emotional support - the Cohort is host to the sort of friend that can help you move a body. These more connected Cohorts are more subject to personality clashes - interactions between Leviathans are always tense - but their benefits often outweight their drawbacks.