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Bloodline describes your character's High Concept as it were and should include their vampric lineage as well as the driving principle that the character values most. | Bloodline describes your character's High Concept as it were and should include their vampric lineage as well as the driving principle that the character values most. | ||
| − | + | There are five known vampric lineages. | |
| − | + | '''The Ancient''' The Ancient claim to be the first bloodline, though this claim is disputed by the Lost, but that is hardly a dispute at all. The Ancient originate from Africa. | |
| − | Bloodline distinctions should include not only the | + | '''The Court of the Old World''' This is the largest of the vampire lineages occupying most of Europe and Asia. |
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| + | '''The Jade Court''', The most secretive of the bloodlines, the Jade Court makes their home throughout Southest Asia (including the Indian subcontinent), Japan, and the Pacific Islands. | ||
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| + | ''' The Aurora''' Broadly considered the newest and youngest bloodline, there is also some merit to the idea that they are the most versatile and adaptive lineage. The Aurora control the entirety of the Americas from Cape Horn to the landless ice north of Canada. | ||
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| + | '''The Lost Court''' Originally out of Australia and New Zealand, and fewer than thirty in number still in existence it is rumored none of them can return to the land of their origin. Those of the Lost Court who would set foot in Australia or the large amd small islands to its south never leave those lands. | ||
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| + | Bloodline distinctions should include not only the lineage but also a significant overarching detail that broadly defines the character relating to their chosen role among their lineage. '''Warrior of the Old World''' or '''Sage of the Ancient''', or '''Eye of the Jade Court''' or '''Wanderer of the Lost''' are all possible bloodline distinctions. | ||
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Revision as of 13:53, 2 September 2022
Step One :: Attributes
Shadowwalkers have three attributes as their first set of Prime Traits: Blood, Age, and Willpower.
Potency
Potency indicates the power of your blood or how freshly fed you are and is most often added to pools focused on reflexes and senses as well as rolls for recovering from damage that you can't soak.
Age
Age represents your experience and how well adapted you are to unlife and is most often added to pools focused on superntural speed, strength and durability as well as setting your character's baseline for those traits.
Willpower
Willpower measures the tenacity of the mind and is most often added to pools focused on psychic exertion, sorcery, and the chains of earth.
Attributes are each set at 
You are welcome to leave them all at but you also have the option to step one attribute up to 
if you also step one attribute down to 
Step Two :: Distinctions
Shadowwalkers each have three distinctions as their second set of Prime Traits: Bloodline, Shadow, Quirk.
Bloodline
Bloodline describes your character's High Concept as it were and should include their vampric lineage as well as the driving principle that the character values most.
There are five known vampric lineages.
The Ancient The Ancient claim to be the first bloodline, though this claim is disputed by the Lost, but that is hardly a dispute at all. The Ancient originate from Africa.
The Court of the Old World This is the largest of the vampire lineages occupying most of Europe and Asia.
The Jade Court, The most secretive of the bloodlines, the Jade Court makes their home throughout Southest Asia (including the Indian subcontinent), Japan, and the Pacific Islands.
The Aurora Broadly considered the newest and youngest bloodline, there is also some merit to the idea that they are the most versatile and adaptive lineage. The Aurora control the entirety of the Americas from Cape Horn to the landless ice north of Canada.
The Lost Court Originally out of Australia and New Zealand, and fewer than thirty in number still in existence it is rumored none of them can return to the land of their origin. Those of the Lost Court who would set foot in Australia or the large amd small islands to its south never leave those lands.
Bloodline distinctions should include not only the lineage but also a significant overarching detail that broadly defines the character relating to their chosen role among their lineage. Warrior of the Old World or Sage of the Ancient, or Eye of the Jade Court or Wanderer of the Lost are all possible bloodline distinctions.
Generation
Generation gives us a glimpse of the shadowwalker's sire. More than a particular mechanical benefit (that comes from the attribute Age) this distinction gives a framework for the character of the shadowwalker that turned them.
A generational distinction might look like Childe of Vaughn the Black Bear or Scion of Eva, Mistress of Cairo or Jack the Knife's Misguided Attempt at Redemption or Orphan of the Unknown Bastard.
Character
Character is a very personal distinction. Where Bloodline shows a shadowwalker's relationship to their people and Generation gives us an idea of the force that shaped the shadowwalker's formative days, Charcter shines a light on what is important to the shadowwalker themselves- what matters to them on an individual level. This distinction is likely to be the most unique and varied distinction from one shadowwalker to another.
Possibilities might include
Distinctions are each set at and this value may not be adjusted. Each of your three distinctions starts with the Hinder SFX active.
Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a 
instead of a 
when using your distinction in a pool.
