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Vision

● Demand
Martyrs, by definition, are willing to hurt themselves to save another's life or to hurt an enemy. This willingness to chase even Pyrrhic victory is reflected in Demand. Your character is willing to exhaust himself in a desperate bid to accomplish amazing deeds; he puts his all into an action and receives might born from purity of purpose. Martyrs' willingness to sacrifice themselves simply invigorates them with energy and power.
System: Your character can perform an amazing feat of strength at the cost of his own health. Mark a level of bashing damage on your character's Health chart. The damage cannot be soaked. You can now add Mercy to Strength for any roll or action performed that turn, whether it be a roll to inflict brawl or melee damage, an effort to lift an object, or a Strength + Athletics roll to perform a stunt. Willpower cannot be used to further bolster this roll, although Conviction points can be risked in any Strength-related roll made.
If Demand is used to increase the damage inflicted with an attack, your character must suffer a bashing health level before the attack is made. If it fails, the health level is still lost, even though no damage roll is made. The punch or swing is still potentially devastating, but doesn't find its mark.
Demand cannot be combined with other attack or physical-action-based edges in the same turn.

●● Witness
Witness allows your character to recognize the nature of supernatural creatures in her presence. It also gives her a glimpse of specified creatures' relationships with mankind.
System: This edge expands upon the capabilities of second sight. A creature that seems wrong with second sight, but not in any perceptible way - a warlock, a shapechanger in human form, a bloodsucker imitating life signs - is revealed to your character. The monster's horrific side is clear on a successful Perception + Mercy roll, difficulty 6. To your character's eyes, the creature's most horrific aspect flashes across its face. This sight persists for 10 minutes for each success rolled; any creature observed in that time is revealed for what it really is. Witness can therefore be used in conjunction with or can replace the need for second sight while this edge is in effect. Duration can be extended for another 10 minutes for each Conviction point spent. The power can be deactivated at will. Witness provides no mind- or body-control protection.
Additionally, for each success scored after the first in the edge roll, your character can momentarily witness on previous contact had between a human and a monster in your character's presence. The first contact viewed is usually the most recent, and each viewed thereafter occurred further back in time. If multiple monsters are present, your character may choose which is "studied," or recent flashes may be taken from a variety of creatures.
Visions might reveal attacks, such as feeding, or could reveal a passionate or poignant meeting, depending on who was contacted. The Storyteller creates the vision, which can be clear or distorted; participants may be obvious or confused. The image is visual only and is virtually instantaneous. Sometimes such visions suggest regret or even mercy in creatures' attacks, a hint at their true nature.
Witness seems to conjure no images of humans' or hunters' acts, but it does for those people who possess powers or gifts bestowed by unnatural creatures.

●●● Ravage
No one's quite sure what the hell happens when a hunter cuts loose with this edge. It seems to produce a roiling heat-haze. This gas (for lack of a better term) pours out of or from your character and travels where he gestures. Physical matter seems unaffected, but supernatural creatures react violently. It seems to corrupt and decay their very bodies. Not even intangible creatures are safe.
Ravage has no physical effect on human targets, but it causes deep emotional trauma: headaches, depression, terrified fugues and uncontrolled weeping. As for wielders of Ravage themselves, the power makes them sick. Stomach pains, coughing, blurred vision and vomiting are all associated with the edge.
Martyrs describe the power as," Tearing something open - like injuring the world. It hurts us, it hurts them - but it hurts them much worse."
System: Roll Manipulation + Mercy, difficulty 7. Range is your character's Mercy in yards. If the target is human, the number of successes rolled indicates the number of turns that person is stunned with horror. He suffers no physical damage, and can still dodge or flee, but cannot attack your character or anyone else. (Particularly tough individuals might be allowed a Willpower roll, difficulty 8, to attempt to perform a particular action.) Another hunter targeted by Ravage goes unaffected if his Conviction defense is active. If not, he is treated like a normal human victim.
If the target is a supernatural creature, if suffers a level of lethal damage for each success rolled. Even intangible opponents are affected, including ones that possess physical hosts.
Every time this edge is used, your character suffers one level of bashing damage that cannot be soaked.

●●●● Donate
A hunter far along the Martyrdom path can blue the lines between herself and others. Her sense of self becomes so diffused that it's possible to lend that "self" to others for their use. The most obvious loan is physical potency and speed, but less tangible capacities can be donated as well. One Martyr has likened the experience to another person walking a mile in her shoes - while she's still in them.
Your character can make this "loan" to any willing person whom she can touch. The exchange is immediate, thought not always complete.
If physical qualities are lent, your character is weakened commensurably. Lending mental acuity is a bit more complex: The donor's intellect and attention are literally split between herself and the recipient. This "split attention" can function almost like a two-way radio, with no known limit restriction is time: You character can share of herself for a limited period.
System: Spend two Conviction points and roll Mercy + the Attribute you want to lend. The difficulty is 7. Your character loses a number of points from that Attribute equal to the number of successes you roll, up to a limit that you stipulate or up to your character's full Attribute score. The recipient gains the same number of points in the same Trait. Any Attribute can be donated, except Appearance. No other Traits - Abilities, Backgrounds - can be conferred with this edge, and no more than one Attribute can be shared at one time.
Donating Physical Attributes is fairly straightforward: Your character's rating is reduced while the subject's is increased. If a Mental Attribute is shared, the two characters can speak to each other telepathically for the duration of the donation; the recipient can use your character's mind as a sort of "parallel processor." If a Social Attribute is donated, telepathic communication is not possible, but both people have a vague sense of how the other feels emotionally.
If your character donates all of one Attribute, she passes out and remains unconscious until the edge wears off. You as a player may continue to advise the recipient in terms of the Trait shared, and as far as the Storyteller allows. You can contribute solutions to problems if Wits is shared, or suggest emotions to play upon in social situations.

●●●●● Payback
Your character can impose human, mortal limitations and vulnerabilities upon inhuman opponents. He can also rob such beings of their powers. All your hunter has to do is lock his gaze with a supernatural enemy’s and concentrate on the specific way he wants to cut that being down to size. The Martyr imposes a righteous moral punishment the creature.
System: To inflict a human limitation upon a supernatural being (say, to make a dead thing need to breathe to survive, or a ghost to assume physical form), spend five Conviction points and roll Manipulation + Mercy, difficulty of the target’s Stamina + 4. If you get even one success, the creature suffers that vulnerability until it leaves your character’s presence. (In the case of truly powerful opponents, the Storyteller may impose a higher difficulty to your roll, and may grant a resisted roll, say Willpower, to the creature.) Only one human “failing” can be imposed on a single creature at one time. The circumstances and the Storyteller often determine the immediate results of making a supernatural “mortal” again. Food, not blood, might be required for sustenance. Human form might become the only one a creature can assume. A spirit might become as physical and fragile as he was in life.
Now, an ages-old creature does not turn to dust because its suddenly mortal, but it could perhaps be destroyed forever by conventional means. Also beware granting monsters the strengths of being human. What bloodsucker would not relish withstanding the sun again? She might even ensure your character’s constant presence by capturing him.
The power can also be used to deny a creature use of a certain supernatural power. To do this, you have to specify what the beast is prevented from doing: “I want it to stop moving so fast.” “I don’t want it fading away again!” “I don’t want it to be able to turn invisible.” Assuming the Storyteller knows what power you refer to, she sets the difficulty ― usually the creature’s Willpower rating or Stamina + 3. If you get even a single success, the creature cannot use that capability until it leaves your character’s presence. Only one power can be denied a creature at one time, and a monstrosity cannot be assigned a human weakness and be stripped of a capability simultaneously.
If your character is conscious, she may revoke human weaknesses or reinstate supernatural powers at will, even if she is still in the presence of the victim. If your character is Incapacitated, the effects of Payback fail immediately. And, of course, if a creature manages to leave your character’s presence and return, all bets are off. Payback must be used again to impose a human frailty or to strip a monster of the same power previously removed.

● Ward
Whether through sheer determination, monsters' fear, or some invisible barrier, a Defender can keep supernatural creatures at bay. They cannot approach her unless she allows it or their will is stronger than hers. A character using Ward sees and feels a crackling energy radiate from her body. Creatures making contact with her aura spark a static charge; no damage is done, but monsters' limits of approach are demarcated.
System: Roll Stamina + Zeal, difficulty 6, when this power is activated. The number of successes achieved must be exceeded in a Stamina roll for each monster to approach your character. The distance that creatures are held at bay is your character. The distance that creatures are held at bay is one yard in radius for each point of Zeal your character possesses. A monster already within that area when this power is activated receives a Stamina roll immediately. If it succeeds, the creature is unaffected. If the roll fails, the monster staggers back to the power’s perimeter.
Ward persists for the remainder of the scene. Each creature is allowed one roll to penetrate it. A Willpower point must be spent for a creature to allow it another attempt. The edge does not affect others hunters or normal humans, and those people may take shelter in your character’s proximity.
A Defender doesn’t have to concentrate on this power for it to persist; she can fight and perform other actions while warding. However, the power fails if your character is Incapacitated, and it does not interfere with incoming ranged attacks. If a creature is ever forced back and cornered by a character using this edge, the monster may end up inside the Defender’s perimeter if the character approaches too close. The monster “breaches” Ward automatically as a result of the Defender’s exuberance.

●● Rejuvenate
Defenders are remarkably hard to put down for good. Minor injuries (slight abrasions, bruises) close up and heal visibly. Strained joints stop swelling on their own and pop back into place spontaneously. even broken limbs straighten out , lock into place and heal within days or sometimes hours. Perhaps even more miraculous, Defenders can impart some of their healing on others. The Imbued lays his hands upon a subject to heal the injuries of another. Spend Conviction to restore a subject's most severe wound (her "lowest" lost level). One Conviction must be spent to restore a level lost to bashing damage. That health level is restored in the same time it takes a Defender with this edge to recuperate, as indicated above -- 10 minutes for a level lost to bashing damaged, one day for a Wounded level lost to lethal damage, for example. Healing can be applied to other imbued, humans and even willing supernatural creatures that possess bodies. Destroyed is destroyed, or course, no matter who the recipient of this power is. Conviction cannot be used to enhance this edge; its effects occur automatically. Rejuvenate applies to healing health levels only; the edge does not increase recovery time from drug or alcohol abuse, or counteract poisons that do not reduce health levels, for example. Likewise, the edge does not cure any long-term illness such as cancer or re-grow lost appendages.
System: Your character’s health levels lost through bashing damage heal at a rate of one every 10 minutes.
Lethal damage heals according to the following chart. These rates supersede normal recovery times, but are still cumulative. (It takes 21 hours to recover fully from Injured, for example.)
Health Level Recovery Times
Bruised Three hours
Hurt Six hours
Injured 12 hours
Wounded One day
Mauled Three days
Crippled One week
Incapacitated Three weeks
The Defender lays his hands upon a subject to heal the injuries of another. Spend Conviction to restore a subject’s most severe wound (her “lowest” lost level). One Conviction must be spent to restore a level lost to bashing damage. Two Conviction must be spent to restore a level lost to lethal damage. That health level is restored in the same time it takes a Defender with this edge to recuperate, as indicated above – 10 minutes for a level lost to bashing damage, one day for a Wounded level lost to lethal damage, for example. Healing can be applied to other imbued, humans and even willing supernatural creatures that possess bodies.
Destroyed is destroyed, of course, no matter who the recipient of this power is.
Conviction cannot be used to enhance this edge; its effects occur automatically.
Rejuvenate applies to healing health levels only; the edge does not increase recovery time from drug or alcohol abuse, or counteract poisons that do not reduce health levels, for example. Likewise, the edge does not cure any long-term illness such as cancer or re-grow lost appendages.

●●● Brand
Your character's hand crackles with energy and, when laid upon a supernatural creature, can burn a mark on it. This sign isn't just skin deep; the brand smolders through any clothing that covers it. Sturdy coverings like armor aren't burned through, but do become tremendously hot, possibly enough to damage the wearer.
The brand is about the side of a palm and can be in the shape of any symbol in the hunter's image language. "Monster" or " Corruption" are commonly used. The sign is visible to everyone - even mortal's who aren’t hunters. Furthermore, the brand can be seen even if the target becomes invisible to normal sight or changes appearance ( the brand can still be seen by hunters for whom second sight is not currently active).
Defenders use this power to mark the enemy for their fellows to see, and to alienate victims from their own kind (Brand does not affect objects, normal people or other hunters). Although a visible brand doesn't expose a shapechanger or bloodsucker as such, it certainly sets him apart as the one - time opponent of another hunter, and therefore as a possible threat to protect against. To the uninitiated, such as normal people, a brand seems like disturbing - even ominous - tattoo.
System: To use this edge, your character must touch the target, which may require a Dexterity + Brawl roll if the target resists (no brawling damage can be done; punches are insufficient to place a brand). Then, roll Zeal, difficulty 6. The number of successes achieved determines how long the brand remains.
Successes Duration
1-2 One day
3-4 One week
5-6 One month
7-8 One year
9-10 Forever
A brand is a constant source of irritation for the creature. A target suffers one lethal health level for each success achieved in your Zeal roll. That damage can be soaked if possible for the creature in question (but at least one lethal health level is always inflicted). All but one level of any damage can be healed, and that last level passes only when the brand fades. The sign persists no matter what form a creature takes. It even marks disembodied spirits that your character passes through. A brand can be removed prematurely, but only by the hunter who placed it.
Investing Conviction in a Brand roll increases your Zeal dice pool.

●●●● Champion
Sometimes, the best way to protect someone or something is to make the monster come to you. A Defender uses this edge to force his foes to confront him instead of others. Calling the enemy out is always a calculated risk. The Defender doesn't want to sacrifice himself - he's not a Martyr, after all - he simply draws attention to himself in hopes of preserving another person or thing, and with the intent of winning the battle. Indeed, Defenders this far advanced along their path may acquire this edge because they finally have the power to confront the enemy one - on - one, as opposed to when they were newly imbued and kept creatures at bay with Ward.
When this edge is activated, a monster has difficulty focusing its attention on anything but your character, because the Defender appears to be the weakest "prey" among the flock, the most fun to toy with or the most imposing danger. You hunter's "appeal" is determined by the motives or intentions of the offending creature. This edge is often triggered by feigning weakness or stupidity, or by a simple taunt: "You don't look so tough!" or " Pick one someone your own size!"
By diverting creatures, this edge presents tactical possibilities that Defenders quickly exploit. It can allow others to slip past monster unnoticed or lure monsters into well - prepared ambushes.
System: A monster must have continuous and direct line of sight to the Defender for this power to work. Spend one Conviction point and roll Appearance + Zeal, difficulty 6. The Storyteller rolls the monster’s Wits, difficulty 6, in a resisted action (if a night-creature is truly ancient or powerful, Willpower may be rolled, instead). If your roll wins, the monster focuses its attention on your character alone and disregards others in the area, despite even its better judgment. If the monster receives more successes, it may behave normally and address whomever it wishes.
Each point of Conviction spent after the first in a single use of this power causes Champion to affect two additional monsters (one point affects one creature, two points can affect up to three creatures, three points can affect up to five monsters). A resisted Wits roll is made for each creature, in turn, against your single Appearance roll. An individual monster may overcome Champion (i.e., win the resisted roll) without disrupting the effect upon its fellows.
Champion can be used against each creature only once per scene. If an effort fails, another attempt cannot be made against the same target that scene.
If a monster has no intention of attacking anyone in a situation, activation of Champion doesn’t force the creature to attack the user. The creature might simply focus its dialogue on your character alone, disregarding others in the area. If the creature does intend harm but finds it impossible to attack the Defender – say, the hunter is out of reach – then the effect ends immediately. Thus, you cannot combine this edge with Ward or Burden (the level-two Judgment edge). Neither could your character invoke Champion and then race for concealment. The Defender must stand his ground and be prepared to receive attention or an attack, or remain visible and be accessible to the monster.
The effects of Champion persist until the Defender deactivates the edge (and he may choose to do so at any time), until the hunter is rendered Incapacitated, or until someone else attacks the supernatural. A monster regains control when any of these situations occurs. However, a creature can also make a conscious effort to break away while Champion still applies. Make another resisted Wits roll against the hunter’s initial Appearance + Zeal successes. Each such attempt costs the creature a Willpower point. One attempt is allowed per turn and costs an action

●●●●● Burn
When this edge is activated, your character is infused with a searing energy. Visible to all hunters and supernatural creatures alike, this energy looks like a seething, red-yellow glow, almost as if your character has lava running through his veins. Touching (or being touched by) a hunter in this state is painful and damaging.
System: Roll Stamina + Zeal, difficulty 6, and spend two Conviction points to activate this edge. Burn lasts one turn for each success rolled. During this time, when anyone touches or is touched by your character, roll lethal damage dice equal to the number of successes you achieved. If your character strikes someone barehanded, burn damage is added to your brawling damage pool (and the whole attack is considered lethal).
Burn does not damage inanimate objects (such as clothes or tools) but can hurt any animate creature, including normal people and disembodied spirits through which your character passes. Burn can be deactivated at will, or ceases after your successes run out or your character is Incapacitated.

● Cleave
Any melee weapon your character wields suddenly becomes much more potent. The weapon can already be dangerous -- a knife, a baseball bat -- or be fairly harmless -- a stick, a broken bottle. Even your character's own fist or body becomes deadly. There are also stories of hunters brandishing red-hot, glowing blades, and a rumor of a one armed hunter growing a phantom limb with which to strike at the enemy. Regardless of the form a weapon takes, it can damage just about anything it touches -- vampires, werewolves, ghosts, stout doors, intrusive people.
A weapon created spontaneously with this power persists as long as your character wills it to or while she remains conscious. Existing weapons that are empowered can endure only so much punishment before being ruined. An empowered object doesn't necessarily look any different, but it feels warm to the touch and seems to vibrate with energy of its own. In cases of manifested blades and limbs, only hunters and supernatural beings can see the weapons.
System: Your character empowers a single held weapon or manifests a weapon where none was before. Roll Dexterity + Brawl or Melee to attack, as normal. An existing weapon that’s empowered inflicts an additional +2 damage. All damage is also lethal, no matter what is normally appropriate to the item used. A spontaneously manifested weapon does Strength +2 lethal damage. Cleave attacks can harm immaterial beings and normal people. When Conviction is invested in Cleave, the extra dice are added to a single attack dice pool; any subsequent successes are added to the damage dice pool.
The downside to this power is that hand-held weapons can’t endure the energy that courses through them. A crowbar eventually snaps. A baseball bat shatters. A fire ax splits. Once this power is activated, a melee weapon is useable in combat for one turn for each point that it adds to Strength for determining damage. Thus, a knife (Strength +1 damage) lasts for one turn of use with Cleave before breaking. A club (Strength +2 damage) lasts for two turns. An ax (Strength +3 damage) lasts for three turns.
The only way to keep a melee weapon from being destroyed and remaining useable beyond its time limit is to make a Zeal roll, difficulty 6, in every subsequent turn (this roll is a reflexive action). If the roll succeeds, the weapon can be used to attack with Cleave again in that turn. If the roll fails, the weapon is ruined. This Zeal roll represents your character’s effort to harness and control his passion for the cause.
Cleave applies to melee weapons only, not ranged ones. Spontaneously fabricated weapons are relatively rare among hunters. Individuals who can create red-hot swords out of thin air somehow believe themselves able to twist reality to begin with, whether due to derangements, amazing will or staunch belief in religion or fate. If your character’s worldview can’t rationalize his defiance of physics – even with the knowledge that monsters are real – then he probably improves upon weapons already held.

●● Trail
Your character touches a supernatural target and causes that person or thing to leave a smoky streamer behind it. This trail is usually visible only to the hunter who places it, although characters using Discern, Witness, or Illuminate may perceive others' trails. The streamer roils in the direction in which the subject traveled. A trail can neither be touched nor felt. Likewise, it cannot be dissipated by wind, by being walked through or by anything else that would scatter a physical fog.
A creature or person being followed cannot see the trail unless it specifically possesses preternatural perceptions.
System: All your character has to do is touch (or in some cases pass through) a supernatural target to activate this power. Roll Perception + Zeal, difficulty 6. The trail lasts six hours for each success achieved. Duration can be measured in days, instead, if a point of Conviction is spent. All of your character’s trails are identical.
Some supernatural creatures can pass into spaces different from humanity’s physical world. If a creature does so, the trail ends abruptly where the creature phased out or disappeared. The trail resumes when the beast returns to the physical world.
Spotting a trail is difficulty 7 for Discern, Illuminate and Witness edges. This is also the difficulty for creatures with supernatural perceptions.
This power does not affect mundane people or objects.

●●● Smolder
This edge produces a cloud of thick black smoke. Some smolder clouds appear sourceless. Others must be exhaled by the creator. A cloud shields the hunter from all mortal perception and from most supernatural awareness. Sight, smell, all heat perception and most hearing if baffled. If your character fires a shotgun from concealment within a smolder cloud, the sound of the shot is about as loud as a finger snap.
System: it takes one action to use this edge. Roll Manipulation + Zeal, difficulty 7. The cloud fills a roughly 10-cubic-foot area. For each Conviction point spent, this area increases by another 10 cubic feet (multiple uses of Smolder achieve the same effect, if time permits). Your character can also choose to create a smaller cloud, if she desires, at no Conviction expense. The cloud lasts for one turn for each success achieved in the creation roll, but can be dissipated prematurely if your character desires.
The difficulties of all attack rolls within and into the cloud increase by three. The creator and any other hunters can see through the cloud normally if second sight is active. The Storyteller decides if any supernaturals’ particularly applicable senses can pierce the cloud (difficulty 7 if any roll is allowed); most cannot, not even those of many spirits.

●●●● Surge
A character who uses Surge feels a tingling sensation course through his/her limbs. With but a thought, this sensation can be directed to different body parts. It can be poured into muscles and used for extraordinary bursts of strength, channeled through the nerves for remarkable speed, or shunted into the bones and skin to absorb damage.
System: Spend a point of Conviction. You now have a pool of points equal to your character’s Zeal to allocate on a one-for-one basis to his Strength, Dexterity and/or Stamina. No Attribute may be raised higher than 6, and any excess points are wasted. Attributes remain inflated for the remainder of the scene. Because there are no rolls involved directly with this edge, Conviction points cannot be risked on its use.

●●●●● Smite
The faithful like to call this effect “the Wrath of God.” Your character gestures, and something that’s not quite lightning and not quite fire erupts from her body and (usually) incinerates whatever she’s pissed at. Smite is not subtle: It produces a blazing light, a deafening crash and an acrid ammonia stench. Electronic equipment within 20 feet is usually scrambled, glass breaks, metal surfaces are discolored and people nearby often suffer nose bleeds.
System: Spend a point of Conviction. Roll Dexterity + Zeal, difficulty 6. Any successes achieved after the first are added to Strength and rolled in a lethal damage pool. Maximum range equals your character’s Zeal score in yards. Supernatural and human targets can be damaged.