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Appendix I: The Spirit World
its own, in the Shadow, or in the
company of other spiritually
aware beings.
AGENDA
Most Claimed seek
to create a new, beneficial
home for themselves
in both the spirit world
and the material world.
Their ability to slip easily
through the Gauntlet
gives them the ability to
reshape the spiritual environment
on a par with that
of a pack of werewolves. The
first few weeks of its new,
joined existence are spent
securing and honing the human
side of its existence in a way that
suits it. That normally means establishing
some sort of private refuge that
it can bar other people from, in preparation
for the time when it can no longer easily pass
as human. Once its new sanctum is established,
it can proceed to develop it to its taste.
RULES
Traits: Each of the spirit’s dots in
Power, Finesse and Resistance are
distributed among the appropriate
traits in the host body, potentially
boosting them above normal
human maximums. The
dots transfer at the rate of one
dot per week since the claiming.
The Claimed’s Speed and
Defense are equal to those of the
old body, with appropriate
modifications for the trait
increases. The Claimed
retains all Abilities, Influences
and Merits from its
host and rider.
Essence: The spirit’s
Essence can be used to
reinforce the host body by
healing wounds at the rate of
one point of Essence to heal
one point of lethal damage
or two points of bashing
damage. The healing takes
one turn to complete in
either case. The spirit can
take other actions while
healing.
Stepping Sideways: As creatures
of both worlds, the Claimed
can step sideways in the area of
influence of a locus with an Intelligence
+ Presence roll.
NANUTARI:
THE SPIRIT THIEVES
Sometimes a spirit has neither
the time nor the inclination to
gently urge a host, or merge with
it completely. Instead, it just hijacks
a body, driving the spirit within
into dormancy or even out of the body
completely, creating a ghost whose body
lives on. These horrors, known as the
Nanutari or the Spirit Thieves, rarely
last very long, but they can inflict
significant amounts of damage on the
physical world in the time they remain
in their hosts.
Body theft is not a beneficial experience
for a spirit. The spirit
is crippled by the process. It
retains its own knowledge and
has access to a significant
amount of information from
the brain of its new body,
but it usually lacks the
frame of reference to make
sense of it. A Spirit Thief
might recognize someone as its
body’s “wife” but not truly comprehend
that relationship in anything
but the simplest terms. People
who encounter a Spirit Thief that
has taken possession of someone
they knew are likely to assume
that the host is drunk, drugged
or in the midst of a descent into
mental illness. Very few spirits
have the knowledge and savvy to
pull off posing as the person they’ve
displaced.
Stealing a body outright is a move
of desperation for a spirit. Controlling
and using the body takes
up all of its energy, depriving
it of its spiritual powers. It’s
trapped on the physical side
of the Gauntlet unless it
relinquishes its host body.
In effect, it has none of
the advantages of either
its original spirit form or