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Familiar tions,” p. 210 in The World of Darkness Rulebook), but their
Descendants of Lucifer often attract tiny, lesser demons to ephemeral bodies are otherwise invisible and intangible to the
themselves, willingly or unwillingly. These imps and familiars physical world. A Twilight familiar must manifest or use Dread
Powers to affect anything in the physical world — except for its
are drawn to the infernal spark in the blood of a Lucifuge, and master, whom it can touch at will (its master can also see and
are compelled by the divine right of Lucifer’s blood to serve and speak with the familiar freely, even if he cannot see or hear into
obey. Some do so willingly, so slavish in their devotion to their Twilight). A Twilight familiar often leaves behind a subtle sign
earthly masters that they are willing to oppose the edicts of
Hell. Others serve reluc-
tantly, disgusted to see the
seed of the Morningstar
debase itself as a servant of
humanity but nevertheless
bound by their master’s
blood. Still others are in-
sidious, pretending to give
loyal service while seeking
every opportunity to se-
duce their “masters” into
the open service of evil.
A familiar comes in
one of two forms, Twi-
light or embodied. The
Lucifuge chooses which
type he will have when
he learns this rite; the
only way to change the
type of a character’s fa-
miliar is to unlearn the
Familiar ritual and then
relearn it later. At the
player’s choice, this might
represent the dismissal
of one servant and the
summoning of another,
or the swap might repre-
sent an elaborate ritual to
clothe a Twilight familiar
in fl esh (or release an em-

bodied one from its fleshy
prison). The altered fa-
miliar might have similar
Traits in its new form, but
it might just as easily be
radically different in form
and powers, with only the
personality and memories
remaining the same. A
character may only have
one familiar at a time.
A Twilight familiar is
a spiritual entity with no
proper physical body of its
own. A Twilight familiar
is also known as a “fetch.”
Twilight familiars can
temporarily manifest like
ghosts (see “Manifesta-
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