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IMAKILLYA
ANTAGONIST
Attributes
Attributes: Power 10, Finesse 9, Resistance 11
Willpower: 21
Willpower
Essence
Essence: 25 max
Initiative
Initiative: 20
Defense: 10
Defense
Speed
Speed: 24
Size: 5
Size
Corpus: 16
Corpus
Numina:
Numina:
Blast:
Blast: Roll Power + Finesse + 2 dice per point
of Essence spent; each success infl icts a point
of lethal damage on the target. This damage
manifests as knife cuts or bullet wounds, even
though he has no knife or gun.
Harrow:
Harrow: Roll Power + Finesse, contested by the
target’s Composure, to overwhelm the target
with feelings of murderous hate for 1 turn per
success. Costs 1 Essence.
Living Fetter:
Living Fetter: Roll Power + Finesse vs. the
target’s Resolve + Composure; allows the
spirit to link to a living being and stay in
the material world without losing Essence.
The spirit must stay near its fetter. Costs 2
Essence to establish the link.
Materialize:
Materialize: Roll Power + Finesse to appear in material form for one hour
per success.
Ban: Imakillya cannot harm, or come within 15 feet of, any mortal with
Ban:
a Morality of 8 or greater. He cannot enter any space where fi ve or more
mortals of Morality 8 or higher have congregated within the previous seven
days for religious worship or any cooperative effort.

Antagonist: her the “Old Wolf,” and she’s the most renowned of the wolf
Therese Ross, the Old Wolf people in the city, but that kind of status doesn’t count for as
much as it used to. One day, she’s vowed, she’ll see Fairmount
Recent decades have not been kind to the werewolves back in the werewolves’ possession. But until the time is right,
of Philadelphia. About 70 years ago, werewolf packs that she’s putting her energy into guiding young wolf packs toward
transgressed against the laws of their kind inspired a potent the values and priorities of their forerunners. It’s tough going:
counterattack by some well-organized hunter cells. The today’s werewolves came up in a time of heightened violence,
destruction of those renegades triggered shame and fury that and consider a death fight the default response to the most

rippled through the city’s werewolf community and spiraled superficial of quarrels. While they fight and kill each other,

into ruthless battles for honor and territory. The distraction human hunters pick off the weak and foolish; meanwhile, a
left the city vulnerable to incursion by the wolves’ ancestral powerful murder-spirit stalks the North Philly streets with no
enemies, and to spirits that should have been the werewolves’ fear of predation by the wolfmen. Lately, Therese has heard
prey. As a consequence of this, in the 1970s, the wolves lost rumors of a newcomer to her territory, a human leader who’s
control of the 4,100-acre Fairmount Park, land that had been bringing discipline and purpose to the violent youths of the
their territory even before the arrival of the Europeans. streets and directing them to defend their own neighborhoods.
Therese Ross is a veteran of the Fairmount Slaughter She wonders if a truce between man and wolf might be soon
— which took three of her packmates as well as her left eye be possible, or if she should strike now before the humans
— and countless nameless skirmishes since. Her people call
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