Page 48 - Hunter - The Vigil

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Were it that all horrors and mysteries were so easily cat- Foolish hunters fear such anomalies for the powers
egorized. Sadly, they’re not. Hunters wish all the things they they possess, be it the ability to erase memories or a chest

encountered could be so easily classified in this kind of fi endish of acid-spraying teats.
taxonomy, but much of what they deal with lies outside the Wise hunters know to fear monsters not for what
range of known experiences. Part of this is that a great many they can do, but for why they do them. It seeks revenge.
monsters are wholly unique. Might just be one thing. Might be It hungers for sin. It longs to fulfill a dream it once had
a part of a cabal of singular fi ends. But many creatures are born where it stands on a blasted plain as the whole rest of
outside nature, born without ilk or made beyond comparison. the world burns around it, making it the malefic king of
This is what makes the Vigil so invigorating, and so a dead land. It is the monster’s motivations that put its
deadly. Just as a hunter cell thinks it knows its enemy, awfulness into perspective.
something new, something worse, emerges.

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