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Library (• to •••) •• Continuing Education: With the repeated efforts
in her field of choice, your character tends toward
Effect: Your character has access to a plethora of infor- greater successes. When making a roll with her
mation about a given topic. When purchasing this Merit, Asset Skills, she benefits from the 9-again quality.
choose a Mental Skill. The Library covers that purview. On
any extended roll involving the Skill in question, add the ••• Breadth of Knowledge: Due to her advancement
dots in this Merit. in her field, she’s picked up a number of particular
This Merit can be purchased multiple times, to reflect bits of information and skill unique to her work.
different Skills. Additionally, its benefits can be shared by Choose a third Asset Skill, and take two Specialties
various characters, with permission. in your character’s Asset Skills.
Meditative Mind (•, ••, or ••••) •••• On the Job Training: With the resources at her
disposal, your character has access to extensive
Effect: Your character’s meditation is far more fulfilling educational tools and mentorship. Take a Skill
than for other characters. With the one-dot version of this dot in an Asset Skill. Whenever you purchase a
Merit, the character does not suffer environmental penalties new Asset Skill dot, take a Beat.
to meditation (see p. 75), even from wound penalties.
With the two-dot version, when the character has suc- ••••• The Routine: With such extensive experience in
cessfully meditated, she gains a +3 bonus on any Resolve her field, her Asset Skills have been honed to a fine
+ Composure rolls during the same day, as she’s steeled edge, and she’s almost guaranteed at least a marginal
herself against the things in the world that would shake her success. Before rolling, spend a Willpower point to
foundation. apply the rote action quality to an Asset Skill. This
At the four-dot level, she only needs a single success to allows you to reroll all the failed dice on the first roll.
gain the benefits of meditation for the day, instead of the
normal four. Tolerance for Biology (•)
Multilingual (•) Prerequisite: Resolve •••
Effect: Most people turn away at the sight of blood,
Effect: Your character has a strong affinity for language other bodily fluids, or exotic biology. Your character has
acquisition. Each time you purchase this Merit, choose two seen enough that nothing turns her stomach. When other
languages. Your character can speak conversationally in those characters must resist shock or physical repulsion from the
languages. With an Intelligence + Academics roll, he may also disgusting and morbid, your character stands her ground. You
read enough of the language to understand context. do not need to make Composure, Stamina, or Resolve rolls
If you purchase the Language Merit for either of these to withstand the biologically strange. This doesn’t mean she’s
languages, replace the Multilingual language. For example, immune to fear; she’s just used to nature in all its nasty forms.
if you have Multilingual (French, Italian), and purchase
Language: Italian, you may choose to take Multilingual Trained Observer (•, or •••)
(French, Portuguese).
Prerequisite: Wits ••• or Composure •••
Patient (•) Effect: Your character has spent years in the field, catch-
ing tiny details and digging for secrets. She might not have a
Effect: Your character knows how to pace herself and take better chance of finding things, but she has a better chance
the time to do the job right the first time. When taking an of finding important things. Any time you make a Perception
extended action, you may make two additional rolls, above roll (usually Wits + Composure), you benefit from the 9-again
what your Attribute + Skill allows. quality. With the three-dot version, you get 8-again.
Professional Training (• to •••••) Vice-Ridden (••)

Effect: Your character has extensive training in a particu- Effect: Your character is one of the worst examples of
lar profession, which offers distinct advantages in a handful humanity in the Chronicles of Darkness. He has two Vices,
of fields. When choosing this Merit, choose or create a although he may still only regain one Willpower per scene
Profession for your character (see the sidebar). Mark the he indulges himself.
two Asset Skills on your character sheet. The advantages of
Professional Training relate directly to those Asset Skills. Virtuous (••)
• Networking: At the first level of Professional Effect: Your character is a light of good in the Chronicles
Training, your character builds connections within of Darkness. She has two Virtues. The limitations of how
her chosen field. Take two dots of Contacts relat- many times she may refresh Willpower using a Virtue remain
ing to that field. the same, but it’s up to you which Virtue she uses each time.

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