Vampire
vampire help vampire
Blood fuel -- hunt, bite, and drink to stay off Hunger's edge. Unlocks Blood Magic.
Top stats: POW, FIN, PRE
Lineages
Shifter
shifter help shifter
Werewolf or Skinwalker beast-changer -- pick one at create. Instinct + form. Not the motel face-thief (help shapeshifter). Unlocks Primal Arts.
Top stats: POW, FIN, VIT
Leviathan
leviathan help leviathan
Primordial flesh-monster sealed in Purgatory. Fuel + black-goo true form; consume and assume. Unlocks Devouring.
Top stats: POW, VIT, FIN
Djinn
djinn help djinn
Mirage predator: trap the weak in a private false world and drain essence while the body sleeps. Unlocks Mirage.
Top stats: PRE, FOC, FIN
Ghost
ghost help ghost
Unfinished business -- human soul on Monster UI, not Eve lineage. Remembrance + fade/manifest; haunt, scare, inhabit. Unlocks Hauntcraft.
Top stats: FOC, PRE, RES
Wendigo
wendigo help wendigo
Cold-hunger predator. Feasts for Feral Heat; larder, voice mimicry, phantomstep. Unlocks Carrion. Fire or decap finishes them. Lore may later move this Lineage under Mutant.
Top stats: POW, VIT, FIN
Ghoul
ghoul help ghoul
SPN corpse scavenger -- feast on the dead to bank Visage and wear a stolen corpse-face. Not the motel shapeshifter (living mimic). Decap finishes; not fire. Unlocks Carrion.
Top stats: VIT, POW, FIN
Shapeshifter
shapeshifter help shapeshifter
Motel face-thief -- steal a living person's face, retinal flare on tape. Mimic fuel. Silver through the heart. Not Ghoul, not werewolf.
Top stats: FIN, PRE, POW
In-game hub
Same text as help monster.
monster -- Vampires, Shifters, Leviathans, Djinn, and Ghosts Monster is its own Origin (Lineage as the Path label). You keep a living body (or haunt as a Ghost) and run on the shared fuel tank -- Hunger drains it, feeding refills it, and true form / manifest burns it faster. Chargen Lineages: How you play 1. Open your Lineage hub help vampire | help leviathan | help wendigo | help ghoul | help arachne | … 2. Check fuel your Hunger / Visage / Feral Heat / … tank (help fuel) 3. form / manifest show your true face or wear a mundane guise (Ghosts: help ghost) 4. Feed to refill fuel each Lineage's feed verb differs -- see its hub 5. Optional cover path background <id> for a Mundane kit (help path) vampire blood fuel; hunt, bite, and drink to stay off Hunger's edge shifter Instinct fuel; shift to beast form, tied to the Lunar Tide leviathan Devouring fuel; black-goo true form, consume and assume faces djinn Mirage; trap prey in a private false world and drain essence ghost Remembrance; fade / manifest, haunt, scare, inhabit the living wendigo Feral Heat; larder, mimic cries, phantomstep (help wendigo) ghoul Visage; feast the dead and wear their faces (help ghoul) arachne Venom; bluish-white web trap and mutagenic fang (help arachne) See also: help vampire | help shifter | help leviathan | help djinn