Background NPCs

This is a (not necessarily exhaustive) list of backgrounds that provide your PC with one or more NPCs who can help them in some way.

General

• Allies: One NPC per dot, or fewer but more powerful NPCs
• Contacts: One major NPC per dot, plus some minor NPCs (need not be detailed in advance)
• Mentor: The more dots, the more powerful they are
• Retainers/Followers: One NPC per dot

Vampire

• Spirit Slave

Herd
	3 vessels
	7 vessels
	15 vessels
	30 vessels
	60 vessels

Nosferatu

• Information Network

Ghoul

• "Domitor (background)"

Revenant

• Blood Donor

Werewolf

• Spirit Network
• Totem

Kinfolk 2 kinfolk 5 kinfolk 10 kinfolk 20 kinfolk 50 kinfolk

Numen Gaffling Potent Gaffling Lesser Jaggling Strong Jaggling Very strong Jaggling Spend a Gnosis to do one of the following: Add Numen rating to a physical/social/mental attribute (pick one when you buy the background) for one roll Use one of its Charms once

Familiar Spirit	Type	Intelligence	Communication	Store Gnosis/Willpower/Rage for you	Perception
1	Smallest Gaffling	Not too bright	Spirit Speech gift or join it in the Umbra	3 (one type at a time)	Can't Peek through the Gauntlet, rarely knows what's going on in normalspace
2	Decent-sized Gaffling	Almost intelligent	same	5 (one type at a time)	Knows instinctively where you are, can Peek from time to time
3	Jaggling	Average	Speak aloud while it's nearby	5 (two types at a time)	Can also see through your eyes
4	Jaggling	Fairly bright	Speak telepathically while it's nearby, you always know where it is and can see through its eyes	5 (any mix of types)	Can also Manifest
5	Jaggling affiliated with a specific Incarna	Intelligent	Speak telepathically regardless of location, you can share any sense or gift-based knowledge	6 (any mix of types)	same

Bastet

• Jamak

Kitsune

• Go-en
• Sempai

Rokea

• Remora

Possessed

• Cult: Two NPCs per dot

Mage

• Cult: Five NPCs per dot (other races use the Possessed version)
• Familiar Companion
• Spirit Allies

Technocracy

• Backup
• Companion
• Patron
• Spies

Sorcerer

• Guide

Changeling

• Companion
• Fae Hound
• Fae Steed

Dreamers 1 Dreamer 2 Dreamers 4 Dreamers 6 Dreamers 8 Dreamers

Retinue 1 member 2 members 4 members 6 members 10 members

Nocker

• Golem

Nunnehi

• Spirit Companion

Demon

• Pacts: One NPC per dot

Hunter (HtR)

• Bystanders
• Patron

Hunter (conceptual, regardless of race)

• Backers: Similar to Allies, but you don't ICly know who they are