Mortals and Lesser Templates

In the Chronicles of Darkness, you play mortal men and women, as well as characters who share miscellaneous occult natures.

Technicalities

Mortal humans have a Morality or Integrity trait, depending on edition, and a Virtue and Vice.

Certain character templates can be applied to otherwise fundamentally mortal characters, which can alter their basic traits. Some of these templates are associated in some way with the focal monsters of the Chronicles of Darkness gamelines and their traits and advantages, while others are wholly their own.

General Character Types

Type	1e	2e	Advantages
Atariya		●	Atariya Merits
Changing Breeds	●		Aspects and Favors, Changing Breed Merits
Children	●		Innocents Merits
Dreamers		●	Dreamer Merits
Infected		●	Infected Merits
Lost Boys		●	Lost Boy Merits
Plain		●	Plain Merits
Possessed	●		Vestments, Possessed Merits
Psychics	●	●	Psychic Merits (1e), Supernatural Merits (2e)
Psychic Vampires		●	Psychic Vampire Merits
Skinthieves	●	●	Skinthief Merits
Thaumaturges	●		Thaumaturgy Merits
Witches	●		Gutter Magic, Witch Merits

Advantages

Humans who have not been tainted by a greater supernatural template have access to some unique Merits, including various Supernatural Merits. They can also access the universally available list of Merits, including specific Locations and Style Merits.

Associated Character Types

Association	Type	1e	2e	Advantages
Vampire	Ghouls	●	●	Disciplines, Ghoul Merits, Ghoul Families
	Dhampir	●	●	Twists and Malisons, Dhampir Merits

Werewolf	Wolf-Blooded		●	Tells, Wolf-Blooded Merits
	Hosts	●	●	Aspects (1e), Dread Powers (2e)

Mage	Proximi	●	●	Spells, Proximi Families
Promethean	Alchemists		●	Distillations
Changeling	Fae-Touched		●	Contracts, Fae-Touched Merits
Hunter	Slashers	●		Undertakings, Dread Powers
Geist	Ghosts	●	●	Numina, Ghostly Merits
Mummy	Immortals	●	●	Immortal Merits, Siddhi (Purified only)
Demon	Demon-Blooded		●	Embeds, Demon-Blooded Merits
	Stigmatic		●	Stigmatic Merits

Beast	Heroes		●	Anathema and Gifts