DESIGNATION: CREED — REDEEMER CLEARANCE: PUBLIC ARCHIVE: BASILICA PURGATORY

Redeemer Creed

Hunter — Standard Creed

Lost Souls Seeking the Way Back

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Who They Are

Redeemers carry something the other Hunters do not: personal knowledge of what it means to be on the wrong side of a line you cannot uncross. They've made serious mistakes and chosen to spend the rest of their life making it right — not because the math works out, but because it's what they have to do. Redeemers are not defined by their failure, but by what they do after it — and they often work in the spaces where the supernatural and human communities most need someone who can speak both languages.


Best fit for	Mundane Hunters (excellent), Imbued (excellent), Shih (strong)
Core philosophy	The mistake does not define you. What you do next does.
Training focus	Empathy, Leadership, Medicine, Counseling, Persuasion
Starting Willpower bonus	+1

Mundane Hunter Benefits (All Levels)

Level	Benefit
1	-1 difficulty on Empathy rolls
2	-2 difficulty negotiating with supernaturals wronged by Hunters — personal credibility
3	Can offer genuine assistance to supernaturals seeking to reform — a relationship of trust, not a power
4	Once per month, a supernatural or Hunter NPC seeks them out for help addressing a past transgression
5	Accomplishes something genuinely redemptive for someone else (worked out with ST)

Imbued / Shih Creed Abilities

Level	Option A	Option B
●○○○○	Empathic Read — senses genuine remorse and desire for redemption; cannot be fooled by performance. Passive.	Soothing Presence — beings entering frenzy/rage nearby get an additional control roll at -1 difficulty. Passive.
●●○○○	Offer the Path — a genuine offer to step back from mandate-violating behavior; if accepted, both gain resources.	Healing Touch — heals 1 Lethal level on another through a minute of sustained contact. Cannot self-target.
●●●○○	Lift the Weight — helps process guilt/trauma; target recovers 1 Willpower, Shadow/Frenzy risk drops 1 for the scene.	True Sight — perceives a being's genuine moral condition — capable of change, choosing harm, or seeking better. Cannot be faked against.
●●●●○	The Bridge (2 Conv) — establishes a valid redemptive pathway that removes one consequence of a past transgression if completed.	Cleanse (2 Conv) — removes mild supernatural contamination (early Corruption, early Bond, minor taint). Roll Willpower + Empathy (diff 8).
●●●●●	Full Redemption (3 Conv) — a witnessed act formally strikes a being's worst transgression from the God-Machine's record. Once per being, ever.	Carry the Weight (3 Conv) — takes on another's spiritual consequence, releasing the original transgressor; the Hunter must address it themselves.

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Type fit	Mundane (excellent), Imbued (excellent), Shih (strong)
Training focus	Empathy, Leadership, Medicine, Counseling, Persuasion
Starting Willpower bonus	+1