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Typically known by the name of the city it embodies, City-Heart personifies the essence of the city itself. Urban shamans can petition such entities for protection, knowledge, and connection to the city’s unknown places. In return, these shamans devote themselves to the city’s welfare, either through political methods (working to improve the city and preserve its landmarks and character), humanitarianism (typically helping the city’s poor and dispossessed residents), vigilantism (protecting the city’s people), shadow work (assisting the city’s underground, often in ways that most citizens would consider criminal), or maintaining the city’s supernatural community (weeding out intruders and striking as much of a balance as possible among the various vampires, werecreatures, mages, and other Night-Folk throughout the city).

Manifestations: Whispers, human figures who seem to epitomize the city’s personality, weather fluctuations, odd shadows, rustling newspapers, eerie vigilantes or criminals, and urban omens like messages spelled out on neon signs, graffiti, or randomly arranged trash.

Associations: Whatever characteristics seem most appropriate to the city in question.

Brood: Urban wildlife spirits (rats, roaches, alley cats, pigeons, raccoons, seagulls, etc.) and city people who embody the best and worst elements of the city in question.

Abilities: Area Knowledge, Etiquette, Streetwise.

Bans: A person devoted to a city should not leave that city if she can possibly help it. City-bound shamans tend to make offerings of material goods, money, service, or some combination of the three, all intended to make the city a better place to live. Truly wealthy city-shamans erect monuments, parks, urban projects, sports complexes, or other noteworthy buildings, whereas other shamans lobby fellow citizens to construct or restore landmarks that distinguish the place.