Archetypes

Shepherding the weak through the Valley of Darkness, you are truly your brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. You save your great vengeance and furious anger for those who would poison and betray your brothers, sisters, and so forth. Pop-culture quotations aside, you take your duty seriously… someone, after all, needs to protect folks who cannot, or sometimes will not, protect themselves. In essence, this ideal guides all Awakened factions; even the Fallen, in their twisted way, often justify themselves by claiming to be guardians of a rejected world.

Courage is your calling card. It takes guts to do what you do, and by all the Gods, you’ve got fortitude to spare.

Admirable though it may be, your dedication to Self-Sac­ rifice could be your Achilles’ heel. Lots of would-be Guardians wind up ground into mulch by constant conflict. A knight needs battle, true enough; but until she learns when to stop fighting – to step aside, perhaps, and let people defend themselves or else make their own decisions – a Guardian can become a martyr, a bully, or just one more monster in a world already full of them.

– Regain Willpower when your actions directly save a weaker group or character from assured destruction.