Bestiary

Raptors are Banes that feed off of pain and lust — not affection or simple sexual desire — but a twisted and desperate need for dominance and conquest. Their targets of choice are those who view others as mere objects existing for their own gratification. The Bane whispers across the Gauntlet, urging humans to act on their desires, and enhancing them with an aura of false confidence and persuasiveness. The Raptor picks a particular human as its “special project” and doesn’t let go, riding a wave of one-night stands, abusive relationships, and broken hearts to the Raptor’s desired conclusion: rape, depravity, and murder. It moves on once the host is a hollowed-out shell, leaving behind a shadow of a human being, something moving through a routine

of abuse in the hopes of reigniting some feeling in the burnt-out cinder that used to be his soul.

Rage

5, Gnosis 8, Willpower 6, Essence 19 (plus up

to 10 more if the Bane has fed recently)

* Sleaze Aura: The Bane can lend the effects of the Gift: Persuasion (see W20, p. 153) to anyone who goes along with the suggestions it whispers through Corruption, so long as they continue following those suggestions.

Image: A Raptor looks like a great, fleshy flower atop an array of slim, well-toned legs of both genders.

Background

This Bane feeds from the lusts of its host, the act of consummation, and then the pain of the host’s victims when he casts them aside; it needs all three in order to feed. The more profound the victim’s residual sense of use or violation, the more Essence the Raptor gains. A regular one-night-stand with someone as worn-down as the host himself is worth only a single point, while ruining someone else’s life might be worth five all at once.

Storytelling Notes: Once, Pentex tried to bond Raptors to various products, including cosmetics and colognes. The Raptors refused to cooperate, and now despise Pentex-created Enticers. A Raptor will go out of its way to guide its host into an Enticer’s path, with the intent of using and ruining the fomor, even killing it, if possible.