RD DATA
Description: You know more about the Night-Folk than they’d appreciate you knowing. Sure, your understanding gets filtered through the lens of your own group’s perspective, but it’s more than the average person… or mage… comprehends. For mystic mages, such knowledge is considered Lore: the hidden secrets of vampires, RD Data: information about the clandestine affairs of Reality Deviants whose very existence presents a threat to the Consensus. Different Lore categories include: Spirits, Fae, Werecreatures, Vampires, Ghosts, Hunters, Demons, Mages (naturally…), and potentially others as well. Each Lore/ RD Data category counts as a separate Lore specialty; knowing about Sabbat Kindred won’t teach you anything about Seelie Fae Kith. The Well-Skilled Craftsman option may help you assemble a formidable amount of information about various groups within those categories. Even then, however, your knowledge will be full of holes, misconceptions, prejudices, and lies. These secretive beings don’t even have accurate appraisals of themselves, so an outsider (especially a Technocratic one) has obvious disadvantages in that regard as well. Another thing – despite their long rivalries, different mage factions don’t often have accurate data about one another. A Verbena runecaster might recognize “one of those fucking soulless Technocratic bastards,” but he’s not likely to know the difference between a Progenitor Genegineer and a Syndicate “magic man”… or to care much about it, either, unless he’s got a specialty in Technocracy Lore.
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