Friend

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Banned Retainer

Requiem Chroniclers Guide 68
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The Allies Merit from World of Darkness Rulebook represents influence in groups. While this is a valuable Trait for a Prince to have, sometimes it’s necessary to have individual allies who are more potent by themselves. The Retainer Merit can represent these potent allies if they are subordinate to the character. Likewise, Mentor can represent individual allies to whom the vampire owes favors or allegiance. However, this new Friend Merit is intended to represent allied peers, individuals who have independent power and are neither beholden to the character with this Merit nor owed any allegiance by her.

Similar to Haven, there are multiple aspects of this Merit: allocate dots purchased to Power and Trust. Power represents the friend’s level of skill and influence; one dot is significantly less powerful than the character, three dots is about the same level of power and five dots means a friend who is significantly more powerful. Trust is an indicator of the depth of the friendship; dots in Trust are added as bonus dice to any roll to convince the friend represented by this Merit to do something for the character.