Merits
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Please note that Edge of Darkness uses table top rules for Merit costing. Every dot must be purchased. A two dot (●●) Merit costs 6XP (2XP for the first dot plus 4XP for the second dot), a four dot (●●●●) costs 20XP, etc.
- A more complete and filterable breakdown of Merits can be found on the drilldown page.
- Please check the individual articles for any House Rules pertaining to a specific Merit.
A character is born with some Merits or develops them early in life, while others can be acquired through trail and error, training and effort later in life. The first kind can be acquired at character creation only and are labeled as such. The second kind can be acquired during play with experience points. Merit dots must be purchased sequentially with experience points. You have to buy ● and then ●● before your character can have ●●● or more.
A listing of the active characters and their Merits can be found on the forums.
Mental Merits
A Little Knowledge • Area of Expertise • Astral Adept • Atlantean Hesychia • Beacon of Life • Coder Clique • Combat Awareness • Common Sense • Crafters Sense • Current Events Circle • Daimon • Danger Sense • Drivers Charm • EOD • Eidetic Memory • Emotional Detachment • Encyclopedic Knowledge • Entheogenic Synesthesia • Ephemeral Reckoning • Fontal Ritual • Geomancer • Glyph Lore • Good Brain • Good Time Management • Hedge Gate Sense • Holistic Awareness • Homeward Bound • Howl Code • Hypnosis • Inherited Ghoul • Inherited Resistance • Inhuman Resistance • Interdisciplinary Specialty • Lab Section • Language • Lucid Dreaming • Make Do • Meditative Mind • Mind of the Devouring Worm • Mind of the Inscrutable Hydra • Mourning Cant • Multi-Lingual • Mythologist • Night Doctor Surgery • Prophets Voice • Rational Explanation • Scientists Sense • Short Cuts • Skald Cant • Slayer • Soul Sense • Spirit Tongue Merit • Study Group • Technophile • Telltale Murder • Token Maker • Trained Memory • Trained Observer • Vision • Vitae Connoisseur • Well-Traveled • Whispers • Will of the Dynasty
- House Ruled: Coder Clique • Current Events Circle • Lab Section • Meditative Mind • Mourning Cant • Study Group • Trained Observer
- Banned: Ancient Echoes • Damnable Certainty • Demolisher • Dream • Higher Calling • Myrmidon Oath-Tongue
Physical Merits
Acid Stomach • Adamantine Hand • Ambidextrous • Arcadian Body • Arcadian Metabolism • Archery • Armored Fighting • Athletics Dodge • Beast-Kin • Boxing • Brawling Dodge • Brute Force • Chain Weapons • Combat Art • Combat Marksmanship • Combatant • Direction Sense • Disarm • Doll Face • Dream Combat • Equipped Grappling • Eyrie • Fast Reflexes • Fencing • Fighting Finesse • Filipino Martial Arts • Firearms Retention • Fleet of Foot • Formation Tactics • Fresh Corpse • Fresh Start • Fury Choir • Giant • Gladiatorial • Grappling • Gunslinger • Hand of a Killer • Heal Like Stone • Heavy Hands • Hedge Duelist • High Performance Driving • Hooligan • Iaido • Improvised Weaponry • Iron Stamina • Iron Stomach • Krav Maga • Kung Fu • Langschwert • Lethal Mien • MAC • Metabolic Control • Natural Immunity • Outdoorsman • Pack Tactics • Parkour • Perfect Stillness • Police Tactics • Quick Draw • Quick Healer • Savage Fury • Scout • Secret Paths • Shield-Bearer • Sniping • Sojutsu • Spelunker • Spetsnaz Knife Fighting • Staff Fighting • Staunch Defender • Steady Driver • Strong Back • Strong Lungs • Stunt Driver • Stunt Rider • Territorial Familiarity • Thrown Weapons • Tolerance for Biology • Tooth and Claw • Toxin Resistance • True Worm • Tunnel Rat • Two Weapons • Vicious Attacker • War Fan • Weapon at Hand • Weaponry Dodge • Weapons to Empty Hands • Wheelman • Wolf Pack
- House Ruled: Archery • Boxing • Brute Force • Gladiatorial • Grappling • Hedge Duelist • Krav Maga • MAC • Thrown Weapons • Tooth and Claw • True Worm • Tunnel Rat
- Banned: Aikido • Armory • Atavism • Berserker • Blood of the Oath of Ruin • Boneless • Entering Strike • Frenzied Assault • Ground and Pound • Muay Thai • Murder Expert • Qinna • Student Of The Blade • Swarm Tactics
Social Merits
Allies • Ancient Signs • Animal Affinity • Animal Magnetism • Anonymity • Bad Breeding • Barfly • Barrister • Bureaucratic Navigator • Cacophony Listener • Cacophony Whisperer • Carthian Pull • Celestial Name • Close Family • Contacts • Court Goodwill • Cultural Language • Death-Touched • Debate Club • Debate Style: Reason • Debate Style: Rhetoric • Decorated • Difficult to Ride • Distinctive Voice • Easy Ride • Enchanting Performance • Encounter Group • Fame • Famous Face • Gentrified Bearing • Goblin Merchant • Good Breeding • Hidden Life • Hob Kin • Hollow Soul • House Membership • Informative • Ingratiating Wanderer • Inspiring • Local • Manymask • Market Familiarity • Market Sense • New Identity • Noble Heritage • Pack Affinity • Pleasing Aura • Pledgesmith • Preadators Gaze • Predators Bearing • Predators Gaze • Repute • Resources • Right Bar • Rigid Mask • Saintly • Sexualized • Shadow Cult Initiation • Siren Song • Small Unit Tactics • Social Chameleon • Socially Small • Source Sympathy • Spirit Ear • Status • Stranger No More • Striking Looks • Strong Bloodline • Sworn Officer • Synergy • Theater Society • Thrall • Trip Sitter • Unobtrusive • Unpalpable Aura • Watched • Wholesale Wares
- House Ruled: Allies • Carthian Pull • Contacts • Court Goodwill • Debate Club • Encounter Group • Goblin Merchant • Market Familiarity • Mentor • New Identity • Pledgesmith • Right Bar • Shadow Cult Initiation • Siren Song • Sleepwalker Retainer • Socially Small • Status • Sworn Officer • Wholesale Wares
- Banned: Alternate Identity • Dragons Tongue • Emotional Urging Merit • Fence • Feral Mien • Friend of Beasts • Haunted Channel • Haunted Hand • Image of Perfection • Luxury • Masquerade Merit • Morality Sap • Morbid Fascination • Predators Innocence • Seductive Grace • Sleepwalker Retainer • Support Network • Unyielding Mask
Changeling Merits
Arcadian Body • Arcadian Metabolism • Archive • Bastion • Bloodied Ground • Broken Mirror • Brownies Boon • Charmed Life • Court Goodwill • Cuckoos Egg • Devotee • Disenchanting Kiss • Dream Combat • Dual Kith • Enchanting Performance • Fae Mount • Faerie Favor • Faerie Healing • Fetish • Gentrified Bearing • Goblin Merchant • Goblin Merits • Harvest • Hedge Beast Companion • Hedge Bounty • Hedge Duelist • Hedge Gate Sense • Hedgespun • Hidden Life • Hob Kin • Hobgoblin Trainer • Hollow • Lethal Mien • Long of Days • Mantle • Manymask • Market Familiarity • Market Sense • Market Stall • Mourning Cant • Perfect Stillness • Pledgesmith • Prophet Circle • Rigid Mask • Ritual Doorway • Second-Hand Skills • Siren Song • Slave • Socially Small • Soul Sense • Sublime • Token • Token Maker • Tokenmaster • Visionary Dreams • Wholesale Wares • Wisdom of Dreams • Workshop • Wyrdskill
- House Ruled: Court Goodwill • Faerie Favor • Fetish • Goblin Merchant • Goblin Merits • Harvest • Hedge Beast Companion • Hedge Duelist • Market Familiarity • Market Stall • Mourning Cant • Pledgesmith • Second-Hand Skills • Siren Song • Socially Small • Wholesale Wares • Workshop
- Banned: Age Reversal
Mage Merits
Adamantine Hand • Ancient Signs • Artifact • Astral Adept • Athenaeum • Atlantean Hesychia • Celestial Name • Daimon • Dead Zone Merit • Destiny • Dreamland • Enhanced Item • Extemporaneous Affinity • Familiar • Gesture Lore • Glyph Lore • Guardian Ghost • Guardian Retainer • Guardian Spirit • Hallow • High Speech • Imbued Item Merit • Law of Embodiment • Library • Magical Tradition • Mystery Initiation • Oathbound • Ritual Synergy • Rote Specialty • Sanctum • Sanctum Gauntlet • Sanctum Materials • Scriptorium • Skald Cant • Slayer • Stranger No More • Thrall • Workshop
- House Ruled: Artifact • Dead Zone Merit • Extemporaneous Affinity • Familiar • Guardian Retainer • Hallow • High Speech • Imbued Item Merit • Library • Sanctum • Sanctum Materials • Sleepwalker Retainer • Workshop
- Banned: Additional Familiars • Alchemical Lab • Ancient Echoes • Ancient Lands Awakening • Blood of the Oath of Ruin • Body-Ravaging Magic • Cartomancer • Dream • Feral Mien • Friend of Beasts • Goetic Familiar • Graduate of Otranto • Identity Anchor • Image of Perfection • Long Shifting • Lu • Luxury • Mana Self-Sacrifice • Manifestation Machine • Master Exorcist • Myrmidon Oath-Tongue • Nimbus Sense • Otherworldly Eyes • Otherworldly Lore • Potent Familiar • Predators Innocence • Sleepwalker Retainer • Spirit Status • Summoners Soul • Summoning Circle • Supernal Companion • Supernal Resistance • Void Scourged
Vampire Merits
Bad Breeding • Cacophony Listener • Cacophony Whisperer • Carthian Lawyer • Carthian Pull • Chapter Library • Close Family • Coder Clique • Crucible Ritual • Current Events Circle • Debate Club • Doll Face • Encounter Group • Fontal Ritual • Geomantic Nexus • Geomantic Nexus Potency • Geomantic Nexus Size • Good Breeding • Haven • Herd • House Membership • Inherited Resistance • Inhuman Resistance • Lab Section • Lordly Palette • Mind of the Devouring Worm • Mind of the Inscrutable Hydra • Mind of the Unblinking Serpent • Necropolis • Night Doctor Surgery • Noble Heritage • Of Rose and Thorn • Pack Blooded • Right Bar • Sanctum Materials • Savage Kenning • Shadow Cult Initiation • Speaker for the Eclipsed • Study Group • Tap the Torpid Mind • Temple • Theater Society • Torpor Connection • True Worm • Virtues Twin • Vitae Connoisseur • Will of the Dynasty
- House Ruled: Carthian Pull • Coder Clique • Crucible Ritual • Current Events Circle • Debate Club • Encounter Group • Geomantic Nexus • Geomantic Nexus Potency • Geomantic Nexus Size • Haven • Herd • Lab Section • Necropolis • Pack Blooded • Right Bar • Sanctum Materials • Shadow Cult Initiation • Study Group • True Worm
- Banned: Altar • Boneless • Dream Visions • Haunted Channel • Haunted Hand • Kindred Medium • Masquerade Merit • Requiem • Swarm Tactics • Unliving Anchor • Unyielding Mask
Werewolf Merits
Altar Stone • Ancestral Vessel • Animal Magnetism • Auspice Blessing • Chain-Breaker • Ephemeral Reckoning • Eyrie • Fetish • Flayed Lune • Fury Choir • Heal Like Stone • Howl Code • Local • Metabolic Control • Moon-Centered • Nimble Defender • Pack Affinity • Pack Tactics • Predators Gaze • Prophets Voice • Protectorate • Savage Fury • Scout • Secret Paths • Short Cuts • Staunch Defender • Strong Bloodline • Synergistics • Synergy • Tooth and Claw • Totem • Vicious Attacker • Wolf Pack
- House Ruled: Fetish • Tooth and Claw
- Banned:
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