A Little Knowledge

{{Infobox_Merit
|Source=Asylum Sourcebook
|Pages=p.50
|Status=Allowed
|Fixed=Yes
|Type=Mental
|Restriction=Mortal
|Level1=1
}}
Your character has either had a brush with the supernatural or been in a fi eld that has regular casual contact with the supernatural (such as medicine or law enforcement) to know that something else is out there. While he doesn’t know anything specifi c (i.e., this Merit doesn’t give any bonus to Occult rolls or offer any frame of reference), your character doesn’t suffer negative penalties when trying to identify or diagnosis conditions for which there is no easy medical antecedent.

For instance, a doctor with this Merit sees a patient in the ER with long, vicious bite marks. The doctor knows that no animal short of a bear could have made those wounds, and he knows that there are no bears native to the area. Normally, this would negatively affect his treatment — he might waste valuable time trying to shoehorn the evidence into his own experience. With this Merit, though, he takes it as read that something made these bites and treats them.

This Merit also offers a +1 bonus to any roll made to recognize a strange or otherworldly situation. '''If the character ever becomes a supernatural being, including a [[ghoul]] or a [[Sleepwalker]], he loses this Merit'''.

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