Death-Touched

{{Infobox_Merit
|Source=Book of the Dead
|Pages=p. 93
|Status=Allowed
|Fixed=Yes
|Type=Social
|Restriction=Geist
|Level1=2
|Level2=4
}}
Something has stained your character’s soul. Perhaps her geist has always born the inky stain of death upon its corpus. Maybe something about your character’s death caused the stain, tainting her geist along with it. However she gained the mark, your character connects with ghosts on a level that few others will ever manage.

With the two-dot version of this Merit, your character gets a +1 modifier to all [[Presence]] or [[Manipulation]] rolls when dealing with ghosts in a non-confrontational manner. The four-dot version indicates that ghosts sometimes have a hard time remembering that you’re not already dead; your character gains a +2 modifier.

This Merit normally only affects dealings with ghosts in the Underworld. Purchasing an extra dot in the Merit allows you to apply the modifier against all ghosts, wherever they may be.

===Drawback===
The more your character is touched by death, the more ghosts will treat her as one of their own. Ghosts actively seek her out, believing a physical body no barrier to communing with a kindred spirit. Other characters who can perceive ghosts will know that something’s odd about your character from all the attention she’s getting.

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