Guildbook: Haunters is a splatbook for Wraith: The Oblivion detailing the Haunters, users of Pandemonium.
Summary[]
From the White Wolf catalog:
- Do You Want to Play With Madness?
- Hi, there. I know you're not dead yet, but we're working on it. Anyway, I was wondering if you'd thought about your career prospects once I finally get around to killing you. I was hoping you'd consider coming to work for us. No? You won't even consider it. Oh well. And, yes, I'm going to kill you anyway.
- And All Pandemonium Breaks Loose!
- Some wraiths see messing with the living as a hobby, others see it as a crime. Then there are the Haunters, to whom it's a calling. They're the ones who make the stories you read in the tabloid rags, the once who make the walls bleed and the sky rain vermin. They're the ones who like to terrorize the innocent, to hound the wicked, and generally to make life hell for anyone they can find.
- But they've got a reason for it -- and that's the most frightening thing of all.
- Guildbook: Haunters is the fourth in the continuing series of Guildbooks for Wraith: The Oblivion. Now you can get inside the heads of those wraiths whom even Spectres consider to be a little odd. Here's a warning, though: Just because you get inside their heads doesn't mean you'll make it out.
- Guildbook: Haunters contains:
- The mysterious link between the Haunters and the Wyld;
- Haunter recruiting practices - and, no, they're not pretty;
- New ways to inflict Pandemonium upon the living - fun, fun, fun! - and more!
Contents[]
Ghost Story: A Road of Steel and Souls, Part IV[]
Midian reveals the strangeness the Haunters felt in the Shroud at the moment of Charon's disappearance.
Chapter One: The Recruiting Process (dessecorP tiurceR ehT)[]
The Haunters reveal their organization, alliances inside and outside the Guild, and factions, as well as the whys and hows of why they want the Shroud destroyed.
Chapter Two: History (yrotS A)[]
The Shroud thickens, Charon takes a strong dislike to the Haunters, the Guild is destroyed, and yet they still survive to write this.
Chapter Three: Dearly Departed (detrapeD yldaeD)[]
The secret Arcanos abilities, the many ways in which Pandemonium can be used, the Merits and Flaws a Haunter can optionally take, and the Artifacts available to the Guildmembers alone.
- Pandemonium Perks:
- Basic Abilities:
- Mouth of Madness
- Basic Abilities:
Scripture- Wild Bloom
- Bite Me
- Fooled You
- Stretching Reality
- Stigmata
- Form of Chaos
- Death's Caul
- Inherent Merits and Flaws:
- Wyld Intolerance (1 point Flaw)
- Anxiety Slip (2 point Flaw)
- Aggravated Quirk (3 point Flaw)
- Phobia Insight (1 point Merit)
- Wyld Summons (2 point Merit)
- Beneficial Quirk (3 point Merit)
- Wyld Allies (4 point Merit)
- Leech (5 point Merit)
- Artifacts:
- The Void Gauntlet (Level 5 soulsteel weapon)
Chapter Four: So You Want to be a Haunter... (...detnuaH eb ot tnaW uoY oS)[]
The many kinds of Haunters that operate within the Guild, told through character creation.
- The Bedlameer
- The Dante
- Mandelbrot Chaostician
- Mouthpiece for the Order of the Glass Menagerie
- The Recruiter
Appendix: Our Soul (sevlesruO)[]
The major mayhem-makers within the Haunters.
Background Information[]
This was the final Guildbook to contain a single Guild. After this, two Guilds would share a single volume for the rest of the line's run.
Chapter One is accidentally listed in the Table of Contents as The Guild (tliuG ehT), which is actually the name of the first section in that chapter.
Chapter Three is accidentally listed in the Table of Contents as It's All About the Wyld (elihW a tuobA llA s'tI), which likewise is the name of the first section in that chapter.
Memorable Quotes[]
Characters[]
- Midian: A chessmaster, Guildmaster, and master muckraker.
- Dr. Shudder: Guild Council and affiliated with Spooks
- Sweet Sorrow: Guides the Bedlameers
- Corrina: Secret Leader of the Order of the Glass Menagerie, Guild Council
- Akshshephat - Sandman
- Ziad Bennori - Mortal, Died
- Roachbud - Haunter, Recruiter
- Father Foster - Haunter, Leader of the Dantes
- Chris - Mortal
- Theseus - Haunter
- Tare - Haunter. Mandelbrot
- Maloclusus - Haunter
- William Drury - Haunter
- Chaplain Joseph Glanville - Mortal, Past, Dannati
- Uri - Haunter
- Mordecai - Haunter
- Johnny Onefly - Haunter
- The Sphinx - Haunter, Order of the Glass Menagerie
- Michael - Mortal
- Nicholas - Haunter, Order of the Glass Menagerie
- Marcus - Wraith. Centurion of the Penitent Legion, Hierarch
- Brother Pallin - Mortal, Died
Terminology[]
Alliances: The Bedlameers (Alienists, Madmen), The Caligarians (Dark Muses, Artists), The Dantes (Explorers, Zealots), Followers of Discord (Haunter Alliance from the Middle Ages, Disbanded), The H.G. Dwellers (Pandora Skia, Puritans), The Mandelbrots (Bay't el-Hikma, Nihilists, Chaosticians), The Order of the Glass Menagerie (The Remembered, Diplomats); Benandanti, Gallery Macabre, Eshu (Allies), Haunter (WTO), Pandemonium (WTO), Proctors (Enemies), Sluagh (Allies), Spooks (Allies), Wyld,
References[]
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