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Hunter: First Contact is a sourcebook of the Imbued interacting with the previous Year of the Hunter sourcebook equivalents for each of the World of Darkness settings.

Summary[]

From the White Wolf catalog:

The Hunters Hunted
As far as the chosen know, they're the first to see the truth, to know that monsters exist and prey upon humanity. But the imbued aren't the only ones to oppose the creatures of the night. Government agents, crusaders and mystics wage their own wars. How do these people perceive the chosen? Can alliances be forged? Or is war inevitable between all these hunters? And can monsters reap the rewards?
The Crusade Begins
Hunter: First Contact introduces the imbued to the World of Darkness' existing hunter groups such as the Inquisition, the Arcanum, and to secret government agencies. Finally, humanity's oldest and newest champions meet, but can they see eye to eye, let alone fight side by side?

Contents[]

Prologue: Hunters Hunted[]

Introduction[]

  • Reference Material
    • The X-Files
    • Ultraviolet - British series
    • The Silence of the Lambs
    • Mindhunter and Journey into Darkness - Nonfiction about John Douglas
    • "Down, Satan!" by Clive Barker
    • The Frighteners
    • The Fury
    • The Russia House
    • The Ninth Gate
    • Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton)
    • Millennium - TV Series
    • H. P. Lovecraft's stories. See: "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Colour Out of Space," "The Dreams in the Witch-House," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Picture in the House" and "The Shadow Out of Time."

Chapter One: The Inquisition[]

Details the covert Catholic movement led by the Society of Leopold in its pursuit of the supernatural throughout the modern world. This society is further detailed in the supplement entitled The Inquisition.

Chapter Two: Project Twilight[]

Covers secret government bureaus and branches that seek to deal with those truths about the world that bureaucracies have discovered - and covered up. Possibilities for such agencies are further explored in a resource called Project Twilight.

  • SAD Agents - Stats

Chapter Three: The Arcanum[]

Investigates a small, insular society of occult investigators who delve into the unknown. They seek to amass information on what the supernatural has in store for the world and are detailed further in Halls of the Arcanum.

Chapter Four: The Dauntain[]

Reveals a bizarre sect of goblins that has turned against its own kind and embraced the mundane world. These renegades are perhaps the least - and paradoxically most - human of all possible hunter allies presented in this book, and are discussed fully in The Autumn People.

  • Types of Dauntain
    • Aware Subtypes
      • Furies
      • Heretics
      • Sorcerers
    • Unaware Subtypes
      • The Lost
      • Nihilists
      • Plague Rates

Chapter Five: Secret Societies[]

Looks at three small, highly covert groups that hunters could run afoul of: the Orphic Circle, the Benandanti and the NSA. These groups, of all presented in this book, could have goals most antithetical to hunters'. The cabals are detailed in various other books from Mediums: Speakers with the Dead to Wraith: The Great War to Hunter's own The Walking Dead.

  • Shadow Petals - Orphic Circle Talismans
  • Sample Characters
    • Orphic Acolyte - Stats
    • Dikeia Aspirant - Stats
    • Damnationist Master - Stats
    • Isolationist Apprentice - Stats
    • NSA Field Operative - Stats
    • R & D Analyst - Stats

Background Information[]

  • Ads at the back of the book include: Hunter: The Nocturnal, Exalted: The Dragon-Blooded and Dark Ages Vampire (May 2002).

Memorable Quotes[]

Characters[]

  • Duane Kinniard - Imbued, Died
  • Christoph Parmian
  • Esme Rogers
  • Honey Mirgram
  • Carleton Van Wyk, "Charles Van Hecke," "Milton Carnovski," "Doctor119"
  • Dr, Laura Jenson - Imbued
  • Allison Smalls
  • Felix Darien
  • Etta Eisner
  • Dr. Alexis Carrel
  • Agent Miranda Douglas - FBI, SAD
  • Dr. Harold
  • Dr. Franks
  • I. Desgravo
  • Prologue: Hunters Hunted
    • Oaken - Imbued, Leaf's Husband
    • June Inoue - Died
    • Leaf Pankowski
    • Woody Miller - FBI, SAD
    • Phillip, "Phil" - Imbued, Died
    • Guadalupe Droin
    • George Searle - Imbued
    • Meyer Philbin - Imbued
    • Kate Eden - Killer, Possessed
  • Chapter One: The Inquisition
  • Chapter Two: Project Twilight
  • Chapter Three: The Arcanum
  • Chapter Four: The Dauntain
    • Jonathan, "Philosophe" - Imbued
    • Claire - Imbued
    • "Merryweather" - Dauntain
    • Father Stone
    • Kinslayer - Fae who is the originator of all vampires
    • Dr. Anton Stark
    • Martin Chambers
  • Chapter Five: Secret Societies

Terminology[]

Africa, Apocalypse of St. John (Book), Apocrypha, Arcanum, Arcanum Ranks: Associate, Neophyte, Journeyman, Elder Brother; Armageddon Protocol, Artes Perditae by Skyvling (Book), Asia, Athens, Aurora, Australia, Axis Mundi (Arcanum Library), Baltimore, Banality, Benandanti, Berkely, Birmingham, Blood Cult Awareness Network (BCAN), Book of Nod, Boston, Brethren of Albertus, Brinsburg, British Isles, Bystander Scholars (Arcanum), California, Caribbean, Caul, Chaoscope, Chicago, Chronicle of the Black Labyrinth, Church of Saint Paul, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Coin and Stamp, Ciudad Juarez, Colony, Condotierri, Crete, Cuba, Dannati, Dikeia, Division Six, Dauntain, District of Columbia, Dreaming, Ebon Beach, Ekstasis, El Paso, England, "Euridice," Europe, Fae, Faith, Fennel Sword, Florentine Heresy, Florida, Fort Meade (Co-op, Counterinvasive Operations, the Coop, the Nautilus, Hell), France, Georgia, Ghost Iron, Gladius Dei, Glamour, Greece, Green Bay, Grimorium Verum (Book), Haiti, Hellstorm, Holy Trinity Church, Illinois, Inquisition, Isolatori, Italy, Jerusalem, Kalambaka, Kerberos, Langley, Lombardy, London, L'Ospedale dei Viaggiatori Perduti, Louisiana, Madison, Malleus Maleficarum (Book), Marseilles, Maryland, Mather-Eburn Field (MEF or MEFtech), MI-5, Monasterio di San Michele, New Dijon, New England, New Orleans, Nightmares, North America, North Shore, NSA, Number Six (Hellstorm), Numina, Oak Park, O'Hare Airport, Ohio, Order of St. Peter, Orphic Circle, Paranormal Research Wing, Puerto Rico, R & D Division, Redentori, Rush-Copley Medical Center, Rutland, Savannah, Sanbenito, Scarborough, Sisterhood of St. Claire, Sleepers, Society of Leopold, Society of Leopold Ranks: Tertiary, Cenacle, Councilor, Abbé, Censor, Provincial, Inquisitor-General; Sons of Tertullian, Special Affairs Division (SAD), St. Thomas, Taenarus, TDE, Texas, Texas Ten, Theurgy (Via Medicamenti, Via Ignis, Via Genorium and Via Necromentiae, Via Oraculi), "Third Prophecy of Fatima," True Faith, Twickenham, "Type 9," Underworld, United States, Vatican City, Vermont, Virginia, Virgin Islands, Washington, D.C., Wrigleyville,

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