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Spirit Slayers is a sourcebook for Hunter: The Vigil. This book focuses on hunters who pursue the creatures tied into the spirit world, particularly werewolves and ghosts.

Summary[]

From the Onyx Path catalog:

Hunting Under the Full Moon
The night is full of beasts — beasts that walk as men and women, that prey on those who stray from the herd, that hunger for blood and flesh when the moon rises. We will not be the sheep to these wolves. We will hunt the wolves ourselves.
A Chronicle Book for Hunter: The Vigil™
  • A Hunter’s look at shapeshifters: those who form lunatic tribes, those who steal their power from the Devil or from animal skins, those who become infected or cursed. This book also looks at spirits from a hunter’s perspective.
  • Three new compacts and one new conspiracy: the confederation of spirit cults known as Les Mystéres.
  • New tools in the hunter’s arsenal for hunting shapeshifters and spirits, and rules provided to create both powerful hunter protagonists and frightening werewolf antagonists.
  • Hunting Ground: Philadelphia takes a look at the hunter-werewolf struggle that has been going on in the City of Brotherly Love since the Revolutionary War and before.

Contents[]

Gut Feelings[]

Short story.

Introduction[]

Chapter One: The Untamed Storm[]

Mythological origins of those known as "skinchangers" and how they connect to modern day hunters and the writings of past hunters on werewolves and their kin, along with story hooks in each section.

Siesta en la Puebla Luna y Sol[]

Short story.

Chapter Two: Sheep's Clothing[]

The established compacts and conspiracies' views on werewolves and spirits. Three new compacts (the Bear Lodge, the Illuminated Brotherhood, and the Talbot Group) and one new conspiracy, Les Mystères are included.

Compacts:[]

Conspiracies:[]

The Bear Lodge[]

Motivations: Sportsmen, Trappers and Vigilantes

Illuminated Brotherhood[]

Movements: Children of Leary, Spirit-Seekers and Watching Eye

Talbot Group[]

Methodologies: Exorcists, Redactors and Conciliators

Les Mystères[]

  • Crossroads: Path of Fellowship, Path of Spirit, Path of Beasts and Path of the Soul
  • Factions: Children of the Loa, Spirit-Chained and Transcendent

Stories My Uncle Don Told Me[]

Short story.

Chapter Three: Silver Bullets[]

New Tactics, Merits, equipment, Endowments, and the powers of the werewolf and spirit unveiled.

New Tactics:[]

  • Bait and Switch
  • Confuse the Scent
  • Defile
  • Disarm
  • Divide and Conquer
  • Domesticate
  • Effigy
  • My Brother's Keeper
  • Resonance
  • Road Kill
  • Silver Bullet
  • Thin the Heard

New Traits: (Merits: See Hunter specific)[]

  • Mental Flaw: Nightmares

Equipment:[]

  • Bear Mace (Durability 1, Size 1, Structure 2, Cost *)
  • Caltrops (Durability 3, Size 1, Structure 4, Cost *)
  • Man Catcher (Durability 1, Size 4, Structure 5, Cost **)
  • Pit Trap (Cost **)
  • Silver Weaponry (per item) (Cost +* per size category or cost +* per 10 bullets)

New Profession:[]

  • Outdoorsman

New Endowments:[]

Claws and Teeth: Werewolves[]

  • Merit: Primal Urge (* to *****)
  • Dominions:
    • Clarity (*)
    • City Eyes (*)
    • Malfunction (*)
    • Terrible Strike (*)
    • Unnatural Senses (*)
    • Warning Growl (*)
    • Commandment (**)
    • Nightfall (**)
    • Ruin (**)
    • Shallow Heart (**)
    • Slip Away (**)
    • Warrior Ideal (**)
    • Command Fire (***)
    • Death Grip (***)
    • Gridlock (***)
    • Primal Fear (***)
    • Talons of Guilt (***)
    • Beast Control (****)
    • Fracture (****)
    • Graveyard Chill (****)
    • Savage Rending (****)
    • Shadow Hunter (****)
    • Discordant Howl (*****)
    • Devastation (*****)
    • Savage Fury (*****)
    • Terrible Might (*****)

Spirits[]

Birthright[]

Short story.

Chapter Four: Moonstruck[]

Themes and ideas for werewolf-based campaigns, more information on werewolf society, and the final part of the city-based campaign, Hunting Ground: Philadelphia.

The Kennel: Null Mysteriis Project in Detroit

Hunting Ground: Philadelphia[]

  • New Relic: Box of the Treaty Elm (****)
  • Misink - Spirit Patron
Center City:[]
West Philadelphia:[]
South Philadelphia:[]
North Philadelphia:[]
Northwest Philadelphia:[]
Northeast Philadelphia:[]

Background Information[]

The first chapter notes using Werewolf: The Forsaken as a reference for enemy creation.

Memorable Quotes[]

Characters[]

  • Manny Martinez - Mortal, died
  • Wendell McCall - Mortal
  • Dr. Curt Ransmayr - Loyalist of Thule
  • Dr. Bryan Wray Davis - Null Mysteriis researcher
  • Mr. Scott Nestel - Mortal
  • P. Thélème, Esq. - Mortal
  • Vincent Moon - Mortal, writer
  • Hans Niekerk - Mortal, died
  • Karl Van Moeril Broekman - Mortal naturalist, died
  • William Semeijnes de Vries Van Doesburgh - Mortal, died
  • Wilham - Mortal Guide
  • Christian Ankerl - Mortal paramedic
  • Hayden - Mortal, Police
  • DS Tim Paine - Mortal, Police
  • DCI Frank Crowe - Mortal, Police
  • Peter Stub - Mortal, deluded into thinking he's a werewolf
  • Miguel - Mortal, Hunter
  • Anna - Mortal, Hunter, died
  • Barry - Mortal, Hunter
  • Jorge - Mortal, Hunter, died
  • Mamo - Mortal, Hunter, died
  • Uncle Robbie (Roberto Colón) - Werewolf, died
  • El Gringo - Werewolf
  • Maria Velasquez - Mortal
  • Jenkins - Mortal, Hunter, Ashwood Abbey
  • Jean-Pierre - Murder Spirit hunted by Ashwood Abbey
  • Eddie Matthews - Werewolf, story hook
  • Jebediah Stone - Spirit-Claimed, story hook
  • Konrad Sanger Loyalist of Thule Occult scholar, past
  • Gerard - Pure Tribe werewolf, story hook
  • Helmut Dietz - Loyalist of Thule, died, story hook
  • Wilma Beyer - Loyalist of Thule, died, story hook
  • Joachim Bader - Loyalist of Thule, died, story hook
  • Vicurga - Ancient Spirit of a Atlantis Rmoahal priest, story hook
  • Anna Beth Carter - Mortal Hunter, Null Mysteriis, story hook
  • John Theissen - Mortal Hunter, Null Mysteriis, story hook
  • Earl - Mortal Hunter, The Union, story hook
  • Bill - Mortal, Earl's son
  • Gilbert Royce - Mortal Hunter/Researcher, Aegis Kai Doru, gone missing, story hook
  • Don Blake - Senior field agent for the Cheiron Group, possessed, story hook
  • Henri Laveau - Lucifuge Hunter, story hook
  • Abdiel - Demon, story hook
  • Father Reynard Simon - Malleus Maleficarum Hunter, story hook
  • Consuela - Mortal, Possessed, story hook
  • Don Edwards - The Bear Lodge Hunter
  • Paul Talbot - Mortal, Talbot Group
  • Isabelle Talbot - Mortal, Talbot Group
  • Andrew Talbot - Paul and Isabelle's son, Werewolf
  • Dr. Robert Courtland - Behavioral Psychologist, Talbot Group Redactor, Mortal
  • Emily Langford - Werewolf under the care of the Talbot Group
  • Uncle Don - Mortal
  • Marlon - Mortal
  • Mike - Mortal
  • Auntie Leila - Mortal
  • Pete, "Pie" - Mortal
  • Chuck - Mortal
  • Sadie - Mortal
  • Anthony - Mortal, died
  • Jenny - Mortal, Anthony's wife
  • Andy Wagner - Mortal, Hunter
  • Linda - Lucifuge Hunter, Joey's lover
  • Joey - Werewolf, Hirfathra Hissu, has left the River's Secret pack, Linda's lover
  • Darren - Lucifuge Hunter, died
  • Hickman - Contact
  • William - Lucifuge Hunter
  • Strader - Lucifuge Hunter, died
  • Skye - Lucifuge Hunter, died
  • Gabe - Lucifuge Hunter, died
  • Elliot Friend - Werewolf
  • Earl Barry - Mortal murderer, died
  • Isaiah Bellamy - The Long Night Hunter
  • Jacqueline - Pure Tribe Werewolf, South Street Pack
  • Meat-Hook - Pure Tribe Werewolf, South Street Pack
  • Skinny - Pure Tribe Werewolf, South Street Pack
  • Teddy - Pure Tribe Werewolf, South Street Pack
  • Moryken - Task Force VALKYRIE Hunter
  • Isaiah Bradley - The Long Night Hunter
  • Therese "Old One Eye" Ross - Werewolf, Diana's mentor, Fairmount Reclamation pack
  • Uncle Raj (Roger) - Mortal, Ascending Ones, related to Riley

Terminology[]

Cell, Compact, Conspiracy, Endowment, Hunter (CofD)

References[]


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