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Hunter: The Reckoning is a role-playing game based in White Wolf Game Studio's World of Darkness. A Hunter is a normal human who witnesses a traumatic supernatural event and receives an otherworldly "message" to act against it. This message is received from enigmatic beings knows as the Messengers, Heralds or Patrons, who are agents of the universe's creative force, analogous to angels. Those who act become the "Imbued," otherwise ordinary men and women who can see the supernatural creatures and are gifted with powers ("Edges") to fight them. Those who choose not to act become "Bystanders", people who have knowledge of the supernatural, but no power to act against it.

Setting

A Hunter's life is fraught with danger. The "bliss of ignorance" has been taken from them and the existence of supernatural manipulation of humanity can not be ignored. However, the Hunter can not simply reveal this knowledge to mundane authorities since they will be branded as unstable and insane. Supernatural forces control many human media, law enforcement, and government agencies; any attempt to reveal the existence of these forces would result in the supernatural manipulators using those connections to paint the Imbued as crazy and dangerous, and to dispose of Imbued who snoop in their affairs and try to impede their control.

Hunters wage a desperate, clandestine war against the inhuman, ageless forces that manipulate mankind. They see their task as taking back the night from bloodsuckers, ravaging beasts, vengeful spirits and manipulative sorcerers. The Imbued must face mankind's worst fears made real in the most deadly game of the Hunt in order to fulfill the task they have set before them to "Inherit the Earth."

The Hunter: The Reckoning storyline, along with those of Demon: the Fallen, Changeling: the Dreaming, Kindred of the East and Mummy: The Resurrection, was ended in the World of Darkness: Time of Judgement supplement as White Wolf stopped it's whole World of Darkness line. As a minor product line, it received comparatively little attention in the whole Time of Judgement setting, which left many of the series' fans unsatisfied.

Hunters

The Imbued are relatively new to the World of Darkness and, unlike Kindred or Garou, have little in the way of a coherent society of Hunters. The closest thing to a social organization for Hunters is "Hunter-Net," described later. Although Hunters are generally unaware of the labels, a Hunter is defined by their Creed. Additionally, Creeds are group by a primary Virtue that engenders the Creeds.

Virtues & Creeds

The ways of hunters differ radically according to the personality and the type of imbued. They develop a strong tendency of how to deal with monsters and how to protect humanity. This leads to three main virtues a hunter may follow in an active, an assessing and a passive way.

=Mercy===== Those hunters that tend to show compassion towards and attempt to reconcile with the supernatural forces of the world follow one of the Mercy Creeds. The Mercy Creeds are:

Martyrs: Those who sacrifice their all for their cause.
Redeemers: Those who wish to bring the monsters back into the light.
Innocents: Those who refuse to prejudge the supernatural.

=Zeal===== Those hunters that are unforgiving and dogmatic in their belief that humanity is meant to "Inherit the Earth" and that supernatural forces are arrayed against this manifest destiny of mankind, tend to be one of the Zeal Creeds. The tendency of these hunters to be warriors/soldiers among a group of hunters gives these Creeds the stereotype as brute "zombie-killers." These hunters do the dirty work out of a passion few humans may understand.

Avengers: Those who seek revenge for the harm done by creatures of the night.
Judges: Those who mete out punishment based on how monstrous the creatures have acted.
Defenders: Those who protect the victims.

=Vision===== Understanding and information gathering are the primary gifts of these creeds. Originally charged to lead the Imbued in their war against the unnatural powers of the world, the Visionary Creeds consist of one viable Creed and two "Lost Creeds." In theory, these "Lost Creeds" consist of people who where granted too much insight for the mortal mind to handle and have ended up deranged due to this Calling. However, there is some implication throughout the different source books that these "Lost Creeds", specifically Waywards, ended up precisly how the Messengers wanted them.

Visionaries: Those who seek to understand the greater meaning behind the imbuing and the existence of the supernatural.
Waywards: Lost Creed. "Failed" Imbued who have gone violently psychotic. They should have been the strategists and tacticians of the Imbued. Because of their violent psychosis, they often see only the need to destroy the enemy, and are known to cause large amounts of collateral damage in the completion of their mission.
Hermits: Lost Creed. "Failed" Imbued who receive psychic static near other Hunters and supernaturals. They should have been the intelligence gatherers for the Imbued, receiving information directly from the Messengers.

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