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''Witchcraft'' uses Eden Studio's Unisystem.
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* [[Always Chaotic Evil]] - Fiends are physical embodiments of malice, and therefore cannot be anything but evil. [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] with the Angelic Ethereals, who are physical embodiments of good.
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* [[Cult]] - The setting has no shortage of these. They can be your garden variety mundane nutjobs, or they might be dedicated to black magic, demons, or the Mad Gods. Even better, the more fanatical Covenants view more than one of their fellow Covenants as dangerous cults.
* [[Cursed With Awesome]] - One way to view Taint powers... at least until you [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|lose your battle with madness]].
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]] - Not only are there playable monster-heavy Covenants, they're actually ''nicer'' on average than many human ones. The House of Thanatos, for example, are an organization of [[Necromancer|Necromancers]] and [[The Undead|undead]] who want to be truly [[Immortal]]...and go about this by preserving the sanctity of the Death Realms and the living world from each other, busting up [[Eldritch Abomination|Mad God]] cults, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|generally being a social clubhouse]].
* [[Deal With the Devil]] - Oddly enough, demons rarely offer these kinds of deals, because anyone who would sell their soul is likely damned anyways. On the occasions when they do, it's only for mortals who stand to corrupt a lot of ''other'' mortals.
* [[Determinator]] - Plenty of things are difficult to kill in this setting, but the grand prize probably goes to the Relentless Dead. Permanently offing one of ''them'' requires not only massive physical and spiritual damage, but specialized invocations or Necromancy powers on top of that.
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* [[Necromancer]] - Yet another type of Gifted, and distinct from invocation-wielding magicians. They usually fall under the category of [[Dark Is Not Evil]].
* [[Offscreen Teleportation]] - Relentless Dead can actually take this as a power.
* [[One
* [[Our Angels Are Different]]: Angels are closer to their original biblical counterparts, as powerful soldiers of God who smite people. Some are nicer, especially the Kerubim who are ascended humans. The rest often have (from a human POV) a serious attitude problem.
** [[Archangel Gabriel]]: One of the biggest assholes of the setting.
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* [[Our Vampires Are Different]] - Most Vampyres don't actually need to drink blood, as they can siphon the Essence they need merely by causing enough fear, pain, or pleasure in their victims.
* [[Path of Inspiration]] - Many examples. The Old Gods took worshipers for their own power and to keep humanity in line. The Abrahamic Religions were often used by the Seraphim to take out the worshipers of the polytheistic religions so they could defeat the Old Gods in their home domains. The Catholic Church in particular had been used for centuries by the Combine to root out supernaturals and Gifted, and keep humanity largely ignorant. At least the Church no longer operates like this since the Black Death crippled the Combine.
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* [[Serial Killer]] - A common bad guy in this setting. They might be a mundane murderer... or they might be a malevolent Vampyre, Feral, Relentless Dead, black magician, a cultist beholden to demons or Mad Gods, a corrupted nature spirit, or some other supernatural being...
* [[Spider Sense]] - A bonus effect of certain Seer powers and Chi Mastery.
* [[Spin
* [[Squishy Wizard]] - The Gifted character type has the fewest points for attributes and qualities, leaving them looking a little like this compared to Lesser Gifted and (particularly) Mundane players.
* [[Summon Magic]] - The Spirit Mastery family of invocations.
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* [[The Alliance]] - [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|The Alliance]], natch.
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* [[Deus Ex Machina]] - Considering the setting, a lot. Leviathan gives his worshippers what they want, but in a disturbing manner. Odin scatters the Church of Revelations' fleet to prevent the conquest of England and the Scandinavian Peninsula. And {{spoiler|Divine Intervention is implied to be why nuclear weapons don't work}}
* [[Divine Parentage]] - An Inheritor is the offspring of a mortal and one of the many deities out there.
* [[Gender Flip]] - The [[
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* [[Have You Seen My God?]] - The Creator left about 20000 years ago. The Heavenly Host have been searching for (Him? Her? It?) for most of that time, when not busy "keeping those upstart humans in line" (which probably is very far from the Creator's original plans).
* [[Legions of Hell]] - They're actually on mankind's side for this conflict. It's kinda hard to damn all mortals to prove they're unworthy of [[God|The Creator]] if a [[Cosmic Horror]] devours all of reality, you included.
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] - An apocalyptic setting where angels, demons, pagan gods, witches, psychics, the undead, and immortals have all teamed up to fight Lovecraftian Mad Gods!
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