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 ====== Background Traits ======
-**Background Traits** are permanent modifiers to a character which can be acquired either via the random selection of 3 traits rolled and offered to the player once they achieve 3 RPP, or via purchasing them using GPP. The effects of trait can be as simple as conferring a percentage bonus to a particular stat or providing an initial bonus to the character's reputation star, or as complex as denoting their membership of a specific bloodline and offering access to restricted skill trees. Traits often dramatically affect a character's playstyle and combat ability while also serving as a means to better convey aspects of a character's personality or background, so a player should give some thought to their choice of traits.
+**Background Traits** are passive [[skills]] which can be acquired either via the random selection of 3 traits rolled and offered to the player once they achieve 3 RPP, or via purchasing them using GPP. The effects of trait can be as simple as conferring a percentage bonus to a particular stat or providing an initial bonus to the character's reputation star, or as complex as denoting their membership of a specific bloodline and offering access to restricted skill trees. Traits often dramatically affect a character's playstyle and combat ability while also serving as a means to better convey aspects of a character's personality or background, so a player should give some thought to their choice of traits.
 A player's earliest characters will likely not have the ability to purchase many traits owing to a lack of GPP, but this is no reason to despair. Clever play and smart building can see you rise above characters with the perks of accrued GPP, but even then optimal combat ability is rarely that important to tell a compelling story or portray a complete character arc. Should your character meet their end, then simply think of it as the horizon of possibilities for your next character widening as their RPP value at the time of death (not counting bonus catch-up RPP) will be converted to GPP which can be spent on future characters.
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 | [[Phase Disruption]] | 60 | Your character is a member of the Valyris bloodline, granting them the exceptional ability to expose and weaken ALTERs, but in turn making them a prime target for their kind on top of suffering from visual and auditory impairment which reduces their speed and agility by 15%. Taking this trait will prefix "Valyris, " to your character's name. |
 | [[trait_replicant|Replicant]] | 60 | Your character is a replicant, an android created to be an obedient servitor by the Ascension Group which has gained sentience and gone rogue. Your physical attributes are enhanced and your capacity for cyberware far exceeds that of a human, however you are wholly unable to manipulate TRACE. This trait confers further restrictions than other traits in this category due to its nature. |
-| [[Sanguine]] | 65 | Your character is a nightsworn, a vampire-like being which must feed on the TRACE of others to nourish itself. Your max vitality is reduced by 15%, but interacting with corpses restores 10% of your HP. Unlike other traits in this category, this can be taken alongside another trait listed here with the exception of Replicant. |
+| [[Brass Calling]] | 65 | An augmentation cult that replaces flesh with brass in worship of a silent machine-god. Their rites reward heavy cybernetic augmentation: the more brass they bear, the stronger they grow. |
 | [[The Sight]] | 60 | Your character is a member of the Kandara bloodline, granting them exceptional ocular abilities such as the ability to project energy beams from their eyes. Taking this trait will prefix "Kandara, " to your character's name. |
+| [[The Darkness]] | 200 | The very darkness that once filled you with hate and hunger, now fills you with power. Your humanity, has it gone or has it returned? You have become [[ALTERED]]. (This is unpurchaseable if you have not been an ALTERED in a previous life.) |
+| [[Feral]] | 200 | Level One. Monstrous, mindless, and hungry. You cannot speak or reason, only consume. (This is unpurchaseable if you have not been an [[ALTER]] in a previous life.) |
 ==== Stat Traits ====
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 | [[Bookworm]] | 15 | Your character receives a +15% bonus to their intelligence. |
 | [[Track Star]] | 15 | Your character receives a +15% bonus to their speed. |
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 | [[Ancient Bloodline]] | 60 | Your character's maximum TRACE capacity is increased. |
 | [[Athletic]] | 15 | Your character's max energy is increased by 20. |
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 | [[Alchemist]] | 15 | Potions are 10% more effective. |
 | [[Built Different]] | 60 | Your character possesses a higher capacity for cyberware than normal humans and increased max sanity. |
-| [[Criminal]] | 60 | Your character is treated as immediately hostile by police NPCs in most districts, however bandits will treat them as friendly. |
+| [[Criminal]] | 60 | Your character gains 15% increased physical damage towards wounded foes and 10% extra agility. |
 | [[Collector]] | 30 | Your character has a chance of receiving an additional item every time they open a chest. |
 | [[Corpo]] | 30 | The daily rental cost of properties is reduced by 10%. |