Beast Shards

Beast Shards — or just Shards as they are known in Ashfinder circles — are mischievous and dangerous monsters who stalk in the wake of a creator or user of Ashe - a drug that is made of vampire's ash. Many Ashfinders see the destruction of their first Shard as a rite of passage, proving their mastery over their vampiric natures. Most Shards exist as a shadow version of their previous body, wisping and twitching in and out of existence. They possess no human features beyond a distorted body shape, and their actions are generally more feral than reasoned. Shards hide themselves and stalk Kindred, possessing portions of their previous identities’ Attributes and Skills. Beast Shards cannot communicate but they can create empathetic hotspots that cause humans around them to bend their Resonance to a Shard’s will.^[1]

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