BBT/Bloods and Roots

When creating a character, the player must pick a primary and a secondary Root, which come from various categories called Bloods. These provide different ability scores and selections of Arts, with some being exclusively available to those who select the same Root twice or have two Roots from the same Blood (though the latter limits the PC to three starting Arts as opposed to five).

¹⁰ denotes the choice is from the Decade sourcebook.
^D denotes the choice is from the Dominions sourcebook.

Irregular

Rare examples of Beasts born from amidst the human race.

Demon Blade

Living weapons, forged by human hands or sprung into existence spontaneously.

Some create their own mock wielders. Some befriend... or mind control a human into wielding them.

Among the former, some have had their will consumed by the wielder and mistakenly believe themselves to be human.

Superhuman

Psychics. Humans whose raw Ego is powerful enough to bend the world to their whim, ignoring both physics and the occult.

Guardian Master

Those who fight by summoning entities called Guardians.

What they believe these Guardians to be varies from person to person.

Grappler¹⁰

Those who have ascended to Beasts through sheer, blind belief in the strength of their own body.

Shinobi¹⁰

Freaking ninjas.

Killer Elite^D

A human whose murderous impulses have formed a strong Ego, who even sees Beasts as their prey.

Vampire

Self explanatory.

Liege

Common vampires. While there are numerous minute differences in culture among different bloodlines, they are not differentiated here.

Lieges belong to a pyramid secret society called the Persona Network, which exists to conceal vampires from the world and assist each other as needed.

Dhampir

While normally vampires cannot conceive children, there are rare exceptions, and these are dampires.

Born with enormous power, many are hunted by the Persona Network and rejected by humanity.

Those who survive may become terrifying hunters.. or monsters.

Dracul

Independent vampires who, due to independent strength or simply not being discovered, do not belong to the Persona Network.

Strain¹⁰

Vampires belonging to a particular, distinguished bloodline.

Etranger

Those who came to Earth from another planet.

Bio-replicator

Shapeless lifeforms from space with no society who wander the stars to fulfill their Ego to grow strong.

They require another lifeform to 'wear' them in order to give their strength and Ego a vector to grow along.

Parasite

Where a bio-replicator seeks physical strength in their host, parasites seek mental fortitude.

They merge with their hosts brain, and their primary motive is the seeking out of knowledge.

Executor

Agents of the Galactic Federation, largest Domain in the universe, come to Earth to hunt down Etrangers who directly interfere in her affairs.

To put it simply, they're Metal Heroes or Ultramen.

Alien¹⁰

Put simply, any Etranger who doesn't fall into any of the other categories.

Spirit

Monsters born from the collective will of humanity, who live relatively close to humanity without falling under the categories of angel or demon.

Fairy

The most common type of spirit. Fairies exist by having humans recognize their existence. However, they don't like to be seen directly.

Brownies who finish someones work as they sleep and pixies who clean ones house in exchange for milk are examples of fairies.

However, red caps who kill for fun and kelpies who drag humans underwater and drown them are fairies as well.

Dream Eater

Lilims (and the occasional Incubus) who feed on passionate dreams and give the dreamer pleasure in return.

Some leave their victim a vegetable, while others are content to share a moment together and move on.

Ghost

The soul of a departed human or monster taken form.

Self explanatory, really.

Summon¹⁰

A Spirit summoned from another Dominion and given a physical shape.

Phantom Beast¹⁰

Inhuman creatures unbound by laws of nature. Anything from manticores to unicorns to the Loch Ness Monster to complete one-off creatures.

Celestial

I'm gonna guess this one explains itself.

Angel

Pretty much what you'd expect from the name, except that Heaven is a Dominion, God is its Dominator, and nobody's heard from him in forever.

The angels are largely divided between the Metatron faction who believe they should guide humanity to do good and exterminate all monsters, and the Michael faction who believes they should follow in God's love and avoid fruitless conflict.

Dragon

The ancient rules of the Earth bluh bluh come on they're dragons. You know what a dragon is.

Deity

Spirits of nature and human faith taken form. Similar to Spirits, but closer to humanity.

More Shinto or tribal gods than Abrahamic.

Bakegitsune¹⁰

Fox spirits who serve the Dominator, Sun Goddess Amaterasu.

Demon

Self explanatory.

Dark Lord's Heir

The sons and daughters of ruling demons, send to Earth to broaden their horizons, grow into a suitable successor, and indulge in some healthy fighting amongst each other.

Devil

Powerful and greatly varied demons with a strong Ego. Fallen angels and dark gods fall into this category as well.

Infernal Jester

Natural trolls who will spend hundreds of years on a really good prank if its funny enough.

Dead One¹⁰

Deceased whose powerful Ego has returned them to this world body and all.

Neighbor

Demihumans. Those whose existence has been forgotten amidst humanity's long history.

Werewolf

WEREWOLVES. Come on. Also nature worshipers. Other types of were-creature are filed here for the sake of simplicity.

Bastet's Children

People who can turn into cats, or cats who can turn into people.

Oni

Big fucking ogre-like people native to the Japan island chain.

Fishman¹⁰

As the name says. Mermaids. Or deep ones.

Founders of Mu and Atlantis, but now in danger of going extinct.

Hermit

Humans who use the power of an organization or great wisdom to surpass the limits of humanity.

Black Coat

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Magician

Self explanatory.

Lord

Physically an ordinary human, with no magic or psychic powers, no ability to transform. Only absolute charisma and the ability to lead.

'A flock of sheep led by a wolf is mightier than a pack of wolves led by a sheep'

Mobile Police¹⁰

Members of Special Machines Section 2, a police squadron equipped with powered armor that handles monster incidents.

Exorcist Monk¹⁰

Buddhist monks who have studied ways to repel demons and monsters.

Feng Shui Master¹⁰

A human who has studied how to draw power from and control leylines and dragon lines.

Hirasaka Style Devotee^D

Practitioners of an old form of Shinto that has protected Japan since ancient times.

Media^D

TV, newspaper, or net journalists who have stepped into the nighttime side.

Full Metal

Artificial lifeforms created by mankind.

Autonomous Doll

Dolls or robots which run off the Gospel Engine invented by Nikola Tesla and Charles Babbage.

This engine operates by drawing power from the Abyss, and gives the automaton a soul as a side effect.

As this soul is most stable in a human-shaped body, most are humanoid.

Cyborg

A human or monster who has replaced the majority of their body with Full Metal technology.

Only those with a powerful Ego towards life... less than 1 in 10... can survive the operation.

Manmade Monster

The oldest type of Full Metal, based in biotechnology and magic.

Chimera, homunculi, and Frankenstein's Monster are examples.

Gear Rider¹⁰

Giant robot pilots.

Legend

Stories told among humanity come to life.

Fairy Tale Denizen

Generally, the characters in old tales come to life. There are examples of cartoon or comic characters coming to life as well.

Most live in a Dominion based on the story to which they belong and spend their days reliving it.

Whether their 'character' is good or evil, they are kind to those who love their story.

Legendary Hero

A hero from mythology or history, regardless of whether they really existed or not, manifested as a monster.

Urban Legend

Self explanatory?

Reincarnated¹⁰

Those with memories of a past life in an ancient civilization.

Void¹⁰

Monsters associated with the mysterious Void. Only one Root exists.

Reaper

Executioners of the Void who act to keep the world from overflowing with Abyss-fueled immortal monsters.

Abandoned by the Void for a long time, some have been unable to discard their Bonds and now live as half-breeds.

Stranger¹⁰

Humans who have stepped into another world, or move by another world's rules.

Transfer Student

A school is, in a way, a Dominion unto itself. Not literally, of course, but very similar.

The Transfer Student has the power to slip in and out of this Dominion completely naturally.

Generally considered a joke root. Not suitable for more serious campaigns.

Cyber Magus

The Ego accumulated in the Dominion that is cyberspace taken form as an sentient body of information.

Their human forms are often holograms or hacked maid robots.

Witch

Servants of Gaia. Male witches exist too.

Where Magicians focus on control and destruction, Witches focus on protection and creation.

Mad Scientist

Those who have accessed the laws of a different world.

Their strong belief in these alternate laws forces them upon this world, allowing their theories that should never work to take form.

R.E.L.I.C.

Agents of an organization which seeks out powerful relics of past cultures and seals them away to prevent their misuse.

Time Traveler^D

Visitors from the Dominions known as the past and future, and those who are trapped in a time loop.

Famed Detective^D

Wherever they go, mystery follows, and solving them is their daily routine.

Cosmic Horror^D

See HP Lovecraft.

Spawn

Offspring of the dark gods or their relatives with a human or monster.

Underling

Servant races of the dark gods, or independent races that oppose them. Possessed of a profane appearance and repulsive power.

Dark God's Branch

Offshoots or terminals of the sleeping dark gods. An ancient and great existence descended upon the Earth Dominion.