The unshriven Host of the Wild Hunt (not the whispering goth kids of SH).

- Court: Unseelie

- Birthrights:

• Ghostsight: No penalty to see in low light (excluding supernaturally created darkness), and with a Simple Test may see ghosts on either side of the Gauntlet (and, in true form, talk to them at the cost of a Mana trait) for up to one Scene. The use of this Birthright by itself does not obligate ghosts to respond or remain in the area.
• Contortions: + Lithe; simple test to escape bonds (static Physical challenge required if in a human Seeming); negative trait Delicate. The sluagh may also, at the cost of a Mana trait, enter or exit a mortal's dwelling through a west-facing window if it is open a hand's width or more (a screen is no impediment), no matter how high up it may be, unless the window is protected by cold iron or a holy symbol. The sluagh must be in his true form.

• Night-bound: The immortal souls of the unshriven Host reside "in the West," whither they flee at sunrise and from which they come shrieking back at sunset as the sun invades the land of the Dead. During daylight hours, the sluagh is effectively mortal (and can pass for human), keeping his memories but lacking the ability to use his Birthrights, Immunity, or Disciplines or to spend or regain Mana, except to cast Wizardry spells (if applicable), but he must make a Forgetting test if he is caught with zero Mana traits at either sunrise or sunset (rather than just one of those times). Also, during the night, sluagh suffer from the negative trait Witless in artificial light brighter than a candle.
• Reaping: The first method of regaining Mana a sluagh learns is that of Reaping,which involves frightening mortals to death. Sluagh gain an extra Mana trait from a successful Reaping but are at a two-trait penalty in challenges related to all other methods. At night, many sluagh flock together and go forth in search of prey. -- It is said that the souls of mortals slain by Reaping may become sluagh themselves.

- Immunity: From their ties to the Underworld, sluagh have in a sense "built up a tolerance for death," and gain a free retest in any challenge that may lead to their being killed or mortally wounded.

- Bans: Cold Iron binding negates Birthrights, and choose one: Never speak above a whisper; repelled by holy symbols; Seeming fails temporarily in moonlight; never regain Mana except through Reaping.

- Weakness: Cold Iron.

- Binding: If the sluagh is bound in cold iron (or possibly guarded by holy symbols if the sluagh has that Ban) and remains so bound at sunset, his immortal soul cannot return until the next sunset -- and so on.

- Regaining Mana: Reaping, Mana Stealing, Ravaging.

- Preferred Disciplines: Auspex, Obfuscate, Serpentis OR Thaumaturgy (Path of Curses; Path of Oneiromancy) OR Necromancy (any; often the Ash Path is primary; the Vitreous Path is common as a secondary path)

- Origin: If it is true that sluagh are the unshriven souls of mortals slain by Reaping, then at least some of them will have an Earthly origin, with a pre-"death" life of any kind whatsoever. Such sluagh, unlike "real" undead, will be fully fairies, however, and will have almost certainly have cast aside any need for a morality system as well as most mortal ties. Newer ones may well attempt to live among mortals, perhaps even peacefully.

- Appearance: Sluagh in their fae forms are equally likely to appear as hollow-cheeked cadavers or bloated corpses; they may usually be distinguished from the undead by their all-black eyes, pointed ears, and lack of teeth. Some sluagh may be able to pass as particularly unhealthy humans without using the Seeming Background. During the day, this is certainly true.

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