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As animators are basically derived from a novel series, they look a lot different from other racial options in the game. For one thing, they buy no powers with experience but can advance to necromancers during the course of play. For another, they don't seem all that powerful. The first is because animators are human. Sure, they can do a trick other people can't, but it is basically an ability somewhere between a psychic power and magic. It's a neat gift, but its not enough to survive in a supernatural world with. That is why animators need to level quickly and thus have no experience based powers. Also, animators are much more dangerous than they often seem.
Firstly, they have an affinity to the dead, from zombies to ghosts and everything in between. There is also a rumour that the blood of a powerful animator can dominate vampires. Whether it is true ot not is unknown, but the Vampire Council forbids vampires to deal with animators. This could also be because animators possess a natural resistance to vampiric abilities that makes then rather dangerous and excellent bounty hunters against vampires. Lastly, animators can raise the dead for brief periods. Crimminals rarely - if ever - take that into account when committing crimes. It's one of the things that makes animators working for police forces very valuable employees.
But there is a dark side to this magic of blood and circles and salt, besides the fact that most religious sects have excommunicated animators. The darkness is that animating is an unnatural power. Even weres and vampires have a mostly normal childhood before there abilities come into play around puberty. Animators have no such luck: their power manifests when they see death. In most cases, this involves raising a pet who died or a relative from a funeral. To say that it frightens one's family to to make a rather impressive understatement. Many animators end up on the streets or being taken in by some dark magical pracitioners. The normal, well adjusted animator does not exist. When you step into the world of the dead, you leave a part of the world of the living behind.
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