Ahadi Status represents exactly as it states: your status in the Ahadi as an active member of the community. This does not only encompass one or two axis of the Ahadi, it encompasses the Ahadi community as a whole including the North, East, South and West Axis.

Renown is based on your Member Breed, often times your Auspice and your deeds within your own community, so where do the rewards lie for members of the Ahadi who have stretched beyond the norm and worked outside of their Member Breed for the greater good? In Ahadi Status.

We treat Ahadi Status as a custom recognition/renown background. Ahadi Status is a system much like renown, though ranking on a smaller, more concentrated scale of 1-5 rather than 1-10. Because of this it is harder to get and cannot be bought through ‘deeds’, only through roleplaying. Characters do not start with any dots in Ahadi Status.

Benefits:

The benefits of gaining Ahadi Status include NPC help in quite a few areas. Some of these include direction, favors, protection, entry to Places of Power, housing, gaining comrades, etc.

Downfalls:

Foreseeable downfalls will be had with Ahadi Status. Not all shifters in Africa, of all Breeds, agree that the Ahadi is a good idea or that they should go along with your plans. Some downfalls include sabotage, combat encounters, enemies, scorn, general disapproval from your breed and failure to help in any of the benefits listed above.

System

You can only gain points in Status through roleplaying and participation as stated above. If you have completed worthy deeds, made contacts, allies or friends in your journeys you made, indeed, be ready for some status. You should discuss this aspect with your Storyteller when you feel your Status should be raised.

While it is a fair system, with both benefits and drawbacks, your Status in the Ahadi gains you localized and several-axis Fame which is a trait absent from our core system. If Storytellers agree with your new status, it will be approved on your character sheet and you will be able to see it.

However, always recognize that with this power comes the drawbacks of having your name out there, in the same way that Fame does. It is not always necessarily beneficial. Many Ahadi members do their best to ‘fly under the radar’ when push comes to shove on this particular trait. You can just as quickly make an enemy as you can an ally.