APOCRYPHA (traits for FIST)

in a small, snowy town, three families have long kept a terrible secret. conflict, the fundamental wellspring of mortal suffering, is an energy. and energies can be harvested. to gather these energies, the families conduct a ritual. a mock battle. a war between ghosts for imagined stakes. the winners receive the generated energies. the losers are forgotten. and as always, the families take a cut.…