Social Merits

Social merits refer to special skills, abilities, or aptitudes in interactions with others that characters may possess. These may range from very simple merits, such as those that indicate a character has a likeable face or instinctively grasps nuance easily, to very complex and supernatural ones, often possessed by only a few beings in the world at any given time. Merits always represent either an innate quality of a character, a situation they have encountered that has permanently affected them, or a skill they have worked hard to acquire.

Social merits are broken down into merits belonging in the realm of Appearance (merits involving what the character looks like or how they present themself), Charisma (merits involving the character's personality and aura), and Manipulation (merits involving social maneuvering or politics).