Morality
      
  
      A Ghost cannot improve her Morality, and is doomed to unconsciously
      watch it slip slowly away over the years. Such poor creatures
      may end up Damned before they even know the meaning of the word.
 
        
      Wraiths, on the other hand, are able to maintain, and even improve,
      their Morality as time goes by. However, the ravening voice inside
      their heads can grow more powerful in that time as well. And
      the more powerful the Shadow becomes, the less a Wraith is able
      to raise her Morality above a certain point; A Shadow can even
      force a Wraith's Morality to go down a notch, if it gains enough
      power to overwhelm it.  
        
      The basic rule is that the extent of the Shadow's power forms
      an upper limit to how Moral a Wraith can be. For example, a Shadow
      with an Angst of 3 would keep a Wraith from ever improving her
      Morality past a 7. And if that Shadow's Angst grew to 4, the
      Wraith's Morality would be shoved back down to 6.  
        
      Wraiths mostly follow the Morality rules on pp. 91 - 94 of The
      World of Darkness, with the following exceptions: 
        
       * Wraiths do not get Derangements, and any Derangements
      that were had at the time of death are folded inwards, to become
      quirks of the Wraith and aspects of the Shadow. {An exception
      to this rule are those who died from Insanity, as they begin
      play with a "mild Derangement." This cannot be healed,
      but it cannot get any worse, either} 
        
      * When a Wraith loses a Degeneration Roll, she loses a point
      of Morality as normal. Should the Wraith then lose the roll to
      check if she suffers a mental imbalance because of the experience,
      the Shadow gains a Tainted Essence-free shot at a Harrowing,
      just to see if it can gain a dot of Angst in the mental confusion
      that follows. {See "Harrowings," in the Chapter on
      Shadows, for more information} 
        
       * A Wraith can, with Storyteller permission, add a Modifier
      to her Degeneration Roll if she acts in pursuit of her Virtue
      unless her Shadow type is connected to her Virtue. If
      that's the case, then she cannot add a Modifier, even
      if the situation would otherwise merit one. 
        
      
  
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