Pure Mortal

 PURE MORTAL 

Pure mortals are ordinary (or mundanely extraordinary!) people who don’t have anything supernatural going on—save perhaps for the company they keep or the things they’ve seen. Pure mortals can come from all walks of life—police, doctors, mobsters, actors, students, and more. People like Karrin Murphy, Waldo Butters, and “Gentleman” Johnny Marcone all qualify as pure mortals, at least as we first meet them in the Dresden casefiles.

That said pure mortals need a reason to be involved in supernatural goings-on despite a lack of supernatural mojo. This reason can be determined in advance, or it can be supplied quickly during play by dropping the character into the middle of some nasty circumstance.

While they don’t bring any supernatural oomph to the table, pure mortals can still pack quite a wallop in terms of their mundane, “civilized world” influence, connections, and resources. Karrin Murphy has the resources of the Chicago P.D.’s Special Investigations unit available to her, while Marcone has been investing his blood money in expanding his power base both in mortal and supernatural affairs.