Affably Evil: Devil-Tigers hold this as an ideal to achieve: they're utter monsters, yes, but they're regal monsters who punish the wicked rather than corrupt the innocent.

Unlike most examples, they aren't inherently jerks about itwhile many who split off from the Quincunx are indeed quite vain and reckless, the Indian Godlings (ie, the people for whom it is a native philosophy) are extremely respectful of their cultists and find actually feeding on them without permission distasteful, preferring prayer (an ability of theirs is to transmute the faith generated by worshipers' rituals into physical Chi, which they can eat).

A God Am I: The Heretical (non-Quincunx) Dharma called the Face of the Gods believes that Kuei-jin are latent demigods whose journey To Hell and Back awoke their powers.

In addition to the tropes of Vampire and Wraith, this game also provides examples of:

Scorpion Eaters: P'o Ruthless survivors.

Cerulean Veils (The Spirit of the Living Earth): Yin and Yang Shamans.

Phoenixes: Hun and Yang Friendly Neighborhood Vampires who emulate humans.

In addition, there are five Dharmas considered heretical by the mainstream:

Bone Flowers (The Song of Shadow): Yin Necromancers.

Thrashing Dragons: Yang Thrill-seekers.

There are five mainstream Dharmas each based on one of the Virtues: The fifth virtue is Balance, as keeping those two sliding scales towards the middle has its own benefits. The classic angel on one shoulder, devil on another. Hun and P'o respectively deal with a vampire's higher mind and base instincts. Too much of the former turns the Vampire into a shambling zombie while the latter turns them into a raging hedonist who can bear children if not careful. Yang chi comes from living targets or a Kuei-Jin with an overabundance of Yang chi themselves. Yin chi is dead, like from a blood bank, corpse, or another Vampire. Yin and Yang deal with the type of chi a Vampire consumes. There are 5 Virtues to keep track of and the first four are paired off. The game's new mechanics rework Vampire's concepts of Virtues and Paths of Enlightenment and Wraith's concept of dual-mind.

Kindred of the east disciplines