9.1 What Are Factions?

Factions are groups and organizations that hold power. The faction rules are used to simulate several of these groups that may influence, engage, or annihilate one another. PCs can belong to a faction run by an NPC, or they can run their own.

Factions are applicable to different kinds of groups. They can be competing noble houses in a court setting, different crime families and law and order groups that vie for supremacy of a particular town, demonic and human groups fighting each other for the fate of the world, and so on.

I suggest using Faction rules only after you’ve spent a bit of time learning and playing with the basic Anima Prime rules. They complicate matters and add a whole new layer to the game. In the end, however, factions can tie what the characters do into the greater scheme of things and present new possibilities for making conflicts and goals matter.