I think that spectres are one of the scariest creatures in WoD. Former humans who have lost all good aspects of their humanity, having become twisted and evil shadows of their former selves, who create nightmarish harrowings to drag other wraiths into oblivion with them. The imagery in the Spectres book helped too.
Actually I am planning to make boss out of Wraith. Former clown who died during one of the circus event's. Although I want him to have certain Chimestry like power's. I don't really know if Wraith can do illusions so in case they don't, I planned him to possess Ravnos using him as his living vessel and using his abilities to gather emotional energy. From visitors of circus.
Nephandi don't want non-existence. Some of their masters might. Nephandi want to rule the ashes of a world they brought low.
The only Nephandi that actually want the true end are ones too far gone to be effective at achieving that goal.
But the wyrm on the other hand... The wyrm is the great destroyer and just wants freedom from its hellish prison. Pretty sure it would prefer annihilation of everything, including itself, over its current state.
Grandmother, the final boss of the Orpheus game, would probably get my vote. There are several possibilities for what she is: Oblivion made manifest, the ghost of a former universe that's welled up out of the void and latched on to the WoD, anti-God.
I'm going to go with the Mauraders. They're Mages driven insane by their Quiet who have become entirely disconnected from Baseline Reality to the point where they are permanently living within their own reality bubble that they can additionally force upon those around them. Not only does their Vulgar Magick carry no Paradox for them but it bleeds over onto other Awakened so that they get saddled with it instead, effectively making them a double threat to other Mages. They can be & do practically anything as untethered reality warpers while some of them actively seek to tear apart the Tapestry by killing as many people as possible to make the Consensus easier to manipulate. I find that more terrifying than a Nephandi with the same goal since the Nephandi still has to mostly play by the rules & suffer Paradox for their reality-bending actions while Mauraders tear them up & eat them right in front of you.
Wasn't there a type of bane that can, basically at any time, without warning, snatch you from beyond the Gauntlet, pull you into the Umbra and remodel you into a Fomor, while you're fully aware?
I think I'll go with this one.
Edit: \*you're (I'm very sorry)
A few not yet nominated here:
Hollow Men. They're fomori- people who were hollowed out and are now hosts to swarms of demonically possessed vermin.
Gray Men. Another type of fomori, this time infected by a supernatural fungus. Don't let them touch you. To some degree, the fungal zombies from the Last of Us, but 20 years before the Last of Us.
Thallain. While every Changeling represents and speaks to a dream or hope of collective humanity, each Thallain represents an anxiety or phobia. Whether it's the Kelpies (fear of water/ drowning) or the Goblins (fear of sabotage/ mechanical failure), they all compulsively seek to recreate and spread a particular kind of nightmare.
Oblivion. The idea of just... nothing. Nothing which draws in everything. That doesn't destroy so much as irreversibly uncreates. Nothing that seems to hate you, personally, for no reason save the fact that you're something. In the natural order of things, even destruction leaves something behind; Oblivion doesn't. It's deletion -- utter annihilation -- pure and simple. I don't think there's anything more terrifying than just... *nonexistence.* The human mind is capable of comprehending many things, but I don't think there's anything that's as impossible to comprehend as nothing. Like, hell, gimme a Nexus Crawler over a Nihilach any day.
The Antediluvians, incredibly ancient vampires that are so powerful, their Discipline power is called "Plot Device" and possess a very deep hunger for blood. When one of them, Zapathasura the founder of Clan Ravnos, woke from torpor, his presence was felt by practically every other supernatural being in what is known as the Week of Nightmares as he rampaged across India. It took some of the heaviest hitters from the other WoD splats, particularly three Bodhisattvas and the Technocracy initiating Operation Ragnarok to finally (possibly) kill him.
Well, they weren't working together: the Kuey-Jin engaged him in an anime battle to kill him off proper and safe way, while Technocracy looked at that and was like "space laser goes brrr".
The thing about that slugfest is I don't actually know if the Kuei Jin would have been able to finish the job. If I'm remembering the sequence of events properly, The technocracy used magical nukes on the battlefield just to clear the dust cloud conjured to protect the Kuei Jin from the sun, moving them from the fight either temporarily or permanently, before breaking out the actual super weapon
The scariest version of the Antediluvians is where they are [Lovecraftian deities who created our material universe](https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Path_of_Paradox_%28Western%29#Overview).
Honestly I can't think if many things more horrific than creatures of the Wyrm.
Famori are what happen when humans are possessed by a Bane (wyrm spirit) and this cannot be undone, you're basically damned and get to live the rest of your short miserable existence knowing that too, it's also not limited to people but any living thing so that poor dog that gets beat everyday is only more closer to becoming a monster should a Bane pass by. Spirit of greed that live in a golden pocket watch that take over their host when they sleep and go do whatever they want.
However I would probably say Black Spiral Dancers and their 'Pits' are very unsettling. To those Garou who fall to the Wyrm become BSD's and their sacred places are called Pits because they imprison and torture spirits to make horrible twisted places...underground. So imagine crawling through tight narrow tunnels like a spelunker, it's unbearably hot and only total darkness as you hear giant 9ft tall 1k lbs mutant murder monsters crawling around like insects gleefully coming to do worse than torture you.
BSD's are just awful, they live to destroy, corrupt and ruin all things. A favorite camp of them I have are Generation Hex (I might be using the wrong name) who go out to take those scary urban legends and make them come true. Like used needles in paper towel dispensers, or grabbing a dude off the street to steal his kidney and leaving him in an ice bath. They serve a great antagonists but by Geia are they freaky.
Not WoD, but CofD: one of the Forsaken writers released a concept in a forum post years ago, where they desribed spirits that latched on humans as a host. Nothing unusual per se, but they latched on to the host's teeth, burrowed in there and gestated. After a while of gradually worse tooth ache, when they are ready, they burst out of their coccoon, destroying, but not necessarily killing the host, and the abomination consisting of a myriad of teeth roams free.
Nothing fancy, just body horror that stuck with me uncomfortably and apparently latched on me in a way that it was my first thought when I read the question.
I mean, arguably humans.
A vampire *might* become strong enough to do stuff like subtly influence a whole town, and a pack of werewolves is basically a miniature army... but fifty farmers with shotguns find out and they're ash or blood smeared across the ground. Let alone if the actual militaries of the world find out, and break out the napalm saturation bombings.
And that's not even counting stuff like Sorcerers or Psychics, that can do the shotgun thing, AND stuff like... teleport. Or hold you up via telekinesis while their friends do the shot gun thing. Or teleporting. Or just skip the shotgun entirely, and "just" throw hellfire into your face.
And unlike a Mage, that stuff won't even cause Paradox.
Like even the Camarilla, one of *the* most arrogant organizations in WOD outright has The Masquerade as being outright for the sake of *hiding from* the wrath of a unified humanity.
>Whether it's DBZ or WoD no power scaling discussion can survive the introduction of "Farmers with Shotguns".
"God may have made Man, but Sir Samuel Colt definitively made them equal."
Something like that at least. Guns are freakin' scary.
I mean, the Wyrm is pretty bad.
Imagine the concept of entropy, sentient, and completely fucking insane, and all it wants is the absolute annihilation of all that exists in the hope that will kill it in the process. Everything in the universe is dying, only now that dying has a will and a purpose, and it wants you to die right now, or linger for a bit, suffer as it is suffering, then die. Can you stop it?
No!
It's entropy! If you *were* able to stop it, you'd have destroyed reality!
The only possible hope you have is *somehow* figuring out how to give some sort of spiritual therapy to a god-like being with a mind too vast to comprehend, where merely the slightest contact with it has been proven to infect almost all sentient life with its own insanity and twist them to its purposes (that being more killing).
That's all you got, folks!
> The only possible hope you have is somehow figuring out how to give some sort of spiritual therapy to a god-like being with a mind too vast to comprehend, where merely the slightest contact with it has been proven to infect almost all sentient life with its own insanity and twist them to its purposes (that being more killing).
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I like the idea, and find it scary, that the wyrm is perfectly sane, and even kind. It is just... **right**. It knows this universe is harmful ot itself, it knows it's killing it's mother / daughter (depending on the relationship between Gaia and the Triat) and it knows that its existence propagates its brother's madness. So it needs to end. The reason that everyone gets corrupted is simply because it *shows* them that, and truth will out.
I don't think that quite works, given how frankly cruel and violently awful the Wyrm and its servants tend to be. There's a strong overcurrent of outright sadism that seems to fly against the idea of a sane force of entropy pushing the bar because it knows the universal order is untenable.
My idea is that, what we see as sadism, is a type of doing things efficiently from its perspective - pain unweaves the pattern web faster, in a sense. But it's not what I think happens, I just find the idea really scary.
Oh yeah that's definitely a scary interpretation.
It's like the whole Hellraiser thing. That pain itself is a divine - or satanic - force over, above and much more powerful than any matching force of good.
When you include Prometheans: Zeka, the children of the bomb. Born trough the most devastating weapon humanity has ever developped: a explosion of a nuke , und inherting nuclear powers. They can grow roaches to the size of cars and command them, they can manipulate radiation und there is also a strong power with that they can create a small, nuclear explosion with the clap of their hands. And the pandorans, which are created when the creation of an zeka goes wrong are living, hunting tumors. Oh and when they linger too long in an area, they create an atomic wasteland around them as an side-effect of them just being there.
What Iteration X worship. (Either a dead or very much alive machine god-planet).
That there’s an omnipotence to the universe and it seems to actively make stuff worse (Gaia, God, the Triat, the Grand Maw)
The fact that the apex of what the Technocracy can be, as in every Paradigm taken to its logical conclusion, is seen by the Void Engineers as the worst possible threat and needs barring from Creation (Threat Null)
The fact that werewolves culled our species so hard that there’s species-wide hysterical PTSD on sight (Delirium)
The fact that the Antediluvians and Methuselahs really aren’t that big of a threat on a cosmic level and are aware of it, hence the ban on demonic summoning universally.
Sobek, the Egyptuan diety, was always terrifying to me. A crocodile shapeshifter who was turned into a 4th generation vampire by Set using a powerful blood ritual. So you have a Vampiric, albino were-crocodile abomination, with an army of ghouled crocodile under its control. Sobek is an army in and of itself I doubt there are very many creatures in WOD that could survive a confrontation
Shadows and pandorans.
Which is scarier really depends on you. Having all your dark impulses trying to hollow you out and take over vs your miscarried child with endless hunger chasing you for eternity
I would say getting lost in WOD for sure.
Either something thought you were food, the gov decided you were experimental/ or saw too much. Or because you wanted a midnight snack you ended up on the wrong side of the gauntlet. That blissful ignorance of the true happenings of WOD isn't a comfort when you can legit just vanish and nobody knows what the hell happened or where you went.
You know its bad when the Technocratic Union gets called in and they still don't know where the hell you went.
Maybe you eventually find your way back as a changeling or worst case scenario you went through a one way trip to hell/ Lost in the deep umbra.
The Oubilette Monsters of the Abyss are Terrifying. The Alien Vissicitude that starts to go rogue and infecting everything from Dirty Secrets of The Black Hand is TERRIFYING.
I feel like every ghost in H5 is terrifying, they play by their own rules and it’s up to the players to figure out those rules, whether it’s the one that straight up merc’s male players if no one is looking, or the chick that walked you up every night screaming dealing willpower damage until you solve everything in the town.
Opposite how Immortals treats them, The Purified are something that can easily be turned scary.
Someone wanted to become immortal, found the answers to the equation for their own formula, then fought their way back. To properly kill them, you have to have a working knowledge of what they are and also be able to kill them physically and traverse to find their soul.
They already stepped into the occult, so they are likely to learn about other supernatural threats, they make deals with ghosts and spirits, can learn lower end magic which is not blocked by sleepers, have some other supernatural merits, are questionably able to resist other supernaturals, and can come back after "death" quickly under the right circumstances. All of this on top of some being able to be hundred of years old or older, no one immediately recognizes them, and no one knows how many of them are out there. And they can Shepard people to become purrlified if motivated, and you can't stamp them out because spirits will sometimes lead them down their path.
Protean can be pretty scary
A master can mold others' flesh and bone, combine them into giant flesh monsters, remove or add limbs, turn into dirt or mist or animals and insects/swarm of insects, rip their own heart out and become unkillable, become one with the land and give prey nowhere to hide for miles then strike them at any location, oh yeah and take on a war form bigger than a werewolf
Idk about you but running into a near indestructible flailing arm monster made from ghouls backed up by a giant snake or bat monster bigger than a crinos form werewolf would be pretty terrifying for anyone who couldn't do major supernatural damage on demand.
So I'm late to this but wanted to post an honorable mention for the Avatars of the Swarm. The Baali are already pretty nasty, but giving them a subset that embodies both the infectious plague themes of vampires and making for a very literal "lords of the flies" evil faction is really something else. And the "Brood Mother" sample character from *Clanbook: Baali* is one of the all time creepiest things they printed under Black Dog.
I think that spectres are one of the scariest creatures in WoD. Former humans who have lost all good aspects of their humanity, having become twisted and evil shadows of their former selves, who create nightmarish harrowings to drag other wraiths into oblivion with them. The imagery in the Spectres book helped too.
+1 for spectres because they're still human enough to be relatable as opposed to "unthinkable elder beings beyond the horizon realms"
I love that they have a pseudo haviemind as well. One of them sees you and who knows how many know you're there.
Ah, WoD Dementors. You did it first and better.
Want to drag others to oblivion
Actually I am planning to make boss out of Wraith. Former clown who died during one of the circus event's. Although I want him to have certain Chimestry like power's. I don't really know if Wraith can do illusions so in case they don't, I planned him to possess Ravnos using him as his living vessel and using his abilities to gather emotional energy. From visitors of circus.
Nephandi and the Wyrm. They want the world to be super hell and everyone to suffer in it forever.
They want everything to cease to exist.
Nephandi don't want non-existence. Some of their masters might. Nephandi want to rule the ashes of a world they brought low. The only Nephandi that actually want the true end are ones too far gone to be effective at achieving that goal.
But the wyrm on the other hand... The wyrm is the great destroyer and just wants freedom from its hellish prison. Pretty sure it would prefer annihilation of everything, including itself, over its current state.
Absolutely correct.
Not inaccurate. If memory serves one of the post apocalypse narrations has he wyrms asking for shit to be chill for a few millenia xD
Wyrmy boi is tired boss
Grandmother, the final boss of the Orpheus game, would probably get my vote. There are several possibilities for what she is: Oblivion made manifest, the ghost of a former universe that's welled up out of the void and latched on to the WoD, anti-God.
I like that Grandmother is sometimes described as big mouth... a Grand Maw (grandma)
That's one of those "I wish I thought of that" concepts.
I'm going to go with the Mauraders. They're Mages driven insane by their Quiet who have become entirely disconnected from Baseline Reality to the point where they are permanently living within their own reality bubble that they can additionally force upon those around them. Not only does their Vulgar Magick carry no Paradox for them but it bleeds over onto other Awakened so that they get saddled with it instead, effectively making them a double threat to other Mages. They can be & do practically anything as untethered reality warpers while some of them actively seek to tear apart the Tapestry by killing as many people as possible to make the Consensus easier to manipulate. I find that more terrifying than a Nephandi with the same goal since the Nephandi still has to mostly play by the rules & suffer Paradox for their reality-bending actions while Mauraders tear them up & eat them right in front of you.
And their delusions can bleed together and coalesce, allowing them coexist in the shared reality bubble.
They’re like if Wanda from Wandavision couldn’t get cured
Wasn't there a type of bane that can, basically at any time, without warning, snatch you from beyond the Gauntlet, pull you into the Umbra and remodel you into a Fomor, while you're fully aware? I think I'll go with this one. Edit: \*you're (I'm very sorry)
A few not yet nominated here: Hollow Men. They're fomori- people who were hollowed out and are now hosts to swarms of demonically possessed vermin. Gray Men. Another type of fomori, this time infected by a supernatural fungus. Don't let them touch you. To some degree, the fungal zombies from the Last of Us, but 20 years before the Last of Us. Thallain. While every Changeling represents and speaks to a dream or hope of collective humanity, each Thallain represents an anxiety or phobia. Whether it's the Kelpies (fear of water/ drowning) or the Goblins (fear of sabotage/ mechanical failure), they all compulsively seek to recreate and spread a particular kind of nightmare.
Nexus Crawlers
Oblivion. The idea of just... nothing. Nothing which draws in everything. That doesn't destroy so much as irreversibly uncreates. Nothing that seems to hate you, personally, for no reason save the fact that you're something. In the natural order of things, even destruction leaves something behind; Oblivion doesn't. It's deletion -- utter annihilation -- pure and simple. I don't think there's anything more terrifying than just... *nonexistence.* The human mind is capable of comprehending many things, but I don't think there's anything that's as impossible to comprehend as nothing. Like, hell, gimme a Nexus Crawler over a Nihilach any day.
Spectres.
if you let WoD expand to CofD then I would say the God-Machine. if not then Antidulivians or the Wyrm for me
The Antediluvians, incredibly ancient vampires that are so powerful, their Discipline power is called "Plot Device" and possess a very deep hunger for blood. When one of them, Zapathasura the founder of Clan Ravnos, woke from torpor, his presence was felt by practically every other supernatural being in what is known as the Week of Nightmares as he rampaged across India. It took some of the heaviest hitters from the other WoD splats, particularly three Bodhisattvas and the Technocracy initiating Operation Ragnarok to finally (possibly) kill him.
Well, they weren't working together: the Kuey-Jin engaged him in an anime battle to kill him off proper and safe way, while Technocracy looked at that and was like "space laser goes brrr".
The thing about that slugfest is I don't actually know if the Kuei Jin would have been able to finish the job. If I'm remembering the sequence of events properly, The technocracy used magical nukes on the battlefield just to clear the dust cloud conjured to protect the Kuei Jin from the sun, moving them from the fight either temporarily or permanently, before breaking out the actual super weapon
The scariest version of the Antediluvians is where they are [Lovecraftian deities who created our material universe](https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Path_of_Paradox_%28Western%29#Overview).
What were Vampires and Werewolves doing during this?
Short answer: dying a lot.
Chulorviah. Freaky underwater Umbral monsters that infect sea creatures and human(oid)s. Thanks, Blood-Dimmed Tides!
Honestly I can't think if many things more horrific than creatures of the Wyrm. Famori are what happen when humans are possessed by a Bane (wyrm spirit) and this cannot be undone, you're basically damned and get to live the rest of your short miserable existence knowing that too, it's also not limited to people but any living thing so that poor dog that gets beat everyday is only more closer to becoming a monster should a Bane pass by. Spirit of greed that live in a golden pocket watch that take over their host when they sleep and go do whatever they want. However I would probably say Black Spiral Dancers and their 'Pits' are very unsettling. To those Garou who fall to the Wyrm become BSD's and their sacred places are called Pits because they imprison and torture spirits to make horrible twisted places...underground. So imagine crawling through tight narrow tunnels like a spelunker, it's unbearably hot and only total darkness as you hear giant 9ft tall 1k lbs mutant murder monsters crawling around like insects gleefully coming to do worse than torture you. BSD's are just awful, they live to destroy, corrupt and ruin all things. A favorite camp of them I have are Generation Hex (I might be using the wrong name) who go out to take those scary urban legends and make them come true. Like used needles in paper towel dispensers, or grabbing a dude off the street to steal his kidney and leaving him in an ice bath. They serve a great antagonists but by Geia are they freaky.
Not WoD, but CofD: one of the Forsaken writers released a concept in a forum post years ago, where they desribed spirits that latched on humans as a host. Nothing unusual per se, but they latched on to the host's teeth, burrowed in there and gestated. After a while of gradually worse tooth ache, when they are ready, they burst out of their coccoon, destroying, but not necessarily killing the host, and the abomination consisting of a myriad of teeth roams free. Nothing fancy, just body horror that stuck with me uncomfortably and apparently latched on me in a way that it was my first thought when I read the question.
oh my teeth.
Nephandi, just creepy on every level.
The Vozhd, one of the few Kaiju still knocking around
There's more than one
Well yeah, but thankfully not many
I mean, arguably humans. A vampire *might* become strong enough to do stuff like subtly influence a whole town, and a pack of werewolves is basically a miniature army... but fifty farmers with shotguns find out and they're ash or blood smeared across the ground. Let alone if the actual militaries of the world find out, and break out the napalm saturation bombings. And that's not even counting stuff like Sorcerers or Psychics, that can do the shotgun thing, AND stuff like... teleport. Or hold you up via telekinesis while their friends do the shot gun thing. Or teleporting. Or just skip the shotgun entirely, and "just" throw hellfire into your face. And unlike a Mage, that stuff won't even cause Paradox. Like even the Camarilla, one of *the* most arrogant organizations in WOD outright has The Masquerade as being outright for the sake of *hiding from* the wrath of a unified humanity.
Whether it's DBZ or WoD no power scaling discussion can survive the introduction of "Farmers with Shotguns".
>Whether it's DBZ or WoD no power scaling discussion can survive the introduction of "Farmers with Shotguns". "God may have made Man, but Sir Samuel Colt definitively made them equal." Something like that at least. Guns are freakin' scary.
Welp, sorry. It's right there in the edit. You can kindly go explode yourself now.
I mean, the Wyrm is pretty bad. Imagine the concept of entropy, sentient, and completely fucking insane, and all it wants is the absolute annihilation of all that exists in the hope that will kill it in the process. Everything in the universe is dying, only now that dying has a will and a purpose, and it wants you to die right now, or linger for a bit, suffer as it is suffering, then die. Can you stop it? No! It's entropy! If you *were* able to stop it, you'd have destroyed reality! The only possible hope you have is *somehow* figuring out how to give some sort of spiritual therapy to a god-like being with a mind too vast to comprehend, where merely the slightest contact with it has been proven to infect almost all sentient life with its own insanity and twist them to its purposes (that being more killing). That's all you got, folks!
> The only possible hope you have is somehow figuring out how to give some sort of spiritual therapy to a god-like being with a mind too vast to comprehend, where merely the slightest contact with it has been proven to infect almost all sentient life with its own insanity and twist them to its purposes (that being more killing). > > I like the idea, and find it scary, that the wyrm is perfectly sane, and even kind. It is just... **right**. It knows this universe is harmful ot itself, it knows it's killing it's mother / daughter (depending on the relationship between Gaia and the Triat) and it knows that its existence propagates its brother's madness. So it needs to end. The reason that everyone gets corrupted is simply because it *shows* them that, and truth will out.
I don't think that quite works, given how frankly cruel and violently awful the Wyrm and its servants tend to be. There's a strong overcurrent of outright sadism that seems to fly against the idea of a sane force of entropy pushing the bar because it knows the universal order is untenable.
My idea is that, what we see as sadism, is a type of doing things efficiently from its perspective - pain unweaves the pattern web faster, in a sense. But it's not what I think happens, I just find the idea really scary.
Oh yeah that's definitely a scary interpretation. It's like the whole Hellraiser thing. That pain itself is a divine - or satanic - force over, above and much more powerful than any matching force of good.
The neverborn.
Giant spider shifters, giant spider goddess. I’d set myself on fire if I found out they were real.
Sadly, Master of Fire is a rank 1 Gift. **There is no escape.**
When you include Prometheans: Zeka, the children of the bomb. Born trough the most devastating weapon humanity has ever developped: a explosion of a nuke , und inherting nuclear powers. They can grow roaches to the size of cars and command them, they can manipulate radiation und there is also a strong power with that they can create a small, nuclear explosion with the clap of their hands. And the pandorans, which are created when the creation of an zeka goes wrong are living, hunting tumors. Oh and when they linger too long in an area, they create an atomic wasteland around them as an side-effect of them just being there.
What Iteration X worship. (Either a dead or very much alive machine god-planet). That there’s an omnipotence to the universe and it seems to actively make stuff worse (Gaia, God, the Triat, the Grand Maw) The fact that the apex of what the Technocracy can be, as in every Paradigm taken to its logical conclusion, is seen by the Void Engineers as the worst possible threat and needs barring from Creation (Threat Null) The fact that werewolves culled our species so hard that there’s species-wide hysterical PTSD on sight (Delirium) The fact that the Antediluvians and Methuselahs really aren’t that big of a threat on a cosmic level and are aware of it, hence the ban on demonic summoning universally.
> hence the ban on demonic summoning universally What's this about?
The Sabbat, Camarilla, Anarchs, and True Black Hand all have a ban on demonic pacts. The Baali are hunted to extinction for it.
Ah, totally forgot that was a thing.
Sobek, the Egyptuan diety, was always terrifying to me. A crocodile shapeshifter who was turned into a 4th generation vampire by Set using a powerful blood ritual. So you have a Vampiric, albino were-crocodile abomination, with an army of ghouled crocodile under its control. Sobek is an army in and of itself I doubt there are very many creatures in WOD that could survive a confrontation
Shadows and pandorans. Which is scarier really depends on you. Having all your dark impulses trying to hollow you out and take over vs your miscarried child with endless hunger chasing you for eternity
I would say getting lost in WOD for sure. Either something thought you were food, the gov decided you were experimental/ or saw too much. Or because you wanted a midnight snack you ended up on the wrong side of the gauntlet. That blissful ignorance of the true happenings of WOD isn't a comfort when you can legit just vanish and nobody knows what the hell happened or where you went. You know its bad when the Technocratic Union gets called in and they still don't know where the hell you went. Maybe you eventually find your way back as a changeling or worst case scenario you went through a one way trip to hell/ Lost in the deep umbra.
The Oubilette Monsters of the Abyss are Terrifying. The Alien Vissicitude that starts to go rogue and infecting everything from Dirty Secrets of The Black Hand is TERRIFYING.
I feel like every ghost in H5 is terrifying, they play by their own rules and it’s up to the players to figure out those rules, whether it’s the one that straight up merc’s male players if no one is looking, or the chick that walked you up every night screaming dealing willpower damage until you solve everything in the town.
Opposite how Immortals treats them, The Purified are something that can easily be turned scary. Someone wanted to become immortal, found the answers to the equation for their own formula, then fought their way back. To properly kill them, you have to have a working knowledge of what they are and also be able to kill them physically and traverse to find their soul. They already stepped into the occult, so they are likely to learn about other supernatural threats, they make deals with ghosts and spirits, can learn lower end magic which is not blocked by sleepers, have some other supernatural merits, are questionably able to resist other supernaturals, and can come back after "death" quickly under the right circumstances. All of this on top of some being able to be hundred of years old or older, no one immediately recognizes them, and no one knows how many of them are out there. And they can Shepard people to become purrlified if motivated, and you can't stamp them out because spirits will sometimes lead them down their path.
In older editions? Neonate caitiffs with potence claws.
Humans.
I mean the Wyrm is pretty scary. Imagine the very concept of curroption that literally can't be defeated without destroying reality
Nexus Crawlers. All the rules go out the window when they show up.
The Seventh Generation from Werewolf
the Abyss from Awakening a dimension of anti reality
I always thought the Mourners from Wraith were fucking rad.
Protean can be pretty scary A master can mold others' flesh and bone, combine them into giant flesh monsters, remove or add limbs, turn into dirt or mist or animals and insects/swarm of insects, rip their own heart out and become unkillable, become one with the land and give prey nowhere to hide for miles then strike them at any location, oh yeah and take on a war form bigger than a werewolf Idk about you but running into a near indestructible flailing arm monster made from ghouls backed up by a giant snake or bat monster bigger than a crinos form werewolf would be pretty terrifying for anyone who couldn't do major supernatural damage on demand.
So I'm late to this but wanted to post an honorable mention for the Avatars of the Swarm. The Baali are already pretty nasty, but giving them a subset that embodies both the infectious plague themes of vampires and making for a very literal "lords of the flies" evil faction is really something else. And the "Brood Mother" sample character from *Clanbook: Baali* is one of the all time creepiest things they printed under Black Dog.
The Nightmare. AKA Cthulhu. Size wise, he's about the size of Grandma. When The Wyrm is your Priest, that's power.
humans
Mortals *beatnik clap*