The Sworn devote themselves to combatting the Contagion, acting as healing agents within the God-Machine itself. Like any medicine, they attempt to cure the disease through a variety of means. Some cures require a subtle approach, slowly infiltrating and purifying the infected areas over a long period of time. Others are more aggressive, firmly blocking or destroying the contagion before the rot destroys anything else. A few cures are terminal, killing one site of infection utterly before the disease spreads.
Every member of the Sworn has their own inherent or acquired resources at hand that they can leverage against specific outbreaks, but the overall methodol- ogy of the group has led to the discovery or creation of supernatural techniques effective in combatting the Contagion. Over the centuries, Sworn members have strengthened or reinvented those methods into useful tools in their eternal fight. These preternatural methods of Contagion control are collectively called vectors.
Vectors are different from most supernatural powers. Once a faction starts collaborating, they learn more about the Contagion as a whole, and that expe- rience leads to the acquisition of effective methods to use against their common enemy. As the faction learns from their successes and failures against the disease, they acquire more powerful vectors. Sometimes these vectors can also be useful in each member’s daily (or nightly) existence, but that’s simply a perk. In gen- eral, vectors are tools the whole faction utilizes as part of their duty as Sworn.