Editing Shih Demon Hunters (section)

===Those Who Fight Monsters===

There is a cost to all this of course, and let's just say that the average Shih won't be a well-adjusted person.  Knowing the truth of the World of Darkness will eventually wear at a person's psyche and humanity, despite all the mental training.  The average Shih won't be honorable or even noble, and most will be embittered husks of men and women who sacrificed a lot for little to nothing in return from an ignorant world.  

The physical toll will be more obvious, as a Demon Hunter might be in their twenties, the prime of their lives, and yet look twice their age.  The overuse of their more esoteric abilities gradually eat into their vitality, and will outright KILL a Shih if they're not careful.

Then there are the more unspoken dangers.  The more a Shih's soul gets worn out and jaded, and the more humanity they lose in the process, the more it gets weighed down by this darkness (more commonly known as P'o).  If and when they finally meet their ends, all this accumulated angst might cause the dead Shih to return as the very thing they fought against:  [[Wraith: The Oblivion|a gaki]], or worse, turn them into a [[Kindred of the East|Wan Kuei]] themselves as their P'o claws its way out of Hell.

Thus each Shih walks on the razor's edge of damnation. But that's just the World of Darkness for you.