Improving followers?

[Solas Irae]

How do you do this exactly?

[Ellye]

Place your cult on the Talk verb, with the cultist you want to promote as the subject.

For the first promotion, you need a total of 7+ of the Aspect of your cult.

So, for example, you're a Moth cult and you're trying to improve a cultist that already has Moth Aspect, you'd just need a Moth Lore with 6+ aspect.

You may use Trappings to help you achieve the necessary numbers, like objects or Influences.

[LordBlade]

So, what exactly are the limits on improving followers?
Can you only promote people who have your cult trait to the highest rank?
Is there a limit on how many people of highest rank you can have?

[vindicar]

Originally posted by LordBlade:

So, what exactly are the limits on improving followers?
Can you only promote people who have your cult trait to the highest rank?
Is there a limit on how many people of highest rank you can have?

You can promote anyone to Disciple (5 Aspect).
You can only promote followers of your cult's aspect to Exalted (10 Aspect).
The process is done independently for each follower, so the only limit on how many Disciples/Exalts you can have is how many followers you have.

Oh, and promoting Pawns is risky and normally not worth it.

[Maina]

Promoting pawns is not risky, except for one specific pawn. Even then, risky isn't really the right word. No harm comes to you for what happens. It's certainly still worth it, if only for using the 'Trappings' slot to get rid of Dread/Fascination/Restlessness for free.