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Since we literally just came up with this idea of defining characters as "Symbolic" a few moments ago with everyone's help, we don't have an exact definition written yet, but Symbolic characters will essentially be representations of the things I was mentioning earlier (Doubt, Madness, and now as you see, Death). Symbolic characters will be non-human, non-demon, non-animal and will likely have no gender.

As such, we plan to change the designation of Death and Hades (WA) from "Demon" to "Symbolic."

A full definition will be added to the REG along with other necessary entries upon the release of RoJ.

I assume Doubt and Madness will also be updated to be considered Symbolic characters?

Yes.

Also, I'm not sure the identifier needs to specify that only the character form is TC as it's on the right-hand side of the card (which seems like sufficient explanation to me). I like the idea of doing that with the class symbol.

We wanted to err on the side of clarity as it could be misconstrued that it is also a TC enhancement, especially with younger and less experienced players who are not completely familiar with the territory class concept.

Also, if we make a dual alignment character that is territory class (for both alignments) we didn't want to have to put two icons on the card to express that.

What about Spirit