The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.

-- Stanley Victor Paskavich

Advantages

a
Adept

Incredibly skilled.

Alien Contactee

Character has established some degree of rapport with an alien intelligence.

Ally

Character has a close friend, or several of the same.  Such relationships require maintenance and, just as the player character may call upon his friends for help, they can depend upon the PC's assistance from time to time.

Artifact

Character possesses a magical device or holy relic of significant power.

Attractive

The character is considered to be a desirable mate amongst his or her own people and perhaps members of other Races.

b
Beast Kin

A character possessing Beast Kin is deeply in touch with the primal side.

Beast Whisperer

Required specialization:  species

Allows a character to communicate with non- or minimally intelligent creatures.

Big

Significantly larger than average size members of the same Race.

Blessed

"Lucky" or touched by a benevolent Celestial, things tend to work out for Blessed characters.

Each level in Blessed allows a character to reroll one critical failure per session.

5 Character Points per level.

Boon

A powerful individual or organization owes this character a favor.

c
Combat Veteren

This character has survived real combat situations.

Contact

This character has one or more acquaintences that hold a position of influence.

Cool

This character is good under pressure.

e
Empathic

This character may pick up on the emotional states of others.

f
Famous

This character is a public figure and is well known (and probably respected) on a local, national, or global (etc.) level.

g
Gear

Character owns, or has free, direct access to, useful Gear appropriate to Race, World and/or Era.  Levels in Gear translate directly to Technology level.  That is to say that Gear 5 would grant a total of five levels in Technology.

For instance:  One LVL 3 Gear and one LVL 2 Gear.

h
House

This character has a place to live.

i
Iron Gut

This character may ingest indigestible matter with little or no ill effect.

l
Lucky

The Shape of the Universe smiles upon this individual.

m
Minion

This character controls one or more minions that will carry out any instruction from their master with neither question nor hesitation up to, and including, sacrificing their lives.

p
Pet

This character has a companion animal (or similarly useful, mundane, non- or minimally-intelligent creature) that travels with and assists the character in whatever manner it is capable.

Photographic Memory

This character may recall even the most trivial of facts.

r
Resistance

While this may never make a character totally immune to an ill-effect, it will effectively increase the character's Durability versus an attack of the same type.

Retainer

 This character has a loyal follower (or followers).  While they are unlikely to sacrifice themselves, they will attempt to assist the character in any way they may be capable.

s
Small

This character is smaller than an average member of his or her Race.

Strong Will

This character is abnormally willful.  Each level in Strong Will corresponds to an additional level in Will (WIL).

t
Talented

Talent endows a character with a natural proficiency at a class of Skills and additionally grants authenticity to the character's work in the focused Skill family.

Teacher

This character has a mentor of some type from whom the character may learn new Skills, etc.

Thick Skin

This character is tougher than average.

Tome

Character possesses a book (or books) that contains real knowledge and power.

v
Vehicle

This character owns (or at least has use of) a personal conveyance.

w
Wealth

This character has access to assests real and/or liquid.  This may come in the form of an expense account, an hereditary fortune, or jackpot earnings, for instance.

z
Zeroed

This character does not exist, officially.  No paperwork, photographs or other personally identifiable information exists in any known database or personal collection.  A digital ghost.