[Maijin Drew]

Wow. Reading this thread has shown me that, I guess, I focused way too much on the physical book, and didn't say much about the game itself. I'll remember that in the future...

There is no system to track wealth. I think it's sort of a "You can be rich or poor, whatever," without it mattering from a system standpoint. There are no Backgrounds or Merits at all, though a few of the old-school Merits (familiar, mentor, artifact, and followers) became Birthrights. It seems that they made the game to where you have more freedom for your character history, without having so say "Crap, to pull this off, I'll have to spend bonus points."