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Voyager: Tactics, Version 0.4

T H E T E A M
CREATED, DESIGNED & EDITED BY
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Contents
INTRODUCTION 006 - 012 III - FACTIONS 111 - 132
The Core Idea 11
Gameplay Selling Points 12 The Known World 111
Maps of the Known World 114
I - HOW TO PLAY 013 - 044 EXDUS 115
Aeden 117
Expectations to Set 14 Cartograph Charter 119
Philosophy of Play 15 Shard Banners 121
Prologue 16 Sol Empire 123
The Liaison 17 Dust 125
Skills & Action Dice 19 The Eyries 127
Skills 20 Skotos 129
Origins 23 Sentinarium 131
Exploration 27
Types of Actions 29
Action Dice & Loadouts 30 IV - VENTURES 133 - 224
Initiative 31
32 Ventures Explained 134
MOVE Die
33 Heir 135
SAVE Die
34 Gamblade 141
HIT Die
35 Jet Corps Trooper 145
AIM Die
36 Venator 149
CAST Die
37 Armsmaster 155
Miscellaneous Actions
38 Gundrifter 161
Miscellaneous Concepts
39 Assassin 165
Techniques
43 Field Medic 171
Conditions
45 Armiger 175
Progression
46 Drakenought 181
Rest & Downtime
48 Wahrsanguis 187
Danger & Death
49 Keybearer 193
Money & Resources
51 Logist 201
Inventory
Exsourcer 207
Elemancer 213
II - YOUR VOYAGER 053 - 110 Invoker 219

Creating Your Voyager 54

Aedean 55 V - GM TOOLS 225
Shardlander 57
Amerusan 61 INSPIRATIONS 229
Magoi 65
Xylolith 69
Kaibi 73
Ruaya 77
Orzlaty 81
Síoraí 85
Drachéan 89
Feithean 93
Viemor 97
Kean 101
Variant Traits 105
Languages 109

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INTRODUCTION

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From the Old World...
The rumoured supercolony called Eld aestus was named such by one Dr. Connor Whitebrook, who first
studied the organism. While visiting his hometown of Norwich, England, he had already known of the
existence of the town’s famous White Tree. However, a construction project was intending to clear out the area
and determined themselves to remove it. They tried to use fire in an attempt to burn the stubborn plant, after
digging to chop its roots proved futile.

After pouring gasoline all over and around the tree, even in a ditch dug directly under its roots, Whitebrook
was told that the flames entirely consumed the tree. The locals laughed at the construction crews, who
watched in frustration as the tree didn’t appear to budge. However, after about 40 minutes of continual
burning, the flames directly in contact with the tree began to glow white, as the surrounding flames were
slowly extinguished. The tree then continued to burn in this white flame for the next 3 days. This happened
about 2 weeks before Whitebrook’s arrival.

Whitebrook would go to the site of the tree to investigate. A crowd began to gather around him as he made
known his intent to replicate the burning to confirm it himself, a story all his fellow townspeople swear is
true. Sure enough, after creating a localised fire at the base of the tree, after 31 minutes and 44 seconds, the
flame, in Whitebrook’s words, “appeared to climb the surface of the bark in an unnatural manner, like a spark
along gunpowder or the slow writing of chalk, as if the fire was tracing the surface of the bark in an invisible
pattern - turning yellow, then green, then blue, then a brilliant white within a few seconds.”

“As the flame transformed, it flashed with intense heat as it turned blue, almost burning me, before
turning white. Curious, I placed my hand near the flame, only to sense no heat. Placing a roll of paper in the
flame, the fire danced and swam across the roll of paper without burning it. I decided to place my hand into
the flame, in the presence of my family, friends and lifelong acquaintances. I swear to you, the fire felt cool in
my hands.”

“I beckoned to others to try. Fearful at first, they eventually did, starting with the children. They all felt a
flame, cool to the touch, and continued to burn this way for about 2 hours before disappearing. My mother,
who was religious, said this was an ‘act of God’.”

Whitebrook would go on and share his story, calling it a new species which he named Eld aestus, roughly
translating to “ancient flame”.

- Account of Dr. Connor Whitebrook, dated Anno Domini 2036;

from the Archives of Old World Printings, New Cambridge.

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...to the New.
Order and Chaos. The cycles of Life and Death and the transition from the World into the Beyond; Body to
Spirit. With the Emergence of Eld Aestus, these two opposites became One.

From what we could glean from the oldest possible sources, there was a concept deeply familiar to the Old
World: the Tree of Life; Yggdrasil; Ashvattha; Shajarat al-Khold; Aušros medis - all names from different
cultures embodying or evoking the idea of a World Tree - a cosmic pillar, even sometimes interpreted as a
sacred mountain, such as the fabled Olympus, Sinai and Kailash, that connects the cosmic circles and planes of
universe - the crossroads of all worlds above and below, meeting squarely in the world of the Known - what
our ancestors called Earth.

It is in the nature of humanity to Divide - people from people, chaos into order, essence from ideas; but it
is in the nature of the Tree to Unite. Its branches reach into the realm of gods and spirits; its roots reach
down into the darkness where dragons and shadowed waters course and rage. And who is to know what
worlds lie even beyond these that the Tree has reached, and the worlds beyond that?

A thousand years ago, the Tree manifested itself to the World, and in doing so, destroyed it. Death
flourished, and with none to experience it, Time itself died. Chaos reigned and made all equal within its dark
fold. But from the ashes erupted life, from the ruins emerged survivors who would once again redefine what
the World to come would be: Creation. And so, Time flowed once again. Order cleaved into Chaos, and from its
wound created the colours, names and sensations it yearned to experience.

Between the worlds of Perfect Order and Absolute Chaos... that is where we enter the stage.

Magic, a layered and fanciful word simply meant to define... Change. Through Chaos and Order and every
space in between, it flowed like water through the boughs of the Tree, permeating the air and changing the
New World, just as it did for the Old. Magic flowed within the blossom of every flower, the eruption of every
volcano, the tremble of every storm, the breath of every child, the stroke of every brush, the spoken word of
every thought. The Will of creation manifested into form, which we then manifested with every truth we made
reality. It was always there, but with the Emergence of the Tree, humanity finally understood - if but a little -
the reality of its all-encompassing presence. Of how vast our existence truly was.

This is the Apokálupsis - an Old World term meaning "the Uncovering": the laying bare of all things, both
known and unknown - till once again it is hidden, like a seed in the ground, a body awaiting its rebirth -
time and again until the day all things will be revealed, known and experienced. Thus we, the emergent souls
of this New World, animated into action, given the breath of life and driven to reveal, to know, to experience...
are the Beholders of this Apocalypse.

The Known World is before you, and beyond it is every World that has been and will exist. You cannot
grasp it, nor conquer it, nor even understand it - though you may try. But you will Behold it, like a scholar
learns a book, like a lover finds their beloved, like a person knows their name.

This is the Revelation. We Change what we Behold, and we Behold what we Change. To Live is not to search
out for the Revelation, nor is it to hope for the Revelation to show itself; to Live is the spirit and essence of the
Revelation itself.

Go forth, and good luck, my students. I'll see you again - in another form, another name... in a world to
come, where all dreams become reality, and where all realities become dream again.

- Final Lecture by Prof. Hinenni, Relic Academy, dated A.E. 1033

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 "The Earth as we know it is no longer; but by
our memory it shall remain."

The Emergence - Eld Aestus
Humanity is defined by the stories they tell.
Tales and accounts of the great and noble
that celebrate these heroes, lifetimes after
they are gone.
That was all nearly lost when a great
catastrophe called the Emergence destroyed
the Old World. With nothing left but their
memory, the survivors clung to these stories,
in hopes that these would empower them to
rejuvenate this New World.
A thousand years ago, Earth was suddenly
and violently destroyed a massive
supercolony emerged, uprooting the entire
world with it and piercing the heavens. The
birth of the World Tree, Eld Aestus, forced a
new world to emerge from the corpse of the
old.
Entire mountains and islands were thrown into
the sky, suspended in the Tree’s strange
magic; these were called Shards. The Tree
changed the very makeup of the world,
hyperevolving the local wildlife into new and
mythical forms, and even reshaped humanity
itself into new variants, from the animal-like
Kaibi to the sky-dwelling Síoraí - even
creating a new form of intelligent life from its
own flesh: the Phytosapiens.
The World Reborn - Revenir
Just over a millennium has passed since the
Emergence, and the world is unrecognisable
from what it looked like in the past. The magic
of Eld Aestus permeates all of creation,
accelerating its growth at an unimaginable
pace - almost like the World was never
destroyed in the first place. From digging up
old research and the memories of the past,
current day technology is almost at the level
of that of the Old World; more advanced in
some areas and less advanced in others.
each other, not to divide and subjugate, when
we barely even know our own place in relation
to each other, or our place in the world itself.
The Commission - EXDUS
This led to the formation of EXDUS: a
worldwide expeditionary commission, free
from borders or political allegiance. Named
after an Old World term meaning "a going
out", the commission calls for any skilled
individual from any walk of life to help map
the New World: explore new lands, discover
old relics, mediate conflicts between factions
and brave the unknown beyond.
The Journey - Voyager
You are a Voyager. Whether you are driven by
the promise of adventure and treasure, or
truly believe in EXDUS' conviction of unifying
the Known World, you come from one of
many different backgrounds - a mercenary,
researcher, or all folks in beteween - being a
new organisation with lofty ideals, EXDUS will
take whoever they can get, and luckily, some
of the best around have answered the call.
You yourself are an up-and-coming name,
far from an established hero but set on your
path to being one. You and a group of others
have gathered together as a party and are
given assignments and jobs by EXDUS to help
journey outwards into the world of Revenir,
and make the unknown known.
The year is 1053AE - a thousand years After
Emergence. Your Voyage begins.

But even so, conflicts still brew all across

Revenir. The map is not drawn yet, and many
young empires, upstart rulers and powerful
groups want to be the ones to carve its
borders in stone. But there are those whose
goal is to unite the World and allow these new
forms of humanity to find and connect with

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The Core Idea
This is an ongoing iteration on my custom game system, Voyager: Tactics, which itself is based on my
original world and campaign setting. Any feedback you have for this game is greatly appreciated.

Voyager: Tactics is a tabletop role-playing game (TRPG) that focuses on tactical anime-style action
and creative teamwork. Its gameplay is inspired from tactics and turn-based JRPG titles like Fire
Emblem and Persona, along with tile-based anime style games like Arknights.

How Voyager Began inherently native to the system

Voyager is a fantasy setting heavily based on
anime aesthetics and character design,
combining my loves for both.
Besides being a big personal creative project
for me to really immerse myself in, it was also
meant to occupy a niche I felt was somewhat
missing from what I wanted to see in media: a
fully developed modern fantasy world with
sci-fi elements that ALSO had a cool anime
aesthetic.
- Combat gets more cluttered and
overwhelming for you the more spells and
features you have; you end up doing more
bookkeeping than playing
- It's hard to build unique characters without
complex build paths and planning
- Not enough anime style aesthetics or
character designs that are also tied to a
concrete, unified setting (as opposed to a
more "anything goes" setting where mecha,
high schools and goblins all mix together
randomly)

I wanted to create a sort of persistent world
that had its own unique lore and identity,
combined with an art style that was more
stylised but consistent with the world, free to
experiment with whatever ideas I found
interesting.
As an RPG player I started like most did,
playing 5th Edition, before branching out in
search of different game systems. Working on
Voyager has also been an constant
experiment in finding out my own tastes in
games and what sort of experience I wanted
to emulate.
The way Voyager: Tactics is structured is
meant to be a friendly experience for players
who are interested in tabletop games, but
familiar with modern video games, its tropes
and mechanics. Many of its concepts, like
using Turns and Abilities, should be readily
familar to the average player.
Then you've been in the same boat as I have,
and that's partly why I created Voyager:
Tactics.
This system is not setting-agnostic, meaning
it's not a universal system that you can use to
play any setting. It is very much centred
around this specific world and very much
influenced by anime-centric aesthetics and
physics, but you're free to use it for your own
settings. Part of my design direction for this
system was making something that could
emulate RWBY-style combat.
This game has tile-based combat and lots of
funny dice; it uses a full set of polyhedral dice.
Due to its underlying design philosophies, this
system may feel too "gamey" for you, though I
think this alone shouldn't be a barrier to
roleplaying or narrative-centric play.

As A Tabletop Game
Chances are, you may be a Player who is
familiar with tabletop games already -
specifically, ones with a medieval fantasy
setting (you know the one). If you have come
across these or similar issues:

- It's hard to implement custom content not

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Gameplay Selling Points
Minimal Numbers
Rather than detailed attributes and spending
time calculating stat numbers and modifiers,
you only need to assign five dice to five
different stats. These stats will remain the
same through the entire game campaign.
Skills Are Not Tied to Attributes
Your character's Skills are not tied to your
ability in combat. A Player character's combat
prowess or magical ability is not bound to
their personality, intelligence or charisma.
Anyone From Anywhere
Your choice of character race, called Sapient,
mainly determines your biological disposition.
Bonuses relating to your background and
upbringing and more tied to your choice of
culture or allegiance, called a Faction; and
your main profession at the time you became
a Voyager, called a Venture.
Light Narrative Rules
Much of the rules focus on combat, whereas
playing your character out of combat is
based on custom Skill descriptions and
specialties.
Horizontal Progression
Instead of gaining automatic stat increases
when you level up, you improve by spending
Experience Points to learn new abilities and
tools to experiment with. You choose exactly
how you want to build your character.
Tactical Turn-Based Combat
Inspired from tactics RPG titles, you use a pool
of actions to strategise your character's
moves on a grid-based map, and can even
execute tag-team attacks, like spotting an
enemy your ally swept into the air with their
greatsword, and shooting them out of the sky.
Player Fantasies
Each class, called a Venture, has their own
distinct playstyle and unique Abilities, which
creates strong gameplay identities and
player fantasies to build on.
TRPG With Cute Anime Girls
Yes.
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CHAPTER I

HOW TO PLAY

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Expectations to Set
Here's some guidelines to outline the right mindset when playing Voyager: Tactics.
The Player
The Player is the person interacting with the
world, using a character called a Voyager.
You are playing as the sci-fi + fantasy
equivalent of an adventurer, exploring an
uncharted post-apocalypse world and
getting into adventures.
The game is meant to emulate the power
fantasy of playing an anime-esque hero
doing flips and using crazy weapons, getting
mixed up in cool adventures and fighting stuff.
That doesn't mean you'll be slicing mountains
in half or wiping out entire armies, but you are
definitely a larger than life figure able slice
apart steel turrets and taking on multiple
enemies at once.
Roleplaying does not mean you need to be a
great actor, or have a detailed backstory. If
you want to be a catgirl who slashes things
with a katana because you find it cool, you
are free to do so, as long as you are having
fun with the rest of the table. The same goes
for the Player who wants to play a deep and
involved character, as long as the game is fun
for you and for everyone else.
Personally, I am a believer that you don't need
a complex character to start a game,
because your character's most important
moments are here and now, alongside the
other Player characters. As long as you have a
solid idea or something cool you want to do,
then that should be good enough to know
how to play your Voyager.
Above all, remember that this is a group
game, and while you play a protagonist in this
game; the world - and the table - doesn't
revolve around you. Allow your allies to shine
when it's their turn to shine, and try to make
choices that overall benefit the group.
Respect the GM and the world they created.
They put a lot of work - more than you can
imagine - crafting an entire world for your
group. Appreciate their time, and if there's
something in the game that you disagree with
or find uncomfortable, let the GM know in the
way you're best able to, so that you can best
find a way to compromise and run the game
smoothly for everyone.
The Game Master
The Game Master is the person who runs the
game for the Players and sets the stage for
them to play in it.
The Game Master is not obligated to be a
master storyteller or a master of lore. I wrote
this game to be one I can easily play, so as a
Player primarily and only an aspiring GM, if I
couldn't make a game that I can easily run for
others, then I have fallen short of making an
effective game.
If you can connect different missions one after
the other; if you can grab a map and move
around monsters, and have those monsters
make strategies and attack Players, then you
are already doing your job. Think of your bare
minimal duties as being the "code" of the
game. The Players control the Voyagers and
you control the world in response to their
actions, using the rules as a guide.
Each adventure the Voyagers play are
considered as a separate mission or chapter
of their journey, called a Voyage. The
Voyagers are assumed to be all part of the
same team who go on adventures together,
and you can treat each play session as a
glimpse into their most exciting moments and
journey together.
Your Players will have a lot of tools to turn
things upside down. They can shoot, slash
and throw your monsters around like ragdolls.
Let them play in this sandbox you are curating
for them. Your game can be less of a grand
literary epic, and more of a fun fantasy
simulator - an open world where the joy is
simply found in looking for the next piece of
treasure, fight to get into or civilian to rescue.
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Philosophy of Play
Some key ideas and mindsets behind Voyager: Tactics and how to best approach its gameplay.
Idealistic Post-Apocalypse
The world has ended, but a new one blooms.
Life moves on, new nations are formed, and
the slate of history is wiped clean save for the
barest of whispers; but these growing pains
still lead to conflict, and Voyager: Tactics is
about settling these conflicts in the service of
hopefully creating a better world than the last
one left itself in.
The GM is the World
The GM reacts to the Players' actions. Aside
from pointing them to their main objective,
how they approach the problem and solve it
depends on them. When faced with a hostile
group, does the group fight them all head-
on? Sneak in and capture their leader? Or
negotiate a truce with them?
Worldbuild Together
While this book covers the main lore of
Voyager's world, it only covers the Known
World - what is currently recorded and
archived in EXDUS. Everything else lies in the
World Beyond, a total mystery to be woven
and discovered by the GM and Players
together.
At the start of the game, while the Players
create their characters, they will also assist
the GM in populating the World with people
and cultures: from creating unique clans to
strange relics, which the GM then scatters
throughout Revenir, waiting for the Voyagers
to unexpectedly uncover them.
Players Narrate Successes;
GM Narrate Failures
While the Voyagers are the main vehicle of
the narrative interacting with the world,
Players need to keep in mind that their
character is the only entity they control - the
rest of the world is controlled by the GM. They
cannot sway or control the actions of others in
it unless the GM lets it happen.
Whenever the Player succeeds at a task, such
as a Skill check or a successful attack, they
can describe how their Voyager succeeds at
their task. Through their character, the Player
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helps build up on the GM's world through their
character's actions.
However, if they fail, then it is the GM's turn to
narrate what happens as a consequence of
those actions - in short, how the world reacts
to them. How does the Player jump across the
chasm after the rope bridge breaks? If they
fail and start falling, and the GM says they only
have one shot to safely recover, what does the
Voyager do? What can the others do to help
their ally?
Narrative & Combat
Voyager: Tactics follow a distinct transition
between narrative and combat: Narrative play
is more freeform, where turns are not tallied
and the Voyagers can freely explore the world
and use their Skills. Short bouts of combat can
also be resolved this way.
However, once combat begins in earnest,
Players and enemies will take Turns attacking
and defending in a certain order, and will
perform their actions on a grid map.
The GM Plays Too
During play, the GM will also be controlling
their own custom character called a Liaison -
an ally of the party who stays behind at the
home base while the party goes out on
adventures, chronicling their exploits and
helping them at key points.
This is to foster a sense of support and
participation between the GM and Players,
and to encourage the act of molding the
outcomes of the game together.
Prologue
Before diving into your first Voyage, it's recommended that the table play a Prologue: a short story that
introduces the characters, how they join EXDUS and the eventual formation of their Voyage party. This
is also called Session Zero in other RPGs.

Depending on how long your party has known each other, this Prologue may have taken place
immediately before your first Voyage, indicating that your party was recently formed; or the Prologue
may be a flashback, showing how they met each other a fair time ago, and the first Voyage you play is
the latest in their long career of adventuring together.

Character Creation Will there be political intrigue as your party

The Prologue, also called Session Zero in other
RPGs, is normally the place where the table
create their characters together, filling out
their character sheets and working out their
main concepts.
Once the characters have been locked in, the
table can move on to beginning the events of
their Prologue.
About the Prologue
The Prologue is a short episode or
introductory adventure where the party meets
for the first time and interact with each other.
This allows the Players to understand each
other and their team dynamic in a setting
where they don’t have to worry about
important events overtaking them.
becomes entangled with the conflicts of
greater powers trying to carve out their place
in Revenir? A dungeon-delving pulp
adventure with lost relics and ancient
civilisations? Or a glorified road trip with a
bunch of colourful personalities getting into
whatever mess they find themselves in?
While there may be combat involved in the
Prologue - particularly so the table can get
acquainted with basic combat rules - these
combat encounters should be low-stakes.
Perhaps the group met together while
applying for EXDUS, and are escorted to a
combat aptitude test, where they have to
fight combat dummies or trained combat
instructors to measure and record their
performance as an aspiring Voyager.

During this play, the GM may allow the players

to make adjustments and tweaks to their
character's backgrounds, choice of Venture
and other features, after having understood
how the character acts and how to best enjoy
playing them. Don't feel like you need
everything to be set in stone - the point of the
Prologue is to experiment and find what you
like, so that your game experience flows much
better when the narrative begins in earnest.

You can begin working out your party's

dynamic and what endears them to each
other. What are the Voyagers' motivations for
working with each other? Are you motivated
by some grand purpose laid out over years of
backstory, or do you just want to fight stuff
and have a roaring good time with everyone?

This session would also be where everyone

would decide on the tone of the game, and
what content will be explored, along with any
sensitive topics to avoid.

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The Liaison
Every active Voyage party in EXDUS has their own Liaison. This is a person who acts as the Mission
Control for the party: While the Voyagers are out there braving the World Beyond, their Liaison is their
link back to the Known World - who stays behind at EXDUS Headquarters and helps the party conduct
research, acquire clearance and assist them in dire emergencies.

The role of the Liaison is taken by the Game Master - the person who narrates the events that happen
in the world, the various people that inhabit it, and how that world reacts to the Players. However, here,
the Liaison is also an actual living person in the world that the Players closely interact with.

Playing the Liaison party enough to start. For example: a missing

As the Liaison, the GM plays an active role in
the story alongside the Players, albeit from a
more detached position, far away from the
action. However, given they are a person and
not an omniscient observer over the world, the
World Beyond is just as much of a mystery to
the Liaison as it is to the Voyage party they
coordinate.
The Liaison acts as the Voyage party's ever-
reliable, trustworthy source of help and
information during their adventures. Through
the use of long-range, portable
communication equipment, the Voyagers are
assumed to always be able to contact their
Liaison, except for the most extreme
situations.
For this reason, most Liaisons are Phytosapien
Magoi - sentient plantlike beings born from
the World Tree itself - and are able to form
telepathic links to Voyagers they have
bonded with, able to reach their minds and
hearts through time and space
immeasurable; though the Game Master is
free to choose whatever Sapient they want for
their Liaison.
During a game of Voyager: Tactics, the Liaison
sets the stage for the Voyage party, and from
there assists them from afar. These duties
include:
relic last seen at a certain location; a missing
person last seen by a certain witness; or a
hostile party last seen in a certain area at a
certain time.
Imagine yourself as the Liaison, giving out files
or presenting a hologram to your party
around a table, showing pictures and
associated documents regarding the mission:
names to investigate, symbols of factions to
look out for, and coordinates to key locations.
The Liason also presents the stakes of the
mission, the consequences that may arise
should they fail. This could be a valuable relic
forever lost to the labyrinthine black markets
of Dust, possibly to be misused by some
upstart crime lord; an innocent person
remaining hostage to a band of raiders; or the
promise of a once-in-a-lifetime discovery of a
sunken city, with only the barest hints leading
to it - the trail gone cold and all hopes of
finding it lost.
Lastly, the Liaison details the nature of their
party's deployment - where they are assumed
to start their Voyage. They are typically
dropped off via an EXDUS transport, such as
an all-terrain mobile base or an airship. This
skips any unnecessary travel time, and the
Voyage party is immediately assumed to start
at the location they need to proceed on their
journey once the Voyage begins.

Voyage Briefings When exploring the World Beyond, the party is

At the start of each new adventure, the Liaison
gathers the Voyage party at EXDUS HQ and
gives them a briefing of their next Voyage: an
objective they are meant to pursue and
complete.
Given that this is a matter the Voyagers need
to go out and solve, the Liaison only knows
enough about the Voyage to give the Voyage
typically deployed at the nearest EXDUS
forward base, or the nearest allied location
friendly enough to receive the party. If you're
feeling particularly adventurous, you can have
an airship fly over the general area and have
the party perform a skydrop from there. But
from that point, the party is braving uncharted
territory and is completely on their own - their
Liaison being their only reliable anchor to
return to the Known World.

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Example Briefing
Main Hook
"Greetings, team. We've just gotten news from
EXDUS that a new discovery has been found:
an Old World monument that reaches into the
sky, which everyone is now calling the Derelict
of Durj. They sent a few teams into it last week,
but they've gone silent - the tower has
become their dungeon. We're part of the
second expedition wave, meant to rescue any
first wave survivors and explore the rest of the
Durj, if possible."
Clues
"Here are a list of the 3 missing teams, their
members' names and IDs; I will also get in
touch with their Liaisons to help gather the
info they sent about the Durj before they went
dark. The Durj is located far in a sparse-
explored region the Old World called the
Emirates."
Stakes
"The Durj has been battered by the sands
across centuries, and the last audio
broadcast from the first wave reported
strange animal-like noises from within its dark
corridors. Reports suggest that it's highly
unstable, and partial or even complete
collapse is possible. Please exercise great
haste in rescuing the lost teams, and - stars
willing - recover what you can while the tower
still stands."
Deployment
"The second wave will send 3 teams:
Capricorn Squad, Team Volans, and ourselves
- each at different elevations of the Durj. Our
team will be dropped off at the top of the Durj
and will descend from the spire. I wish you the
best of luck, and may the stars watch over
you."
Upon deployment, the Voyage party
maintains regular contact with their Liaison,
who communicates with and assists them.
The Game Master thus plays a dualistic role
that naturally shifts in and out of game: Slowly
revealing the world in cooperation with the
Voyagers as their narrator, and recording that
world as their trustworthy Liaison.
The role of the Liaison is meant to impress on
the Game Master that they are discovering
the World Beyond at the same rate as their
Players, and the world is slowly painted
around your actions during play itself.
Roll a Mission (1d20)
A few examples of the different kinds of
mission your party may take are:
1 - Spearheading a first expedition into
unknown and dangerous lands
2 - A bounty to hunt a dangerous monster to
neutralise or capture it
3 - Patrols to guard a certain outpost or
territory
4 - Recovering a stolen relic from raiders
5 - Infiltrations into a hostile faction to collect
information or extract a hostage
6 - Escorting important cargo such as relics
7 - Mapping out a recently uncovered ruin
8 - A bounty hunt for a wanted criminal
9 - An emergency rescue mission involving
evacuation and disaster relief
10 - Escorting and overseeing a diplomatic
meeting between two or more factions
11 - Studying a recently uncovered relic of
mysterious origin
12 - Finding and classifying new species of
hyperevolved life
13 - Investigating a string of rumours and
urban legends to a remote settlement
14 - Joining a gladiatorial tournament at the
Sentinarium
15 - Guarding a vulnerable trade route
16 - Clearing out hostile forces from an area,
such as raiders or monsters
17 - Garrisoning an area besieged by hostile
forces
18 - A research expedition requiring skilled
linguists, archaeologists and scholars
19 - Investigating a lead telling of a powerful
artifact that's also being sought by other
private groups
20 - Protect and escort an important subject,
such as a noble or informant
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Skills & Action Dice
Your attributes or stats in Voyager: Tactics uses dice rather than a static number tied to your
character. Instead of representing your Voyager's innate abilities, they more accurately represent their
preferred choices during battle and how well those choices play out.

These are divided into Skills for narrative play, and Action Dice for combat. Both use five increments of
multisided dice: d4, d6, d8, d10 and d12.

Skills Action Dice

During narrative play, the Players and Liaison During combat, the Players will attack, defend
may interact with challenges using their Skills. and perform other activities using Action Dice.

DARE
DARE is used to determine success for athletic
feats during the narrative, such as climbing,
jumping and sneaking. This also includes
short bouts of action that do not require turn-
based combat.
MOVE
MOVE is a Die used to determine how much
the Voyager can move during their turn. It also
determines their place in the turn order, called
Initiative.

TOOL
TOOL is used to determine success when
using tools or actions requiring mechanical
skill, such as lockpicking, hacking or pitching a
tent.
SAVE
SAVE is a reactive Die used to determine if the
Voyager is able to avoid, block or otherwise
negate a hostile action taken against them or
an ally.

HIT
FACE HIT is a combative Die used to determine the
FACE is used to determine success when power the Voyager has in melee combat, and
interacting with other Sapients in a social how much damage those attacks deal.
context to attain a desired outcome - whether
negotiating entry into a restricted area or
intimidating someone. AIM
AIM is a combative Die used to determine
ranged attacks. It can represent physical
LORE ammunition like bullets and arrows, or stores
LORE is used to determine success on tasks of offensive magical power.
involving your experience and knowledge -
whether navigating certain types of familiar
terrain or recalling the cultural norms of a CAST
region. CAST is a Die used for casting various forms of
more complex magic or actions, and
amplifying its power.
SENSE
SENSE is used to determine success when
analysing the world and its inhabitants -
whether it's deciphering carvings, finding
tracks or studying someone's body language.

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Skills
Skills represent your Voyager's general range of proficiencies and experience, both in practical use
and knowledge, and are mainly used in narrative play.
Using Skill Dice
During the course of their Voyage, Voyagers
are free to interact with the world and learn
about what course of action to take next.
However, any time they are faced with a
significant Challenge - a locked door, a
stubborn guard or a treachorous fall - they
can choose to roll their Skill.
The nature of this Skill Challenge is based on
what Skill it requires, and the GM asks the
relevant Player to roll that Skill in hopes of
succeeding it. Depending on the scale of the
Challenge, the Narrator may require multiple
Players or the entire party to roll their Skills -
such as when trying to cross a dangerous
chasm together.
Once a Voyager in the party (including the
Liaison) pass or fail at least 5 Skill Challenges,
the party should take a rest whenever
possible. This represents one of them
becoming fatigued - mentally, physically or
otherwise, and the group needs to rest in
order to regain their strength and take stock
of the events thus far.
If a task is relatively trivial, a Voyager is free to
invoke their Skill during roleplay without
having to perform a Skill Challenge.
Skill Challenges
When faced with a Skill Challenge, you roll a
twenty-sided die, or 1d20. This is also called a
World Die. The number rolled by the Player
determines the outcome of their action. For
this example, we'll try unlocking a door:
A result of 1-4 is a Disastrous Failure. The door
is irreparably broken and the sound alerts
nearby enemies (failure + negative effect).
A result of 5 is a Failure. The door is not
unlocked (zero outcome).
A result of 6-15 is a Complication. The door
opens, but the sound alerts nearby enemies
(success + negative effect).
A result of 16-19 is a Success. The door is
unlocked with no issues (success).
A result of 20 and above is a Fortuitous
Success. The door is unlocked and gain an
added benefit, such as finding valuable
information in the room (success + positive
effect).
Note that in most cases, the door can be
unlocked, allowing the narrative to proceed.
However, some degrees of success will cause
more positive or negative things to happen.
Failure
If a Player fails a Skill Challenge by rolling a 5,
they or another Player may attempt it again if
permitted by the GM. On a success, proceed
as normal. But if it fails, the GM determines
something negative that happens as a result.
In this case, the lock is broken irreparably and
the door is unusable.
After the second failure, the Skill Challenge
cannot be attempted again - its effects
irreversible.
Specialties & Origins
Specialties are more fluid and catered to your
unique Voyager. They are the specific skillsets
you've chosen to invest yourself most into,
based on their Origin: their unique
background. Say you want to make someone
skilled in land travel. You then determine what
sort of Origin you want to go for, and how their
Specialties are expressed. Are you a proficient
horserider? Great with cars? Do you have a
pilot's license, or do you ride flying creatures,
instead?
Once you know the specific craft they are
focused on, you can determine their
Specialties, corresponding to what Skill Dice
matches the given action.
From here, any Skill Dice you roll that relates to
cars and other similar land vehicles - such as
TOOL to hotwire a car or LORE to know about
its different parts - are treated as your
Specialties, and benefit from certain bonuses.
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Using Specialties
Any time you have a named Specialty that
relates to one of your Origins, you can roll an
additional Die and add the total with your d20
roll. This is called your Skill Die.
During character creation, you assign each of
your Skill types with a fixed die value, from d4
to d12. These represent your range of expertise
and your preferred methods when solving
problems.
For example, your Voyager may be focused
on LORE, having a better affinity for theory and
learning. Conversely, a Voyager focused on
DARE would rather take their problems head-
on and learn things on the way. You would
assign a higher die value to this Skill.
On the other hand, your Voyager may not be
socially adept or prefers to stay in the
background. Thus, you would assign a lower
die value to FACE.
Don't think of them as binding attributes - if
you have a low value in FACE, a high roll on
your World Die can still reveal a hidden
eloquence or moment of gravity - but moreso
a reflection of your Voyager's typical
responses to situations and which ones they
more reliably lean on.
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Tandem Skills
An ally can help your Skill rolls with their own
Specialty if the Players can relate the two
together. This is called a Tandem Skill.
They would roll their Skill die alongside yours
during a Skill Challenge, describing the
manner they try to help you. The higher roll is
then taken.
About Origins
Your Voyager is a person in the world of
Revenir, with their own unique background
and profession prior to joining EXDUS - and in
fact may still practice their profession while
balancing their expeditionary duties.
For example, your Voyager is a seafaring
captain. This means their Specialties cover
anything from their knowledge of ships, how
to maneuver a sea vessel, and how to run a
crew of sailors.
Your Origin determines the general spread of
your Specialties, and how to best apply your
Skills during Challenges. They are elaborated
in more detail in Page 23.
For Your Table
Depending on how you run your game, you
may also want to discuss the main direction
and genre of the game so that Players can
determine their Origins accordingly and
prevent situations where a Player has a
Specialty they really want to use, but it never
comes up in play.
For example, a game focusing on delving
through ruins and finding treasure would
require Origins and Specialties relating to
archaeological knowledge, appraising items,
detecting traps and knowing dead languages.
However, a game focused on a heists and
crime where everyone plays a criminal or
rogue, such as your Players choosing to
roleplay as mercenaries and contract
criminals, would have Origins and Specialties
relating to driving escape vehicles, disguise,
infiltration and knowledge of thief networks.
If you know what the game will be about, the
Players can assume roles that complement
each other and choose their starting Origins
accordingly.
Liaison Skills
The Liaison, like Voyagers, can also perform Skill Challenges that assist the party in specific ways,
using their resources in EXDUS. Given the time needed, once the Liaison accomplishes the Challenge,
the results of the Challenge are only given to the party after they finish a period of rest.
Once the Liaison completes 5 Challenges, they are fatigued and require a rest, and are unable to
perform another Challenge until they rest. It is recommended to rest at the same time as the party so
as to not be indisposed at the party's time of need.
DARE
Emergency Backup
If prompted by the party's actions, the Liaison
may call on EXDUS support to directly help the
party. This can take the form of sending a
supply drop, an emergency evacuation or
sending a reconaissance drone. The further
into unknown territory the party is, the more
limited the help the Liaison is capable of
giving - but regardless, this cannot be used to
instantly solve the party's problems or win
their battles for them.
TOOL
Infiltrate Systems
If prompted by the party's actions, the Liaison
may use EXDUS equipment to attempt to
infiltrate or hack equipment like security
cameras and turrets. This can only be used on
technology familiar to the Known World.
This activity may deactivate or disable the
target entirely, or with a low roll, cause it to go
berserk or alert its allies.
FACE
Pull Strings
If prompted by the party's actions, the Liaison
may use their connections within EXDUS to
help the party, such as calling a nearby
faction for assistance, or gaining clearance to
access a normally restricted area.
The number rolled determines the success of
the deal struck - a zero outcome may be a
simple refusal; a complication may cause the
faction to accept but at some cost; and a
disaster may tip the faction off about the
party's intentions and tempt them into taking
the prize for themselves.
LORE
Consult Archives
If prompted by the party's actions, the Liaison
may spend time researching a matter,
combing through EXDUS records, Relic
Libraries and other related databases. The
number rolled determines how much
information was gleaned that the Liaison is
able to find and provide - a low number
suggesting that near to no information exists
regarding the topic.
SENSE
Scan Material
If the party finds a material or object that can
aid in their Voyage, they can use specialised
EXDUS equipment to scan the object, creating
a digital replica of the object for inspection.
This is then sent to the Liaison to inspect for
clues.
For example, it could be a bloodstained statue
that could be the key to solving a murder,
where the Liaison can perform tests to identify
the blood's makeup and what sort of Sapient
it belonged to; an Old World relic that the
Liaison can try to identify and trace back to a
certain culture or time period; or an EXDUS ID
card scanned to check the person's details
and current whereabouts.
A Phytosapien Magoi Liaison is able to project
their consciousness outward, able to remotely
survey alongside their allies in an ethereal
form, unable to touch anything.
As with LORE, a low roll suggests no
information can be gleaned from the scan.
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Origins
During character creation, you will choose a basic Origin for your Voyager, representing their life
experience prior to joining EXDUS and determines the range of their Specialties. This is not including
additional Origins and Specialties given from your choice of Faction and Venture.

The following are examples of various Origins you can take, and how you can apply their Specialties
when rolling for Skill Challenges. Note that these are non-exhaustive list of examples, and you are free
to customise your Origin according to your own unique Voyager, consulting with your GM and
discussing your character with the rest of the party.

Brawler
You are a hardened fighter who grew up in
the fighting pits of Dust, your bloody knuckles
and various titles worn proudly on your soul.
LORE - Location of underground fighting pits,
unarmed fighting techniques
DARE - Using an improvised weapon,
grappling someone
SENSE - Sensing a fight is going to break out,
protecting your face and vitals from impact
FACE - Intimidating someone
Freerunner
You are an athletic runner who delivers
messages between cities, weaving between
alleys and darting across rooftops, never
feeling more free.
LORE - Knowing shortest routes in a certain
city they frequent
DARE - Running across rooftops, landing from
falls, climbing
SENSE - Knowing where to turn while running,
finding unexpected routes in an unfamiliar
place
Alcohol Enthusiast
You may be a bartender or just a passionate
patron of the ambrosic arts, knowing
everything there is to know about alcohols
and various premium spirits.
Seafarer
You are a rugged sailor or captain, whose
home is the sea. You know how to run a ship
from the inside out, its various inner workings,
and how to guide it through the fiercest
storms like a fish through the waves.
LORE - Naval history, sea trade routes
DARE - Boarding ships, prevent from being
thrown overboard during a storm
TOOL - Steering a ship, rope knots
SENSE - Determining wind direction and
speed, finding dangerous reefs and rocks
while at sea
FACE - Running a sea crew, interacting with
other seafarers
Scrapper
You are a rough-and-tumble scrapper of
Dust, young but filled with an innovative,
intrepid spirit, navigating the vast ruins of the
Old World for mechanical parts to sell and use
for your own inventions.
LORE - Different mechanical parts, value of
junk
DARE - Planting an improvised bomb, sliding
down a mountain of scrap safely
TOOL - Juryrigging, improvised invention
SENSE - Combing a junkyard for workable
materials
FACE - Negotiating prices with other
scrappers

LORE - Location of the best bars, quality of

vintage wines
DARE - Drinking contests
SENSE - Discerning quality of a drink,
detecting poisons and unusual traces in
alcohol
TOOL - Operating a distillery, brewing
FACE - Interacting with bar patrons,
interpreting a drunk person's words

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Fortune Teller
You are a devout divinator, whose humble
craft beckons the great and small alike to
peer into their future, but you are also deadly
with the same cards you draw, spelling luck
and misfortune directly if needed.
When using your SENSE to divinate something,
you may ask the GM for a prediction or sign
for a future event or uncertain circumstance.
The outcome of the roll may determine the
accuracy and extent of the information
gained.
LORE - Cards and their meanings, teaching
how to find signs in the flight patterns of birds
and the veins of leaves
DARE - Throwing razor-sharp cards,
disappearing in a cloud of incense smoke
TOOL - Dealing tarot cards, conducting
oracle bone rituals
SENSE - Divinating someone's rough future
(consult the GM for the results)
FACE - Drawing in people through your rituals,
stirring one's faith
Blind Monk
You are a wandering mystic, whose blindness
strips you of your earthly senses to better
attune you to the supernatural. Your oak cane
is your most loyal companion, and your most
trusted weapon.
LORE - Ascetic rituals, locations of
monasteries sharing your faith
DARE - Cane fighting, combat intuition
TOOL - Exorcism rituals involving talisman
papers, funerary rites
SENSE - Blind sense, enhanced hearing and
sense of smell
FACE - Appearing unassuming, making foes
underestimate and ignore you
Alchemist
You are a withdrawn, introverted scholar,
preferring the wonder and simple truths of
alchemy to the ambiguous horrors and
capricious hearts of people.
LORE - Alchemical elements, different types
of vials and beakers, boiling and freezing
points of various liquids
DARE - Applying healing salves to a wounded
ally, throwing a potion bomb at an enemy
TOOL - Using alchemy equipment, measuring
proper amounts and ratios of materials
SENSE - Detecting foreign contaminants in
solutions, telling apart poisons and reagents
FACE - Running a potion shop (if playing a
shy character, you may choose to not treat
this as a Specialty instead)
Post-Emergence Idol
Inspired by ancient tales of Old World
songstresses and dancers who brought joy to
the entire world, you are a celebrity whose
songs and performances lift the hearts of
those around you.
LORE - The names of various independent
idol groups, their power structures and
politics, which skeevy talent managers to
avoid
DARE - Performing a dance routine,
synchronised choreography
TOOL - Operating sound and light systems,
dress-making
SENSE - Discerning good music and
performances
FACE - Encouraging someone, leveraging
your reputation, using your cute charms to
sway someone
Scholar
You are a researcher given to a particular
field of study, hoping to bring progress to a
young world. For this example, they are an
archaeologist.
LORE - Ancient languages and animal
species of Earth, popular theses and papers in
circulation
DARE - Keeping fragile specimens safe
TOOL - Uncovering relics and fossils,
SENSE - Telling apart rocks from fossils,
deciphering ancient glyphs
FACE - Negotiating entry into a dig site,
pushing your groundbreaking research paper
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Pilot
You are an airship pilot, licensed to take to the
skies and transport cargo and passengers.
LORE - Types of airships and their
specifications, safe air routes in the Known
World
DARE - Dogfighting, tight aerial maneuvers
TOOL - Piloting and maintaining an airship
SENSE - Assessing damage to airship,
noticing inclement weather
FACE - Interacting with other pilots, looking
for clients
Freedom Fighter
You grew up under a tyrannical rule and
rallied your town together to overthrow a
despotic ruler, carrying your firey passion in
your heart on your travels.
LORE - History of the ruler you overthrew,
military power structures, urban layouts of a
familiar area
DARE - Guerrilla tactics, causing riots,
escaping in a crowd
TOOL - Scavenging and repurposing
weapons and armour, outfitting civilians
SENSE - Judging character
FACE - Rallying despondent townspeople,
standing up for the downtrodden and outcast
Merchant
You are a shrewd trader who sells ware far
and wide, to whoever has the coin to peruse
them.
LORE - Local economic trends, shortages in
materials in certain areas, where to find a
supplier
DARE - Protecting your wares, holding onto
your items when escaping
TOOL - Counting large amounts of money,
operating calculators and registers, ledgers
SENSE - Discerning genuine wares from
counterfeits, setting prices,
FACE - Buttering up a customer, selling an
item, promoting your shop and reputation
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Caretaker
You are a homely soul given to caring for
others, such as an innkeeper, nurse, maid or a
hardworking single parent.
LORE - Recipes and famous chefs,
neighbourhood gossip, the cast and plot of
your favourite drama
DARE - Wrangling unruly children, dispensing
punishment via rattan cane or slipper
TOOL - Cooking a large meal, cleaning
SENSE - Telling someone's emotional state,
noticing irregularities in a room's layout you're
familiar with
FACE - Working with children and elderly,
comforting someone, giving encouraging
words
Feral
You were abandoned or lost as a child and
were raised by animals or monsters; you
recently discovered civilisation and are now
finding your way in the wider world.
LORE - Animal hierarchy, how to find water,
animal calls
DARE - Pack tactics, moving on all fours,
stalking prey undetected
TOOL - Making a nest (may not be
comfortable for regular people), mimicking an
animal call
SENSE - Finding and following tracks, sensing
a stealthed creature
FACE - Communicating your intent with
animals, how not to provoke a monster
Student
You are currently studying in an academy or
as an apprentice for a certain craft.
LORE - Names of other students, teachers
and famous figures of your craft, cliques and
student houses
DARE - Managing a deadline, arriving
somewhere on time
TOOL - Taking accurate notes, executing your
learned craft
SENSE - Learning a craft quickly
FACE - Entreating a superior, interacting with
students, youths and academia
Soldier
You are a warrior who currently or formerly
served a cause, such as the Aedean Armiger
Orders or the Sol Empire, accustomed to a
regimented military life and its various
protocols.
LORE - Types of weapons and their
classifications, military hierarchy and
protocol, patrol schedules and shifts
DARE - Endurance training, operating
weapons, formation tactics
TOOL - Maintaining equipment, shovelling,
card games
SENSE - Tracking movements of large
marching groups, discerning direction of
distant combat or gunshots, scouting out an
encampment
FACE - Pulling rank, blending in with another
military group, making friends with other
soldiers
Raider
You are a former member of a Dust raider
clan, who often drive or ride into towns to
pillage resources. Kicked out from your Clan
due to a disagreement of morals or over who
should be running things.
LORE - Names and emblems of various clans
and their prominent leaders, trade routes and
their vulnerabilities
DARE - High-speed chases, staying hidden
for an ambush
TOOL - Maintenance of improvised vehicles
and weapons, driving all-terrain vehicles
SENSE - Searching for valuables, noticing
signs of camps, fires and human activity in
the wilderness
FACE - Intimidation, interacting with other
raider clans
Shade
You are a silent infiltrator, perhaps a thief or
an assassin in service to a powerful family;
you are able to slip in and out of others' notice
and strike at the most opportune times.
LORE - Layout of a building you studied, how
to incapacitate people, thief networks
DARE - Sneaking, clinging to the shadows,
silent movement and actions
TOOL - Unlocking a closed window, door or
chest, concealing weapons, pickpocketing
SENSE - Tracking guard patrols, noticing
minute sounds, looking for hidden rooms and
switches
FACE - Playing dumb, mimicking a voice
Smith
You are skilled in metalworking and crafting
items of a certain type. For this example, they
are a weaponsmith.
LORE - Types of weapons and their names,
various metals and their treatment
techniques
DARE - Working in intense heat, treating
superheated metal
TOOL - Operating a forge and hammer,
forging or reforging a weapon
SENSE - Noticing imperfections in ore,
noticing an imbalanced weapon, tracing a
weapon to a certain smith who created it
FACE - Presenting a blade to a client,
teaching an apprentice
Old World Nerd
You are fixated on the curious items of Earth,
from its strange colourful plastic figures to its
age-worn picture books. Nothing is
unimpressive or useless to you; they are all
beautiful artifacts in your eyes
LORE - Knowing what a random Earth relic is
(though you may not know it's actual
intended purpose), various terms and names
of famous Earth historical figures and fictional
characters (though you may easily confuse
one for the other)
DARE - Stealing or recovering a relic
TOOL - Maintaining and protecting a relic
from weathering and the elements
SENSE - Telling if a relic is genuine or not,
looking for relics in a pile of seemingly
random items
FACE - Haggling for an Earth item, boasting
about the usefulness and cultural significance
of a relic (regardless if true or not, you
certainly believe it)
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Exploration

Building the Known favourite shopping mall on Earth, a millennium

World
During character creation, the GM builds
aspects of the world alongside the players,
based on what places and groups in the
Known World the GM expect the Players to
interact with.
While looking through the Factions list, the GM
and Players can populate the Known World
with various places, objects and people of
interest. The Players would brainstorm
together and come up with names for them,
as well as some general details about them.
These can be the staff of EXDUS, an obscure
Clan in Dust, or a species of hyperevolved
wildlife in the Shardlands.
from now, would be an massive, imposing
dungeon in Revenir - with hundreds of
crumbling rooms peppered with the strangest
artifacts.
Place something under sandstorms and
dunes; below vines and jungles; make them
crumble and shake; make them the den of
strange cults and the lairs of fearsome
monsters.
Remember that Revenir is Earth's far-flung
future. Take the mundane of today and make
them the wonders of tomorrow.

Exploring the World

Beyond
The GM plays two roles during the game: that
of the Liaison, who assists their party in their
travels, and the narrator of the events the
party encounters.

The Liaison, like the Voyagers, only knows

about the world as much as most others
know. Even with access to EXDUS' broad
resources and libraries, they can only
speculate about what strange wonders lie out
in the World Beyond.

However, as the narrator, the GM is expected

to build the world for the Players to uncover.
Rather than planning out an entire sequence
of events or an entire encyclopedia of the
area, the GM should instead plant vague
clues and place the Players in unfamiliar
situations, and let them interact with and
expand the world from there.

For example, you want to create a ruin for the

Voyagers to explore. Ruins on Revenir are
typically remnants from the Old World, i.e.
Earth. Use your own experiences to turn the
familiar into the strange and wonderful.

Your local gas station can be an abandoned

stronghold populated by raiders. Your

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Types of Actions
During combat, your actions will be tallied in Turns. There are different actions you can take, some of
which can be done outside your turn and all having differing costs. The following is a guide to reading
the Action system.

Normal Action Reaction

You can take up to 3 Actions per Turn. Some
actions you take will cost only 1 of those
Actions to execute, while others will cost 2 or
even all 3 of your Actions. These are shown by
a series of filled diamonds next to the ability's
description.
Variable Action
Some abilities can be used outside of your
Turn, and is usually triggered by an event, like
an enemy attempting to injure your ally or
your ally knocking an enemy into the air.
Once triggered, you can perform that ability
even when it's not your current Turn, spending
one or more of your Actions to do so. This is
called a Reaction, and is represented by an
exploding diamond.

Free Reaction
Some abilities have no set Action cost. The
more Actions you invest into that ability, the
more powerful it becomes. These are
represented by three blank diamonds.

Free Action
Some Reactions allow you to perform that
ability without consuming your Action. This is
called a Free Reaction, and is denoted by the
icons for Free Action and Reaction together.
Some abilities can be used without spending
one of your Actions, which is called a free
Action. This is represented by a hollow
diamond.

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Action Dice & Loadouts
About Loadouts
The number of Action Dice of each type that
you can spend is determined by your choice
of Venture, which is the equivalent of your
class or job.

To the left is a Loadout - a distribution of the

types of Actions a certain Venture can take,
and how many. Every Loadout, regardless of
Venture, will have 10 Action Dice.

To better illustrate how different Ventures and

their Loadouts work, we'll look at two different
ones.

Comparing Loadouts
The top Loadout belongs to an Heir, which is a
balanced, jack-of-all-trades Venture able to
- 2 MOVE do a little bit of everything. As such, their
- 2 SAVE Loadout has two of every Action Die spread
- 2 HIT equally.
- 2 AIM
The bottom Loadout belongs to an
- 2 CAST
Armsmaster, which is a Venture that
specialises in damage and fighting enemies
ABOVE: An Heir's Loadout in melee combat. As such, their Loadout
consists of more HIT Dice, totalling 4. They will
also be moving around the battlefield a fair
- 2 MOVE bit, as well as dodging enemy attacks, so they
- 2 SAVE have 2 Action Dice for MOVE and SAVE. Lastly,
- 4 HIT an Armsmaster's playstyle is not concerned
- 1 AIM with ranged attacks or casting magic, so they
only have 1 Action Die of AIM and CAST.
- 1 CAST
Each Venture embodies a different playstyle
and therefore a different role in combat, and
the Player has to utilise their chosen Venture's
strengths to best attain victory. For more info
on Ventures, see Chapter III.

Assigning Action Dice

Values
During character creation, you will choose a
starting Venture and use its Loadout. You will
then assign die values to your desired Action
Dice.

Take a d4, d6, d8, d10 and d12 value and

individually assign each to your desired
ABOVE: An Armsmaster's Loadout Action Die. All Action Die of the same type will
share the same value whenever you roll them.

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Initiative
Whenever your party enters combat, Initiative begins, where you, your allies and enemies take turns
engaging in battle.
Turns & Rounds
All of an entity's actions and abilities
constitute a Turn, and when they finish all their
actions, their Turn is over. Once all acting
entities have taken their Turn, a full Round is
completed and a new Round of combat
starts.
Combat is resolved through the use of each
respective entity's Actions and Action Dice.
Actions
When combat begins, all Players have a
resource pool they can use to move, attack or
cast magic, called Actions. All combat Actions
are represented by the five Action Dice.
Each Round, every Player has 3 Actions,
meaning when their Turn starts, they can
spend up to 3 of their Loadout's Action Dice to
move, attack, cast magic, etc. When you
commit to using an Action Die, that Action Die
is removed from the Loadout.
This means if your Loadout only has 1 MOVE
Die, and you spend it on moving, you cannot
move again except through other means,
because you've already spent your one MOVE
Die.
Opening Movement
Before combat begins, all Players must each
roll to determine their Initiative order and
opening movement. This is rolled from their
MOVE Die, which determines who goes first in
Initiative as well as how many Tiles they can
move before combat starts. This check does
not consume the MOVE Die from your Loadout.
Unless the narrative specifies, the party is
assumed to start from roughly the same
position on the map. This starting position is
where their opening movement is determined.
For example: Player A, who has a d10 MOVE
Die, rolls a 9 and is highest. They not only go
first, but can move up to 9 Tiles before
combat starts. This can be explained in
various ways: they slip away to find a better
vantage point; they sprint forward; they vault
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over a nearby table, etc. Meanwhile, Player B
whose MOVE Die is a d4 rolls a 1, meaning they
not only will act last, but can only move 1 Tile.
The GM also rolls for all NPCs and enemies at
the same time from their MOVE Die. Rather
than individually rolling Initiative for each
enemy, the GM rolls one MOVE die for all
entities that share the that MOVE Die's value
(e.g. all enemies with a MOVE Die of d6 move
at the same time based on the amount
rolled).
In the case of a tie between the highest roll
from the Player and GM, the Player goes first.
Once this opening movement is resolved, the
first Round of combat starts.
Reserve Actions
Whenever a Player spends the last Action Die
in their Loadout, their Loadout is reset and all
Action Dice are replenished at the start of the
next Round. This applies to all GM-controlled
entities as well.
If a Player has any leftover Action Dice at the
end of the Round that they don't wish to use,
they can choose to Reserve it. This lets them
reset their Loadout, and those leftover Action
Dice are converted to Reserve Actions on the
next Round. Reserve Actions are a pool shared
by the entire party, and they expire at the end
of every Round.
At any time during combat, any Player can
ask for a Reserve Action, with the agreement
of the GM and party. This Reserve Action can
be spent to replenish any one Action Die from
their Loadout that they already spent, allowing
them to use that Action again.
This means the party can discuss who can
use more Actions to best gain advantages for
themselves: for example, spending a Reserve
Action to get the team sniper in a good
position to shoot from, giving the party's
warrior additional attacks to finish off a deadly
enemy, or giving the medic a chance to reach
a wounded ally in time.
Every time a Reserve Action is used, one of the
GM-controlled enemies also gets an
additional Action on their Turn.
MOVE
Tiles
All distances in combat are measured on a
square grid with Tiles. During combat, Tiles
denote the position of allies and enemies;
there may also be various environmental
hazards and points of interest that can be
interacted with, such as chasms and traps.
You will typically encounter single-Tile
obstacles across the map, which are 1 Tile
high, wide and long. These include walls,
boulders, holes and such. These obstacles
can typically be interacted with, climbed or
moved through.
All regular movement is executed with your
MOVE Action Dice.
Traps & Terrain
You may occasionally encounter hazards and
other interactable elements on the map. This
includes:
> Chasms that enemies can be knocked into.
Depending on its depth, a Voyager that drops
in will take Airborne damage and may spend
their Turn to climb out.
> Difficult terrain which Slows entities moving
through them, such as mud, rubble, thick
shrubbery, water and crags.
> Motion-activated traps such as pressure
plates, sentry turrets and laser traps. These
can typically be disabled with an in-combat
Skill Challenge or by destroying them.

Movement Rules > Single-Tile obstacles like blocks, trees and

The number rolled from your MOVE Dice
determines the amount of Tiles you can move.
This is called your Movement. For example, if
you roll a 6, you have 6 Movement and can
move up to 6 Tiles, though you are not
required spend all your Movement to end your
Turn.
barricades. Depending on its toughness, an
entity can use their attacks to destroy it.
> Locations on the map that may offer
benefits to an entity that occupies it, like
ladders, tunnels to another area of the map,
manned turrets or short-range teleporter.

You can only move orthogonally, meaning

you cannot normally move diagonally.
However, certain Abilities and options like
Instant Dodge allows you to do so.

If you want to climb an elevated Tile, you

spend 2 Movement for each Tile climbed
instead of 1. If there is an accessible feature
like a ramp or ladder, this penalty doesn't
apply.

You can interweave movement and perform

other Actions like attacking, then continue
moving if you still have Movement. You do not
have to roll MOVE again to resume moving.

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SAVE
SAVE is an Action die used to mitigate damage against yourself and attacks. Here, damage resolution
is explained.
Damage & Resolve
The Player resolves damage using their
character's Resolve, commonly shortened as
RS. Resolve acts very much like Hit Points in
conventional games; in fact, the only real
distinction is that Resolve represents one's
ability, morale or will to keep fighting, and not
necessarily their actual vitality or how many
injuries they can take. Being a largely
idealistic setting, permanent injury and death
in Voyager: Tactics is treated with greater
significance.
Thus, when fighting hostile foes, reducing their
Resolve to zero can mean any number of
things: Being incapacitated, running away,
surrendering, etc. This allows the GM to be a
bit more creative with how these outcomes
can play out.
This also allows Players to exercise nonlethal
attacks with their characters in case they
want to play a pacifistic Voyager.
Does the party tie up and interrogate them?
Do they have to give chase to the escaping
foes? Let them bring back news of their defeat
to their superior? Or maybe the party learns
that these foes were forcefully conscripted
and made to fight by a power-hungry ruler?
Character Creation
Each Voyager starts with 25 Resolve at
character creation.
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SAVE Die
When an enemy uses a hostile attack or Ability
against you and rolls their Action Die, you can
choose to roll a SAVE Die against it as a
contested roll.
Your SAVE Die represents your Voyager's
protective gear or innate evasion. When you
roll your SAVE Die, your roll's number must be
equal to or exceed the enemy's hostile Action
Die roll. If this succeeds, you successfully
negate that instance of damage, and your
SAVE Die is returned to your Loadout.
However, if your SAVE roll is lower than that
hostile roll, then that opponent breaches your
defenses. Your SAVE Die is consumed, but you
reduce the damage and effects of that action
by your rolled number.
If you have multiple SAVE Dice, you can
choose to roll additional Dice to exceed the
hostile roll. This means Voyagers with more
SAVE Dice are more consistently able to avoid
damage altogether. However, if your SAVE
Dice are still unable to match the hostile roll
and you have no SAVE Dice left, all of them are
consumed and removed from your Loadout.
As such, consider carefully whenever you are
faced with a hostile roll. Sometimes, it may be
more advantageous to grit your teeth and
take the hit, rather than risk losing all your
SAVE Dice to a bad roll, only to not have them
for a more impactful situation.
However, if you are faced with a situation
where you absolutely cannot avoid taking a
heavy hit, it may be wise to sacrifice your SAVE
Dice to at least greatly reduce its damage,
where the alternative would be much worse.
This makes damage prevention an active and
variable part of combat, and not a passive,
constant number you can fall back on -
though of course, those who allocate higher
Die values to their SAVE are able to more
effectively do so.
As a GM, it's less of a matter of asking the
Player you're engaging: "Make a SAVE against
this", and more a matter of asking: "Do you
want to SAVE against this?"
HIT
The following will cover some of the basics of combat and how to use your HIT Dice, along with
additional damage concepts.

Attacking In Melee Truestrike

You can roll your HIT Dice to instantly make a
melee attack against a target 1 Tile next to
you. For Voyagers who prefer close-quarters
combat, this is your primary means of
damage. Whenever an entity is faced with an
attack, they can choose to roll their SAVE Dice
to guard against it.
Every HIT Die you spend to attack is counted
as a separate attack and an instance of
damage.
What Can I Use HIT Dice
For?
Some Techniques or Abilities give your melee
attacks, ranged attacks or magic the
Truestrike trait. This means this attack cannot
be avoided by any means, even with Instant
Dodge.
When SAVE Dice are used to counter this
attack, they will always be consumed by this
attack regardless of the SAVE, but will still
reduce its damage.
Accuracy
This applies to any Action Die. When you gain
stacks of Accuracy, your Action Die roll will be
treated as having a minimum value equal to
your Accuracy number.

Damage The lowest Accuracy you can gain is Accuracy

You roll your HIT Die and inflict damage on a 2. Accuracy 2 means you will always treat the
target occupying one of the 8 Tiles rolled result as a minimum of 2, even if you roll
surrounding you. a 1. Accuracy 4 means you will always treat
your minimum roll as 4, etc.
Repel
When you roll your HIT Die, you can choose to Most benefits that grant Accuracy will set its
deal no damage, but shove the target a maximum limit to half that Action Die's
number of Tiles away based on the number maximum value. This means if you're using a
rolled. d4, its max Accuracy cannot be higher than 2.
If this is not stated, assume that this limit does
not apply.
Other Dice Properties
If your Accuracy exceeds your Action Die's
There are certain bonuses that your HIT Dice
value - e.g. Accuracy 10 for a d4 Action Die -
gain under certain circumstances, though
then it simply means you take its maximum
note that these can apply to your other Action
number, which is 4. This maximum number
Dice as well.
counts as a Critical.
Critical (Crit)
When performing an attack using HIT or AIM
Dice, the Voyager is able to land a Critical
attack, shortened to Crit. Your attack is a
Critical if you roll your HIT Die and it lands on
the highest number.

Honed
Some Techniques or Abilities give your melee
attacks, ranged attacks or magic the Honed
trait. This means all damage and effects are
doubled for that roll.

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AIM
Whether using bullets, arrows, elemental magic or a familiar, your ranged attacks will use your AIM Die.
Rather than meticulously tracking how much physical ammunition you're carrying, you are always
assumed to have enough of it. However, you are limited by how many AIM Dice you have in your
Loadout.
Your AIM rolls can be used for multiple purposes in combat: enhancing damage, controlling enemies
or even propelling yourself - hence, it is a valuable resource to be considered during combat.
Ranged Attacks
Unlike your melee attacks, which instantly hit,
a ranged attack must accurately find its
target first before damaging it.
When you roll your AIM Die for a ranged
attack, the number rolled determines the
attack's effective range and its subsequent
damage if it finds its mark. When firing on a
target, draw a straight line between them and
the Tile directly in front of you to roughly
determine the Tile distance.
For example, if your target is 4 Tiles away, you
must roll a 4 or higher in order to hit them,
and it deals 4 damage on a confirmed hit. If
your target is 1 Tile next to you, any roll from a 1
to a maximum of 12 is a guaranteed hit and
the number determines how much damage
the target must SAVE against.
Think of it less as your weapon suddenly only
able to shoot 1 Tile away at random, and more
an indicator of how accurate your shot was
and how critically it breached the target's
defenses.
Even though it was a point-blank shot, 1
indicates that it the attack only grazed them
or that they deflected most of its force, while
12 was a critical shot that hit a vulnerable gap
in their defenses.
What Can I Use AIM Dice
For?
When you spend AIM Dice to make a ranged
attack, you can choose two of three
outcomes for it:
Damage
You can roll your AIM Die to damage an
enemy. Some weapons, called hybrid
weapons, use melee and ranged attacks
simultaneously to overwhelm opponents.
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Repel
When you successfully hit a target with your
AIM Die, you can choose to repel them
backwards with force. The number of Tiles you
force them to move is the distance of your
shot subtracted from your rolled distance. This
means if you rolled a 12 and you hit a target 4
Tiles away, you can propel them up to 8 Tiles
away.
This is considered a Displace Condition, and is
reduced by the target's ADAMANT. This deals
no damage normally (unless you choose to
inflict it), but can be used to control an
enemy's position.
Propel
Alternatively, you can spend your AIM Die to
fire a blast that propels yourself in a given
direction. This can be used to move yourself
diagonally. You can travel up to the number of
Tiles rolled, but don't need to travel the entire
distance.
Roll your AIM Die to propel yourself. The
number of Tiles traveled is the number rolled.
This self-propulsion is counted as a self-
imposed Displace, and is reduced by your
ADAMANT.
Self-propulsion ignores chasms, difficult
terrain, short obstacles or any entity that is
Large or smaller. You can use this to repel an
enemy away from you and propel yourself in
the opposite direction at the same time.
Critical
If your AIM roll is a Critical for any of these
actions, you can choose to have it deal
damage, repel the target and propel yourself
all at the same time, if there are any valid
targets.
CAST
Casting
You can spend your CAST Die to harness the
World Tree's magic to perform different feats
and cast spells. These are called Abilities,
though some of them may require you to
spend other Action Dice instead of CAST.
When you read an Ability, it will list a cost to
execute that Ability. You can then spend your
CAST Die to cast that Ability. More powerful
Abilities will have a greater cost - an average
Ability will cost 1 CAST Die, while the strongest
ones may cost 3 CAST Dice or even 4.
When you roll your CAST Dice, the Ability will
typically state what is the effect based on the
number rolled.
Upcasting
When you spend the required CAST Die to cast
an Ability, you can choose to invest more Dice
into it to increase its power. This is called
Upcasting. Certain Abilities will list its effect
when Upcasted. If it does not list one, then it
cannot normally be Upcasted - still, you may
consult your GM on how an Ability can be
Upcasted in a balanced manner.
You can Upcast an Ability by spending any
number of CAST Die beyond its initial cost. You
then roll your CAST Die, and the number rolled
will amplify that Ability's potency according to
its Upcast effect.
Upcasting the same Ability counts as the
same Action, so you can spend any number
of Dice without consuming additional Actions.
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Miscellaneous Actions
The following details other types of Actions you can take during combat.
Instant Reaction
You can add an Action Die of any type to
another Action Die make it an Instant
Reaction - meaning you can perform that
action to immediately react to something
outside of your Turn. For example, you spend 1
HIT Die + 1 Action Die to attack an opponent
before it attacks your ally.
If any combat technique or ability specifically
shows it's an Instant Reaction, you follow the
Action Die cost specified by it instead.
Using a Skill
You can choose to perform a Skill Challenge
during combat, such as to analyse an enemy
for weaknesses, or to perform a complex stunt
not normally outlined in the combat rules.
Your GM works with you to see how possible
this is, suggesting alternatives or workarounds
that best fit your intention if possible.
After that, your GM determines how many
Action Dice of any type you must spend to
perform this Skill Challenge, depending on the
complexity of this action.
For example, searching an enemy formation
for a weak point is a SENSE Challenge costing 1
Action Die. Performing an upwards wall run
onto the second floor of a building,
backflipping off and and burying your blade in
a flying dragon is a DARE Challenge costing 3
Action Dice: 1 for the wall run, 1 for the backflip
and 1 for the blade attack.
Neutral Actions
You can also spend Action Dice of any type to
perform Neutral Actions, which do not fall
under any specific category of Action Die.
Interact
You can spend 1 Action Die to interact with an
object, entity or the environment in the middle
of combat.
Examples include unlocking a door, flipping
over a table to use as a barricade, swinging
on a chandelier, etc.
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Depending on the complexity or impact of the
action, your GM may ask you to spend
additional Action Dice, or have you perform a
Skill Challenge to execute it. If you have a
Specialty in a task that may cost multiple
Action Dice, you would need 1 less.
For example, to hack a security turret, an
untrained person may need to spend 2 Action
Dice to disable it, while a Voyager with a
Specialty in hacking or computers would only
need 1. If your Specialty is Trained to its highest
level (d12), an action requiring 3 Action Dice
would only take 1 from you - albeit complex
tasks may still require you to roll a Skill
Challenge to determine its success.
Scurry
You can spend an Action Die to Scurry. This
gives you an amount of Movement equal to
half your MOVE Die's value.
Instant Dodge
An Instant Dodge is a neutral Action that all
Players can use during combat, which costs 1
Action Die of any type to use.
It is an Instant Reaction that you can use any
time, even outside of your Turn, which allows
you to move 1 Tile away (even diagonally) and
automatically avoid any one instance of
damage that was targeting you. You are
counted as Invulnerable to that instance of
damage. However, you will be vulnerable
again immediately upon landing.
If the Tile you landed on after using an Instant
Dodge has a hazard, such as lava or a mine,
you will take damage from that Tile.
Additionally, if an Ability covers a wide area
and you are still in its area of effect after using
an Instant Dodge, you will still be hit by that
Ability.
Players and foes alike are likely to use Instant
Dodges in combat, so consider forcing an
enemy to Dodge and potentially waste their
offensive Action Dice. It is also a useful option
for Action Dice you don't use often, or to more
quickly reset your Loadout after using all
Action Dice you wanted to use.
Miscellaneous
Concepts
Size
Some portions of this book will mention Size,
which occasionally affect spacing and
positioning during combat. In most cases
though, it is deliberately vague so as to not
overly limit Players from performing cool
actions.
Tiny
The size of a mouse, fairy or small bottle.
Occupies 1 Tile. Can freely move and stop in
the same space as an entity or object of
Small Size or bigger.
Small
The size of a cat, small dog or humanoid child.
Occupies 1 Tile. Can freely move and stop in
the same space as an entity or object of
Medium Size or bigger.
Medium
The size of an average humanoid Sapient,
and animals like large dogs. Occupies 1 Tile.
Large
The size of a horse or car. Occupies 2 Tiles.
Huge
The size of a bus or elephant.
Colossal
The size of a house.
Companions
You can choose to have your Voyager bring a
companion on their travels, like a pet,
summon or familiar. During combat, the GM
simply rules that any Action your companion
takes is spent from your Action Loadout.
Hybrid Weapons/Combat
Hybrid weapons use state of the art
innovation to combine melee and ranged
combat into a single dance of metal and
munitions. This can also be an adept magus-
warrior who uses weapons and magic in swift
tandem.
You can choose to give your Voyager a hybrid
weapon during character creation. When
doing so, choose a configuration for your
weapon, and two weapons to combine
together.
Hybrid Weapon Configurations
A hybrid weapon can be found in multiple
configurations. Some use simple munitions to
amplify their melee attacks; others can use
complex mechanisms to transform between
melee and ranged forms.
Synergy
A weapon that combines melee and ranged
archetypes, weaving close-range attacks and
harrying fire seamlessly. This can be a
gunblade, firing with each swing of the blade;
a rocket axe using jet propulsion to increase
the heft of your swings, and so on.
Shifter
A shifter weapon can transform between
multiple different forms during combat,
allowing the wielder to adapt to different
situations. It can be a pair of giant scissors
that can merge into a singular giant blade, a
scythe that can also turn into a sniper rifle,
and so on.
Infused
An infused weapon is one that doubles as
both weapon and magical focus. The wielder
uses it to channel the World Tree's energy and
hone magic, like a staff or a sword made of
flames.
Hybrid Attacks
When you attack with your hybrid weapon,
you can activate it - for example, firing your
gunblade as you slash a target. When you do
so, you can roll your HIT and AIM Die
simultaneously, adding the total damage and
its effects together. As with normal ranged
attacks, you can cause your hybrid attack to
repel the target or propel yourself away.
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Techniques
The following are progression options to expand your Voyager's signature fighting style, which can be
learned by spending EXP. These provide additional options in battle and a greater level of depth for
Players wishing to dive more into combat complexity and the fantasy of playing their character.

Lunge
Wall Run
1 EXP - Melee
1 EXP - Any
Free Action
When you move and are against a wall, you
You thrust your weapon outward. When using
can now run along its surface. You can take
your HIT Die, you can spend an additional
other actions like attacking while doing this,
Action Die of any type as a free Action to
but if you run out of Movement, you fall back
increase your attack range by 1 Tile, hitting all
down.
enemies in range.

Cleave
1 EXP - Melee
Free Action
You make a wide sweep with your weapon.
When using your HIT Die, you can spend an
additional Action Die of any type as a free
Action to sweep the 3 Tiles directly in front of
you, hitting all enemies in range.
Explosive Ammo
2 EXP - Ranged
Free Action
When using your AIM Die, you can spend an
additional Action Die of any type as a free
Action to have your ranged attack explode in
an area of a 1 Tile Star. This can be rounds
from a grenade launcher, a thrown fireball,
etc. Depending on the attack, this can fire
over small obstacles, and therefore does not
require pure line of sight to hit.
You can learn this Technique again to gain
the option to expand this explosion's area into
a 3x3 Box. Doing this will cost 2 additional
Action Dice to execute instead of 1, or 1 Action
Die of d8 value or higher.
Sprint
3 EXP - Any
If you spend a MOVE Die, you can continue
moving to build up momentum into a full
sprint, which gives you an additional
Movement equal to half your MOVE Die's value.
Taking any other actions while moving causes
you to stop and lose this benefit.
Combat Weave
2 EXP
Free Action
Whenever you spend a HIT or AIM Die for a
regular attack, you can move 1 Tile at no cost.
You are temporarily Invulnerable when
moving this way.
Flurry
2 EXP
1 Action
You thrust or fire your weapon multiple times
in its attack area. Roll any number of HIT Die.
The number rolled is the amount of times you
hit all targets in range, dealing 1 damage each
time. All enemies must SAVE against the total
number rolled.

Provoke
1 EXP - Any
Cost: 1 Action Die
You provoke a foe to focus its ire on you. You
can spend any amount of Action Die to inflict
Taunt on a target in your line of sight, based
on the number rolled. This is considered a
neutral Action.
Combo
3 EXP
You can perform a continuous attack chain.
Whenever you roll a HIT or AIM Die, rolling the
same type of Die again continues the Combo,
until you stop. For each additional Die you
spend, your attack gains Accuracy +1, and the
number rolled will always be equal or higher
than the previous number rolled.

Wall Jump
1 EXP - Any
When you spend any Movement to jump next
to a wall, solid obstacle or entity that is your
Size or larger, you can spend that Movement
to jump off, and can repeat this. You are
counted as Airborne.

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Seize
2 EXP
Using a steel wire, gravity magic or some
other means, you spend 1 HIT or AIM Die pull
an opponent in your range to the Tile directly
in front of you. If the opponent is at least one
Size larger than you, you pull yourself towards
it instead. You can pull yourself or the target a
distance based on your roll, at which point the
connection severs.
Launcher
2 EXP
When you repel an enemy with your attack,
you can choose to launch them Airborne in
place instead of repelling them away from
you.
Driver
3 EXP - Melee
If you are Airborne, you can spend 1 HIT Action
to perform an attack that causes you to
immediately plunge to the ground, damaging
any enemies in range directly below you. You
travel at a rate of 6 Tiles per turn, and for the
first 6 Tiles you travel this way, you take no
damage.
If done next to an Airborne enemy, you also
attack them, causing them to crash down
immediately, landing 1 Tile next to you. All
remaining Airborne stacks are dealt to them
as damage, along with the damage rolled
from your HIT Die.
Stinger
3 EXP - Melee
Cost: 1 HIT + 1 Action Die, 1 Action
You dash forward like a spear, thrusting
forward with your weapon, damaging and
repelling all enemies in your path.
Roll your HIT Die, added with an Action Die of
any type. The total number rolled determines
the number of Tiles you travel forward,
damage and repel enemies. The source of the
Displacement is the Tile where you stop.
Riposte
3 EXP
Reaction
As a Reaction, if an enemy attacks you and
misses, if you successfully SAVE against their
attack, or if they attack a nearby ally
(regardless if hit or miss), you can spend 1 HIT
or AIM Action to perform an attack against
them.
Recovery Strike
2 EXP
Free Action
If an enemy successfully makes a SAVE
against your Weapon, you can instantly strike
again while their guard is broken. Roll your
attack Die again at no cost. This can be used
against multiple targets in your Turn, but if an
enemy successfully makes a SAVE against this
strike, you cannot use it on them again for that
Round.
Juggle
2 EXP
Reaction
Cost: 1 HIT or 1 AIM
As a Reaction, if an ally launches an enemy
within your attack range Airborne, you can
spend an AIM Action to shoot them and propel
them further into the air.
If using HIT, you instead instantly dash to the
Airborne enemy, damaging and launching
them further based on the number rolled. This
roll also determines the range you are able to
dash to them. After executing this, you land on
the Tile next to where you launched the
enemy.
Debilitate
2 EXP
You can use your HIT or AIM Die to stop an
opponent in their tracks. When you roll your
attack Die, you root the target according to
the number rolled. The target also takes half of
that rolled number as damage (rounded up).
You can spend an additional Action Die of any
type to Debilitate a target as a Reaction, e.g. if
they try to run away from you.
Speed Reload
4 EXP - Ranged/Hybrid
If the last AIM Die spent from your Loadout rolls
a Critical, you reload within the same motion
with a flourish, refunding half your AIM Die
back into your Loadout (rounded up).
Deadeye
4 EXP - Ranged/Hybrid
Cost: 2 AIM Actions
You take time to aim your next shot. Your next
attack costs 2 AIM Die instead of 1, but deals
Honed damage and gains Truestrike.
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Weapon Surf
1 EXP
1 Action Die
As a neutral Action, you can spend 1 Action Die
to ride your weapon. This can be a greatsword
you stand on like a surfboard, a rocket arm
you balance on, etc.
Depending on the weapon, you can use an
AIM Die this way to propel yourself as well.
Otherwise, it's mostly for style.
Armourbane
4 EXP
Free Action
When you attack or use an Ability, you can
spend an additional Action Die of any type to
make that roll reduce the target's SAVE roll by
that amount.
Forceful Strike
4 EXP
Free Action
When you attack or use an Ability, you can roll
one additional Action Die to have that attack
or Ability ignore the target's ADAMANT by the
rolled amount. This Action Die must be the
lowest value Die you have in your Loadout,
besides the Dice used for the attack/Ability
itself.
Trick Jump
2 EXP
If you move and you pass the space of an
entity that is Small, Medium or Large, you can
leapfrog over their heads. Done this way, you
gain 2 Tiles of free movement, and you are
treated as Airborne until you land.
Deflect Projectile
3 EXP
Reaction
As a Reaction, when a ranged projectile would
hit you or an ally in your range, you can
instead spend 1 HIT, AIM or CAST Die to deflect
it back to the source. Your roll must match or
exceed the hostile roll. This only applies to
small projectiles like bullets and arrows.
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Ricochet
3 EXP - Ranged
Cost: 1 Action Die
When you make a ranged attack that hits an
enemy or surface, you can spend 1 Action Die
to have the attack ricochet off them and hit
another enemy or surface within the same
rolled distance, as long as there a straight line
can be drawn between them. The second
target takes half damage.
This Technique can be learned multiple times
to increase the amount of times you can
ricochet your ranged attack, up to a
maximum of 3 times.
Charged Rounds
3 EXP - Ranged/Hybrid
Free Action
You charge your next few shots with
additional power. For every AIM Die you wish
to empower, spend the same amount of
Action Die of any type. All your AIM Dice in that
pool will gain Honed damage and gain stacks
of Stagger.
Izanagi
3 EXP - Ranged/Hybrid
You infuse your rounds with power, channeled
into your next attack.
You spend all your remaining AIM Die to do
this, storing them for your next shot. On your
next Turn, when you make your next ranged
attack, roll all of the AIM Dice that you stored
at once for this attack and add them together
for their damage, repel and propel effects
where desired.
This attack also gains Truestrike.
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Conditions
You or an enemy can be afflicted with any number of debilitating status effects, called Conditions.
These can be crucial in turning the tide of a battle, and can often be followed up by further attacks.
Conditions & Stacks
Rather than painstakingly tracking status
effects across multiple turns, the GM mainly
needs to note if an enemy has enough
Condition stacks on it to be affected.
Whenever someone uses an Action Die that
inflicts a Condition, your Action Die will inflict a
number of stacks based on the number rolled,
such as Displace 6 or Stun 4. All Conditions
and Condition stacks expire by the start of
each new Round.
The number of stacks a Condition inflicts is for
two purposes: to increase the effectiveness of
a Condition, or to overcome an enemy's
ADAMANT resistance.
Adamant
Many tougher foes are more resistant to
Conditions and status effects. You wouldn't be
able to launch a giant mech across the room
the same way you would with a regular
person. This is conveyed with a simple
ADAMANT stat, and is a static number.
An entity's ADAMANT value reduces all
Condition stacks by that number. So if you
cast an Ability to repel a foe 10 Tiles away, but
they have an ADAMANT of 6, they are only
pushed 4 Tiles away. If you try to Push them 4
Tiles away, then they will not be moved at all.
The number of stacks must exceeed their
ADAMANT value to succeed.
ADAMANT passively reduces all Condition
stacks first, which can then be further reduced
or negated using SAVE Dice. If you impose
Stagger 10 against an entity with ADAMANT 3,
only Stagger 7 goes through, but that entity
may then roll a SAVE Die up to 7 to negate this
effect entirely.
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If an entity is successfully inflicted with a
Condition, inflicting the same Condition on
them will have no further effect on them that
Round, with the exception of Displace and
Airborne.
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List of Conditions
Stagger
The target is shaken and needs to waste
precious time to reorient themselves. They
start their Turn with one less Action than they
normally would - for a regular Sapient, this
would mean they can only take two Actions
on their Turn.
Displace
A basic Condition that imposes movement on
the target. Can cause the target to hit a wall
or solid obstacle. If a target hits something this
way, all remaining Displace stacks are
converted into 1 damage per stack upon
impact.
Airborne
A Displaced target can be knocked Airborne,
which can activate certain other Abilities and
Techniques that synergise with it. The target
takes damage based on the number of tiles
travelled when they hit solid ground, as with
the Displaced condition.
By default, all entities that are Airborne in
combat fall to the ground at a rate of 6 Tiles
per turn. This means an enemy that is taken
very high can be taken out of combat for an
entire Turn, if not more.
Slow
An entity that is Slowed must expend double
the Movement to move 1 Tile or perform other
movement actions.
Stun
The target is unable to move or take any
actions, and they lose their Turn for that
Round.
Root
The entity’s movespeed becomes 0 and
cannot be Displaced or take movement
actions until the end of the round. They can
still Attack and use non-movement Abilities
and Techniques.
Stealth
A Stealthed entity is either concealed or
unseen, such as in darkness. Their first
successful Attack against an unsuspecting
target gains Truestrike, at which point they
must be Stealthed again to regain this benefit.

Disarm
An entity is unable to use HIT or AIM Die or
Techniques using the disarmed weapon.

Fear
The entity with Fear will prefer to move away
from the source of its fear. Any Action Die
used against the source is rolled with a
penalty equal to the Fear stacks. E.g. inflicting
Fear 4 will incur a -4 penalty, meaning a d4
Action Die will be completely ineffective
against the source of the fear.

If an entity has 0 Resolve and is inflicted with

Fear, all their Action Dice except for MOVE can
only roll 0.

Impair
The entity is blinded, deafened or otherwise
has their senses disrupted. All Action Dice they
roll will have its number halved - a roll of 1 will
be treated as a 0.

Taunt
The Taunted entity becomes hostile to the
source and will spend all available Actions to
move to the source and attack (if melee) or to
keep line of sight on the source and attack
them (if ranged). Its attention will be on the
source and does not pay attention to others
even when attacked.

Silence
A Silenced entity cannot use CAST Dice.

Invulnerable
An Invulnerable entity is temporarily immune
to all instances of damage or Conditions. You
are Invulnerable during the first Tile travelled
while using Instant Dodge.

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Progression
Experience
Every time your party completes part of their
Voyage, your GM gives you a number of
Experience Points (EXP). This EXP can be used
to purchase different forms of progression for
your Voyager.
Whenever the party rests as a result of
performing Skill Challenges during narrative
play, or after completing a combat encounter,
the party gains 1 EXP. We recommend about 3
EXP per completed Voyage, depending on its
length and the challenges overcome to
complete it - that is, about 1-3 periods of
activity broken up by rests.
After character creation, every time a Player
spends 2 EXP to upgrade anything, they also
gain a Level.
On top of this, your character has 3 overall
tiers of progression called Potentials. Your
party will naturally reach a Potential after
spending a certain number of EXP, as more
powerful abilities and resources are available
only after reaching a certain Potential.
Your Voyager reaches Potential I at Level 8 (16
EXP spent after character creation); and
Potential II at Level 16 (32 EXP spent after
character creation).
Progression Options
The following are the options you can spend
your EXP on between Voyages:
Increase Max Resolve
All Voyagers have 25 Resolve by default. You
may spend 1 EXP to increase your Voyager's
maximum Resolve by +5.
Train Specialties
You can spend 2 EXP to train your character's
Skill Specialty and increase its Training to a
higher die increment.
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Learn a New Specialty
You can also spend 1 EXP to learn a new
Specialty during Downtime. During
subsequent periods of Downtime, your GM will
require you to spend an additional EXP to
continue learning it, and again to properly
integrate it as a Skill Specialty, totalling 3 EXP
spent over multiple sessions.
For example, you want to learn fishing. At the
first stage, you would learn it at a novice level,
trying and failing to catch fish, approaching
various people to learn the craft.
At the second stage, you start to get a sense
of the ropes, knowing what to do and not to
do, and are familiar with the terms, jargon and
cultural norms associated with the fishing
community.
At the third stage, you are considered to be a
proper member of the fishing community, and
can now reliably catch fish, and have formed
a circle of reliable friends and contacts within
that community. You now have the Fishing
Specialty, and can use that Specialty while
roleplaying and performing Skill Challenges,
benefiting from the bonuses given from your
Skill Dice.
Combat Technique
You can spend EXP to train your Voyager in a
new combat technique.
Character Abilities
You can spend EXP to have your character
learn and improve their innate Abilities.
Rest & Downtime
Rest
Rest is a short period of recovery the party
takes. During narrative play, the party rests
after at least one of the Voyagers has
performed at least 5 Skill Challenges. The
party also rests after every combat
encounter.
Every time they rest, the party gains 1 EXP.
Based on the GM's discretion, they may
choose to delay this EXP gain if the Skill
Challenges accumulated were minor. Players
are discouraged from attempting Skill
Challenges simply for the sake of triggering
more rests and gaining EXP - that's not gonna
fly here.
During rest, the Voyagers can interact with
each other, discussing the state of the
mission, planning their next course of action,
or simply relaxing and spending time on their
hobbies. It can be as casual as a campfire
under the moonlight after a long day's
journey, or as stress-relieving as finding a
safe room after braving a treacherous, trap-
laden labyrinth filled with enemies.
It is not mandatory for the party to
immediately set up camp and rest after
combat, or exactly after 5 Skill Challenges are
made. The party is allowed to continue in a
natural way until they find proper shelter, even
if they must perform additional Skill
Challenges to get there.
their Voyagers next, and the GM can plan this
Downtime session accordingly. For example, if
a Player wants their Voyager that learn a cool
new Technique that lets them launch an
enemy in the air, the GM can plan a small
training session or minor mission - a
sidequest if you may - where these individual
Voyagers can discover and unlock a small
part of their newfound potential.
Some will find this by learning new spells
through dilligent study, some through martial
training and some through boons gained
from their Faction. If the GM chooses, they can
even skip Downtime and weave these
discoveries into the next Scenario - having the
Voyagers unlock their potential in real time
when stakes are high, and they find a new
way to assist their allies in their time of need.
This is up to you as GM. However, we
recommend Downtime sessions as it allows
the party to wind down after each mission in a
low-stakes context: to meet old friends and
reconnect with old contacts, to engage with
their hobbies or to report back to their allied
Faction or back at EXDUS to report of their
findings and accomplishments.

Experience & Downtime

Every time your party finishes a Voyage, you
gain EXP that you use to learn new skills,
techniques and such.

However, we recommend that instead of

simply buying them and carrying on to the
next mission, that you spend time to play out
HOW the party acquires these new skills. This
period is called Downtime. After completing a
Scenario, the Players consider what to get
next for their Voyager, and individually let the
GM know their intent in anticipation for the
next session.

This is an opportunity for the Players to

discuss with the GM how they want to take

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Danger & Death
Endangered - Instant Dodges no longer cost Action Dice to
execute, but using an Instant Dodge will still
Once an entity, whether it's your Voyager or a
increase their Risk by +1.
foe, has their Resolve taken to 0, they become
- All their Action Dice will have an Accuracy
Endangered: they remain conscious and
equal to their Risk number.
active, but their life now hangs on a
precarious edge.
In this heightened state of adrenaline, the
Voyager is able to do remarkable things,
Most foes who become Endangered typically
dancing with death itself. However, Risk 10 is
will flee battle or surrender - they know
the maximum threshold for how much they
they've lost and will usually make a hasty
can push their luck.
retreat. Their morale has been completely
broken and they lose the will to fight. When
If the Voyager is damaged until they reach or
this happens, they are removed from the
exceed Risk 10, or if they are damaged while
initiative order and combat.
they are at Risk 10, they are dealt a fatal blow.
Their luck has run out.
While enemies retreat, Players are still able to
interact with the fleeing foes. They could use
their Turn to pursue the slowest one and
capture them for interrogation, attempt to Death & Injury
plant a tracker on a foe running back to their
hidden base, or kill a dangerous creature Depending on your table, your Voyager may
before it can escape and endanger others. either die or take on a serious injury. The
nature of this death or injury is based on the
When the Player becomes Endangered, they enemy and attack that inflicted it.
can still choose to take actions. This means
they can choose to withdraw to treat For example, if the enemy was a swordfighter,
themselves or in some cases, take on further they may have dismembered one of the
dangers to help their allies. Voyager's limbs.

Risk
If the Player chooses to withdraw upon being
Endangered, the GM may allow them to do so,
and that character leaves combat. They are
assumed to find safety nearby, and cannot
re-enter combat.

However, if the Player chooses to stay and

help in spite of their dire condition, then their
character remains in the initiative order.

When the character becomes Endangered,

their Action Loadout is immediately
replenished to full. Whenever this character
spends an Action Die while remaining in
combat, they will gain +1 Risk. If they take
damage, their Risk will also be increased by
the amount of damage taken.

When Endangered, the Voyager is imposed

with these statuses:

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Money & Resources
Some lore and rules for usage regarding money and other forms of wealth in Voyager: Tactics.
Diny (Dn)
Little is known about the first stories of society
reemerging after the arrival of the World Tree,
but one story remains: that of the Diny
(pronounced dye-nee).
During the first few years of Aeden's birth,
some traders reportedly came across a large
cache of Old World treasures, among them
being a large number of ancient dice made of
copper, plastic and various other materials.
While most people recognised them as
trinkets for play and leisure, due to the scarce
resources at the time, they were used as a
makeshift currency to represent the bulk of
trade goods, the value of each piece easily
discerned by the highest number it conveys.
Over time, the tradition stuck, and now the
Aedean government mints these dice as
official coinage out of metals like copper and
silver, called the Diny, which spread to be
used all throughout the Known World that
other currencies are measured against - the
Roll Standard. The numbers on the die faces
fell to disuse and were replaced by more
decorative motifs; the shape of the dice as
well as its minted material being the actual
representation of its coinage value.
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Shelling (Sh)
Also called Rounds, this is a currency brought
over by the Amerusan Colonies from the West.
The Colonists often had bullets in abundant
supply, and used them as a system of trade,
arranging their order of value by the bullets'
Calibre. They were originally Old World
munitions that used a substance called Black
Powder, but since the usage of Red Glass
became the preferred primer for Amerusan
firearms, these Black Powder Shellings
became a rare commodity and a subject of
collection and preservation.
Empty shell casings were also used, and
represented a tenth of its bullet’s value. The
standard value of one Shelling is measured by
its most common Calibre, the Plinker, which
equals 1 Diny in value. Other increments of
Shelling include the Gauger and Hander.
Pego (Pg)
Also called Bricks, Pego is system of currency
brought over by the Kaibi, and is particularly
loved by the Dust markets and the Kaibi for its
bright colours and cute appearance, so
named for its blocky shape, and the name
Pego meticulously inscribed on every block’s
stud with fine precision, a name which was
assumed to refer to a deity of riches, masonry
and play.
 Consumables
Perishables or items meant for single-use,
including food, potions and the like. They are
bought with Money, or can be crafted or
traded with Materials.

Materials
Based on a common Kaibi folk tale, use of
Component items used to craft other items,
Bricks became popularised after what the
and are a very useful resource to barter with
Kaibi call the Great Siege of Pegoland, in their
people who find little use for Money, such as
far-off motherland. There, a group of survivors
certain Shard Banners and Raiders. These can
were cornered by a massive band of warlords
be grains, spices, ores, gems and harvested
and raiders, and sought shelter in a place
parts from monsters, such as scales, vials of
called Pegoland, where they found a vibrant
blood or bones.
paradise filled with these dreamlike bricks.
They used these bricks to trade with the
warlords, who also became enraptured by Writs
them, believing Pegoland to be the sacred Representations of wealth given by Factions
realm of an Old World god - turning Pego into or wealthy parties, and provide access to
a popular currency ever since. goods. These can be a deed to a house,
exclusive rights to access restricted resources
The most common Pego type are the 2x3 and and locations, or a written commendation by
2x4 Bricks, and are often used a Faction leader. While some Writs can be
interchangeably with the same value, with bought for Money, such as property deeds,
more unusual shapes having greater value getting Writs mainly represents the Party's
(Pego Piece #26047 is one of particular social standing and reputation, as riches do
cultural significance sought after by many not always translate to prestige.
collectors). One standard Pego is relatively
equal to 1 Diny, and Dust traders are often
divided between which they prefer, treating
them as rival currencies.

Wealth & Spending

In this current game version, to keep
gameplay relatively free of bookkeeping, I've
decided not to add in a detailed list for prices
for objects. However, I'll list the different forms
of wealth that you may encounter in your
Voyages.

There are five types of resources used in

Revenir: Money, Equipment, Consumables,
Materials and Writs - each having different
uses in the world.

Money
This represents the Party's overall wealth. Any
money earned by the Party is not tracked
individually, but is added into the party's
Spending Money, or Hoard, which they can
use to buy any number of resources.

Equipment
These are items that the Party will regularly
use, such as weapons, apparel and magical
trinkets. These require Money to be supplied,
or can be crafted or traded with Materials.

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Inventory
During your Voyages, you may encounter objects of interest that you take along with you, usually a
relic or object needed for your objective that you bring back to EXDUS HQ for analysis, processing or
archival. For this purpose, a simple Inventory system is used to keep track of this.
Inventory Space
Every Voyager in your party has a basic
exploration pack that they use to carry things,
which constitutes your Inventory space. Each
person's Inventory has 10 slots that can be
used to store items you find on your Voyage.
Your Inventory is reset to 0 at the end of every
Voyage. This is to minimise bookkeeping, and
your stored items are assumed to be stored
at EXDUS HQ or distributed during Downtime.
Bulk
Each item has its own Bulk, denoting how
many Inventory slots they occupy. The larger
or heavier the item is, the greater their Bulk
and the more Inventory slots they occupy in
your pack. Once your pack is full, you cannot
carry any more items.
Light Bulk - 1 Slot
Any item small or light enough to fit in your
pocket. E.g. small figurines, vials, amulets.
A purse of 50 Diny costs 1 slot.
Regular Bulk - 2 Slots
Items of regular size and weight. E.g. books,
bottles.
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Heavy Bulk - 3 Slots
Items of large size and bulk, which many relics
fall under. E.g. shields, helmets, stone idols.
4 Slots+
Items of a high Bulk that occupy 4 slots or
above cannot fit in your pack. These include
heavy stone tablets, computers and treasure
chests. To carry them, you need a LOQR.
L.O.Q.R
Every Voyage Team in EXDUS has clearance to
carry one LOQR (pronounced “Locker”) - short
for LOcalised Quasidimensional Reliquary. It is
a remote storage device used to facilitate
long-distance travel by EXDUS operatives and
to transport highly fragile and valuable Old
World relics.
The LOQR is a small device that is normally
attached to one’s shoulder via a shoulder
strap and is activated by a small wave of the
hand across the shoulder (1 Action). Any item
that is held in the caster’s hands is kept in an
astral pocket dimension until it is recovered
with another 1 Action hand gesture.
Any items inside the LOQR are weightless. The
LOQR is bound to its user, so only the user is
able to access the LOQR’s contents unless
forced open by powerful magic or hacking.
The LOQR has 10 Inventory slots like your Mission Items
Voyager pack. However, it can fit any objects
When starting a Voyage, your party can stock
of Bulk 4 and above, storing them safely and
up on certain provisions like healing salves
efficiently for transport. Any weight beyond
and light sources from EXDUS HQ, or along
that disrupts the stability of the pocket
their travels. These would take up space in
dimension, at which point all of its contents
your pack, so be mindful not to fill your pack
are expelled and strewn randomly around the
too much in the case you may need the
user.
space for key items during your mission, like
relics or briefcases containing important
Quartermaster documents.
Since only 1 LOQR is allocated to each Voyage
party, your party would designate one Player
to carry the LOQR, entrusting it and its
contents to their care. This Player is called the
Quartermaster.

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C H A P T E R II

YOUR VOYAGER

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Creating Your Voyager
There are three main sections for creating your Voyager: their Sapient type, their Faction and their
Venture.
Your Voyager
You may freely decide how unique your
Voyager looks, from their outfit to their gear.
Your Voyager is either an established figure in
their Faction or someone holding great
potential who was scouted or chose to join
EXDUS. As such, they may usually have their
own gear that they're comfortable with.
This is based on the philosophy that you
should be able to take any cool anime
character design you love (non-commercially
of course) and be able to play them here
without much problem, and shouldn't have to
limit yourself by trying to make your character
fit certain equipment or items.
Starting Checklist
At character creation, besides the bonuses
gained from their choice of Sapient, Faction
and Venture, your Voyager starts with:
> 25 maximum Resolve
> An Origin along with its relevant Specialties
> 3 EXP that they can spend on anything, like
Specialties, Techniques or an Ability from
their Venture.
Sapients
A Sapient is a broad term referring to any
humanoid, intelligent species that have
evolved to inhabit the post-Emergence world
of Revenir; some common and some rare.
Because more Sapients are being discovered
day by day, this term was coined by EXDUS
and kept open-ended on purpose.
The most that EXDUS knows is that a majority
of Sapients were once originally Humans
themselves, but the magic of the World Tree
combined with their highly demanding
environments caused a state of accelerated
evolution across the world; and within just a
few generations these adaptations began to
manifest and reshape their biologies.
This means that most (though not all)
Sapients owe their origins to the humans of
the Old World: Earth.
Factions
Every Voyager will have a different upbringing,
culture and allegiance prior to joining EXDUS.
This is exemplified by their Faction, which
embody the many cultures and organisations
in Revenir, some ancient and some young.
They have their own customs and often
hierarchies that Voyagers can choose to
participate with in exchange for their good
graces and resources.
While your Voyager may not be loyal to their
given Faction, it nonetheless is a defining pillar
to who they are now. For some Voyagers,
joining EXDUS may be an amusing side gig
that promises new sights and a chance at
glory. For others, the promise of exploring and
unifying a divided and untamed world
resonates deeply with your Voyager, and
they've now made it their life's calling.
The Voyager's Faction holds influence over
Revenir and can even affect the campaign,
such as encountering soldiers from the Sol
Empire and a minor Shard Banner fighting
each other, or finding a lone researcher from
the Cartograph Charter camping outside a
cave.
Here, a Voyager's loyalties may be tested: will
they end up assisting their kinsmen, or will
they see value in the principles of EXDUS and
find a middle ground to mediate between two
battling groups?
Ventures
Ventures embody the many life callings the
Voyager may belong to, usually based on
their choice of Faction. The Factions outlined
here are the ones that are 1) known within
Revenir, with enough notable members to be
recorded by EXDUS; and 2) typically friendly or
neutral to EXDUS. There are still many that lie
unknown in the World Beyond, waiting to be
created by the GM and discovered by the
Players.
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Creating a Sapient
Each Sapient type has their own unique Variant Traits, such as the aquatic Ruaya having the option to
breathe underwater. They can be found under each Sapient's section. You may choose up to two of
these Traits when creating your Voyager.

Before choosing these specific Traits, first decide your Voyager's general traits, such as their size.

Size Size: Medium

Start by choosing your Voyager's Size. By
default, most Sapients are of Medium size,
with the exception of the Kean, who are Small
by default.
Size: Tiny
Choice
Common Sapients: Magoi, Kaibi, Ruaya,
Feithéan, Orzlaty
Your Voyager is no more than 8 inches tall.
Tiny entities can move through any Tile
occupied by an obstacle or another entity of
Small size or greater. You must spend double
the Movement to traverse 1 Tile, and require 3
Movement to climb 1 Tile.
If an ally or enemy within 1 Tile of you moves,
you can hitch a ride on them and move where
they go, landing on a Tile next to them. They
are not Slowed by doing this.
Size: Small
Choice
Common Sapients: Kean, Magoi, Kaibi, Ruaya,
Orzlaty
Choice
Common Sapients: All except Kean
Your height is anywhere between 5 to 6 feet
tall. The average size of a humanoid Sapient
in Revenir.
Size: Large
Choice
Common Sapients: Xylolith, Kaibi, Ruaya,
Orzlaty, Drachéan
Your height is anywhere from 7 to 12 feet tall.
You occupy 2 Tiles of space: a Head Tile for
your front side and a Back Tile for your back.
Your Head Tile is counted as the source for all
your actions when moving, attacking or
casting - unless using a tail, in which case you
use your Back Tile.
You either cannot or find difficulty interacting
with features meant for Medium-sized
Sapients, such as doorways, chairs and
narrow corridors. Your GM may rule you may
have to squeeze through or unable to pass
through an obstacle on a map during
combat.

Your height is anywhere from 2 to 4 feet tall.

Small entities can move through any Tile
occupied by an obstacle or another entity of
Medium size or greater. You must spend
double the Movement to traverse 1 Tile, and
require 3 Movement to climb 1 Tile.

If an ally within 1 Tile of you moves, you can

hitch a ride on them and move where they go,
landing on a Tile next to them. Note that your
ally is considered Slowed by doing this.

You can also use this Size when playing small

humanoids, like children or as a little person.

Large Size Sapient

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Optional Traits
There will be a limit to how many Variant
Traits you can take for your Voyager. However,
you can freely take any of these optional
Variant Traits, as they do not have a huge
mechanical impact on your character, and
are moreso used to help flavour their
interactions with the world or how they fight.
Bite
Optional Trait
Common Sapients: Kaibi, Ruaya, Orzlaty,
Drachéan
You have sharp teeth or pointed beak with a
powerful bite that you can use for attacking -
rolling your HIT Die as if attacking with it.
Mixed Parentage
You may freely play as a Voyager of mixed
parentage, having parents from different
Sapient types.
During character creation, when you choose
two of your Sapient's Variant Traits, instead of
choosing both from the same Sapient, you
may instead take one trait from one parent
Sapient and another trait from the second.
Your Voyager may typically exhibit traits from
both parents, or may look like a fusion of both,
perhaps leaning towards one more than the
other. For example, a Human-Síoraí person
may look entirely human, save for two pointy
ears. A Kean-Ruaya person may be a Small-
sized reptilian humanoid.

Claws/Talons
Optional Trait
Common Sapients: Kaibi, Ruaya, Orzlaty,
Drachéan

You have sharp claws that you can use for

attacking - rolling your HIT Die as if attacking
with it.

Prehensile Tail
Optional Trait
Common Sapients: Kaibi, Ruaya, Drachéan

You have a dextrous tail that you can use for

various tasks, even attacking - rolling your HIT
or AIM Dice as if attacking with it.

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Original Human
Also called Survivors, Homo sapiens or Proto-Sapients, Original Humans are some of the only people
who survived the Emergence of the World Tree largely unchanged genetically, and are the prototypical
template of sapient organism that would hyperevolve into numerous - though not all - known Sapient
species in the New World.

Aedean often centred around the Fear Of Death: an

innate sense of internal compulsion to leave
"Our ancestors were known for their fear of behind a lasting legacy or memory upon the
death, and in a way we are scarcely different; we world, lest all memory of Earth perish with
fear for our collective fading away." them as a people.

Origin: Pre-Emergence Original Human
Age: Humans reach maturity at about age 20
and live for up to 120 years.
Prevalence: Common. The most well-
documented Sapient in EXDUS records,
numbering well in the hundreds of thousands.
Most other Sapients are friendly with or
ambivalent to Aedeans, but largely hold
respect for their powerful organisations and
vast influence over resources. A lot of others
would say that Aedeans tend to always be
stuck in the past, poring over tomes and
artifacts, or always in a hurry to accomplish
great things.

Vibe: Vanilla human

Playing an Aedean
As an Original Human, you are just as much of
an oddity as the other Sapients around you -
your defining quirk being that your people are
living remnants of the Old World, called Earth.
For this reason, Aedean mythology and
religion paint themselves as the "Chosen
Survivors", as their oldest myths recall a small
group of people being trapped within the
boughs of the World Tree during the
Emergence, and so were sheltered and
cushioned from most of the cataclysms that
harrowed the earth.
AEDEAN NAMES
Aedean names are largely derived from
Eglaise, the closest equivalent to Old World
English. Due to the passage of time, these
names may resemble names from the Old
World, albeit spelled differently - or names
taken from words we don't typically use as
given names on Earth, such as surnames or
place names.
Vesper, Alma, Calder, Dawne, Emileigh, Soren,
Townes, Tenemant, Phileon, Darias, Treu,
Caldeneaux, Sterian, Gilhauder, Flo, Frau,
Senny, Tullwise, Ivernon, Pam, Delacourt,
Lyonessa

Due to the safety afforded by the World Tree's

protection, Aedean cities, called Relic Cities,
tend to be the most prosperous within Revenir,
and many Aedeans are only familiar with the
comforts and luxuries of these idyllic places,
some calm and rural and some bustling with
activity - your Voyager seeking the hard life of
adventure being something of an anomaly.
These cities have also spread to the nearby
region called the Vinelands. As such, Aedeans
tend to be well-versed in the arts and
academic ventures, pursuing many interests
in life.

Aedean religion and collective thought is

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Aedean Variant Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.

The Fear of Death

You carry the soul of one who has survived the
cataclysm that destroyed the Earth, and
emerged unchanged, a living relic of an
ephemeral past. The fear of fading away with
no trace of your memory is carved into your
deepest being. In moments of great need, you
are more likely to push yourself beyond what
most even think are capable of.

When your Resolve is reduced to 0 and you

become Endangered, you can accumulate up
to 20 Risk instead of 10.

The Strength to Press Onward

You are motivated by an unusual
determination. When you spend EXP to
increase your Resolve, you gain +6 from each
increase instead of +5.

Magical Anomaly
Your Earth genes makes you oddly resistant to
the World Tree's magic. All your rolls from your
CAST Action Die are halved. Conversely, any
magical action or effect on you also has its
effects halved, whether from an enemy or ally.
This includes elemental magic and magical
healing.

Knife's Edge
You psych yourself up to keep fighting. Once a
combat, if your Resolve gets taken to 0, you
do not become Endangered or accumulate
Risk until you finish taking your Turn for that
Round. You then become Endangered at the
end of the Round.

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Shardlander
"An earth carved into a thousand Shards; a sky
apportioned to a thousand clans."
Origin: Pre-Emergence Original Human
Age: Humans reach maturity at about age 20
and live for up to 120 years.
Prevalence: Common. While scattered
among the different Shards, the larger
Banners are quite populous, holding tens of
thousands of citizens.
SHARDLANDER NAMES
Most Shardlander names have a given name,
followed by their surname - taking after their
father or mother - and then followed by their
Banner's name.
Hroldr Hroldson Vangyr, Caewyr Elansson
Droma, Kainvangr, Yngvir Merasdottir Graive,
Sorja Freasdottir Sponn, Aife, Bryn, Caradhrun,
Volstanga, Anvar, Stahl, Frakke

Vibe: Sci-fi Vikings living on floating islands

Playing a Shardlander
Contrasting with the average Aedean,
Shardlanders are a hardy, rustic people. The
Emergence flung landmasses called Shards
into the sky, cutting them off from nearly all
traces of civilisation or knowledge of the lost
Earth.

As such, while they may be Original Humans,

they are largely divorced from the paradigm
of Deathly Fear that most Aedeans have. After
all, such abstract, existential trifles seem
hardly important compared to surviving the
next winter or dragon horde attack. Many
Shardlanders only know the goings-on of their
home Shard - in many cases, it's their entire
world.

A Shardlander would belong to a Shard, which

can be just small enough for a small hamlet
or the size of a small country. Each individual
Shard would also have its own clan, called a
Banner, or may owe fealty to a larger one.

Given that each Shard is its own little floating

world, differences in technology and customs
between Shards can vary wildly. Your
Shardlander may live on a Shard that is well-
connected to other Shards and has interacted
with many other Sapients, or they could have
been incredibly sheltered and never knew a
life outside of herding sheep, farming crops
and killing wyverns that try to destroy either.

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Shardlander Variant
Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.

Shardwalker
Acclimated to the Shardlands in your
formative years, you have ADAMANT 1 from
your natural Shardlander toughness, and take
half damage from all Displace or Airborne
stacks (rounded down).

Monster Slayer Initiate

You have +1 Accuracy when fighting enemies
that are of Large size. This Accuracy increases
to +2 for Huge foes and +3 for Colossal foes.

Fighting Spirit
If you become Endangered, you only
accumulate half the Risk stacks (rounded up)
from taking damage. You still accumulate Risk
normally through spending Action Dice.

Tenacious Spirit
If you become Endangered, hostile Condition
stacks are only half as effective on you
(rounded up). You still accumulate Risk
normally through spending Action Dice or
taking damage.

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Amerusan
A nomadic people of crystal, fire and flesh,
hailing from a faraway land of choked ash and
spires of red glass.
Origin: Hyperevolved post-Emergence
Human
Age: Amerusans reach maturity at about age
20 and live for up to 120 years.
Prevalence: Uncommon. All Amerusans are
those who went on a pilgrimage to the World
Tree and found their passage into the Known
World, a large majority passing through the
Vinelands and most making their homes at
the Sentinarium and its surrounding regions,
or at Aeden's outermost Relic Cities.
Vibe: Nomadic fire elementals
Playing an Amerusan
Amerusans originate from various colonies of
pioneers, arms dealers and mercenaries,
hailing from a land called Amerusa.
Interestingly, a vast majority of Amerusans
speak almost perfect Eglaise just like
Aedeans, suggesting a common Old World
ancestry.
Tales of Amerusa say that it is a vast
sunscorched wasteland covered in scarlet
ash and explosive Red Glass, which many
Amerusans use in their firearms. This fire-
choked air caused its early inhabitants to
hyperevolve into beings with crystalline,
obsidian flesh and hair made of flames - now
a reflection of the very land they've survived
in.
Amerusans tend to be austere, religious folk.
They learned to use the Red Glass that covers
their land to use in firearms, becoming
wanderering nomadic Colonies. A great many
of these Colonies boarded their caravans in
search of the Fallen Firmament - their name
for the World Tree, which from their homes
looked like a pale flame that covered the
entire horizon.
Hawkbrand's Soul
An Amerusan's body is pyrokinetically
charged - their hair is fire and the flesh a
strange obsidian. These flames are warm but
do not emit enough heat to hurt anyone who
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touches you, unless you are under great
emotional stress or choose to let loose your
inner flame.
You always glow while in darkness, but can
spend an Action to briefly suppress your
flames. You are also deathly repelled by large
bodies of water and prefer dry, hot conditions.
You can still eat food and drink water, but
eating anything that can be treated as
flammable fuel is equally as nourishing for
you. The more purely it burns without leaving
much ash, the more nourishing and tasty it is
to you. Any residue is expelled as smoke and
ash from your mouth - it's considered rude to
do so in good company except in controlled
puffs.
When you are hurt, pieces of your skin break
off in flecks of black glass and sparks of fire.
Do note however that you still have something
resembling human biology and organs
internally, but vastly evolved to adapt to your
new physiology.
AMERUSAN NAMES
Amerusans have names based on old
monikers from their homeworld of Amerusa,
typically derived from ancient names
inscribed on withered billboards or printed on
random objects.
They would also typically have their Colony in
their name; these Colonies are also similarly
named after strange, brightly coloured words
found in the Amerusan ruins. As such, they
would normally refer to themselves as
"[Name] of [Colony]".
Alberkirk, Gunkirk, Connor of Bucks, Priscilla,
Hollow, Mort of Realstate, Jillian of Camarrow,
Dwyre of Cocola, Shaft, Wheeler, Emerett of
Kafsee, Concordean, Michigan, John Smith of
Wessen, Tyler of Androyt, Didney of Whorl
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Amerusan Variant Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.

Heartsflare
When attacking a target in melee, you can
spend an Action Die to cause your inner flame
to flare out and burn a nearby entity. This is a
free Action, and you roll this Action Die for the
additional damage dealt. This also ignites
nearby flammable materials.

Volatile Flame
Whenever you receive damage that you fail to
SAVE against, you instantly explode, dealing
damage to all entities (including allies) in a
3x3 Box around you. This damage is rolled
from your CAST Die (no Loadout cost).

Smokebreather
You can spend an Action Die to expel smoke
from your mouth (likely your lunch from an
hour back), covering 1 Tile in front of you,
which lasts until the end of the Round. Any
entity standing within the smoke is Impaired.

Cinderfeet
Your body was particularly adapted to the
harsh heat of Amerusa. When passing terrain
associated with fire, like magma or burning
Tiles, you do not treat these Tiles as difficult
terrain, and do not take damage from them.

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Phytosapien
Phytosapiens are a unique Sapient born directly from the World Tree itself. They are humanoids with
plantlike biology like leaves for hair and bark for skin. The two variants of Phytosapien here are the
magically attuned Magoi and their guardian brethren, the Xyloliths.
Magoi
The plantlike children of the World Tree, gifted
with a transcendent connection with the flow of
time and magic.
Origin: World Tree
Age: Magoi mature in just a few weeks upon
budding and live for up to 500 years, though
some have been found over a millennium old.
Prevalence: Rare. Only a few hundred named
Magoi are known, and most new ones are
meticulously raised and recorded in the
Arborice.
Vibe: Cute and innocent plant people
discovering their newfound humanity
Playing a Magoi
The Magoi have been the subject of most
mystery and reverence in Aedean mythology,
with many Aedeans of ancient times seeing
them as otherworldly prophets or messengers
of the gods. Nowadays, they share a more
equitable status with other Sapients, but are
nonetheless a subject of much
romanticisation in Aedean art and literature.
Some Magoi serve as mediators between
Aedean society and the World Tree,
interpreting their visions as signs from Eld
Aestus. These often use their visions to seek
out and beknight Heirs to wield the World
Tree's power in the form of Origin Weapons.
Other Magoi work with EXDUS on a more
secular level, using their visions to help the
commission unravel the secrets of the
unknown world before them, and to glimpse
into the lives of its bygone people. Others still
pursue a more individual journey, looking
inward and using their visions to plumb the
depths of the world's memories in order to
understand their own place in Revenir.
If you are a fairly young Magoi, chances are
you were born in Arborice: a research facility
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and nature reserve settled on the World Tree.
There, EXDUS personnel carefully track the
growth of young Phytosapiens and facilitate
their growth within a controlled, safe
environment.
Once fully bloomed and emerged from the
soil, Magoi will curiously learn everything
about the world around them, and the more
they learn cognitively and embrace their
strange humanity by connecting with others,
the more they start to awaken their ancient
memories and find passage into the
Dreaming: a mythical state said to be the
collective consciousness of all things.
The Dreaming
Magoi do not require sleep. When you rest,
you can choose to enter a state of collective
unconscious between all Magoi called the
Dreaming.
While within the Dreaming, you are able to
contact other Magoi who are also resting, and
are able to share information with each other
through short conversations or mental
images. You are also able to telepathically
reach non-Magoi whom you have a bond
with.
Additionally, you may randomly gain visions,
namely of the past world, which was called
Earth. These visions are flashes of memory
from the departed souls of the Old World.
Your GM may require you to roll your SENSE
Skill Challenge, and the outcome of the roll
would determine the clarity of the vision and
the amount of information gained from it,
which may aid you on your adventures or
simply add more interesting stories to collect.
Sundreamer
You become sluggish and lethargic when
separated from sunlight for too long. If you
spend more than 1 day separated from
sunlight, such as underground or travelling in
Skotos, your mind becomes dulled, becoming
sleepy and unfocused.
For each period of time until your party rests
that passes without sunlight, any Action Dice
you roll can only reach a maximum value of
d10. The next time you rest, your Action Dice
have a maximum value of d8, and so on, until
a maximum of d4.

After 4 periods of rest or if you lose

consciousness, you enter a hibernative state
until you reach sunlight again, and cannot
take any actions.

MAGOI NAMES
Magoi prefer simple names without many
syllables, typically from words they learned at
the Arborice.

Niwa, Philo, Leaf, Meyri, Lumen, Io, Ninety-four,

Sprout, Sunny, Yomo

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Magoi Variant Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.

Circadian Rhythm
Phytosapiens are also sensitive to sunlight
and water. When underground or somewhere
barren, you are able to sense the direction of
a source of either sunlight, moonlight or water
within a horizon's distance.

Weltengeist
You always know the direction of the World
Tree. You also can innately pinpoint the
location of any World Tree fragment or high
concentration of magic within a vast
distance. The range is roughly 1-3 days'
distance on foot.

Hide on Bush
You can spend 1 Action Die to make yourself
Stealthed when standing on or near thick
vegetation, like trees or bushes.

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Xylolith sleepy and unfocused.

For each period of time until your party rests

Imposing guardians born from the World Tree's
bark, said to be its protectors. They are often
found in the company of Magoi, having an innate
protective instinct towards their more fragile
siblings.
that passes without sunlight, any Action Dice
you roll can only reach a maximum value of
d10. The next time you rest, your Action Dice
have a maximum value of d8, and so on, until
a maximum of d4.

After 4 periods of rest or if you lose

Origin: World Tree
consciousness, you enter a hibernative state
until you reach sunlight again, and cannot
Age: Xyloliths mature in just a few weeks upon
take any actions.
budding and live for up to 500 years, though
some have been found over a millennium old.
When underground or somewhere barren, you
are able to sense the direction of a source of
Prevalence: Rare. It's believed that for every
either sunlight, moonlight or water within a
Magoi that is born, a Xylolith likewise appears
horizon's distance.
fully formed from the World Tree's bark.

Vibe: Gentle giant tree/golem people XYLOLITH NAMES

Playing a Xylolith
Xyloliths tend to be stoic and reserved. They
often give the impression of silent bodyguards
or unsleeping sentinels, and have commonly
been seen as such in Aedean mythology
since ancient times - their stonelike bark skin
and towering appearance evoking the
immortal, austere presence of a statue.
Like Magoi, Xyloliths are likely to hail from
Arborice and take their names from random
words or names they learn there. In many
cases, they don't even bother with names,
relying on their Magoi half to give them some
form of moniker, if only for the sake of
convenience.
Eade, Tronk, Kif, Yurathikboei, Arncha, Bela,
Crush, Voron, Igrid

Xyloliths often find themselves in the

company of Magoi. Some offer their services
to Magoi communities or individuals, even
pledging their lives to protect them as loyal
guardians, while others are more
independent, interacting with Magoi often but
seeing them as equals no different from other
Sapients, but nonetheless have a steadfast
connection to the World Tree.

Treeguard's Soul
As a Xylolith, you have naturally tough bark
and a robust stature. Being a Phytosapien,
you do not require sleep, owing to your origins
as the ever-vigilant protectors of the World
Tree and its progeny. However, you are not
able to see into the Dreaming like your Magoi
siblings.

Circadian Rhythm
You become sluggish and lethargic when
separated from sunlight for too long. If you
spend more than 1 day separated from
sunlight, such as underground or travelling in
Skotos, your mind becomes dulled, becoming

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Xylolith Variant Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.

Bark Armour
Your Voyager has thick bark that shields them.
You have 2 ADAMANT.

You can choose to gain additional ADAMANT

this way. For every ADAMANT you add past 2,
your Movement gains a -1 penalty when
rolling your MOVE Die. If your penalty exceeds
your MOVE roll, you can only have 1 Movement.

Deep Roots
You can plant yourself in the ground and
create firm roots to lock yourself in place as 1
Action. When doing this, you are considered
Rooted and cannot move or be Displaced
except through teleportation.

This costs 1 Action Die and can be done as an

Action or Reaction for the same cost, after
which you can unroot yourself at any time, or
automatically at the end of the Round.

I Am Tree
You can spend 1 Action Die to make yourself
Stealthed when standing next to a large tree
(large enough to be a physical obstacle on
the map) or parts of the World Tree.

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Feralis
Feralis is an antiquated term used by Aedeans to refer to humanoids with animal traits found
throughout Revenir. The term is deceptive as many sub-variants of Feralis vastly differ in
hyperevolutionary origins and was used by early Aedeans without much regard to their diverse
cultures, but has now been reclaimed - largely by the Kaibi - to collectively refer to themselves and
non-Kaibi animal-like Sapients, calling them "our big family".

Kaibi Ruaya and mercenary groups from the

An incredibly diverse variant of hyperevolved
human that have grown traits from other
mammalian animals to better adapt to their
harsh surroundings.
Origin: Hyperevolved post-Emergence
Human
Age: Most Kaibi have quite short lives,
maturing at about 10-15 years of age and
living up to 60 years.
Prevalence: Common. The second-most
well-documented Sapient in EXDUS records,
though they have many unknown and new
subspecies and clans beyond the Known
World.
Sentinarium coming from the outer edges of
the Known World.
Their entire species being born as a result of
adaptation to hardship, Kaibi are no strangers
to struggle, and often take life's challenges in
stride. They tend to have a "live and let live"
mindset, and their shorter lifespans compared
to other Sapients lends themselves towards a
life pursuing simple joys free from
attachments or burdens.
Because of this, Kaibi are some of the likeliest
people to pursue adventure. For them, no job
is too unappealing, gross or dangerous, and
you'd be able to find Kaibi in any field of work
out in Revenir, even in unexpected places like
the Shardlands.

Vibe: Designated anime animal people KAIBI NAMES

Playing a Kaibi
Kaibi comprise one of the larger population of
Sapients in Revenir, and can be found in
numerous habitats, from the deserts and ruins
of Dust to the verdant Vinelands of Aeden.
They tend to have a naturally friendly
disposition, and are well-received in Aeden
due to a very early shared history with the
earliest Relic Cities, their ancestors forming
bonds and alliances with these young
settlements.
Most Kaibi, save for the more solitary types,
tend to be very social and are able to
naturally mingle and coexist with other Kaibi,
despite the vast differences between them.
Kaibi share many of their names from their
local Kannata and surrounding Aedean
cultures, being very closely intermingled with
them, often mixing them with slang or
strange, cool-sounding words they learned
from artifacts and structures in the Old World.
Sura, Wisney, Evay, Toshi, Potato, Knives,
Konagi, Mimi, Dreamy, Listya, Anaki, Googal,
Barbiegirl, Ferrees, Oroe, Phanta, Shi-nie,
Nottbutter, Baby Q, Uwoo, Telivari, Nonen,
Nibiru, Kalcha, X, Konnobun-Goomi,
Banhammy, Supacat, Nysoo, Avenger,
Metroline, Dee-Andee, Numenore, Marillion,
Astaravista, Peggy Sixteen

This sense of unified identity led to the

creation of the Alliance Clans, which was an
originally Kaibi confederation created to
represent and unify the hundreds of Kaibi
families and organisations across the Known
World, but now has grown to include almost
any group operating within their territories
regardless of Kaibi ancestry, including the

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Kaibi Variant Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.
Heightened Sense
You have heightened perception from your
animal features, which can be an enhanced
eyesight, hearing or sense of smell. You and
your GM would choose which makes the most
sense for the type of mammal your Kaibi
embodies. You can then use this Specialty as
your SENSE Skill during narrative play, such as
sharp eyes to find distant targets or
enhanced sense of smell to track someone's
scent.
Roar
You can spend an Action Die to perform a
fearsome growl or roar, inflicting Fear on all
entities within 3 Tiles of you.
Sprint
You can use a burst of stamina to run ahead,
but become tired afterwards. Once a Turn
when you spend your MOVE Die, you can
choose to double the number rolled.
Afterwards, you become tired and cannot
spend any more MOVE Dice to move until the
start of the next Round.
Pounce
Your Voyager has strong jumping legs like
that of a cougar or gazelle. When you use
your MOVE Die, you can spend an additional
Action Die as a free Action to make that
movement into a jump, becoming Airborne
and flying over obstacles, chasms and Large
or smaller entities.
Thick Hide
Once a Round, when you roll your SAVE Die
against a physical attack, you can reroll it
once if the outcome was not to your liking,
taking the higher result.
Musk
You can spend 1 Action Die to secrete a
pungent musk for 1 Round. Any entity within 1
Tile of you is Impaired while they remain near
you.
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Ramming Charge
You have powerful horns, antlers or just a very
tough cranium. When you use your HIT Die to
repel a target, you can also choose to move
yourself as you Displace the target as a free
Action, landing on the Tile next to them when
they stop.
Carnivore
Due to your biology, you can eat raw meat
without problems. You can also crush bones
and consume the marrow for sustenance.
Herbivore
Due to your biology, you can eat raw
vegetation without problems. You can also
consume normally poisonous and irritating
plants and shrug off its effects.
Righting Reflex
You only take halved fall damage if you are
Airborne more than 5 Tiles above the ground.
Additionally, you can SAVE against this fall
damage once you land. You still take normal
Displace damage from being thrown against
solid walls and objects.
Centaur Body
You may have the lower body of an animal.
Depending on the animal’s size (anything that
is the size of a horse or larger), then your Size
is Large.
If you are a Large centaur, you can carry one
Medium size entity on your back (occupying
your Back Tile), or two Small entities
(occupying your Head and Back Tile), and
they follow your Movement during your Turn. It
costs 1 Action Die for them to climb on your
back, but dismounting has no cost.
Allies can also perform attacks and Cast while
carried by you. Any hostile actions that hit
Tiles you occupy also hit allies occupying
those Tiles.
When you are not carrying anyone and
unimpeded, you gain a bonus to your
Movement whenever you roll your MOVE Die
equal to half its maximum value, but only if
you use your full rolled Movement beforehand.
This benefit does not apply if you are carrying
someone at your full carrying capacity.
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A variant of human with reptilian, amphibian
and piscine traits that have adapted to living
along rivers and underwater.
Origin: Hyperevolved post-Emergence
Human
Age: Ruaya can be quite long-lived, maturing
at about 12-18 years and living up to 240
years.
RUAYA NAMES
Many Ruaya names are derived from Azka,
one of their languages, which itself is a
centuries-old conglomeration of different
Southeast Asian languages, which is the
region most Ruaya have originated from
along their sea routes and rivers.
Esh-wai, Tilka, Surun, Hesh, Ezta, Ular, Kolel,
Matan, Renang, Sawa, Banya, Jalan, Soldek,
Tathi, Mamar, Cichak, Salrash, Kopek, Soseli,
Barat, Duri, Ishbak, Sisik

Prevalence: Common. Ruaya populations

number in the thousands, but they are easily
found settled along rivers and lakes, and they
allude to greater numbers and settlements in
the waters below and far beyond.

Vibe: Lizard people, fish people and

amphibian people

Playing a Ruaya
The Ruaya have a storied history and are
some of the most well-travelled peoples in
Revenir, making their homes in and around
the great rivers and lakes, both charted and
undiscovered.

Due to this, most Ruaya tend to have very

uncomplicated personalities. They let their
troubles wash over them like water over their
scales, and don't often concern themselves
with petty squabbles or disputes.

The Ruaya have a great influence over any

territory near water, from fishing towns to port
cities. Their unmatched fighting skill in water
and knowledge of currents make them
perfect sailors and seaborne navigators. The
more self-driven Ruaya may offer their
services as mercenaries or even pirates, and
often the only conflicts they willingly join are
those for control over trade routes and straits
on behalf of trade companies and petty lords.

Though even amongst Ruaya, whose history

largely involves fresh water bodies, an
individual or group well-versed in oceanic
travel is rare. These rare Oceanborn are well-
respected by the common Ruaya for their
great knowledge of the greater waters that
even they know little of.

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Ruaya Variant Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.
Hard Scutes
Your Voyager has a shell like a tortoise or
turtle. You have 2 ADAMANT.
You can choose to gain additional ADAMANT
this way. For every ADAMANT you add past 2,
your Movement gains a -1 penalty when
rolling your MOVE Die. If your penalty exceeds
your MOVE roll, you can only have 1 Movement.
Setae
Your Voyager has sticky pads on their
extremities like a gecko. They can climb walls
and sheer surfaces. Your hands are occupied
when doing this.
Strong Tendons
Your Voyager has strong jumping legs like
that of a frog. When you use your MOVE Die,
you can spend an additional Action Die as a
free Action to make that movement into a
jump, becoming Airborne and flying over
obstacles, chasms and Large or smaller
entities.
Venom
Once a Round, you can make a melee or
ranged attack using your HIT or AIM Die by
injecting, spitting or spraying venom. Choose
one effect for your venom:
Corrosive
The target takes additional damage equal to
your damage dealt when you roll your HIT or
AIM Die.
Neurotoxin
The target's senses are assaulted, Impairing
them.
Frenzy
The target temporarily goes berserk and is
Taunted by any and all entities nearest to it.
Chameleon
You can spend 1 Action Die to blend into the
surrounding environment, becoming
Stealthed as long as you remain stationary.
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Swimmer
You have gills and a hydrodynamic body. You
can move freely at normal speed in water and
can breathe underwater. Additionally, you can
spend 1 Action Die to immediately submerge
and Stealth yourself when standing on a
water Tile.
True Carnivore
Due to your biology, you do not need to eat
often, only needing to eat a large meal about
once a week. You can also eat raw meat
without problems.
Mucus
You can choose 1 Action Die to secrete sticky
mucus as a regular Action or Reaction, and
are covered in it until the end of the Round.
Any entity that touches you becomes Slowed
until they spend at least 2 Actions to remove
it. Any attempts to physically restrain or
grapple you fail during this duration.
Sticky Tongue
You have a long tongue that can be used to
catch things. It can grab any entity or object
that is your Size or smaller. You can spend 1
AIM Die to roll it and Displace the target,
moving them towards you. If used on
something larger than you or is Rooted, you
pull yourself to it instead.
Centaur Body
You may have the lower body of an animal.
Depending on the animal’s size (anything that
is the size of a horse or larger), then your Size
is Large.
If you are a Large centaur, you can carry one
Medium size entity on your back (occupying
your Back Tile), or two Small entities
(occupying your Head and Back Tile), and
they follow your Movement during your Turn. It
costs 1 Action Die for them to climb on your
back, but dismounting has no cost.
They can also perform attacks and Cast while
carried by you. Any hostile actions that hit
Tiles you occupy also hit allies occupying
those Tiles.
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Orzlaty
A race of avian feathered folk who travelled far
and wide across the sky, seeking a home to call
their own.
ORZLATY NAMES
Orzlaty names are typically derived from their
ancestral language Chmara, which closely
resembles the Old World family of languages
known as Slavic, i.e. Russian, Serbo-Croatian
and Polish.

Origin: Hyperevolved post-Emergence Stozy, Krylo, Anika, Anarocze, Tolyanskiy,

Human Marek, Lujik, Zaliszo, Mirokry, Zaczysa, Natja,
Olan, Czelek
Age: Most Orzlaty live for quite long, maturing
at about 10-15 years of age and living up to
120 years.

Prevalence: Common. Orzlaty can be found in

nearly every region and profession within the
Known World since their arrival around 150
years ago, but their overall population is
relative low, in the thousands. This may soon
change as the rate of large migrations of
Orzlaty into the Known World have increased.

Vibe: Stoic birdfolk

Playing an Orzlaty
The Orzlaty come from far beyond the Known
World. They are highly valued as Voyagers not
only for their natural ability to fly, but also
because of their vast history of having
explored the World Beyond.

Be that as it may, Orzlaty have historically

been nomadic, taking their homes with them
into flight. It's only within the safety of the
Known World that many Orzlaty families
caught wind of this safe haven and made it
their new homes, with hundreds coming into
the New World with each year. One of the
common sights in current day Aeden is
looking up at the World Tree and seeing
humble yet wondrous traditional Orzlaty
houses, and even entire neighbourhoods built
along its marble-white surface.

Orzlaty tend to be quite traditional and family

oriented, having large family networks. While
they do have a writing system, they have a
very strong oral tradition as well, carrying the
tales and lives of their ancestors upon their
wings. They tend to have stoic, adaptable
personalities, taking life in stride and always
being able to adjust to new lifestyles and
customs incredibly quickly.

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Orzlaty Variant Traits Provoking Plumage
As a single Action, you can spend 1 Action Die
Choose up to two at character creation.
to flare your feathers, provoking a target to
attack you.
Light Skeleton
Due to an Orzlaty's semihollow skeleton, you
You know the Provoke Technique, and use
are able to navigate the skies without much
your feathers when executing this Technique
harm.
to Taunt an enemy.

If lifted Airborne for more than 1 Tile and you

are not weighed down, instead of falling to the
ground, you slowly float back towards it at a
rate of 3 Tiles per Turn and are unharmed
when you land. You are able to take actions
like Attacking or Casting this way.

However, because of your light bones, you

take twice as much damage from Displace
stacks.

Vestigial Wings
Cannot be taken with other traits giving
Wings. You have vestigial wings you can flap
to partially mitigate fall damage. You do not
take fall damage unless you are Airborne 4 or
above.

Functional Wings
Cannot be taken with other traits giving
Wings, and requires Light Skeleton. You have
fully functioning wings you can use to fly.
When rolling your MOVE Dice, you can spend
an additional Action Die of any type to fly
instead when taking your Movement, ignoring
chasms, obstacles and other entities, and are
considered Airborne.

Bright Plumage
You have bright feathers that can be used to
distract. As a single Action or Reaction, you
can spend 1 Action Die to flash your feathers
at an enemy. Roll this Die against them. If they
fail to SAVE against it, whatever action they
take next or were intending to take is only
halved in effectiveness.

Your use of your feathers also counts as a

basic Specialty when using your FACE Skill to
impress or entice others.

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Síoraí
SÍORAÍ NAMES
Síoraí names are typically derived from their
A variant of human adapted to living in the
home language Avarrach, which bears
highest elevations in the sky, with light,
resemblance to several Old World Celtic
semihollow bones and long, feathered ears.
languages, namely Welsh and Irish.

Origin: Hyperevolved post-Emergence Velynn, Fflur, Ilwaith, Cimhair, Jaen, Hwyfen,

Human
Age: Síoraí mature at the same age as
humans, around 20 years of age, but live
longer, up to 150-180 years old.
Gwen, Eyvan, Alanna, Eogirn, Niachta, Lellandi,
Dearg, Aedh, Arthnael, Brionna, Corraidhen,
Morgant, Tyndear, Druasta

Prevalence: Uncommon. Though it is known

that the Síoraí have a sprawling monarchy
numbering in the thousands, they are all
located in the nigh-unreachable Eyries, and
the only representatives known are those who
have chosen to descend from their skybound
fortresses and interact with the rest of
Sapientkind.

Vibe: Sky elves, basically

Playing a Síoraí
Nearly all Síoraí live or come from the Eyries: a
lonely collection of Shards found in the
highest levels of the atmosphere. The Síoraí
are some of the only people capable of
surviving at such heights where the air is thin
and treacherous winds can fling any person
off for miles.

The government of the Eyries is the

Stormqueen's Court, where the noble houses
swear fealty to the titular Stormqueen: an
enigmatic but incredibly powerful Síoraí and
possibly the greatest sorceress in Revenir.

Typically, the only Síoraí who would descend

to the world beneath are either the Storm
Children - children handpicked to serve the
Queen as her legatees - or political fugitives
seeking to escape the Court's ever watchful
eye and its secret police.

This is further compounded by the fact that

the Síoraí's bodies are not made to live in the
lower world. Having grown avian features to
survive at great heights, their skeletons are
very fragile and susceptible to damage,
making the rough-and-tumble life of a
Voyager quite unappealing for most Síoraí.
You must have a really good reason for it,
then!

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Síoraí Variant Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.

Light Skeleton
Due to a Síoraí's semihollow skeleton, you are
able to navigate the high Shards of the Eyries
without much harm.

If lifted Airborne for more than 1 Tile and you

are not weighed down, instead of falling to the
ground, you slowly float back towards it at a
rate of 3 Tiles per Turn and are unharmed
when you land. You are able to take actions
like Attacking or Casting this way.

However, because of your light bones, you

take twice as much damage from Displace
stacks.

Stormblood
You have a heightened sensitivity to air
currents. Using the sensitive feathers on your
ears, you can sense the direction of any wind
or air current near you, no matter how subtle.

Your skin is also sensitive to changes in air

pressure and humidity, and can also sense
the arrival of rain, storms and unusual
weather even from afar off or several days
prior.

Magical Attunement
You have an unusual attunement with magic.
You can replace any one Action Die in your
Venture's Loadout with a CAST Die.

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 Drachéan
Blood Drachéan
An enigmatic people descended from the original
seven Drachéan siblings, hatched from seven eggs
scattered from the fallen Dragon Star comet.

Origin: Descendants of the seven original

Drachéans

Age: Drachéans mature faster than humans,

around 10 years of age, but have lifespans
that vary depending on lineage. Given the
recency of Drachéans in history, there is no
conclusive data about their lifespan as most
are still alive today (except for Fire Drachéans,
who love to find new ways to die)

Prevalence: Common. While the entire

Drachéan population is only a few hundred,
their recent emergence as a Sapient, fast
spread through all the known regions and
ease of approachability makes them a very
well-documented people.

Vibe: Dragonfolk and sexy horned people

Playing a Drachéan
Drachéans are a young Sapient, only
emerging a little over 80 years ago when the
Dragon Star fell to Revenir. The original seven
Drachéans, hatched from seven eggs
scattered to the world from the Dragon Star's
detritus, mated with other Sapients, creating
every single Drachéan alive today. They've
quickly grown to populate every major culture
Fire Drachéan centre in Revenir due to their varied types,
remarkable adaptability and the other
Sapients' fascination with them.

Earth Drachéans tend to be either solitary or

highly social and non-confrontational. Steel
Drachéans are known for their hunger for
authority and commonly occupy positions of
power across the Known World. Fire
Drachéans are often found in the Shardlands
fighting monsters or other Sapients to fuel
their unending desire to prove their strength.

Because of their origins, all Drachéans save

for the original Seven have a mixed heritage
with other Sapients, but typically more
strongly exhibit Drachéan traits upon maturity.

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Dragonstar's Soul
You are born under one of the seven dragon
lineages, originating from the eggs hatched
from the fallen Dragon Star:
Earth Dragon of Life
Earth Drachéans typically pursue peace,
longevity and coexistence with nature. Your
horns are shaped like short stubs or spiraled
knobs on the top of your head.
DRACHÉAN NAMES
Drachéans name themselves based on the
cultures they choose to make their homes in.
Duadrach, Tylvean, Estre, Gyllvean, Sirdh,
Ymbra, Vanagant, Ellavere, Cuidere, Dravona,
Vernach, Brunvair, Taevall, Druin

Steel Dragon of Ambition

Steel Drachéans typically pursue positions of
social power, prestige and influence. Your
horns are adamantine tusks on the sides of
your head.

Fire Dragon of Power

Fire Drachéans typically pursue battle, self-
improvement and a good death to a worthy
challenge or adversary. Your horns are long
and vertical, growing from your forehead.

Water Dragon of Knowledge

Water Drachéans typically pursue wisdom
and knowledge, and value seclusion and
privacy. Your horns are blunt, resembling
short antlers.

Sky Dragon of Order

Sky Drachéans typically pursue positions of
order, management and administration. Your
golden horns are long and curved, forming a
shape like a crescent moon or halo.

Blood Dragon of Vengeance

Blood Drachéans are wildcards who pursue
vigilante justice and follow "an eye for an eye"
style ethics. Your obsidian or amber horns are
pointed and sharp, located on the sides of
your head.
Steel Drachéan
Shadow Dragon of Contracts
Shadow Drachéans are mysterious wanderers
who love making contracts and believe in true
equivalent exchange. Your black horns are
sharp and curve around your ears.

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Drachéan Variant Blood Price
Blood Drachéan
Traits Whenever you lose a SAVE Die from a hostile
Choose up to two at character creation. action, your attacker is inflicted with the same
amount of damage they inflicted on you,
All Drachéans except for the original Seven which they cannot SAVE against.
have mixed parentage with other Sapients,
though typically their Drachéan genetics
manifest more predominantly. You may freely Umbral Scales
choose a Variant Trait from any other Sapient
Shadow Drachéan
after choosing your Drachéan trait.
You are always Stealthed while in total night
or darkness.
Hardened Scales
Earth Drachéan
Your Voyager has hardened scales and
scutes on their body. You have 2 ADAMANT.

You can choose to gain additional ADAMANT

this way. For every ADAMANT you add past 2,
your Movement gains a -1 penalty when
rolling your MOVE Die. If your penalty exceeds
your MOVE roll, you can only have 1 Movement.

Draconic Charisma
Steel Drachéan
Your FACE Skill Die has an accuracy of 3,
denoting your unusual charisma and Shadow Drachéan
magnetic aura.

Fearless Flame
Fire Drachéan
You have 10 additional Resolve.

Draconic Mind
Water Drachéan
Your LORE Skill Die has an accuracy of 3,
denoting your unusual intelligence and
capacity to learn.

Skylord
Sky Drachéan
Whenever you are Airborne, you can spend a
MOVE Die to fly in a given direction and
landing safely if it is within 6 Tiles' height.

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Feithéan
An insectoid variant of human, having emerged
from mysterious underground cities years ago.
Origin: Hyperevolved post-Emergence
Human
Age: Feithéans age differently from most
Sapients, maturing from as early as 3 years
and living up to 40-50 years.
FEITHÉAN NAMES
A Feithéan's real name would be in their
original language, Feithid, which has sounds
that are physiologically impossible for most
humanoids to replicate. As such, when
interacting with non-Feithéan cultures, they
simply go by a simple nickname that they
fancy, or a distant approximation of their true
name.
Gair, Spin, Biddle, Tom, Sylvea, Firefly, Eshrun,
Viola, Illion, Seri, Celvean, Nymph, Tophy, Laice

Prevalence: Rare. Almost no information

about the Hidden Cities exists beyond
accounts from the few dozen Feithéans that
reach the surface, further exacerbated by
their unique biology making communication
more difficult.

Vibe: Mysterious insect people

Playing a Feithéan
Feithéans are former humans with largely
insectoid traits - a hyperevolved adaptation
after fleeing underground during the
Emergence. This led them to create vast
underground kingdoms connected by
labyrinthine tunnels, called the Hidden Cities.

If you were raised in the Hidden Cities, having

grown underground all your life, you tend to
shrink away from broad daylight, preferring
the shade and darkness. However, in
darkness, you become unnaturally drawn to
isolated sources of light, and often can't find
yourself pulling away from approaching them.

Many Feithéans are so far evolved that they

can no longer emulate human speech,
communicating instead with chirps and trills.
The Hidden Cities have a vast history, with
much of it lost to time as cities can be lost to
the collapsing earth and consuming dark as
often as they rise up. Sacred carvings and
stories of noble warriors and lithe, masked
knights, engraved in ephemeral, fading
pheromone trails are some of the only tales to
survive and live to be told by other Feithéans.

Your Feithéan may have been a survivor of

these collapsed cities who has fled to the
surface, or you may be one of the new
generations of Unhidden who have chosen to
leave the darkness and see the world above.

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Feithéan Variant Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.
Exoskeleton
Instead of wearing armour, you have natural
armour called an exoskeleton which acts as
your defense. During Downtime, you undergo
a process called Molting in order to better
adapt your body.
Molting has remarkable regenerative powers.
While Molting, you are able to heal grievous
wounds, such as regenerating a lost limb.
Larger injuries take a longer period to
regenerate across multiple periods of
Downtime.
Swarmchild
You are able to sense and read the traces of
pheromones left by other Feithéans and local
subterranean life that offer clues about their
location. These pheromone trails are encoded
with simple information about the current
location, its relation to other locations based
on the direction of the trail, cryptic words and
messages about its history, as well as
surrounding local landmarks and life.
While your Feithéan would be able to naturally
perceive the general trail itself and where it
leads, deciphering detailed information from
it requires succeeding a high enough SENSE
Skill Challenge.
Multiple Limbs
You have multiple limbs that you use for
attacking - rolling your HIT or AIM Dice as if
attacking with them. These count as separate
instances of damage. Having a different
weapon in each limb counts as separate
attacks from them.
Mantis Limbs/Pincers
You have the arms of a mantis or scorpion,
which you can use to attack and restrain foes.
You cannot perform dextrous tasks that
require hands unless you take Multiple Limbs.
You can use your specialised limbs to perform
melee attacks using your HIT Die, which can
be used to execute Techniques. By rolling your
HIT Die, you can also choose to deal no
damage, but grab onto the target instead,
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inflicting Root on them.
You must stay within 1 Tile of the target to
maintain this, and if you take any Movement,
you must drag the target with you unless you
let go. This can only be done with an entity
that is your Size or smaller, and your
Movement is halved.
Venom
Once a Round, you can make a melee or
ranged attack using your HIT or AIM Die by
injecting, spitting or spraying venom. Choose
one effect for your venom:
Corrosive
The target takes additional damage equal to
your damage dealt when you roll your HIT or
AIM Die.
Neurotoxin
The target's senses are assaulted, Impairing
them.
Frenzy
The target temporarily goes berserk and is
Taunted by any and all entities nearest to it.
Scorpion Tail
You have a long tail you can use to fight. This
tail can be used to perform attacks using your
HIT Dice, and can be used to execute
Techniques. This automatically gains the
Venom trait at no extra cost, but can only be
used in melee.
Vestigial Wings
Cannot be taken with other traits giving
Wings. You have vestigial wings you can flap
to partially mitigate fall damage. You do not
take fall damage unless you are Airborne 4 or
above.
Insectoid Wings
Cannot be taken with other traits giving
Wings. You have fully functioning wings you
can use to fly. When rolling your MOVE Dice,
you can spend an additional Action Die of any
type to fly instead when taking your
Movement, ignoring chasms, obstacles and
other entities, and are considered Airborne.
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Viemor
A noble people whose unliving souls are bound to
the vast land of Skotos, the Valley of Shadow.
Origin: Thanatotic pre-Emergence Human
Age: Immortal. Your apparent age is that
when you originally died.
Prevalence: Rare. Skotos is a dangerous and
hostile uncharted land. However, the few
Viemor that venture outside Skotos speak of
vast underground citadels and armies of
spectral riders.
Vibe: Zombies, skeletons and ghosts
Playing a Viemor
The Viemor, also known as the Unliving, are
citizens of the subterranean region of Skotos:
a strange rift that appears to trap the souls of
all within it. This rift mysteriously opened
during the Emergence and swallowed up an
entire nation of people, suspending them in a
permanent state between life and death.
As such, the oldest Viemor in Revenir are
humans who were alive prior to the
Emergence, and their knowledge of the World
Before is highly sought after by researchers
and archivists.
Since then, any soul who dies within the
shadowed valleys of Skotos are reborn as
Viemor. If a non-Viemor Sepient happens to
die in Skotos, they are also reborn as a
Viemor.
The oldest Viemor maintain an aristocratic
society, dressing up in lavish, gothic clothing
and living within dark mansions.
However, the younger Viemor - those whose
bodies fell into Skotos and became bound to
it, are usually survivalists and hardened
warriors who constantly battle with the
bloodthirsty Tannin. As such, these are also
typically members of the Khaosjagd.
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Immortality
All Viemor are souls suspended in thanatotic
stasis, meaning they are functionally
immortal. You do not need to sleep, eat or
breathe.
Every Viemor is also bound to a Memento,
which is an object your soul is tied to while
you were once alive. Your Memento can take
the form of any personal item. It can be as
small as a necklace or book, or as large as a
chair, vehicle or even an entire house.
If you take fatal damage after acccumulating
Risk 10 from being Endangered, the physical
shell of your body loses its form and your soul
returns to your Memento, wherever it is
located. While reforming within your Memento,
you are conscious and your voice emanates
from it. It then takes 1 day for your body to
reform itself.
If your Memento is destroyed within Skotos,
your soul is bound to Skotos forever and you
can never leave its borders again, on pain of
oblivion. If your Memento is taken outside of
Skotos itself and destroyed, your soul has no
tether left and is lost forever to an unknown
fate.
Deathless Soul
Your character belongs to one of two Viemor
variants:
Cadavre
Your body resembles that of a skeleton or
zombie. You can freely detach any of your
body parts for uses like throwing them or
increasing your reach by 1 Tile, but must
spend 1 Action Die to manually reassemble
yourself.
Spectre
Your body is ghostly and ephemeral. You can
float over, pass through and hide in solid
terrain by spending 1 Action Die, using the
number rolled for your Movement. If you are
still inside terrain by your next turn and do not
spend another Action Die to maintain your
ethereal form, you take damage equal to
what you rolled and are expelled.
VIEMOR NAMES
Viemor mainly derive their names from either
Sangrais, the language of the tenebrean
nobility, or Nachtsprache, the speech of the
hardy Khaosjagd warrior folk.

Victorien, Silve, Longinaure, Gerhardt,

Wulfsmund, Rosenwind, Analette, Vespacia,
Eichel, Sombresoleil

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Viemor Variant Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.
Detachable Body
Cadavre
You can detach any of your body parts as a
free Action, but must spend 1 Action Die to
manually reassemble yourself.
Semicorporeal
Spectre
You can float over, pass through and hide in
solid terrain by spending 1 Action Die, using
the number rolled for your Movement. If you
are still inside terrain by your next turn and do
not spend another Action Die to maintain your
ethereal form, you take damage equal to
what you rolled and are expelled.

This can be used for tasks like throwing your

body parts to certain areas, increasing your
weapon's reach by 1 Tile, detaching your head
Possession
to peer over walls, etc. Spectre
You attempt to possess an entity within 1 Tile
of you. Roll your CAST Die as 1 Action, while
your target makes a SAVE to resist it. This roll is
Fall Apart
reduced by the target's ADAMANT.
Cadavre
As a Reaction, when a hostile physical action
If you fail, nothing happens. If you succeed,
would damage you, you can instead collapse
you enter their body and control them briefly,
into a pile of bones or body parts upon
until the end of the Round. You forego any
impact, which negates its damage and
Actions on your Turn, and instead use the
effects. However, you must spend 3 Actions to
target's Actions when their Turn begins.
reassemble yourself afterwards.
Otherwise, the target is Stunned.

If a hostile action was sufficiently impactful,

such as a large explosion, your body parts
may be blown to different places on the map,
up to 3 different parts and up to 3 Tiles away.
You cannot reassemble yourself alone, but
any allies who pass by the Tile that body part
is on automatically picks it up as a free Action,
but must spend 1 Action Die to reassemble
you together.

If these allies are all within 1 Tile of each other,

this entire process only costs 1 Action from
only one of these allies.

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Kean
A strange but whimsical Sapient, easily
identifiable by their large pointy ears and short
stature.
Origin: Unknown
Age: Unknown
Prevalence: Uncommon. Kean are quite well-
documented due to their friendliness and
prevalence in numerous fields, but their
actual homelands are unseen by outsiders,
and their first recorded appearance was less
than two centuries ago. It is estimated that
their entire population numbers in the low
hundreds.
Vibe: Designated short race encompassing
gnomes, halflings and goblins
Playing a Kean
The origins of the first Kean are unknown,
though it is agreed to be likely non-human in
origin. This is a curious rarity as most Sapients
aside from Phytosapiens were formerly
human in some form. This leads many to
suggest that they share a common origin with
Phytosapiens, or spontaneously birthed
themselves from the surplus of magical
energy from the World Tree.
Kean, also sometimes called Kynlings, are
naturally talented in whatever path they
pursue in life, be it magic, science and
sometimes even combat. They have a natural
thirst for adventure and a healthy mirth for
life. Their personalities range from
lackadaisical and mischievous, to serious and
composed.
Kean are not born, but made. Every new Kean
individual must be specially handcrafted by
the community, using techniques that only
they know. This may explain their innate
propensity for magic and their sense of
artistic wit and community.
Kean can be found in any region of Revenir.
While some are adventurous loners, most do
eventually find their way back to their home
communities for festivals, weddings and get-
togethers.
Kean of mixed heritages are common, with
their parental traits obvious in their biology: A
Kean with Síoraí heritage may have their
telltale feathered ears, while one with Kaibi
heritage may have fur and tails.
Craftblood's Soul
You belong to one of two known Kean
variants:
Majikean
Also called Magikin, they are known for their
affinity for magic, and are sensitive to
fluctuations of magical flow that may
randomly affect their bodies. Many Kean can
learn to control this to perform random
magical feats like teleporting. They tend to
have more bluish or pale skintones.
Wylkean
Also called Wilekin, they are known for being
more world-wise, preferring the sureness of
technology and systems. Where a Majikean
may be more carefree and casual, a Wylkean
may prefer strict order and hierarchy, or
conversely, would be daring and prone to
tempting fate, having a strange affinity to
causal energies around them.. They tend to
have more greenish or earthy skintones.
KEAN NAMES
Most Kean have names derived from Ayar-
kena, a phonetic magical language. Their
name construction is their given name
followed by a quality or trait they have. These
are typically in Ayar-kena, but they also adopt
this naming scheme when using languages
like Eglaise.
Aeya-Duarna, Madi-Valour, Saki-Neru, Lin-
Loros, Phenrare-Bis, Yuormo-Gadal
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Kean Variant Traits
Choose up to two at character creation.

Miraculous Luck
Majikean
Whenever the party uses a CAST Die to cast
magic, you can spend an Action Die as an
Instant Reaction to amplify its value. Add that
Action Die roll to that CAST Die's total effects.

Wild Warp
Majikean
Every time an ally or enemy uses a CAST Die,
you can attune to the surge of magic and
blink in a slipstream of magic, reappearing on
any location within 3 Tiles of your initial
position. If you used the CAST Die yourself, you
blink up to 5 Tiles instead. You are
Invulnerable when teleporting this way.

At Potential I, this teleportation distance is

increased to 4 Tiles from an ally's CAST Die or
6 from your own. At Potential II, this becomes 6
and 8 Tiles of distance, respectively.

Prodigious Luck
Wylkean
If an ally rolls their Action Die and the
outcome was not to their liking, you can
spend an Action Die of your own as an Instant
Reaction to reroll it. Your ally must then take
the second result.

Fatewarper
Wylkean
If you or an ally roll a Critical on any of their
Action Dice, you attune to the strands of fate
and become animated with power from
within. Your next Action Die rolled has its result
doubled. If this happens before or after your
Turn, you can spend additional Action Dice to
make an Instant Reaction to gain from this
benefit.

This can happen multiple times in a Round,

provided a Critical was rolled first.

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Languages
There are many languages spoken in the New World, some common and some rare. Your Voyager's
main languages are determined when choosing your starting Faction.
Learning Languages
Besides the languages that the Voyager
already knows, they can also choose to learn
new ones. In order to fully learn a language,
the Voyager must spend 3 EXP - 1 EXP across
three different Levels - to fully master it.
Mastery over a language has three forms:
Understanding, Writing and Speaking. The first
EXP is spent Understanding the language. The
second and third EXP spent are spent either
learning to Write or Speak the language.
A Voyager may choose to fully master the
language or only know enough for practical
purposes - such as knowing enough to hear
and speak Behru to get better deals at the
bazaars in Dust, but not its written form.
During character creation, you may choose to
spend your starting EXP to learn one new
language of choice or dialects for a language
you already know - integrating them into your
character's background.
Dialects
Some Languages span over vast regions that
have various dalects and creoles that share
the same origin, but will take time to fully
understand and communicate using them. An
astute linguist or dedicated traveler is able to
piece the words together and adapt to the
dialects more easily than learning an entirely
new language.
If you know the parent language the dialect
belongs to, you only need to spend 1 EXP after
interacting with that dialect's speakers to
learn it. Otherwise, treat it as if learning a new
language.
The following are a list of languages in the
Known World, with any relevant Dialects listed
beneath it. Note that many strange, new
languages await in the World Beyond which
your Voyager can decipher and learn, should
they wish to.
Eglaise
The common lingua franca of the Known
World originating from Aeden, derived from
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an Old World language called English. All
Voyagers know how to write, speak and
understand Eglaise by default.
For more experienced roleplayers, you may
wish to follow a Voyager who understands
Eglaise, but may not speak it.
> AMERUSAN RIDER SPEECH
A rustic dialect spoken by the riders and
frontiersmen of the Amerusan Colonies.
Speaking their dialect will more easily gain
their trust, and entry through their territories.
Greet them with firm "Howdey"!
Melaidic
A poetic language found in Vinelands, and is
often used in art and literature. It evolved as a
mixture of Old World Romance languages,
namely Italian. It is the local language used
by the citizens of the Sentinarium.
Shardlandic Common
The language spoken by most Shardlanders,
originating from the Icelandic languages of
the Old World. Shardlandic Common is
spoken by Shard Banners who have a history
of cultural exchange with other nearby Shards
or even with Aeden. The further you go out, the
more the language differs and evolves - more
isolated Shards you find may speak a dialect
of Shardlandic so vastly different from
Common that they are hard to understand.
When Worldbuilding Shard Banners for your
Voyage, the Players may decide whether their
custom Shard Banners speak Common or a
different dialect. If using the latter, here are
some examples to guide their creation:
> CRAG SPEECH
A rough dialect spoken by the Craglanders
who have no home, travelling from Shard to
Shard raiding and trading.
> ICEFALLERS
A dialect spoken by the northern peoples of
the Icefall Shards, who can be found riding
mammoths, trading pelts, ice and preserved
meats.
Kannata
The language spoken by most Kaibi,
originating from a faraway land they call
Yongryun. It is an evolved version of Old World
Japanese.
> KURIN-JI
A strange pidgin between Kannata and
Eglaise using slang from both in combination
with Old World phrases. Popular among the
Kaibi youth and Feralis street gangs! If you
end up in trouble with them, just say
"Sorrymasen".
Azka
The common tongue spoken by the Ruaya
living in the rivers, jungles and swamps of
Dust. Due to the Ruaya's vast migratory
patterns along seas and rivers, their language
has elements from Old World cultures as far
as the remnants of Southeast Asia, all the way
to the Pacific islands.
Chmara
The common language of the avian Orzlaty.
Their language has elements from different
Old World Slavic languages, such as Polish
and Russian.
Avarrach
This language may require more EXP to learn
The proudly-guarded language of the Síoraí.
Based on EXDUS linguistic studies, assisted by
generous Síoraí dignitaries and diplomats,
Avarrach seems to have found its origins in an
Old World tongue called Welsh. If you speak
Avarrach in front of any Síoraí and you're not
one of themm, be prepared to turn a lot of
heads, or even attract a visit from one of the
Stormqueen's secret police...
Feithid
This language may require more EXP to learn
The secret language of the Feithéan people. It
can only be spoken naturally by Feithéans,
requiring specialised insectoid biology to
replicate its clicks and chitters. However, a
non-Feithéan can speak it to some vaguely
coherent degree, but must spend a significant
amount of time adapting their voices to even
replicate its sounds, as well as recognising
and differentiating the minute differences in
its sounds.
Sangrais & Nachtsprache
Two distinct languages spoken within Skotos,
one by its immortal Viemor nobility and the
other by its wandering armies called the
Khaosjagd, respectively. Sangrais has roots in
Old World French while Nachtsprache is
derived from Old World German. They must be
learned separately.
Machine Speech
A language used by many Old World
machines to communicate with each other in
the form of beeps, whistles and whirs. A
person can understand Machine Speech, but
cannot speak it without special equipment.
Learning to convey Machine Speech requires
a sound synthesising tool that replicates their
precise mechanical tones.
El-Aestra
A celestial language understood and spoken
by intelligent magical creatures like
Phytosapiens, powerful elementals and
dragons. El-Aestra is said to be a written and
spoken form of the World Tree’s will. Many
Origin Weapons and Heaven’s Keys are
inscribed with El-Aestra words and phrases.
El-Aestra cannot be understood inherently by
any Sapient except for Phytosapien Magoi - it
cannot be chosen as a starting language by
non-Magoi, only learnt. Even then, mastery of
El-Aestra cannot come through pure
academic study, but a certain non-seeking
communion with the world. It cannot be
spoken by mortal means - the only way
Phytosapiens communicate using El-Aestra is
through the Dreaming.
If a Voyager expresses interest in learning El-
Aestra, they may learn it by seeking the
counsel and company of Phytosapiens and
powerful magical beings. To learn this
language is a vast investment of Experience
that will take years to even scratch its surface.
Ayar-Kena
Apparently a lower form of El-Aestra, far
diluted as to be spoken as a fairly
conventional language, mainly spoken by
lesser elemental and magical beings like
fairies, as well as the Kean.
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The Known World
The Known World is the only fully-mapped
region in history so far. It is the goal of EXDUS
to venture out of the Known World and find its
place in the wider universe, and see the true
extent that the world has changed in the wake
of the Emergence of Eld Aestus.
Eld Aestus
The World Tree, Eld Aestus, is officially
classified as a "metaphysical supercolony". It
is an anomaly in every sense of the word; in
spite of its name, it barely qualifies as a tree -
its bark is pure white, and appears to
resemble marble, granite or perlite in texture.
It is completely fireproof and appears to be
completely indestructible unless worked
through very specific rituals. On occasion, it
sheds parts of its "bark", and these are
sometimes used as materials for magical
study and refinement; notably used by
Armiger Orders as magically infused pieces of
armour and weapons.
Eld Aestus is so massive that most Sapient
cultures that found their way into Aeden did
so by following the World Tree, describing it as
a massive white wall or flame that spans the
horizon and fades into the sky.
The World Tree, Eld Aestus, appears to span all
of Revenir, from east to west and top to
bottom - its trunk reaches into the sky, to such
a point where it's no longer visible from a
certain distance; while its roots reach deep far
below Revenir's crust. Besides mapping the
World Beyond, one of EXDUS' goals is to
journey around the World Tree's
circumference and see how far it truly spans.
Ground Level
Aeden
The most well-documented region of the
Known World and the location of EXDUS
Headquarters. Aedean settlements are called
Relic Cities.
Vinelands
Considered a part of Aeden, though with their
own distinct culture that evolved at a
separate point north of Aeden, before joining
up via sea trade long ago. Most well known for
their verdant vineyards (hence the name)
and the famous martial cities of the
Sentinarium.
Dust
A vast, largely unexplored and ungoverned
region beyond Aeden that heads out into the
wider uncharted lands of Revenir, dotted by
diverse locales such as jungles, swamps,
deserts and wastelands covered with ruins of
the Old World.
The Kaibi made their way through Dust and
met the first Aedeans centuries ago, forming
an early friendship.
Above Ground
Shardlands
Pieces of Earth that were uprooted and
suspended in the sky through the World Tree's
strange magic, and the home of the
Shardlanders.
The Eyries
A mysterious land in the sky - a group of
Shards so high above the atmosphere that
the air is thin and the world below seems to
disappear entirely. It is the home of the Síoraí,
who appear to be the only people able to
survive and live there.
Below Ground
Skotos
A vast world underground where the World
Tree's roots twist and form vast pillars. Also
called the Valley of Shadows, it has a strange
aura that suspends the energies of life and
death itself, seemingly sapped of colour and
life, save for the immortal Viemor who either
roam its dark lands or rest in their cthonic
castles.
Skotos is also populated by Tannin -
fearsome leviathans of the deep with black
scales and glowing cores, irresistibly drawn
with primal hunger to any soul that bleeds or
breathes within the realm of Skotos.
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Factions
EXDUS
EXPLORERS OF A WORLD REBORN
Background
Formerly called the EXpeditionary Directive
Towards Uniting Society (but people didn't
take it seriously, so now they just call it EXDUS)
and established only 20 years ago, EXDUS is at
its core, an expeditionary commission based
in Aeden, funded and backed by several
academic, mercantile, military and logistics
organisations in the Known World with a
vested interest in its growth.
Having several active forward bases
scattered throughout the Known World and
armed with the latest technology reverse-
engineered from Old World tech and imbued
with the World Tree’s magic, the goals of
EXDUS are centred around exploring the world
of Revenir and unifying its numerous
scattered peoples in the wake of the
Emergence.
Every member of EXDUS who participates in
forward expeditions and response teams are
called Voyagers, which is the character you
play. Voyagers are scouted and recruited
from all across the Known World from all
walks of life.
While it is assumed by default that your
Voyager is a member of EXDUS by default,
how involved they are in its main body
operations is up to you - whether they are
simply temporarily contracted, or if they are
part of its permanent on-call staff.
EXDUS' permanent staff are usually made up
of Phytosapien consultants, Kaibi pilots,
Human soldiers from the Armiger Orders, and
others. As a member of EXDUS, the cutting
edge of technology and research is at your
Voyager's disposal.
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Voyager Ideas
> Your Voyager is a professor from a Relic City
university studying Old World languages and
artifacts. Their dream is to journey beyond the
Known World and create the first fully realised
map of the New World.
> Your Voyager is a new recruit of EXDUS,
originally a fishing boat captain with a
yearning for adventure and the feeling of wind
in their face.
> Your Voyager is the newly-assigned pilot of
an airship, ferrying other EXDUS members and
transporting cargo, and have encountered
many stories in their airborne travels.
Faction Scenario Ideas
> Your Voyager is tasked with delving into a
recently-discovered Old World military
complex rumoured to have intact samples
and research documents into DNA research.
However, the complex is occupied by Dust
Raiders using it as a base of operations,
oblivious to the knowledge they’re sitting on.
> Your Voyager is tasked with infiltrating a
high-profile auction on Dust. A valuable Old
World artifact is at risk of being sold to the
highest bidder, one of them being a notorious
crime boss. To complicate matters, one of the
Eyries’ spies is rumoured to be present, and
undoubtedly will not hesitate to crash the
auction and kill everyone present in order to
seize the artifact for the Stormqueen. Deter
this spy at all costs; and destroy the artifact if
you absolutely must.
> The Bestiodus are planning a siege on a
helpless Shard House whose scout travelled 3
days without food to warn EXDUS of their
intentions. Your Voyage party are to infiltrate
a Bestiodus garrison, two days’ journey away
from the Shard, where they are outfitting their
war beasts with armour.
Worldbuilding
Have each Player at the table help create and
name one or two of the following:
1. EXDUS Staff
Populate EXDUS with a regular staff that your
Voyage party can interact with between
missions. They could be a pilot that helps
escort you to rendezvous points, a friendly
liaison of a different team - who in contrast
see your party as rivals, or a mechanic that
helps maintain and upgrade your weapons.
2. Tech
Create some interesting gadgets or
technology, which can be used to flavour the
world, and perhaps even introduced and
balanced by the GM for the party to use in a
future scenario, like an all-terrain buggy that
can climb sheer cliff faces, a portable railgun
that requires carrying around a heavy battery
pack, or a navigator's gauntlet that displays a
holographic map of nearby Relic Cities.
Faction Boons
> Most EXDUS facilities are readily open to your
Voyage party, such as weapon maintenance,
training programs and air escorts, but
seniority within the organisation will grant
more reliable support, even to the point of
sending backup Voyagers to assist in
moments of need. Most new Voyagers can
also call on an EXDUS transport to take an
incapacitated ally back for medical care,
though it may take them a while to arrive
based on how deep your party is in uncharted
territory.
> Your Voyage party is able to take refuge in
any of EXDUS' forward bases, if one is nearby.
These are outposts that provide food, shelter
and suitable protection from the elements
and most conventional hostile forces.
> Sometimes, your Voyage party may
encounter a different party during their
travels. These would be friendly NPCs whom
the GM controls - they may cross paths with
your party from time to time, make camp with
you for a fun night of stories and
marshmallows by the fire, and may even
come in as the cavalry during a desparate
moment.
Disposition
> EXDUS is generally well-respected across
most of the Known World, and most regions
and groups around will view it in a friendly or
at least an amicable manner, unless the
faction is outright hostile or criminal in nature.
> EXDUS typically offers relief aid to places in
need, such as smaller Shards that are
understocked for winter or frontier Relic Cities
that are just starting to grow their roots. Given
their goals of unifying the New World, they
always seek to prevent and mediate conflict
whenever possible, though there will often
come points where it's inevitable.
CHARACTER CREATION
Take if your Voyager mainly identifies with
EXDUS over any other Faction option.
Freeborn
Faction Specialty
You are familiar with the history of EXDUS, the
layout of its HQ and its operations, along with its
general relations and standings with any given
Faction or group within the Known World.
You know Eglaise and up to two other
languages of choice.
Additionally, two of your Origin's Specialties are
Trained 1 (d4), or one of your Origin's Specialties
is Trained 2 (d6).
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AEDEN
GARDEN BENEATH THE WHITE SHADOW
Background
Aeden occupies a large region now identified
from the Old World as part of a larger
foregone realm called Europe. Named after
an ancient mythological Garden at the
creation of the World, Aeden is a wide
confederation of numerous city-states and
townships populated largely by native
Original Humans.
These various settlements are called Relic
Cities: typically rustic and homely towns
unified by a common humanity and culture,
each governed by a Mayor or Governor. Its
common language - which later would
become the lingua franca of the Known World
- is Eglaise, a language derived from Old
World English.
Aeden is a culture painted by its love for
knowledge, heraldry and ritual. Its people
venerate the World Tree as its great protector
- their earliest myths speaking of how Eld
Aestus enveloped the first Aedeans during the
destruction of the World Before, so that the
memory of the First Humankind would never
be lost.
Aeden has a long history of knighthood, with
many of its Armiger Orders, warriors who
helped guard and secure trade between the
Relic Cities, adapting to modern technology
and equipment while still maintaining their
code of honour and iconic heraldic symbols.
Typically, each individual Relic City has their
own local Armiger Order that presides over its
defenses and protection.
In recent times, the Orders have evolved to
adopt a more standardised system of training
and tactics for all new Knights. This eventually
led to the formation of the Jet Corps in
collaboration with EXDUS: a specialised
branch of the Armigers who are fitted with
modern jetpack technology and Attrition
Rifles, trained in modern tactics and threat
response strategies from the outset.
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Voyager Ideas
> Your Voyager is an Heir, a soul blessed by
the World Tree itself to carry an Origin
Weapon, a magical weapon formed from the
forge of their spirit.
> Your Voyager is an Armiger Knight, wielding
an energy-core longsword into battle.
> Your Voyager is a member of the Jet Corps,
soldiers trained in the use of firearms and
highly mobile jetpacks who defend the
scattered Relic Cities.
Faction Scenario Ideas
> A new Relic City was recently built 2 years
ago after the discovery of a valuable artifact
there, and its people are thriving in idyllic
peace. However, news of a violently
marauding band of Dust Raiders has put
them at unease, and your Voyage party has
been sent to defend the town and investigate
this Raider gang.
> A high-ranking Aeden official was found
assassinated in his own home, with a dagger
by his bedside bearing the insignia of the Sol
Empire. Your Voyage party are to go directly
to Sol Empire's capital Shard and investigate
the matter.
> Your Voyager's sister, whom they grew up
with and enlisted together into the Armiger
Order of Florentia their entire life, has
disappeared. Their superiors claim that she
was last seen killing two of her squadmates
and betraying the others to the Eyries' secret
police.
Worldbuilding > While there are many Armiger Orders
throughout Aeden, they are largely friendly
If your setting is expected to be set in or
with each other as long their jurisdictions and
involve Aeden, have each Player at the table
areas of expertise don't overlap too much.
help create and name one or two of the
Most of them are unified through a shared
following:
pride in their Aedean heritage.

1. Relic Cities
Define each Relic City with a certain
identifying trade or attraction. They may be
known for their beers, or for a popular family
bookstore. It may or may not have a museum
built there, but would most likely have a
school and branch of the Cartograph Charter
there.

2. Armiger Orders
Define a Knightly Order with a heraldic symbol
and tenet. This symbol could be a lion holding
a rose, or a many-headed crane. Their prime
tenet may be focused on patrolling trade
routes, fighting monsters of the night or
escorting pilgrimages to the World Tree.
Faction Boons
CHARACTER CREATION
Relicborn
Faction Origin
You are well-studied on the Known World, and
any Skill roll that requires knowledge about the
location or cultures of other Relic Cities or the
location of known World Tree fragments are
treated as a Specialty.

> Many Relic Cities look favourably on EXDUS

and Voyagers as heroes, and will likely offer
your party discounted or free room and board
- doubly so if your Voyager is part of an
Armiger Order.
> Gaining the friendship of Armiger Orders
and Jet Corps is very useful as they handle
many logistics and defense operations across
Aeden, and are willing to escort your Voyage
party and even provide you assistance for
certain missions.
Renaissance Child
Specialty - TOOL or LORE
Your access to the Relic Cities and their relative
safety often leads to a comfortable life to freely
pursue many hobbies.
You have a Specialty related to a leisurely
hobby, such as a musical instrument, art
medium or obscure subject you are very
knowledgable in.

You know Eglaise and one other language of

Disposition choice.

> While most Relic Cities are friendly to

Voyagers as a whole, given the varied
backgrounds of different Voyagers, some
Cities are skeptical towards Voyagers known
for a criminal or morally dubious past, and
may also be inhospitable if they had a history
of rowdy Voyagers crashing their bars and
inns.

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CARTOGRAPH CHARTER
THE GREAT ROYAL ARCHIVE
Background
The Cartograph Charter originated in the Relic
Cities as a secular organisation that wished to
document all known Old World knowledge,
and to safely preserve its many artifacts. With
their head office based in the Relic City of New
Cambridge, the Charter was established a
few hundred years ago by Agnes and Reuel
Cho under the blessings of Aeden's monarch
(back when Aeden still had something
resembling monarchy), and currently led by
their descendant, Jessique Cho.
The Charter's early life started with mapping
the nearby Relic Cities, building schools and
providing a standard curriculum to them, they
eventually branched into many fields of
studies, helping to uncover much of the Old
World technology that runs the Known World
today.
Eventually, they started preserving artifacts
and other items of note from the Old World,
making a point to build museums and
conservatories on or near the sites where the
relics are found, lest they remove these
important items from their cultural context,
driving tourism to help the local populaces of
these fledgling towns thrive.
The Charter became the premier organisation
in the fields of archaeology, taxonomy and
artifact preservation - a world of academics
that has built a long legacy on accessible
education and ethical preservation. They've
established universities, schools, supply shops
and museums all throughout the Relic Cities
of Aeden.
The Charter would later assist in the founding
of EXDUS and was its first and most
passionate supporter during its founding. The
Charter itself has a large presence in EXDUS,
specialising in providing Voyagers with all the
information they need to tackle the World
Beyond: maps, research samples,
archaeological records and universal access
to the many Relic Libraries.
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Voyager Ideas
> Your Voyager is a professor from a Relic City
university studying Old World languages and
artifacts. Your dream is to journey beyond the
Known World and create a lexicon of all its
known languages.
> Your Voyager is a retired mapmaker who
used to chart many Relic Cities on your past
travels. On a whim, you decided to sell
everything and spend your golden years
seeking one last great adventure.
> Your Voyager is a broke university student
from an obscure Relic City, hoping to go on an
adventure to write a career-launching thesis
on dragon flight patterns that would make
even your skeptic professor blush!
Faction Scenario Ideas
> A band of relic thieves has been breaking
into and stealing artifacts from museums
throughout Aeden. You and your Voyage
party have been asked to investigate these
break-ins, with the first clue being their calling
card: a note saying "We Steal From Thieves".
> A mysterious artifact in one of the museums
has activated via a loud alarm, causing the
entire building to be closed to the public.
Called to investigate the matter, your Voyage
party notices that the artifact displays
coordinates to 4 other locations: one pointing
to a similar (though half-intact) relic in
another museum, and the locations of the
other three out in the unknown, with another
separate display on the relic showing... a
countdown, three days from now.
> A great international exhibition showcasing
the advancements of the Known World is
being held in a month. Your Voyage party
decides to join the expo after one of your
Voyager's friends, a sheltered academic,
came to your for aid to procure a rare,
theoretical ingredient for a groundbreaking
invention of his.
Worldbuilding
If your setting is expected to involve the
Cartograph Charter, have each Player at the
table help create and name one or two of the
following:
1. Relics
Have the Players each suggest a unique
artifact from the Old World, whether
impressive or humorous: a piece of a past war
memorial, a perfectly preserved handmade
wooden puzzle, or an unopened can of a rare
flavour of potato crisps. The GM can then
distribute them in different museums across
the Relic Cities, with perhaps some of them
even being their main tourist attraction.
2. Charter Staff
Create some representatives of the Charter
who may assist your Voyage party whenever
you need to conduct research or gain access
to something. This could be a kindly museum
curator, a sleep-deprived dean of a university
or a librarian who always sings to herself.
Faction Boons
> The Charter typically grants all EXDUS
members access to their facilities and
materials, but will be far more cooperative
and willing to go the extra mile the more you
prove yourself as a mainstay of the
organisation, and not just an adventure-
crazed new recruit.
> The Charter will reward and regard you
greatly if you find valuable artifacts for them,
or help them map dangerous key areas of the
World Beyond.
Disposition
> Well-regarded in nearly all of the Relic Cities
and is a close, trusted partner of EXDUS. You
can find someone almost anywhere who's at
least partially related to the Charter, from
teachers in schools to museum staff,
cartographers and field navigators.
> Typically tries to foster a relationship of trust
with any locale populace when searching for
artifacts. As a principle, most staff will try their
best to act in a manner that is in the best
interests of the greater culture the artifact
was preserved in.
CHARACTER CREATION
Schoolborn
Faction Origin
You are familiar with the locations and
operations of the Cartograph Charter's many
holdings, from its schools and supply shops, to
its museums and their most well-known
exhibits.
You know Eglaise and up to 3 other languages
of choice.
Appraise Artifact
Specialty - SENSE
You are invested in the study and appraisal of
Old World artifacts, able to roughly discern its
age and make educated guesses about its
purpose and origin.
Do note that your appraisal is based purely on
the New World's conception of the Old World -
not the Player's understanding of Earth - and so
would be greatly painted by the popular
thought of the academic community at the
time, a thousand years removed from any
firsthand accounts. Your GM will help inform this
thought process.
For example, you may assume that bobblehead
figures are ceremonial idols, random
appliances are priestly adornments, and treat
80% of Old World buildings as having some sort
of purely religious purpose.
Discuss with your GM if your Voyager is one who
challenges this popular conception, replacing
this Specialty with something more suitable for
them.
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SHARD BANNERS
UNTAMED SKY OF A HUNDRED LORDS
Background
Your Voyager is a member of one of the Shard
Banners, where monsters’ heads are either
mounted on their wall or fitted to be their next
helmet.
The skies above Revenir are peppered with
Shards: floating landmasses both large and
small. The Humans who populated them -
back when the Earth was whole - somehow
survived in the hundreds during the
Emergence, and have been stuck on the
Shards ever since, forming their own isolated
societies over the past millennium.
Because of limited access to resources and
lack of communication with outsiders, most
Banners tend to be insular and
technologically behind other regions.
However, it's common for a Shard to have
remnants of Old World technology littered on
or buried within the land, which were
discovered, harnessed and often venerated
as secret gifts from the gods, called Secrets.
These can be as simple as basic plumbing, or
as complex as military equipment that they
reverse-engineered, which would determine
that Banner's technology level.
Each Shard is ruled by a Banner, which may
answer to another, stronger Banner, or may
be part of a confederation or alliance. The
manifold relationships and politics going on
between the Houses is like an asteroid field,
constantly shifting and occasionally crashing
into each other, causing ripples throughout
the other Shards.
Nearly every Shard Banner is proud and
fiercely territorial over their home - after all,
it’s the only home they have. They proudly
display their crests, mottos and creeds on
their heraldry and their raiment. Nearly all
Shards also have a strong martial culture and
sense of community, as all of them must work
together to fiercely defend their homes from
rival Banners and monstrous wildlife alike.
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Voyager Ideas
> Your Voyager is a Skardkriger House Thalor,
also known as a Beastreaver, wielding a
massive blade made of spines from a
dragon’s back.
> Your Voyager is an armored warrior,
banished from their Banner alongside their
direwolf companion for the crime of trying to
protect that direwolf's family from the lord's
hunting party.
> Your Voyager is the last surviving child of the
lord of the remote House Graive, which was
destroyed when a larger Shard unnaturally
strayed from its path and landed directly on
its home Shard.
Faction Scenario Ideas
> The Sol Empire is threatening to forcibly
subjugate your Voyager's home Shard. As one
of their most skilled warriors, you choose to
stay loyal to your Banner and enact a
campaign to liberate the neighbouring
Shards from House Sol and unite them to
push back and fight.
> Storm clouds loom on the horizon. A great
dragon migration is moving, and your
Voyager's Shard is in the path of their bestial
path. Worse still, the migration threatens to
raise a terrible Stormherald Elder Dragon from
its slumber, which will spell certain doom for
your Voyager's home. The Voyage party must
overtake the migration and somehow and
stop them from waking it.
> Your Voyager's father is dying of frostbite. As
his daughter and last remaining heir, she
must journey from her Shard, hundreds of
miles from home, and seek for either the Sol
Empire or EXDUS to send food and supplies
before winter, eventually encountering the
rest of the Voyage party.
Worldbuilding their own Shard's technology, they will likely
treat any different technology, and by
If your setting is expected to be set in or extension EXDUS, with a sense of novelty and
involve the Shardlands, have each Player at wonder.
the table help create and name one or two of
the following: > Typically either hate, fear or love the Sol
Empire, depending if they share the Empire's
1. Shard Banners same views of unification and expansion, or if
Define a few of the hundreds of Banners that they value their own Banner's pride, identity
populate the Shardlands, determining their and autonomy.
general size and their technology level or
what they're known for. It could be a tiny
Shard whose town hall is a half-fallen Old
World lighthouse, a small Shard who use
repurposed pre-Emergence military
exoskeletons to fight dragons, or a large
Shard whose constant rainfall leads to it
CHARACTER CREATION
having many beautiful waterfalls.
Shardborn
2. Hyperevolved Wildlife Faction Origin
Let the Players come up with a quick and fun
flora or fauna idea that may be encountered You know how to navigate Shards well, and any
while they explore the Shardlands, such as a tasks that need you to navigate them, discern
giant porcupine whose quills are harvested their terrain or estimate their elevation.
for spears, a tiny dragon that camouflages as
local flowers, or a red berry that explodes You know Eglaise and Shardlandic Common.
when touched.

Beast Steward
Faction Boons Specialty - TOOL
> Friendly Shards may allow you temporary
Any Shardlander worth their salt knows how to
food and lodging. Some may do so before or
handle wild game, from treating meats to
after you do favours for them.
tanning leather. You can also harvest bone, hide
and other materials from a slain beast or
> If a Banner truly trusts you as one of their
monster. These can be harvested for materials
own, they may allow you to freely take and
to use for sale and crafting.
use some of their sacred technology.

If your Shardlander has a more pastoral

Disposition upbringing, then they would know how to
handle livestock, from shearing sheep to milking
> How each Banner treats outsiders varies cows. You would also likely know how to best cut
wildly. Those less isolated will typically meat and checking animals for injury or
welcome visitors, but smaller Shards may not sickness.
be hospitable for as they are very careful with
their resources. Isolationist Shards may or
may nor be aggressive, but will almost surely
treat your party as a weird and alien sight.

> Because they are only really familiar with

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SOL EMPIRE
BLAZING UNIFIER OF THE SHARDLANDS
Background
The powerful, burgeoning Sol Empire is one of
the most powerful Banners in the Shardlands,
commanding the power and resources of
dozens of Shards large and small. Allied with
Aeden and EXDUS (for now), they intend to
spread their influence to all the Shardlands
and unite all its disparate lords under one
Banner.
Bearing the banner of the twin-headed
Phoenix, the Empire is young but spirited, and
is currently undergoing the peak of its first
industrial revolution. Strange and fearsome
machines of war are constructed daily in their
factories, with cannons of bolt and fire that
can fell the fiercest dragons and Shards alike.
At its head are the Twin Imperators, a young
and ambitious brother and sister pair who
currently share the throne. The twins, having
witnessed the rampant division, isolationism
and backwardness of so many Banners,
believe that a unified Shardlands is what their
people need for the promise of a better future
in the long run, even if it means they will face
fierce opposition from those not prepared for
change. Diplomacy is key, but where that
fails… dragon fire is a reliable last resort.
While growing at a fast rate, the Empire still
uses relatively outdated technology
compared to EXDUS. Their armed forces rely
largely on incendiary weapons and
combustion engines that use Vehementium: a
powerful but highly reactive crystal propellant.
They hope to more closely match EXDUS so as
to reliably prevent their likely intervention into
Imperial affairs in the foreseeable future.
As a member of the Empire, your Voyager's
purpose for joining EXDUS may hardly be
simple. You may be well aware of the shaky
relationship the Empire has with EXDUS, and
are using their genial relations with other
Shards to gather intelligence while you still
can. Conversely, you may be an Imperial
citizen who's started to doubt the Empire's
expansionist ways and are looking to EXDUS
as a way out.
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Voyager Ideas
> Your Voyager is a Drakenought, an elite
soldier of Sol outfitted with the fiery scales of
wyvern armour, sent to cull the fiercest
monsters and dragons.
> Your Voyager is an Iron Judicator, tasked
with smoking out rebel and barbarian forces,
and quelling them, equipped to even take on
members of the barbaric Bestiodus.
> Your Voyager is a member of the Phoenix
Watch, sent to guard the Sol Empire's capital
Shard or garrison its territories through
intense martial training and perfect strategy.
Faction Scenario Ideas
> The Sol Empire is expanding further upwards,
preparing for conflict with the Eyries. In the
dead of night, your Voyager's brother-in-arms
is captured by the Síoraí. They tell your party
to either turn back or watch him die. Forced to
stay your hand, you now journey in search of
him.
> A family of red drakes have been terrorising
one of the Sol Empire's territories, and your
Voyager has been tasked with culling their
numbers. However, your commanding officer
orders you to find a nearby Khaosjagd
Willbreaker, in the hopes of controlling the
drakes for the Sol army. You must convince
the Willbreaker to join their party while also
defending the Shard from drake attacks.
> The plans for SIGUR, one of the Empire’s
secret weapons projects, have been stolen by
a Shardland rebel who seeks refuge in the
Relic Cities. Your Voyager must apprehend
him without revealing the details of the plans
to Aeden - and even your Voyage party,
which is a source of conflict that constantly
nags at your loyalties.
Worldbuilding > Has some relations with EXDUS and Aeden,
usually trading resources and artifacts in
If your setting is expected to be set in or
exchange for EXDUS' technology, but this
involve the Sol Empire, have each Player at the
relationship is tenuous at best the more
table help create and name one or two of the
EXDUS learns about the Empire's aggressive
following:
expansion.

1. Lords or Military > Typically dislike the unpredictable wildlife of

Populate the Empire with some of the people the Shardlands, especially all types of
who occupy its vast list of nobles or its war dragons, and will seek to either cull them in
cabinet. It could be a short-tempered general great numbers or subjugate them to use in
whose home Shard is constantly prey to the war effort.
Shardlander rebels, a calculating strategist
who experiments on the creation of war
dragons, or a cowardly lord whose allegiance
to the Empire hangs by a thin thread and will
bow to anyone who can give him a bigger
CHARACTER CREATION
reason to be scared.
Shardborn
2. Vassal Shards Faction Origin
The Empire has dozens of loyal vassal
Banners. Have the table define some of them, You know how to navigate Shards well, and any
and the main benefit/resource they provide to tasks that need you to navigate them, discern
the Empire. Are they a moderately sized Shard their terrain or estimate their elevation.
with a wealth of Vehementium ore deposits? A
valuable trade port connecting the capital to You know Eglaise and Shardlandic Common.
other further Shards? Or a heavily fortified and
garrisoned site for one of their classified Next, choose between Military History or
projects? Industrial Machinist:

Military History
Faction Boons Specialty - LORE
> Your accomplished deeds may impress the
You are well-acquainted with Imperial military
Twin Imperators, who may ask your party to
protocol and etiquette, able to tell between its
present themselves for a tour of the Imperial
different ranks and divisions, and know how to
grounds.
best address your superiors and peers alike.
> Doing favours for the Empire may grant you
free travel between their vassal Shards and Industrial Machinist
limited access to their resources, such as Specialty - TOOL
Vehementium.
You are well-acquainted with Imperial war
machines, such as fixing and maintaining small
Disposition mechanisms like gears and engines, or
manning turrets and cannons.
> A divisive force in the Shardland; most other
Banners either are fiercely loyal to them, hate
them or fear them. The only Shards neutral to
them are the ones so isolated they don't know
of their existence... yet.

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DUST
GATE TO THE WORLD BEYOND

Background > Your Voyager is an adventuring Scrapper

Your Voyager is a member of one of the
numerous Alliance Clans dotting the
landscape of Dust, either working by
themselves, or allied with the Relic Cities or
other, stronger Clans.
The Alliance Clans mainly populate the region
of Dust: a large area filled with Old World ruins,
and covers a wide array of locales from
deserts to swamps and badlands. It's an
untamed, wild land that the local Kaibi have
skillfully adapted to.
Over the years, these Clans, big and small,
formal and informal, grew so numerous that a
need arose to keep track of everyone -
leading to the formation of the Alliance
around 50 years ago, which is headed by a
loose gathering of the leaders from the most
prominent, eldest Clans.
Whether they're trading fragments of an
inscribed sigil stone with EXDUS, mining for oil
to fuel their settlement’s new vehicles, or
delving into the jungle ruins for the promise of
treasure, the Alliance Clans live day to day
greeting adventure at every turn - the Old
World is their playground.
The Clans are made up of various people:
engineers, treasure hunters, dungeon delvers,
streetsmart explorers and ragtag adventurers.
They may be a small group of friends, large
organised family dynasties with numerous
adoptees and vassals, or unsavoury crime
rings. They may not be EXDUS, but they know
the Old World - it’s their home.
surviving in the ruins of a metropolis, stripping
ancient machines that don’t work anymore
and using the ones that do to fight off and
deter Old World Raiders.
Faction Scenario Ideas
> Your Voyager's Clan is based in the ruins of
a city that is not only home to a bustling trade
centre, but a constant target of Raider
attacks. Your Voyager hears of a massive
attack on the city is coming within the month,
and has to find the components to restore an
old artillery system that will be the only thing
capable of stopping the attack.
> A new island has been discovered off the
coast housing a massive flooded
underground complex. Your Voyager's party
and two other Clans need to work with EXDUS
to conduct the largest-scale underwater
expedition ever attempted.
> Your Voyager's uncle and lifelong mentor
has been captured by a ruthless Raider boss
for a debt he owes. To win his freedom, the
crime boss offers your Voyager a strange
quest: to delve into the jungle ruins of an Old
World amusement park and gather for him a
trove of unusual bobblehead figures with
animal heads.

Voyager Ideas
> Your Voyager is a Kaibi researcher based in
a peaceful abandoned university, working at
a recently restored greenhouse.

> Your Voyager is a local celebrity, a singer

who dances in bright dresses with a group,
who joins EXDUS to spread their music to
others.

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Worldbuilding
If your setting is expected to be set in or
involve Dust, have each Player at the table
help create and name one or two of the
following:
1. Clans
Define one of the many Clans of the Alliance,
their main trait and general disposition. They
could be a small Clan of hobbyist treasure
hunters, a large Clan with a strict family
structure, or a famous crime family whose
front is a reputable noodle stall franchise.
2. Contacts
Create a Dust citizen who may help,
doublecross or otherwise intrigue your party,
which a Voyager may or may not know as a
personal contact. This character would
normally be a Kaibi, Ruaya or Ozlaty. It could
be a smuggler who deals in dubious artifacts,
a wandering merchant who always crosses
paths with the party to sell them overpriced
stuff, or a rival treasure hunter who's
constantly on your party's tail.
Faction Boons
> The Alliance Clans are filled with groups of
all sorts, all with interesting relationships and
rivalries with each other. Earning the esteem
of one may raise the ire of another, so be
careful with your dealings in Dust, and keep
your hand a secret from others.
> Many of the more powerful Clans - typically
family dynasties or crime syndicates - will
offer you classified information or access to
certain places if you prove useful to them.
Many powerful Clans own exclusive rights to
access certain locations in Dust, such as ruins
or resource-rich locales - not that it's stopped
rival Clans or raiders.
> The trade routes and bazaars of Dust are
always booming with activity, and it's
commonplace to buy and sell strange
artifacts and curios there - whether acquired
legally or not.
Disposition
> Dust is a melting pot of different cultures
and so would be quite welcoming to anyone,
but don't expect to find consistent order or a
head government there.
CHARACTER CREATION
Dustborn
Faction Origin
You know how to navigate the lands of Dust,
which regions to avoid which of the Clans are
friendly with who.
You know Eglaise and another language of
choice.
Next, choose between Sweet Talk or Slip Away.
Sweet Talk
Specialty - FACE
Growing up in the ever-shifting social
landscape of Dust, you are able to negotiate
with merchants, traders and other denizens of
Dust, whether you are haggling for more
reasonable prices or seeking passage into a
Clan's territory.
Slip Away
Specialty - DARE
When things go south, you are sure to head
north posthaste.
Use this Specialty when slipping away
undetected or making a loud retreat when any
sort of neutral or positive social interaction
becomes hostile.
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THE EYRIES
REALM OF THE STORM
Background
Your Voyager is a citizen of the Eyries and a
subject of the Stormqueen, ruling from the
skies to claim the New World. The Stormqueen
has never been seen except by the most
select of Her children - Her Court operating
instead through Her War Ministers, secret
police and spies all throughout Revenir.
The Stormqueen is the undisputed and
supreme monarch of the Eyries and a large
majority of the Síoraí people. Her Court rules
with an iron fist and the steadfast belief in the
supremacy of the Síoraí people as the
inheritors of the greater incarnations of
knowledge. To Her, she is a mother raising a
child, young and uncertain, but with amazing
talents and untold potential.
Your Voyager serves the Stormqueen likely
because they believe in those same tenets,
serving as part of Her Court, her royal guard,
one of her many avian-riding warriors, or even
as part of Her secret police.
The Eyries are a realm of intrigue and
subterfuge. Sometimes direct military
expansion happens, but the most effective
use of power is to use the enemy’s own petty
earthly feuds against each other.
One known trait of the Eyries' citizens is that
they appreciate beauty - specifically the
austere, timeless beauty of the Old World and
its monuments. It is said that many buildings
in the Eyries are ancient cathedrals and stone
buildings that miraculously remained upright
during the Emergence. The people or the
Eyries place great spiritual significance to
these buildings and their contents - treating
them as the few remnants worthy of standing
eternal in the wake of the great raising of the
world.
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Voyager Ideas
> Your Voyager is a Drachéan War Minister,
skilled in both diplomacy and closely-
guarded magical secrets.
> Your Voyager is a Síoraí Gryphon Skyrider,
riding their flying steed into battle.
> Your Voyager is a member of the
Stormqueen’s secret police, spreading Her
influence to the rest of the world below Her
through whisper and blade.
Faction Scenario Ideas
> The Stormqueen's Court has sensed an
ancient power lying deep underground in the
Feithéan Hidden Cities, a relic of the ancients
that She greatly desires, currently used by the
Feithéan to plot the movement of the World
Tree's roots, which power their subterranean
city. Your Voyager must negotiate for its
relinquishment while maintaining good
relations with our Feithéan subjects.
> Two sisters from the edges of the Eyries have
been born under a blessed star and are to be
adopted by the Queen as her Stormchildren.
Your Voyager must gain their trust and bring
them to the Celestial Chain for training before
others seize them.
> The Stormqueen's Court has commissioned
your Voyager to oversee the acquisition and
restoration of a newly-discovered Shard
cathedral, which your Voyager finds is on a
collision course with another Shard. Should
you fail to divert its course safely or at least
recover some of its holy artifacts, the
consequences will be dire.
Worldbuilding
In a typical setting, most non-Síoraí Voyagers
would know very little if at all about the Eyries
and their society. As such, if your setting is
expected to be set in or involve the Eyries,
have each Player at the table help create and
name one or two of the following:
1. Rumour
The Storm Court operates on the trade of
secrets and information. Occasionally, their
highly trained assassins and secret police
descend from the Eyries and to the world
below in order to seize powerful relics or
apprehend runaways and dissidents of their
rule. Have the Players create a rumour - a
clue about an artifact, the name of a fugitive
Síoraí or a secret magical manuscript - that
the GM would believe would rouse the Storm
Court's attention.
2. Storm Court Member
The only Síoraí who are allowed, or really
express any desire to leave the Eyries are
those with enough station to do so, to the
point where if a Síoraí is walking around in
Aeden, they are likely a big-shot there on
official business. Have the Players create and
name some of these nobles. Note that since
these are public figures, this does not include
assassins or members of the secret police. If
they are, their clandestine identity is known
only to the GM.
These nobles typically include: Storm Children,
noble children adopted from poorer families
to serve as the Stormqueen's scions; War
Ministers, strategists and military lords with a
strong command over powerful magic; and
Skyriders, soldiers who fly gryphons and other
avian creatures who often patrol and guard
the Eyries, but who may occasionally be sent
outside the Eyries on escort or reconaissance
missions.
Faction Boons
> Gaining the esteem of the Eyries, especially
for a non-Síoraí is very difficult, though not
impossible. A trusted enough ally of the Storm
Court may enlist the services of their nobles,
though keep in mind that these services are
rarely if ever rendered without some
underlying motive.
Disposition
> Most citizens of the Eyrie are largely
distrusting of outsiders. Some are also
haughty, treating themselves as above
everyone else in every sense of the word. Their
relations with EXDUS and other factions are
largely transactional in nature, usually forged
out of necessity. Your Voyager themselves
would likely need a good reason to be
cavorting around as a Voyager - perhaps a
sense of wanderlust, or a lasting bond you
made with someone outside of the Eyries.
CHARACTER CREATION
Skyborn
Faction Origin
Being a citizen of the Eyries, you are intimately
familiar with the various territories within the
Eyries, largely out of reach from all other
Sapients. You know their names, rough locations
and customs.
You know Eglaise and Avarrach, the closely-
guarded language of the Síoraí, rarely if ever
spoken or written in the presence of outsiders.
Discern Intrigue
Specialty - SENSE
Having grown up in the Eyries, a politically
charged society where subtle deceptions lie
below the surface, a harmless hand signal can
execute deadly plots and every intent is a
focused dagger, you've learned to spot such
machinations in people with enough study.
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SKOTOS
VALLEY OF SHADOW
Background
Within the shadowed depths of Skotos, you
will find either: eternally youthful nobles
having dinner parties in dark castles, using
pomp and lavish decadence as simply a
means to pass the time; or bands of undying
Viemor warriors who have learned to survive
in the darkness and use it for their own
purposes, the Khaosjagd. The roar of great
obsidian beasts constantly echo like the wind
in their ears, and the march of both foot and
claw shake the ground they walk.
The Khaosjagd are a roving army that learned
to hunt and dominate the shadowed
creatures of Skotos called Tannin -
supernatural beasts constantly born from the
primordial oceans of Chaos around the World
Tree's roots, riding these creatures into battle.
The Tannin are wild creatures who are
irresistibly attracted to the energy of blood
and lifeforce, and will quickly pursue and kill
any soul unforunate enough to fall into Skotos,
thereby creating more Viemor.
While surfacers who hear and tell bedtime
tales to children think of them as vile, ghostly
riders who would rise from Skotos to wage war
and pillage, the Khaosjagd are actually a
morally ambivalent group at best. There is no
want or need in Skotos: no need for food or
money.
While the nobles of Skotos live in their
darkened castles, eternally engaged in courtly
games and dances, the Khaosjagd find
pleasure in the hunt instead, riding the vast
wastes of the Valley of Shadow in search of
new prey. They are not interested in hunting
feeble prey like hapless travelers and upstart
adventurers who find their way in Skotos, and
will in fact assist them in escape provided this
guest gives a good enough reason to garner
their respect.
Failing that, their living scent will always draw
the Tannin, which always signals a new Hunt.
Might as well let the living run and cower in
fear - it makes the Tannin more erratic and
fierce for the glorious taking.
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Voyager Ideas
> Your Voyager is a Wahrsanguis, a rare non-
Viemor who uses their living blood to cast
magic and fend off the Tannin that hunger for
them, divining the locations of other living
creatures and leading the Tannin away from
them so that they may find safe passage out
of Skotos.
> Your Voyager is a young initiate of the Hunt,
determined to prove their strength by
defeating their master in combat and killing
them, awaiting the day their master revives to
succeed them in turn.
> Your Voyager is one of the immortal nobles
of Skotos, used to living in beautiful gothic
edifices and finding romance in this dreary,
colourless underworld. The nobility of Skotos
are quite welcoming; they view every Viemor
as an immortal simply putting on a mask and
playing a role. Some choose the eternal chase
and warrior's charade of the Khaosjagd, while
the more refined choose to live sumptuously
and celebrate their eternal lives with dignity
and grace.
Faction Scenario Ideas
> Your Voyager has prepared their whole life
to defeat and kill their master in order to learn
a secret he has kept from them since they
were reborn as a Viemor. However, on the day
of their Rite, their master was somehow found
outside of Skotos - along with his Memento -
and dragged away by the Sol Empire, to be
executed in three days. Frustrated, you
journey out to find him, stumbling into the rest
of the Voyage party.
> Your Voyager was a researcher of EXDUS,
compelled to delve into the darkness of
Skotos to uncover its limitless troves of secrets
- believing it holds the key to greater mastery
of knowledge and magic. And find it you did -
but not before the abyss in turn, pulled you in.
> Your Voyager is a bright-eyed noble who
decided to journey outside Skotos in search of
colour and excitement, followed closely by
your loyal ghostly butler.
Worldbuilding Disposition
If your setting is expected to be set in or > Outside of individual actions, the factions in
involve Skotos, have each Player at the table Skotos are largely unconcerned with the
help create and name one or two of the affairs of the living. There is no scarcity for
following: them to fear, and the fear of death has long
lost its power. However, this also makes them
1. Threshold unusually hospitable in spite of their initially
Being a vast underground world, Skotos is frightening appearances or strange customs.
typically hidden from the surface world, Anyone who asks them for help usually will
unless you know where to look. Have the find it, as long as it isn't too incovenient or
Players describe one of these entryways into contrary to their principles. Even the dead
Skotos: a jungle cave, an abandoned mine have standards, you know.
network or a giant sinkhole that famously
opened and ate an entire Relic City whole.
Depending on the entryway, the GM
determines whether such an entrance would
be publicly known or hidden to others. If the
latter, the Player simply gives the description
CHARACTER CREATION
but only the GM knows its location.
Choose between Timeless Noble or Eternal
Hunter.
2. Unliving Traveler
On occasion, many Viemor travel outside of
Immortal Noble
Skotos, some for adventure, some for some
Faction Origin
greater purpose beyond the monotony of
You are familiar with the eccentric nobility of
their immortal lives, and others to satisfy
Skotos, whose various rules and etiquette can
some eccentric curiosity. Have the Players
change on a whim. You know about their
name and describe some of these travelers
favourite pasttimes and a good number of their
from below. They could be a wandering
names, being good associates with them.
headless merchant, a skeletal bookkeeper, or
a famous zombie performer known for
You know Eglaise, Sangrais and one other
iconically wearing a single, bejeweled glove.
language of choice.

Faction Boons Eternal Hunter

Faction Origin
> Gaining the favour of a Skotos noble of
As a member of the Khaosjagd, or simply a
Khaosjagd hunter may earn you enough
wandering soul in Skotos, you are familiar with
esteem that they are willing to lend their
the treacherous topography of Skotos, the
services or manpower. However, being
territories of its various lords and hotspots of
Viemor, they will almost never put themselves
Tannin activity, vaguely knowing which places
in a situation where they would endanger
to steer clear of and safely navigate the
their Memento. Sharing information about a
darkness.
Memento is a great secret each Viemor holds,
only shared with the closest of lovers, friends
You know Eglaise, Nachtsprache and one other
or allies.
language of choice.

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SENTINARIUM
CITY OF GOLD & GLADIATORS
Background
The Sentinarium is a chain of three city-states
known for two things: 1) its beautiful, scenic
canals; 2) its weekly battle royales.
The Sentinarium is a line of battle-forged
arena cities populated by people from all over
Revenir, where the Warrior-King Marquel once
sought to ensure that each generation of the
New World would be strong enough to secure
the next. Located in the an arcadian paradise
called the Vinelands, the three cities and their
connecting land bridges, along with an
apportioned area of ruins and forests,
comprise a massive enclosed arena. Its
martial citizenry play a weekly gladiatorial
game of survival where they constantly track
and battle each other day and night, honing
their bodies and minds to the peak of mortal
limits.
The Sentinarium is ruled by a Marquel, named
after its original founder, who helps run and
manage its weekly tournaments. This regular
tournament, called the Iron Fete, is celebrated
as a festival for the human body and spirit,
where each night a winner is crowned and
made the head of a lavish banquet. Every
three years, an even greater battle called the
Feast of Tributes (named after Warrior-King
Marquel's favourite Old World manuscript) is
held, where the Marquel must battle to prove
their worthiness to hold office.
The citizens of the Sentinarium have a diverse
culture of combat, treating it as an artform
with many styles and movements. Many
would eventually leave the arena cities to
prove their mettle against actual foes,
becoming mercenaries or soldiers for hire.
They are able-bodied warriors and survivors
with trained adamantine discipline and a
thirst for challenge.
Gladiatorial Houses
Your Voyager may belong to one of the
Gladiator Houses. In the Sentinarium, its many
noble houses are descended from great
warriors or teachers who revolutionised the
art of combat, some being past Marquels.
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These Houses and their members usually
swear by a certain technique or fighting style
started by its founder.
Voyager Ideas
> Your Voyager is a warrior-poet who reports
the great deeds of the Iron Fetes and records
them for broadcast, selling your records to
enthusiasts far and wide.
> Your Voyager is an aspiring weaponmaster
whose entire diet consists of studying
treatises and manuals day and night, in
hopes of becoming the next Iron Fete
champion.
> Your Voyager is the sibling of the current
Marquel, whose unforgivable decadence and
rigging of the Fetes has driven you to leave
the cities and train to defeat him in the next
Feast of Tributes.
Faction Scenario Ideas
> This week's great Iron Fete promises to be
one of the best as your idol, a famed warrior,
is slated to return after a long pilgrimage.
However, the day your party arrives at
Sentinarium, news arrives that the hero has
gone missing!
> A strange waterborne disease has swept
over the Sentinarium, causing all of its
toughest warriors to fall ill! Coincidentally, a
band of Dust Raiders have been spotted for
the past few days, patrolling the outskirts of
the city...
> You've been called to the Sentinarium, your
old hometown. The Quartered Doge, a highly
respected figure and sage who joined four
Feast of Tributes and lost a limb in each one,
mysteriously summoned you in a private
letter.
Worldbuilding spokesperson to spread the word of their
superior martial techniques.
If your setting is expected to be set in or
involve the Sentinarium, have each Player at
the table help create and name one or two of Disposition
the following: > The citizens of the Sentinarium and the
Vinelands are largely welcoming - if you can
1. Gladiatorial Houses fight, you are as good as home. The walled
Create a House to populate the Sentinarium, cities of the Sentinarium houses a proud and
specifying their main martial identity and a strong people made up of Sapients all over
quirk about their founder. It could be a House the Known World. While many of them are the
focused on dueling whose founder famously most peerless warriors in the Known World,
died for refusing to duel their lover; a House many are also given to a sense of
whose still-living founder and followers are complacency, believing only a fool would ever
obsessed with overly long blades; or a House try to pick a fight with three nigh-unassailable
everyone hates, whose entire schtick is not cities populated almost entirely by warriors
about using weapons, but using misdirection, and killers.
cheap tricks and insane patience to run away
and wait indoors until they're the last
remaining competitors of the Iron Fete.
CHARACTER CREATION
2. Champion
Create a famous figure in Sentinarium,
Steelborn
whether still living or deceased. They could be
Faction Origin
the head of a Gladiatorial house, a famous
master blacksmith, or a previous winner of the
You are well-versed in the history of the
Iron Fete or even the Feast of Tributes.
Sentinarium, its Marquels and Houses, along
with its three cities and the surrounding region
Faction Boons of the Vinelands. You also know the timings,
history and figures associated with the Iron
> The martial citizenry of the Sentinarium are Fetes and the triennal Feast of Tributes.
always looking for opportunities to improve
and test their martial skill. With enough You know Eglaise and Melaidic, the language of
compensation, they would be willing to work the Vinelands.
as mercenaries for nearly any cause - some
are crazy enough to do it for free, but they'll kill Martial Eye
you if you don't deliver them a good enough
Specialty - SENSE
challenge to undertake.
You are able to scrutinise a person's fighting
> Weapons and armour of every make and
style if it originated or was used prevalently in
type flow like water in the Sentinarium. A
the Sentinarium, and are able to identify its
warrior, grateful that you saved his life, may
strengths, shortcomings and historical
offer you his prized blade as thanks. A
significance, along with its associated
blacksmith, impressed by your feats, may
Gladiatorial House and founder.
offer to craft you a masterwork of great
beauty and deadly form. An experience
If the Skill roll was not sufficiently high, the GM
veteran of a Gladiatorial house may train your
will only reveal the fighting style's House and
Voyager in a new combat Technique after
founder.
seeing your potential, or simply to make you a

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CHAPTER IV

VENTURES

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Ventures Explained
Ventures are your main source of Abilities.
They represent the different life paths a
person in the world of Revenir may take: a
bounty hunter from Dust, a studied Aedean
mage or a warrior of the Shardlands. For your
Voyager, this is their main profession or life's
work at the time they joined EXDUS.
Roles
The Ventures in this list will be grouped
according to certain Roles - a common
theme or purpose they have in a party during
combat. This is only for labelling purposes and
has no mechanical impact on the Ventures'
themselves or how you wish to play your
Voyager.

When you create your character, the Venture Valiant (VL)

they start in typically determines their origin,
such as their Specialties, their Faction and
their approach to combat. For starting Players,
we recommend matching your Venture to its
relevant Faction, if applicable.
For more experienced Players, you are freely
able to pursue other Ventures that match
your character's personality, life decisions or
just your desired playstyle for them. You can
freely learn any Abilities from other Ventures,
as long as you have the EXP to spend on them
and fulfill any of their unique criteria.
However, you should discuss this path with
your GM, so that they can plan a way to
believably have you pursue these differing
professions and philosophies from a different
culture or region, playing out this
development in a Scenario or Downtime
session.
Ability Types
Venture Origin
When you choose a starting Venture, you gain
a secondary Origin and Specialty set
representing their professional experience
prior to joining EXDUS.
Valiants cover a wide range of Ventures, but
are typically versatile fighters able to change
their strategy to best support their allies
through mobility, damage or magic.
Striker (ST)
The Striker is a frontline fighter whose priority
is dispatching enemies as efficiently as
possible, and will usually have more HIT or AIM
Dice than other Ventures.
Vanguard (VG)
The Vanguard is a defensive Role that
typically has more SAVE Dice than other
Ventures, and often get right into the fight as
mass crowd control against foes, or to heal
allies.
Watcher (WA)
The Watcher is typically the mage class,
having more CAST Dice than others, though
they may not necessarily be magic users.
They usually have a wide range of impactful
abilities that can affect large parts of the map
in creative ways.

Unique Mechanic
A special trait with significant narrative and
gameplay identity that defines the Venture's
place in the world which makes it unique from
all others.

Unique Ability
An innate trait or expertise the Venture can
learn and utilise in combat.

Potentials
These are Abilities that can be learned only
when the Voyager reaches a certain Potential.
They cannot be learned before reaching a
certain Level.

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Heir
Chosen of the World Tree
Recommended Faction
Aeden
Common Sapient
Any
Lore
You are an Heir, a chosen soul from among
the people of Revenir, wielding a powerful
weapon created from your soul bestowed to
you by the World Tree.
Playstyle
The Heir is a highly versatile fighter who can
specialise into almost any playstyle that best
facilitates the team, from a high-damaging
melee warrior, to a precise ranged attacker.
They can freely switch between multiple
magical weapons on the fly and conjure
copies of them to attack enemies, even
controlling their weapon with their mind.
Play as an Heir if you like:
> Being a versatile jack-of-all-trades in
combat
> Having a magical weapon that changes
forms within your hand
> Commanding an arsenal of floating spectral
weapons that can fly and attack
independently
Strengths
Long distance spells and teamwide buffs
Weaknesses
Requires heavy EXP investment to bring out
full potential
Primary Action Dice
Versatile
Venture Origin
Origin Weapon
Starting Specialty
Origin Weapon
Heirs come from all Sapients and
backgrounds, called by a Phytosapien to the
Kathedra: a sacred temple carved from the
World Tree, with tall white boughs and winding
branches along its walls.
You wield a living weapon that appears to
breathe and resonate with the power of the
World Tree. It was either formed
spontaneously from your soul in a ritual called
the Claritas Immersio, or perhaps reforged
after the loss of its past wielder, making you
its inheritor.
Sometimes, your weapon guides you towards
fulfilling this greater purpose, usually through
a strange feeling of familiarity or a sense of
nostalgia, as you resonate with memories
that are familiar, yet not entirely your own.
LORE - The Kathedra & Claritas Immersio
ritual
DARE - Remotely controlling your Origin
Weapon
SENSE - Meditating upon your Origin Weapon
TOOL - Flourishing weapon, using a sidearm
(pistol and/or dagger)
FACE - Commanding respect as an Heir,
heroic presence
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Loadout
2 MOVE / 2 SAVE / 2 HIT / 2 AIM / 2 CAST

Game Plan
The Heir is a jack of all trades that is able to
adapt to any situation. They wield a magical
Origin Weapon that can moe attack
independently, able to strike from safe
distances. Controlling this Weapon uses
Action Dice of any type, freeing up your
priority Dice for use.

Assigning Die Values

Place your highest value Action Dice based on
your desired playstyle for your Heir. Place your
d12 on your MOVE if you want them to traverse
the map easily, or HIT if you want to make
them a proficient melee fighter.

Starting Ability - Heir

Origin Weapon
Unique Mechanic
You receive a unique, blessed weapon or tool
given to you from the World Tree, along with a
Vision from the Weapon that alludes to its
past or true purpose. The Weapon is
indestructible, magical in nature and almost
living, improving and growing as you do,
guiding you on your path. It is also the source
of your power.
You are able to use the SENSE Skill to peer into
your Origin Weapon to find out more about its
purpose, though it may not always answer or
give a straight answer.
Return
Origin Weapon
Cost: 1 Action Die
Range: Global
"Answer my summons as your wielder."
If separated from your Origin Weapon for
whatever reason, you can call it to Return to
your hand. Your Origin Weapon will fly and
take the shortest route possible to you, with a
flying movespeed of 12 Tiles per turn. If
blocked by an inanimate barrier or solid
obstacle, it will attempt to go around or break
through it. Any enemy in its path takes
damage from its flight equal to 1 HIT (no cost).

After assuming its first form, an Origin

Weapon can transform and change its form
to suit its wielder. Your Origin Weapon can
alternate between two different forms. These
can be one melee and one ranged form, or
both of either.

Additionally, you learn Return.

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Ability List
Soul Wielder
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Range: Global (line of sight)
"A sword of many facets encircles me."
You let go of your Origin Weapon and use the
link between you to control it remotely, striking
at your command. It can fly and attack
enemies independently of you, following you
as you move unless directed to a different
location.The Weapon can travel to anywhere
on the map that you can see, ignoring difficult
terrain and can fly around obstacles.
After spending your CAST Die to remotely
wield it, you can spend any Action Die to have
your Weapon move and attack in a single
motion, rolling that Action Die for the distance
travelled and damage. You can also execute
Techniques with it by spending the
appopriate Action Dice.
Soul Wielder lasts indefinitely for the duration
of combat until you dismiss it, at which point it
automatically Returns to you (no CAST cost).
Getting Stunned or Silenced will stop Soul
Wielder and your Weapon will fall to the
ground, at which point you must spend 1 CAST
to have it Return.
Zephyr
Potential I
3 EXP
An animating wind grants a supernatural
momentum behind you and your weapon. For
every 1 Movement that you spend during your
Turn, your next Attack gains Accuracy +1.
Variform Weapon
Potential I
1 EXP
You can have your Origin Weapon learn
another weapon's form, after which it can
alter itself into a different weapon's form at
will. This Ability can be learned multiple times.
Weapon Warp
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 Action Die
"Answer my summons, my Wielder."
Whenever you are separated from your Origin
Weapon, you can spend an Action Die to
immediately warp to its location.
Arbiter
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Area: Cn. 1 Tile Cross
When separated from your Origin Weapon,
you can spend 1 CAST to have it burst with
magical energy, dealing damage equal to
your roll to all enemies in the area. The
Weapon remains intact, and you can control
it as normal afterwards.
Revolution of the
Chosen
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 2 CAST, 1 Action
Range: Cn. 1 Tile Cross
"Echo your soul and hear something new in the
familiar."
You create four spectral copies of your Origin
Weapon, causing them to float on the four
Tiles around you and spin around you. The
copies can each take on separate forms and
last until the end of combat.
You can spend 1 HIT or AIM to order one of the
spectral copies to perform an attack, which
destroys the copy afterwards. If a hostile
attack or Ability would hit you, you can spend 1
SAVE, which destroys the spectral weapon
instead, and you take no damage (this is
treated as a Shield effect).
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Vision Given Form
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 Action Die
If you use your Origin Weapon to perform an
attack, you can spend 1 Action Die (free
Action) to quickly transform it and attack with
an alternate form immediately. Roll that
Action Die for the damage dealt.
Starclimber
Potential I
2 EXP
Cost: 1 MOVE or 1 CAST
When holding your Origin Weapon, you can
spend 1 MOVE or CAST Die to have it fly,
carrying you with it and ignoring terrain and
obstacles.
Roaring Whisper
Unique Ability
3 EXP
If you roll a Critical with an attack using your
Origin Weapon, it bursts with magic,
damaging the target again. Roll that
weapon's Action Die again for the damage, at
no cost.
Alternatively, you can choose to absorb this
magical burst instead, regaining 1 spent CAST
Die.
Cage of Burdens
Potential I
4 EXP
Requires Soul Wielder
If you have multiple spectral copies of your
Origin Weapon active, you can independently
move them anywhere. These copies act as if
controlled by Soul Wielder, and you spend 1
Action Die to move them all at once.
You are able to activate Weapon Warp and
Arbiter using these copies, if you know those
Abilities. Doing so will consume the copy.
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The Shape of Destiny
Unique Ability
3 EXP
When you spend an Action Die to activate
Weapon Warp, you dash in a bolt of semi-
corporeal light, damaging all enemies
between you and your Weapon. Roll that
Action Die for the damage dealt.
Anamnesis
Potential II
4 EXP
Cost: 2 CAST, 1 Action
R E T U R N.
Your Origin Weapon briefly shifts into an
awakened form, both physical and astral, able
to even pierce the soul of all it touches.
If you embed your Origin Weapon in anyone
this way, including yourself, the target takes
an astral form, becoming Invulnerable but
unable to move or take any actions until your
Weapon is removed from them. It is
impossible to remove by anyone except
yourself. An unwilling target may attempt to
SAVE against this.
While in their astral form, the target's soul is
transported to the Dreaming, the collective
consciousness of all existence. They will not
return to the physical world unchanged.
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Gamblade
Daredevil Arena Fighter
Recommended Faction Primary Action Dice
Sentinarium Versatile

Common Sapient Venture Origin

Any Weapondancing

Lore Starting Specialty

You are a citizen of the Sentinarium: the
famous City of Mercenaries, where the entire
city is a colossal enclosed arena and its
citizens battle each other for prestige. Known
among them is the Gamblade: a weapon
specialist and gladiatorial fighter whose flair
for showmanship is only matched by their
peerless technical skill for switching weapons
on the fly.
Playstyle
The Gamblade strives for lethal style above
all. They are a versatile fighter, able to evade,
attack and outwit enemies on the fly. The
more you switch between styles, the greater
your flow state and therefore your power.
Play as a Gamblade if you like:
> Playing a walking arsenal with multiple
signature weapons
> Stringing combos together in novel ways for
major style points
> Overwhelming foes in a dance of steel and
death
Weapondancing
Trained in the Sentinarium, the Gamblade is
the perfect balance between an effective
fighter and a people-pleasing performer.
They treat their battles as a performance - to
be enjoyed by an adoring crowd and for their
own pursuit of martial perfection. Your
performance is akin to the Danse Macabre -
the grim reaper dancing along with souls
doomed to die as it escorts them to the grave.
LORE - Different types of weapons and their
techniques
DARE - Weapon performances, fighting
multiple enemies
SENSE - Estimating risks
TOOL - Maintaining weapons
FACE - Stirring or impressing a crowd, warrior
persona

Strengths
High damage potential if you stylishly
alternate between Action Dice in creative
ways

Weaknesses
Very dice-intensive due to being able to
spend Action Dice outside of their normal
Turn. Their wide Action Die spread might leave
them with lacking options for consistent
damage.

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Loadout
2 MOVE / 2 SAVE / 2 HIT / 2 AIM / 2 CAST

Game Plan
A Gamblade has multiple Abilities that help
then gain bonuses from alternating between
Action Dice. String melee attacks, dodging,
ranged attacks, magic and movement
together and see how much chaos you're
capable of raising in battle.

A Gamblade will burn through their Action

Loadout faster than other Ventures, so take
care not to be left without an escape plan.

Assigning Die Values

While a Gamblade is a versatile fighter, they're
still a damage dealer - your HIT and AIM Dice
should take priority. Due to their lack of pure
magic, CAST is not a huge priority.

Starting Ability - Gamblade

Gamblade's Rhythm
Unique Mechanic

Whenever you take Actions, you build up

stacks of Rhythm. There are five ranks of
Rhythm, each represented by a letter and die
value. Your Rhythm starts at D rank, which is a
d4. C rank is a d6; B rank is d8; A rank is d10
and the highest, S rank, is a d12.

Whenever you take a different Action on your

Turn using an Action Die, such as using HIT
after MOVE, or using AIM after HIT, your Rhythm
is increased by one rank. Whenever you
perform an Action during your Turn, you can
roll an additional die based on your Rhythm
rank and add the result to your Action Die's
roll. This is a free Action.

You can roll your Rhythm die multiple times in

a Turn, but only for every unique Action you
take - meaning if you HIT twice in a row, you
can only roll your Rhythm die once for that
sequence. Your Rhythm automatically resets
back to 0 at the end of each Round.

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Ability List
Signature Arsenal
Unique Ability
2 EXP
During the campaign, the GM may give you
access to new gear and weapons, perhaps in
the form of loot from powerful enemies. You
can spend 2 EXP to familiarise yourself with it
and implement it into your martial repertoire.
You can learn this Ability again every time you
want to implement another weapon into your
Signature Arsenal.
When you switch and attack using different
signature weapons, you increase your Rhythm
by one rank, even if it's the same type of
Action. You would declare to the GM that you
are switching weapons when doing this.
Death's Razor
Unique Ability
3 EXP
For every rank of Rhythm you gain, you also
gain 1 Accuracy. This Accuracy gain is
temporarily doubled when damaging at least
two enemies.
Inhuman Reactions
Unique Ability
3 EXP
If you successfully execute an Instant
Reaction that is done outside of your Turn, you
gain 2 ranks of Rhythm from it instead of 1.
SSS Rhythm
Potential I
4 EXP
Your Rhythm gains two additional ranks: SS
and SSS. At Rank SS and above, your Rhythm
die grants your attacks Truestrike when used.
At Rank SSS, they are also Honed.
Martial Momentum
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
You harness your inner resolve to continue
your dance of steel. By spending 1 CAST, you
can return up to 3 spent Action Dice into your
Loadout (except for CAST Dice). These Action
Dice must all be different types from each
other.

Deadly Momentum
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Free Action
You can choose to push yourself in order to
maintain your Rhythm. During your Turn, you
can choose to gain up to two additional
Actions from your Loadout, and are able to
take up to 5 Actions on your Turn. Choose
which available Action Dice to take from your
Loadout. Your next Turn will have a reduced
number of Actions equal to the amount you
took.

If you empty your Loadout by doing this, your

Loadout only resets at the start of your next
Turn instead of the Round.

Totentanz
Unique Ability
3 EXP
When you reduce an enemy's Resolve to 0,
you gain one Rhythm.

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Mizuno, Jet Corps Trooper of the
Order of Vigilant Flame
Jet Corps Trooper
Mobile Aerial Gunner
Recommended Faction
Aeden
Common Sapient
Any
Lore
You are a member of the illustrious Jet Corps,
an aerial military task force charged with
defending the skies over the Relic Cities and
other allies of Aeden. Armed with a Paladite
jetpack and an Attrition rifle, the Jet Corps are
known for being the quickest responders to
any danger, able to reach the furthest Shards
in record time.
Playstyle
A Jet Corps Trooper's main strength is their
insane mobility, able to use their jetpack to
reach higher elevations or fly across great
distances without obstruction. They are able
to freely fire their rifle in flight, letting them
harry enemies unopposed.
Play as a Jet Corps Trooper if you
like:
> Playing futuristic first-person shooters
> Being able to fly and traverse the battlefield
with ease
> Friggin' jetpacks!
Strengths
Peerless mobility and ranged harassment
Weaknesses
Relatively vulnerable if left grounded
Primary Action Dice
MOVE, AIM
Venture Origin
Jet Corps
Venture Origin
Jet Corps
The Paladite crystal is a magically refined
core of glasslike mineral that glows a sky blue.
It appears to store energy over time, and
when struck with sufficient force, it releases all
the stored energy at once.
This post-Emergence mineral has formed the
bases for not only modern firearms in Revenir,
but for all propulsion and flight systems as
well. It kickstarted a new scientific revolution
which eventually made the Jet Corps
possible.
You enlisted in the Jet Corps to learn aerial
combat and threat response inside and out.
Crossing the sky, gyroscopic rifle in hand, you
have learned to make the jetpack and cloth
wings on your back as much an extension
yourself as you can.
LORE - Tactical training, jetpack construction
DARE - Flying through tight spaces and turns,
tactical maneuvering
SENSE - Threat assessment, estimating
distances
TOOL - Maintaining a jetpack, rifle
maintenance and use
FACE - Tactical coordination, interacting with
Armigers
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Loadout
4 MOVE / 3 AIM / 1 SAVE / 1 HIT / 1 CAST

Game Plan
Control the skies and map by taking key
positions where you can attack unopposed.
You are also able to arrive at key locations
and objectives before anyone else.
Circumvent dangerous hazards and enemies
and rain bullets on them from above.

Assigning Die Values

For covering large areas of the map, give your
MOVE a high value. However, if you want to
play as more of a skirmishing gunner, place
more priority on AIM and keep your MOVE as a
d6 or d8 - allowing you to stick to groups of
enemies more effectively while flying circles
around them.

Starting Ability - Jet Corps Trooper

Paladite Jetpack As long as your Glider Cape is equipped,
whenever you are Airborne, you fall at a rate
Unique Mechanic of 3 Tiles a Turn, taking no damage when you
As a Jet Corps Trooper, you are given land.
clearance to equip a specialised Jetpack. This
jetpack uses a magical mineral called Additionally, you learn Flight Burst:
Paladite, the same mineral used as the firing
mechanism for modern EXDUS firearms.
Flight Burst
The Paladite stores energy before it is
Cost: 1 MOVE Action
released by striking it with an internal
hammer mechanism, releasing a jet of blue
"Skies are clear. Activate glass!"
flamelike energy. This is used in your jetpack
to provide limited flight in short bursts, and is
You activate your jetpack, which uses a
the core foundation of your combat style.
glasslike crystal imbued with magic called
Months of training are required to acclimate
Paladite to generate thrust.
to the G-forces from flying and to fire while in
rapid aerial movement.
Roll your MOVE Die and fly up to the number of
Tiles rolled, ignoring chasms, short obstacles
Glider Cape and any Large or smaller entities. You are
Attached as part of the Jetpack is a Glider
Airborne, and can AIM while doing this. Flight
Cape, a cape made of a linen specially
Burst can be activated once a Turn.
engineered by EXDUS. The Cape is activated
by a small electrical current that causes it to
UPCAST: Add another MOVE Die to the
stiffen and extend into wings. Jet Corps
distance travelled.
soldiers use their Capes to glide across long
distances, supplemented by bursts of flight, to
pursue foes and travel from Shard to Shard
when traveling on foot with no other transport.

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Ability List
HE Grenade
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Area: 3x3 Box
"Grenade inbound! Look out below!"
You throw an explosive grenade, damaging all
enemies in the area. The range and damage
is rolled from your CAST, and the same
amount rolled inflicts Stagger.
Air Strike
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 2 AIM Actions
Range: Global
Area: 1x6 Line
"Enemy position marked! Light 'em up!"
You call upon an autonomous drone to
conduct a fly-by of the area. High calibre
bullets rain across a 1x6 line, damaging all
enemies inside. Roll 2 AIM Dice to determine
the damage. All Dice rolled have Accuracy 3.
Smoke/Flash Grenade
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
You can choose to throw a smoke or flash
grenade instead of your HE Grenade, which
deals no damage.
The smoke grenade only detonates at the
start of the Turn after yours. It creates a
smokescreen that lasts until the end of the
Round. All enemies that are inside the
smokescreen are Impaired by blindness. They
can leave its area to end its effect, but the
smokescreen will block line of sight where it
persists.
The flash grenade instantly detonates, and all
enemies caught in its area are Impaired by
blindness. It lacks the persistent map control
of the smoke grenade, but is more immediate.
Overwatch
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Reaction
Cost: 1 AIM
If an enemy that is within 3 Tiles of you leaves
or passes your space, you can make an
ranged attack against them. If the AIM Roll
exceeds the enemy's SAVE, they stop
immediately, and their remaining Movement
is wasted. If not, they are Slowed instead.
Stable Sights
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Your AIM Die gains Accuracy 2 when you fire
your ranged weapon during Flight Burst.
This Ability can be learned multiple times,
increasing Accuracy by +1 each time, up to a
maximum of half your AIM Die's value.
Rescue Flight
Unique Ability
3 EXP
When you activate Flight Burst and there is an
ally 1 Tile next to you, you may carry them
along with you on your flight, and when you
land they also land in a Tile next to you. Your
travel distance is halved doing this.
Evasive Maneuvers
Unique Ability
1 EXP
When you use an Instant Dodge, you can
activate your jetpack and propel yourself
using your MOVE Die, traveling the distance
rolled. You cannot Instant Dodge this way
using other Action Dice besides MOVE.
Carpet Bomb
Potential I
4 EXP
An upgraded version of Air Strike that costs 3
AIM. You have clearance to call EXDUS to
conduct a bombing run of the area. This can
only be done if you have an open sky above
you.
This Ability now covers an area of a 3x6 Box. All
the AIM Dice rolled for it are also Honed.
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Venator
Weapon-shifting Wunderkind
Recommended Faction
EXDUS
Common Sapient
Any
Lore
Where the Heirs are viewed as highly versatile
wielders of magical Aestean weapons,
Venators are the aspiring mechanical
equivalent. Wielding state-of-the-art
equipment and transforming weapons, the
Venator Program was first established around
the same time EXDUS was formed. With the
promise of exploring the wider world,
specialised fighters were needed who would
take the best the Known World could offer to
bravely face the World Beyond.
Most Venators are youths who join the
Program under a specialised Academy on
EXDUS grounds. While they undergo the same
training in combat - utilising specially crafted
elemental ammunition that even the least
magically gifted students can use well - it's no
surprise that the highly passionate students
would go above and beyond, working
alongside EXDUS technicians to plan and craft
their own custom weapons, able to shift forms
with the press of a trigger or the flick of the
wrist.
Combine this with strange echoes of the Old
World resonating with these young aspirants
and granting them great powers seemingly
from the Dreaming itself, and it looks like the
Venators are one of the most exciting up-
and-coming group to look out for in the World
Beyond.
Playstyle
Versatility is in the Venator's DNA, literally. You
spend character creation to customise your
Venator's weapon according to your unique
tastes - finetuning your Action Loadout as you
do - as well as a selection of elemental
ammunition to outfit yourself with. Create a
hard-hitting battleaxe + shotgun to decimate
foes up close, or a pair of dual sword guns to
slice and rain fire with swift agility.
Primary Action Dice
Versatile
Venture Origin
Venator Academy
Play as a Venator if you like:
> Wielding your own fully customised weapon
into battle
> Weaving elemental ammunition with
different effects into your attacks
> A Venture that lets you customise your own
Action Loadout
Strengths
One of the most customisable Ventures in the
game, allowing you to interweave all your
mechanical choices right into your Venator's
backstory. Their weapon customisations give
them an early power boost in the early levels
of the game.
Weaknesses
Will be totally ineffective without their Weapon
until they awaken their Hunter's Visage, and
even then its use is fairly limited without
proper investment.
Venture Origin
Venator Academy
You are a student or graduate of the Venator
Program, based in Scatterlight Academy,
which closely works with EXDUS, sending out
Venator students to gain experience. If you're
a fresh student, much of your knowledge
outside of weapon training is purely
theoretical, needing field experience to
temper it.
LORE - Known World geography, combat
training, sparring
DARE - Teamwork dynamics and tagteam
attacks, improvised use of your weapon
SENSE - Basic wilderness survival
TOOL - Advanced weapon maintenance and
construction
FACE - Interacting with Venator students and
faculty, working with EXDUS staff, spreading
your reputation as a Venator
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Loadout
1 MOVE/ 1 SAVE / 1 HIT / 1 AIM / 1 CAST

Game Plan
Each Venator's approach to combat is
different, but generally they want to get right
into the fight, performing death-defying
acrobatics with their weapon, and can
debilitate foes using their elemental gunfire.

Assigning Die Values

Choose your highest Action Die based on
what you expect to specialise in during
combat: if agile movement, prioritise MOVE; if
using your hybrid weapon to deal damage,
prioritise HIT and AIM, and so on.

Starting Ability - Venator

Iconic Weapon Fire
Fire spreads, dealing half damage to all
Unique Mechanic enemies within 1 Tile of the target.

A Venator takes pride is creating a unique

weapon that perfectly expresses their
individuality as a fighter.
Your Loadout only starts with 5 Action Dice,
but you gain access to a list of Weapon
Customisations to create your Iconic Weapon
at character creation. How you customise this
weapon determines the remaining 5 Action
Dice you place into your Loadout.
Elemental Ammo
Your Iconic weapon is also manufactured to
use specialised elemental ammunition that
deals additional effects when fired.
When creating your Venator, choose two of
these ammo types. You are always assumed
to have enough of them for your Iconic
Weapon.
You can spend 1 Action Die of any type to load
your Iconic Weapon with one of the following
ammo types, which grants your HIT or AIM
Dice its effects until your Loadout resets.
Rather than ammo, you can also flavour this is
a weapon-wielding magic user who wields
the elements.
Ice
Target is covered with ice, and is inflicted with
Slow until the end of the Round. If successfully
Slowed, additional shots will deal Stun instead.
Wind
Target is repelled. Add half your CAST Die's
max value to the Displacement stacks.
Earth
Creates a 1x1 rock barrier if fired at an
unoccupied Tile. If fired at a target, it encases
them in stone and Roots them.
Lightning
Target is struck with electricity and Staggered.
If successfully Staggered, additional shots will
deal Stun instead.
Gravity
Creates a gravitational rift that pulls a target
towards you according to the number rolled. If
the shot doesn't reach, it explodes and any
foe within 2 Tiles of it are Displaced towards its
centre. Can be harmlessly fired on allies to
pull them towards you.
Hardlight
Creates a 1x1 hardlight Shield on a Tile. Blocks
or absorbs any one instance of damage
impacting that Tile, then is destroyed. Can be
fired harmlessly on an ally to grant them this
Shield.

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Weapon Customisation
Iconic Weapon
You attended a Venator academy and forged
your own weapon there. Some treat them as
perfect mechanical extensions of themselves,
while many name them and even treat them
as their child of sorts.
Choose one option from each step to forge
your Iconic Weapon's traits. Take the given
Action Dice given from this trait and add them
to your Loadout.
Step 1: Main Configuration
Choose your Iconic Weapon's primary form.
Infused
Its primary form can be used as a magical
focus to channel elemental ammo and
energy. This could be a rapier with a magical
cartridge. Add 1 CAST Die to your Loadout.
Synergy
Its primary form can be used to perform a
melee and ranged attack at the same time.
For example, a giant hammer that uses
grenade cartridges to execute powerful
strikes. When performing an attack this way,
roll both your HIT and AIM Die at the same
time, rolling both die for the damage and
effects dealt, including propelling yourself and
repelling an enemy if desired.
Shifter
The Weapon is able to transform between two
or more forms - typically a melee form and a
ranged form. One of its primary forms can be
a Synergy or Infused type.
Step 2: Melee Form
Large Weapon
You learn both the Lunge and Cleave
Techniques. You may add 1-2 additional HIT
Dice to your Loadout, and 1 SAVE Die.
Agile
Your Weapon's primary form permanently has
Accuracy 2, and you learn the Recovery Strike
Technique. You may add 1-2 additional HIT
Dice to your Loadout, and 1 MOVE Die.
Shield
Your Weapon has a shield, either as a
separate piece or as part of its
transformation. You gain 2 ADAMANT
whenever your Weapon is in shielded form,
and you may add 2 SAVE Dice to your
Loadout.
Step 3: Ranged Form
Anti-Materiel Frame
Your Weapon has a powerful ranged
component. When you use your AIM Die, you
always deal that Die's maximum range and
damage, i.e. a d10 AIM Die with this Weapon
will always deal 10 damage minimum. You
instead roll the Action Die for any additional
range and damage dealt on top of that. A
maximum roll is then treated as a Crit. You
may add 1 AIM Die to your Loadout.
Rapid Fire
Your Weapon is suited for short-ranged
harrying fire. When you roll your AIM Die, its
range and damage is halved, but it deals
damage three times. You may add 1-2 AIM
Dice to your Loadout.
Bombardier
You learn the Explosive Ammo Technique, and
cannot make ranged attacks with this
Weapon without using this Technique. When
you roll a Critical on a first level explosive shot
(1 Tile Star), it automatically becomes a 2nd
level explosion instead (3x3 Box). You may
add 1 AIM Die to your Loadout.
Lance Shot
Your Weapon is suited for precise, piercing
fire. It always has a range and damage equal
to half your AIM Die's max value, and pierces
all enemies behind the first target for half its
damage (rounded up). You may add 1 AIM Die
or 1 MOVE Die to your Loadout.
Spreadshot
Your Weapon is deadly to all targets up close.
When you roll your AIM Die, the number rolled
is halved for its range, but doubled for its
damage. Any enemies within 1 Tile of the
target take half that damage. You may add 1-
2 AIM Die to your Loadout.
Magical Focus
Your Weapon is precisely crafted to channel
magic. Your weapon gains Accuracy 3 when
using elemental ammo, and you learn the
Improvised Element Ability at no cost. You
may add 1 AIM Die or 1 CAST Die to your
Loadout.
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Step 4: Final Tally
Tally the total number of extra Action Dice
gained from your Weapon's forms. The total
number of Action Dice gained cannot exceed
5. If there are any unassigned Action Dice
remaining, assign the remaining Dice to your
MOVE or SAVE.
Ability List
Improvised Element
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Area: 1 Tile Star
You can take one of your elemental
ammunition and throw it as an improvised
explosive. Roll your CAST Die for the distance
thrown and damage dealt in a 1 Tile Star area,
dealing that element's effect to the first target
hit.
Chain Form
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Free Action
One of your Weapon's forms allows you to
remotely swing it using a link or chain,
extending its range. When done this way, your
HIT or AIM Die gains 2 additional Tiles of range.
This can be done once a Turn.
Hunter's Visage
Unique Ability
3 EXP
As a Venator, you are not only taught the
weaponsmithing arts at your Academy, but
also educated about the ancient tales of the
Old World - tales that no doubt inspired you to
take up the mantle of a Venator in the first
place.
Sometimes, the World Tree's strange
ontological power reaches through time and
space, and your soul becomes intertwined
with the legend of someone from the past,
whose name you may not recognise,
awakening you to your Visage.
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When you choose this feature, you may
discuss with your GM who this legend is. Your
Venator may not know the person's name,
and will have to slowly uncover more details
about this legend, their name and famous
deeds across the events of multiple Voyages.
When you first awaken to your Visage, you
gain a small amount of power associated
with that legend, which your GM balances.
Your Venator can then invoke their Visage and
draw from its power. Here are some examples
below:
The Girl In The Rose Hood
Once per combat, the Venator can spend 1
Action Die to have their body disintegrate into
a cloud of rose petals. While in this form, they
cannot attack or cast magic, but can use their
MOVE Actions to freely move in any direction,
ignoring all obstacles and entities except for
solid walls. At any time, they can then
reassemble themselves at no cost.
The White Snow Princess
The Venator can control magical glyphs that
resonate with elemental power. Whenever
they use elemental ammo, they can spend 1
CAST Action to have it take the form of a
Glyph that has that element's properties. This
Glyph can be conjured up to a distance rolled
from their CAST, and will last in place until the
end of the Round.
The Thundering Hammer God
Once a combat, whenever the Venator takes
damage, they can choose to store all
damage taken that Round. This damage is
converted into special Dice that last until the
end of their next Round, equal in value to their
CAST Die. Their next attack is empowered, and
all those special Dice are added to its
damage and effects.
The Trickster Monkey King
The Venator can spend 1 CAST Action to
create an astral clone of themselves. By
rolling that CAST Die, they can have that clone
move and attack within the same action,
rolling the CAST Die for the distance travelled
and damage dealt. They can create multiple
clones this way, but each clone immediately
disappears after taking one instance of
damage or at the end of the Round.
Ammunition Training
Unique Ability
4 EXP
You train yourself to learn using another type
of elemental ammunition, adding it to your
equipment and fighting style. This can be
learned multiple times.
Switch Frame
Unique Ability
3 EXP
You declare whenever you switch your Iconic
Weapon's forms to perform attacks, each time
you switch forms to perform a new attack
immediately after the first, that next attack
has Accuracy 4. If you switch forms a third
time, that attack gains Truestrike.
Tag Team Strike
Unique Ability
4 EXP
Whenever you use a Reaction to follow up on
an ally's attack, your Weapon has Accuracy 4.
If another ally Reacts to your attack and you
React to that second ally, your Weapon also
gains Truestrike.
Landing Strategy
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Reaction
Cost: 1 AIM Action
If you become Displaced by a hostile action,
you can spend 1 AIM Die as your Reaction to
fire and propel yourself up to the distance
rolled, recovering control of your body and
landing.
Air Reload
Unique Ability
3 EXP
If your last AIM Die was spent but you still have
Actions remaining, you can spend an Action
Die to perform a quick reload as a single
Action. For every Die you spend, you regain
that many AIM Dice into your Loadout.
This can also be done in mid-air, e.g. if you
spend your last AIM Die to propel yourself
Airborne.
Visage Evolution
Potential I
You unlock more of your Visage's potential,
learning more about the legend behind its
power and granting it stronger effects.
You do not learn this Ability. Instead, your GM
decides an appopriate time during a Voyage
that you would awaken it. It can happen at
any time after you reach Potential I, but does
not have to be immediately, but would
happen before you reach Potential II. This
special awakening would be usually happen
at a time of great need or sacrifice in your
Voyage, pushing you to your limits. You learn
the true name of your patron legend.
After this initial awakening, it lies dormant
again, and you may spend your Downtime to
train it to the point you can consistently use it.
Your GM decides how much EXP you would
invest into this, and whether it should be
trained across the span of multiple Voyages.
Visage Actualisation
Potential II
As with Visage Evolution, your GM determines
when you would awaken your Visage again.
Your Visage awakens a second and final time,
growing into its full potential. You learn the
nature of your legend and its resonance with
you. You no longer walk as a mirror of its echo
on the New World, but in many ways become
that legend itself, reborn into the second
world under a new name and body - yours.
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 Tsuki, Armsmaster of Voyage Team
Aquila

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Armsmaster
Peerless Adaptive Blademaster
Recommended Faction
Dust
Common Sapient
Kaibi
Lore
A type of warrior class originating with the
Kaibi. Historically, the wandering Yongryun
clans of the Kaibi nobles faced many dangers
during their troubles - political enemies that
needed putting down and heirs to protect.
This led to the creation of a warrior class that
served those noble families, owing them their
whole lives.
However, since their arrival in Dust, many of
these family clans were humbled from their
experiences in the hard wilderness - those
married to tradition often died with it. The
warrior class began teaching their martial
skills to others - gaining much popularity in
the Sentinarium - and freely joined whichever
cause they most believed in, leading to the
Armsmaster we know today.
Armsmasters in Dust typically are the
enforcers of their Clans or mercenaries, and a
large majority of them tend to prefer the
elegance (and sheer coolness) of wielding a
type of curved Yongryun sword called a
Katanattha.
Playstyle
An Armsmaster is a self-sufficient damage
dealer who has many tools to dispatch
swathes of presumptuous foes and keep
themselves safe. Their main focus is on
learning martial Techniques and bringing out
their full potential.
The Armsmaster has many tools specifically
for Taunting enemies, provoking them into
fighting so that they can prove themselves in
combat, thereby diverting attention from their
allies. They have Abilities to help their Instant
Dodges to better evade and punish their
would-be pursuers.
Primary Action Dice
HIT
Venture Origin
Martial Combat
Play as an Armsmaster if you like:
> Finishing off waves of enemies with flashy
attacks
> Playing the DPS in games
> Playing a cool samurai-esque warrior
Strengths
Amazing damage and skill expression
potential
Weaknesses
Requires a large EXP investment in Abilities
and Techniques to really shine; lacks
meaningful ranged attack options
Venture Origin
Martial Combat
You are well-versed in the art of melee
weapons. Much of your learning is spent
poring through martial treatises and
challenging fellow fighters to friendly duels
and sparring matches.
LORE - Weapon and martial treatises,
different types of weapons
DARE - Duels (formal and impromptu),
sparring matches
SENSE - Discerning killing intent, finding weak
points in armour
TOOL - Maintaining weapons and armour,
disarming an opponent
FACE - Psyching out an opponent,
challenging to a duel
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Loadout
4 HIT / 2 MOVE / 2 SAVE / 1 AIM / 1 CAST

Game Plan
Use your MOVE Dice to get into position and
utilise your HIT Dice to dispatch of nearby
enemies as efficiently as possible.

This will most certainly draw the attention of

enemies towards you, so be sure to use your
SAVE Dice to avoid their most dangerous
attacks.

Assigning Die Values

Your highest value dice should be on your HIT
Dice to maximise your damage output. Your
next highest value may be assigned to SAVE
to help you survive better. If you have an
emergency ranged option (like a sidearm),
assigning a fair value to AIM may be useful.

Starting Ability - Armsmaster

Battler's Stance HIT Die - Sharpened
All your attacks gain Accuracy 3.
Unique Mechanic

During combat, you adapt to each situation MOVE Die - Evasive

using a specialised combat stance, which
empowers your combat ability.
You can spend an Action Die to assume a
Stance (free Action). The type of Action Die
you spend determines the type of Stance you
take, which can only be done during your
Turn. You then gain the benefits of this Stance
until you change your Stance again, or until
the end of the Round. You can only gain the
effects of one Stance at a time.
Every time you perform an Instant Dodge and
there is an enemy in range, you can make an
attack against them. The damage dealt is
rolled from the Action Die you spent to
perform the Instant Dodge.
SAVE Die - Guarded
If you successfully SAVE against an enemy
attack, you can make a free attack against
them if they are in range.
AIM Die - Piercing
All your melee attacks can automatically
repel enemies. The distance is equal to half
the damage dealt.

CAST Die - Focused

All your attacks ignore the target's ADAMANT
equal to half the damage you deal.

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Ability List Dual Cutter
Unique Ability
Shockwave Strikes 3 EXP
Unique Ability If you roll a Crit on your HIT Die, you can
2 EXP perform a second attack for free. Roll your HIT
Cost: 1 CAST, Free Action Die for its damage, which does not count
When you use an attack or Technique, you towards your Loadout.
can spend 1 CAST to have that strike send out
a shockwave of steel, inflicting damage and
Stagger to any enemies up to 3 Tiles behind Subjugation of Steel
the original target. Roll your CAST Die for the
Unique Ability
damage dealt.
5 EXP
Your Piercing Stance can now repel enemies
at a distance equal to your full damage roll.
Concussion of Steel
Unique Ability
2 EXP Reckless Blade
Technique - Driver
Unique Ability
Driver also gains Stun +1 for every Airborne
3 EXP
stack the enemy accumulates before
When using Guarded Stance and you perform
crashing down.
your free attack after a successful SAVE, you
can choose to instead roll any number of
those SAVE Dice and add them to the damage
Deflect Artillery dealt. If this reduces the target's Resolve to 0,
Potential I those SAVE Die are returned to your Loadout.
4 EXP
Technique - Deflect Projectile
By spending an additional Action Die of the Barrage Blade
same type (free Action), your Deflect Projectile Unique Ability
Technique can be used to deflect large
4 EXP
projectiles, such as bombs, cannonballs and
Technique - Flurry
even magic (don't think about it too hard).
When you execute Flurry, it deals 2 damage
per hit instead of 1.

Steelstreak
Potential I Iai Strike
5 EXP
Unique Ability
When you reduce an enemy's Resolve to 0,
3 EXP
you regain 1 HIT Die and can use it as an extra
You can spend any number of Action Dice
Action. You can chain this Ability multiple
from your Loadout to sheathe your blade,
times if you use your next Action to spend a
charging a powerful slash. Every 2 Dice spent
HIT Die against another enemy - otherwise,
charging this attack costs 1 Action. When you
you can only do this once a Round.
unsheathe, roll all of them and add them to
the total damage dealt. This attack has
Truestrike.
Sharpened Acumen
Unique Ability
3 EXP
When using your Sharpened Stance, you now
increase your Accuracy to 4. You can learn
this Ability multiple times to increase its
Accuracy by +1.

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Iai Art: Swallow's Iron Phantom
Flight Unique Ability
2 EXP
Unique Ability
Cost: 1 Action Die
3 EXP
At any time your after-image acts, even when
When using your Iai Strike, you can also dash
it misses, you can spend an Action Die of any
forward with Movement up to half the total
type to instantly teleport to the after-image's
damage rolled. You travel in a straight line,
position, and immediately attack an enemy in
and any enemies in your travel path are
range. The damage dealt is rolled from that
struck with half that damage. These
Action Die.
sebsequent targets are not affected by
Truestrike.

After-Image Reactive Evasion

Unique Ability Unique Ability
3 EXP
3 EXP
Free Reaction
Cost: 1 CAST
If you perform an Instant Dodge outside of
You attack so fast as to appear to be in
your Turn or successfully SAVE against an
multiple places at once. Whenever you
enemy action, you can choose to
successfully hit with an attack, you can
immediately assume the Evasive Stance or
choose to spend 1 CAST as a free Action to
Guarded stance as an free Reaction, giving
create an Invulnerable after-image that
your Dodge its free attack benefit.
makes that attack in your place.

This after-image then moves, performs

Techniques and takes Actions in your stead, Perfected Mirror's
as if you were the one taking those Actions.
This after-image has any benefits from your
Edge
Stance and any movement related bonuses, Potential II
such as from the Combat Weave technique. 6 EXP
Your after-image disappears if it misses an Free Action
attack or an enemy successfully makes a When your after-image successfully attacks,
SAVE against it. you may also perform a free attack at the
same time towards an enemy in your range,
At the end of your Turn or if you choose to dealing the same amount of damage.
dismiss it early, your after-image returns to
your original location when you started your
Turn.
Resonant Image
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Adaptive Stance Free Action
Unique Ability If your after-image disappears early from
4 EXP missing an attack or if an enemy successfully
If you reduce an enemy's Resolve to 0 while rolls a SAVE against it, you can spend your
assuming a Stance, you can choose to switch SAVE Die to maintain its form and presence.
to a different Stance at no cost.

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Gundrifter
Wandering Mystic Gunslinger
Recommended Faction
Sentinarium
Common Sapient
Amerusan
Lore
You are a wandering warrior from the far-off
land of Amerusa: a legendary bygone land
covered in red glass. You travel the world
alongside arms dealer caravans and fellow
Gundrifters, faithfully adhering to the Way of
the Bullet.
Playstyle
The Gundrifter loves guns, to the detriment of
literally everything else. They fight with their
guns, they travel with their guns, sleep with
their guns, treat their guns as a living soul... If
there is a problem you can't solve with your
gun, then perhaps your faith is lacking, in
need of trial by gunfire.
Play as a Gundrifter if you like:
> Playing a fantasy cowboy
> Doing trickshots and cool stunts with old-
timey firearms
> Guns.
Strengths
High damage, able to solve many enemy-
related problems by utilising their ranged
attacks.
Weaknesses
Useless at everything else; they are a
specialist in every sense of the word.
Primary Action Dice
AIM
Venture Origin
Firearms
Venture Origin
Firearms
As a Gundrifter, you live and die by the bullet.
Your particular choice of firearms are
powered by Red Glass, a mineral found in
abundance in Amerusa.
While less refined and stable than Paladite,
which is used in most modern EXDUS firearms,
there is a primal power and raw volatility to
Red Glass that many Gundrifters swear by.
It reminds you that the gun holds power over
life and death, and you are merely its
custodian - always beholden to its favour,
judging if your character is true, whether you
wield its strength for justice or not.
LORE - History and classification of firearms
and bullet calibres, wilderness survival
DARE - Gun fights and duels, target shooting
SENSE - Calculating trajectory, aiming across
long distances
TOOL - Firearm maintenance and smithing,
handling Red Glass
FACE - Passing from place to place as a
stranger
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Loadout
6 AIM / 1 MOVE / 1 SAVE / 1 HIT / 1 CAST

Game Plan
Shoot everything that looks at you funny. If
you find yourself immobile, use your bullets to
propel yourself. If you're getting attacked a lot,
just shoot them back harder. Magic? What's
magic but that of the smoking barrel?

Assigning Die Values

While it is recommended to place your
highest value Die on AIM, you may also want
to consider a lower Die value to more easily
activate some of the Gundrifter's abilities,
such as some that grant special benefits by
rolling the highest number on your AIM die.'

Place one of your higher dice values on SAVE,

as you have very few options for preventing
damage to yourself.

Starting Ability - Gundrifter

Way of the Bullet Divine Bullet
Unique Mechanic Free Action
Once a Turn, when you fire your gun, you can
"The sun sets on the end of my barrel." choose to spend 1 Action Die of any type to
chant a short prayer - for your heart to guide
The Gundrifters are wandering gunslinger your bullet true and for your foe to find a
warriors. Known for their legendary mastery peaceful departure. You then roll your SENSE
over Red Glass firearms, they were an Specialty Die for Firearms.
important pillar of the Amerusan Colonies,
defending the innocent from bandits and The number rolled from your SENSE is added
other lawless folk. They have no set teaching, to your next AIM Die roll's Accuracy. This can
but typically are apprenticed by a senior exceed your AIM Die's maximum value.
Gundrifter, and are versed in the Way of the
Bullet: a set of tenets and moral code that all This means if you have an AIM Die of d10 and
Gundrifters follow. your SENSE roll adds 10 to your AIM roll, that
AIM Die gains 10 additional range and
Followers of the Way of the Bullet believe that damage than it would normally would be
their weapons are supernaturally empowered capable of.
and will reflect their own moral character - if
they serve justice and defend the innocent,
their shots will always fly true, and will even
find their mark where it would normally be
impossible. But if they betray these tenets,
they themselves will be no better than the
gun-toting criminals they hunt, doomed to
have their flames extinguished and to die
without dignity.

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Ability List
Steel Portent
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Once you use your AIM Die to shoot, if you
follow up with another AIM Action in the same
Turn, that next shot gains Accuracy 2, and
increases by 1, as long as you follow up with
another AIM attack. The maximum Accuracy
is equal to half your AIM Die's value.
The Ace's Step
Unique Ability
4 EXP
Free Action
If you roll a Crit on your AIM Die, you can
choose to move up to 2 Tiles in any direction
(including diagonally) and shoot again, rolling
your AIM Die at no cost. As long as you keep
rolling Crits on your AIM Die, you can repeat
this Ability.
Gambler's Knife
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 HIT Action
If you have a melee weapon, you throw it at
an enemy, rolling it as if it was an AIM Die. This
attack deals Honed damage. If you reduce
the target's Resolve to 0, you immediately
regain the HIT Die you spent.
Truthseeker
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 2 AIM, 1 Action
If an enemy is out of line of sight but you are
aware of their presence, you can fire a bullet
that seems to impossibly find its mark. This
can be done by ricocheting the bullet off
various surfaces, or by willing the bullet to
curve and fly around corners and through
tight openings.
Roll 2 AIM to execute this, rolling both Dice for
the damage dealt. This shot has Truestrike.
Absolute Grit
Potential I
3 EXP
You have additional ADAMANT based on the
number of unused AIM Dice in your Loadout.
Omen to Outwit Death
Potential I
3 EXP
Reaction
Cost: 1 AIM Action
Range: Global
"Today, we say no to the calamity that so readily
took our home."
When a hostile attack or Ability is made
against you, roll your AIM Dice against it, as if
you were rolling a SAVE. If successful, you fully
dodge out of its range and immediately make
an Instant Attack and shoot the source from
any distance, even if you can't sense them or
their location. Roll all the AIM Dice for the final
damage.
UPCAST: Add another AIM Die against the
hostile action.
God Bless the Lead
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Free Action
If a target dodges or SAVES against your
Instant Attack, you can spend 1 SAVE Die to
call upon your gun's blessing. The bullet
ricochets off a nearby surface and hits the
target with Truestrike.
Anathema Round
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST + 1 AIM, 2 Actions
You load a special bullet into your gun. It
might be engraved with the receiver's name
or special runes, or perhaps hermetically
sealed with materials, such as mixing
powdered bone into the gunpowder.
This bullet is fired as a ranged attack, and is
rolled from your CAST and AIM added
together. The target is also inflicted with Stun.
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Assassin
Deadly Stealth Infiltrator
Recommended Faction
Dust, Eyries
Common Sapient
Any
Lore
For as long as power structures began to take
root in the reborn world, so have its rulers
sought to enforce it through shadow and
blade.
You may be part of the Eyries' Storm Court as
a member of its secret police, or a trained
shinobi warrior in service to one of Dust's
family dynasties. Both train young people,
typically orphans or members of vassal clans
and realms, forming them into mortal
weapons to execute the will of the reign they
answer to.
Playstyle
The Assassin specialises in single-target
elimination. Use a combination of stealth and
mobility to find the perfect position, before
executing foes one after another.
Play as an Assassin if you like:
> Playing as a ninja or assassin in games
> Sneaking around unnoticed behind enemy
lines
> Deleting enemies with a single well-placed
strike
Strengths
Highly consistent single-target damage and
elimination, with a decent selection of survival
options for yourself.
Weaknesses
May end up vulnerable if caught far away
from allies without good options, and may
sometimes end up too far away from them to
benefit from buffs or other forms of help.
Primary Action Dice
MOVE, HIT
Venture Origin
Assassin Training
Venture Origin
Assassin Training
Assassins are not merely thieves or contract
killers, but living weapons. This lifestyle has
been impressed on you since childhood,
thrown into a world of intrigue and death.
Through whatever circumstances it may be,
you've dipped your toes into the life of a
Voyager. Will you be able to recover - or
rather, discover - your humanity through this
brief escape?
LORE - History of your parent clan or rule,
assassin techniques and arts, along with the
names and details of your fellow assassins
DARE - Infiltration, stealth, impersonation,
sneak attacks
SENSE - Listening for noise, searching for
entry and exit points
TOOL - Unlocking doors and windows, knife
throwing and handling, concealing weapons
FACE - Interacting with other assassins,
assassin code words, blending in as a civilian
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Loadout
3 MOVE / 3 HIT / 2 SAVE / 1 AIM / 1 CAST

Game Plan
An Assassin's primary job in combat is to
isolate single targets and take them down.
Their generous MOVE Dice allows them to get
into key positions quicker, while their HIT Dice
allows them to either take down single
enemies with ease, or deal a sizeable dent to
a boss or elite enemy.

Assigning Die Values

Prioritise HIT and MOVE to best navigate the
map and eliminate foes. Have a decent value
for SAVE, as you will likely be caught alone
behind enemy lines, far away from your other
allies.

Starting Ability - Assassin

Assassin's Strike
Unique Mechanic
An assassin is trained in dispatching single
foes as efficiently as possible, before slipping
away unnoticed. A single powerful strike is
crucial to succeeding in such a task. This can
be done to assassinate key targets, or silently
incapacitate any guards and potential
witnesses within a single blow.

When you perform a melee attack on your

target, you can Upcast as many HIT Dice as
you want into the attack, rolling your HIT Dice
for the damage dealt. All the HIT Dice will have
an Accuracy equal to the highest one rolled.

If this attack reduces the target's Resolve to 0,

these HIT Dice are refunded into your Loadout.

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Ability List
Distant Takedown
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Free Action
Cost: 1 AIM Die
When performing your Assassin's Strike, you
can spend 1 AIM Die to make it a ranged
attack instead. Roll this AIM Die to determine
its range, and use your HIT Dice to determine
its damage dealt.
If this misses, only your AIM Die is spent, and
you lose the effects of Stealth if you had any.
Vile Shade
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Free Action
Cost: 1 Action Die
If you were Stealthed and you successfully
execute Assassin's Strike, you can spend 1
Action Die to maintain the Stealthed condition
on yourself.
Slip Into Shadow
Unique Ability
4 EXP
Before combat starts, you always become
Stealthed when taking your opening
movement, describing how you do so.
Conditioned Body
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Assassins are trained to override their own
sense of pain and emotion, allowing them to
push beyond normal limits.
You spend time training this in Downtime,
either at your original base or by yourself. At
the end of this training, you permanently gain
1 ADAMANT. This can be learned multiple
times, once every Voyage.
Scale Fortif ications
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 Action Die
Free Action
You use equipment like grappling hooks and
climbing spikes, you infiltrate hostile defenses.
Once a Round, when using your MOVE Die to
move, you can spend an Action Die move
along any ground-based elevations without
expending extra Movement.
Escape Art
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Reaction
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Trigger: You are surrounded by more than two
enemies, or an enemy targets you outside of
Stealth.
You make a quick escape attempt through
whatever means is nearby. Roll your CAST Die.
You throw down a smoke bomb or magically
create a cloak of darkness around yourself,
creating a 3x3 Box area that Impairs all
enemies within, lasting until the end of the
Round.
You then become Stealthed and gain
Movement equal to the number rolled.
Substitution Art
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Reaction
Cost: 1 CAST Action
If an enemy attacks you, you can spend a
CAST Die as a Reaction to avoid that attack
entirely, switching places with an object within
your line of sight. You then occupy the Tile
that object was on.
Suppress Presence
Unique Ability
1 EXP
When you take a MOVE Action, you can halve
the Movement gained from your MOVE Die roll
to gain the Stealthed condition.
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Hidden Observer
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 Action Die
While you are Stealthed and there are
enemies or other features near you, you can
spend an Action Die to perform a SENSE Skill
Challenge to observe them for abnormalities,
snippets of conversation, weaknesses, or any
other pertinent information. The further away
the observed targets are, the less information
can be gleaned from them unless the
Assassin rolls a Fortuitous Success.
Messy Execution
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Free Action
If your target dodges or succeeds a SAVE
against your Assassin's Strike and they are still
1 Tile near you, you can quickly strike them
with a weaker attack as a free Action. Its
damage is equal to your highest HIT Die used
in your Assassin's Strike.
Alternatively, you can spend an AIM Die as a
Reaction to shoot them from range instead.
Impersonate
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 2 Action Dice
If you defeat an enemy and were Stealthed,
you can immediately drag them aside and
attempt to impersonate them, either through
transformation magic or by taking their
clothes and dressing as them.
When you impersonate an enemy, other
enemies will not be hostile to you unless you
take a hostile action against them. If that
enemy is currently engaged in combat and
targetting an ally, you are considered
Stealthed to that enemy.
Distract
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Cost: 1 Action Die
You perform an animal call, toss a coin or
perform some other action to draw an
enemy's attention towards a specific spot.
That enemy must not be actively engaged in
combat.
Roll your Action Die and describe this
distraction. Choose a location within a Tile
distance of you equal to your roll. The target
makes a SAVE against your roll (no Loadout
cost). If they SAVE, they ignore the distraction
or did not perceive it. If their SAVE fails, their
attention is drawn to that Tile, and they make
a Reaction to spend their MOVE Dice to
occupy that Tile and search it. If they have no
MOVE Dice in their Loadout, they use a
different Action Die instead.
The Job Must Be Done
Unique Ability
1 EXP
1 SAVE Action
An assassin knows their own body inside and
out, able to redirect strikes to miss their vitals,
and pop dislocated joint back into place. As
an Action, you can spend 1 SAVE Die and
restore your Resolve by the number rolled.
UPCAST: Roll another SAVE Die for Resolve
restored.
Swift Disengage
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Free Reaction
When you fail a SAVE against a hostile action
and take damage, you can spend 1 MOVE Die
as a free Reaction to jump away and create
distance between you and the opponent,
rolling the distance covered.

Pinpoint Weakness
Unique Ability
2 EXP
If you successfully observe a target and learn
a weakness of theirs using Hidden Observer,
your first attack against them is Honed.

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Finish The Job
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Reaction
An assassin is a tool to accomplish the will of
others, their lives as much as a weapon as
their blades. When caught in the jaws of
death, only one thing remains in mind: "Bite
back as hard as you possibly can".

Once a combat, if you become Endangered

and are within 1 Tile of the opponent that
reduced your Resolve to 0, you can spend any
number of your remaining Action Dice as a
Reaction to perform a final attack against
them. Every Action Dice spent increases your
Risk by that amount.

Roll all these Action Dice for the damage,

which benefits from Assassin's Strike. If the
Accuracy bonus exceeds those Action Dice's
values, they roll their max value.

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Ostius, Field Medic of Voyage Team
Scorpio
Field Medic
Battle-Hardened Healer
Recommended Faction Primary Action Dice
EXDUS SAVE, MOVE

Common Sapient Venture Origin

Any Medicine

Lore Venture Origin

You are a trained medical specialist of EXDUS.
Whether through magic or medicine, you
have dedicated yourself to the care and
safety of others, keeping them alive through
combat and hardships.
Playstyle
The Field Medic is a mobile skirmisher, able to
move with ease through the battlefield,
coming to the rescue of allies while firing
upon hostile enemies.
Play as a Field Medic if you like:
> Playing a military medic
> Playing a badass, war-worn support
character
> Being a healer, but...
Medicine
Your Voyager is trained in the study and
application of modern medicine. You likely
studied at a formal medical academy to earn
your certification, alongside your combat
training.
LORE - Medical training, anatomy of different
Sapients
DARE - Emergency first aid, rescue
operations
SENSE - Estimating the seriousness of
wounds
TOOL - First aid, on-site surgery
FACE - Calming patients, seeking entry into
conflicts to aid wounded

Strengths
Great skirmisher who can always add a little
bit of consistent damage and healing to any
situation

Weaknesses
Few offensive options when not healing or
near hurt allies

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Loadout
3 SAVE / 3 MOVE / 2 AIM / 1 HIT / 1 CAST

Game Plan
The Field Medic's objective is to be able to
move around the battlefield and assist
wounded allies on a moment's notice. Using
your firearm, you lay down suppressive fire to
strongly discourage foes from hurting them
again.

Assigning Die Values

Assign your highest values to SAVE to best
heal your allies. Being fairly versatile, you can
build your Medic as you wish - whether
prioritising their MOVE to make them more
mobile, AIM to make them a reliable damage
dealer as well, or even HIT for when you want
to whip out your multi-tool survival axe to
punish some wrongdoers.

Starting Ability - Field Medic

Combat Medic
Unique Mechanic

You are dedicated to the treatment and

rescue of others, no matter the cost.

When you see an ally who loses at least 1 SAVE

Die to hostile damage or becomes
Endangered within your line of sight, you can
immediately spend 1 MOVE Die to move
towards that ally as a Reaction. This
movement can provoke Reactions from
hostile entities.

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Resuscitate
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Cost: 1 SAVE Action
Range: 1 Tile
Whenever an ally has damaged Resolve, you
can move next to them and administer
emergency first aid. Roll 1 SAVE Die and restore
that ally's Resolve by the rolled amount.
Call To Action
Unique Ability
3 EXP
You are driven to rescue, steeling your mind
against distractions. For every ally on the field
below half Resolve, you gain 2 ADAMANT
against all hostile Conditions inflicted on you.
For every ally over half Resolve, you gain 1
Accuracy instead.
Avenging Paramedic
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Free Reaction
Whenever you use your Combat Medic trait to
move to an ally, you can spend 1 AIM Die as a
Reaction to fire at an enemy. This attack has
Truestrike.
Neutralise Threat
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Reaction
Whenever an enemy makes a hostile action of
any kind against you or an ally, regardless if
they hit or miss, you can spend 1 AIM Die as a
Reaction to fire at them. If this enemy
successfully damages an ally, this Reaction
attack gains Accuracy 3.
You can learn this Ability multiple times to
increase this Reaction's Accuracy by +2 this
way, up to half your AIM Die's maximum value.
Guardian Angel
Unique Ability
2 EXP
If an ally would take damage that would
reduce their SAVE Die, you can use your
Combat Medic trait to attempt to reach them
and take the hit in their stead, placing yourself
between that ally and the attacker, occupying
that ally's space if needed.
Done this way, when you take this hit instead
and choose to SAVE against it, your ally's
original SAVE roll is added to this as well.
Intense Rescue
Measures
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Range: 1 Tile
Cost: 1 Action
If you are next to an ally who is inflicted with a
Condition, you may roll any number of SAVE
Die to cleanse them of it as a Reaction.
Describe how you do so - slapping some
sense into them when they're Stunned,
catching them when they're Staggered, etc. If
an ally is Displaced and flies towards your
path, you can also use this to catch them and
stop their momentum.
Your SAVE roll must be higher than the
maximum value of the Action Die the hostile
source used to inflict the Condition on your
ally.
Rescue Drone
Unique Ability
4 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
You spend 1 CAST Die to deploy a medical
drone that can be remotely commanded to
monitor the battlefield, lasting until destroyed.
The drone has 10 Resolve, and has 10 free
Movement per Turn.
Once a Turn, you can roll a SAVE Die and have
the drone heal an ally within 1 Tile of it.
You can spend an Action Die of any type to
have the drone self-destruct, damaging all
enemies in a 3x3 area, rolling that Action Die
for the damage dealt.
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Armiger
Heroic Standardbearing Knight
Recommended Faction
Aeden
Common Sapient
Aedean
Lore
Throughout all of Aeden, the Armigers enforce
order and peace. Established since the
earliest days of Aeden's history, these heraldic
knights and warriors, devoted to the heroic
ideal, stepped up to guard early settlements
from the elements, hostile creatures and
opportunists. Over time, these knights formed
Orders, each sharing jurisdiction over different
Relic Cities and areas throughout the Known
World.
Playstyle
The Armiger hones in on the fantasy of a
heroic warrior that rallies their allies into battle
using auras that grant them buffs. As such,
your Armiger can take varied appearances -
a heavily armoured knight with a tower shield
and mace, a warrior using a giant magic
sword, or a swift fencer from a noble family.
Play as an Armiger if you like:
> Playing as a heroic knight, paladin or fighter
> Rallying your party using powerful area of
effect buffs centred on yourself
> Getting your party right into the fight and
finding strength in numbers
Strengths
Boasts some of the strongest, most consistent
teamwide buffs in the game.
Weaknesses
Limited range, as only allies within a close
enough distance of you can benefit from your
abilities.
Primary Action Dice
SAVE
Venture Origin
Armiger Order
Venture Origin
Armiger Order
You are a citizen of Aeden who has been
accepted into one of its many Armiger Orders.
Decide which Order you came from: its name,
emblem and heraldry, as well as what they
specialise in: matters like monster-culling,
escorting trade caravans or garrisoning
towns.
With the formation of EXDUS and the Jet
Corps, the training of Armigers in recent times
have been more standardised and updated
to modern technology and tactics. Now,
Armigers commonly fight with unique hybrid
weapons and using hologram-projecting
gauntlets to track their surroundings and the
location of their allies.
LORE - Your Order: its names, heraldry,
unique customs and their jurisdiction, and
that of other Orders that are nearby or well-
known. Location of Relic Cities, trade routes
and known threats in and nearby your
jurisdiction.
DARE - Protecting civilians, fighting in
formation, tactical callouts
SENSE - Using your nav gauntlet to locate
your allies, reading Relic City maps and city
layouts, discerning the customs and callouts
of a different Order.
TOOL - Maintaining armour and weapons,
documenting your Order's deeds and
activities
FACE - Interacting with other Armigers,
gaining the trust of Relic Cities and their
citizens
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Loadout
3 SAVE / 2 MOVE / 2 HIT / 2 CAST/ 1 AIM

Game Plan
An Exsourcer can utilise Talismans to buff
allies and debuff foes. You are also able to
create different Action Dice on the fly to get
just that extra HIT or AIM in to defeat a foe, or
MOVE to get out of the way of a hostile area.

Assigning Die Values

Prioritise your SAVE Die to maximise your
defense and your CAST for the power of your
teamwide buffs. If you wish to be an effective
frontline combatant or want to play more of a
heroic fighter than an armoured knight, invest
more into HIT instead.

Starting Ability - Armiger

Armiger's Presence Battle Presence
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Unique Mechanic
Range: Cn. 2 Tile Star
The spirit of battle empowers you and your
"Great deeds are not accomplished alone!"
allies, rallying them bravely onward.

You can spend 1 CAST Die to activate your
Presence, which is a 2 Tile Star area around
you, and lasts until the end of the Round. Your
Presence affects your allies, but not yourself,
and you can only have one Presence active at
a time. Some Presence Abilities will have a
cost from a different Action Dice than your
CAST.
Any HIT or AIM Die that your allies roll from
within your Battle Presence gains Accuracy 1.
You can also spend an additional Action to
increase this Accuracy bonus by +1, up to +3
Accuracy.

If multiple Armigers are on the field, the

effects of the same Presence type do not
stack, but their areas can overlap, covering a
larger area.

You start by learning Battle Presence.

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Ability List Stalwart Presence
Unique Ability
Guts 3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Unique Ability
You can activate a Presence that steels the
2 EXP fortitude of others. While in your Presence, all
Cost: 1 SAVE Action allies have +1 ADAMANT.
You steel yourself with the will to endure. Until
the end of the Round, if you would take You can spend an additional Action to
damage that reduces your Resolve to 0, you increase this ADAMANT bonus by +1, up to +3
regain 1 Resolve instead and do not become ADAMANT.
Endangered.

Mark of the Endurer

Knightsblade
Unique Ability
Unique Ability 2 EXP
2 EXP Free Reaction
Reaction Cost: 1 SAVE Die
Cost: 1 HIT Action Once a Round, you can choose a hostile
If there is an enemy within 1 Tile of you that is Condition inflicted on you and negate its
attacking or using an Ability on an ally, you effects as a free Reaction. This does not affect
can spend 1 HIT Die as a Reaction to either its damage.
attack or repel them. If this exceeds their SAVE,
that attack or Ability is also interrupted.

Challenger's Approach
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 2 Action Dice
You can choose an enemy to challenge,
inviting them to do so. If this enemy engages
in combat with you, all its attacks and Abilities
against you gains Truestrike, while attacks
and Abilities against them gains Truestrike.
This effect begins when the enemy makes a
melee attack against you, and you must be
within 2 Tiles of them to maintain this effect,
lasting until the end of the Round. This ends if
you are out of range, or if you are under the
effects of Endangered, Stun or Fear.
If your target refuses your Challenge, you can
use Provoke to force them to fight you, if you
have this Technique learned. If done this way,
you may roll the two Action Dice spent on
Challenger's Approach to Provoke the target.
Mark of the
Encourager
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Mark of the Endurer can be used to negate a
hostile Condition's effects on an ally within 1
Tile of you instead. This cannot be done if you
are also inflicted by that hostile Condition.
Resolute Presence
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST + 1 SAVE, 1 Action
You can activate a Presence that boosts the
morale of others and lifts their hearts. Roll your
SAVE Die. All allies in your Presence have their
Resolve restored by the rolled amount. At the
start of every subsequent Turn after yours, this
continues to restore Resolve by half that
amount, for 2 Turns.
You can spend additional CAST and SAVE
Action Dice as a second or third Action to
increase this restorative effect, rolling all these
SAVE Dice together.

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Self-Encouragement
Potential I
4 EXP
When you activate your Presence, you also
gain its benefits.
Rallying Presence
Unique Ability
4 EXP
Cost: 1 MOVE Action
You can activate a Presence that drives your
allies forward. Roll your MOVE Die. If an ally
start their Turn within your Presence, they first
MOVE Die spent gains a bonus to Movement
equal to the number rolled.
You can also spend this Action for your
opening movement before combat begins.
Done this way, your allies will still roll their
MOVE Die to determine their place in Initiative,
but they will all move in unison alongside you
within your Presence's area when you take
your opening movement. Your first Turn will
then start with only two Actions.
Protective Presence
Potential I
4 EXP
Cost: 2 SAVE Actions
You can activate a Presence that protects
your allies from harm. Roll a SAVE Die. While in
your Presence, all allies gain a bonus to their
SAVE rolls equal to the number rolled.
Focus Fire
Unique Ability
4 EXP
If you initiate a damaging attack or Technique
against a target, any allied Reactions against
that target benefit from your Presence even if
they're not in it. This only applies to Presence
effects that apply to that particular Reaction.
If the Reacting ally is in your Presence, your
Presence's effects are doubled on that action
instead.
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Fearful Presence
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Die, 2 Actions
You can activate a Presence that demoralises
your foes. Roll your CAST Die. Your allies'
attacks stack Fear on enemies while in your
Presence, equal to the number rolled.
Battlef ield's Anchor
Unique Ability
3 EXP
For every Round that passes while you remain
on the same Tile and are not affected by
Displacement or Airborne effects, you gain 3
ADAMANT. This resets if you move, become
Endangered or are inflicted with Fear or Stun.
Keep the Weapons
Down
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Reaction
Cost: 1 Action Die
If an ally becomes Endangered and an enemy
takes a hostile action against them, you can
React to stop them or appeal to their better
nature, causing them to hesitate and waste
that action. Roll an Action Die of any type
against the hostile action.
If the ally is in your Presence and this Reaction
fails, you can instead rush between your ally
and the enemy, moving yourself the distance
needed and having the hostile action happen
to you instead of your ally.
Keep the Wounded
Safe
Unique Ability
3 EXP
You boost your conviction, knowing there are
vulnerable lives you must fight for. For every
ally that becomes Endangered, leaves and
remains out of combat, you gain 3 ADAMANT
until combat ends.
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Jedaine, Drakenought of Voyage Team Aquila
Drakenought
Jet-propelled Artillery Fortress
Recommended Faction
Sol Empire
Common Sapient
Shardlander
Lore
The Sol Empire has numerous military
divisions to secure its growing influence;
among them are its monster-slaying division,
the Drakenoughts. Dressed in red regalia
adorned with dragon parts and armed with a
powerful Wyrmsplitter artillery lance, they are
fitted like a walking flame engine in order to
face bestial foes much larger than
themselves, fitted with a powerful incendiary
core that lets them rocket upwards and
ground mighty drakes and bring them low.
Playstyle
The Drakenought is a powerful frontline
fighter specialising against large foes. They
create zones of denial to prevent others from
passing and can propel themselves and their
attacks using their rocket-propelled armour.
Play as a Drakenought if you like:
> Playing an industrial dieselpunk
dragonslaying knight
> Defying massive foes with flaming rocket
lances
> Charging into battle with rocket engines on
your back
Strengths
Superior zone control and durability, amazing
against larger foes and bosses.
Weaknesses
Very slow-moving and cumbersome unless
you activate your rocket engines to move.
Primary Action Dice
SAVE, AIM
Venture Origin
Dragon Hunter
Venture Origin
Dragon Hunter
The Drakenoughts were formed by the Sol
Empire to efficiently cull the rampant
dangerous wildlife that harry the Shardlands.
Chief among these pests are dragons, prone
to razing entire swathes of land and starving
many Shard villages from their repeated raids
on livestock.
Fortunately, the Empire has fitted you to deal
with these loathsome creatures. If you're
equipped to deal with the most dangerous
prey, then certainly any other lesser creature
becomes child's play by comparison, as well.
LORE - Types of dragons, their physiology
and weaknesses
DARE - Climbing and mounting wild dragons,
rocket jumping
SENSE - Tracking dragons by their footprints,
shed scales, flame-marked territory, etc.
TOOL - Maintaining Igneous Armour and
Wyrmsplitter cannon, carving and harvesting
dragon parts
FACE - Asserting dominance over beasts,
military discipline, intimidating posture
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Loadout
3 SAVE / 3 AIM / 2 HIT / 1 MOVE / 1 CAST

Game Plan
While your movement is limited, the
Drakenought can keep enemies locked using
their harpoon, and creates walls of fire that
prevent enemy advances. Use your Igneous
Armor to charge forward and break enemy
formations.

Assigning Die Values

Prioritise SAVE if you want to make your
Drakenought as resistant to damage as
possible, or AIM to maximise their incendiary
damage.

Starting Ability - Drakenought

Igneous Armour
Unique Mechanic

You can activate your Igneous Armour to

empower your attacks or movement. As a free
Action, by spending an Action Die of any type
to activate it, smoke-spewing thrusters ignite
on your back or legs, driving your body
forward. Add this Action Die roll into any MOVE,
HIT or AIM Die you roll to move or attack.

When you use this to move, you activate your

back rockets to charge forward. You add the
Action Die rolled to your MOVE roll, and if you
collide with an enemy, you roll both dice to
inflict damage and Displace on them.

Every time you activate your Armour this way,

it gains 1 Heat, which persists until the end of
combat. Once you accumulate 4 Heat, your
Armour overheats and you must wait a full
Round without activating it before you can
use it again.

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Ability List
Blast Harpoon
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Cost: 1 AIM
"Your right to the sky must be earned."
You fire a harpoon from your lance at an
entity, inflicting damage and Root stacks,
immobilising it as long as the link is
connected.
Every Round you maintain this link, the target
can roll their SAVE Dice to escape it. Their roll
must exceed your AIM Die's maximum value.
You can choose to detonate this harpoon,
which deals the initial damage again and
severs the link.
UPCAST: Add your AIM Dice to the damage
and Root.
Dread tooth Wall
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST + 1 AIM, 2 Actions
Area: Cn. 5 Tile Line
"Perimeter set. None may pass and live."
You spend lay down a wall of spikes that spew
fire in a line. They last until the start of your
next Turn.
Medium or smaller entities cannot walk
through it, and anything that attempts to pass
will take damage equal to both your CAST
and AIM Dice roll combined.
Wyvern Jump
Unique Ability
2 EXP
When you activate your Armour to increase
your movement, you can now use it to
perform a rocket-propelled jump that covers
the same distance on the ground or vertically,
flying into the air. This jump can cross over
chasms, short obstacles and entities.
You are considered Airborne, and are immune
to fall damage up to 12 Tiles. When you land,
any entity in a 3x3 Box of your landing spot
takes half damage and Displace stacks from
your combined roll. The entity directly under
you takes full damage and is inflicted with
Stun instead.
Impaling Flame
Unique Ability
3 EXP
If a target is within melee range, you can
perform Blast Harpoon or Whiteflame
Godcarver using a combination of your HIT
and AIM Dice.
Vengeful Teeth
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Free Action
If an enemy manages to pass through a Tile
where Dreadtooth Wall is placed, that spike
explodes. Roll your CAST + AIM for the damage
dealt (no Loadout cost). That Tile then
becomes regular terrain.
Embedded Greaves
Unique Ability
4 EXP
Cost: 1 Action Die
You modify your greaves with a special
mechanism that embeds pegs into the
ground. To activate this, you must spend an
Action Die of any type. You become Rooted
and immune to Displacement. This lasts until
the end of the Round, or until you deactivate
them at no cost.
You can also activate your greaves as a
Reaction. To do this, you must spend an
Action Die that is at least of d8 value.
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Overflame Devious Leash
Potential I Unique Ability
3 EXP
3 EXP
Cost: Variable
Free Action
When you have an enemy tethered with your
Your Armour's maximum Heat is increased to
Blast Harpoon, you can spend up to 3 Action
5.
Dice to drag them with the chain and slam
them against the ground.
You can risk your safety to tax your Rocket
Armour. Once a Round, you can spend any
If your roll exceeds the target's SAVE and
number of Action Dice to Upcast your use of
ADAMANT, you slam them against any solid
Armour to empower your next Action in a
surface within 6 Tiles of you. Roll those Action
single burst. If this accumulates 5 Heat, your
Dice for the damage dealt, which also inflicts
Armour immediately overheats.
Stun.
If doing this causes your Armour to
accumulate more than 5 Heat, the remainder
Dice you rolled are also dealt to you as Improved Furnaces
damage. You cannot SAVE against this. Unique Ability
3 EXP
Every time your Loadout resets, your Armour
Whiteflame Godcarver reduces its Heat by 1.
Potential I
3 EXP
Cost: 2 AIM Actions Bestial Engine
Potential II
"How does it feel to burn in a flame more 3 EXP
terrifying than your own?" Your Armour's maximum Heat is increased to
6.
You stay in place and charge a powerful blast
of white flame with your rocket lance, While your Armour has maximum Heat, it
spending 2 AIM Dice to charge it. For every activates Drakenought Mode, wreathed in
Action after this, you can spend another 2 scorching flames and red-hot metal, which
Action Dice of any type to charge it further. Its causes all your HIT and AIM Dice to gain
effective distance is based on your highest Truestrike.
AIM roll. Your lance fires after you finish
charging. Roll the Dice for the total damage,
gaining Truestrike.

For every additional Action spent after the first

to charge this, you gain 2 ADAMANT and this
Ability gains Accuracy +2 for all AIM Dice.

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 Rivaan, Wahrsanguis of Voyage Team Scorpio

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Wahrsanguis
Blood Magic Healer
Recommended Faction
Skotos
Common Sapient
Non-Viemor
Lore
You are a practitioner of blood magic from
Skotos - a living being who has learned to
survive in the land of the dead by
manipulating your own life force. Whether as
a member of the Khaosjagd, or seeking
acceptance or employment within the Known
World, you can use your talents to heal others
or fuel your magic from the life-force of your
foes. You even take hits head-on and
manipulate your life force, using your own
pain and wounds to make yourself and your
allies stronger.
Playstyle
The Wahrsanguis is a martyr for their allies,
using their wounds to heal allies and damage
foes alike. They can manipulate life force in
strange and unsettling ways, and can even
speak with the souls of the dead outside of
combat.
Play as a Wahrsanguis if you like:
> Playing a blood mage
> Being a tank-healer hybrid who constantly
teeters between life and death
> Turning your foes inside out
Strengths
Amazing healing and tanking potential, which
can even be converted to damage with
certain Abilities.
Weaknesses
High risk and reward. Healing yourself and
allies can be inconsistent and risky because it
relies on your party receiving damage first.
Primary Action Dice
SAVE, CAST
Venture Origin
Blood Magic
Venture Origin
Blood Magic
The core of the Wahrsanguis' gift is their sixth
sense for the flow of life in creatures, sensing it
through walls and across horizons. It is akin to
a spiritual experience, a ritual that appears
carnal and off-putting to the casual observer,
but to the Wahrsanguis, it is as sacred and
true as any sacrament.
The history of the Wahrsanguis is traced back
to the first people to fall into Skotos. Rather
than dying and becoming Viemor, they
learned to safeguard their lives by
manipulating their blood, concealing their
presence from the carnivorous Tannin that
dwell in Skotos, and guiding others who have
fallen into Skotos like them towards salvation.
Eventually, their gifts were acknowledged by
the Khaosjagd, who confer respect to them as
soothsayers and guides, as well as cunning
survivalists.
LORE - History of blood magic, types of blood
rituals
DARE - Forming blood weapons and
familiars, conducting blood rituals
SENSE - Sensing and tracking others via life
force
TOOL - Conducting blood rituals, blood
healing, blood concealment
FACE - Interacting with Khaosjagd members,
intimidating those who are disgusted by your
sacred duty
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Loadout
3 SAVE / 3 CAST / 2 MOVE / 1 HIT / 1 AIM

Game Plan
The Wahrsanguis barely attacks on their own,
instead focusing on healing allies with their
SAVE Die and using CAST Dice to convert
damage into healing, and vice versa. Having 2
MOVE gives them a little more leeway to help
position themselves near allies.

Assigning Die Values

Your SAVE and CAST Dice take highest priority,
as they will determine the potency of your
blood magic. Keep MOVE also relatively high
to ensure you can reach allies.

Starting Ability - Wahrsanguis

Bloodsense its exact position on the map as a brief flicker
of red in your mind's eye. You can tell how far
Unique Mechanic it is and its precise location, but not what it is,
Using your basic control over blood, you are its Size, surroundings or its state of movement.
able to conceal your living presence from
Tannin. Additionally, you learn Absorb Wounds:

A Wahrsanguis is able to sense and track

living creatures by sensing their lifeforce. You
can use your SENSE Skill to track someone or
something by the signature of their blood. The
GM can give you vague information about
how recently the entity was present and the
direction its signature leads to. Depending on
how hard they are to find, you may require
several Skill checks to find them.
By using SENSE, you can also sense the
presence of any living creatures or newly
deceased corpses within line of sight, but not
nonliving entities like machines, elementals or
spirits. You can sense their number, along with
a vague knowledge of their positions, but no
specific details about them. The presence of
multiple entities close together may be
confused for a singular large presence.
Bloodsense In Combat
During combat, you are always able to sense
or smell the drawing of blood or the passing
of life. If a living entity is injured, you can sense
Absorb Wounds
Reaction
Cost: 1 SAVE Action
Range: 1 Tile
"Put aside your disgust if you want to live."
When you see an ally take damage and you
are next to them, you can perform an Instant
Reaction and roll from your SAVE Die against
that damage. Your Ally can roll their SAVE too.
If the total SAVE roll is equal or more than the
damage number, you successfully negate the
wound on your ally and heal your Resolve by
the amount rolled from your SAVE. If the SAVE
is lower, your ally is spared but the full
damage is transferred to you instead.
UPCAST: Add another SAVE Die against the
instance of damage.

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Ability List
Initiate of Undying
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Free Action
Cost: 1 CAST
"Little by little, I become you."
When you make a melee or ranged attack,
you may also roll a CAST Die to make that
attack vampirically heal you by the amount
rolled.
Chaos Vitae
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Once a Turn during combat, you can drain
any amount of your Resolve and convert it
into 1 Action Die of your choice, which lasts
until the end of your Turn. The amount of
Resolve drained is equal to that Action Die's
maximum value.
Eff igy of Unlife
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
"A false life's hatred is terrible to behold."
You create an Effigy of bone and viscera on
an unoccupied space near you, up to a
distance equal to your CAST roll, lasting until it
is destroyed. Your maximum Resolve is halved
and transferred to the Effigy; any damage it
takes is dealt to you as well, and any damage
it causes heals you for the same. Tannin-type
enemies are naturally drawn to it and will be
instantly Taunted by it as long as it remains
on the field.
After spending your CAST Die to summon the
Effigy, you can control it. You can use 1 CAST
Die to have it move and attack a single target
in a single motion, using the same roll for its
distance travelled and damage.
You can dismiss the Effigy at no cost, and it
collapses into a pile of bones and blood.
Soul Husks
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Every time an entity dies, it leaves behind an
umbral husk where it perished, which remains
until you leave combat. At any time, you can
spend 1 CAST Die to choose a Husk within 4
Tiles of you and absorb it into yourself, healing
you for the amount rolled.
Your GM may choose to multiply the amount
healed at no cost if the entity is of a larger size
or quite powerful.
Lost Whispers
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Every time an entity dies, it leaves behind an
umbral husk where it perished, which remains
until you leave combat. At any time, you can
spend 1 CAST Die to choose a Husk within 4
Tiles of you and absorb it into yourself, scrying
into its final memories.
Your GM can choose to show you a
combination of a series of flashing images, a
smell, taste or echoing sound, a whispered
phrase or a sense of location of a place the
entity was familiar with.
Chain of Unlife
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Your Effigy of Unlife gains Accuracy 2 when it
attacks. This can be learned multiple times,
up to a maximum of half your CAST Die's
value.
Volatile Viscera
Unique Ability
2 EXP
When you spend your CAST Die to summon
your Effigy of Unlife, it creates an explosion of
blood magic where it spawns in a 3x3 area,
damaging all enemies by the amount you
rolled. You can heal from this damage.
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Conceal Blood
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Outside of combat, you can use your blood
manipulation to conceal the presence of
another living person from being detected by
Tannin while you're with them in Skotos, and
as long as you're conscious. You can learn this
Ability multiple times to improve your power
to conceal multiple allies.
During combat, you must spend 1 Action Die
every Turn to maintain this concealment on
all living allies on the field. Failing to do this will
reveal their presence to the Tannin.
Trespass
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 2 CAST Actions
Anytime you damage an enemy that is within
6 Tiles of you, you can spend 2 CAST to
overpower them. The target must match or
exceed your rolled amount with their SAVE
Dice. If they succeed, nothing happens and
you are refunded 1 CAST Die.
If you succeed, you turn into a crimson
shadowy wraith and enter the target's body.
You can see everything within the entity's line
of sight while Trespassing their body. You are
able to remain in their body until the start of
your next Turn, and the target is Stunned while
you are inside. Any damage dealt to the
target is dealt to both its own Resolve and
yours.
At the start of your next Turn, you eject
yourself from the target onto the nearest Tile,
and they regain control of their body.
Beast of Burden and
Blood
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Free Action
Whenever you spend CAST Dice to move your
Effigy of Unlife and you are next to it, you can
choose to ride on it, landing on a Tile next to it
once it stops moving.
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Stygian Transaction
Unique Ability
2 EXP
When you become Endangered, Absorb
Wounds gains Accuracy equal to half your
SAVE Die's maximum value.
Bind the Blood
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
You can spend 1 CAST to immediately
Trespass an Endangered entity within 6 Tiles
of you. They cannot SAVE against this.
If there is another Endangered entity within
the same range, you can CAST again to jump
into that entity's body, and can repeat this
action as long as you have CAST Dice.
Bloodseer
Potential I
4 EXP
Your Bloodsense becomes stronger. When
using Bloodsense to detect surrounding
entities, you are now able to accurately
discern their Sizes and their accurate number
if grouped together. You can also tell their
general emotional state by sensing their
bloodflow and heartrate: whether they are
awake, sleeping, unconscious, stressed, etc.
You can also sense the presence of spirits and
Viemor if they were formerly living creatures.
When interacting with another living entity,
you can perform a SENSE Skill check to sense
their state of mind. The higher the result, the
more accurately you are able to discern
details about them, such as their state of
mind, if they are lying, stressed or fearful, and
whether they have benign or malicious intent.
You can also sense the presence of poisons
and diseases, whether on their person or in
their body.
Sacred Armour Bloodscrier
Unique Ability
Potential II
3 EXP
4 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Your Bloodsense is heightened further. When
You can spend 1 CAST to call your Effigy of
using SENSE out of combat to sense the
Unlife to you. It crosses any distance
presence of living creatures, you are able to
immediately and wraps itself around you as a
sense their movements and vague
protective shell.
surroundings. You can sense accurate details
about them: if they are running or airborne; if
Any remaining Resolve it has is absorbed into
they are holding a specific object and how
your own, and all your attacks while wearing it
heavily armoured they are, as you judge the
gain its benefits. The Effigy then breaks down
weight of these objects upon their skin.
after your Turn ends.
If you are familiar with these before, you also
know their exact species or Sapient type.
Imparted Death
If you are tracking an entity using Bloodsense,
Unique Ability
you are constantly aware of their distance
3 EXP
and movement. This can also be used the
Reaction
same way to track ethereal spirits or departed
If an enemy deals damage that would reduce
souls. However, this presence can only last in
your Resolve to 0 and Endanger you, you can
your mind as long as you are conscious.
roll any number of SAVE or CAST Dice against
that damage as a single Action. If your rolled
amount is equal or exceeds that damage,
that damage is instead dealt back to the
attacker, and they gain the same number as
Fear stacks.

Strange Simulacrum
Unique Ability
4 EXP
Your Effigy of Unlife can execute Techniques.

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 Aestelle, Keybearer of Voyage Team
Aquila

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Keybearer
Noble Skyborn Warrior
Recommended Faction
Eyries
Common Sapient
Síoraí
Lore
You are a privileged chosen among the
people of the Eyries, handpicked from one of
the Stormqueen’s loyal citizenry to be
adopted as one of Her many children, blessed
to enter Her palace and be bestowed with a
Heaven's Key, the greatest tool Her Eminence
can bestow you. Compared to Heirs,
Keybearers place greater focus on magical
ability rather than martial prowess. However,
underestimating a Keybearer’s skill in single
combat is equally foolish.
Playstyle
Wielding a masterwork of magic weaponry
called a Heaven's Key, a Keybearer is a
ranged archer-mage hybrid who assists allies
by utilising long-ranged magic and area
denial using magical mines and potent
Conditions, stifling all opposition with wide-
range storms, starlight shields or firing
miniature black holes.
Play as a Keybearer if you like:
> Playing as a ranged archer or spellcaster
> Utilising powerful elemental attacks of
lightning, starlight and void.
> Playing as a noble from a culture of elf-
adjacent sky people.
Strengths
Long distance spells and teamwide buffs
Weaknesses
Requires heavy EXP investment to bring out
full potential
Primary Action Dice
AIM, CAST
Venture Origin
Storm Court
Venture Origin
Storm Court
You were raised in the Storm Court, a hidden
palace high in the sky and shrouded within
dark clouds, constantly thundering with
primordial magic.
Raised in the name of the godlike
Stormqueen, you grew up in a life of courtly
intrigue and etiquette, studying weapon skills
and magic with your fellow Stormchildren - all
living within the same palace, all vying for the
approval of a Mother who is only ever known
through her hundreds of officials, and heard
within the peal of thunder all around you.
LORE - Storm Court etiquette, court intrigue
DARE - Riding aerial beasts
SENSE - Discerning deception and two-faced
meanings, identifying secret police
TOOL - Elemental archery, double-bladed
glaives
FACE - Interacting with nobles, negotiating
with the Eyries
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Loadout
3 AIM / 3 CAST / 2 MOVE / 1 SAVE / 1 HIT

Game Plan
While the Keybearer may not be able to move
very far, they will not need to. Using their
superior range and balanced mastery of
ranged attacks and magic, they are fully
capable of dishing out spells and supporting
allies from a safe position.

However, due to your limited movement,

damage prevention and melee power, make
sure to keep yourself well out of reach.

Assigning Die Values

Your highest value Action Dice should be AIM
and CAST to maximise your ranged and
magic potential. Do not neglect your MOVE if
you want to be able to reposition comfortably.

Starting Ability - Keybearer

Heaven's Key
Unique Mechanic
You are given your Heaven's Key from the
Stormqueen, whom upon adopting you into
the Storm Court determines your calling from
childhood.
Dimensional Sheath
You can freely dismiss your Heaven's Key into
the arcane Aether, causing it to disappear in a
wisp of energy, and freely materialise it back
instantly in your hand. Any time your Key
leaves your hand, is disarmed or is thrown
away from you, you can dismiss your Key and
materialise it into your hand the same way
from any distance.
Infuse Rune
Instant Ability
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Range: 6 Tiles
Area: 3x3 Box
"Such an underhanded trap... but I suppose it suits
the Court's methods just as well..."
You magically inscribe a magical rune on a
Tile, which acts as a trap that detonates once
an enemy enters its area.
The rune covers a 3x3 area, and its properties
are based on your Key's type.

You can also spend 1 Action Die to have your

Key materialise at an unoccupied Tile within 5
Tiles of you.

You start your training with your Heaven's Key

by learning the Ability called Infuse Rune:

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Keybearer Schools
Your upbringing as a Stormchild causes your
Key's magical core to resonate with one of the
three different Schools: Tempestuous,
Luminous and Ecliptic, which turns it into a
Storm Key, Star Key or Eclipse Key,
respectively. Choose one when you create
your Keybearer, which allows you to learn
Abilities of that School.
Tempestuous School
Heaven's Key
You were born to be as a storm, as strong as
thunder and as potent as lightning.
This School is normally characterised by
Stormchildren with sharp wits, a quick tongue
and sometimes biting personality - though
the Court usually makes sure that
misbehaviour gets weeded out...
Nevertheless, Tempestuous Stormchildren
also tend to be quite independent and self-
driven, sometimes to the vexation of the
Court's handlers. These children are, as the
handlers would call them - "lightning straying
from the thunder".
Your Infuse Rune becomes Explosive Rune.
Explosive Rune
Storm Key
Innate
Cost: 1 CAST Action
"Step lightly if you choose to approach."
You remotely inscribe a magical rune on any
unoccupied surface, which only becomes
active on the start of the Turn after yours.
While you spend your CAST Die to create it,
you do not roll it until it is detonated.
They last until the end of combat, or if more
than 4 are on the map, at which point you
must choose which Runes to dismiss. The first
enemy to pass the Rune's range causes it to
explode, dealing damage and inflicting them
with an equal number of Stun stacks.
Damage and Stun can be accumulated
multiple times at once if overlapped by
multiple rune explosions.
Luminous School
Heaven's Key
You were born to be as the stars, clear in purpose
and manifold in your talents.
This School is normally the calling of
Stormchildren who exhibit bright and/or
energetic personalities, always eager to
please the Stormqueen, and quick learners
who grasp many talents easily, including the
intricacies of court etiquette and various
noble hobbies such as skyriding and
performing ceremonial dances and duels for
the Court.
They tend to be a favourite among handlers
due to their natural charisma and eagerness
to learn, though the other Stormchildren are
quite well aware that not all of this of this
enthusiasm is born out of genuine passion...
Your Infuse Rune becomes Shield Rune.
Shield Rune
Star Key
Innate
Cost: 1 CAST Action
A prismatic glasslike sheen appears on your skin,
shielding you from harm.
You rune creates a Shield around any allies
within its area, including yourself, which lasts
until the end of the Round. The Shield absorbs
any one single instance of damage, after
which it is destroyed.
If used as a delayed mine (activating on the
Turn after yours), when an enemy walks over
it, it instead explodes in a burst of light,
Impairing them until the end of the Round.
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Ecliptic School
Heaven's Key
You were born to be as the eclipse, subtle and
cunning in all your ways.
An arcane School born from studies into void
magic, Stormchildren who exhibit talent for
this School tend to be hyperfocused workers,
practical and composed in their thinking. They
tend to also make excellent War Ministers due
to their realistic outlooks and quiet
intelligence.
Ecliptic Stormchildren, perhaps as an
accepted status quo of their school, tend to
be private and secretive individuals, with the
ocassional Child given to stealth and
mischief, stealing from the handlers or playing
tricks on them.
Your Infuse Rune becomes Gravity Rune.
Gravity Rune
Eclipse Key
Innate
Cost: 1 CAST Action
"Keep that presumptuous approach of yours in
check."
You create a gravitational well at a chosen
Tile that activates instantly. All enemies in its
range are Rooted until the end of the Round.
Roll your CAST Die to determine its potency.
At the end of the Round, the gravity well
implodes, dealing damage equal to half your
CAST Die's maximum value.
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Oracular Gate
Unique Ability
3 EXP
You learn a powerful magical ritual that takes
time to cast, but confers powerful boons to
your allies.
Oracular Gate
Casted Ability
Cost: 3 CAST Actions
Range: Cn. 2 Tile Star
"All things must be bowed low."
You hold your Key and channel a powerful
ritual that places you in a Casting state until
the next Round begins, unable to take any
other actions. The ritual has two effects: one
that is active while you are in the act of
Casting, and the second activates if you
successfully Cast it, activating at the
beginning of the next Round.
Allies do not receive any harmful effects while
within the ritual area. Once successfully
casted, you can resume your Turn as normal.
The effects of your Oracular Gate is based on
your School.
Eye of the Storm
Oracular Gate - Storm Key
Strike Area: 3x3 Box
"Dark clouds and lightning signal Her presence.
From within the clouds, none escape Her gaze --
the Stormqueen judges you!"
Casting: A thick cloud of turbulent wind and
fog surrounds you, which makes the area
difficult terrain. Enemies within are Slowed.
On Success: You call forth a bolt of lightning to
strike any location on the map. Roll all 3 CAST
Dice, dealing damage and inflicting Stun.
Divining Star Threading Needle
Oracular Gate - Star Key
Unique Ability
3 EXP
"The outcome is clear!"
Cost: 2 AIM, 1 Action
Casting: Bright stars and pinpoints of enjoined
light surround you. All hostile instances of "Draw and release. Draw your last breath, and
Honed or Truestrike are nullified while in this release yourself from this mortal coil."
area.
Your next Instant Attack costs 2 AIM, but gains
On Success: You and up to 3 allies within your Truestrike and pierces all foes in a straight line
ritual gain an enchantment of scrying from the first one hit.
starlight. The next Attack or damaging Ability
made by you and each of your allies is UPCAST: Extends the line past your normal
empowered - roll your CAST Die from this attack range by the number rolled.
Ability (1 per ally) and add it to your allies'
damage. This attack is Honed and has
Truestrike.
Sunpiercer
Unique Ability
Ecliptic Pass 2 EXP
Oracular Gate - Eclipse Key Cost: 1 AIM Action

"Fade... and appear."

You aim high, causing your next arrow to fall
at an opportune time.
Casting: Dark shadows coalesce as all the
light surrounding you becomes distorted and Use 1 AIM Die to fire towards a chosen Tile in
warped. While inside, you and all allies are range. This attack is Honed, but the shot only
Stealthed, while any enemy within is Impaired lands on the start of the Turn after yours.
as if in total darkness.
UPCAST: The arrow gains Airborne stacks
On Success: You and all allies within the area based on the roll, which converts to
are teleported to any area on the map you additional damage upon hitting an enemy.
can see that can fit your group up to 6 Tiles
away.
Tempered Key
Potential I
Astral Blink 2 EXP
Unique Ability You gain an added benefit from your chosen
1 EXP School.
Reaction
Cost: 1 CAST Action Tempestuous School
All hostile Displacement stacks are halved
"Get off me." against you.

Trigger: An enemy attacks or uses a hostile Luminous School

Ability against you, and either hits or misses. You gain 1 Shield at the start of every Round.

You immediately teleport yourself to a chosen Ecliptic School

unoccupied Tile. The maximum distance you You are Stealthed whenever you are not
teleport is rolled from your CAST Die. moving. If you move, you become Stealthed
again at the end of your Turn. You also can
see perfectly in darkness.

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Trial by Lightning
Unique Ability - Storm Key
3 EXP
Cost: 1 AIM + 1 CAST, 1 Action
"Only the worthy may pass and be absolved."
You can fire multiple arrows that act as
lightning rods, shocking all foes caught
between them.
When using an AIM Die, you can spend 1 CAST
Die to fire a special shot that embeds it onto a
solid surface or into an entity, creating a
pylon. These pylons last until the end of your
Turn.
Once your Turn ends, lightning arcs in a
straight line between all of these arrows,
piercing all enemies in between. Roll both AIM
and CAST for the damage, which also inflicts
Stun.
Additionally, this lightning instantly
supercharges and detonates any active
Explosive Runes in its path.
Starburst Barrier
Unique Ability - Star Key
3 EXP
Any enemy that attacks you or an ally you've
Shielded is Impaired through blindness as
starlight explodes in their face, which lasts
until the end of the Round.
Visitant Cloak
Unique Ability - Eclipse Key
3 EXP
Whenever you use Astral Blink, you are instead
covered in ecliptic shadow. After teleporting,
you become Stealthed.
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Noble Ul timatum
Unique Ability
3 EXP
"Who gave you permission to obscure a divine
weapon from its bearer?"
If Dimensional Sheath was used to materialise
your Key away from you, and any enemies are
standing directly between you and it, any
atack against them gains Truestrike.
Allwedd of Augury
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Before Casting an Oracular Gate, you can
have the ritual area and its persistent effect
be centred on your Key instead, which you
can materialise elsewhere using Dimensional
Sheath. You are still counted as the one
Casting the ritual, and will be in the Casting
state as normal.
Preternatural Coil
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Free Action
You absorb surrounding magical energy to
will yourself to keep fighting. Once a Voyage, if
your Resolve is taken to 0, you can choose to
spend any number of your CAST Dice to
instantly restore your Resolve by the rolled
amount instead of becoming Endangered.
Machiavellian Caster
Main Branch
3 EXP
Once a Round, when an ally receives damage
from a magical Ability, you gain 1 CAST Die.
This can be damage from any source,
including yourself if you intentionally target an
ally (make sure the Player is OK with this).
This Die can exceed your Loadout's limit, but
expires at the end of the Round.
Harnessed Key Divine Gate
Potential II Potential II
2 EXP 4 EXP
You gain an added benefit from your chosen Your Oracular Gate rituals become even more
School. powerful as you improve your mastery of your
Key as well as your magical power.
Tempestuous School
If a hostile Displacement effect fails to move Skyspear
you, you reflect its effects onto the source Storm Key
instead. The lightning bolt created from your Eye of the
Storm ritual is enhanced in power. It gains
Luminous School Truestrike, and if a target struck does not SAVE
When you begin combat, you and all allies against it, its damage is Honed.
gain 1 Shield that lasts until destroyed.
Living Constellation
Ecliptic School Star Key
Whenever you are Stealthed, you can spend After completing your Divining Star ritual, you
your MOVE Die to instead instantly teleport to and your allies' enhanced attacks each
a given location, and do not lose Stealth this explode with starlight and inflict Impair on the
way. first target hit until the end of the Round.

Darkness Scattered
Chain Lightning Eclipse Key
Unique Ability - Storm Key Ecliptic Pass' teleport is Global, but still
3 EXP requires line of sight.
Cost: 1 CAST Action
After completing your Ecliptic Pass ritual, each
When firing a ranged attack, you can spend 1
individual ally can choose separate teleport
CAST Die to have lightning erupt from the shot
locations. You and all teleported allies are
that hits another target within 2 Tiles. This
also Stealthed until the end of the Round.
happens twice, hitting up to 3 targets. They
take the same damage as that rolled from
your AIM Die.

Nebular Attunement
Unique Ability - Star Key
3 EXP
You reabsorb your own shielding magic as
starlight shimmers across your skin. Once a
Round, whenever a Shield you gave yourself
or an ally is destroyed, you regain 1 CAST Die.

Abyssal Undertow
Unique Ability - Eclipse Key
3 EXP
Whenever you teleport using Visitant Cloak, all
enemies in a 3x3 area around you are
Impaired with blindness until the end of the
Round.

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Logist
Creative Support Mage
Recommended Faction
EXDUS
Common Sapient
Any
Lore
The Logist is secular magic user who
specialises in solving logistical problems.
Typically used in the management of large-
scale expeditions, constructions or
archaeological operations, coordinating
transport lines and maintaining supply chains,
their out-of-the-box skills can also be used in
combat... in the event there are no qualified
combat personnel present.
Playstyle
The Logist is all about using creative non-
combative methods to affect the battlefield.
They have a wide array of magical abilities
that allow them to teleport, accelerate and
immobilise people, and can even create
random objects in a pinch.
Play as a Logist if you like:
> Playing a utility mage
> Playing with teleportation and swapping
targets
> Playing a role whose impact is not
concerned with damage.
Strengths
High potential to creatively tackle combat in
novel ways, with plenty of room for skill
expression.
Weaknesses
Has no reliable damage to speak of and quite
vulnerable to attack. Spells may backfire if not
planned properly.
Primary Action Dice
CAST
Venture Origin
Logistics
Venture Origin
Logistics
A quote from the Old World once said:
"Amateurs discuss tactics; professionals
discuss logistics". That is your job as a
professional Logist.
By analysing anything from large cargo to
fragile artifacts, where it's going and the path
it needs to take, you can come up with the
most efficient way to transport goods and
people safely along the paths of least
resistance - whether from nature and the
elements, or from other, more hostile
influenes.
LORE - Trade and transport routes,
mathematics
DARE - Coordinating large scale operations,
stampede prevention
SENSE - Estimating size and area of large
objects, managing crowds
TOOL - Accurate measurements
FACE - Interacting with leaders of operations,
negotiating access to records and logs
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Loadout
5 CAST / 2 MOVE / 1 SAVE / 1 HIT / 1 AIM

Game Plan
A Logist thrives in the middle of the fight, even
if violence is not their forte. The can capture
enemy spells from the air and absorb them,
reflect spells back at them and switch places
with them - confusing them to no end and
flipping the battlefield on its head.

Be sure to use your head, because the Logist

has almost no real options for dealing or
preventing damage.

Assigning Die Values

Without question, your CAST Die should be
your best Die. Keep your MOVE high to easily
navigate the battlefield, and a good SAVE Die
to get you out of any sticky situations.

Starting Ability - Logist

Spacial Magic Cross-Transposition
Cost: 1 CAST
Unique Mechanic
Range: Global (line of sight)
Logists are magical generalists, studying
"Oh... that won't do."
magic largely for its practical applications to
assist in the real world, over any lofy ideals
about knowledge or transcendence. You cause an entity or object you see to
magically swap places with another entity or
As such, Logists can normally be found object of equivalent Size. An enemy entity
working closely with blue collar professions: must roll their SAVE Die to resist this.
construction crews, dock workers, miners and
transportation staff. Given their relative rarity, You can spend an Action Die to make this a
a Logist's skills can singlegandedly often lift up Reaction instead, e.g. if an ally would be hit by
the efforts of an entire operation, making an attack.
theirs a highly sought after, well-paid
profession. UPCAST: Add another CAST Die against the
opponent's SAVE.
Logists know how to use spacial magic to
oversee these operations and make sure they
run smoothly. One of these abilities is moving
heavy objects and people instantly. In
combat, this can be used to place hostile
enemies in disadvantageous positions, such
as in the middle of your party; or an ally in an
advantageous one, such as high ground or a
defensible enemy position.

You know the Cross-Transposition Ability:

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Ability List
Spellcatcher
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Reaction
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Range: 1 Tile
"Good lord, that was close!"
When a magical or non-weapon attack or
Ability is directed towards you or an ally within
1 Tile of you, you can roll your CAST Die to
attempt to catch it from the air before it hits. If
your CAST is equal or exceeds what the
enemy rolled to cast it, you successfully catch
it. If you fail, that spell's damage and effects
are reduced by the amount rolled.
If you successfully catch the spell, it is stored
as 1 Action Die that lasts until the end of the
Round. You can immediately spend it to
refund 1 CAST Die to yourself.
UPCAST: Add another CAST Die against the
opposing spell's number.
Conjure Resource
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Range: 1 Tile
By spending 1 CAST, you create a random
object on the Tile next to you, which then
disappears at the end of the Round. Refer
below to see what object you conjure:
Odd number: You create an empty wooden
crate. It gains "Resolve" equal to the number
rolled from your CAST Die. It acts as a 1x1
obstacle and can block an amount of
damage equal to its Resolve.
Even number: You create a ladder. It can be
used to more easily climb taller Tiles, or falls
flat across a chasm to allow crossing it. Its
height in Tiles is rolled from your CAST Die.
Teleportation Circle
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Range: Global (line of sight)
You create a circular portal that opens in the
air or on any unocuppied surface, which lasts
until the end of the Round. This portal
automatically opens out the other side of any
1x1 obstacle. Alternatively, you can spend an
additional CAST Die to create a second portal
when connecting greater distances, linking
them together.
Any entity that is Medium or smaller can use
their Movement to enter one of the portals,
appearing out the other end or out of the
second portal. You can close one or both of
these portals at any time.
UPCAST: If you spend 1 more CAST Die, the
portals can now fit a Large entity.
Reverse Vector
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Reaction
Cost: 1 CAST Action
"No no no, don't you dare do that...!"
When you see a hostile moving attack or
Ability towards an ally in your line of sight, you
can reverse its trajectory - e.g. deflecting a
sword swing back to the attacker or a
lightning bolt back to its source. Roll your
CAST Die against the roll the attacker made.
If you successfully do this, the attacker is also
inflicted with the same number of Stagger
stacks, as they are taken aback by their
attack backfiring.
UPCAST: Add another CAST Die against the
opposing number.
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Travel Quota
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Range: Global (line of sight)
You can spend any number of CAST Die to
give an ally you can see additional Movement
based on the number rolled. They can only
use this Movement at the start of their own
Turn.
Spacio-Temporal
Asset Storage
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
You cause an object or entity to be
transported to a pocket dimension
temporarily, reappearing at the end of the
Round.
While in the pocket dimension, the entity is
removed from the map and cannot affect it or
be affected by others in any way. An unwilling
entity must roll to SAVE against this.
UPCAST: Add another CAST Die against the
opponent's SAVE.
Express Route
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
You infuse the ground with a magical seal
that accelerates movement, which lasts until
the start of your next Turn. Your CAST Die roll
determines how many Tiles you affect, and
any odd number rolled is rounded up to an
even number. All these Tiles must connect to
each other.
Any entity only spends half the Movement
when travelling across these Tiles you
created.
UPCAST: Add your CAST Die to the number of
Tiles created.
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Hostile Advancement
Prevention
Unique Ability
2 EXP
When using Express Route, you can set its
magical infusement so that it only goes one
way: All allies going along its path are
accelerated as normal, while any hostile
entities moving along it are Slowed.
Workplace Accident
Prevention Field
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Range: Global (Line of Sight)
Area: 3x3 Box
You create an area that stops the movement
of all objects inside, including all entities and
projectiles. This is treated as a Rooted
Condition.
If the entities and projectiles inside are hostile,
you must roll your CAST Die against the
highest hostile roll to mitigate its motion. This
field disappears at the end of the Round, and
all objects inside resume their motion as
before.
UPCAST: Add another CAST Die against the
hostile roll.
Surplus Ammunition
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Range: 1 Tile
You can spend any number of CAST Die to
give an ally next to you the same number as
AIM Dice. They can only use these Dice on the
start of their Turn. They then roll these Dice
you gave from their own AIM Die value.
You can also reserve these converted Die, and
your allies will gain them if they move within 1
Tile of you during their Turns. Any leftover Dice
converted this way are lost at the end of the
Round.
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Exsourcer
Freelance Exorcist-Investigator
Recommended Faction
Dust
Common Sapient
Kaibi
Lore
While many folks sensationalise the mystery
of the World Beyond, you know plenty of
strange things happen in the Known World too
- runaway relics, machines gone berserk, and
the odd incursion of unknown supernatural
activity. To deal with these threats, the people
of Dust often turn not to EXDUS, but to
Exsourcer Agencies - freelancers made up of
investigators, exorcists and specialists of all
shapes and sizes.
You are one such person, either part of a
larger Agency or running your own. Your
knowledge of magic and banishing rituals
may be extensive, or you may prefer good
old-fashioned detective work and the
sureness of a trusty revolver to your side.
Playstyle
Outside of combat, the Exsourcer is skilled in
combing any crime scene or strange site for
clues, while in combat, they mostly fly by the
seat of their pants, relying on their wits and
experience - and perhaps a neat magic trick
or two you learned on the road - to solve your
problems.
Play as an Exsourcer if you like:
> Playing a noir-esque private paranormal
investigator
> Playing a modern exorcist skilled in
talismanic magic
> Playing a smooth-talking underdog just
trying to get by in the world, doing good
deeds for good coin.
Strengths
Great roleplay potential and versatile in
combat
Weaknesses
Many Abilities can backfire if rolled or planned
poorly
Primary Action Dice
CAST, Versatile
Venture Origin
Investigator
Venture Origin
Investigator
Regardless of the extent of your magical
training, the core discipline of every practicing
Exsourcer is maintaining a sharp eye and
mind; after all, if you don't solve cases, clients
won't hire you, and if clients won't hire you, you
might as well be a conman.
Exsourcers are called to investigate all sorts of
strange cases, usually from clients who are
private or paranoid about word getting out;
luckily, client confidentiality is your golden
rule.
LORE - Types of paranormal beings, obscure
urban legends and cases of paranormal
activity, known criminals both imprisoned and
free
DARE - Chasing and apprehending a
runaway suspect, unexpected shootouts
SENSE - Investigating for clues, finding
unusual physical or magical traces, mentally
reconstructing a scene
TOOL - Performing an on-site exorcism,
chemical analysis of evidence
FACE - Gaining the trust of a client and
assuaging their concerns, negotiating a more
profitable contract, cozying up to law
enforcement to gain entry into a crime scene
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Loadout
3 CAST / 2 MOVE / 2 SAVE / 2 AIM / 1 HIT

Game Plan
An Exsourcer can utilise Talismans to buff
allies and debuff foes. You are also able to
create different Action Dice on the fly to get
just that extra HIT or AIM in to defeat a foe, or
MOVE to get out of the way of a hostile area.

Assigning Die Values

The Exsourcer is versatile enough that you can
prioritise nearly any of its Dice except for HIT,
but if playing a magic-oriented Exsourcer,
CAST should be your main priority.

Starting Ability - Exsourcer

Irregular Wit
Unique Mechanic

The first rule of any Exsourcer Agency is

"always prepare to improvise".

Once per Action, you can choose to improvise

your next move. You can take your CAST Die
and convert it into an Action Die of any other
type.

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Ability List
Blindside
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Area: 1 Tile
You immediately notice a foe's mistake and
capitalise on it. If an enemy misses a hostile
action within 1 Tile of you (it does not have to
target you), you can perform a disabling strike
on them. Roll your CAST Die to either Disarm or
Silence that enemy.
Talismancy
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Your Exsourcer is skilled in apotropaic magic
to ward off evil and other malignant forces.
You have 3 Talismans that you can use, which
replenish every time your Loadout resets.
At any time, you can spend your CAST Die to
throw out a Talisman, choosing one of the
below effects for it. Your CAST roll decides how
far you can throw it out; if the Talisman
doesn't reach the target, it stops on the
furthest Tile in range and floats there until the
start of the next Round, and can be activated
by an ally or enemy that passes over it.
Otherwise, you can call the Talisman back to
you at no cost.
Warding Talisman
Grants an ally 1 Shield, which negates one
instance of damage. If left floating, any ally
can pass its Tile to gain its benefit. An enemy
that passes it destroys the Talisman and is
struck with blinding light, and is Impaired for
the rest of the Round.
Amplifying Talisman
If used on an ally, all their Actions during the
Round gain +1 Accuracy. If used on an enemy,
any allied Action against it gains +1 Accuracy.
If left floating, any ally or enemy that passes
its Tile takes the relevant effect.
Funerary Talisman
If used on an ally, you roll your CAST Die and
restore their Resolve as magical healing. If
used on an enemy, they are struck with
damage from the roll instead. If left floating,
any ally or enemy that passes its Tile takes
the relevant effect.
Golden Ink
Unique Ability
4 EXP
Your Amplifying Talisman's Accuracy bonus is
increased by 1. This can be learned multiple
times, up to half your CAST Die's max value.
Immortality Talisman
Unique Ability
3 EXP
You prepare a special Talisman drawn with
ink mixed with... ethically sourced Viemor
biological material. You throw it out as you
would a regular Talisman. An ally that has the
Talisman or passes over it cannot have their
Resolve drop below 0 or be Endangered until
the end of the Round.
Ritual Instrument
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 HIT
Range: 1 Tile
You have a sanctified ritual instrument, like a
dagger, bell, stamp or figure... and hit an
enemy with it. If the enemy fails or does not
SAVE against this, their soul or consciousness
is temporarily exorcised and displaced from
their body, becoming Stunned. They return to
normal when the next Round begins.
Exorcist's Cleansing
Kick
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
When you successfully exorcise a target using
your Ritual Instrument, you can spend a CAST
Action to physically interact with the
disembodied spirit and Displace it, spending
your CAST Die to push it somewhere. The spirit
has 0 ADAMANT against this, but can still SAVE
against it.
After you push the spirit away, it must take the
shortest route back to its body, which is
Stunned until it returns. It has 6 Movement
every Turn, and can pass through terrain and
entities. You can use this same Ability on it
whenever it's within 1 Tile of you.
UPCAST: Spend an additional CAST Die and
add to the roll.
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Study Spirit
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 Action Die
When you exorcise a target using your Ritual
Instrument, you can spend 1 Action Die to
perform a SENSE Skill Challenge to observe the
makeup of its spirit. On a Success or higher,
you learn something relevant about the target
- a memory, a name they know, or a
vulnerability they may have.
On a Complication or lower, an accidental
spiritual overlap occurs and you swap bodies
with the target, their soul inhabiting your body
and vice versa. Until the end of the next
Round, you would control the target's body as
if it were your own, and your target yours.
Depending on your Exsourcer, the GM may
allow you to use Abilities or Techniques the
target knows, if they seem feasible enough for
you to know about and execute. On a
Disastrous Failure, you are Stunned while your
target maintains control over your body until
the end of the next Round.
Abjurative Aura
Potential I
2 EXP
You gain 1 Accuracy on all your Action Dice for
every Talisman you have on your person or
deployed on the map.
Improvised Anathema
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 Action Die + HIT/AIM, 2 Actions
Using curse magic, bullets loaded with runes
and anathemic materials, or pouring evil-
purging oils on your weapon, you spend 1
Action Die to do this and strike an enemy
using your HIT or AIM Die. This can be done
once a Turn. On a successful hit, the target is
struck with Fear. Roll both Dice to determine
the Fear's potency.
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Clerical Reflexes
Potential I
3 EXP
When you throw out your Talismans as an
Instant Reaction, you only spend 1 CAST Die, as
if casting it normally.
Warding Circle
Unique Ability
3 EXP
You can spend time to draw a circle that
protects all within it. You spend 1 Action Die to
draw a circle around yourself or an ally within
1 Tile of you; 2 Action Dice to draw a 3x3 Box; or
3 Action Dice to draw a 2 Tile radius Star.
These all count towards your Action count for
your Turn.
After you draw your circle, you can choose to
remain inside or outside of it. It then creates a
dome in the area and lasts until the end of
combat, or if yourself or any entity spends 1
Action Die to break the circle.
You learn one of the following effects for your
circle, and can learn this Ability again to learn
its other effects:
Barrier Circle
Projectiles and ranged attacks of any kind are
instantly nullified upon contact with the circle,
from either side. Entities can still pass to and
from the circle, and can break it, and any
attacks made within the circle are made as
normal.
Thanatotic Circle
Spirits and Viemor cannot pass the circle. If
they are inside the circle, they take 10 damage
every Turn. You can also choose to give this
circle an inverse effect upon drawing it: only
non-living entities can safely remain inside.
Amplifying Circle
Any attack or effect that passes the circle -
from either side - gains an Accuracy Bonus
equal to your Amplifying Talisman. Entities
can still pass to and from the circle, and can
break it, and any attacks made within the
circle are made as normal.
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Elemancer
Dynamic Elemental Mage
Recommended Faction Primary Action Dice
Any CAST

Common Sapient Venture Origin

Any Elemancy

Lore Strengths
Elemental magic is one of the most common Potent crowd control and damage through
manifestations of the World Tree's magic, and your elemental attacks that covers large
Sapients all over the Known World have been areas, with lots of room for fun
able to tap into its power and harness it for as experimentation.
long as magic itself arrived on Revenir.
Weaknesses
This led to a diverse range of elemental magic Completely reliant on your CAST Die which
users from all backgrounds and cultures, makes you susceptible to Silences. Enemies
each mastering the elements in their own like elementals may be completely immune
ways: some studied them at magical to your learned element, forcing you to find
academies through intense study and different ways to handle them.
experimentation, while many wandering souls
who walk the world learned to manipulate its
Venture Origin
energies from meditation and attunement.
Elemancy
Whether through study, meditation or pure
Playstyle magical talent, you have remarkable mastery
Depending on how you flavour your
and knowledge about your given element.
Elemancer, they could be a magic-weaving
martial artist, a fencer who infuses their
LORE - Elemental magic, the study of
weapon with magic, or a student of magic
elemancy based on your given method (note
who calls forth the elements from an
that many Elemancers learned or acquired
enchanted tome or magic-enhancing staff.
elemancy through other methods)
Use your elements to burn, freeze, shock or
DARE - Elemental spells and protection
otherwise hinder foes within large areas, or
SENSE - Sensing the flow of magical
cover yourself with an armour of flames or
pathways in the aether and through the World
wind to protect yourself. You can even, with
Tree's roots and body
enough time and dedication, learn and
TOOL - Magical gestures and hand signals
master multiple elements.
FACE - Interacting with other Elemancers
(some Elemancers of a different element may
Play as an Elemancer if you like: have a better or worse opinion of you based
> Playing as a classic elemental spellcaster on this), using your element to make your
with the freedom to flavour how you channel presence more intimidating or powerful
that element
> Bending the elements of fire, ice, lightning,
wind and earth to your will
> Throwing out fireballs and shooting jets of
wind or forks of lightning from your hands

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Loadout
4 CAST / 2 MOVE / 2 SAVE / 1 AIM / 1 HIT

Game Plan
An Elemancer is highly versatile, able to use
their CAST Dice in place of their ranged and
melee attacks when using their learned
elements. They can create dangerous areas
of magic and section off parts of the map
with walls of fire, ice, and others.

Assigning Die Values

CAST should be your highest Die. You don't
need to focus on your HIT or AIM Die, unless
you plan on implementing them into your
elemental attacks, or if you need attacks to
fall back on after spending all your CAST Dice.

Starting Ability - Arcanist

Primed Element
Unique Mechanic
You've trained yourself to master an element.
Choose a single element from the following:
Fire, Ice, Wind, Lightning, Earth. This is your
Primed Element. You learn Elemental Missile,
which follows your Primed Element.
Elemental Missile
Cost: CAST Die, variable
Range: From roll
"Guys, watch out...!"
You fire an elemental bolt towards a target,
rolling your CAST Die for its range and
damage dealt, which also has an additional
effect based on the element. You can spend
additional CAST Dice to increase its power,
which will increase its Action cost. Roll all the
CAST Dice spent for the total damage and
effects dealt.
1 Action: Hits a single target
2 Actions: Hits in a 1 Tile Cross area
3 Actions: Hits in a 3x3 Box area
Fire
Enemies are ignited, taking damage equal to
half your CAST Die's max at the start of every
Turn for 2 Turns unless they spend 2 Actions
(same cost if done as a Reaction) to put the
flames out.
Ice
Area is covered with ice, and enemies within
are inflicted with Slow until the end of the
Round. If successfully Slowed, they are
Stunned instead.
Wind
Target is repelled away from centre. Add half
your CAST Die's max value to the
Displacement stacks.
Earth
Throws a boulder that Displaces targets away
and Staggers them.
Lightning
Entities are struck with electricity and
Staggered. If successfully Staggered, entities
are Stunned instead.

UPCAST: Add another CAST Die against the

opponent's SAVE.

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Type of Elemancer
Choose how to present your Elemancer when
you create them.
Elemental Focus
An academically focused mage who learns
magic through study. Not entirely used to
combat, you try to best help your allies
regardless.
Your casting focus is typically a scepter, tome
or amulet - something clearly not strictly
made for fighting.
Elemental Weapon
A mage trained in both magic and combat,
weaving their magic and weapon strikes
together.
Your casting focus is typically a weapon, like
an elementally-charged staff-sword, whip or
mace.
Elemental Arts
A mage martial artist whose elemental magic
is an extension of their own body, using
stances, gestures and hand-to-hand
techniques to project magic outward.
Your casting focus is typically drawn from
within as part of your training, magical runes
tattooed on your limbs, or magically-infused
gauntlets and greaves.
Ability List
Elemental Strikes
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Your HIT Dice automatically gain the effects of
your Primed Element and Elemental Missile,
and you can spend your CAST Dice to perform
melee attacks.
Magical Movement
Unique Ability
1 EXP
You can spend 1 CAST Die to propel yourself
using your learned element, gaining
Movement equal to the roll.
Critical Attunement
Unique Ability
3 EXP
You absorb surplus elemental energy from
your spells. For every CAST Die that you roll for
elemental magic that is a Critical, you absorb
its power and regain 1 CAST Die.
Trailblazer
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Free Action
Cost: 1 CAST Die
Whenever you spend your MOVE Die, you can
also spend 1 CAST Die to create an elemental
trail at your feet.
Any Tile you pass leaves behind an elemental
trail, which makes it difficult terrain that slows
all entities that pass those Tiles and deals 1
damage when they pass it, and for every
subsequent Turn they stand on it. This trail
remains until the end of the Round.
Fire ignite and is hot to step on; ice is packed
snow or slippery ice; wind is a trail of slicing air
that you leave in your wake; lightning
electrically charges the ground below; earth
creates sharp and jagged rocks.
Elemental Fallout
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Your Elemental Missile creates a catalysed
area upon impact. That area becomes
difficult terrain and deals 1 Damage to
anything standing on the area per Turn,
lasting until the end of the Round.
Elemental Resistance
Unique Ability
4 EXP
You only take halved damage from any
hostile actions using your Primed Element; e.g.
if your Primed Element is Fire, you take halved
damage from dragon's fire, flamethrowers, a
jet engine going off in front of you, etc. Earth
protects you against falling rocks and being
Displaced or falling towards solid ground.
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Pillar of Magic
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
You can spend 1 CAST Die to create an
elemental pillar using your Primed element,
which persists until the end of the Round.
Fire
Creates a plume of flame. An entity standing
within it takes damage equal to half your
CAST Die's max value at the start of each Turn.
Ice
Creates a freezing pillar of ice. Any entity
caught within is Rooted. If they manage to
SAVE against it, the cold causes them to be
Slowed for the rest of their Turn.
Wind
Target is thrown Airborne at a height rolled
from your CAST Die. As long as the pillar
persists, they remain Airborne while inside.
Earth
Creates a spire of rock. Displaces any entity
on it upwards a number of Tiles based on the
number rolled.
Lightning
A lightning bolt strikes and continues to surge
in the area. An entity standing within it takes
damage equal to half your CAST Die's max
value at the start of each Turn.
Launch Element
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Whenever there is a persistent instance of
your Primed Element on the map, such as
your Pillar of Magic, rock walls or a burning
Tile, you can spend 1 CAST to propel a 1x1
section of it forward. You use it to separate the
element from a larger whole, e.g. pushing
away a section of a wall.
You would roll that CAST Die as if it were a
ranged attack to propel this standing element
(e.g. you roll 10 from 6 Tiles away, so the
element moves 4 Tiles), moving it forward. If it
collides with an entity, it deals damage equal
to the CAST roll.
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Redirect Energy
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Reaction
Cost: 1 Cast Action
As a Reaction, you can spend 1 CAST Action to
redirect an incoming element that you can
control. Roll your CAST Die against the hostile
element's roll. On a success, you redirect it to
any location or target in range, the distance
based on your CAST roll. Otherwise, your roll
reduces its damage and effects.
UPCAST: Add another CAST Die to the exceed
the hostile roll.
Nova
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
You can spend 1 CAST Die to have your
learned element burst from yourself, which
has the effects of Elemental Missile centred on
you. This can also be cast as a Reaction at no
additional cost, based on the number of
Actions you spend.
Elemental Wall
Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
You can spend 1 CAST Die to create a wall of
your Primed Element. The number rolled is the
number of Tiles affected by this element.
Choose which Tiles on the map to create your
elemental wall; these Tiles must all be
touching each other. They last until the end of
the Round and deal damage to to any
enemies in its path equal to half your CAST
Die's max value per Turn.
Elemental Armour
Unique Ability
2 EXP
Cost: 1 CAST Action
You create a layer of armour around yourself
based on your learned element. It negates the
first instance of damage that hits it, and when
it breaks, it deals that element's damage to all
enemies within 1 Tile of you, equal to your
CAST Die's roll.
Imbue Element Elemental Vitality
Unique Ability Potential II
6 EXP
2 EXP
Requires Elemental Immunity
Cost: 1 CAST Action
When you would take damage from a hostile
You imbue your Primed Element on an ally's
action that uses your Primed Element, you can
weapon that you can see. For that ally's Turn,
choose to either have it restore your Resolve,
their next attack gains the effects of your
or reflect it back to its source.
Elemental Strikes. Roll your CAST Die for its
inflicted effects on your ally's target.

UPCAST: Spend additional CAST Die to imbue

additional allied attacks within the same
Action.

Elemental Immunity
Potential I
5 EXP
Requires Elemental Resistance
You take no damage from any hostile action
that uses your Primed Element.

Universal Energism
Unique Ability
4 EXP
You may learn a secondary element to
master. This can be learned multiple times,
and whenever you perform an elemental
Ability, you can have it use your secondary
element instead. If the Ability only specifies
your Primed Element, its effectiveness is
halved if using your secondary element,
unless you learn that element again on a
different Voyage.

Charged Element
Unique Ability
4 EXP
Free Action
Cost: 1 HIT or 1 AIM Die
You can charge your elemental magic with
power. If it's a melee Ability, you charge it with
a HIT Die, such as Elemental Strikes and Nova;
and an AIM Die for a ranged Ability, like
Elemental Missile and Elemental Wall.

When you do this, you roll that Action Die. All

the CAST Dice for that Ability you cast gains
Accuracy equal to the number rolled.

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Invoker
Occult Pacted Summoner
Recommended Faction
Any
Common Sapient
Any
Lore
The Emergence of Eld Aestus not only
reshaped our own world; it connected it to
others, too. Reaching into different planes of
existence through its branches and roots, this
made connection with them possible.
Your Voyager is one who's made one such
contract, called an Invoker. While it's
debatable whether these beings, called
Exemplars, actually exist in a different plane or
are simply physical manifestations drawn
from the Dreaming, they appear to have
minds and personalities of their own,
choosing souls to tie themselves to according
to their own standards of worthiness.
(NOTE: Lore-wise this Venture only includes a
summoner whose companion is an
extradimensional being. Future Ventures will
include specialising as a beastmaster or
robot user)
Playstyle
Your Invoker is a person touched by an echo
from Earth's lost mythology, though your
Voyager may not know this - assuming they
could be the soul of a dead person, a god, a
familiar spirit or any other source.
Anyone can be an Invoker, and there is no
specific pattern or criteria for an Invoker to be
contracted to an Exemplar. Some were
steeped into occultic study and found a
contract through intensive study and
searching, and others are perfectly pedestrian
folks who were randomly chosen.
Play as an Invoker if you like:
> Playing as a summoner in games
> Having an occult contract with an
otherworldly entity.
> Having a companion taken from your
favourite piece of pop culture or mythology
Primary Action Dice
CAST
Venture Origin
Exemplar
Strengths
Hugely effective area of effect damage, able
to remove swathes of enemies at once using
their Exemplar's mythical powers.
Weaknesses
Results can be random and are highly reliant
on enemies sticking together, thus may
require work from yourself and allies to group
them together and set them up for the big
damage.
Venture Origin
Exemplar
You have a bond with a strange being called
an Exemplar, whom you can call upon for
help. They can temporarily manifest as their
full selves, or partially by peeking out from
under your hat or behind your coat, should
you take a more clandestine approach.
LORE - Any knowledge or customs your
Exemplar may know based on their culture or
experience, which may be useful but is largely
painted by their own far-removed worldviews
combined with how they were perceived on
Earth
DARE - Temporarily manifesting your
Exemplar to carry you, attack for you or
protect you from harm
SENSE - Sensing other Invokers and what
Exemplars they may use (this also applies to
Venators). Having your Exemplar use special
senses they may have (such as a Wolfman
having a heightened sense of smell)
TOOL - Using tools your Exemplar may know,
having extra limbs grow from your clothes or
body to assist you with tasks
FACE - Intimidating or swaying others by
manifesting your Exemplar, the result and
method depending on whether they are
imposing, disgusting, beautiful, etc.
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Loadout
4 CAST / 2 MOVE / 2 SAVE / 1 AIM / 1 HIT

Game Plan
An Elemancer is highly versatile, able to use
their CAST Dice in place of their ranged and
melee attacks when using their learned
elements. They can create dangerous areas
of magic and section off parts of the map
with walls of fire, ice, and others.

Assigning Die Values

Your Exemplar is your bread and butter, which
you control using your CAST Dice, so that
should be your main priority. Everything else is
secondary, according to how you want to
portray your Invoker.

Starting Ability - Invoker

Exemplar Invoke Violence
Cost: 1 CAST Action
Unique Mechanic
Range: From roll
You control an image of the Old World called
an Exemplar. It is Invulnerable, and is a living "Come forth! Exemplar!"
image of an idealised concept from the
Dreaming. You can use your CAST Actions to have your
Exemplar perform a melee or ranged attack,
Your Exemplar acts through your Gateway, an rolling your CAST Die as if it was a HIT or AIM
object that you can summon it from, like a Die. Roll your CAST Die for its damage and
tome, an article of clothing, or even parts of effects dealt. Propelling yourself may be your
your body. You lose control of your Exemplar if Exemplar reaching out and grabbing
separated from your Gateway. something, carrying you along with it, or
launching you off the ground with its massive
Your Exemplar will appear near you as an arms or tendrils.
apparition or appear from your Gate,
reaching out from it to attack. It may manifest
as a ghostly form, or only parts of its body
may be visible As such, you may treat your
Exemplar as always attacking from your Tile
unless stated otherwise.

Whenever you learn Techniques, your

Exemplar is able to execute them as well.

Additionally, you learn Invoke Violence.

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Echoed Mythos Gateway (roll 1d10)
Exemplar 1 - Book or scroll
Your Exemplar is an echo from Earth's history 2 - Coat or cape
or mythology, whose reputation and renown 3 - Hat or mask
in past humanity's consciousness coalesced 4 - Bag, backpack or briefcase
within the Dreaming and manifest in reality. 5 - Pot, basket or container
This could be an ancient conqueror, a 6 - Your body
lightning-bearing god of storms, an angelic or 7 - Household object, i.e. fork or towel
demonic guardian, or anything else from 8 - Idol, doll or figure
Earth's culture. You may use the guide below 9 - Technology, i.e. a phonelike device
to roll a Pacted One from scratch, or to give 10 - Card
yourself ideas. 11 - Accessory, i.e. ring or bracelet
12 - Tool, i.e. a weapon
You determine your Exemplar's personality
and disposition at character creation, and
can command it in combat. However,
typically your GM will be the person who
Ability List
controls your Exemplar's behaviour, such as
when speaking or choosing to interact with
you during narrative play. Invoke Protection
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Roll Your Exemplar Free Reaction
Character Creation Cost: 1 CAST Die
You can roll your Exemplar's origin and When you have to make a SAVE against a
characteristics here to help narrow down hostile action, you can spend 1 CAST Die to
ideas for your Invoker. have your Exemplar appear and partially
protect you from it. Roll your CAST Die and
add the number to your SAVE.
Origin (roll 1d12)
1 - Historical Figure (e.g. Alexander the Great)
2 - Mythological Figure (e.g. Achilles, Susanoo)
3 - Mythological Monster (e.g. Cerberus,
Fenrir) Soul Charge
4 - Angel (e.g. Archangel Michael) Unique Ability
5 - Demon (e.g. Beelzebub)
2 EXP
6 - Eldritch Being (e.g. Nyarlathotep)
Cost: 1 CAST Action
7 - Cryptid (e.g. Chupacabra, Mothman)
This can be done once per Loadout reset. Your
8 - Extraterrestrial (e.g. Grey Alien)
Exemplar charges your next attack with
9 - Fictional/Horror monster (e.g. Wolfman)
power. Roll your CAST Die. Your next use of
10 - Fictional/Literary Character (e.g. Sherlock
Invoke Violence or other offensive Ability using
Holmes)
your Exemplar is Honed, and gains a bonus
11 - Fairy Tale (e.g. Santa Claus)
equal to your CAST roll.
12 - Modern Fiction (e.g. SCP Foundation)

Disposition (roll 1d12) Mythic Projection

1 - Friendly/Casual/Heroic
2 - Parental/Mentorly/Protective
3 - Begrudging/Competitive
4 - Reluctant/Deferent/Shy
5 - Boisterous/Battle-hungry
6 - Neutral/Apathetic/Silent
7 - Argumentative/Hot-Cold
8 - Sarcastic/Witty
9 - Whimsical/Childish
10 - Condescending/Patronising
11 - Tired/Unmotivated
12 - Intelligent/Wise/Sagely
Unique Ability
3 EXP
When you invoke your Exemplar and have it
move forward when performing Abilities or
attacking, you can command it to remain in
place. All your Invoker Abilities that use your
Exemplar use its current position as its source.
Your Exemplar disappears and returns to you
if you move further than 4 Tiles from it.

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Samsakarma Mythic Guardian
Unique Ability Unique Ability
2 EXP 2 EXP
Cost: 2 CAST Actions Reaction
Your Exemplar abjures you or a chosen ally Cost: 1 CAST Action
with protective power, which lasts until If separated from your Exemplar and an
triggered. The next physical or magical hostile enemy tries to approach or attack you, you
effect that hits the targeted ally has its effects can React to have your Exemplar attack them.
reflected back onto the source.
Roll your CAST Die for a melee or ranged
attack. Your Exemplar can also move up to
Dumo the distance rolled and attack the enemy with
the same amount of damage. If this exceeds
Unique Ability the opponent's SAVE, their intended action or
3 EXP Movement is interrupted.
Cost: 2 CAST Actions
Range: 2 Tiles
Your Exemplar performs a death ritual on a
chosen enemy in range. Roll 2 CAST Dice. If
Fearful Image
your roll exceeds the enemy's current Resolve, Unique Ability
they are immediately defeated. 3 EXP
Cost: 2 CAST Actions
Range: 2 Tiles
Mahadumo Area: 2 Tile Star
Your Exemplar strikes fear into nearby
Potential I enemies. Roll your CAST Dice and inflict Fear
3 EXP on all enemies in the area.
Cost: 3 CAST Actions
Range: 2 Tiles
For 3 CAST Actions, Mahadumo affects all foes
within a 2 Tile Star area. Roll all 3 Dice for the
Provocative Image
Resolve threshold. Unique Ability
3 EXP
Cost: 2 CAST Actions
Vorpal Strike Range: 2 Tiles
Area: 2 Tile Star
Unique Ability
Your Exemplar provokes enemies to attack it.
4 EXP
Roll your CAST Dice and inflict Taunt on all
Cost: 2 CAST Actions enemies in the area, which will draw them to
Range: 2 Tiles wherever your Exemplar is located.
Area: 2 Tile Star
Your Exemplar attacks all enemies within a
given area. Roll your CAST Dice for the
damage dealt.
Servant and Master
Unique Ability
1 EXP
Invoke Exploit Reaction
Cost: 1 HIT or AIM Action
Unique Ability When your Exemplar attacks a foe, you can
3 EXP immediately follow up with a melee or ranged
Your Invoke Violence is Honed against attack, which gains Truestrike.
enemies afflicted with a Condition.

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GM TOOLS

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Enemy Design
The following is a quick example of enemy
design and statblocks that you as a GM can
use for your Voyages, to be fully expanded in
the full release version.
Some general approaches when designing
enemies:
Not Just Damage
Think of ways to affect Players other than just
pure damage. Use Conditions against them,
create temporary barriers that split them
apart or even steal their items.
Enemy Stats
Enemy stats in Voyager: Tactics are designed
to be as minimal as possible, so that you as a
GM have minimal bookkeeping to do and
have the freedom to add more quantities and
varieties of enemies into a combat encounter.
Each enemy will have its own Action Loadout
with its allocated Die values, along with the
following stats:
> their Resolve
> their ADAMANT, if any
> Notes on what Actions or Abilities they may
take or prefer during combat, plus Conditions
they may inflict

That's it.
Give Enemies Roles
When combat starts, Players will use their
Vary the types of enemies on the map who
MOVE Die to determine their place in Initiatice
will occupy different roles. Examples:
and their opening movement against the
enemies. You only need to roll for Initiative
> Frontline fighters who will engage the party.
order, keeping all enemies stationary until the
> Backline artillery who will shoot from afar.
first Round starts.
> Supports who will heal or buff the frontline.
> Skirmishers with high MOVE who will move
All enemies that share the same MOVE Die
in, attack and run away.
value, regardless of type, will share that same
> Debuffers who focus on inflicting Conditions
spot in Initiative based on what you rolled. You
on the party.
move them all at the same time in unison,
> Elites who are Large size tanks that demand
granting them all the same Movement based
the party's attention away from other enemies
on the MOVE roll.

Challenge, Not Kill

Endangered Enemies
Once an enemy reaches 0 Resolve, they will
When designing a combat encounter, think of
remain on the map until the next Round starts.
it less as throwing monsters at the party to
Only when their Turn starts, you may have
overwhelm them (though you can certainly
them spend their Actions to run away,
do so), and more like you're presenting them
surrender, etc. This also gives Players time to
with a puzzle. Make each encounter place
chase and restrain these enemies if needed.
them into a situation that they need to solve
as a team. Some examples:
In most cases, it's fair to assume that once an
enemy is Endangered, the Players no longer
> There is a large chasm and a wall of spikes
need to focus on that enemy and turn their
separating the party and a fortified group of
attentions towards the ones that are still
gunners shooting them from afar.
fighting, and should (most of the time) not
have to worry about an enemy once their
> The boss is sitting on an elevated hill at least
Resolve is taken to 0.
8 Tiles off the ground, while waves of his
Minions pour out to block your path.
If you don't want to arbitrate actions for
certain Endangered enemies, you can just
> The eldritch boss in the middle of the map is
have them fall unconscious or perish instead,
unkillable unless you aim for the four cultist
and are considered to be removed from
healers, each at a corner of the map.
combat immediately.
> A swarm of death worms will continuously
burrow underground and attack from below.
How do you stay off the ground while finding a
way to debilitate them in the brief moment
they surface?

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Minions
Minions are meant to fulfill the gameplay role
of cannon fodder that rush towards the
Players in hordes, pitiful alone but M - d6 H - d4
overwhelming in large numbers.

Their stats are barebones and damage

potential is low, so GMs can use lots of them
to add a sense of scale to any fight.

Action Loadout: 1 MOVE / 1 HIT

Resolve: 5
Size: Small
ADAMANT: 0

Actions
> Attempts to attack Player
> Will immediately run away or surrender
when defeated
> Resolve of all Minions become 0 if their boss
is defeated

M - d10
Standard Hostile H/A- d8
S - d6
Sapient C - d4
General stats you can use for any hostile
Sapient. Their Loadout will have 6 Dice: 2
MOVE, 2 for their main attacking Die, and one
of everything else.

In this example, one Loadout has 2 HIT for a

standard melee Sapient, such as a bandit or
Raider. A ranged Sapient (whether using
firearms, bows or magic) would have 2 AIM
instead.

Action Loadout:
2 MOVE / 2 HIT or AIM / 1 SAVE / 1 CAST
Resolve: 15-20
Size: Medium
ADAMANT: 0

Actions
> Hits or shoots nearest Player
> May pretend to surrender at low Resolve,
only to escape or attack upon their Turn start
> May be demoralised or willing to negotiate if
they are loyal to each other and the Players
defeat enough of them

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Elemental
Elemental creatures are immune to certain M - d12
types of magic or damage, making them a C - d10
useful challenge if you observe your Players
using certain elements (like an Elemancer).

They come in four size classes, and all have

different unique melee Actions based on their
element. These effects can be Upcasted if the
entity chooses to, and Condition stacks can Above: Pixie Loadout
be accumulated from multiple elementals
targeting the same person.
M - d12
Tiny (Pixie) C - d8
Action Loadout: S - d6
2 MOVE / 1 CAST A - d4
Resolve: 3 H - d4
ADAMANT: 0
Above: Trickster Loadout

Small (Trickster)
Action Loadout: C - d12
2 MOVE / 1 SAVE/ 1 HIT / 1 AIM / 1 CAST M - d10
Resolve: 10 A - d8
ADAMANT: 0 S - d6
H - d4

Medium (Fighter)
Action Loadout:
2 MOVE / 2 CAST / 1 SAVE / 1 HIT / 1 AIM
Resolve: 35
ADAMANT: 2

Large (Guardian)
A lumbering elemental giant.

Action Loadout:
3 SAVE / 3 HIT / 2 MOVE / 2 CAST Above: Fighter Loadout
Resolve: 60
ADAMANT: 5
H - d12
Cast Actions S - d10
Fire: Will attempt to Impair (blind) all Players C - d8
within 1 Tile. Melee and ranged attacks deal M - d6
half damage to Players 1 Tile near target. A - d4
Ice: Will attempt to Slow Player. If Slowed, will
stack Stun (freeze).
Lightning: Will attempt to Stagger Player. If
Staggered, will stack Stun (electrocute).
Wind: Will attempt to Displace Player or knock
Airborne. Accuracy 5.
Earth: Will attempt to Root Player. Attacks on
Rooted Player gain Truestrike.

Above: Guardian Loadout

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Inspirations
Anato Finnstark
World Piotr Jablonski
Omer Tunc
- RWBY Akitsu Taira
- Land of the Lustrous Masahiro Tsukuba
- Destiny Ryota-H
- Alchemy Stars Taiki99
- Arknights Toridamono
- How to Train Your Dragon Yoneyama Mai
- Horizon: Zero Dawn 7ZEL
- Shardbound IERotAK
- Guild Wars 2 Shirow Miwa
- Final Fantasy XIV _Chuzenji_
- NieR: Automata Kuroblood
- Anthem telsonknife/knifedragon
- Hollow Knight 68mo
- Recettear ORiHiRA_
szmyu
SIXMOREVODKA
Games hizani_ya
- Arknights
- Fire Emblem
- Etrian Odyssey
- Hades
- Persona 3 & 4
- Devil May Cry
- Monster Hunter
- Genshin Impact
- League of Legends
- Legends of Runeterra
- Ruined King
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Degenesis
- Pathfinder
- Fabula Ultima
- Lancer RPG
- Advance Wars / War Groove
- Ryuutama
- ICON RPG
- Fate/Grand Order
- City of Mist
- Potionomics

Artists
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ZhaoP
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YUJIFantasia
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No33no/Susumu Maeya
masaki_hirooka
LIN+
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Congrats, you made it to the end.

Checklist for future features below. I may not implement them, specifically because I'd
like to keep this system as streamlined as possible:

- Inventory system (either a tile-based one like Resident Evil, or a simplified slot-based
one like Fabula Ultima or Break!! RPG)

- Weapons that have special abilities and tile ranges (again, not implementing at the
moment for streamline reasons)

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