You announce yourself, why you’re here, and what you’re about to do. From your opponent’s reaction, you can take their measure.

When you activate this maneuver, choose one creature that has rolled initiative, shares a language with you, and hasn’t had damage dealt to it by you in this combat. You reveal your name, as well as one piece of critical information about you (such as a notable title, your current objective, or a dark secret).

You gain an

When a creature misses you with a melee weapon attack, you can use your reaction to disparage its performance.

Sometimes putting on a friendly face and sidling up to an enemy thirsting for your blood is just unexpected enough to work.

Make a Deception check opposed by the Insight check of a creature able to see you. On a success, until the end of your next turn the creature treats you as an ally (instead of an enemy) for the purposes of traits and other effects. The creature can still target you with attacks, and the effects of this combat maneuver end early if you damage it.

Just the right amount of lightness to a warrior’s step can frustrate an opponent and make them easy to trick.

You draw your hand along your blade, limning it in hellish flame.

Lashing out at your target gives you a moment to escape amongst concealing shadows. After making a successful melee attack, you may use your reaction to deal basic melee damage instead of normal weapon damage.

Foul magic makes your strikes unnerving.

With a hissing malediction, you place your curse upon a specific foe. Before the start of your next turn, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack you can choose to lay a curse on it.

You can expend your reaction to gain