Aeronaut
Aeronaut
Aeronauts are folk who ply the skies aboard airships of every description. Much as a sailor, an aeronaut must be quite familiar with their vessel, skilled with every role from pilot to navigator to engineer to ensure the ship gets from port to port in one piece.
What skip did you fly with? Was it a dirigible or did it have wings or rotors? Were you a deckhand, officer, or the captain of your ship?
Wandmaker
Wandmaker
Botanotechnitian
Botanotechnitian
Arcano-Pugilist
Arcano-Pugilist
Heshgarat Cat
Heshgarat Cat
Feast of Cats
Feast of Cats
On the western outskirts of the sandy city of Heshgarat stands the Necanium. Easily the size of the city, these ancient cairns with high round domes contain the remains of the honored dead. The entrance of each is carved with multiple felines and statues of them line the pathways between the burial mounds. Local legends recognize cats as the guardians of the dead, and they are considered sacred in the Necanium and within the city’s walls. While all cats are revered, the Heshgarat cats that call the area home are especially so on account of their uncanny abilities and potency against the undead.
Locals grow catwort plants on the wide ledges that are popular on the city’s buildings, and most have feline figures embossed on them somewhere. Dozens of cats can be found in the streets and dogs, mice, and rats are conspicuous by their absence. Pestering a cat within the city results in stern looks from the locals, while hurting one usually results in being whipped and chased beyond the walls.
Each year the city holds a week-long celebration during the spring equinox, just before the rainy season begins: the Feast of Cats. Locals stake out cat-shaped frameworks covered in choice strips of raw meat and bowls of specially spiced milk. Thousands of cats appear at this time and even Heshgarat cats, typically only seen in the Necanium, can be found walking the streets.
Interactions with cats during the feast are considered signs of the god’s favor. As a consequence, many locals spend long hours sitting with food or milk on their laps, hoping to entice a cat to visit them and earn their blessings.
Game Mechanics
A Heshgarat cat is similar in size to a large lynx, with large rounded ears and thick black fur lined with silver and white stripes. Found primarily lairing in and around the cairns of the Necanium to the west of their namesake city, they are considered guardians of the dead.
Slayer
Slayer
There are many in the world who fight terrible evils to protect others. They battle back the clutching hand of death for another day, then enjoy a well-earned, peaceful retirement. For the Slayer, however, these battles are their calling—whether they like it or not. Such people may be fated to battle a powerful being and their minions, a specific kind of monster, like werewolves, or an entire category of creature, such as the undead. Consult with the Narrator to come up with a foe suitable to the setting and campaign.
Return to Glory
Return to Glory
Some adventurers hang up their swords and put away their spellbooks, only to find that they have to take them up again. This may be a story of fulfilling one’s true potential, achieving a glory always longed for, or even one of redemption and penance for a past life of violence or treachery.
Special Feature: Former Self. Upon character creation, also create a version of your character that represents who they once were, up to 10 levels higher than whatever your adventure starts at.
Prophecy
Prophecy
You are tangled in the threads of a prophecy foretold by the Fate Spinner, her cults, or another powerful prescient entity. This prophecy may promise you great riches and immense power, or it may threaten you with visions of a grim death. Nonetheless, you live each day with the knowledge that your destiny is both greater than yourself, and out of your hands. Consult with the Narrator to come up with a prophecy suitable to the setting and campaign.
Preservation
Preservation
The last remaining guardian of a sacred location, the keeper of an important relic, the only practitioner of an endangered tradition. Those with the Preservation destiny are the last bastion against something significant disappearing from the world. The reason and nature of what they are protecting can take many shapes, but one thing is certain: without them, it will be lost forever. Some through strength and endurance, others through cunning and subterfuge, they all strive to protect what few even know about from the constant threat of destruction and obscurity.