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Foreword
Aim and Scope
This book contains a set of rules to play in the
campaign setting The Scarred Lands,
published by the Sword and Sorcery Studio.
It does not aim at replacing the contents of
these books, so you will find here only limited
background information.
The rules described here were written to be:
Light. Characters are described through a
minimum of variables, and have a limited
set of abilities. Rules are kept as simple as
possible in order to promote a roleplay
over gameplay.
Flavored. The abilities the characters use
have been chosen to represent the
mythology and general tone of the
Scarred Lands. While it could be easily
used for other heroic-fantasy campaign
settings, a certain number of elements
should be adapted or even removed.
Interesting. While each character has a
limited set of abilities, there are a large
number of options to chose from. These
options are not necessarily balanced, but
each should be interresting for some
characters or archetypes.
Canon, Expansions and Additions
The setting described in the original books is
generally respected as best as possible.
However, a few changes have been made:
Modification. A minor element of the
setting might have been modified, for
example by changing its location, belief,
or aliation to a certain god. This has
been done to avoid the supersaturation of
elite classes in a certain region or related
to a certain philosophy.
Extrapolation. A minor element of the
setting might have been expanded, by
giving it special abilities or rules. This
notably covers the Guardian base class,
which is an expansion based on the
empowerment process of several original
prestige classes (like the Unfailing), as
well as any organization that have been
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briefly described (sometimes with a single
sentence) in the original books.
Addition. A minor element of the setting
has been added in order to fill some gap
left in the original setting.
Class Hierarchy
Characters can belong to one or several
character classes. Classes are ranked into three
dierent tiers, each with a dierent role in the
character development.
Base classes represent a common set of
abilities which can be more or less easily
learned by any would-be adventurer.
These classes mostly answers the question
"what does the character do?" Does he
fight? Does he cast spells? Does he pray
to a god? Does he cheat on people?
Prestige classes provide a theme or a
specialty for a character. Each prestige
class can be learned from several base
classes. Prestige classes answer the
question "with what does the character do
what he does?" Does he fight with two
weapons? Does he prefer a certain type of
spells? Does he have a special connection
with some kind of creatures?
Elite classes are the final specialization of
the character. They correspond to a very
specific training that only one organization
(or guild, school, church, etc) can provide.
These are strongly tied to the Scarred
Lands and should generally not be used in
other settings without some adaptation.
Elite classes answer the question "who
trained the character?" Note that
characters need not to have entered an
elite class before belonging to an
organization. In general it is the opposite:
most characters in an organization do not
belong to the corresponding elite class,
because of their very high requirements.
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Contents

Foreword 3 2.5.3 Feral (Lycanthrope) . . . 21

Aim and Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.5.4 Genasi (Genie) . . . . . . 21
Canon, Expansions and Additions . . 3 2.5.5 Tiefling (Demon) . . . . . 22
Class Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3 Base classes 23
Contents 3
3.1 Aristocrat . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1 Game system 9 3.2 Barbarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
1.1 Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3 Bard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.1.1 Attributes . . . . . . . . . 9 3.3.1 Bardic Songs . . . . . . . 26
1.1.2 Saves . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.4 Cleric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
1.1.3 Skills . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 3.5 Druid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1.1.4 Talents . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.6 Fighter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
1.1.5 Action points . . . . . . . 10 3.6.1 Martial Stances . . . . . . 30
1.1.6 Health and death . . . . . 10 3.7 Guardian . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
1.2 Basic mechanisms . . . . . . . . . 10
3.7.1 Eldricht Armor Enchant-
1.2.1 Modifiers . . . . . . . . . 11 ments . . . . . . . . . . . 32
1.2.2 Division and multiplication 11
3.7.2 Eldricht Channels . . . . 32
1.2.3 Rerolls . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.7.3 Eldricht Strikes . . . . . . 33
1.2.4 Specific rolls . . . . . . . 11
1.2.5 Attack mechanics . . . . . 11 3.7.4 Eldricht Weapon En-
1.2.6 Type of damage . . . . . 12 chantments . . . . . . . . 33
1.3 Tracking time and actions . . . . 12 3.8 Monk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
1.3.1 Action types . . . . . . . 12 3.9 Paladin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
1.3.2 Ressources recovery . . . 13 3.10 Psion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
1.4 Character creation . . . . . . . . 13 3.11 Ranger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
1.4.1 Character advancement . 13 3.12 Rogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
1.4.2 Multiclassing . . . . . . . 13 3.13 Sorcerer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3.14 Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2 Races 15
2.1 Common races . . . . . . . . . . 15
4 Prestige classes 43
2.1.1 Dwarf, Mountain . . . . . 15
4.1 Assassin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
2.1.2 Elf, Half . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.1.3 Elf, Wood . . . . . . . . . 16 4.2 Commander of the Dead . . . . . 44
2.1.4 Halfling . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.3 Contemplative . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.1.5 Human . . . . . . . . . . 17 4.4 Divine Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.1.6 Orc, Half . . . . . . . . . 18 4.5 Enchanter . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.2 Races of Ghelspad . . . . . . . . 18 4.6 Forgemaster . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.2.1 Dwarf, Wood . . . . . . . 18 4.7 Invoker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
2.2.2 Hollow Knight . . . . . . 19 4.8 Loremaster . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
2.3 Races of Termana . . . . . . . . . 19 4.9 Rider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
2.3.1 Elf, Forsaken . . . . . . . 19 4.10 Ritual Caster . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.3.2 Gnome, Jungle . . . . . . 19
4.11 Shieldbearer . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
2.3.3 Terali . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.12 Spellmaster . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
2.4 Races of Asherak . . . . . . . . . 20
2.4.1 Elf, Wrack . . . . . . . . . 20 4.13 Tempest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
2.4.2 Ubantu . . . . . . . . . . 20 4.14 War Mage . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
2.5 Blended Races . . . . . . . . . . 21 4.15 Warlord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
2.5.1 Aasimar (Angel) . . . . . 21 4.16 Warmain . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
2.5.2 Dragonkin (Dragon) . . . 21 4.17 Weapon Specialist . . . . . . . . 54

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5 Spells and Magic 55 5.10.4 Construct Domain . . . . 72
5.1 Spellcasting rules . . . . . . . . . 55 5.10.5 Death Domain . . . . . . 73
5.2 Abjuration Spells . . . . . . . . . 56 5.10.6 Destruction Domain . . . 73
5.2.1 Dispel Magic . . . . . . . 56 5.10.7 Domination Domain . . . 73
5.2.2 Force Field . . . . . . . . 56 5.10.8 Dream Domain . . . . . . 73
5.2.3 Mage Armor . . . . . . . 57 5.10.9 Earth Domain . . . . . . 73
5.2.4 Protection Against Energy 57 5.10.10 Entrancement Domain . . 73
5.2.5 Spell Turning . . . . . . . 57 5.10.11 Evil Domain . . . . . . . 73
5.2.6 Symbol of Warding . . . . 58 5.10.12 Fey Domain . . . . . . . . 73
5.3 Conjuration Spells . . . . . . . . 58 5.10.13 Fire Domain . . . . . . . 73
5.3.1 Bind . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 5.10.14 Gateways Domain . . . . 74
5.3.2 Call Storm . . . . . . . . 58 5.10.15 Good Domain . . . . . . . 74
5.3.3 Obscuring Mist . . . . . . 59 5.10.16 Healing Domain . . . . . 74
5.3.4 Summon Monster . . . . . 59 5.10.17 Judgement Domain . . . . 74
5.3.5 Teleport . . . . . . . . . . 59 5.10.18 Knowledge Domain . . . . 74
5.3.6 Wallbuilding . . . . . . . 60 5.10.19 Law Domain . . . . . . . 74
5.4 Divination Spells . . . . . . . . . 60 5.10.20 Luck Domain . . . . . . . 74
5.4.1 Awaken Object . . . . . . 60 5.10.21 Magic Domain . . . . . . 74
5.4.2 Farsight . . . . . . . . . . 61 5.10.22 Plant Domain . . . . . . . 74
5.4.3 Read Mind . . . . . . . . 61 5.10.23 Protection Domain . . . . 74
5.4.4 Speak Language . . . . . 61 5.10.24 Rainbow Domain . . . . . 75
5.4.5 Telepathic Link . . . . . . 62 5.10.25 Secret Domain . . . . . . 75
5.4.6 True Sight . . . . . . . . . 62 5.10.26 Shadow Domain . . . . . 75
5.5 Enchantment Spells . . . . . . . 62 5.10.27 Strength Domain . . . . . 75
5.5.1 Charm . . . . . . . . . . . 62 5.10.28 Sun Domain . . . . . . . . 75
5.5.2 Command . . . . . . . . . 63 5.10.29 Travel Domain . . . . . . 75
5.5.3 Confusion . . . . . . . . . 63 5.10.30 Trickery Domain . . . . . 75
5.5.4 Emotion . . . . . . . . . . 63 5.10.31 Vengeance Domain . . . . 75
5.5.5 Hold . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 5.10.32 War Domain . . . . . . . 76
5.5.6 Sleep . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 5.10.33 Water Domain . . . . . . 76
5.6 Evocation Spells . . . . . . . . . 64 5.11 Legacy Spells . . . . . . . . . . . 76
5.6.1 Cone of cold . . . . . . . 64 5.11.1 Aberrant Legacy . . . . . 76
5.6.2 Fireball . . . . . . . . . . 64 5.11.2 Celestial Legacy . . . . . 76
5.6.3 Flashing Light . . . . . . 65 5.11.3 Chern Legacy . . . . . . . 76
5.6.4 Lightning Bolt . . . . . . 65 5.11.4 Denev Legacy . . . . . . . 76
5.6.5 Magic Missile . . . . . . . 65 5.11.5 Draconic Legacy . . . . . 76
5.6.6 Magic Weapon . . . . . . 66 5.11.6 Fey Legacy . . . . . . . . 76
5.7 Illusion Spells . . . . . . . . . . . 66 5.11.7 Gaurak Legacy . . . . . . 76
5.7.1 Cloak of Shadows . . . . . 66 5.11.8 Genie Legacy . . . . . . . 77
5.7.2 Disguise Self . . . . . . . 66 5.11.9 Golthagga Legacy . . . . 77
5.7.3 Hallucinations . . . . . . 67 5.11.10 Golthain Legacy . . . . . 77
5.7.4 Invisibility . . . . . . . . . 67 5.11.11 Gormoth Legacy . . . . . 77
5.7.5 Mirror Image . . . . . . . 67 5.11.12 Gulaben Legacy . . . . . 77
5.7.6 Shout . . . . . . . . . . . 68 5.11.13 Hrinruk Legacy . . . . . . 77
5.8 Necromancy Spells . . . . . . . . 68 5.11.14 Infernal Legacy . . . . . . 77
5.8.1 Animate Dead . . . . . . 68 5.11.15 Kadum Legacy . . . . . . 78
5.8.2 Cloak of Undeath . . . . . 68 5.11.16 Lethene Legacy . . . . . . 78
5.8.3 Death Watch . . . . . . . 69 5.11.17 Mesos Legacy . . . . . . . 78
5.8.4 Finger of Death . . . . . . 69 5.11.18 Mormo Legacy . . . . . . 78
5.8.5 Vampiric Feast . . . . . . 69 5.11.19 Thulkas Legacy . . . . . . 78
5.8.6 Wave of Fatigue . . . . . 70 5.12 Rare Spells . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.9 Transmutation Spells . . . . . . . 70 5.12.1 Bigbys Forceful Hand . . 78
5.9.1 Animate Object . . . . . 70 5.12.2 Blight . . . . . . . . . . . 78
5.9.2 Earthen Grasp . . . . . . 70 5.12.3 Dimensional Lock . . . . 78
5.9.3 Fabricate . . . . . . . . . 71 5.12.4 Dolomars Force Wave . . 79
5.9.4 Shapechange . . . . . . . 71 5.12.5 Feeblemind . . . . . . . . 79
5.9.5 Stop Time . . . . . . . . . 71 5.12.6 Gaseous Form . . . . . . . 79
5.9.6 Telekinesis . . . . . . . . 72 5.12.7 Glitterdust . . . . . . . . 79
5.10 Domain Spells . . . . . . . . . . . 72 5.12.8 Mislead . . . . . . . . . . 79
5.10.1 Air Domain . . . . . . . . 72 5.12.9 Moment of Prescience . . 79
5.10.2 Animal Domain . . . . . . 72 5.12.10 Phantasmal Killer . . . . 79
5.10.3 Chaos Domain . . . . . . 72 5.12.11 Protection from Arrows . 79

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5.12.12 Sequester . . . . . . . . . 79 6.2.4 Hwyrrd . . . . . . . . . . 84

5.12.13 Spectral Hand . . . . . . 80 6.2.5 Idra . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
5.12.14 Tashas Hideous Laughter 80 6.2.6 Manawe . . . . . . . . . . 84
5.12.15 Tensers Transformation . 80 6.2.7 Nemorga . . . . . . . . . 84
5.12.16 Wallsight . . . . . . . . . 80 6.2.8 Sethris . . . . . . . . . . . 84
5.13 Rituals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 6.2.9 Syhana . . . . . . . . . . 84
5.13.1 Alarm . . . . . . . . . . . 80
5.13.2 Antipathy/Sympathy . . 80 7 Languages of the Scarred Lands 85
5.13.3 Clone . . . . . . . . . . . 81 7.1 Continental Languages . . . . . . 85
5.13.4 Forbbidance . . . . . . . . 81 7.2 Local Languages . . . . . . . . . 85
5.13.5 Gate . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 7.2.1 Ghelspad . . . . . . . . . 85
5.13.6 Geas . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 7.2.2 Termana . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.13.7 Gentle Repose . . . . . . 81 7.2.3 Asherak . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.13.8 Leomunds Keepsafe . . . 81 7.3 Racial Languages . . . . . . . . . 86
7.4 Dead Languages . . . . . . . . . 86
5.13.9 Meteor . . . . . . . . . . . 81
7.5 Monstrous Languages . . . . . . 86
5.13.10 Nondetection . . . . . . . 81
7.6 Esoteric Languages . . . . . . . . 86
5.13.11 Polymorph . . . . . . . . 82
5.13.12 Scry . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 8 Equipment 87
5.13.13 Shatter . . . . . . . . . . 82 8.1 Non-magical items . . . . . . . . 87
5.13.14 Simulacrum . . . . . . . . 82 8.1.1 Melee weapons . . . . . . 87
5.13.15 Temporal Stasis . . . . . 82 8.1.2 Ranged weapons . . . . . 87
5.13.16 Veil . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 8.1.3 Armor . . . . . . . . . . . 87
8.1.4 Shield . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6 Faith of the Scarred Lands 83 8.1.5 Tools . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6.1 The Eight Victors . . . . . . . . 83 8.1.6 Alchemical substances . . 88
6.1.1 Belsameth . . . . . . . . . 83 8.1.7 Special Materials . . . . . 91
6.1.2 Chardun . . . . . . . . . . 83 8.2 Magic Items . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
6.1.3 Corean . . . . . . . . . . 83 8.2.1 Magic Armors . . . . . . 93
6.1.4 Enkili . . . . . . . . . . . 83 8.2.2 Magic Charms . . . . . . 93
6.1.5 Hedrada . . . . . . . . . . 83 8.2.3 Magic Clothing . . . . . . 94
6.1.6 Madriel . . . . . . . . . . 83 8.2.4 Magic Containers . . . . . 94
6.1.7 Tanil . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 8.2.5 Magic Implements . . . . 94
6.1.8 Vangal . . . . . . . . . . . 84 8.2.6 Magic Jewelry . . . . . . 95
6.2 Demi-Gods . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 8.2.7 Magic Weapons . . . . . . 96
6.2.1 Drendari . . . . . . . . . . 84
6.2.2 Erias . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 9 Changelog 97
6.2.3 Goran . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Version 1.2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

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Chapter 1
Game system
1.1 Characters
Characters are defined by their race and
class(es), and a set of ranked characteristics.
These characteristics are divided into
attributes, saves, skills, and talents. The
higher the rank is, the better the character is
in this characteristic.
No character can have a rank of 7 or higher.
1.1.1 Attributes
They represent the general characteristics of a
character or creature.
There are four attributes: Strength,
Dexterity, Charisma, and Intelligence.
All characters have a rank of 1 in all
attributes.
1.1.2 Saves
They represent the ability of a character or
creature to defend himself from adversity.
There are four saves, each of which being
associated to an attribute: Fortitude
(associated with Strength), Reflex (associated
with Dexterity), Willpower (associated with
Charisma) and Instinct (associated with
Intelligence).
All characters have a rank of 1 in all saves.
1.1.3 Skills
They represent general aptitudes that can be
relatively easily learned and improved. As for
saves, each skill is associated to an attribute.
Characters have a rank of 0 in most skills,
except those they have learned during their
carreer. A character with a skill at 0 can still
use that skill.
Strength-based skills
Athletics represents the ability of the
character to run fast, jump, climb, and
similar actions.
Endurance represents the ability of the
character to survive harsh environments,
hunger, fatigue, and similar health threats.
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Melee represents the ability of the
character to fight with melee weapons,
including his bare hands. If the character
has more ranks in Melee than her Strength
score, she might use Melee as a
Dexterity-based skill.
Prowess represents the shear strength of
the character and its ability to lift heavy
objects, break or bend them, and perform
similar feats.
Dexterity-based skills
Acrobatics represents the agility of the
character and his ability to carry out
stunts of any kinds.
Craft represents the ability of the
character to manufacture items of all
kinds.
Ranged represents the ability of the
character to attack with ranged and
throwns weapons alike.
Ride represents the ability of the
character to ride horses and other mounts.
Stealth represents the ability of the
character to do actions without being
noticed.
Thievery represents the ability of the
character to pick pockets, open locks,
disarm traps, and similar shady
operations.
Charisma-based skills
Deception represents the ability of the
character to trick others, for example by
lying to them or by assuming a disguise.
Faith represents the strength of the
character in his religious beliefs, as well as
his knowledge of gods and religions.
Focus represents the ability of the
character to ignore external distractions as
well as pain for a while.

Performing represents the ability of the
character to entertain with the use of
singing, dancing, playing an instrument,
or a similar form of art.
Persuasion represents the ability of the
character to convince others of his point of
view.
Intelligence-based skills
Arcane represents the characters
knowledge of the arcane arts.
Erudition represents the characters
scholary knowledge. This skill covers
everything that can be learned in books.
Folklore represents the characters
knowledge of tales and myths that are
carried out by oral traditions but never
written in books.
Heal represents the ability of the
character to heal himself or others.
Nature represents the characters
knowledge of plants and animals, as well
as his ability to navigate in natural
environments.
Perception represents the characters
ability to notice things.
1.1.4 Talents
Talents are very specific aptitudes that only a
few character learn. Most characters have a
rank of 0 in most talents.
A character must have a rank of 1 or more
in a specific talent to use it.
Talents are tied to a race or a class. A
character can only access the talents related to
his race and class(es).
Talents may grant several kind of abilities:
Constant: these abilities are always active
(or the character can use them at will,
depending on the description).
Encounter: these abilities can be used
once per encounter. A character can spend
one action point to use this ability without
spending his per-encounter use. Each
night, the character can recover one (and
only one) action point spent that way.
Daily: these abilities can be used once per
day. A character can spend one action
point to use this ability without spending
his per-day use.
Spell-powered: a character can spend a
spell she knows (without triggering the
eects of the spell) to use this ability
without spending his daily alotment.
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Spark-powered: a character must spend
a spark she has to use this ability. The
eects of the ability are usually
determined by the school associated with
the spark spent.
1.1.5 Action points
Action points are used to activate talents
apart from their daily or encounter alotment,
or to use heightened eects of spells. A
character begins each story act with 6 action
points. Unspent action points are lost at the
end of the arc.
1.1.6 Health and death
A characters physical and mental health is
measured with two gauges: wound damage
and debilitation damage.
Wound damage represent the physical
damage suered by the characters body.
When he suers as many wound damage as his
wound damage threshold, he becomes dying.
He falls unconscious, and may die at any
moment depending on the current condition.
Debilitation damage represent the
accumulated fatigue and mental stress the
character suers. Each debilitation damage
taken imposes the character a -1 malus on all
rolls. When the character suers as many
debilitation damage as his debilitation
damage threshold, he falls unconscious, but
he is not in danger of dying.
1.2 Basic mechanisms
To determine if an action succeed, the player
(or the game master) rolls a certain number of
six-faces dice. The number of dice to roll is
typically equal to the ranks in one attribute,
plus the ranks in one skill, plus the ranks in
one talent if applicable.
Each 5 and 6 obtained counts as a success.
The character must obtain a number of
successes strictly higher than the difficulty of
the action he wishes to do.
Easy actions have a diculty of 0 (the
character must obtain at least one success to
do it). The game master decides of the
diculty of the action. He does not need to
inform the character.
The real number of successes is equal to
the number of successes on the roll minus the
diculty. The net number of successes is
equal to the number of successes on the roll
prior the substraction.
real number of successes =
net number of successes diculty
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From now on, the number of successes
always refers to the real number of successes,
unless noted otherwise.
1.2.1 Modifiers
A bonus increases the number of dice rolled,
while a malus decreases the number of dice
rolled.
Few eects might modify the number of
successes obtained, but these eects are
explicitely described as such.
1.2.2 Division and multiplication
Divisions are always rounded up.
1.2.3 Rerolls
Some eects allows a character to roll twice.
The character makes two separate dice roll.
The creator of the eect (usually, the character
himself) chooses which result applies. The
decision to roll twice must be done before the
dice roll.
Some eects allows a character to force
reroll a dice roll already rolled. The character
must roll the dice again, and the second result
applies. The decision to force reroll must be
done after the initial dice roll but before the
consequences of the actions are determined.
1.2.4 Specific rolls
A few rolls have common features which are
described below.
Area attack roll: these rolls describe an
area attack. It targets every creature in
the designated area, unless there is a
physical obstacle between the target and
the point of origin of the area (typically,
its center).
Duration roll: these rolls determine the
duration of an eect. The related eect
lasts for a number of rounds equal to the
number of successes obtained.
Melee attack roll: these rolls describe a
melee attack. The attacker must be able
to touch the target.
Mental attack roll: these rolls describe a
psychic attack. The attacker must be able
to see the target, but a mental attack
works even though there is physical
obstacles between the attacker and the
target.
Physical attack roll: these rolls describe
an attack that aects the body of the
target (for example poison or polymorph).
A physical attack can be delivered
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through dierent ways: some are similar
to melee attacks, other requires only
contact, and some requires line of sight as
for a mental attack.
Ranged attack roll: there rolls describe
a ranged attack. No physical obstacle
must lie between the attacker and the
target. The attacker suers penalties on
ranged attack rolls based on his or the
targets speed.
Saving roll: in some cases, the Game
Master might ask the defender to make
the saving roll rather than the attacker
making an attack roll. A saving roll is
equal to Attribute+(Save x 2).
Spellcasting roll: these rolls determine
the potency of spell and magical eects.
Spellcasting roll (reduced): these rolls
are used to cast diminished eects of
common spells.
1.2.5 Attack mechanics
This section describes standard attacks with
weapons. Special attacks or spells are covered
in their specific descriptions.
The attacker makes an attack roll, usually
a Strength+Melee, Dexterity+Melee or
Dexterity+Ranged check.
The defender must choose one of the two
following defense. The type of defense
determine which save is used as a diculty of
the attack roll. The choice must be made
before the attack roll is rolled.
Block (Fortitude): the defender tries to
parry or deflect the blow. A character can
always block a melee attack. A character
can block a ranged or area attack if he is
adjacent to the attacker, of if he wears a
shield. Each round, a character can only
make a number of block attempts equal to
her ranks in Fortitude or Melee
(whichever is higher).
Dodge (Reflex): the defender tries to
avoid the blow. A character can always
dodge a melee, ranged or area attack.
Each round, a character can only make a
number of dodge attempts equal to her
ranks in Reflex or Acrobatics (whichever
is higher).
If a character cannot block or dodge an
attack, he is considered surprised, and all his
saves are divided by two against that attack.
A character cannot block or dodge a
mental attack: these are resisted with either
Instinct of Willpower.

If the attack is successful, the target takes
one wound damage (physical) per success
obtained, plus the attackers weapon modifier
(usually between +1 and +3 depending on the
weapon, or -1 for an unarmed attack), minus
the defenders armor rating (usually between 1
and 3 depending on the type of the armor).
1.2.6 Type of damage
Not all damage are equivalent. Some creature
might be resistant (or vulnerable) to some type
of damage, which makes certain attack more or
less ecient against them.
If no damage type is indicated, then the
default type of damage is (physical). However,
the Game Master can decide to switch to
another type of damage depending on the
exact situation.
Acid: damage caused by acid or other
caustic substances. Most metals are
vulnerable to acid to some degree.
Cold: damage caused by extremely low
temperatures. Fire elementals and
creatures are vulnerable to cold, while
arctic creatures are typically resistant or
immune to cold.
Electrical: damage caused by lightning
and electricity. Metal creatures are
typically immune to electricity, but
creaures wearing lot of metal might
become vulnerable to it.
Energy: energy damage is not exactly a
type, but describes acid, cold, electrical,
fire, force, necrotic, poison, radiant, or
thunder damage.
Fire: damage caused by fire or extreme
heat. Fire elemental or creatures are
immune (or at least resistant) to fire,
while creatures from cold climates are
vulnerable to fire.
Force: damage caused by pure magical
force. Force damage always deal damage
to incorporeal creatures like ghosts or
specters.
Hemorrhagic: damage caused by loss of
blood or damage to internal organs.
Creatures without internal organs (such as
undead, constructs or elementals) are
typically immune to hemorrhagic damage.
Physical: damage caused by impacts,
typically with weapons. Physical damage
is always increased by the weapon type if
applicable (see chapter Equipment). If no
damage type is indicated, then it is
physical damage.
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Necrotic: damage caused by pure death
energy. Undead are typically immune to
it, while living creatures are usually
vulnerable to it.
Poison: damage caused by toxins in the
blood or the organism. Non-living
creatures like undead or constructs are
typically immune to poison damage.
Psychic: damage caused by mental
trauma. Mindless creatures like skelettons
or zombies are immune to psychic damage.
Radiant: damage caused by light and
pure life energy. Creatures sensitive to
sunlight or undead are typically
vulnerable to radiant damage. A few
radiant eects also blind the target.
Thunder: damage caused by sonic waves
and concussions. Thunder eects
commonly deafen creatures in addition to
damage.
1.3 Tracking time and actions
A story arc represents a series of related
events in the campaign, until some conclusion
is reached. The Game Master decides when it
starts and when it ends.
A day represents a period between two
night-long rests. If the characters are not able
to take a good 6 hours of rest during a certain
night, then the day continues till the next
actual day.
Days are separated by rests, which must be
long enough and in adequate conditions to be
considered as such.
An encounter represents one meaningful
scene of the story. A day typically
encompasses several encounters.
The encounter itself is divided into rounds,
each round taking approximatively 20 to 30
seconds. During a round, a character can
perform one or several actions.
1.3.1 Action types
A full-round action takes the complete round
to perform. The character can do nothing else.
Otherwise, the character can take any one
standard and any one move action he is
entilted to. The game master might as well
allow a few free actions, as long as the
character does not overdo it.
Unless noted otherwise, the use of a specific
talent or action is a standard action. The time
required to use skills varies a lot from one skill
to another. As a rule of thumb, any action
quick enough is a standard action; longer
actions (like crafting a weapon or treating a
wounded creature) might take longer.
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A reaction is a special action the
character can do when it is not his turn. These
are triggered by other events (like the
character being attacked, or anything similar).
The character can use only one reaction
between two of his turns.
1.3.2 Ressources recovery
This section shows at which rate a characters
ressources are recovered.
Action point: the character recovers all
her action points at the start of each story
arc. Unspent action points are lost.
Debilitation damage: one per full-night
rest, unless the character can meditate, in
which case it becomes the number of
successes on a Focus check per full-night
rest.
Eldricht spark: the character recovers all
her eldricht sparks after a full-night rest.
Unspent sparks are lost.
Spell: the character recovers all her spent
spells after a full-night rest. Unspent
spells are lost.
Wound damage: one per full-night rest,
unless the character benefits from healing
of some kind, in which case it becomes the
number of successes on a Heal check per
full-night rest.
1.4 Character creation
A character is created through the following
steps:
1. Race: pick one
2. Class: pick one base class
3. Attributes: choose one attribute at rank
4, one at rank 3. The remaining two starts
at rank 2. Your race might impose one of
the attributes to start at rank 3 or more.
4. Saves: your saves start all at rank 1.
Then, increase two of your race- or
class-related saves by +1 each. You
cannot increase the same save, they must
be two dierents.
5. Skills: you start with 2 ranks in one skill
of your choice, and 1 rank in 6 other,
dierent skills of your choice. Then,
increase by +1 the four skills associated
with your class.
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6. Talents: you start with 1 rank in one race
talent, 1 rank in your class primary talent
and 1 rank in another one class talent.
Then, increase one of these three talents
by +1.
7. Wound damage threshold: equal to
your ranks in Fortitude +6.
8. Debilitatation damage threshold:
equal to your ranks in Willpower +3.
9. Languages: you start with two languages,
plus two per Intelligence rank above 2,
including at least one continental language
and one racial or regional language.
10. Equipment: equip your characters with
your game master approval.
1.4.1 Character advancement
At the end of each game session, the character
gains a certain number of experience points.
Experience points can be spent to increase
saves, skills or talents:
A save can be increased by +1 by
spending three experience points times the
new rank.
A skill or a talent can be increased by +1
by spending one experience points times
the new rank.
A new language can be learnt by spending
one experience point.
The character can not increase the same
save, skill or talent by more than +1 between
two game sessions.
1.4.2 Multiclassing
The character can multiclass by purchasing
ranks in the Multiclassing talent. All
characters can access this talent, but not at
the characters creation.
Multiclassing: choose one base, prestige
or elite class per rank. You gain rank 1 in
the class primary talent (for a base class)
or in one of the specific class talents of
your choice (for a prestige or elite class),
and you can now purchase ranks in all
associated talents. However, this does not
grant you bonus to saves or skills. If you
choose a prestige or elite class, you must
meet its prerequisites. If you choose a base
class, you must have at least four ranks
divided among the class primary skills.
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Races
Each race is described in the following
format:
Race, Subrace
Description of the race on the dierent
continents of the Scarred Lands.
white
Primary attribute: this indicates the
attribute that must start at rank 3 or more at
the characters creation.
Primary saves: this indicates the two
saves that can be increased by +1 at the
characters creation.
Description of the three racial talents
available for characters of that race.
2.1 Common races
2.1.1 Dwarf, Mountain
Moutain dwarves form the majority of the
dwarf population on Scarn. They are primaliry
found in Ghelspad and Asherak. They tend to
gather in large communities where they can, or
to leave alongside other races otherwise.
Ghelspad: mountain dwarves can be found
in almost any human nations of Ghelspad as
small communities mixed with other races.
They are notably one of the primary minority
in northern nations like Albadia or Darakeene.
Burok Torn, the city-state of the mountain
dwarves, is the last remnant of a powerful
kingdom lost during the Divine War. Here,
they face alongside their god Goran the menace
of the calastian empire, and more sinister
threats from below the Kelder Mountains.
Termana: there are very few mountain
dwarves on Termana, and most of them are
actually refugees from Ghelspad. A sizeable
minority has settled in Crilos, where they tend
to live isolated from the world. Termana
hosted more mountain dwarves in the past,
but most of them were killed during ancient
wars, or slowly assimilated to the charduni
dwarf empire.
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Asherak: mountain dwarves in Asherak
mostly comes from the Pharasa Mountains,
and inhabit the city-states north to this chain.
A few asheraki city-states are actually built
upon ancient dwarven ruins, but the dwarf
race has long declined since, and even a city
like Altanthropolis, built by the dwarves, hosts
more humans than dwarves now.
The Dragon Lands: a powerful dwarven
empire existed long ago on the Dragon Lands,
yet has been utterly destroyed in an unknown
events. Dwarves of any kind are unknown on
that continent.
Fenrilik: a few families of mountain
dwarves live in Fenrilik. As opposed to other
races, most of them were there before the
Divine War. Dwarves in Fenrilik tend to
gather in caves near natural warm water
sources, though most of them are too small to
hold a large community.
white
Primary attribute: Strength.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Willpower.
Darkvision: (Constant) you can see in
complete darkness up to 10 meters per
talent rank. This allows you to only see in
black and white. (Daily) You can also to
overcome magical darkness, using
Intelligence+Perception+Darkvision as a
duration roll.
Stability: (Encounter) when an attack
forces you to move while you are in
contact with earth or stone, you can
cancel that movement. (Daily) When you
are targeted by an attack while in contact
with earth or stone, you can gain a bonus
on all your saves against that attack equal
to your talent ranks.
Stonecunning: (Encounter) you can roll
twice any skill check made in relation with
stone (Game Master approval required),
with a bonus equal to your talent ranks.
2.1.2 Elf, Half
Half-elves are born from the union of elves and
humans, or other half-elves. They are not an

uncommon sight, even though they have no
real community to belong to.
Ghelspad: half-elves can be found
throughout all the continent. Most of them
descend from wood elves, as these form the
majority of the continents elves. In the south
and in coastal regions, a certain number of
half-elves are actually from a forsaken elf
origin, as those are in constant struggle to
renew their dying race. Drendali do not
interact with humans, so half-drendali are
unheard of.
Termana: the number of half-elves in
Termana has greatly increased since the Divine
War, as the forsaken elves breed half-elves to
strengthen their race, even kidnapping humans
to this eect. In elven countries, most
half-elves are consider as servants, as they are
considered as disgraceful osprings. In human
countries, half-elves suer a similar fate, as
they are seen as the children of rape and
violence.
Asherak: half-elves are quite common on
almost all Asherak, and the half-elf community
is almost half as big as the elfs. Half-elves
compose notably almost one half of the
population of the Khaelean Confederation, a
gathering of Tanil-worshipping city-state, and
their number is still increasing. Most asheraki
half-elves are of wood elf origin, yet a few
descend from the nomadic wrack elves.
The Dragon Lands: half-elves were rare in
that continent, as the wood elf clans remained
for a very long time isolated from the other
races. This changed since the Divine War, and
a few elven clans have initiated contacts with
human, slowly (but surely) increasing the
half-elf population on that continent. All
half-elves from the Dragon Lands are from a
wood elf origin.
Fenrilik: there are almost no half-elves on
Fenrilik, as most of those who came here after
the Divine War died because of the very cold
weather. The only few remaining are of wood
elf origin.
white
Primary attribute: none.
Primary saves: Reflex, Instinct.
Special: choose one racial talent from any
other elf subrace or a human racial talent as
your third racial talent.
Acute Senses: (Constant) you see in
low-light conditions without penalties.
(Encounter) You can roll twice any
Perception check, with a bonus equal to
your talent ranks.
Adaptation: (Daily) during a rest, you
can move skill ranks from one skill to
another one. You can move as many ranks
as you wish, as long as the final rank in
the increased skill does not exceed your
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talent ranks. You must move skill points
between skills depending on the same
attribute.
2.1.3 Elf, Wood
Wood elves are the most common elves on
Scarn. They are mostly found in Ghelspad and
the Dragon Lands, but some of them still live
in the Asheraki city-states. They tend to live
in isolated communities located in wood or
forest, and only a few of them mix with other
cultures. Most elven nations are insular and
have little political alliances with their
neighbours.
Ghelspad: wood elves can be found mostly
in the center of Ghelspad, as their main
countries is Vera-Tre within the Ganjus forest.
A strong community lives in the Broadreach in
the Hornsaw Forest, but these are busy facing
the monstruosities of their forest and rarely
interact with outsiders. A sizeable number of
Corean-worshipping elves settled in Uria,
where they live with very little contacts with
outsiders. Elves can be found in small
communities in Albadia or in Vesh, and the
few who lived in the Calastian Hegemony
emigrated north, toward Vesh or Vera-Tre.
Termana: there are very few wood elves on
Termana, and most of them are immigrants
from Ghelspad who flee the Calastian
oppression. They tend to have strong
diculties to settle in, as humans wont trust
them, and forsaken elves jealous them for their
health.
Asherak: a few asheraki elves survived the
Divine War without much damage. These are
mostly those who lived in the asheraki
city-states at that time (representing actually
a rather small percentage of the population).
Wrack elves now largely outnumber the wood
elves in the city-states since their immigration
from the devasted regions of Asherak.
The Dragon Lands: all elves of the Dragon
Lands are wood elves. Their main nation is
located in the Tower Forest, with Serth-Tre
their capital. Most elvish clans are
traditionnalists and refuse contacts with other
races. A few have started interacting with the
human nations around since the Divine War,
even spawning a few half-elves, and a schism
has started between the elven clans.
Fenrilik: there are almost no elves on
Fenrilik: the very few who came here at the
end of the Divine War died of cold.
white
Primary attribute: Dexterity.
Primary saves: Reflex, Instinct.
Acute Senses: (Constant) you see in
low-light conditions without penalties.
(Encounter) You can roll twice any
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Perception check, with a bonus equal to
your talent ranks.
Elven Trance: (Constant) you add your
talent ranks to your saves against any
sleep eect. (Daily) You can enter a
meditative trance, using
Charisma+Focus+Elven Trance as a
duration roll. While in trance, you are
eectively unconscious. You regain one
debilitation or wound damage per round
spent in the trance. The trance ends as
soon as you suer wound damage of any
kind.
Forest Concordance: (Encounter) you
can roll twice any skill check made in
relation with forests or trees (Game
Master approval required), with a bonus
equal to your talent ranks.
2.1.4 Halfling
Halflings are the second most wide-spread race
after the humans. They can be found almost
everywhere, even though they have very little
communities to call their own. They tend to
live mixed with humans, usually in the lowest
ranks of their society since humans typically
overlook these smalls beings.
Ghelspad: halflings can be found in most
human nations, and notably in the Calastian
Hegemony. Virduk even oered them a
sizeable part of the old Zathiske, renamed in
the Heteronomy of Virduk, and granted them
rights and social recognition. Halflings are also
frequent in Darakeene and Vesh, yet a few
have started imigrating to the Heteronomy of
Virduk, where they believe life will be better.
Termana: halflings in Termana leave
alongside humans in the countries west of the
continent. They have very little access to the
upper classes of the society, which have made a
certain number of them attracted to the
strange Carnival of Shadows that dwells in the
Blood Bayou. Another strong halfling
community lives as slaves of the charduni
empire, but this folk is only used for hard work
and labor. The most rebellious are quickly sent
in the mines or killed if they cause too much
trouble.
Asherak: halflings can be found in most of
the asheraki city-states as small communities.
They tend to have slightly better lives than on
other continents (notably in cities aligned with
Tanil or Madriel like Hetanu), but they have
no city or country to claim home.
The Dragon Lands: halflings here leave
within human communities as in the rest of
Scarn. Humans are more considerate toward
them compared to other continents, notably
because both humans and halflings are
similarly overlooked by their dragon rulers.
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Fenrilik: halflings are very rare in Fenrilik,
notably because their size makes them highly
vulnerable to cold. Almost all of them came
from other continents after the Divine War,
and most of them died during the following
years.
white
Primary attribute: Dexterity.
Primary saves: Reflex, Instinct.
Improvisation: (Encounter) you can roll
twice any check for which you dont have
the proper tools or for which you area not
prepared (Game Master approval
required), with a bonus equal to your
talent ranks.
Lightstep: (Encounter) you can add a
bonus or a malus equal to your talent
ranks to a check you make or someone
makes against you, and for which you
small size is an advantage (Game Master
approval required).
Spirited: (Encounter) you can roll twice
one fear attack against you or one of your
allies. One of the target of the attack
(yourself or an ally who must be able to
hear you) gains a bonus on all her saves
against that attack equal to your talent
ranks.
2.1.5 Human
Humans are the dominant race on Scarn, and
are the only race which can easily be found on
all five continents.
Ghelspad: humans control most of the
inhabitable territory of Ghelspad. Great
nations like Calastia, Vesh, or Darakeene have
survived and prospered since the Divine War,
while nomadic tribes wander in more hostile
territories. Nations not controlled by humans
are very rare, and these are typically only a
few isolated city-states like Burok Torn or
Vera-Tre.
Termana: humans are established in the
north-western part of the continent, where
they live in divided countries. Barbaric tribes
can also be found in south, notably in the Iron
Sands Desert or in the Gamulganjus, where a
few tribes have settled in the Tepuje
city-states, creating a schism between the two
communities. A third part of the human
population lives as slaves under the charduni
empire, but their number diminishes every
year.
Asherak: humans live mostly in city-states
on the coasts of the continent. These
city-states have a however a more racially
intermixed society than in other continents. A
few nomadic tribes wander through the desert,

remnants of a civilization lost during the
Divine War.
The Dragon Lands: humans represent a
sizeable part of the Dragon Lands population,
and control a large number of the minor clans.
However, they have typically a lower social
status than dragonmen, even if the latter
represent a lower proportion of the population.
Fenrilik: humans are the most prominent
race in Fenrilik, yet only since the Divine War.
Most of the humans arrived after the Divine
War, fleeing from the conflict or (for those who
honor the titans) the persecution of the
followers of the gods.
white
Primary attribute: none.
Primary saves: any two.
Special: you can choose any talent from
any base class as your third racial talent.
Adaptation: (Daily) during a rest, you
can move skill ranks from one skill to
another one. You can move as many ranks
as you wish, as long as the final rank in
the increased skill does not exceed your
talent ranks. You must move skill points
between skills depending on the same
attribute.
Human Luck: (Encounter) you can add a
bonus or a malus equal to your talent
ranks to any skill check you make, or
someone makes against you, in which luck
is a predominent factor (Game Master
approval required).
2.1.6 Orc, Half
Half-orcs are usually the ospring of rape
between orcs and men, and can be found in
almost every continents, in low numbers
however. They are typically considered as
outcast, and sty confined to the lower ranks of
societies, even though a few countries have
started accepting them as labor force.
Ghelspad: half-orcs are quite frequent in
Ghelspad, notably in the north where most of
the orcish tribes live. Regions around Mithril,
Vesh, or the Darakeene, frequently spawn
half-orcs (well, relatively). Zathiske has
granted recognition for the half-orc legendary
strength, and a massive immigration has taken
place since the Divine War, making the
half-orc community the first in numbers in
that country. The tribe known as the Urkhadi
lives north of Shelzar and trades frequently
with the city.
Termana: half-orcs in Termana are
relatively rare, notably because an entire
orcish nation was exterminated by the
charduni empire. The remaining orc tribes,
scattered, typically avoid other civilizations,
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even if some of them raid the most southern
human countries.
Asherak: halfl-orcs can be found in most
city-states, in quite low numbers however.
Most half-orcs in Asherak try to enter the
clergy, in order to avoid being suspecting of
adoring the titans.
The Dragon Lands: there are a few
half-orcs in the Dragon Lands, notably in clans
located near the wastelands where orcs live.
They are usually considered as an oense, and
most of them travel very early in their life,
outcast by their own families.
Fenrilik: half-orcs in Fenrilik mostly come
from the immigration wave after the Divine
War. Stronger than the other races, they
outlived most fragile races like elves or
halflings, which makes them one of the most
prominent minority on the continent.
white
Primary attribute: Strength.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Instinct.
Adaptation: (Daily) during a rest, you
can move skill ranks from one skill to
another one. You can move as many ranks
as you wish, as long as the final rank in
the increased skill does not exceed your
talent ranks. You must move skill points
between skills depending on the same
attribute.
Darkvision: (Constant) you can see in
complete darkness up to 10 meters per
talent rank. This allows you to only see in
black and white. (Daily) You can also to
overcome magical darkness, using
Intelligence+Perception+Darkvision as a
duration roll.
Orcish Strength: (Encounter) you can
gain a bonus to any Strength-based check
equal to your talent ranks.
2.2 Races of Ghelspad
2.2.1 Dwarf, Wood
Wood dwarves are a very small community of
dwarves living near the Hornsaw Forest. They
remain isolated, as their main commercial and
cultural partners are the wood elves of
Broadreach Horizon. They are under a
constant threat, both because o the
titanspawns who inhabit the forest, and
because o the necromancers of Glivid-Autel
who see them as excellent slaves.
white
Primary attribute: Strength.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Instinct.
Darkvision: (Constant) you can see in
complete darkness up to 10 meters per
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talent rank. This allows you to only see in
black and white. (Daily) You can also to
overcome magical darkness, using
Intelligence+Perception+Darkvision as a
duration roll.
Forest Concordance: (Encounter) you
can roll twice any skill check made in
relation with forests or trees (Game
Master approval required), with a bonus
equal to your talent ranks.
Stability: (Encounter) when an attack
forces you to move while you are in
contact with earth or stone, you can
cancel that movement. (Daily) When you
are targeted by an attack while in contact
with earth or stone, you can gain a bonus
on all your saves against that attack equal
to your talent ranks.
2.2.2 Hollow Knight
Hollow knights were sentient constructs
created during the Divine War by Corean and
Hedrad. At the end of the war, Vangal refused
to destroy them, letting the race slowly die as
it is unable to create ospring. Hollow Knights
live know in the Gleaming Valley, and are
rarely found elsewhere.
Asherak: a small number of Hollow
Knights still live on Asherak in the recently
built city of Boretanshu, which they helped
built after a long exode in the desert.
white
Primary attribute: Strength.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Willpower.
Spellcasting (Self-Forge): you can cast
divine spells, using
Strength+Craft+Spellcasting (Self-Forge)
as the spellcasting roll. You only learn one
fabricate spell with this talent.
(Encounter) You can add your talent
ranks to any Craft-based check.
Hollow Shell: (Encounter) you add your
talent ranks to all your saves against one
attack that exclusively target living
creatures, including poison, disease and
hemorrhagic damage. (Encounter) You
can roll twice one Endurance check.
Mind of Steel: (Encounter) you add your
talent ranks to all your saves against one
eect that take control of your actions
(including fear eects).
2.3 Races of Termana
2.3.1 Elf, Forsaken
Forsaken elves are what remains of the high
elves after their god got killed by Chern during
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the Divine War. Cursed by the titan, they are
unable to bear children or to serve gods; they
grew bitter as they forgot everything about
their god, which they only call now That
Which Abides. They leave along the
north-eastern shore of Termana, yet their once
beautiful cities crumbled into ruins after the
Divine War. They kidnap humans to then rape
them and have half-elf osprings as a mean to
perpetuate their race. Furthermore, they are
in constant warfare with the charduni dwarves.
Ghelspad: forsaken elves can be
encountered in almost all coastal cities of
Ghelspad, notably Shelzar, Mithril, and
Darakeene. However, they rarely settle in,
since they prefer to travel back and forth
between Ghelspad and Termana.
Asherak: a few forsaken elves have even
travelled to the city-states of Asherak. Those
who do rarely stay long, since the divine
presence on the continent makes them uneasy,
and only serves as a painful remainder of their
own loss.
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Primary attribute: Dexterity or Charisma.
Primary saves: Reflex, Willpower.
Acute Senses: (Constant) you see in
low-light conditions without penalties.
(Encounter) You can roll twice any
Perception check, with a bonus equal to
your talent ranks.
Arcane Affinity: choose one skill per
talent rank (except Arcane, Nature or
Faith). (Encounter) When you make a
check from one of the skills you selected,
you can use your ranks in the Arcane skill
rather than your ranks in that skill.
Elven Trance: (Constant) you add your
talent ranks to your saves against any
sleep eect. (Daily) You can enter a
meditative trance, using
Charisma+Focus+Elven Trance as a
duration roll. While in trance, you are
eectively unconscious. You regain one
debilitation or wound damage per round
spent in the trance. The trance ends as
soon as you suer wound damage of any
kind.
2.3.2 Gnome, Jungle
The gnomes are small fey-like creatures who
live in the Gamulganjus jungle in the south of
Termana. Those who leave the jungle are an
exception, and are almost unknown in other
continents. Gnomes revere the ushadani, a
collection of spirits of nature and the
ancestors, rather than the gods of the titans.
They mostly live as isolated nomadic tribes,

even though a few settlements exist where they
trade with other peoples of the jungle.
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Primary attribute: Dexterity or
Intelligence.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Instinct.
Acute Senses: (Constant) you see in
low-light conditions without penalties.
(Encounter) You can roll twice any
Perception check, with a bonus equal to
your talent ranks.
Animal Tongues: choose one type of
small animal per talent rank. You can
speak to these animals, allowing you to
make Deception or Persuasion checks
against them instead of Nature checks.
Lightstep: (Encounter) you can add a
bonus or a malus equal to your talent
ranks to a check you make or someone
makes against you, and for which you
small size is an advantage (Game Master
approval required).
2.3.3 Terali
Terali are leopard-men who live in the
Gamulganjus jungle in the south of Termana.
Like their gnomish neighbours, they rarely
venture outside the jungle, and revere the
ushadani spirits instead of gods or titans.
They are born hunters, and most members of a
tribe are able to fight or defend themselves.
They are a proud and independent people, but
they respect other peoples as long as they are
respected. They also abide to a certain code of
honor, as well as a set of taboos imposed by
their shamanic totems.
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Primary attribute: Strength or Dexterity.
Primary saves: Reflex, Instinct.
Acute Senses: (Constant) you see in
low-light conditions without penalties.
(Encounter) You can roll twice any
Perception check, with a bonus equal to
your talent ranks.
Claws of the Leopard: (Constant) you
gain natural weapons which deal one
additional point of damage. (Encounter)
When you attack a creature with your
natural weapons, you can make an
additional attack with your bite, with a
bonus equal to your talent ranks. The
attack deals one additional point of
damage.
Scent of the Hunter: (Constant) you add
half your talent ranks on Nature checks to
follow tracks with your scent (Game
Master approval required). (Daily) You
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can sense creatures within 5 meters by
their smell (or more, Game Master
discretion), allowing you to perceive them
even if they are invisible or blinded. Make
an Intelligence+Perception+Scent of the
Hunter as a duration roll. Some creatures
do not emit smell and wont be detected,
while other may have a strong smell that
can hide other smells.
2.4 Races of Asherak
2.4.1 Elf, Wrack
The elves of Asherak were deeply struck by the
Divine War, and their connection with the
land was shattered by the explosion of the
Seraphic Engine. Most of them live in the
city-states in the Fertile Crescent in the north
of the continent, but some can be seen
wandering the desert, longing for old ruins of
their civilization.
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Primary attribute: Dexterity.
Primary saves: Reflex, Instinct.
Special: a wrack elf cannot be brought
back to life.
Acute Senses: (Constant) you see in
low-light conditions without penalties.
(Encounter) You can roll twice any
Perception check, with a bonus equal to
your talent ranks.
Elven Trance: (Constant) you add your
talent ranks to your saves against any
sleep eect. (Daily) You can enter a
meditative trance, using
Charisma+Focus+Elven Trance as a
duration roll. While in trance, you are
eectively unconscious. You regain one
debilitation or wound damage per round
spent in the trance. The trance ends as
soon as you suer wound damage of any
kind.
Soul of the Land: (Constant) you
instantly notice when you enter a place of
power. (Daily) When you attempt to use
a place of power, you can add your talent
ranks to the check.
2.4.2 Ubantu
The smallfolk of the asheraki deserts follow a
nomadic lifestyle, going from one city or oases
to the next. They are a peaceful people with
mercantile tendencies, but their small stature
should not fool their opponents: they use a
wide variety on their weapon, and know the
dunes better than anyone.
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Primary saves: Fortitude, Reflex.
Lightstep: (Encounter) you can add a
bonus or a malus equal to your talent
ranks to a check you make or someone
makes against you, and for which you
small size is an advantage (Game Master
approval required).
Poison Immunity: (Encounter) when you
suer wound or debilitation damage
caused by poison, you can reduce the
damage taken by your talent ranks.
Swift: (Daily) you can take an additional
move action. You can use this ability once
per day per talent rank.
2.5 Blended Races
A blended character finds some ancestor in a
mythical creature (often an outsider like an
angel or a demon). Any of the race described
above can be plane-touched (even if some of
them are more often touched than others).
When a character is blended, he must
announce so at the character creation. He then
chooses, in addition of his normal race, one of
the blended race described below, and applies
the following modifications:
Primary attribute: the character may use
any one attribute of her original race or her
plane-touched race as primary racial attribute.
Primary saves: the character may choose
two dierent saves from her original race or her
plane-touched race as her primary racial save.
Racial talents: the character looses access
to one of the talents from her original race and
gains access to the talent of her plane-touched
race instead.
2.5.1 Aasimar (Angel)
Aasimars are born from angels, daevas,
archons, eladrins, or similarly good-aligned
outsiders. They are quite rare in the Scarred
Lands (as these angels usually dont mettle
with the mortal aairs), except maybe in
Asherak where the proximity with the gods
facilitate angelic interventions.
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Primary attribute: Charisma.
Primary saves: Instinct, Willpower.
Light of Heaven: (Encounter) you can
shed heavenly light in a 5m sphere radius
around you, using Charisma+Faith+Light
of Heaven as a duration roll. You and up
to one allies per talent rank in the area
immediatly regain as many wound or
debilitation damage as half the number of
successes obtained.
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2.5.2 Dragonkin (Dragon)
Dragonkins have a distant draconic ancestor.
They are extremely rare in the Scarred Lands,
except in the Dragon Lands were a sizeable
proportions of humanoids can claim to have
dragon blood in their vein. In Ghelspad, King
Virduk of Calastia has tried to identify and
gather a group of dragonkins, but without
success. The forsaken elves of Termana have a
higher rate of dragonkins than other races
thanks to the ancient bonds between dragons
and the Empire of the Rose.
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Primary attribute: Strength or Charisma.
Primary saves: Reflex, Willpower.
Dragonspell: you gain one spell foil. This
spell foil can only be used to cast the
dragon breath spell, or use the Wings of
Terror (Dragon Disciple) or Wyrmscale
(Dragon Disciple) talents, even if you do
not know these spells or talents. When
you do so, you replace the rank in the
considered talent with your ranks in the
Dragonspell talent.
2.5.3 Feral (Lycanthrope)
Ferals are the descendent of were-wolves,
wear-bears, and various other were-things.
They are extremely rare in the Scarred Lands,
as lycanthropes prefer to spread their curse
rather than create osprings. Additionally,
when a child begins to show signs of
lycanthropy, it is usually quickly and quietly
disposed o, which means that only a very few
ferals reach adult age. In Ghelspad, the group
of lycanthropes known as the Accursed have
slowly mastered their bestial nature, and have
become under the guidance of Madriels clergy
a peaceful society in which ferals can be born
and live in peace.
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Primary attribute: Strength or Dexterity
(depending on the parent).
Primary saves: Reflex, Instinct.
The Beast Within: (Daily) you can
assume temporarily a shape similar to
your bestial ancestor. Make a
Strength+Nature+The Beast Within
check as a duration roll. While this talent
is active, you gain natural melee attacks
which deal one extra point of damage per
two talent ranks, and you add your talent
ranks to all Nature checks made to follow
tracks.
2.5.4 Genasi (Genie)
Genasi were born from unions between mortals
and genies. They are extremely rare, and most
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grow suspicious of them. After all, genies are
considered traitors in the Divine War and their
planar cities were sealed. Genasi are most
frequent in Zathiske, which relied heavily on
genies before the Divine War alongside the
Elzian empire.
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Your primary attribute and save depend on
the element of your ancestor. The racial talent
is common to all elements.
Primary attribute: Charisma.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Willpower.
Shadows of Hell: (Encounter) when you
hit an opponent with any kind of attack,
you can inflict her one debilitation
damage, and gain a bonus on your next
skill check against her equal to your talent
ranks. This is a fear eect.

Summon Archon Servant: (Daily) you

can summon an archon of your
appropriate element, assuming that there
is enough raw material to shape it (fire,
stone, water, wind). This is equivalent to
the summon monster spell, using a
combination of attribute+skill+Summon
Archon Servant as the spellcasting roll.
Air: Dexterity+Acrobatics. Earth:
Strength+Prowess. Fire:
Charisma+Persuasion. Water:
Intelligence+Perception.

Air Genasi
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Primary attribute: Dexterity.
Primary saves: Reflex, Instinct.

Earth Genasi
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Primary attribute: Strength.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Willpower.

Fire Genasi
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Primary attribute: Charisma.
Primary saves: Reflex, Willpower.

Water Genasi
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Primary attribute: Intelligence.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Instinct.

2.5.5 Tiefling (Demon)

Tieflings are born from demons, daemons,
devils, or similarly evil-aligned outsiders. They
tend to be slightly more frequent than aasimars
in the Scarred Lands, as such outsiders love to
interfer with mortals (usually to trick them
and capture their souls). Asherak is the most
common place of birth of tieflings, for the same
reasons as the aasimars, but a few of them can
be found in the calastian empire (notably in
Lageni which tried to breed them for war), or
in the Dragon Lands, where they are remnants
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Chapter 3
Base classes
Each class is described in the following
format:
Class
Description of the class in the Scarred Lands.
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Concept: a few words to describe the class.
Primary saves: this indicates the two
saves that can be increased by +1 at the
characters creation.
Primary skills: this indicates the four
skills that are increased by +1 at the
characters creation.
Primary talent: this indicates the talent
that must start at rank 1 at the characters
creation.
Description of the six class talents.
3.1 Aristocrat
Aristocrats come from the upper classes of the
society, and use their nobility, financial power,
or higher education to achieve their goal. They
usually live in cities or other established
cultures; kings, merchants, scholars, they are
all aristocrats.
Ghelspad: aristocrats can be found in
almost any human-dominated nation and
city-state, with the notable exception of the
more barbaric Albadia and Mansk. There are
almost no aristocrats among the dwarves of
Burok Torn or the elves of Vera-Tre, mainly
because the social status in these cultures
depends on other principles.
Termana: most of the aristocrats in
Termana come from the human nations on the
west. Forsaken elves sometimes walk this path,
as social status is not determined anymore by
devotion to their lost god. Charduni dwarves
are rarely aristocrats despite their advanced
culture, mostly because faith towards Chardun
and military rank are the main criteria to
determine social status. Aristocrats are rare
amongst the numerous tribes of Termana, even
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though a few elders might have gained such
social recognition.
Asherak: asheraki aristocrats do not rely
on temporal power, as it is traditionnaly
reserved to the clerics, but more on knowledge,
craftmanship, or similar trades. The live
mostly in the city-states, which provide them a
secure environment for their activities.
The Dragon Lands: a few aristocrats exist
in the Dragon Lands, mostly in the
human-dominated clans. In a certain number
of clans, however, the power is not held by
nobility, but is more tight to sorcerous power
or similar criteria.
Fenrilik: this isolated continent has no
civilization of a size large enough for
aristocrats to emerge.
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Concept: commands others with his high
social status.
Primary saves: Willpower, Instinct
Primary skills: Erudition, Perception,
Persuasion, Ride.
Primary talent: Social Status.
Command: (Daily) you can force people
to obey your commands. You can target a
number of enemies equal to your talent
ranks. They must be able to hear you and
understand you. Make a
Charisma+Persuasion+Command vs
Willpower check as a mental attack roll
and the duration roll. If you succeed, they
will carry your orders for prescribed
duration. The targets may receive bonuses
on their Willpower save depending on the
exact order (Game Master discretion).
High Education: choose one skill per
talent rank as an educated skill.
(Encounter) When you make a check from
one of your educated skills or any
knowledge roll, you can substitute the skill
check by an Intelligence+Erudition+High
Education check.
Lead by Example: choose one skill per
talent rank as a leading skill. (Encounter)
When you successfully use a leading skill,

you can grant your allies bonuses on their
next check from that skill. The total
bonus you can grant is equal to the net
number of successes obtained on your
check + your talent ranks. You can divide
the bonuses between several targets, and
you cannot grant to a single creature a
bonus higher than your own talent rank.
You can only grant the bonus to allies
that have seen you use the skill. If the
bonus is not used before the end of the
encounter, it is lost.
Require Protection: (Daily) when you
are subject to a melee, ranged or area
attack sort, you can deflect the attack to
an adjacent creature. If the target is
unwilling, you must succeed a
Charisma+Deception+Require Protection
vs Instinct check as a mental attack roll
against the adjacent creature to use this
talent. If the target is willing, you regain
the use of that talent at the end of the
encounter. However, you cannot use this
talent more than once per day per talent
rank.
Social Status: (Constant) when you
make a Persuasion check in an area where
your social status is recognized, you gain a
bonus equal to your talent ranks.
(Encounter) You can roll twice any
Deception or Persuasion check.
Wealth: (Daily) when you want to buy an
object or a service, you can use this talent
to automatically buy it. Make a
Charisma+Persuasion+Wealth check
against a diculty depending on the
actual cost of what you want to buy
(Game Master discretion). If you succeed,
you buy the object or service without
spending any actual money, and you may
receive additional services related to your
purchase depending on the number of
successes you obtained (Game Master
discretion).
3.2 Barbarian
Barbarians tap their inner rage to gain great
power in combat. They usually come from
less-civilised cultures, mostly nomadic tribes
located outside of established nations and
cities.
Ghelspad: barbarians are common in
Albadia and around Mansk, as well as in most
tribes living outside established nations. Those
area include the Ukrudan desert, the
Perforated Plains, Bleak Savannah, the Plains
of Lede, or the Blood Steppes. A few
barbarians also come from the Durrover clans,
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where they lead the charge against the
calastian army. The most infamous barbarians
are the Horsemen of Vangal, tribes of madmen
who kill and burn everything on their path.
Termana: barbarians are more common on
Termana, mostly because of the feral and wild
nature of the land. Divided tribes live in the
Crilos island, while other barbarian wander
through the Iron Steppes, the Centaur Plains,
or the Iron Sands Desert. A few barbarians
also live among the nomadic tribes of the
Gamulganjus jungle; fewer, however, than
what one could expect from such nomadic
civilization.
Asherak: barbarians are common in all the
desolated parts of Asherak, but far less in the
city-states. Horsemen of Vangal are also
present on this continent (though not as much
as on Ghelspad). Most barbarians come from
the Soulburn Waste, as this desert is new and
lack the history and wisdom of the tribal
nomads of the Desert of Onn.
The Dragon Lands: even though the
Dragon Lands do not have as many nomadic
tribes as the other continents, barbarians are
still relatively common. This is mostly
explained by the fact that people in this
continent tend to express more easily their
feelings, and rage is, for some warriors, the
best way of expression.
Fenrilik: barbarians are common on this
arctic continent, as only the strongest can
survive the harsh weather and the numerous
titanspawn who wander the land.
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Concept: channels his rage and fury
during fights.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Willpower
Primary skills: Athletics, Endurance,
Melee, Prowess.
Primary talent: Berserker Rage.
Berserker Rage: (Daily) you can enter a
devastating berserker rage, using
Strength+Prowess+Berserker Rage as the
duration roll. While you are raging, you
gain a bonus to Strength and Fortitude
equal to your talent ranks, and you ignore
the same number of debilitation damage.
This damage does not vanish: you simply
ignore it for the duration of the rage.
When the rage ends they take eect back.
While you are raging, you cannot take
intellectual actions, and must act the most
violently possible. When the rage ends
you automatically take one debilitation
damage.
Blood Fury: (Encounter) when you are hit
by a melee attack, you can attack the
creature back as a reaction, with a bonus
on the attack roll equal to the amount of
damage you suered (up to your talent
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ranks). You are entitled to use this attack
even though you should be incapacitated
or killed by the initial attack.
Frenzied Charge: (Constant) you ignore
dicult terrain and small obstacles when
you make charge attacks. (Daily) When
you make a charge attack, you can make a
number of additional attacks equal to your
talent ranks. These attacks can target
either the initial target of the charge or
any other creature within your reach
during the charge. If you make these
attacks against dierent creatures, you
recover the use of this talent at the end of
the encounter.
Resilience: (Encounter) when you are
targeted by a physical attack, you impose
a penalty equal to your talent ranks to the
attack roll. If the attack fails, you can roll
twice your next Strength-based check.
Smash: (Constant) you add your talent
ranks to all Prowess checks made to break
objects. (Encounter) You can roll twice
such check.
Warcry: (Daily) you can emit a
formidable shout to intimidate your
opponents. Make a Charisma+Melee (or
Ranged, depending on which type of
weapon you carry)+Warcry vs Willpower
check as a duration roll and mental attack
roll against a number of enemies that can
hear you equal to your talent ranks. If you
succeed, the target takes one debilitation
damage, and you can roll twice one attack
roll you make against her, as well as one
attack roll she makes.
3.3 Bard
Bards draw their power from songs, dance, and
folktales. They use the imagination of others
to fuel their magic, being able either to inspire
people to great deeds, or to freighten the most
fierce warrior. Bards are relatively frequent in
most societies. They are travelers, going from
one place to another to learn new tales,
discover new ways to enjoy life, or new ways to
break a spirit. Their magic is a subtle mixture
of arcane, divine and primal magic, which
makes them accepted almost everywhere they
go.
Ghelspad: bards are quite common in
Ghelspad, except for a few places like Hedrad
or Dunahnae which restrict creativity and art
forms. They have usually the role of
entertainers, going from village to village to
sing for both nobles or the common folk (one
of the rare occasion they have to rejoice and
rest from their hard-working lives). Bards in
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most tribal communities (with the notable
exception of Albadia) are usually considered as
lorekeepers, notably in Amalthea or other
places worshipping Denev.
Termana: bards are most common in the
human lands in the east, even if some of them
dare cross the Blood Sea to gain fame in
Ghelspad. A few forsaken elves become bard;
those who do become quickly famous when
they go into human nations for their talent and
almost surnatural voice. Very little bards exist
in the charduni empire, as it is typically
considered as a frivolous waste of time and
energy. Bards are almost unknown among the
Gamulganjus tribes, since wisdom and
knowledge is more typically held by druids
rather than bards.
Asherak: bards are quite common in
Asherak, as they travel from city-state to
city-state. They are usually the one who spent
the most time with both the divine city-states
and the nomadic tribes of the deserts.
The Dragon Lands: bards are also frequent
in the Dragon Lands. However, as opposed to
most people on this continent, bards typically
belong to no clan at all, going from one to
another in order to spread stories and tales.
They are even sometimes hired as neutral
messengers since most clans will allow them
free passage on their territories.
Fenrilik: there are very few bards in
Fenrilik, since the harsh environment does not
authorize leisure activities as singing and
dancing. One or two can be found in the
settlement of Kovokimru, but these are the
exceptions which confirm the rule.
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Concept: sings to inspire others or impede
enemies.
Primary saves: Reflex, Instinct
Primary skills: Deception, Folklore,
Performing, Persuasion.
Primary talent: Songs of Legend.
Bardic Knowledge: (Constant) you add
your talent ranks to all knowledge rolls
based on the Folklore skill. (Encounter)
Furthermore, you can use your knowledge
to advise an ally when she makes a check
related to a famous creature, location or
item (Game Master approval), granting
her a bonus on the check equal to your
talent ranks.
Flamboyant Action: choose one
Strength- or Dexterity-based skill per two
talent ranks. (Daily) You can use your
Charisma attribute instead of Strength or
Dexterity when making checks of the
selected skills (including talent activation
rolls), as long as at least one sentient
creature can witness your actions. Make a

Charisma+Performing+Flamboyant
Action check as a duration roll.
Master of Sound: (Constant) your saves
are increased by your talent ranks against
any eect that would deafen you or any
illusions based on sound. (Encounter) You
can use ventriloquy or even take the voice
of another person you know. Make a
Charisma+Performing+Master of Sound
vs Instinct check to successfully deceive
creatures with this trick.
Perfect Ear: (Constant) you gain a bonus
equal to half your talent ranks for all
Perception checks based on sound. (Daily)
You can use sounds to locate creatures
within 2 meters per talent rank. This
allows you to detect invisible creatures, or
to act normally if you are blinded. Make
an Intelligence+Perception+Perfect Ear
check as a duration roll.
Songs of Legend: choose one bardic song
per talent rank. You can choose the same
song multiple time. Each song is a (Daily,
Spell-powered) eect, which means that if
you choose the same song multiple times,
you gain multiple daily usages of it
without spending spells. (Daily,
Spell-powered) You can sing or play one of
your bardic songs. Each songs aect one
creature per talent rank who can hear you.
The song ends as soon as you stop singing
or playing music. While you are using the
bardic music ability, you cannot perform
other actions (except move). If you target
an unwilling creature, you must make a
Charisma+Performing+Songs of Legend
vs Willpower check as a mental attack roll
to aect the target. In this case, the song
can only last for one round per success
obtained. These are not magical eects.
Spellcasting (Bardic Music): you can
cast arcane spells, using
Charisma+Arcane+Spellcasting (Bardic
Music) as the spellcasting roll. You learn
a number of common spells equal to your
talent ranks. If Bard is your first base
class, you learn an additional number of
common spells equal to your Intelligence
ranks. You must play an instrument or
sing to cast these spells, which means you
cannot cast spells if you are silenced or
immobilized. (Encounter) When you cast
a spell with bardic music, you can
substitute the spellcasting roll with
Charisma+Performing+Spellcasting
(Bardic Music).
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3.3.1 Bardic Songs
Charming Song: at the end of the song,
the next Persuasion check of the
encounter you or one of your allies make
against the target gains a bonus equal to
the number of round spent singing, up to
your talent ranks.
Heroic Song: the target gains a +1
bonus on all skill checks, and can roll
twice one skill check before the song ends.
If the target rolls twice an attack roll, she
gains an additional bonus equal to half
your talent ranks.
Hypnotic Song: the target cannot do
anything other than look at you. If you
move out of sight, the creature will try to
follow you at half her speed. The creature
will not cross dangerous terrain, but will
stop at its boundaries. The eect ends if
the target is attacked.
Invigorating Song: the target can spend
one action before the end of the song to
regain wound or debilitation damage.
Make a Charisma+Performing+Songs of
Legend to determine the amount of wound
or debilitation damage healed.
Irritating Song: the target suers one
debilitation damage, and you can make
her force reroll one check before the song
ends. If you make the target force reroll a
spellcasting roll, she suers a penalty on
the reroll equal to half your talent ranks.
Quickening Song: the target gains a
bonus to her movement speed equal to
half your talent ranks. She can take one
extra move action before the song ends.
Song of Concentration: if you sing this
song while a target is performing an action
that requires several rounds, the target
gains a bonus equal to your talent rank on
one skill check related to that action. You
must sing for the entire duration of that
action for this bonus to be granted.
Song of Terror: the target cannot do
anything other but flee away from you at
her top speed. The creature will not cross
dangerous terrain, but will stop at its
boundaries. If that happens while the
target can still see you, she takes one
debilitation damage. The eect ends if the
target is attacked.
Song of Valor: the target gains a bonus
on all saves against fear eects equal to
half your talent ranks, and can force reroll
a mental attack against her once before
the song ends.
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Sustaining Song: if the target is dying,
she becomes stabilized as long as you keep
singing, and you can make any creature
force reroll one attack against the target
per talent rank. The eects end if the
target regains consciousness.
3.4 Cleric
Clerics pray one god for help, blessing, or to
curse their enemies. Their powers are granted
by the gods in exchange for their faith and
their devotion. Clerics are as dierent from
one another than the gods themselves. Even
among the same clergy, several churches or
philosophies might coexist, sometimes causing
internal struggles for power or the gods favor.
Ghelspad: most countries of the continent
are devoted to the gods, apart the notable
exceptions of Denev-worshipping city-states
like Vera-Tre or Amalthea. In most countries,
several gods are present (even though the
country ocially supports only one god). Only
a few countries or city-states are entirely
devoted to a single god, like Hedrad (holy city
Hedrada), Burok Torn (the center of the
dwarven god Goran), Uria (where the elves
honor Corean) or Dunahnae (obediently
devoted to Chardun).
Termana: gods worship is only present in
the northern part of the continent, while the
south is almost entirely devoted to spirts and
shamanism. In the human nations, most faith
are allowed and honored (even some are more
prominent like Hedrad in Karsia), except
maybe on the Silver Isle which belongs to the
church of Madriel. The most devout
god-worshippers of the continent are the
charduni dwarves, who follow blindly the
command of their only god Chardun. The
forsaken elves used to honor their own god,
but since the Divine War none of them has
been able to use divine magic.
Asherak: Asherak is the crucible of gods,
where faith began and civilisation rose. The
vast majority of the asheraki populations
follow the god. City-states are devoted to only
one (sometimes two or three) gods; most of the
clerics in a city honor this god. The most
famous clerics are the God-Kings, head of their
respective city, and who were granted divine
authority by the gods themselves.
The Dragon Lands: clerics can be found in
the Dragon Lands, even if they do not follow
the traditional gods of the Scarred Lands.
Instead, they embody the concepts associated
with their clan, and teach others their own
virtues. Unbeknown to them, the gods answer
their prayers, and grant them powers similar to
other clerics.
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Fenrilik: in a titanspawn-dominated
continent like Fenrilik, there are almost no
cleric.
white
Concept: prays a divinity for power and
assistance.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Willpower
Primary skills: Faith, Heal, Persuasion,
any one other skill determined by your god.
Primary talent: Spellcasting (Divine
Magic).
Consecrate Ground: (Daily,
Spell-powered) you can consecrate a place.
Make a Charisma+Faith+Consecrate
Ground check against a diculty based on
the size of the place you want to
consecrate as a duration roll. You and all
your allies gain a +1 bonus to Instinct
and Willpower while you stay in the area.
You and members of your faith gain an
additional +1 bonus to all Faith checks,
while members of enemy faith (including
followers of the titans) suer a -1 penalty
to all Faith (alternatively Nature) checks.
Once per two talent ranks, you may roll
twice a spellcasting roll of a spell cast in
the area, provided the spell is either
divine or primal. In case of a primal spell,
the spellcaster must always take the worst
result. Each time you use this ability, the
duration is reduced by one round.
Helping Prayer: choose one skill per
talent rank. (Encounter) When you or one
ally makes a check of one of the skills you
selected, you can ask your god for help.
The target substitutes her check with your
Charisma+Faith check. If the target is a
member of your faith (but not yourself),
and the action is part of your gods
attribution, she can further add your
talent ranks to the check. Alternatively,
you can make an enemy force reroll a
check of one of the selected skills, with an
additional penalty on the check equal to
your talent ranks.
Repel Infidels: choose one type of
creature as enemies of your faith. (Daily,
Spell-powered) You can repel a number of
foes equal to your talent ranks. Each
target must be able to see or hear you and
see a symbol of your faith. Make a
Charisma+Faith+Repel Infidels vs
Willpower check as a mental attack roll. If
you succeed, the target suers one
debilitation damage and must take its
next action to move away from you.
Save the Faithful: (Daily, Spell-powered)
you can heal a creature you touch or
yourself. Make a Charisma+Faith+Save

the Faithful check. The target heals as
many wound or debilitation damage as the
number of successes. You can also remove
aicting conditions (like poison, disease,
deafness, curse, etc) if you exceed a certain
diculty (Game Master discretion). If the
target is a member of your faith (but not
yourself), you gain a bonus on your check
equal to her ranks in the Faith skill.
Spellcasting (Divine Magic): you can
cast divine spells, using
Charisma+Faith+Spellcasting (Divine
Magic) as the spellcasting roll. You learn a
number of common or domain spells equal
to your talent ranks. Half of these spells
must come from domains of your divinity.
If Cleric is your first base class, you learn
an additional number of common spells
equal to your Charisma ranks. You must
hold a symbol of your faith and recite
prayers to cast these spells, which means
you cannot cast spells if you are silenced
or looses your symbol. (Encounter) If you
are targeting a member of your faith
(other than you) using this talent, you can
roll twice the spellcasting roll.
Strength of the Faith: (Encounter) you
can replace a Persuasion check with a
Charisma+Faith+Strength of the Faith
check, as long as it benefits your god
(Game Master approval). Alternatively,
when you or one ally in sight are hit by a
mental attack that would make you act
against the will of your god, you can grant
the target a bonus to all her saves against
that attack equal to your talent ranks. If
the attack fails, the target regains a
number of debilitation damage equal to
half your talent ranks.
3.5 Druid
Druids channel the primal powers of the
Scarred Lands. As opposed to clerics who
obtain their spells through the worship of a
specific god, druids gain their power using a
bond with nature and earth itself. It is said
they derive their powers from the main titan
overlooking the era (in the present day, that
would be Denev), which explains why all
druids have the same set of powers, even those
who do not worship Denev. Druids tend to live
in the wild (mostly forest), outside established
cities. Tribal societies are often lead by druids,
which are considered as the priest of the totem
animals who watch the tribe.
Ghelspad: druids can be found in very
small numbers almost everywhere in the
continent (except in most city-states, as well as
in the Chardun-devoted country of Dunahnae).
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The elves of Vera-Tre are certainly the most
powerful druids in the continent, while the
most well-known are the Incarnates, an order
of wandering druids, chosen of Denev, who
protect the earth wherever they go. The city of
Amalthea is also directed by druids. Druids
are slightly more frequent in Albadia and
Ontenazu than in other countries. Wood elves
(with the excepton of the elves of Uria) make
excellent druids thanks to their unique
connection with Denev.
Termana: most druids in Termana do not
honor the titans, but the spirits of nature or
ancestors (which they commonly call
ushadani). Traditional druids can be found in
the human-dominated regions, while a few
worshippers of the titans still live in wild
regions like the Centaur Plains. Druids are
more important in the Crilos Island, where
they lead the tribes in their worship of the
spirits; and even more amongst the various
inhabitants of the Gamulganjus jungle, who
worship preferably the ushadani (even though
the people of the tepuje city-states honor
Mesos rather than the spirits, and are typically
considered as weird heretics by the other
people of the jungle).
Asherak: there are very few druids in
Asherak, as the continent is mostly dominated
by the gods. However, a few live amongst the
nomadic tribes (notably in the desert of Onn),
while they are rumors of titan worshippers in
the very godspine mountains.
The Dragon Lands: there are a few druids
in the Dragon Lands, which honor the nature
spirits rather than the titans. The wood elves
frequently become druids (and their most
traditional clans are directed by druids). The
most powerful druids are gathered in the small
clan Benshabal, which has no eective world
power, but is considered by many as wise and
knowledgeable, as a few clans prefered to solve
their aairs with their arbitration rather than
with war.
Fenrilik: druids are frequent on this
desolated continent. A strong half honor the
titans, and come from an immigration wave
which follwed the Divine War, while the
second half (particularly strong among the ice
gnomes) honor the spirit of the lands in a
similar way to their bethrens of Termana.
white
Concept: channels natural powers through
spells and polymorphs.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Instinct
Primary skills: Endurance, Folklore, Heal,
Nature.
Primary talent: Spellcasting (Primal
Magic).
Brew Potion: (Encounter) if you have
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herbs (Game Master approval), you can
make an Intelligence+Folklore+Brew
Potion instead of a Heal check. (Daily)
During a full-night rest, you can brew one
potion which mimics a spell you know.
Any creature drinking the potion suers
(or benefits from) the eects of the spell
as if it were its target. Use
Intelligence+Nature+Brew Potion as a
spellcasting roll to cast the spell. You
cannot recover the spell until the potion is
drunk or destroyed, but you can still use
its diminished eects. The potion looses
its power after one day per talent rank, at
which point you can recover the spell
normally.
Nature's Crown: (Daily, Spell-powered)
you can attempt to control natural
creatures. This includes animals, vermin,
animated plants, but also elementals,
faeries, and other creatures the Game
Master might judge appropriate. You can
try to control a number of these creatures
equal to your talent ranks. Make an
Intelligence+Nature+Natures Crown vs
Willpower check as a mental attack roll
and duration. If you succeed, the target
obey your orders for the prescribed
duration. If a creature submits willingly
to this power, she can force reroll any
check made to carry out your orders.
Nature's Herald: (Constant) your saves
against poison and disease eects are
increased by a number equal to your
talent ranks. (Constant) You can make
Intelligence+Nature+Natures Herald
checks to determine whether food or water
is safe for consumption or not.
Spellcasting (Primal Magic): you can
cast primal spells, using
Intelligence+Nature+Spellcasting (Primal
Magic) as the spellcasting roll. You learn
a number of common or domain spells
equal to your talent ranks. You can
choose up to half of these spells from
primal domains. If Druid is your first base
class, you learn an additional number of
common spells equal to your Intelligence
ranks. You must touch a natural token
(branch, animal bones, etc) and recite
prayers to cast these spells, which means
you cannot cast spells if you are silenced
or cannot touch the appropriate focus.
(Encounter) If you cast a spell while in a
natural area (Game Master discretion),
you can force reroll the spellcasting roll.
Wild Shape: (Daily, Spell-powered) you
can transform into any animal you wish.
Make a Strength+Nature+Wild Shapes
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check as a duration roll against a diculty
depending on the size or the type of
animal you wish to transform into (Game
Master discretion). You gain all properties
of the animal, including the ability to fly,
scent, breathe water, etc. If the shape
youve taken has natural weapons, you
can make melee attacks using a
Strength+Nature as a melee attack roll.
Wild Skin: (Encounter) your skin takes
the appearance and consistence of natural
material close to you. If you move slowly
enough, you can substitute a Stealth check
done in a natural environment with a
Dexterity+Nature+Wild Skin check
(Game Master approval required). (Daily)
You can harden your skin if you are close
to a solid natural material (like wood or
stone). Make an
Intelligence+Nature+Wild Skin check as a
duration roll. You gain a natural armor
which decreases by half your talent ranks
all wound damage you take for the
prescribed duration. However, the eect
ends if you move away from the chosen
natural material (Game Master
discretion).
3.6 Fighter
Fighters train hard to perform their exploits.
There are as many dierent fighters as they are
weapons (if not more), as a large number of
fighting styles and schools has spread across
the Scarred Lands.
Ghelspad: the most famous fighters are
trained in the numerous war colleges of
Darakeene, which form most of the mercenaries
of Ghelspad to various styles or weapons. The
calastian army has also created a strong
military tradition in the south of Ghelspad,
and neighbouring countries like Lageni have
also began such training. New Venir was host
(long time ago) to a very powerful fighting
tradition too, but most of it was lost during
the Divine War. The dwarves of Burok Torn
are renown fighters too, as they still repel the
invaders after years and years of siege. The
most powerful army of the continent is said to
seat in Dunahnae, yet (fortunately) this
country remains neutral on the political scene.
Termana: charduni dwarves and forsaken
elves have both a very strong military
tradition. The dwarves had once an empire
which covered most of both Termana and
Ghelspad, and follow Chardun in every
aspects, which includes the Great General
aspect. The elves tend to be excellent fencers,
which practiced their arts through decades or
even centuries. The fighters of Sylavael are

paticularly known, as they are in direct
warfare with the charduni dwarves. Among
humans, the most militaristic nation is Karsia,
which uses its military forces to control its
neighbour (and repel the occasionnal undead
invasions). Fighters are very uncommon
amongst the barbarian tribes of the continent.
Asherak: while there exist a certain
number of fighters in this continent, they are
not as common as one might thought. Indeed,
most warriors on the continent are sacred
warriors blessed by their gods, and thus follow
more the path of the guardian or the paladin
than the fighter.
The Dragon Lands: fighters are common in
the Dragon Lands, even though there are no
well-known training grounds as in Ghelspad.
Instead. fighters teach typically their trade to
a few apprentices, and fighting styles are more
often spread through this kind of intimate
training rather than collegial education. As
such, there are no major armies in the Dragon
Lands, and most conflicts between clans are
solved as skirmishes, or sometimes even duels
between famous fighters.
Fenrilik: there are almost no fighters in
Fenrilik, notably because the very cold
conditions does not provide an environment
good enough for training.
white
Concept: uses his martial training to fight
more eciently.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Reflex
Primary skills: Athletics, Endurance,
Melee, Ranged.
Primary talent: Martial Stance.
Armed and Dangerous: (Encounter)
when you make a Persuasion check while
wearing a weapon, you can make a
Charisma+Melee (or Ranged)+Armed
and Dangerous check instead.
Guard Impact: (Encounter) when you are
targeted by a melee attack, you can
oensively block the attack. Make a
Strength+Melee+Guard Impact check vs
the score obtained by the triggering attack
roll. If you succeed, the attack is negated
and the target suers a number of damage
equal to your net number of successes on
your check and is knocked prone. If not,
you are knocked prone.
Martial Burst: (Encounter) you can
attack all creatures in your melee reach.
Make a Strength+Melee+Martial Burst as
an area attack roll. If you succeed, the
target suers damage as normal and is
pushed back a number of meters equal to
your talent ranks. Alternatively, you can
make a ranged attack against all creatures
in a 5m cone. Make a
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Dexterity+Ranged+Martial Burst as an
area attack roll. The eects are the same.
Martial Stance: you learn one martial
stance per talent rank. Each stance is a
(Daily) power, using Intelligence+Melee
(or Ranged)+Martial Stance as a duration
roll. You may choose the same stance
several time.
Second Wind: (Daily) you can take a
deep breath to heal your wounds. Make a
Strength+Endurance+Second Wind
check. You heal as many wound or
debilitation damage as the number of
successes. Furthermore, you gain a +1
bonus to all saves for a number of rounds
equal to your talent ranks.
Weapon Specialization: choose one type
of weapon as your favored weapon.
(Encounter) When you fail an attack roll
with your favored weapon, you can force
reroll with a bonus equal to your talent
ranks. (Daily) You can gain a +1 bonus
to all attack rolls you make with your
favored weapon. Make an
Intelligence+Focus+Weapon
Specialization check as duration roll.
3.6.1 Martial Stances
Advancing Stance: once per round after
a successful melee attack, you can use a
move action to move yourself and the
target up to 1 meter per two talent ranks.
Defensive Stance: you gain one
additional block or dodge attempt per
round and per talent rank (choose
between block and dodge when you
activate the talent). If you do not move
during a round, you can force reroll one
melee or ranged attack roll against you.
Duellist Stance: choose one enemy you
see when you enter the stance. You gain a
+1 bonus to attack rolls and to all
defenses against that target.
Flanking Stance: once per round you can
force reroll one of your failed melee attack
roll, provided the target is flanked
between you and one of your allies.
Menacing Stance: enemies within 1
meter per two talent ranks consider all
terrain between them and you as dicult
terrain, unless their Willpower is strictly
higher than your talent ranks.
Retreating Stance: you add half your
talent ranks to all your defenses, and force
reroll one attack roll against you per
round, as long as you do nothing but
move away from enemies.
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Vanguard Stance: you can roll twice one
attack roll per round, provided that there
is no ally in front of you.
Watcher Stance: you gain a +1 bonus to
Instinct and Willpower. When you are
targeted by a mental attack, you can
forego your next action to force reroll the
attack roll.
3.7 Guardian
While spellcaster use their magical aptitudes
to cast spells, guardians turn them inward and
use them to enhance their physical and martial
abilities. Training a guardian is a very long
and delicate process which always requires
supervision of external spellcasters to control
and channel their magical powers. As such,
only few traditions have learnt to produce
guardians. They are excessively rare, and most
of them still follow (if not obey) the
spellcasters who trained them.
Ghelspad: the necromancers of
Hollowfaust are the most well-known examples
of guardian training, as they use them for both
protection or infiltration. The Unfailing is a
powerful order of bodyguards sustained by
necromantic magic, and a formidable force on
the battlefield. The sorceresses of Albadia also
train guardians, usually to avoid a male
becoming a sorcerer (which is considered as a
great taboo and dishonor). These guardians
usually serve as their private bodyguards or
messenger. Finally, the druids of Vera-Tre also
train some guardians as an elite defense force
for the Ganjus.
Termana: there are very little guardians
on this continent. The most well-known
examples are the soldiers of Sylavael, as they
found that training a guardian was as much
expensive as training a mage, and certainly
more ecient in their constant battles against
the charduni dwarves. It is said that the
Speakers of Mesos in the tepuje city-states
have also started training guardians, but they
have not been yet a real threats to the other
tribes of the Gamulganjus.
Asherak: surprisingly, Asherak trains a
(relatively) large number of guardians. Indeed,
most churches and city-states have their
personal sacred guard, composed either of
paladins or of guardians, depending on the
magical aptitudes of the clerics. The
God-Kings of almost all city-states are
protected by these elite warriors. A few monks
and exemplars have started showing abilities
similar to guardians, even though their
training is not supervised by spellcasters of
any sort. This is certainly a gift of Hedrad to
these dedicated souls.
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The Dragon Lands: guardians are slightly
more common in the Dragon Lands as well,
notably because magic is more wide-spread
and accepted on this continent than in others.
However, the training of a guardian is
exclusively taught by the major dragon clans,
and anyone who wishes to become a guardian
must seek a dragon willing to train him, and
must pledge allegience to him and his clan.
Fenrilik: there are no guardians in
Fenrilik, as no one here has the knowledge
required to train such elite warriors.
white
Concept: a fighter enhanced with magic.
Primary saves: Reflex, Willpower
Primary skills: Arcane, Faith, Focus or
Nature, Melee or Ranged, Athletics,
Perception.
Primary talent: Eldricht Spark.
Special: when you enter this class, choose
a combination of attribute + skill (among
Arcane, Faith, Focus or Nature) with the
Game Master approbation. You use this
attribute+skill as the spark activation check.
You must also choose one energy (with the
Game Master approbation) as your spark
energy, which is used to deal damage for some
sparks.
Eldricht Armor Enchantment:
(Spark-powered) you can enchant a piece
of armor you touch with a constant ability
determined by the spark school. Make a
spark activation+Eldricht Armor
Enchantment as a duration roll. A single
equipment can only have one enchantment
at a single time. Enchantments are
magical eects and can be dispelled. You
can end any of your enchantment with a
free action, but you must be able to touch
the enchanted armor.
Eldricht Channel: (Spark-powered) you
can infuse yourself with a constant special
quality determined by the spark school.
Make a spark activation+Eldricht
Channel as a duration roll. You can only
have one channel active at a single time.
Channels are magical eects and can be
dispelled. You can end any of your
channel with a free action.
Eldricht Parry: (Constant) you can use
your Willpower save instead of your
Fortitude to block attacks. (Daily,
Spark-powered, Spell-powered) You can
channel your magic to parry most kind of
attacks. Make a spark activation+Eldricht
Parry as a duration roll. You add half
your talent ranks to your Willpower save
for the purpose of blocking attacks, and
you can block melee, ranged or area
attacks even though you do not wear a

shield. You cannot block mental or
physical attacks, unless those are
transmitted through an object of some
sort.
Eldricht Spark: you gain one eldricht
spark per talent rank, which can be used
to trigger spark-powered talents. If you
have no existing Spellcasting talent, you
gain one additional spark per rank in your
activation attribute. Each spark is
associated to a specific school of magic of
your choice. You can have dierent sparks
from the same school of magic. You
become permanently unable to cast spells
(though you can still spend known spells
to activate specific talents). This talent
corresponds to a Spellcasting talent for
the prerequisites of some prestige or elite
classes (Game Master discretion). You can
also spend a spark instead a spell to
trigger Spell-powered talents (Game
Master discretion).
Eldricht Strike: (Spark-powered) when
you make a melee or ranged attack, you
can spend a certain number of sparks to
obtain an additional eect on that attack
which depends on the spark school. You
add your talent ranks to the attack roll
(however, not to additional attack rolls
that might be granted by the spark or the
use of other talents). During a single
round, you can only spend one eldricht
spark through this talent. You recover
your spark spents during a full-night rest.
Eldricht Weapon Enchantment:
(Spark-powered) you can enchant one
weapon you touch with a constant ability
determined by the spark school. Make a
spark activation+Eldricht Channel as a
duration roll. A single weapon can only
have one enchantment at a single time.
Enchantments are magical eects and can
be dispelled. You can end any of your
enchantment with a free action, but you
must be able to touch the enchanted
weapon.
3.7.1 Eldricht Armor Enchantments
Note: you can use eldricht armor enchantment
to enchant natural armor, including your own
if you have natural armor. You can also
enchant clothe, shields, or similar objects, with
the Game Master approval.
Abjuration: the wearer of the armor
reduces all damage from one energy of
your choice by your talent ranks. If you
choose your spark energy, you can roll
twice the duration roll.
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Conjuration: when the wearer is targeted
by an area attack, she can teleport up to
1m per talent rank before the attack,
possibly allowing her to escape it if she
teleports out of the area. This eect can
only be triggered once per round.
Divination: the wearer of the armor can
force reroll up to one attack roll made
against her per round.
Enchantment: creatures adjacent to the
wearer become reluctant to attack her,
increasing by half your talent ranks the
diculty of all checks against her.
Creatures with a Willpower score higher
than your talent ranks are not aected.
Evocation: once per round, when the
wearer is hit by an adjacent creature, he
can immediatly counterattack, inflicting
one point of wound damage of your spark
energy per success obtained by the
attacker (up to your talent ranks).
Illusion: the wearer can spend one free
action per round to turn invisible. She can
remain invisible until she attacks. Once
she attacks a creature, she must wait one
round before becoming invisible again.
Necromancy: the wearer of the armor
cannot die when he reaches his maximum
wound damage. He ignores up to one
debilitation damage per talent ranks, and
does not fall unconscious when he reaches
his maximum debilitation damage. He
still dies if he is aected by an instant
death eect.
Transmutation: the wearer gains the
ability to fly at twice her land speed. If
she does not land when the ability expires,
she immediatly falls.
3.7.2 Eldricht Channels
Abjuration: you are surrounded by a
powerful armor of force, granting you an
armor rating equal to half your talent
ranks. This armor does not stack with any
sort of physical armor you might wear. It
does not impose an armor penalty to
Dexterity-based checks.
Conjuration: you can spend one move
actions to teleport up to 20m per talent
rank. You can split this ability into
multiple uses. Once you have traveled the
prescribed distance, the channel ends.
Divination: you add half your talent
ranks to your Instinct against any illusion
eect. You can see invisible creatures, yet
only as blurred silhouettes.
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Enchantment: your mere presence
impedes thinking abilities around you.
You increase by half your talent ranks the
diculty of all mental-based skill checks of
creatures adjacent to you (including
allies). Creatures with a Willpower score
higher than your talent ranks are not
aected.
Evocation: any attack roll you succeed
pushes back your opponent 1m per success
obtained (up to your talent ranks).
Illusion: you blur your own silhouette
and movements. Each round during which
you move at least 5m, you increase by half
your talent ranks the diculty of all skill
checks made against you which require
accuracy (such as Perception checks,
ranged attack rolls, but not area attack
rolls or spells).
Necromancy: you add your talent ranks
to all your saves against attacks against
which undead are naturally resilient.
Eects related with living or undead
creatures consider you as an undead.
Transmutation: you can enhance one
minor aspect of your body. This grants
you a bonus equal to half your talent
ranks to one skill related to that alteration
(Game Master approval required).
3.7.3 Eldricht Strikes
Abjuration: you dispel one magical eect
aecting the target per success obtained.
Non-permanent eects are aected first.
Permanent eects are not entirely
dispelled: they are only suppressed for one
round per talent rank.
Conjuration: you summon several copies
of your weapon to attack the target. You
can make one extra attack per two talent
ranks, using your usual Melee or Ranged
skill.
Divination: you can roll twice the attack
roll. If you succeed, you gain a bonus
equal to your talent ranks to your saves
against the next attack of the target
against you.
Enchantment: you strike with fear up to
one enemy per talent rank who sees you
attacking the primary target. Compare
the net result of your attack roll with the
Willpower of each secondary target. The
creature must flee away from you for one
round per success obtained.
Evocation: you create a burst of your
spark energy in a 1m per talent rank
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sphere centered on the target. Compare
the net result of your attack roll with the
Reflex of each creature in the area
(including the initial target). Each target
takes one wound damage of that energy
per success obtained. If there is no other
target than the primary target in the area,
she suers wound damage equal to the net
number of successes obtained.
Illusion: you create the most frightening
sight the target can imagine. The target
suers debilitation damage equal to half
the number of successes obtained (up to
your talent ranks). If she reaches her
maximum debilitation damage, she
instantly dies.
Necromancy: you suck up the target life
force, healing you by one wound damage
per successes obtained.
Transmutation: you transmute yourself
into pure energy, charging to the target
and going through any creature in
between (up to 5m per talent rank). You
fly during this charge, and thus can ignore
any kind of dicult terrain. Compare the
net result of your attack roll with the
Reflex of each creature in the way
(including the final target). The target
takes one wound damage of your spark
energy per success obtained. If there is no
other target than the creature you charge,
she suers wound damage equal to the net
number of successes obtained.
3.7.4 Eldricht Weapon Enchantments
Note: you can use eldricht weapon
enchantments to enchant natural weapons.
You can enchant your own natural weapons
only if you have one (such as claws or fangs),
or if you have the Ki Strike talent (or any
equivalent talent).
Abjuration: each round the wearer does
not attack with the weapon, she gains a
bonus to all his saves against melee equal
to your talent ranks, and half your talent
ranks against ranged attacks.
Conjuration: the weapon can be thrown
and then teleport back to the wielders
hand. The wielder can thus make ranged
attack rolls (with the Ranged skill) with
the weapon against targets located up to
5m per talent rank.
Divination: the weapon will always find
its way to your target. The wielder ignore
cover or range penalties on all ranged
attack rolls up to your talent ranks.

Enchantment: the weapon disrupts the
mental processes of the target. The wearer
can inflict one debilitation damage after a
successful hit, except against creatures
with a Willpower score higher than your
talent ranks. A single creature can only be
aected once with this talent.
Evocation: you encase the weapon with
one energy of your choice: all damage
dealt by the weapon comes from that
energy. If you choose your spark energy,
you can roll twice the duration roll.
Illusion: the weapon is not always where
it seems to be, allowing the wielder to roll
twice one attack roll per round, except
against creatures with an Instinct score
higher than your talent ranks. The wielder
can use this ability only once per creature.
Necromancy: each time the weapon kills
a living creature, the wearer gains a bonus
on her next attack roll equal to the
Strength of the target killed modified by
its size (Game Master discretion), up to
your talent ranks. She can benefit from
this bonus only once per round.
Transmutation: you transmute the
weapon into a weapon of another type, or
in another material. Special materials like
mithril require high talent ranks to unlock.
3.8 Monk
Monks try to achieve perfection in everything
they do... notably martial arts. They
transcend their mortal flesh and souls to
become something else, apart from the world.
Monks tend to gather in monasteries isolated
from the rest of the world, with each
monastery firmly believing that their point of
view is the only way to perfection. Most monks
quit their monasteries after their training and
wander through the world, as a way to test
their own dedication and inner strength.
Ghelspad: there are only a few monastic
traditions in Ghelspad. The most well-known
is the order of the Scarred Hands, which
actively tries to heal the land and the people
(sometimes alienating the local rulers like in
Calastia or in Dunahnae). A few churches also
train monks, like the order of steel dedicated
to Corean, the dawn spear adepts who follow
Madriel, or the elusice nightblades,
monk-assassins dedicated to Belsameth.
Termana: there are very little monastic
orders on Termana, mostly because the land is
too aggressive to provide the peaceful
environment required to focus eciently. The
only notable exception is the order of the four
winds, relatively strong in the human nations
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(also present in Ghelspad), which aims at
teaching the common folk ways to fight against
oppression like the charduni empire.
Asherak: there are a rather large number
of monks in the continent, notably since the
first exemplars originated from the asheraki
city-state of Brathanis. The exemplars have a
secret stronghold in the desert of Onn, and
most monks of the continent actually trained
here. A few other churches also form monks,
but they are more rare (since they typically
prefer paladins or guardians).
The Dragon Lands: a small number of
monks found the focus and dedication
necessary to walk the path of the monk. They
tend to gather in small monasteries outside of
the clans, and almost never mettle in the
aairs of said clans, prefering contemplation
and training as their way of life.
Fenrilik: there are almost no monks in
Fenrilik, as the harsh conditions do not allow
such luxuries as contemplation or meditation.
white
Concept: uses his focus to reach perfection
in everywthing he does.
Primary saves: Reflex, Willpower
Primary skills: Acrobatics, Athletics,
Focus, Melee.
Primary talent: Ki Strike.
Intercept Projectiles: (Constant) you
can always block ranged attacks, even if
you do not have a shield. (Encounter) You
can intercept a projectile which crosses
your melee reach (typically, a ranged
attack made against you). Make a
Dexterity+Focus+Intercept Projectiles
check against a diculty equal to the
incoming ranged attack roll. If you
succeed, the attack is negated and you
snatch the projectile. You can then use a
move action to make a ranged attack with
it, with a bonus to the attack roll equal to
your talent ranks. You must have at least
one hand free to use both eects of this
talent.
Ki Strike: (Constant) you increase all
damage you deal with unarmed attacks by
half your talent ranks. (Encounter) You
can make a staggering unarmed strike
with a Dexterity+Melee+Ki Strike vs
Fortitude check as a melee and physical
attack roll. If you succeed, the target
suers wound damage normally and the
target looses one action per two talent
ranks.
Perfect Body: (Encounter) you can
substitute any skill check based on
Strength or Dexterity with
Charisma+Focus+Perfect Body. (Daily)
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Strength or Dexterity, using
Charisma+Focus+Perfect Body instead of
the usual check.
Perfect Flesh: (Daily) you can clean your
body from external agents. You cure
yourself from any poison, disease or
similar eects which diculty is equal or
lower than your talent ranks, or heal a
number of debilitation damage equal to
your talent ranks. Make a
Charisma+Focus+Perfect Flesh check as a
duration roll. You gain a bonus in
Fortitude equal to your half your talent
ranks for the prescribed duration.
Perfect Motion: (Constant) you can force
reroll any Acrobatics check. (Daily) You
can teleport up to 20m per talent rank.
You can split this distance in several uses.
You must see your point of arrival to
teleport there.
Perfect Soul: (Daily) you can enter a
trance-like state in which you become
resistant to mental attacks. Make a
Charisma+Focus+Perfect Soul check as a
duration roll. While this stance lasts, you
can force reroll one mental attack roll
against you per talent rank. Furthermore,
you ignore the same number of
debilitation damage. This damage does
not vanish: you simply ignore it for the
duration of the trance.
3.9 Paladin
Paladins are sacred warriors who follow a
certain code of justice. Most of them hear a
divine calling when they are younger, and
believe it is their duty to go on and protect the
innocents and the weaks. Most paladins honor
Corean as the god of true justice and a
parangon of virtue they try to achieve. A
certain number are lone travelers, but a
majority of them are actually gathered in
knightly orders, each dedicated to a certain
goal or ideal.
Ghelspad: the most famous orders are the
four swords of Corean, four orders which
exemplify dierent virtues of a paladin. The
order of Mithril (based in Mithril with a small
chapter in Fangsfall) creates heroic champions
of justice. The order of Silver (primarily based
in the Gleaming Valley) hunts demons and
other extraplanar threats. The order of Steel
(originating from Darakeene) focuses on the
art of war as well as the art of weaponsmith.
Finally the order of Gold (based in Durrover)
is dedicated to compassion and healing.
Various other knightly orders exist as well,
including the madrielite Order of the Morning
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Sky, or the dwarven Hearthguardians from
Burok Torn.
Termana: there are very few paladins on
Termana, except for the famous Sisters of the
Sun. These female paladins have repelled by
three times the invasion of the infamous Ghul
King against the various human kingdoms.
The sisters keep an eye on the remaining
undead forces, while scouting human nations
to keep the titanspawns at bay.
Asherak: there is a relatively large number
of paladins on Asherak, as sacred warriors are
trained in almost every city. It is on this
continent that paladins of other gods than
Corean are mostly found. The most famous
are the paladins of Crown Keep, who, despite
their small numbers, manage to hold o the
various monsters from the Soulburn Waste.
The Dragon Lands: there are no paladins
in the Dragon Lands, as the concept of a
lonely avenger or a sacred knight is quite alien
to the local culture.
Fenrilik: there are almost no paladins in
Fenrilik, as the voice of the gods are rarely
heard on this continent.
white
Concept: protects the weak and the
innocent with the help of his divinity.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Willpower
Primary skills: Faith, Heal, Melee, Ride.
Primary talent: Smite Evil.
Detect Evil: (Constant) you add half your
talent ranks to your Instinct save against
any illusion attack. (Encounter) You can
detect enemies of your faith. Make an
Charisma+Faith+Detect Evil check. For
each success you detect the distance and
direction to the next closest creature. If
the creature in question is disguised under
an illusion eect, you require as many
successes on your check as the number of
successes she obtained on her spellcasting
roll. If you do not have enough successes,
you still detect the next nearest creature.
Divine Courage: (Constant) you add half
your talent ranks to your Willpower save
against any fear attack. (Daily) You can
also help your allies fight fear. You can
target yourself and a number of allies
equal to your talent ranks. Make a
Charisma+Faith+Divine Courage check
as a duration roll. The targets become
immune against fear eects for the
prescribed duration.
Divine Mount: (Constant) you gain one
mount with whom you share a special
divine link. You can force reroll any
Dexterity+Ride check when you are on
your mount. (Encounter) You can
substitute any skill check you make from

above your mount, or you mount makes,
with a Charisma+Ride+Divine Mount
check.
Shield of Faith: (Encounter) whenever
an ally is attacked, you can invoke your
god for protection. Make a
Charisma+Faith+Shield of Faith check. If
the target is from the same faith as you,
you can roll twice this check. If you obtain
more successes than the triggering attack,
then it is canceled, and you can roll twice
your next attack against the attacker.
Smite Evil: (Constant) you increase by
+1 all the damage you deal to enemies of
your faith. (Encounter) You can deliver a
powerful smite against an enemy of your
faith. Make a Charisma+Faith+Smite
Evil as a melee attack roll, rolling twice.
If you succeed, you deal a number of
wound damage equal to the net number of
successes obtained. This damage is of an
energy which depends on your god
(radiant for most paladins, Game Master
discretion). If the target is not an enemy
of your faith, you make a normal attack
roll instead and take one debilitation
damage (and you still use the daily usage
of this talent).
Weapon of the Faith: (Constant) when
you use your gods favored weapon, you
can substitute your melee attack rolls with
Strength+Faith checks, and your ranged
attack rolls with Dexterity+Faith check.
(Daily) You can cover your weapon with
divine energy. Make a
Charisma+Faith+Weapon of the Faith
check as a duration roll. Your attacks
with your gods favored weapon deal
damage of an energy determined by your
god for the prescribed duration.
3.10 Psion
There are no psion in the Scarred Lands.
white
Primary saves: Reflex, Willpower
Primary skills: Deception, Focus,
Perception, Persuasion.
Primary talent: Spellcasting (Psionic
Magic).
Common Memory: (Encounter) when
you make a knowledge check, you can
substitute your check with an
Intelligence+Focus+Common Memory
check.
Mind Over Matter: choose one Strength-
or Dexterity-based skill. (Encounter)
When you make a check from one of the
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selected skills, you can substitute your
check with an Intelligence+Focus+Mind
Over Matter check. (Daily) You can use
the power of your mind to resist physical
pain. Make an Intelligence+Focus+Mind
Over Matter check as a duration roll. You
can use your Willpower save instead of
your Fortitude save, and you ignore a
number of debilitation damage equal to
your talent ranks. This damage does not
vanish: you simply ignore it for the
duration of the eect.
Mind Spike: (Daily) when you are
targeted by a mental attack, you can
strike down the attacker. Make an
Intelligence+Focus+Mind Spike check. If
you exceed the attack roll, the attack fails
and the attacker suers as many wound
damage (psychic) as the number of
exceeding successes, as well as one
debilitation damage. If you fail, you still
gain a bonus on all your defenses against
that attack equal to half your talent ranks.
Psionic Focus: (Daily) you become
psionic-focused for a number of rounds
equal to your talent ranks. While you are
psionic-focused, you can roll twice any
Focus-based check. You can also use one
heightened eect of your psionic spells
without spending an action point, but this
immediately ends this talent.
Furthermore, you cannot hide the visual
or auditive eects of your spells.
Psionic Reflexes: (Encounter) when you
are attacked against your Reflex, you can
make an Intelligence+Focus+Psionic
Reflexes check and use the result instead
of your save.
Spellcasting (Psionic Magic): you can
cast psionic spells, using
Intelligence+Focus+Spellcasting (Psionic
Magic) as the spellcasting roll. You learn
a number of common spells equal to your
talent ranks. If Psion is your first base
class, you learn an additional number of
common spells equal to your Intelligence
ranks. You dont need to talk or move to
cast spells. However, your spells display
perceptible visual or auditive eects.
(Encounter) You can cast a spell without
any of these visual or auditive eects.
3.11 Ranger
Rangers are quite common throughout the
Scarred Lands, notably because civilization has
not yet claimed all the land. Rangers are
needed as scouts or hunters, and can be found
in most cultures, especially in nomadic tribes.
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Rangers who honor the gods are frequent
worshippers of Tanil the Huntress, yet this is
more a trend than an actual rule; the skills of
a ranger are not linked to any actual divinity,
be it a god or a titan.
Ghelspad: the most famous rangers are
probably the Vigilants of Vesh, who scout the
land to evaluate the threat of titanspawn or
other evil cultures like Calastia or Dunahnae.
The wood elves of Vera-Tre and the Horsaw
Forest have both a strong anity with this
class, as they are naturally attuned to forests
of all kind. Rangers can be found every-where
else (except maybe in the city-states where
such training is more rare). The nomadic
tribes of Bleak Savannah or the Ukrudan
Desert make a frequent use of rangers too, as
well as the people of Ontenazu, where the
Windwalkers guide caravans and travelers
through the Canyon of Souls.
Termana: rangers in Termana mostly come
from the nomadic tribes. Some of them live in
the human countries, and even fewer in the
forsaken elf or charduni lands. Most warriors
in the Gamulganjus are actually rangers, as
their skills are required to live in such hostile
jungle. Rangers can also be found in the tribes
of the Centaur Plains or the Iron Sand Desert.
In these last cases, the rangers tend to honor
the spirits of nature rather than a specific god
or titan.
Asherak: there are very few rangers in the
asheraki city-states. However, this class is
much more common in the nomadic tribes of
the desert, as their skills are required to
survive the hostile environment. Asheraki
rangers honor a lot a various gods of the
desert, most of them being almost unknown in
the other continents.
The Dragon Lands: rangers are relatively
common in the Dragon Lands, even though
they do not have the same importance as they
can have on other continents. The wood elf
clans have a strong and old ranger tradition,
while a few clans use them as scouts or
messengers.
Fenrilik: rangers are the most common
class in Fenrilik, as they are the most able to
survive the arctic weather. The ice gnomes
who originate from this continent are
frequently rangers, and most of the tribes and
families who live on this continent have at
least one ranger to guide them through the
tundra, hunt for food, or find shelter.
white
Concept: a warrior at ease in the wild.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Reflex
Primary skills: Nature, Perception,
Ranged, Stealth.
Primary talent: Favored Enemies.
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Animal Companion: (Constant) you
gain one animal companion that can
understand and follow your orders (Game
Master approval required). (Encounter)
You can substitute any of your animal
companion skill check with your own
Intelligence+Nature+Animal Companion
skill check.
Animal Empathy: (Constant) animals
understand you particularly well. You can
make Intelligence (using the Intelligence
score of the animal instead of
yours)+Nature+Animal Empathy checks
to try to transmit ideas or concepts to
them, even influence their behaviour.
(Daily) You can use this talent to make an
animal do something he would not do
under normal circumstances (for example,
asking an hungry predator to not attack
you and leave). The diculty depends on
the task to accomplish (Game Master
discretion).
Archer's Eye: (Constant) you add half
your talent ranks to all Perception checks
made to see from afar, and you reduce the
distance penalty to ranged attacks by the
same amount. (Encounter) You can
substitute a ranged attack roll with a
Dexterity+Perception+Archers Eye
check. If the target makes you force reroll
this check, you can roll twice the reroll.
Expert Tracker: (Encounter) you can roll
twice any Nature check to track a
creature, or any Stealth check you make
to conceal your own tracks. In both cases
you can add your talent ranks to your skill
check.
Favored Enemies: choose one type of
creatures as your favored enemies (Game
Master approval required). (Constant)
You gain a +1 bonus to all skill checks
made against your favored enemies as well
as on one save of your choice against
attacks from your favored enemies (decide
when you choose the talent). (Encounter)
You can roll twice a skill check made
against your favored enemies, with a
bonus equal to your talent ranks.
Terrain Mastery: choose one terrain type
(Game Master approval required).
(Constant) You and as many allies as your
talent ranks that can hear and understand
you gain a +1 bonus to all skill checks and
saves when interacting with that terrain.
(Encounter) You can roll twice any skill
check made in your favored terrain. Add
your talent ranks as a bonus to this check.

3.12 Rogue
Rogues are common through most civilised
areas, even if their number and importance
may vary from place to place, depending on
the culture and the local law enforcement. The
rogue class covers a wide range of characters,
like the thief, the spy, the daring
swashbuckling adventurer, or the
knowledgeable treasure hunter.
Ghelspad: there are various rogues in
Ghelspad, mostly located in the human nations
and city-states. The Calastian Hegemony
produces a lot of them, notably since
inequalities through the country force several
people to steal for a living. Rogues are quite
common in Shelzar too, as anything in this
city seems possible. Even cities like Mithril or
Fangsfall have their dark side, with
cut-throats, burglars, or rackets here and
there. The most well-known thief guild is
called the Scaled, which operates through all
the continent, but other guilds exist as well
(and most thiefs arent aliated to any one).
Termana: rogues are mostly common in
the human nations of Termana, even though
forsaken elves slowly become rogues, by
necessity more than by choice. Rogues are
highly common on the Grey Island, inhabited
with refugee outlawed from other countries.
On the other hand, there are almost no rogues
in the charduni empire, since the law
enforcement is strong enough to ensure anyone
caught stealing or cheating wont do it again.
Asherak: there are a rather large number
of rogues in the asheraki city-states, notably in
those where the cult of gods like Enkili or
Belsameth is open. For example, Brathanis,
previously known for being home to the very
first exemplars, has become a haven for these
outcast, and the city has become a major
center of the cult of Enkili. A large number of
God-Kings also used specially trained sacred
rogues called the Unsee Eyes, who carry out
missions for them, ranging from spying to
assassination of enemies of the faith.
The Dragon Lands: there are a few rogues
in the Dragon Lands, even though not as much
as in other continents as the local society tends
to find a place for everyone among the clans.
Still, a few individuals think that cheating and
stealing is their best way in life, and it is not
uncommon to see criminals wanted by several
clans for their crimes. The best even dream of
stealing form a dragons hoard, but all who try
get caught in the act (and generally, brutally
killed by said dragon).
Fenrilik: there are almost no rogues in
Fenrilik. One notable reason is that the
climate and the lands are so dangerous, no one
has really the occasion to think about
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backstabbing others. On the contrary, the local
culture is more about help and mutual aid.
white
Concept: a scoundrel of multiple talents.
Primary saves: Reflex, Instinct
Primary skills: Acrobatics, Deception,
Stealth, Thievery.
Primary talent: Sneak Attack.
Conceal Item: (Encounter) you can
conceal a small item on yourself. No
mundane search can find the concealed
item, and magical eects suer a malus
equal to your talent ranks. You can
conceal a number of items this way equal
to your talent ranks. A concealed item
ceases to be concealed as soon as someone
else than yourself sees it.
Fast Talk: (Constant) when you have a
social interaction, you choose either of
your Charisma or Intelligence as the base
attribute for the corresponding skill check.
This can apply to social talents like the
Taunt talent if the Game Master approves
it. (Encounter) When you make a social
interaction check, you can force reroll the
check using an
Intelligence+Deception+Fast Talk check.
Quick Skill: choose one skill per talent
rank. (Daily) You can perform an action
based on one of the chosen skills that
would normally take several rounds (or
even minutes or hours) in a single round.
Add your talent ranks to your skill check.
Sneak Attack: (Encounter) when you
surprise an opponent with a melee or
ranged attack, you can roll twice your
attack roll. If you succeed, you deal an
additional amount of wound damage equal
to your talent ranks. The damage dealt by
a sneak attack becomes hemorrhagic
damage, unless you have a Strength score
higher than the armor rating of the target,
in which case you can deal physical
damage if you wish.
Trap Sense: (Constant) you never trigger
traps accidently when you actively try to
detect them. (Daily) When you disable a
trap, pick a lock, or perform any similar
action, you can roll twice, with a bonus
equal to your talent ranks.
Uncanny Dodge: (Constant) you are
never surprised by an attack. (Encounter)
When you are targeted by a melee, ranged
or area attack, you can force reroll the
attack roll, with a malus equal to your
talent ranks.
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3.13 Sorcerer
Sorcerers inherit their powers from a distant
and powerful ancestor. Sorcerers are born
sorcerers. It is impossible to learn being a
sorcerer, even though pacts made with devils,
angels or feys (among other) might grant
sorcerous powers. The powers of a sorcerer are
inherited, and the first sorcerers were granted
their power by the titans. Even though the
titanic influence have been diluted through the
millenia, sorcery is still considered with
suspicion, as one does not always know the
true origin of a sorcerers power, nor where lies
its true allegience.
Ghelspad: the most famous sorcerers are
the albadian sorceresses known as the Hellian:
these tattooed witches act as spiritual guides
for the nomadic tribes of this barbaric country.
Sorcerers can otherwise arise in most nations;
they are relatively frequent near Zathiske and
the Ukrudan Desert (with some kind of anity
for fire magic), and Calastia tries to raise
lineages of sorcerers for their armies. The
drendali also have a few powerful sorcerers
among their ranks. A small guild of half-orc
sorcerers, powered by the blood of Kadum,
lives from piracy on the Blood Sea.
Termana: there is not as many sorcerers in
Termana as in Ghelspad. A few forsaken elves
are (even though they tend to be more often
wizards than sorcerers), typically draining
their powers from old dragon alliances. In the
human countries, more sorcerers are born with
time, probably due to the occult influence of
the nearby Blood Bayou. Finally, a few
sorcerers live among the nomadic tribes in the
south, notably in some of the terali tribes
where dark spots mark them as such.
Asherak: there are only a few sorcerers in
Asherak, as this land is more impregnated
with divine magic than arcane. Most of them
live in the city-states, and draw their powers
from pacts with devils and angels. A certain
number of them live with the nomadic tribes.
In particular, the Shalathim tribe is
well-known for their powerful use of fire magic,
and is feared by most of the other local tribes
because of it.
The Dragon Lands: not surprisingly,
sorcerers are the most common spellcasters on
this isolated continent. Most sorcerers claim to
have dragon blood in their veins, and the very
few woh cannot might sometimes be
excommunated, if not hunted or executed in
the most extreme cases. Sorcerers here have a
very high social status, as they are seen as
directly empowered by the dragon of the high
clans, and in some cases are direct
ambassadors of said dragons.
Fenrilik: there are a few sorcerers on this
continent, and most of them are worshippers of
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the titans who fled the Divine War and the
persectutions by the god-worshippers.
white
Concept: inherits his arcane magic from a
powerful ancestor.
Primary saves: Fortitude, Willpower
Primary skills: Arcane, Deception,
Perception, Persuasion.
Primary talent: Spellcasting (Inherited
Magic).
Energy Cloak: (Daily, Spell-powered) you
can surround yourself in arcane energy.
Make a Charisma+Arcane+Energy Cloak
check as a duration roll and choose one
energy type. You gain resistance equal to
your talent ranks for the prescribed
duration. Furthermore, you can deliver
melee attacks using
Strength+Melee+Energy Cloak as the
melee attack roll; these attacks deal
damage of the chosen energy. Finally, you
can convert all the damage you deal with
spells into the chosen energy. However,
each time you do so the duration reduces
by one round.
Display of Power: (Encounter) when you
make a Deception or Persuasion check,
you can substitute your check with an
Charisma+Arcane+Display of Power
check.
Imbue Item: (Daily) during one full-night
rest you can imbue one item with one
spell you know. Any creature holding the
item can cast the spell herself, making the
spellcasting roll using her own
Charisma+Arcane score plus your talent
ranks. As long as the item is enchanted
you cannot recover the spell: you cannot
cast it, either through normal means or
with the Inner Magic talent. You recover
the spell the next rest after the imbued
spell has been cast, or when the item is
destroyed, or after one day per talent rank
(at which point the enchantment finishes).
Inner Magic: you gain one spell foil per
talent rank. Whenever you cast one spell
with the Spellcasting (Inherited Magic) or
Spellcasting (Arcane Legacy) talents, you
can spend one of your spell foil instead of
loosing the spell. You cannot use these
spell foils for any other purposes, like
spell-powered talents.
Spellcasting (Arcane Legacy): choose
one type of magical creature from which
you descent (Game Master approval
required). You can cast one legacy spell
that depends on your linage. You use
Charisma+Arcane+Arcane Legacy as the
spellcasting roll for this spell.

Furthermore, choose one energy in
relation to your heritage as your legacy
energy. When an arcane eect allows you
to choose a type of energy (like the
Energy Cloak talent), you must choose
your legacy energy. (Encounter) When
you are attacked by your legacy energy,
you can force reroll the attack roll, and
gain a bonus on all your saves against that
attack equal to half your talent ranks.
Spellcasting (Inherited Magic): you
can cast arcane spells using
Charisma+Arcane+Spellcasting
(Inherited Magic) as the spellcasting roll.
You learn a number of common spells
equal to your talent ranks. If Sorcerer is
your base class, you learn an additional
number of common spells equal to your
Charisma ranks. You must be able to
speak and move to cast your spells. You
cannot cast spells if you are silenced or
immobilized. (Daily) You can spend a
full-round action to recover spent spells.
Make a Spellcasting (Inherited Magic)
check (without skill or attribute). You
recover a number of spells equal to your
successes (minimum one).
3.14 Wizard
While sorcerers inherit their arcane powers,
wizards learn them through intensive esoteric
studies. They are slightly more tolerated than
sorcerers, but most of the population is still
suspicious towards arcane magic. Wizards tend
to group in guilds of some sort, so that they
can better preserve or expand their knowledge,
and better defend themselves against the local
population.
Ghelspad: a small number of wizards can
be found in almost any civilised countries. The
most prominent guild is certainly the
Phylacteric Vault in Darakeene, which explores
exotic areas of magic like dream or time magic.
The most dangerous are the calastian
battlemages, who uses powerful magic to aid
their nations troops in combat. The
necromancers of Hollowfaust are also wizards,
even if they stand out with their uncommon
use of death magic. Finally, the dwarves of
Burok Torn are the most famous non-human
wizards, wielding powerful runic magics
against their enemies.
Termana: the forsaken elves are certainly
the most powerful wizards of the continent,
and maybe of the entire world. They aquired
arcane knowledge after centuries and millenia
of research, and hold firmly to it after the
events of the Divine War. In the borderland
country of Sylavael, wizards tend to have
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fighter-like tendencies, in order to help in the
war against the charduni. The dark dwarves
themselves have a strong necromantic
background, using undead armies at their
command. Wizards are somewhat rare in the
human nations, and almost unknown
everywhere else.
Asherak: there are not a lot of wizards in
Asherak as most spellcasters are clerics. The
few wizards are typically closely watched by
the city-states governements, in order to avoid
outbreaks of loose arcane energies as what
happened during the Divine War. The old city
of Valmatia used to have a powerful legion of
war mages, but has been entirely lost during
the fight against the titans.
The Dragon Lands: there are only a few
wizards in the Dragon Lands, as it seems weird
for a continent so impregnated with sorcerous
magic to actually study arcane magic. Most
wizards are therefore mocked for their
attempts, even though an occasionnal
enlighted dragons might take a wizard or two
under his wings in order to better understands
the deep mysteries of magic.
Fenrilik: there are almost no wizards in
Fenrilik, as the climate does not provide an
environment suitable enough for the arcane
studies.
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Concept: learns arcane magic through
books and grimoires.
Primary saves: Willpower, Instinct
Primary skills: Arcane, Erudition, Focus,
Perception.
Primary talent: Spellcasting (Prepared
Magic).
Arcane Sight: (Encounter) you can
substitute a Perception check with an
Intelligence+Arcane+Arcane Sight check.
Alternatively, you can add half your talent
ranks to your Instinct save againt the next
illusion eect of the encounter. (Daily,
Spell-powered) You can grant yourself a
special arcane vision. Make an
Intelligence+Arcane+Arcane Sight check
as a duration roll. While this eect is
active, you detect magical auras within
your spellcasting range (like magic items,
active spells, etc). Some eects are more
dicult to perceive, and might require a
certain number of successes (Game Master
discretion).
Bastion of Will: (Constant) you can force
reroll any Focus check made to cast spells
in dicult conditions. (Encounter) When
you are subject to a mental attack, you
can make an Intelligence+Focus+Bastion
of Will check and use the result as your
Willpower against that attack.
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Cantrips: choose one spell you know per
talent rank. You can cast the diminished
eects of these spells once per encounter.
This usage comes in addition to the
normal diminished eects usage.
(Encounter) When you cast a diminished
eects of a spell, you gain a bonus on your
spellcasting roll equal to your talent
ranks. (Daily) You can channel magic at
very high speed. Make an
Intelligence+Arcane+Cantrips as a
duration roll. Casting a dminished eect
of a spell becomes a move action only, and
any diminished spell eect you cast while
this talent is active does not count toward
your encounter usage.
a specially prepared arcane focus (wand,
sta, tome, etc) to cast your spells as well
as be able to speak. You cannot cast spells
if you are silenced or do not hold your
focus. Furthermore, you keep a spellbook
which contains one reserve spell per talent
rank. When you have time to study your
spellbook (usually only possible during a
rest), you can replace any number of your
normal spells by the same number of your
reserve spells. You must have your
spellbook available to do so.

Familiar: (Constant) you gain a small

animal of your choice as a familiar (Game
Master approval). Your familiar gains a
bonus equal to your talent ranks on all
saves. You can communicate with your
familiar by telepathy. Furthermore, you
gain a +1 bonus to a skill depending on
the familiar as long as your familiar is
adjacent to you. (Encounter) You can see
through the eyes of your familiar. To do
so you must make an
Intelligence+Arcane+Familiar check vs a
diculty depending on the distance with
your familiar (Game Master discretion) as
a duration roll.

School Mastery: choose one school of

magic. You learn one additional spell from
that school and add another one to your
reserve spells if you have the Spellcasting
(Prepared Magic) talent. If you have the
Cantrips talent, you also gain one
additional encounter usage of the cantrips
associated with your chosen school. When
you prepare your spells, you must prepare
at least one spell from your favored
school. (Encounter) You can add your
talent ranks to a spellcasting check you
make to cast a spell from the chosen
school. (Daily) You can use the
heightened eects of a spell from the
chosen school without spending an action
point. You must still cast the spell as a
ful-round action. You cannot use this
ability with eects that allow you to cast
a spell as a free action or reaction.

Spellcasting (Prepared Magic): you

can cast arcane spells using
Intelligence+Arcane+Spellcasting
(Prepared Magic) as the spellcasting roll.
You learn a number of common spells
equal to your talent ranks. If Wizard is
your first base class, you learn an
additional number of common spells equal
to your Intelligence ranks. You must have

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Prestige classes
Prestige classes represent a specific training
or abilities. Most of them are relatively easy to
learn, yet a few classes are highly selective.
Each prestige class is described in the
following format:
Prestige Class
Description of the prestige class in the Scarred
Lands, including a list of locations where
characters can learn this prestige class.
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Concept: a few words to describe the class.
Prerequisites: this indicates conditions a
character must meet before entering the
prestige class.
Additionnal talents: this indicates two
talents from base classes that the character can
select as class talents.
Description of three talents specific to the
prestige class.
4.1 Assassin
Assassins kill for a living. Most of them honor
Belsameth as the goddess of death and
assassins, yet a few honor other gods as well.
This prestige class is quite easily accessible, as
it does not require secret training of any sort.
Ghelspad - Hedrad: the very secret order
of the angels of Nemorga is trained to track
down creatures that should be dead, and are
still alive. This mostly includes undeads, but
also creatures who have been resurrected too
many times.
Ghelspad - Shelzar: the cult of the
Ancients is the most prominent guild of
assassins of all Ghelspad. They can be
contacted in every temple of Belsameth, and
will carry out their mission, as long as you are
able to pay the price.
Termana - Charduni Empire: the leader
of the charduni uses a small order of assassins
known as Charduns Mercy to quickly (and
quietly) dispatch of anywhom would threaten
or object his rule. The charduni dwarves have
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been accustomed to see one of their bethren
disappear, and are trained not to ask questions
about it.
Asherak - Vale of Shadows: the clerics of
this belsamite city-state train assassins for
their service, and send them to other
city-states to strike down enemies of the
goddess. They are used mostly as a preventive
measure, in order to ensure that no one will
attempt to invade the city.
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Concept: a silent killer.
Prerequisites: Stealth 3 ranks, Melee or
Ranged 3 ranks, must have killed at least one
creature of your own race.
Additionnal talents: Favored Enemies
(Ranger), Sneak Attack (Rogue).
Death Mark: (Daily) you can select one
creature who is not aware of your presence
or does not see you as an enemy as your
mark. For each round you spend
observing the target you gain one mark
bonus. You can accumulate this mark
bonus up to your talent ranks. When you
make your next attack against the target,
you can try to kill the target. Make a
Dexterity+Stealth (or Deception if the
creature was able to see you) vs Fortitude
with a bonus equal to the mark bonus you
have accumulated up to this point as a
melee (or ranged) and physical attack roll.
If you succeed, the target suers a number
of wound damage equal to the net number
of successes obtained, and debilitation
damage equal to half the number of
successes obtained. If the target becomes
dying or unconscious because of this
attack, she dies immediatly.
Poison Use: (Constant) you never poison
yourself by accident when you manipulate
poison. (Encounter) You can coat an
object with poison. Make an
Intelligence+Thievery+Poison Use check
vs Fortitude as a physical attack roll
against the first creature who touches the
object before the end of the day. If you
succeed, the target suers a number of

debilitation damage equal to the number
of successes obtained (up to your talent
ranks).
Silent Killer: (Encounter) when you
make an attack, you can immediately
after make a Stealth check, with a bonus
on the Stealth check equal to your talent
ranks. If the attack was successful, you
can roll twice.
4.2 Commander of the Dead
Commanders of the dead are necromancers
who specialize in animating undeads, a lot of
undeads. They can be found in any armies
who use undead are their main infantry (and
in the Scarred Lands, this means a lot of
dierent groups).
Ghelspad - Dunahnae: the army of
Dunahnae (said to be the most pau moins
lesprit est un peu powerful in Ghelspad) has
several necromancers in their ranks, who
ensure the loyalty of a soldier even after his
death. They have built the mighty Wall of
Bones which protects the nation from the
dangers of the Ukrudan Desert.
Ghelspad - Hollowfaust: the
necromancers of Hollowfaust are well-known
for being masters of undead animation. Their
undead armies have broken four sieges by
titanspawn, and remains yet undefeated.
Termana - Blood Bayou: the Bone Krewe
of the Carnival of Shadows has a large and
powerful undead armies, under the command
of Baron Mirth. Several commanders of the
dead serve as his lieutenants. Fortunately for
the neighbouring countries, this army never
went out the Blood Bayou.
Termana - Charduni Empire: a certain
number of commander of the dead fight in the
charduni army, but not as many as what
happens for example in the Dunahnae army.
Asherak - Scaumaturge: this city-state is
home to several necromancer lords, who
continuously fight for the control of the city
and the large amount of undead who dwell
nearby.
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Concept: a necromancer who leads armies
of undead to fight.
Prerequisites: Arcane or Faith 3 ranks,
Spellcasting (any) 3 ranks, ability to cast
animate dead spell.
Additionnal talents: Repel Infidels
(Cleric), School Mastery (Necromancy)
(Wizard).
Create Undead: when you cast the
animate dead spell, you can spend one
action point to make the eect permanent.
This is in addition to the action point
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required to cast the heightened eects if
you choose to do so. You can control up
to two undeads created with this talent
per talent rank.
Crown of Undeath: (Daily,
Spell-powered) you control up to one
undead creature per talent rank. Make a
Charisma+Arcane (or Faith)+Crown of
Undeath vs Willpower check as a mental
attack roll and duration roll. If you
succeed, the target obeys your orders for
the prescribed duration. If a creature
submits willingly to this power, she can
force reroll any check made to carry out
your orders.
Legion of the Dead: (Constant) when
you cast the animate dead spell, you no
longer need to touch the target to animate
her, and you add your talent ranks to your
ranks in the Spellcasting talent to
determine the spellcasting range. (Daily)
When you cast the animate dead spell,
you can animate up to two corpses per
talent rank. You cannot use this eect
with the Create Undead or similar talent.
4.3 Contemplative
Contemplatives are hermits who prefer a life of
isolation and meditation rather than the
turmoil of civilization. Hidden in far-away
locations, they prefer being alone, even if some
keep the company of animals or some kind of
creatures. They are solitary beings by nature,
and almost never join a guild, cult or
organization. Still, a few places seem to attract
them more than oft.
Ghelspad - Kelder Mountains: the
Kelders are a favorited hiding place for hermits
of all kinds. Regions near the Canyon of Sould
or Durrover tend to attract followers of Denev
or other titans, while a few dwarves have been
known to escape their city of Burok Torn or
Krakadm to live in complete autarcy.
Termana - Ehitovael: the Divine War has
taken a great toll on the forsaken elves, and
some have preferred to retract themselves from
civilization, remembering old times from before
the War and the ancient glory of their empire.
Termana - Titansforge Mountains: these
mountains are home to various hermits who
have fled here to pray to their gods, spirits or
titans in peace, away from those who might
chase them for their beliefs. A large number of
followers of the titans can be found in these
mountains.
Asherak - Desert of Onn: the desert of
Onn, now known as the Crucible Lands, have
always been a place for hermits and sages. It is
there that the first exemplars exiled themselves
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to reach perfection, and it is here that the
ubantu go alone to meditate on the nature of
civilization and divinity.
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Concept: meditates alone on life and
divinity.
Prerequisites: Faith or Nature 3 ranks,
Focus or Folklore 3 ranks, must have lived
alone for a full year.
Additionnal talents: Strength of the
Faith (Cleric), Natures Herald (Druid).
Eternal Body: you stop ageing (even
though you still die when your lifetime is
over), and you add your talent ranks to
your Fortitude against immediate death
eects as well as eects that would age
you.
Solitude: at the beginning of each story
arc, you can select a cabin, grotto, or
similar shelter as your home. You add
your talent ranks to all your checks made
to locate your home (even with magical
means), while ennemies suer an equal
penalty. While you are alone in your
home, you heal one additional wound
damage per two talent ranks per rest, and
you add your talent ranks to all your
defenses against physical attacks.
Spellcasting (Hedge Magic): you can
cast divine or primal spells (choose when
you first gain this talent) using
Intelligence+Folklore+Spellcasting (Hedge
Magic) as the spellcasting roll. You learn
one common or domain spell per talent
rank. The domain must either be related
to your god, or to the environment in
which your home (as defined per the
Solitude talent) is located (Game Master
approval). As opposed to the Spellcasting
(Divine Magic) talent, there is no limit to
the number of domain spells you can learn
with this talent. (Daily) When you cast a
spell without anyone looking, you can gain
automatic successes equal to your ranks in
the Focus skill (up to your talent ranks).
4.4 Divine Oracle
Oracles are the voice of their gods. They are
granted visions and premonitions, which makes
them powerful allies or dangerous enemies.
They tend to stay out of the mortal aairs,
prefering to stay in communion with their
divine patrons. Therefore, they can be found in
a lot of places, and they do not require special
training: the benediction of a god is enough.
Note that even though the title of this class
suggests a divine nature, it is also open to
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other spellcasters, as long as they are granted
visions by an appropriate entity or location.
Ghelspad - Hedrad: the clergy of
Hedrada in this city is well-known for the high
number of prophets in its ranks, as well as its
ability to predict the future (even though none
could be able to predict the Divine War).
Ghelspad - Hollowfaust: there are a few
oracles in the city of the necromancers, who
mostly specializes in predicting death of major
figures of the Scarred Lands. Unfortunately,
their voice are rarely heard outside the city.
Asherak: divine oracles can be found in
almost every city-state of the continent. Most
of them are close to their God-Kings, who use
their prophecies to better rule their city. Some
of them prefer to stay out, and remain in the
desert as hermits and anchorites.
Asherak - Arisha Jakim: on this small
island the caves of Ugarraz are said to be filled
with fumes which grant visions. An ancient
order of oracles of Enkili lived there until the
Divine War, and have been since replaced by a
barbaric tribe.
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Concept: has been granted premonitions
by his divinity.
Prerequisites: Faith or Folklore 3 ranks,
Spellcasting (Divine Magic) (Cleric) 3 ranks
(or Spellcasting (any) 3 ranks and ability to
cast Divination spells), must have been
granted a vision by your god or another entity.
Additionnal talents: School Mastery
(Divination) (Wizard), Uncanny Dodge
(Rogue).
Foresight: (Daily, Spell-powered) you can
spend one or several consecutive
full-round actions to enter a meditative
state. At the end of the meditation, you
can gain a number of automatic successes
equal to the number of rounds spent in
meditation (up to your talent ranks) to
your next skill check of the encounter.
Future Sight: (Encounter) when a
creature takes an action, you can make an
Intelligence+Perception+Future Sight vs
Instinct as a mental attack roll. The
diculty may be increased by the speed of
the creatures action (Game Master
discretion). If you succeed, you can take
an action before your opponent action
takes place.
Premonition: during a rest, you can
spend one action point to gain a short
glimpse of the future granted by your god.
Make an Intelligence+Faith+Premonition
check. The result indicate the clarity and
understandability of the vision. You can
ask to focus your concentration toward

specific places or creatures, but doing so
might increase the diculty of the check.
4.5 Enchanter
Enchanters know how to craft magic items.
Most enchanters are spellcasters but in some
rare occasion, a mortal gifted enough will find
a eay to craft magic items without knowing
magic. Whether this is a gift of the gods or
some more fundamental magic is unknown.
This prestige class is widespread in the Scarred
Lands, as most spellcasters can learn the
secrets of crafting magic items by themselves.
Ghelspad - Burok Torn: the dwarves are
well-versed in enchantment, using runes and
patterns to fix magic into items. There are
well-known for their weapons and armors, and
use it with great eciency against the
calastian army.
Ghelspad - Darakeene: the wizards of
the Phylacteric Vault study all forms of magic,
and enchantment is one of their main area of
expertise. They collect artefact from all over
Ghelspad, and try to reproduce their magic in
their laboratory.
Ghelspad - Gleaming Valley: clerics of
Hedrada and Corean are well-known to
produce weapons and armors of extraordinary
quality, up to the point of becoming enchanter.
However, artisans in this blessed city-state
prefer the path of the forgemaster rather than
the enchanter.
Ghelspad - Zathiske: elzian knew the
secrets to bind genies into objects, producing
elemental magic items of very high quality.
While this tradition was mostly lost during the
Divine War (as genies were sealed away), some
of their secrets were transmitted and are still
in use nowadays.
Termana - Forsaken Elf Realms: the
forsaken elves are masters of magic, and most
of their spellcasters know how to weave
threads of magic into items, producing jewelry,
clothing, or weapons of extraordinary quality.
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Concept: creates magical items.
Prerequisites: Craft 3 ranks, Spellcasting
(any) 3 ranks or Craft 5 ranks.
Additionnal talents: Arcane Sight
(Wizard), Imbue Item (Sorcerer).
Bolster Item: (Daily, Spell-powered) you
can increase the flow of magic in magic
items within 5 meters per talent rank
(including yours, and your enemies).
Make an Intelligence+Craft+Bolster Item
check as a duration roll. All items benefit
from a +1 bonus to theur property ranks,
and their (Daily) abilities become
(Spell-powered, Spark-powered). You can
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exclude the items of up to one creature
per talent rank in the area.
Craft Magic Item: choose one magic item
type per talent rank. You can create items
from these kinds by spending one action
point, provided you have enough material
and equipment to do so (Game Master
approval). Make an
Intelligence+Craft+Craft Magic Item to
determine the number of property ranks
you can attribute to the item. However,
you cannot create items with a property at
a rank higher than your own talent rank.
Negate Enchantment: (Daily,
Spell-powered) you can nullify the
properties of all magic items within 5
meters per talent rank (including yours
and your allies). Make an
Intelligence+Craft+Negate Enchantment
check versus the highest property rank of
an item as a mental attack roll and
duration roll. The item ceases to function
for the prescribed duration. This aects
temporary items, including those created
by the Enchant and Transfer
Enchantment talents, as well as items
storing spells as per the Imbue Item or
Brew Potion talents.
4.6 Forgemaster
Forgemasters are artisans blessed by the gods.
Most forgemasters honor Corean, the god of
smithing, but some might honor Hedrada as
the god of the artisans. It is said that the
secrets of the forgemaster originate from
Golthagga, and that his worshippers have also
access to this prestige class.
Ghelspad - Burok Torn: a few dwarven
weaponsmiths have learnt the secrets of the
forgemaster, and use their power to craft
powerful weapons and armors to defend their
city.
Ghelspad - Gleaming Valley: the best
forgemasters of Ghelspad live among the
hollow knights of Gleaming Valley, even though
a certain number of them decide to travel in
other parts of Ghelspad after their training.
Termana - Forsaken Elf Nations: a few of
the best forsaken elves are forgemasters, who
spent centuries (if not millenia) honing their
skills and creating the most beautiful of
objects.
Termana - Titansforge Mountains: it is
rumoured that the forge of Golthagga, the
Shaper, still lies in this mountain range. Any
mortal foolish enough to make the perilious
journey would certainly unlock the secrets of
this prestige class.
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Concept: crafts powerful weapons of
almost magical abilities.
Prerequisites: Craft 3 ranks, Arcane,
Faith or Nature 3 ranks, must have crafted a
masterwork weapon or armor.
Additionnal talents: Consecrate Ground
(Cleric), Quick Skill (Rogue).
Forge Investiture: (Daily) you can take
the traits of artificial creatures. Make an
Intelligence+Craft+Forge Investiture
check as a duration roll. You are immune
to any condition which requires you to be
a living being (notably, you dont need to
breathe, eat, or sleep, and are immune to
hemorrhagic damage).
Forge Union: (Constant) when you use
weapons you have crafted, you can use the
Craft skill instead of your Melee or
Ranged skill, up to your Melee (or
Ranged) skill+Forge Union. Furthermore,
any creature wielding a weapon you have
crafted can, as a (Daily) eect, gain a
bonus to her attack roll equal to your
talent ranks.
Mastercraft: when you craft or repair a
weapon or armor, you can grant it one
magic properties of your choice with a
property rank equal to your talent rank.
Make an Intelligence+Craft+Mastercraft
check: the enchantment lasts for one day
per success obtained. You can only have
one such item enchanted at a time per
talent rank, and you must have the
appropriate tools and equipment to craft
it. (Daily) You can mimic the normal
eects of a fabricate spell, using
Intelligence+Craft+Mastercraft as the
spellcasting roll. You can spend one
action point to make the eects
permanent. This is not a magical ability
and therefore works in null magic areas.
4.7 Invoker
Invokers are spellcasters who deal with demons
or other entities for power. As opposed to
popular beliefs, not only demons make pacts
with mortals. Genies, elementals, feys or even
angels are known to approach spellcaster and
grant them power... at a certain price.
Ghelspad - Burok Torn: a very few
dwarven spellcasters make pacts with earthen
elementals, typically in order to protect their
city.
Ghelspad - Drifting Isles: spellcasters
who visit the legendary drifting isles and pay
sucient hommage to the orafaun who live
there might be granted powers relative to the
dreams.
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Ghelspad - Gleaming Valley: the clerics
of the coreanic order of silver frequently make
pacts with angels and other custodians in
order to assist them in their fights against
demons and devils. These devout spellcasters
are widely respected among their ranks, but
are considered with suspicion by the other
orders as a few have actually been tricked by
demons in disguise.
Ghelspad - Perforated Plains: the old
city of Aurimar was (before the Divine War)
lead by a group of invokers. These used to deal
with various kind of powers, mostly demons
and elementals. A few of them might have
survived the destruction of the city, and it is
sure their secrets still lies in the ruins scattered
in this wasteland.
Ghelspad - Zathiske: the old zathiske was
a land of magic and wonder, as genies were
bound by powerful sorcerers to accomplish
miracles. Even after the exile of the genies in
the four elemental cities, a few zathiskean
sorcerers remember the old ways, and make
pacts with powerful elementals of all kinds.
Termana - Blood Bayou: spellcasters
daring enough to approach the Carnival of
Shadows might make deals with the mysterious
Jack of Tears. However, be warned, as these
deals rarely do much good to the mage.
Termana - Kasiavel: the forsaken elves of
the skysight realm have turned to the outer
planes after the death of their gods, in the
hope of finding a way to replace him. They
have progressively been corrupted by demons
and devils, and the fiendish influence spreads
among their ranks at an alarming rate.
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Concept: makes a pact with an
extraplanar entity to gain more power.
Prerequisites: Persuasion 3 ranks,
Spellcasting (any) 3 ranks, ability to cast
summon monster spell, must have contacted
an extraplanar entity for power.
Additionnal talents: Fast Talk (Rogue),
School Mastery (Conjuration) (Wizard).
Planar Binding: when you cast the
summon monster spell in a prepared magic
circle, you can spend one action point to
make the spell last for the entire story arc.
You can give the summoned creature one
order per talent rank. The creature will
obey them, but is free to interpret the
orders if they are badly formulated.
Summoned Defense: (Encounter) when
you are attacked by a melee, ranged or
area attack, you may cast the summon
monster spell as a reaction. The creature
is summoned adjacent to you, and the
attack targets her instead of you. As long
as the summoned creature is adjacent to

you, you can once per round decide that
an attack against you targets her instead.
Summoning Pact: you have made a
summoning pact with an extraplanar
entity. You learn on additional summon
monster spell. (Encounter) When you
make a social interaction check with allies
or enemies of your patron, you can roll
twice your skill check. (Daily) When you
cast the summon monster spell to
summon allies of your patron, you can
summon one additional creature per talent
rank, but the diculty is raised by the
number of additional creatures summoned.
4.8 Loremaster
Loremasters are scholars and erudites, using
their magical powers to enhance their
knowledge and research. They are relatively
common in the Scarred Lands, as the only
thing you really need to become a loremaster is
a large enough library.
Ghelspad - Darakeene: a few of the
wizards of the Phylacteric Vault are
loremasters, and aim at collecting all arcane
knowledge on the Scarred Lands. Of course,
they are far from accomplishing this gigantic
task, but they have still gathered a quite large
knowledge base.
Ghelspad - Hedrad: the library of Hedrad
is famous for its (almost) complete record of
laws of the Ghelspad nations, as well as history
on the Divine War. The clerics who tend this
library are accomplished loremasters.
Ghelspad - Lokil: the most famous
loremasters in Ghelspad are found in this small
library city-state, which was protected by
Hedrada himself during the Divine War.
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Concept: a scholar of magic knowledge.
Prerequisites: Erudition 3 ranks,
Spellcasting (any) 3 ranks, ability to cast spells
from the Divination school.
Additionnal talents: Arcane Sight
(Wizard), High Education (Aristocrat).
Bookworm: (Constant) library research
time is divided by your talent ranks.
(Constant) You can replace up to one
additional spell per two talent ranks by
spells contained in magic Spell Repository
implement. (Daily) When you are in a
library and search for a specific piece of
information, you can attempt to
immediately find what you are looking for.
Make an
Intelligence+Erudition+Bookworm check,
against a diculty depending on the size
of the library and the exact information
(Game Master discretion). You cannot use
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this eect twice to find the same piece of
information in the same library.
Language Lore: (Constant) you can
speak, read and write a number of
additional languages equal to your talent
ranks. (Daily, Spell-powered) You can
understand a new language as long as you
are able to hear it or read it. Make an
Intelligence+Erudition+Language Lore
check against a diculty which depends
on the language. You can speak and read
that language for one encounter per
success obtained.
Secret Arcana: (Daily) you can
temporarily change any Divination spell
you know into any other spell. You can try
to find a rare spell using this talent (such
as a spell created with the Spellcasting
(Spellcraft) talent), yet you must succeed
an Intelligence+Erudition+Secret Arcana
check against a diculty decided by the
Game Master to do so. Once the spell is
cast, it reverts to the original Divination
spell.
4.9 Rider
Riders are a typical sight in the Scarred Lands,
as horses are found almost everywhere (a few
riders use other creatures, but these are quite
rare). This prestige class is easy to learn, and
it is usually not required to be trained by
another rider to become one.
Ghelspad - Lageni: the black dragoons of
Duke Traviak are skilled riders, in addition to
being cruel. This elite force is one of the
strongest threats to Durrover and Burok Torn,
and one of the most memorable.
Ghelspad - Mansk: the barbarian who live
around the city call themselves the horse lords,
and that is for a good reasons, as they are
certainly among the best riders of the
continent.
Ghelspad - Mithril: most paladins are
expert riders, and the knights of mithril are
well-known for their rides in the plains of Lede
against orcs, horsemen of Vangals, vengauraks,
or other threats.
Termana - Centaur Plains: the tribes who
live in the centaut plains and near Lake
Minagan are skilled riders, as without horses
they would be under the domination of the
centaurs who populate the plains.
Termana - Charduni Empire: the
charduni are known to ride battle rams in
combat, who better fit their size. These are
able to deliver powerful charges, able to easily
break enemy lines.
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Prerequisites: Athletics 3 ranks, Ride 3
ranks, must have rode a horse for 24h
continuously.
Additionnal talents: Animal Empathy
(Ranger), Divine Mount (Paladin).
Riding Stunt: when you make stunts on
your mount (or to mount or unmount your
mount), you can add your talent ranks to
the Acrobatics check. (Encounter) When
you make your mount jump obstacles, you
can roll twice your Ride check, with a
bonus equal to your talent ranks.
Tame Mount: (Daily) when you try to
ride an untamed or unwilling creature, you
can make a Charisma+Ride+Tame Mount
vs Willpower as a mental attack roll. The
diculty might increase depending on the
exact creature type and training. If you
succeed, the creature is tamed for the rest
of the story arc. If you fail, you cannot
attempt it again on the same creature.
Trample: (Encounter) you can trample all
creatures in your path. Move up to your
mounts speed. You can cross terrain of
creatures smaller than your mount. Make
a Dexterity+Ride+Trample vs Reflex as
an area attack roll against those creatures.
If you succeed, the target takes damage
equal to half the number of successes
obtained and is knocked prone.
4.10 Ritual Caster
Ritual casters have learned the deeper
misteries of magic. Any spellcaster can learn
rituals, yet clerics, druids and wizards are the
most common. They can be found in any
tradition, school or church, either as solitary
casters or as circles.
Ghelspad - Vera-Tre: the druids of the
Ganjus have a very talented tradition of
rituals, and they are known to have
developped some of the most powerful druidic
rituals ever cast.
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Concept: uses powerful spells that take a
very long time to cast.
Prerequisites: arcane, Faith or Nature 3
ranks, Spellcasting (any) 3 ranks, must have
participated in a magical ritual.
Additionnal talents: Consecrate Ground
(Cleric), Lead by Example (Aristocrat).
Circle Magic: when you cast ritual spells,
you may use up to two assistants per
talent rank. An assistant with the same
Spellcasting talent as you grants you a +1
bonus on the spellcasting roll. An
assistant with the Ritual Caster talent
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grants you a +1 plus half his ranks in the
Ritual Caster talent on the spellcasting
roll. Otherwise, two assistants grant you a
+1 bonus to the spellcasting roll.
Hold Ritual: when you cast a ritual spell,
you can store its eects in a specially
prepared item for later use. (Daily,
Spell-powered) Later, you can hold the
item and complete the ritual as a standard
action. The ritual takes then eect at this
moment, and the item looses its
enchantment. At any time, you can have
only one ritual held with this talent per
talent rank. If the item is destroyed (or its
magic dispelled), the ritual is lost without
eects.
Ritual Caster: you can learn, create and
cast ritual spells. There is no limit to the
number of ritual spells you know. You
replace your ranks in the Spellcasting
talent by your ranks in this talent for the
spellcasting roll of ritual spells.
4.11 Shieldbearer
Shieldbearers are, as their name implies,
master of the shield. They use a defensive
combat style which is widely appreciated in
most armies: after all, a good soldier is a living
soldier (well, except where undeads are heavily
used). The path to the shieldbearer is a quite
straightforward one, as it requires no special or
mystic training.
Ghelspad - Burok Torn: the use of the
shield comes naturally to the dwarves, and
most of them learn how to use it as the same
time as the axe or the warhammer. The
dwarven lives are precious, so the shieldbearers
are highly valuable soldiers. Most of the elite
warriors of the city (including the dwarven
defenders, or the iron and stone guardsmen)
are shieldbearers
Ghelspad - Darakeene: this combat style
is taught in many of the war colleges, notably
in both Clay and Hammerdale. Shieldbearers
formed in Darakeene can then be found in most
of Ghelspad as mercenaries or adventurers.
Ghelspad - Dunahnae: the most
militaristic nation of Ghelspad makes a great
use of shields, and their defensive abilities
makes them one of the more enduring armies
of Ghelspad, if not the Scarred Lands.
Ghelspad - Gleaming Valley: the hollow
knights were built to be defenders of the divine
races, so the use of the shield comes as a
second nature. They actively patrol the Gascar
Peaks around the country, as it is infested with
titanspawn of all kinds.
Ghelspad - Hollowfaust: the
hollowfauster army uses shields to protect their

living soldiers, in order to avoid the heavy
losses they suered during the four sieges the
city endured. The city guard, called the Black
Shields, makes a great use of shieldbearers.
Termana - Charduni Empire: as their
ghelspadian cousins, the charduni dwarves are
skilled with the shield (even though they use it
slightly less eectively). Their armies are
reputed to be undefeatable, and only the
forsaken elves magical powers hold them at
bay.
Termana - Karsian: the karsii army makes
a wide use of the shield, notably since the
country was frequently under attack from
undeads of all kinds; the kind of creature you
precisely want to avoid coming close to you.
Termana - Silver Isle: the sisters of the
sun, a paladin order which watches the threat
of the Ghul King on the Isle of the Dead, are
also famous for their use of the shield, which
they taught to the Karsian army during the
numerous campaigns of the Ghul King.
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Concept: a fighter who uses a shield to
protect himself and others.
Prerequisites: Melee 3 ranks, must have
deflected an attack with a shield.
Additionnal talents: Blood Furry
(Barbarian), Guard Impact (Fighter).
Shield Another: (Encounter) you can
take a reaction to shield an adjacent ally
from an attack. You become the target of
the attack, but you can make the target
force reroll the check, with a penalty on
the reroll equal to your talent ranks.
Shield Bash: (Encounter) if you wear a
shield, you can knock your opponent
prone after a successful melee attack.
Furthermore, your Reflex and Fortitude
defense increase by your talent ranks for
the next melee or ranged attack against
you. This bonus is lost if not used before
your next turn.
Take Cover: (Constant) you gain a +1
bonus to your Reflex against all area
attacks as long as you wear a shield.
(Daily) when you wear a shield and are
subject to an area attack, you can grant
you and all adjacent allies a bonus on
their save against that attack equal to
your talent ranks.
4.12 Spellmaster
Spellmasters excel in casting powerful or
strange magic. Any spellcaster who pursues
pure magical power might follow the path of
the spellmaster, so it is quite widespread in the
Scarred Lands. It is not related to a specific
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type of magic, and clerics, druids, sorcerers or
wizards benefit the most from abilities from
this class.
Ghelspad - Darakeene: the Phylacteric
Vault sets the standard in terms of magical
research, so most of their members are
spellmasters, creating strange spells of
unknown nature.
Ghelspad - Hollowfaust: the
necromancers are constantly pushing the
boundaries of death magic, and have
discovered spells unknown anywhere else.
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Concept: a master of spells.
Prerequisites: Arcane, Focus, Nature or
Faith 3 ranks, Spellcasting (any) 3 ranks.
Additionnal talents: Cantrips (Wizard),
Imbue Item (Sorcerer).
Metamagic: you learn two metamagic
feats per talent rank. When you cast a
spell, you can improve it by one or more
of the metamagic feat you know. This
imposes you a penalty on the spellcasting
roll, but if you can still cast the spell you
gain the advantages of the chosen
metamagic feats. You cannot learn
metamagic feats which impose a penalty
higher than your talent ranks. Each feat
can only be used a limited number of
times per day or encounter.
Signature Spell: choose one spell you
know per talent rank as your signature
spells. (Encounter) When you cast one of
your signature spells, you can force reroll
the spellcasting roll. (Daily) You can cast
the heightened eects of one of your
signature spells without spending an
action point nor taking a full-round
action. However, you cannot combine this
ability with eects which allow you to cast
spells as a free action or reaction.
Spellcasting (Spellcraft): you can cast
rare spells. You learn a number of rare
spells equal to your talent ranks. You
must design these spells with the Game
Master approval. Choose one other
Spellcasting talent you already know as
the associated Spellcasting talent. These
spells are from the same source as this
talent. Use Intelligence+the spellcasting
skill of the associated talent+Spellcasting
(Spellcraft) as the spellcasting roll. Once
between two story arcs, provided you have
enough time and equipment to research,
you can replace one (and only one) rare
spell you know by another.
Metamagic Feats
Bounce Spell (2): (Encounter) when you
cast a bounce spell, you may choose any
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creature in the spellcasting range;
determine the new range of the spell as if
you were standing on that creatures spot.
If the target is unwilling, she adds her
Willpower to the diculty of the spell.
Control Spell (1): (Encounter) when you
cast an area spell as a controlled spell, you
may exclude up to one creature per rank
in the Metamagic talent from the targets.
Delay Spell (4): (Daily) the spell eects
do not activate immediatly, but after one
round per rank in the Metamagic talent.
You can trigger the spell as a free action
or a reaction meanwhile.
Empower Spell (2): (Daily) if you cast
the spell successfully, you add your ranks
in the Metamagic talent to the final
number of successes obtained.
Enlarge Spell (1): (Encounter) you add
your ranks in the Metamagic talent to
your ranks in the Spellcasting talent to
determine your spellcasting range for this
spell spell. This does only apply to spells
targeting one object or creature within
spellcasting range.
Explosive Spell (1): (Encounter) a target
of an explosive spell is pushed back one
meter per rank in the Metamagic talent
from the point of origin of the area. Only
area spells can be modified with this feat.
Extend Spell (1): (Daily) if you cast the
spell successfully, you add your ranks in
the Metamagic talent to the spell
duration. This only applies to spells where
the duration roll is the spellcasting roll.
Fortify Spell (1): (Daily) a fortified spell
is more dicult to dispel. You add half
your ranks in the Metamagic talent to the
diculty to dispel it.
Hide Spell (3): (Daily) a hidden spell has
no visual eects. All Perception checks
made to notice its eects are increased by
your ranks in the Metamagic talent.
Imbue Spell (5): (Daily) choose an
energy type to imbue your spell with. If
you deal wound damage with the spell,
you add as many wound damage from the
chosen energy.
Maximize Spell (6): (Daily) if you cast
the spell successfully, you use the number
of dice in the dice pool (not accounting for
the metamagic penalty) as the number of
successes. You must spend an action point
to cast a maximized spell, and this,
whether the spell fails or not).
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Quicken Spell (4): (Daily) you do not
need to use an action to cast the spell,
even if you use the heightened eects.
Reach Spell (1): (Daily) you can cast a
reach spell on one creature in spellcasting
range. You can only improve spells that
aect you or creatures (or objects) you
touch with this feat.
Sculpt Spell (1): (Daily) you can change
the area type of an area spell between a
10m cone, a 5m sphere, or five contiguous
2m cubes.
Split Spell (3): (Daily) you can target a
number of creatures or objects equal to
one plus your ranks in the Metamagic
talent. This can only aect spells that
have only one creature or object other
than yourself as a target.
Transdimensional Spell (1):
(Encounter) a transdimensional spell
aects ethereal creatures normally.
Twin Spell (5): (Daily) when you use this
feat, cast the spell twice with the same
targets and the same number of dice. The
eect stacks.
Widen Spell (3): (Daily) if you cast the
spell successfully, you add your ranks in
the Metamagic talent to the radius of the
area of the spell. This does not apply to a
non-area spell.
4.13 Tempest
Tempests fight with two weapons with a deadly
eciency. This combat style is very widespread
in the Scarred Lands, as it is relatively easy to
learn to fight with both hands.
Ghelspad - Hedrad: the Feldar fighting
style originates from this city, using a unique
combination of the light flail and the
morningstar. Mercenaries from western
Ghelspad and Vesh progressively adopt it.
Ghelspad - Perforated Plains: the crazed
horseman of Vangal who plague this desolated
wasteland are famous for their usage of two
weapons, with a preference for the twin battle
axes their god favors.
Ghelspad - Vesh: rangers in Vesh usually
train in two-weapon fighting, notably because
of its popularity amongst the vigils.
Termana - Sylavael: the forsaken elves
from this warring nation are specialists of the
sword, and many prefer to fight against the
charduni with two blades rather than one,
allowing them to kill more of their dreaded
foes.
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Concept: a fighter who uses two weapons.
Prerequisites: Dexterity 3 ranks, Melee 3
ranks.
Additionnal talents: Frenzied Charge
(Barbarian), Martial Burst (Fighter).
Ambidextrous: (Constant) you suer no
penalty for using your o hand.
(Encounter) When you make a skill check
with your o hand, you can force reroll
the check with a bonus equal to your
talent ranks.
Two-weapons Defense: (Constant) when
you wield two weapons at a time, you can
block melee attacks as if you add a shield
of the same size as your o-hand weapon.
(Encounter) When you are subject to a
melee attack, you can parry with the
second-hand weapon. Make a
Dexterity+Melee+Two-weapons Defense
check and use the result as your Fortitude
score to block the attack. If you
successfully block the attack, you gain a
free attack on your next turn with your
o-hand weapon against the attacker, if he
is still in your melee reach.
Two-weapons Fighting: (Encounter)
when you wield two weapons at a time,
you can enter a whirling oensive stance.
Make a Dexterity+Melee+Two-weapons
Fighting check as a duration roll. Each
round, you can make an additional attack
with your o-hand weapon. However, each
round you make such an extra attack, you
loose the benefits from the Two-weapons
Defense talent.
4.14 War Mage
War mages are not afraid to use their magic in
battles. However, as opposed to spellblades
who use simultaneously spells and weapons,
the war mage usually stick to only spells
(however, expert spellblades also tend to
become war mages because o the numerous
advantages this prestige class oer). This
makes the training of a war mage much easier
than a spellblade, and therefore this prestige
class if quite widespread in the Scarred Lands.
Ghelspad - Bridge City: mages in this
small isolated city are obliged to participate
frequently to military activities against the
titanspawn who plague the mountains, and
therefore there exists a small tradition of war
mages here.
Ghelspad - Burok Torn: the dwarves have
been under attack since sixty years, so they
naturally combined their potent magical
abilities with the defensive techniques this
class oers.
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Ghelspad - Calastia: the calastian
battlemages are the best war mages of the
continent, and most of them are actually
multiclassed spellblades.
Ghelspad - Hollowfaust: given the
military history of the city, the necromancers
have started a strong training in combat
magic. As such, mages of all the seven guilds
can be found having basics or even expert (and
first-hand) knowledge of this prestige class.
Ghelspad - Karria: the navy of this small
islandish realm uses a small contingent of war
mages to assist them, which makes it one of
the first military fleet of Ghelspad.
Ghelspad - Vesh: the kingdom has started
training war mages under the supervision of
the Vigils in order to counter the threats of the
calastian battlemages. However, this process is
long and progress has been hindered by the
various defeats against the ratmen from the
Mourning Marshes.
Termana - Sylavael: the Shield Realm is
in constant state of war, and therefore all
mages are required to serve in the army. This
makes a powerful tradition of war mages in
this forsaken elf realm, alongside with expert
Spellblades. However, lately, the elves have
found more ecient to train guardians rather
than mages, so the number of war mages
slowly but surely diminishes here.
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Concept: a spellcaster who fights with
spells.
Prerequisites: Focus 3 ranks, Spellcasting
(any) 3 ranks, must have use a spell in combat
condition.
Additionnal talents: Imbue Item
(Sorcerer), Require Protection (Aristocrat).
Defensive Spell: choose one spell you
know per talent rank. (Constant) All
melee attacks made against you while
casting a spell suer a malus equal to half
your talent ranks. (Encounter) When you
are attacked by a melee attack, you can
cast one of the chosen spell as a free
action before the attack (not the
heightened eects though). When you do
so, you use your talent ranks instead of
your ranks in the Spellcasting talent for
the spellcasting roll.
Sacrifice Spell: (Spell-powered) you can
create ray of pure magical energy. For one
round, plus one per talent rank, you can
make one ranged attack against a creature
in your spellcasting range. Use the
spellcasting roll vs Reflex as the ranged
attack roll. The attack deals wound
damage equal to the number of successes
obtained. The damage is of an energy
which depends on the spell (usually force)
or on your god (Game Master discretion).
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Zone of Exclusion: (Daily,
Spell-powered) when you are targeted by
a magical area attack (Game Master
approval), you can create a 1 meter per
two talent ranks sphere around you in
which the attack has no eect. To do so,
you must obtain as many successes as
many successes as the attack roll with an
Intelligence+Focus+Zone of Exclusion
check. If you fail, creatures in the area
still benefit from a +1 bonus to all
defenses against that attack. If the attack
is a continuous eect, the zone of
exclusion lasts only for one round per
success obtained above the attack roll, up
to your talent ranks.
4.15 Warlord
Warlords lead their allies in combat, using
their presence to strengthen their allies resolve
or their cunning to outmaneuver their
opponents. It is a rather common prestige
class in the Scarred Lands, as leader naturally
arise in time of war.
Ghelspad - Calastia: the calastian army
has one of the most solid ocer training
procedure in Ghelspad, which is partly why
they had that much success in their
campaigns. Most calastian battlemages also
follow the cursus, learning how to use magic to
their tactical advantage.
Ghelspad - Darakeene: most martial
college oer a course on tactics and commands,
but none of them does it better than the
Clayborn academy, which forms most ocers
in mercenary troups in Ghelspad. Wake is a
close second, training captains for naval
maneuvers.
Termana - Charduni Empire: the
charduni dwarves have a highly structured
army, and their ocers show a great control
over their troops. They are amongst the best
in the continent, as those who fail the Great
General dont live long enough to fail again.
Termana - Karsia: the armies of this
militaristic nations are lead by capable
generals, and has shown its superiority against
his neighbours on several occasions. The
Karsian armies frequently exercise in
preparation to an undead invasion from the
Isle of the Dead.
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Concept: leads his allies to combat.
Prerequisites: Melee or Ranged 3 ranks,
Intelligence or Charisma 3 ranks.
Additionnal talents: Armed and
Dangerous (Fighter), Lead by Example
(Aristocrat).
Back to Back: (Encounter) you can
create a powerful defensive line that
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includes you and one ally per talent rank
(all targets must form a continuous line).
Make an Intelligence+Focus+Back to
Back check as a duration roll. Each target
gains a +1 bonus to her Reflex and
Fortitude saves, and can force reroll one
attack made against them. However, this
talent ends as soon as the targets move
further than a few meters from each other.
Coordinate Strike: (Daily) you can
command a simultaneous strike. Choose
one ally that can hear or see you per
talent rank. You and all targets can make
a single standard or move action.
Rallying Call: (Encounter) you can shout
a powerful war cry to bolster your allies.
You and a number of allies who can hear
you equal to your talent ranks heal one
debilitation damage, and gain a bonus on
their next skill check equal to your talent
ranks.
4.16 Warmain
Warmains use powerful two-handed weapons
to strike devastation among their foes. This
fighting style is easy to pick up (for someone
with enough strength), which makes it quite
widespread in the Scarred Lands.
Ghelspad - Durrover: the clansmen from
the mountain favor heavy weapons in their
fight against Calastia, in a style that requires
more brutal strength than training and
cunning, but is not less ecient.
Ghelspad - Zathiske: the Headsman is an
old tradition who uses two-handed scimitars
for ceremonial behading. Some of them have
emigrated in Hollowfaust, where they have
started a new fighting school.
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Concept: a fighter who uses powerful
two-handed weapons.
Prerequisites: Melee 3 ranks, Prowess 3
ranks, must have killed a creature with a single
blow of a two-handed weapon.
Additionnal talents: Martial Burst
(Fighter), Smash (Barbarian).
Heavy Swing: (Encounter) you can
deliver a formidable blow wich catch your
opponent o-guard. Make a
Strength+Melee+Heavy Swing check as
an attack roll. If you succeed, the target
looses all his block attempts for one round
per two talent ranks in addition to the
wound damage.
Prepared Strike: (Constant) you can
spend one round to prepare a strike with a
two-handed weapon. If you do so, you add

your talent ranks to the damage you deal
with your next melee attack during your
next turn. If you do not attack during
your next turn, this bonus is lost. (Daily)
You can force reroll the prepared attack
roll.
Tremor: (Daily) you can deliver a
powerful blow with a two-handed weapon
to the ground. Make a
Strength+Prowess+Tremor vs Fortitude
as an area attack roll against all creatures
in contact with the ground within one
meter per talent rank. If you succeed, the
target is knocked prone and takes one
point of wound damage per success
obtained.
4.17 Weapon Specialist
Weapon specialists master one weapon above
all. They are found almost everywhere in the
Scarred Lands, since most culture have one or
a few emblematic weapons. The most iconic
weapon specialists are listed below, but
remember they can be found everywhere.
Ghelspad - Burok Torn: the dwarves of
Burok Torn are specialists of the axe and the
hammer, which they use with great eciency
against their calastian enemies.
Ghelspad - Darakeene: weapon
specialists are frequent in Darakeene, and the
diversity of the war colleges makes also a
strong diversity in the weapon they use.
Ghelspad - Dunahnae: as fervent
worshippers of Chardun, the warriors in
Dunanhae favor the warscepter to honor their
god.
Ghelspad - Hedrad: warriors in Hedrad
are heavily trained with the hammer, which is
used not only as a weapon of war but also to
carry out punishments and sentences.
Ghelspad - Krakadm: the forsaken
dwarves favor the hammer for melee combat,
and the crossbow for ranged combat.
Ghelspad - Mithril: the paladins of
Corean who live in Mithril favor the long
sword as it is the holy symbol of their god.
Ghelspad - Vera-Tre: the wood elves favor
the long bow for ranged attacks, or the spear
for melee combat.
Ghelspad - Zathiske: the zathiskean favor
the scimitar as it was their nation primary
weapon. However, calastian influence tends to
slowly reduce the popularity of the scimitar in
favor of the long sword or the morgenstern.
Termana - Charduni Empire: the
charduni dwarves prefer the warscepter for the
same religious reasons than their allies of
Dunahnae.
Termana - Forsaken Elf Nations: the
forsaken elves usually favor elegant blades like
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the long sword or the rapier, or the long bow
for ranged combat.
Termana - Gamulganjus: the gnomes of
the gamulganjus prefer the blowgun
(frequently with poison darts), while the terali
prefer their own natural weapons.
Termana - Karsian: the army of this
powerful human queendom use the hammer as
their main weapon.
Asherak: in most of the city-states, the
favored weapon is the weapon of the god who
oversees said city-state.
Asherak - Vale of Shadows: in this small
belsamite city, the short bow is frequently
used, alongside poisoned arrows and similar
shady tricks.
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Concept: masters one weapon.
Prerequisites: Melee or Ranged 3 ranks,
must have killed a creature with a weapon.
Additionnal talents: Lead by Example
(Aristocrat), Weapon Specialization (Fighter).
Special: when you first take a rank in a
talent from this class, you must choose a
weapon as your favored weapon. All talents
from this class can only be used when you use
the chosen weapon.
Critical Hit: (Encounter) when you deal
damage more damage than your opponent
armor rating, you can make a Strength (or
Dexterity)+Critical Hit check (without
skill), and deal additional wound damage
(hemorrhagic) equal to the net number of
successes obtained on that check.
Martial Training: (Daily) during a
long-enough rest, you can train up to one
ally per talent rank to the use of your
weapon. Make a Charisma+Melee (or
Ranged)+Martial Training check. For one
day per success obtained, a trained
creature can roll twice an attack roll made
with your favored weapon as a (Daily)
ability.
Weapon Bond: at the start of any story
arc, you can make your favored weapon
magical. Choose one magical property
(with the Game Master approval). When
you use your favored weapon, you can use
that property with a property rank equal
to your talent rank. This magical property
is tied to a single specific weapon.
However, the weapon is only magical
when you wield it: any other creature
gains no advantages. During a full-night
rest, you can spend one action point to
change the magical property, or bond with
another weapon of the same type.
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Spells and Magic
5.1 Spellcasting rules
Spells are magical eects that can be used
with the various Spellcasting talents.
When you learn a Spellcasting talent, you
learn a certain number of spells. Spells are
daily eects, so once a spell have been cast,
you cannot cast it again until you have
recovered it (typically, by resting a full nught).
Some specific talents might allow you to
recover spells quicker.
Common spells have diminished or
heightened eects.
The diminished eects are lesser magical
eects that can be used once per
encounter. However, once you cast the
normal or heightened eects of the spell,
you cannot cast the diminished eects
again during that encounter. When you
cast a diminished eect, you use a
reduced spellcasting roll, that is a
check with only the main attribute (for
example, Intelligence for Druids, Psions
and Wizards, or Charisma for Bards,
Clerics or Sorcerers) plus your ranks in
the Spellcasting talent.
The heightened eects are potent magical
spells. Casting an heightened spell is a
full-round action, and you must spend one
action point. Once you have cast the
heightened eects, you loose access to its
normal or diminished eects until you
have recovered it.
Unless noted otherwise, the target of a spell
must be within your spellcasting range.
This range is equal to 10 meters per rank in
the Spellcasting talent.
Power sources
Spells come from various type of powers. The
Spellcasting talent determines the source of the
spell cast with it. The most common sources
are:
Arcane: arcane spells are the
manipulation of basic magical energies.
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Casting an arcane spell produces a lot of
heat, which introduces a penalty for
casting spells in armor. They typically
rely on the Arcane skill.
Divine: divine spells are channeled by the
gods through the caster. They typically
rely on the Faith skill.
Primal: primal spells are powered by
energies infused in the world by the
presence of the titans. They typically rely
on the Nature skill.
Psionic: psionic spells are directly
powered by the mind of the caster. Psionic
spells cannot be dispelled, negated, or
otherwise aected by non-psionic spells.
They typically rely on the Focus skill.
Types of spells
Most spellcasters only know common spells.
However, there are a few additional types of
spells that can only be learned with specific
talents.
Domain spells are spells granted by the
gods to their clerics. They can be learned
with the Spellcasting (Divine Magic)
talent.
Legacy spells are spells inherited from
powerful magical beings. They can only
be learned with the Arcane Legacy talent.
Rare spells are spells specifically created
by powerful wizards. They can be learned
or created with the Spellcraft talent. A
character might consider a domain or
legacy spell as a rare spell, with the Game
Master approval.
Schools of magic
Spells belong to a specific school, which
gathers eects of the same type.
Abjuration spells protect the caster or its
allies.

Conjuration spells teleport creatures or
matter, eectively summoning allies or
objects.
Divination spells allow the caster to sense
magical auras of all kind.
Enchantment spells work with the mind
of other creatures.
Evocation spells create energy from
nothing.
Illusion spells create hallucinations of
various types.
Necromancy spells deal with death and
undeath.
Transmutation spells change things,
living or not.
Each spell is described in the following
format:
Spell Name
School of magic
Target: the target of the spell. If no range
is specified, the target must be in spellcasting
range.
Duration: indicates the duration of the
spell. spellcasting roll means that the
spellcasting roll is also used as the duration
roll.
Difficulty: indicates which diculty
applies to the spellcasting roll. It is typically a
save rank of the target. If the spell is
(Harmless), then the target can choose to
reduce her save ranks to 0 against this spell.
Paragraph describing the normal eects of
the spell.
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Diminished Effects
Paragraph describing the diminished eects
of the spell.
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Heightened Effects
Paragraph describing the heightened eects
of the spell.
5.2 Abjuration Spells
5.2.1 Dispel Magic
Abjuration
Target: one creature or object.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Willpower.
This spell ends a number of magical eects
aecting the target equal to the number of
successes obtained. Non-permanent eects are
targeted first. Permanent eects are not
completely dispelled: they are only repressed
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for a number of rounds equal to your ranks in
the Spellcasting talent.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one creature or object.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Willpower.
You reduce by one round per success
obtained the duration of one magical eect you
are aware of and which currently aects the
target. If the eect is permanent, it is
suppressed for a number of rounds equal to the
number of successes obtained, up to half your
ranks in the Spellcasting talent.
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Heightened Effects
Target: 5m sphere centered on one
creature or object.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower of the creature or
object located at the center of the sphere.
You create a 5m sphere around the target
in which no magic works. Any creature in the
area looses the benefits of magical eects and
cannot cast spells. The same way, no spell can
aect the area or the creatures within. The
sphere moves with the target for the prescribed
duration.
5.2.2 Force Field
Abjuration
Target: 10m sphere centered on you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You surround yourself with a moving field
of force. Any creature within the field and
with a Willpower score lower than your ranks
in the Spellcasting talent cannot approach you
by its own will. However, nothing happens if
you approach them. A creature with an high
enough Willpower will still be slowed, and can
only approach you at half speed. This spell
does not forbid them to attack you, just to go
towards you.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one creature moving towards you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
Use this eect as a reaction when you see a
creature move towards you. If you succeed
your reduced spellcasting roll, the target does
not move (and cannot take another action
instead if she was moving with her own
actions).
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Heightened Effects
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
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You protect yourself with a powerful charm
that makes any creature unable to attack you.
This eect protects you from natural hazards
as well. The eects end as soon as you make
an attack. Some powerful creatures might be
unaected by the spell (Game Master
discretion), but then you can attack these
creatures without ending the spell.
5.2.3 Mage Armor
Abjuration
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You cloak yourself with an armor of force
which protects you from attacks. You gain an
armor rating equal to half your ranks in the
Spellcasting talent. This armor rating does not
impair your movements nor your spellcasting
ability.
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Diminished Effects
Target: you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
Use this diminished eect as a reaction
when you are subject to an area, melee or
ranged attack. You impose a penalty on the
attack roll equal to the number of successes
obtained on the reduced spellcasting roll.
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Heightened Effects
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You surround yourself with a powerful
sphere of force that wards you against spells.
No spell cast by a creature with less ranks in
the Spellcasting talent than you can aect you
while the sphere is active. You can force reroll
any spellcasting roll made by a creature with
as many ranks in the Spellcasting talent than
you (but not more ranks), but each time you
do so the duration of the spell is reduced by
one round.
5.2.4 Protection Against Energy
Abjuration
Target: one object or creature touched.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (harmless).
You protect the target against one type of
damage of your choice (Game Master
approval). The target reduces all damage
taken from that source by your ranks in the
Spellcasting talent.
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Diminished Effects
Target: you.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
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Difficulty: none.
You can touch a hazardous substance like
fire or acid without risks of being hurt. This
grants you only protection against natural
events and limited exposure (Game Master
discretion). It wont ward o complete
immersion in acid or lava.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one object or creature touched.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (harmless).
You cover the target with a sheath of an
energy of your choice. The sheath does not
reduce the damage taken by the target but
might hurt others. Each time a creature makes
a melee attack against the target (or attempts
to grab her if the target is an object), make a
new spellcasting roll vs Reflex. If successful,
the creature in question takes as much damage
from the chosen energy than the number of
successes.
5.2.5 Spell Turning
Abjuration
Target: one creature casting a spell against
you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: the target spellcasting roll.
Use this spell as a reaction when a creature
casts a spell on you (whether if you are the
target of the spell or in the area of eect). If
you succeed, then the spell bounces back and
aects her instead (using her own spellcasting
roll). In case of an area eect like a sphere, the
target becomes the center of the area. In case
of a cone, you become the point of origin of the
cone, and the opposing spellcaster must be in
the area. If you fail, you can still use the net
number of successes on your spellcasting roll
instead of all your saves against that spell.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one creature casting a spell.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct.
When you see a creature cast a spell, you
can cast this spell as a reaction to determine
which spells she actually casts. The diculty
might increase depending on the rarity of the
spell or the method of spellcasting.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one creature casting a spell.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: the target spellcasting roll.
Use this spell as a reaction when a creature
casts a spell (even not on you). If you succeed,
then the spell has no eects, and you can add
it to your own list of spells. This spell
disappears from your list once cast or at the

end of the encounter. No eect can allow you
to recover the use of that additional spell. If
you fail, you can still use the net number of
successes on your spellcasting roll instead of all
your saves against that spell.
5.2.6 Symbol of Warding
Abjuration
Target: one creature or object you touch.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower (Harmless).
You ward the creature or object against a
certain type of creature (Game Master
approval). Make a new Spellcasting vs
Willpower check as a mental attack each time
a creature of that type touches or makes a
melee attack against the ward. In case of
success the creature in question takes wound
damage equal to half the number of successes
obtained and one debilitation damage.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one creature or object you touch.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
The target glows faintly if creatures of a
chosen type (Game Master approval) are
within 5 meters of it. During each round, you
can concentrate as a move action to multiply
the area by two. The power of the light
depends on the number of creatures detected
(Game Master discretion), but can never
become harmful.
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Heightened Effects
Target: 5m circle centered on you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You can create an immobile 5m magical
circle around yourself which serves as a ward
against a certain type of creature (Game
Master approval). Aected creatures cannot
cross the circle to enter or leave it, except using
teleportation. Furthermore, any creature of
that type within the circle is revealed provided
her Willpower score is equal or lower than your
ranks in the Spellcasting talent. This dispels
any illusion or polymorph eect aecting her,
and deals one debilitation damage.
5.3 Conjuration Spells
5.3.1 Bind
Conjuration
Target: all creatures in a 5m sphere.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You conjure webs, tentacles, plants, chains
ropes, or similar objects to bind creatures
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caught in the area. A target aected by the
spell is unable to move for the prescribed
duration, or until she frees herself or shes
freed. To free herself she must make a
Strength check against a diculty equal to
your ranks in the Spellcasting talent.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one object.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You make the target sticky or slippery.
Make a new reduced spellcasting roll vs Reflex
as a melee attack roll against the first creature
in contact with the object. If you succeed, the
target falls, or is unable to move for one round
(depending on which version of the spell you
cast), or any similar eect with the Game
Master approval.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You create a cocoon which traps the target
for the prescribed duration. While trapped,
the target cannot see, hear, or feel anything.
She cannot move (unless the cocoon itself is
moved) and become immune to any kind of
damage. She can try to escape by making
Strength checks (diculty equal to your ranks
in the Spellcasting talent), but each time she
does so she suers one debilitation damage.
5.3.2 Call Storm
Conjuration
Target: all creatures in a 5m sphere.
Duration: one round per two ranks in the
Spellcasting talent.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You can cause strong winds to burst in the
area, moving any target in the area by two
meters per success obtained in any direction
you want, and knocking her prone. During
each turn while the spell lasts, you may move
the area 10m and repeat this attack.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You can create a small breeze, rain, or
similar event close to the current climatic
conditions (Game Master approval). If the
wind is stong enough, you can knock an
opponent prone if you succeed the reduced
spellcasting roll.
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Heightened Effects
Target: all creatures in a 5m sphere.
Duration: instantaneous.
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Difficulty: Reflex.
A storm hails down the area, with strong
winds, lightning, thunder, snow or acid. You
decide what exactly falls from the sky (Game
Master approval, some eects might increase
the diculty). The target suers one point of
wound damage of one appropriate energy type
per success obtained, or suers a specific
condition of your choice (like blindness,
deafness, etc) for one round per success
obtained (up to your ranks in the Spellcasting
talent). Furthermore, the vision is clouded in
the area for one round: any ranged attack
going through the area suers a penalty equal
to your ranks in the Spellcasting talent.
5.3.3 Obscuring Mist
Conjuration
Target: 5m sphere.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create a heavy fog in the area. Line of
sight within the cloud is reduced to a few
meters, making ranged attacks impossible.
Wind or fire can disperse the cloud earlier.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one creature or object.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct (Harmless).
You can create a small cloud of mist, which
is just enough to wet objects, or maybe quench
very small fires. If you use it on a creature, the
target might suer a penalty on her next
Perception roll equal to the number of
successes obtained on the reduced spellcasting
roll, or can substitute a Stealth check with
your reduced spellcasting roll.
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Heightened Effects
Target: 5m sphere.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create a fog of greenish, poisonous
vapors in the area. The fog itself is thin
enough not to obscure vision. Any creature in
the fog when its created suers a number of
wound damage (poison) equal to the number
of successes minus their Fortitude save. Any
creature who ends its round in the mist suers
one debilitation damage. The fog lasts for a
number of round equal to the number of
successes obtained, unless it is dispersed earlier
by wind or fire.
5.3.4 Summon Monster
Conjuration
Target: one summoned creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
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You summon a creature for the prescribed
duration. You must reach a diculty that
depends on the type of creature (Game Master
discretion). You summon an average member
of the race you choose: you cannot summon a
specific creature. The target will follow your
vocal commands the best she can. If you order
her to take an obviously suicidal action, she
will automatically rebel and turn against you.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one summoned creature.
Duration: one round.
Difficulty: see text.
You summon a small creature (up to the
size of a natural wolf) to do an action for you.
The diculty depends on the type of creature
you want to summon and the desired action (it
must be an action within the limits of the
creature). If you succeed, you can make a new
reduced spellcasting roll instead of the check
required by the action, if any.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one summoned creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower of the targets
summoner.
You take control of a summoned creature.
Her summoner uses her Willpower to resist this
spell. If you succeed, you can either banish the
target or control her for one round per success
obtained. If you fail, the target still suers a
number of wound damage (psychic) equal to
your ranks in the Spellcasting talent.
5.3.5 Teleport
Conjuration
Target: you or one unattended object.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
You teleport the target by 10m per success
obtained. You must see the destination, or it
must be obvious (like behind a door). The
destination must be an empty space: you
cannot teleport into another object or creature.
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Diminished Effects
Target: you, one small unattended object,
or one small object you hold.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
You can teleport yourself up to 2m per
success obtained. If you target a distant
unattended object, you can teleport it in your
hand if you gain one success on the reduced
spellcasting rank for 2m between you and the
target. If you target an object you hold (and
which is not touched by any other creature),
then you can teleport it in an empty space up
to 2m per success obtained.

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Heightened Effects
Target: you or one object you own (see
text).
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
You can teleport any object you own into
your hands, as long as it is in the same plane.
If another creature is currently holding this
object, you must overcome her Willpower first.
You suer penalties on your spellcasting check
depending on the distance and on the
emotional bond between you and the object
(Game Master discretion). Alternatively, you
can teleport to any place you have already
visited (diculty depending on the distance
and familiarity with the target place). When
doing so, you can bring with you up to one
creature you touch per success obtained.
5.3.6 Wallbuilding
Conjuration
Target: 5m long wall per rank in the
Spellcasting talent.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create a wall in the area made of any
substance you want (stone, iron, plants, ice,
even fire or magical energy, Game Master
approval). This defines if the wall can be
penetrated or not, if it obscures vision, its
solidity, and if it deals damage to creatures
crossing it. In the latter case, each creature
crossing it suers a number of wound damage
of the appropriate energy equal to your ranks
in the Spellcasting talent, resisted by their
Relfex save. For some substances the diculty
of the spell might increase (Game Master
discretion). You must create the wall in an
empty area. However, it must not necessarily
be vertical.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one substance you touch.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You can create a small passage in one
substance of your choice (like a ladder, a
tunnel or a small bridge), using your
spellcasting roll as duration roll. This eect
cannot hurt creatures. The desired length of
the passage as well as the specific substance
might increase the diculty of the spell (Game
Master discretion).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one extradimensional place (see
text).
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
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You create a small extradimensional place
of 25 square meters per rank in the
Spellcasting talent. You shape this space as
you want, and it can host specific objets
(Game Master approval required, this might
increase the diculty of the spell). Items from
this space cannot be brought outside of it. The
door to this space is located anywhere you
want, and is invisible. Creatures cannot enter
the space by accident: they must want and be
willing to enter. When the spell ends, all
creatures still within are expelled: they appear
at the entrance of the space and take one
debilitation damage.
5.4 Divination Spells
5.4.1 Awaken Object
Divination
Target: one object you touch.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower (Harmless).
You awaken a minor sentient spirit in the
targeted object. The spirit has all memories of
what has happened to the object, but only a
vague knowledge of its surroundings. You can
communicate with the spirit by telepathy.
Nothing forces the spirit to be friendly towards
you, and nothing compels it to tell the truth or
even answer your questions. Each time you
cast this spell on a single object you awake the
same spirit.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one object you touch.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Willpower (harmless) (see
text).
You can have a short emotional clue of the
last significant event that has happened to the
object (for example, it could be anger for a
weapon used to murder someone, etc). You
must succeed a reduced spellcasting roll
against a diculty depending on the time
passed since that event and the emotional
strength of said event (Game Master
discretion).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one object you touch.
Duration: instantenaous.
Difficulty: Willpower (harmless) (see
text).
You briefly learn the last significant event
that has happened to the target, and one
additional event per rank in the Spellcasting
talent. Choose one of these events. You gain a
mental image of this event from the point of
view of the target. The image lasts for a
number of rounds equal to the successes
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obtained on the spellcasting check. The
diculty might be increased by the time
lapsed since the event.
5.4.2 Farsight
Divination
Target: one invisible magical sensor within
spellcasting range.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create one invisible magical sensor
through which you can hear and see. You can
locate the sensor in any place you are currently
seeing (even out of spellcasting range), or any
place which seems evident within the
spellcasting range (like for example, behind a
door or around a corner). You can locate the
sensor in a place you are currently seeing
through another magical eect (including
another farsight spell), but when you do so, the
sensor must be within 10 meters from that
eect per rank in the Spellcasting talent. Each
round you can concentrate to move it by 5
meters per rank in the Spellcasting talent.
Creatures with an Instinct score higher than
your ranks in the Spellcasting talent are
entitled Perception checks to detect the sensor
(the Game Master should make the check in
secret).
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Diminished Effects
Target: you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
You improve one sense against some
dampening, allow you for example to see
through thin fog, or better hear sounds from
behind a door. This grants you the ability to
use your reduced spellcasting roll instead of a
Perception check.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one magical sensor.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
You create one invisible magical sensor in a
location you have already been to, as long as it
is on the same plane, through which you can
hear and see. The diculty of the spell
depends on the distance to the target. The
sensor is immobile. Creatures with an Instinct
score higher than your ranks in the
Spellcasting talent are entitled Perception
checks to detect the sensor (the Game Master
should make the check in secret). You can
project the image on an appropriate surface
(mirror, pool of water, etc), allowing others to
share the vision.
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5.4.3 Read Mind
Divination
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower (Harmless).
You read the targets surface thoughts.
This eect is quite subtle and the target does
not notice it unless her Instinct score is higher
than your ranks in the Spellcasting talent.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct (harmless).
You can determine whether if the target is
sentient or not. Furthermore, you can sense
the general emotional status of the target
(anger, jealousy, indierence, etc).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Willpower (harmless).
You force the mind of the target to find the
answer to one specific question or one specific
memory for each success obtained. The target
notices the mental attack and suers one
debilitation damage. If her Willpower score is
higher than your ranks in the Spellcasting
talent she can choose to take one additional
debilitation damage instead of answering one
question.
5.4.4 Speak Language
Divination
Target: one sentient creature or one piece
of written language.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct (Harmless).
You can understand, read, write and speak
one language known by the target. If you
target a text, you can read and write one of the
languages used in the documnet, but while you
are under this spell you do not trigger magical
traps hidden within that text. Alternatively,
you can grant the target the ability to
understand and speak (but not read or write)
one language you know for the same duration.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one surface you touch.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
You can write any text you want on an
appropriate surface even though you do not
have anything to write on it (Game Master
approval required). Make a reduced
spellcasting roll to determine the length of the
text you can write.
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Heightened Effects
Target: you or one creature you touch.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct (harmless).
The target understands any form of written
text or spoken language for the prescribed
duration, and any sentient creature
understanding at least one language can
understand the target speak.
5.4.5 Telepathic Link
Divination
Target: you and one sentient creature per
rank in the Spellcasting talent.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower (Harmless).
All targets share a telepathic link for the
spell duration. All targets know which
creatures are in the link. The spell ends as
soon as it ends for one of the targets. While
the link is active all targets can communicate
mentally, as long as they remain on the same
plane. However the link cannot be used to
transmit any image, sound, emotion, etc. Any
round during which the link is not used does
not count toward the duration of the spell. The
spell may only last one encounter and the next.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Willpower (harmless) (see
text).
you can send a short telepathic message to
one creature. The target immediately is aware
that you sent this message. You must make a
reduced spellcasting roll to determine the
success, against a diculty depending on the
distance to the target as well as how well you
know her.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct (harmless).
You use the target as an empathic link for
the spell duration. While the spell is active,
you can concentrate on the target to
experience everything she is feeling (which
means, emotions, but also images, sound, and
the other senses). Note that if she suers
damage while you are concentrating on her you
automatically take one debilitation damage
and the duration is reduced by one round. The
targets are unaware of the link, and the link
does only work one way. Any round during
which the link is not used does not count
toward the duration of the spell. The spell
may only last one encounter and the next.
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5.4.6 True Sight
Divination
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You can see through any illusion, which
notably includes invisibility eects. Powerful
eects created with more successes than your
ranks in the Spellcasting talent remain
partially active: you know they are illusions,
but you do not know what is hidden behind.
You ignore any weaker illusion eect.
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Diminished Effects
Target: 5m sphere centered on an object.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You can sense whether there are hidden or
invisible creatures in the area. Make a reduced
spellcasting roll vs Instinct to find their
numbers or gain more accurate information
about their position.
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Heightened Effects
Target: 10m sphere centered on you (see
text).
Duration: one round per rank in
Spellcasting (see text).
Difficulty: none (see text).
You reveal all invisible creatures in a 10m
sphere centered around you, as if the
concerned spell were dispelled. Each target can
use her Instinct save to resist the spell.
Afterward, the target suers a penalty equal to
your ranks in the Spellcasting talent on all her
Deception and Stealth checks for one round
per success obtained. Each round, the radius
of the area increases by 10 meters.
5.5 Enchantment Spells
5.5.1 Charm
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct.
The target becomes friendly towards you.
This might help you obtaining services or
favors from her. However, this will not make
her obey your commands nor make her fight
for you, just make her more open and
reasonable. The spell ends if you or one of
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Diminished Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You can substitute a Deception or
Persuasion check against the target with your
reduced spellcasting roll, only if you do so in a
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way the target would find friendly (Game
Master approval required).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You instill protecting feelings to the target.
While this spell is active she will do whatever
she can to protect you, mostly by helping you
escape dangerous situations if she can. She
might fight for you, but only if there is no
other alternative. The spell ends if you or one
of your allies attack her.
5.5.2 Command
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: one round.
Difficulty: Willpower.
Formulate an order with as many words as
the number of successes obtained. For her next
action, the target will execute your order. The
target must be able to hear and understand
your language. You cannot order her to take
suicidal actions.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Willpower.
You can substitute a Persuasion check
against the target with your reduced
spellcasting roll, only if you do so to give the
target an order (Game Master approval
required).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpowe.
You dominate the target for a number of
rounds equal to the number of successes
obtained. While this spell is in eect, you can
concentrate to mentally control all her actions.
Otherwise she will follow your verbal orders as
much as she can. The target has no
recollection of what she did while dominated.
5.5.3 Confusion
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower.
The target acts randomly for the spell
duration. She will not remember anything that
has happened while she was confused.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
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Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You can make the target forget a small
detail (like the colors of your hair or what you
are holding in your hands). The diculty
depends on the detail you want her to forget
(Game Master discretion).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You can alter the memories of the target of
the last rounds (number of rounds equal to the
number of successes obtained). You can make
one change by rank in the Spellcasting talent
(Game Master approval required). This is
permanent, but eects which allow to read
memories might find that the targets
memories have been replaced.
5.5.4 Emotion
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You instill a specific emotion of your choice
to the target. She will act according to this
emotion as long as the spell lasts, but she
remains able to control her own actions. You
can force the target to force reroll one check
per rank in the Spellcasting talent, as long as
this is in accordance with the chosen emotion
(Game Master approval required). The target
will not notice that she has been targeted by a
spell.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct.
If you succeed the reduced spellcasting roll,
the target suers a brief surge of emotion,
allowing you to make her force reroll a skill
check if appropriate (Game Master approval
required).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You can force emotions so strong to the
target that she will do nothing but nurture
them. It could be simply contemplating it, or
doing nothing, or attacking mindlessly, or
fleeing, or anything appropriate (Game Master
discretion). The target will notice and
remember that something went wrong.

5.5.5 Hold
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower.
The target cannot move or act for the spell
duration. She is still aware of what is going on
and she can still take purely mental actions.
The duration is reduced by one round each
time the target is attacked.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You can make a creature have a slight
hesitation on a decision. She suers a penalty
on her next skill check equal to the number of
successes obtained on the reduced spellcasting
roll.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: instantaneous (see text).
Difficulty: Willpower.
You trap the consciousness of the target
into a small object you are currently carrying.
While her soul is trapped, the target falls
unconscious and cannot take any actions of
any kind until the end of the spell. However,
she becomes immune to any form of mental
attack. She will remember being imprisoned
(you decide the exact nature of this mental
prison, Game Master approval required). The
spell ends if the object in question is broken.
She can break free by making Intelligence
checks each round. She must get as many
successes as your successes obtained on the
spellcasting roll to do so.
5.5.6 Sleep
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
The target falls asleep for the spell
duration. Only pain might wake her.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one sleeping creature creature you
touch.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: see text.
You wake up the target. If she was sleeping
because of a spell, she awakes only if you
succeed your spellcasting roll.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one sleeping creature.
Duration: see text.
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Difficulty: Instinct.
You can see what the target is dreaming.
Furthermore, you can make a number of
alterations to her dreams equal to the number
of successes obtained, for example by
appearing to her and delivering a message
(Game Master approval required, some changes
might require several successes to accomplish).
5.6 Evocation Spells
5.6.1 Cone of cold
Evocation
Target: all creatures in a 10m cone in front
of you.
Duration: see text.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
You sent a chilling cold down to the
subjects. Each target takes wound damage
(cold) equal to half the number of successes
obtained (rounded up), and is slowed down for
a number of rounds equal to the same amount.
While slowed down, the target suers a
penalty to all checks requiring speed equal to
your ranks in the Spellcasting talent. This
spell can freeze water and other liquids in the
area (Game Master discretion).
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Diminished Effects
Target: one creature, one object or one
small amount of liquid.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: see text.
You cast a ray of frost which freezes liquids
or unattended objects (diculty depending on
the size of the target). You can also use it as a
ranged attack, using the reduced spellcasting
roll vs Reflex as ranged attack roll: this deals
one point of wound damage (cold) per success
obtained.
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Heightened Effects
Target: all creatures in a 10m cone in front
of you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
Gigantic icicles appear in the area,
eectively trapping the targets for the
prescribed duration. While trapped, they
cannot do anything, but they are immune to
all kind of damage except fire. The only way
to free them is to deal them a number of fire
damage equal to your ranks in the Spellcasting
talent.
5.6.2 Fireball
Evocation
Target: all creatures in a 5m sphere.
Duration: instantaneous.
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Difficulty: Reflex.
You cause an explosion of magical fire,
dealing one wound damage (fire) per success
obtained to all creatures aected. The burst is
too short for inflammable objects to catch fire.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one creature or object you touch.
Duration: instantaneous (see text).
Difficulty: Reflex.
You create a small flame, enough to provide
illumination (in which case you use the
reduced spellcasting roll as duration roll) or set
inflammable objects afire. You can use it to
burn one creature you touch; make a
spellcasting roll vs Reflex as a melee attack
roll. The target suers one wound damage
(fire) per success obtained.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Reflex.
The target catches fire for a number of
rounds equal to the number of success
obtained. While she is on fire, she and every
adjacent creatures and objects take a number
of wound damage (fire) equal to your ranks in
the Spellcasting talent. The target can try to
extinguish the flames, each action taken to do
so reducing the duration by one round (but
not canceling the damage on that round) or
more, depending on the eact action (Game
Master discretion).
5.6.3 Flashing Light
Evocation
Target: all creatures in a 10m cone in front
of you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You emit a brief yet powerful light in front
of you. Any creature in the area is blinded for
the prescribed duration. Creatures sensitive to
light may furthermore take wound damage
(radiant) equal to your ranks in the
Spellcasting talent.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one unattended object.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
The target glows softly like a lantern. This
light is enough to illuminate an area, but not
blind or repel creatures. Use the spellcasting
roll as duration roll.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one unattended object.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
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The target glows with a powerful radiance,
casting as much light as the sun would for the
prescribed duration. This light is so powerful
it keeps creatures sensitive to light at bay. If
they cannot escape, they suer one point of
debilitation damage per round of exposure.
5.6.4 Lightning Bolt
Evocation
Target: all creatures in the spellcasting
range caught in a line in front of you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You throw a powerful bolt of electricity in
front of you, dealing one point of wound
damage (electricity) per success obtained.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one metallic object.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You create a short static shock near a
metallic object, maybe preventing a creature
from touching it, or warning an ally from an
incoming attack. Make a reduced spellcasting
roll vs Reflex as a ranged attack roll. If you
succeed, the target takes one wound damage
(electricity) per success obtained.
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Heightened Effects
Target: all creatures adjacent to you.
Duration: spellcasting instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
Cast this spell as a reaction when you are
hit by a melee attack. Each target suers one
point of wound damage (electricity) per
success obtained, plus one debilitation damage.
If you hit the creature who attacked you, you
increase the damage you deal her by half the
wound damage she inflicted to you.
5.6.5 Magic Missile
Evocation
Target: one creature or object.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You launch a projectile of pure energy at
the target. This is a ranged attack which deals
the target one wound damage of any one
energy of your choice per each success
obtained.
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Diminished Effects
Target: all creatures in a 5m cone in front
of you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You create a sudden burst of energy of your
choice in front of you. Use the reduced
spellcasting roll as an area attack roll against

all targets. Each target hit takes wound
damage of the chosen energy equal to the
number of successes obtained.
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Heightened Effects
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create one orb of energy per rank in
the Spellcasting talent. Each orb allows you to
block incoming attacks using your Willpower
rather than your Fortitude. Furthermore, you
can concentrate on one orb to launch it against
one object or creature. Make then a
spellcasting roll vs Reflex as a ranged attack
roll: the target suers as many wound damage
of the appropriate energy as the number of
successes obtained. Doing so destroys the orb
launched.
5.6.6 Magic Weapon
Evocation
Target: one weapon of energy near you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create a weapon of pure energy which
attacks on its own, using your ranks in the
Spellcasting talent as the ranks in the Melee or
Ranged skill for the attack roll. The weapon
deals damage of one energy of your choice.
The weapon floats by your side and cannot
move further.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one weapon you touch.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You sheathe a weapon with one type of
energy of your choice. When the weapon deals
damage while the spell lasts, it deals damage
of the selected energy.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one weapon of energy.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create a weapon of pure energy which
attacks on its own, using your ranks in the
Spellcasting talent as the ranks in the Melee or
Ranged skill for the attack roll. The weapon
deals damage of one energy of your choice.
The weapon can move on its own, with a fly
speed equal to twice your ranks in the
Spellcasting talent. You can create the weapon
anywhere within spellcasting range. However,
if the weapon moves outside spellcasting range
or line of sight, it is immediatly teleported by
your side. When it is by your side, it moves
with you as per the normal eects. You assign
targets to the weapon as a free action. You can
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concentrate on it to make an attack using your
spellcasting roll instead of a normal attack roll.
5.7 Illusion Spells
5.7.1 Cloak of Shadows
Illusion
Target: 10m sphere.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You shed pure darkness in the area. This
extinguishes all sources of light (even
physically by shutting doors or windows), and
block line of sight unless for creatures able to
see in magical darkness. Otherwise, creatures
in the area are eectively blind as long as they
stay there. Potent light eects (such as a
flashing light spell) must exceed the number of
successes on the spellcasting roll to function.
Each time a light eect is used in the area, the
duration is reduced by one round.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one shadow.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct (harmless).
You can manipulate one shadow and make
it take any shape you want. You can use this
eect to substitute a Stealth check with the
reduced spellcasting roll (Game Master
discretion).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one creature in the shadows.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You trap the target in the shadows: she
cannot step into the light, and she suers one
debilitation damage each time she is exposed
to light, and must fall back in the shadows if
possible. However, doing so reduces the spell
duration by one round. As long as she stays in
the shadow, you can force reroll one check per
round she makes, or one check made against
her.
5.7.2 Disguise Self
Illusion
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You can modify your appearance. You
cannot take the exact appearance of a specific
creature, but you can change any of your
physical details (height, width, color, facial
details, even clothing) as long as you take the
appearance of someone of your own type (so if
you are a human you can take the appearance
of an elf but not a dragon or an animal). This
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does not aect your voice, odor, or other
senses.
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Diminished Effects
Target: you.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You can modify a small detail of your
appearance, like the color of your eyes or the
size of your nose, etc. You can use this to
substitue a Deception check with the reduced
spellcasting roll (Game Master discretion).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You take the appearance of a specific
creature the target wants to see and is not
present (Game Master discretion). All
creatures see the disguise, not only the target.
You become aware of the shape you take, as
well as basic information about the creature in
question.
5.7.3 Hallucinations
Illusion
Target: one image within spellcasting
range.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
You create one illusory image in the
designated spot. The image is capable of basic
movements, but you need to concentrate on it
to make more complex movements. Creatures
touching it are granted checks to perceive the
illusion, the base diculty being equal to the
number of successes obtained, minus one per
creature who already disbelieved the spell.
The illusion is capable of simple noises, but
not complex enough to talk. The diculty
depends on the size of the hallucination and its
complexity (Game Master discretion)
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Diminished Effects
Target: one surface you touch.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
You can create a small two-dimensional
illusion on the surface. The diculty depends
on the size of the image and its detail (Game
Master discretion)
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Heightened Effects
Target: one image within spellcasting
range.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create an illusion that anyone can see
in the area. The illusion can be fairly complex,
and uses sounds (including speech) and odors
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as well. The illusion is autonomous, and will
react as what the real thing would do.
Creatures who touch the illusion can disbelieve
it as stated above.
5.7.4 Invisibility
Illusion
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You become invisible for the spell duration.
While invisible, you still emit noises, and you
can be detected by light eects (for example,
rain not going through you). The spell ends as
soon as you make an attack.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one object you touch.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You can hide a small object on yourself for
a small moment. A careful search might reveal
the object (even though non-magical searches
have a penalty equal to the number of
successes obtained), but not a simple glance.
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Heightened Effects
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You can make yourself invisible to almost
all senses. This major eect also cancels noises
and odors. Furthermore, when a spell might
indirectly reveal you (like for example, a
thought detection), you can choose to take one
debilitation damage and still be not detected.
The spell still ends if you attack.
5.7.5 Mirror Image
Illusion
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create one illusory copy of yourself per
rank in the Spellcasting talent. Each copy
makes it dicult to perceive you, imposing a
-1 penalty to all attacks and Perception checks
against you. When you are targeted by a
melee or ranged attack, you can make a
Spellcasting vs Instinct check against the
attacker. If successful, the attacker targets one
of your copies instead of you, destroying it.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one mirror.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
You can slightly change what is reflected by
the mirror. Creatures with an Instinct higher

than half your ranks in the Spellcasting talent
will automatically notice this is an illusion.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one image of yourself.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create an autonomous, illusory copy of
yourself. The copy will perform any action you
want: you control it telepathically (no
concentration required). Creatures touching
the illusion might perceive its real nature, as
per the Hallucinations spell. However, actions
performed by the illusion are actually real,
which means the image can attack or cast
spells as it if were you (it cannot use talents
however). If the image casts spells, you use
your own set of known spells. The image does
not benefit from any magical item property
you might wear.
5.7.6 Shout
Illusion
Target: all creatures in a 5m sphere
centered on you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
You emit a terrible shriek that deafens all
creatures in the area. Fragile objects or
creatures may furthermore take wound damage
(sound) equal to your ranks in the Spellcasting
talent. The noise created by this spell can be
heard from a great distance (Game Master
discretion).
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Diminished Effects
Target: one sound you make.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
The sound appears to be originating from a
few meters away from you (you choose the
exact location). Creatures with an Instinct
score higher than the result of the reduced
spellcasting rolls are not fooled by the illusion
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Heightened Effects
Target: 5m sphere centered on you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create an invisible spherical barrier of
sound which follows you for the spell duration.
No sound from inside the sphere can go out.
However, creatures inside the sphere still hear
what happens outside. Creature within the
sphere add your ranks in the Spellcasting
talent to all saves against sound-based attacks.
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5.8 Necromancy Spells
5.8.1 Animate Dead
Necromancy
Target: one corpse you touch.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
You animate thee body in the form of a
mindless skeleton or zombie. The animate
dead will follow vocal commands, yet it can
only understand simple orders. It has no
memories of her previous life, and therefore
retains no specific skill or talent. The diculty
of the spell depends on the type of creature
(Game Master discretion).
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Diminished Effects
Target: one corpse.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
You make the target make a unique simple
movement (like waving a hand or laughing
maniacally). You can make the corpse attack,
using your reduced spellcasting roll as a melee
attack roll.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one corpse you touch.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
You bring back the target as any undead of
your choice. The diculty depends on the type
of undead you want to create. If you choose a
sentient undead, and you gain as many
successes as the targets Willpower, then she is
bound to your service for the spell duration.
Otherwise, she acts as she wishes, possibly
attacking you. The target may retain one skill
and talent she had in life, depending on the
kind of undead you choose.
5.8.2 Cloak of Undeath
Necromancy
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You gain the appearance of an undead
creature, which makes any undead creature
think you are actually undead. Intelligent
undead creatures might be able to notice that
something is wrong when they actively interact
with you (for example, if a vampire tastes your
blood he will instantly notice youre a living
creature).
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Diminished Effects
Target: you.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
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You emit a putrefying stench. Once per
round, you can make a creature adjacent to
you force reroll a skill check, unless the target
has a Fortitude higher than half your talent
ranks (Game Master approval).
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Heightened Effects
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You completely cross the frontier of unlife.
While this spell is active, you become an
undead creature, and gain all undead traits.
You are no more considered a living creature
(notably, you dont breathe. You are still able
to speak though). You furthermore ignore the
penalties caused by debilitation damage. This
damage is still in eect though, and you suer
the penalties again when the spell ends.
5.8.3 Death Watch
Necromancy
Target: all creatures in a 10m sphere
centered on you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You gain the ability to detect life forces of
creatures within 10 meters. For each creature
you can see you know whether it is alive,
undead or non-living (like artificial creatures).
If it is alive, you gain further information on
her state (like if she is wounded, dying,
infected with poison or disease, etc). You
further know whether there is at least one
undead creature in the area (even if you cant
see that creature). Finally, you gain a bonus
equal to half your ranks in the Spellcasting
talent on all your saves against attacks coming
from undead creatures.
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Diminished Effects
Target: food or corpse touched.
Duration: see text.
Difficulty: amount of food or size of the
target.
You can prevent the target to rot for one
day per success obtained on the reduced
spellcasting roll. You can further determine
whether it is poisonous, infected, or improper
for consumption, but this might increase the
diculty of the spell (Game Master discretion).
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Heightened Effects
Target: all living creatures in a 10m sphere
centered on you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You prevent any living creature in the area
from dying. Dying creatures remain in that
state and cannot die under any circumstances
as long as they stay in the area. Living
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creatures that take enough damage to die in
the area become dying but do not die. Undead
creatures suer one debilitation damage when
they enter the area, and each round they spent
in the area, unless their Fortitude save is
higher than your ranks in the Spellcasting
talent. Non-living creatures (like artificial
creatures) are unaected by the area.
5.8.4 Finger of Death
Necromancy
Target: one living creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
The target suers a number of wound
damage (necrotic) equal to the number of
successes obtained plus your ranks in the
Spellcasting talent. If the creature is dying
(either after or before you cast the spell), she
dies instantly.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one living creature.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
You open open cuts and wound on the
target body. The target takes one wound
damage (hemorrhagic) per round for the spell
duration, unless she is healed before (she can
stop the bleeding with a full-round action, or
less if she is helped by other creatures).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one living creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower.
The target suers a number of debilitation
damage equal to the number of successes
obtained. If the target falls unconscious
because of this spell, she dies.
5.8.5 Vampiric Feast
Necromancy
Target: one living creature you touch.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
You steal the life force from the target. She
takes a number of wound damage
(hemorrhagic) equal to the number of
successes obtained, and you heal the same
amount of wound damage.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one sleeping or dying creature you
touch.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
You steal nourishment from the target.
This aects you as if you had eaten a full meal,
and heals you one debilitation damage per two

successes obtained on the reduced spellcasting
roll. The target feels something is wrong with
her when she wakes up, but this does not grant
any kind of disadvantage.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one dying creature you touch.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
You steal the last life force of the target,
killing her instantly. You recover one
debilitation damage per two successes obtained
and you can force reroll any spellcasting roll
you make to cast Necromancy spells. If you
use this eect to force reroll an heightened
eect, the duration is reduced by one round.
You can cast this spell on a fresh corpse,
provided the target died less than one round
per rank in the Spellcasting talent.
5.8.6 Wave of Fatigue
Necromancy
Target: all living creatures in a 10m cone
in front of you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
All living creatures in the area feel
exhausted and tired, and therefore suer one
debilitation damage. Furthermore, you can
make the target force reroll any skill check, but
doing so reduces the duration by one round.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one living creature you touch.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
The target can overcome exhaustion by
tapping in her life force. For each success on
the spellcasting roll, she can take one wound
damage to recover one debilitation damage.
No eect can prevent the wound damage to
occur. The target decides which amount of
damage she heals.
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Heightened Effects
Target: all living creatures in a 10m cone
in front of you.
Duration: spellcasting roll (see text).
Difficulty: Fortitude.
Each target is forced to concentrate to
remain conscious. At each of her turn, a target
can choose between acting normally or falling
unconscious. If she acts normally, she suers
one debilitation damage, remains limited to
simple actions that do not require
concentration nor extreme eort (Game
Master discretion) and the spell duration is
reduced by one round. Once she falls
unconscious, she cannot awake and act
normally anymore, but she does not suer
debilitation damage. The target remains
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unconscious until an external eect awakes her
(minimum for the spell remaining duration), or
at the end of the encounter.
5.9 Transmutation Spells
5.9.1 Animate Object
Transmutation
Target: one unattended object.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower (Harmless).
You animate the target and grant her a
limited intelligence, which allows her to follow
your vocal commands to the best of her
abilities. This spell also grants the target the
ability to walk (or any other type of movement
that seems in accordance with her nature).
She cannot talk nor express herself: she just
follows orders. The diculty of the spell might
be increased depending on the nature of the
target (Game Master discretion).
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Diminished Effects
Target: one object.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: see text.
You force one object to make a move it can
naturally do (like shutting a door, tying a knot
in a rope, etc). The diculty of the spell
depends on the size and complexity of the
target (Game Master discretion).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one object held by a creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower of the creature.
The object acts against the will of its
current holder. While the spell is in eect, the
targeted object will act the opposite way of
what the creature who holds it wants. For
example, a weapon will turn herself against her
wielder, tools used to disable traps will trigger
it instead, etc.
5.9.2 Earthen Grasp
Transmutation
Target: one creature touching the ground.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Reflex.
A gigantic hand comes out of the ground
and holds the target. While held the target
cannot move, but can still take physical
actions with a penalty equal to your ranks in
the Spellcasting talent, and mental actions
with no penalty. The grasp is firm and wont
the target escape under any circumstances.
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Target: one creature or object touching the
ground.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You send small shockwaves through the
ground. These shockwaves can warn allies or
knock opponents prone, or make object fall or
move on the ground.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one creature touching the ground.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
You transform the target into a statue of a
material of your choice (usually stone or glass,
Game Master approval). While this is in eect,
she is impervious to damage and to any eect
that target only living creatures. She does not
breathe, cannot move or act, and cannot take
actions of any kind. She will remember
nothing of what has happened while she was
transformed.
5.9.3 Fabricate
Transmutation
Target: one unattended object you touch.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
By touching one object you can extract and
shape one smaller object made out of the same
substance. For example, if you touch a tree
you can extract any kind of wooden object
(including weapons). You must access enough
of that substance to extract your object. The
diculty depends on the size or the complexity
of the object (Game Master discretion).
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Diminished Effects
Target: one unattended object you touch.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
You can make minor alterations to small
objects. For example, you can make stones
spherical, bend metal blades, etc. You can use
this to substitute a Craft check with the
reduced spellcasting roll.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one unattended object you touch.
Duration: until the end of the encounter.
Difficulty: see text.
You can extract one creature made of the
chosen substance. The creature has limited
intelligence and will obey your vocal
commands. The diculty depends on the size
of the creature you want to extract. For each
success you obtain, the target gains 1 rank in
an appropriate skill.
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5.9.4 Shapechange
Transmutation
Target: one creature or unattended object
you touch.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (Harmless).
You make one alteration to the shape of
the target. The alterations can be additional
limbs, the ability to breathe underwater, lizard
scales, wings, etc. Some eects might increase
the diculty of the spell (Game Master
discretion). The exact eects depend on the
chosen alteration. Alternatively you can repair
or heal the target, removing one wound
damage per talent rank (or one per two talent
ranks for arcane and psionic spellcasters).
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Diminished Effects
Target: one object or creature you touch.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (harmless).
You can make minor alterations to one
object or one willing creature (like a change in
color, or you can make a flower bloom, etc).
You may use this to substitute an appropriate
skill check with the reduced spellcasting roll
(Game Master discretion).
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Heightened Effects
Target: one creature or unattended object
you touch.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (harmless).
You completely change the shape of the
target, polymorphing her into any creature (if
she is a creature) or object (if she is an object)
of your choice. The diculty depends on the
dierence between her new and normal shapes
(Game Master discretion). You can control
details of her new appearance, but you cannot
mimic specific creatures. The target get all
traits of her new forms (like claws, ability to
breathe water, etc), which might grant her in
some cases bonuses up to your ranks in the
Spellcasting talent.
5.9.5 Stop Time
Transmutation
Target: one creature or unattended object.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
You stop the time for the target. While
time is stopped for her, she cannot move,
think, or be moved or aected in any way: she
is frozen in her current condition. You can use
this spell to target fast moving objects, which
mean you can interrupt attacks against you or
any other creature. When the spell ends the
target starts moving again with no initial
velocity. This spell can therefore be used to

stop falling. Casting this spell to avoid falling
is a reaction.
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Diminished Effects
Target: you or one ally.
Duration: one round.
Difficulty: none.
You can have short glimpses ol the near
future. This might avoid you or allies being
surprised or allow you to substitute a skill
check (like Acrobatics or Ride, for example)
with the reduced spellcasting roll (Game
Master approval).
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Heightened Effects
Target: you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
You stop the time for yourself. You can
immediately make a number of actions equal to
the number of successes obtained, up to your
number of ranks in the Spellcasting talent.
5.9.6 Telekinesis
Transmutation
Target: one creature or object.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
You can control the target with telekinesis.
You cannot make complicate movements, but
you can slam her into objects, or simply take
her up in the air and then release her. You can
make her move 5 meters per round per rank in
the Spellcasting talent. The diculty of the
spell might be increased depending on the size
or the weight of the target.
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Diminished Effects
Target: one object.
Duration: reduced spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You can move a small object. If you use it
to make an attack, you can substitute a ranged
attack roll with the reduced spellcasting roll.
You must concentrate each round to maintain
the spell, otherwise it ends.
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Heightened Effects
Target: one creature or object.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You free the target from any restraint,
including gravity. Any eect that tries to stop,
slow or force the targets movement suers a
penalty equal to your ranks in the Spellcasting
talent. The target can fly in any direction as if
gravity did not exist.
Chapter 5
5.10 Domain Spells
Domain spells are specific spells granted by the
gods to their clerics, or by the titans to their
druids.
Unless noted otherwise, a spellcaster
cannot learn a domain spell. The two main
exceptions are the Spellcasting (Divine Magic)
talent from the cleric class, or the Spellcasting
(Primal Magic) talent from the druid class.
The list of domains per divinity can be found
in the chapter Faith of the Scarred Lands.
Primal domains are: Air, Animal, Earth,
Fey, Fire, Healing, Plant, Travel, Water.
5.10.1 Air Domain: Control Winds
Transmutation
Target: sphere up to spellcasting range.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
You can change the direction and strength
of wind currents in the area. The diculty of
the spell depends on the current wind
conditions and the new conditions (Game
Master discretion). After the end of the spell,
the eects fade o progressively, and the
original wind conditions apply at the end of
the encounter.
5.10.2 Animal Domain: Charm Animal
Enchantment
Target: one animal.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower (Harmless).
The target becomes friendly towards you.
She will obey simple orders as long as it does
not bring her to harm. She gains a bonus equal
to your ranks in the Spellcasting talent for any
skill check involved in executing your
commands.
5.10.3 Chaos Domain: Cloak of Chaos
Conjuration
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower (see text).
As long as the spell is active, make a
spellcasting roll as a reaction against any
creature making a melee attack against you. If
you succeed, the target is teleported 5 meters
per success obtained in a random direction.
Each time a creature is teleported the duration
is reduced by one round.
5.10.4 Construct Domain: Transfer
Sentience
Enchantment
Target: one animated creature.
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Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower.
You possess the target for the spell
duration. Your body disappear, and you gain a
full control of the targets body, including any
type of magical attack it might possess. At the
end of the spell, you reappear next to the
targets body. If the target is destroyed while
you possess her, the spell ends immediatly.
5.10.5 Death Domain: Death Knell
Necromancy
Target: one dying creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
Cast this spell as a reaction when a
creature dies or becomes dying. You heal one
debilitation damage and gain a +2 bonus in
the highest attribute of the target and a +1
bonus to the associated defense. The target
dies.
5.10.6 Destruction Domain: Disinte-
gration
Transmutation
Target: one object or creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Fortitude (see text).
You disintegrate the target. The size of the
target increases the diculty of the spell
(Game Master discretion). If you cast the spell
on a living creature, she takes wound damage
equal to the net successes obtained on the
spellcasting roll; the target is disintegrated if
she becomes dying because of this spell.
5.10.7 Domination Domain: Obedi-
ance
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower.
For the spells duration, the target will
obey all your vocal orders, even if that might
bring her to harm.
5.10.8 Dream Domain: Dreamsight
Divination
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: see text.
Difficulty: Instinct.
The next time the target dreams, you see
exactly what she dreams of. You cannot alter
the dream, but for each success obtained you
might learn a specific piece of information
concerning the target (like what she desires or
fears the most, etc).
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5.10.9 Earth Domain: Earthquake
Transmutation
Target: all creatures in a 10m sphere.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
Creatures and unattended objects in the
area fall to the ground, unless their Fortitude
is higher than your ranks in the Spellcasting
talent. Each round while the spell last, you
can make a reduced spellcasting roll vs Reflex
against any creature in the area. If you
succeed, the target takes wound damage equal
to the number of successes obtained. Each
round you can concentrate one action on a
single creature in the area: you make a normal
spellcasting roll against her (instead of a
reduced spellcasting roll), and the target falls
prone if you succeed.
5.10.10 Entrancement Domain: Cloak
of Desire
Illusion
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You can roll twice any check made to
seduce or charm creatures, either with
Charisma-based skills or with spells.
5.10.11 Evil Domain: Curse of Felony
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower.
The target chooses to either commit an evil
deed with her next actions (Game Master
approval), or to take one debilitation damage
per two successes obtained.
5.10.12 Fey Domain: Bewitching Cloud
Same as the Fey Legacy spell.
5.10.13 Fire Domain: Control Fire
Transmutation
Target: one natural fire or one inflamable
object.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
You can control one natural fire in the area,
by either increasing or decreasing its potency.
Depending on the exact eect you want, the
diculty of the spell might increase (Game
Master discretion). You can also set an
inflammable object afire. When the spell ends,
the fire starts regains its previous
configuration, unless you quenched it
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5.10.14 Gateways Domain: Phase
Door
Conjuration
Target: one solid surface.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
Choose any solid surface you are aware of
within spellcasting range (even if you do not
see it). While the spell is active, any creature
crossing the solid surface targeted reappears
beside other surface. The gate is one-way only.
5.10.15 Good Domain: Redeem
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower.
If the target uses her next actions to
commit good deeds (Game Master approval),
then she heals one debilitation damage per two
successes obtained. Otherwise, she takes one
debilitation damage.
5.10.16 Healing Domain: Cure
Wounds
Conjuration
Target: one creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Fortitude (Harmless).
The target recovers as many wound
damage as the number of successes obtained.
If you target an undead creature with this
spell, she takes one wound damage (radiant)
per success obtained instead.
5.10.17 Judgement Domain: Bring to
Justice
Conjuration
Target: one creature guilty of a crime.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Willpower.
The target suers one debilitation damage,
and you can teleport her anywhere in
spellcasting range, as long as she reappears
adjacent to you or one of your allies. You or
the ally can immediatly make a melee attack
against the target, with a bonus equal to the
number of successes obtained.
5.10.18 Knowledge Domain: Myths
and Legends
Divination
Target: you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
You add the number of successes obtained
as a bonus to your next knowledge roll.
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5.10.19 Law Domain: Dictum
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature who was
given a direct order by her hierarchy during
this encounter.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower (Harmless).
If the target chooses to follow her orders,
then she can force reroll any skill check made
to carry out her orders. Otherwise, she takes
one debilitation damage, and you can make her
force reroll any skill check, yet each time you
do so the duration is reduced by one round.
5.10.20 Luck Domain: Aid
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower (Harmless).
Once during the spell is in eect, the target
can force reroll any skill check with a bonus
equal to the number of successes obtained, or
make any creature force reroll a skill check
against her with a malus equal to the number
of successes obtained. The spell ends after the
reroll is spent.
5.10.21 Magic Domain: Spell Channel
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
Transform up to one of your spells still
available per two successes obtained into any
common spell of the same school. Once cast,
the spells are converted back to the original
spells.
5.10.22 Plant Domain: Plant Growth
Transmutation
Target: one plant in the area.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: see text.
You can increase the size of a plant you see
and alter its shape. The diculty depends on
the exact transformation you wish to achieve
(Game Master discretion). This spell is
instantaneous, so the plant does not regain its
original shape, and the spell cannot be
dispelled.
5.10.23 Protection Domain: Shield of
the Faith
Necromancy
Target: one living creature other than you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (Harmless).
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Each time the target takes wound damage,
she only takes half the prescribed wound
damage, while you suer the remaining
amount. If the target is willing, the link can
work the other way around.
5.10.24 Rainbow Domain: Prismatic
Spray
Evocation
Target: up to 7 creatures in a 10m cone in
front of you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You shed rays of all the rainbow colors in
front of you. Any creature hit by the spell is
blinded one round, and suers one point of
wound damage per success obtained. This
damage comes from an energy of your choice.
However, you cannot aect two creatures with
the same type of energy.
5.10.25 Secret Domain: Confidence
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct.
The target sees you as someone
trustworthy. As long as the spell lasts, she will
answer your questions as if you were a very
close friend without hesitation. She will have
no memories of having spilled out any secrets
afterward.
5.10.26 Shadow Domain: Shadow
Form
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You take a shadowy shape. You become
totally invisible in dark areas. This form is
partially intangible and you may pass through
an opening of almost any size. You may force
reroll any attack made against you until the
end of the spell. However, light eects cast
against you can be rolled twice, and each time
one of them hits the duration is reduced by
one round.
5.10.27 Strength Domain: Magic Might
Transmutation
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (Harmless).
The targets can roll force reroll any
Strength-based check while the spell is active.
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5.10.28 Sun Domain: Sunbeam
Transmutation
Target: sphere up to spellcasting range.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none (see text).
You create a searing light in the area. All
creatures caught in the area when you cast the
spell and with a Reflex score lower than the
number of successes obtained are blinded for
one round. Creatures sensitive to sunlight also
takes one debilitation damage, and suer an
additional -1 to all checks as long as they stay
in the area. Once per round, you can take an
action to strike an enemy with light. Make a
spellcasting roll vs Reflex as a ranged attack
roll against a creature in the area. The target
is blinded one additional round, and takes one
wound damage (radiant) per two successes
obtained if she is sensitive to sunlight.
5.10.29 Travel Domain: Longstride
Transmutation
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (Harmless).
The targets speed is multiplied by two.
Furthermore, the target ignores dicult
terrain, and can force reroll any attack made
against her that impairs her movement. Each
time she does so the duration is reduced by
one round.
5.10.30 Trickery Domain: Glibness
Illusion
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct (Harmless).
The target can force reroll any Deception
check. Furthermore, each time someone tries
to detect whether she is lying, or read her
thoughts (or any similar eect), she can force
reroll the attackers check. Each time she does
so the duration is reduced by one round.
5.10.31 Vengeance Domain: Divine
Talion
Necromancy
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
Any creature who deals you wound damage
receives an equal number of wound damage
(necrotic), up to your talent ranks. Each time
this happens the duration is reduced by one
round.

5.10.32 War Domain: Summon
Weapon
Conjuration
Target: one weapon per success obtained.
Duration: end of the encounter.
Difficulty: none.
You create one weapon per success
obtained. Alternatively, you can enchant up to
one existing weapon per success obtained: the
wielder of one of these weapon may roll twice
any one attack roll during the encounter, at
which point the spell ends for this weapon.
5.10.33 Water Domain: Control Water
Transmutation
Target: one body of water in the
spellcasting range.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: see text.
You control the currents in the body of
water aected, both in terms of direction and
magnitude. You can also raise or lower the
level of water. The diculty of the spell
depends on the exact eects you wish to
achieve.
5.11 Legacy Spells
Legacy spells are specific spells inherited by
sorcerers from the mystic ancestors.
Unless noted otherwise, a spellcaster
cannot learn a legacy spell. The main
exception is the Spellcasting (Arcane Legacy)
talent from the sorcerer class.
5.11.1 Aberrant Legacy: Slimeform
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You transform yourself into a viscous blob
of slime. In this form, you retain all your
special abilities, and you can shape your body
at will, for example going through very fine
holes. You can force reroll any melee attack
you make; all melee attacks you make while in
the slime form deal acid damage.
5.11.2 Celestial Legacy: Angelic Wings
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
Wings made of pure light grow in your
back. You can fly at twice your land speed,
and you can make melee attacks using your
reduced spellcasting roll vs Reflex as the
attack roll. These attacks deal wound damage
Chapter 5
(radiant); if the target is sensitive to light, you
use your normal spellcasting roll, and if you
succeed she is also blinded 1 round and suers
1 debilitation damage. Each time you make an
attack the duration is reduced by one round.
5.11.3 Chern Legacy: Verminplague
Conjuration
Target: all creatures in a 5m sphere.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
You conjure a swarm of infectious creatures
like rats or insects. The target takes wound
damage equal to half the number of successes
obtained, and becomes instantly attacked by a
disease of your choice (Game Master approval);
the net number of successes obtained indicates
the maximal potency of the selected disease.
5.11.4 Denev Legacy: Earth Leap
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
You meld yourself into any stone or earth
surface you touch, and can travel inside up to
10m per success obtained. At the end of the
travel, you are expelled toward the closest free
surface if you are still within the earth; you
then take 1 wound damage per 10 meters
traveled during the expelling.
5.11.5 Draconic Legacy: Dragon Breath
Evocation
Target: all creatures in a 10m cone
emanating from you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
The target takes one wound damage of
your legacy energy type per success obtained.
5.11.6 Fey Legacy: Bewitching Cloud
Enchantment
Target: 5m sphere.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create a cloud that dazzles creatures
caught within. The Instinct and Willpower
score of any target in the area is reduced by 1
for each round they stay in the area. If the
Instinct or Willpower score of an aected
creature reaches 0, the creature falls asleep.
Targets regain their full save as soon as they
leave the cloud.
5.11.7 Gaurak Legacy: Gluttony
Enchantment
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Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower.
The target must cease any activity and eat
or find something to eat. If nothing is
available, she will turn to the nearest creature,
or even try to eat herself. Each time the
creature is attacked the duration is reduced by
one round.
5.11.8 Genie Legacy: Elemental Kiss
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You take the shape of pure elemental power
(the element depending on your exact
ancestor). You are immuned to attacks based
on that element (Game Master discretion), and
you can make elemental area attacks against
all adjacent creatures. When you make such an
attack, repeat the spellcasting roll against the
Reflex or Fortitude of the target. The target
takes wound damage (of an appropriate energy
type) equal to the number of successes and is
knocked prone. Each time you do such an
attack the duration is reduced by one round.
5.11.9 Golthagga Legacy: Blade Limb
Transmutation
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (Harmless).
you transform one limb of the target into a
potent weapon. The weapon deals additional
damage equal to one half your ranks in the
Spellcasting (Arcane Legacy) talent. The
target can force reroll any melee attack roll
made with the weapon, but each time she
takes one wound damage.
5.11.10 Golthain Legacy: Emotional
Retribution
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct.
Each time the target deals wound or
debilitation damage, she takes one debilitation
damage as well.
5.11.11 Gormoth Legacy: Affliction
Transmutation
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (Harmless).
The target gains one extra limb per success
obtained (up to your ranks in the Arcane
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Legacy talent). These limbs are monstruous by
nature, and come in various size or shape
(tentacles, claws, pseudopods, etc). If the
target is willing, she can use these limbs to
make naturals attack, with a bonus equal to
your ranks in the Spellcasting (Arcane Legacy)
talent to all her melee rolls. If she is unwilling,
the limbs attack her using her own ranks in
Strength + the number of limbs created as the
melee attack rolls. The limbs can be cut, but
cutting a limb takes one full-action, and the
target takes one wound damage in the process.
5.11.12 Gulaben Legacy: Charm's Aegis
Enchantment
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
Whenever you are targeted by a melee,
ranged or area attack by a creature who can
see you, you can make a new spellcasting roll.
If you exceed the targets Willpower, you can
force reroll the attack roll. If you exceed the
targets Willpower + the number of successes
of the incoming attack, the target
automatically looses her action. Each time you
avoid an attack thanks to that power, the
duration is reduced by one round.
5.11.13 Hrinruk Legacy: Hunter's
Senses
Divination
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct.
As long as the spell lasts you know the
direction and distance to the target. You
ignore any form of camouflage or invisibility
she might have, unless these come from
magical eects cast with a rank in the
Spellcasting talent higher than your rank in
the Spellcasting (Arcane Legacy) talent. Each
time you succeed a ranged attack roll against
the target the duration increases by one round.
5.11.14 Infernal Legacy: Claws of the
Demon
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
Your hands take the shape of vicious claws.
Add your ranks in the Spellcasting (Arcane
Legacy) talent to all your melee attack rolls
when you use these claws. Furthermore, any
creature hit by the claw also suers one
debilitation damage.

5.11.15 Kadum Legacy: Kadum's
Strength
Transmutation
Target: one touched creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (Harmless).
The target gains a bonus equal to half your
ranks in the Spellcasting (Arcane Legacy)
talent for all Strength-based checks. If she
agrees to perform only violent actions, she can
also roll twice any Strength-based check.
5.11.16 Lethene Legacy: Eye of the
Storm
Evocation
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: potency of the storm.
If you cast this spell during a storm (either
magical or natural), you gain immunity to any
eect of that storm for the prescribed
duration. Additionally, you can once per round
shoot a lightning bolt against a creature in the
storm: make a spellcasting roll vs Reflex as a
ranged attack roll. If you succeed, the target
takes wound damage (electricity) equal to the
number of successes obtained, but the spell
duration is reduced by one round.
5.11.17 Mesos Legacy: Arcane Tran-
scendance
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: none.
When you cast this spell, you can cast
simultaneously as many arcane spells as your
ranks in the Spellcasting (Arcane Legacy)
talent (minimum two). You cannot use this
eect to cast heightened eects of spells.
5.11.18 Mormo Legacy: Poison
Necromancy
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Fortitude (see text).
You aect the target with a poison of your
choice. The target takes one debilitation
damage, and suers an additional eect of
your choice for the prescribed duration. The
diculty might be increased for some eects.
5.11.19 Thulkas Legacy: Thulkas Wrath
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
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You become immune to fire, and any
creature adjacent to you takes one wound
damage (fire) per round. However, any cold
attack against you might be rolled twice, and
reduced by one round the duration of the spell
if successful.
5.12 Rare Spells
Rare spells are specific spells created by the
most imaginative spellcasters.
Unless noted otherwise, a spellcaster
cannot learn a rare spell. The main exception
is the Spellcasting (Spellcraft) talent from the
spellmaster prestige class.
Gathered here are only examples of rare
spells. Characters with the Spellcraft talent
should feel free to create their own.
5.12.1 Bigby's Forceful Hand
Evocation
Target: one giant hand of force.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You create a giant hand of force that you
control with your own hands. You cannot
control it if you are paralized or if your hand
cannot move. The hand can make devastating
melee attacks, using your own Melee ranks
plus the number of successes obtained. The
hand can also be used to intercept attacks
(which allow you to force reroll attack rolls
made against you), grab creatures, etc.
5.12.2 Blight
Necromancy
Target: all plants and plant-like creatures
in a 10 meters sphere.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
The target takes one wound damage
(necrotic) per success obtained as well as one
debilitation damage. This spell kills most
non-animated plants in the area, leaving it
withered and arrid.
5.12.3 Dimensional Lock
Abjuration
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll (see text).
Difficulty: Willpower (Harmless).
The target cannot be teleported by any
spellcaster with a Spellcasting rank lower or
equal than yours. Spellcasters with a
Spellcasting rank higher than yours suer a
penalty on their spellcasting roll equal to your
talent ranks. The spell ends after it has
prevented one teleport attempt per talent rank.
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5.12.4 Dolomar's Force Wave
Evocation
Target: all creatures or unattended objects
in a 10m sphere centered on you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Fortitude.
The target takes one wound damage (force)
per two successes obtained, and is pushed 2m
away from you per success obtained.
5.12.5 Feeblemind
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower.
The target suers a penalty equal to half
your talent ranks to all Intelligence-based
checks, as well as a -1 penalty to Instinct and
Willpower. You can make her force reroll up to
one spellcasting roll per talent rank, but each
time you do so the duration is reduced by one
round.
5.12.6 Gaseous Form
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You transform yourself into mist. While
under this form, you can pass through thin
passages, and you can fly at your normal land
speed. However, you cannot enter a body of
water, nor pass through materials that do not
have visible cracks. You cannot act, but you
can still be targeted as an incorporeal creature.
You can turn back to your original shape
before the end of the duration, but doing so
ends the spell.
5.12.7 Glitterdust
Conjuration
Target: all creatures 5m sphere centered
on you.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
A shimmering dust covers everything in the
area. Creatures in the area are blinded for one
round; invisible creatures loose their
invisibility for one round per success obtained.
5.12.8 Mislead
Illusion
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll (see text).
Difficulty: none.
You teleport up to 5m per success
obtained, and then becomes invisible for one
round per remaining success. While you are
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invisible, an illusory double of yourself appears
in your previous location and continues what
you were doing before casting this spell. This
illusory double acts as an Hallucinations spell.
5.12.9 Moment of Prescience
Divination
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You can use your Instinct defense against
all melee, ranged or area attacks for the
duration of the spell. Once per round you can
make an opponent force reroll an attack roll
per round against you, but doing so reduces
the duration by one round.
5.12.10 Phantasmal Killer
Illusion
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct or Willpower
(whichever is higher).
The target sees her most terrifying
nightmare attacking her, dealing her one point
of debilitation damage per two successes
obtained. If she becomes unconscious because
of this damage, and your spellcasting roll is
higher than her Fortitude, then the target dies.
5.12.11 Protection from Arrows
Abjuration
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Instinct (Harmless).
The target reduces all damage from ranged
attacks by half your talent ranks. Magical
projectiles (including amunitions fired from
magic weapons) are not aected. Once per
round (and no more than once per talent rank
during the spell duration), the target may
make force reroll a ranged attack roll against
her.
5.12.12 Sequester
Conjuration
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: Willpower (Harmless).
You trap the creature in an
extradimensionnal space of your choice. The
creature eectively disappears, meaning she
cannot be targeted by any eect. She is
unaware of her surroundings, and cannot act
except trying to escale her prison. To do so,
she must make Intelligence checks (up to one
per round). Each success obtained reduces by
one round the duration.

5.12.13 Spectral Hand
Necromancy
Target: one spectral hand.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You summon one spectral hand which
slowly flies at half your land speed. As long as
the spell lasts you can cast spells as if you were
standing on the hands location, yet each time
you do so the duration is reduced by one
round. If you loose line of sight with the hand
she will try to come back to you; meanwhile
you cannot cast spells through the spectral
hand.
5.12.14 Tasha's Hideous Laughter
Enchantment
Target: one sentient creature.
Duration: see text.
Difficulty: Instinct or Willpower
(whichever is higher).
The target rolls on the floor laughing
without control. The target looses one action
per two successes obtained. Variants of this
spell can make the creature dance, cry, or
engage or any similar non-violent (and possibly
humiliating) action.
5.12.15 Tenser's Transformation
Transmutation
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You add your talent ranks ro all your melee
attack rolls, and half that amount to all your
saves against melee and ranged attacks.
5.12.16 Wallsight
Divination
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: none.
You cann see through walls and solid
matter, up to 5 meters (wood, dirt), 2 meters
(stone) or 0.5 meters (metals) per rank in the
Spellcasting talent.
5.13 Rituals
Rituals are particularly powerful spells, which
however take a longer time to cast. Each ritual
is unique and must be searched independently.
Rituals require expensive material components
and focus, which are not described here as
they can vary a lot from one caster to another.
The rituals are described with the following
format:
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Ritual name
School of magic
Casting time: the time to cast the ritual.
If the casting is interrupted, the ritual is lost
and must be started over from the beginning.
Target: the rituals target. The target
must attend the entire casting time, unless
there is the (empathic) mention: this indicates
that the target can be any creature with which
the caster has a specific bond (either as an
emotional bond, or an item that belongs to the
target, etc).
Duration: the duration of the ritual. If the
spellcasting roll is used as duration roll, a time
frame is indicated in brackets. For example,
spellcasting roll (day) means that the ritual
duration is one day per success obtained on
the spellcasting roll.
Difficulty: the diculty of the ritual.
Description of the ritual.
5.13.1 Alarm
Divination
Casting time: 10 minutes.
Target: one location.
Duration: spellcasting roll (day).
Difficulty: size of the area (see text).
You are warned when a creature enters the
area. This warning is a telepathic eect which
works as long as you stay on the same plane.
You can exclude up to one specific creature per
success obtained, and you can also choose that
these creatures will be warned at the same
time as you. Alternatively, you can choose that
only a certain type of creatures of your choice
(Game Master approval) triggers the alarm,
but doing so increases the diculty of the
ritual (Game Master discretion). You can also
choose the alarm to be audible, in which case
you are not warned telepathically, and must be
in the vincinity of the area to hear the alarm.
In any case, the ritual will wake you up if the
alarm is triggered while you are sleeping.
5.13.2 Antipathy/Sympathy
Enchantment
Casting time: 8 hours.
Target: one location or object.
Duration: spellcasting roll (day).
Difficulty: size of the area.
The target lures or repulses creatures of a
certain type of your choice. Creatures of the
chosen type within one mile per success
obtained, and with an Instinct score equal or
lower than half your talent rank feel compelled
to go into the targeted area (or be in the
presence of the targeted object). Alternatively,
they can be compelled to leave the area or the
vincinity of the target, until they have reached
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a safe distance (Game Master discretion). A
creature aected by this ritual will never
endanger himself to reach or flee the target,
but may remain immobile if he cannot do so
safely.
5.13.3 Clone
Necromancy
Casting time: 12 hours.
Target: you.
Duration: spellcasting roll (year).
Difficulty: none.
You prepare a clone of your own body,
which remains still as a corpse (but does not
rot or decay). Should you be killed before the
end of the ritual, your soul travels back to the
clone and animates it, allowing you to survive.
However, this process is pain-inducing, and
reduces by 1 one of your defenses (depending
on the way you died, Game Master discretion).
The clone is not invulnerable and may be
destroyed as any normal body. The ritual does
not activate if you die of old age.
5.13.4 Forbbidance
Abjuration
Casting time: 8 hours.
Target: one location.
Duration: spellcasting roll (day).
Difficulty: size of the area (see text).
This ritual blocks teleportation eects in
the area. Spellcasters with a Spellcasting rank
lower than your own talent rank cannot
teleport in or out of the area. Spellcaster with
a higher rank in the Spellcasting talent can,
albeit with a penalty on the spellcasting roll
equal to your talent ranks.
5.13.5 Gate
Conjuration
Casting time: 1 hour.
Target: portal to another plane or location.
Duration: spellcasting roll (minute).
Difficulty: none (see text).
You open a portal to the desired plane
(possibly the plane you are currently in). The
portal is created in a random location, but you
may try to select a specific location that you
have already visited (or seen through a scrying
eect). The diculty depends then on your
familiarity with the place. Anyone can go
through the portal, and the portal works in
both directions.
5.13.6 Geas
Enchantment
Casting time: 8 hours.
Target: one creature (empathic).
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Duration: spellcasting roll (day).
Difficulty: Willpower (see text).
You plant a strong suggestion in the target,
forcing her to accomplish a task of your choice.
The diculty is increased by the complexity of
the task as well as the reluctance the target
would have to do it in normal circumstances.
5.13.7 Gentle Repose
Necromancy
Casting time: 10 minutes.
Target: one corpse.
Duration: permanent.
Difficulty: none.
You preserve the target from adverse
necromancy eects. Any eect that would
animate the target as an undead suers a
penalty equal to the number of successes
obtained. This does not prevent resurrection
attempts, as long as the targets soul is willing
to come back from the dead.
5.13.8 Leomund's Keepsafe
Conjuration
Casting time: 1 hour.
Target: one item you own.
Duration: spellcasting roll (day).
Difficulty: size or power of the target.
You send the target to the ethereal plane in
order to hide it away. Before the end of the
ritual, you can summon it to your side with a
one-minute ritual, and then send it back to the
ethereal plane with another one-minute ritual.
However, each time you do so the total
duration is reduced by one day. At the end of
the ritual, the item appears in front of you.
5.13.9 Meteor
Evocation
Casting time: 1 hour.
Target: all creatures in a 10 meters per
talent rank sphere.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Reflex.
A meteor falls from the sky on the targets
location. You may target any point you can
see (including through scrying eects and
devices), as long as it is in the open air. A
creature in the area of eect takes one point of
wound damage (fire) per success obtained and
looses one action per two talent ranks. The
area itself becomes a crater.
5.13.10 Nondetection
Abjuration
Casting time: 4 hours.
Target: one creature.
Duration: spellcasting roll (day).
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Difficulty: Instinct (Harmless). When the simulacrum interacts with creature

You add your talent rank to the diculty
of any Divination spell, ritual, or eect which
attempts to locate the target or scry upon her
(Game Master discretion).
5.13.11 Polymorph
Transmutation
Casting time: 10 minutes.
Target: one creature or object.
Duration: spellcasting roll (hour).
Difficulty: Fortitude (Harmless), modified
by the new shape of the target.
You change the target shape for the
duration, granting her all the natural abilities
of her new shape.
5.13.12 Scry
Divination
Casting time: 1 hour.
Target: one creature (empathic).
Duration: spellcasting roll (minute).
Difficulty: Instinct.
You can see the target and its immediate
surroundings, regardless of the distance
between you and her (she must be on the same
plane though). You can cast Divination spells
through this medium, but each time you do so
the duration is reduced by one minute.
5.13.13 Shatter
Evocation
Casting time: 1 hour.
Target: one object or structure.
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Fortitude, modified by the size
of the target.
You send waves of sound through the
target, until it shatters. If you cast the spell
successfully, the target is destroyed. If you
target a building, it collapses, possibly
damaging the creatures trapped inside. The
solidity of the target may aect the casting
time: fragile targets like glass or mirrors may
break very easily (one minute), while buildings
made of stone and metals may require several
hours.
who know the target, you must make
Deception check to fool them, with a bonus
equal to half the number of successes obtained.
The target is not aware that this ritual is
active.
5.13.15 Temporal Stasis
Transmutation
Casting time: 1 day.
Target: one creature (empathic).
Duration: spellcasting roll (year).
Difficulty: Willpower.
You freeze the target in time, making her
immobile as well as unaware of her
environment or the time spent under the eects
of the ritual. The target defenses are increased
by your talent ranks or half the number of
successes obtained, whichever is higher.
5.13.16 Veil
Illusion
Casting time: 10 minutes.
Target: one willing creature per success
obtained.
Duration: spellcasting roll (hour).
Difficulty: none.
All targets are covered by an illusory
appearance of your choice. You decide the
exact appearance of each target, but they must
be relatively close one with another, such as
soldiers from the same company, etc (Game
Master approval). When the target makes a
Deception check in which his disguise could be
useful, she gains a bonus equal to half your
talent ranks and she can roll twice the check.

5.13.14 Simulacrum
Illusion
Casting time: 12 hours.
Target: one creature (empathic).
Duration: instantaneous.
Difficulty: Instinct.
You create an illusory copy of the target.
The simulacrum can have up to one skill rank
of the target per success obtained. She cannot
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Faith of the Scarred Lands
Gods are described with the following
format:
Divinity
Surnames: list of commonly known surnames
of the divinity.
Followers: category of people who are
more likely to honor the god.
Holy Symbol: symbol of the god and its
followers.
Domains: list of domains the clerics of the
god are entilted to (this does not apply to
titans and other primal forces).
Favored Weapon: the weapon of choice of
the god ans its followers. In brackets the
energy mostly associated to the gods powers.
6.1 The Eight Victors
6.1.1 Belsameth
Surnames: the Death of Dreams, the Goddess
of Darkness, the Goddess of the Moon, the
Mad Lady, the Queen of Feminie Misteries, the
Queen of Witches, the Slayer.
Followers: assassins, lunatics,
lycanthropes, witches.
Holy Symbol: a thin silver circle on a
black field, representing a lunar eclipse.
Domains: Animal, Death, Evil, Magic,
Trickery.
Favored Weapon: dagger (necrotic).
6.1.2 Chardun
Surnames: the Slaver, the Overlord, the
Great General.
Followers: nobles, ocers, slavers,
torturers, vigilantes, warriors.
Holy Symbol: a blood-soaked golden
scepter, crowned with a thorny laurel wreath.
Domains: Domination, Evil, Law,
Strength, War.
Favored Weapon: war-scepter (necrotic).
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6.1.3 Corean
Surnames: the Avenger, the Champion, the
Forge, the Great Crusader, the Great
Protector, the Shield, the Shining One, the
Sword.
Followers: artisans, knights, paladins,
smiths, warriors.
Holy Symbol: four longsword forming a
compass rose.
Domains: Fire, Good, Law, Protection,
War.
Favored Weapon: war-scepter (necrotic).
6.1.4 Enkili
Surnames: the Bringer of Rains, the Bringer
of Storms, the Mistress of Fortune, the
Shapeshifter, the Storm Goddess, the
Trickster, the Unlucky.
Followers: gamblers, thieves, travelers.
Holy Symbol: a featureless mask decorated
with lightning shooting from the eye slits.
Domains: Air, Chaos, Luck, Travel,
Trickery.
Favored Weapon: rapier or light flail
(electricity).
6.1.5 Hedrada
Surnames: the Great Sage, the Hammer, the
Judge, the King of Wealth, the Lash, the
Lawgiver, the Lord of Cities, the Scales.
Followers: artisans, judges, merchants,
scholars.
Holy Symbol: a two-handed hammer with
faces watching from each side.
Domains: Judgement, Knowledge, Law,
Protection.
Favored Weapon: hammer (force).
6.1.6 Madriel
Surnames: the Redeemer, the First Angel of
Mercy, the Mother of Mercy.
Followers: farmers, healers.
Holy Symbol: a spear ornated with a
tassel of peacock feathers.
Domains: Air, Good, Healing, Plants, Sun.

Favored Weapon: spear (radiant).
6.1.7 Tanil
Surnames: the Huntress.
Followers: bards, hunters, travelers.
Holy Symbol: three bronze arrows lying
parallel.
Domains: Animal, Chaos, Luck, Plants,
Travel, Trickery.
Favored Weapon: long bow (thunder).
6.1.8 Vangal
Surnames: the Reaver, the Ravager.
Followers: barbarians, madmen, warriors.
Holy Symbol: a cloven shield dripping
blood.
Domains: Chaos, Destruction, Evil,
Strength, War.
Favored Weapon: war-axe (fire).
6.2 Demi-Gods
6.2.1 Drendari
Surnames: the Mistress of Shadows, the
Patron of Thieves, the Shadow Child.
Followers: spies, thieves.
Holy Symbol: a black silhouette of a
human left hand.
Domains: Chaos, Entrancement, Shadows.
Favored Weapon: short sword (cold).
6.2.2 Erias
Surnames: the Lord of Dreams, the Dream
Master.
Followers: dreamers, oracles.
Holy Symbol: a crescent moon surrounded
by a ring of eight stars.
Domains: Chaos, Dreams, Good, Magic.
Favored Weapon: dagger or shuriken
(psychic).
6.2.3 Goran
Surnames: the Great Defender.
Followers: dwarves.
Holy Symbol: Two silver axes turneed
handle to handle, one blade up, one down,
both axe heads facing outward on a reddish
earth circle.
Domains: Earth, Good, Law, Strength.
Favored Weapon: war-axe (fire).
6.2.4 Hwyrrd
Surnames: the Rogue.
Followers: halflings.
Holy Symbol: an acorn.
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Domains: Luck, Plant, Protection,
Trickery.
Favored Weapon: short sword
(electricity).
6.2.5 Idra
Surnames: the Lover.
Followers: courtesans, lovers, prostitutes.
Holy Symbol: a grail with a dagger resting
in it, pointed down.
Domains: Chaos, Entrancement, Secrets.
Favored Weapon: dagger or shuriken
(psychic).
6.2.6 Manawe
Surnames: the Lady of the Deep, the Mother
of the Oceans, the Queen of Sirens, the Queen
of the Shifting Seas.
Followers: fishermen, sailors.
Holy Symbol: three lines forming a sea
claw.
Domains: Chaos, Entrancement, Travel,
Water.
Favored Weapon: trident (psychic).
6.2.7 Nemorga
Surnames: the Executionner, the Gatekeeper,
the Grey King, the Lord of Death.
Followers: mourners, necromancers,
widows.
Holy Symbol: a closed book with a
sheathed sword closed in it as a bookmark.
Domains: Death, Gateways, Knowledge,
Travel.
Favored Weapon: long sword (necrotic).
6.2.8 Sethris
Surnames: the Spider Queen.
Followers: assassins, poisoners, vigilantes.
Holy Symbol: the silhouette of a curved
silver dagger on a black circle, covered in a
silver spiderweb.
Domains: Death, Evil, Vengeance.
Favored Weapon: dagger (poison).
6.2.9 Syhana
Surnames: the Cloudmaiden, the Lady of
Color.
Followers: farmers, feys, travelers.
Holy Symbol: a rainbow.
Domains: Air, Fey, Good, Rainbow.
Favored Weapon: rapier (radiant).
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Chapter 7
Languages of the Scarred Lands
Note: languages marked with an asterisk *
belong to several types and are therefore
presented in all categories it belongs to.
However, they remain the same language.
7.1 Continental Languages
Continental languages are spoken throughout
all the continent they cover. They are mostly
spoken by merchants, travelers, diplomats, and
educated people in general.
Ledean (Ghelspad)
Termanean (Termana, except
Gamulganjus)
Gamuljan (Termana, inside the
Gamulganjus)
Asheraki (Asherak)
Draconic* (Dragon Lands)
Dark Speech* (Fenrilik)
7.2 Local Languages
These are spoken in a limited geographical
region. The common folk in these region are
most likely to only speak that language.
7.2.1 Ghelspad
Albadian (Albadia, Bleak Savannah)
Calastian* (Ankila, Calastia, Heteronomy
of Virduk, Lageni, Rahok, Shelzar)
Darakeene (Darakeene, Karria)
Dunahn (Dunahnae)
Orafaun* (Drifting Isle)
Rigge* (Blood Sea archipelago)
Shelzari (Ankila, Fangsfall, Heteronomy of
Virduk, New Venir, Shelzar, Zathiske)
Ukrudan (Gleaming Valley, Hollowfaust,
Lokil)
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Vangals Tongue* (Blood Steppes, Rahok)
Veshian (Amalthea, Bridged City,
Durrover, Hedrad, Mansk, Mithril, Mullis,
Ontenazu, Vesh)
Zathiskan (New Venir, Zathiske)
7.2.2 Termana
Calastian* (Virduks Promise)
Crilosian (Crilos)
Halanti (Iron Steppes)
Karsii (Azale, Grey Isle, Karsian, Silver
Isle, Sunharrow, Thorvalos)
Padrinolan (Padrinola, Sunharrow,
Thorvalos)
Rigge* (Blood Sea Archipelago)
Taerian (now called Graytongue) (Gray
Isle)
Tehlashos (Iron Sands Desert)
Ulante (Centaur Plains)
7.2.3 Asherak
Anagaran (Anagara Theopoli)
Crescent Tongue (Arisha Jakim, Fertile
Crescent, Pharasa Mountains)
Deiamish (Desert of Onn, Paharasa
Mountains)
Quarashi (Soulburn Waste)
River Tongue (Crown Mountains,
Riverlands)
Vangals Tongue* (Brathanis, Desert of
Onn, Isle of Griat)
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7.3 Racial Languages Orafaun* (dream creatures)

Piscean (piscean)
Racial languages are spoken by a specific (or
set of specific) race(s). Slitheren (ratmen)
Charduni (dwarves, charduni)
Dwarven (dwarves, mounatin and
7.6 Esoteric Languages
forsaken) Esoteric languages are spoken by mystical
Elven, Dark (drendali) creatures. Most of treaties about magic are
written in an esoteric language of some kind.
Elven, High (forsaken elf)
Celestial (angels and archons)
Elven, Middle (other elf)
Draconic* (arcane magic)
Gnomish (gnomes, jungle)
Dark Speech* (primal magic)
Terali (terali)
Orafaun* (dream magic)
Ubantu (ubantu)
Infernal (demons and devils)

7.4 Dead Languages True Speech (any outsider, gods, divine

magic)
Dead languages are not spoken anymore,
though some scholar might still know them, at
least partially.

Amalthean (Amalthea)
Elzian (close to shelzari)
Erikiimi (old halfling dialect deriving from
the shelzari)
Ephanerri (evolved into the Anagaran)
Iliajan (spoken in the Dragon Lands
before the coming of the dragons)
Ontenazu (formerly spoken in Ontenazu)
Santasha (old halfling dialect deriving
from the middle elven)
Slavespeech (spoken by human lands
previously inhabiting the charduni empire)
Vaeratha (spoken in eastern Ghelspad
before the Ledean empire)
Valmatian (spoken in south Asherak)

7.5 Monstrous Languages

These languages are spoken by monstrous
creatures. People trading or studying these
creatures are likely to know their langauges as
well

Aquan (most sea creatures)

Asaath (asaathi)
Dark Speech* (any titanspawn race,
elementals)
Kraken (kraken)

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Chapter 8
Equipment
8.1 Non-magical items
8.1.1 Melee weapons
The type of the weapon modifies the damage
dealt by an attack. However, it does not
modify the attack roll.
Unharmed attacks without the proper
training reduce by one point the damage
of a melee attack (minimum one).
Simple weapons like clubs, staves, or
daggers deal the prescribed damage.
One-handed martial weapons like swords,
axes, flails or warhammer deal +1 point of
damage on a successful hit.
Two-handed martial weapons deal +2
points of damage on a successful hit.
8.1.2 Ranged weapons
The type of weapon modifies the damage dealt
by an attack, as well as its range. A ranged
attack roll suers a penalty equal to the
distance to the target divided by the range of
the weapon (rounded down).
Thrown weapons like knives, darts or axes
have typically a range of 5m.
Slings, spears and similar devices have a
range of 10m.
Bows and crossbows have a range varying
from 20 to 50m, depending on the size of
the weapon.
Furthermore, the type of the weapon
modifies the damage dealt by an attack as for
melee weapons.
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8.1.3 Armor
Armor reduces by a certain amount all wound
damage taken from a melee, ranged or area
attack. However, a successful attack does a
minimum of one wound damage, whichever
reduction might apply.
Light armor like leather or hide armor
reduces damage taken by 1, except from
attacks that deal four points of damage or
more.
Medium armor like a chainmail or
breastplate reduces damage taken by 1.
Heavy armor like a full plate armor
reduces damage taken by 2.
Armor interfers with movement, imposing a
malus equal to its damage reduction to all
Acrobatics, Athletics and Stealth checks, as
well as any skill check the Game Master might
feel appropriate.
8.1.4 Shield
Shield protects from melee, ranged, or area
attacks. A character who wears a shield can
block ranged or area attacks, even if he is not
adjacent adjacent to the attacker.
Furthermore, the user of a shield can spend
one move action to impose a -1 to -3 penalty
on an attack roll against him.
8.1.5 Tools
Tools are useful or even required for specific
actions like picking locks or crafting items.
Without the proper tools, the check might be
impossible, or suer a severe malus (Game
Master discretion). Tools of exceptional
quality might grant you a +1 bonus to a
specific skill check.

8.1.6 Alchemical substances
Alchemical substances can be fabricated with
the proper ingredients and skills (usually, the
combination of Craft with either Arcane,
Faith, or Nature). They usually oer
temporary eects (even though some of them
are instantaneous), and are destroyed after
usage. Using an alchemical substance is a
full-round action, except for those who only
require to be thrown.
As for any item or talent, the alchemical
substances have ranks which describe their
potency.
Acid: throwing a flask of acid on a
creature (using Dexterity+Ranged+Acid
vs Reflex as a ranged attack roll) deals
one point of wound damage (acid) per
success obtained. The next round, repeat
the attack vs Fortitude as a physical
attack roll.
Albadian Essence: this whitish paste
grants a +1 bonus to all defenses against
fire eect, as well as a +2 bonus to all
Endurance checks against hot weather and
climate. The eects last for one hour per
alchemical rank.
Alchemical Fire: alchemical fire explodes
on impact. Use
Dexterity+Ranged+Alchemical Fire vs
Reflex as a ranged attack roll against all
creatures within 1 meter per alchemical
rank of the point of impact. The target
takes wound damage (fire) equal to the
number of successes obtained.
Argent Essence: when this silvery thick
liquid is applied on a metallic blade, the
weapon is considered as in silver for one
hour per alchemical rank.
Armor in a Bottle: this heavy mist grants
an armor rating 1 for ten minutes per
alchemical rank when poured over a
creature. This armor moves with the
creature and does not have any check
penalty.
Blast Rock: this stone exploses violently
when set to flame. Make an
Intelligence+Craft+Blast Rock (using the
creators attribute and skills) vs Reflex
check as an area attack roll and duration
roll against any creature within 1m per
alchemical rank when this happens. The
target suers one wound damage (fire) per
two successes obtained and is blinded and
deafened for the prescribed duration.
Buoyancy Salve: this blue-green paste is
rather viscous. Applied to an object or a
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creature, it forbids it to drown for one
hour per alchemical rank.
Chuckleberries: these bright orange
berries from the Spine Forest can make
any humanoid who eats them laugh for
one hour, which makes them unable to do
anything else. It makes an
Intelligence+Craft+Chuckleberries (using
the creators attributes and skills) vs
Willpower as a mental attack roll.
Clinging Flame: this sticky orange glue
can be applied to any object, and then
becomes indetectable. When the
temperature increases around the object
(Game Master discretion), it bursts into
flame, making an
Intelligence+Craft+Clinging Flame (using
the creators attribute and skills) vs
Reflex check, which deals one point of
wound damage (fire) per success obtained.
The substance then burns for one round
per alchemical rank, which deals one point
of wound damage (fire) per round.
Courtesan Draught: this tea makes its
drinker infertile for one day per alchemical
rank.
Courtesan Powder: an alcoholic beverage
in which this greenish powder has been
mixed cannot make the drinker
intoxicated. The size of the container the
powder can aect depends on the
alchemical rank.
Daemonbane: this viscous black oil,
created by the Church of Corean, is used
as coated on weapons. It allows to force
reroll one attack roll against an evil
outsider per alchemical rank.
Dark Oil: this black and thick liquid is
often used to fuel lamps or torches. When
lit, it burns with a black flame which does
not provide standard lighting. Instead, it
grants everyone within 5m per alchemical
rank the darkvision ability, yet only
within that area. a typical torch made
with dark oil burns for 1 hour.
Death Breath: when a sleeping creature
inhilate this greyish smoke, all her vital
signs disappear for one hour per
alchemical rank. She is still alive, but she
does not breathe (and she does not need
to) and her heart does not beat.
Furthermore, she cannot wake up before
the eects wear o.
Distilled Liquid Air: this deep blue liquid
allows the drinker to breathe underwater
for one hour per alchemical rank.
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Ecstasy Ointment: this thick gel is
applied to an object. When a creature
touches it, it makes an
Intelligence+Craft+Ecstasy Ointment
(using the creators attributes and skills)
vs Instinct as a mental attack roll: the
target must take the object and consider
hit her own for one hour per success
obtained.
Elixir of Fire Breath: this fiery red liquid
grants the ability to breathe fire in a 5m
cone. The drinker makes a
Strength+Prowess vs Reflex as an area
attack roll. The attack deals wound
damage (fire) equal to the number of
successes obtained. The drinker can make
one attack per alchemical rank during the
encounter.
Elixir of Love: this sweet-tasting liquid
makes the drinker charmed (as the charm
spell) by the next person he sees. The
eects last for one hour per alchemical
rank.
Elixir of Truth: this white thick liquid
forces the drinker to answer to the next
question he is asked by the truth, unless
his Willpower score is strictly higher than
the alchemical rank.
Evergreen: this thick greenish gel shed a
soft ghostly light in a 25m sphere (50m
below water) when shaken. It lasts for one
hour per alchemical rank (or twice that
amount below water).
Fatling's Curse: this slimy liquid causes
food to be unnourishing for one hour per
alchemical rank. Food sprayed with the
fatlings curse will make the eater feel
hungry again, as if he did not eat anything
during that meal.
Feral Draught: this distilled water of the
Blood Sea grants an animal who drinks it
a bonus to all Melee checks equal to the
alchemical ranks for one hour, after which
the animal takes one debilitation damage.
During that time, the animal gains a
bonus equal to half the alchemical ranks
on all her saves against eects to control
her (including attemps to calm her or
tame her with the Nature skill).
Felton's Red: this dark red thick liquid
grants animals a bonus equal to the
alchemical ranks to all Endurance checks
for one hour. When the potion wears o,
the animal takes one debilitation damage.
Flakeiron: this ferrous powder can be
applied on any metallic weapon. The next
one per alchemical rank attack made with
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the weapon deal one debilitation damage
in addition to the normal damage.
Folly: this concoction is a mixture of
dried plants from the coasts of the Blood
Sea. When inhalated, it grants a bonus
equal to the alchemical rank to all
Perception checks, and half that amount
to all spellcasting rolls to cast Divination
spells. However, the Fortitude of the
character drops to 1 for this duration.
The eects last one hour.
Forgedust: this metalic dust, when
sprayed upon raw metalic materials,
grants a bonus to the next Craft check
(within the next hour) equal to its
alchemical rank.
Fleetfoot Oil: this sticky elixir grants a
+1 bonus to Acrobatics check made on
particle surfaces such as sand or snow.
The bonus lasts for one hour per
alchemical rank.
Frenzy Mead: this potent mead allows a
character with the Berserker Rage talent
to add the alchemical talent to the
activation roll of the Berserker Rage.
However, while in rage the character
cannot distinguish between allies and
enemies, attacking the closest creature.
Geniebane: this distillation of pure
elements can be thrown on an elemental
creature. Use a
Dexterity+Range+alchemical rank vs
Reflex as a ranged attack roll. The target
takes wound damage equal to the number
of successes obtained. The geniebane has
no eect on non-elementals.
Hag Powder: this powder crafted from
the ashes of creatures or plants who died
of poison increases by 1 the potency of a
poison it is mixed with. The increase lasts
for one hour per alchemical rank.
Hardshell: this greyish goo can be
applied on any hard enough surface
(typically wood, clay or metal). It
increases by the alchemical rank the
diculty to break the item for one hour.
Used on a weapon, it increases by 1 the
damage it deals. Used on an armor or a
shield, it increases by 1 the armor rating
(without increasing the armor penalty).
Healing Balm: this thick balm allows to
recover one wound point per alchemical
rank. Applying the balm takes a
full-round action. The eect occur after
three rounds (alchemical rank 1 and 2),
two rounds (rank 3 and 4), or one round
(rank 5 and 6) following application.

Hoarfrost Powder: this powder made
from the scales of an ice basilic can freeze
water. When sprayed over a wet surface
(1m radius per alchemical rank), it
becomes slippery, requiring Acrobatics
checks not to fall.
Julka Weed Essence: this thick liquid is
a powerful stimulant and narcotic. When
drunk, it grants a +2 bonus to Fortitude
and Endurance checks for one hour per
alchemical rank. However, when this ends,
the target immediately takes two
debilitation damage.
Kheoghtom's Oinment: this black
onguent grants a new Endurance check
with a bonus equal to the alchemical rank
against poisons when applied to a wound
that occurs in the previous encounter.
Kinskull: when this specially-prepared
skull is thrown, it explodes upon impact.
Make a Dexterity+Ranged+Kinskull vs
Fortitude check as an area attack roll
against all creatures within 1 meter per
alchemical rank of the point of impact.
The target takes one wound damage (fire)
per two talent ranks, as well as one
debilitation damage. Non-living creatures
only takes half the wound damage, and no
debilitation damage.
Lethene Kiss: this metallic powder
charged with static electricity makes a
creature vulnerable to lightning. Make a
Dexterity+Ranged+alchemical rank vs
Reflex as a ranged attack roll and
duration roll against a creature wearing
metallic armor (or mostly composed of
metal). The target suers a -1 penalty to
all his defenses against lightning eects for
the prescribed duration.
Lightrod: this small metallic stick
produces light when hit hard enough,
providing illumination as a torch for 1
hour per alchemical rank.
Meditative Incense: this incense
produce a smoke which smells helps
focusing the mind. If inhalated while
casting a Divination spell or using a
Divination-related talent (Game Master
approval required), the user gains a bonus
on his spellcasting roll equal to the
alchemical rank.
Oil of Respose: this oil smells of sweet
and fresh flowers and fruits. When applied
to a creature who died within the last
hour, it prevents the corpse to be raised as
an undead, increasing the diculty of
such eects by the alchemical rank. The
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eects slowly wear o with time, and the
alchemical rank decreases by 1 per year
until it reaches 0.
P'tarri Root: this small thin-leaved plant
of the Spine Forest acts as a minor
sedative. After being dried, the smoke of
the root inflicts one debilitation damage
to anyone who inhilates it, and they must
make Focus checks against the alchemical
rank to perform any action. The eects
last for one hour.
Reaver's Onguent: this thick balm is
created with a mixture of poisonous
plants. When applied to the hands and
feet, it increases by one the damage dealt
with natural attacks. The eects last for
one hour per alchemical rank.
Salve of Slipperiness: this gready oil
makes any surface slippery for one hour
per alchemical rank. This can either help
escaping from bonds, or cause people to
fall if they walk too quickly, depending on
the situation.
Slipshod: when spread over a surface,
this oily liquid makes it extra slippery,
forcing creatures to succeed a
Dexterity+Acrobatics check each round
not to fall prone. The oil dissipates in one
hour per alchemical rank.
Smokestick: setting this dark coal stick
on fire makes it exsude a thick black
smoke which blocks vision in a 1 meter
radius per alchemical rank. The smoke
lasts for one minute per alchemical rank,
unless winds disperse it earlier.
Sneezing Powder: when cast in the air,
thie grey-greenish powder based on
pepper forces everyone with a Fortitude
score lower than the alchemical ranks to
sneeze, eectively loosing one move action
per round for one round per alchemical
ranks, minus their Fortitude score.
Sourberries: these berries from the
Hornsaw Forest can be specially prepared
to make anti-venoms. When ingested, the
use gains a +1 bonus to all saves against
poison for one hour per alchemical rank.
Sovereign Glue: this pale amber
substance can bind two objects together
for one hour per alchemical rank. A
Strength+Prowess check against
6+alchemical rank is required to pull the
two objects apart.
Spiderweb Dust: this sticky white dust
can be used to cover a 1m per property
rank sphere with cobwebs and similar
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features. Anyone in the area gains a +1
bonus to Stealth checks, and Perception
checks in the area suers a -1 penalty.
The dust disappears after one hour.
Stonesalve: this thick greyish paste
breaks the eects of petrification for one
round per alchemical rank.
Sunshroud: this dark glistening oil allows
someone covered to force reroll any
Endurance check made to resist warm
weather as well as sun exposure. This
lasts for one hour per alchemical rank.
Temperature Stabilizer: this
black-and-red powder controls
temperature when spread: this will bring
the temperature in the area back to 15
degres. However, it cannot make a
temperature change higher than 5 degres
per alchemical rank. After usage, the
temperature returns to its original value
at the rate of 5 degres per hour.
Thunderstone: this rock makes a
deafening noise on impact. Use
Dexterity+Ranged+Thunderstone vs
Fortitude as an area attack roll against all
creatures within 1 meter per alchemical
rank of the point of impact. The target is
deafened for one round per success
obtained.
Tincture of Ire: this distilled water of the
Blood Sea mixed with alchool makes the
drinker particularly angry for one hour.
This grants a bonus equal to the
alchemical rank to all saves against eects
to charm or persuade her, but the target
will react angrily and perhaps violently if
threatened (Game Master discretion).
Terraloca Sap: when chewed, this
thick-brown sap from a rare tree in the
Spine Forest grants one temporary wound
damage per alchemical rank. These
temporary wound damage disappear after
one hour, after which the chewer gains one
debilitation damage.
Ukrudan Essence: this reddish paste
grants a +1 bonus to all defenses against
cold eect, as well as a +2 bonus to all
Endurance checks against cold weather
and climate. The eects last for one hour
per alchemical rank.
Unguent of Timelessness: this translucid
ointment prevents decay in objects made
with dead organic matter (paper, wood,
food, dead flesh, etc). The object will not
rot for one month, one year, ten years, one
century, one millenium, or forever
(depending on the alchemical rank).
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Universal Solvant: this acid-smelling
liquid can dissolve any glue-like substance
with a lower alchemical rank. If the
alchemical ranks are equal, the solvant
takes ten minutes to act.
Vigilant's Wine: this brewed stimulant
grants a +1 bonus to Endurance checks
made to walk over long distances. The
bonus lasts for two hours per alchemical
rank.
Wishroom: these small, purplish,
mushrooms are potent hallucinogenic
found in the Spine Forest. When ingested,
it makes an Intelligence+Craft+Wishroom
(using the creators attributes and skills)
vs Instinct check. The victim sees
hallucinations for one hour per success
obtained. This drug provokes a very
strong addiction.
Wood Adhesive: this brownish glue
sticks to wood of any kind. It can be used
to stick wooden objects together. Applied
to the limbs of a creature, it grants a
bonus to Athletics checks made to climb
trees or similar wooden objects equal to
the alchemical rank. The eects wear o
after one hour.
8.1.7 Special Materials
The following materials grant special
properties to the items their are crafted with,
even though they are not magical by
themselves. They have a constant material
rank, which describes their relative power. Use
the rank as a diculty for eects which
transforms materials into another.
Adamantium (6): armor and shield
made in adamantium reduce by 1 the
armor check penalty (to a minimum of 0)
while increasing by 2 their armor rating.
Weapons made in adamantium increase by
1 the damage they inflict, or 3 against
inanimate objects.
Azurite (3): this brilliant metal with a
bluish hue is very light and reflects lights,
which reduces by 1 the armor penalty to
checks. When a weapon made in azurite
strikes an enemy while being adjacent to a
strong light source, the damage becomes
(radiant).
Blood Lacquer (2): wood treated with
this lacque made from corals of the Blood
Sea hardens. This increases by 1 the
armor bonus or the damage dealt by an
object coated with it.

Bones of the Lost One (2): this
extremely rare bone-like stone found in
the Iron Sand Deserts weits twice as less
as steel, but has the same solidity. A
creature using a bone weapon gains a +1
bonus on her Dexterity for the purpose of
making attack rolls with the weapon,
while bone armor have an armor penalty
reduced by 1.
Cold Iron (1): cold iron has no special
properties, except that a certain number
of creatures (notably feys) are vulnerable
to it.
Coldweave (2): this black fabric is made
in Hollowfaust. Clothing made in
coldweave reduce by 1 all fire damage, and
grants the ability to roll twice all
Endurance checks made to survive warm
weather.
Dragonhide (4): armors made with
dragonhide grants a resistance 2 against
one energy (depending on the type of
dragon it was made with).
Fangsfall Ore (4): this light white stone
found near Fangsfall absorbs blood
rapidly. Wearer of armors made in
Fangsfall ore reduce by 1 all hemorrhagic
damage they sustain (to a minimum of 1),
while weapons made in Fangsfall ore
inflict one additional wound damage
(hemorrhagic).
Mithril (5): armor and shield made in
mithril reduce by 2 the armor check
penalty (to a minimum of 0) while
increasing by 1 their armor rating.
Weapons made in mithril increase by 1
the damage they inflict, and grant the
wearer the ability to roll twice any fire- or
radiant-based attack made with the
weapon.
Moltleather (2): this thick leather is
specially treated asaath skin (asaathi tend
to profoundly hate those who wear
moltleather). Armors made in moltleather
have no armor check penalty.
Morphean Ore (3): this opalescent metal
is extracted and processed on the Crilos
island near Termana. When worn, disarm
or theft attempts must be roll twice.
Furthermore, if the item sustain damage,
the wearer can choose to sustain the
damage instead.
Nightwood (4): this dark wood is found
in the Hornsaw Forest. Items made of
nightwood weight half their normal
weight. Armors and shield made in
nightwood reduce by 1 the armor check
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penalty. When darkness- or dream-related
spells are cast using items in darkwood,
the wearer can roll twice the spellcasting
roll.
Obsidian (2): this dark glass-like stone
deals one additional point of wound
damage (psychic) on each successful
attack against a creature who can use
psionic powers or abilities.
Serpentsteel (5): weapons made in
serpentsteel deal 2 additional wound
damage (poison) on each successful
attack. Furthermore, the wearer can roll
twice any poison-based attack made with
the weapon.
Shelzarium (1): this strange metal is
found in the sea below Shelzar, hence its
name. Objects made in shelzarium glow
faintly, the radius of the light depending
on the amount of shelzarium used in the
object (typically 1m for a coin, 5m for a
dagger, 15m for a sword, and up to 50m
for a full armor).
Silver (1): silver has no special properties,
except that a certain number of creatures
(notaby lycanthropes) are vulnerable to it.
Sorcerer's Steel (6): when objects made
with sorcerers steel are subject to an
enchantment (including eldricht
enchantements or the Imbue Item talent),
the wearer can roll twice the activation
roll. Armors made in sorcerers steel have
no penalty on spellcasting.
Starsteel (3): weapons made in starsteel
deal 1 additional wound damage (fire) on
each successful attack. Furthermore, the
wearer can roll twice any fire-based attack
made with the weapon.
Soulwood (2): this wood is found in the
Horsaw Forest, near Glivid-Autel. Objects
made in soulwood grant the ability to roll
twice any necromancy-related check made
with it.
Tepuje Crystal (2): this solid crystal is
found in both Ehitovael and in the Tepuje
cities of Termana. Objects made in tepuje
crystals grant their wielder the ability to
roll twice any Focus-based talent check
(including spellcasting rolls).
Thoghal'na (2): items made in this
stone-metal composite weight twice as
much as usual. Weapons in thoghalna
deal 1 additional points of damage, but
require two-hands to lift. Armors in
thoghalna have an armor rating increased
by 1, but this increases the armor penalty
by two points.
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8.2 Magic Items
Magic items are very rare, yet powerful. Each
item has a set of ranked properties (similar to
talents or spells) which are either constant or
user-activated. These properties are gathered
in dierent categories which determine which
abilities the item can possess:
Armors have properties to protect the
wearer. Most of magic armors are actual
armors and shields.
Charms improve the natural skills and
talents of the wearer. Most charms consist
of small trinklets, figurines or tokens with
little monetary value.
Clothing usually enhance the movements
of the wearer. Clothing regroup mostly
cloaks, boots, belts or gloves, among
others.
Containers are used to store various kind
of things, including creatures. Containers
can be bags, flasks, bottles, but piece of
clothing with pockets, quivers and
scabbards can also become containers.
Implements enhance spellcasting
abilities. They can be stas, spellbooks,
holy symbols, fetishes, or any item which
can store magical energy.
Jewelry increase the wearers mental or
social abilities. Jewelry denote rings,
amulets, necklaces, but also earrings,
crown, bracers, actual jewels and any piece
of jewelry with some monetary value.
Weapons are best used in a fight. Apart
from actual weapons, this category may
also apply to items that have been
modified to attack, like spiked gauntlets.
Certain type of objects could belong to
multiple categories (for example, some
necklaces may be considered as Charms or
Jewelry, a weapon could be enchanted as an
Implement, the pockets in a robe might be
magical Containers, etc), but no item can have
properties from two or more categories.
8.2.1 Magic Armors
Energy Resistance: the armor grants
resistance 1 against a specific energy.
(Daily) The resistance increases to half
the property rank, and the wearer can
force reroll one attack of the chosen
energy per property rank. The wearer
uses Strength+Endurance+Resistance as
a duration roll.
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Magic Resistance: (Encounter) when the
wearer of the armor is targeted by a spell
or a magical eect (Game Master
discretion), she may force reroll the
spellcasting roll with a penalty equal to
the property rank.
Repulsion: the space adjacent to the
wearer count as dicult terrain.
(Encounter) The wearer can attempt to
push back all adjacent creatures, using
Strength+Prowess+Repulsion as an area
attack roll. In case of success, the target is
pushed back 1 meter per property rank.
Rooted: the wearer reduces by 1 the
distance of all eects that would move him
against his will. If the wearer is on the
ground, the reduction is equal to half the
property rank. If the wearer is on the
ground and has not moved in the last
round, the reduction is equal to the
property rank.
Thorns: (Encounter) when the wearer
suers wound damage, he may make a
Strength+Prowess+Thorns vs Reflex an
area attack against all adjacent creatures.
In case of success, the target suers
wound damage equal to the number of
successes obtained.
Weapontrap: the wearer gains a bonus
equal to half the property rank against
disarming attempts. (Encounter) the
wearer can trap a melee weapon that just
attacked him (successfully or not). He
must make a
Strength+Prowess+Weapontrap check
opposed by a Strength+Prowess check of
the attacker. The attacker gains a bonus
equal to the highest property rank of his
weapon if it is magical. In case of success,
the weapon becomes trapped in the armor
for one round per success obtained, after
which the weapon falls on the ground.
The wearer can take the weapon whenever
he wants.
8.2.2 Magic Charms
Enhancement: (Daily) the wearer of the
charm gains a +1 bonus to one of his
attribute and the associated defense for
one round per property rank. The
attribute is determined by the nature or
type of charm, and cannot be changed by
the user.
Healing: (Daily) the wearer of the charm
can spend a simple action to regain wound
damage. The use makes a
Strength+Endurance+Healing to

determine the amount of wound damage
recovered.
Luck: the wearer can roll twice one skill
check or make an opponent roll twice one
skill check against him per day and per
property rank. However, he cannot roll
twice checks from the same skill multiple
times (either his or his opponents).
Mastery: the charm is associated to a
specific skill and has one daily usage per
property rank. The wearer can spend a
charge to use an (Encounter) talent based
on that skill for free, or three charges for a
(Daily) talent. The charm cannot be used
to cast a spell for free, or to activate
talents that are only (Spark-powered) or
(Spell-powered).
Recovery: (Encounter) the wearer of the
charm can spend a simple action to regain
debilitation damage. After using the
charm, the wearer gains a bonus equal to
half the property rank a single defense of
his choice for one round. Each day the
charm can only heal one debilitation
damage per property rank.
Servant: (Daily) the charm can summon
or transform itself into a servant. The
nature, size and abilities of the servant
depends on the property rank (Game
Master discretion). The user makes a
Charisma+Persuasion+Servant check as a
duration roll.
8.2.3 Magic Clothing
Aquatic Ability: the wearer of the
clothing can breathe underwater, and
gains a bonus to all Athletics check made
to swim equal to the property ranks.
Equilibrated: the wearer can add the
property ranks to all Acrobatics roll to
avoid loosing balance. (Encounter) When
the wearer is targeted by an eect that
would make him fall prone, he can force
reroll the attack roll with a penalty equal
to the property rank.
Flight: (Encounter) the wearer can gain a
bonus on an Athletics or Acrobatics roll to
jump equal to the property rank. (Daily)
The wearer of the clothing can fly at twice
his land speed for up to one round per
property rank + one per rank in the
Acrobatics skill.
Glamered: the clothing has one
alternative appearance per property rank.
(Daily) The wearer can select a new
appearance from the other alternatives of
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the clothing. This may grant a bonus to
Deception checks equal to half the
property rank (Game Master discretion).
This is an illusion eect.
Swiftness: the land speed of the wearer is
increased by one meter per two property
ranks. The wearer can take one extra
move action per day and per property
rank, but no more than one per encounter.
Teleport: the wearer may teleport up to
10 meters per day per property rank. This
can be split in dierent usages, but no
more than once per encounter.
8.2.4 Magic Containers
Binding: (Daily) the user can trap a
creature within 5 meters per property
rank in the container. He must succeed a
Charisma+Deception+Binding vs
Willpower as a mental attack roll and
duration roll. In case of success, the target
is trapped in the item. She cannot act
(except trying to free herself), but she
cannot be targeted by any eect. When
the eect ends, she reappears next to the
container.
Extradimensional Space: the item
contains much more space than it appears,
depending on its property rank.
Invulnerability: the item and everything
it contains ignore up to three points of
damage per property rank.
Lock: the diculty to open the container
increases by one per property rank, except
for the owner of the container.
Storage: the item can store one item per
property rank. Large items may take more
than one slot (Game Master discretion).
(Encounter) The user can draw an object
stored from the item as a free action.
(Encounter) The user can store an object
she holds in the container as a move
action.
Supply: (Daily) the item can create a
certain amount of material (usually raw
materials or simple materials). The
amount and quality of the material
created depends on the property rank.
8.2.5 Magic Implements
Attunement: the item is attuned to a
specific type of terrain, plane, or magic.
(Daily) When the user casts a spell
related to its attuned element (Game
Maste approbation required), he may gain
a number of automatic successes equal to
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the property rank. If he cast the summon
monster spell to summon appropriate
creatures, he may instead summon one
additional creature per two property
ranks. Finally, he can trade four
automatic successes to cast the heightened
version of the spell.
Blasting: the wearer can cast a spell in
the item to activate it for the day. The
item becomes then able to shoot rays of
pure energy to targets up to 10 meters per
property rank, using the reduced
spellcasting roll as a ranged attack roll.
This ray deals one additional point of
damage per two property rank upon
impact, and the damage dealt is from a
specific energy (which depends on the
item, not the spell cast to activate it).
(Daily) The wearer can use his normal
spellcasting roll for the ranged attack roll.
This ability can be used once per day per
property rank.
Empowerment: the item is tied to a
specific (Spell-powered) talent. If the
talent has multiple (Spell-powered) usages
(like the Songs of Legend (Bard) talent),
the item is tied to only one specific usage
(in this case, a specific bardic song). The
implement has one charge per day and per
property rank. With a single charge, the
user may roll twice the activation roll.
With two charges, the user may use the
talent for free, without spending a spell or
its daily usage.
Magic Storage: the item is tied to a type
of magic. (Daily) When the wearer fails to
cast a spell of the appropriate type of
magic, he may choose to not loose the
spell and store it in the item. Later during
the day, the wearer can try to cast it again
(albeit not during the same encounter).
This ability can be used once per day per
property rank, but the item can store only
one spell per two property ranks at a
given time.
Spellmeld: the item is tied to a specific
type of magic. (Daily) When a spellcaster
of the appropriate type attempts to cast
the heightened eects of a spell, he may
spend one of his spells instead of an action
point. When he does so, he uses the
property rank or his ranks in the
Spellcasting talent, whichever is lower.
Spell Repository: the item contains up to
one spell per property rank, including at
least one common spell per two property
ranks. The repository is tied to a specific
type of magic, and only spellcasters of
that type may use it. During a rest, a
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character can forego one (and only one) of
his spells and replace it with a spell from
the repository. Characters with the
Spellcasting (Prepared Magic) (Wizard)
talent may replace so up to one spell per
property rank, up to their own ranks in
the Arcane skill.
8.2.6 Magic Jewelry
Glow: the item sheds light in a 5 meters
sphere per talent rank. (Daily) The light
can be made brighter, blinding creatures
in the area. The wearer makes a
Charisma+Deception+Glow vs Reflex as
an area attack roll. If successful, the
target is blinded for one round per two
successes obtained. If the target is
naturally sensitive to light, she takes one
debilitation damage and is blinded for one
round per success obtained.
Insight: once per encounter and property
rank, the wearer can use her Instinct
defense instead of Reflex or Fortitude
against a melee, ranged or area attack.
(Daily) When making a knowledge check,
the wearer can gain a bonus equal to the
property rank.
Glory: (Daily) the wearer of the item can
gain a number of automatic successes on a
single check equal to the number of
sentient creatures who are able to see him,
up to the property rank.
Majesty: the item grants command over
one type of creature. (Daily) The wearer
can control the actions of one creature,
making a Charisma+Persuasion+Majesty
vs Willpower as a mental attack roll and
duration roll. Alternatively, he can
paralyze up to one creature per property
rank he sees, using
Charisma+Persuasion+Majesty vs
Willpower as a mental attack roll and
duration roll.
Mental Bastion: the wearer gains a +1
bonus to all defenses against eects that
would make him act against his will.
(Encounter) When he is targeted by a
mental attack roll, the wearer can force
reroll the attack with a penalty equal to
the talent rank.
Pack: this consists of two similar items
per property rank who are magically
linked. (Encounter) The wearer can
determine the direction and distance of
the closest one per property rank other
items in the pack. If he concentrate for
one round on one of these other items, he
may make an Intelligence+Perception
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check to gain information on the current
status of its wearer. The diculty depends
on the distance. (Daily) The wearer can
transfer his life energy one creature he
touches provided she wears an item from
the same pack. The user may loose up to
one wound damage per property rank, and
the target regains either two wound
damage or one debilitation damage for
each wound damage sacrificed.
Mighty: when the weapon makes a
successful attack, the wearer can decide to
forego up to one wound damage per
property rank and push back the target by
1 meter per wound damage spent. (Daily)
On a successful hit, the target is pushed
back 1 meter per success obtained, plus 1
per property rank.

8.2.7 Magic Weapons

Animated: (Daily) the weapon can fly
and attack on its own, using the wearer
normal attack rolls. The wearer makes an
attack roll+Animated as duration roll.
The fly speed of the weapon is 2 meters
per property rank. A melee weapon can
make charge attacks, which convey a
bonus equal to half the property ranks to
the attack roll. A ranged weapon can take
a full-round action to aim, thus gaining a
bonus to its next attack roll equal to half
the property ranks.
Bane: the weapon is particularly eective
against a certain type of enemy, granting a
bonus on attack rolls against such
creatures equal to half the property ranks.
(Encounter) When the weapon hits one of
its enemy, the target suers one additional
debilitation damage per two successes
obtained (up to the property rank).
Defending: the weapon grants one
additional block attempt per round and
per property rank, as well as a +1 bonus
to all defenses against melee or ranged
attacks, depending on the type of weapon.
(Encounter) The wearer can force reroll
one attack roll against him, with a penalty
equal to the property rank.
Energy: the weapon is imbued with a
certain energy. Each time the weapon
deals damage, one point of damage per
property rank is considered from that
energy. (Encounter) The weapon produces
a burst of energy after a successful hit.
The wearer can make a normal attack roll
vs Reflex as an area attack roll against all
creatures within 1 meter per property
rank. This attack deals one point of
wound damage of the appropriate energy
per property rank.
Keen: the armor ignores up to one point
of armor per two property ranks. (Daily)
After a successful hit, the weapon deals
one additional point of wound damage per
property rank. The attack cannot deal
more damage than the net number of
successes obtained on the attack roll.

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