The World
Your ancestry shapes the world’s first impression of you.
The Ancestries · A caprine people known for satire
TheBrannochs are stocky, quick-footed caprine folk with curling horns and tufted cheek-fleece. They are commonly known for satire on their tongues, turning campfires into stages and strangers into revellers.
Inherent
Fleet-footed
When you move, you can move to an additional zone.
Expressed
Polyglot
You communicate fluently with any common language speaker and actions involving expression or communication are favourable.
The Ancestries · A reptilian people of measured civic discipline
TheDrakes are tall, scaled reptilian folk with elongated muzzles, brow ridges and neck frills. They are most commonly known for a measured bearing, heated breath and adherence to civic discipline.
Inherent
Scaled
You have a minimum of 1 defence die, which stacks with any worn armour.
Expressed
Heatsight
You can see by heat signatures and you can see in natural darkness or low light.
The Ancestries · A people bound to duty and the forge
TheDwarves are compact, broad-shouldered folk with stepped brow ridges and calloused stone-browned hands. They are commonly known for attending duty and the ringing of anvils and glowing steel.
Inherent
Ironhide
You can carry heavy loads and endure long marches; no danger dice from encumbrance.
Expressed
Stonegut
You can eat and digest inorganic matter (including stone, metal, and clay) and you are immune to being poisoned.
The Ancestries · A people of memory and patient artistry
TheElves are slender, long-limbed folk with tapered ears and keen almond eyes. They are most commonly known for millennial memory and patient artistry, weaving magic and diplomacy into enduring wonders.
Inherent
Spellborn
You have resistance against spells directly targeting you.
Expressed
Arcanic
Ask the Narrator about active or latent magic in your presence and gain insight into its origin or nature.
The Ancestries · A small folk of restless inventiveness
TheGnomes are small, spry folk with tapering ears, downy hair and beak-tipped noses. They are most commonly known for restless inventiveness, hatching clever gadgets and ideas faster than dawn birdsong.
Inherent
Featherfall
Take at most 1 wound from falling, knockback, or being flung.
Expressed
Quick-witted
Gain +1d to cunning reactions.
The Ancestries · A quick-eyed people of scrap and guile
TheGoblins are small, angular folk with oversized ears and quick golden eyes. They are most commonly known for flipping discarded scraps and social gaps into sudden profit with fast-talking guile.
Inherent
Keen-eared
Any actions dependent on hearing are favourable and you are immune to being confused.
Expressed
Sharpwit
You have resistance to being tricked or deceived.
The Ancestries · A stone people of austere scholarship
TheGorgons are living statues with polished stone flesh, gemstone eyes and carved marble curls. They are most commonly known for austere poise, cloistered scholarship, and guarding ancient secrets behind unreadable faces.
Inherent
Stoneskin
You do not take -1d to action rolls when on your last Health.
Expressed
Petrifying
Burn to inflict restrained on a target you touch.
The Ancestries · A towering people of stonecraft and direction
TheGovari are towering, barrel-chested folk with bovine muzzles, tufted tails and flowing leonine manes. They are most commonly known for an unerring underground sense of direction and patient stonecraft that steadies remote passes.
Inherent
Lionheart
You are immune to frightened and enraged.
Expressed
Bellow
Burn to roar and inflict slowed on a nearby enemy.
The Ancestries · A compact people of hearth and community
TheHalflings are compact folk with round cheeks, bright eyes and thick-soled feet. They are known for generous hearthcraft and communal grit, turning any soil into a warm, well-fed home.
Inherent
Fairweather
You start each session with a second Luck.
Expressed
Savoursense
Social actions involving food are favourable.
The Ancestries · A people of boundless ambition
TheHumans display a kaleidoscope of heights, hues and builds, adapting to nearly any climate. They are commonly known for boundless ambition and ingenuity, remaking realms and fortunes with remarkable speed.
Inherent
Tireless
Automatically restore 2 Flare during a short rest.
Expressed
Plucky
Gain +1d to actions and attacks when outnumbered or outmatched.
The Ancestries · A slight people of scrap and contraption
TheKobolds are slight folk with hooked noses, flared ears and sparrow-quick hands. They are known for weaving salvaged scraps into cunning contraptions, collaborating in maze-like warrens with tireless, chittering focus.
Inherent
Rocknock
You can feel vibrations through stone or soil and cannot be surprised by hidden creatures.
Expressed
Danger Sense
You always have a minimum of 2 beats at the start of Fray.
The Ancestries · A marbled people of contract and rhetoric
TheNefani are lean mortals bearing marbled skin, metallic eyes and subtle curling horns. They are most commonly known for wielding ironclad contracts and poised rhetoric to bend conflict into orderly accord.
Inherent
Dauntless
You do not add danger dice from facing monstrous or terrifying creatures.
Expressed
Dreadborn
Actions to intimidate or coerce others are favourable.
The Ancestries · A tree-folk of rooted, seasons-long patience
TheNuthari are sap-blooded tree-folk with bark skin, root-woven hair and branchlike fingers. They are known for guarding sacred groves and weighing decisions with seasons-long, rooted patience.
Inherent
Sleepless
You do not need sleep and are immune to exhausted.
Expressed
Rootless
During a long rest, you may take an additional activity.
The Ancestries · A towering people of hospitality and song
TheOgres are towering sun-marked giants with bronze skin, heavy brows and long, sturdy limbs. They are known for radiant hospitality and patient wisdom, weaving sunlight into song, feast and oath.
Inherent
Sun-kissed
You may treat direct daylight as a Backstory.
Expressed
Gregarious
Actions to impress, lead, or perform are favourable.
The Ancestries · A nomadic people bound by clan oath
TheOrcs are broad-shouldered nomads with wind-scoured skin and jutting tusks. They are known for forging ironclad clan oaths, beating labour and drum into hardy frontier strongholds.
Inherent
Final Stand
When you are on your final Health, you have resistance to attacks.
Expressed
Pack-bonded
You can always sense the distance and direction of all members of your party.
The Ancestries · A star-flecked people of cosmic judgement
TheSidhari are tall, star-flecked folk of midnight skin, luminous hair and constellation-bright eyes. They are known for translating celestial alignments into firm judgements, weighing mortal disputes with distant, cosmic calm.
Inherent
Startouched
You can spend 1 Flare to glow brightly enough to illuminate your surroundings.
Expressed
Sacred
Actions to impress or charm others of faith are favourable.
The Ancestries · An aquatic people of tide and harmony
TheSirens are sleek, scale-clad aquatic folk with finned ears, dorsal fins and hair like seaweed strands. They are known for tidal harmonics, guiding ships and trading coasts with navigation blessings.
Inherent
Aquatic
You can breathe water or air interchangeably and swim as swiftly as you run.
Expressed
Melodic
Burn to inflict charmed on a target who can hear you.
The Ancestries · A quick fey people of rooftop and secret
TheSpriggans are slight, quick-footed fey with soot-flecked skin, amber eyes and thistledown hair. They are known for darting along rooftops, bartering garden pickings and secrets for favours.
Inherent
Willow-flex
Burn to slip free of any bond or restraint and remove restrained.
Expressed
Nimble
Gain +1d to agility reactions.
The Ancestries · A stone-skinned people of mountain oath
TheTharns are towering, stone-skinned nomads with granite flesh, fissured brows and quarry-hewn muscles. They are known for patient mountain strength and unbreakable oaths, raising monumental stonework that anchors empires.
Inherent
Hulking
You start with an additional Health box.
Expressed
Powerhouse
Actions drawing upon raw strength or prowess are favourable.
The Ancestries · A towering people of twilight lore
TheTrolls are towering, long-limbed folk with stone-veined skin and rune-braided hair. They are known for twilight patience and deep lore, carving bridges and riddles alike while quietly guarding mountain passes.
Inherent
Regeneration
At the start of any long rest, clear 1 wound.
Expressed
Riddle-tongue
Telling lies and spoken misdirection is favourable.
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