Classes#

What your class decides

Your class sets the two scores your character is built on, the abilities you learn from level 0 to 100, the health and willpower you gain each level, and the titles the world gives you past level 100. It doesn’t limit your race, your rode or your trade, and it doesn’t stop you doing anything else a person could do. A class is what you’ve done most, not all you’re allowed to do.

Choosing a class#

There are fourteen classes, grouped below by how they fight. Each one’s page has its abilities level by level, the races that start closest to it, the rodes and trades that suit it, and where it trains.

Any race can take any class. A race that starts high in a class’s two scores gets there sooner. The race finder ranks the races for a class, and the finder below works the other way, from your race to the classes it starts closest to.

Not a cage

A class says what a character has spent their life doing. It doesn’t forbid the rest. A page can sing, a mageling can swing a sword (badly), and anyone can learn to pick a lock if your storyteller agrees it makes sense. The class’s abilities are what it does well enough to count on.

Two scores#

Every class leans on two ability scores. The primary is the one every skill the class uses adds: when a pickpocket stabs, the roll adds their Dexterity modifier. The secondary backs it up and shapes how the character grows.

Training takes every score up to 5 above where your race starts it. Your class’s primary climbs 5 further and its secondary 3 further, so the class you choose decides which scores end up highest. Levels covers how training works.

The fourteen classes#

The classes fall into four kinds by how they fight. Pick one to read its page. Each card shows the two scores the class leads with and its health die.

Sword and shield#

Fighters first. They wear the heaviest armor, swing the most attacks and finish what the rest of the party starts.

Headhunter Mercenary captains: the best fighters money can hire, and the only ones who come with a crew. STR · CHA · 1d6+13 health Page Knights in the making, whose job is to be hit in someone else's place. CON · STR · 1d6+11 health Plainsman Barbarians of the open plains who fight with rage and distrust magic on principle. STR · DEX · 1d6+13 health

Road and shadow#

Quick, light and hard to pin down. They track, scout, steal and strike from where nobody’s looking.

Pickpocket Thieves, rogues and assassins, quick with their hands and quicker to leave. DEX · LUC · 1d6+8 health Scout Monks who took up the blade: fast, light fighters who chain weapon strikes into finishers the way monks chain blows. DEX · CHA · 1d6+10 health Woodsman Hunters, trackers and druids who need nothing from civilization. WIS · CON · 1d6+11 health

The weaves#

Casters who see the threads of magic, or feel them, and pull. Each tradition explains it its own way, and the Magic page has them all.

Mageling Students of the Mage Spire who see the weaves as colored threads and lay them one on another with a trained will. INT · WIS · 1d6+6 health Elementalist Battle mages whose magic comes to them unasked, in fear and fury, and hits harder than a mage's with far less control. STR · INT · 1d6+12 health Runescribe Rune-singers who work the tiny, quick seams between the threads, the way the draconians of a forgotten age did. WIS · CHA · 1d6+11 health Gravedigger Necromancers who start with a shovel. INT · CHA · 1d6+6 health

Spirit and song#

Healers, seekers and singers whose power comes from faith, balance or music, and who keep the rest of the party standing.

Priest Healers and keepers of the faith in an age when all three gods are missing. CHA · INT · 1d6+7 health Monk Peaceful warriors who fight without weapons and would rather not fight at all. WIS · DEX · 1d6+10 health Hermit Seekers who leave everyone behind to find what holds magic together. WIS · INT · 1d6+7 health Minstrel Singers and blade dancers who work magic through celestial tunes, an art lost for ages and found again only in the Age of Man. CHA · LUC · 1d6+7 health

Five titles#

Each class has five ranks. The first is the class’s own name, and the other four are titles the world bestows at heroic levels: the second at level 100, then 200, 300 and 400. A title brings rights in society, set out on each class’s page, and the people who know what it means treat you accordingly.

Your class’s trainer bestows the title when you reach its level, usually with more ceremony than you’d like.

1. Level1
   Rank 1

   Page · Pickpocket · Mageling · Priest

   Your class's own name. You earned it by doing the work, and nobody has to grant it.

2. Level100
   Rank 2

   Squire · Rogue · Mage · Deacon

   The first heroic title. Your own class's people count you as one of theirs at full standing.

3. Level200
   Rank 3

   Knight · Thief · Wizard · Archdeacon

   People outside your class know the name, and a few doors open because of it.

4. Level300
   Rank 4

   Centurion · Assassin · Magus · Bishop

   Crowns and councils start to ask for you by name.

5. Level400
   Rank 5

   Templar · Shadow Walker · Supreme Magi · Archbishop

   The last title. Few hold it at once, and the ones who do end up in the histories.

Declining a title

A title can be turned down. Declining one changes nothing about your rank or your abilities, only what you’re called and what you can claim. Some of the best in every class never took a title at all, and they’ll tell you so.

Which class suits my race?#

Pick your race to see every class ranked by how close the race starts to it: the class’s primary score counted twice and its secondary once. It’s where you start, not where you’ll end up, and every class is open to every race.

Where the classes train#

Every class has trainers all over Sedia, in garrisons, temples and back rooms, and any of them can take your training points. Each class also has one place its own people think of as home, with a trainer whose name gets around. That’s where titles are bestowed, and where you go when nobody else can teach you what’s next.

New Saellem

Scout Brother Ennis Calder

Jewall

Runescribe Vharek Stoneglass

Tharsis

Mageling Provost Aldric VennPriest Jonathan

Crecia

Hermit OstinMinstrel Seline Aubret

Dumasque

Headhunter Ruk Tamaro

Esthar

Page Dame Corisande VaelGravedigger Corvin Ashe

Amari

Elementalist Oriel Vask

Moria

Plainsman Bey Ashara TolunMonk Abbess Teodra Vay

Menusia

Woodsman Maela of the canopy

Narsis

Pickpocket Mother Sable

The classes side by side#

What each class leads with, what it gains each level and the heaviest armor it wears. Levels explains health and willpower. A class that doesn’t cast takes half the willpower.

Class	Leads	Backs	Health	Willpower	Casts	Armor	Last title	Trains in
Headhunter	STR	CHA	1d6+13	2	No	Heavy	Warlord	Dumasque
Page	CON	STR	1d6+11	4	Yes	Any	Templar	Esthar
Plainsman	STR	DEX	1d6+13	2	No	Medium	Berserker	Moria
Pickpocket	DEX	LUC	1d6+8	3	No	Light	Shadow Walker	Narsis
Scout	DEX	CHA	1d6+10	3	Yes	Medium	Saedu-Morusai	New Saellem
Woodsman	WIS	CON	1d6+11	4	Yes	Medium	Druid	Menusia
Mageling	INT	WIS	1d6+6	8	Yes	Light	Supreme Magi	Tharsis
Elementalist	STR	INT	1d6+12	5	Yes	Heavy	Myrmidon	Amari
Runescribe	WIS	CHA	1d6+11	4	Yes	Any	Tzaek’oth	Jewall
Gravedigger	INT	CHA	1d6+6	8	Yes	Medium	Liche	Esthar
Priest	CHA	INT	1d6+7	8	Yes	Light	Archbishop	Tharsis
Monk	WIS	DEX	1d6+10	3	Yes	Medium	Morusai	Moria
Hermit	WIS	INT	1d6+7	8	Yes	Light	Psion	Crecia
Minstrel	CHA	LUC	1d6+7	6	Yes	Medium	Blademaster	Crecia