Cognition#

The rode of the mind that drives the body. It restores your willpower on its own, a little every turn, so a caster can keep casting.

Ranks and tests#

Willpower. Restores willpower, the reserve every spell is cast from. 1d4 at rank 1, up to 1d20+10 at rank 5. Rodes of renewal has the rest of its kind.

When a rode of renewal restores

Roll your rank’s die at the start of each of your turns in a fight and restore that much. Outside a fight, roll it once for every hour you rest. It never takes you past your maximum, and it can’t bring you back from 0 health.

1. Level20
   Rank 1: Initiate

   1d4 willpower

   Find Hin Vin's stilt house on the marsh, and wait until he speaks first.

2. Level40
   Rank 2: Walker

   1d6+2 willpower

   Tell a will-o-wisp's light from a lantern's on a moonless night, and follow the right one.

3. Level60
   Rank 3: Keeper

   1d8+4 willpower

   Cast until you have nothing left, and keep holding the last spell.

4. Level80
   Rank 4: Warden

   1d12+6 willpower

   Hold a spell through a fight while someone does their best to break your concentration.

5. Level100
   Rank 5: Exemplar

   1d20+10 willpower

   Sit with Hin Vin from dusk to dawn without moving. He'll do the same, as he has for fifty years.

The master#

Hin Vin lives in a stilt house at the north edge of Mellowdeep Marsh and hasn’t come into a town in years. Students who reach him find him sitting perfectly still, and he often won’t speak until the will-o-wisps come out.

Find Hin Vin at a stilt house just north of Mellowdeep Marsh, in Tharsis. Where the masters teach maps all fourteen.

How it shows#

None of this changes a roll. It’s how the people around you can tell what you walk, if you want them to.

• You stand and walk with your hands knotted together.
• You go completely still when you’re thinking.

Who walks it#

The classes the rode does the most for. Any class can walk it.

Mageling Magelings spend willpower faster than anyone, and the rode gives some back every turn. Built for it Gravedigger A gravedigger's summons and curses all draw on willpower. Built for it Priest Every heal a priest casts costs willpower, and the rode keeps the next one coming. Built for it Hermit Hermits cast from a deep pool of willpower, and the rode keeps it from running dry. Helps Runescribe A runescribe's whispers and breaths cost willpower in a long fight. Helps Minstrel A minstrel's songs keep going only as long as their willpower does. Helps

The rode finder ranks every rode for a class.

What others say#

Lights on the marsh

The will-o-wisps of Mellowdeep Marsh have started leading travelers to Hin Vin’s stilt house, and he didn’t ask them to. He wants to know who’s steering them, and he’d rather not leave the house to find out.