Influence#

The rode of being listened to. It raises your charisma, and with it every bargain, plea and threat you make.

Ranks and tests#

Each rank adds to your charisma: +1 CHA at rank 1, up to +5 CHA at rank 5. The bonus sits on top of your score and isn’t held to the maximum training can reach. Rodes of the self has the rest of its kind.

1. Level20
   Rank 1: Initiate

   +1 CHA

   Get a stranger in Blithe's market to give you something they need, and have them thank you for taking it.

2. Level40
   Rank 2: Walker

   +2 CHA

   Settle a feud between two houses of Blithe so that both of them think they won.

3. Level60
   Rank 3: Keeper

   +3 CHA

   Talk your way into a place you'd otherwise have had to fight your way into.

4. Level80
   Rank 4: Warden

   +4 CHA

   Make a friend of one of Simmons's enemies, and keep them one.

5. Level100
   Rank 5: Exemplar

   +5 CHA

   Change the mind of someone who has never once changed it. Simmons picks who.

The master#

Gregory Simmons has never held an office in Crecia and has decided who holds most of them. He takes visitors in a counting house in Blithe and remembers every one of them.

Find Gregory Simmons at a counting house in Blithe, in Crecia. 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.

• A faint light seems to rest on you in any room where you’re being listened to.
• People repeat what you said later and think they thought of it.

Who walks it#

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

Minstrel Charisma is a minstrel's primary score, the one every skill it uses adds. The rode takes it past where training stops. Built for it Priest Charisma is a priest's primary score, the one every skill it uses adds. The rode takes it past where training stops. Built for it Gravedigger Charisma backs a gravedigger's intelligence. The rode takes it past where training stops. Helps Headhunter Charisma backs a headhunter's strength. The rode takes it past where training stops. Helps Runescribe Charisma backs a runescribe's wisdom. The rode takes it past where training stops. Helps Scout Charisma backs a scout's dexterity. The rode takes it past where training stops. Helps

The rode finder ranks every rode for a class.

What others say#

The council vote

Gregory Simmons wants a candidate to lose Blithe’s council vote, and he doesn’t want anyone to learn that he wanted it. His walkers get the job. The candidate has walkers of their own.