Wanderer

Starting abilities: ✪ Leaf on the Wind, ✪ I Know This Place
Key attributes: Awareness, Grace

You’re at home when you’re on the move. Whether you’re clambering up cliffsides, hiding in crumbling ruins, circling around foes, or stowing away on a skyship, a Wanderer is a master of getting where they need to go, with danger-avoiding instincts honed by long experience on the move. Wanderers are also keepers of stories about the Skysea, which they gather from firsthand experience and secondhand accounts. A Wanderer’s tale may reveal facts about a place that even the Guide has overlooked.

Wanderer Lore

When you start the game as a Wanderer:

At least one of your chosen lore types must be from your origin.
Your other lore choices can be from any origin.
Your lore can be aligned to any calling.

If you choose lore from origins other than your own, consider how you came to acquire that knowledge. Did you travel to another realm as a mercenary or a stowaway? Or did you journey on the back of a monster you learned how to ride? Did you befriend someone from a distant place who taught you? Or did you observe from the shadows?

Starting Abilities

✪ Leaf on the Wind Take -1 grace AND -1 awareness to Maneuver yourself as a ↻ reaction to being attacked. Subtract your result from the Attack result.

✪ I Know This Place You’ve learned much about the Skysea on your travels. You start the game with one story about a place. A place could be a floating island, a settlement, a large skyship, or other large structures (or creatures) drifting through the Skysea, or even a local pattern of windcurrents. If you start a rest with no stories, you gain 1 story. You can gain more stories by learning certain Wanderer abilities. Keep track of your stories—both the ones you’ve told and the ones you haven’t told yet—on your hero sheet.At any point, you can tell the Guide a story about the place you’re in or are about to travel to. As long as your story doesn’t contradict any facts already established in the game’s fiction, the Guide incorporates it into the place’s features and nature. When you tell your story, the Guide decides (with your input) whether it’s a secondhand account or a memory.A secondhand account is something you’ve heard about a place from a reliable source, accurate enough in its contours but fuzzy in the details. When you tell a secondhand story, you give the Guide broad leeway to fill in those details. A memory is a story about something you experienced while visiting this place in person. When you tell the Guide a memory, you’re responsible for filling in the details—but the Guide can still determine that things have changed since you visited the place. Storytelling graciously. This ability makes for a role-reversal: you, not the Guide, get to describe the facts of a location! Use this ability thoughtfully: many Guides enjoy crafting their adventures and might have trouble incorporating a surprise twist. Give the Guide space and time to accommodate your story. Talk with the Guide and perhaps other players to flesh out details and connections, and be prepared to change your story if it risks short-circuiting the gameplay or doesn’t make narrative sense. The Guide, for their part, should try to accommodate your story as best they can, without neutralizing its benefit or advantage. This is meant to be a powerful ability that gives Wanderer players a spotlight for creativity. What’s your story? Use the following table of samples as inspiration for your story. You can pick one from the list or roll a d12 to determine one randomly, ignoring story ideas that don’t make sense and shaping the idea you choose to the particular location and circumstances of your adventure.Or you can invent your own story entirely. If you do, use the table as a guide for what facts or good fortunes can be established by this ability.

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