Recovery & Rest

Eventually, battles end, storms subside, and heroes are left to breathe sighs of relief and lick their wounds. There are two kinds of such interludes: catching your breath and rest.

Catching Your Breath

When you catch your breath for a few moments after battle or storm, you regain all your awareness and grace—but not spirit or strength. You can catch your breath pretty much anywhere, as long as you’re not taking action.

Resting

Resting requires at least a few hours in a safe place, with plenty of room to stretch your legs. When you rest:

You regain all your attributes, including strength and spirit, up to their maximum values.
You can heal yourself.
You can engage in one endeavor.

Regain your attributes before you heal or engage in an endeavor. Aside from recovery, resting is a chance to bond with your allies and learn new lore. But finding a place to rest might be an adventure unto itself! You can’t rest on a cramped hot-air balloon. You might be able to rest on a well-appointed skyship, but certainly not if it’s skysailing in bad weather. Some abilities grant boons that take effect when you rest. For example, Kananites benefit from the ✪Blessing of Adod when they rest, and Masterminds can devise ✪Stratagems when they rest. These effects do not count as endeavors—they just happen. Make sure to take advantage of these abilities!

Healing

While resting, you can heal by taking -1 strength or -1 spirit.

Brace yourself with Compel advantage
Add your core Strength or Spirit (whichever you reduced) to the result

Use this result, 1-for-1, to remove deathmarks or—if you have no deathmarks remaining—recover life up to your maximum. You can heal multiple times during a single rest, as long as you have strength or spirit to spare.

Endeavors

While resting, you can engage in one endeavor. Many endeavors are enabled by ✪abilities from your calling or lore, and may call for you to roll one or more of your action dice. The Guide might offer special endeavors based on your circumstances in an adventure.In addition, any hero can endeavor to study or learn and gain a revelation—that is, a piece of lore. When you collect 3 revelations about a given type of lore, you learn that lore and its starting ability!
Study a BookSpend your rest studying a book written in a script you know how to read. You gain 1 revelation from the book’s listed options (no roll required). Books and the revelations they contain are detailed in Items & Conveyances.

One rest for the weary. A rest is a fuzzy abstraction for a period of respite. It might last a few hours or stretch into many days. The duration is deliberately inexact. Crucially, rests must end—not be strung together indefinitely. The Guide has full dispensation to keep it moving and thrust heroes back into danger after their rest!

Learn from Other CharactersEndeavor under the tutelage of a willing teacher, assisting a friendly community in a lore-based task, or helping another hero perform their own lore-based activity. Describe to the Guide how you learn from them to gain 1 revelation for the lore in question (no roll required). You and another hero can learn from each other as a joint endeavor. For example, if you know The Shield and a fellow hero knows Insurgency, you can both endeavor to learn together, practicing ambushes and defensive tactics, each gaining 1 revelation for the other’s lore. If you engage in an endeavor that doesn’t grant a revelation, other heroes can still learn from you in the process. For example, if you compose a ✪Song of Heroes as your endeavor, another hero can learn from you and gain 1 revelation for Song, so long as they spend most of their rest with you.

Guide: The villagers emerge from hiding and get to work preparing the feast as the old priest makes the rounds blessing everything—the bread, the wine, the water, the olives, the flying-fish sauce. Chom and Wandu, you’re both invited to join in these preparations. Would you like to spend an endeavor helping them prepare and learning their ways?

Matreyis: Wait, what about me?

Guide: My ibis-headed friend, you’re from the Empire. The villagers are mostly rebels—that’s why they had places to hide. The old priest seems fond of you, but everyone else gives you the side-eye.

Matreyis: Even after I helped deal with their ghoul problem, huh.

Guide: You could try Persuading them to accept you.

Matreyis: Nuts to that. I’ll just read my book, The Traveler’s Tale. I want to study about Navigation.

Wandu: What can these villagers teach us?

Guide: The priest would be delighted to teach you about the mystery and majesty of Lord Adod. He’s also not bad at singing a catchy Song. And from the villagers collectively, you can learn a bit about Civilization.

Wandu: I’ll endeavor to learn a Song revelation. I’m sure I’ve heard all kinds of crazy tunes in the Chaos realm—maybe I can help him spice up his hymns.

Guide: And you, Chom?

Chom: I would never miss the chance to partake in feast and song. But I feel my endeavor is better spent on my Panoply ability, ✪Preparing for Battle, than preparing food and learning things. (Rolls a d8). A 7. I polish my bronze to a handsome sheen. But … I can still eat the feast, right?

Keep it real. Learning has to make sense in context. You can’t learn about Insurgency from a fellow hero who spends most of their rest somewhere else, or who endeavors to do something unrelated to insurgency, like studying a book!

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