Civilization

Origin: Kananite, Mazrian
Calling: Mastermind
Starting ability: ✪Way Around Town

Language: Mazrian language
Literacy: –
Starting items: General items and/or Imperial implements worth 2𐤑 credits, plus 1𐤑

You’re at home in a town or city. Maybe you’ve traveled to a few settlements in your life, or perhaps you’re enamored with your hometown’s eccentricities. Whatever your origin, when you arrive in a town, you’re never lost: you know where to go to find safe lodging, good food, or discreet hiding places.Mazrian-speaker. You know the Mazrian language, spoken in most cities and large towns even in Tel-Kanan. Starting items. You start with one or two items collectively worth 2 credits that must be from either the General Items or Imperial Implements categories (see Items & Conveyances). For example, you might start with a book (general item) and a featherweight scarab (implement).You start with this ability:

Ask the Guide:

Where’s the best place in this town to get a good meal or a night’s rest?
What are some local customs we should be aware of?
What’s the best way to impress the local townspeople?

✪ Way Around Town

Starting ability

Each time you enter a settlement, you gain a story that you can tell about the place. See the Wanderer calling for how stories work.

Abilities to Learn

✪ Citydweller's Charisma

Mark of SPIRIT

Add 1 to the calculation that determines the size of your Compel Die.

✪ Secrets of the City

Mark of AWARENESS

You gain 3 revelations distributed as you like among the following lore, but not more than 2 for any single lore. Crafting, Politics, Song, Trade Additionally, each time you rest in a settlement, your knowledge of local customs and quirks enables you and your allies to freely avail yourself of city services worth up to 3 credits, which you can distribute as you like.

City Services

Many settlements in Tel-Kanan offer food and lodging, medical treatment, and temple tithes (the last is more of an acceptance than an offer). The Civilization lore isn’t required to take advantage of these services, but it does help you find where they’re located (and the ✪Secrets ability gets you some services).

Food & Lodging

Most settlements have a place for travelers to sleep in relative comfort. When you rest at such an establishment and pay 1 imperial credit, you gain a +1 bonus every time you heal or engage in an endeavor involving a dice roll while you rest. Larger settlements may offer 3-credit food and lodging, which yield a +2 bonus when you rest. Only the fanciest inns and estates in Ushu offer 5-credit food and lodging for a +3 bonus.

Medical Treatment

Medicine is a well-kept secret of the Mazrian Empire, and only settlements with a Mazrian presence offer medical treatment. For each credit you pay, roll d6 and d8, take the higher, and add 3. The result is the amount you heal. Some doctors may require Persuading, however.

Temple Tithe

All temples in the realm of Tel-Kanan happily accept and strongly encourage tithes. It is widely believed among Kananites that Lord Adod rewards his faithful with good fortune—and thus, good fortune must be a sign of Adod’s favor—and therefore, so it follows, giving one’s fortune back to the Lord and his priesthood completes the circle. For each credit or resource you give as a tithe, the Guide marks a tally. Perhaps tallies mean someone up there likes you . . .

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