Death

Origin: All
Calling: Arbiter
Starting ability: ✪Refuse Death

Language: Chthonic
Literacy: –
Starting items: –

You’ve spent long in the depths of the Skysea—perhaps too long. You know Death intimately and have learned how to elude its grasp.Chthonic-speaker. You understand and speak the Chthonic language, spoken by wraiths and creatures from the dead realm.Visions of Mot. You intuitively understand the nature of Mot, the god of Death, as a giant mouth that gapes beneath the Skysea, feeding on wayward souls that are not fortunate enough to be swept up and around Lord Adod’s cyclone or similar cyclonic entities. You start with the following ability:

Ask the Guide:

Who here has had a brush with death?
Which way or strategy seems likelier to bring us closer to the Mouth of Mot?
Are the proper funerary rites being followed?

✪ Refuse Death

Starting Ability

You have Compel advantage when you Survive. You can also take -1 spirit and 1 deathmark before you Survive and gain a +3 bonus to your result.

Abilities to Learn

✪ Deathmage

Mark of SPIRIT

You can cast the spells 𐎺Drink Soul, ༄Name of Death, 𐎺Resolve, or 𐎺Wither by taking 1 deathmark instead of the way that an Arbiter or a Messenger might cast them. You can’t use this ability to increase your total number of deathmarks beyond the size of your Compel die. For example, if your Compel Die is a d10 and you have 10 or more deathmarks, you can’t use this ability.

The spells 𐎺Drink Soul, 𐎺Resolve, and 𐎺Wither are also available in the Arbiter calling, but they yield different effects when cast with deathmarks rather than Arbiter magic.

𐎺 Drink Soul • 1 deathmarkCompel the character’s soul to exit their body and flow into yours.

You must be Restraining the character.
Inflict life damage equal to your result.

If you reduce the character’s life to zero with this spell, you absorb their soul. Remove a number of your deathmarks equal to the character’s core Spirit.༄ Name of Death • 1 deathmarkCall the name of a person, and the name of their death, and speak a sentence or ask a question. You must speak in Chthonic. After a ponderous delay, a dead soul may respond with a sentence of their own, emanating up from the Sea of Death, in moaning Chthonic.If you don’t accurately say both pieces of information—the person’s name and the name of their death (that is, the essential manner of it)—the Rephaim may respond in the guise of a false soul.

𐎺 Resolve • 1+ deathmarkReduce incoming damage of any type by 2 per deathmark you gain. 𐎺 Wither • 1 deathmarkCompel a character to kneel, flinch, or otherwise become off-balance and vulnerable, inflicting –3 grace damage if you beat their spirit.If the character has no grace, excess damage from this spell becomes spirit damage, not life damage.

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