Solar Circle

Origin: Mazrian
Calling: Messenger, Sorcerer
Starting ability: ✪Blessing of the Aureole

Language: Mazrian
Literacy: –
Starting items: –

You worship the sun. You recognize nearly all the aspects of the world as literal or metaphorical circles that curve around its center: the solar disk, the cycle of night and day, the tides of the Skysea, the rise and fall of empires. Mazrian-speaker. The cult of the Solar Circle was once practiced throughout the Mazrian Empire and was briefly the official religion of the imperial house. It fell out of favor, however, and many of its adherents were oppressed or banished. You start with the following ability:

Ask the Guide:

Who among these people has also seen the light of the Solar Circle?
In which direction is the sun?
Where is the center of power or events here?

✪ Blessing of the Aureole

Starting ability

As an endeavor when you rest, Compel the sun to imbue an armament or other item with sacred sunlight. Add your core Spirit to the result if the sun is visible while you rest. Gain sun-focus equal to your result.

As long as you have at least 1 sun-focus, the blessed item glows with golden light, which you control as described in the ❍Illuminate spell.
You can spend sun-focus instead of light-focus to cast the ❍Flash spell, which emanates from the item.
You can spend all your remaining sun-focus (minimum of 1) to cast ❍Red Sword.

Light Sorcery. If you’re a Light Sorcerer and you wield a blessed item with at least 1 sun-focus, you can Gather Light while wielding the item to gain light-focus. But this light-focus can only be used to cast ❍Flash or (if you know ✪Light of the Red Moon) ❍Red Sword.

❍ Flash • 2 sun-focusManeuver to conjure a brief, blinding light. Compare your result to the awareness of all characters in front of you who can see you. If you beat a character’s awareness, inflict -1 grace and -1 awareness. Characters unaffected. Your allies aren’t affected by the flash, assuming that you’ve warned them not to look.A character in front of you who is distracted and focusing their attention elsewhere—such as fighting with one of your allies—might not be affected by the flash, as determined by the Guide.❍ Illuminate Light emanates from the blessed item. It can take the form of a halolike aura, a narrow beam, or a diffuse glow, bright enough to comfortably light a large room. The light lasts as long as you have at least 1 sun-focus.

❍ Red Sword • all sun-focusMake a special Attack against all characters in front of you in the Fray who aren't behind cover. This spell can only be blocked by armor and shields, and can’t be countered. Damage: –2 grace, or –6 grace on a lethal hit. Burn. If anyone hit by this attack carries wooden armaments, Brace as a following action to ignite and break them. The foe suffers an extra –2 grace for each armament burned. Angles. You can cast this spell at foes above the Fray or below you, as long as they could reasonably intersect a flat plane that emanates from your imbued armament.

Abilities to Learn

✪ Secrets of the Sun

Mark of AWARENESS

You gain 3 revelations distributed as you like among the following lore, but not more than 2 for any single lore. Civilization, Insurgency, Politics, Song, TimeAdditionally, you can spend 3 sun-focus to gain up to 1 overflow awareness, which persists as long as you have sun-focus.

✪ Sunblessed Charisma

Mark of SPIRIT

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

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