The Zordin, Out of Chaos

Starting ability: 1 greater OR 2 lesser ✪Blessings of Yom
Starting items: 1 keepsake
Language: Common, Zordin

The Zordin are a mysterious people who hail from beyond the borders of Tel-Kanan, where Lord Adod’s cyclone devolves into the formless Chaos—or the Dream, as many Zordin call it. Zordin who find their way to Tel-Kanan may be infiltrators, exiles, or castaways from this deadly and unfathomable realm of demons and storm. Strangers. Few people in Tel-Kanan have encountered the Zordin before. But increasingly, Kananites and Mazrians have heard rumors about a terrifying force of Zordin raiders that somehow brought down the Mazrian Empire. Many Mazrians will try to capture or kill any Zordin they encounter.Dreamtouched. Zordin have been influenced by the Chaos and have unusual physical features, such as color-shifting skin, eyes with W-shaped pupils, green blood, a distinct smell, or others. Some Zordin look monstrous and alien, at least to Kananite and Mazrian observers. Others have an otherworldly beauty and elegance, like fae beings from ancient legends.

Zordin Lore

If you start the game as a Zordin, pick two lore from this list; one must be aligned to your calling.

Ask the Guide:

Which tribe does that Zordin person hail from?
Do I recognize that creature from the Chaos realm?
Has the Chaos influenced this island's weather or environment?

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Greater Blessings of Yom

Lesser Blessings of Yom

Starting as a Zordin

When you start the game, choose one greater blessing OR two lesser blessings of Yom, the dragon god of the Chaos realm. When you select the blessing, you know the name of its associated Face of Yom in the Antediluvian language, though you don’t necessarily understand its meaning or any other words in this strange tongue. Additionally, choose one or two options from the Dreamtouched Traits table, or invent your own.

Zordin Names

Pick one: Alfonsu, Denya, Ekwesh, Furio, Lukka, Pelset, Sedan, Teresh, Tjeker. Or invent your own. Many Zordin take the name of whispered words or phrases they hear from the Skysea’s turbulence, which can take the form of random dictionary words or encyclopedia article titles. They may also have Italian-sounding names.

Zordin Keepsakes

Through their nomadic peregrinations, the Zordin are the inheritors of much of the ancient Earth’s surviving material culture: mostly plastic objects and other weird knicknacks the Rephaim has inexplicably accreted upon and preserved. Choose one or roll from the table, or invent your own.

Dreamtouched Traits

Choose one or two physical traits from the table, or invent your own.

Greater Blessings of Yom

✪ Big

Greater Blessing of Yom the Chordate

You’re enormous. This trait yields several advantages:

You start the game with a core Strength of 6 or 7 (your choice).
Add 1 to the calculation that determines the size of your Brace Die.
Your weight equals your Strength +2, +3, or +4 (your choice)—which increases your Life, but makes it harder to move, and harder to fall.

However:

Subtract 1 from the calculation that determines the size of your Move Die.
You must start the game with a core Grace of 2. Also, it takes twice as many marks of Grace to increase your core Grace.
Buying or crafting armor that fits you costs twice as many credits or resources as usual.

✪ Chitin Shell

Greater Blessing of Yom the Arthropod

You have a hard, jointed cuticle that grants 2 Armor. However, before you can increase your core Grace or Strength, you must first undergo the arduous and dangerous process of molting. To molt, you must endeavor to crawl out of your shell during a rest: Maneuver yourself and subtract the result from 12. At the end of your rest, you take life damage equal to the difference (12 minus your result). Once you molt, you can increase your core Grace or Strength as normal, but you lack the armor provided by this ability. Your shell slowly reforms: gain 1 Armor after 10 days, and another 1 Armor (2 total) after 20 days.

Armor you craft or purchase doesn’t fit you anymore after you molt, and you can’t wear external armor while regrowing your shell, because it chafes.

✪ Hexapod

Greater Blessing of Yom the Arthropod

You have six limbs—two legs and four arms. You can use your two extra hands to:

Grab and Restrain foes, or Rush up surfaces that require free hands to climb
Wield additional armaments, as long as they’re small enough to stow on your belt or leg
Use Sorcerer abilities and spells that require two free hands—but with a -1 penalty for each armament you’re wielding with your other hands.

✪ Nets

Greater Blessing of Yom the Onychophoran

You have two velvety, hornlike nubs on your forehead. Take -1 strength to make a special Attack with Brace advantage: you shoot whirling jets of sticky slime from your forehead-nubs that rapidly harden on contact. This attack can target multiple foes close to one another in the Fray or 1 height above or below you. If you’re on high, you have Maneuver advantage. On any hit, the foe is covered in your slime nets and suffers -2 grace. If your result also beats the foe’s strength, they become entangled. While entangled, they can’t Evade, Outflank, or Move themselves or Attack a foe, unless they are counterattacking. An entangled foe, or one of their allies, can Brace on their turn to break free from the nets, succeeding on a 4 or higher; on a 7 or higher, the foe can take a ➟following action after breaking free.

✪ Regeneration

Greater Blessing of Yom the Echinoderm

When you rest, you heal a bit automatically, without needing to take -1 strength or -1 spirit: roll a d8 and use the result to heal.

Lesser Blessings of Yom

✪ Camouflage

Lesser Blessing of Yom the Mollusk

Your skin shifts colors and textures. You don’t need cover to become hidden when you Evade. You can’t benefit from this ability if you wear any armor.

✪ Gills

Lesser Blessing of Yom the Chordate

Fleshy slits on your neck enable you to breathe underwater.

✪ Luminescence

Lesser Blessing of Yom the Ctenophoran

Part or all of your body can emit a soft glow. You can take -1 awareness to focus the glow and dimly illuminate a room-sized space.

✪ Shellbow

Lesser Blessing of Yom the Mollusk

One of your arms is attached to and covered by a large, nacreous, hinged shell. The shell functions as a heavy shield, but its durability is only 4. You don’t need to carry your shellbow, and you can hold small items like arrows or sling bullets with your hand on the arm on which it grows. But it does limit that arm’s mobility, preventing you from wielding 2-handed melee weapons like staves and maces. If your shellbow is broken, you gradually regrow it: after one rest, it provides a +1 guard bonus; after a second rest, a +2 bonus, and after a third rest, it regrows to its original size for a +3 bonus.

✪ Sideways Sight

Lesser Blessing of Yom the Mollusk

Your eyes have W-shaped pupils, which enable you to see polarized light. You’ve learned to use your physiology to sense the presence of light magic, which is detailed in the Sorcerer calling. You can see the Rephaim that mediates this magic as a faint shimmering presence, rendering sorcerous illusions ineffective.

✪ Stinging Touch

Lesser Blessing of Yom the Cnidarian

When you strike a lethal hit with an unarmed Attack, you inflict an additional -1 grace. This ability only affects creatures of flesh-and-blood and has no effect on Shinarians or wraiths.

✪ Suction Cups

Lesser Blessing of Yom the Mollusk

Parts of your skin are tessellated with small, shallow suction cups. When you Move yourself by clinging to a surface (including climbing with the Rush action), when you Restrain a foe, or when you attempt any improvised action involving grasping tightly, roll a d8 advantage die.

Ability to Learn

Some Zordin learn to change their form at will. You can learn this ability when you gain a level.

✪ Second Skin

Mark of SPIRIT

Make a new character: a second form you can shapeshift into. This character must be Zordin. They must share your calling, ideals, equipment, and lore, as well as your Spirit and Awareness. They can have different Grace and Strength scores, start with different blessings of Yom, and have a totally different appearance and voice.Shapeshifting. When you rest, you can shift between the two forms:

Carry over your old form’s life, which can’t exceed the new form’s max.
End the rest with -1 strength (1 less than the new form’s max).

Advancement. When you gain marks of Grace or Strength, choose which form gets them. You can only increase one form’s Grace or Strength at a time. Marks of Spirit and Awareness, and increases to these two attributes, apply to both forms.

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