Sorts
Cutter origins. Sorts bestow starting skills, traits, and possessions. Your sort is what you were—after choosing it, what you become is up to you.
Every sort lists two weaknesses. To qualify for a sort during character creation, your weakness must match one of them.
- See the qualifications chart for a sort matching your weakness.
Some sorts come with issues or virtues. These neither give nor cost XP, even if they usually would.
Some human sorts are mutants—the product of genomic meddling by Dark Age sorcerers seeking to produce a more durable race of chattel. You have a 1-in-6 chance of being allowed a mutant sort at time of selection.
Some sorts are unusual. They are unique creatures and persons; 2 of a kind cannot coincide. You have a 1-in-12 chance of being allowed an unusual sort at time of selection.
Alienist
You were a psychiatrist. A interpreter of the brain’s hidden galleries. You studied the great works—memory, dreams, lunacy, hypnotism, the unconscious mind—and saw fingerprints in the paint. Signatures in the margins. Influences upon human nature not internal, but external—from antiquity, divinity, and 4worlds beyond.
- Topic: Neurology 6
- Topic: Psychodynamics 6
- Topic: Divinity 6
- Topic: Ancient history 4
- Topic: Electricity 4
- Medicine 4
- Topic: Aartimetry 2
- Language: [one common] 5
- Language: [one ancient] 4
- Battered suitcase
- replaces starting backpack
- Bottle of laudanum
- Surgical kit
- Trepanning kit
- White coat
- Three-piece tweed suit
- New cased pistolette, loaded
Bighter
You are a carceral marine. When a whipping to be dispensed, it is the bighter—the hand best at knots—who ties and swings the biting lash. Soldiers, sailors, mercenaries, and rough folk abide your woeful art: The humbling kiss of rope.
- Melee: Snap & Lash 2
- Knots 4
- Topic: Seas 2
- Sailing 2
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 2
- Language: [common] 2
- Language: [common] 3
- 64 m hemp rope
- Scourge or bullwhip
- Red-and-white kerchief
- Rigging knife
- as long knife
- Bag of caltrops
Binder
You are a weaver of swaddled folk. A respected figure in chiffonier circles. An artisan in the artful binding-up of raveled life; of flowing blood and cloth alike.
- Topic: Weaving 4
- Medicine 2
- Knots 2
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 2
- Topic: Couturier 3
- Topic: Chiffonier fashion 4
- Language: [common] 3
- 75 m clean cotton trappings strips
- 50 m soft leather trappings strips
- 25 m colored ribbon
- Long-bladed scissors
- as long knife
Blighted vanguard
You have found opportunity where many find despair and pariahdom. Your disease is an asset. Instead of fear and pity, you engender demand. Demand for your services as an unfeeling living shield.
- Melee: Shield & Slam 2
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 2
- Medicine 2
- Topic: Outcasts 4
- Topic: Aveth or Disease 3
- Language: [uncommon] 4
- Language: [common] 2
- Reinforced saloon door
- armor 5|4, cov. 3, 3#
- Thick leather shoulder pads
- armor 3|2 shoulders 1#
- 5 bandages
- Wooden rosary or candle
- Box of 20 matches
Body snatcher
You are a medical misappropriator. A thief of the honored dead for sale on the black market—or for your own dissection and harvest.
- Dissection 1
- Medicine 2
- Topic: Plague 3
- Topic: Black Market 3
- Melee: Crush & Strike 2
- Thrown 2
- Language: [common] 5
- Jar of chloroform
- Bottle of laudanum
- Whalebone cosh
- Thigh-high stocking w/ eyeholes
- Roll of 3 scalpels
- Bone saw
Boilermaker
You bring a bit of civilization wherever you go: A lit stove and a boiler of hot water. A beloved ally to venturesome types, for whom heat and comfort may otherwise be so far away.
- Topic: Metalworking 2
- Topic: Armory 2
- Matchsmithy 3
- Engineering 2
- Woodcutting 3
- Stowage 3
- Topic: Labor unions 4
- Topic: Steamships 4
- Language: [common] 2
- 8 tin cups
- Big cast iron skillet
- 2 units firewood
- Hatchet
- Armor patch kit, steel plate
- Blowtorch
- Pack stove or samovar
Caitiff
You’ve been this way all your life: Hated. A poltroon, a lily-liver and a backbiter. A cowardly dastard who’ll not only flee your side but take advantage in due time. You can’t help it—life is more terrifying than anyone seems to realize, only palatable when taken with the upper hand. It’s in your blood, though you’ll never know it: Ancient meddling has sown in your bloodline the makings of a perfect, despicable spymaster.
- Throw 2
- Cards 3
- Horsemanship 3
- Barbering 3
- Swimming 2
- Etiquette 2
- Knots 3
- Language: [common] 3
- Language: [common] 5
- Silk shirt or immodest lace vest
- Leather trousers or cream tennis shorts
- Riding boots or rubber plimsolls
- Intimate item that isn’t yours
- Warrant for your arrest
Cooper
You are a bender and a binder of stout housings. A tradesman converted by popular demand from a crafter of kegs and wine barrels to an outfitter of cutter’s casques and body-plates.
- Topic: Cooperage 3
- Topic: Woodworking 3
- Topic: Armorsmithy 3
- Topic: Metalworking 3
- Melee: Crush & Strike 2
- Topic: Tradesmen 3
- Language: [common] 4
- Wooden bucket
- Empty keg w/straps
- 12 steel spikes
Leather tool roll containing:
- Cooper’s hammer
- Draw knife
- Hand drill
Cutler
You are a worker in the lively art of blades—in the revitalizing pass of steel over stone and strop. In the perishing wake of live steel.
- Topic: Bladesmithy 4
- Topic: Weaponsmithing 1
- Topic: Metalworking 2
- Melee: Lunge & Jab 2
- Hack & Slash 2
- Language: [Common] 4
- Whetstone
- Leather strop
- Heavy file
- Leather apron
- Hunting knife or fine cleaver
Chimneysweep
You spent a life up and down flues. Bruised, abraded, burned, suffocated. Knees and spine and elbows tattooed by the shimmy. To outgrow the chimney-pipe places you precariously atop it, stooping to rope out the juniors and thrust the whaletooth brushes. Among the worst professions in a world, where the stacks stretch ever taller and acquire ever more soot.
- Throw 2
- Fishing 4
- Melee: Cast & Tangle 2
- Stowage 2
- Knots 2
- Topic: Underclass 4
- Language: [common] 2
- Soot flail (2#) or telescopic pole (2# ea)
- Chimneybrush (1#)
- Creosote trowel
- as knife
- 64 m cotton rope
- canvas jumpsuit
- 2|1 chest, back, arms, abdomen, legs
- 3 sacks of soot (1# ea)
Churchmouse
You are an ecclesial accessory; a traditional employee of parishes that do no labor upon the Sabbath, but gratefully employ those furry folk who can. For every church, there is a churchmouse, and where the church cannot go, the churchmouse goes instead.
- Bureaucracy 3
- Matchsmithy 3
- Etiquette 4
- Ceremonies 4
- Topic: Recent History 4
- Topic: Ecclesiarchy 4
- Topic: Aveth 4
- Language: [common] 4
- Language: Ancient Nor 2
- Silver chamberstick with candle snuffer
- Box of 20 matches
- Three red tapers
- Cassimere business suit
- White choir dress mantle
- Suede mouse sack
Disorderly
You are, or were, valet to some officer or commissioner. By whatever vagary, you have been separated, left aimless with half your gear and a pair of officer’s boots.
- Bureaucracy 2
- Entrenching 2
- Horsemanship 2
- Barbering 2
- Shoot: Pistol 2
- Melee: Hack & Slash 2
- Topic: Military 4
- Language: [common] 5
- Holstered pistolette, loaded
- Munitions spade
- Burgundy dress uniform w/ red piping or denim padded long coat
- Black jackboots or brown laced riding boots
- Leather saddlebag
- replaces starter backpack
- Bristle brushes
- Leather polish
- Shaving kit
Driftbrick
You’re a member of the Mason’s Guild, a coalition of itinerants who’ll put a quality brick in whatever wall, fireplace, or face the employer desires.
- Topic: Masonry 4
- Engineering 2
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 2
- Melee: Crush & Smash 2
- Topic: Masons Guild 2
- Language: [common] 2
- Language: [common] 2
- Brick
- Bricklaying trowel
- as knife
- Leather apron
- Leather chaps
- Two pairs woolen socks
- Soft hat
- Pewter Mason’s Guild ring
Exposist
You are a crime scene camerist. A exposer of photoplates and the lurid aftermath of lives. The tabloids have lost your loyalty, though: There are subjects more outré—more thrilling to exploit—within the deep of the ancient Coast and the borders of other worlds. Places where flashbulbs have not yet burned.
- Photogravure 3
- Chemistry 2
- Locksmithy 2
- Topic: Criminalistics 2
- Topic: Anatomy or Waste anthropology 2
- Topic: Organized crime or Topic: Folklore 2
- Language: [common] 2
- Language: [common] 4
- Spice 0100 Box Camera
- 12 prepared copperplates
- Camera flash lamp
- 12 Flashbulbs
- Pack of cigarettes
- Lockpick
- Lined black coat
- Camerist’s pouch
- +6 pocket space
Field barber
You are a cutter of scruff and a mender of the broken. A rare ally in dirty and painful times.
- Barbering 3
- Herbalism 3
- Medicine 2
- Surgery 2
- Melee: Hew & Thrust or Shoot: Longarm 2
- Lore: Military or Venturing 2
- Language: [common] 5
- Leather doctor’s bag
- Steel scissors
- Small steel mirror
- Steel comb
- Straight razor
- Shaving soap
- Shaving mug
- 3 bandages
- Soothing ointment
Fieldstone
You were found in a barleyfield, struck by a steam tiller. It damaged you considerably: A segment of your grieb is cleaved off, lost. It held most of your memories, sadly, a loss discovered upon your revival by a geologist—to whom the barleyman sold you. How you came to be buried in a field can never be answered. There are more urgent questions, anyway, like: “How shall I get on in human society?” And: “What kind of alcohol do they produce?”
- Melee: Hand-to-Handed 2
- Topic: Metallurgy, Throw,
or Topic: Engraving 2 - Topic: Bladesmithy,
Boating, or Topic: Jewelry 4 - Topic: Armorsmithy, Fishing, or Topic: Gemcutting 4
- Topic: Blacksmithy or Song 5
- Language: [common] 1
- Language: Stenghetn 5
- Tweed sack coat & trousers or baggy ensemble sewn from chintz curtains
- Canteen of strong barleywine (2u)
- Walking stick
- Smoking pipe
- Box of 20 matches
- Farmer’s almanac
- Handkerchief, plaid
Gunhawk
You are a hired pistoleer. A pair of flitting eyes and a palm quick on the draw bought to start violence before it can spring to other hands. A profession well-desired in the marchlands and frontiers, where speed and discretion make peace. And where coin, wet with gore and gun oil, makes right.
- Shoot: Pistols 3
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 3
- Gunsmithy 3
- Medicine 2
- Horsemanship 2
- Swimming 2
- Topic: Banks 2
- Language: [common] 4
- Pistolette
- Box of x12 120 gr fléchettes
- Shoulder harness or gunbelt
- Linen shirt
- Brown three-piece suit or checked serape and leather pants, or plum guncoat and slacks
- Pork pie hat, straw sombrero,
or waxed rain mantle
Harlequin
You are devilsome commedia star in the jeering mask: Capering, jesting, flirting with the soubrette, cartwheeling away from consequence. In the pantomine, much the same: Bicker with the Sad Clown, harry the grue-mimes with the slapstick, pratfall when kissed by the pretty young thing. Under the bigtop: Don the greasepaint smile, sell the balloons, defy the ringmaster, terrify and enrapture the children. None of that matters anymore, though. The troupe is gone, the money spent, the joke unwound. A fool remains.
- Acrobatics 3
- Song 3
- Throw 3
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 2
- Melee: Crush & Smash 2
- Play: [instrument] 2
- Language: [common] 3
- Language: [common] 3
- Black comedy mask or greasepaint palette
- Checked short jacket or silly conical hat
- Checked bodysuit, frilly clown blouse or colorful trappings
- Mandolin, mouth harp, harmonica, penny whistle, or cigar box guitar
- Slapstick, rubber gun, or juggling pins
Hellion
You are a human born cursed. Born of old blood; of Dark Age warriors who traded color and sensation for furious clarity in combat. Like them, your senses wake from numbness only with the roaring swell of pain.
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 2
- Melee: Maul & Split or Crush & Strike 2
- Butchery 2
- Woodcutting or Swim 2
- Throw or Cards 2
- Language: [common] 2
- Knuckle dusters
- Scuffed leather jacket
- Padded jacket
- 2|1 chest, back, upper arms
Idler
You are a twiddler of thumbs. A leaner and a smoker in doorframes and shaded corners. A listener and a thinker. Not an actor, but an observer. Not a layabout, but an incipient learner.
- Topic: [common] 4
- Topic: [common] 2
- Topic: [obscure] 2
- Language: [Two common] 3
- Pack of 12 Waxman’s cigarettes
- Box of 20 matches
- Flatcap or banker’s visor
- Spectacles or silk tie
- Pencil
- Notepad
Infected herbalist
You are a learned pariah. Driven into society’s outskirts by hate for your condition and by your roving search for ameliorating extracts and unknown panaceas. In the obscure and wild places of the world lies a cure. Or, at least, easement for your suffering.
- Medicine 4
- Herbalism 4
- Chemistry 2
- Dissection 2
- Peace 2
- Topic: Disease 4
- Language: [common] 5
- Bandolier of 12 specimen jars
- Sack of 12 ounces grisodate
- 10 bandages
- Swaddling of dirty bandages
- Thick footwraps
- replaces starting shoes
Intrepid child
You are a child of small stature and outsized ambition. Self-trained by storybooks in wooden swords, stick-bows, and ideations of high adventure.
- Melee: Hack & Slash 2
- Shoot: Bow 2
- Topic: Woodworking 2
- Melee: Guard & Bash 2
- Play: Whistle 2
- Swimming 2
- Language: [common] 4
- Wooden sword
- Hunting bow
- 5 arrows in fur quiver
- Tin whistle
- Bucket with eyeholes
- armor 5|3 skull, face 1#
- bark shield
- armor 5|3, coverage 2
Intruder
You are a duplicitous rogue. Possessed of fine limbs, nimble manners, and a predilection for intrusion within homes and minds.
- Etiquette 2
- Locksmithy 2
- Melee: Lunge & Jab 2
- Barbering 2
- Cards or Swim 2
- Knots or Penmanship 2
- Language: [common] 2
- Language: [common] 4
- Lockpick
- 64 yards rope
- Grapnel
- Colomine musk cologne
- Dusty suit and loafers or hooded leather jerkin and soft shoes
- Stiletto and forearm sheathe
Ironmonger
You are a roustabout from County Black, Firlund’s smog-choked heart of industry. You are industrious and superstitious, both. Raised on patriotism, toil, and the glory of the Industrial Enlightenment, and hyper-aware of the Other and its hate for all you work for and love.
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 2
- Melee: Crush & Smash 2
- Topic: Fairies 2
- Topic: Metalworking 4
- Topic: Firlund 4
- Topic: Heavy industry 4
- Language: Firlish 5
- Carpet bag or canvas haversack
- Monkey wrench or bolt cutters
- Slide rule
- Caliper
- Oiler
- Deerskin gloves
- Hard-soled work boots
- Engraved horseshoe
or small iron bell earring
Killed-in-action
You woke among the dead. Bloodied, forgotten, half-buried. Struck down by a mortal shot, yet still alive. To those you once knew, to your old life, you are dead. You know nothing of it; you are a new creature entirely. How you remain alive, you may never know.
- Shoot: Pistol 2
- Melee: Spear & Ward 2
- Medicine 2
- Swimming 2
- Entrenching 2
- Horsemanship 2
- Language [common] 4
- Rusted pistol gunspring
- 4 150 gr fléchettes
- Rusted foot sword
- Pickelhaube
- armor 4|3 skull
- Ruined woolen uniform
- Ruined black jackboots
- 2 wound stress
- 2 pain stress
- 5 distress (no XP)
Kriegsminister
You’ve tumbled from the top. One of a hundred or more heads sprouted and subsequently pruned by Lothrheim’s War Ministry in its struggles with Belvirine and her allied banks. You should have expected it—your strategies weren’t any better than the rest—but that’s no excuse to have thrown you down, so. Penniless, banished, stripped of your fraternal allegiances, disavowed by your peers. They’ve sent you to the bottom, where the desperados lie. How fitting it would be to become one of them; one of the caste your country so unwisely summoned war by banning: a cutter.
- Melee: Hack & Slash 2
- Shoot: Pistol or Horsemanship 2
- Topic: Recent history 6
- Topic: [common] 3
- Topic: [common] 4
- Etiquette 6
- Barbering 4
- Language: [common] 4
- Language: Emperoussin 5
- Language: Lothrsprech 6
- Rusted baskethilt or saber
- Double-breasted black dress uniform w/ red piping
- insignias torn off
- Empty pistol holster
- Soft leather parade gauntlets
- Tin of moustache wax or tube of lipstick
- Gold military academy class ring
- Steel comb
- Black jackboots
Lee urchin
You’re an awful young waif. A huddler in hollow logs and dark alleys. A pickpocket and a risker. Perhaps an orphan, perhaps a victim of society. Likely a criminal. Most definitely a scamp.
- Cards 2
- Matchsmithy 2
- Throw 2
- Swim 2
- Locksmithy or Trapping 2
- Topic: The Streets or Woods 2
- Language: [common] 3
- Raggedy set of knit clothes
- Soft sack hat
or Flatcap - Sorry shoes or a penny
- replaces starting shoes
- Small steel jaw trap, lockpick, or a lighter
- Two six-sided dice
- One cigarette
Log feller
You are a human of simple means and deliberate action. A woodcutter, a forestman; curiously adept at delving into forests, however gloomy and haunted.
- Woodcutting 3
- Matchsmithy 2
- Topic: Woodlands 3
- Melee: Maul & Split 2
- Swimming 2
- Trapping 2
- Language: Firlish 4
- Felling axe
- Hirsute coat
or buckskin jacket - Tree climbing spurs
- Large stick basket with straps
- replaces starting backpack
Lugger
You are a conveyor of burdens. A back grown broad and steady neath uncounted crushing loads. Perhaps a stevedore, a farmer, or a bearer of sacred oils. Now, a courier of whatever cargo graces your iron frame.
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 2
- Cards 2
- Song: 2
- Knots or Stowage 2
- Topic: [common] 3
- Language: [common] 2
- Language: [common] 4
- Lug straps
- Paisley or checkered bandana
- Container with straps: Wine crate, footlocker, or small chest of drawers
- replaces starting backpack; 4#, capacity 24
Linkend
Yours it is the most junior and dreaded job in the venturing economy: The linkend, or linker. A cutter of so little might or skill as to be relegated as forward lantern-bearer for stronger parties. Linkenden walk first in marching order, fulfilling a secondary, unspoken role: To trigger traps and bear the brunt of ambush. You are the first in danger. The first to perish. The last to be paid.
- Matchsmithy 2
- Throw 2
- Language: [common] 3
- Woolen pocketed vest
or short woolen cape - Box of 20 matches
- 3 tallow candles
- Candle lantern
Lurkabout
You are a lurker and an encroacher. A latent loiterer in dank hovels and dug-out hollows. Your goals and wants are rude, but distinct.
- Entrenching 3
- Cooking 2
- Matchsmithy 2
- Cards or Play [Instrument] 2
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand or Melee: Hack & Slash 1
- Topic: Alleyways or Topic: Marchlands 3
- Language: [common] 2
- 3 fat dubious sausages
- Rude wooden pipe
- Box of 20 matches
- Shovel
- Rotisserie spit or Cast iron skillet
Malpracticant
You are expelled. Top of your class, and so close to your residency. “Ongoing misconduct of a morally troubling nature,” claimed the Faculty Council. “Staggering criminal and ethical violations.” A unanimous vote for your ejection. No matter: They can’t destroy your thesis. Your work continues elsewhere: In the frontier, the dungeon, or the battlefield will you found your ersatz research hospital, and in cutters find your subjects.
- Medicine 4
- Dissection 4
- Surgery 4 or
Chemistry 4 - Topic: Anatomy or Topic: Pharmacology 4
- Topic: Biology 4
- Topic: Hospitals 4
- Topic: [uncommon] 3
- Language: Ancient Nor 4
- Language: [common] 5
- £300 debt with 1 bank
- black rubber surgical smock
+ black leather bag with:
- x2 standard medical kit
- 3 phenol
- 3 chloroform
- x6 suture needle
- x6 suture thread
- Field surgical kit
Manhunter
You know the thin distinction between a crazed killer and a civil contractor: One has their head on a poster, the other is you.
- Houndsmanship 2
- Horsemanship 2
- Throw 2
- Butchery or Matchsmithy 2
- Medicine or Knots 2
- Melee: Hack & Slash 2
- Topic: Bounty Hunting 4
- Language: [common] 4
- Sharpened steel grapnel
- Serrated hunting knife
- Munitions hatchet
- Leather jacket
- Rigid bar handcuffs
- Wanted poster for a nearby bounty head
Moonshiner
You are a merchant refugee. A brewer and a peddler of craft spirits fled from Belvirine, where such products are prohibited.
- Melee: Crush & Strike 1
- Chemistry 2
- Commerce 2
- Matchsmithy 2
- Topic: Metalworking 1
- Topic: Black market 3
- Language: [common] 4
- Copper pot-still with straps
- replaces starting backpack
- Small barrel with drain holes
- Copper tubing
- Clay jug with finger loop full of white spirits, 1#
- Lighter
- Cast iron ladle, long
- as crowbar
Morselieur
You are daring victualler. A hunter and a seeker of new foodstuffs, wherever they may hide.
- Butchery 3
- Dissection 3
- Cooking 3
- Topic: Meats 4
- Topic: Edible plants 4
- Language: [common] 4
- Gardening gloves
- Tweed flat cap or cloche hat
- Galoshes
Leather tool roll w/:
- Garden trowel
- Butcher knife
- Secateurs
- Cleaver
- Hunting knife
Parvenu
You were nouveau riche, briefly. Ascended on an updraft of money and fame to scintillate among the unmasked aristosphere. You attended the dinner parties, the charity balls, the ribbon-cuttings; the rollicking summer social season and its receptions, debutantes, regattas, and opening nights at the opera. The convivial winter of country houses, hunting parties, resort towns, and endless smoky nights nodding and arguing with the fervent heads of politics and industry. But not everyone likes an upstart. Soon enough, they found you out—you impostor—and cut you down.
- Etiquette or Barbering 3
- Penmanship or Locksmithy 3
- Horsemanship or Fishing 3
- Cards or Drive 3
- Swimming or Knots 3
- Melee: Lunge & Jab or
Shoot: Pistol 2 - Topic: City life 4
- Topic: Aristosphere 3
- Language: [common] 4
- Language: [common] 6
- Briefcase (replaces backpack)
- Bank account w/ £56 balance
- Brass fountain pen
- Checkbook
- Aristocrat’s silver mask
- Silver cigarette case
w/ 3 lockpicks - Brilliantine jacket, waistcoat,
and trousers - Patterned silk tie
- Oxblood loafers
- Slightly crushed hat
Pavisier
You’re a medieval scholar. A clever re-adopter of medieval tactics. In reality, you’re a would-be cutter with a torn-off door, a handful of smarts, and a penchant for hiding behind things.
- Melee: Guard & Bash 2
- Topic: Metalworking 2
- Topic: Woodworking 3
- Topic: Weaponsmithy 3
- Language: [Ancient Nor] 4
- Topic: Dark Ages 4
- Language: [common] 4
- half a door w/crampons on bottom
- armor 5|4, coverage 3, 3#
- Hunting crossbow
- 12 crossbow bolts in steel tube
- Smith’s hammer
Poacher
You are a hungry stalker. A hunter and a thief. Phrases like “private property” and “land use rights” are merely phrases—ones concocted by the wealthy, who are poorer woodsmen than you.
- Shoot: Bow 2
- Thrown or Topic: Monsters 1
- Topic: Law or Topic: Woods 3
- Topic: Trapping or Topic: Botany 2
- Language: [common] 4
- Longbow
- Quiver of 12 bodkin arrows
- Small leather pouch, with fringe
- Spriggan-tail cap
- Thick leather bracers
Pixie eater
You are a wretched pup. A catcher and a gobbler of anything small and slow enough to find itself in your grubby paws. Perhaps you have potential. Perhaps you will always be like this.
- Topic: Pixies 2
- Topic: Bugs 2
- Melee: Cast & Tangle 2
- Language: [common] 3
- Pixie net
- 3 glass jars containing random pixies
- Sack of crickets
- 2 porksnaps
Plumeau
Yours is a role deemed integral to Emperoussin high service: The dust-mouse, who charges the clocks, fluffs the pillows, and cleans the unreachable places. A servant often present, but rarely seen. A hearer of secrets, and a viewer of the strange and recherché pastimes of aristocrats.
- Etiquette 6
- Topic: Clockwork or Locksmithy 2
- Topic: Aristosphere 6
- Barbering 4
- Topic: [common]
- Language: Emperoussin 6
- Language: [common] 4
- Feather duster
- Valet or maid’s livery
- Black mouse socks
- Set of clock keys
Professicant
You are a traveling prognosticant. A lecturist who wanders, dispensing samples of a collected stock of knowledge. You forsake academia’s samey halls for varied schoolrooms in inns, village squares, and shaded lees. Perhaps you do so out of discontent, or perhaps your erudition is of a kind unfit for civilized lands.
- Instruction 2
- Topic: [common] 2
- Topic: [common] 2
- Topic: [obscure] 2
- Language: [common] 5
- Language: [common] 6
- Language: [ancient] 3
- Three random books from this list
- Book strap with buckle
- Ash walking stick
- Hat with tassel
- Smoking pipe
- Box of 20 matches
- An onyx pen
Patescrape
You are an unusual furrier. Your arts unappreciated by the civil and the human. For you, this is no concern. Such folk are less often patrons than hirsute hides waiting to be dressed.
- Shoot: Sling 2
- Butchery 2
- Topic: Woodworking 1
- Melee: Hack and Slash 2
- Language: [common] 3
- Leather sling +10 sling bullets
- Huge grinning wooden mask
- Hide roundshield
- armor 5|3, coverage 2, 1#
- Carving knife
- 10 loose matches
- Carved wooden pipe
- Half a rubber boot sole
Ravelling
You are a misbegotten colony. A pack of children unwanted and starving, united mind and body by tied tatters and empty bellies into a woeful, scuttling whole. Tangled into a symbiotic knot.
- Topic: Weaving 3
- Stowage or Knots 3
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 2
- Language: [common] 1
- Language: [common] 2
- 4 wooden spoons
When you “die,” one of your constituent raglings dies. You may eat it or cut it from the knot and eject it. When this happens, half your wounds and their corresponding Stress vanish and you gain 4 distress. If this happens thrice, gain a name, and become a lee urchin instead.
Refector
You are a priest of the Refective Order. A monk devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of the faithful. As the supper table is your temple, so too are comestibles your blessing.
- Cooking 3
- Ceremonies 4
- Topic: [common] 4
- Language: Firlish or Alagóran 4
- Language: Ancient Nor
- Butchery 3
- Silver hand washing basin
- 6 silver dinner knives
- Wooden rosary
- Wicker backpack
- Large rotisserie spit
- Cleaver with sheath
Revenant delver
You live again—despite a fatal false start to your venturing career. Robbed of your health, your memory, and your first life, you have one boon to your name: A second chance at the dungeon wherein you met your end.
- Melee: Crush & Smash 2
- Topic: Tombs 3
- Language: [common] 5
- Fin maille blouse
- armor 4|3 torso, back, shoulders, arms, 2#
- Shovel
- Wooden box compass
- 1 random item from this list
- 2 random severe wounds healed to 2 stiches
- 5 Distress (no XP)
- Location of a nearby dungeon
Alternatively, start with the wounds, belongings, and 3 skills from a recently dead companion.
Soaplicker
You are a rogue from the port-cities of Maples. On the brickwalks and canal-streets, you learned the dance of the liccasapone: The soap-knife so well known for anointing duelists with arcing, saponated scars. With a fist of rope and a long blade, you will bestow many more.
- Melee: Lunge & Jab 3
- Knots 2
- Cards 2
- Fishing 2
- Boating 2
- Language: Mapolitan 6
- Language: [common] 2
- Mapolitan soap knife
- as long knife
- 4 yards of cotton rope
- Bar of soap
- Numerous white scars on your hands, arms, face, and chest
Slubberdegullion
You are a limbic thrall. Driven by the cost and meager variety of common narcotics to the edge of society, to reprobate lengths and derelict places. To the Desperado’s life, which you lead in violent, feverish lurches between pharmacological oblivions.
- Melee: Hand-to-Hand 2
- Throw or Melee: Guard & Bash 1
- Cards or Song 2
- Bureaucracy or Herbalism 2
- Barbering or Topic: Adventure capital 4
- Topic: Fournisseurs Guild or Topic: [philosophy] 3
- Language: [Common] 4
- Poorly brown suit jacket lined w/ padding and matching trousers or sweat-stained padded soft leather vest and culottes
- Half magnum of port wine
- Pack of 3 cigarettes
Stew captain
Yours is a role ancient and integral to martial tradition. No company nor mercenary band is complete without such a culinary quartermaster. A keeper, preparer, and distributor of the stewpot’s precious contents.
- Cooking 3
- Butchery, Gunsmithy, or Bladesmithy 1
- Matchsmithy or Bureaucracy 1
- Shoot: Longarm or Melee: Hew & Thrust 2
- Topic: Military or Topic: Adventure Capital 4
- Language: [common] 5
- Round-belly copper pot, large, with straps & locking lid
- Woolen uniform coat (military or bank)
- 6 wooden spoons & 6 wooden bowls
- Battered black jackboots
- Sidesword w/ scabbard
or Single-shot breech action leverette w/ 8 fléchettes
Teamster
You are a driver and a packer. A maker of mobile order, capable of turning the heavy chaos of packages, cargo, beasts, and men into a convoy lashed and bound for profitable ports and expeditious aims.
- Driving 4
- Horsemanship 3
- Stowage 4
- Knots 2
- Throw 2
- Melee: Snap & Lash 2
- Topic: Commerce 4
- Topic: Geography 4
- Language [common] 3
- Lug straps
- Bullwhip or Stockwhip
- Fat boot knife
- as long knife
- Leather lariat
- Ranch hat or Sombrero or Papakha hat
Trespasser
You are crosser of forbidden thresholds. A tomb cracker inspired not so much by burgled gold, but by a perverse urge to trespass ancient seals and immured grounds.
- Locksmithy 3
- Melee: Crush & Strike 2
- Entrenching, Swimming, or Explosives 2
- Topic: [1 ancient culture] 3
- Topic: Dark Ages or Topic: Tombs 2
- Language: [Common] 5
- Language: [Ancient] 4
- Crowbar, 60 cm
- Lockpick
- Heavy woolen cape
or One item from this list - Blowtorch
- Can of kerosene
Trycook
Your calling is to fry. To fuel the cutters, soldiers, lumberjacks, and sailors of the world. Pancakes, eggs, fatted prunes, potatoes and hash; slung from greased griddles and burbling pans of fat: Oil for the mechanism of the working body.
- Butchery 2
- Cooking 4
- Fishing 2
- Matchsmithy 2
- Melee: Unarmed 2
- Language: [common] 4
- Flat-spined cleaver
- Flensing knife
- as long knife
- Small cast iron griddle, round
- Sack of 12 potatoes
- Box of 20 matches
- Jar of 20 pinches salt
Tune carrier
You are a martial musician. Bearer and employer of the stately fanfares, cadences, and energetic marches by which fighting folk are spurred to purposeful action. By pipe, fife, or beating drum, you stir the heart to war.
- Play: [instrument] 2
- Melee: Hack & Slash or Hew & Thrust 1
- Topic: Military or Topic: Cutters 2
- Language: [common] 4
- Set of bagpipes, snare drum,
or bugle - Army uniform (wool or denim)
or short pleated coat and knickerbockers - Munitions hatchet
- Soft hat with feather
or garrison cap
Unclaimed cargo
You were packed away. First, the farewells; the hurried straw dunnage; the crack of box nails in pine; the bump and cursing of the stevedores; the long days swaying at sea. Then the jerk of the quay crane; the heat of the dockside impound; the bickering of the customs officers; the long dark of the warehouse; the weeks of silence save for rats gnawing without. Weeks at once torpid and nervous. Eager and terrified. Who finally freed you? It wasn’t “T.S. Esperanza,” at any rate, his printed name overwritten by a damning red stamp: unclaimed cargo.
- Language: [common] 3
- 3 Distress
Venturesome priest
You are on a woeful errand. Descended from the holy crags of Mount Rubitus to aid cutters in their goals. Though rude and mostly faithless, their task—to drive out the wild, the Otherly, and the devilsome—is supremely righteous. You’ll join in their ventures, however bloody they be.
- Melee: Spear & Ward 2
- Ceremonies 3
- Medicine 1
- Language: Firlish 3
- Language: Ancient Nor 4
- Language: Alagóran 5
- Stellate hasta polearm head
- as pike head
- Large steelbound Writ of Aveth w/ straps
- Armor 7|5 chest
- Silver devotional flask of holy water
- as canteen
- Wooden rosary with silver hastella
Wickie
You are a nurturer of light. A lighthouse keeper, current or erstwhile. Trimmer of wicks, winder of springs, polisher of lenses. One of a rare, isolated folk. A lonely caste who find solace in light and in toil, lest the turning of gears and the hiss of lamps fade and admit the mad roar of the sea—or the cries of shipwrecked men.
- Matchsmithy 2
- Topic: Clockwork 2
- Melee: Crush & Strike 2
- Topic: Metalworking or Topic: Seas 2
- Language [common] 4
- Long oilcloth coat
- Navy hat or long wooden pipe
- Length of heavy wick
- Box of 20 matches
- Oil lamp
Woe friar
You are a monk of the Sepultural Order. A roaming agent sent to roam the cold and infidel North and ensure holy burial of the honored dead. Your task: Inter human beings. Spare however many you may from a heathen pyre. Bring them to Paradise.
- Peace 2
- Medicine or Cooking 1
- Ceremonies 3
- Language [common] 5
- Language: Ancient Nor 4
- Black habit with white rope belt
- Spade
- Pouch of 4 oz Grisodate
- Wooden rosary
Sort Qualifications
| qualifier | norm 1 | norm 2 | norm 3 | Mutant | Uncommon | unusual | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agility or Fortitude |
Trycook | Professicant | Parvenu | |||
| 2 | Agility or Might |
Binder | Morselieur | ||||
| 3 | Agility or Intellect |
Manhunter | Teamster | ||||
| 4 | Agility or Subtlety |
Lugger | Woe Friar | Boilermaker | |||
| 5 | Agility or Immunity |
Body Snatcher | Ironmonger | ||||
| 6 | Agility or Perception |
Blighted Vanguard | Refector | Unclaimed Cargo | |||
| 7 | Fortitude or Might |
Idler | Cutler | Plumeau | Lee Urchin | Malpracticant | |
| 8 | Fortitude or Intellect |
Lurkabout | Intruder | Caitiff | |||
| 9 | Fortitude or Subtlety |
Wickie | |||||
| 10 | Fortitude or Immunity |
Infected Herbalist | Tune Carrier | Killed-in-action | Linkend | ||
| 11 | Fortitude or Perception |
Trespasser | |||||
| 12 | Might or Intellect |
Poacher | Gunhawk | Pixie Eater | |||
| 13 | Might or Subtlety |
Venturesome Priest | Harlequin | Kriegsminister | |||
| 14 | Might or Immunity |
Churchmouse | Field Barber | Ravelling | |||
| 15 | Might or Perception |
Soaplicker | |||||
| 16 | Intellect or Subtlety |
Log feller | Bighter | ||||
| 17 | Intellect or Immunity |
Patescrape | Exposist | Intrepid Child | Fieldstone | ||
| 18 | Intellect or Perception |
Driftbrick | Slubberdegullion | Hellion | |||
| 19 | Subtlety or Immunity |
Stew Captain | Chimneysweep | Revenant Delver | |||
| 20 | Subtlety or Perception |
Disorderly | Pavisier | ||||
| 21 | Immunity or Perception |
Cooper | Moonshiner |