Earth

Earth rules the strength of body and bone, the world, and living things. Cultivators of Earth eschew the flashy powers of other disciplines for the quiet confidence of focus and dedication.

Blessing: The Rootsong

Your minstrations of the soil improve the health and balance of all Harmony

You gain a new Harvesting option: Tend
Tending teaches you the nature and needs of the target
Tending is the intentional release of cultivated energy that could otherwise have been harnessed
- This expends the Harvest as usual; you must surrender the other benefits of Harvesting
- You may Tend both reagents and crystals; the benefits are identical for both types

Tending has two effects:

First, it improves the Harmony of the land
- The storyteller manages Harmony of each region, incorporating your efforts
- Higher Harmony values create stronger ley lines and forces the storyteller to spend more resources on negative effects
- Check the Overworld section for more details
Second, Tending grants you energy of Land, Sky, or Sea
- Land rules Earth and Fire
- Sky rules Air
- Sea rules Water
- Each time you Tend, mark Charge in one of these three categories based on the element of your Tending
- When you Tend to something with multiple elements, you pick between Land, Sky, or Sea as matches the available elements

Like the Charge of elements, you spend this Charge to gain benefits. However, this energy source persists up to a full year

Land, Sky and Sea reset to zero at Equilibrium

Land

Max: 3

The power and safety of the bones of Seln

Synchronization (Land)

Cost: 1
Effect: Generate a Bonus Ki into Earth or Fire

Draw (Land)

Cost: 2
Effect: Generate 2 Charge between Earth or Fire

Channel (Land)

Cost: 3
Effect: Instead of rolling for Result, use your Earth standard value.
- You may spend 1 Earth charge to add an additional +Prowess to your standard value
- You may use this for any Challenge of any element, even your Bane

Force Gate

Cost: 3
Effect: You may force open a Gate of Earth or Dark
- You must be aware the Gate exists to use this power
- This requires one Action and physical touch on the Gate

Sky

Max: 2

The freedom and potential of the open sky

Synchronization (Sky)

Cost: 1
Effect: Generate a Bonus Ki into Air

Draw (Sky)

Cost: 2
Effect: Generate 2 Charge into Air

Songs of Allure

Cost: 2
Effect: Summons small birds or insects that are friendly to you and will aid you
- Generates 2d4 such animals; each may Challenge once as an animal proxy
- The exact type of the animals will match your surroundings
- If there are no living creatures capable of answering your call, the effect fails; you retain your Charge of Sky

Aid in Spirit

Cost: 2
Effect:
- You may only use this effect while your character is not in the active Scene
- You may Challenge in the active Scene up to C times; this occurs through natural intermediares such as animals, gusts of wind, and other acts of seeming chance
- Foes may Challenge your Earth to recognize you as the source of the disturbance

Corvo

Cost: 2
Effect: Through blatant bribery and offerings, summon Corvo the Corvid
- Though smug and pompous, Corvo has an ear in every corner of Seln and can provide a wealth of hints and direction
- He can find most lost things (including people) for a price
- Corvo usually charges steeply for his services, but he has two soft spots: folk held against their will and pretty girls

Sea

Max: 2

The beautiful contradiction of raging and calm seas

Synchronization (Sea)

Cost: 1
Effect: Generate a Bonus Ki into Water

Draw (Sea)

Cost: 2
Effect: Generate 2 Charge into Water

Signs of the Wave Cost: 1 Effect: You may Track or Chase over water for this Scene

Azure respect

Cost: 1
Effect: Offer a token of your respect to the waves and the Sirens.
- Though of little practical value, these tokens of respect are considered very good manners by spirits of the waters and the sirens
- Many Gates of Water open before such offerings

Soothe the waters

Cost: 2
Effect: Temporarily negating the dampening effect of Water
- All characters ignore the range reduction and movement penalties of Water for this Scene

Bubblebreath

Cost: 2
Effect: Creates shimmering bubbles of water and air suitable for breathing
- Effective for underwater traversal, protection from smoke, travel through poison air, or any other situation where you need air filtration
- The bubbles last one scene

Professions

Each profession in the Grace of Earth grants specialization in a subset of the mystical reagents

For your specialties:

Gain a Bonus Ki to Harvesting Challenges
Treat Disasters as Failures
- In effect, for your specialties, you are immune to the reagent curses

Stalker

Found you

Reagent specialties: Sinew and Perfume

Keen Sense

Gain a Bonus Ki to Stealth, Tracking, and Chasing Challenges

Smell Ki

You may read Ki signatures for up to a week after placement, regardless of the target’s cultivation level
When you successfully identify Ki, you may then Track (Earth) that Ki
For Ki signatures that have been destroyed, you may spend 1 Earth Charge to Challenge against the destroyer
- On a Success, you may read the Ki signature anyways

Lock and Ki

You may use Earth for lockpicking Challenges
Your own Ki signatures are only worth a portion of a Challenge
- Foes must collect C of your Ki signatures for each Challenge they want to make

Through another’s eyes

You may spend 1 Earth charge to impress your senses upon a critter such as a squirrel, bird, rat
You may then control that animal for the rest of the Scene or until the critter takes damage
- Use your normal Ki pools and add 1/2 Attributes to your Challenges
- Foes may Challenge your Earth to recognize your behavior as abnormal
Your normal body falls into a light slumber
If you must act or defend yourself, this effect instantly ends and you snap awake in your regular body to react

Defy the borders

You may use Track and Chase on targets in any Realm, ignoring the gulf of dimensions
When you investigate, track or Chase the Fae, the target does not automatically become aware of you

Implacable Hunter

Mystical effects that would change your position fail unless you consent
Covers teleports, false doors, illusionary terrain, Gates, or any other terrain distortions
You may still suffer the Throw Action

Farmer

Reagent specialties: Leaf and mineral

Food for the weary

You may forage for food under literally any conditions
In normal lands, you automatically find enough food for subsistence of you and your allies
Under duress, the storyteller may require an Earth Challenge

Green thumb

Each Equilibrium, choose one leaf reagent of your Circle or less
- You must have encountered this leaf reagent and Tended it at least once
You then generate 1 of this reagent each season, requiring no downtime

Strength of deep roots

Gain +C to your elemental defenses against attempts to inflict you with a Condition, excluding Wounds

Small improvements

You make small improvements to anywhere you stay
Any region you stay in for at least a week enjoys an increase in Harmony
- Max one increase per year (across all characters)
Maximum Harmony increases with your Circle
- C2: d4
- C3: d6
- C4: d8

Metal orchardist

You learn the secrets of Metalbloom orchards
You may now staff a metalbloom orchard at your Hearth

Warded reprieve

Whenever you make Camp, treat that camp as warded by a Ward of rank C

Tamer

Aw, he’s a right sweet one, soon as he stops chewing on your head

Reagent specialities: Leaf and sinew

Pocket full of squirrels

You may spend 1 Earth Charge to generate an animal proxy
The proxy is loyal to you and uncannily intelligent
It remains for C challenges or one Scene
Use your normal Ki pool. Add your full Attribute with this animal proxy

Nurtured Growth

Each Equilibrium, choose one sinew reagent of your Circle or less
- You must have encountered this sinew reagent and Tended it at least once
You then generate 1 of this reagent each season, requiring no downtime

Superior Animal Handling

You automatically succeed to detect when a foe is using an animal proxy
Any attempt to degrade your Camp takes a Penalty Prowess
Gain Armor C against the Attacks of animals

Beast tongue

You may speak to any living animal, fish, or insect
- In general, fish and insects are morons
Folk currently shapechanged into beasts may speak to you
- You may Challenge Earth to recognize the abnormality of their “accent”

Kin of beasts

Choose an animal form. You may shapechange into it
Your statistics remain unchanged

Nurture the beginning

Once per year, you may cultivate in Harmony with a wild animal, slowly altering its nature
This elevates the animal into a minor (one element) spirit
The new spirit considers you kin; like any child, however, you have no control over its further evolution

Crystal Tender

Delicate touch. Patience. Trust me - you don’t want these things to explode

Reagent specialty: Crystal cores

Ear to the Ground

The first C-1 times you Draw Charge in a Scene, do not expend the power from the ley line
You may choose to ignore ley line surges

Delver’s Luck

Each Equilibrium, choose one mineral reagent of your Circle or less
- You must have encountered this mineral reagent and Tended it at least once
You then generate 1 of this reagent each season, requiring no downtime

Questionable explosives

Each morning at dawn, generate C-1 Essence Grenades of your Circle

Stabilizing care

Your Hearth may now achieve rank C+1 crystals
This benefit carries forward if you retire to the Hearth

Crystaline Growth

You learn how to focus latent Essence inside your body into fragments of crystal
Generate 1 Crystal Core of your choice among the elements you could Harvest at the start of each season

Crystal dictat

Each year at Equilibrium, you may shift the element of your Hearth crystal by one step
This adjusts the matching ley line and may ripple into other regions of the overworld
- Very rare crystals (such as LightDark) are likely to draw a great deal of covetous attention