Fire

Fire rules the creative spirit and the works of the hand. Fire harnesses the raw fuel of cultivation to forge powerful works. The strongest cultivators of Fire know the value of craft!

Blessing: Preparation

At dawn of each day, you gain C+1 Preparation. You may use Preparation to announce that an event was foreseen and an eventuality prepared.

You may invoke your preparations on your turn, an ally’s turn, or in response to an incoming enemy effect (before the Challenge roll).

Preparations

Reuse

Cost: 1
Effect: You may use any consumable environmental effect this round without depleting its use; it remains available for others

Consumable Barrier

Ah, you see, I placed this table here knowing you would attack me with that spoon!

Cost: 1
Effect: You or one ally in this scene may use a Consumable Barrier of your Circle

Zoomer’s Brew

The madman who sold me this bid me farewell with ‘fr fr no cap’. Lunatic!

Cost: 1
Effect: You or your ally doubles your Speed for your next Move
- If you have already expended Speed on this turn, only double the remaining Speed at the time of the drink

Preplanted Object

Cost: 2
Effect: Declare any object that you could reasonably have on your possession. Then reveal it for immediate use.
- You should have a story on how you arrived at the object or knew to bring it along
- Good types of items: Weapons, tools, clothes, scrolls, food, maps, tents, spare bedding, etc
- The storyteller has final say on what counts as reasonable

Explosive Charm

Blowing stuff up is easy. Finding appreciation for such arts harder.

Cost: 2
Effect: Make a ranged AOE attack against this or an Adjacent Zone
- Damage: C-1

Invigorating Tonic

Drink this

Cost: 2
Effect: You or one ally in this scene may chug a condensed tonic. Then choose:
- Boost 3 separate elements once
- Boost 1 element twice

Condensed Caffienation

The heart palpatations are normal

Cost: 2
Effect: You or one ally chugs a questionable coffee and gains Cd4 Aura
- Each ally may only benefit from this effect once per scene. Doctor’s orders.

Elemental brew

If it doesn’t kill you, it’ll make you stronger

Cost: 3
Effect: You or one ally regains zero or more Charge across all elements, up to maximum C
- For each Charge gained, suffer 1 damage

Xanatos’ Draw

Your every move was seen in advance

Cost: 3
Effect: You or one ally may substitute element of one Challenge
- Pick the element you would like to roll
- Pick the element you would like to target
- Bonuses and Penalties both apply to your chosen element as usual
- Measure Result against Defense as usual; damage and effects apply to the target element

Professions

Meditations of Steel

Metal sense

You sense the presence of metal within your current zone; this includes both natural and worked forms
Your sense refines with growth
- C2: All forms of worked metal larger than your thumb
- C3: Any form of worked metal larger than a grain of rice; tiny beads of metal yet to blossom in an orchard; chunks of metal suspended into other objects
- C4: All metal, with a minimum size of a grain of rice
Automatically Challenge Fire against their Stealth for any foe carrying metal into your current zone

Field repair

You may make crafting repairs as though you had a full workshop available, no matter where you travel
You still must have any raw materials such as reagents

Forge-hardened

Gain C armor against non-elemental Fire effects; smoke; and acid
Your hardened hands resist metalbleed; apply your natural regeneration against the Severity of the condition, even without treatment

You may now assume the position of Weaponsmith in a Hearth

This benefit persists into retirement

Exquisite keenness. I know this bite. Metalrending and Balanced!

You automatically identify all Weapon Cores involved in any weapon that deals damage to you.

You may voluntarily deal 1 Damage to yourself with any weapon you currently hold to gain this benefit

Balance of Steel

You may Deconstruct a crafted weapon to salvage its Weapon Cores
When you Deconstruct, choose one Weapon Core to store in a small crystal shard
You may apply this Weapon Core to your or an ally’s weaponry with a touch and one Action
- Choose one existing Weapon Core to displace; removed Weapon Cores are lost

Meditations of Silk

Well, yes, we should go into battle protected…but there’s no reason we can’t look good doing it!

I would happily pay full price if you delivered the full product! Do you think I missed the abyssmal stitching on these?

When you stake Reputation, you may add Drive instead of Charm to your final Result

Treat Disasters of Reputation as failures.

When another challenges you to a Reputation duel, you may decree that your foe must also use Fire

The foe may either back down, suffering no penalty or Break for it, or match you in a duel of craftsmanship!

Field repair

You may make crafting repairs as though you had a full workshop available, no matter where you travel
You still must have any raw materials such as reagents

You gain a new Preparation option: Dress for Success
Cost 2
Effect: You hurriedly change clothes to match your situation at hand. Choose one of:
- You gain +2 to either Insight, Charm, Prowess for the rest of this Scene
- You produce a tool of your Circle or less that exactly matches a specific need. This tool grants a Bonus Ki to whoever uses it for the rest of this Scene; you may freely pass around with your allies

You may now assume the position of Artisan in a Hearth

This benefit persists into retirement

Ah, is that Lamian spider-silk weave? Let me feel it!

You may identify all Armor Cores in a piece of equipment with a touch and an Action

No Challenge required
You may do this to any Adjacent character; personal space much?!

Balance of Silk

You may Deconstruct a crafted piece of equipment to salvage its Cores
When you Deconstruct, choose one Weapon Core to store in a small crystal shard
You may apply this Weapon Core to your or an ally’s weaponry with a touch and one Action
- Choose one existing Weapon Core to displace; removed Weapon Cores are lost

Bedazzling Savant

Oh, these? Just a few trinkets I’ve picked up

Flashing the goods

You may choose to use Fire for any social Challenge related to status, wealth, flirting, and socializing

You may spend Crystal Cores for temporary benefits.

Spend your Action and grant the appropriate bonus to an ally within Drive meters, ignoring line of sight
The following Cores grant a Boost to a matching element: AirWater, WaterEarth, EarthFire, AirFire, AirEarth, WaterFire
The following Cores grant 2 Boost to a matching element: Light + any, Dark + any
The following Cores grant 3 Boosts to a single element: Air, Water, Earth, Fire

Balanced Flow

Gain a free-floating Chakra slot

You may assign this Chakra to any element you have access to; you may change this at dawn of every day
This Chakra suffers any effects related to that element (such as being Restrained)
- However, you may freely move the Chakra to a different element on the next day to escape the Restraint penalty
The Chakra may only equip effects that use the matching element

Discerning Assessment

Hmm. The aetheric balance is sublime…

You automatically learn the recipe for any cultivated item that you can inspect by hand for one minute
- At C3: 1d6 rounds
- At C4: 1 round

Clever Repurposing

When you craft non-weapon items, you may adjust their appearance to appear wildly different than their intended purpose
- Examples: Hardened armor that appears to be silken robes; Essence grenades that appear to be apples
Each item gains a Stealth score equal to 1.5 * your Fire standard value; foes Challenge this Stealth score to detect the anomaly
- This Stealth score does not degrade
- However, using the items for their hidden purpose automatically reveals the item’s true nature to observers

Crystal Efficiency

For each crystal core you use in your crafting, roll 1d10. On a result of 8, 9, or 10, do not consume the crystal core.

Destructive Growth

You may now destroy Crystal Cores to fuel your Hearth
You may spend one minute and destroy a pure Crystal Cores (Air, Water, Earth, Fire) to choose an effect from below:
- Boost Harmony in a region for 24 hours (does not stack)
- Send a surge of healing energy through a fouled ley line. Challenge Fire against the foe that fouled the ley line; on a success, the ley line goes dormant to heal. On a flourish, the ley line returns to normal with full power
- Force open a Gate of the matching element
- Explode as an Essence Grenade with range Drive, radius C, and damage C+1

Alchemist

I’ve got something for that

Hideous concoction

You may spend 1 Fire charge to generate a hideous gas bomb
C meters wide with range of Drive
The gas bomb imposes a Penalty 10 against all within the cloud if they Challenge before the beginning of your next turn
The bomb naturally dissipates, removing the penalty, at the start of your next turn

You gain an alchemical Kit, a grab bag of sundries suitable for any occasion.

You may add your Preparation to the Kit, increasing its Strength by 1 each time
Maximum Strength:
- C2: 8
- C3: 10
- C4: 12

You may Challenge any concrete element with your Kit (including your Bane)

Instead of rolling your Result, the value is always your Circle * current Strength + Drive
After the Challenge, roll Cd4 and reduce the Kit’s Strength by that amount
The Kit may not be used once it hits Durability 0; you will need to devote more Preparation to it

When you are reduced to zero Aura and suffer a Wound, also reduce the strength of your Kit by 1d4

Persistent Acid

You learn how to brew an incredibly potent, if slow, acid mixture
This mixture can melt any non-cultivated, non-metal objects given time
You may spend an Action to apply the acid to a surface; that surface then takes 1 automatic damage per round until it melts
- Multiple applications can melt holes straight through walls and even carve tunnels!
The acid raises a noxious green smoke that causes a Penalty die to Stealth
The acid must remain undisturbed to work; it can be neutralized by simply washing the surface

For Deconstruction, treat the usage of this acid as:

Automatic success on any items of your Circle
Automatic Flourish on items of a lower Circle

Your Preparation per day increases to 2C + 1

Poison Immunity

Hmm, tastes like hemlock

You become immune to damage by poisons
You automatically identify any poison that you taste, no matter how well hidden
This includes leaf poisons

P5 – Precision alchemy

You may precisely shape your AOE effects, excluding up to Drive targets (either friend or foe) from any AOE you cause

Kenja no ishi

Mastering the arts of alchemy, you may now transmute all forms of lesser matter with a touch

You may convert up to one cubic meter per day of any non-cultivated material into any other non-cultivated material
You may convert mystical reagents of a lesser Circle into each other
- You must have previous experience with all involved reagents, both source and target
Before you ask, Shou Tucker, this does not work on living matter

Weaver

What are you talking about, sir? I am a humble tailor!

Simple tailor

You gain a Disguise of a simple profession of your choice
Unlike normal Disguises, this Disguise requires investigators to succeed at investigation challenges C times to break
You may change to a new Disguise with a Downtime, resetting any investigations
Foes may choose to target your Disguise while you are at 0 Aura, degrading the Disguise by 1 each time, instead of dealing a Wound

Never mind us. We’re just discussing sewing techniques.

Invisible threads – Spend a Fire Charge to generate an invisible thread of length Drive meters between any two points you can see.

All other characters must Challenge Fire to pass through the thread.
If the other character fails their challenge, choose one effect from below:
- Sense: You automatically detect the character’s exact position
- Cut: They take C damage
- Hinder: The character’s movement ends; their Speed is reduced to 0
- Bind: You Restrain one concrete element of your choice on the foe; the thread is consumed
You may choose different effects for each Challenge

Little bit of thread goes a long way

Trapsense

You may trigger traps, either yours or enemies, from Drive meters away, respecting line of sight
You must be aware of the trap to trigger it
This requires either 1 Action (on your turn) or 1 Fire Charge (anytime)

Bloodthirsty needle

You gain Pierce C at all times

Perfected Trapsense

When any trap triggers in the same scene as you, you may exclude yourself and up to C allies within Drive meters from its effect

The weave of memory

You naturally fade from the memory of all you meet within 1d10 days, unless you choose to exempt the target
Foes of your Circle may challenge your Fire to recognize you; foes of lesser Circle have no recourse

Fire Arts

These Arts are exclusive to the Grace of Fire

Merchant’s Code

Boon
Requires: None
Effect: Automatically Succeed on Challenges to locate the shop of most cultivators of your Circle or lower
- Excludes: Foes or actively hostile cultivators