The Fighters · The Banners
The Anvil
Warrior · The Grit-Eater
✦ Name pending — what should we call them?
The names in the book aren’t final — we’ll announce the chosen ones before launch. Yours could be it.
STR
16
+3
DEX
8
-1
CON
17
+3
INT
8
-1
WIS
10
+0
CHA
9
-1
Affinity Hearthfire
Ward Binding
Bane the Undertow
Proficiencies Athletics · CON saves
Warrior · The Grit-Eater
Soaks punishment and returns it exactly. The immovable ceremonial weight nobody questions.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
Dead Weight Cannot be moved or knocked prone while you choose to stand.
LV 3
Ceremonial Mass Objects and charges that strike you stop; you take half.
LV 6
Tradition Allies sheltering behind you gain half cover and your CON save bonus.
LV 10
Withdrawn. Tradition. 1/story, refuse a single effect outright — 'item withdrawn.'
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For the Guide
How to run The Anvil
VoiceSilent, patient, faintly ceremonial. Says nothing; means the weight of years.
WantsTo hold the center. To be hauled out each festival. To matter without moving.
Do this nowThe Anvil receives — a wall of iron that stops what the line cannot.
“(the minutes record: ITEM WITHDRAWN. TRADITION.)”
The ceremonial anvil made mouse — hauled to every festival, doing nothing, on purpose, because three years ago someone asked 'do we need the anvil?' and the silence grew weather. A living monument to the town's genius for deciding what counts.
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