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The Blood Price
Mage · The Blood-Cursed
✦ 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
13
+1
DEX
11
+0
CON
15
+2
INT
16
+3
WIS
10
+0
CHA
9
-1
Affinity Unmaking
Ward Binding
Bane Vigil
Proficiencies Arcana · Intimidation · History · CON saves
Mage · The Blood-Cursed
Wields an ancient blood-magic older than the wall — and it is eating him. Every spell spreads the corruption further across his flesh.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
The Old Blood Cast by spending your own vitality; the magic answers, and takes a little more of you each time.
LV 3
Spreading Scale The corruption advances — gain resistance to harm where the scale has claimed you, and lose the use of that limb by degrees.
LV 6
Draconic Draw Channel the thing growing in your blood: a strike or blast of corrupted force that cannot be warded by ordinary means.
LV 10
What the Price Buys 1/story, spend a permanent piece of yourself for a spell that cannot fail — and the scale takes another inch, forever.
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For the Guide
How to run The Blood Price
VoiceLow, strained, two voices under one — the mouse, and the thing rewriting him.
WantsTo pay the blood-price and stay himself one more spell. To master the corruption. To not become it.
Do this nowThe Blood Price casts — ancient blood-magic that answers, and costs a piece of the caster it will not give back.
“(the scale reached his cheek this season; he has stopped counting how far)”
Half his face and arm are no longer his — chitin, scale, a violet eye that was never his own, the mark of an ancient corrupted blood-magic that predates the wall and is slowly, patiently, rewriting him into its vessel. Canon still open; promoted here to the Blood-Cursed. Every casting buys power and pays in flesh, and the ledger only runs one way.
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