The Wizards · The Traditions
The Fine Print
Mage · The Whispering Index
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STR
8
-1
DEX
11
+0
CON
12
+1
INT
18
+4
WIS
15
+2
CHA
10
+0
Affinity Binding
Ward the Undertow
Bane the Cold Between
Proficiencies Reading · Investigation · History · Insight · Keeping
Mage · The Whispering Index
Keeps a grimoire that talks back — trades knowledge with the living book for readings no one should have.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
Read Everything Automatically find the operative clause, the misprint, the trick in any text.
LV 3
Notarize Certify a record: it cannot be mundanely altered, and edits against it are detectable.
LV 6
Mirror-Read Decode any notation meant to be read from the other side — the world's own marks included.
LV 10
Enter Into Evidence 1/story, make one hidden truth irrevocably public and un-smoothable.
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For the Guide
How to run The Fine Print
VoicePrecise, pedantic, secretly tender. Files things. Sues clouds.
WantsTo read the whole document. To make the record true, not just perfect. To finish the sentence the world started.
Do this nowThe Fine Print reads it — catches the detail everyone missed, the contradiction, the trick in the wording, the thing that's upside-down.
“Every record in the Kingdom is perfect. That is not the same as true. It is nearly the opposite.”
The party's investigator and its conscience. His power is literacy — he wins scenes by decoding paperwork and rotating the page until gibberish resolves. He keeps the town's only copy of a contract describing the entire Kingdom as leased premises, and he walks out the gate first, pen uncapped, into the largest unread document in existence.
Fights best beside — The Tome, and Quiet Mercy — he keeps facts, she keeps feelings; between them, nothing is lost.
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