The Assassins · The Guild
The Grinning Death
Ranger · The Tallow-Eye
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The names in the book aren’t final — we’ll announce the chosen ones before launch. Yours could be it.
STR
11
+0
DEX
15
+2
CON
12
+1
INT
15
+2
WIS
17
+3
CHA
10
+0
Affinity Vigil
Ward the Undertow
Bane the Cold Between
Proficiencies Perception · Investigation · Keeping
Ranger · The Tallow-Eye
Night-hunter. Sees heat and breath in pitch dark; counts what is slowly, quietly disappearing.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
The Count Track slow disappearances across sessions; the rhyme says twelve, the sky says nine.
LV 3
Sight in the Dark See warmth and movement in total darkness; strike foes that cannot see you.
LV 6
Pleasant Arithmetic Deliver a horror as data in a mild voice; listeners must engage it rationally.
LV 10
Nine of Twelve ● SEALED The count resolves once, on the ridge. SEALED until the finale.
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For the Guide
How to run The Grinning Death
VoiceMild, pleasant, doing arithmetic no one else will. A smile that became worn, not chosen.
WantsTo finish the count. To have someone to tell. To be wrong, just once.
Do this nowThe Grinning Death delivers a chilling count in a cheerful voice — 'the rhyme says twelve; the sky says nine.'
“It stopped playing with its food.”
His gift is Perception over long time-scales — he notices what is slowly disappearing. The vanishing constellations are his to track: twelve in the cradle-rhyme, nine by the finale. Do not resolve the count before the end.
Fights best beside — The Nightbrewer — the two mice keeping ledgers of things nobody else will look at.
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