The Alchemists · The Disciplines
The Nightbrewer
Bard · College of the Gravewax
✦ 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
9
-1
DEX
12
+1
CON
14
+2
INT
16
+3
WIS
16
+3
CHA
9
-1
Affinity Venom & Vapor
Ward the Cold Between
Bane Voice
Proficiencies Investigation · Alchemist's tools · Insight · Keeping · History
Bard · College of the Gravewax
Collects the last words of the dead on wax — and has kept the ledger of the word the whole town says in its sleep.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
Dreamless Draught Protect a sleeper from Undertow harvest for a night — and from their own dreams.
LV 3
The Ledger Prove any pattern across time; your data cannot be argued with, only feared.
LV 6
Threshold Ear Hear what creatures say at the exact moment of going under.
LV 10
The Word Withheld ● SEALED 1/campaign, say the word awake, aloud, at what it is said to. SEALED — it ends a chapter.
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For the Guide
How to run The Nightbrewer
VoiceFlat, precise, competent — an auditor of the unbearable.
WantsA record that would let him prove he misheard. To keep selling the merciful lie. To not find out.
Do this nowThe Nightbrewer presents data — the plotted convergence, the ledger, the audit that makes the horror undeniable.
“I have never dared find out what I say.”
Competence as terror. The town's sleep-merchant and its most rigorous frightened mouse — he keeps a paving-stone ledger proving every citizen murmurs the same words on the way under, and in the finale that word turns out to be the Kingdom's catalog number. Not mysterious — right. The professional whose data you cannot argue with.
Fights best beside — The Fine Print — the two record-keepers; between the archive and the ledger, the pattern had nowhere to hide.
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