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The Shardknife

Rogue · The Marrow-Carver
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.
The Sheet
STR
11
+0
DEX
16
+3
CON
12
+1
INT
11
+0
WIS
14
+2
CHA
10
+0
Affinity the Cold Between Ward Unmaking Bane Vigil
Proficiencies Stealth · Sleight of Hand · Acrobatics
Rogue · The Marrow-Carver
Anatomist of glass and edge — every strike finds the seam that shatters.
The Ladder

What they learn

LV 1
Find the Seam Your first strike each combat ignores an amount of armor.
LV 3
Shard Strike On a critical, your blade leaves a wound that bleeds each round.
LV 6
Precise Cut Choose to cripple instead of kill — reduce a target's speed or attacks.
LV 10
Glass to the Bone 1/story, a single strike that drops a wounded foe outright.
For the Guide

How to run The Shardknife

VoiceCold, exact, economical with everything including words.
WantsTo find the seam. To make one cut count. To leave nothing wasted.
Do this nowThe Shardknife cuts — a precise strike that finds what shatters.
“(unforged)”

A glass-and-edge anatomist of the Guild, canon open. Promoted to the Marrow-Carver; the one cut this knife is saving waits for the story to earn it.

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