The Assassins · The Guild
The Vanished
Rogue · The Veil-Slip
✦ 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
11
+0
DEX
17
+3
CON
12
+1
INT
14
+2
WIS
17
+3
CHA
13
+1
Affinity the Cold Between
Ward Unmaking
Bane Vigil
Proficiencies Survival · Keeping · Stealth · the guide's knowledge
Rogue · The Veil-Slip
Steps between places in short blinks. Filed into storage — and found the door home anyway.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
Backstage Step Move through the world's service-side: shortcuts through the racked dark.
LV 3
Shelf-Lore Identify any stored thing — weather, birdsong, time — and whether touching it will be noticed.
LV 6
Most-Noticed 1/scene, draw ALL attention — every eye, every regard — to yourself alone.
LV 10
(blank) The capstone line is blank. Not redacted — it has not happened yet.
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For the Guide
How to run The Vanished
VoiceA room being unlocked after years. Rusty, then warmer. Plain before poetic.
WantsTo come in. To not lead the attention up the lane. To eat something hot.
Do this nowThe Vanished is evidence, not exposition — wet footprints, a warm wall, a returned blade, three taps. Show, never explain.
“I'd forgotten soup could do that.”
The book's heart, kept mostly off the page. Erased from the world for being too well-remembered, exiled to the storage-dark between worlds, drawn home by lamp forty-one. In the finale they guide the party out the gate. Never render the face. Never over-explain. They are the proof that love is the one keeping that cannot be audited.
Fights best beside — The Twin Whisper — the duet. And Til — the bowl is the ability nobody statted.
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