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  1. 01Choose a Bloodline
  2. 02Compare 3 Origins
An Acacian man and woman in pleated linen and lapis collars prepare a burial urn together beneath desert temple columns.
Acacian Bloodline

Bloodline Traits

  • Vitals Adjusted: Gain +1 to any Vital of your choice.
  • Popular Classes: Any.
  • Languages: Acacian, Trade.

Adapt on the Fly

Once per Rest, after an Acacian fails a Skill Check, they may add +1 dot to the final result and recalculate the outcome. This may turn the failure into a success or improve its Degree of Failure.

Adaptable Skills

When a Story Milestone is resolved, an Acacian may reduce one trained Skill by 1 level and increase a different Skill by 1 level. The receiving Skill cannot exceed its Linked Vital or be higher than the source Skill was before the transfer.

Physical Characteristics

  • Height: Males commonly stand 160–195 cm; females commonly stand 150–185 cm.
  • Weight: Males commonly weigh 55–110 kg; females commonly weigh 45–95 kg.
  • Maturity and Lifespan: Acacians reach physical maturity around 18 years and typically live 70–90 years.
  • Eye Colour: Most commonly brown, hazel, or amber.
  • Hair: Most commonly black or dark brown and often braided or ornamented.
  • Unique Traits: Skin tones vary widely, with olive to deep brown tones common. Kohl worn around the eyes is a protective custom, and some Acacians bear an Osirian mark symbolising authority over the dead.

History and Current Status

  • After the Sundering, corruption of the Acacia Tree desertified much of the Acacia fragment. Necromancer-priests harnessed Osiris’s power to protect their people and control the dead.
  • Wars between priestly orders and necromancer-kings shaped the fragment’s political landscape.
  • Today, Acacians rule over both life and death, using necromantic practices to maintain balance between the living and the dead.
  • As intermediaries between life and the afterlife, they perform rituals to stabilise their fragment and expand their influence.

Personality Traits

  • Ambitious and Authoritative: Acacians are commanding, driven to master life and death, and carry a stoic, regal demeanour.
  • Pragmatic and Calculating: They make calculated sacrifices in pursuit of power and stability.
  • Traditional and Reverent: They regard necromancy as a sacred art rather than a dark practice.

Cultural Traits

  • Values: Power, knowledge of the afterlife, control over life and death, legacy, and lineage.
  • Social Dynamics: Necromancer-priests and spiritual leaders command both living and dead. Temples and tombs are centres of power contested by competing priestly orders.
  • Traditions: Elaborate burial rites appease Osiris and Isis, while ceremonies harness necrotic magic to sustain rebirth and decay.
  • Religion and Beliefs: Acacian worship centres on Osiris’s control of death and Isis’s protective magic, emphasising life’s cycle and rebirth. Legends recount priestly wars and undead armies raised from fallen cities. Anubis, struggling with lost souls, seeks to restore balance to the fractured afterlife.

Relationships With Neighbours

  • Necrokin: Tense and often hostile; most free Necrokin resent Acacians for their necromantic origins.
  • Igdrasans: Trade rivals who skirmish over resources and ash routes.
  • Ceibans: Cultural rivals whose opposing beliefs about life and death fuel tension.
  • Huluppians: Tense allies; philosophical rifts coexist with occasional knowledge sharing.
  • Ashborn: Cautious allies who tentatively value one another’s strengths.
  • K’aan: Rivals; necromancy clashes with reverence, though skirmishes can expose common threats.

Step 2 of 2

Choose your Acacian Origin

Your Bloodline establishes what you inherited. Your Origin establishes the life you lived before adventure. Compare these three, then open one for its complete starting package.

01Acacian Temple AcolyteRaised in temple walls, I studied necromantic arts and rites to honor Osiris and Isis.
  • Background: “Raised in temple walls, I studied necromantic arts and rites to honor Osiris and Isis.”
  • Narrative Prompt: “How do Osiris's teachings of renewal and the afterlife shape my view on life and death?”
  • Starting Skills (Level 1 each):
    • Artifice: Skilled in making ritual items.
    • Languages: Proficient with one other language.
    • Occult: Studying necromantic rites and divine mysteries.
  • Starting Equipment:
    • Ceremonial Dagger: A ritual blade using the Dagger profile.
    • Osirian Amulet: Recognised proof of temple office and a holy focus; it can secure ordinary access to Acacian faithful.
    • Herbal Poultices (2 uses): During a Rest, expend one use to make a Medicine check to aid Wound recovery with Advantage.
  • Starting Resources:
    • Sacred Tokens: Minor relics worth 4 Dritch to an appropriate believer.
    • Temple Stipend: 11 Dritch.
  • Role-Playing Traits: Deeply values legacy, rigorously upholds tradition, and wields power with careful restraint.
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02Desert WandererRaised in Acacia’s deserts, I've survived harsh conditions and learned respect for life’s powers.
  • Background: “Raised in Acacia’s deserts, I've survived harsh conditions and learned respect for life’s powers.”
  • Narrative Prompt: “What lessons did the desert teach me about endurance and resilience?”
  • Starting Skills (Level 1 each):
    • Survival: Skilled in survival.
    • Athletics: Endurance for tough terrain.
    • Observation: Skilled at finding water and shelter.
  • Starting Equipment:
    • Desert Cloak: Removes Disadvantage caused solely by ordinary desert heat, glare, or windblown sand.
    • Water Flask: Carries one day of water for one character under ordinary conditions.
    • Rations: Five days of lightweight provisions.
  • Starting Resources:
    • Barter Items: Desert trinkets and trade goods worth 4 Dritch to an appropriate buyer.
    • Modest Currency: 11 Dritch.
  • Role-Playing Traits: Resourceful and resilient, prefers self-reliance, suspicious of crowded areas.
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03Necromancer's ApprenticeApprenticed to a necromancer, I studied death rituals and Acacia’s political conflicts.
  • Background: “Apprenticed to a necromancer, I studied death rituals and Acacia’s political conflicts.”
  • Narrative Prompt: “What do I seek to gain from the knowledge of life and death?”
  • Starting Skills (Level 1 each):
    • Medicine: Skilled in anatomy and life stabilization.
    • Occult: Studying necromancy, death rites, and spirit binding.
    • Society: Understanding Acacian politics, institutions, and factions.
  • Starting Equipment:
    • Necromantic Pouch: Basic herbs and spell materials, enabling preparation of lesser necromantic rites that require supplies.
    • Kohl-lined Phylactery: A personal necromantic focus; it does not contain a soul or grant protection by itself.
    • Ritual Scroll: Once per Rest, consult it before an Occult check concerning necromantic rites to make that check with Advantage.
  • Starting Resources:
    • Priestly Tokens: Ritual tokens worth 4 Dritch to an appropriate priest or collector.
    • Limited Coinage: 8 Dritch.
  • Role-Playing Traits: Ambitious, respects authority, values calculated risks that promise long-term gains.
Open in Chapter 8