NarateerForging legends together
  1. 01Choose a Bloodline
  2. 02Compare 3 Origins
An adult Ceiban man and woman weigh where to plant a seedling beside decaying wood and the roots of a great jungle tree.
Ceiban Bloodline

Bloodline Traits

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

Adapt on the Fly

Once per Rest, after a Ceiban 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, a Ceiban 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 155–190 cm; females commonly stand 145–180 cm.
  • Weight: Males commonly weigh 50–100 kg; females commonly weigh 40–90 kg.
  • Maturity and Lifespan: Ceibans reach physical maturity around 18 years and typically live 70–90 years.
  • Eye Colour: Most commonly brown, amber, hazel, or green.
  • Hair: Most commonly black or dark brown, often worn long and adorned with feathers, beads, or carved jewellery.
  • Unique Traits: Skin tones vary widely, with rich brown tones common. Ceremonial body paint, ritual scars, and animal or jungle motifs frequently record community, deeds, and spiritual obligations.

History and Current Status

  • The Sundering and the Ceiba Tree’s wild growth made the Ceiba fragment volatile, alternating between prosperity and ruin. Shaman-kings established brief kingdoms before each collapsed.
  • Wars and power struggles remain constant as leaders compete for resources and mystical energy.
  • Today, Ceibans act as shamans, warriors, and kings who wield the chaotic energy of their jungles and swamps.
  • They guide outsiders through volatile lands and maintain the fragment’s balance, sometimes sacrificing their own to ensure prosperity.

Personality Traits

  • Fierce and Resilient: Ceibans embrace the jungle’s duality of creation and destruction.
  • Spiritual and Cyclical: They see life as bound to endless cycles of growth and decay.
  • Pragmatic and Adaptive: They shift strategies and loyalties whenever survival demands it.

Cultural Traits

  • Values: Connection with nature, balance, and power. The jungle is both life-giving and destructive, to be respected and controlled.
  • Social Dynamics: Shaman-kings rule through knowledge of the jungle’s cycles. Power changes hands as leaders rise and fall according to their command of chaos.
  • Traditions: Ritual dances and blood sacrifices to K’awiil and Chac invoke rain or fertility, while offerings seek the favour of jungle spirits.
  • Religion and Beliefs: Ceibans revere K’awiil and Chac, gods of fertility and rain who embody the jungle’s volatile cycles. Tales of the Serpent Lords warn that even the strongest shamans can be consumed by chaos.

Relationships With Neighbours

  • K’aan: Competitive and mistrustful rivals who dispute sacred sites.
  • Ahwatans: Cooperative guardians joined by respect for nature.
  • Acacians: Hostile rivals divided by resource disputes, despite grudging respect.
  • Crannach: Tense respect; differing approaches to preservation cause skirmishes but restrain open conflict.
  • Boabans: Wary allies who trade despite conflicting views of land.

Step 2 of 2

Choose your Ceiban 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.

01Jungle WarriorTrained in Ceiba’s jungles, I learned to survive and guard against natural and mystical threats.
  • Background: “Trained in Ceiba’s jungles, I learned to survive and guard against natural and mystical threats.”
  • Narrative Prompt: “What drives me to protect the balance of life and death within the jungle?”
  • Starting Skills (Level 1 each):
    • Beastcraft: Understanding and managing dangerous jungle creatures.
    • Melee: Skilled in close combat.
    • Survival: Knowledge of flora and fauna.
  • Starting Equipment:
    • Ceremonial Blade: A weapon using the Arming Sword profile.
    • Jungle Garb: Removes Disadvantage caused solely by ordinary jungle heat, rain, or abrasive vegetation.
    • Medicinal Herbs (2 uses): During a Rest, expend one use to make a Medicine check to aid Wound recovery with Advantage.
  • Starting Resources:
    • Tribal Relics: Ceremonial charms worth 4 Dritch to an appropriate buyer.
    • Minimal Currency: 6 Dritch.
  • Role-Playing Traits: Strong sense of duty, resilient in adversity, values strength and balance.
Open in Chapter 8
02Ceiban Shaman’s ApprenticeGuided by a Ceiban shaman, I trained in rituals and learned to harness volatile jungle spirits.
  • Background: “Guided by a Ceiban shaman, I trained in rituals and learned to harness volatile jungle spirits.”
  • Narrative Prompt: “What mysteries of the jungle do I seek to unravel, and how does its energy shape me?”
  • Starting Skills (Level 1 each):
    • Beastcraft: Knowledge of creatures for harmony.
    • Occult: Skilled in reading spiritual clues.
    • Performance: Conducts rites for spirits.
  • Starting Equipment:
    • Ritual Staff: A shamanic focus using the Quarterstaff profile when wielded as a weapon.
    • Sacred Paints (2 uses): Expend one use before an Occult check to contact, identify, or appease a spirit to make that check with Advantage.
    • Herbal Pouch: Basic ritual and field-care herbs, enabling Medicine or Occult tasks that require appropriate supplies; it grants no bonus by itself.
  • Starting Resources:
    • Spiritual Tokens: Spirit-working tokens worth 4 Dritch to an appropriate buyer.
    • Basic Currency: 8 Dritch.
  • Role-Playing Traits: Seeks balance, curious about spiritual mysteries, cautious and respectful of jungle forces.
Open in Chapter 8
03Hunter of the WildsSilent and swift, I track and hunt in Ceiba’s wilderness, blending patience and agility.
  • Background: “Silent and swift, I track and hunt in Ceiba’s wilderness, blending patience and agility.”
  • Narrative Prompt: “What keeps me tied to the jungle’s spirit, and what do I fear might disrupt its balance?”
  • Starting Skills (Level 1 each):
    • Stealth: Silent in dense terrain.
    • Ranged: Skilled with hunting weapons.
    • Survival: Survival in hostile areas.
  • Starting Equipment:
    • Hunter’s Bow: A Bow with 20 arrows.
    • Camouflage Cloak: In matching jungle terrain, the wearer may attempt Stealth while stationary even without full cover.
    • Provisions: Seven days of trail supplies.
  • Starting Resources:
    • Tradeable Skins: Prepared hides worth 4 Dritch to an appropriate buyer.
    • Basic Currency: 8 Dritch.
  • Role-Playing Traits: Quiet and observant, respects nature’s cycles, values adaptability and self-sufficiency.
Open in Chapter 8