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  1. 01Choose a Bloodline
  2. 02Compare 3 Origins
An adult Jianmuan man and woman confer beside a mist-covered mountain route, carrying a scroll case and walking staff.
Jianmuan Bloodline

Bloodline Traits

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

Adapt on the Fly

Once per Rest, after a Jianmuan 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 Jianmuan 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: Jianmuans reach physical maturity around 18 years and typically live 70–90 years.
  • Eye Colour: Most commonly dark brown, brown, or amber.
  • Hair: Most commonly black or dark brown, often worn long or braided.
  • Unique Traits: Skin tones vary widely. Swirling tattoos, embroidered mist motifs, and carefully arranged hair commonly express family, profession, or devotion to the Jianmu Tree.

History and Current Status

  • The Sundering shattered the Jianmu Tree and scattered its remnants across the fragment. Jianmuans adapted by building fortified enclaves and mastering volatile energy.
  • Powerful warlords and mystical schools rose, using unpredictable mists and fractured magic to establish control.
  • Today, Jianmuans rule as warlords, mages, and scholars who wield unstable forces to protect their cities.
  • They manipulate the balance between heaven and earth, convinced that survival requires mastery of shifting energies and terrain.

Personality Traits

  • Cunning and Adaptable: Jianmuans find balance amid unpredictability and chaos.
  • Spiritual and Dutiful: They believe they must preserve the connection between heaven and earth.
  • Pragmatic and Tactical: They readily turn the fragment’s shifting mists into defence or weapon.

Cultural Traits

  • Values: Balance, wisdom, adaptability, and mastery of the volatile forces between heaven and earth.
  • Social Dynamics: Sorcerer-scholars and warlords combine physical and mystical power to command the mists and terrain.
  • Traditions: Sacred combat dances and meditation harmonise the realms. Mist-walking is a rite proving mastery over unstable mists.
  • Religion and Beliefs: Jianmuans revere remnants of the Jianmu Tree and honour Huang Di, Nuwa, and Fuxi. Communion with the mists and mastery of unstable energy are paths to restored harmony.

Relationships With Neighbours

  • Kalparians: Philosophical allies joined by respect for balance, intellectual collaboration, and shared ritual.
  • Edenites: Cautious observers who admire one another’s strengths but keep their distance due to different approaches to order and balance.

Step 2 of 2

Choose your Jianmuan 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.

01Mist-Bound ScholarRaised within sacred mists, I sought wisdom by studying, copying, and restoring texts that bridge the physical and mystical realms.
  • Background: “Raised within sacred mists, I sought wisdom by studying, copying, and restoring texts that bridge the physical and mystical realms.”
  • Narrative Prompt: “What question drives my pursuit of balance between heaven and earth?”
  • Starting Skills (Level 1 each):
    • Finesse: Copying, restoring, and illuminating manuscripts with precision.
    • Languages: Proficiency in one extra language.
    • Occult: Studying the relationship between physical and mystical realms.
  • Starting Equipment:
    • Scroll Case: Protects up to twenty pages of texts or incantations from ordinary weather and travel wear.
    • Ceremonial Robes: Recognised scholarly attire; they are not armour.
    • Mist Amulet: Once per Rest, use it before a Survival or Occult check to navigate or resist supernatural mist to make that check with Advantage.
  • Starting Resources:
    • Ink and Quill Set: Enough material for twenty pages of notes, maps, or copied text.
    • Modest Currency: 11 Dritch.
  • Role-Playing Traits: Values knowledge and mysticism, skeptical of rigid structure, prefers open-mindedness.
Open in Chapter 8
02Apprentice of the MistsFrom a young age, a master sorcerer trained me to manipulate mists for defense and offense.
  • Background: “From a young age, a master sorcerer trained me to manipulate mists for defense and offense.”
  • Narrative Prompt: “What did I learn from my master about the balance of power?”
  • Starting Skills (Level 1 each):
    • Alchemy: Brews potions and other alchemical mixtures.
    • Occult: Understanding mist magic and its supernatural effects.
    • Ranged: For distance spells and combat.
  • Starting Equipment:
    • Sorcerer’s Focus: Functions as a spellcasting focus when a rule requires one; it grants no casting bonus by itself.
    • Sacred Dagger: A ritual weapon using the Dagger profile.
    • Herbal Satchel: Basic potion-making supplies, enabling Alchemy tasks that require proper tools.
  • Starting Resources:
    • Potion Ingredients (2 batches): With one hour and a successful Alchemy check at Challenging DR 1, turn a batch into either a field remedy or antivenom. A field remedy grants Advantage on one Medicine check to aid Wound recovery during a Rest; antivenom grants Advantage on one check to resist or treat mundane poison. A failed check consumes the batch.
    • Minimal Currency: 6 Dritch.
  • Role-Playing Traits: Values discipline, cautious of unchecked powers, respects magical hierarchy.
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03Wanderer of the Shifting PathsNavigating Jianmu’s shifting paths, I developed survival skills and an eye for hidden routes.
  • Background: “Navigating Jianmu’s shifting paths, I developed survival skills and an eye for hidden routes.”
  • Narrative Prompt: “What do I seek on the shifting paths that others fear to tread?”
  • Starting Skills (Level 1 each):
    • Stealth: Skilled in moving unnoticed.
    • Acrobatics: Agility for rugged paths.
    • Survival: Navigating and tracking resources.
  • Starting Equipment:
    • Travel Cloak: Removes Disadvantage caused solely by ordinary rain, cold wind, or harsh sun.
    • Traveling Satchel: Basic survival tools and regional path maps, enabling routine camp and navigation tasks without improvised tools.
    • Reinforced Walking Stick: A travel aid using the Club profile when wielded as a weapon.
  • Starting Resources:
    • Tradeable Trinkets: Small curios worth 4 Dritch to an appropriate buyer.
    • Minimal Currency: 6 Dritch.
  • Role-Playing Traits: Values freedom and adaptability, distrustful of stationary lifestyles, favors solitude.
Open in Chapter 8