Talents (Soteria)

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Tier 1 Talents

Acolyte
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
This talent is mutually exclusive with the Adept, Bard, and Mystic talents. It cannot be purchased by a character with the Fae, Infernal, or Revenant traits, or a character that possesses the Arcana, Primal, or Verse skills. Divine is now a career skill for your character. They can only cast one spell using this skill per encounter.
Notes Soteria Esoterica


Adept
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
This talent is mutually exclusive with the Acolyte, Bard, and Mystic talents. It cannot be purchased by a character with the Celestial or Elemental traits, or a character that possesses the Divine, Primal, or Verse skills. Arcana is now a career skill for your character. They may only cast one spell per encounter using this skill.
Notes Soteria Esoterica


Bar Brawler
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character adds Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to Brawl checks and combat checks using improvised weapons.
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Bard
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
This talent is mutually exclusive with the Acolytes, Adept, and Mystic talents and cannot be purchased by a character that possesses the Arcana, Divine, or Primal. Verse is now a career skill for your character. They can only cast one spell using this skill per encounter.
Notes Soteria Esoterica


Black Market Contacts
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When purchasing illegal goods, may reduce rarity by 1 per rank of Black Market Contacts, increasing cost of the item by one hundred percent of the item's base cost per reduction.
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Bought Info
Tier 1
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
When making any knowledge skill check, your character can instead use this talent to spend an amount of currency equal to fifty times the difficulty of the check and automatically succeed on the knowledge check with one uncanceled Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination (instead of rolling). At your GM’s discretion, your character may not be able to use Bought Info if the information is particularly sensitive or difficult to find, or when buying it doesn’t make narrative sense.
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Clever Retort
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, your character may use this talent to add automatic Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to another character's social skill check.
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Desperate Recovery
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Before your character heals strain at the end of an encounter, if their strain is more than half their strain threshold, they heal two additional strain.
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Durable
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character reduces any Critical Injury result they suffer by 10 per rank of Durable, to a minimum result of 01.
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Eldritch Power
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When a spell adds a quality to your character's spell with a rating determined by your character's ranks in Knowledge (Lore), your character may use their ranks in Knowledge (Eldritch) instead.
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Extra Ammunition
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character's weapons without the Limited Ammo quality cannot run out of ammo due to a Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination unless it specifically states it can in the weapon's description. Items with Limited Ammo quality still run out of ammo as normal.
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Fae Grace
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character must have the Fae trait in order to benefit from this talent. Your Changeling character possesses an innate agility and charm inherited from their Fae ancestry. You gain Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination per rank in Fae Grace on all Coordination and Charm checks. This represents your fluid movements and enchanting presence that set you apart from ordinary mortals.
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Forager
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character removes up to Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination from any skill checks they make to find food, water, or shelter. Checks to forage or search the area that your character makes take half the time they would normally take.
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Glamour
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character must have the Fae trait in order to benefit from this talent. Once per session per rank in Glamour, you can subtly alter your appearance to blend in or stand out. You may add or remove minor features (change hair color, eye color, minor facial features) for the duration of the encounter. This illusion is superficial but convincing, adding Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination per rank in Glamour to a Deception check in order to disguise yourself or impersonate someone else.
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Grit
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Each rank of Grit increases your character's strain threshold by one.
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Hamstring Shot
Tier 1
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per round, your character may use this talent to perform a ranged combat check against one non-vehicle target within range of the weapon used. If the check is successful, halve the damage inflicted by the attack (before reducing damage by the target's soak). The target is immobilized until the end of its next turn.
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Ignore Pain
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Your character must have the Undead or Infernal traits to benefit from this talent. If the damage from a hit would cause your character to be incapacitated, your character may spend a Story Point to ignore those wounds and suffer strain instead.
Notes Soteria Esoterica


Jump Up
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Once per round on your character's turn, your character may use this talent to stand from a prone or seated position as an incidental.
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Knack For It
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When you purchase this talent for your character, select one skill. Your character removes Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination from any checks they make using this skill. Each additional time you purchase this talent for a character, select two additional skills. Your character also removes Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination from any checks they make using these skills. You cannot select combat or magic skills when using this talent.
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Know Somebody
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
Once per session, when attempting to purchase a legally available item, your character may use this talent to reduce its rarity by one per rank of Know Somebody.
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Let's Ride
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per round during your character's turn, your character can use this talent to mount or dismount from a vehicle or animal, or move from one position in a vehicle to another (such as from the cockpit to a gun turret) as an incidental. In addition, if your character suffers a short-range fall from a vehicle or animal, they suffer no damage and land of their feet.
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Museum Worthy
Tier 1
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per session, you can make a Hard (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) check to ascertain information regarding a relic, ruin, or piece of history. The GM will determine which is the appropriate Knowledge skill at the time of the check.
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Mystic
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
This talent is mutually exclusive with the Acolyte, Adept, and Bard talents. It cannot be taken by a character with the Celestial, Infernal, or Revenant traits, or a character that possesses the Arcana, Divine, or Verse skills. Primal is now a career skill for your character. They may only cast one spell per encounter using this skill.
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Parry
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked Yes
When your character suffers a hit from a melee combat check, after damage is calculated but before soak is applied, your character may suffer 3 strain to use this talent to reduce the damage of the hit by two plus their ranks in Parry. This talent can only be used once per hit, and your character must be wielding a Melee weapon.
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Proper Upbringing
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When your character makes a social check in polite company (as determined by your GM), they may suffer a number of strain to use this talent and add an equal number of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to the check. The number may not exceed your character's ranks in Proper Upbringing.
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Quick Draw
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per round on your character's turn, they may use this talent to draw or holster an easily accessible weapon or item as an incidental. Quick draw also reduces a weapon's Prepare rating by one, to a minimum of one.
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Quick Strike
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character adds Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination for each rank of Quick Strike to any combat checks they make against any targets that have not yet taken their turn in the current encounter.
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Rapid Reaction
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked Yes
Your character may suffer a number of strain to use this talent to add an equal number of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to a Vigilance or Cool check they make to determine initiative order. The number may not exceed your character's ranks in Rapid Reaction.
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Second Wind
Tier 1
Activation Active (Indidental)
Ranked Yes
Once per encounter, your character may use this talent to heal an amount of strain equal to their ranks in Second Wind.
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Surgeon
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When your character makes a Medicine check to heal wounds, the target heals one additional wound per rank of Surgeon.
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Swift
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character does not suffer the penalties for moving through difficult terrain. They move through difficult terrain at normal speed without spending additional maneuvers.
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Therianthrope
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
This talent may only be purchased at character creation, and is mutually exclusive with the Thrall talent. Additionally, your character must have the Human or Undead trait to benefit from this talent. Your character is a therianthrope, a creature capable of shifting between their natural form and a bestial hybrid creature of fur, fangs, and claws. When you purchase this talent, decide which therianthropic type your character is: wolf, panther, bear, or raven.
  • Wolf: When your charcter is incapacitated due to exceeding their strain threshold while in their natural form, they undergo the following changes as an out-of-turn incidental. They take on an upright, bestial, wolf-like appearance with an elongaded snout, enlarged ears, sharp fangs and claws, fur, and a tail. They heal all strain. Increase their Brawn and Agility by one to a maximum of 6. Reduce their Intellect and Willpower by one to a minimum of 1. They deal +2 damage when making unarmed attacks, and their unarmed attacks have a crit rating of 3. They cannot, however, use magic skills or make ranged attacks. Additionally, once per encounter, your character may Howl as a maneuver. All allies within short range may take an immediate maneuver, out of turn, at no cost.
  • Bear: When your charcter is incapacitated due to exceeding their strain threshold while in their natural form, they undergo the following changes as an out-of-turn incidental. They take on an upright, bestial, bear-like appearance with a bulky body, short snout, sharp teeth and claws, and thick fur. They heal all strain. Increase their Brawn by two to a maximum of 6. Reduce their Intellect by two to a minimum of 1. They deal +3 damage when making unarmed attacks, and their unarmed attacks have a crit rating of 3. They cannot, however, use magic skills or make ranged attacks. Additionally, your charqacter gains a point of Soak and two points of Defense while shapeshifted.
  • Raven: When your charcter is incapacitated due to exceeding their strain threshold while in their natural form, they undergo the following changes as an out-of-turn incidental. They take on an upright, bestial, bird-like appearance with a long beak, sharp claws, black feathers, and wings. They heal all strain. Increase their Intellect and Cunning by 1 to a maximum of 5. Reduce their Brawn and Willpower by one to a minimum of 1. They deal +1 damage when making unarmed attacks, and their unarmed attacks have a crit rating of 1. They cannot, however, use magic skills or make ranged attacks. Additionally, your character gains the ability to fly and can fly at a speed of two range bands per maneuver.

Silver weapons used against your character have their critical rating reduced to 1 and gain the Pierce 3 and Vicious 2 item qualities. When your character receives either mundane or magical healing after being struck by a silver weapon, reduce the total number of wounds healed by two until your character's total wounds have been reduced to 0.

The hybrid form for those with the Revenant ancestry still exhibits the traits of being undead.

Your GM should ensure that NPCs react appropriately to this (at the very least, upgrading the difficulty of all socail skill checks twice). Your character reverts to its natural form after eight hours, or if they are incapacitated (by exceeding either their wound threshold or their strain threshold).Your character may attempt to revert to your natural form by making a Hard (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) Discipline check. They may make this check once every hour.

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Thrall
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
This talent may only be purchased at character creation. Additionally, your character must have the Human or Infernal trait to benefit from this talent, and is mutually exclusive with the Therianthrope talent. Your character has been bitten by a powerful vampire and made its thrall, receiving the following benefits and disadvantages.
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Toughened
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Each rank of Toughened increases your character's wound threshold by two.
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Unremarkable
Tier 1
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Other characters add Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to any checks made to find or identify your character in a crowd.
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Unyielding Pursuit
Tier 1
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Your character must have the Undead trait to benefit from this talent. You are single-minded when it comes to fulfilling your quest, allowing you to move with supernatural determination. When pursuing a target that is tied to your Revenant's unfinished business or purpose for returning from death, you may perform a free maneuver to chase or track that target. You still cannot perform more than two maneuvers in a single round.
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Tier 2 Talents

Basic Military Training
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Athletics, Ranged (Heavy), and Resilience are now career skills for your character.
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Berserk
Tier 2
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, your character may use this talent. Until the end of the encounter or until they are incapacitated, your character adds Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destinationError creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to all melee combat checks they make. However, opponents add Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to all combat checks targeting your character. While berserk, your character cannot make ranged combat checks.

At the end of the encounter (or when they are incapacitated), your character suffers 6 strain.

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Blood Sacrifice
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
Your character must have purchased the Eldritch Power talent to benefit from this talent. Before your character makes a magic skill check, they may suffer a number of wounds to use this talent to add an equal number of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to the check. This number cannot exceed your character's ranks in Blood Sacrifice.
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Coordinated Assault
Tier 2
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked Yes
Once per turn, your character may use this talent to have a number of allies engaged with your character equal to your ranks in Leadership add Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to all combat checks they make until the end of your character's next turn. The range of this talent increases by one band per rank of Coordinated Assault beyond the first.
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Counteroffer
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per session, your character may use this talent to choose one non-nemesis adversary within medium range and make an opposed Negotiation versus Discipline check. If successful, the target becomes staggered until the end of their next turn. At your GM's discretion, you may spend Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination on this check to have the adversary become an ally until the end of the encounter. However, the duration of this may be shortened or extended depending on whether your GM feels your offer is appealing to the adversary and wehther your character follows through on their offer.
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Daring Aviator
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
Before your character makes a Driving or Piloting check, they may add a number of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to the results to use this talent to add an equal number of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination. The number may not exceed your character's ranks in Daring Aviator.
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Dead Man's Grasp
Tier 2
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Your character must have the Undead trait to benefit from this talent. Your character’s touch becomes infused with deathly energy. Once per encounter, when you make a successful Brawl or Melee attack, you can add +2 damage to the attack and inflict the Ensnare 1 quality, as cold, spectral chains or tendrils of shadow hold your target in place. The effect represents the grasp of the grave pulling down on the living.
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Defensive Stance
Tier 2
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked Yes
Once per round, your character may suffer a number of strain no greater than their ranks in Defensive Stance to use this talent. Then, until the end of your character's next turn, upgrade the difficulty of all melee combat checks targeting your character a number of times equal to the strain suffered.
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Dual Wielder
Tier 2
Activation Active (Manuever)
Ranked No
Your character may use this talent to decrease the difficulty of the next combined combat check they make during the same turn by one. Note: See Two-Weapon Combat on page 108 of the Genesys Core Rulebook.
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Encouraging Song
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
While equipped with a musical instrument, your character may use this talent to make an Average (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) Verse check. For each Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination the check generates, one ally within medium range adds Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to their next skill check. For each Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, one ally benefitting from Encouraging Song heals 1 strain.
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Fan the Hammer
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per encounter before making a combat check with a pistol (your GM has the final say on whether a weapon is a pistol or not), your character may use this talent to add the Autofire quality to the pistol when resolving the check. If your character does, the weapon runs out of ammo exactly as with an Out of Ammo result.
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Flash of Insight
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When the character generates Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination on a Knowledge skill check, add Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to the results in addtion to spending the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination as usual.
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Good Cop, Bad Cop
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
You may spend Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination from a Charm or Negotiation check or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination from a Deception or Coercion check to upgrade ability of a single ally's subsequent social interaction check against a target a number of times equal to ranks in Good Cop.
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Heightened Awareness
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Allies within short range of your character add Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to their Perception and Vigilance checks. Allies engaged with your character add Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination instead.
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Inspiring Rhetoric
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character may use this talent to make an Average (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) Leadership check. For each Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination the check generates, one ally within short range heals one strain. For each Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, one ally benefiting from Inspiring Rhetoric heals one additional strain. Benefits received due to multiple instances of Inspiring Rhetoric from a single character do not stack.
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Inventor
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When your character makes a check to construct new items or modify existing ones, use this talent to add a number of Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination equal to ranks in Inventor. In addition, your character may attempt to reconstruct devices that they have heard described but have not seen and no not have any kinds of plans or schematics for.
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Lucky Strike
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When your character purchases this talent, choose one characteristic. After your character makes a successful combat check, you may spend on Story Point to use this talent to add damage equal to your character's ranks in that characteristic to one hit of the combat check.
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Parkour
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character may suffer 1 strain when making a Move maneuver to move to any location within short range, including locations the character would not normally be able to reach.
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Reconstruct the Scene
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character may perform the Reconstruct the Scene action; make a Hard (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) Perception check to identify some physical characteristics of a person present at the scene within 24 hours, as determined by the GM.
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Satiation
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Thrall talent to benefit from this talent. Your bite attack restores a number of strain equal to uncancelled Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination from the check. The Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination can then be spent as normal.
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Scathing Tirade
Tier 2
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character may use this talent to make an Average (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) Coercion check. For each Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination the check generates, one enemy within short range suffers 1 strain. For each Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, one enemy affected by Scathing Tirade suffers 1 additional strain. Disadvantages received due to multiple instances of Scathing Tirade from a single character do not stack.
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Side Step
Tier 2
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked Yes
Once per round, your character may suffer a number of strain no greater than their ranks in Side Step to use this talent. Until the end of your character's next turn, upgrade the difficulty of all ranged combat checks targeting your character a number of times equal to the strain suffered.
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Speak With Beasts
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character must have the Fae trait in order to benefit from this talent. Your connection to nature allows you to communicate with animals. Once per encounter, you can understand and convey simple ideas to non-hostile animals within Short Range. This can provide you with information about the surroundings, dangers, or hidden objects as interpreted by the animals.
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Therianthrope (Improved)
Tier 2
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Therianthrope talent to benefit from this talent. Once per session, your character may make a Hard (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) Discipline check as an out-of-turn incidental to either trigger Shapeshifter or avoid triggering it when they exceed their strain threshold.
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Tier 3 Talents

Acolyte (Improved)
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Acolyte talent to benefit from this talent. Knowledge (Religion) is now a career skill for your character. Additionally, your character is no longer limited on the number of spells they may cast per encounter with the Divine skill.
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Adept (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Adept talent to benefit from this talent. Knowledge (Lore) is now a career skill for your character. Additionally, your character is no longer limited on the number of spells they may cast per encounter with the Arcana skill.
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Animal Companion
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character creates a bond with a single animal approved by your GM. This animal must be silhouette 0 (no larger than a mid-sized dog). The bond persists as long as your character chooses, although at your GM's discretion, the bond may also be broken due to abusive treatment or other extenuating circumstanes. As long as the bond persists, the animal follows your character, and you dicate the animal's overall behavior (although, since the animal is only bonded with the character, not dominated, it may still perform inconvenient actions such as scratching furniture, consuming rations, and marking territory). Once per round in structured encounters, your character may spend one maneuver to direct their animal in performing one action and one maneuver during your character's turn. The animal must be within hearing and visual range of your character (generally medium range) to do this. Otherwise, the animal does not contribute to the encounter. The specifics of its behavior are up to you and your GM. For ever additional rank of Animal Companion your character has, increase the allowed silhouette of the companion by one. (This may mean your character gets a new companion, or their companion grows in size.)
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Backstab
Tier 3
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character may use this talent to attack an unaware adversary using a Melee (Light) weapon. A backstab is a melee attack, and follows the normal rules for performing a combat check, using the character's Skulduggery skill instead of Melee (Light). If the check succeeds, reduce the critical rating of the weapon by 2 to a minimum of 1.
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Bard (Improved)
Tier 2
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Bard talent to benefit from this talent. Knowledge (History) is now a career skill for your character. Additionally, your character is no longer limited on the number of spells they may cast per encounter with the Verse skill.
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Disciplined Strike
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per round on your character's turn, your character may suffer 3 strain to use this talent to add damage equal to their ranks in Discipline to one hit of a successful attack.
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Dissonance
Tier 3
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
While wielding a musical instrument, your character may use this talent to make an Average (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) Verse check. For each Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination the check generates, one enemy of the player's chosing within medium range suffers 1 wound. For each Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, one enemy affected by Dissonance suffers 1 additional wound.
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Dodge
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked Yes
When your character is targeted by a combat check (ranged or melee), they may suffer a number of strain no greater than their ranks in Dodge to use this talent. Then, upgrade the difficulty of the combat check targeting your character a number of times equal to the strain suffered.
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Dual Strike
Tier 3
Activation No
Ranked No
When resolving a combined check to attack with two weapons in a melee combat, your character may suffer 3 strain to use this talent to hit with the secondary weapon (instead of spending Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination).
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Eagle Eyes
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per encounter before making a ranged combat check, you may use this talent to increase your weapon's range by one range band (to a maximum of extreme range). This lasts for the duration of the combat check.
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Feint
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character may spend Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination generated on a missed melee attack to upgrade the difficulty of an opponents next attack targeting the character by ranks in Feint.
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Field Commander
Tier 3
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character may use this talent to make an Average (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) Leadership check. If successful, a number of allies equal to your character's Presence may immediately suffer 1 strain to perform one maneuver (out of turn). If there are any questions as to which allies take their maneuvers first, your character is the final arbiter.
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Forgot to Count?
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked 3
When an opponent makes a ranged combat check, you can spend Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination from that check to use this talent to cause their weapon to run out of ammo as long as the weapon can normally run out of ammunition.
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Grenadier
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When your character makes a ranged combat check with a weapon that has the Blast quality, you may spend one Story Point to use this talent to trigger the weapon's Blast quality, instead of spending Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination (even if the attack misses). In addition, your character treats grenades as having a range of medium.
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Harass
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Whenever your character's animal companion makes a successful combat check against a target, it may forgo inflicting damage to upgrade the difficulty of the target's next check once instead.
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Heroic Resilience
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
Once per encounter, immediately after being hit by an attack but before suffering damage, your character may spend 1 Story Point to increase soak by ranks in Resilience.
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Heroic Will
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
When you purchase this talent for your character, choose two characteristics. You may spend a Story Point to use this talent to have your character ignore the effects of all critial injuries on any skill checks using those two characteristics until the end of the current encounter. (Your character still suffers the Critical Injuries; they just ignore the effects.)
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Informant
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Once per session, your character may spend a Story Point to reveal a contact who can shed light on a chosen subject.
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Inspiring Rhetoric (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Inspiring Rhetoric talent to benefit from this talent. Allies affected by your character's Inspiring Rhetoric add Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to all skill checks they make for a number of rounds equal to your character's ranks in Leadership.
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Natural
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When your character purchases this talent, choose two skills. Once per session, your character may use this talent to reroll one skill check that uses one of those two skills.
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Nobody's Fool
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
May upgrade the difficulty of incoming social checks once per rank of Nobody's Fool.
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Opportunist
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
When your character purchases this talent, choose one non-combat, non-magic skill. When you roll a check using this skill, you may suffer strain up to ranks in Opportunist to convert that many Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination into Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination or that many Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination into Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination.
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Painkiller Specialization
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
When your charcter uses painkillers, healing potions, stimpacks (or similar items depending on genre), the target heals one additional wound per rank of Painkiller Specialization. The sixth painkiller and beyond each day still has no effect.
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Parkour (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Parkour talent to benefit from this talent. Suffer 4 strain when making a move maneuver to move to any location within medium range.
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Parry (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Parry talent to benefit from this talent. When your character suffers a hit from a melee combat check and uses Parry to reduce the damage from that hit, after the attack is resolved, you may spend Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination or Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination from the attacker's check to use this talent. Then, your character automatcially hits the attacker once with a Brawl or Melee weapon your character is wielding. The hit deals the weapon's base damage, plus any damage from applicable talents or abilities. Your character can't use this talent if the original attack incapacitates them.
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Potent Concoctions
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
When your character makes an Alchemy check that generates Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, roll an addtional Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination and add its results to the pool, in addtion to spending the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination normally. When your character makes an Alchemy check that generates Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, roll an addtional Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination and add its results to the pool, in addtion to spending the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination normally. Each of these effects can only occur once per check.
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Rapidfire
Tier 3
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
While your character is armed with a ranged weapon they may suffer 3 strain to use this talent. During the next Ranged combat check your character makes this turn, the weapon gains the Linked quality with a value equal to their ranks in the Ranged skill.
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Scathing Tirade (Improved)
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Scathing Tirade talent to benefit from this talent. Enemies affected by your character's Scathing Tirade add Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to all skill checks they make for a number of rounds equal to your character's ranks in Coercion.
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Tame the Beast
Tier 3
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Therianthrope talent to benefit from this talent. Your character has become more accustomed to their hybrid form and receives the following benefits.
  • Wolf: Your character no longer reduces their Intellect by 1 when shapeshifting.
  • Panther: Your character only reduces their Presence by 1 when shapeshifting.
  • Bear: Your character only reduces their Intellect by 1 when shapeshifting.
  • Raven: Your character no longer reduces their Brawn by 1 when shapeshifting.
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Tier 4 Talents

Can't We Talk About This?
Tier 4
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Your character can use this talent to make an opposed Charm or Deception versus Discipline check targeting a single non-nemesis adversary within medium range. If the check succeeds, the target cannot attack your character (or perform hostile actions against your character) until the end of their next turn. You may spend Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to increase the length of the effect by one additional turn, and spend Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to extend the benefits to all of their identified allies within short range. The effect ends immediately if your character or a known ally attacks the target. In addition, your GM may rule that some targets are immune to this ability.
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Conduit
Tier 4
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, your character may spend a Story Point to perform a magic action as a maneuver.
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Deadeye
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
After your character inflicts a Critical Injury with a ranged weapon and rolls the result, your character may suffer 2 strain to use this talent. Then, you may select any Critical Injury of the same severity to apply to the target instead.
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Defensive
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Each rank of Defensive increases your character's melee defense and ranged defense by 1.
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Defensive Driving
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Increase the defense of any vehicle your character pilots by one per rank of Defensive Driving.
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Double Down
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Suffer 2 strain to perform the Double Down incidental to upgrade the difficulty of the next check by one. Then, after cancelling opposed symbols, double the amount of uncancelled Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination,Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination, and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination.
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Enduring
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Each rank of Enduring increases your character's soak value by one.
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Field Commander (Improved)
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your charcter must have purchased the Field Commander talent to benefit from this talent. When your character uses the Field Commander talent, your character affects a number of allies equal to twice the character's presence. In addition, you may spend Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to allow one ally to suffer 1 strain to perform an action, instead of a maneuver.
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How Convienient
Tier 4
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per session, your character may use this talent to make a Hard (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) Mechanics check. If successful, one device involved in the current encounter (subject to your GM's approval) spontaneously fails. This can be because of your character's actions, or it can simply be incredibly convenient timing!
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Inspiring Rhetoric (Supreme)
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Inspiring Rhetoric talent to benefit from this talent. Your character may choose to suffer 1 strain to use the Inspiring Rhetoric talent as a maneuver instead of an action.
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Jury Rigged
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Your character chooses one personal weapon or piece of armor. They may increase the damage of weapon by one, decrease the Critical rating by one (to a minimum of 1), increase or decrease one of a weapon's qualities by one, or increase armor's ranged or melee defense by one. Alternatively, they may decrease the encumbrance of the item by two to a minimum of one. The bonus only applies so long as your character is using the item. If the item is ever lost or destroyed, the character may apply Jury Rigged to a new personal weapon or piece of armor.
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Mad Inventor
Tier 4
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per session, your character may use this talent to make a Mechanics check to attempt to cobble together the functional equivalent of any item using spare parts or salvage. The difficulty of the check is based on the item's rarity. Your GM will modify the check based on circumstances and might decide that some items simply cannot be created with what's on hand. Your GM may spend Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination on the check to indicate the item ends up being dangerous to the user and anyone around them in some way. For instance, a pistol might explode instead of running out of ammo, or a breathing mask might make the user light-headed.
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Menace
Tier 4
Activation Active (Maneuver)
Ranked No
Take the Menace maneuver. Enemies within short range of the character's animal companion add Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination to the next combat check made against the character before the end of the character's next turn.
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Scathing Tirade (Supreme)
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Scathing Tirade talent to benefit from this talent. Your character may choose to suffer 1 strain to use the Scathing Tirade talent as a maneuver instead of as an action.
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Second Chance
Tier 4
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked Yes
Once per encounter choose a number of positive dice equal to ranks in Second Chance and reroll them.
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Tame the Beast (Improved)
Tier 4
Activation Passive
Ranked No
Your character must have purchased the Tame the Beast talent to benefit from this talent. Your character has become more accustomed to their hybrid form and receives the following benefits.
  • Wolf: Your character no longer reduces their Willpower by 1 when shapeshifting.
  • Panther: Your character no longer reduces their Presence when shapeshifting.
  • Bear: Your character no longer reduces their Intellect shapeshifting.
  • Raven: Your character no longer reduces their Willpower by 1 when shapeshifting.
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Tier 5 Talents

Big Fan
Tier 5
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per session, may take the Big Fan action; make a Hard (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination) Charm check to turn one NPC into the character's biggest fan. The exact effects of this may vary depending on the NPC and the situaiton. they can include drastically decreasing the difficulty of of socail interaction skill checks the character makes targeting his biggest fan, the fan being willing to perform minor or even significant favors for the character, or the NPC even becoming a recurring ally in the narrative. At the GM's discretion, this talent may not be able to target certain NPCs whose adversarial nature is vital to the plot, or NPCs who would be unable to appreciate the character's work.
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Agile Dodge
Tier 5
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When targeted by a combat check, your character may spend 1 Story Point to add Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination equal to their ranks in Coordination to the check.
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Dedication
Tier 5
Activation Passive
Ranked Yes
Each rank of Dedication incrases one of your characteristics by 1. This talent cannot increase a characteristic above 5. You cannot increase the same characteristic with Dedication twice.
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Indomitable
Tier 5
Activation Active (Incidental, Out of Turn)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, when your character would be incapacitated due to exceeding their wound or strain threshold, you may spend a Story Point to use this talent. Then, your character is not incapacitated until the end of their next turn. If your character reduces their wound or strain threshold before the end of their next turn, they are not incapacitated.
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Masterful
Tier 5
Activation Active (Incidental)
Ranked No
When you purchase this talent for your character, choose one skill. Once per round, your character may suffer 2 strain to use thsi talent to reduce the difficulty they make using that skill by 2, to a minimum of Easy (Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination)
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Ruinous Repartee
Tier 5
Activation Active (Action)
Ranked No
Once per encounter, your character may use this talent to make an opposed Charm or Coercion versus Discipline check targeting one character within medium range (or within earshot). If successful, the target suffers strain equal to twice your character's Presence, plus one additional strain per uncancelled Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination. Your character heals strain equal to the strain inflicted. If incapacitated due to this talent, the target could flee the scene in shame, collapes in a dejected heap, or throw themselves at your character in fury, depending on your GM and the nature of your character's witty barbs.
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