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A title is a name you earn, one at each Tier from 0 to 5, and a path is a line of titles. Earning a title gives its benefit at once and a Legacy you can use once, ready again after downtime.

Paths and Titles

A title is a name you earn. Each has a Tier from 0 to 5. A path is a line of titles that tells one life. A full path runs Tier 0 to 5.

One title at each Tier. You hold at most one title at each Tier, and none above your own Tier. No title needs the one below it. A lower Tier you left empty can still be filled.

Tier 0 is your background. At creation pick a role, then one of its four full paths. That path's Tier 0 title is yours from the start, with its Gear and one Token. A Token is a keepsake with no mechanical weight: pick one from the path's list or invent your own. Nobody earns a Tier 0 title in play.

Roles. A party has five jobs.

King builds the demesne.
Ranger explores and improves the land.
Mage advances the study of magic in the region.
Inquisitor protects the land from demonic threats: the Crowns, their cults, fiends and the walking dead.
Chancellor fills the treasury and gets the gold home.

Your role is your background's role. You may earn titles from any path.

Universal paths belong to no role and have no Tier 0. A Mythic title is a Tier 5 title with no path behind it.

Earning a title. Do what a title asks, in play, and it is yours. Characters who do the deed together each earn it. You gain its benefit at once, yours to keep, and its Legacy.

Each downtime. A benefit that comes each downtime comes once per stretch of downtime. The months you spend set the downtime's tier, by the Investment Table (Part 8): 1, 2, 3, 6 or 10 months for Tier 1 to 5. A benefit never goes above its title's own Tier.

Legacy. A Legacy is a dramatic moment. Say its name and it does what its entry says. You keep the Legacy of every title you hold. Each can be used once, and all of them are ready again after downtime.

Realism. Nobody arrives by plot convenience. Whoever a Legacy brings comes by road, at the speed people travel, from somewhere they could really be. If nobody could reach you, nobody comes. Real magic is another matter: a spell, a magic item or a Mythic power that teleports does what it says.

Followers. A follower is a Minor of its title's Tier, or a Major of that Tier where the title says so. A Minor follower is a retainer, and a Major follower uses the Major rules (both in Part 7B). All your followers may take the field together. They act on your turn and you roll for them. A band checks morale as any group does. A follower kept for a job may be sent to fight, as a Minor, unless its title says it does not. A follower who dies is replaced at your next downtime. Followers draw no wage. People a Legacy brings are whatever the GM has already made them. So is "every X in the region", which leaves out anyone sworn to your enemy.

Starting above Tier 1. A character made above Tier 1 holds their background path's titles below their own Tier, benefit and Legacy both. Their own Tier is left empty.

King Paths

The Noble

Role: King
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Shortsword (a court duelist's blade), fine clothes, signet ring, a loyal body servant (non-combatant), 2d6x5 gp
Token: Family crest, court invitation, scandal hidden, rival's threat, noble burden

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Scion	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Family Name. Wherever nobles are found, one who knows your house does you one favor.
1	Minor Noble	Build a manor house	A bodyguard, a Major, follows you and takes one hit for you each Rest	An Audience. One lord whose hall you can reach hears you out today.
2	Established Noble	Found an estate	No guard or watchman may search or disarm you	Court Whispers. Write to friends at court. Their answer, by courier, holds one secret of a noble house.
3	Influential Lord/Lady	Found a town	Heirloom armor with one Rare quality	Privilege of Rank. Wherever rank is honored, one arrest, charge or sentence against you or yours is set aside.
4	High Lord/Lady	Carve out a barony	Six household knights ride with you as retainers	Guest Right. For one day, every noble hall, keep and court you come to lets you and yours in.
5	Duke/Duchess	Found a duchy	You can make knights and barons, and the region honors your grants	Call the Banners. Send the summons. Your vassals ride to you with their knights, by road, for one battle.

The Soldier

Role: King
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Spear, three javelins, shield, light armor, campaign kit (bedroll, rations, iron spikes), 1d6x5 gp
Token: Unit insignia, campaign medal, discharge papers, comrade's memento, battle scar

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Recruit	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Old Comrade. Wherever soldiers are found, one who served with you does you one favor.
1	Veteran	Found a small guardpost	A sergeant, a Major, follows you and never breaks	Stand Fast. For one fight, you and every ally beside you cannot be routed, moved or frightened.
2	Decorated Soldier	Raise a militia	+1 Vitality, for good	Call the Unit. Send word and your old squad marches to you. They come by road, as fast as soldiers march, and fight beside you for one fight.
3	War Hero	Found a garrison	A squad of ten soldiers is yours, to bring along or leave holding a place	Dig In. Soldiers who are with you fortify any camp, hall or ruin overnight. It counts as a Secured camp, and attackers have disadvantage.
4	Battle Commander	Build a fortress	Heavy armor, a warhorse, and one Very Rare quality on a weapon	Storm the Gate. Soldiers who are with you break open one gate, wall or deck.
5	Marshal	Raise an army	Every soldier in the region obeys your orders	To Arms. Send the summons and every garrison and militia in the region marches to you for one battle. They arrive as fast as they can march.

The Diplomat

Role: King
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Fine clothes, diplomatic papers under seal, dagger, gifts for negotiation worth 25 gp, 1d6x5 gp
Token: Peace treaty, rival diplomat's respect, failed negotiation, breakthrough moment, the war you prevented (or started)

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Herald	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	A Hearing. One person who would turn you away hears you out first.
1	Mediator	End a feud	An interpreter follows you as a retainer and speaks every local tongue	Neutral Ground. Send word and two feuding local factions come to parley where you name.
2	Negotiator	Sign a border treaty	+1 skill point	Safe Conduct. Ask one faction, in person or by letter. You and yours cross its ground unharmed, there and back.
3	Ambassador	Open an embassy	Under a flag of truce, no soldier or sworn man strikes you first	Stay Their Hand. Ask in person or by letter, and one faction puts off one move against you for a week.
4	Envoy	End a war	A Mirror of Mental Prowess	Truce. Walk between two forces in the field under a white flag. The fighting stops until the next dawn.
5	Grand Ambassador	Forge a grand alliance	Every envoy and herald in the region answers to you	Summit. Send word and the region's rulers come to one table, by road. You cannot make them agree.

The Peasant

Role: King
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Club, sling and pouch of stones, crawling kit, simple clothes, 3d6x5 gp (the family savings, dug up the day you left)
Token: Family heirloom, deed to worthless land, lucky charm, wedding ring, prayer beads

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Common Folk	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Open Door. Wherever common folk live, one family feeds and hides you for a night.
1	Reeve	Build a granary	Six laborers follow you to carry, dig and build, but do not fight	Seen Nothing. The folk of one farm, inn or work crew tell nobody you were there.
2	Voice of the Fields	Found a village	In a Recovery, 1 Stamina restores 1 Vitality	Many Hands. The working folk of the village you are in give you one day of hard labor.
3	People's Champion	Found a town council	In a crowd of common folk, nobody can find or seize you	Down Tools. For a day the working folk of the town you are in do no work.
4	Folk Hero	Found a village league	A Very Rare quality on a club, sling, staff or farm tool	The Mob. Send word to the villages. Their folk walk in and riot beside you for a night.
5	Tribune of the People	Found a parliament	No lord in the region can raise a tax or levy against your word	Idle Hands. Send word out. As it spreads, the commons of the region stop work for three days.

The Heir

Role: King
Tiers: 1 to 3

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	Disinherited	Raise a loyal household	The family sword, with one Common quality	Old Servant. Wherever your house is remembered, one who served it opens one door for you.
2	Claimant	Retake a family holding	A sworn knight, a Major, follows you, mounted and in heavy armor	Loyal Roof. One loyalist household you can reach shelters and supplies you and yours.
3	Rightful Heir	Regain the family seat	+1 Vigor cap, for good	Loyal Swords. Send word and knights loyal to your blood ride to you by road. They do one task and go home.

The Heir Apparent

Role: King
Tiers: 3 to 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
3	Regent in Waiting	Found a court of law	The sword of state, with one Rare quality	Requisition. In the crown's name, the place you are in hands over mounts, food, a ship or lodging.
4	The Rightful Monarch	Build a royal palace	You can pardon any crime and outlaw anyone in the demesne	Royal Summons. Send for any lord of the realm. He comes by road and answers to you.
5	Uncrowned Sovereign	Found a kingdom	A royal guard of twenty goes where you go	The King's Peace. Proclaim it. As word spreads, all private war in the region stops for a month.

The Fallen Hero

Role: King
Tiers: 3 to 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
3	Legend Tarnished	Rebuild a ruined town	Once per fight, one attack that hits you misses	Still a Hero. Where your name is known, one crowd takes your side. It will not fight and will not move.
4	The Return	Restore a fallen city	Your sword and your armor each gain one Rare quality	Old Ally. Send for an old companion, a Major. If they can reach you, they come for one venture.
5	The Twice-Lived	Raise a fallen kingdom	Once per day, you succeed on any one roll	The Old Banner. Raise it. Veterans within a day's march who remember you come and fight one battle under it.

Ranger Paths

The Ranger

Role: Ranger
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Shortbow and 20 arrows, hunting dagger, light armor, survival kit (snares, skinning knife, tinder, three days rations), 1d6x5 gp
Token: Fur pelt, carved totem, wilderness map, animal companion's memory, untamed heart

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Trapper	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Trapper's Fire. Wherever trappers are found, one shares his fire and what he has seen. It counts as a Secured camp.
1	Wilderness Scout	Map a small wood	A tracking hound, a Major, follows you and never breaks	Hidden Camp. You and those with you take one Rest unfound in any wild place. It counts as a Secured camp, and no camp die is rolled.
2	Proven Tracker	Build a hunting lodge	+1 skill point, spent in Hunting	Read the Ground. From one set of tracks you learn what made them, how many, how hurt and where they went.
3	Master Ranger	Map a wilderness	Eyes of the Eagle	Hunter's Network. Send word and hunters nearby come to you on foot. They track, guide and scout for one hunt, and its Navigation saves pass.
4	Warden of the Wild	Raise a ranger company	One Very Rare quality on your bow	Ambush. You pick the ground and hide all who are with you. Your enemies are surprised.
5	Chief Ranger	Tame a frontier	Every ranger and hunter in the region obeys your orders	The Wild Watches. Send word and every hunter in the region watches the trails for a month. Their news comes by runner.

The Wanderer

Role: Ranger
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Staff, crawling kit, road maps and compass, lantern, weathered cloak, 2d6x5 gp
Token: Strange stone, foreign trinket, journal of places, faded photograph, mysterious key

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Vagabond	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Fellow Traveler. Wherever travelers stop, one shares a meal and news of the road.
1	Traveler	Blaze a trail	A riding horse and a pack mule that never bolt	Shortcut. You know a shorter way to one place within one travel day. You get there in half the time, and its Navigation saves pass.
2	Road-Wise	Build a bridge	Gloves of Swimming and Climbing	Safe Path. You know a safe way through one stretch of dangerous country. You and those with you walk it unharmed for one travel day. No day die is rolled and its Navigation saves pass. The camp die still rolls.
3	Pathfinder	Build a road	+1 Vigor cap, for good	An Old Friend. In any settlement travelers reach, you know someone who lives there. They shelter you or vouch for you.
4	Wayfarer	Open a mountain pass	A Folding Boat and a Necklace of Adaptation	Hidden Way. You find a way round one wall, river or army. You and those with you still walk it.
5	Master Guide	Build a great highway	Every guide and ferryman in the region obeys your orders	Unseen March. A host you guide crosses the region unseen, by ways nobody watches. Its Navigation saves pass, and it walks every mile. The day die still rolls: on an encounter, that group has seen the host and nobody else has.

The Sailor

Role: Ranger
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Shortsword, navigator's tools (charts, compass, sounding line), rope and grappling hook, sailor's clothes, 2d6x5 gp
Token: Captain's letter, ship's coin, storm survivor mark, sea chart, drowned shipmate's token

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Landsman	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Shipmate. Wherever ships put in, one sailor you worked beside does you one favor.
1	Deckhand	Build a small dock	A small boat is yours, sound and seaworthy	Working Passage. Any ship in port takes you and those with you aboard. She sails where she was bound.
2	Boatswain	Start a ferry	Three sailors follow you as retainers	Every Port Knows Me. In any port, the dockhands tell you which ships came and went and what they carried.
3	Ship's Master	Build a harbor	No vessel you pilot runs aground or loses her way	Loan of a Ship. In any port, a captain there lends you his ship and crew for one voyage. Then she goes home.
4	Captain	Chart an unknown coast	A ship is yours, armed and crewed by twelve sailors	Run the Blockade. A ship you command slips past one blockade, chain or harbor watch unseen.
5	Commodore	Found a great port	Every captain in the region obeys your orders	Call the Fleet. Send word and every ship in the region's ports sails to you for one battle. They come as fast as wind and oar allow.

The Refugee

Role: Ranger
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Spear, crawling kit, blanket, healing salve, 2d6x5 gp
Token: Faded map of homeland, prayer book, family recipe, scar from escape, foreign coin

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Displaced	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Shared Bread. Wherever refugees are found, one family feeds and shelters you. It counts as a Secured camp.
1	Homesteader	Build a homestead	Advantage on the Sense save to forage	Slip Away. You and those with you go on foot before anyone notices, and leave no trail.
2	Survivor's Voice	Settle a hamlet	+1 Vitality, for good	Survivor's Network. Wherever refugees live, they feed and shelter everyone you bring them for one month. It counts as a Secured camp.
3	Founder	Found a frontier town	Ten settlers are yours, to build, dig or plant where you say	Barn Raising. Settlers who are with you raise a palisade, a barn or a bridge in one day.
4	Symbol of Resistance	Settle a valley	Refugees and settlers who fight beside you never break	Rise Up. Send word and refugees nearby come on foot to fight beside you for one fight.
5	Architect of Return	Settle a new homeland	Every refugee and settler in the region obeys your orders	Homecoming. Send word and every refugee in the region walks to one place you name, carrying all they own.

The Monster Slayer

Role: Ranger
Tiers: 1 to 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	Monster Hunter	Kill a dangerous beast	The Hunting quality on a weapon of your choice	Local Lore. Wherever people live near a monster, they tell you where it dens and when it hunts.
2	Proven Slayer	Clear a monster nest	+1 Vitality, for good	The Hunter's Lodge. Wherever hunters keep a lodge, it arms you and those with you for one hunt with silver, oil and poison.
3	Master Hunter	Slay a great monster	Each Major monster you kill yields a Tier 2 alchemical item	Its Weakness. You learn what harms one monster you have tracked, and attack it with advantage for one fight.
4	The Slayer	Slay a dragon	Minor monsters break the first time you hit them	Bait. You lure one monster you have tracked to ground you chose. It comes in its own time.
5	Grand Slayer	Slay a region's terror	Every monster hunter in the region obeys your orders	The Great Hunt. Send word and the region's monster hunters ride to you, as fast as they can, for one hunt.

The Exile

Role: Ranger
Tiers: 3 to 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
3	Leader of the Lost	Found a hidden refuge	Ten exiles follow you, to bring along or leave on watch	Safe House. Wherever exiles or outcasts live, they hide you and those with you. No search finds you.
4	Exile of Note	Open a smugglers' road	A Portable Hole and an Eversmoking Bottle	Friends Abroad. Write to exiles at one foreign court. One speaks for you there and writes back.
5	Government in Exile	Found a city of exiles	Every exile and outlaw in the region obeys your orders	The Underground. Send word and exiles take any number of people out of the region by hidden roads, on foot. These count as roads for pace and Navigation.

Mage Paths

The Scholar

Role: Mage
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Staff, spellbook (empty or starter), component pouch, ink, quills and journal, student robes, 2d6x5 gp
Token: Mentor's sigil, half-learned spell, cryptic lesson, magical Faith, mentor's last words

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Student	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Classmate. Wherever scholars are found, one who studied with you does you one favor.
1	Learned	Start a small archive	An apprentice follows you as a retainer and casts Witch-Sight	Consult the Archives. In any library you can reach, one book answers your question.
2	Published Scholar	Found a library	+1 skill point, spent in Scholarship or Occultism	Expert Opinion. Send word and the best living expert on your question writes back, as fast as a letter travels.
3	Expert Authority	Build a wizard's tower	Each downtime you scribe one spell scroll of the downtime's tier, up to Tier 3	Open the Collection. One private library, archive or vault of lore lets you in for a day.
4	Master of Lore	Found a school of magic	A Tier 3 wand, and you can use wands	Break the Seal. A night among books tells you how to undo one ward or seal you have seen.
5	Dean Emeritus	Found a university	Every scholar and wizard in the region does the work you set	Convocation. Send the summons and the region's scholars come by road, with their books, to answer one question.

The Cursed

Role: Mage
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Dagger, a bundle of charms and wards pressed on you by frightened neighbors, crawling kit, antitoxin, 2d6x5 gp
Token: Failed charm, hag's knotted cord, page you cannot read, key to a shunned house, covered mirror

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Afflicted	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Fellow Sufferer. Wherever the cursed are found, one of them does you one favor.
1	Charm-Breaker	Break a person's curse	You can break any minor curse on a person or thing with an hour's work	The Mark. One hag or spirit you meet bargains with you where it would eat anyone else.
2	Curse-Bearer	Cleanse a cursed house	+1 to all saving throws, for good	The Hidden Page. One cursed or forbidden text shows you the passage no one else can read.
3	Master of Curses	Free a cursed village	Six of the cursed follow you as retainers and cannot be frightened	Ask the Bound. One bound or restless spirit you can speak to answers three questions truthfully.
4	Living Hex	Lift a valley's curse	One touch a day curses: Sense save or disadvantage on saves until dawn	Turn the Curse. One curse or spell cast at you rebounds on its caster.
5	Curse Master	End a kingdom's curse	Every witch, hag and cursed soul in the region answers to you	Walk Through. For the day and the night after it, you and those with you cross any cursed place unharmed. On Corrupted ground no day die or camp die is rolled.

The Pact-Bound

Role: Mage
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Dagger, the contract in a hand that is not yours, component pouch, fine clothes bought with the first payment, healing salve, 2d6x5 gp
Token: Patron's seal, quill you signed with, cult candle stub, glove that hides the mark, leaf that never wilts

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Supplicant	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Fellow Servant. Wherever your patron is served, one servant does you one favor.
1	Warlock	Bargain with a spirit	You know one Tier 1 arcane spell and cast it with Heart	Ask the Patron. Your patron answers one question truly. It never tells the whole of it.
2	Favored Servant	Seal a hag's pact	A flying imp, a Major, follows you and can go unseen	Call the Cult. Send word and your patron's nearest cult comes by road for one night's work.
3	High Warlock	Found a coven	+1 Vigor cap, for good	Call in the Bargain. For one fight your pact-mark burns. Minors who see it will not attack you.
4	The Patron's Voice	Treat with a fey court	A Ring of Spell Storing, refilled each downtime with a spell of the downtime's tier, up to Tier 4	Its Voice. One lesser fiend, fey or spirit you face obeys one order.
5	The Bound King/Queen	Bind a demon prince	Every warlock and coven in the region obeys your orders	Hell Knows Your Name. For one scene, no fiend or spirit strikes first at you or those with you.

The Lost

Role: Mage
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Shortsword of unfamiliar make, three objects you cannot identify, unusual clothes, crawling kit, sunrod, 2d6x5 gp (coin no local moneychanger recognizes)
Token: Unknown origin, recurring dream, inexplicable skill, missing time, the face in the mirror

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Touched by Beyond	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Strange Eyes. Wherever seers are found, one of them does you one favor.
1	Sign-Reader	Chart a strange place	You can cast Read Omens, with Sense as your casting stat	Strange Signs. You know what one strange mark, light or sound means and what made it.
2	Walker Between	Find a source of magic	A Lantern of Revealing	The Strange Place. In one strange place, you know the safe way through, and every Navigation save there passes. You must still walk it.
3	Strange Wanderer	Build an observatory	A creature from beyond, a Major, follows you and never sleeps	Alien Tongue. For one scene you and any creature understand each other.
4	Breach-Touched	Seal a great breach	Advantage on all saves against spells and magical effects	Hold the Breach. One rift or gate you stand before stays shut until dawn.
5	The Unreturned	Tame a region's wonder	Every occultist in the region obeys your orders	Kin of the Beyond. For one scene, one creature from beyond this world that you meet treats you as kin.

The Touched

Role: Mage
Tiers: 1 to 3

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	Marked	Wake a standing stone	You cannot be surprised	Whispers. The presence tells you one true thing about where you stand. It is never plain.
2	Conduit	Raise a stone circle	One weapon of yours gains the Shocking quality	The Presence Shields. One hit that lands on you or an ally beside you does nothing.
3	The Chosen Vessel	Wake a place of power	Six believers follow you as retainers and never break	The Presence Speaks. It shows you one place or person you name, as they are right now.

The Transformed

Role: Mage
Tiers: 2 to 4

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
2	Shapeshifter	Capture a magical beast	+1 AC, for good	Beast Senses. For one scene you track by scent, see in the dark and hear a heartbeat through a wall.
3	Master of Forms	Found a menagerie	You wear any humanoid face you have seen, at will, as Stolen Face	Embrace the Change. For one scene you become a beast of Tier 3 or lower and keep your own mind.
4	Living Chimera	Capture a chimera	No beast attacks you unless you strike it first	Chimera. For one scene you grow wings, claws and an armored hide.

The Vessel

Role: Mage
Tiers: 3 to 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
3	Shared Soul	Bind a powerful spirit	+1 Vigor cap, for good	It Remembers. The entity answers one question about something older than living memory.
4	Living Prison	Build a spirit prison	An Iron Flask	Terrible Presence. For one fight the entity looks out of your eyes. No Minor will come within reach of you.
5	The Cage	Seal an ancient evil	Every lesser spirit in the region obeys your orders	Channel the Entity. For one scene the entity holds your body. You are immune to all conditions.

Inquisitor Paths

The Acolyte

Role: Inquisitor
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Holy symbol, mace, religious vestments, prayer book, healing salve, 2d6x5 gp
Token: Sacred relic, mentor's prayer, divine sign, temple key, sacred vow record

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Novice	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Temple Door. Wherever your faith has a temple, one priest there does you one favor.
1	Initiate	Cleanse a shrine	A healer with 3 points in Healing follows you as a retainer	Guidance. Pray an hour over one choice. Your god shows you which way is right.
2	Ordained Priest/Priestess	Hallow a graveyard	A Tier 2 relic of your choice	Lay On Hands. Touch one person and restore their Vitality.
3	Blessed Speaker	Found a temple	Unholy beings cannot possess, charm or frighten you	A Sign. Your god sends a sign all can see. Everyone present believes one true thing you tell them.
4	High Priest/Priestess	Sanctify a battlefield	Each downtime you can make one relic of the downtime's tier, up to Tier 4	Sanctuary. Hallow one building until dawn. Nothing unholy can enter it.
5	Archpriest	Raise a grand cathedral	Every priest of your faith in the region obeys you	Call Back the Dead. Pray over one body dead less than a day. They return to life with 1 Vitality and one wound.

The Knight

Role: Inquisitor
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Longsword, shield, light armor, heraldic surcoat, military kit, 1d6x5 gp
Token: Order insignia, campaign medal, oath document, mentor's gift, battle scar

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Squire	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Old Master. Wherever knights are found, one who knew your master does you one favor.
1	Knight Errant	Free a cult's captive	A warhorse and a suit of heavy armor	Single Combat. Challenge one foe. Until one of you falls or yields, no one else strikes either of you.
2	Proven Knight	Break a profane altar	Armor takes 1 less from your Vigor cap	Call the Order. Send word and nearby knights of your order come by road and fight beside you for one fight.
3	Knight Champion	Storm a cult's temple	Three mounted knights, Majors, are yours, to ride with you or guard a place	Hold the Door. For one fight, no enemy passes the doorway, gate or bridge you stand in.
4	Knight Commander	Found a chapter house	The Holy quality on a weapon of your choice	The Charge. Knights who are with you ride down one line of foot. Its Minors break.
5	Grand Master	Found a knightly order	No ally who sees your banner ever breaks	The Order Rides. Send the summons and every knight of your order in the region rides to you for one battle. They come by road.

The Investigator

Role: Inquisitor
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Investigator's kit (magnifying glass, notebook, chalk), dagger, mirror, 2d6x5 gp
Token: Unsolved case, cryptic clue, enemy's threat, witness's trust, the one that got away

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Informer	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Old Source. Wherever informers are found, one who knows you does you one favor.
1	Private Eye	Unmask a hidden cultist	Advantage on checks to tell when you are being lied to	Below Stairs. In any house with servants, one tells you one thing they saw or heard.
2	Known Investigator	Expose a secret coven	+1 skill point, spent in Investigation or Inquisition	Blind Eye. One guard on a door or gate you name lets you through and says nothing.
3	Master Detective	Root out a town's cult	A Gem of Seeing and a Candle of Truth	Pull the Record. In any town, a clerk copies out one record kept there and brings it to you.
4	Senior Inspector	Purge a corrupted court	No magic can read your mind, scry on you or charm you	Underworld. In any town, its thieves tell you where one person or thing is hidden in it.
5	Chief Inspector	Found an inquisition	Every court in the region opens its records, cells and witnesses to you	Every Ear. Send word and informants across the region write you what they know of one name.

The Pilgrim

Role: Inquisitor
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Staff, holy symbol and prayer beads, pilgrim's robes, crawling kit, 2d6x5 gp (alms given along the road)
Token: Sacred relic, pilgrimage map, blessed token, miracle witnessed, faith tested

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Penitent	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Road Companion. Wherever pilgrims walk, one who knows you does you one favor.
1	Wandering Faithful	Raise a wayside shrine	A Tier 1 relic of your choice	Holy Ground. Any shrine or temple you reach hides and shelters you and yours for one night. It counts as a Secured camp, and no camp die is rolled.
2	Blessed Pilgrim	Recover a saint's relic	+1 Vitality, for good	Blessed Road. Bless one journey of up to a week. Your party meets no accident on it, a failed Navigation save included, and no day die or camp die is rolled.
3	Holy Wanderer	Ward a town	Ground where you and your party sleep is holy until dawn, a Secured camp with no camp die	Pilgrims Rally. Wherever pilgrims are gathered, they take up staves and fight beside you for one fight.
4	Saint's Companion	Open a pilgrim road	A Tier 3 relic of your choice	Wake the Relic. One relic you carry releases its litany and is not destroyed.
5	Hajji Master	Found a holy city	Any shrine in the region lends you its relics	Procession. Send word and the region's pilgrims walk to a place you name. While they keep vigil, nothing unholy enters it.

The Awakened

Role: Inquisitor
Tiers: 2 to 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
2	Seer	Break up a cult's rite	You see the invisible and the true form of shapeshifters	Forewarning. Sleep, and a seer's dream shows you the next danger on your road and where it waits.
3	Oracle	Build a seer's sanctum	A Helm of Telepathy	Hidden Truth. Name someone you have met. A seer's dream shows you one thing they are hiding.
4	Prophet	Stop a great summoning	Six disciples follow you as retainers	Find the Lost. Name one lost person or thing. A seer's dream shows you where it lies.
5	Grand Oracle	Unite a region's seers	A Crystal Ball of True Seeing	Conclave. Send word and the region's seers travel to you. Ask them one question and get a true answer.

The Chosen

Role: Inquisitor
Tiers: 3 to 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
3	Destiny's Champion	Cast out a fiend	The Banishing quality on a weapon of your choice	Shelter. Wherever believers are found, they hide you and yours from one enemy until dawn. It counts as a Secured camp.
4	The Prophesied	Break an undead host	Ten zealots follow you and never break	Sage's Word. Send word to a sage of the prophecy. They write back the weakness of one fiend or cult.
5	The Prophesied One	Banish a demon lord	Every believer in the region obeys your orders	The Movement. Send word and believers across the region march to you for one battle. They come on foot.

Chancellor Paths

The Merchant

Role: Chancellor
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Dagger, merchant's clothes, scales and weights, trade goods worth 30 gp, 1d6x5 gp in coin
Token: Trade license, family ledger, rare sample, trusted contact's seal, first profit coin

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Peddler	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Fair Price. Wherever goods are sold, one trader sells you one thing at cost.
1	Trader	Open a market stall	A pack mule and a Bag of Holding (Minor)	Market Talk. In any market, the traders tell you what is scarce, who is buying and what is on the road.
2	Established Merchant	Open a trading post	Any market sells to you as if its settlement were a tier higher	On Credit. In any market, take one thing you cannot pay for. The debt is due next downtime.
3	Guild Master	Found a merchant guild	A caravan with six guards is yours, to bring along, send out or haul a hoard home	Rare Goods. Send word and your agents find one rare thing for sale. It comes by wagon and you still pay.
4	Merchant Prince/Princess	Found a great fair	A Carpet of Flying	Call the Debt. One lord or guild you can reach owes you coin, and does one service to clear it.
5	Trade Magnate	Found a trade league	Every merchant in the region answers to you	Embargo. Send word and every market in the region shuts to one buyer you name, for a month. Word goes at a rider's pace.

The Guard

Role: Chancellor
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Longsword, shield, light armor, guard's badge, lantern and oil, manacles, 1d6x5 gp
Token: Oath of service, protected's token, dead partner's memory, duty roster, the one you couldn't save

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Porter	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Gate Friend. Wherever a gate is kept, one keeper lets you through after hours.
1	Watchman	Build a strongroom	You cannot be surprised	Hue and Cry. Shout, and every guard and watchman within earshot comes running to you.
2	Senior Guard	Build a toll gate	+1 Vitality, for good	Stop and Search. Wherever a watch is kept, it stops and searches one cart, ship or house on your word.
3	Captain of the Watch	Found a town watch	Armor and a shield with one Rare quality on either	Turn Out the Watch. Send word to the watch house and the watch turns out for one night's work. They come on foot.
4	Provost Marshal	Garrison a trade road	Ten mounted guards are yours, to ride with you or a cargo	Clear the Road. Guards who are with you drive one band off a road, bridge or pass.
5	Lord/Lady Commander	Found the road wardens	Every guard in the region obeys your orders	Shut the Gates. Send riders, and each town in the region shuts its gates for a day once they reach it.

The Thief

Role: Chancellor
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Two daggers, thieves' tools, grappling hook and rope, dark clothes, 2d6x5 gp
Token: First stolen treasure, guild mark, nemesis's calling card, escape route map, partner's debt

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Lookout	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Eyes Open. Wherever thieves are found, one keeps watch for you for a night.
1	Cutpurse	Rob a shop	Boots and a Cloak of Elvenkind	Extra Hands. Wherever thieves are found, a lockpick and a lookout join you for one job.
2	Proven Thief	Rob a toll house	You fence stolen goods at 75% value	Forged Papers. Wherever thieves are found, a forger makes you one paper that passes. It takes a day.
3	Master Thief	Rob a town vault	Six thieves are yours, to bring along or leave watching a mark	Inside Man. Wherever thieves are found, they know a servant who can be bought. He opens a door or copies a key.
4	Senior Burglar	Rob a lord's treasury	A Ring of X-Ray Vision	Smuggler's Run. Send word and smugglers carry one cargo past every gate and toll on one road or coast.
5	Guildmaster	Rob a dragon's hoard	Every thief in the region obeys your orders	The Big Score. Send word and the best thieves in the region gather for one job. They come by road, in secret, and it takes weeks.

The Apprentice

Role: Chancellor
Tiers: 0 to 5
Gear: Artisan's tools (one trade), dagger, work clothes, lantern and flask of oil, 2d6x5 gp
Token: Masterwork tool, unfinished project, master's sigil, trade secret notes, rare material

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
0	Apprentice	Starting background	This path's Gear and one Token	Borrowed Bench. Wherever your trade is worked, one master lends you his bench.
1	Journeyman	Open a workshop	+1 skill point, spent in a Crafting tree	Fine Tools. Given a day and materials, make one tool that gives advantage on the work it was made for.
2	Master Craftsman	Build a mill	Each downtime you can make one weapon or armor quality of the downtime's tier, up to Tier 2	Master's Lock. Given a day and materials, make a lock, chest or door that cannot be picked, only broken.
3	Guild Honored	Build a foundry	Six journeymen are yours, to bring along or leave working an order	Guild Hands. Send word and the craftsmen of the town drop their own work and finish your one order.
4	Renowned Artisan	Build a shipyard	One Very Rare quality on a piece you made	Masterwork. Given a week and materials, make one piece fit for a court. Whoever takes it owes you a favor.
5	Grandmaster	Found a mint	Every craftsman in the region works to your order	Great Work. Send word and every guild in the region sends hands by road. In one month they raise one bridge, wall, ship or engine.

The Sellsword

Role: Chancellor
Tiers: 3 to 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
3	Elite Mercenary	Raise a free company	+1 martial point	The Market. Wherever sellswords drink, they tell you who is hiring, what the job really is and who does not pay.
4	Senior Contractor	Hold a lord to ransom	A Rare quality on a weapon and another on armor	Down Swords. Send word to one free company you can reach. It sits out one day's fighting.
5	Captain-General	Hold a king to ransom	Every sellsword in the region obeys your orders	Name Your Price. One ruler you can reach who needs swords grants you one favor as your fee. You still do the job.

Universal Paths

The Performer

Universal. Tiers: 1 to 5.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	Street Performer	Win a hostile crowd	+1 skill point, spent in Performance	Hold the Room. While you perform, nobody in one room looks away or leaves.
2	Renowned Entertainer	Form a troupe	A Hat of Disguise	Stir the Crowd. One crowd that hears you out takes up the mood you play, for the night.
3	Star Performer	Open a playhouse	An understudy follows you as a retainer and can pass for you	The Mirror. Play out a crime before a hall. Anyone there who did it gives themselves away.
4	Master Performer	Hold a great festival	A Deck of Illusions	Move the Throne. A ruler who hears you out grants one pardon, stay or hearing.
5	Virtuoso	Found a bardic college	Every minstrel in the region sings what you give them	Command Performance. Send word and a region's rival powers come by road to hear you. They keep truce until you finish.

The Escaped

Universal. Tiers: 1 to 3.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	The Escaped	Escape your captors	Given a minute, you slip any rope, chain or manacle	The Weak Link. Watch one cell, cage or guard post for an hour. You learn its one flaw.
2	Known Fugitive	Free a chain gang	A runaway follows you as a retainer and opens any common lock	Passing as Property. You and yours enter one place as its slaves or servants. Nobody looks twice.
3	The Unbound	Break open a prison	Captives anywhere obey you over their keepers	The Hidden Road. Wherever runaways are found, they pass you and those with you out of one settlement unseen, on foot.

The Orphan

Universal. Tiers: 1 to 3.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	Street Survivor	Take in an orphan	+1 skill point, spent in Streetwise	Light Fingers. Wherever street children are found, one lifts a key, purse or letter off someone you point out.
2	Urchin King/Queen	Raise an urchin gang	You jump triple distance, and falls cannot wound you	Commotion. Wherever street children are found, a pack draws all eyes in one street for a few minutes.
3	Shadow Network	Found a beggars' guild	Six beggars follow you as retainers and go unnoticed	Shadowed. In any town, its beggars follow one person for a night. You learn where they went and who they met.

The Reborn

Universal. Tiers: 1 to 5.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	Returned	Save a lost child	When you catch a Second Wind, you make one attack at once	Last Words. Sit with one who is dying. They live until they have told you one true thing.
2	Death-Touched	Save a lost family	Undead never attack you first	Death Denied. When a hit would cost you a wound, it costs none. You still catch your Second Wind.
3	Twice-Born	Save a lost patrol	Poison and disease cannot harm you	Play Dead. You pass for a corpse to anyone who checks, for as long as you lie still.
4	Deathless	Save a lost expedition	A Ring of Regeneration	Back From the Grave. Enemies who thought you dead and see you alive are frightened for one fight.
5	The Undying	Save a lost army	You no longer need to breathe, eat or sleep, and no injury roll can kill you: a roll of 31 or more counts as 30	Take the Blow. For one fight, any hit on an ally beside you can land on you instead.

The Hunted

Universal. Tiers: 1 to 4.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	Fugitive	Lose a pursuer	Goggles of Night and a Rope of Climbing	Fresh Horses. Wherever outlaws are found, one has fresh horses for you and yours. Nobody asks questions.
2	The Quarry	Ambush a bounty hunter	Once per Rest, one missile that hits you misses	Tip-Off. Wherever outlaws are found, one tells you who hunts you and how close.
3	Most Wanted	Shake off a manhunt	An Amulet of Proof Against Detection	False Trail. Send word and the outlaws of one settlement swear you went the other way. One pursuit follows the lie for a day.
4	The Unkillable	Break an assassin guild	Critical hits against you are normal hits	Smuggler's Passage. Wherever smugglers work, they carry you and yours out with the cargo.

The Liberator

Universal. Tiers: 1 to 5.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	Agitator	Free a workhouse	An Immovable Rod and a Bell of Warning	The Press. Wherever your cause has friends, a printer copies one sheet overnight and posts it along one street.
2	Voice of Change	Free a village	+1 skill point, spent in Leadership	The Barricade. Wherever your cause has friends, they block one street overnight. It stops horse and cart until cleared.
3	Liberation Leader	Free a town	Five rebels follow you as retainers and pass for common folk	A Friend Inside. Wherever your cause has friends, one guard warns you of a raid or leaves one door unbarred.
4	Cell Commander	Free a valley	Rebels who fight beside you never break	The Couriers. One message reaches every town in the valley, past any checkpoint, as fast as a rider.
5	Liberation General	Overthrow a tyrant	Every rebel in the region obeys your orders	The Rising. Send word and every cell in the region rises on the day you name. Each strikes where it stands.

The Betrayer

Universal. Tiers: 1 to 4.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	Turncoat	Betray a gang	The Venomous quality on a blade of your choice	Changed Story. One witness you can reach, who can be bought, tells it your way. You still pay.
2	The Faithless	Betray a petty lord	A spy follows you as a retainer and passes for a servant	In Your Pocket. Someone inside one gang or household you can reach tells its master one lie of yours.
3	Master Betrayer	Betray a town's rulers	No check or magic can tell when you lie	The Dirt. Name one person in a town where you have ears. You learn one secret they would pay to keep.
4	The Knife in the Dark	Betray a great house	Your attack on one who trusts you is a critical hit	The Plant. Send word and a servant you bought plants one thing in his master's house.

The Hermit

Universal. Tiers: 1 to 5.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
1	Recluse	Build a hermit's hut	A Tier 1 alchemical item, brewed fresh each Rest	Sit the Night. Sit one night in silence by a house or camp. By dawn you know one thing its people hide.
2	Wise Hermit	Build a chapel	+1 to all saving throws, for good	The Riddle. Fast for a day over one riddle, cipher or puzzle. You know its answer.
3	Anchorite	Found a priory	A Cube of Force	True Nature. Name one creature, curse or haunting you have seen. You know what it truly is and what it wants.
4	Mystic Sage	Found a monastery	Your Fate refreshes to 4 each session, not 3	Old Stories. Name one ruin, tomb or old road. You know who made it and what they left there.
5	Elder Sage	Found an order of sages	Every sage and hermit in the region answers to you	The Forgotten Path. Name a place in the region. You know an unwatched way there, with no Navigation save, and must still walk it.

Mythic Titles

Each stands alone. Nobody starts as one and nobody is half of one. A Mythic Legacy may be supernatural, but it brings nobody from nowhere and wins nothing by itself.

The Kingslayer

Role: King
Tier: 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
5	The Crownless	Slay a king	Your hits on a ruler are critical hits	The Crown Falls. Declare against one ruler in the region. As word spreads, his vassals send him no men and no coin for a month.

The World-Walker

Role: Ranger
Tier: 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
5	Walker of All Worlds	Map another world	You speak all languages and are immune to environmental hazards	Open the Way. Open a door to a world you have walked. Until dawn only you and yours pass, there and back.

The Unmaker

Role: Mage
Tier: 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
5	The Void-Touched	Unmake an artifact	Once per day, you raise a 10-foot antimagic field for 1 minute	Unmake. Touch one made thing, magic or not, no bigger than a tower. It comes apart unless it is a creature.

The Ascendant

Role: Inquisitor
Tier: 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
5	The Ascended	Cast down a false god	Once per day, your touch removes 1 wound from one person	Taste of Divinity. For one scene you fly and shine with a god's light. Unholy Minors who see you break.

The Prophet

Role: Inquisitor
Tier: 5

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
5	The Final Prophet	Found a new faith	Once per day, you make anyone reroll one roll	Proclamation. Speak one prophecy in symbols. As word spreads, the region believes it and does as it sees fit.

The Dragon-Blood

Universal. Tier: 5.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
5	The Wyrm Incarnate	Drink a great wyrm's blood	You fly on dragon wings, and fire cannot harm you	Dragon's Wrath. For one scene you breathe fire in a 60-foot cone. It deals 5 Vigor damage, or 1 on a save.

The Legend

Universal. Tier: 5.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
5	The Eternal	Turn back an invasion	Twenty young heroes follow you as retainers and never break	Become the Myth. One impossible feat of strength or speed, not an attack, succeeds. All who see it tell the story.

The Apocalypse

Universal. Tier: 5.

Tier	Title	Earn it	Benefit, yours at once	Legacy, once between downtimes
5	The End of All Things	Raze a great city	Each downtime a ruler in the region sends you a magic item of the downtime's tier, up to Tier 5	Bring Down the Walls. Camp a month in sight of one fortress, bridge or city wall, and it is rubble.