Trait Cost: 4

Can only be taken at character creation

You were born with a knack for getting people to trust you easier and learned to manipulate them to get what you want, mostly for them to die from your poisonous touch.

Perk

Venomous Charm

Your venomous manipulation is so potent you can charm people with your sensual looks and voice. You gain Venomous Charm an ability that lets you charm a target. The target must make a psyche check versus your lucky influence check or fall victim to your charms. If the target fails their check, you can give them one simple command that cannot cause them to do harm to anyone, including themselves. A target can only be charmed once per day.

Charming people can be exhausting work. You can only use Venomous Charm up to half your persona minus two per day (min 1).

Venomous Blood

Your body has gone through a process that has turned your blood into venom. This process is irreversible, but you are immune to your own poison.

You have a set number of Venom Dice, which is equal to your stamina instinct. Each venom will indicate the die size and the effect or damage it can cause. So, if your stamina instinct is a four, then you have four Venom Dice. You then choose how many dice you want to apply to a dose of each venom. If you are looking to take out a target quickly, you could apply all four dice to one dose increasing, its potency and chance for success. This, however, would use all your dice until you take a full rest.

Venom Dice are restored equal to your persona after a full rest. They cannot be chained, and you cannot have more dice than your stamina instinct.

Drawing a single dose of either venom costs five health and can remain potent outside of your body for up to twenty-four hours. It is possible to mix doses to inflict both venoms at the same time.

Your poison is activated through physical skin contact, through a wound, or if consumed. The difficulty rating for your venom is six plus your stamina instinct.

The class of poison flowing through your veins is equal to half your level (min. 1).

You have two different poisons flowing through your veins. The following poisons flow through your veins:

Neurotoxic Venom

This venoms Venom Dice is 1d4 and causes paralysis to the target. The result of the dice is multiplied by ten seconds to get the total duration of paralysis. The target can make a stamina check every ten seconds (at the beginning of their turn) to resist the poison and end the paralysis.

Latrotoxin Venom

This venoms Venom Dice is 1d6 and causes poison damage for 1d4-1 times ten seconds (minimum ten seconds). Every ten seconds, the damage is rolled and applied at the beginning of the target’s turn. The target can make a stamina check every ten seconds (at the beginning of their turn) before the damage applies to resist the poison.

Flaw

You have unlucky rolls when using any weapon or tool except for: chakram, dagger, dart, sai, throwing dagger, or anything listed in the black market section of the marketplace chapter.

Unarmored is the only defense you can have but can chain once. This means dodge and armors cannot be used, including armor accessories.

Bonus

Gain the Thieves’ Mark mastery and your influence skill is expertise. You are only immune to your own poison.

Penance

15 talents

Trait Cost: 2

The cheer of the audience. The fans screaming your name. Oh, how you love to entertain. The world has become your stage and you plan on letting everyone know just who you are.

Perk

+1 acting, influence, and intuition.

Flaw

You don’t know how to be stealthy and can expose others around you who do. All allies within fifteen feet of you suffer a -1 on hide checks and you cannot hide.

Bonus

Your acting and influence checks are lucky rolls. This bonus is removed when the penance is paid.

Penance

7 talents

Trait Cost: 1

You understand business persuasion.

Perk

+1 barter (excluding appraising equipment), influence, and intuition.

Flaw

-1 to fighting and guard.

Bonus

You are lucky when bartering. This bonus is removed when the penance is paid.

Penance

5 talents

Trait Cost: 1

You are a fool, and once you even performed for a king.

Perk

+1 acting, acrobatics, athletics, and influence.

Flaw

-1 fighting and hide.

Penance

5 Talents

Trait Cost: 2

You once knew all about the art of being a merchant. Buying, selling, trading are what you love.

Perk

+2 barter, +1 intuition

Flaw

-1 to agility and fighting.

Bonus

You are lucky when bartering. This bonus is removed when the penance is paid.

Penance

5 talents

Trait Cost: 1

You have grown up hearing multiple different languages. Through the constant immersion, you have learned to speak them.

Perk

You know how to speak several languages equal to your mental minus one (minumum 1).

Flaw

You don’t know how to read or write the languages and only know how to speak them.

Bonus

Runic was the only language in which you focused more on making it a secondary language. You can read, write, and speak Runic. (If you already know Runic, this can be exchanged for another language).

Penance

You must pay the indicated cost to learn the languages in the lean a new language section of the culture chapter.

Trait Cost: 2

Can only be taken at character creation

Part of your life you have lived as a noble and have been trained in the art of conversation. Those who have trained you pushed you hard, which took the focus off other skills. Being a noble, you also cared little for combat and made sure everyone knew when you entered a room.

Perk

+2 influence, intimidate, intuition.

Flaw

-1 to thievery, hide, and sleight of hand.

Bonus

Gain an additional 1d10+10 gold coins at character creation. You can request an audience with nobles below the status of the king.

Penance

7 talents

Trait Cost: 2

You have a way with your words and know exactly what to say at the right times. You have focused on improving your charisma so much that you didn’t have time to hone other skills.

Perk

+1 to skills associated to persona (does not apply to combat skills).

Flaw

You prefer to talk your way through things so your initiative to strike first is slowed while in combat. -2 to your initiative roll.

Bonus

Gain Quick Tongue Mastery.

Penance

7 talents

Trait Cost: 1

Perk

You are extremely beautiful, and everyone can’t help but stare. +1 to social skills (excluding intimidate).

Flaw

Because of everyone wanting to look at you, have -1 to hide.

Bonus

People are jealous easily with you. Rolling a one on persona checks you cause the person you’re talking too to be insulted. They can’t believe such a pretty face could be so stupid. Cannot be taken with You, Fugly trait.

Penance

5 talents, the bonus cannot be removed.