Trait Cost: 4 

Perk

You have become one with your shadow and can manipulate it to enhance your attacks. The shadow wraps around your weapon, seeping into the target struck by your attack. Your shadow can also be manipulated to provide increased thievery skill checks.

Shadow Strike

You have a set number of Assassin Dice equal to your reaction instinct. Each die represents 1d6 of necrosis damage or a +1 to your attack. There is no limit on how many dice are used per attack and the damage can stack with a sneak attack. When flanking or making a surprised attack instead of spending a die for +1, you can choose to spend one die and roll it, adding the result to your attack. Only one die can be used and does not stack with other Assassin Dice. Assassin Dice can also increase thievery skill rolls. For every skill tier your reaction instinct reaches, one assassin die can be added to your skill roll, up to a maximum of three dice. Assassin Dice must be added before any roll is made that they can be applied too. Once you have completed a full rest, you gain back Assassin Dice equal to your thievery. You cannot have more dice than your reaction instinct. They can only chain once per use.

Flaw

Only Assassin's Tools

You have unlucky rolls when using weapons that are two-handed, interchangeable, heavy, or ranged (excludes throwing weapons). Interchangeable weapons can be used but only singled handed. You cannot wear heavy armor.

Bonus

You gain Handle Poison and Thieves’ Mark Masteries.

Penance

There is no penance, as the connection with your shadow cannot be severed or reversed. The assassin who trained you in the shadow arts is looking to exact revenge against you for breaking your pact as their apprentice and abandoning them.

Trait Cost: 3

You were once in training to become a Silent Guard of the Asherian temple. However, because of a reason of your choosing, you left or were kicked out of the organization.

Perk

Gain the Silent Step Mastery at rank two and your hide skill is expertise.

Flaw

One reason you either left or were kicked out was because you would remain so quiet it became easy for you to doze off while on watch. If you stand still or don’t interact with someone or something to keep you busy for longer than a few minutes, you fall asleep. You become easily bored and must keep yourself busy, as you dislike how easily you doze off. Sleeping this way does not provide recovery, as if resting (unless taking a proper rest period). Whenever you wake from sleep, you are groggy and sluggish for twenty seconds, which causes a -1 to all rolls for the duration.

Penance

Level 4 & 8 talents

Trait Cost: 2

You find yourself forced to call the streets home, begging for coins, and wondering when your next meal will be.

Perk

+1 perception, hide, and sleight of hand.

Flaw

-1 to guard.

Bonus

You have lucky survival checks when trying to find your way around cities.

Penance

5 talents

Trait Cost: 1

Perk

Gain the spell unlock as a special ability. Even though it is an ability, it still only requires one action to perform.

Flaw

No matter how hard you try, you do not understand how lock picks work. Therefore, you cannot use them. This includes for disabling traps and other devices that are not locks.

Bonus

You can only perform the perks ability equal to half your thievery statistic per day.

Penance

10 talents

Trait Cost: 3

You have studied the art of stealth and assassinations in your past. During this time, you have learned to most silently and strike quickly with Kobudo weapons.

Perk

Gain +1 to attacks with kobudo weapons. Also, gain the Kobudo Weapons mastery.

Flaw

All attacks other than attacks with Kobudo weapons are unlucky. You cannot wear metal armor.

Bonus

Each rank of Silent Step cost one less talent to learn. The Stealth Mastery also costs one less. The bonus is removed when the penance is paid.

Penance

Level 4 & 6 talents

Trait Cost: 2

Can only be taken at Character Creation

Because of an accident when in the womb you have a unique relationship with poison and health potions.

Perk

Any poison that has dice rolled for either its effect or damage heals you for the poison’s maximum amount.

Flaw

Health potions no longer heal you. Instead, they cause damage equal to the amount they would have healed.

Bonus

You are immune to all poison damage and effects should they not heal you based on the perk of this trait. If you gain poison damage resistance, it is reversed to make you resistant to health potion effects according to the flaw of this trait. This bonus is lost when the penance is paid.

Penance

Level 7 & 7 talents

Trait Cost: 3

Your body always fells relaxed. This aids you in being able to avoid damage when being thrown or falling.

Perk

Subtract your agility from any area of affect damage that requires a reaction check and any damage from falling. They do not stack on each other but can be used one after another (get knocked back from an area of effect that causes you to fall off a cliff.) The perk can apply to both types of damage separately.

Flaw

Because of your constant relaxed body, you suffer -5ft. of movement as you naturally move at a more relaxed pace. Similarly, you suffer a -1 to reaction checks.

Bonus

You ignore the chance to gain broken bone wounds from fall damage.

Penance

10 talents

Trait Cost: 2

A life of living in the shadows has trained yourself how to become hidden.

Perk

You create a thick sound dampening shadow mist that covers a 10ft. area. No one except you can see or hear within the darkness unless they have rank 2 of night vision. This includes blocking sound vision. The sphere of darkness can be placed up to 20ft. from you and lasts for 30 seconds. It costs 5 essence to activate and an additional 3 essence per ten seconds after the initial 30 seconds.

Flaw

Your connection with darkness makes you vulnerable to light. You have unlucky rolls to effects involving light (i.e. fire spells, photonic light spells, flashes of blinding light, etc.). You are vulnerable to fire and photonic light effects that cause damage.

Penance

Level 5 & 10 talents

Trait Cost: 1

You can fit into abnormally smaller spaces with ease.

Perk

Any space that a creature of two size categories smaller than your current size category can fit into (or through), so can you.

Flaw

Just because you can fold and twist into smaller spaces doesn’t mean you are invincible. In fact, it makes you more fragile, which causes you to take an additional 1d4 damage when the minimum result is rolled on defense rolls.

Penance

7 talents

Trait Cost: 1

You have developed an odd allergy to health potions but a resistance to poisons in exchange.

Perk

Any poison that has dice rolled for either its effect or damage heals you for the poison’s maximum amount.

Flaw

Health potions only provide half of the healing amount they normally would heal for.

Bonus

You cannot be resistant to poison both damage and effect. Having it does nothing for you.

Penance

10 talents

Trait Cost: 1

Can only be taken at character creation

Growing up, your only friend was the streets. You learned all you know from stealing or cheating from others.

Perk

+1 hide and sleight of hand and they are lucky. You are lucky when gathering information from beggars and commoners.

Flaw

-1 to social skills (excluding what is given from the perk). You are illiterate and only know your native language.

Bonus

You are lucky when trying to find your way around cities (survival checks).

Penance

6 talents

Trait Cost: 1

Perk

People have a hard time looking at you are allowing you to remain invisible to them. Gain +1 to hide checks.

Flaw

You are naturally a very unattractive person. You have -1 to all social skills (excluding intimidate).

Bonus

Your so ugly people are insulted by your appearance. Rolling a one on social checks you cause the person you’re talking to be insulted. They can’t believe how ugly you are. Cannot be taken with To Darn Pretty trait. The bonus cannot be removed.

Penance

5 talents

Trait Cost: 1

You have learned through the art of thievery how to steal.

Perk

+1 to hide, sleight of hand, acrobatics, athletics, and automation.

Flaw

You are a thief, not an assassin. You have -1 to offensive combat skills when used for attacking (i.e. you don’t gain this flaw if using a bow with a water arrow or throwing when throwing a grappling hook).

Bonus

You gain the Thieves Mark mastery.

Penance

5 talents