Your Heritage describes where you came from and the life that shaped you.
It reflects upbringing, environment, custom, and lived experience. Heritage is not formal training. It is what you learned by growing up among certain people, places, hardships, and traditions.
Each Heritage lists three Abilities commonly shaped by that way of life.
Choose one listed Ability and step it up once.
No Ability may be increased above d12.
When your Heritage clearly helps with a Check, gain a Boon.
A Heritage may apply when dealing with:
familiar terrain or weather;
local customs and traditions;
work common among your people;
dangers your people often endure;
familiar tools, animals, habits, or conditions.
Heritage grants familiarity, not mastery.
A Mountainfolk character does not know every mountain. A Riverfolk character is not automatically a master sailor. A Streetborn character does not know every city or criminal.
The player may explain how their Heritage helps. The Referee makes the final ruling.
Heritage | Common Homelands | Choose One | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
Mountainfolk | High ranges, cliff settlements, stone keeps | STR, CON, LOR | Hardy folk shaped by cold, height, thin air, stonework, and steep paths. |
Nomad | Open plains, frontier trails, drylands | CON, LOR, SPI | Wanderers skilled in travel, weather, animals, hospitality, and adaptation. |
Riverfolk | Rivers, streams, mills, marsh roads | AGI, CON, LOR | Familiar with boats, fishing, ferries, floods, mills, and simple mechanisms. |
Villager | Hamlets, farms, rural settlements | STR, CON, SPI | Grounded in labor, kinship, livestock, seasons, local custom, and village life. |
Woodfolk | Deep forests, groves, wild lands | AGI, LOR, SPI | Familiar with herbs, animals, hidden paths, weather signs, and old trails. |
Streetborn | Towns, cities, crowded districts | AGI, LOR, SPI | Quick and watchful, shaped by crowds, trade, gossip, poverty, danger, and opportunity. |
People of the same Heritage are not all alike. These Abilities reflect common circumstances and traditions, not qualities shared by every individual.
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