Forlorn Philosopher
The road an unreasoning maze, every
temple soaked in blood, each destination
drenched in gloom; you once thought that
cold analysis might tame Fate itself, now
that dream of reason has decayed to shifting
madness and only the cold remains.
Begins with d6×10s and d4 Omens.
HP: Toughness + d4
The Roots of your Dejection? (d8)
1 
Your mother alternated praise and
humiliation leading to grandiose
self-image and burning self-hatred.
2 
You wanted to be a warrior or
great leader but you can’t! Stop!
THINKING! STOP THE THOUGHTS!!
3 
Ambient stupidity and bright lights
cause your hypersensitive mental
tissues to INFLAME.
4 
You could save this doomed world!
If only the unwashed masses would
understand your GENIUS!
5 
You fell victim to the mental virus
of “love,” then the object of your
affection went to live in a hole.
6 
You encoded your omnivalent
philosophy in a single tome for
safekeeping and saw it burn as you
fled. All is lost.
7 
Udok cultists captured your family
and forced you to debate with them
while they devoured your parents
alive.
8 
You were Südglans’ most revered
philosopher—which sank into the sea
and now everyone ruthlessly mocks you.
Abilities
Mental Focus, roll 3d6+2 Presence.
Too Much Reading! Roll 3d6-2 Strength.
Ruthless Inquisition: test Presence DR 14
to tear through others’ deceptions and
delusions. Enough of these LIES!
Roll d6 on the weapon table and d2 on
the armor table. You begin with one
Tablet of Ochre Obscurity and one of
the following:
1. T HOR N S OF COM PR E H EN S ION
When worn, thorns pierce your flesh (d2
damage) and you Perceive All (-4DR to your
next test and ignore the next two attacks
to hit you as you weave aside). To regain
the effect you must crown yourself anew.
The damage steps up by one each time (d2 to
d4 to d6 etc), until after a night’s rest.
The dejection of
2 . H E GE L IA N OW L
This philosophical beast is a bitter,
reluctant and hypersensitive assistant
—persuaded with a DR12 Presence test. your Roots (d6)
After two acts of aid it regards you with 1. 
Raised by fanatical Theists in a
mute contempt. It can fetch small items, temple beneath Grift’s bridges.
attack enemies and find traps. By night 2. 
Born to a nameless mother
the owl delivers understanding of what in a Galgenbeck sanatorium.
you should have done today in dreams.
3. 
Brought up by illiterate,
HEGELIAN OWL pig-ignorant churls in a
Too quick to hit. peaceful Wästland forest.
Claws/bite d4. Attacks are DR8.
Raised by life-shaming
4. 
3. PR I SM OF A M B IG U I T Y cultists of the frozen
An external light source and a Presence Kergüs waste who think
DR10 test are needed to activate the prism. no one should be born
Its light may shine on up to two creatures into this dying world.
healing d6 HP. For the next hour one of Abandoned in Bergen
5. 
them lowers all test DRs by -2. If the test Chrypt’s catacombs.
is failed they suffer d4 damage and their
armor or a weapon is destroyed. You can use Educated by the
6. 
the prism twice per day. damned amongst
the Valley of
4. F LU T E OF TO S K the Unfortunate
Once per combat, when a creature dies, Undead’s mud pits.
you may play this bone flute’s Echoing
Fugue. This deals an ‘echo’ of the fatal
damage to a random enemy in the vicinity.
5. SA SH OF T H E ST Y L I T E
The MIND controls the body! Nothing is
good or bad but thinking makes it so
including calories and protein. Wearing
this belt means you feel no hunger and
only need to drink water to regain HP when
resting. Wearing it for more than d4 days
causes you to collapse. It takes a day to
regain its power.
6. M A R K E D BY OB S C U R I T Y
An ever-shifting Tablet of Ochre Obscurity
is tattooed on your flesh. Roll each
morning which tablet it is. The tablet
can only be used once per day but
automatically succeeds.
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B O R G C

Dead god’s
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Two gifts (d8)

prophet

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your lost god. If you D C
A CLASS FOR
inflict d3 HP of damage to
yourself prior to combat, you gain +2 to
a number of rolls equal to the HP lost.

By Greg Saunders
Graphic design and art Johan Nohr
You hear voices in your head, telling
you what to do. Or at least you think
you do. You are the prophet of a god;
only your god is dead, slain by the
Basilisk SHE within the wretched peaks
of the Bergen Chrypt. Now no one wants
to hear the words of your god. But you
can still hear them. Day and night.
Like hot wires through your brain.
Begins with 1d6×5s and d3 Omens.
HP: Toughness + d4
2 . LOR D OF NO T H I NG
You wear a bizarre arrangement of garments
and scraps that make you look like the
parody of a king or queen. Still, you gain
+2 to rolls to impress the easily fooled.
3. SM E LL OF DE CAY
Not only is your god dead, but their odour
of decay pervades you. Tests to defend
against attacks have a +2 bonus due to the
gut-wrenching stench.
4. I NCOH ER EN T S OPH I ST IC BA BBL E
Concentrate to babble an ungodly litany.
So disconcerting is this chant that those
who hear it must pass a DR10 Presence test
or lose their next action.

5. ICHOR OF RO T
Name your god ... (3d10) The foul fluids of your god’s rot run from
1 Acrophoe Beacon of blood your hands-a black stigmata. As an DR12
2 Elioch Bearer of death attack you can wipe your hands on the bare
3 Ekk Bride of decay skin of your assailants, who must then
4 Ghzat Child of flies pass a DR12 Toughness test or descend into
5 Gnost Herald of impotence frothing spasms for two turns.
6 Häil King of panic
7 Kvera Lady of rot 6. M Y B ODY, A V E S S E L
8 Malais Prince of rust Your god may be dead, but what is death to
9 Varkka Queen of unease a god? Once a day you may allow the ghost
10 Öde Song of the flesh of you god to enter your flesh and reveal a
truth. Ask the GM one yes/no question that
they must answer truthfully. The god then
Abilities departs, leaving you weakened and frail.
Obsessed, 3d6+2 for Presence. Weak
through lack of care for bodily 7. I N DEAT H I L I V E
functions, 3d6-2 for Toughness. Roll When you die, make a DR14 Presence test.
d4 on the weapon table and a d2 on the If you pass, your god refuses you into the
Armour table. You are literate and afterlife and you recover with 1HP. If you
can use scrolls, but must pass a DR12 fail, your body is consumed in holy flames.
Presence test when encountering them
not to immediately attempt to destroy 8. EY E S OF HOLY F I R E
them as words of false gods. If you Your pupils burn with the soul of your lord.
start with a scroll, consider that you Once per combat you may make an attack (DR10),
passed the test. Roll randomly for two as fire spurts from your eyes, d6 damage. You
gifts from your dead god. are left blinded for the rest of the fight.
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PAlE oNe A CLASS FOR

Pale One blessings (d6)
1. T H E STA R S W ER E R IGH T
Roll d4+2 for omens. Say something
cryptic every time you use one.

2 . M E M BR A NOU S W I NG S
You can fly short distances, but cannot
wear armor. Birds seem to dislike you.

3. U NCOM MON C LAY

By Tim Rudloff Proof reading Karl Druid You can draw nourishment from soil,
Graphic design and art Johan Nohr but normal food makes you sick.
You smell like mushrooms.

You lurk on the fringes of settlements, 4. M A NA F ROM S OM EW H ER E

observing, perhaps judging, but rarely Spend a use of your Powers to create
interacting. You are fundamentally other, food for d6 people. It is weirdly
and belong nowhere. You’ve had bouts of delicious, but unsettling.
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incoherent madness and self-destructive
rages, but mostly you simply wait, in 5. DIGI T IGR A DE L I M B S
solitary resignation, for that which is You can escape any bindings, and fit
inevitable. through tiny spaces. Tests involving
flexibility are -4 DR.
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Begins with d6×10s and d4 Omens.
6. TO O M A N Y EY E S
HP: Toughness + d6 Just way too many. You cannot be attacked
from surprise. You can spend a use of your
Powers to leave an eye behind, and spy
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Unspoken origins (d6): on a remote area. If anyone squishes the
1 
Caught by fishermen on the Endless sea. eye, you take d2 damage.
2 
Accidentally summoned by cultists in
Graven-Tosk.
3 
Vomited forth by a foul beast in ­
Bergen Chrypt.
4 
Fell from the Sky near
You call yourself ... (3d20)
Alliáns. B O R G C 1 Abhorred Attacks the Æther
5 
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laid by a bog-witch 3 Clad Awaits the Decay

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in a Wästland 4 Errant Blackens the Dust

swamp. 5 Familiar Chimes the Eye
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Crawled out of a 6 Giant Covers the Face
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crack in the ground 7 Hidden Dances the Flesh

not far from Grift. 8 Lyrical Denies the Flies
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Abilities 11 Obscene Echoes the Moon
Your mind and movements are alien, +1 12 Painful Proffers the Mountain
Agility and Presence, but your bones are 13 Reposed Quivers the Plague
hollow and fragile, -2 Toughness. Roll d6 14 Skeletal Rains the Prayer
on the weapon table and d2 on the armor 15 Strong Reflects the Rats
table. You are literate, but only in 16 Sudden Returns the Saint
dead languages, and cannot use scrolls. 17 Unaware Seals the Sea
Instead, you can intuitively use one 18 Unknowing Submits the Stranger
randomly rolled Power. The Power changes 19 Vitriolic Weaves the Truth
each dawn, or dusk (pick one). 20 Westward Wilts the Void
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Cursed
Skinwalker A CLASS FOR
By Karl Druid
Graphic design and art Johan Nohr
You should have died, but something
grabbed a hold of your soul as it
seeped into the river of Death and
sealed you once again in mortal flesh.
Only this time the cage is not yours
alone-in the currents of the afterlife
your soul mingled with that of another
dying creature, leaving you halved.
Now you live a shared existence,
locked in everlasting struggle between
man and monster. You should have died.
Begins with 2d6×10s and d2 Omens.
HP: Toughness + d8
First Died (d6)
1 Clutching the body of a lover.
2 By an arrow in the brain.
3 Minutes after being born.
4 At the hands of a friend.
5 Murdered in your bed.
6 On the back of a plague-cart.
Abilities
Weakened mind, roll 3d6-2 for Presence.
Bestial instincts, roll 3d6+1 for
Strength and Toughness. Roll d6 on
the weapon and d2 on the armor table.
Give into the advances of your
antithetical other and change your
very anatomy into the likeness of
its being. Shifting your bones as
such occupies a single painful round.
Armor and weapons are likely unusable
in your new form. One (1) of the
following creatures stands ever at
the other side of your existence:
Creature shapes (d6)
1. M U R DER-PLAG U E D R AT
• Tiny: Agility tests, including
defence, are DR8.
• Your bite (d4) carries disease,
victims test DR14 Presence or attack
their closest ally, until either
is dead.
2 . F LAY E D A N D DR I PPI NG WOL F
• Ferocious, attacks are DR10.
• Your fangs (d6) crit on a natural
19 as well as a 20. On a crit,
all enemies test Morale.
• Slick from blood, -d2 incoming
damage.
3. B ON E S K U LL E D R AV EN
• Fast and flying, defence is DR10.
Make two attacks per round with
your claws (d4).
• Your bony scalp (d6) acts as a
weapon and a shield: -1 damage and
you may choose to ignore all damage
from one attack. The skull will heal
in d6 days.
4. BEA R F ROM BERGEN CH RY PT
• Hulking and massive: tests for
Strength and Toughness, as well as
attacks, are DR10. Defence is DR14.
• Thick hide, -d4 incoming damage.
• Your claws and bite deal d8 damage.
5. L I F E -A N D -DEAT H-L I ZA R D
• Regenerate d4 HP per round.
• Bite (d6) or spit acid (d4, 1 in 4
chance armor is lowered one tier).
• Scaly skin, -d2 incoming damage.
6. D O OM SAY I NG MON K EY
• Dextrous: Agility tests,
including defence, are
DR10.
• Light armor and B O R G C
weapons remain K
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• Your third eye
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read unclean
scrolls at
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SACRILEGIOUS
Songbird
A CLASS FOR
By Karl Druid
Graphic design and art Johan Nohr
Always the bringer of unwelcome
sounds, your vocation as a bard left
you destitute and disreputable…
until the rueful day when a being
of impious character made you the
deal of a lifetime. Your soul may
be screaming, but your throat
sings sweetly, and your purse ever
sweeter. A small price to pay.
Begins with 4d6×10s and d2 Omens.
HP: Toughness + d6
A deal was struck (d6)
1 In an outhouse just outside Grift.
2 Hiding from guards in Galgenbeck.
3 In a Wästland noble’s bedchamber.
4 Dreaming in a disremembered ditch.
5 In a Schleswig prison cell.
6 Minutes from freezing to death
on the way to Alliáns.
Abilities
Your amplified personality makes up
for a soul bartered, roll 3d6+2 for
Presence. A hard life lived has you
set for an early grave, roll 3d6-2 for
Toughness. Roll d6 on the weapon table
and d3 on the armor table. You carry
an aura of unnatural charm everywhere
you go, capable of unsettling foes and
calming friends, spend a use of your
daily Powers to add or subtract d6 to
any Morale check.
When you made your life-and-soul-
altering deal, you were gifted one (1)
of the following accursed instruments:
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1. G U T PI PE S
OF DE ST I N Y
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This amalgamation
of sown, hairy
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gutsacks feature
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extruding bone pipes O N
for you to blow on. V E O
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When doing so, listeners
of your choosing are filled
with unearthly hunger, as if they hadn’t
eaten for a week.
2 . H U RT Y- G U R DY
Cranking this stringed thing of wood and
gore emits a droning sound that hurts the
ears of creatures that fail a Presence
test against DR12. The first round
played, it deals d2 damage, increasing
to a d4 and beyond on subsequent rounds.
3. S PI NA L H U S K
When beating this drum made from a
hellion’s shell, roll 2d6:
6+ Everyone except you tests Agility
against DR14 or falls prone.
11 Choose d4 creatures that can hear
your drumming. Their spines break
like twigs. You cannot use the drum
again today.
12 Your ears won’t stop ringing;
you are deaf for the next 24 hours.
Also doubles as a shield.
4. T H E DEV I L’ S AQU I F ER
The horn of a beelzebubonic creature
from the deepest depths of the Endless
Sea. When blown, the lungs of your
enemies fill with seawater, should they
fail a Toughness test against DR14;
a round must be spent expelling it
before doing anything else.
5. MOU T H-TO -MOU T H- ORGA N
Play this bony mouth harp to make a
broken listener instantly recover d4 HP.
They cannot speak until their HP is fully
recovered.
6. LU T E OF T H E AC U T E BRU T E
When strummed, the sound of this axe-
shaped (d8 damage) instrument makes the
Strength and Presence score of anyone
hearing it swap scores for the next d6
days. Repeated listening has no effect.