Field experience improves Endurance and provides a small Grit reserve for persistent effort under pressure. The package applies its recorded modifier and resource definition; further techniques must be earned through play.

The demon core: an external phylactery of heart and soul that anchors a demon lord's immortality, feeds on what the lord deems worthy, and empowers rituals and summons through proper sacrifice. Narrative-only — no tracked pools; the GM adjudicates feeding, rebirth, and destruction scene by scene. See the Rule 'Demon Core System' and the Player's Handbook chapter 'The Demon Lord's Core'.

Della remembers the first time she noticed the priests' mugs never emptied — the ale stayed at the same level every visit, no matter how long they sat — and that the coins they left were warm, like the crater-glass the church's other servants carry. She has watched them come and go ever since, the mugs never lowering, the coins always warm, and she has begun to understand the Ironwood Hearth is not serving them ale but being drained of its heat — the priests collecting what they came for while the hearth's fire stays exactly as it was. She keeps the seeing in the tray, under the mugs, because a server who notices the collection is a server the priests watch.

Bastien remembers the night Count Grey arrived at the Hotel Barony and never signed in — the night the impeccable concierge chose to keep a private record instead of an official one. He has kept the ledger ever since: every guest the baroness's copy does not show, every arrival that never made the register, every night the hotel's real business happened in rooms the official books do not list. The memory is the ledger's first page — the Count's unregistered arrival — and it has taught Bastien that his job is not to remember the guests for the baroness but to remember them for himself, because the hotel's truest ledger belongs to the man who saw what the baroness never will.

Tomas Birch remembers the night he fled Omeron with his brother — and the night his brother died on the road and was buried in Everfall's old garden. Now the garden's unquiet dead have begun to walk at dusk, and one of them is his brother. Tomas has been keeping nightly watch, marking the stirred graves with rowan twigs and saying nothing to the council — he cannot name the one in the middle. The memory is a grave and a leash: every dusk he goes to the garden to make sure his brother has not walked far, and every dusk he fails to do the thing the grave demands, because a brother who buries his brother once cannot be the one who puts him down again.

Sera Hale remembers the day a Syndicate ambush killed her entire squad — a decade ago, in an ambush that should have been impossible to walk into. She has spent the years since mapping the Syndicate's supply lines in a private ledger, hunting the officer who sold them out, and her latest map has a name at its center — a name she served under a decade ago. The memory is the engine of her life: every ledger entry, every supply line traced, every sleepless night has been paid for by the image of her squad dying in an ambush that was arranged by someone who wore the same uniform she did.

Tracks how Faln Stirme's actions affect his public reputation. No old-mill outcome or reward has been recorded in this run.

The Grand Baroness respects no sailor as she respects Seos — ask any officer in Castle Omeron: the iron mask is her favorite answer when the pirates are mentioned.

Elia and Jinna are both from another world — a fact neither has to explain to the other. Jinna ("Jeen" to Elia, and only to Elia) is the sardonic older-sister figure who gets Elia's jokes without needing the reference explained; Elia is the relentlessly earnest healer who thinks Jinna's sarcasm is hilarious and her courage, quietly awe-inspiring. They fell into friendship the way otherworlders do: instant recognition, instant relief. Jinna teases Elia gently about calling necromancy "pre-emptive healing" and then absolutely relies on it when things get dangerous. Elia idolizes Jinna's bravery and pop-culture narration, repeats her catchphrases wrong, and drags her pink heartscythe wherever Jinna goes. Neither treats the other as strange — for two girls far from home, that's everything.

A pair-based relationship profile tracking how two characters currently view each other.

The war splits Batrela, and Captain Zuri does the one thing no one predicts: she picks the Merrow Queen. Not for blessing, not for plunder, not out of fear — she looks at the queen of the deep and sees a free woman, the freest thing on the water, and freedom is the only flag Zuri has ever followed. She does not fully understand Olekseia — not the grief beneath the wrath, not what the whale hunt took from her, not what she actually is — and that is fine, because Olekseia does not require understanding. The Queen who watched a city sing while her creature bled accepts the one mortal who came to her freely: no prayer, no tide-oath, just a black-sailed brig that lights its wick-crown under her banner because its captain chose to. A bond made of freedom on one side and astonishment on the other.

A genre-neutral baseline for characters, resources, advancement, conditions, and power scale. Creators may replace any definition without rebuilding the Character type.