Hunter & Gatherer
“The Hunters and the Gatherers of our age still live in harmony with the land. They’re at peace in the wilds, and they are great providers. Without them we wouldn’t make it through some of the harsher Winters.”
Core Effect Tree; Only Available at Awakening
Most of your time is spent waiting for prey to pass, ready to make your strike. Other times you are foraging. Getting all of the herbs and spices you need to make your own concoctions. When you’re not out in the wilds you are processing the meat, tanning the hides, mixing potions and poisons. All to make a living.
Awakening: The explorer’s heart calls. You want to see more of the world. Know more of Vaia.
Your time hunting and gathering brings you and yours plenty, you bring down big game and find some of the most unique flora to bring back to the Twelve to Twelve trading posts. They’ve noticed.
The Wilds
Surrounding Mediva are transitional biomes. Forests give way to mountains in the north, ever increasing strangeness to the west, and the wastes to the south.
These places are wild in the in between. The massive crescent around the metropolis that is home to all and anything you could imagine.
What greater wall of defense than The Wilds.
Choosing Hunter & Gatherer as your core effect tree grants you two talents.
Track
Identify: Botany
Leveled Aim
Measured Steps
The Talents unlock their Root Effects after reaching 3 Mastery.
Track
Time in the wild. You know the footprints, the pawprints, the freshness of the trail. The tuft in the briar, missing bark from the tree.
Passive: You’re aware of the passage of nearly all others in your vicinity.
Effect: The passageway of others is obvious to you. You may discern the species of creatures, their general size and weight, how fast they moved through the area. Ultimately, you may chase them down provided the trail is less than three days old.
Note: Trail run dry. This effect is within the reason and discretion of the Story Guide.
Mastery Unlocks Tamer [i]
Leveled Aim
Taking a deep breath in and holding it to still your chest to still your aim. Measuring the throw, aligning the crosshairs, finding the angle of the line. All such minute adjustments that taking the extra moment is all you need to score true.
Activation: Channeled up to 3 Action Slots.
Effect: Increase accuracy of next (v: Accuracy) check by +2 per Action Slot Channeled to a maximum of +6
Mental Stress: (v:20 Per Action Slot Channeled)
Mastery Unlocks Ranged Precision [i]
Identify: Botany
The diversity of Flora in Vaia is mind boggling. As a place that may be embedded into any world, it has the unique disposition of having any and every invasive species of plant one could imagine.
Process of Identification:
Through interest and attention you’ve come to be able to identify the qualities of plants by the collective of your senses. Identifying the qualities of most plants takes you an hour. With the proper equipment this time is reduced to ten minutes. Some flora has exceptions. Once you’ve gone through this process with a specific kind of Flora, you know it.
Foraging
Botany mastery increases by 1 for every hour spent Foraging. Each hour of Foraging yields up to 10 cutlets. (v:10 + Accuracy)
Mastery unlocks Botany [i]
Measured Steps
Silently moving and avoiding the attention of others is a feet of self awareness, awareness of perspective, and the accuracy of motion.
Activation: 3AS|4RS|5FP
Effect: Provided you are outside of line of sight, you move 1 square undetectable.
Mental Stress: (v:20)
Physical Stress: (v:20)
Mastery unlocks Ghost [i]
