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 such as Draconic, Goblin, Minotaur, or Orc.
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+==== De Guerra ====
 De Guerra orcs are more common in the mountains and highlands
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 **Languages**. You know Common, Orc, and one Beran language
 such as Draconic, Gnoll, Goblin, or Minotaur.
+==== Dialectician ====
+Drakran culture is steeped in philosophical debate, and those who
+study and devise their own philosophies are the main drivers of
+society.
+**Epistemological Breadth**. You are proficient in Culture, and
+you gain an expertise die when you make a check with a skill to
+debate or know about philosophy. \\
+**Ethical Imperative**. You can cast command once per long rest. At
+rd level you can cast suggestion once per long rest. The saving throw
+DC for either of these is 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom
+or Charisma modifier. \\
+**Hard to Sway**. You have advantage on saving throws against il-
+lusions and to resist being charmed. Deception, Intimidation, and
+Persuasion checks against you have disadvantage. \\
+**Languages**. You know Common, Dwarf, and Primordial, enough
+to study nearly all major philosophies.
+==== Elfaivaran ====
+The largest woodland in Lanjyr is Elfaivar, the eponymous empire
+of the region’s southeastern subcontinent. Elfaivar’s elves devel-
+oped wondrous magic and learned to blur the borders of the Waking
+and the Dreaming. But their holy war with the Clergy ended with
+the death of Srasama, the Elfaivaran goddess of womanhood, and
+the backlash slew all but a few hundred Elfaivaran women. The sur-
+viving men fought over the ruins or fled in a diaspora.
+But secretive enclaves run by matriarchs were committed to pro-
+tecting the surviving women, preserving Elfaivaran culture, and
+rebuilding the civilization. In time these enclaves grew into secre-
+tive cities, where women were revered and given the finest training
+in martial arts, spellcraft, and statecraft, while men competed in
+grand competitions of art and athletics, hoping a woman might
+favor them and choose to have a child with them.
+The enclaves were sometimes aided by foreigners who felt a
+drive to help save a people from near death, and even sometimes
+sheltered those who were persecuted in the colonies that were
+slowly conquering the empire’s old land.  \\
+Elfaivarans have a close connection to the Dreaming, which
+manifests whenever they use magic, causing their entire eyes to
+glow faintly with the color of their irises. Almost every Elfaivaran
+possesses the inherent power to step briefly into the Dreaming,
+allowing them to bypass enemies and difficult terrain before reap-
+pearing in the Waking.
+**Dreaming Native**. Your time in the Dreaming has suffused your
+being with its very energy. In addition to being humanoid, you also
+have the fey creature type. Additionally, you are proficient in either
+History or Nature. \\
+**Elfaivaran Training**. Elfaivarans must be able to defend their
+people, but art and beauty elevates life beyond mere survival. You
+are proficient in longswords, scimitars, and whips. You are also
+proficient in one tool or instrument of your choice. \\
+**Endure and Thrive**. A story can only be a tragedy if we let it end.
+You can cast the cantrip spare the dying. In addition, at 3rd level you
+can cast heroism once per long rest. When you use either of these
+powers, you recite a verse from the Dirge of Vekesh or a similar
+mantra. \\
+**Fey Step**. You know how to briefly slip between the Waking and
+Dreaming. You can cast misty step, but you must finish a short or
+long rest before you can do it again. If you aren’t on the Waking or
+Dreaming, this power still functions, and to an outside observer
+you appear to instantaneously teleport, but to you it feels like you
+spend long moments in a void between worlds before arriving at
+your destination. \\
+**Languages**. You can speak, read, write, and sign in Common,
+Elvish, and Sylvan.
+==== Pedresco ====
+Pedresco orcs are by far the most common, and their features a
+bit closer to humans, with smaller tusks and gentler brows. Other
+Berans, as well as de Guerra orcs, used to use the slur “half-orc” to
+insult the Pedresco orcs, and indeed the term might have some
+truth to it, as these lowland orcs were more likely to integrate with
+humans and perhaps even some elves. But after the founder of Ber,
+Vairday Bruse, hailed from among the Pedresco, the label has taken
+on a complicated role in orcish culture, co-opted to imply that the
+“other half” is Beran, a national identity rather than a racial one.
+Today Berans of all heritages are drawn to the example of their
+nation’s founder: confident and powerful civility, with a humility
+that respects that others might have wisdom you lack, and an unre-
+lenting refusal to give in to tyranny.
+**Cultural Studies**. You are proficient in Culture. \\
+**Relentless Endurance**. When you are reduced to 0 hit points
+but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. You can’t
+use this feature again until you finish a long rest.  \\
+**Wisdom of the Panoply**. When an ally uses the Help action to
+aid you, you can reroll one of the dice you roll and use the new result. \\
+You can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.
+**Languages**. You know Common, Orc, and one Beran language
+such as Draconic, Gnoll, Goblin, or Minotaur.
+==== Steelmarked ====
+On a large island south of Ber lives a group of gnolls who belong to
+the Cult of the Steel Lord, and who have remained devoted to the
+dragon tyrant Gradiax even after he was slain over two centuries
+ago. These steelmarked gnolls have a somewhat paradoxical reli-
+gion that commands them to avoid touching metal with bare flesh,
+yet to understand and master technology, for which their lord will
+reward them with bodies as strong as steel, free from weakness and
+hunger. As such, they adhere to fastidious sanitary standards and
+avoid blooding ceremonies, with adulthood instead being achieved
+by proving one’s understanding of some technology and devotion
+to the cult.
+Their taboo only prohibits bare skin contact to metal, and as
+such they are fond of ornate kerchiefs and fine leather gloves. Forge
+workers have popularized garments with heavy padding over fore-
+arms and lower legs, and such accessories are common even among
+those who don’t regularly work metal. Priests of the cult wear some-
+what formless robes, but prefer ostentatious designs of vivid colors
+to catch the eye, especially when traveling among mainlanders.
+Despite their exceptional grasp of modern technology, the
+steelmarked still hold many traditional violent customs. The cult
+has repeatedly raided the mainland, killing gnolls who speak out
+against them, and abducting children to convert to their faith.
+Steelmarked gnolls unnerve outsiders, as they seem to watch the
+world around them with more detachment, move less, even breathe
+less than they should.
+**Blessed Industry**. You gain proficiency in Engineering, as well
+as in the tool or vehicle of your choice. \\
+**Metal Taboo**. You believe only your draconic lord and those who
+have earned his blessing are worthy of the strength of metal. You
+try not to touch metal with your body directly. Gloves or kerchiefs
+are acceptable to insulate one from metal, and there is no shame in
+being wounded by someone else’s metal. \\
+**Breaking Touch**. Your people have developed the ability to
+break devices with a mere touch, even through a glove or other
+garment, which they see as a blessing and as proof of their lord’s
+enduring guidance.
+As a bonus action, you can touch an object with some mechanical
+complexity, such as a door, a lock, clock, ship rigging, steam engine,
+or animated construct.
+If it is an unattended inanimate object, it breaks in a non-hazard-
+ous way. A door has to be shoved forcefully open, a lock falls apart,
+a timebomb stops ticking down, a ship loses its propulsion. If it’s
+larger than 5 feet across, you only break a section of it, but repairs
+take at least an hour.
+If the object is being worn or carried by a creature, or if you’re
+trying to touch a creature, the creature can make a Dexterity saving
+throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier) to
+avoid your touch.
+A mechanical creature touched this way takes 2d6 damage and
+its speed is reduced by half until the start of your next turn. The
+damage increases to 3d6 at 6th level, 4d6 at 11th level, and 5d6 at
+th level.
+A firearm affected by breaking touch will automatically miss the
+next time it is fired, as if a natural 1 were rolled (which is a misfire
+with a nonmagical gun).
+After you use this ability, you can’t use it again until you complete
+a short or long rest. \\
+**Steel Endures**. If you have obeyed the metal taboo for the past
+day, you have advantage on saving throws to resist poison and
+disease, and have resistance against poison damage. Additionally,
+double the amount of time you can go without food, water, and air.
+Languages. You know Common, Gnoll, and one Beran language
+such as Draconic, Goblin, Minotaur, or Orc.
+===== Background =====
+Tous les //backgrounds// de base sont autorisés, sachant que votre histoire doit toujours vous mener au fait d'être recruté comme brigadier de la préfecture de Risur. Un //background// supplémentaire est disponible: archéologue.
+Though most eyes look to the future, the past fascinates you, and
+you have found wisdom in exploring the ruins of civilizations that
+fell to disaster, or that gave birth to today’s world. Foremost in the
+public’s consciousness are the prehistoric orcs known as the An-
+cients, who left massive stone edifices, fantastic golden treasures,
+and little else. But you might also study the Demonocracy, the brief
+philosopher state of Pala, pre-Malice Elfaivar, the magically un-
+stable ruins of Methia, or any of the multitude of obscure peoples of
+the past. Perhaps some day you’ll explore the planets above and the
+ruins of surely long-dead cultures there.
+**Ability Score Increase**: +1 to Intelligence and one other ability
+score. \\
+**Skill Proficiencies**: History, and either Arcana or Survival. \\
+**Tool Proficiencies**: Cartographer’s tools or navigator’s tools. \\
+**Languages**: One modern language and one historical language
+of your choice. \\
+**Suggested Equipment** (cost 29 gp): A bullseye lantern, a min-
+er’s pick, traveler’s clothes, a shovel, a two-person tent, a trinket
+recovered from a dig site. \\
+**Feature: Historical Knowledge**. You can easily assess the mon-
+etary value of art objects that are more than a century old, and when
+you see ruins you can accurately ascertain who built them and for
+what purpose. Sometimes when you sleep near ruins, you faintly
+recall dreams of the people who lived there, which might guide you
+to where to search or dig. \\
+**Adventures and Advancement**. Your archaeological finds earn
+you gratitude from scholars and researchers. When you donate a
+valuable object to a museum or library, you gain advantage on all
+ability checks made during Research downtime activities per-
+formed at that institution.
+==== Archaeologist Connection ====
+  - The museum curator who owes you a favor.
+  - The sea captain with whom you’ve made profitable voyages.
+  - The noble who believes you robbed their ancestral tomb.
+  - The rival who is always one step ahead of you.
+  - The vanished colleague who was close to a breakthrough.
+  - The thief who was going to rob you but ended up fascinated by your work.
+  - The rich one-time patron with a grudge against you.
+  - The buffoonish but well-financed rival whose methods are clumsy and destructive.
+  - The former partner who stole your map.
+  - The inventor who will buy relics he thinks are keys to lost ancient technology.
+==== Archaeologist Memento ====
+  - A tablet with a fragment of the same poem in an archaic form of the languages of the Demonocracy and old Elfaivar, as well as unfamiliar pictograms of what appear to be hand signs.
+  - A sealed clay flask, filled with liquid and painted with strange, skeletal humanoids around a crescent moon.
+  - Half of a large stone key inscribed with pre-Malice iconography of the Clergy.
+  - A solid gold arrow which you discovered embedded in the fossilized skull of an unfamiliar beast.
+  - The charred case of an antique calligraphy kit with a brass nameplate that reads “Wm. Miller.”
+  - A typed letter from a representative of the Vsadni Tzertze pointing out flaws in a paper you published about the fifth-century B.O.V. Drakr.
+  - A wooden case containing a map to a ruin or dungeon, with the initials “RR” penned in the corner, found at a pawn shop.
+  - A graven idol of an unknown god, carved from purple stone and partially encased in black volcanic rock.
+  - An inherited, found, or stolen diary which once belonged to a great treasure hunter. It contains the answers to several riddles required to access some site, but no information about the site’s location.
+  - A signature weapon or tool given by a mentor or old rival.
+===== Destiny =====
+Choisissez un des thèmes (proposés dans le Player's Guide de la campagne) OU une destinée de Level Up!. Les thèmes vous permettent éventuellement d'accéder à une des classes de prestiges ([[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hXZLk3yOUA0D5xOsZq3E4WnKJIwnlAw1/view?usp=sharing|livret à télécharger]]). Des ajustements pourront bien sûr être faits pendant la campagne selon l'évolution de votre personnage.
+===== Class/ Archetype =====
+Deux nouvelles classes sont disponibles:
+  * [[zeitgeist:rules:savant|Savant]]
+  * [[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TqwEfMo7xGWT8JIMGx3PC_Uzid-WDaSQ/view?usp=sharing|Technologist]]
+Quelques archétypes sont interdits:
+  * Pour la classe d'Adept, l'archétype //Warrior Monk// est interdit
+  * Pour la classe de Warlock, l'archétype //Diabolist// est interdit
+Par ailleurs, cinq nouveaux archétypes sont accessibles:
+  * [[zeitgeist:rules:queenbee|Queen Bee (Berserker)]]
+  * [[zeitgeist:rules:gadgeteer|Gadgeteer (Fighter)]]
+  * [[zeitgeist:rules:vagabond|Vagabond (Bard)]]
+  * [[zeitgeist:rules:aspirant|Aspirant (Cleric)]]
+  * [[zeitgeist:rules:executore|Executore (Herald)]]
+===== Feat =====
+Tous les personnages commencent avec un //Feat// gratuit. Il n'est pas possible de le convertir en augmentation de caractéristiques (l'inverse sera possible dans le cadre des montées de niveaux, comme décrit dans les règles de //Level Up!//).
+===== Equipment =====