Envoy

Envoy

You... Envoy?
Starting Skill: Discipline. If you choose Envoy as your starting path, gain a free skill rank in Discipline.

Rousing Presence (Envoy Key)

Prerequisite: None.
Activation: 1 Action
With a gesture, a facial expression, or a few scant words, you inspire others to excel.
Choose an ally you can influence. They become Determined until they benefit from that condition or until the scene ends.
Leads to:

• Collected & Steadfast Challenge (Diplomat)
• Customary Garb & Galvanize (Faithful)
• False Flattery & This One's On Me (Grifter)
• Practical Demonstration & Sound Advice (Mentor
• Standing Agreement & Steadfast Challenge (Pactbroker)
• Chin Up! & Risky Behavior (Troublemaker)
• Instill Connection & Last Ditch (Signaler)
  

Pactbroker

Baleful (Pactbroker)

Prerequisite: Calm Appeal
Activation: Always Active
With a severe stare, you crack the resolve of all but the most composed adversaries. To resist your influence, a character must spend additional focus equal to your tier.
Leads to: Peaceful Solution

Calm Appeal

Prerequisite: Press the Issue
Activation: Special Activation
You draw on your enemy’s innate desire to live and continue pursuing their goals. Sowing seeds of doubt, you encourage them to reach a compromise.
When your Steadfast Challenge makes a character Disoriented, you can spend 1 focus to also pacify them until the end of this scene. A pacified character makes no attacks or similar hostile actions without provocation. However, if you or your ally attacks them or similarly acts hostilely, or if one of their allies suffers an injury or dies, the pacified character ceases to be pacified.
Additionally, after a target resists the influence of your Steadfast Challenge, they lose additional focus equal to your ranks in Discipline.
Leads to: Baleful

Hard Bargain

Prerequisite: Standing Agreement
Activation: Always Active
You have an advantage on tests to negotiate the terms of an agreement.

Peaceful Solution

Prerequisite: Persuasion 3+; Baleful
Activation: Free Action
The best battle is one you don’t have to fight. If your calm appeals meet willing hearts, you’d rather end the conflict peacefully.
In combat, if all non-minion enemies are currently pacified (such as by Calm Appeal) and all other non-minion characters agree to cease hostilities, you can ease tensions. The combat immediately ends and becomes a conversation. At the GM’s discretion, you can use this talent in non-combat scenes.

Press the Issue

Prerequisite: Standing Agreement or Steadfast Challenge
Activation: 2 Actions
Spend 1 focus to make a Persuasion test against the Spiritual defense of a character you can influence. On a success, you learn the target’s motivation for being in the scene.
Until the end of the scene, when you make a test to leverage this motivation against the target, you can raise the stakes.
Leads to: Calm Appeal

Standing Agreement

Prerequisite: Persuasion 2+; Rousing Presence key talent
Activation: Always Active
When you acquire this talent, you receive either a community reward or a pact of some form. Work with the GM to determine the details of this reward. When determining this reward's benefits, you count as one tier higher.
Additionally, you are recognized favorably by characters who are connected with the provider of this reward.
Leads to: Hard Bargain, Press the Issue

Steadfast Challenge

Prerequisite: Rousing Presence key talent
Activation: 1 Action
You stand firm, locking eyes with your opponent and speaking a challenge with unnerving calm.
Spend 1 focus to make a Discipline test against the Spiritual defense of an enemy you can influence. On a success, they become Disoriented and gain a disadvantage on tests against you until the end of their next turn.
Leads to: Press the Issue, Tranquil Demeanor

Tranquil Demeanor

Prerequisite: Discipline 1+; Steadfast Challenge
Activation: Special Activation
When you use Rousing Presence, your target recovers 1 Focus.
Additionally, when you use Rousing Presence, you can spend 1 Focus to also make your target Determined until the end of the scene.

Troublemaker

Chin Up!

Prerequisite: Discipline 2+; Rousing Presence key talent
Activation: 2 Actions
Once per scene, choose an ally you can influence. They can roll their recovery die (no action required) and recover health equal to the result.
Leads to: Rub Some Dirt On It

Cunning Opportunist

Prerequisite: Discipline 4+; Trouble With Authority
talent Activation: Reaction
When you successfully influence a character with a social test, you can spend 2 focus as a reaction and roll the plot die as if you were raising the stakes to create an opening that you can seize upon to gain a small boon.
On an Opportunity, seizing this opening also benefits an NPC who considers you an ally or produces a setback for an enemy.
On a Complication, seizing this opening will benefit an enemy or impose a cost on an NPC who considers you an ally.
The GM will tell you which character(s) will be affected by your choice to seize the opening. If you choose to not seize upon the opening, you lose any Opportunities generated by the roll, and your GM can choose how to spend Complication.

Plausible Excuse

Prerequisite: Deception 1+; Risky Behavior
Activation: Reaction
Years of covert operations have taught you to dissemble on the spot, concocting a reasonable excuse for the most incriminating behavior.
After you’re discovered while hiding or otherwise skulking about, you can use this reaction and spend 2 focus to pass yourself off as doing something innocent. You influence each character who can sense you to believe your excuse.
A character can resist this influence, but after they do, they lose additional focus equal to your ranks in Deception.
Additionally, when you acquire this talent, gain a utility expertise in Sleight of Hand.
Leads to: Sow Division

Risky Behavior

Prerequisite: Rousing Presence key talent
Activation: Special Activation
You know that risk and reward are inseparable traveling companions, and you love seeing where this pair takes you.
Before you make a test, you can spend 1 focus to raise the stakes.
Leads to: Plausible Excuse

Rumormonger

Prerequisite: Deception 4+; Sow Division
Activation: 1 Action
In social circles where rumors swirl and eddy, your patron’s name creates vast ripples. When you make a test to spread misinformation or gather rumors, you can spend 2 focus to add an Opportunity to the result.
Additionally, when you acquire this talent, gain a utility expertise in Scandal.

Rub Some Dirt On It

Prerequisite: Chin Up!
Activation: Activation: Always Active
When you cause a character to recover health, they recover additional health equal to your ranks in Discipline.

Sow Division

Prerequisite: Deception 3+; Plausible Excuse
Activation: 2 Actions
Choose two or more characters you can influence and spend that much focus to divide them. Describe a potential source of conflict, then make a Deception test (DC equals highest Spiritual defense among those targets). On a success, you influence each target to become hostile to the other targets, which sparks an argument, combat, or other conflict until they find a way to resolve it.
A target can resist this influence, but after they do, they lose additional focus equal to your ranks in Deception. If only some of the targets resist influence, the others remain hostile, but their conflict might become easier to resolve.
Leads to: Rumormonger, Trouble With Authority

Trouble With Authority

Prerequisite: Discipline 3+; Sow Division
Activation: Special Activation
Before you make a test to interact socially with authority figures, you can spend 2 focus to add an Opportunity to the result.
Additionally, when you acquire this talent, gain a utility expertise in Dissident Groups.
Leads to: Cunning Opportunist

Signaler

Be Ready!

Prerequisite: Leadership 3+; Personal Connection
or Rapid Communications
Activation: Always Active
When you use Rousing Presence on your turn, one target gains 1 Reaction.
Additionally, when you use Rousing Presence, you can spend 2 focus to give either yourself or an additional target 1 Reaction

Cultural Savant

Prerequisite: Insight 2+; Customary Garb or Rapid Communications
Activation: Always Active
Learn four Cultural expertises. You can postpone selecting any number of these expertises. If you do, you can allocate one to a culture the first time you interact with it in the story.
You can gain another Cultural expertise in this way as a reward or with downtime.
Leads to: Show Them Our Best

Customary Garb (Signaler)

Prerequisite: Have a companion; Lessons in Patience
Activation: Always Active
You’ve worn your uniform or traditional clothing for so long that it feels like a second skin, freeing your movements and granting you a deep well of confidence.
While wearing Presentable armor or appropriate clothing, increase your Physical and Spiritual defenses by 2.
Leads to: Cultural Savant, Personal Connection, Show Them Our Best

Instill Connection

Prerequisite: Insight 1+; Rousing Presence key talent
Activation: 1 Action
Spend 1 focus to coordinate yourself and any number of willing characters you can influence. You all become connected until end of scene. Characters you make connected gain the Lean on Me ability.
Lean on Me (Reaction): Spend 1+ focus to reduce the focus an ally you can influence loses or spends by the same amount.
Leads to: Customary Garb

Last Ditch

Prerequisite: Rousing Presence key talent
Activation: Always Active
Determined allies you can influence are also Focused, as long as they have 0 focus.
Leads to: Rapid Communications

Personal Connection

Prerequisite: Leadership 1+; Customary Garb or Rapid Communications
Activation: Special Activation
When you finish a long rest, become connected with a character you spent time with. You both increase your focus maximum by 1. While in the same scene, you both recover twice as much health from the recovery die. These benefits last until either of you end them as a free action or connect in this way again.
Leads to: Be Ready!

Rapid Communications

Prerequisite: Leadership 2+; Last Ditch Activation: Special Activation
Spend 1 focus to target an additional ally with Rousing Presence or to use it as a Free Action. Spend 3 focus to do both.
Leads to: Be Ready!, Cultural Savant, Personal Connection

Show Them Our Best

Prerequisite: Insight 3+; Cultural Savant or Customary Garb
Activation: Reaction
Spend 2 focus to add an Opportunity to the test of an ally you can influence.
On a hit or graze with an attack, you must spend this Opportunity to add 4 + tier damage.
In a conversation or endeavor, you can use this once per round as an additional contribution.