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Shapers

How good an item is has little to do with the quality of the craftsmanship but rather with how well the item has been taught its purpose.
A farmer who uses their scythe everyday for twenty years will find that gradually it begins to scythe through the wheat with greater and greater ease whilst inheriting the tools of your forebears is seen as a great boon after the lifetime of accumulated intent.
There are those who are more in tune with the purpose imbued into items, who can instill purpose more quickly, bend the purpose of what they use, or even break it.
Those people are called Shapers.

Skills

Craft

Between adventures, you gain a basic item which you have made.

Builder (Downtime)

As a downtime action, you can create structures or a complex item.

Forge of purpose

You make instill an item with purpose even as you craft it.
One item you make between adventures gains a quality.

Forge of intellect

You can repair items and equipment in the field using shaping.
This takes 5 minutes of concentration.
During a short rest, you can repair all equipment affected by the BREAK call.

Greater forge of intellect

You can repair structures or complex items using shaping.
This takes 30 minutes of concentration.

Instill the purpose

At the end of the adventure, you instill an item you have used with greater purpose.
Choose a quality. The item gains this quality.
You cannot give an item more than 3 qualities in this way.

Instill the purpose

At the end of the adventure, you instill an item you have used with greater purpose.
Choose a quality. The item gains this quality.
You cannot give an item more than 3 qualities in this way.

Killing Intent

The form of your weapon is irrelevant to you - only that its purpose is to kill.
If you have Use Weapon, Weapon Talent 1, or Weapon Talent 2, you gain the corresponding skill for every weapon.
Each encounter, you may only use the calls you gain from a single weapon.

Bend the purpose

Thrice per adventure you can force your will upon an item, temporarily causing it to act as another item it is not. For example: in a pinch you could tell a spoon it was a sword, or a bed it was a boat.
At the end of the encounter the dissonance catches up with the item - its purpose reverts and it breaks.
You may always use this ability to make a basic item count as a weapon.
For more ambitious uses of this effect, please see a GM / call a TIME FREEZE.

Bend the purpose 2

Once per adventure, when using 'bend the purpose', you can exert your will even more on the item.
The effect lasts for at least the entire adventure.
Any further than this has consequences at GM discretion.

Unmake

Once per encounter you can unmake that which was made, allowing you to call BREAK on any item you can see.
Against items of particular potency this may engender a psychic combat.

Unmake 2

Once per encounter you can unmake that which was made, allowing you to call BREAK on any item you can see.
Against items of particular potency this may engender a psychic combat.

Remake

One per encounter you may touch a broken item and remake it, returning it to its original form.
This can reverse multiple ranks of BREAK.
Alternatively this may be used to call a RENEW 4 to armour you are touching.

Remake 2

One per encounter you may touch a broken item and remake it, returning it to its original form.
This can reverse multiple ranks of BREAK.
Alternatively this may be used to call a RENEW 4 to armour you are touching.

Unbroken Will

Your equipment become an extension of your will.
Basic items you are using are IMMUNE to BREAK whilst in your possession.

Divine the Purpose

You can attempt to sense the history of any crafted item that you touch.
Once per encounter, by touching an item you can tell what the items purpose is and may learn of significant acts that have been undertaken with it.
Other information is at GM discretion.

Extension of Will

Items you wield become extensions of your will.
Twice per encounter you may apply a quality apply to one of the items you are wielding.
These fade at the end the encounter.
You may take an item above the 3 quality limit in this way.

Turn the Blade

Blades forged by human hands slide off your form.
Twice per encounter you may call DODGE to an effect delivered by an item.

Attunement

You may temporarily improve the equipment of your fellows.
Once per encounter you may apply a quality apply to one of the items your allies are wielding.
These fade at the end the encounter.
You may take an item above the 3 quality cap in this way.

Temporal Mastery

Once per encounter you may apply a quality apply to one of the items that either you OR allies are wielding. These fade at the end the encounter.
You may take an item above the 3 quality limit in this way.

Tempered for Eternity

Items which you make can only be destroyed by the concerted effort of a sentient entity.
They will stand strong against the tides of time otherwise.

Unity of Intent

Between adventures, if an item does not have a designated user, you may give it one.
Choose a quality.
When being wielded by the intended individual, the item gains that quality.
This extra quality does not count towards the normal cap.

Awakening

Once ever you may awaken one item which you have instilled with purpose.
This may only be done as the item is used to accomplish something of significance.
The exact effects of this are poorly understood.
Talk to the GM / Call a TIME FREEZE when you wish to awaken something.

Comprehension

You gain an understanding of the nature of reality.
When you purchase this skill, contact the LARPO.
You will also gain a retirement ability when you purchase this skill.

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