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======Shroud======

====Class Feature: Initiate's Vow====

  * When you join the cult of an Imperial Muse, you swear a vow. 
  * As a Paladin of the Shroud, pick one vow from below:

  * I will never tell the complete truth.
  * I will never knowingly reveal a secret.
  * I will never betray a friend.

  * You should roleplay this vow accordingly. 
  * This vow allows you to use Might to perform the Acts below.
  * If you ever feel as though you have violated your vow, let the GM know:
  * You will lose all your Might for the adventure. 

====Class Feature: Might=====

  * Each Act costs 1 Might to perform.
  * Might is restored between encounters.
  * Each Paladin begins with 2 Might. 
  * Your maximum Might can be increased by purchasing the 'Might' Paladin Skill.

=====Acts=====
  * You must purchase Acts with XP as you would normal skills.
====Lv1====
===Silent Death===
  * You may call [[:nonstandardcalls#backstab|BACKSTAB]] on your next blow with any weapon.
===Whirling Disguise Trick===
  * You may instantaneously apply a new disguise by spinning in a circle. 
  * The quality of the disguise depends on your normal disguise skill. 
===Loyal Tongue===
  * You may use this reactively to ignore any effect which is attempting to get you to reveal secrets..


====Lv2====

===Shroud from Sight===
  * Light bends around you leaving your form invisible. 
  * You may call DISAPPEARING.
  * As long you move slowly are little more than a shimmer in the air.
  * Call APPEARING if you move quickly or make a call when in this form. 

===Secrets Hidden from Self===
  * You may hide knowledge deep within your mind such that even you do not remember it. 
  * This knowledge is then inaccessible to everyone - even you - until you perform this act again to retrieve it or a condition you specify is met. 
  * You may choose whether you remember having forgotten or not.

===Shadow Safe===
  * By touching an item of weapon size or smaller you may hide it within your shadow. 
  * You may then retrieve it again with a further use of this Act.

====Lv3====
===Playing Dead===

  * When you use this act, drop to 0 hits and start bleeding out.
  * At any point during your death count, you may call HEAL X, where X is the number of hits you had prior to using this ability.

===Delusion of Sight===

  * Darkness falls over the eyes of a chosen foe.
  * You may call STUN 20 by melee blow.

====Lv4====

===Cowed by Darkness===

  * Call a MASS FEAR. 

===Steal the Face===

  * You can steal the face of an unconscious or sleeping person.
  * Their face is left a blank mask. 
  * With another use of this act you may don the face. 
  * With another use of this act you may restore your original face. 
  * The stolen face returns to its original owner when overwritten in this way.

====Lv5====
===Path of Shadow===

  * Your body temporarily dissolves into formless shadow. 
  * Whilst in this form you may not call damage but take all damage as SINGLE. 
  * You may also slip through any gap through which light can pass. 

===Domain of Shadow===

  * You may call DOMAIN OF SHADOWS on your next melee blow.
  * You and the target vanish from the encounter for the next 30 seconds.
  * You are both taken into a private space where you may talk or fight uninterrupted and unseen by the outside world. 
  * If they die during this time their body never returns.
  * Your target has to be caught unaware for this call to work, otherwise they take a SINGLE instead.









  

















=====Skills=====

====Lv1====

===Icon===
  * You have made an icon to the Muse you follow. 
  * Twice per adventure you may use this to attempt to divine the Muse's opinion on a matter.
  * The responses, if they arrive are generally cryptic.
  * Icons are hard to lose or break.
  * If either occurs, they will likely find there way back to the paladin, restored, after a couple of encounters.

  * For paladins of the Shroud the icon is most often an item of clothing.
  * Whenever you execute someone you may touch this icon to them:
  * Their body disintegrates along with their belongings. 
  * There is still a very faint residue left behind which the skilled or paranoid might be able to detect.

====Lv2====
===Undercover Agent (Downtime)====
  * You may spend this downtime action infiltrating a particular organisation.
  * You may act as if you had the 'Affiliation' skill with that organisation.
  * If you use this ability again, you lose the benefits you gained from its last use. 

====Lv3====
===Shroud's Embrace===

  * Once per adventure you may perform a great feat within your Muse's purview.
  * For example, you could make it so that nothing that happens in the encounter will be noticed by those outside.

===Icon Attunement===
//Pre-req: Icon//
  * Your Icon gains the ability to transform, changing its colour or shape at will.


====Lv4====

===Juristiction of Shadows===

  * You may state you have jurisdiction over an event and produce the documents to back this up, in order to gain a measure of control over the situation. 
  * This is virtually always feasible within the City where no one understands the full spread of bureaucracy.
  * Outside the city it is likely to need some prior knowledge of who you are interacting with and a plan to work. 
  * You may also use this in uptime as well as as a downtime action.

====Lv5====

===Echoes of Self===
//Pre-req: Icon Attunement//
  * For one encounter per adventure your icon comes alive, whipping around you and foiling the blades of your foes. 
  * Once every 10 seconds you may call WOUND against a limb someone has just struck you with.
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