• 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.

• 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.

• You must purchase Acts with XP as you would normal skills.

• You may call BACKSTAB on your next blow with any weapon.

• You may instantaneously apply a new disguise by spinning in a circle.
• The quality of the disguise depends on your normal disguise skill.

• You may use this reactively to ignore any effect which is attempting to get you to reveal secrets..

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Call a MASS FEAR.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• In addition, while in possession of this Icon, you are IMMUNE to BACKSTAB.

• 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.

• 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.

Pre-req: Icon

• Your Icon gains the ability to transform, changing its colour or shape at will.

• 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.

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.