What is your personal background?

(Choose options with higher numbers for more of an easy difficulty setting and for more of a Mary Sue / Gary Stu character. This allows extensive lore-friendly character customization. If however you want to "play on normal difficulty", limit yourself to no more than 25 points of gold and faith combined.)

Those with a stronger self confidence have a better ability to work magic. Which of these apply to you? (Select all that apply.)

Those with a sense of justified self-confidence have a better ability to work magic. Various experiences and beliefs can influence this. Which of these apply to you? (Select all that apply.)

Though much of whether one can use any Way is a matter of fate and self-confidence, one can learn various techniques so as to empower themselves - such as meditation practices that may increase their faith in themselves - and thus stand a better chance of using the Ways.

Those with elemental lineages have the ability to change their body into a living form of their element and back, at will or when struck or injured.

If you choose any of these options, you will not age and accrue old age inflictions as is natural for humans, but instead your body will gradually turn permanently into the associated element bit by bit through old age until you completely turn into an inanimate form of that element.

By law, only those lineages with hereditary affinity may be deemed noble. While there are many noble houses, there are a limited number of affinities, so many noble houses will share the same affinities. If you have an affinity, then with this Way, you can conjure elements or energies from your hand so long as they are governed by your affinity. By default, you only have the ability to thrust conjured elements or energies by touch, but with increased study and mastery you can direct those elements or energies.

Elementite are precious gems which can absorb energies from their surroundings. When worn or kept close, these can protect the bearer from harm of that energy.

Vitalite and vivacite can drain, hold, and replenish human life force and vigor.

The souls of the dead can be trapped inside soulstones, charging them into spiritite. These trapped souls can then be used to give life to the lifeless, though only as a mockery of life.

Souls of those with affinities can be trapped inside gems, making them into soulstones, or magicite. Soulstones can be placed atop rods to be wielded, with the wielder able to tap into the trapped soul's affinity to unleash elements or energies, however the form that takes - the casting release - will depend on the form of the rod. While legally one can only bear the soulstones of one's ancestors, those of commoner blood can seek to use these to gain power.

With this Way, you can imbue your senses of observation with potent magical abilities.

With this Way, you can meditate to remove your burdens, strengthen your mind, sleep more easily, and even project your consciousness out of your mind.

With this Way, you can evoke an aspect within yourself (bring to and hold in mind with significant mental focus) to imbue yourself with magical properties. Note, while you can learn multiple aspects, you can only hold one in your mind at a time.

With this Way, you can evoke (focus your mind on a thought) either desire for or revulsion against certain things to either attract or repulse them.

Can you make something happen just by willing it?

With this Way, you can exude overwhelming aura over your surroundings at will or with a glare. For best effect, it is important to be "pomped up", that is, dressed to impress upon others the idea that you really *are* all that.

With this Way, you can play, sing, or otherwise perform perform songs to cause an effect in your listeners, but which doesn't affect you or those who can hardly hear it.

With this Way, you can recite any of several litanies, one at a time, to be afforded protection and focus.

With this Way, you can influence the behavior of sounds.

The elves have pointy ears which allow them to understand animal speech. One with such ears can use this Way to listen to or speak to them.

With this Way, your words have the power to awaken and command the dead.

With this Way, your words have the power to influence people's behavior.

With this Way, your words can shame and guilt others into feeling the just desserts of their wrongdoings.

With this Way, you can curse others to doom them to a terrible fate for the rest of their life, however if your faith is not strong enough compared to that of your victim, it may instead rebound onto you.

With this Way, you can whisper to affect others' minds, oftentimes subconsciously, likely without them realizing it. You can do this at such low volume that they don't realize you're doing this, and it can still influence them. You can do this if they're sleeping too. With Wind Whispering, you can do this from a distance.

With this Way, you have a superhuman ability to swallow and eat things.

With this Way, you can use hand gestures to banish away certain effects or undesired things.

With this Way, you can use hand gestures to telekinetically manipulate nearby objects.

With this Way, you can trace a circle, line, or other geometric pattern on the ground to apply an effect associated with the encircled area or its boundary. Tracing can be done by anything that leaves behind the traced pattern, ie. chalk, blood, ink, or finger/twig upon impressionable ground. By default the traces require a somewhat elaborate drawing.

With this Way, you manually inscribe phrases into the surfaces of objects to imbue them with magical properties. Objects of different types of materials are inscribed in different ways. The phrases must cover at least a tenth of the surface area of the object. Any gash through the phrase breaks the effect.

With this Way, you apply glyphic phrases onto a person's skin in one of two ways: carving into them with a knife, deep enough to draw blood, for a lasting effect; or tattooing on them for a temporary effect. This is usually done on their chest or back, but potentially other places as well. It must cover at least ten percent of the body or body parts to be affected. A gash right through the phrase will collapse the effect.

With this Way, you can create a doll in the general likeness of a person and add to it a person's blood or body parts (ie. hair, nail clips) to bind them to the doll. Thereafter, you can apply actions to the doll and convey them forcibly into the bound person.

Those who have done above and beyond in doing good deeds are exalted by wings growing forth from their back, as one, two, or three pairs of wings. Additional pairs are much more difficult to obtain than the first and give additional lift. Wings are like normal body parts in that they are instinctive to control, are sensitive, and have limited regenerative ability.

With this Way, you can gouge out a person's eyes and/or replace eyes back into eye sockets in order to change what you or others can see.

With this Way, you can inflict horrendous atrocities upon your captives in exchange for boons.

With this Way, you can take on the guise of another, throw others off your trail, and even turn invisible.

With this Way, you are able to, through proper treatment of the objects around you and showing them respect above and beyond that shown by others, to befriend them and thus be able to ask them to do your bidding or have them simply do so of their own accord.

With this Way, you are able to befriend, call, and enrage the winds, and ask them to do your bidding.

The gods of the world of Faith draw power from and are shaped by peoples' beliefs. The primordials of the Tetratheon are among the oldest of gods, believed to be the progenitors of the world, and although they may seem quite unpersonable or destructive, a chosen few may befriend them, and thereafter ask favors of them.

The gods of the world of Faith draw power from and are shaped by peoples' beliefs. The Pentatheon of Unanswered are younger gods, born of men's thirst for knowledge and of their belief that asking questions and seeking answers brings power. If you have earned a god's favor and beseech your god for a boon, they may deign to grant you it so long as you're not abusing their help (a much higher bar to meet for the Wrath favors), but it is ultimately up to them, and the gods are fickle.