Black Meridian Made
Sworn-in, marked, and counted. You were raised — or earned your way — inside the Black Meridian Syndicate, and your name is on a ledger that does not forget.
+2 CHA
+1 DEX
Skills · Deception
Tome V · Origin Compendium
Origins
Where your character started — the spire, the gutter, the convoy, the crusade. Each Origin grants skills, a starting equipment kit, and a thematic ability bump that ties mechanics to story.
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Drownside Runner
Gutter-fed, gang-adjacent, hard-eyed. Raised in the flooded undercities where the Spire's runoff goes.
+2 DEX +1 CONSkills · Stealth, Sleight of Hand
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Echelon White-Collar
Corporate insider, debt-bound. You wore the lanyard, signed the indenture, and learned which doors open for a clean badge and the right tone of voice.
+2 INT +1 CHASkills · Investigation, Persuasion
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Federation Conscript
Drafted, drilled, deployed. You served — or are still serving — in a Halcyion Federation line unit, where individual lives are weighed against the order's broader crusade.
+2 CON +1 STRSkills · Athletics, Intimidation
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Frontier Preacher
Itinerant clergy of a doctrine no central order recognizes. You hold sermons in dust-floor halls, baptize in cisterns, and bury whoever the town does not want to bury.
+2 WIS +1 CHASkills · Religion, Insight
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Frontier Trader
Convoy-born, raised between ports. You speak the dialects nobody bothers to teach off-world, know which fixer to ask in which town, and can read a market the moment you walk into it.
+2 CHA +1 WISSkills · Persuasion, Insight
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Halcyion Acolyte
Raised within the Halcyion Federation order. You know the rites, the maintenance liturgy, and the weight of devotion.
+2 WIS +1 INT RA · +1Skills · Religion, Medicine
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Mythar Echo
A descendant of the preserved Mythar lineage, carrying partial inherited memory. You know things you should not, and you remember places you have never been.
+2 INT +1 WIS RA · +2Skills · Lore
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Spire-Born Aurelios
Privileged, court-educated, often estranged. Raised in the Aurelion spire-cities, schooled in their etiquette, perhaps now in flight from them.
+2 CHA +1 INTSkills · History, Persuasion
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Wandering Zyrrak
Clan-displaced hunter. You learned the hunt from elders who no longer exist, on a roost-world you cannot return to. The hunt remains.
+2 STR +1 WISSkills · Survival, Athletics