Learn an ability, find the next potion, and meet the demands of its role. This guide connects the 22 pathways to concrete scenes and writing choices.
System details are visible on this page. Individual cards mark opening or later material; endings are not explained.
A pathway is one route of supernatural abilities. Its numbered stages, called Sequences, run from 9 toward 0; the lower number is the higher stage. Potions use formulas and ingredients to give access to those stages. Begin with the action a character needs but cannot yet perform, then choose a next step that changes the kind of scene you can write.
The guide describes the acting method: behaving in accordance with a potion's name and learning from that role helps digest it and reduces the risk of losing control. It is not literal food digestion or permission to forget who you are. Our acting card invents a stricter example to show how required behavior might strain trust; betrayal is not a universal source requirement.
Churches and other groups hold different knowledge and resources. A character who knows the desired next ability may still need someone else's cooperation. Use the advancement card to write a supplier's demand, a counteroffer and the consequence of leaving without the lesson. The relationship can outlast the purchase.
Read the mechanics together: what the rules permit, what they cost, and which kinds of stories they create.
Changing appearance gets you through a door. It does not give you the life behind it.
A limited collection of recorded abilities makes preparation a choice about what to leave behind.
Control builds in stages, giving an apparently helpless target a shrinking window to act.
An escape power needs somewhere to arrive. Give the reader a clear map, then let an opponent remove a route.
Accumulated fortune turns a convenient escape into a decision about timing.
Sharing a protective spell helps new people use it, but shortens how long it can protect anyone. Who gets taught first?
Imitation rewards understanding, so research becomes part of the action.
A powerful endgame ability can still send the protagonist back into ordinary lives.
Follow five early stages of the Fool pathway. At each step, name a new action the character can attempt and the preparation, knowledge or relationship it still requires.
Find clues through divination; interpretation remains necessary.
Control movement and expression; physical precision joins intuition.
Prepare tricks, substitutes and flame routes; the environment becomes a toolkit.
Change appearance; identity and its obligations become tools and hazards.
Control Spirit Body Threads; fights become contests over time and hidden agents.
Use this as a scene finder, not a list of powers every character owns. Each pathway below begins with its Sequence 9 name and gives selected abilities from different stages in the publisher guide. The question is an independent writing exercise, not a claim that its scene occurs in the novel. Open a linked card for the rule, limits and a worked example.
Starting sequence: Seer
A Magician jumps between flames; a Faceless changes appearance within bodily limits.
Mark the flames available before a chase. Which one can an opponent remove, and where does that leave the escape route?
Starting sequence: Apprentice
An Apprentice passes through barriers; a Scribe records witnessed abilities for later use.
List the recorded abilities carried into a mission and their remaining uses. Which one must be spent now that might be needed for the return?
Starting sequence: Marauder
A Prometheus can temporarily steal a Beyonder ability. Knowing the target improves the chance of taking the intended one.
Choose an ability the target is using to protect someone. What must the thief do for that person if taking it leaves them exposed?
Starting sequence: Spectator
A Spectator reads behavior and expressions; a Telepath extends this into surface thought and emotional cues.
Write three reasonable suggestions that gradually serve the persuader's goal. Which detail lets the listener stop and question whose plan they are following?
Starting sequence: Bard
A Bard strengthens companions through song; a Solar High Priest can create holy water and call purifying light.
Choose an ally in your own setting who cannot tolerate the group's protection. How can the group change its formation or route to keep that person with them?
Starting sequence: Sailor
A Sailor moves and balances unusually well in water and storms; a Seafarer intuitively reads weather and routes.
Give the sailor a rescue on unfamiliar land. What observation still helps, and whose local knowledge must they ask for?
Starting sequence: Secrets Suppliant
A Listener hears a hidden existence and gains dangerous knowledge at the cost of severe instability.
Name the answer the listener urgently needs and the first visible sign that continuing is harming them. Who can ask them to stop, and what remains unknown if they do?
Starting sequence: Corpse Collector
A Corpse Collector resists death-related conditions and perceives some spirits; a Gravedigger can communicate with nearby spirits.
Give a dead witness one thing they saw and one motive they only guessed. What can the investigator check among the living before acting on the account?
Starting sequence: Sleepless
A Sleepless needs less rest and grows more capable in darkness; a Nightmare enters sleeping people’s dreams.
While an investigator enters a witness's dream, who watches the room, and what interruption forces that partner to choose whether to wake them?
Starting sequence: Warrior
A Weapon Master expertly handles varied weapons; a Dawn Paladin conjures weapons and illuminating dawn light.
Put a fragile object or bystander beside the opponent. What can the fighter do to protect it before using their most forceful attack?
Starting sequence: Lawyer
A Lawyer exploits rules and influences belief; a Briber’s supernatural influence begins by giving something to the target.
Show a gift being offered before negotiations. What reason does the recipient have to accept it, and what changed behavior afterward would make an observer suspicious?
Starting sequence: Arbiter
A Sheriff recognizes targets and detects disturbances especially effectively in a familiar jurisdiction.
Move an officer beyond the district they know. Which familiar clue or contact is missing, and what cooperation must they earn before proceeding?
Starting sequence: Hunter
A Hunter tracks and prepares traps; a Provoker uses personal knowledge to push a target into anger.
Choose a grievance the attacker has learned about the target. Write the remark that makes the target abandon a useful position, and one reason they might resist it.
Starting sequence: Assassin
A Witch becomes invisible and uses curses through a connection such as blood; progression also transforms the body.
Give a transformed character a meeting with someone who used to recognize them. What private promise can establish continuity when appearance cannot?
Starting sequence: Criminal
The guide describes a progression from enhanced criminal skills toward demonic abilities, with the Cold-blooded stage losing conscience.
Establish an early promise to protect one person. Later, show the character treating that person's safety as negotiable, and let someone remember the original promise.
Starting sequence: Prisoner
A Werewolf struggles with bloodlust at the full moon; a Wraith moves through reflective surfaces.
Choose a job the character cannot safely perform during an established period of bloodlust. Who covers it, and what disagreement follows the request for help?
Starting sequence: Mystery Pryer
A Mysticologist derives spells from occult lore; less widely known corresponding knowledge can produce stronger magic.
In your own version, define who gains protection by learning the secret and how sharing weakens it. What must those left untaught do next?
Starting sequence: Savant
A Savant recalls and learns knowledge unusually well; an Artisan creates mechanical wonders and supernatural items.
Name one part a useful device needs replaced regularly. Who controls that part, what do they ask for, and what ordinary work stops if the owner refuses?
Starting sequence: Planter
A Harvest Priest accelerates growth; a Biologist understands and combines characteristics of living organisms.
After accelerated growth provides food, show who must harvest, store and distribute it before it spoils. Which shortage has the miracle left unsolved?
Starting sequence: Apothecary
An Apothecary makes remedies but cannot cure every terminal condition; a Beast Tamer shares animal senses.
Let an animal partner notice a scent or movement the human cannot interpret. What small check distinguishes a threat from something harmless?
Starting sequence: Monster
Early luck fluctuates; a Winner can accumulate fortune through restraint for a critical moment.
Show luck being saved and one earlier expenditure. When a smaller rescue needs help, what ordinary option can the character try before spending the reserve?
Starting sequence: Reader
A Polymath analyzes an observed ability and attempts a weaker imitation through understanding, rather than a stored recording.
Write two explanations for an observed ability that predict different results. What small experiment can disprove one before anyone relies on the imitation?
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