Effect: If you are attacked and not surprised (i.e. combat is expected), you get a +2 to your initiative. If you are the attacker, the bonus is +3.

Effect: When performing bardic inspiration, the bard can decide to grant allies a +1 to weapon aim rolls instead of non-combat rolls. This decision is made once and applies for the entire duration of the song. Stacks like normal bardic inspiration, but to a maximum of +2.

Limited

Effect: With two small blades, arming swords, finesse blades, or meteor hammers equipped, you can dual attack as a single limited action. Each aim roll has a -1 penalty added to the weapon's normal aim roll. Can only be used once per turn.

Effect: The bonus from Always Ready is increased to +4/+5 respectively. During the first turn of combat, you act with three actions instead of two.

Limited

Effect: As a Limited action, you can strike at every enemy you pass with a melee weapon. You deal a flat three (3) damage for each target you are adjacent to (or become adjacent to) for the rest of the turn. No aim roll is required.

Effect: Select one of the following elemental effects: fire, lightning, ice, acid, or force. Your lineage weapon can attack with this elemental effect, with a visual flair matching the element. The effect of the element is at DM discretion.

Effect: After a successful attack, Lacuna may be declared; That attack will gain additional damage equal to two (2) + the number of lineage weapon feats possessed (so a minimum of 4). Afterwards, all lineage weapon feats are disabled for the scene, and the weapon is unusable.

Limited

Effect: As a limited action, strike all enemies along a 2m (2 block) wide line stretching out 6m (6 block) in any direction.

Effect: When evading, if you are looking at an attacker at the end of your turn, evade rolls against them are made without a penalty.

Effect: With a small-blade, arming sword, or finesse blade equipped, if you are attacked and your foe misses, you get a free attack on them with a -2 aim penalty so long as they are within range.

Effect: All allies within a 15m range who also have this feat get a +3 to DEX: Stealth against spotted foes until the party is discovered and, while hidden, a +3 to INT: Perception of their surroundings. Does not apply if there is no-one else in range with this feat.

Effect: A long history with slaying necrophages leaves them trembling in your wake, able to sense your deeds. Necrophages will generally avoid you unless they have a superior force, and when fighting them, do +1 extra damage on a successful hit.

Limited

Effect: With a recurve bow or longbow, you can take two rapid shots in quick succession in the same time as a normal attack (1 action for recurve, 2 actions for longbow). Each aim roll has a -1 penalty added to the weapon’s normal aim roll. Can only be used once per turn.

Effect: You can make a vault action, which acts as both a dash and an evade.

Effect: Your HP is reduced to ten (10). When making death saving rolls in Critical state, you require three failures before dying, instead of just one.

Effect: With a small-blade, arming sword, or finesse blade equipped, if you are attacked and hit, you get a free attack on your foe with a -3 aim penalty so long as they are within range. The aim penalty of Riposte is reduced to -1.

Effect: You are a being with fists of steel and stone. You lose the ability to wield ranged weapons or a finesse blade, but all unarmed attacks do 4 damage instead of 2.

Effect: Select one template weapon to become your lineage weapon; it gains a permanent +1 aim modifier when used by you. The weapon may be visually remarkable in some mundane or low-magic way (e.g. glowing, exceptional metalwork, engineered design, coated in embers).

Effect: Select an additional weapon template. Your Lineage Weapon can freely switch between the two templates.

Effect: 'It grows as you do.'
Lineage Weapon’s bonus is upgraded to a +2 when facing a creature that belongs to a distinct species that it has assisted in slaying in a previous scene / event. Note down each unique species your Lineage Weapon has defeated.

Effect: Telescoping weaponry has slashes that extend past the blade-tip or have an exceptional throw.
Once per combat, increase the range category of your Lineage Weapon by one (melee -> skirmish -> ranged).

Effect: You have mastered the art of your weapon category of choice (picked from the Weapons Index) and drawn attention for it from past contests and feats of prowess. In fighting circles, your name is well known, and you may have an 'in' with NPC warriors. In addition, even when given a broken weapon of your mastered type, you are able to use it as normal with a -1 aim penalty.

Effect: You gain the ability to wield a shield, which takes up one hand. You can choose to block as an action: if attacked from in front until your next turn, the shield absorbs damage like medium armour, but with no movement penalty. Damage absorption stacks on-top of armour.

Effect: If higher than 3m (3 blocks) above your target, any hits with a ranged weapon do an extra +1 damage on a successful hit.

Effect: Instead of serving as inspiration, you channel your bardic talents for ill. By playing a scathing song, sonnet or verse with lyrics directed at a foe, up to 3 targeted enemies receive a -1 penalty to skill checks or weapon aim rolls so long as the mockery continues. The bard cannot do anything other than move and perform while playing, and will have to stop if attacked. This effect stacks with other bards up to a maximum of a -3 penalty.

Effect: You gain ownership and bond with a small creature (e.g. cats, stoats, snakes), which while unfit for combat can be useful for the right tasks.

The pet is capable of following simple commands (go, stay, follow, fetch); more complex commands can be made with a successful HAR: Nature check. Their natural abilities allow them to fit through small spaces, produce simple sounds to warn of distress/interlopers, and carry small objects.

Effect: You become a master minstrel. Pick one type of instrument (e.g. strings, flutes, drums) and you are able to play an inspiring song with that instrument that grants up to 4 allies who hear it a +1 to any non-combat rolls until the song ends. The bard cannot do anything other than move and perform while playing, and will have to stop if attacked. This effect stacks with other bards up to a maximum of +3.

Effect: When receiving a non-unique event reward, receive double the amount. The amount of consumables/tools you can hold at once are also doubled to 8.

Effect: You have the ability to speak and understand all common languages. If you have an unobstructed view of someone's mouth, you can interpret most of what they're saying. Finally, you are able to craft ciphers that can only be understood by your intended targets, so long as you have significant history with or understanding of those targets.

Effect: As an action, you can make an INT: Research check to investigate any injury or ailment. On a success, a subsequent INT: Healing check to treat the injury or ailment is made with a +3 modifier.

Effect: You always have the right fashion and makeup to forge a quick disguise. Once during a given scene/combat, you can fashion disguises for you and your party that fit a broad role (e.g. soldier, servant, bard) and receive the natural benefits of.

Effect: You can freely summit on top of walls up to four (4) blocks in height in a turn, without movement penalty or cost. For taller walls that can be climbed, you can leap four blocks up then proceed with normal climbing. You can also leap across gaps up to three (3) blocks wide, though this costs movement.

Effect: As an action, you can make an INT: Perception check of your surroundings with a +2 modifier, and can see through mild obfuscation such as light mist, fog, smoke, or near-darkness.

Effect: An ancient mage with magic in their blood lay in your heritage. You gain the ability to use a single general cantrip (not a patron cantrip) even as a non-mage, and can cast it without limitation. A patron cantrip can be used if an agreement is reached with that patron.

Effect: Choose someone else that also has this feat, you two are bonded (the bond may be changed semi-regularly). You and your bonded benefit from the following:
You share the same initiative in combat, taking the higher of your two rolls and discarding the lower - you can act at the same time;
When one of you succeeds against a save test that includes both of you, you both succeed; and
You act with a +1 on actions that directly apply to the other (healing, aid, etc.).

Effect: You are quick on your feet. If travelling on flat / even terrain, your passive movement is increased from 5 to 8. If travelling in uneven terrain or uphill, your movement is only increased to 6.

Effect: You have prodigal skills in miscellaneous categories. Choose up to three minor skills along the lines of dance, cardistry, song, chess, etc. You get a straight +4 bonus when acting with said skills (does not stack with other bonuses).

Effect: Multi-Talented now has five skills instead of three. One (1) of these skills acts at +5 instead of +4.

Effect: As an action, you can make an INT: Research check can be made to investigate any physical item (not a person). On a success, a subsequent DEX: Thievery check to disable, lockpick, or sabotage the item is made with a +3 modifier.

Effect: You are light on your feet. When wearing light or no armour, you leave no footprints, and unless someone is actively listening for movement, you can move undetected without needing a DEX: Stealth roll.

Effect: You always seem to have items on you: spare bits of iron, nails, ropes, that sort of thing. You don't require lockpicks to pick locks as a result, and any traps you set do an extra 1 HP damage if they are triggered.

Effect: Your blood becomes harmful to others. When engaged in a fist-fight, anyone who lands a hit on an exposed part of your body takes 1 dmg from an unarmed attack. Making contact with your blood burns others akin to fire, dealing 1 dmg. This can apply if blood is drawn and splattered from an injury.

Effect: Your character takes on a Hindrance from the list of Hindrances. In addition, over the course of their mutation, their skin splits and stretches, leaving some permanent scars along their face and torso. They are able to carry an extra weapon of any type.

Effect: You are able to spend an action to enter a rage-filled state for the duration of combat or the present situation. Once you have incited your rage, you take 1 HP damage on each turns after the first. In exchange, you deal +1 damage to every successful hit, and roll all STR and DEX-related checks with a +1 until the rage subsides. All INT-related checks however are made with a -1 penalty. Once it has started, the rage cannot be stopped until combat / the situation ends.

Effect: When your character reaches 0 HP and enters critical state, they enter a state of bloodlust. When they deal a cumulative total of 6 damage to any target while critical, they stabilise out of critical state with 2 HP.

Effect: You have a supernatural relation to your senses. You are able to see in all but pitch-black environments, roll all scent-related perception checks with an additional +1 bonus, and can use an action to determine the direction of any smell without requiring a roll.

Effect: Supernatural reflexes empower you. You are able to make a riposte attack even if your foe lands their hit on you. The modifier remains -2 unless changed by another feat.

Effect: Your character, no matter their true age, physically ages to that of an elder, though their lifespan is not affected. Bound with bouts of arthritis, any Athletics check to run, carry or leap is made with a -2 penalty. (Their appearance can be falsified with illusions).

Effect: Your character becomes barren; unable to have child. When faced with the prospect of others having children, they are struck by a momentary souring of the mood.

Effect: Your character, through some cruel magical trick, is no longer able to read. While able to comprehend basic shapes and diagrams, anything more than a word or two strung together seems to utterly befuddle them. They cannot make Perception or Research checks on written text.

Effect: Your character believes they are nearly unstoppable, and it tends to put them in harm's way. Your character makes Perception checks of their surroundings with a -1 modifier and enemies making Stealth checks against them get a +2 bonus.

Effect: Your character develops an almost paralyzing fear of a certain irrational thing. When faced with that thing in combat, they must succeed a Harmony check each turn or else they lose one of their actions.

Effect: Your character is anemic; weak. No matter what they eat or drink, they always seem frail and susceptible to sickness. Fortitude rolls to resist poison or illness are made with a -2 penalty.

Effect: Your character is blinded, and their irises appear white. Your character cannot make Perception checks based on sight. Your character also aims all ranged weapons with a -2 penalty.

Effect: Your character develops a particular obsession or fascination that can, at times, consume them. When in a situation related to their obsession, they are forced to engage with it and have a -2 penalty to perception of their surroundings in the moment.

Effect: Your character becomes host to an arcane leech, a being festering on their soul that warps their magic. The exact detriment depends on the mage's primary branch:
- for Ichor, they struggle to heal themselves, getting half HP from healing sources;
- for Cursesmithy, they are plagued by nightmares and are oft tired, getting a -2 penalty to dodging;
- for Ether, they become like a lightning rod to magic, taking +1 damage from all arcane sources;
- for Artifice, they become more cold and mechanical, struggling to be lifelike - getting a -2 penalty to perception rolls related to insight;
- for Force, they struggle to sit still,always energized, leaving them with a -2 penalty to stealth; and
- for Tellurgy, they form stiff, calloused, stone-like hands that impede fine motor control, getting a -2 to thievery skills requiring it (e.g. lockpicking).