A scar around your forehead in the shape of a crown of thorns marks you as the sovereign of yourself. You will bow to no one.

 

The Red of Tooth and Claw desires perfect freedom. It seeks the ruin of all organized society and a return to the nasty, brutish, impulsive state of nature. No masters, no hierarchies. Survival of the fittest.

Starting Equipment: Rough furs (Light Armor), Sharp rock, 6 Iron rations

Favors

  • Taste blood to learn what kind of creature it came from
  • Your spit will tarnish, blacken, and rust metal
  • Consume a week’s worth of rations and sleep for 24 hours to recover 1d6 Flesh and all Fatigue

Spells

  1. Wildshape
  2. Spit Venom
  3. Mimicry
  4. Call of the Wild
  5. Bloodlust
  6. Rend
  7. Spiderclimb
  8. Heavy Shell
  9. Pass Without Trace
  10. Verdant Wall
  11. Palace of Thorns
  12. Kill Idea

Obligations

  • Destroy [debt]x20d worth of manufactured objects
  • Humiliate [debt]/2 creatures with recognized authority
  • Kill [debt] Grit Dice worth of creatures with your bare hands
  • Ruin [debt] books
  • Raze a settlement, reclaim its land for nature (clears all current Debt)
  • Permanently lift the curse of symbolic language from a creature (clears all current Debt)

Gift

Your fingers sharpen to claws, your teeth become fangs. The curse of symbolic language is lifted from your mind and words turn to meaningless growls in your throat. Your flesh cannot be cut by worked metal.