So. This is the full list of Wasima's Styles to date. She has 14 dots of Styles, incidentally, which is not atypical for mortals under this system - mortals are usually going to have rather more dots of Styles than they do of Abilities because Styles are a) cheaper and b) cover what they really want to do better.
Styles:
Earth-Striding Titan Style (Presence, Melee)
Also known as Superlative Size Style, these techniques are the ones which come innately to the sort of people who are unusually tall or bulky and learn to use their size to settle arguments. Both force and sheer physical presence are techniques in this style. It is not a particularly sophisticated Style, but sometimes a big guy is all that's needed to make people shut up and listen to them. The benefits of this Style only apply when used against people less physically imposing than the character.
1. +1 when attempting to manhandle or grapple a valid target
2. +1 when attempting to intimidate a valid target
3. +1 when attempting to draw the attention of a crowd
Flowing-River Disputant Style (Presence, Politics)
Like the river, it is often easier to say and go where one is expected to go - and only rarely expand beyond one's banks. Practitioners of this style remain within the bounds of social propriety and divert conversations to their goals rather than outright dam them. It is the reasoned arguments of one lacking in power who explains what they did was what was ordered all along and the excuse justified by social mores. Without knowledge of what is expected, this style is much less effective.
1. +1 to persuading another party that one's deeds were or will be justified based on cultural expectations.
2. +1 to reading another party and working out what they want from the practitioner
3. Ignore one point of MDV provided by negative Principles, provided that the practitioner conforms to their perceived social role.
Wide-Eyed Cat Style (Awareness)
Consider the cat. Is there any other creature who sees so well in places of darkness and who so unfailingly tracks its scurrying prey who try to flee? By emulating the cat the character hones their vision acuity and their capacity to notice small details around them, especially in the hours of twilight. This Style is often studied along with Twitching-Ear Cat Style, and can be taught by housecats.
1. +1 to vision-based rolls in low light conditions
2. +1 to vision-based to notice details about moving objects
3. +1 to see characters using Subterfuge to physically conceal themselves
Tengese Housewife Style (Bureaucracy, Special)
Matters of the spirits, care for the household, and raising of ones children - these are the duties of the women of An Teng. Land and wealth passes down the female line, but a woman's husband acts and speaks for her in public and she will rarely stray too far from where she lives once she is married. This Style represents the core skillset of a Tengese peasant woman such as food preparation, honouring her family's ancestor spirits and the house gods, treatment of common ailments, managing a small household budget, and other such things. This is explicitly a generalist Style and offers a wider spread than most styles in return for reduced depth. It does not apply to circumstances outside the range of situations a Tengese housewife might commonly encounter - for example, while she may know how to deal with the flu, she will be completely lost when trying to treat Green Sun Wasting.
1. +1 for running a household
2. +1 when making 'suggestions' to one's husband.
3. +1 when teaching and disciplining your children
Cotton-Fingered Weaver Style (Occult)
In the South West, silk is the preserve of the wealthy - all others dress in cotton. Weaving is a basic craft which is taught to many when they are young and in rural areas most will dress in clothes made by a family member. The very finest weavers can make garments so fine they feel like silk and through the use of carefully chosen dyes and thread create clothes of surprising elegance and beauty - among the peasants, such a skilled weaver is an important person. This Style is a trade skill covering the production of cotton garments and associated mercantile activities.
1. +1 to the repair and maintenance of one's loom
2. +1 to the production of dyes from local materials
3. -1 difficulty to the production of complex layered garments.
Jupiter's Embroidery Style (Occult)
The sumptuary laws of An Teng forbid the peasantry from wearing ornate jackets or robes, save for a small range of permissible events such as funerals and religious ceremonies. To counter this, therefore, the method of decoration known as Jupiter's Embroidery Style has developed over the centuries, prizing intricate styling of undergarments and the inner linings of clothing which are only ever displayed in private family environments and are believed to scare off faeries, demons and ghosts. In more lax regions of the Shore Lands these clothes are worn openly, but in the conservative inner heartlands the old traditions hold force. The highest art is working with golden thread, which is sacred to the Golden Lord and is used for the decoration of blue mariage robes and purple burial gowns.
1. +1 when working on garments not intended to be seen in public
2. +1 when incorporating religious iconography or symbolism
3. -1 difficulty when working with gold thread.
Fire-Mouthed Cook Style (Occult, Survival)
There is a folk tale in An Teng that says that the Immaculate Dragon of Fire was born in the principalities and as a baby was given chillies to teethe on because even before his Exaltation he spat fire. This is less unbelievable than many other folk tales, given that Tengese cuisine typically requires an iron gullet for others to enjoy. Tengese cooking places emphasis on lightly prepared dishes with strong aromatic components and a fiery spicy edge. It is known for its complex interplay of at least three and up to four or five fundamental taste senses in each dish flavouring the mainstay rice.
1. +1 to feeding large numbers of people
2. +1 when provided with fresh fruit or spices
3. -1 difficulty when creating dishes which rely on interplaying flavours
Iron Handed Labourer Style (Occult)
The ring of hammer on hot metal is a constant refrain in the foundries and workshops of Creation. Such is the way of the blacksmith, who knows how to placate the least gods of the iron and shape metal. This style applies whenever the character works with iron or iron alloys, with the appropriate tools.
1. +1 to rolls to resist tiredness from the character's work.
2. +1 to rolls when making functional or utilitarian goods.
3. +1 to social rolls with gods whose domain relates to the character's current project.
Shining Silversmith Style (Occult)
Jewellers and craftsmen of the Tengese High Lands prefer to work in silver, for it is a metal much-beloved of beauty. Such smiths take care to bring out the aesthetic beauty of their pieces, often working precious stones or priceless gems into the designs. This Style applies whenever the character works with silver to create beautiful or decorative pieces.
1: +1 to haggling over prices when equipped with example pieces.
2: +1 to creating items in one's personal area of expertise (not yet chosen).
3: +1 to cutting and setting precious gems in silver.
Weather Witch Style (Awareness, Presence)
A keen eye for meteorology is all a backwoods weather-witch needs at first. Compared to the thaumaturgists of the Realm with their tools and devices and mathematics, a weather-witch listens to the whispers of the gods and the howls of wind elementals to know if there is a storm coming. They read the little marks the divine leaves in the world, and interpret them. They learn which chimage pleases the rain gods and how to persuade a thunderbird to spend its fury harmlessly - knowing all too well that all they can do is nudge the spirits and hope they do not take offence at their presumption.
1. +1 when noticing a change in the weather before it arrives
2. +1 when attempting to influence weather gods and air elementals
3. +1 towards weather-affecting thaumaturgy